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DefTrap wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 5:54 pm Local garage, trying to pull the wool over my missus's eyes - presumably because she's forrin and a lady.

I actually feel a bit sorry for them - she will literally crucify them. I was watching her lay into them on FaceTime. Poor, poor feckers.

Sounds like you are mis-placing your sympathy.

David wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 6:43 pm

Sounds like you are mis-placing your sympathy.

You've not seen it. Terrifying.

Count Steer wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 4:48 pm#
I guess you don't use the lock screen in Windizz? If I switch my laptop on or it times out I have to put the p/w in, that way I remember it. It's a bit of a pain, but if it got nicked it might keep the tea leaf from nosing around s/sheets, email etc.

I mostly use Linux. When I use Windows I fire it up, do what I want to do then shut it down. I very rarely leave it long enough for the lock screen to kick in but if I remember correctly, when it does, I just put my PIN in again to unlock it. I used the Outlook password one time when I got it and saved it in Keepass, I haven't needed it since.

I write my passwords down on paper (not next to the username ) - the thinking being, the kind of people who will break into my house and rummage around are the not the same kind of people who're trying to hack me with their leet skillz. Even if they were it would a) take 'em some effort to find the scribbled bit of paper amongst all the other crap and b) take 'em even longer to figure out which user accounts they're for.

I have a two-pronged method.

Passwords to dross stuff (like RTTL) are stored in Lastpass.

Really secure stuff (like passwords to bank accounts) are written down but in coded form, like 'Place of birth' instead of the actual password which is the village name. Then I substitute some letters with figures, eg o's with xeros. All scribbled on a scrappy piece of paper, a la Mr Dazzle, which is carefully concealed. Occasionally a mite too carefully concealed.

DefTrap wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 5:54 pm Local garage, trying to pull the wool over my missus's eyes - presumably because she's forrin and a lady.

I actually feel a bit sorry for them - she will literally crucify them. I was watching her lay into them on FaceTime. Poor, poor feckers.

Bloody brilliant!

It's the only thing I get really pissed off about here, the serious sexism and especially if you are both female and foreign. Of course in my case I have three strikes against be as I'm also single, but I try not to let them work that out and have started saying my partner couldn't come to the garage because he's working. They still try and take the piss but a smidge less

DefTrap wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 5:54 pm Local garage, trying to pull the wool over my missus's eyes - presumably because she's forrin and a lady.

I actually feel a bit sorry for them - she will literally crucify them. I was watching her lay into them on FaceTime. Poor, poor feckers.

Garages and car dealers always do that. Daughter went to buy car, her husband came along for the ride but the salesman repeatedly talked to him and ignored daughter. Big mistake!

After she had reamed him a new asshole she repeated the performance with the sales manager. And then went off and bought a car from a rival dealer.

Daughter can be scary when she goes into executive mode!

Ah yes. Similar sort of thing happens with disabled people who have a carer. The people talk to the carer, not the person. Fecks me off hugely!!!

I talk the the person I am engaging with, if the carer needs "translate", so be it, but I am talking to the person in question and giving them my attention and my time.

Works the other way around to TBF. If we're either baby D all questions/statements about her get directed at Mrs D. People still also says things like "when Mum does her washing" or "next time she makes cakes with Mum" and so on.

That^ to the max. And it gets laughed off.

One I'm ashamed of: During a very tedious trip an older middle aged female shop assistant remarked I had my hands full when shopping with both my spawn*. My reply was along the lines of 'Yes, it's been like this every day since my wife died.'


*Something I tried to avoid as it just made a boring task worse

Noggin wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:44 pm

DefTrap wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 5:54 pm Local garage, trying to pull the wool over my missus's eyes - presumably because she's forrin and a lady.

I actually feel a bit sorry for them - she will literally crucify them. I was watching her lay into them on FaceTime. Poor, poor feckers.

Bloody brilliant!

It's the only thing I get really pissed off about here, the serious sexism and especially if you are both female and foreign. Of course in my case I have three strikes against be as I'm also single, but I try not to let them work that out and have started saying my partner couldn't come to the garage because he's working. They still try and take the piss but a smidge less

When I was working as a tyre monkey earlier this year I had 3 cases of young ladies coming in for punctures. Every one had less tread depth left than was worth repairing and had another very low tread depth tyre on the car. Each of them left with a pair of new tyres. I didn't do anything wrong, I took time to show them exactly what was needed and why. Yet part of me still feared the husband/ boyfriend/ father turning up later that week to kick off! (they never did though).

the_priest wrote: Fri Oct 01, 2021 6:56 am Ah yes. Similar sort of thing happens with disabled people who have a carer. The people talk to the carer, not the person. Fecks me off hugely!!!

I talk the the person I am engaging with, if the carer needs "translate", so be it, but I am talking to the person in question and giving them my attention and my time.

I experienced this for myself. I had an anaphylactic reaction to hair dye (don't laugh) and my head swelled up - typical of any pictures you will see if you Google it. I was unrecognisable for a few days and joked that I should rob a bank as no one would have been able to identify me. Even in the hospital, the doctors spoke to my boyfriend and not me. They would ask him questions about me, rather than ask me and yet there was nothing wrong with my brain, ears or voice.

When doctors/nurses/healthcare professionals talk to my Mum, who has Alzheimer's and doesn't know what year it is, I still let her answer for herself even if I have to quietly correct her.

Cousin Jack wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:55 pm

DefTrap wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 5:54 pm Local garage, trying to pull the wool over my missus's eyes - presumably because she's forrin and a lady.

I actually feel a bit sorry for them - she will literally crucify them. I was watching her lay into them on FaceTime. Poor, poor feckers.

Garages and car dealers always do that. Daughter went to buy car, her husband came along for the ride but the salesman repeatedly talked to him and ignored daughter. Big mistake!

After she had reamed him a new asshole she repeated the performance with the sales manager. And then went off and bought a car from a rival dealer.

Daughter can be scary when she goes into executive mode!

I went to Fowlers in Bristol with a girl friend one time. She wanted to buy a bike but she was little, so needed to find one she was comfortable on. We went on my bike, Blackbird at the time, so both walked in in full leathers to go look at bikes.

We tried to get the attention of a couple of the sales people to pull out a couple of the bikes she liked and wanted to see if she could get her feet down. Not interested. Was a serious effort to get them to acknowledge her when she spoke to them. So we started to leave at which point a different sales person walked up to us to start talking. He'd been on a break and saw us heading to leave as he came back. He pulled out one of the bikes for her and she liked it. But by that time she had pretty much lost interest. TBF, she did talk to him and explain why. And she did go back to buy when he was there so that she had someone to deal with that would actually take her seriously.

Sadly she was too nice to 'make a point' with the others - and it wasn't my battle so I didn't.

But I do hate Fowlers for many reasons, but the fact that I could never get anyone to help me in the store for kit or bikes meant that I ended up avoiding the place for everything that I could get elsewhere!!

Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Oct 01, 2021 7:17 am Works the other way around to TBF. If we're either baby D all questions/statements about her get directed at Mrs D. People still also says things like "when Mum does her washing" or "next time she makes cakes with Mum" and so on.

THat sucks just as much

Jody wrote: Fri Oct 01, 2021 7:36 am

Noggin wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:44 pm

DefTrap wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 5:54 pm Local garage, trying to pull the wool over my missus's eyes - presumably because she's forrin and a lady.

I actually feel a bit sorry for them - she will literally crucify them. I was watching her lay into them on FaceTime. Poor, poor feckers.

Bloody brilliant!

It's the only thing I get really pissed off about here, the serious sexism and especially if you are both female and foreign. Of course in my case I have three strikes against be as I'm also single, but I try not to let them work that out and have started saying my partner couldn't come to the garage because he's working. They still try and take the piss but a smidge less

When I was working as a tyre monkey earlier this year I had 3 cases of young ladies coming in for punctures. Every one had less tread depth left than was worth repairing and had another very low tread depth tyre on the car. Each of them left with a pair of new tyres. I didn't do anything wrong, I took time to show them exactly what was needed and why. Yet part of me still feared the husband/ boyfriend/ father turning up later that week to kick off! (they never did though).

I get that, but, you did explain to them and show them why, so there would be no reason - but yes, I do get that it could be an issue.

the_priest wrote: Fri Oct 01, 2021 6:56 am Ah yes. Similar sort of thing happens with disabled people who have a carer. The people talk to the carer, not the person. Fecks me off hugely!!!

I talk the the person I am engaging with, if the carer needs "translate", so be it, but I am talking to the person in question and giving them my attention and my time.

I've watched that happen so many times. Luckily not been on the receiving end, but it's horrible to see

Noggin wrote: Fri Oct 01, 2021 9:56 am

the_priest wrote: Fri Oct 01, 2021 6:56 am Similar sort of thing happens with disabled people who have a carer.

I've watched that happen so many times. Luckily not been on the receiving end, but it's horrible to see

I can remember doing it, about 25 years ago and I'm still embarrassed by it

Trinity765 wrote: Fri Oct 01, 2021 7:39 am Even in the hospital, the doctors spoke to my boyfriend and not me. They would ask him questions about me, rather than ask me and yet there was nothing wrong with my brain, ears or voice.

I was going to reply on this but can't see a 'Reply to the Male Other-Half' button.

Actually I've been in shop with my mum, who is almost totally deaf but lip-reads, when a shop assistant decided that because there was a slight non-normality of her speech, he would speak in simple words and gestures like he was communicating with a chimp.
She thanked him and then quietly said, 'Oh, by the way dear, I'm deaf, but not stupid'.



In fairness, I think there's more training and awareness of disabilities now then ever.

DefTrap wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 5:54 pm Local garage, trying to pull the wool over my missus's eyes

I went with her to the CT/MOT place (where it passed last week) this morning and they chucked it back up on the ramps so we could have a gander - nothing really wrong with it, nothing that you would call "a dangerous deathtrap" (the garage lad's words) anyway. Bunch of crooks! (If anyone's bothered the car was in for tyres - which it DID need - and they then "found" loads of other issues to wind my missus up about. Apologies to Jody but I fecking hate tyre fitters! )

DefTrap wrote: Fri Oct 01, 2021 12:05 pm

DefTrap wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 5:54 pm Local garage, trying to pull the wool over my missus's eyes

I went with her to the CT/MOT place (where it passed last week) this morning and they chucked it back up on the ramps so we could have a gander - nothing really wrong with it, nothing that you would call "a dangerous deathtrap" (the garage lad's words) anyway. Bunch of crooks! (If anyone's bothered the car was in for tyres - which it DID need - and they then "found" loads of other issues to wind my missus up about. Apologies to Jody but I fecking hate tyre fitters! )

No worries, I wasn't that keen on one of my colleagues either, he knew how to fit tyres and various other jobs. What he didn't know was how to talk to people.

EG Telling a mother with her two kids "that tyre's fucked"

He didn't seem to understand why I was earning many times the tips he was despite only working half the week (3 days).

Jody wrote: Fri Oct 01, 2021 12:20 pm I was earning many times the tips

Tip a tyre monkey*, wtf kind of madness is this

*No offence to tyre monkies, I enjoy the staff discount at Kwik Fit

inewham wrote: Fri Oct 01, 2021 2:04 pm

Saga Lout wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 8:18 pm

Count Steer wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 4:48 pm#
I guess you don't use the lock screen in Windizz? If I switch my laptop on or it times out I have to put the p/w in, that way I remember it. It's a bit of a pain, but if it got nicked it might keep the tea leaf from nosing around s/sheets, email etc.

I mostly use Linux. When I use Windows I fire it up, do what I want to do then shut it down. I very rarely leave it long enough for the lock screen to kick in but if I remember correctly, when it does, I just put my PIN in again to unlock it. I used the Outlook password one time when I got it and saved it in Keepass, I haven't needed it since.

Can you mount the Windows partiton from linux, open the KeePass database file in Keepass on Linux ? (or copy it and open if you are worried about corrupting the original)

Our even have the Keepass file in a shared space and open it on your phone.