The grumpy thread

[artdjones]

Nothing probably seeing as 71% of the world is covered in salty water.

 

In fact there's approximately 322,280,001 cubic miles of it so a few tonnes of salt will make no difference whatsoever

Maybe it's escaped your attention,but we live on land, not under the sea.

[mercrocker]

Worth a read....https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/road-salt-can-disrupt-ecosystems-and-endanger-humans-180963393/

[barefoot]

Parcel Force attempted delivery of parcel Wednesday

Note left - will redeliver tomorrow

I wasn't in, phoned to ask why not left with neighbour etc

'Neighbours must have refused/not in'

No, they're all retired & we all take parcels for each other

'Parcel will be redelivered Thursday'

I won't be in - leave it with neighbours or deliver Friday

'OK - I've made a note'

Delivery attempted Thursday - I wasn't in & it wasn't left

Note left - returned to depot

I phoned, asked the same questions, it'll be delivered Friday

Waited in all morning - checked tracking - returned to sender

Phoned, Why did you do that - see previous conversations

'It's because you refused delivery'

When did I do that? See previous conversations

'Ah'

'I can arrange delivery for tomorrow Saturday'

I won't be in, how about Monday

'No problem'

Great, give me your managers name & direct telephone number

Ian Healey probably won't be thrilled if he finds out that his number 01159807808

has been posted on the internet for every fucking bot out there to pick up and spam.

 

Perhaps he'll deliver my fucking parcel & I'll edit this post.

 

What a total shower of shit, every other parcel company can manage to deliver to me.

Even Hermes & Yodel.

[Parky]

Spoke to the NHS and now have dates and details of the prescription we didn’t pay for. Checked account and there is a payment for the disputed amount to that pharmacy on that day.

 

No problem says the NHS. All you have to do is get the pharmacy to write us a letter confirming you did pay and we will drop it. Like my pharmacist has time to do that.

 

Quick call to the pharmacist and all they would say was “If the NHS say you didn’t pay, we can’t do anything about that”

 

So am sending the evidence to the NHS confirming we paid and if they would like to spend time and money taking us to court, we are quite happy to present the evidence confirming payment. Let’s see where this goes....

[Mally]

Hermes brought me a live plant yesterday.

I instantly knew it wasn't mine and handed it back.

I grow concrete flags.

[BorniteIdentity]

Spoke to the NHS and now have dates and details of the prescription we didn’t pay for. Checked account and there is a payment for the disputed amount to that pharmacy on that day.

 

No problem says the NHS. All you have to do is get the pharmacy to write us a letter confirming you did pay and we will drop it. Like my pharmacist has time to do that.

 

Quick call to the pharmacist and all they would say was “If the NHS say you didn’t pay, we can’t do anything about that”

 

So am sending the evidence to the NHS confirming we paid and if they would like to spend time and money taking us to court, we are quite happy to present the evidence confirming payment. Let’s see where this goes....

Hope it goes to court so you can show what a farce this is, then countersue for lost earnings etc.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Mother's house. Wasp nest near bedroom gutter. Ladder. Stung. Bad temper. Douchebag

[tooSavvy]

Mother's house. Wasp nest near bedroom gutter. Ladder. Stung. Bad temper. Douchebag

Doinn it aaall rang m8

 

Redneck Waspnest Destruction u-toob videos...

 

Get a can open/pack of crisps and just laught yrr knob off

[Parky]

Hope it goes to court so you can show what a farce this is, then countersue for lost earnings etc.

I wouldn’t take any money from the NHS, absolutely not. I would like to look at someone senior responsible for outsourcing functions like this and tell them they are a cockwomble though.

[loserone]

Hope it goes to court so you can show what a farce this is, then countersue for lost earnings etc.

It won't.

 

Sometimes I get incredibly frustrated with these systems, but if you had even a hint of how many genuinely fraudulent ones there were the scale of these wrongly fined ones pale into insignificance. Last time I looked at it I think only about 1% were even checked, though that might have ramped up now, I know that was the intention.

 

Obviously don't know the circumstances, is it possible the pharmacy ticked the box to avoid passing the money on? Remember they are SMBs (unless it's Lloyds or boots obviously).

 

Hopefully NHSD can finally push EPS out soon and remove about 99% of the chances for fraud..

[loserone]

I wouldn’t take any money from the NHS, absolutely not. I would like to look at someone senior responsible for outsourcing functions like this and tell them they are a cockwomble though.

It's not outsourced, it's done by tiny numbers of staff in Newcastle.

 

Edit: I should have probably created a throwaway account or something. Opinions are mine and don't reflect my employer etc etc.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Doinn it aaall rang m8

Redneck Waspnest Destruction u-toob videos...

Get a can open/pack of crisps and just laught yrr knob off

Need fire. Lots of fire. Maybe assault rifle too.

[Stanky]

Need fire. Lots of fire. Maybe assault rifle too.

 

Make sure you leave the nest intact, wasps will never return to a previously inhabited nest so while its a PITA now, leave it alone and you'll never get wasps back again in the vicinity.

[artdjones]

It won't.

 

Sometimes I get incredibly frustrated with these systems, but if you had even a hint of how many genuinely fraudulent ones there were the scale of these wrongly fined ones pale into insignificance. Last time I looked at it I think only about 1% were even checked, though that might have ramped up now, I know that was the intention.

 

Obviously don't know the circumstances, is it possible the pharmacy ticked the box to avoid passing the money on? Remember they are SMBs (unless it's Lloyds or boots obviously).

 

Hopefully NHSD can finally push EPS out soon and remove about 99% of the chances for fraud..

One of our local pharmacists managed to get away with around €750k over several years here in Ireland on a similar scheme.Then she went to prison.

[bramz7]

A few weeks ago I was singing my old Macbooks praises as it's been working fine since February 2013.

 

Fast forward to now and it's all but dead. Hard drive started clicking and it's finding it difficult to wipe and reboot.

 

Fudge.

[SiC]

A few weeks ago I was singing my old Macbooks praises as it's been working fine since February 2013.

 

Fast forward to now and it's all but dead. Hard drive started clicking and it's finding it difficult to wipe and reboot.

 

Fudge.

Lob an SSD drive in there. It should be of the age MacBook that you can do it on iirc. Cheap enough now - 128gb drives can be picked up easily under 30 quid new now. Will completely revitalise the machine and make it feel zippy & new.

[bramz7]

It's attempting a disk repair now.

 

Alarmingly it seems to think it's used all of its 1TB storage...no it hasn't!

[Pillock]

It'll flag all the disk as full to stop anything else writing to it whilst it attempts recovery.

As above - here's a 240GB SSD for £35 delivered. In fact that's such a good price I think I might get myself one, that's insane.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01N5IB20Q

 

I know you've already got a 1TB, but still.... do you use it all? Could you use a NAS drive plugged into your router?

[dollywobbler]

Buy a Windows PC.

 

(well, seeing as someone will inevitably tell me to get a Mac if my Windows laptop so much as coughs, I felt the need).

[bramz7]

It seems to be caught on volume repair on the aptly named first aid on the disk utility.

 

Oh dammit.

[bramz7]

Buy a Windows PC.

 

(well, seeing as someone will inevitably tell me to get a Mac if my Windows laptop so much as coughs, I felt the need).

I don't think I'd buy Mac again. It's great and all but so wasted on me that it wasn't really worth the price tag.

 

I really, really can't afford a new laptop without culling the entire fleet (I have savings but that isn't what they are for)...so this is awful timing.

[dozeydustman]

Bramz - best thing I've found when I've had a hard drive start to fail on a Mac is just whack a new one in, do a fresh install of OS, then whack the old drive in a USB housing and rescue as much as possible the hard way using Finder.

 

EDIT - same applied when I used Windows. And MS-DOS. And CP/M

[Pillock]

Just in case you were in any doubt, your hard drive is FUBAR.

 

If you have important stuff on there, STOP NOW. Excessive repair attempts can make certain issues worse, if there's contact between heads and platters for example. Get a professional in, I think cjpitservices on here can do hard drive repair?

 

If you have no important stuff, then download an appropriate install disk. Swap HDD for SSD. Buy a NAS if you need more space (I've got one kicking around that I'd swap for a handful of beer tokens) and then set fire to the hard drive to show it who's boss.

[bramz7]

The usb and SD slots have been playing up terribly lately too...which doesn't help.

 

Ah bugger this. I knew it was going to break after I got all confident about it.

[dozeydustman]

Sounds like the logic board is up the shitter then. Should be able to pick a new one up for a reasonable price of eBay. Have found it's often cheaper to import from the states than buying one over here.

[wuvvum]

I have just managed to scrape the nearside front of the Rover 75.  As far as I can see in the dark the damage appears to be fairly limited, but I'm still pissed off because it was such a completely fucking stupid thing to do that I'm still not sure how I managed it.  I'm knackered and my body clock is off kilter after getting up at stupid o'clock yesterday to go to a meeting in London, which won't have been helping, but I've driven when tired loads of times before and never hit anything.

[LightBulbFun]

at a Guess if you got it new in 2013 and it has a Spinner then id say you have a MacBookPro9,1 or MacBookPro9,2? those have the worlds weakest HDD SATA cables known to man

 

so while it does sound like failing HDD and prolly is, if all else fails it may be worth checking out the SATA cable 

 

(Lightbulbs aside I have a big computer hobby where I fuck* with old Computers mostly Macintoshes so id like to think I know a thing or 2 )

 

and as others have said if its just a HDD issue, I would whack an SSD in there, it will speed things up by a lot (esp if your coming from a Laptop HDD which are Dreadfully slow)

 

(fuck with to the extent where I have replaced BGA CPUs   https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/replacing-the-pearl-in-the-clamshell-diy-ibook-g3-clamshell-g4-cpu-upgrade.2105654/ )

[bramz7]

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-i7-2.9-13-mid-2012-unibody-usb3-specs.html

 

It's this one.

 

 

Dunno...I'm not really that good with fixing computers. I took apart a playstation controller once but that's about it.

[LightBulbFun]

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-i7-2.9-13-mid-2012-unibody-usb3-specs.html

 

It's this one.

 

 

Dunno...I'm not really that good with fixing computers. I took apart a playstation controller once but that's about it.

 

ok good thats the last of the Good MBPs before everything got glued and soldered together in 1 big unrepairable lump.

 

if you dont mind wasting half you day if you have a local apple store take it to them, they will at least give you a free rundown on whats up with it and what might need fixing, (tho I sure as hell would not pay them to replace a hard drive)

 

as others have said it sounds very much like your Hard drive has shat it self.

 

heres a DIY guide on replacing the HDD https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Unibody+Mid+2012+Hard+Drive+Replacement/10378

[Guest Hooli]

Fit an SSD & install Windows7.

 

The clicking is a physical fault with the HDD, it's fucked & the repair programs won't help.