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Post by larny on Apr 26, 2008 10:41:56 GMT
Got a grievance you'd like to get off your chest? What's giving you the hump this week? Let off some steam here. You never know, someone else may share your gripe, or may just have the perfect solution! Remember folks, this is a family show!
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Post by Steve on Apr 27, 2008 9:25:36 GMT
Computers in General.
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Post by larny on Apr 27, 2008 13:50:06 GMT
Ay, tis merely the strife of modern day life, Steve my good man. One must consider returning to ye olde quill and ink method and sending ones aides out on foot with ye messages.
Which is exactly what I'll be telling my internet provider when I cancel my contract if this blooming thing loses connection one more ti..........................................[/color]
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Post by Steve on Apr 27, 2008 19:55:43 GMT
LOL. Aye, it has been a real nightmare this week. Oh to write with pen a paper, wouldn't fancy writing out all the mags though.
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Post by larny on Apr 28, 2008 10:11:11 GMT
Why oh why, do people ask, "Is dinner ready yet?" If it was ready, it would be on a plate in front of you, wouldn't it!?
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Post by Steve on Apr 28, 2008 10:42:09 GMT
LOL. I know what you mean Larny. Almost as frustrating as the good'ol "Are we there yet?" YES OF COURSE WE ARE THAT IS WHY YOU CAN SEE THE SEA AND WE ARE STILL IN YSTRAD MYANCH!!!!!! I hate that one!! lol
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Post by larny on Apr 29, 2008 10:11:34 GMT
JUNK MAIL!! GGGGGGRRRRR I've taken to opening the unsolicited mail, stuffing it all in the enclosed pre-paid envelope, icluding the envelope it came in, writing kindly remove my name from your mailing list, across it, and flying it back in the post box! As for takeaway leaflets, etc, well they just as well put them straight into my recycling bin! Cold callers, that's another bug-bear! I DONT WANT KEBABS! I DONT WANT TO HEAR YOUR POLITICAL SPIN! I DONT NEED A NEW ROOF! I ALREADY HAVE SKY! AND I DONT WANT MY GAS FROM TELEPHONE PROVIDER! I put a polite notice on the inside glass of my front door, which read, "NO JUNK MAIL, NO COLD CALLERS. THANK YOU" It worked, but then I didnt get a newspaper either, so it bit me on the bum a bit!
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Post by mona on Apr 30, 2008 8:14:24 GMT
Junk mail and Spam (how do they get the email addy?) are two bug bears of mine. I'm a woman and I don't need viagra!!!! Sick of kebab shop menus too although I see their need for advertising as cheaply as possible. I hang on to a number of the leaflets that come through the letter box such as carpenters etc as one never knows when needs one...having said that my husband is in Yellow Pages and his work speaks for him so it's "word-of mouth"as well. Fed up with cold-callers especially as we are on the telephone preference service so should be getting none but they manage to come through to my mobile too. Now, I would like to see the companies that sell email addresses and house-hold addresses prosecuted. Another thing that is annoying is the really terrible ads on the tele...Carol Vorderman telling us all how we can be better off getting deeper and deeper into debt when she is earning goodness knows how many millions and would never have to "consolidate" in a hundred lifetimes! But that's another thread!
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Post by Steve on Apr 30, 2008 10:45:20 GMT
I also get loads of SPAM, and I hate it too, but what I have found with Yahoo mail anyway, is that if you tick all your spam emails and then click the spam button, it does get less, and then if you get spam in bulk, I just tick all the spam and then forward it to inbox and then send it to the spam button. But I must say, that latley, I have been cold calling quite a bit, looking for adverts though, so I sort of have an exscuse, sort off. Sorry
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Post by larny on Apr 30, 2008 12:00:00 GMT
Ah, bless you Steve! No, I dont mind that kind of call, we get lots of business calls here - I have to be polite! it's the cold callers who knock the door at tea time and make out like they're your bessie mate - "Hi, how are you today?" I always want to say, "Well, actually, you know, I'm not so good. I have a terrible headache and the dog has just eaten the curtains, my washing line snapped and my hairdresser can't fit me in until Thursday..." THAT would teach them for asking, wouldnt it? Like they care how you are today!TUT! A salesman really upset me during a cold telephone call, once so now I just stop them and say not interested thank you. :'(Sometimes you can be too nice! I dont get spam though, thank goodness.
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Post by larny on May 7, 2008 8:47:16 GMT
'CELEBRITY' perfumes really get under my skin! There's definitely a whiff of cheeese about them, dont you think? Or are you a fan?
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Post by mona on May 7, 2008 15:34:26 GMT
No, I'm not a fan of celebrity perfumes or celebrity endorsements on food either...Paul Rankins Irish Soda Bread!!! Gordon Ramsey's Chocolates...Anthony Worral Thomsons eco-products!!! grrrr all this just puts me off buying certain products as I don't feel like adding to their already over-loaded bank accounts. Brings me swiftly to another matter...the BBC! Doesn't the BBC in Wales have anyone else to host progs except Jamie Owen and Derek and IoLo. I think Iolo is great but surely there are other people who could have a go! As for the rest of the BBC - same old same old. That guy who is on Torchwood, John Barryman, he is on the "Nancy" Prog and that quiz where grown adults who somehow think they are good enough at general knowledge to win a load of money can't beat children at general knowledge game. He is brought out for just about everything! OH and those kids on those programmes send me potty! A clip around the ear and "kids should be seen and not heard comes to mind lol
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Post by larny on May 8, 2008 7:51:19 GMT
Tee hee hee, Mona. Do you realise we are beginning to sound like those GRUMPY OLD WOMEN! I love that programme - I agree emphatically with every thing they say...and not a IOLO WILLIAMS or JOHN BARROWMAN in sight!!
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Post by mona on May 9, 2008 9:48:31 GMT
Barrowman - Barryman - a rose by any other name is just as thorny lol As each year passes I begin to resemble a female Victor Meldrew! How right he was! I remember when I was a girl... ...we used to take Corona bottles back to the shop and get 3d (thruppence in real money). That was before we invented the wheel - now what a night that was!!!
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Post by Steve on May 10, 2008 16:23:45 GMT
Why is it that when it is tipping it down with rain, my children moan that they want to go out to play, yet when we have a lovely sunny day like today, and a new pool to play in all they want to do is stay indoor? OOOOOOohhhhhhhh KIDS Oh but I love 'em
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