WAMT....what annoyed me today!

Tried to get a quote for travel insurance via Tui's app. Didn't work! Tui advised to use their online section - didn't work! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Compare the whatnot quote looking more promising by the minute! EDIT:- It seems that over 65's can't have a multi cover quote from them any more! Doh! That's another hour of my time wasted (at least!).
 
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We have multi travel policy-both over 65- from Staysure, we both have ailments but price comes in fine.
 
Still trying to book my holidays! The bank put a block on my credit card................................. because I was trying to use it!!!!! It seems that because I only use it occasionally, my wanting to pay a few grand for my holiday is an "unusual activity"! Tried to ring the relevant section of the bank's credit card fraud prevention scheme to lift the bock but "lines are all busy, please try later"! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! :headbang: :rolleyes: :muted:
 
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Still trying to book my holidays! The bank put a block on my credit card................................. because I was trying to use it!!!!! It seems that because I only use it occasionally, my wanting to pay a few grand for my holiday is an "unusual activity"! Tried to ring the relevant section of the bank's credit card fraud prevention scheme to lift the bock but "lines are all busy, please try later"! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! :headbang: :rolleyes: :muted:
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This happened recently when wife was buying some bling, most embarrassing, fortunately other bank card ok, a message from the first bank appeared on my mobile-15 minutes later! Commented about to the bank manager when next in branch, “we’re protecting your money!” he said, an instant confirmation text option might be better, or card machine asking for a call to bank.
 
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This happened recently when wife was buying some bling, most embarrassing, fortunately other bank card ok, a message from the first bank appeared on my mobile-15 minutes later! Commented about to the bank manager when next in branch, “we’re protecting your money!” he said, an instant confirmation text option might be better, or card machine asking for a call to bank.
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A branch??? What is that? A manager? To get an appointment at our nearest branch (miles away) you have to book a prior appointment, after going through several sets of "security" questions and menus and often a chat with someone in the Indian sub-continent, on a very noisy line, working from home, with several kids screaming in the background! A suitcase under the bed seems better security for your hard earned just lately, especially with them charging 29+% interest to loan people my savings, for which they give me 4 point something! Bankers? Well, it rhymes!
 
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I can walk to all three banks I have money in, since I’m a cash user I visit one monthly for my pocket money and cash for household stuff, some of the staff are old friends since I’ve been a customer longer than they been working age, use them or lose them I’m told.
 
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WAMT! I crashed my drone! I somehow flew it into my bicycle, the sensors didn't pick it up and avoid it, so it hit the saddle and crashed.

Camera and gimble dislodged. Already on it's way to DJI for repair :(
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A quick update.
Posted the drone off to DJI Repair Centre in Nottingham on Thursday morning, the 2nd. Delivered back to me on Saturday 4th! Secondly, they sent me a brand new drone!

Well done DJI, fabulous performance :)
 
The FA has set a target for 25% of coaches for the England men's team to come from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds by 2028, with an even higher goal of 50% representation for the Lionesses' coaching staff.
Furthermore, the organization aims for women to constitute 50% of its total workforce by 2028.

I cannot stand organisations that just employ the best people for the job whether they are all male or all female etc...

But, playing devils advocate, you can often see virtually all BAME players in teams. Arsenal had only 2 'white' players in the starting 11 on Saturday. Even my local team Cambridge can have 6 in the starting 11... so why not action there?
 
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The FA has set a target for 25% of coaches for the England men's team to come from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds by 2028, with an even higher goal of 50% representation for the Lionesses' coaching staff.
Furthermore, the organization aims for women to constitute 50% of its total workforce by 2028.

I cannot stand organisations that just employ the best people for the job whether they are all male or all female etc...

But, playing devils advocate, you can often see virtually all BAME players in teams. Arsenal had only 2 'white' players in the starting 11 on Saturday. Even my local team Cambridge can have 6 in the starting 11... so why not action there?
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It wasn't that long ago when one side fielded an all black team. Thing is, you just don't see that many South Asian males playing football at a professional level in this country, unlike cricket. Like you, I would just want to see the best candidate for the job to get it, no matter what colour, race, religion or even gender they may be. If they're good enough, they're the right person.
 
DPD driver came to the door asking if I would take a parcel in for my next door neighbour, I said yes, then realised the parcel was for me, there is a 12” black number 7 on the white garage door, the van was parked across my drive, yet he first tried to deliver to no9.
 
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DPD driver came to the door asking if I would take a parcel in for my next door neighbour, I said yes, then realised the parcel was for me, there is a 12” black number 7 on the white garage door, the van was parked across my drive, yet he first tried to deliver to no9.
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You should have said to him, "Sorry, but I'm not in at the moment, could you leave it at nr.5:ROFLMAO:
 
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It wasn't that long ago when one side fielded an all black team. Thing is, you just don't see that many South Asian males playing football at a professional level in this country, unlike cricket. Like you, I would just want to see the best candidate for the job to get it, no matter what colour, race, religion or even gender they may be. If they're good enough, they're the right person.
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SE Asian families don't see being a professional footballer as something they want for their boys.

As you've mentioned cricket is the preferred sport for them. Education is a big part of British Asian culture and families are less likely to want their children to pursue a sporting career where a tiny minority make it to the Premiere League but it's really the emphasis on academic subjects.
 
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SE Asian families don't see being a professional footballer as something they want for their boys.

As you've mentioned cricket is the preferred sport for them. Education is a big part of British Asian culture and families are less likely to want their children to pursue a sporting career where a tiny minority make it to the Premiere League but it's really the emphasis on academic subjects.
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There was only one, maybe two asian kids who played footie with my son. But a lot more who played cricket. And when I saw my local cricket team train, I think there was just one white face! But thats to be expected, after all, in the US is a kid going to be more likely to prefer baseball and American football to proper football, of course.
 
Deep sigh. IMO anyone pushing targets based on melanin content needs sending on some kind of course, or just sacking. Any discrimination is (IMO) simply discrimination, there's nothing positive about it. We should be waaaay passed it. I accept that some people want to see people who look like them in sports but my message to them is also that we should be waaaay past it.

Anyway. WAMT. Getting ignored whilst stood at the counter in a shop in town. It was only when I started to leave that a shop assistant showed any interest. Back to buying on line.
 
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Anyway. WAMT. Getting ignored whilst stood at the counter in a shop in town. It was only when I started to leave that a shop assistant showed any interest. Back to buying on line.
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That happens. I find that a loud "Hello! Who's on the counter?" elicits a response, most of the time.
 
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That happens. I find that a loud "Hello! Who's on the counter?" elicits a response, most of the time.
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I briefly though about that but it doesn't come naturally to me and then there's this... Do I really want to be served by that person? Well, no I don't.
 
WAMT
Well it's shopping in my local Tesco.
Honestly it's like the zombie apocalypse in there. Shuffling half dead scruffy things not actually shopping, but using the place as a so and so community centre! People picking up tins of beans and looking at each one (all the same brand) as if they dont know what a baked bean is. And trying to get to the cooked meat counter is like the siege of Troy, 10 deep and nobody buying anything. Ahgggggg!
 
WAMT (and probably tomorrow)
A letter from HMRC estimating my wife's savings interest this year based on last years. It is over twice what she expects to get but they want to take £450 out of the rest of this years pension.

We shall have a nice chat with someone in the morning, should be interesting. The amount in the letter for her state pension is not even the same as the amount in her info online.

We had a 58 mins chat last year when they gave her a refund for 2023/4 and sent us the figures to calculate it.
They had incorrectly put in one income twice and said that she should have paid more tax, at the end they found out that although there was an incorrect income figure and an incorrect tax due figure they had actually put in an incorrect tax paid figure as well so everything balanced out.
Plus the fact that the figures on the letter did not match up with the amalgamated figures they were quoting.
 
WAMT (and for the past week or 2) is Piriformis Syndrome - quite literally a PITA!
 
Problem is that iffy hips make all the relief poses a PITOA (Pain In The Other Areas!)

Since we're not doing anything tomorrow, I'm going to take a Nurofen Plus tonight so I might get some sleep.
 
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Problem is that iffy hips make all the relief poses a PITOA (Pain In The Other Areas!)

Since we're not doing anything tomorrow, I'm going to take a Nurofen Plus tonight so I might get some sleep.
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Hot water bottle or microwaveable wheat bag may help if you can get it in the right spot?
 
Thanks for the suggestion but it didn't work for me! The poppy held it back for a few hours so I slept a bit but woke up at about 4. Waiting for the fresh tablet to kick in!
 
Well yesterday actually but I got scammed by a QR code! Our kids gave us a fancy Dualit toaster for Christmas and I wanted to register it with Dualit. In the box was a registration card
with three methods of registration, online, phone or post but I saw a QR code in the corner which was yet another method so as it was New Years Day and I was still in bed I thought the
easy way was try the QR code. Scanned successfully and linked me to the registration site so I completed it.

One thing that was weird, it wanted me to pay £1 to them which they would then refund when the registration was complete. I did think that was odd but somewhere in my mind I seemed to remember Ebay or PayPal asking me to do something similar for some reason so I went ahead. I checked my account and £1 had been paid to FRVBILL.com.
I waited until yesterday and nothing had been received from Dualit so I checked my account and another £59.99 had been paid to FRVBILL.com! I suspected that the QR code was somehow implicated so I scan the code again and this time my Malwarebytes shrieked at me that it was a phishing site linked to which it hadn't done the first time.

I phoned Dualit and of course they had no record of anything so I escalated the process to my bank and the fun started. It took about 6 hours but in the end I was refunded by the bank who stopped my card and issued a new one but they also seemed to agree it was a QR code scam. To test this I scanned the code again and it linked to the legit site.

I didn't know this was a thing but apparently it is and in fact the woman I spoke to at Dualit said it had almost happened to her in a car park in Hertfordshire. She cottoned on when the amount suddenly changed from £3.50 to 40 Euros after she scanned the code and so she stopped it.
 
Just checking the bank statements, and the single largest piece of expenditure each month is council tax - £192 for two people living in a two bedroom house, that is incredible.
 
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Just checking the bank statements, and the single largest piece of expenditure each month is council tax - £192 for two people living in a two bedroom house, that is incredible.
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Allowing for inflation, that would have been just under £13 in 1968.

I was in my first full time job then and earning a very respectable £20 per week. So that would have been 14% of my salary. I think that's more than I paid as income tax at the time!
 
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Just checking the bank statements, and the single largest piece of expenditure each month is council tax - £192 for two people living in a two bedroom house, that is incredible.
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Count yourself lucky, ours is double that. (bigger house admittedly). And we don’t even have street lighting!
 
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Count yourself lucky, ours is double that. (bigger house admittedly). And we don’t even have street lighting!
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The obvious answer is income tax, but there's always an excuse why the wealthy shouldn't contribute more than the poor.
Where's Robin bleedin' Hood when he's needed? :tumbleweed:
 
I liked the Python's version

Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, riding through the land.
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore and his merry band.
Steals from the poor, gives to the rich.
Silly bitch.
 
Tui....... again...... sent me an email to "remind" me that my full deposit (for my second holiday) was due on the 18th. I go to the Tui site, input all my details, get a link from my bank, which I and the bank approve, back to Tui and.................. problem... please try later. I then try my Paypal account, do all the same checks, double checks, approvals and........ Tui computer says "No"! Have to ring local Tui branch, input all details again (which I detest doing over the phone, because you don't know who is listening) and success............. but............ hours later and it is still not showing on my Tui account! Doh! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

and........................ Toilet rolls and tissues that disintegrate whilst using them. Same brands but much poorer quality. My pockets are full of bits of tissues, which I have to empty regularly, or risk the wrath of SWMBO when the washing is covered in paper swarf! Don't ask about the toilet tissue! Yuk!
 
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Tui....... again...... sent me an email to "remind" me that my full deposit (for my second holiday) was due on the 18th. I go to the Tui site, input all my details, get a link from my bank, which I and the bank approve, back to Tui and.................. problem... please try later. I then try my Paypal account, do all the same checks, double checks, approvals and........ Tui computer says "No"! Have to ring local Tui branch, input all details again (which I detest doing over the phone, because you don't know who is listening) and success............. but............ hours later and it is still not showing on my Tui account! Doh! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

and........................ Toilet rolls and tissues that disintegrate whilst using them. Same brands but much poorer quality. My pockets are full of bits of tissues, which I have to empty regularly, or risk the wrath of SWMBO when the washing is covered in paper swarf! Don't ask about the toilet tissue! Yuk!
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Toilet rolls are of much inferior quality that before. We don't use Andrex anymore, for obvious disintigration problems, so we have started using Cushelle double quilted. I feel much safer with them.
 
Andrex Ultimate Quilts for the wipe win! Much rather have a Labrador puppy than a Koala doing the invoicing...
 
footman said:
Well yesterday actually but I got scammed by a QR code! Our kids gave us a fancy Dualit toaster for Christmas and I wanted to register it with Dualit. In the box was a registration card
with three methods of registration, online, phone or post but I saw a QR code in the corner which was yet another method so as it was New Years Day and I was still in bed I thought the
easy way was try the QR code. Scanned successfully and linked me to the registration site so I completed it.

One thing that was weird, it wanted me to pay £1 to them which they would then refund when the registration was complete. I did think that was odd but somewhere in my mind I seemed to remember Ebay or PayPal asking me to do something similar for some reason so I went ahead. I checked my account and £1 had been paid to FRVBILL.com.
I waited until yesterday and nothing had been received from Dualit so I checked my account and another £59.99 had been paid to FRVBILL.com! I suspected that the QR code was somehow implicated so I scan the code again and this time my Malwarebytes shrieked at me that it was a phishing site linked to which it hadn't done the first time.

I phoned Dualit and of course they had no record of anything so I escalated the process to my bank and the fun started. It took about 6 hours but in the end I was refunded by the bank who stopped my card and issued a new one but they also seemed to agree it was a QR code scam. To test this I scanned the code again and it linked to the legit site.

I didn't know this was a thing but apparently it is and in fact the woman I spoke to at Dualit said it had almost happened to her in a car park in Hertfordshire. She cottoned on when the amount suddenly changed from £3.50 to 40 Euros after she scanned the code and so she stopped it.
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That's really shocking if the registration card is in the box - how could it get there? How did it link to the correct site at one time and the scam the first time?

Only today I saw a scam whereby someone had put a sticker over the official QR code in the car park - sounds like the one you mentioned.
 
Fu***ng Cancer!!!

Dad is 77 and in pretty good shape. Had eye cancer a few years back but fully treated. Last Aug had scan and all clear, around Xmas felt a bit ill, went into hospital start of last week, Liver cancer. Today told that has days or weeks to live.

I know this happens to most people but you just think that parents will grow very old together (3 of my grandparents lived to 90+) and certainly not go down as quickly as this!
 
Deep sigh.

I've had watches since I was a boy so that's quite a while and I've had a lot of watches with metal bands. I usually have to have links removed but other than that there hasn't been a problem over my watch owning lifetime until very recently. I've bought some watches recently and one came with a strap which was too long so I called at a booth in town and he took some links out and it does fit but its way out of balance and constantly wants to move too far over on my wrist. He also fitted a metal band to another watch the fabric strap of which had crumbled with age and that strap has the same issue. It fits but it's out of whack and wants to slide over on my wrist. There's no more links to remove on the longer sides of these straps so the result is watch and strap combinations which want to twist on my wrist. I've never had this before, it's a new problem with these two new straps and only with these two new straps. Other new straps are fine. You can see the problem clearly by fastening the strap and looking to see what shape it naturally takes compared to a strap which fits well and is no problem.

Looking for new metal straps I've tried a few jewellers and two watch repair/strap booths in three different towns but they just didn't seem to listen to me and just kept repeating that the problem is that my wrist is too thin. "Well, that can't be the issue because I have a dozen or so watches with metal straps which fit perfectly and look at this one on my wrist which also fits perfectly (I take it off and put it back on to show them). The problem with these two new straps is a combination of the size of the links and the design of the fastening mechanism which leads them to be unbalanced when you start taking links out." Staff... "The problem is your wrists are thin." Rince and repeat and then give up. And this was at three different jewellers and two booths.

Why wont they listen to me or believe the evidence of their own eyes when I put the watches next to each other and point out the issue to them?

So I've ordered one off Amazon. It comes with tools and my wrist is comfortably with the stated possible min/max adjustment and just so the size of the links shouldn't be too much of an issue I've ordered one with relatively small links.

Sometimes I think that high street shops actually want us to shop online.
 
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