Todays - What Grinds my gears

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Trying to get my broadband/phone/TV package price down: the usual tactic is threaten to leave, try and wangle a better deal. "Better" actually being the same deal they'd offer a new customer.

Checking broadband/phone prices (with Vodafone) "sorry, we're experiencing some technical problems." How about Sky Stream? Build a package, hit the checkout button, "sorry, something went wrong." Virgin Media: "why not use out online chat facility?" I'll tell you why not, you don't actually offer a way to get to it! Tell a lie: if I raise an official complaint I'm now thrown into online chat. "Yes, my complaint is your website is shite."

Why not ring these people? Oh yes, half an hour navigating a menu with "press 1" just to get put through to someone Singapore to whom English isn't even a third language. ffs.
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Polarbear]

^^^ I left BT when the price hit £60+ a month ^^^

That was just for internet. The CPI plus 3.x% interest each year really pushed it up. I hate that hike, same with phone companies.

I'm now with a company that run on the CityFibre network that we have in MK, FibreHop. £36 a month and 900Mbps download. (I get about 400 over the wifi) . It's a basic service but running firesticks on 4 TV's, alexa in every room I've had no issues at all. (queue broadband failure )
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I think my original BT line is now a subject of a palaeontology phd thesis. The Virgin Media line went the same way. I reported a fault and the engineer just came round and plugged the phone into the back of my router: transparent VoIP

In the end I did manage to get £40 per month off my bill though. Funny that.
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[dave001]

[M.C]

[hellkat]

I closed the lid of my laptop while there was a pen still on the keyboard, and I fucked up the screen - I wouldnt mind but I didn't even slam the lid shut
Sensitive little flowers, these screens, aren't they.

The chaps in the IT department couldn't provide me with a replacement right there and then, despite that I have a terribly important meeting tomorrow (off-site) ... so I had a fleeting moment of mild panic and then remembered that I had a spare one at home which I hadn't got round to giving back to them.
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[BanditsHigh]

^^^ Mates wife did that but with a cable going across the laptop, bust the hinge but luckily still worked ........ then denied having done it ... only the two of them in the house

[Ribenapigeon]

When people winge about getting through to a call center abroad it always reminds me of when I worked providing support in the community and my clients when I needed to get them to call some service would voice similar concerns. Most often the problem was the person on the other side of the planet spoke better English than the client rather than the other way round.

[blurredman]

I don't know why people still rent telephone line/internet from the big boys. We all know they entice you in with low prices but then increase that when they want. I'm currently with Zen. Initially more expensive, but it's plateaued out over the years because I don't have to mess around changing companies because i've been charged excesses.
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CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 17k. , 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 9k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 38k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 49k

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[Diggs]

This bastard cold that is going around. Feels like I've been eating cactus and I'm producing more green than BirdsEye....

Currently looking for work as a Mariella Frostrup vocal impersonator...
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Now - Speed Triple, old ratty GS550, GSXR750M
Gone (in order of ownership) - Raleigh Runabout, AP50, KH125, GP125, KH250, CBX550, Z400, CB750FII, 250LC, GS550, ZXR750H1, Guzzi Targa, GSX750F, KH250 x2, Bimota SB6R and counting...

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[M.C]

eBay seller who was communicative before the end of the auction, going silent afterwards (ignoring messages about collection)

[Ste]

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[M.C]

[A100man]

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the steering wheel in the new car is slightly off centre. about half inch to the right id guess. bloody annoying.
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
its old and fat, but its a damned good ride. the bikes not bad either.

[Islander]

[hellkat]

[hellkat]

Had one of those precious "arrogant young guy in flash car" Uber drivers on the way home.

Not only did he pull up on the other side of the road, he then sat and watched me drag my suitcase across the road and then (Outraged of Plaistow ) ... he expected me to step onto an icy pavement - my side of the road, where there is taxi parking, being completely un-icy. He didn't even move a muscle until I started stamping my feet and making a fuss about the pavement.

AND he got all peculiar in that way men do about lifting a suitcase right out of the boot otherwise you will scratch their paintwork. Most minicab drivers pop the trunk, jump out and lift the case in for you, out of courtesy.

This one was lazy and it was only when he realised I couldn't lift it (old woman/long day) and that I would drag it across his boot paintwork, did he jump out.

Possibly, in hindsight, I realise he might have been listening to the footie. But today I am a rugby-centric elderly Karen and he is an Uberisto. So do your fucking job, matey.

Idle git. The youth of today.

Probably I didn't *look* like as old a woman as I really am ... I was more dogged-up-to-the-nines than usual because of the work thingie. My Uber account says "Dr Jennifer" because I opened it when they were giving the NHS half-price taxi fares during lockdown - so uberistos are usually more sucky-uppy than this one was I am disinclined to bother changing it, except when Turkish uberistos ask me what kind of dottore I am. So I tell them I am a neurosurgeon

Anyway, no more Karening today, its extremely wearing being a diva, you know.
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