Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

Can tolerate that... at least they don't watch In the Night Garden anymore

 

For those unaware...

 

Reported post .....

 

What I thought was just some food that didn't land well and I'll be fine in the morning, now bares all the hallmarks of norovirus. My stomach is swollen like a balloon, I look 7 months pregnant (as opposed to the usual 5). I am in so much discomfort.

 

Posted from the smallest room (with a bucket for the other end)?

 

That happens to me if I eat gluten.

 

Thought I'd have a bat at tickets for the big Black Sabbath farewell gig in July.
They went on sale at 10am today, but £200-800 each and a 120,000 queue for a ~42,000-person venue was a big nope.

 

**** Ticketmaster and **** Live Nation.

**** them for how they’ve destroyed live music.

**** them with a cricket bat and no lube.

Almost the entire live music scene is dominated by them. There are still independent venues that handle their own ticketing, but bands & artists often have their hands tied. There are often exclusive deals with Live Nation or Ticketmaster through their promoter, record label, etc, which mean that they cannot play in those independent venues.

There was a WWE event in Cardiff late last year, where, thanks to Ticketmaster’s/Live Nations’s unmitigated greed, the top-tier ticket price was around £2,500. A few quick searches revealed that it was cheaper to have a two week all-inclusive holiday in Tokyo. One of the most expensive cities in the world in one of the most expensive countries in the world to travel to. And a 2 week holiday there was still cheaper than the top-tier ticket to watch a bunch of sweaty ‘roided-up dudes pretend to grope each other for a few hours.

 

TOLERATE IT!
Paul Foot - Food Allergies

 

Lol.

I guess it is a choice. Between feeling crap and not feeling crap.

 

Still waiting for Big Ouch, something's holding up the process

 

Dynamic ticket pricing needs to be banned and, selling any ticket for more than the marked price needs to be banned too. Touts will still be a problem but, it is up to ticket buyers to refuse to buy from them and, that’s not going to happen.

I saw an article earlier about Bouncy* tickets. Stupid prices…

*Dawn French’s name for Beyoncé.

 

I broke the cardinal rule of IT; never update anything on a Friday.
Since I'm bored and seemingly hate myself, I decided to update the CCTV server. A thoroughly easy task and near-zero chance of it going wrong. It went wrong. Well, I say it went wrong. It won't boot back up after a restart, which may or not be related.
It won't take long to fix, it's just currently 15ft in the air because it lives on a shelf out of reach. I can't just pull it down myself because 1. it weighs approximately the same as a small moon, and 2. I haven't had the training to operate the scissor lift myself.
I also have some form of man-flu cold.

 

Dynamic pricing is just the latest attempt to push the greed as far as they can. It should have never got to this stage in the first place.

Dynamic pricing does need to be banned… And Ticketmaster/Live Nation needs to be broken up and regulated heavily.

Given how far greed has progressed in just the course of my own relatively short adulthood, I’m likely to be long dead before Western governments truly make a stand against the corporate oligarchs pulling the strings.

 

Outbid for the 4th time in 2 months on yet another house. Everything going to closing dates within a week, offers 20-30k over asking, how the hell is housing pricing so mental just now

 

This needs be stopped legally, or at least seller pays your fees.

 

A regulatory framework like that in Scotland, could help a lot.

 

I wish mate, already hard enough that you can only get a mortgage to the home report value now, having to add 20-30k ontop of that is damb near impossible for most folks

Yep, defo help alot of people, i can see why more people are trying to get on the ladder now though, its to survive, my parents have never owned, they pay rent to a private land lord, and there £750 a month for a 3 bedroom house, granted i have a 2 bedroom but my mortgage is less than half that, its mental, they however are too old to get a mortgage now. Everyones feeling it

 

Awaiting a delivery which doesn’t look like it’s coming… I had a Royal Mail text over the weekend to say it was due today but so far it’s in that delivery window but not out for delivery.

Kind of annoying because I happen to be off work today and the Mrs is working until 9 which gave me the whole day relatively undisturbed to be getting on with it…

 

Yeah the home report system is great in theory but I bought during covid and after missing multiple times like yourself ended up adding an extra 20+% I think it was on the offer to try and avoid missing yet another, I'll never know if I didn't need to go that high and could have saved thousands but ah well a bit late to worry about it now!