Other What's ruining your life right now?

Spoons opens from 7:30am bruv, safe

 

He's new to it all. Can't go diving in head first from the get go, got to work your way up to that.

 

I feel there's room in the market for a similar grade cider called "Park Bench", because truth in advertising...

 

Two litres?

For a day?

Sir, I don't think you understand how drinking chemical toilet water is done.

You'll need at least two of the big bugger 3l bottles for an evening based on my observations, so you probably want six 2l bottles for a whole day of park-bench pidgeon shouting.

OT: I finally have a task that'll take more than eight seconds!

It's managing the server updates of 20-30 servers. Which, to me, screams "powershell this ************", buuut of course most of them don't have PS5, which is necessary..

Also, of course it doesn't install smoothly enough that I can fire off a GPO to get it installed on the servers that need it.

I'll be spending the next few days updating Powershell, then.

 

Personal ruinings: Sky Fibre has been running at half speed for the last full week

The rest should probably go into the opposite thread:-

1. Sky's speed guarantee is triggered, so refund incoming
2. Turns out to be a line fault, so engineer booked in
3. Smol discount negotiated going forward

 

I don't enjoy my work (anymore). My boss is a useless plonker, the projects I'm working with are badly managed and nowhere near the supposed goals, the company is so ridiculously inefficient and only good at breaking negative records each year (when I started five years ago we lost 150m EUR in that fiscal year, last year we hit a new record of 330m and we do expect even more this year), and by now I've lost all hope of this company finding the spirit or talent to save itself. If we weren't state-owned we'd go broke in a heartbeat.

Yet I don't apply for new positions, because I can work 100% from home (thanks, Corona), I get paid quite okay, and I have a working student who is really bright and motivated so I feel obliged to be a good boss for her.

 

Here in Somerset you can just buy rough cider from a farmer. Cheap as cheap chips!

 

Effing hell, will shops in England sell you booze 24 hours a day? Christ almighty.

10am to 10pm up here, 7 days a week.

 

I was back in Glasgow with a mate a few years back, decided to leave the pub and just buy some cans to drink in the flat. The guy in the shop laughed at us as we tried to buy beer at 11:20pm.

By then the pub was too far behind us and we just had to go home without a drink.

Back when I lived there, I would spring to life like clockwork at 9:45pm, knowing I only just had enough time to get down Tesco and replenish

 

That is utter insanity.

 

That depends on the license, the Supermarket my Opticians is in can't sell booze between midnight and 8am, or after 10pm on Saturday, 4pm Sunday. For all the law says 24 hour drinking it's actually the local authority that has the final say, which is usually 'haha... no'.

 

Wot he said. I thought it was based on the license they have. I don't actually know of any supermarkets round 'ere that will sell booze 24hrs, most will stop at 2300.

 

Is it? Why?

Over here you can buy booze 24/7 at gas stations, but supermarkets close around 9 or 10 at night and stay closed on Sundays. As long as the doors are open, that bottle of Jack is yours if you can pay for it.

 

We English, to paraphrase The IT Crowd, drink like we're trying to die.

The Germans seem to have a much more relaxed approach to alcohol in comparison.

 

FTFY

 

I lived in Bath for roughly a year. Going out with all the students to get hamm----- enjoy a decent night out was quite the experience.

 

Became apparent yesterday that there is wasp nest under our study, they are using the airbrick below the damp course. Yesterday evening, after dark, I sealed it off, using masking tape as a temporary measure. This morning I went out again with an old hard mouse mat, to seal them in untill they expire. It has a steel base they can't chew through but, as I attempted to start fixing it in place, some of last night's tape came away...

I now have around a dozen wasp stings, the little six-legged, flying bastards.