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TomTom anti-theft solution. Checked the one to buy from the TT website and ordered it priority delivery from Amazon. Arrived yesterday. It's doesn't fit.
Arrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!!
After much stamping about and swearing in the garage I have already been refunded online and it was deposited at the local corner shop for Collect+ to return it. At least the refund process was simple. Plus I've now worked out which version I really need...
i chuck mine in the top box. out of sight keeps the chav magpies from trying. having said that i use a garmin car spaznav that i stripped and waterproofed for £80 all in.
garmin car spaznav that i stripped and waterproofed for £80 all in.
how?
i got a nuvi55lm from halfords took it apart including the screen and used silicone on all the joints and other places like the speaker, usb, card slot and button. its a fiddly job but saves a fortune. done the exact same with my last one and it lasted 5 years in all weathers including being left out in the rain for a few days. this one is on its second year and still going strong. if your no good taking things apart and doing fiddly stuff i would not do it.
for it to work you need to wire the charger into something like my gizmo and also have a home charger as the on/off button is a bit hit or miss after doing the dirty.
ok so its not got any fancy blutooth or mp3 player or other useless shizz but i only need to look at the thing to see where i'm going. i use a spaznav like a moving map. i use TYRE to make my routes then upload it to the spaznav.
kaivalagi
21-07-17, 05:38 PM
I'm still waiting for Google to make waypointed navigation in android maps seamless...at the mo it needs me clicking continue to carry on after a waypoint is hit. If they fix that then bye bye to any Sat nav and hello waterproof ram mounted phone case and USB charger.
garynortheast
21-07-17, 05:52 PM
UPS couriers. Useless Pile of Sh1t3.
Sir Trev
21-07-17, 06:40 PM
i chuck mine in the top box. out of sight keeps the chav magpies from trying.
I'll be using the topbox for the same thing but I'm still going to fit an anti-theft lock for when I pop in to pay for fuel. Peace of mind is all it is and of course it will only stop the opportunist chav and not a proper thief.
shiftin_gear98
22-07-17, 07:24 PM
Found a small lump, in my 6 year olds armpit. Got an appointment to see a doctor today, really praying he would say it's nothing to worry about. He didn't.
Blood test next week, then anxious waiting to follow. Really not sure I can do this again...all joy vanishing.
maviczap
22-07-17, 07:34 PM
:( :(
BanannaMan
22-07-17, 07:49 PM
Found a small lump, in my 6 year olds armpit. Got an appointment to see a doctor today, really praying he would say it's nothing to worry about. He didn't.
Blood test next week, then anxious waiting to follow. Really not sure I can do this again...all joy vanishing.
Hoping and praying for the best news on the blood test!
garynortheast
22-07-17, 08:22 PM
Bloody hell SG, hope you get a good result.
littleoldman2
22-07-17, 09:41 PM
Thoughts are with you hoping for the best.
TomTom anti-theft solution. Checked the one to buy from the TT website and ordered it priority delivery from Amazon. Arrived yesterday. It's doesn't fit.
Arrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!!
After much stamping about and swearing in the garage I have already been refunded online and it was deposited at the local corner shop for Collect+ to return it. At least the refund process was simple. Plus I've now worked out which version I really need...
Trev, check out Touratech for this.
https://shop.touratech.co.uk/navigation/gps-accessories/touratech-gps-brackets.html#/products/1
Sir Trev
23-07-17, 05:19 PM
Trev, check out Touratech for this.
https://shop.touratech.co.uk/navigation/gps-accessories/touratech-gps-brackets.html#/products/1
I have to say the model for my TT looks a much more secure locking solution, but then it is more than twice as expensive as TT's own version. And I'd still need to get a locking knob (no sniggering) for the Ram arm. Nice to have an option though :cool:.
Try these instead
https://www.ram-mount.co.uk/advanced_search_result.html?keyword=RAM+Double+Soc ket+Arm+with+Pin-Lock%99+Security+Knob+and+Key+Knob&search_in_description=1
BanannaMan
23-07-17, 08:31 PM
Worst heat wave in years.
Currently 39c with the heat index well into the 40s.
More of the same predicted for the next ten days.
:(
Luckypants
24-07-17, 09:17 AM
Found a small lump, in my 6 year olds armpit. Got an appointment to see a doctor today, really praying he would say it's nothing to worry about. He didn't.
Blood test next week, then anxious waiting to follow. Really not sure I can do this again...all joy vanishing.
My thoughts are with you and your family.
You can do this again if you have to, it is your child and you will find the strength for the sake of your family. Parents are amongst the most amazing people on the planet at times like this.:salut:
Just want to say thanks to the inconsiderate s.o.b who hit my wife's MR2 this afternoon that was parked at the side of the road. Not just a tap, but enough to force it onto the pavement. Light scuffs but the issue is that the steering looks out. Got to get it booked in to have the steering and tracking checked.
Chris_SVS
24-07-17, 07:15 PM
Fingers have decided to be useless, so borrowed the cats ball
http://i.imgur.com/fhqzHYPm.jpg
RIP Daisy, 8 1/2 years of pleasure. Gonna miss those her so muchhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170726/f713d032fe32d5d9578661ad73fb42eb.jpg
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Northern Biker
26-07-17, 09:28 PM
RIP Daisy, 8 1/2 years of pleasure. Gonna miss those her so muchhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170726/f713d032fe32d5d9578661ad73fb42eb.jpg
Sent from my SM-G903F using TapatalkSad news. R.I.P Daisy [emoji20]
garynortheast
26-07-17, 09:56 PM
Oh, sorry to hear this Dom, sad news indeed.
Sir Trev
26-07-17, 10:03 PM
RIP Daisy, 8 1/2 years of pleasure. Gonna miss those her so muchhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170726/f713d032fe32d5d9578661ad73fb42eb.jpg
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Sad news and we sympathise entirely as we lost our Jackie only a few months ago. Feel for you mate.
maviczap
27-07-17, 05:29 AM
:( :(
Sorry for your losd
garynortheast
27-07-17, 05:49 AM
Big filling fell out of one of my teeth yesterday, leaving a whacking great big hole there. More expense just when it's not needed. :-(
Thanks for the kind replies, she was so much part of our lives.
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timwilky
28-07-17, 09:59 PM
Gripe that I have been putting off for a fortnight.
My hosted server has died for some reason. So it is booted off a network distribution that has given me access to recover the data back to my network storage before I rebuild the OS. But the file transfers are going to take days.
Grhhh, I am getting to old for this techy ****.
Just want to say thanks to the inconsiderate s.o.b who hit my wife's MR2 this afternoon that was parked at the side of the road. Not just a tap, but enough to force it onto the pavement. Light scuffs but the issue is that the steering looks out. Got to get it booked in to have the steering and tracking checked.
Well the MR2 has been fixed, it had been hit so hard that with the wheels straight the steering wheel was nearly a quarter turn to the right. They had some how managed to bend a rod or something but it has been fixed and all is good again.
DarrenSV650S
31-07-17, 11:22 AM
Useless bosses that don't have a clue what they're doing. If you don't know the answer just say you don't know, instead of guessing and making me do the work twice when I find out you're full of ****
SV650rules
31-07-17, 12:59 PM
Useless bosses that don't have a clue what they're doing. If you don't know the answer just say you don't know, instead of guessing and making me do the work twice when I find out you're full of ****
I had a dyslexic boss once, he would never admit it but he could not tell the difference between
Confidence and Competence
Ambition and Ability
LOL
garynortheast
31-07-17, 08:53 PM
Never use UPS for your parcels. They have now "lost" a second package of 100 of our new CDs. That's 200 CDs in 3 weeks with a combined retail value of £2000.
Useless Pile of Sh1t5.
I spoke with the Deeside distribution Centre, the final point from where the package was dispatched, and on their advice left a signed and dated note on the back door instructing the driver to do what all the other courier drivers do, and leave the parcel in the kitchen, and then take the note as proof of delivery. I put up on the lane outside the house a large, laminated, sign saying "UPS Delivery" and an arrow pointing to the back door which was all of 8 - 10 steps away.
The note is still on the back door, there are no CDs and no card from the driver. I don't think the skeevy, useless b@st@rds have even been to the village.
Bloody UK weather,thinking I'll get the bike out then,absolutely pizza it down,1 hour later brilliant sun.
Littlepeahead
01-08-17, 07:01 AM
Piggle waking me up at 4am every day. He seems to have a real issue with herring gulls and about this time every day they fly over our house making loads of noise.
Piggle then comes in from the garden and sits at the bottom of the stairs making a godawful racket, really wailing and distressed not his usual squeaky miows. Even yelling at him to shut up makes no difference. I usually have to go downstairs and carry him upstairs before he stops.
Can you get phobia counselling for felines?
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Sir Trev
01-08-17, 09:55 AM
Piggle waking me up at 4am every day. He seems to have a real issue with herring gulls and about this time every day they fly over our house making loads of noise.
Piggle then comes in from the garden and sits at the bottom of the stairs making a godawful racket, really wailing and distressed not his usual squeaky miows. Even yelling at him to shut up makes no difference. I usually have to go downstairs and carry him upstairs before he stops.
Can you get phobia counselling for felines?
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How about getting some stuffed toys that look like gulls? When he makes the racket throw them at him - it will either make him go back outside or he play with them and realise they're not all that bad. Alternatively borrow some cricket balls from work and throw those at him*.
*not a serious suggestion! Obviously.
maviczap
01-08-17, 10:14 AM
Waiting at my mum's house for a bloke to come round and measure up for the sale. Supposed to be here at 10.30.
I don't think he's going to show, so guess what I'll be changing estate agents.
Spending time with people who constantly cant wont do anything ( even breathing is too much effort )
SV650rules
01-08-17, 05:42 PM
Alternatively borrow some cricket balls from work and throw those at him*.
*not a serious suggestion! Obviously.
Why is it not a serious suggestion, I would happily throw cricket balls at the multitude of local cats who use our garden as a hanky panky area, an area to have fights and make lots of noise, a public toilet, where they just have to dig in the nice soft soil you just spent ages sieving to plant stuff, and dig up the stuff you just planted and leave stinking turds as a substitute.
Cats are like Marmite, but unfortunately its illegal to put them in jars.
shiftin_gear98
02-08-17, 01:42 PM
My kids love cats, whenever one tries to have a crap in our garden it's time to start the game of who can soak it first. Supersoaker at the ready.
I like marmite, just don't like cat crap.
Littlepeahead
02-08-17, 05:40 PM
Just chuck some orange and lemon slices about in the flower beds and they'll poo in someone else's garden.
My cats have a litter box. Piggle won't use it, he prefers to use my herb garden. He also has a scratching post which he ignores in favour of the laundry basket next to it.
Cats are idiots but I wouldn't be without mine, even if Iggle did check that I hadn't overslept this morning by chewing my eyelid 30 seconds before my alarm went off.
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SV650rules
02-08-17, 08:34 PM
Just chuck some orange and lemon slices about in the flower beds and they'll poo in someone else's garden.
He prefers to use my herb garden.
I have tried everything from mothballs to cat pepper to cat repellent sprays, to ultrasonic electronic squeakers - cost me a fortune - ended up with an automated supersoaker, with a hose pipe https://www.amazon.co.uk/Contech-ScareCrow-Motion-Activated-Deterrent/dp/B005MW9VOM , battery and a PIR sensor. Sprays water over a wide area when PIR is triggered, have to keep moving it around as they suss out where it is. Still a bit kinder than the catapult I used for a while - and its always ready for action even at night.
How come dog owners get fines if they don't scoop up the poo and take it away, where cat owners just send their cats out to poo anywhere (imagine your kid playing in the garden and getting cat poo on its hands, cat poo is worse for human health than anything Sadaam Hussein was supposed to have) - horse riders are the same, they can leave a 10Kg poo in the middle of the footpath or road and just ride off.
If it poos in its owners garden it's not a proper cat - mommy cats are supposed to teach them to poo in other peoples gardens.
...have to keep moving it around as they suss out where it is.
They're clever like that. I used to have a very large alsatian that we chained outdoors in the warmer weather, that hated cats.
So did the cats stay away? Oh no, they just sat preening themselves about 2 inches beyond where he could reach.
SV650rules
03-08-17, 08:24 AM
I have seen cats on top of a fence preening themselves while a demented dog jumped and barked getting all worked up, when it had tired of the 'taunting' the cat then calmly jumped off the fence on the 'safe' side.
If cats were as big as dogs, no child (or even adult) would be safe.
Look at this video, that cat is like a hissing spitting Exocet missile.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/may/15/cat-saves-boy-from-dog-attack-video
If cats were as big as dogs, no child (or even adult) would be safe.
Yeah they're called tigers. Very dangerous indeed.
I never know which cat I will wake up to. Last night I went to sleep with Ben on the bed. When I woke up this morning Ben was nowhere to be seen and Toby was on the bed instead.
shiftin_gear98
03-08-17, 12:07 PM
[QUOTE=SV650rules;3074047]I have seen cats on top of a fence preening themselves /chop
That's the best kind of super soaker target, especially if it hasn't seen you!
Still makes me chuckle the noise it made as it fell off backwards.
Obviously landed on it's feet, it's a cat.
Littlepeahead
03-08-17, 08:08 PM
I got home tonight a bit late, Stu is away and my two were hassling me for dinner and making a right fuss. They must think I'm an idiot. I know my sister popped over earlier and fed them.
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timwilky
04-08-17, 07:55 AM
More junk mail. BT, Talk Talk, Sky. Buy your internet from us.
But we cannot supply you as BT don't think 20 houses at the far end of the wire are worth providing a service. 3G is faster than ADSL, and no fibre. Neighbours 100 yards away same post code, different exchange get fibre, we get sod all.
Work will not pay my internet from Virgin as it is a combined entertainment package with no itemised costs or VAT number. So I need a dedicated internet service.
kaivalagi
04-08-17, 08:27 AM
Virgin can sell a internet only package, no line rental/tv etc....maybe get work to pay for that? Then go sky for your tv?
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a 100 yard ethernet cable is well within specs
Red ones
04-08-17, 06:53 PM
Actually a 100 yard Ethernet cable is at the limit of the spec.
SV650rules
04-08-17, 07:42 PM
Actually a 100 yard Ethernet cable is at the limit of the spec.
It is possible to put repeaters in to extend length but they need power to do their job.
Actually a 100 yard Ethernet cable is at the limit of the spec.
Call me a pedant (people often do :cool:) but the spec is 100m max length, so you've got at least 8 and a half metres in hand... :rambo:
Red ones
07-08-17, 08:15 AM
The hyper pedant would say that most installers only run to 90m so there is still room for patching and remains inside the standard.
Spose you gotta account for a little bit of stretch from folks hanging their washing on it as well.
punyXpress
07-08-17, 08:20 AM
Don't think Tim hangs out the washing? ;)
maviczap
07-08-17, 07:24 PM
When my wife has known about an important appointment for months, does she decide to fill the form in the day before, and then ask me where a certain document might be!
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
Not what I need to walk into after a stressful day at work :mad:
Sir Trev
07-08-17, 09:04 PM
Trev, check out Touratech for this.
https://shop.touratech.co.uk/navigation/gps-accessories/touratech-gps-brackets.html#/products/1
If any of you are thinking about a locking mount for your nav then I can now recommend DJ's recommendation. The Touratech kit is more expensive but is MUCH better made than the flimsy TomTom version and is very solid. I'm poorer now but jolly happy :cool:.
andrewsmith
07-08-17, 09:05 PM
The hyper pedant would say that most installers only run to 90m so there is still room for patching and remains inside the standard.Super hyper pendant
It also depends on the current that the switch and patch can provide
Know this from a mega headache on a single line suppy
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kaivalagi
07-08-17, 09:23 PM
If any of you are thinking about a locking mount for your nav then I can now recommend DJ's recommendation. The Touratech kit is more expensive but is MUCH better made than the flimsy TomTom version and is very solid. I'm poorer now but jolly happy :cool:.
Yeah, I was looking at whether to bother getting the premium tomtom kit but the lockable do-dah's are just plastic plus there are still the ram-mount nuts on the bars that can be undone...to me it makes more sense just to remove the thing and sling it into a bag, I always have a kreiga 10L attached to the rack on the bike anyway....
I assume the touratech mounts directly onto the bars and isn't un-bolt-able once in place with a tomtom locked inside? i.e. if someone had the right tools it would still not be removable?
I just reserved a rider 400 from Halfords, collect only from my local store and no longer deliverable (they better actually have it in stock, I will find out tomorrow AM!)...With 10% voucher applied (B17SATNAV10) it was £269, which I thought wasn't too bad....that was only after spending the best part of a day trying to find a way of using a route file (kml/itn/gpx/whatever) with a free sat nav tool on the phone to no avail....why oh why can't google make the maps app do continuous waypoint navigation, you have to click continue at each point!
a cheep car spaznav with a ziplock bag. i took mine apart and waterproofed it, its the second one i have done this with :-)
timwilky
08-08-17, 09:55 AM
HR!
I wrote a rant. But pulled it. Suffice to say, I wish they would just get on with it and do their job.
HR!
I wrote a rant. But pulled it. Suffice to say, I wish they would just get on with it and do their job.
But your rants are my favourite :(
Sir Trev
08-08-17, 10:42 AM
I assume the touratech mounts directly onto the bars and isn't un-bolt-able once in place with a tomtom locked inside? i.e. if someone had the right tools it would still not be removable?
The Touratech kit can be bolted to the bars or attached as mine is to a Ram mount. If you have a Ram then you need the locking arm, which I also now have. Can wander in to a petrol station or go for a pee now without worrying, although for longer periods I'd take it off and topbox it or take it with me.
The TT premium kit uses their own locking device which is metal but has a very flimsy lock and (for the Rider 40/400 series) the same locking Ram arm as I have.
Unfortunately I am not as clever as Bibs so got a Rider model. The 40 has been superseded and can be found on offer from several places. The 400 gives you very little on top as far as I can tell. Both let you log in to TT MyRoute which in turns allows you to import files from Tyre, which has a much better drag and drop interface for route planning and uses Google maps.
Luckypants
08-08-17, 10:59 AM
HR!
I wrote a rant. But pulled it. Suffice to say, I wish they would just get on with it and do their job.
This was me last Thursday. I sent them a rather curt email, about to send another. May be slightly career limiting.... Asshats the lot of them!
Was supposed to be leaving for a overnight trip on Sunday morning, nipped out to fill the bikes up late on Saturday, picked up a nail on the way back.
:smt092
SV650rules
08-08-17, 02:53 PM
HR!
I wrote a rant. But pulled it. Suffice to say, I wish they would just get on with it and do their job.
My wife was in HR with a fairly large company, believe me they haven't got an easy job and have to keep up with ever changing employment legislation and everything they do has to be legal and above board, even when faced with people who can't do the job they are paid to do and are taking the p!ss with endless tribunals. If HR fouls up, even with a procedural technicality when dismissing a timewasting scrote who was stealing stuff from the company or bullying other employees it can cost the company a lot of money if it goes to tribunal, and tribunals sometimes make perverse judgments, based on a tiny step in procedure that they judge to be wrong. In my wifes opinion HR was the hatchet man used by the company to do their dirty work, which not only caused an awful lot of work but at the end of the day HR got blamed by everyone for results of decisions made by management, who hide behind HR.
One of the silliest things my wife was asked to do quite often was when managers ignored the 3 month probation period for new employees (even when prompted by HR after a couple of months) and left it up to 6 months or more before they said to HR "this man / woman is hopeless, can you get rid of them and get me someone else" - my wife had to explain that as the probation period had passed it was now going to be very difficult and probably cost the company a lot of money. Of course HR got the blame again as usual. Everyone in the company from Chairman down just dumped their problems on HR and expected miracles.
Management has been the biggest problem in the UK for the last 40 years.Many have no people skills,or idea how the work force actually work,They march into positions by having a degree in bean counting or a relative there and wallop top table,even in my last interview I was asked " can the manager of a chocolate factory manage a coal mine", the answer was YES,Managers manage,that's what managers do !!!! Summed it up one question for me.
DarrenSV650S
08-08-17, 06:19 PM
Was supposed to be leaving for a overnight trip on Sunday morning, nipped out to fill the bikes up late on Saturday, picked up a nail on the way back.
:smt092
Snap :(
The first dry day in weeks. I went out tonight to go for a little bimble and the rear tyre is completely flat. Just 8 days away from the 1 year anniversary of my last puncture... :-s
At least I actually got to use this tyre. Last time it was on a brand new tyre
SV650rules
08-08-17, 06:29 PM
Snap :(
The first dry day in weeks. I went out tonight to go for a little bimble and the rear tyre is completely flat. Just 8 days away from the 1 year anniversary of my last puncture... :-s
At least I actually got to use this tyre. Last time it was on a brand new tyre
I always try to ride pretty much where the wheels of cars etc go on the road, as the centre bit of each lane and the bit either side of cats eyes which never normally see tyres tend to collect nails and screws, I work on the principle that the more tyres have gone over that bit of road before me there is a good chance one of them will have either picked the nail up before I go there, or squashed it flat into the road surface LOL
DarrenSV650S
08-08-17, 06:35 PM
I always try to ride pretty much where the wheels of cars etc go on the road, as the centre bit of each lane and the bit either side of cats eyes which never normally see tyres tend to collect nails and screws, I work on the principle that the more tyres have gone over that bit of road before me their is a good chance one of them will have either picked the nail up before I go there, or squashed it flat into the road surface LOL
Yeah it is the sensible thing to do, but it all falls apart when you filter unfortunately ;)
It looks like a little bit of glass in the tyre
Andy Mc
08-08-17, 07:45 PM
Yeah it is the sensible thing to do, but it all falls apart when you filter unfortunately ;)
It looks like a little bit of glass in the tyre
Nice - love the forums! just learnt a bit more about biking and filtering just by reading Gripes of other bikers lol, sorry for your mishaps but I now learnt where to place my wheels better/or where not to place them.. I unfortunately without even ever taking my bike out, have got a big A$$ nail in my rear tyre?
Red ones
08-08-17, 08:47 PM
Management has been the biggest problem in the UK for the last 40 years.Many have no people skills,or idea how the work force actually work,They march into positions by having a degree in bean counting or a relative there and wallop top table,even in my last interview I was asked " can the manager of a chocolate factory manage a coal mine", the answer was YES,Managers manage,that's what managers do !!!! Summed it up one question for me.
Sadly, I tend to agree. Too many get into management without skills or training and often those in charge of them have no more of a clue. And this comes from a qualified manager.
Management has been the biggest problem in the UK for the last 40 years.Many have no people skills,or idea how the work force actually work,They march into positions by having a degree in bean counting or a relative there and wallop top table,even in my last interview I was asked " can the manager of a chocolate factory manage a coal mine", the answer was YES,Managers manage,that's what managers do !!!! Summed it up one question for me.
As an IT contractor I had many managers. The best one by far had no IT experience at all.
Littlepeahead
09-08-17, 06:20 AM
My gripe today is one that won't affect many of you. The menopause! Migraines, fat relocating itself to my belly so I look like a beer guzzler and memory loss. I'm only 46 and I've already been on HRT 2 years. Some of my friends are still popping out their first kids at the same age. Is it too late to have a sex change?
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SV650rules
09-08-17, 07:34 AM
Sadly, I tend to agree. Too many get into management without skills or training and often those in charge of them have no more of a clue. And this comes from a qualified manager.
I am firmly of the opinion that (just like teachers) good managers are born, and not the product of training (it is an innate skill, a product of nature, not nurture). I have prime examples of teachers with two of my sister-in-laws, one has a first class degree and is a crap teacher the other one 'only has a teaching certificate' (as the one with the degree often moans) but has been deputy head for quite a while (she was offered heads position but declined as did not want the extra responsibility).
Is it too late to have a sex change?
would your fella have to have one as well? to keep things even?
Energy companies. What's the point in sending in meter readings when they just make up the numbers anyway?
They say "your reading was rejected by the industry" but it's what my flippin meter says...
It doesn't make much difference this time around as I'm switching suppliers so it's simply a case of which company gets to charge me for which units, but in the past I had a huge issue with British Gas where I gave them the same readings on 5 separate occasions for them to send me 5 revised bills with the wrong readings on them. In the end I refused to pay their bill.
As far as customer interaction, all they do is receive readings and bill accordingly. You'd think they'd be good at it by now.
timwilky
09-08-17, 01:59 PM
Test Pilots.
Noisy sod has made about 10 passes in a Typhoon over my house. It was good in the very old days when they still flew lightening out of Warton. Full reheat as they lifted the wheels as soon as they felt they were off the ground, until the day the chap was a tad early and the tail struck the runway. So looking forward to F35s disturbing me. But here he goes again.
Boys in their expensive toys.
timwilky
09-08-17, 02:07 PM
FFS he has done another pass. Whatever they are testing? Warton is on the Ribble estuary he could be giving the work dodgers in Blackpool a display instead of disturbing my conference calls. Sounds nice. But I have 10 Indian engineers saying we cannot hear you at each double pass. Out and then back again.
shiftin_gear98
09-08-17, 06:58 PM
The weather today. Where the **** has summer gone! ****ing down all day. Soaked going to work, drowned coming home. Tomorrow's gripe, having to put on cold damp riding gear.
We had all that rain yesterday,never stopped.Today has been quit nice.(sunny Worksop )
glorious sunshine, temp in the 20's and very little wind all day here, makes a nice change from the pizzing down for the past month.
SV650rules
10-08-17, 07:56 AM
Energy companies. What's the point in sending in meter readings when they just make up the numbers anyway?
They say "your reading was rejected by the industry" but it's what my flippin meter says...
It doesn't make much difference this time around as I'm switching suppliers so it's simply a case of which company gets to charge me for which units, but in the past I had a huge issue with British Gas where I gave them the same readings on 5 separate occasions for them to send me 5 revised bills with the wrong readings on them. In the end I refused to pay their bill.
As far as customer interaction, all they do is receive readings and bill accordingly. You'd think they'd be good at it by now.
Had a phone call out of the blue a few weeks ago the woman introduced herself as being from my energy supplier, she said that they needed gas and electric meter readings. I asked her why, having been with the company for at least 6 years and giving them regular email readings before every bill and never ringing me before they would suddenly ring me and ask for a reading (to get it I would have to find meter box key, go out in the rain and ring her back anyway, and the chances of finding most customers at home during the day must be pretty slim anyway), she said I was on a list given to her and she would take my name off the list for future calls, but I did not give her a readings and I still don't know to this day if she was genuine. I have seen scams of people being asked for readings and suddenly finding they have been switched to another supplier.
British Gas once initiated a switch of my gas supply without my permission. Didn't know anything about it until my existing supplier sent me an email to say sorry you're leaving us. I immediately tried to stop it but apparently it was too late and they had to switch it then switch it back.
The whole thing is a very poor setup. It seems unscrupulous suppliers can do what they want and British Gas are among the worst in my experience.
Red Herring
10-08-17, 10:38 AM
Had a phone call out of the blue a few weeks ago the woman introduced herself as being from my energy supplier, she said that they needed gas and electric meter readings. I asked her why,........
I had a similar out of the blue call from someone saying they were from my bank explaining they needed to discuss a recent transaction (some money had been deposited from abroad). I said "go ahead" at which they said they needed to ask me some security questions first to make sure I was the account holder. They were quite taken aback when I then told them I certainly wouldn't be disclosing any such information until he answered some questions from me to confirm he really was from the bank...... You can imagine the circles we went round in for a few minutes until I eventually concluded the call by saying I would call their account security office, and no thanks, I'll look the number up myself.....
Sir Trev
10-08-17, 11:06 AM
I had a similar out of the blue call from someone saying they were from my bank explaining they needed to discuss a recent transaction (some money had been deposited from abroad).
I've had one of those too, and they got quite narky with me when I refused to give any security info to a call from the blue. I called a number I knew to be genuine and it was indeed my bank's fraud department calling to check on an odd transaction from overseas. You would have thought a fraud department would be understanding when a customer refuses to divulge account details to a stranger.
Littlepeahead
10-08-17, 07:59 PM
My mother had several calls from a bank last year wishing to have a discussion with her and she kept hanging up saying it must have been a fraud. Unfortunately it was the mortgage department calling to discuss the fact that my estranged father had unbeknownst to my mother only paid the interest and the balance was due imminently. They did eventually write but that was to say they were starting repossession proceedings. Not really a helpful way to deal with someone elderly.
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BanannaMan
12-08-17, 05:35 PM
Donald Trump's America.
No wonder our state's lottery headquarters is located next to an airport.
If I won that would be the first place I would go!
Things may not be perfect in the UK but you do have the best healthcare in the world and it's free!
Half of the people in the UK didn't go to bed several nights last week wondering if they were going to wske up to a nuclear war.
And no city in the UK today had to be declared 'in a state of emergency' where the Army had to be called in to try to stop the race rioting in the streets .
This is happening right now in the streets outside the hospital where we have to take our grandson who had a heart transplant.
He last went there Thursday, leaving less than 24 hrs before the riots began.
No comment from the White House and there wont be.
The rioters are Trump supporters.
Last night they chanted Nazi slogans for the tv cameras.
It's an insane time that we live in right now. Just hope things calm down before things go too far.
rest assured Bill, if North Korea did launch nukes at the USA they would be blown out the sky before they had a chance to come back down again.
if i was a leader of country and kept getting threatened and bullied i think i would want to send a message as well.
people are drip fed propaganda on TV and media and are told who to hate. their country and or a consortium of other country's all gang up on the little country's telling them what they can and cant do. when these little country's retaliate they are branded as terrorists. Jong-un is sending a message saying leave me alone and the big bully's dont like it. North Korea is only doing what everybody else with nuclear power is doing and that is protecting themselves with nuclear weapons. problem is they are not part of the big boys toys club.
Bully's.. sorry you cant have nuclear power/weapons. bullied.. why not you have them..... and the fights begin.
BTW i think that Jong-un is a delusional nut job.
Littlepeahead
12-08-17, 07:41 PM
Hi Bill, I'm flying TO the USA next week [emoji2]
Surely if North Korea are going to send bombs someone could arrange for them to take out Trump. Problem solved?
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punyXpress
13-08-17, 08:47 AM
rest assured Bill, if North Korea did launch nukes at the USA they would be blown out the sky before they had a chance to come back down again.
That's why Trump has 'Return to Sender' on permanent replay? ;)
SV650rules
13-08-17, 09:01 AM
Surely if North Korea are going to send bombs someone could arrange for them to take out Trump. Problem solved?
Trump is doing what he was elected to do, which is very unusual for a politician (probably because Trump is not a politician LOL, when JFK ran for office his mom said 'John I don't mind you being president, but please don't become a politician' ). After years of The big 'O' at the wheel Americas standing in the world slumped especially after his years of appeasing Iran and N Korea), maybe the big 'T' will make them great again.
Don't forget a lot of Americans used to think Tony B Liar was a good bloke, but we knew he was a disaster for UK, and even now keeps popping up and poking his nose in stuff that is nothing to do with him. Now France has their very own Tony B as President - God help them (other deities are available).
timwilky
14-08-17, 10:25 AM
Daughter No 2
Wants a family holiday in Lanzarote, Books it, pays the deposit and when the balance becomes due "Mum!"
I only find out when I go to pay the card bill and 4 grand has appeared from nowhere.
Due back this morning. text.
Car rental messed us around and we have missed our flights.
Message through No 1 daughter, they can only get back Thursday.
I am expecting the call. We have to pay for our accommodation and flights and have no money.
My instinct is tough, if you cannot afford the holiday, save up. You didn't check in on time, your problem. But they have a 10 year old and two two year olds with them. How do I get my grandkids home and leave the waste of space parents in foreign climes?
maviczap
14-08-17, 11:59 AM
I'm speechless Tim!
Like you say if you want a holiday, save up!
I'm sure the kids would have been quite happy with a UK holiday, I know my two would be.
That's a holiday for your daughter, not the kids.
It's the age old parenting issue though. How to be there in genuine emergencies without being counted on as someone who will always clear up the mess.
Invent some kind of loan system? I'll get you out of trouble now but you pay it back. If you don't pay it back and then you mess up again, the answer will be no.
But then you'll probably be hated forevermore. This is one of those things that you have to nip in the bud otherwise it'll be you who've changed from being nice to being nasty.
Sir Trev
14-08-17, 12:42 PM
Sounds like part of the problem here is Mrs W. Should have said "no" to the four grand.
timwilky
14-08-17, 01:11 PM
Mother/daughter have talked. I have no say in anything. She wants them back.
They (Daughter/SIL) have no credit cards etc. She is a nursing student, he a self employed painter/decorator and they are always skint. Daughter has to find nursery fees/rent etc out of her salary. The NHS seconded her to train so she still receives her health care assistant salary whilst a student. His money goes against the back wall of the pub. So having spent up on their last day they are now without funds.
His best mate is the local multi millionaire (worth about 50) who took them to the airport and was to collect them last night and it appears he has said no. So I guess they have touched him for cash more than he is happy with.
I am fed up of the missus putting herself into debt to pay for the kids want it now mentality. I just know she is going to transfer funds.
The friend is also his primary customer as he owns several hundred houses and the SIL is engaged almost full time on his or family projects. So I might give him a bell and suggest he makes out that funds to come home came from him and he deducts it from the invoices payable. That way I might see some of my brass back if I fund their return.
Daughter No1 is going mad, she has been house/dog sitting and thought it had come to an end. Looks like she has a few more days.
Red Herring
14-08-17, 01:55 PM
Managed to break the Givi rack off my Hornet! Coming out of a relatively quick right hander on the throttle there was a fairly significant bump (actually a fold in the tarmac) close to the nearside of the road. We were under trees and the dapple effect contributed to making it pretty much invisible, I only just had time to shift some weight onto the pegs before hitting it. Sent the bike into a proper lock to lock slapper and the stress transferring to the top box broke one of the side rails clean in two. Lucky for me the box was empty. Going to redesign the thing so that the box is moved forward over the pillion seat rather than hanging out over the rear.
You have to start early with the independence thing. My son always spent his pocket money as soon as it was given and both me and his mother wouldn't give him anymore. So at age 14 he went to work on Saturdays on his stepfathers market stall to earn his own money. As soon as he left school he found a job and has never been out of work since. He's 38 now and wouldn't dream of asking me or his mother for money. My daughter learnt the same lesson from observation. After leaving uni, she wouldn't come back to live with either of us and preferred to make her own way in life. Since then she has never asked a penny from either me or her mother. She's 37 now.
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