Author Topic: The moaning old git thread (Read 534525 times)

Barbel Mick · « **Reply #2460 on:** January 15, 2020, 16:12:38 »

Quote from: Rusty Nuts on January 15, 2020, 11:15:03

TPS only works if the company is UK based and have themselves agreed to its Ts&cs, as far as I know. Same with Mailing Preference. So all the foreign scamsters will still call you.

This is from the TPS website ........
The remit of TPS lies strictly within the boundaries of live unsolicited calls of a sales/marketing nature. It does not stop other call types such as recorded/automated messages, silent calls, market research, overseas companies, debt collection, scam calls, nuisance and abusive calls etc.

Brockett · « **Reply #2461 on:** January 15, 2020, 17:31:26 »

maybe if every phone call carried a tax of say 50pence they'd stop oh! hang on a minute ..... but if they were in financial difficulties the government would allow them to keep all the 50p's Just like they have given Flybe all the flight taxes their passengers have been paying.

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2462 on:** January 15, 2020, 17:35:13 »

A welcome precedent. If I'm a bit skint I shall simply not pay tax until I'm back on my feet.

Brockett · « **Reply #2463 on:** January 15, 2020, 17:39:16 »

@SimonW - that was classic. well done...

Dark-Strom · « **Reply #2464 on:** January 15, 2020, 18:59:56 »

Mick,
appreciate you don't get much time to answer the phone anyway being retired

, but we had similar issues and joined the TPS list and it didn't make a lot of difference.
So we bought phones with caller display - a lot of the prank calls come up as international or landline numbers with too many / not enough numbers, so we know not to answer...

mr_diver · « **Reply #2465 on:** January 15, 2020, 19:24:41 »

I've flicked the switch on the underneath of the phone. Turns the ringer off.
I can still call out if I need to, but I don't get disturbed.
Anyone who actually needs to get hold of me calls my mobile anyway.

It's usually only when I have to call insurance companies when I reach for the landline.
Back in September I tried to call to sort out the Vara's renewal.
No dial tone. Discovered that sometime between sorting SWMBO's bike insurance in Feb and September the cable on the outside of the house had snapped.

Jen said we need to sort it for emergencies. Emergency services will know where you are with landlines but require you to say where you are on a mobile.
Virgin sorted it for free and 'upgraded' us to the fibre optic landline they are rolling out.

If the phone rings and I notice the little light on the phone I leave it ring and see if they call my mobile.
If they don't it means cold call and not someone I wish to speak to.

robertallinson · « **Reply #2466 on:** January 23, 2020, 07:57:48 »

Pin the wheels, smash the side mirrors. That's what I would do.

Rusty Nuts · « **Reply #2467 on:** January 23, 2020, 08:10:23 »

As a response to what, Robert? Scam / spam phone calls???

Joe Rocket · « **Reply #2468 on:** February 15, 2020, 17:35:59 »

Everytime it rains, probably more than usual (or just again) the weather reporters claim "a month's rain coming, or fell, in 24 hours (or less)".

Which month and how much is that? Certainly more than a dry month no doubt...........

Also 'a month's rain' is when it rains.....wait for it......for a month, no?

Don't get me started on so called 'wind chill factor'.

What has been admitted is that these unquantified expressions are used more and more to dramatise the weather forecast.

Rookie · « **Reply #2469 on:** February 15, 2020, 21:05:04 »

That post should have carried an amber warning

UK_Vstrom650 · « **Reply #2470 on:** February 15, 2020, 22:22:37 »

Just for you Joe, a motorcycle focused windchill calculator...

TLPower · « **Reply #2471 on:** February 16, 2020, 06:35:55 »

mmm Interesting.

So how fast do I need to go before the friction of the air warms me up?

Joe Rocket · « **Reply #2472 on:** February 16, 2020, 08:21:46 »

Amusingly, UK_Vstrom650, wind chill was explained to me on the basis that "if you were standing naked in 0°C and no wind it would feel like 0°C but if you had a fair breeze it would feel like -5°C". Now come on, who's going stark b*llock naked just to prove a point, huh?

Put some clothes on, you fool..........!

UK_Vstrom650 · « **Reply #2473 on:** February 16, 2020, 21:01:10 »

Something like that

I was going to say to TLP that it depends if you're naked or not...

I had thought I'd been living down saaawf in W. Yorkshire for too long as I now need my heated bike jacket from September to June, but I can see it's all down to wind chill.

I heard on the radio Wales has a month's worth of rain today...

Joe Rocket · « **Reply #2474 on:** February 16, 2020, 21:41:51 »

Everywhere has had a month's worth of rain today. First time since last week apparently!

Also 'since records began' of that hasn't happened on 16th February for fifteen years!

FFS, really?

Call me a lemming and I must find a cliff!

(Hang on, they don't do that either...........)

snagzie · « **Reply #2475 on:** February 19, 2020, 11:07:04 »

How old do I have to be to moan in this thread?

tallpaul · « **Reply #2476 on:** February 19, 2020, 12:22:08 »

We are an equal opportunities moaning forum. You're old enough!

snagzie · « **Reply #2477 on:** February 19, 2020, 12:33:57 »

Cheers!

Moaning because when I got my first ever Vstrom delivered last week, they replaced the rear with a brand new A41 but left the front original battle wing on with 2mm of tread and didn't think to ask me if I wanted that done too.

Saying that, it still had until June before its first MOT is due so, from another perspective, I got a free MOT and a new rear tyre.

But a moans a moan

kwackboy · « **Reply #2478 on:** February 19, 2020, 14:50:23 »

When you want to check your tyre pressures and the fkin valve is always in a position you can't get at ...

Rookie · « **Reply #2479 on:** February 19, 2020, 22:09:46 »

go for a ride they'll be in a different position when you get back, simples