Todays - What Grinds my gears

[Skudd]

Some cunt decided to key the boot of my car, either while I was outside my daughters yesterday, that will be the builder working next door to my daughter who got uppity about me parking near his clapped out white van even though he was parked right across my daughters, or it was some cunt in Tesco today, but I can't see why. Fucking scratched like fuck. Why do the cowardly shits do it?

Well the shop that he is working on wont like the next six months and the vindictive little shit that I will become. Fuck 'em.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I don’t remember residential streets being full of work vans when I was a kid, yet now the ugly things are all over the place and mostly close to junctions where they maximise the hazard. What happened?

[hellkat]

There used to be "yards" at those sort of businesses, where you went in the morning to pick up your van and go to work.
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[MCN]

[Freddyfruitba...]

Rightly or wrongly, in our household we all pop a daily vitamin D pill during the winter months (when it's generally accepted that most people in this country aren't exposed to sufficient sunlight to enable their bodies to generate enough vitamin D for their needs). So, this week's Tesco order for delivery happened to include a pot of vitamin D tablets. Unfortunately though, Tesco were out of stock, and their order acknowledgement email included the following:

Substitutions:
1 Tesco Health 120 High Strength Vitamin D 25mcg Tablets
Substituted with:
1 Tesco Health 120 Chewable Vitamin C 500Mg Tablets

Cos, fair enough, it's almost identical isn't it? Only a single letter different?
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[recman]

[Polarbear]

[A100man]

[Ayrton]

[DaddyStu]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Just a very expensive ingredient in urine.
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[Easy-X]

[DaddyStu]

It'll be fine in a decade or so when they ban private ownership of cars. Loads of space for everyone then

Apparently they're discussing ICE motos aswell.
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Zontes 125-G1 (part-ex'd). Yamaha Tracer 700.

[stinkwheel]

Among the many, many deficiencies and issues with the new supposedly better digital phone system we have at work because digital is the way forwards and having an emergency phone system running via a broadband connection is a fucking great idea until there's a power cut...

One of the handsets on our super-duper phone system which works perfectly if everything is working perfectly (and only one of the 20 or so handsets in the building) shows up as a London number when you dial out. Only just found this out a few days ago

What's the problem? I hear you ask. Well, nobody answers it when you call them from it. When a London number shows up on my phone, I reject the call because there's nobody calling me from London I want to talk to (I know a few people from London *waves to hellkat* but they don't have my number). I thought it was only me but when I asked around the staff, they all do it too.

So we have a digital handset spoofing a London number (although if you dial that number, our main phone line does ring) that there's no point dialling out on it and it's not somewhere you'd be answering calls from so it's effectively useless.

I wonder how many man hours we've wasted betwen us trying to phone people from this phone and getting no answer.

For clarity, we are located a six hour drive from London.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Polarbear]

We got rid of our landline when we changed from BT to Cityfibre broadband. We now only use mobiles. It's quite amazing still how many companies ask for a landline number and aren't happy when you say you haven't got one.
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[panrider_uk]

[blurredman]

[Freddyfruitba...]

[Easy-X]

It's an industry wide strategy to get rid of all old copper pair phone lines by 2025. March of progress and all that.

As for phone lines that don't work in a power cut...

Either run a UPS for the router, PoE switch and PoE handsets if you're that bothered about it or do what everyone else does and pull out your mobile phone.
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[Easy-X]

My mum rings up to say she's got no cold water upstairs so most likely a problem with the tank in the loft.

I did put some boxes up in the loft recently but only empty ones. Trying to rack my brain on how that could have shut off the water! Oh well, we shall see when I head round there.
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[stinkwheel]

[doggone]

We still don't have mobile coverage and plenty of places even in town are patchy at best.
So use mobiles only on wifi calling, which also goes off during powercuts.
We must have had nearly 50 short trip-out style power cuts this month locally - they have managed to blown up some expensive raid backups at one place.
The local pub and coop aren't happy as their broadband and card payments go down every time and it takes nearly five minutes to come back up
The broadband might stay on but the router doesn't.

[Easy-X]

[stinkwheel]