Overdriven
Dumpster Fire of The South
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For fucks sake the National Aeronautics and Space Administration haven't got a flight booked due to near earth objects being a pain in the ass.
SilverHood
FH is my second home
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Sometimes when it gets too much, I will complain about all the ambiguous TLA's, and a few people will laugh.
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Can of air freshener and a lighter should help.
DaGaffer
Down With That Sorta Thing
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I had a new traffic jam experience last night. In an Uber in Nottingham we get stuck on the top of a single lane overpass; nothing's moving but we can see blue lights in the distance (the overpass curved and dropped to the right). Eventually a policewoman wanders up telling every individual driver there's been an accident and the road's blocked and we'll have to wait for the recovery vehicle.
My Uber driver is great; cancels my fare and tells me where to walk off the bridge to and get another Uber, so off I go, walk around the curve and down, and there's the crashed car, which had obviously taken the turn at speed, hit the outside barrier, spun around and was facing back into traffic, utterly fucked. But the annoying thing was there was more than enough room for every vehicle on the bridge (including a coach) to get past the crashed car, all it would have taken is for one of the several cops stood around scratching their arses to direct traffic and another to close the sliproad onto the overpass. Everyone could have gotten on with their evening. No doubt there is some protocol they were following, that didn't include one drop of common sense.
My Uber driver is great; cancels my fare and tells me where to walk off the bridge to and get another Uber, so off I go, walk around the curve and down, and there's the crashed car, which had obviously taken the turn at speed, hit the outside barrier, spun around and was facing back into traffic, utterly fucked. But the annoying thing was there was more than enough room for every vehicle on the bridge (including a coach) to get past the crashed car, all it would have taken is for one of the several cops stood around scratching their arses to direct traffic and another to close the sliproad onto the overpass. Everyone could have gotten on with their evening. No doubt there is some protocol they were following, that didn't include one drop of common sense.
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I'm wondering if there's some new directive that's been handed down about safe distance from obstructions?
There are road closures and "escorted convoys" all over the place now where previously traffic management would just be some traffic lights.
I sat stationary on the A470 for 20 minutes the other day waiting for the lead vehicle. Just road resurfacing. On a wide carriageway known as the "welsh m1".
Well. At least I'm comforted that taxpayers money is being used to make traffic lights redundant.
Gwadien
Uneducated Northern Cretin
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My cat will beat your cat in a fight
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I've got tickets you can buy folks, £1 each
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Overdriven
Dumpster Fire of The South
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One of you assclowns must have a relationship with a hardware supplier. Who do I need need to bribe here to get a discount on 40TB of storage?
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I need to mount my starlink on the roof before the geese eat through the cable, so I've ordered their mount.
It's annoying because sattelites are better (much) than mobile internet from EE. It's annoying because the starlink is an older one that might be at risk from high winds. And it's annoying because the mount is two weeks delayed with no delivery time available.
The good: logged onto my account, clicked "complain", got their bot. Told it the delivery is late, and it said "yep, I can see that, do you want £40 for the inconvenience." I said yes. And it went "there you go".
Faster than it took me to type this post.
I'm going to try again in a couple of weeks. See if it's dumb enough to keep giving me free internet
It's annoying because sattelites are better (much) than mobile internet from EE. It's annoying because the starlink is an older one that might be at risk from high winds. And it's annoying because the mount is two weeks delayed with no delivery time available.
The good: logged onto my account, clicked "complain", got their bot. Told it the delivery is late, and it said "yep, I can see that, do you want £40 for the inconvenience." I said yes. And it went "there you go".
Faster than it took me to type this post.
I'm going to try again in a couple of weeks. See if it's dumb enough to keep giving me free internet
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God?
Overdriven
Dumpster Fire of The South
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Won't answer my calls. My call is very important to her. I am 3 billionth in the queue.
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You should have taken out the God+ Ultimate subscription
Overdriven
Dumpster Fire of The South
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Sharing is caring etc!
Billargh
I am a FH squatter
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Still waiting on this btw.
SilverHood
FH is my second home
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On day 17 of an eye infection from hell. Wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy!
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Which eye are we talking about?
SilverHood
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Left eye. Had a naturally evil looking eye for over a week. Wish I had taken more pictures, could have sold some stock images.
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Phew I thought you were talking about the japs eye. Thank god you are ok