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Not really a grump, more of a sad.

Friday marks the end of Year 13 at my old school. If my apprenticeship application was unsuccessul, I'd still be there. So I've a little pang of sadness that I wasn't there to make it to the end with my friends, teachers and classmates.

What really is sad, is that this year marks the end of the school being fully independant. Not long after I left in 2020, the place was sold to a management agency after they ran out of money, once and for all. They had been fighting the battle ever since I joined Year 7 in 2014. Selling off was holding the white flag up and the feeling of defeat was felt by many from management down to the students. The agency wants to turn the place upside-down and inside-out, getting rid of what made it stand apart from all the other schools in the area. It's not really an independant school anymore, it's more of an independant academy. We tried doing this before, in 2014, and that's when all the trouble began. Now an external company (which is reportedly making losses) wants to dance the same dance again. For the 100th anniversary of being a school in 2015, a time capsule was buried to be opened in 2065. I very much doubt it'll be around in 2030; it's just too small to compete anymore.

So, on Friday, I'll pay one last visit before it breaches into the brave new world of big ideas and excitement. The place managed to last 106 years, and I'm very glad I was there for 11 of them. I'll be sure to take lots of pictures of the place (with permission, of course) because it's all going to change. It's an end of an era, for me at least. I just have this fear history is just about to repeat itself.

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23 hours ago, richardmorris said:

I’m considering going to the dark side and buying a new car. I’m going to lie down until the urge goes away.

I've had the same urge!  Thankfully, there's nothing available new that entices me, except maybe a Transit.  Maybe.

Oh and extreme poverty!

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On 5/25/2021 at 8:59 PM, Remspoor said:

Here in Spain air internet is via 4G. or Wifi rural.

I have WiMax, for which a small satellite dish was installed on my roof. Took ages for the fitter to get it pointed at the mast. Whenever it rains heavily, or there ard high winds , I lose my internet and satellite TV, and the 4G signal on my phones fades in and out. 

Luckily its only effected me a few times since I got here.

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8 hours ago, Jerzy Woking said:

I have WiMax, for which a small satellite dish was installed on my roof. Took ages for the fitter to get it pointed at the mast. Whenever it rains heavily, or there ard high winds , I lose my internet and satellite TV, and the 4G signal on my phones fades in and out. 

Luckily its only effected me a few times since I got here.

WiMax is also called Wifi rural. We use to have similar system here. However The comapny formed to provide the system (which took a lot of EU money) was purchased by Movistar. They, in turn ran the service down. It is slower than 4G and it does have limitations in poor weather.

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I have to say that internet in the UK is really pretty good compared to elsewhere. I live approximately 5 miles from the middle of nowhere and mine is superb, even when everyone's online like on a wet day in the middle of lockdown.

I don't know if this is still the case but my father in law in Queensland was still paying for usage (rather than the unlimited deals we take for granted) last time I mentioned it to him. The internetz are nowhere near as fast in Australia either, even in suburbia.

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2 hours ago, Remspoor said:

WiMax is also called Wifi rural. We use to have similar system here. However The comapny formed to provide the system (which took a lot of EU money) was purchased by Movistar. They, in turn ran the service down. It is slower than 4G and it does have limitations in poor weather.

Our family house is in an urbanisation, and so has fibre optic broadband, which is both very fast and also unlimited.

When I go there to check its all okay, I also download all the things I want to see from Netflix, BBC, ITV and C4. Very very fast in comparison to my over the air wifi.

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I really don't get personalised* plates. Bob the builder's screecher has "N11K   FT", which you can sort of work out if you know her name is Nikki, and she's very fat.

He's just put one on the new pikey truck "Y   B11G   VZ". Struggling to connect the dots on this one. So his m8s can say "why big viz? your name's Carl you dozy cunt".

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Moving the garden waste bin from its position against the fence for the first time in a while, to discover that my chav neighbours have been pushing their cigarette ends through a hole in the fence behind it where they thought I couldn't see!

Do I sweep them up and stick them back through their letterbox in return?

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Just now, Pieman said:

Moving the garden waste bin from its position against the fence for the first time in a while, to discover that my chav neighbours have been pushing their cigarette ends through a hole in the fence behind it where they thought I couldn't see!

Do I sweep them up and stick them back through their letterbox in return?

Yes. Absolutely yes!

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Happy fucking weekend!

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My parking permit had slipped down the bottom edge of the windscreen and disappeared behind the dashboard. 

£60 please. 🤬

This being the private cowboys UKPC, can I just ignore the bastard? 

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18 minutes ago, Crackers said:

Happy fucking weekend!

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My parking permit had slipped down the bottom edge of the windscreen and disappeared behind the dashboard. 

£60 please. 🤬

This being the private cowboys UKPC, can I just ignore the bastard? 

I wish the answer was yes as they are scumbag cowboys the lot of them. However, I ignored a Parking Eye once and they took me to court. 
 

I think they have to be a bit nicer than they used to be so it could be that if you explain the situation then you may be let off. I think there is also now a rule that the promise of a 50% discount has to apply to the time AFTER you have raised a dispute. So don’t be scared in to paying early just to get the 50% discount because you can still appeal. Firstly to them and the to some sort of parking ombudsman. 
 

You are a permit holder so in my eyes they are paid to look after people with permission park. I’m sure their warped little brains see it differently!

 

At least waste a bit of their time and money. 
 

God I hate them!

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24 minutes ago, Crackers said:

....This being the private cowboys UKPC, can I just ignore the bastard? 

Never. If you do, it will eventually end up as a CCJ against you, possibly with interest and bailiffs.

Parking contractors rarely if ever reverse their penalties (unless it's their own staff or staff families), so appeal via the POPLA process.

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As people are talking about wifi, I read on a thread on here a while ago that a lot of problems are caused by the shite routers that the providers give you. 

I've bought a wifi6 router and am getting over 100mbps and even over 50 right at the bottom of the garden. 

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I can't remember who's advice I read but thank you. Its made a huge difference for work as I had to switch to a wired connection most days running it through the house but its working brilliantly now. 

The router wasn't cheap at £170, I'm sure there were cheaper options but I wanted one easy to set up for someone as dumb as me and future proof, hence the wifi6 (even though I don't know what that is, i might've just bought into snake oil). 

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I'm tempted to upgrade my router but instead I run a second access point upstairs from an old x64 tablet PC that's connected via ethernet to the router.  Solves most of the issues in my house for the price of free.  Granted, a better router and location thereof can solve a lot of issues.

WiFi 6 is fair enough.  It's bastard fast in theory but it depends on whether your laptop will support it.  802.11n (2.4GHz) is fine for most people most of the time.  WiFi 6 (802.11ax) is an upgrade of 802.11ac (WiFi 5) that runs on 5GHz.  Certainly won't do any harm having a router that supports it.

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39 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

I'm tempted to upgrade my router but instead I run a second access point upstairs from an old x64 tablet PC that's connected via ethernet to the router.  Solves most of the issues in my house for the price of free.  Granted, a better router and location thereof can solve a lot of issues.

WiFi 6 is fair enough.  It's bastard fast in theory but it depends on whether your laptop will support it.  802.11n (2.4GHz) is fine for most people most of the time.  WiFi 6 (802.11ax) is an upgrade of 802.11ac (WiFi 5) that runs on 5GHz.  Certainly won't do any harm having a router that supports it.

Yeah, my thinking was that if I'm going to buy a router I may as well future proof it so that I don't need to buy another in a couple of years, even if I don't quite understand what I'm protecting myself against.

My dad was here last week and his phone would only get 50mbps compared to double on mine when we were sat right next to each other, which I guess might be down to wifi6 connection as my phone is probably a fair bit newer and fancier than his. 

We can also use the telly in the pornservatory and the PS4 stays connected too, which results in less moaning from the lad. 

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On 5/28/2021 at 12:32 PM, jakebullet said:

I really don't get personalised* plates. Bob the builder's screecher has "N11K   FT", which you can sort of work out if you know her name is Nikki, and she's very fat.

He's just put one on the new pikey truck "Y   B11G   VZ". Struggling to connect the dots on this one. So his m8s can say "why big viz? your name's Carl you dozy cunt".

Someone I know bought a private plate for their car , I failed to notice , even when it was pointed out to me , nope no idea 

Say the original reg was JX12 DCF 

The new reg was DS12 DPS 

I stood there looking confused 

Can't you see it 

No 

DS David Snow 

DPS David & Pauline Snow 

Okayyyeee

 

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Wack said:

Insurance , the lawyers have been on the case 

14 day cooling off period , full refund bar the days on cover 

Not any more 

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For some insurers maybe but I have just cancelled daughters policy within the 14 day period with Hastings as it had auto renewed and she never checks her email, no charge and a full refund, its usually the cheapest shittiest insurers who pull the above stunt.

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It's too bloody warm! I've just spent nearly an hour fannying about with wheels on the Volvo trying to find a matching* pair to replace the two spares I had on the front as one had a sizeable chunk out of the sidewall.

After trying to inflate what felt like every bastarding tyre in the unit I found two the same size that similar amounts of tread and held air. They're lower profile than anything I'd fit on purpose but they'll do for now.

I have a set of nearly new tyres that'll fit the 15" alloys but they're currently on pug 307 wheels. I will have to bother the guy in the unit next door for a shot of his tyre machine next time I see him.

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1 hour ago, Jazoli said:

For some insurers maybe but I have just cancelled daughters policy within the 14 day period with Hastings as it had auto renewed and she never checks her email, no charge and a full refund, its usually the cheapest shittiest insurers who pull the above stunt

It's the broker that's charging the fee 

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