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Post by crissdee on Sept 4, 2024 19:10:22 GMT
Reminds me of the 45 minutes I spent filling in details on a dating site, only to be told at the end that I was one of the 20% of people they couldn't find a match for. Like never? I was such a bizarre specimen of humanity that they utterly refuted the possibility that they would ever find someone equally bizarre to share in my insanity? Or was it in fact a giant data-mining exercise?
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Post by celebaelin on Sept 4, 2024 22:17:20 GMT
Upset stomach (to put it mildly), sweats, aching muscles - the side effects of a cold without the actual cold part. Add in technology failures and things are not good.
Fingers crossed the illness is on its way out so then I'll be able to get on with addressing the tech issues in more than a 'give it a try and hope for the best' manner.
Indications in recent minutes for a speedy return to normality as we approach close of play do not seem good.
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 5, 2024 8:51:16 GMT
Reminds me of the 45 minutes I spent filling in details on a dating site, only to be told at the end that I was one of the 20% of people they couldn't find a match for. Like never? I was such a bizarre specimen of humanity that they utterly refuted the possibility that they would ever find someone equally bizarre to share in my insanity? Or was it in fact a giant data-mining exercise? The Venn diagram of women who enjoy JD, love knives, motorcycles and Sherlock must be able to produce a few, I would think.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 5, 2024 10:51:15 GMT
I live in hope.....
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Post by RLDavies on Sept 5, 2024 11:33:36 GMT
Have been to the dentist and been patched up enough to get back on the road, as it were.
It was one of the premolars, which was already more filling than tooth. Premolars are fairly flat, and the composition of this one was kind of a sandwich -- outside shell, inside shell, and then just stuffed with amalgam in between. What happened was the entire inside shell broke away.
Since the entire inside surface of the tooth was now the bare filling, there's not a huge amount that could be done. The dentist basically plastered over the inner surface with a temporary cement filling material -- it's "temporary" but should last anything up to two years with a bit of care. So that's good enough to be going on with. But sooner or later it's going to need a partial crown, hooray.
And now I'm going to have a small (soft) breakfast and then go back to bed. I only had about two hours of sleep last night.
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Post by amanda on Sept 6, 2024 6:02:50 GMT
After firstly changing the cleaner's time, the council rang this morning to say that the other staff member wasn't available either, they had no one else for today and as I'm working for the next two weeks, I have to go without.
I'll have to try vacuuming the floor one room a day over the weekend, and am getting fed up with the constant changes. As I'm not elderly or disabled, I get shafted around a bit.
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Post by jenny on Sept 6, 2024 18:12:20 GMT
Woodsman had to go for an eye test today, which involved dilating his eyes with eyedrops. We then went to Costco, planning to get petrol, eat one of their $1.50 hotdogs each (nice in a disgusting kind of way) and do some shopping. However, having got the petrol and eaten the hotdog, we then discovered that the checkout lines were so long that it put us off doing the shopping, none of which was strictly speaking essential. So we went home.
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Post by RLDavies on Sept 6, 2024 23:35:52 GMT
Well... phooey. I was overcome by sleepiness, I put my head down here on the sofa for about an hour, I've woken up.
And my brand-new filling is gone. I can't find it. I guess I must have swallowed it.
The dental surgery seems to be open on the weekend for emergency cases, so I'll see if I can phone first thing in the morning. (By which I mean if I can be awake at 8:30 am to phone them.) When it was put in, the dentist said that if it fell out, to make sure to ask for him to do it again. As long as he re-does it, it will be counted as the same job, and therefore free.
EDIT: I couldn't stay awake till 8:30. But I've just tried ringing them now, on the off chance, and it turns out they're not open on the weekend at all. The online directory I found must be out of date. I'm glad, at least, that I didn't torture myself to stay awake that long! But it does mean I'll have to wait till Monday to phone them, and probably won't be seen for another day or two after that. There is an emergency dental line I could call, but it's not an emergency.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 7, 2024 15:27:42 GMT
Way back in May of 2021, my SMART meter packed up, .....I am finally booked in for the middle of September to have it repaired.... assuming they actually turn up and fix it this time, regarding which I am far from sanguine. Since they made that booking, they have sent no less than FIVE confirmatory emails. At the risk of enumerating unborn fowl, I think it might actually happen! 9/9/24 I have received a SIXTH email. They don't want me to forget it, i just hope they don't.... And now a seventh.....
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Post by Bondee on Sept 7, 2024 15:41:48 GMT
I am currently tech support for my mother while she tries to set up an NHS log-in.
Murder may be imminent.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 7, 2024 16:37:59 GMT
Nothing died except my will to live.
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Post by Dix on Sept 7, 2024 19:18:07 GMT
The NHS app thingy? I did that about a year ago. The setup itself was ok-ish, but the connection to the GP practice didn't work -- until recently where it finally dawned on me that the thing to do was ignoring the GP personnel's insistence that their online setup was a completely separate thing and they didn't support the NHS app. I asked them to enable "their" online access, and hey presto!
They do have a completely separate online access that I can now also use. But no-one seemed to know that it was necessary to enable that access to be able to use the general NHS app.
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Post by Bondee on Sept 9, 2024 10:33:02 GMT
No, it wasn't the app. As I understand it, she'd received a letter from the NHS about an ongoing procedure that told her she might find it easier to log in to the NHS website to keep up to date with goings on. We eventually got there without any tears (mine) being shed.
We did look into the app, but when I tried to install it, her phone told her she needed to log in to the Google Play Store. She couldn't because "I haven't got a Google password!"
I nearly lost my rag trying to explain that she has got a Google password because she wouldn't be able to use her Gmail account if she didn't. But she was insistent so I gave up.
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Post by celebaelin on Sept 10, 2024 1:44:10 GMT
I sneezed for the fourth and fifth times of my recent unpleasantness and now I've got the sore throat and minor sniffles.
Sly bugger of a virus this one - and rather too sustained for my liking (over a week of building to this point).
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Post by amanda on Sept 10, 2024 9:31:29 GMT
I've found that the quicker the 'building up' time, the shorter the stuffy nose/whole viral experience.
The longer it is, the longer the bug is likely to be.....
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Post by celebaelin on Sept 10, 2024 21:12:30 GMT
That's my fear, yes.
Sniffles are worse and accompanied by a cough now. Can't really wear any clothes without overheating - bare minimum of activity and lots of sleep.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 14, 2024 16:42:26 GMT
A month or so ago, I was looking for something in my shed, and came across a large amount of speaker wire that I had forgotten I had and thought; "Ooh, I'll bear that in mind"
A week or two later, my friend said she needed a bit of speaker wire:
"That's ok, I've got some in my shed" says I.
Could I find the bl**dy stuff? Could I buggery!
She has now sorted out her problem. Today, I was tidying up the shed. Three bloody guesses what I found?
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Post by jenny on Sept 14, 2024 18:27:40 GMT
Sounds like the time Woodsman failed to find his Stanley knife so bought another. And then failed to find that one and bought another. And then found all three of them. I hope he remembers where they are now.
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Post by amanda on Sept 18, 2024 3:51:37 GMT
The welfare system here encourages people to work whenever possible, but while also receiving a payment, one has a 'reporting income' day once a fortnight. Tomorrow is mine and I'll be back at the school job.
Our system isn't flexible enough for me to have just been into the welfare office and say I won't have the time to do it tomorrow, they record my hours/pay and submit it tomorrow for me.
I can't ring the self serve phone line from 6am because I'll be getting ready, leave at 6.45. I can't ring on the hour and 20 minute bus commute - no privacy.
I run out of time to do it at school due to having to mark a roll every hour and record the late students who come up until after recess. The system then times out and locks me out.
There is also an issue of this pay being 'pre/auto filled' which is a new thing from single touch payroll services but it means that once a month when I have to also add the music library payment, I can't get out of the auto fill screen to add this other one manually. If I leave it, and go to the office later for it, it's an automatic debt.
I will either have to get off the morning bus and go to the shopping centre nearest the school by 8.30 am, then get whatever bus I can to get back and will arrive some time after 9am. Or I can leave at 2.50 pm to get the 3.10 bus in the afternoon - government services here close at 4pm.
The friend/nominee who would normally do this for me is overseas at the moment so that's not an option. Or I just wait till Friday and do it from home when I don't have to worry so much.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 18, 2024 15:06:37 GMT
The first part of this could have gone in "Strange Things", but the lack of simple reasoning from what appears to be a functioning adult irks me intensely.
So I was surfing Youtube, and watched a short video about the stupid things some Americans say or do. In the comments, someone was complaining that they went to an American website, and before they could get on, they had to click all the images that did (or didn't I forget which) include a crosswalk. They were complaining that they had to go to Wiki to find out what a crosswalk was... Now, I don't claim to be some kind of Sherlockian inductive reasoning genius or anything, but given several pictures, some of which presumably contained images of pedestrian crossings, I am pretty sure I could have made the necessary logical leap from "place where you WALK aCROSS the road" to "crosswalk." In fact, I am pretty sure that when I first encountered the word "crosswalk" I worked out what it meant immediately, without further clues.
Secondly, I just went into the local Co-op in search of comestibles, and saw a display of some limited edition flavour of Coca Cola. Personally, I am not a fan of anything other than Coca Cola flavoured Coca Cola, but each to their own. This stuff however was.......Oreo flavour. WTAF?
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Post by suze on Sept 18, 2024 17:15:38 GMT
They were complaining that they had to go to Wiki to find out what a crosswalk was.
A moment with Google reveals a lot of non-American people complaining that they don't know what a crosswalk is, or what an American fire hydrant is supposed to look like. Since British fire hydrants are nearly all underground - and have been for two hundred years - many people have simply never seen one.
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Post by efros on Sept 18, 2024 17:39:17 GMT
Not sure there would be enough water in a drop to keep you hydrated, every little helps I suppose.
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Post by amanda on Sept 18, 2024 20:30:54 GMT
Do these people never watch American style shows at all? It's partly that and only that now that means I understand more things, while seeing on FB that some Americans who have Google at their fingertips now, ask 'what's that mean?' regarding British/Australian terms.
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Post by jenny on Sept 18, 2024 20:56:20 GMT
I'm fairly bilingual these days in English English and American English, and have frequently acted as a translator. I suspect this isn't a career option though.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 18, 2024 22:19:31 GMT
But....can't they work it out from the word itself? I mean...it's CROSS then WALK. If they called them "finnbooglers" or "tambarsters" then I could understand the confusion, but "crosswalk" is surely pretty self-explanatory....
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Post by suze on Sept 18, 2024 22:35:06 GMT
I grew up speaking a language which is an unholy mixture of American English and English English. Some American usages are universal in Canada (Canadian cars drink gasoline), some English usages are universal (Canadian water comes out of the tap), and Canada has some forms all of its own (neither American nor Englishperson calls a beanie a toque). Canadians don't really know what Canadian bacon is, but tend to think that it's probably American ham and is neither Canadian nor bacon. Canadian fire hydrants are red except when they're yellow. In this they differ from American fire hydrants, which are yellow except when they're red.
So all in all, I'm fairly bilingual too. But Canadians have even less tolerance than British people for the American assumption that the American way is the only way. and everyone else is wrong.
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 19, 2024 9:16:04 GMT
But....can't they work it out from the word itself? I mean...it's CROSS then WALK. If they called them "finnbooglers" or "tambarsters" then I could understand the confusion, but "crosswalk" is surely pretty self-explanatory.... European or African finnbooglers? 😉
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