tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19575439316124757662024-03-13T04:34:12.920-07:00Morse ThinksThoughts on bits and piecesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-33584867577715012692015-11-07T09:02:00.001-08:002015-11-07T09:02:16.953-08:00What would Bill Gates say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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How to get Windows Photo Viewer to work with Windows 10.<br />
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Sounds ridiculously simple, but after trying to get Windows Photo Viewer to work on Windows 10 unsuccessfully for ages, I gave up. I much prefer the old Viewer than the newer Photos app.<br />
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Then I suddenly had a brainwave. If the Viewer currently only appears when viewing Tiff files ( you can't make a shortcut...well easily anyway), I thought why not make a simple placement tiff file that can be dropped into folders with images. Clicking this will open the Viewer and it's business as usual.<br />
For now anyway until Windows ditched the Viewer completely.<br />
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Anyway, if you want to give it a go, just grab the image above and try it.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-5373881345330718272013-09-24T00:44:00.003-07:002013-09-24T00:44:38.017-07:00What would Alexander Graham Bell say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My letter to Vodafone:<br />
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I have been a Vodafone UK PAYG customer for years and years. <br />Only recently I was told that the way vouchers worked was changing, at the end of a month the voucher would expire and I would need a new one.<br />As I use my phone only for emergencies I decided to shop around for something cheaper, finding GiffGaff who would do a rolling monthly deal for £5 a month.<br />So far so good.<br />
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19-9-13 8.10am<br />I go to Vodafone live chat and ask for a PAC code and help to unlock my phone for use with GiffGaff. <br /> The helpful customer service lady gives me the PAC code straight away, then rings me to take my Visa details to charge me £20 for the unlocking.<br />Again, so far so good.<br />
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Yesterday on the 23rd, 4 days later, I receive an e-mail, Vodafone have no record of my account and cannot proceed with the unlock???<br />So, I ring Vodafone and speak to Cambel.<br />No, he cannot help me, he has no record of my account, I have done everything wrong, this is all my fault, the best he can do is give me £10 refund, no - I cannot speak to a manager, no - he does not know the ombudsman number, the best I can have is a ring back.<br />So, I explain, check your records, when I contacted Vodafone, no one explained I could not do what I am trying to do...after all, I just want the phone unlocked and I have been charged for it, if you cannot accomplish this service refund me the money and I will go elsewhere.<br />No, he will not do this, I should have known I cannot do this, it is my mistake. (I seriously think you shouold listen to the call which I am told was recorded!)<br />
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So, I get a call back from Gillian the Manager.<br />No, they cannot help me. She has looked at me account...but hang on, Cambel told me I had no account, that no details of my contact with Vodafone were there...but Gillian tells me she can read them on the screen as well as the conversation I had on the 19th!<br />So, unlock the phone or give me my money back. No, they cannot do either!!! WHAT!<br />
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I've paid for a service, Vodafone can't accomplish this, and won't refund the money!<br />So I ask them to contact my nearest store, just ring them, tell them to unlock it, I've paid, job sorted...No, we cannot do that.<br />This is all for £20. Really! You cannot refund £20. Is this a joke?<br />
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By now I am very angry. Is this nothing short of ridiculous and unacceptable?<br />The best Gillian can offer is I go out and buy another sim and then she will refund the money?<br />Why do I have to go through the hassle of all this for what is not my fault.<br />Cambel told me I should have known better, but as I explained, I am not familiar with how phone companies work, I thought you were and I would have been told.<br />Apparently this is all my fault, my mistake, and Vodafone, this huge company are completely unable to do a simple unlock on my phone or refund me money without me having yet another sim from Vodafone.<br />
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I am used to giving praise where it is due, as well as telling people when I run up against sheer blind, bureaucracy.<br />I have never come up against such a ridiculous system and unhelpful people calling themselves 'customer service'.<br />I will be very happy to tell everyone I know, blogs and facebook just how I have been treated.<br />Just to have a simple unlock performed that I could have gone into town and had done for a fraction of the cost you are charging, but I foolishly thought I should ask Vodafone.<br />
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It's only an old Sony Ericsson, I could have bought a 2nd hand unlocked phone on eBay for less than £20<br />Please thank your staff for such a horrible ordeal that has left me very, very angry and to date, still with an unlocked phone and £20 out of pocket.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-82368678167498581662013-08-15T11:56:00.001-07:002013-08-15T11:56:45.722-07:00What would the camera repairman say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've just had a terrible time. I tried cleaning dust of my D300 camera sensor and ended up scratching it to pieces!<br />
I looked at the Nikon site to find an approved repair center and ended up sending it to a place listed on there site in Glasgow. When they saw it they were quite impressed how badly I had damaged the sensor...and the repair bill was £570+VAT. I can pick up a mint used one for £399 from Mifsuds, so that was out of the question.<br />
However, there is a solution, so if you have done the same, read this:<br />
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This company specializes in IR camera conversions.<br />
Now, the important thing to realize is that there is nothing actually wrong with the sensor! It's actually the filter in front of it, also called the 'hot mirror'.<br />
The place in Glasgow charged so much because this mirror isn't supplied as a replacement on it's own, it's supplied as a whole sensor unit...hence the steep price.<br />
An IR company takes that filter off the camera and replaces it with an IR one...which means:<br />
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2: They can convert to IR to fix it.<br />
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<a href="http://www.protechrepairs.co.uk/">http://www.protechrepairs.co.uk/</a> Charge about £100 to replace the mirror/filter, but you will want to make sure they have your make. They charge £250 for a full conversion.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-33099340874510329682013-07-24T10:15:00.000-07:002013-07-24T10:15:20.435-07:00What would Morse Coaches say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey! On the way to Manchester on the weekend we passed a convoy of coaches with Morse on! A.C. Morse they said, which is my sisters initials (or were).<br />
They actually come from York, here: <a href="http://www.morse-coaches.com/">http://www.morse-coaches.com/</a><br />
Nice to see the name around, us Morses have to stick together.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-87220928015370229642013-07-13T03:01:00.001-07:002013-07-13T03:01:25.237-07:00What would Tom Clancy say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">I've just bought a kindle. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">I wanted to get the Tom Clancy novels about John Clarke & Jack Ryan.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Why is it, that I have just discovered that nearly all the Tom Clancy books are unavailable on UK Amazon.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Except the newer novels, and a couple of the older books that are being sold in German language.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">However. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">The German Amazon has all the books for Kindle.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">In English.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">????????</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">I have had to learn the Kindle change address trick to start getting them, but does this make any sense to anyone?</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-79005514976514407182013-05-16T00:47:00.001-07:002013-05-16T00:47:46.458-07:00What would Jerry Maguire say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From my last post you may surmise I am moving house. It's supposed to be one of the most stressful things you can do in life. Things like this story make it so.... We travelled 600 miles to see some houses. Liked one, spoke to the owner and told her we would make an offer of £X amount, to which she agreed and said 'when I say I am accepting that offer I stick to my word'.<br />
It did remind me of that scene in Jerry Maguire (remember the Dad, pictured above? 'My word is my bond')<br />
So, we get the letter from her estate agents saying the offer has been accepted, and I get my solicitors on the case.<br />
Next day, we get an e-mail from the estate agents, apparently the ladies son thinks we should pay another 2K !!!<br />
So I ring the estate agents and ask if there is a daughter who is going to ask for a bit more too, or maybe a neighbour? I thought we had made an agreement that had been accepted...hadn't they just sent us the acceptance letter?<br />
So yesterday I get home and there is a message on the phone, the seller is now adamant that we must pay the extra 2K.<br />
Forget that, I'm not buying.<br />
To me it's like being in the supermarket, having your shopping totted up at the till and someone behind you in the queue saying to the cashier she should charge me a bit more. What's it to do with him? But then, the cashier does start adding more on because the bloke behind me is a relative of hers.<br />
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Man, just like that scene from Jerry.<br />
I hope I'm not bitter, but I hope the house doesn't sell now and they have to offer it for about 20K less...then I may, just may consider it again.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-8397658348175581592013-05-13T02:57:00.003-07:002013-05-13T02:57:42.470-07:00What would a bald person say? (No hair to pull out!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been trying to get the telephone number of my local HSBC so I can go in and talk about my mortgage.<br />
Simple huh?<br />
I typed in the branch on Google and got the telephone number, but when I rang it, it asked to input my account details and sort code. I didn't have them on me so just left that, after all, all I want to do is arrange a visit.<br />
I finally got through to an Indian call center where the operator literally spoke like an automated message.<br />
I said what I wanted, but he wanted me to answer lots of questions first about accounts etc.<br />
I said all I want to do is arrange a visit to my local branch.<br />
I was then put on hold for ages.<br />
Then a Scottish man came on the phone, so I went through it all again saying all I want to do is arrange a visit to my local branch.<br />
He said I should use the special phone service for mortgage related enquiries.<br />
So I asked, don't you like people going into the local branch?<br />
He said it takes 2 weeks to arrange an appointment.<br />
So, the next day i use the mortgage hotline.<br />
I get through to someone who wants all my account info, this time I am prepared. But then he asks for monthly payment amounts and original loan amounts. This is after answering all my name/address/account number/second account holder questions.<br />
I don't have that on my. So I give him the figure for my current balance...but that isn't good enough and he informs me I've answered something incorrectly and now my account has been locked. I will need to visit my local branch to unlock it.<br />
AGGHHHHHH<br />
I explain all I wanted to do is arrange a visit to my local branch.<br />
I am now booked in for Saturday, what a pain in the neck!!!!!<br />
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Christmas 1978, so I would have been 10. Like a lot of kids in the 70's I got this camera, or a similar Kodak as a present. It took a small cartridge film that slotted in the back. We took pictures of our pets, our bedrooms, our toys and our families. Maybe we got to use it for 3 or 4 films before it was broken or lost, after all, we were kids and it was seen as a bit of a toy that after our parents stopped paying for the film to be developed lost it's interest rapidly.</div>
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Flash forward to 1987. I'm almost done with school, thank goodness, and looking to go to art college. My Mum decides to buy me a camera from the local second hand shop in Newport, South Wales. A photography boffin/friend accompanies us into the shop and we walk out with the Petri GX-1 for £50. The boffin tells me it's a beauty and I treasure it for a long time. It's an absolute joy to use and I wish slightly I still had it. I only had the one lens (50mm) but that was enough. I later purchased a Gnome projector from a college girl and turned my bedroom into a dark room.</div>
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I wish I'd kept the Petri but I somehow managed to get some money together and bought my first Nikon, the EM. I still only had the 50mm lens, but I entered a world of a popular camera that my friends had, so I borrowed their lenses, discovered Cokin filters and was hooked by Nikon.</div>
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In 2007 I was there as my Mum passed away. We are not a rich family, and my Mum left me a little inheritance. Nothing to retire on, but enough for me to do something I think she would have approved of. Because she bought me my first camera, it seems fitting I use the money to buy a good camera, one that will last a long time. I spend a long time getting advice on this. It seems the most important purchase I will make. With very good advice on camera's and lenses I buy the Nikon D300. The best camera I've ever owned or used. I'm now in my 6th year of using this camera. I have no plan to 'upgrade' as I don't see any real advantage over this camera. If anything, I think one day I may buy a second body as a spare.</div>
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My final entry, I decided I needed another pocket camera to carry around when I don't want to take the D300 or it's not practical. I bought the Nikon S3100, about the size of the old Olympus. A simple point and shoot. Not the best in low light, but great for most things that a camera of this size/style is expected to handle.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-13863783304352066982012-11-13T02:36:00.000-08:002012-11-13T02:36:08.009-08:00What would Capt. Mainwaring say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Five times this has happened now. mostly from Amazon, but now also from Alibris.<br />
Amazon.co.uk and Alibris.co.uk, both UK sites. Both I presumed foolishly selling me English language books. But, when they arrive the language is German! Sometimes after receiving the book I have gone back and found in small print in the description it has said German language (not in the title mind you) but the last book I bought there was no mention at all. And it was expensive! Absolute Watchmen. It really is a pain in the neck.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-11939913984567892872012-10-09T03:11:00.001-07:002012-10-09T03:11:23.948-07:00What would Blockbuster say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What's happened to Blockbuster in store?<br />
They used to be brilliant for used DVD's, you could get an armload of discs for a tenner!<br />
Now I have a quick look round then go to Asda's to get it cheaper.<br />
Case in point, this weekend I saw Hanna in Blockbuster X-rental DVD for £6. Asda's were selling it brand new for £3!<br />
Blockbuster had MI4: Ghost Protocol X-Rental for £9. Asda's for £7 new.<br />
Again and again I found it cheaper to buy a brand new disc from Asda's than a used copy from Blockbuster.<br />
How long will these guys keep going like this?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-82693613512787227062012-09-18T07:01:00.001-07:002012-09-18T07:01:17.673-07:00What would Lord Snowdon say?I joined ViewBug recently and this is the cool little badge I got:<br />
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I was watching Stargate last night on DVD when I get a knock at the door.<br />
A man flashed me a very official looking 2 part card in a flashy wallet and said he was TV Licensing.<br />
(I have never had TV, a License, I don't even have an aerial and have no intention of ever getting one.)<br />
I continually get letters asking why I don't have a license, over the years they just go straight in the bin unopened. Occasionally I've had inspectors turn up wanting to view the property, in the past I have let them in to verify I am telling the truth...but no more.<br />
I am so fed up of this badgering persistence to buy a product I don't want. How many other sales people come round your house, send letters monthly asking why you don't own there product? You don't have Microsoft coming round your house do you asking if they can come in to see if you have an XBox? or Black & Decker sending mail asking why you haven't bought an electric drill do you?<br />
Let's be straight, TV Licensing is <b>NOT</b> a Govt. organisation, they pretend to be one, but they are in fact a branch of the BBC.<br />
So, last night when he asked to come in I said NO!<br />
He was a bit taken aback, wanted to verify what I was saying.<br />
I confirmed I had a screen, that it wasn't for TV and that NO, I was not letting him in.<br />
he left crestfallen.<br />
They have no right to enter YOUR property without a court order, they cannot get a court order without proof of a misdemeanor, and if there vans are as good as they advertise they know there is no signal being watched from my house so don't have anything to go on.<br />
I wonder if I can claim for harassment?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-29766124878902629462012-07-04T07:15:00.000-07:002012-07-04T07:15:07.454-07:00What would the Solar Power man say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I just finished my first year of Solar Power. How did I do? Here is the letter I wrote to the company i purchased them from:<br />
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I e-mailed 6 months into my contract to voice concerns that my system wasn't producing anywhere near the figures quoted me. At that time I had a reply requesting that I wait for the first year to complete and then come back to you.<u></u><u></u></div>
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I just filled in my 4th quarterly FiT figure, thus making 1 complete year.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Secondly, it was drummed into me over and over that the figures were so conservative, due to being based on sunlight rather than daylight hours that I would have my loan paid off realistically in 5-7 years rather than the 10 on the contract.<u></u><u></u></div>
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As said, I have just filled out my 4th FiT figure which came to 2705 KW Hours.<u></u><u></u></div>
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The 'extremely conservative' figures stated on my analysis are: 4197, over by 1492<u></u><u></u></div>
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What happens now? Do I expect a payment from you to cover the shortfall?<u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I waited a week, got no reply and started to get the details of my local Citizens Advice Bureau. That same day I had a reply with a final settlement from the company giving me a cheque of just over £2700 to take my loan period down. To my estimation this amount will roughly pay for 4 years under production, or to look at it another way, just over 1 year full payment of my loan. The amount on the cheque was apparently worked out in co-operation with thr Micro-regeneration programme and a regulatory body called REAL.</span></div>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-65315443558685235272012-05-09T05:46:00.003-07:002012-05-09T05:47:13.277-07:00What would Davy McDougall say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I must say first, I am not a fan at all of the BlueBirds, I just looked this up on the net.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's on the news today that Cardiff City have been made an offer:</span><br />
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<i style="background-color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The club's Malaysian owners have proposed investing £100m on the team, a new training ground and increasing the stadium's capacity.</span></i></div>
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<i style="background-color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But it would come on condition the home kit changes from blue to red, with a dragon instead of a bluebird crest.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">News Link <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-18001917" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, apparently the fans are up in arms at the thought of losing their history. However, when I asked some of the fans at work what that history was they just looked blank at me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So I did some Googling:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: cyan; color: black; line-height: normal; text-align: left;">Cardif City are named the Bluebirds because of the play named 'The Bluebird' that was shown in Cardiff in 1908. Cardiff was chosen to host the play over many different cities and so CCFC decided to cahnge their kit clour to blue and use the plays name as there own nickname.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"> Web Link <a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_Cardiff_city_football_club_nicknamed_bluebirds" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So I thought the play must have been written by a famous Welsh Playright!?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="color: black; line-height: 19px;"><b>The Blue Bird</b></i><span style="color: black; line-height: 19px;"> (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="French language">French</a><span style="color: black; line-height: 19px;">: </span><span lang="fr" style="color: black; line-height: 19px;" xml:lang="fr"><i>L'Oiseau bleu</i></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 19px;">) is a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_in_literature" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="1908 in literature">1908</a><span style="color: black; line-height: 19px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_(theatre)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Play (theatre)">play</a><span style="color: black; line-height: 19px;"> by Belgian author </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Maurice Maeterlinck">Maurice Maeterlinck</a><span style="color: black; line-height: 19px;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Web Link <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Bird_(play)" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, apparently, if you are against the name change it is because you are supporting a Belgian play!</span></div>
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Working in a Graphics dept. I get asked for lots of favours. Business cards/ letterheads/ posters/ photo retouching etc etc.<br />
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I have just been asked to produce a poster for a Labour Concillor showing (if he wins) that 'He Lives Here!', 'You Voted For Him!' sort of thing.<br />
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Thing is, the guy who asked me to do this is the father of the candidate, and I know him and his son a little, as you do when you've worked with someone for 10+ years.<br />
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Now on the one hand I wish the guy luck.<br />
On the other hand it worries me that Labour are backing this guy, and that he could win and be representing a whole community.<br />
Why does it worry me?<br />
Because this guy has never done a day's work in his life. His dad has paid his way through life, and still does. How can a guy like that have any real handle on life and what it means to struggle in the real world?<br />
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I wonder how many more like that are out there?<br />
I fear too many.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-2103949938469386172012-04-10T01:36:00.003-07:002012-04-10T01:36:39.245-07:00What would John Merrick say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's still very cold here in Merthyr.</div>
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Over the winter period and still now, I'm dressing in cold weather gear while I cycle.</div>
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Respect the weather.</div>
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What's going on! Am I alone in the hat moving phenomenon?</div>
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I do have some strange dreams.<br />
The most bizarre I think was when I was having a dream in which I died. I woke up quite shocked, to find I had fallen asleep on the sofa watching TV next to my wife at my parents house. As I woke and started talking I gradually started to get the feeling something wasn't quite right. After a while I realised they weren't calling me by my proper name, and then I panicked big time as I realised something was seriously wrong with everything.<br />
And then I woke up again, in my own bed at home, next to my wife who wondered what the matter was. My first question to her was asking her what my name was. Fortunately my wife decided not to try and be funny and make a name up and told me straight. I think I would have gone mad if she had made something up.<br />
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Anyway, this was just a preamble. The dream that has got me puzzled at the moment is one I had this week. I dreamt I went into the living room to find someone or something had moved all my stereo equipment on end so it was facing the window. As I puzzled over this I noticed my PS3 was also like it, and then slowly realised everything in the room had been turned to face the window.<br />
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What the eck is all that about!?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-47038031503849852522012-02-29T07:11:00.000-08:002012-02-29T07:14:32.519-08:00What would Doctor Who say?I was looking at some funny Doctor Who pics. Here are, what I thought, were the cream of the crop.
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I've liked Country music ever since I saw the Any Which Way movies, way back in the late 70's.</div>
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I owned the soundtracks on vinyl, they are still unavailable on CD, but that didn't stop me transferring them to my PC as MP3 format.</div>
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I liked the music so much because it was very much a story based medium. I love a good story, and I like a story in a song. I get very tired of a lot of the modern music that seems to be around these days that just repeat a few lines over and over again and again to a mind numbing beat.</div>
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I feel quite smug at the moment, my tastes in Country prevail. Groups like The Dixie Chicks, Lady Antebellum and my favourite Rascal Flatts, as well as artists like Reba McEntyre, Tim McGraw, and Kenny Chesney, just to name a smattering are constantly on my iPod, and it was my expectation that I would not be alone for long in liking this music. I figured it wouldn't be long before other people started appreciating this quality, lyric based, real music.</div>
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I feel smug because this week I've heard a lot of Country music on the radio, quite a few duets as stars and established musicians seek out the 'real' sound coming from Nashville, the home of Country, and an upcoming interview with Reba McEntyre.</div>
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Quality is rising.</div>
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And for any doubters, have a listen to this old classic from that first Every Which Way album…</div>
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Possibly the funniest review I ever read on amazon for the Steven Seagal series Lawman:<br />
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<b><span class="h3color tiny" style="color: #e47911;">This review is from: </span>Steven Seagal Lawman: The Complete Season One (DVD)</b></div>
I'm not sure what I was doing to set off his Zen psychic powers, but I got pulled over by Officer Seagal once. I was coming back from Hong Kong market on the westbank with several small Banh-Mi sandwiches and groceries and some Asian sweets. Running toward the car with what appeared to be a severe purpose, he started yelling "Yo! Yo! Yo! Yo! STEP OUT OF THE CAR, YO?!" and things like that. So I get out, and before my heel can even touch the ground I find myself in an ankle lock with him screaming at me about compliance. Several excruciating moments later, he gets this thousand yard stare looking at my car and sniffing the car uncontrollably as he pat me down. He put his hands together and bowed the way Japanese do in more formal moments, and said "Yo, Im' gonna hafta search the car, yo?" I had six Peking ducks in the backseat, and he said I was "way over the limit" as he started chowing down on my chicken liver Banh-mi. He gave one of the ducks to Colonel Fortunato who proceeded to swallow it whole, feet first. For the next half hour they just kept eating all my food and high fiving each other, right there on Gen. Degaulle Dr! Then he turned to me, jiggling his cheeks as he shook his head and said "mmmpph well das enoughmpph you kin gompph" I went home with a car full of crumbs but I swear to God, I'm lucky to be alive!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-48059183699184380332012-02-07T07:13:00.000-08:002012-02-07T07:21:04.212-08:00What would Grandad say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My good friend Andy just sent me this e-mail at work, man, I'm getting old! :<br />
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<b>Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you were growing up?'</b><span class="s1"> </span></div>
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<span class="s2"><b> </b></span><b>'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.'Except for Fish & Chip shops and we ate it all so unhygenically from newspaper wrappers' </b></div>
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<b>'All the other food was slow.'</b></div>
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<b>'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?'</b></div>
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<b>'It was a place called 'home,' I explained.</b></div>
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<b>'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'</b></div>
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<b>By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.</b></div>
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<b>Some parents NEVER owned their own house, wore jeans, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country and credit cards had not been invented.</b></div>
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<b>My parents never drove me to school. I had my mothers bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow).</b></div>
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<b>We didn't have a television in our house until the Queens Coronation.</b></div>
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<b>I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.</b></div>
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<b>Pizzas were not delivered to our home... But milk was.</b></div>
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<b>All newspapers were delivered by boys and many boys delivered newspapers </b><span class="s3"><b>--</b></span><b>My brother delivered a newspaper, seven days a week. He had to get up at</b><span class="s3"><b> </b></span><span class="s4"> </span><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s5"><b>6AM every morning.</b></span></div>
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<b>Film stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the films. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence (except cowboy films) or almost anything offensive.</b></div>
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<b><i>If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.</i></b></div>
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<b>Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?</b></div>
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<b>MEMORIES from a friend:</b></div>
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<b>My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he</b><span class="s6"><b> </b></span><b>brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it... I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.</b></div>
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<b>Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.</b></div>
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<b>Ignition switches on the dashboard.</b><span class="s2"> </span><b>There were two postal deliveries per day.</b></div>
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<span class="s7"><b>Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. </b></span><b>The street lights were turned off at about 11pm each night.</b><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s3"><b>Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.</b></span></div>
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<b>Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators. Corona fizzy drinks were delivered in glass bottles by lorry each week, and the empties returned.</b></div>
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<b>1. Sweet cigarettes</b></div>
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<b>If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age</b></div>
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<b>Don't forget to pass this along!! </b></div>
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<span class="s12"><b>Especially to all your really </b></span><span class="s10"><b>OLD</b></span><b> friends....I just did!!!!!!!!!</b></div>
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<b>(PS. I used a large type face so you could read it easily) </b></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-37613879246493246232011-11-24T01:31:00.001-08:002011-11-24T01:34:45.136-08:00What would the Germans say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is 100% genuine.<br />
I just found this whilst looking on my PC at some old files.<br />
This is years old, back in the time when on-line translation systems were worse than they are now!<br />
What I did was chuck a load of old cheesy jokes into an English to German translator...and this was the result:<br />
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Why on earth did the chicken go and cross the road!<br />
Because of the fact that he was going to the other side of the road?<br />
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What will witches ride in on in the future motor powered!<br />
They will be on a vroomsticks?<br />
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What did the horse who went in to the pub and the landlord said!<br />
Why is your face so long horse?<br />
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How do you eventually know when its time to pull yourself together!<br />
Your doctor mistakes you for curtain?<br />
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What does the astronaut park his car at!<br />
Up the parking meteors?<br />
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What do you cross if you cross a sheep and a kangaroo!<br />
Warm Jumper?<br />
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Man to butcher I'd like two pork chops please!<br />
Butcher which way would you like them to lean?<br />
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Doctor doctor I feel like beans on toast!<br />
Shut up you skinhead get back on the raft ?<br />
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Why the boy threw his clock out of a window!<br />
How time flies?<br />
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Whats the difference between a knock knock and a doctor doctor!<br />
Thats a Irishman of course it is?<br />
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Q: what is the capital of the Japan?<br />
A: J.<br />
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Q: vot call you a street, where all crazy people are?<br />
A: a psycho path.<br />
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Q: what did a chicken call crossing the street?<br />
A: feather cattle in movement ya.<br />
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Q: what did the zero to the eight make say?<br />
A: "Hey. . . Volume nice"<br />
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A dog went in a telegraph office to send a telegram. It have, "Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, Woof,<br />
Then the secretary what the dog reads written has, and, said gives "it only nine words here!!!. It could send another 'Woof' for the same price silly dog friend.<br />
"But, that dog reciprocated, "the message then any sense no make frauhlein.<br />
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Q: what happened to the hölzernen wood car?<br />
A: it goes woods, yah, it really doos.<br />
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Q: a man goes to the doctor. The man has a strawberry that are awake out of his head.<br />
A: the doctor says "that you have any Kreme to give me to place on it"<br />
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A man goes in injured to the doctor, "Doc, I've my arm in several places:<br />
the doctors says, "goods. . . there are more arms in udder places. ha ha".<br />
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A man was murdered in its home at the weekend. ALT+0160<br />
Detectives have it with the front door. After below in the bathtub the tub is with milk, Cornflakes, and banana disks found has been filled up.<br />
Polize Bureau a grain murderer seek!!!<br />
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Q: what will you pour dilutes when you be named a rabbit hole?<br />
A: a hot cross bunny herr friend.<br />
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Q: you know how the magnificent gorge Big Canyon was formed?<br />
A: a Scot man and gopher hole dropped his penny down.<br />
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A bear runs into a rod bar. So the Barkeeper ask, "what I receive can you?"<br />
the bears answer, "I'll has a gin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ya und tonic,<br />
that of the Barkeeper ask, "why the large recess und spikly paws?"<br />
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Q: what did the farmer say lost when its tractor?<br />
A: "SHNELL, where's my tractor?"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-14850756201117386122011-11-18T04:01:00.001-08:002011-11-18T04:05:23.096-08:00What would Trigo Say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For those who remember fondly The Trigan Empire in Look & Learn, I've just realised you can read the best of it on your PC free.<br />
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First you'll need a Comic Book Reader (CBR) programme. I got one free <a href="http://comical.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
Then you can download a 187 page collected comic <a href="http://www.filestube.com/3XhN13C8D8aOOz7oxudsId/Trigan-Empire.html" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
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Enjoy.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-15852688643368114722011-11-14T02:05:00.001-08:002011-11-14T02:07:00.206-08:00What would BT say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been thinking about phones.<br />
Last week a truck hit the telephone pole at the back of our house, taking it out and all telephone and broadband for our house as well as all other houses in the spiderweb of wires it fed.<br />
A week later we still have no phone etc. I just rang BT. I know, I should get a medal just for that. Do you know how hard it is to get a phone number for them? I searched the website at work and found nothing except an online form to fill in. Usually you just ring 150, but that won't work.<br />
I eventually got the number from the IT dept:<br />
91211280 (I think the 9 here is the number I have to ring from work to get a dial tone), then 150 for sales or 152 for faults.<br />
After a 5 minute 'conversation' to a robot I finally got to speak to a human being. You get the feeling of finding water after struggling through a desert.<br />
Anyway, they wanted to make it clear if I report a fault and the trouble is with my equipment I'd have to pay £130.<br />
Well, I told the lady i knew what the problem was, the telegraph pole has gone. All the wires for about 10 houses are spread all over our garden and hedges neighbouring us.<br />
She seemed think i was the first person to report the fault, well what about the BT people who took the pole away?<br />
Anyway, she said there is a 3 day wait to have hinges fixed. Roll on Thursday.<br />
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When I was a kid phones were a great source of entertainment on a boring rainy school holiday day.<br />
Especially, if like us you had a party line. Kids today don't have a clue what this is. It's when 2 or more houses had the same phone line. If someone was on the phone, not only could the other house not make a call, but you could pick up the phone and listen to their conversation. Also, if you both picked up your phone, you could chat for free.<br />
As a bit of a scamp I would occasionally be naughty and have a listen in to conversations. But apart from once being told to stop listening from the lady down the road, it really was a bit boring.<br />
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Other things I used to do, was just pick up the phone and listen. If you listened carefully you could hear a white noise and faint voices, which I always imagined were the operators?<br />
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Also, in those days (70's) we all had 1 phone each. No houses with a phone in each room, no DECT. So one day I decided to dial my own number. In theory nothing should have happened, but a lady answered. So I asked to speak to Chris (myself) and the lady asked me to hold while she went and got him. I was so freaked out I put the phone down. Telling this story later, people don't always grasp this wasn't someone in my house answering, as I was on the ONLY phone.<br />
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There was also a number you could dial, it had a few 2's in it, that when you rang it and put the phone down it would make the phone ring. Always good for a little joke.<br />
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And phone boxes! The old style would let you speak for a few seconds while you put money in. So, a little game me and my friend played was seeing what the longest number was we could dial and get a ring tone. I seemed to remember dialling 13 numbers (at a time when most numbers only had 3 digits), so I guessed it was somewhere across the globe. It rang for ages (again, supporting my theory that whoever's house it was, was probably asleep), and then a tired voice said 'hello', I just said 'goodbye' , hung up and went off to play in the fields. I've often pictured though a tired Australian or American scratching his head wondering who it was, maybe thinking it was his practical joker friend not realising it was a little boy in a village in South Wales.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16697509791415811899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957543931612475766.post-972038056851840052011-09-29T06:38:00.000-07:002011-09-29T06:38:56.909-07:00What would Shakespeare say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ladies and gentlemen</div>
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Hobos and tramps</div>
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Cross-eyed mosquitoes</div>
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And bow-legged ants</div>
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Pull up a chair</div>
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And sit on the floor</div>
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And I'll tell you a story</div>
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I've never heard before</div>
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One bright day</div>
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In the dead of night</div>
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Two dead boys</div>
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Got up to fight</div>
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Back to back</div>
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They faced each other</div>
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Drew their swords</div>
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And shot each other</div>
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A deaf police man</div>
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Heard the noise</div>
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And came and killed</div>
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The two dead boys</div>
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If you don't believe</div>
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This lie is true</div>
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Ask the blind man...</div>
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He saw it too.</div>
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