fell for it again award

Fond memories of working at NTL, woman rang up screaming at me. Her husband in background shouts at her, “don’t talk to them like that. They’re on fuck all” Then he takes phone off her, and gives me a line which I have used myself since “Do you have a manager you dislike intensely I can speak to?”

bnnuy

blurted out laughing at the headline alone, fantastic advice as usual contained within the AAM reply bsky.app/profile/aska...

a cautionary tale in operating in the same folder as the source material - it looks like they ran a converter, the converter said "can't process that in to a PDF" _but the source file remained_ bsky.app/profile/ziib...

oh god OH GOD WHAT WAS IN THERE

rage against the machine

Just had to submit a refund request on Steam. All I wrote was “I am far too stupid to play this game” Refunded an hour later, thank you valve

Damnit. Meant to pick up some Albert Bartlett potatoes but accidentally got the Stephen Bartlett ones and they won’t shut up about why women are bad

One of my hobbies is replacing DC power supplies with USB-C trigger cables with DC jacks on t'other end. I will not be buying 6 AAA batteries for my label printer, no, you are becoming USB-C like everything should be

Look I’m not gonna bash the latest iOS for being an absolute UI nightmare but whoever put a random number generator on my unread email icon really should have been stopped It has no idea if I have 12 or 13 unread emails and alternates between the two

The Transport For London traffic cameras are finally back online, which means CamJam is working again! jonty.co.uk/camjam

Keep remembering a dream about a persistent ad campaign from National Lottery trying to explain that they are introducing 0 (Zero) as a number and retiring 26. They kept saying how the probability wasn't affected but gave no info on why 26 was going or why 0 was logically a replacement, not, say, 60

somewhat concerning review of radioactive glow sticks you can buy on Amazon

My "new" keyboard is older than me! The seller bolt-modded it which saves me doing it, but I have upgraded it to USB internals (saving the original parts, of course). It weighs over 2 kilograms, is monumentally noisy because of the buckling springs, and I love it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M...

discount christmas panettone. that's it that's the whole post i'm delighted

Funny how things change. Desktop apps used to be the best way to use most services. Now it seems to be the web version. - Apple Music for desktop literally can't keep shuffle enabled - Outlook/OneDrive for Android can't open .msg attachments But the website versions can!

Silly, I know, but hard to overestimate how great #TheTraitors has become for getting us through miserable January. Proper public service broadcasting.

yeah, that's fair enough, Joe A

“You can’t even buy oak trees any more. Because of processionary moths.“ — overheard at pub, thought he was doing to day because of woke, now very curious about it

New phone has an always-on screen. I know I could turn it off, but I try to keep with defaults rather than fight them. I am finding it SO HARD to get used to. The screen being on means I have a notification! Except it doesn't any more! Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

only went and got the 100% collection achievement on my 69th win didn’t I

I avoided Home Assistant for the longest time for being a UI mess and this isn't helping my impression of it

texting with bae 🥰

DAMNIT NO

Someone has put up a little blue plaque on that Cheltenham corner of that viral video of people dancing in the street to Vengaboys

Every time the police here seize a bunch of drugs and post about it on Facebook, there is always the comment “Is this item still available?” and I think that’s great

I've waited 3 years to make this post

Happy Pop-Tarts Bowl Day to all who celebrate

I avoided egg nog for years because an egg based drink doesn’t appeal. Finally picked some up from Costco and it’s just Baileys someone has thrown spices in? Fine I guess.

clearly I'm running out of pun git branch names relating to fixing our feed services

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

Every time we’re watching a TV show and someone is called Paul, either I say “but I’m Paul” or my wife says “but you’re Paul” It’s a great bit and I would recommend it if you have a name which is said on the TV with any frequency Thank you

Nah c’mon. Stop this

Dating site name for people who lead fantasy game campaigns: "Slide in to our DMs". £8

I've just realised that the "lyrics" function of Apple Music is sometimes just someone else's guess At least two songs now, their version _really obviously wrong_, they've just misheard a London accent What use is that, I can mis-hear things just fine myself

Home Office inadvertently bans historical research about the Dunkirk evacuation.

From a carol I'm singing this year; "If you’ve any maids within your house, as I suppose you’ve none; they’d not let us stand a-wassailing so long on this cold stone." This is a great insult from the 1840s, honestly.

Verified-unused slogan for a dice making organisation who sells individual or multiple dice. £8

I wonder if the leaked OBR doc publishing an hour early, likely due to a time zone mismatch on the server, will finally see the end of the time changing daylight savings nonsense, that would be nice

they think it's all OBR, it is now

Someone clever at taxes please explain to me why Petrol/Diesel cars wouldn't also be taxed per-mile. Seems like a really strange thing to target specifically? EVs already pay VED so no different in that matter

excuse me????

same same

damnit I'm old enough to have misread that as SCART then wondered why the hell a 50" QLED would have that

It's really rude that when I don't order anything, magical little treats don't arrive at my door.

obviously not a good farmer. cow is very small

Mild Annoyance Against The Machine

There's something very objectionable about buying IT accessories which are frequently thrown out as e-waste. No, I can't find any e-waste for sale locally. Yes, it's probably worth the money. No, I don't like it.

Once again we have underestimated the quantity of sweets required for trick and treat, so the offerings are getting gradually stranger We're now on microwave popcorn, sugar free Tango cans, and two raw potatoes I suspect the potatoes will be a hit tbh