WAMT....what annoyed me today!

Diverticulitis.
 
Nod said:
Mrs Nod's Mum gets her 'scripts delivered by the pharmacy because she doesn't drive and at 92, she's scared poopless of covid so doesn't use the bus anymore. Mrs Nod deals with the ordering of the medication but can only get out to see her once a week so can't (reliably) pick up the meds. At least now, she's managed to get some extras - for a while, the pharmacy and doctor seemed to be blocking the orders for the extra tablets needed because a packet of tablets tends to be 28 days' worth but a month is usually more and she could only order once per month!
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Thank [PLEASE DON'T TRY TO BYPASS THE SWEAR FILTER] my GP is sensible and all my meds are at least 60 days at a time and he allows me to order 14 days in advance, pharmacies can sometimes need to order stuff in that might take 2-3 working days.
 
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I THINK that the numbers are the degrees of rotation in the air. As for the rest of it, YGIAGAM!!!
Your Guess Is As Good As Mine!
 
mj4456 said:
Thank f*** my GP is sensible and all my meds are at least 60 days at a time and he allows me to order 14 days in advance, pharmacies can sometimes need to order stuff in that might take 2-3 working days.
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My mam takes seven tablets per day. A while back they did delay a prescription of hers because they said she couldn't have taken the last lot yet but I think that was the only time. These days it's more likely that they'll fill the prescription in full despite me saying that I don't need one or two of the things on it and I've ended up with a stock of unused tablets.

I don't use my local pharmacy as it seems to be staffed by man hating women of a certain age, or maybe I'm wrong and they just hate all customers equally. I get the prescriptions sent to ASDA now and they're much better.
 
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Nod said:
I THINK that the numbers are the degrees of rotation in the air. As for the rest of it, YGIAGAM!!!
Your Guess Is As Good As Mine!
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Backside and frontside is the direction of turn.
The numbers are degrees. 360 being a complete rotation. 720 being 2 complete rotations 1080 being 3 rotations. They are chasing 1260 so 3 and a half turns.
Then some of the words are the shape created in the air. I’m more up today with the mountain bike version so don’t know what half of them are
 
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AgentOrange76 said:
Backside and frontside is the direction of turn.
The numbers are degrees. 360 being a complete rotation. 720 being 2 complete rotations 1080 being 3 rotations. They are chasing 1260 so 3 and a half turns.
Then some of the words are the shape created in the air. I’m more up today with the mountain bike version so don’t know what half of them are
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So I didn’t fall down the stairs - turned out I did a 3600 electrocuted octopus!! :)
 
But did you bruise your frontside?
 
Just took my wife's two week old Samsung A12 phone back because it wouldn't charge last night. The guy said she would need a replacement phone, which surprises me because she was able to make calls with it. She won't get the replacement until Saturday.
 
andya700 said:
Just took my wife's two week old Samsung A12 phone back because it wouldn't charge last night. The guy said she would need a replacement phone, which surprises me because she was able to make calls with it. She won't get the replacement until Saturday.
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Meh, she doesn't need a replacement phone, the sales bloke's trying to meet his targets at your wife's expense!
 
andya700 said:
Just took my wife's two week old Samsung A12 phone back because it wouldn't charge last night. The guy said she would need a replacement phone, which surprises me because she was able to make calls with it. She won't get the replacement until Saturday.
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Oh dear! I have just bought one of those! Mainly because my old phone wouldn't accept the "free" Norton antivirus from BT because it was too old!!! My battery seems amazing after the old phone. It lasts for several days now.
 
Pixbarmy said:
Oh dear! I have just bought one of those! Mainly because my old phone wouldn't accept the "free" Norton antivirus from BT because it was too old!!! My battery seems amazing after the old phone. It lasts for several days now.
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Norton Antivirus is crap anyway, I had it several years ago on my last Windows Desktop and NAV killed the damn PC!
 
Pixbarmy said:
Oh dear! I have just bought one of those! Mainly because my old phone wouldn't accept the "free" Norton antivirus from BT because it was too old!!! My battery seems amazing after the old phone. It lasts for several days now.
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I think my wife had only charged it two or three times. I am still using a Nokia106, because my fingers don't seem to work on smart phones. I have had it for around six years.
 
andya700 said:
I think my wife had only charged it two or three times. I am still using a Nokia106, because my fingers don't seem to work on smart phones. I have had it for around six years.
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I had the same problem back when I had my first smart phone, an Iphone 5C about 10-11 years ago, and to some extent I still do as I'm like me Dad and have fat fingers, but I got used to it having had 2 Samsungs and 2 Motorolas since then including my current phone.
 
I've just missed a call on the landline from a market research company! How the hell did they get my number? I'm ex directory AND on TPS on the flippin' landline!
 
MrRichAllen1976 said:
I've just missed a call on the landline from a market research company! How the hell did they get my number? I'm ex directory AND on TPS on the flippin' landline!
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Don’t you think they are probably a scam then and just machine dialling ’random’ numbers?
 
sphexx said:
Don’t you think they are probably a scam then and just machine dialling ’random’ numbers?
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sphexx said:
Don’t you think they are probably a scam then and just machine dialling ’random’ numbers?
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sphexx said:
Don’t you think they are probably a scam then and just machine dialling ’random’ numbers?
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Probably, still annoying though, I did 1471 as I knew I'd missed a call and I'm expecting a call to confirm my first shift on the new job!
 
Today I'm annoyed by search results on the net.

I wasn't sure how to do something on the pc so I googled it and the top result from Google gives numbered instructions starting with...

1. After that,

WTF??? After WHAT???

I just hate the fact that so much on the net is drivel and/or wrong and/or irrelevant.


Grrrrr.
 
WAMT? My original post bath and breakfast plan this morning was to go to Game in Town, trade in 2 games and get King of Fighters XV, the new Xbox Series X exclusive fighting game, the weather put paid to that, it's been peeing it down all day.
 
WAMT is my own incompetence (again!!!) I wanted to find a meme that I've posted before and thought it was probably in my waste basket so I cleared my open pictures folder into a new folder so I could restore the deleted items to the main folder. Then realised that I'd copy/pasted the fresher items into an older new folder... Apologies in advance for any repeats!!!

Oh, as an extra kick in the undercarriage, the wanted meme wasn't there anyway!!!
 
woof woof said:
Today I'm annoyed by search results on the net.

I wasn't sure how to do something on the pc so I googled it and the top result from Google gives numbered instructions starting with...

1. After that,

WTF??? After WHAT???

I just hate the fact that so much on the net is drivel and/or wrong and/or irrelevant.


Grrrrr.
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Yep I’ve had that the first line or so shows up in the page then when you click on it the page won’t load
 
woof woof said:
Today I'm annoyed by search results on the net.

I wasn't sure how to do something on the pc so I googled it and the top result from Google gives numbered instructions starting with...

1. After that,

WTF??? After WHAT???

I just hate the fact that so much on the net is drivel and/or wrong and/or irrelevant.


Grrrrr.
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That happens a lot, Google Spiders search every known link to what you're looking for, and a lot of the time it comes up with ancient links that no longer work.
 
So, not today but Saturday and Sunday, totally wasted because of my wife's smartphone problems, me getting stressed because we cannot seem to remove the password from her old Samsung J3. It goes something like this - turn phone on, tap four letter password, then phone switches off, usually after a couple of seconds, before you can enter the password. The bloke at the shop on Saturday (spent four hours there, trying to get the new/replacement A12 setup) couldn't figure it out (John Lewis techie helpdesk).
Weekend totally wasted, lots of arguments, frustration and stress and I am 1.5 kilos heavier than I was on Friday.
 
WAMT? Having to go to the Dentist for a filling! And even worse, because I hate the place and got rather upset when she was doing the work, we have to go back at some point and do it under sedation.
 
MrRichAllen1976 said:
WAMT? Having to go to the Dentist for a filling! And even worse, because I hate the place and got rather upset when she was doing the work, we have to go back at some point and do it under sedation.
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Bad luck mate, I know how you feel, last time I had a temporary filling from my dentist, it left the building after about half an hour, never to be seen again.
 
I've got a temporary filling that's lasted over 5 years! Every check-up, the dentist checks that it's still viable but until it needs sorting, he's happy for it to stay.
 
Nod said:
I've got a temporary filling that's lasted over 5 years! Every check-up, the dentist checks that it's still viable but until it needs sorting, he's happy for it to stay.
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Me too. The dentist replaced a filling one day and another the next and a third needed doing and she must have pitied me and put a temp in for the third and said it would last a 'good while'. That was 18 months to two years ago and Covid was rife... so, with your experience..5 years, that's great.
 
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I was putting out the bins on the grass verge (between the pavement and the road..a metre wide) at about 5.30pm..so it was dark. As I turned to walk back across the pavement and down the drive I heard a whirr very close to me and saw a light and a flash of yellow (Hi-Viz jacket) of man on an electric bike as he came off the pavement a couple of paces from me across our 3m wide concrete 'drive in' off the road for our cars across the verge and onto the road and went off at what I estimated to be at least 30mph. That really was a near miss. When I put the bins out I can't turn to walk across the pavement in one manoeuvre. I have to first turn..check the pavement both ways for cyclists then walk across it and onto our drive.
 
JohnC6 said:
I was putting out the bins on the grass verge (between the pavement and the road..a metre wide) at about 5.30pm..so it was dark. As I turned to walk back across the pavement and down the drive I heard a whirr very close to me and saw a light and a flash of yellow (Hi-Viz jacket) of man on an electric bike as he came off the pavement a couple of paces from me across our 3m wide concrete 'drive in' off the road for our cars across the verge and onto the road and went off at what I estimated to be at least 30mph. That really was a near miss. When I put the bins out I can't turn to walk across the pavement in one manoeuvre. I have to first turn..check the pavement both ways for cyclists then walk across it and onto our drive.
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That isn't on is it. Back in 2020, we noticed a youngish guy with a fast electric bike using the pavement in our road, never using the road itself, really dangerous, the same with electric scooters.
 
JohnC6 said:
I was putting out the bins on the grass verge (between the pavement and the road..a metre wide) at about 5.30pm..so it was dark. As I turned to walk back across the pavement and down the drive I heard a whirr very close to me and saw a light and a flash of yellow (Hi-Viz jacket) of man on an electric bike as he came off the pavement a couple of paces from me across our 3m wide concrete 'drive in' off the road for our cars across the verge and onto the road and went off at what I estimated to be at least 30mph. That really was a near miss. When I put the bins out I can't turn to walk across the pavement in one manoeuvre. I have to first turn..check the pavement both ways for cyclists then walk across it and onto our drive.
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Simply do what parents do with their baby buggies at the roadside, push the bin out first and see if anything hits it, if not it’s safe to cross.
 
My car insurance renewal quote is £114 LESS than last year — not what you expect from an insurance company! (LV=)
 
andya700 said:
a youngish guy with a fast electric bike using the pavement in our road, never using the road itself, really dangerous, the same with electric scooters.
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There is a tiny minority of really stupid cyclists. Unfortunately, they're the ones who get noticed.

The good manners of the majority are just taken for granted...

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AndrewFlannigan said:
There is a tiny minority of really stupid cyclists. Unfortunately, they're the ones who get noticed.

The good manners of the majority are just taken for granted...
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As are those in cars, vans etc. It's because we expect people to behave responsibly. Riding motorcycles has conditioned me not to trust anybody on the road, and to try and think of the worst possible scenario, and how to avoid it. The level of hazzard perception on the road is pretty low.
 
Jelster said:
As are those in cars, vans etc. It's because we expect people to behave responsibly. Riding motorcycles has conditioned me not to trust anybody on the road, and to try and think of the worst possible scenario, and how to avoid it. The level of hazzard perception on the road is pretty low.
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The driving courses I went on when in the police taught us to drive defensively and how to be aware of everything that was happening around you, both on and near the road. Reading the road/traffic ahead was one of the main way of avoiding problems before they arose.
 
saltireblue said:
The driving courses I went on when in the police taught us to drive defensively and how to be aware of everything that was happening around you, both on and near the road. Reading the road/traffic ahead was one of the main way of avoiding problems before they arose.
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Very similar to what I was taught on the IAM courses. The big thing with a bike in traffic was to look at the driver and the positioning of the wheels, it gives you an insight into whether they are looking to "jump lanes" quickly. Something I still maintain in the car today.
 
sphexx said:
My car insurance renewal quote is £114 LESS than last year — not what you expect from an insurance company! (LV=)
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The go compare ad on TV has been saying that insurances are due to DROP this year.
And I didn't believe it either..
 
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