Why, for the love of the Pond Gods, do people insist on contacting IT Support on behalf of somebody else!!!
If you were ill, would you ask someone else to go to the doctors for you?
How are we supposed to help when we're not speaking to the person with the problem?
Morning, all,
is there such a thing as Passive-Aggressive Recycling?
Thinking of the idiot in our blocks of flats who throws unsorted rubbish in our large communal recycling bins.
They put glass, cardboard & paper in the bin for cans & plastic, often with general waste, presumably in the belief the magic pixes at the recycling centre will sort it all and will not reject the mess as contaminated.
If they don't support recycling, just be honest and bag & bin it as general waste.
Well done, let's hope that translates into news-coverage and electoral success.
But "amount"? Number of members, surely.
I'm not just being old-fashioned, I sometimes wonder if increasing violence against humans in the (English-speaking) world is correlated to how we treat each other en-masse.
From individuals, we were reduced to numbers.
From numbers, we have been reduced to quantities.
Humanity should not be measured by the metric tonne...
#renting in 1997 vs 2025
1997
We rock up to the local #realestate agent in a beat up Corolla. They hand us a clipboard with a printed page of all the houses available and a short description. They hand us the keys for all of the houses. We go inspect all of them, by ourselves, and when we hand the keys back we sign a contract for one of them. Sharehouse portion is $65/week. Happy days!
2025
Jesus. I don’t know. There’s apps you have to download. Inspections have to be scheduled. They are always at stupid times like 2pm Wednesday afternoon. The agent is a smug prick. You are rushed around the apartment with 30 other prospective tenants. It’s advertised at $650/week but you overhear another couple saying they are going to offer $690. Rent bidding is still illegal btw. If you want to apply, it’s too late. You should’ve pre-applied last week through this third party platform that charges extra for ID verification and you have to provide your bank details and three personal references and a whole summary paragraph of why you deserve a roof over your head. Ugh. #RantOver
For the love of The Pond Gods. Nobody works around here!
Just nipped up to the local Garden Centre (Hollybush) in my lunch hour and the car park is rammed, the cafe come restaurant, they have is chockablock and before anyone says "The kids are off." there was a generous cross section of ages when I got in there.
I only saw five or six kids.
@Waxingtonknee Rain for us, supposedly. Mind you, I wouldn't trust the @metoffice to sit the right way on a toilet, let alone get the weather right. And their so-called forecasts are always London/south-based.
That's why I always sneer at these reports, "UK warmest since 1327" What they're really saying is Kent has been the warmest. 🙂
#RantOver
In the good old days, you would target a company, ring them up, and try to find out who the manager or director was responsible for the product or service you were selling. You would either
a. Try to get put through to them.
b. Write to them.
You would work at the sale. These days it's "Ooh! He's head of..... Hello there, would you like to buy my shit?"
LinkedIN was about offering or seeking employment, but users have turned it into a shark-infested pool of so-called salespeople.
#RantOver
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