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Eynsham Red Sep 2021 6:28pm, 10 Sep 2021 7,928 posts	Quote Pin Eynsham Red A sad story about a murder on the BBC news where the news presenter told us that “the family have spoken EXCLUSIVELY with our Midlands reporter”. Bragging about the exclusivity of the interview! What is actually important here???? 😡
Diogenes Sep 2021 9:48pm, 10 Sep 2021 62,726 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Unsubscribe links that require you to login to complete the process.
Lip Gloss Sep 2021 9:56pm, 10 Sep 2021 54,475 posts	Quote Pin Lip Gloss ( my OH was a meter reader for SSE and won’t put a smart meter into the house )
Dave W Sep 2021 9:11am, 11 Sep 2021 3,956 posts	Quote Pin Dave W (why, LG?)
GordonG Sep 2021 11:06am, 14 Sep 2021 8,783 posts	Quote Pin GordonG the way my local hospital phone waiting message tells me they'll answer my call when one of their 'agents' is available. I'm not booking a holiday or trying to get through to the FBI
swittle Sep 2021 11:09am, 14 Sep 2021 79,360 posts	Quote Pin swittle [^ @GordonG - as the minutes on 'hold' tick by, an image of sinister 'Matrix-like' figures in dark suits doing remote triage often creeps into my mind...
Diogenes Sep 2021 5:21pm, 15 Sep 2021 62,819 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Keep refeshing my phone app to see if a CHAPS payment that was made around 2pm has arrived in my account yet. Where's my money?
PenW Sep 2021 2:07pm, 16 Sep 2021 2,325 posts	Quote Pin PenW Today seems to be a whole gear grinder... British Airways - cancelled one of my flights home and rebooked me on a flight that left Heathrow 20 mins after my flight TO Heathrow had taken off and nearly 3 hours before I am due to arrive in Heathrow. Their booking system online then repeatedly said "something's gone wrong, please try later" when I tried to rebook. Their phone line says "we're having too many calls, please try later" and eventually after trying another number and waiting on hold for 20 minutes I spoke to someone who can book me on the next available connecting flight. I will now have 7 hours to kill in Heathrow. Trying to log onto my remote system at work which worked perfectly well this morning but now just goes round and round and round and I can't click on the Turing image pin thing I need to verify myself. Dog walker has taken the dog out early which is nice, but he'll be back early and whinging when I'm trying to work... Delivery of bathroom stuff didn't have everything in it so will need to arrange delivery for the remaining bits. Someone save me!
Weath Sep 2021 3:41pm, 16 Sep 2021 751 posts	Quote Pin Weath Projects with imminent deadlines that are conjured up and given to you out of the blue. Made worse by now having an outsourced Procurement Dept. that I have no control over. (Do MPs not realise that a grant application for technical services isn't just a case of dropping Defra an email saying "Can we please have some of your money on offer?" 😡
Dave W Sep 2021 8:21am, 21 Sep 2021 4,024 posts	Quote Pin Dave W PenW.. Why would your dog walker be whingeing?