LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2019

Hi,

Why is everyone from the age of 4 upwards expected to have a mobile phone welded to their ear?

Buying online can be hugely frustrating; Last year having filled in all my details taking ages to order online £600 of tyres right at the end before submitting the order I was thrown out because I didn't add a mobile phone number.

I've just spent ages wasting time on the Argos website; blocked from ordering £100 of goods again due to the demand for a mobile phone number. At Argos I added our landline number and a mobile phone number is optional?

Kind regards, Colin.

 

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Don't get me started on this mobile phone business...I could have very nearly hit a cyclist or should I say he could have hit me as he was so engrossed on his phone riding in the middle of the road ,as it turned out I just knew he was oblivious to all around him so slowed virtually to a standstill..just in time he was 'back in the room' and got on the right side of the road..This was last week..Today however I only had the same situation agaiiinnnnn with the very same young man..he'll be in his 20's so should know better but this time he was riding along looking at one of these 'ere Ipods or tablets or what ever the hell they call all this electrickery ..well I'm telling you now..one more time...just one more time and he is going to feel my wrath...

 

Hi,

I couldn't agree more with you lolimac; Bron and I often drive through Flockton a local village; what a nightmare it is to get behind a cyclist who has more rights than drivers on the road. Endless double white lines due to road bends meaning crawling uphill behind a cyclist but best of all now is the trend to close roads completely so a bunch of cyclists can whizz by many at over the speed limit whilst people who really should get a life stand at the roadside to watch them; police resources stretched to close side roads and of course the police helicopter in the air above. Nuff said.

Periscopes should be supplied with mobile phones then users might see where they're going without bumping into us few without mobile phone; who in their right mind would queue outside a mobile phone store in order to be the first to buy the latest must have phone.

Fortunately here on the forum members still use their hands working in their garden; Bron and I have always enjoyed interesting hobbies but how many these days actually have an hobby?

I have managed to order the items from Argos using PayPal and they'll be delivered early tomorrow morning.

Don't mind me though I'm just a dinosaur from a time long ago before the world went mad and no offence meant even to cyclists after all we need to rub along together even if we do flatten a few.

Kind regards, Colin.

 

How right you are Colin...it's that old saying 'sorting the wheat from the chaff '..
Ey with the youth of today 'why should Britain tremble'...annnd before anyone gets on their high horse ..the are some cracking young 'uns that are coming up trumps but it's the worst that give them a bad name.Such a shame.

 

Hi,

Everywhere lolimac there are always a minority spoiling things and making trouble but unfortunately year on year the minority appear to be increasing in numbers; it's a very troubled world we now live in.

Well done shiney; quick thinking indeed; there's no such thing as trust these days and everyone is treated as if they were criminals but this is our modern society in action; don't you just love phoning somewhere to be given a hundred choices of button to press to get to the person you want to speak to then the annoying wait with the countdown to lift off; then being told you're being put on hold because you've got the wrong person after all but you'll be transferred as soon as possible so by the time you hang up there's steam coming out of your ears.

Oh how I hate telephones; I had three departments at work with a desk in each having a total of five phones plus a pager so there was no hiding place at all. On a good day if my two colleagues were off site I would have their pagers as well; stress doesn't cover it. My boss the next one up the pecking order died aged 55.

I'm still plagued by phones; I've had lots of problems obtaining Pure Argon gas for use in welding; the first company supplied the cylinder costing around £280; back home I was informed I shouldn't have been charged the £28 VAT on the cylinder deposit because fully refundable deposits don't attract VAT; after lots and lots of hassle I returned the unused cylinder for a refund and as I'd been abused and messed around I reported the company to the HMRC then walking away.

Next I visited a company in Dewsbury wanting a 20L cylinder; sorry we don't stock that size but we can get one in a few days to special order; our home workshop customers only want the 9L cylinders? I departed with a 9L cylinder; this quickly emptied so I returned for a refill and again accepted the same size but this time I paid for a second 9L cylinder driving away with two full cylinders; back home I coupled up the first cylinder to find it only held 50 bar pressure when it should have held 230 bar; back I went in the rain of course and returned the part filled cylinder. Now they hadn't a full 9L cylinder and not wanting ballast in the car I asked for a credit note for a full cylinder; a few days later after phoning yes a cylinder was now available so for the umpteenth time I drove over to Dewsbury in the rain. Back home I now had two full 9L cylinders.

I emptied the first cylinder welding and the second cylinder is almost empty; a couple of days ago I phoned the company in Dewsbury explaining I now wanted to upgrade from two low pressure small cylinders to the single 20L high pressure cylinder; the young lady I spoke was very pleasant but couldn't help she being a trainee and the person to deal with wasn't available but he would phone me back; I declined her kind offer saying answering the phone is a real problem if I'm down in the workshop meaning Bron has to come and get me and I have then to switch machinery off etc but I'd phone back later.

To save using the hated phone I filled in their online form with my request; it's like contacting the dead and now I'm just about out of gas; this afternoon I used the dreaded phone and once again spoke to a lovely young lady but nothing I said seemed to make sense to her? I then asked her where she was; she replied in Leeds; Oh great I phone a Dewsbury number and speak to someone in Leeds; my call had been automatically diverted to head office; now we were on common ground at last talking the same language; I've finally placed my cylinder order and will be informed when it's available from Dewsbury; reading this must be puzzling but to live it it's downright frustrating; modern business stinks and I'm not at all surprised why so many are failing; no one seems to know what's going on and I still hate telephones; getting in the car to pay a personal visit is also now full of hassles. I'm going to learn TIG welding whatever is thrown at me.

Kind regards, Colin.

 

Hi,

Not a moan because I've just enjoyed TIG welding practice for an hour getting the hang of welder settings and controlling the puddle; I've run lots of practice beads on aluminium and this afternoon used one of the previous test pieces filling in between beads; it's been fascinating watching the sides of the beads melt then running filler rod into the valley; not meant to be pretty but having run so many practice beads I'll now start practicing welding joints. I'm out of Argon gas so am grounded now regarding TIG welding but it's been an hours pleasure this afternoon and I've made more progress. Life in general is a moan but there are highlights too if I look for them.

Kind regards, Colin.


My new workshop stol arrived today and it's much better than sitting on steps.



Lots and lots of beads the really wide ones are two or more beads blended whilst I practiced torch control. TIG welding aluminium is a challenge; I started off at 110 amps but by the time I finished and the aluminium had heated up it was down to 65 amps. I enjoy leaving my comfort zone to try new things out.

 

Venice has flooded due to high tides, the Mayor says it's due to climate change

And it last flooded like this 50yrs ago, I was under the impression the place was sinking anyway.

I put that in this thread because all this climate change rubbish is getting my goat.

 

News Flash. Climate change claims yet another victim...........................Pete's goat

 

Had a phone call from Guys Hospital. My recent echocardigram has identified Aortic Stenosis. So next visit will be to a cardiologist. Hopefully a supply of tablets in the offing. More tablets, brings me to a point. Perhaps only contributing in a very small way to the cost/wastage in the NHS. This being, over prescribing. A good idea perhaps, having ones pharmacist automatically request a repeat prescription. In time probably we may find our medicine cupboard becoming overfull. So as I have done in the past, perhaps you have also. A request to the pharmacy or your GP surgery. Please hold repeats for a while.
Gradually your stock goes down Please can I have a repeat prescription. Soory. Time has elapsed since your last prescription. Please make an appointment to see the doctor so as to have the prescription re authorised. Wasted cost if drugs are dumped. Waste of time and money, making a new appointment. Who sets these rules?

 

Are you not given a paper prescription @Mike Allen, if so you don't need to use it.

I'm intolerant to a lot of medicine so my medicine cupboard's almost empty.

 

Having had a consultation. GP gives you a script. This you hand to the pharmacist, after that the pharmacist automatically makes the request electronically. Patient is sent a text message that the script/request is being submitted. Next text advices you that the medication is ready for collection. Included with the medication is a copy of your script.
Collecting your medication, you perhaps check it and decide you can do without something, leaving this with the pharmacist, it is often put back into circulation. Nice little earner. Naughty naughty. Sadly modern technology can cost the NHS in several ways.