Give people a break. Not all of us want to be millionaires...some of us are happy to plod along and try and enjoy life.
(I realise he is directing this to China, but they surely deserve a break...and I'm sure some obscene corporate types in the West would be happy for us to follow...)
Nurses who use emotional blackmail. Make a 95 yr old homeless, would they? And that's the only other option. I've had four days of freedom, and it felt good
O dear. Not good (obviously, Holiday Weekend Pressure......from above, I daresay )
Been there, done that etc. Called up on ambulance station at silly o'clock on a weekend morning to take some Poor Soul 'home' to no proper care package.....AND taken said Poor Soul back to hospital for that very reason.
Things are better. For me, at any rate. See thanks threads. And prayers. I went in to complain about being railroaded all hyped up, and met an angel. From the top of the organisation. (I had my suspicions about long weekend. Fed by someone else. I hadn't noticed.)
Why do people decide that jsut because they're driving down a country lane it is OK for them to pootle along at c15mph in the middle of the road?
News Flash for all townies: people actually have to get to w*rk in the countryside and we rely on the "quaint" roads to get to-and-fro our place of toil, so either pull off the road to admire the view or just drive
A large and well-regarded department store, due to deliver and install an integrated fridge yesterday afternoon. At the very last minute - and after we'd waited at home all that lovely afternoon - they called to say they weren't going to make it and Customer Service would ring me in 5 minutes to reschedule. No-one rang. Called them and was told, next available spot is Wednesday. Wednesday the 1st of May!
Spent about two hours trying to get someone to acknowledge that it was wholly unreasonable to leave me without a fridge for the next ten days, but no luck.
Parsonic voices. Why are they still even a thing?! People leading worship on the radio sounding like Rowan Atkinson and Miranda Hart parodying clergy! 🙄
@Penny S hope things are sorted. Stick by your guns and refuse to have person back to your house. It is not your duty to care for her. @The Intrepid Mrs S. I'd be phoning, complaining and demanding a sooner appointment and a large discount on your purchase.
After an exhausting day with my mother yesterday I intend to do very little to day other than walk to and from church.
Songs of Praise broadcasting a vomit inducing, sanitised Easter programme from Jerusalem. No-one would guess about the oppression and suffering of Arabs in East Jerusalem from this programme.
While I very much sympathise with your point of view, I wouldn't expect SoP to be getting involved in contemporary politics (although I'm firmly of the belief that Christians should).
What got me in the programme were the sugary-sweet settings of some of the music, highly reverberant although ostensibly sung in the open air! The other week one song with Katherine Jenkins took me instantly back to the opening of "The Sound of Music" - what was interesting is how she switched Pembrokeshire locations within a single verse! (Or was that in the Welsh version of SoP which we also watch?)
Seems to be not so much a thanksgiving for the nukes themselves, as a celebration of 50 years since the RN pinched the Big Stick from the RAF and hid it underwater so they couldn't pinch it back. Basically a big phthwaaaarp to the Crabs with God on their side.
Do any of your local media sources have consumer affairs reporters? Often, they'll try to help out. They might want to put your story in their media--though they can't give coverage to all situations they help with, because they just don't have the time.
Today I consign to hell otherwise helpful people who don't ask where things belong.
Since I was consigned to a wheelchair almost seven months ago, I have had an assortment of friends and hired aides helping me. Without exception, they do not ask me where the (insert name of item here) belongs, and get creative about placement.
The problem is that I cannot then find it. Last night I was looking for two pieces belonging to my toaster-broiler oven: the bottom of the broiler pan, and the cookie sheet. The top of the broiler pan is still in its place (and who uses one without the other?), but I cannot find the bottom, nor the little cookie sheet.
How hard is it to ask? (And if you really can't figure it out, how about putting it back with said oven?)
Do any of your local media sources have consumer affairs reporters? Often, they'll try to help out. They might want to put your story in their media--though they can't give coverage to all situations they help with, because they just don't have the time.
Thanks GK - I'm holding fire now until tomorrow when their Customer Services department reopens after the Bank Holiday. I'm sure we'll sort something out, but it's the feeling that - because of their problems - I've been pushed to the back of the queue, that really rankles.
To return to that nuclear commemoration: their press release says, "No mission has been longer – or more important – than the nuclear deterrent patrols performed around the clock by the Royal Navy over the past half century". But how can we be sure that they did deter? Lots of countries who don't have nuclear weapons weren't attacked by the nasty Soviets - so how can we be sure that the threat wasn't more perceived than real? (And yes, I am old enough to remember the Cold War).
A large and well-regarded department store, due to deliver and install an integrated fridge yesterday afternoon. At the very last minute - and after we'd waited at home all that lovely afternoon - they called to say they weren't going to make it and Customer Service would ring me in 5 minutes to reschedule. No-one rang. Called them and was told, next available spot is Wednesday. Wednesday the 1st of May!
Spent about two hours trying to get someone to acknowledge that it was wholly unreasonable to leave me without a fridge for the next ten days, but no luck.
Mrs. S, spitting bullets
Cancel the order, buy one from AO.com, get next day delivery.
(If it’s the same LAWDS as I’m thinking of, I switched some years ago for similar reasons).
Actually we could all use it if, instead of using url to embed the chunder emoticon we use "img" and "/img" as we would url.
The one we all know and love from the old ship is http://www.sympato.ch/smileys/Vomito.gif with the "img" and "/img" (in square brackets of course) at either end.
However, when trying to post using it I get the IMG NOT PERMITTED flag - why? Is Outrage!
TICH the Dean of Westminster who is going to lead a thanksgiving service for nuclear weapons...my mind boggles.
1. Old News. The details of this service were released four weeks ago.
2. Your description of the service as "thanksgiving for nuclear weapons" is wrong: the service if to give thanks for the service of thousands of members of The Royal Navy who have served on all vessels providing continuous cover over the past 50 years.
3. The vessels these people have served are not restricted to submarines and the weapons systems are not solely nuclear. In fact anti-nuclear defence systems usually involve more "conventional" components that not.
Like it or not, this country like all others needs effective armed services. Anyone who thinks that not having a deterrent to the likes of Vladimir Putin pushing the nuclear button is living in a fools' paradise; pouring scorn on the people who provide us with security is a cheap shot.
And condemning to hell John Hall, a decent man, is another.
Actually we could all use it if, instead of using url to embed the chunder emoticon we use "img" and "/img" as we would url.
The one we all know and love from the old ship is http://www.sympato.ch/smileys/Vomito.gif with the "img" and "/img" (in square brackets of course) at either end.
However, when trying to post using it I get the IMG NOT PERMITTED flag - why? Is Outrage!
My reply is one reason such is not permitted. Not worth ten times my current hostly salary to host boards like that. Code needs correcting often without adding images
Have you seen some boards which do allow such things? Utterly huge animated gifs of dancing baby pandas in sparkly bikinis. All edited for garish colours which are a smack in the face when one innocently moves to next unread post. Not to mention the type of board which does allow such things. A hefty dose of shmaltzy sugar often. I could say more about those boards but this is AS.
I rarely see references these days to bandwidth for want of a better term, but you do know that images eat it up? The ship sails on a shoestring budget as it is.
There are other reasons for no gifs but there is a start. It is 2:38 am down here. I am sure others will add to reasons.
A large and well-regarded department store, due to deliver and install an integrated fridge yesterday afternoon. At the very last minute - and after we'd waited at home all that lovely afternoon - they called to say they weren't going to make it and Customer Service would ring me in 5 minutes to reschedule. No-one rang. Called them and was told, next available spot is Wednesday. Wednesday the 1st of May!
Spent about two hours trying to get someone to acknowledge that it was wholly unreasonable to leave me without a fridge for the next ten days, but no luck.
Mrs. S, spitting bullets
Cancel the order, buy one from AO.com, get next day delivery.
(If it’s the same LAWDS as I’m thinking of, I switched some years ago for similar reasons).
Sadly AO have the same delivery date - it's an integrated fridge so it's the installation rather than the actual delivery that causes the delay (heaves large sigh).
Certain of my acquaintances are romanticising the pre-war social situation and making it their childhood.
These people are baby boomers so never experienced life before the Social Welfare and the NHS. In fact, they grew up when social welfare and such was at its height. They drew all the benefits from it.
The people who did, now in their eighties or nineties have no such romantic idea of their childhood.
This is pernicious, it gives the idea that if the state was smaller things would be better when in actual fact the golden time they recall is when there was MORE state support and less denial of benefits to those who are in need.
I CTH the promulgation of such lies. I wish they would be honest about their childhood. These are some of the lies that are being used to promote BREXIT.
(I would also CTH those who keep talking about "Taking Back Control", as if we can so easily divest ourselves of the trends, effects and exigencies of globalisation).
What Jengie John says. My parents were in their teens in the 1930's so my mum went into service and my dad was parcelled off to a RAF apprenticeship and my aunts to live in a convenient convent by an evil stepmother, thanks to whom I never met my paternal grandfather. They were some of the realities of the thirties.
I'm also reminded of this film, which though somewhat propagandist, shows something of the reality of life for poorer people in the 1930s: https://vimeo.com/4950031
Neither of my parents ever gave voice to anything other than that life post-war was infinitely better than before. Not only did they list the usual advances (health care, jobs opportunities for women) but also that some of the worst snobbishnesses vanished.
Of course, that having been said, they still ensured we had pretty much the same upbringing as theirs, with the exception that it was a given that my sisters went to school and didn't necessarily get married before they hit 22
Please, what is an integrated fridge. A term I have not seen down here. Side by side fridge freezer? Perhaps plumbed in with water to make iceblocks?
A so-called integrated appliance is one that not only has a dedicated slot within the kitchen unit layout to accommodate it, but is manufactured without the gleaming bodywork so be housed in its own cabinet and fronted with a door to match the rest of the kitchen cupboards.
And thank you for your hostly explanation about the vomiting emoticon - point taken and sorry to interfere with your slumbers for such a frivolous reason.
Certain of my acquaintances are romanticising the pre-war social situation and making it their childhood...
A thousand times, yes. I know a number of people that think like this. What they all mean is their childhood was fine (presumably because their parents were the ones doing the worrying) so everyone else was fine. Their communities were perfect, their families angelic, criminals were strictly petty and no one was ever discriminated against or corrupt despite all evidence to the contrary.
Aha, yes integrated. Not a term in much use at all here. Apology accepted. I was already awake, something mentioned on ageing thread. I am not usually silly enough to check iPad at that time of night.
Yes, we were only trying to replace the fridge that came with the kitchen that was installed 14 years ago, because the door seal had split and was growing black mould. If we could have got a freestanding fridge it would have been much cheaper, gleaming bodywork notwithstanding, but would not have fitted.
After a further blood-pressure-rise-inducing conversation this morning we have cancelled our order (and are now waiting even longer for someone else to deliver - but hey, first world problems)
Certain of my acquaintances are romanticising the pre-war social situation and making it their childhood.
These people are baby boomers so never experienced life before the Social Welfare and the NHS. In fact, they grew up when social welfare and such was at its height. They drew all the benefits from it.
The people who did, now in their eighties or nineties have no such romantic idea of their childhood.
This is pernicious, it gives the idea that if the state was smaller things would be better when in actual fact the golden time they recall is when there was MORE state support and less denial of benefits to those who are in need.
I CTH the promulgation of such lies. I wish they would be honest about their childhood. These are some of the lies that are being used to promote BREXIT.
It's the same nostalgia that proved such a useful tool for Trump with the M. A. G. A. slogan. Though I'm inclined to think that even nostalgia isn't as good as it used to be
I'll second what Jengie said - the way the likes of Farage talk, you'd think he'd been brought up in an air-raid shelter. He's actually younger than me, and was born nearly 20 years after the end of the war.
Yes, we were only trying to replace the fridge that came with the kitchen that was installed 14 years ago, because the door seal had split and was growing black mould. If we could have got a freestanding fridge it would have been much cheaper, gleaming bodywork notwithstanding, but would not have fitted.
I'd have thought it would hardly be worthwhile on a 14-year-old fridge - are modern appliances even built to last that long? Besides, if it was growing mould I'd want to be shot of it ASAP. <shudder>
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Ouch.
Give people a break. Not all of us want to be millionaires...some of us are happy to plod along and try and enjoy life.
(I realise he is directing this to China, but they surely deserve a break...and I'm sure some obscene corporate types in the West would be happy for us to follow...)
(And look what happened to them....)
Been there, done that etc. Called up on ambulance station at silly o'clock on a weekend morning to take some Poor Soul 'home' to no proper care package.....AND taken said Poor Soul back to hospital for that very reason.
Not popular. So sue me.
{{Penny}}
News Flash for all townies: people actually have to get to w*rk in the countryside and we rely on the "quaint" roads to get to-and-fro our place of toil, so either pull off the road to admire the view or just drive
Spent about two hours trying to get someone to acknowledge that it was wholly unreasonable to leave me without a fridge for the next ten days, but no luck.
Mrs. S, spitting bullets
@The Intrepid Mrs S. I'd be phoning, complaining and demanding a sooner appointment and a large discount on your purchase.
After an exhausting day with my mother yesterday I intend to do very little to day other than walk to and from church.
Yur Tiz:
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What got me in the programme were the sugary-sweet settings of some of the music, highly reverberant although ostensibly sung in the open air! The other week one song with Katherine Jenkins took me instantly back to the opening of "The Sound of Music" - what was interesting is how she switched Pembrokeshire locations within a single verse! (Or was that in the Welsh version of SoP which we also watch?)
Believe what you see......??
Perhaps he will be giving thanks for their (up-till-now) non-use.....* apart from the ones we know about, of course.
Do you have a convenient linky?
https://cnduk.org/cnd-condemns-westminster-abbey-nuclear-weapons-thanksgiving-service/
This is what you end up with when 'Christianity' is nationalised. This sort of shite goes back to Constantine the 'Great'.
Do any of your local media sources have consumer affairs reporters? Often, they'll try to help out. They might want to put your story in their media--though they can't give coverage to all situations they help with, because they just don't have the time.
Since I was consigned to a wheelchair almost seven months ago, I have had an assortment of friends and hired aides helping me. Without exception, they do not ask me where the (insert name of item here) belongs, and get creative about placement.
The problem is that I cannot then find it. Last night I was looking for two pieces belonging to my toaster-broiler oven: the bottom of the broiler pan, and the cookie sheet. The top of the broiler pan is still in its place (and who uses one without the other?), but I cannot find the bottom, nor the little cookie sheet.
How hard is it to ask? (And if you really can't figure it out, how about putting it back with said oven?)
Thanks GK - I'm holding fire now until tomorrow when their Customer Services department reopens after the Bank Holiday. I'm sure we'll sort something out, but it's the feeling that - because of their problems - I've been pushed to the back of the queue, that really rankles.
Cancel the order, buy one from AO.com, get next day delivery.
(If it’s the same LAWDS as I’m thinking of, I switched some years ago for similar reasons).
Actually we could all use it if, instead of using url to embed the chunder emoticon we use "img" and "/img" as we would url.
The one we all know and love from the old ship is http://www.sympato.ch/smileys/Vomito.gif with the "img" and "/img" (in square brackets of course) at either end.
However, when trying to post using it I get the IMG NOT PERMITTED flag - why? Is Outrage!
1. Old News. The details of this service were released four weeks ago.
2. Your description of the service as "thanksgiving for nuclear weapons" is wrong: the service if to give thanks for the service of thousands of members of The Royal Navy who have served on all vessels providing continuous cover over the past 50 years.
3. The vessels these people have served are not restricted to submarines and the weapons systems are not solely nuclear. In fact anti-nuclear defence systems usually involve more "conventional" components that not.
Like it or not, this country like all others needs effective armed services. Anyone who thinks that not having a deterrent to the likes of Vladimir Putin pushing the nuclear button is living in a fools' paradise; pouring scorn on the people who provide us with security is a cheap shot.
And condemning to hell John Hall, a decent man, is another.
My reply is one reason such is not permitted. Not worth ten times my current hostly salary to host boards like that. Code needs correcting often without adding images
Have you seen some boards which do allow such things? Utterly huge animated gifs of dancing baby pandas in sparkly bikinis. All edited for garish colours which are a smack in the face when one innocently moves to next unread post. Not to mention the type of board which does allow such things. A hefty dose of shmaltzy sugar often. I could say more about those boards but this is AS.
I rarely see references these days to bandwidth for want of a better term, but you do know that images eat it up? The ship sails on a shoestring budget as it is.
There are other reasons for no gifs but there is a start. It is 2:38 am down here. I am sure others will add to reasons.
Lothlorien, AS host wishing to go back to sleep.
My original question was a tad rhetorical, to say the least.
Apologies for having unwittingly disturbed Hostly slumbers.....
Though not sure if they have staff to bring them late night cocoa like those in Episcopal palaces.
Hope you got back to sleep, Loth.
Sadly AO have the same delivery date - it's an integrated fridge so it's the installation rather than the actual delivery that causes the delay (heaves large sigh).
Mrs. S, about to go back into battle
Certain of my acquaintances are romanticising the pre-war social situation and making it their childhood.
These people are baby boomers so never experienced life before the Social Welfare and the NHS. In fact, they grew up when social welfare and such was at its height. They drew all the benefits from it.
The people who did, now in their eighties or nineties have no such romantic idea of their childhood.
This is pernicious, it gives the idea that if the state was smaller things would be better when in actual fact the golden time they recall is when there was MORE state support and less denial of benefits to those who are in need.
I CTH the promulgation of such lies. I wish they would be honest about their childhood. These are some of the lies that are being used to promote BREXIT.
(I would also CTH those who keep talking about "Taking Back Control", as if we can so easily divest ourselves of the trends, effects and exigencies of globalisation).
Of course, that having been said, they still ensured we had pretty much the same upbringing as theirs, with the exception that it was a given that my sisters went to school and didn't necessarily get married before they hit 22
A so-called integrated appliance is one that not only has a dedicated slot within the kitchen unit layout to accommodate it, but is manufactured without the gleaming bodywork so be housed in its own cabinet and fronted with a door to match the rest of the kitchen cupboards.
And thank you for your hostly explanation about the vomiting emoticon - point taken and sorry to interfere with your slumbers for such a frivolous reason.
A thousand times, yes. I know a number of people that think like this. What they all mean is their childhood was fine (presumably because their parents were the ones doing the worrying) so everyone else was fine. Their communities were perfect, their families angelic, criminals were strictly petty and no one was ever discriminated against or corrupt despite all evidence to the contrary.
It's extremely tiring.
After a further blood-pressure-rise-inducing conversation this morning we have cancelled our order (and are now waiting even longer for someone else to deliver - but hey, first world problems)
It's the same nostalgia that proved such a useful tool for Trump with the M. A. G. A. slogan. Though I'm inclined to think that even nostalgia isn't as good as it used to be
Sunlit uplands, indeed.
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