Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[Kenzie]

Not allowed to cough or sneeze without people looking at you funny.

Sent from my F5321 using Tapatalk

[Adam Ef]

You'll want to avoid XL moto then. They're based in Poland and have a UK website address. Supposedly to make it easier for UK customers to find them rather than deceive anyone into believing they're based in the UK. Pretty blatantly the same thing though. Their customer service is the worst I've ever experienced. They even went on to Trust Pilot to argue with my review of my experiences.

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by Bibio

i have several domains .co.uk and .com and have never once been asked to provide proof of a company. registering a domain is not the same as registering a company. its a domain name and up to the holder to do what they please with it unless for fraudulent or other nature. i can also trade all over the world with a .co.uk domain so same goes for other country's. its search engines like google who try and keep it geographic or .com for its users.


but yes its a bit cheeky using a uk domain if you stay in china.


oohh i also have a VOIP phone that i can have numbers from all over the world to make it look like i have offices in London, New York.. etc.etc.

I had an Albanian domain once , that took some minor fraud to get hold of. Much more rigorous than the UK

[shiftin_gear98]

Someday's I hate work, and some days I really ****ing hate all the pointless ****ing **** I have to do.
Today is the latter.

Really looking forward to tomorrow.

[Swin]

Originally Posted by timwilky

installing an additional security camera to the house, so running a cable under eaves in the loft,

Discovered two wasp nests when I removed the boxing for access, Explains the glut of the things lately. So I need to kill them without upsetting the bees I know are also nesting in the cavity.

A friend of mine's brother was a bee keeper and found a wasp nest in a neighbours compost heap, killed them by misting it with petrol.
This may be a method of killing your wasps without harming the bees, although if they are close together the fumes might be harmful to the bees.

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Bibio

Mav. its not the laptop its webex. contact Cisco and tell them your problem or get the other participants to swap over to another app for webchat, there are loads out there that are free.

Bibs, nah it's my ancient laptop, whatever Windows 10 update did, it killed something which killed the sound. I can't even get sound on YouTube videos, unless I hook up a Bluetooth speaker using a Bluetooth dongle. So even the onboard Bluetooth has stopped working after this update?

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

Bibs, it's not always easy to get everyone on the same platform. We're blocked from using Skype for instance and cannot use our own kit for anything. My client uses Teams and we use Google Meet, and they don't get along, so if a Clent joins us on Meet they have to remember to turn off their VPN or they cannot get off mute... Crazy.

Same here, although we can use Skype or Teams on our work laptops, but not Webbex.

The Dutch are the hosts, so use Webbex, but the French can't, they use Teams, so they don't participate.

I'm not sure how many of my counterparts are using their own equipment to join these meetings, judging by the videos, most were at home

Let's go back to the face to face meetings, so much simpler and more got done over a beer afterwards

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Luckypants

You become a pariah when ill in a pandemic...

Can't say I blame folks but I don't have covid!

Sorry ?!

[Adam Ef]

Phoned insurance to make some changes today, only to find out that they had no record of the bike. After a bit of investigation it seems they removed it from my policy last December after I made a call to them with some inquiries, which I decided to not go ahead with. They claim they didn't hear back from me so removed the bike.


I *might* have been riding it on and off for the last few months. Not happy. Glad I phoned them and didn't carry on riding blissfully unaware until September when the (multi-bike) policy ends.

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Adam Ef

Phoned insurance to make some changes today, only to find out that they had no record of the bike. After a bit of investigation it seems they removed it from my policy last December after I made a call to them with some inquiries, which I decided to not go ahead with. They claim they didn't hear back from me so removed the bike.


I *might* have been riding it on and off for the last few months. Not happy. Glad I phoned them and didn't carry on riding blissfully unaware until September when the (multi-bike) policy ends.

Sounds odd, but depends what the enquiries were you decided not to go ahead with I suppose ?!