SPAM random annoying things

[Scouse]

I've just spent the hardest day's cycling in my life in today's bit of wind. I did 29.98 miles in four hours and seven minutes before fucking it all off and walking, sodden, into the nearest bnb.

Fucking Wales

 

[Tom]

I wouldn't even consider it. One unexpected gust from the side could push me straight into oncoming traffic. Not a chance.

 

[Moriath]

I've just spent the hardest day's cycling in my life in today's bit of wind. I did 29.98 miles in four hours and seven minutes before fucking it all off and walking, sodden, into the nearest bnb.

Fucking Wales

Stupid springs to mind.

 

[Scouse]

Stupid springs to mind.

'Fat' springs to mine...

 

[Scouse]

I wouldn't even consider it. One unexpected gust from the side could push me straight into oncoming traffic. Not a chance.

Almost traffic free today m8. NCN8. Got passed a handful of times. You know me - I don't do proper roads.

Surprisingly I wasn't wobbly at all - it was just a ballache in the head winds. In fact, I've never really wobbled in high wind on the mtb. I wonder if that's a function of weight, 780mm wide handlebars and 2.4 inch knobbly tyres?

 

[dysfunction]

Giving wind a name helps insurance company to refer to a loss event.

So they would talk about how large the loss Katrina caused instead of saying "the wind in August 2005...blah blah blah"

Other than that it isn't very useful to anyone.

 

[soze]

It is for pub quiz's. Which storm in 2015 caused 2 million homes to lose power? That is better than on which day in 2015 did a storm cause 2 million homes to lose power.

 

[old.user4556]

The full explanation and rationale for storm naming can be found here.

TL;DR:

That, indeed, was the whole point behind giving clear identities to storms, under a scheme jointly run by the Met Office and the Irish equivalent, Met Eireann. It follows a long-established custom in the US. "It has really promoted awareness of public safety warnings," the Met spokeswoman adds. "People are latching on to the names." They've been particularly effective at gaining attention on social media, including groups who were previously "harder to reach".

 

[Tom]

They should be sweary names. Storm Bastard, Hurricane Wanker, that kind of thing.

 

[Gwadien]

They should be sweary names. Storm Bastard, Hurricane Wanker, that kind of thing.

and only have Australian weathermen to report it.

 

[old.user4556]

They should be sweary names. Storm Bastard, Hurricane Wanker, that kind of thing.

Bro, do you even Scotland?!


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APH3MylUD_k


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQHZ_2Yr-7E

 

[Bodhi]

Because Climate Change!

(even though if you look into it, the Sun is particularly active right now. But of course it has nothing to do with the big heat lamp in the sky. It's all to do with a trace gas that is particularly shit at warming the atmosphere).

 

[Hawkwind]

I blame Sony!

 

[Hawkwind]

So in Istanbul for a couple days for meetings and tried to make several calls during breaks todays, on each call dialed out after 1 minute the conversation started to replay as a recordeding, but only the voice from their end. This happened four times with 3 different people/mobile numbers. No issue when they called me back. So am I being snooped on by the NSA?

 

[Bodhi]

I blame the fact you didn't buy a Sony

 

[Tom]

Well all the Japanese manufacturers tend to blend into one you know. For instance, I was looking at a Saisho mobile phone the other day and it looked just like the Sony next to it.

 

[Bodhi]

That will be Saisho who are owned by Dixons at a guess.

 

[Raven]

Up North everything that looks or sounds a bit oriental is considered Japanese.

They don't make phones either

 

[caLLous]

Pissing Windows 10 resetting my default app preferences to their shitty offerings again after the latest update. Take a hint and fuck off, Microsoft.

 

[TdC]

what what whaaat? I just updated

 

[caLLous]

what what whaaat? I just updated

Unfortunately it seems to be pretty widespread.

Rolling back KB3135173 fixes it until MS sort their shit out.

 

[sayward]

The huge cruise liner that sailed into the middle of a mega storm north of the Bahamas seems to've missed the news over here.

 

[Scouse]

The huge cruise liner that sailed into the middle of a mega storm north of the Bahamas seems to've missed the news over here.

Linky?

Edit: Ah, found it. No fatalities tho, ship returns home...

 

[sayward]

Linky?

Edit: Ah, found it. No fatalities tho, ship returns home...

Videos looked horrific. Returned to port. Refunding all their money!

 

[DaGaffer]

Ridiculous telco policies.

We're out of house for a few weeks because we're having building work done. We found a nice place to stay but it's in the sticks with no broadband, so I bought one of those mobile broadband dongles with a prepay account 40Gb for €25 a month. Great, and for mobile it's pretty reliable and fast enough for Netflix etc.

So, we chew through the 40Gb in a couple of weeks. No biggie, I go off to buy another €25 of credit in CPW (which they sell me and credit my account). Go home, try to connect to the Internet and...nothing. Contact CS and my credit won't kick in until the end of the month! What the absolute fuck? I'm happy to pay for the data but I'm not allowed to use it? And most ridiculously of all, all I have to do is pick up another (free) SIM, add credit to that and I'm good to go. This is obviously some kind of scam to inflate subscriber numbers but fuck me it's stupid. iD, obviously stands for Idiot Design

 

[Scouse]

I blame the fact you didn't buy a Sony

Second Sony going into the shop tomorrow. First one failed with mic/headphone port, this one's failed because it's wireless is broken and a full software reset won't fix it

 

[soze]

My little Sony camera is going back for the 4th time in 3 months as the USB cover breaks after the first or second time you charge it, they need to admit a design flaw and give me a free upgrade

 

[Raven]

Happened with my wife's Z3 lady version. Oddly the USB cover is much smaller and less prone to breakage on the man size version.

 

[Bodhi]

The flap has gone altogether now. It's been mutilated :/

 

[Tom]

I'm amazed all the flaps on my Sony tablet and phone still work just fine, the phone is nearly 2 years old, the tablet even older I think. I'm quite careful when I use them though. I never allow them to become twisted.