O what a foul Circle of Hell awaits those wretched beings who inflict their loud *music* on others, especially at night, and with Small People not far away.
Is there some Parisian by-law or other which will send the miscreants to durance vile?
TICTH the latest international postal shipping regulations. Apparently, these days you cannot send foodstuff to the USA (my local post office says you actually can - although it says 'no' in an official US embassy document), nor can you send liqueur-filled pralines to a place like Canada.
What's the world coming to?! No more sending of, let's say, Auntie Audrey's admirable apricot jam, or Uncle Audrey's unctuous rum-encompassing chocolate bars? - Is outrage!
My work round used to be finding a company website based in the destination country and ordering and sending from their website - doesn’t work for hyperspecific local delicacies though
TICTH snowmobiles. Having moved to the countryside, in reasonable proximity to a large (by Alberta standards) lake, I find myself dreading winter weekends, when birdsong is drowned out by the incessant revving and droning of Infernal Machines racing ‘round the ice, followed by noxious clouds of blue smoke. Why come to the country if you’re going to make it sound (and smell) like the city?
Here, where there never a call for snowmobiles it used to be jet skis on the lake, but that was stopped by a speed restriction about twenty years ago. Before that it seemed that every summer weekend sounded as if half the trees round the lake were being felled.
Venting here instead of venting to old ladies on Facebook.
Someone has posted film clips of our local agricultural show in 1938 and 1939 on FB, including young men showing off their gymnastic skills. The sound track includes Chamberlain's announcement of the declaration of war on Germany.
I don't know if people are watching it with the sound off, but people are commenting about how much better life was then than now, if only we could go back to the happy days of 1939, when there were no computers.
Seriously? seriously?? The Second World War was breaking out, many of the young men in that film would be injured or die within the following six years, the children in the film would have their sweeties rationed, have to practice wearing gas masks, would have overcrowded classrooms as the education system buckled under the strain of accommodating hundreds of 'vacees from Glasgow but at least there were no computers?
Please tell me that when I'm in a nursing home I'm not going to waxing nostalgic about the happy days of the pandemic!
Not to mention the fact that sulphonamides were only just becoming available to treat infection, TB was still a major killer, and polio. Penicillin was still not generally available, so many infections now generally regarded as minor were a serious threat sometimes requiring ‘heroic’ treatment. There was no NHS so many people lived with untreated conditions, and doctors found themselves needing to ‘forget’ to bill some patients, or ‘forget’ to collect payment.
Venting here instead of venting to old ladies on Facebook.
Someone has posted film clips of our local agricultural show in 1938 and 1939 on FB, including young men showing off their gymnastic skills. The sound track includes Chamberlain's announcement of the declaration of war on Germany.
I don't know if people are watching it with the sound off, but people are commenting about how much better life was then than now, if only we could go back to the happy days of 1939, when there were no computers.
Seriously? seriously?? The Second World War was breaking out, many of the young men in that film would be injured or die within the following six years, the children in the film would have their sweeties rationed, have to practice wearing gas masks, would have overcrowded classrooms as the education system buckled under the strain of accommodating hundreds of 'vacees from Glasgow but at least there were no computers?
Please tell me that when I'm in a nursing home I'm not going to waxing nostalgic about the happy days of the pandemic!
TICT the deepest, darkest depths of H the scum who accessed my bank account for over $1300. It's not easy going through the fraud process, and it will take almost two weeks if the fraud is verified to replace the money in my account. Meanwhile, bills, food, etc.
You'd think the fraud division would automatically know that I was not in Istanbul or Abu Dhabi and in my home state all at the same time.
TICT the deepest, darkest depths of H the scum who accessed my bank account for over $1300. It's not easy going through the fraud process, and it will take almost two weeks if the fraud is verified to replace the money in my account. Meanwhile, bills, food, etc.
You'd think the fraud division would automatically know that I was not in Istanbul or Abu Dhabi and in my home state all at the same time.
Indeed, my small local bank shut my account down on a weekend when they figured I was not at my local grocery and London in the same afternoon. I am so sorry you have to deal with this.
My bank card was scammed a few years ago (possibly the ATM in my local shop had been tampered with), but I received a phone call from the Bank later in the same day.
They asked me to listen to a list of transactions that had been attempted that day, with the object of ascertaining which were done by me, and which were bogus IYSWIM. It was easy enough - after the ATM cash withdrawal at about 1030am, there quickly followed attempts to (a) book a taxi, (b) book two cinema tickets, and (c) a table for two at a posh restaurant.
All in Leicester, some considerable distance away from Kent...
The Bank's suspicions prevented my account being debited, apart from the genuine cash withdrawal (remember cash, anyone?), but I did have to wait a few days for a new card. I was impressed by the speed of the Bank's intervention, but also wondered if the malefactor ever got their night out to cinema and restaurant...the other party may not have been impressed...
Graven Image and Bishops Finger, I'm so glad there are ways to deal with these fraudsters. It's just so inconvenient. And I'm glad the bank(s) do pay attention.
I think the scammers should have their own special place in the nether regions.
By the way, it was almost midnight when my watched tapped me on my wrist with a message asking if I had used my account to spend $xxx money. I was sleeping at the time and told myself to deal with it in the morning, and went right back to sleep! So, finally, about 11:30 this morning, there was a little warning flag in my mind that I finally interpreted! Otherwise, I might not have noticed until the next time I did online banking!
My husband's bank card was frozen when he was in America. He had told the bank that he would be there on business. However he bought our children a toy each from FAO Schwartz, and the bank decided this was not the sort of transaction men usually make on a business trip and it was therefore likely that the card was being used fraudulently.
We notified our bank when we were travelling overseas, listing the countries we were visiting. Went shopping in Singapore during a two-day stopover, purchased a new zoom lens and ordered some lovely shirts from an Indian tailor. Got to our Beijing hotel the following day to find that our card was frozen. Luckily we had some currency to pay the security deposit, but then used all our mobile phone credit getting it unfrozen, as we still had a six-week holiday across Mongolia, the Trans-Siberian and Scandinavia in front of us.
Scotrail know we bought our train tickets, because we bought them online and they have the reference number.
Scotrail know the train for which we had bought tickets was cancelled , because they were the ones who cancelled it.
Surely refunding us should be simple and straightforward?
Ha! Why not just consign Scotrail to the nether regions? There are so many reasons to do this….. Mr Cats, who is a train nerd, has renounced any intention of travelling with them again since a conductor saw him and 11 other running up the platform in Aberdeen to get the Elgin connection, and blew her whistle. Nor did they arrange any other way of them getting to their destinations (yes, it was the last train).
They used to be so good, and there are some great people working for them (shout out to the people at both Kingussie and Keith stations). My theory is that Abellio has deliberately let the service deteriorate since they knew they had lost the contract. Letting them know it wouldn’t be renewed two years before it ended was a mistake.
Something similar happened to me pre-lockdown. The guard on the late running train from Dundee went along the train taking numbers of those travelling on, who now had a very tight connection at Aberdeen, and then announced that the Inverness train would be at Platform 6N, and we should make all haste to get there.
So about twenty of us belted off, and up the stairs, over the bridge, only for the Inverness train to pull out as we were coming down the stairs.
We had assumed that as the Dundee to Aberdeen guard was aware of the tight connection, and had taken the numbers that the Inverness train knew we were coming and would wait for 2 mins. We were wrong.
History records that that sort of arrant nonsense at Aberdeen is no new thing.
In the days before the present station was built, passengers arriving from the south and wishing to continue to Inverness etc. had to make their own way to the Great North of Scotland Railway's station. That railway was a very disreputable concern in those days, and would shut the gates of the station in the faces of the arriving passengers, if the train from the south was late, so that their train could leave on time.
My only grumble at the moment about Scotrail is the fact that having reached bus-pass/concession age, such things don't appear to apply if you're travelling at peak times (i.e. to get to work). Considering that if the present UK *government* has its way, I'll probably have to work until I'm about 80, they really ought to do something about that.
I went this morning to renew my monthly ticket (the price of which appears to have increased again), and when I informed the (admittedly very nice) young gentleman at the ticket-desk that I'd recently become Old, all he could do was give me a form to fill in which, for £30 a year, gives you some kind of deduction, but I didn't have time to find out what.
It is definitely worth getting if you are using the train regularly. I think it’s about 30% off your fares. Check the small print in case it mentions peak times!
I like my Club 50 card and think it well worth the money, but there are restrictions on peak times. In particular if I want to go to Glasgow, Edinburgh, or beyond I can't pass through either Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh or Glasgow at peak times. I can't set off early enough to get there without encountering peak time somewhere, but if I set off after peak time I meet myself returning.
Last Nov I bought a complicated combination of full fare from home to Montrose, then Club 50 from Montrose to Ayr.
My only grumble at the moment about Scotrail is the fact that having reached bus-pass/concession age, such things don't appear to apply if you're travelling at peak times (i.e. to get to work). Considering that if the present UK *government* has its way, I'll probably have to work until I'm about 80, they really ought to do something about that.
I went this morning to renew my monthly ticket (the price of which appears to have increased again), and when I informed the (admittedly very nice) young gentleman at the ticket-desk that I'd recently become Old, all he could do was give me a form to fill in which, for £30 a year, gives you some kind of deduction, but I didn't have time to find out what.
If that's the senior rail pass, it is a Good Thing. Even though I only spend a small amount of time in Scotland each year, it pays for itself handsomely, even with the restrictions. It also works on the Freedom of Scotland tickets (or whatever they are called now) if you happen to be doing a lot of travelling in a short time.
Edit... Maybe we can have a Senior Shipmeet on the Aberdeen train!
Yes, the senior railcard is different from club 50 which I have, but not being as old as Mr Cats, I can’t have the railcard yet. Just another 51 weeks to go….
The £30/year (or £70/3 year) Railcard is well worth the money. It's not available for morning peak journeys in London and the South East, but (I'm pretty sure) is in Scotland.
Today I consign to Hell medication that causes side effects that are worse than the condition that the medication is purported to treat. My pharmacist said this med is the "new wonder drug" - it made me wonder how many people this actually for works for or am I a special little flower?🌼
Also my timing doesn't help. I rang the medical practice and discovered that my usual doc is about to have a (well deserved) week off. I will wait out the week - the side effects aren't going to kill me, but amongst other things make me feel more grumpy than usual.
Today I consign to Hell medication that causes side effects that are worse than the condition that the medication is purported to treat. My pharmacist said this med is the "new wonder drug" - it made me wonder how many people this actually for works for or am I a special little flower?🌼
Also my timing doesn't help. I rang the medical practice and discovered that my usual doc is about to have a (well deserved) week off. I will wait out the week - the side effects aren't going to kill me, but amongst other things make me feel more grumpy than usual.
I do so agree! After my short spell in hospital at the beginning of December (which they later decided was an 'unstable angina'), I was prescribed a doubling, from 40mg to 80g, of the Atorvastatin. At the same time I was prescribed a new medication, Ranolazine. There was an immediate slight nausea, aches and pains and muscle weakening. I thought it was the Ranolazine, but found out in January that those side effects were from the statins. Grrrr!
Since I had been on 40mg for years before this, I decided to revert to the 40mg - and checked with GP that that was okay. Side effects went away quite quickly. As a result, I realised that some minor aches had probably been caused by the 40s but they were no problem.
If staying on 40mg means I live a day or two less, so be it!!
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Is there some Parisian by-law or other which will send the miscreants to durance vile?
What's the world coming to?! No more sending of, let's say, Auntie Audrey's admirable apricot jam, or Uncle Audrey's unctuous rum-encompassing chocolate bars? - Is outrage!
You never know these days.
Someone has posted film clips of our local agricultural show in 1938 and 1939 on FB, including young men showing off their gymnastic skills. The sound track includes Chamberlain's announcement of the declaration of war on Germany.
I don't know if people are watching it with the sound off, but people are commenting about how much better life was then than now, if only we could go back to the happy days of 1939, when there were no computers.
Seriously? seriously?? The Second World War was breaking out, many of the young men in that film would be injured or die within the following six years, the children in the film would have their sweeties rationed, have to practice wearing gas masks, would have overcrowded classrooms as the education system buckled under the strain of accommodating hundreds of 'vacees from Glasgow but at least there were no computers?
Please tell me that when I'm in a nursing home I'm not going to waxing nostalgic about the happy days of the pandemic!
In short I’m with you NEQ
Also, if you think life would be better without computers, why are you on Facebook?
You might like this as a counterbalance: https://youtu.be/_eD6YU98tLY
You'd think the fraud division would automatically know that I was not in Istanbul or Abu Dhabi and in my home state all at the same time.
Just to add that the bank card has been closed, and I'll pick up a new one on Monday. This is not the end of the world, but I feel terribly violated!!
Indeed, my small local bank shut my account down on a weekend when they figured I was not at my local grocery and London in the same afternoon. I am so sorry you have to deal with this.
My bank card was scammed a few years ago (possibly the ATM in my local shop had been tampered with), but I received a phone call from the Bank later in the same day.
They asked me to listen to a list of transactions that had been attempted that day, with the object of ascertaining which were done by me, and which were bogus IYSWIM. It was easy enough - after the ATM cash withdrawal at about 1030am, there quickly followed attempts to (a) book a taxi, (b) book two cinema tickets, and (c) a table for two at a posh restaurant.
All in Leicester, some considerable distance away from Kent...
The Bank's suspicions prevented my account being debited, apart from the genuine cash withdrawal (remember cash, anyone?), but I did have to wait a few days for a new card. I was impressed by the speed of the Bank's intervention, but also wondered if the malefactor ever got their night out to cinema and restaurant...the other party may not have been impressed...
I think the scammers should have their own special place in the nether regions.
By the way, it was almost midnight when my watched tapped me on my wrist with a message asking if I had used my account to spend $xxx money. I was sleeping at the time and told myself to deal with it in the morning, and went right back to sleep! So, finally, about 11:30 this morning, there was a little warning flag in my mind that I finally interpreted! Otherwise, I might not have noticed until the next time I did online banking!
I hope you get it resolved quickly, jedijudy.
Scotrail know we bought our train tickets, because we bought them online and they have the reference number.
Scotrail know the train for which we had bought tickets was cancelled , because they were the ones who cancelled it.
Surely refunding us should be simple and straightforward?
They used to be so good, and there are some great people working for them (shout out to the people at both Kingussie and Keith stations). My theory is that Abellio has deliberately let the service deteriorate since they knew they had lost the contract. Letting them know it wouldn’t be renewed two years before it ended was a mistake.
So about twenty of us belted off, and up the stairs, over the bridge, only for the Inverness train to pull out as we were coming down the stairs.
We had assumed that as the Dundee to Aberdeen guard was aware of the tight connection, and had taken the numbers that the Inverness train knew we were coming and would wait for 2 mins. We were wrong.
Fortunately it wasn't the last train.
In the days before the present station was built, passengers arriving from the south and wishing to continue to Inverness etc. had to make their own way to the Great North of Scotland Railway's station. That railway was a very disreputable concern in those days, and would shut the gates of the station in the faces of the arriving passengers, if the train from the south was late, so that their train could leave on time.
I went this morning to renew my monthly ticket (the price of which appears to have increased again), and when I informed the (admittedly very nice) young gentleman at the ticket-desk that I'd recently become Old, all he could do was give me a form to fill in which, for £30 a year, gives you some kind of deduction, but I didn't have time to find out what.
Last Nov I bought a complicated combination of full fare from home to Montrose, then Club 50 from Montrose to Ayr.
If that's the senior rail pass, it is a Good Thing. Even though I only spend a small amount of time in Scotland each year, it pays for itself handsomely, even with the restrictions. It also works on the Freedom of Scotland tickets (or whatever they are called now) if you happen to be doing a lot of travelling in a short time.
Edit... Maybe we can have a Senior Shipmeet on the Aberdeen train!
I'll have a proper look at the application form when I get home.
Also my timing doesn't help. I rang the medical practice and discovered that my usual doc is about to have a (well deserved) week off. I will wait out the week - the side effects aren't going to kill me, but amongst other things make me feel more grumpy than usual.
Since I had been on 40mg for years before this, I decided to revert to the 40mg - and checked with GP that that was okay. Side effects went away quite quickly. As a result, I realised that some minor aches had probably been caused by the 40s but they were no problem.
If staying on 40mg means I live a day or two less, so be it!!