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Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2021 8:38 pm
by formula400
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2021 9:22 pm
by Pirahna
On the positive side, this is the best time of the year to sell a house.
I'd like to find a buyer for mine.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2021 9:49 pm
by David
And you can put the price up.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2021 10:26 pm
by formula400
Pirahna wrote: Sat Mar 20, 2021 9:22 pm
On the positive side, this is the best time of the year to sell a house.
I'd like to find a buyer for mine.
Hope so, we need to beat the end of the stamp duty tax holiday thing (30th June)
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2021 11:59 pm
by Saga Lout
I think I may have mentioned this on the TRC thread but it's something that's been annoying me for the best part of 70 years so it bears repeating.
Nursery rhymes that don't.
Doctor Foster went to Gloucester in a shower of rain. It's OK so far
He fell is a puddle right up to his middle... No. It don't rhyme.
RIde a cock horse to Banbury Cross... Hang on. "Cross" only rhymes with "horse if you pronounce it "crorse". Maybe in Surrey. Or Yorkshire where it would be Ride a cock 'oss t' Banbury Cross. In the civilised world it doesn't rhyme.
The clue's in the name FFS. they're supposed to rhyme.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:31 am
by Pirahna
Where I live there plenty of horsey people that would pronounce cross as "corse".
Just for giggles you might want to look up the rest of the lyrics to the rhyme "as I was going to Charing Cross".
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:47 am
by Saga Lout
Pirahna wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:31 am
Where I live there plenty of horsey people that would pronounce cross as "corse".
I did say in the civilised world they don't.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 7:02 am
by slowsider
Saga Lout wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:47 am
Pirahna wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:31 am
Where I live there plenty of horsey people that would pronounce cross as "corse".
I did say in the civilised world they don't.
Shirley it's 'hoss'...
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 10:28 am
by KungFooBob
Checked the bank account, £42 to the RAC.. WTF!
I don't have anything with the RAC, or do I?
This time last year I bought the Guzzi, the dealer included an RAC warranty and breakdown cover for free, which I'd totally forgotten about.
It only went and auto renewed yesterday. Jesus H Christ, was the west country bird in retentions frustrating. I just want to cancel it and get my money back!
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:08 am
by Jody
My bloody MAcBook Pro.... AGAIN
I need to download a document from an email, I select download
"where do you want it, what should we call it"
I want it called "label" I want it stored in documents. Job done.
I need to send the document on, compose email, add document...
look in "recents" ... not there
look in "documents' ... not there
search MacBook for document called "label" ..... nope, never heard of it.
OHH FFS I'll download it again as I must have got something wrong
Select document, download
"where do you want it, what should we call it"
I want it called "label" I want it stored in documents.
You can't call it "label" you already have a document called label
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:25 pm
by Yorick
inewham wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:57 am
Jody wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:08 am
My bloody MAcBook Pro.... AGAIN
Best thing I did with my Mac pro was put Linux on it
Macs basically run on Unix anyway
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 3:07 pm
by Trinity765
Jody wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:08 am
My bloody MAcBook Pro.... AGAIN
I need to download a document from an email, I select download
"where do you want it, what should we call it"
I want it called "label" I want it stored in documents. Job done.
I need to send the document on, compose email, add document...
look in "recents" ... not there
look in "documents' ... not there
search MacBook for document called "label" ..... nope, never heard of it.
OHH FFS I'll download it again as I must have got something wrong
Select document, download
"where do you want it, what should we call it"
I want it called "label" I want it stored in documents.
You can't call it "label" you already have a document called label
Turn it off, wait two minutes, then turn it on again.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 3:35 pm
by gremlin
Green Flag.
Go online, try to get a quote for breakdown cover, it tells me to ring the call centre.
I ring the call centre, give them the details, they quote me £160.16. Bloody hell.
I express my surprise and explain that last year's premium was considerably cheaper.
"Hmmm. Maybe you got on-line discount"
"Well I tried to do it on-line, told me to call you"
"Let me apply it for you.....here we go...revised quote of....£91.84"
Where do you even begin..?
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 6:21 pm
by cheb
By politely telling them you won't be renewing now, and probably not in the next ten years.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:24 pm
by Tarmacsurfer
KungFooBob wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 10:28 am
Checked the bank account, £42 to the RAC.. WTF!
I don't have anything with the RAC, or do I?
This time last year I bought the Guzzi, the dealer included an RAC warranty and breakdown cover for free, which I'd totally forgotten about.
It only went and auto renewed yesterday. Jesus H Christ, was the west country bird in retentions frustrating. I just want to cancel it and get my money back!
Exactly the same happened to me. A good ploy by the RAC.
I moaned (a lot) and got my money back.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:26 pm
by Tarmacsurfer
Bennett's. £117 policy for ktm started in January. I sold the bike and as not bought/insuring another bike yet then had to cancel. Only 40 quid back and not ridden the bike once
Was tempted to leave the policy going but read that if the bike is involved in an accident another party can make a claim on your insurance, even if you don't own it.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:46 am
by gremlin
Saga Lout wrote: Sun Mar 21, 2021 11:59 pm
I think I may have mentioned this on the TRC thread but it's something that's been annoying me for the best part of 70 years so it bears repeating.
Nursery rhymes that don't.
Doctor Foster went to Gloucester in a shower of rain. It's OK so far
He fell is a puddle right up to his middle... No. It don't rhyme.
RIde a cock horse to Banbury Cross... Hang on. "Cross" only rhymes with "horse if you pronounce it "crorse". Maybe in Surrey. Or Yorkshire where it would be Ride a cock 'oss t' Banbury Cross. In the civilised world it doesn't rhyme.
The clue's in the name FFS. they're supposed to rhyme.
Sounding very nerdy, I'm a bit of an amateur etymologist. I love the history of words and their origins. Many old nursery rhymes are just that, old, and the pronunciations, sounding torturous now, once made perfect sense. Take the American expression, 'Sassy' and the English, 'Saucy'. Both have the same meaning and origin, but the Elizabethan pronunciation would have been 'Sass'. even though writen 'Sauce'.
IIRC, DR. Foster was a piss take of Edward I, who fell off his horse and was roundly berated by the good people of Gloucester who were none too keen on him in the first place.
I'm now off to iron creases in my jeans and put my sock drawer in colour order.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:51 am
by Bike Breaker
gremlin wrote: Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:46 amI'm now off to iron creases in my jeans
I just put mine on the fast spin cycle in the washing machine and they come out with loads of creases.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:02 pm
by the_priest
Trying to access the new online registration system for marriages. So we do it all "online", no longer have a book register at the Church. However all the videos on how to use the system have no subtitles, pure voice over with slide show, so no one to lipread either. Bloody government has made a mess of this as well. So now I cannot learn how to register the marriages online as I cannot access the training... I am not listening to 2 1/2 hours of videos if I cannot see what they are saying. Grrr. I fired off an email of complaint, here is hoping they can turn on subtitles.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:32 pm
by Pirahna
My back went pop.
