Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

I can understand the pension stuff as I have been through that now. But computers? Hubby says he cannot access our Brother CC3 - control centre? Something to do with the registry? It's all gobbledegook to me. Like a foreign language. If I do a search you get IT wizz kids talking an alien language.

 

Yes, under the transitional rules they'll have calculated your entitlement under the old system, and done a separate calculation under the new one, and given you the higher figure.

 

Where have all the moaners gone? I was enjoying the technical stuff.

Perhaps they have gone to read up on pensions.

So I'll add one:

Why do you always get adverts when you change channel? I'm talking about FreeView. I reckon it's 90 % of the times I hop from one to another. Is there some program they all use to force you to watch some adverts?

 

The synchronised advert timing drive me nuts too. It wasn't like that until a couple of years ago (maybe a bit longer). It was always possible to avoid them by skipping channels. Now I have to mute the telly because so many of the ads themselves drive me crazy. Verisure and the Fairy ads are the very worst, along with all the ads for charity lotteries, but many more are very close behind.

 

The thing is you usually change channels either at the end of a programme or during a break.
All channels mostly have breaks and programme changes at the same times.

 

IPlayer drives me nuts. Whatever you choose to watch, it will insist on showing you a trailer for something completely unrelated first. Thankfully you can skip it, but I've usually put down the remote so I have to grab it again whilst cursing. Does anyone actually watch the trailers, or do you all swear as much as I do?

 

That is the thing that really bugs me about the BBC, they wont show adverts, (meaning the licence could be scrapped), but bombard us with lengthy trailers about their forth coming programmes.

 

I don't like the ad which is using children for the vaccine ad NHS

 

When I see trailers, I generally think "Well, if those are the best bits, no point bothering with the rest" ... which is probably not their intention.

 

Is that the one with children's vaccine for measles?

 

Talking about vaccines, my local chemist is offering chicken pox jabs for £70 a shot. You need 2. Has any one had one - assuming like me they haven't had the pox itself and are now getting on a bit?

I see the elderly are meant to be offered the shingles jab, but hubby hasn't (he's had chicken pox itself).

 

I had chicken pox when I was about 10yrs old.
My sister caught it first, I can remember my mother saying that I might as well get it as well and get it over with.

That was the attitude in those days, you were expected to get measles, whooping cough, mumps.
Only had jabs for polio and diphtheria smallpox.

 

I didn't have chicken pox until I was 41. Both my girls had caught it, and they were pre school age - youngest was about 18 months, but I had it very badly due to my age. The health visitor was due to give older daughter her pre school jags and said it would be better to do them in two bouts, which was fine by me.
She also informed me that an older man who'd caught it had died. She was horrified at the way a doc. at the hospital had treated me, because we'd had to go to A&E as I had a searing pain down my face. Just something to do with my teeth apparently....

Far better to get it as a child. Really not funny as an adult.