The grumpy thread

[Supernaut]

I'm doing no better with Facebook. Sifted through yesterday's pics, deleted about 200 shit ones, picked 46 that I liked for Facebook, get told you can't select more than 42 at which point it entirely loses my selection. Piss off Facebook. Perhaps I'll upload them to HubNut instead then (though that takes a lot longer). 

 

Probably not going to happen this evening now. UGH!

 

Make a photo album rather than just attaching photos to the post. Much higher (if not unlimited) number of photos allowed that way.

[Timewaster]

The more technology we have, the less it fuckin works!

 

Don't start me on passwords and sign ins and usernames and encryption bollocks.

 

I waste days and days on this crap because I can never remember a password.

 

My company mobile even makes me change my 4 digit unlock code every 3 months with no repeat allowed.

How many birthdays do they think my family have?!

Apparently the bank is quite happy to secure all my accounts with one 4 digit code for years on end but no one better try and send a text.

[mercrocker]

Just found about Gene Wilder.   I know he was old and all that but they ran some old scenes on the telly.   Why is NOBODY fucking funny these days?

[xtriple]

Hope your pup makes a full and swift recovery mate.

[dollywobbler]

Make a photo album rather than just attaching photos to the post. Much higher (if not unlimited) number of photos allowed that way.

 

That's exactly what I was doing. It still said no. Sod it. I need a better place to store my piccies anyway. Facebook is a pain in the arse to search through.

[beko1987]

I use ultraimg for my photo storage, although not much as here is fine with the originals, and I use irfanview to resize stuff to the 750kb limit for manchestervacs and upload them there too

 

Picasa can go fuck themselves with their changes, just a shame I have hundreds of posts hotlinkednto to it so need to keep paying £1.60 a month to keep the storage or rewrite everything

[inconsistant]

Just this really, and all that it represents:

 

[Tamworthbay]

I understand funeral processions need to be respectful and while the family are following its really hard for them (sadly I saw this in action last week) BUT why does the hearse have to go dangerously slowly at times? I have just been down the A5 and saw several cars nearly rear end a lone hearse doing 20mph on a 70mph limit road. Whilst I know there isn't a minimum limit, doing that speed when everything else is 60+ is an accident waiting to happen. There were no family following so why couldn't they do at least 30-40? or even better, use the old A5 which is 30mph limit so it wouldn't be an issue. And the idiot in the merc doing at least 90mph as people were attempting to avoid the rolling road block didn't help either.

[Sheefag]

Fuck it, I've got an idea......

 

 

[dugong]

the A5

yes

[Tamworthbay]

Lost me there mate.

[fordperv]

I think he was saying the A5 is a grump

[dugong]

I think he was saying the A5 is a grump

Indeed.

[vulgalour]

We have a tellybox.  This is useful for watching things on the internet at a comfortable size (amazingly, not porn) but every now and then I want to watch something on the actual telly listing.  In the good old analogue days, poor reception would be a fuzzy but watchable programme and sometimes a good thump on the box would sort the issue out and save you going into the drawer of a million cogs.  Now, if the reception is anything less than perfect it's the most annoying, unwatchable, glitch-fest of random pixels and noise.  So I'm in the marvellous position of having a tellybox and a tellybox license and mostly using my PC to stream things from iPlayer and the internet at large because the improved digital service is absolute bollocks.

 

TL:DR - Analogue trumps digital.

[dave21478]

^^^Yes, see also DAB radio in cars. FM goes a bit fuzzy in poor reception areas but still works, DAB cuts out totally.

[M'coli]

^^^ My views on this, at the time of the switchover:

http://itcouldbeloopus.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/a-laggard-bemoans-passing-of-analogue.html

[DVee8]

I'm on nightshift, I got up this afternoon to a note next to the kettle. No1 son has fallen off his bike. He has put his lower front teeth through his lower lip it hasn't come fully through but there is a upside down triangle gash and a very swollen lip.
He also has two broken fingers and 3 broken ribs.

Then I get a call from the care home my mother is in to say she had had a fall.
Anything else.

[Tamworthbay]

I think he was saying the A5 is a grump

ah, I see, our bit of the A5 is a wonderful two lane each way extravaganza that rarely sees any issues (as long as you don't want to get on the m42 at 8am), unless of course someone drives along it at 20mph in a dark vehicle.

[Cavcraft]

Just this really, and all that it represents:

 

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In an ideal world there will be armed lunatic pirates off the island of Capri.

[castros_bro]

We have a tellybox.  This is useful for watching things on the internet at a comfortable size (amazingly, not porn) but every now and then I want to watch something on the actual telly listing.  In the good old analogue days, poor reception would be a fuzzy but watchable programme and sometimes a good thump on the box would sort the issue out and save you going into the drawer of a million cogs.  Now, if the reception is anything less than perfect it's the most annoying, unwatchable, glitch-fest of random pixels and noise.  So I'm in the marvellous position of having a tellybox and a tellybox license and mostly using my PC to stream things from iPlayer and the internet at large because the improved digital service is absolute bollocks.

 

TL:DR - Analogue trumps digital.

Dear Sir

 

You, and everyone else, would find it impossible to fit all the available digital channels into the available analogue bandwidth. With a proper (£15 + fitting)  wide band digital antenna pointing in the right direction the majority of the TV consumers would get loads of digital channels including porn and radio. Where Analogue trumps digital is for radios in cars in marginal areas or for listening to Test Match Special on the Light Programme's  Long Wave whilst sitting on a Bavarian hill top. For giving the illusion you are watching TV (as we pretend to be UK consumers in Portugal)  then plug laptop into TV and there's  http://live.camposat.tv/  (other websites are available).

 

Yours Erratically

A Engineer

[vulgalour]

Bloody engineers and their knowledge and logic and experience.

 

grumblemumble crt screens were better mumblemumble electronics SHOULD be wood panelled muttergrumble who needs remote controls when buttons do just fine? grumblemutterchunter

[M'coli]

To paraphrase your last post, Vulg:

...who needs remote controls when the boy does it fine? grumblemutterchunter

[castros_bro]

Bloody engineers and their knowledge and logic and experience.

 

grumblemumble crt screens were better mumblemumble electronics SHOULD be wood panelled muttergrumble who needs remote controls when buttons do just fine? grumblemutterchunter

 

For true colour work CRT screens are far superior to any form of flat screen hence if you search there are many colour CRTs hidden in cupboards of University labs, how do I know?  Here be analogues by a friend of mine who last week used his biscuit tins to broadcast (have a conversation) from Buckinghamshire to peeps in the Newark not on Trent in the US of A added points for his innovative use of a fishing rod based antenna. All is not lost for the modern world it is just the shed based engineer avoids social media and Eastenders.

 

 

[vulgalour]

I barely understand any of the picture but I approve of it mightily.

[Tamworthbay]

I wouldn't want to walk through the underground or Heathrow with it though.

[taxi paul]

So if ET was to land in your mates garden he could phone home for him? I struggle with the telly remote so we need people who understand stuff to help out me and fellow plebs.

[castros_bro]

So if ET was to land in your mates garden he could phone home for him? I struggle with the telly remote so we need people who understand stuff to help out me and fellow plebs.

 

Pedantic note:-  not using his present biscuit tins as he is selecting frequencies which bounce off the ionosphere and don't do through as the US of A is not line of sight due the earth curvature a la..

 

[Sheefag]

We used to call it 'Skip' when I were a lad.

[RoadworkUK]

Flashback to sitting with my radio HAM dad in front of a warm Yaesu speaking to improbable places using Sporadic E propagation and 100w of amplification.

[DVee8]

I'm on nightshift, I got up this afternoon to a note next to the kettle. No1 son has fallen off his bike. He has put his lower front teeth through his lower lip it hasn't come fully through but there is a upside down triangle gash and a very swollen lip.

He also has two broken fingers and 3 broken ribs.

 

Then I get a call from the care home my mother is in to say she had had a fall.

Anything else.

Mrs V8 has just told me it is 10 years today since her gran died,she was very very close to her.

 

Anything else for today.