Other What's ruining your life right now?

Discussion in 'General' started by TheMusician, 28 Oct 2009.

  1. edzieba

    edzieba Virtual Realist

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    Logitech support are a bunch of morons. Enter key sticks down on a G710+, MX switch is fine, stabiliser bar 'dummy; switches stick. A pretty simple issue to diagnose, eh?
    With all the information, and after several rounds a pointless back and forth to provide the exact same information as in the initial warranty request they take a week and a half to send... a set of replacement keycaps. What a pointless waste of time.
     
  2. legoman

    legoman breaker of things

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    Sat up A&E waiting to see if mums OK second mini heart attack in five years
     
  3. Tangster

    Tangster Butt-kicking for goodness!

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    Best wishes for your mum, I hope she's okay.
     
  4. legoman

    legoman breaker of things

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    Cheers, turns out she didnt have another one just very close to with arm pain an numbness. was in till early this morning shes been released as they gave her something to flush the old meds out of her an her old meds BPs down to 128/84 which for a 70 year old is bloody good.
    Had to go to work on pretty much jack all sleep but she basically said I feel fine bugger off to work. Shes got a neighbor with her till I finish though, work on about an hour of sleep an worrying isnt fun.
     
  5. Almightyrastus

    Almightyrastus Rule #9

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    Some dickhead cyclist decided that (yet again) the road laws didn't apply to him and just rode through a set of red lights right in front of the bus that I was on. The bus didn't hit him but had to do an emergency stop right at the time I was coming down the stairs.

    Result: 1 wrenched wrist, 1 very painful knee, and as for my back, that's bad enough at the moment without anything else going on, now I can barely walk. It took me 25 mins to walk a distance that should have been done in 10.

    Of course the driver stood on his horn at the same time as braking but, as normal, the two-wheeled moron just stuck a finger up and carried on.
     
  6. theshadow2001

    theshadow2001 [DELETE] means [DELETE]

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    Clearly bicycles must be banned.
     
  7. Almightyrastus

    Almightyrastus Rule #9

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    I'd settle for more accountability. This #### knew that nobody could identify him and follow up with anything and so what if they did, it's not like he's going to get points on his license and increased insurance premiums...
     
  8. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    Relax in the sure and certain knowledge that he may get to WEAR the next bus or truck he runs a red light in front of! :p
     
  9. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    hail and rain so heavy it bricked my phone through water damage
     
  10. Maki role

    Maki role Dale you're on a roll... Lover of bit-tech

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    Valentine's day, thankfully that one dissolves in 22 hours. It's the one yearly holiday/event that just rubs me up the wrong way.
     
  11. theshadow2001

    theshadow2001 [DELETE] means [DELETE]

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    Well it's an event that is used to manipulate your most intimate relationship in order to extract money from you. So, yeah...
     
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  12. Darkwisdom

    Darkwisdom Level 99 Retro Nerd

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    That's the way I feel about it too. However, the mrs. likes that kind of thing, so I actually made the effort (more so that I do already). I made her breakfast in bed, we went shopping and she got some new clothes and I made a nice dinner. Does she appreciate it? Not really. I guess she expected a horrifying orgy of materialism like other couples. Getting laid isn't one of my priorities like some men, but it would be nice to know my massive efforts matter sometimes.
     
  13. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    The leak in the roof still isn't fixed - a guy was supposed to come Thursday, finally came Friday, then announced that his ladders wouldn't reach the roof(!) - and now the boiler's on the fritz. It's under warranty, but the engineer won't come out until tomorrow - despite there being a month-old baby in the house.

    S'a good job I've got an electric heater for emergencies, innit? Just a shame about the running cost...
     
  14. MadGinga

    MadGinga oooh whats this do?

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    Double d'oh!
     
  15. theshadow2001

    theshadow2001 [DELETE] means [DELETE]

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    A proper nerd would have a folding setup or some mining rigs for such emergencies. [emoji3]
     
  16. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    You go ahead and price up a folding/mining rig that would kick out 2KW of heat, and we'll compare the cost to a £20 fan heater.

    (That said, I'm a big believer in using compute cycles to heat properties: 99.9-recurring per cent of the energy you stick into a computer comes out as waste heat. It's just that the price of computing equipment to chuck out the same heat as a 2KW electric heater is over a thousand pounds, which you have to spend before you get your 'free' heat. I could see it working on a subsidy model, though: A. N. Other distributed computing company gives you a rig for free, which is linked to a thermostat; the load on the system is varied according to temperature. You get the world's most over-engineered electric heater; they get another high-performance node in their network without having to pay for its electricity consumption. Win-win.)
     
  17. MadGinga

    MadGinga oooh whats this do?

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    link
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  18. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Yeah, that - except he's going a step further and paying for the device's electricity usage, which seems daft: why not just run 'em himself if he's paying for the electricity anyway? (Well, yes, there's cooling to take into account - but if he's saving £X by not having to cool a room full of computers, he could be saving £X+Y by not paying for (or only paying for a percentage of) the electricity the 'heaters' use.)
     
  19. David

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    Something has changed there - if you had a baby under 12 months in the house, they used to prioritise you and sort a same day visit.
     
  20. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    If somebody would care to call Vaillant and convince 'em of that, I'd be grateful. All I got was "the diary is fully booked in your area, tomorrow is the earliest anyone could come."
     

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