This Instant And Moment - 2023!

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Took last Tue afternoon off work to get my tyres sorted, machine broken.

Took this afternoon off for an engineer to fix our house alarm, cancels.

Dodge multiple pot holes that at this point could swallow the car.

Does anything in this country work anymore? At this rate I’ll need a 4x4 to tackle our roads.
 
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Lol. Just came across a spoofed science article with a ridiculous claim (bigger penie size from smoking hooch)

The Perceived Effect of Cannabis Use on Penile Growth in Humans

Abstract— Background and Objective: The use of cannabis has become increasingly popular in recent years, and there is ongoing debate and research on its potential effects on human health. While some studies have suggested that cannabis use can have negative effects on sexual function and...
zenodo.org zenodo.org

Look at the institutions involved for a laugh (at the top of the article).
 
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I know people like to complain, but when we move i'll genuinely miss how good our GP surgery is.

I've been having treatment on my foot since October through private podiatrist, it's not really got much better, and so i went for an MRI (again privately as i can claim the expense from my work health plan). MRI showed bursitis between my toes, and so they suggested a cortisone injection.

Rang the doctors yesterday to see if they could do it, dropped off the form. Got a call this morning and i'm booked in for the injection on Monday.



In other news, my wife has just had the email confirmation for her Irish citizenship. Means things are definitely moving forward :)
 
Got out of my car and saw two ladies carrying copies of The Watchtower by my front door. Bloody Jehovah's Witnesses. How many people have signed up to join them doing door 2 door? No other religion does this.

My mum frightens them off saying "I've donated 75 pints of blood". She can't donate anymore due to cancer treatment
 
cheesefest said:
Got out of my car and saw two ladies carrying copies of The Watchtower by my front door. Bloody Jehovah's Witnesses. How many people have signed up to join them doing door 2 door? No other religion does this.

My mum frightens them off saying "I've donated 75 pints of blood". She can't donate anymore due to cancer treatment
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Mormons do country to country.
 
Second time in two days I've had the postie wake me up ringing the doorbell and banging on the door trying to deliver a parcel, the trouble is I'm not expecting any deliveries its a different name each time and none of them are mine I work shifts and its getting annoying. I refused it as I refused the other saying I'm not sure whats going on but its some kind of scam I imagine
 
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So it turns out despite..

1 - Cancelled BT’s Broadband and Land line (not on purpose but accidentally by them!) and cut me off both completely as i moved broadband provider.
2 - Then had called back multiple times explanaing what happened so i could get my landline back with the old number…

I got an email today from BT Billing….they are STILL set up to DD my account for a broadband bill (minus the Land Line on this account, but still billing me on a new account). And when logging into my account on the website, their are also going to charge me old price of broadband + Land Line on April 3rd!

It would be far too obvious to cancel DD as I cancelled the BB…but nooooo, and it seems the system between the service and billing is completely separate?!

I had to make another long phone call telling how they F up the whole thing and get this month’s Broadband charge refunded, cancel the DD (I would do it on my end but there is a new DD set up for the new landline so there are 2) and close this old account down.

I also had to make another call to get the £70 connection fee (for the land line) refunded...because that technically is a "new account".....

All this because i wanted to cancel the Broadband and keep my landline….
 
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cheesefest said:
No other religion does this.
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Technically they are all Christian or related religions but as above Mormons do it and they are even more insidious at it - trying to present themselves as promoting a social/sports/youth club initially. I know of at least 2 other Christian groups who go door to door - mostly leaflet drops and street preaching though rather than trying to engage people on the doorstep. Back in the day several cult like groups and/including Scientologists used to but I believe they don't bother any more.
 
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Overall: Prepping and drafting for a new EP which will be released in May 2023.

Today: working out why my go to Pro-C2 compressor is sounding worse than my almost never used LA-2A comp on tracked vox. It is a mystery :mad:
 
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I don’t know how they managed to **** it up but your request is a simple enough request. Someone obviously doesn’t give a **** on their end. Demand a free years broadband if they don’t sort it out within the next 2 weeks.
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I think I have managed to sort it all out now...but then I thought the same after the 1st phone call asking to "cancel the broad band, NOT the land line" repeated 3 times on the phone..............

And then I thought I fixed it when I got my land line number back......

I have to literally watch every step that they do, I must have spoken to about 7 different people, not one of them have been 100% competent so far.
 
Sigh - seen another one about high vis vests in response to Dan Walker getting knocked off his bike... absolutely mind boggling how people can be that stupid - sure it won't help if people aren't even paying attention but that doesn't make it a bad idea...
 
Talking of BT this Facebook memory popped up from 10 years ago

BT proved again today how stupid they are....
Me: can I pay this bill by card please
Lady on help desk: yes ok what's the name on the card
Me: what cards do you accept?
Lady: visa debit and maestro.
Me: you only accept those two types of card? :s
Lady: yes
Me: ok well I won't be able to pay by card then as we only have an Amex and a MasterCard
Lady: MasterCard is fine

o.O

Billings Dept
Me: I don't appear to be receiving all of your invoices via email
Man: you will have to speak to the company that host your email
Me: ok what would BTs email address be that they are coming from so I can let them know
Man: you will need to speak to the company that host your email
Me: yes but what's BT's email address I.e some companies have billing@ ......
Man: erm, I don't know the email address I'd have to put you through to the other dept

o.O
 
There’s no uniform way for companies to let you change address. My dad is changing address for my grandmother- who’s in a care home to his address. Some let it do over the phone, some via a link sent by email and some by letter!
 
BT always manage to screw something up. When I last moved house they decided it would be good idea to start the new service at the house I just moved out of instead of the one I moved to.
 
Get real jealous with families getting along like friends. Have friends and colleagues who go on holiday with their families.

Both my parents have a younger sister who don’t get on. Though my dad’s sister had to up her game with getting my grandmother into a care home and empty her housing association bungalow.

Not heard from my mum’s sister for a couple of years. No birthday cards etc. For a few years prior, we just got one line emails.

Not seen my cousins since their prospective grandparents’ funerals.
 
I'd quite like to have either no brother or a brother who's not a **** and takes all of my mum's money
My dad would be turning in his grave if he knew how much money my **** of a brother has taken so far
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Was a struggle today to get motivated for gym class at 8am but did it. Didn't beat about PBs due to what we were doing but was good to do more bench presses
Now it's "just another manic Monday" at work :(
 
Whoop, after banging on about it for ages, the day has come to head to Spain for 3 months. Was working till midnight last night in the hope of an easy morning today. Have even set Teams to "Busy" which i never usually do!

Most stuff is packed, just praying 3 bikes hold up on the bike rack given i've not actually used/tested it!
 
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