Bits and Bobs 51

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2023 17:19

A client of mine sent me a voice note on WhatsApp the other day that, for the first 5 seconds, sounds like they're having either a heart attack, a gigantic shit, or a stupendous wank.

None of those options are desirable from my perspective.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2023 17:21

I hate voice notes.

GazChap · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2023 17:28

So do I, normally (with one or two exceptions), but he refuses to text and I really hate answering phone calls and listening to voicemail on the voicemail system, so it's the only option really.

If WhatsApp ever add in an AI powered auto-transcription service for voice notes I'll be a happy bunny.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2023 19:19

Voice notes are rubbish. They're only convenient for the sender.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Nov 22, 2023 22:44

GazChap wrote:

If WhatsApp ever add in an AI powered auto-transcription service for voice notes I'll be a happy bunny.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/24161729831532 ... 's%20phone.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38709

My Dad is turning 75 next week and I have no idea what to get him. Any suggestions accepted.

GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Nov 30, 2023 10:48

A big diamond for his Diamond Jubilee.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:07

Xbox 360

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22406

Indoor skydiving voucher

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38709

MaliA wrote:

Xbox 360

He had one of those briefly, but he gave it away

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

GazChap wrote:

A big diamond for his Diamond Jubilee.

Diamond Jubblies for his Diamond Jubilee

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:51

A synth

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Dec 04, 2023 10:52

I lost Whamageddon on Saturday!

At least I can listen to it guilt free now.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26234

Russell lost on Saturday, too. I guess I did, unless I was elsewhere. I do ‘t know, I don’t think o notice when it’s playing.

ANYWAY, he’s now playing Wham Cannon, or something like that, where he flips it around and counts how many times he can hear it in the wild between his whamageddon date and Christmas Day, which sounds like far more fun.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Warhead wrote:

I'm not creating a Threads account ......yet. The reason being thatI created a Mastodon account when lots of my Twitter contacts were doing so, but hardly ever used it and I'm not convinced that I'd use a Threads account. I've also reduced my use of Twitter because I see more negative than positive content and I find it very depressing.

Anyone on Bluesky yet?

I know nothing about it, but an ex-colleague of mine just asked me if I wanted an invite code.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26234

Yeah, it’s good. I don’t use it as much as threads as I don’t have many contacts there yet. If it doesn’t hurry up and open up it’s going to suffer a slow death by invite list.

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3309

Yes, I'm on. People say it's easier to get on now ('you just request a code'), but I was on a waiting list for weeks to no avail.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Not decorum by Dacorum Borough Council

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

I'm going to tell you a story.

Mrs. W. ordered four gift boxes of cheese from the Cheshire Cheese Company, each box containing four x 200gm truckles of posh cheese. One box was for us and the other three as gifts for friends who we know are posh cheese fans. Each box was just under £20, so with delivery costs it was going to be over £80.

We've ordered a lot of stuff on-line for Christmas and have been receiving deliveries almost daily. Last week we found we'd had some deliveries left in the porch, one of which was unexpectedly rather large. On inspection I saw it was from the Cheshire Cheese Company. At that time I didn't know Mrs. W. had ordered anything from them so I called her to ask what she'd ordered. She told me what it should be, but it looked like a very big box for just 4 boxes of 4 truckles. I know that sometimes we get deliveries with big-ish boxes loads of filler, so I thought this might be the case with the cheese ....... until I tried to lift it and it was very heavy.

When we opened it, it contained 16 boxes rather than 4. I asked Mrs. W. to check the order to make sure she'd not ordered 16 boxes rather than 16 truckles, but the order was correct and she'd only been charged for 4 boxes. I'm guessing that someone at the company had mistaken 16 truckles for 16 boxes and no-one had noticed the error.

We did consider just keeping it, but it's an awful lot of cheese for us to store and dispose of, and a loss of over £240 to the company, so we did the right thing and mailed to tell them about it. They mailed back to ask us to send a scan of the delivery note, which did show 16 x 4 truckles. So they said they would like the surplus back, but we said they'd need to arrange a courier to collect it from home as we didn't want to have to take it to a collection point. They agreed to this ..... and we've heard nothing further from them for over a week, so it looks like the local food bank is going to get a donation of posh cheese.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4370

Warhead wrote:

I'm going to tell you a story.

Mrs. W. ordered four gift boxes of cheese from the Cheshire Cheese Company, each box containing four x 200gm truckles of posh cheese. One box was for us and the other three as gifts for friends who we know are posh cheese fans. Each box was just under £20, so with delivery costs it was going to be over £80.

We've ordered a lot of stuff on-line for Christmas and have been receiving deliveries almost daily. Last week we found we'd had some deliveries left in the porch, one of which was unexpectedly rather large. On inspection I saw it was from the Cheshire Cheese Company. At that time I didn't know Mrs. W. had ordered anything from them so I called her to ask what she'd ordered. She told me what it should be, but it looked like a very big box for just 4 boxes of 4 truckles. I know that sometimes we get deliveries with big-ish boxes loads of filler, so I thought this might be the case with the cheese ....... until I tried to lift it and it was very heavy.

When we opened it, it contained 16 boxes rather than 4. I asked Mrs. W. to check the order to make sure she'd not ordered 16 boxes rather than 16 truckles, but the order was correct and she'd only been charged for 4 boxes. I'm guessing that someone at the company had mistaken 16 truckles for 16 boxes and no-one had noticed the error.

We did consider just keeping it, but it's an awful lot of cheese for us to store and dispose of, and a loss of over £240 to the company, so we did the right thing and mailed to tell them about it. They mailed back to ask us to send a scan of the delivery note, which did show 16 x 4 truckles. So they said they would like the surplus back, but we said they'd need to arrange a courier to collect it from home as we didn't want to have to take it to a collection point. They agreed to this ..... and we've heard nothing further from them for over a week, so it looks like the local food bank is going to get a donation of posh cheese.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26234

That’s so good! More cheeses for us meeces!

Giphy "no cheeses for us meeces":
https://media2.giphy.com/media/uglLagEcJbKlW/giphy-loop.mp4

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26234

Giphy is such a let down.

Related to the cheese story, which reminded me of this, when I was younger I needed a toaster, and my brother offered to go and pick one up from Argos for me. He was 11 at the time. I gave him the catalogue number and the money and off he popped to Wembley High street.

He was gone AGES. So much so that I grew quite concerned. After a good couple of hours he came in with a box so big that I could have lived in it. I asked him what it was. He shrugged and said it was the number I ordered. He’d had to get it on and off the bus and sort of ‘walk’ it down the North Circular Road to my mother’s house. I opened it and it was a whole outer of toasters. Everyone got toasters that year, all matching

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Dec 08, 2023 12:40

If I send you a list can you ask him to do my Christmas shopping?

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26234

Sure, just make sure things aren’t any bigger than a toaster or he’ll never be able to fit it on the bus.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Warhead wrote:

I'm not creating a Threads account ......yet. The reason being thatI created a Mastodon account when lots of my Twitter contacts were doing so, but hardly ever used it and I'm not convinced that I'd use a Threads account. I've also reduced my use of Twitter because I see more negative than positive content and I find it very depressing.

Anyone on Bluesky yet?

I know nothing about it, but an ex-colleague of mine just asked me if I wanted an invite code.

I'm on. Hit me up.

@warhead.bsky.social

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:38

the usual .bsky.social.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Dec 09, 2023 16:44

Out of Whamageddon. In a furniture shop.

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Dec 10, 2023 13:58

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 61305.html

Hahahhahhaga

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Dec 11, 2023 8:08

Not sure why Radio 3 felt its audience wanted to know who came third in an ITV reality show as part of its morning news just now.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16663

The popularity of leading fascists is arguably newsworthy I suppose.

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3309

Front page of the sodding Times, too.

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5470

Woke up this morning to find a squirrel tail in the kitchen….

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:17

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

Woke up this morning to find a squirrel tail in the kitchen….

That's the blues.

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Dec 15, 2023 10:29

Despite my best efforts I couldn't tell if I'd already sent someone a card or not. My tick list had two ambiguous lines across his name and someone else. I wasn't sure if either started on the one I knew I'd sent one to and ended on the other or vice-versa.

So during a WhatsApp chat I said "thank you for the card" and as he didn't reply in a similar way I think I didn't.

Unless, of course, it's somewhere in our fully-functioning postal system and will reach them in time for Easter 2048.

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5470

MaliA wrote:

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

Woke up this morning to find a squirrel tail in the kitchen….

That's the blues.

It was for the squirrel.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Dec 15, 2023 19:09

Christmas party ready.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11916

That jacket is amazing.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22406

Pre wine stained!

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38709

https://brahkie.neocities.org/

I think I just time travelled. Did I get my hair back????

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:24

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/uk-wo ... ar-8981171

"Big cats are killed on British roads more commonly than you might think. The authorities have been known to send out teams of people in unmarked vehicles to recover the dead bodies of cats killed on our roads before the press or witnesses can record the evidence."

If there's one kind of piracy I hate, it's conspiracy.

WAKE UP SHEEP

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:24

DavPaz wrote:

https://brahkie.neocities.org/

I think I just time travelled. Did I get my hair back????

Hell.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Dec 18, 2023 21:00

MacBeth

We saw this..it was really good.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Tue Dec 19, 2023 18:18

I want to be on Christmas leave now.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2023 10:37

Happy mimi day!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2023 11:54

Giphy "manatee birthday":
https://media4.giphy.com/media/l2R0ck3Va3WqVxMNq/giphy-loop.mp4

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2023 11:58

Happy Birthday Mimi!

Giphy "birthday cake for mimi":
https://media0.giphy.com/media/3o6ZtmwVlQvOH3Ah0c/giphy-loop.mp4

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26234

Thanks, frens!

School is still in session here, so we did an escape room at lunch time, and escaped. Just got home.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Dec 20, 2023 14:35

Happy Birthday Mimi..

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26234

Thanks, Kov x

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11916

Happy birthday!

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