Daily Moan

[VocalNeal]

As long as you don't wake up with a new nose and skin tone it's all good.

Might improve the dancing, though.

[VocalNeal]

Yes, I hope your niece has a speedy recovery Troy.

Amen to that.

[malmomike77]

I have just seen the first Xmas adverts

[helge]

Shocking

Better than seeing chinamen all over though

(this is a poor joke, KW )

[Saint Willy]

Better than seeing chinamen all over though

(this is a poor joke, KW )

Nope, even a poor joke is still funny.

that's just another failed joke.

[helge]

You are missing the context

[Saint Willy]

You are missing the context

I understood what you meant. I just didn't think it worked as a joke, poor or not. The context does not change that the substance is lacking.

[Stumpy]

Dogs. I love my dogs. Great friends and lots of funny times. They are all female. So my SIL came up and they have a male English Retriever. The thing is, I cannot stand male dogs. Fkn things piss on everything. My dogs go out and drop a squat on the grass around the place. Their dog, like all male dogs, spend their entire time pissing on everything marking its spot. I have been hosing off piss marks on my walls, planters and the fkn thing dropped a shit on my pool deck. I wanna kill the fkn thing.

Ok rant over.

[Edmond]

[misskit]

^I recognize the parking lot at Festival.

[Edmond]

Yup. The small carpark with the entrance going into Tops.



It's not yours is it.

[misskit]

Not mine. Wish it were!

I’m still stuck in Georgia.

That’s my moan, but I think its been done before.

[Mandaloopy]

And it's 10 days locked in the apartment because people come to work with a hacking cough during a pandemic. Adults!

[Klondyke]

A bit distraction from the NK on your mind...

I’m still stuck in Georgia.

[Shutree]

My village has no Internet cable and after a ToT survey we know we'll not be getting one anytime soon. My True mobile has reception in the house so I bought their home wireless router and a contract for a second SIM card. The monthly bill was B700 something then suddenly it was 1,100 something, so I went to complain.
It turns out my Internet SIM package was 'special' for 12 months, then went to 'full price'. Really? The True app that is always ready to sell me stuff I don't want doesn't tell me that my bill will jump 50%? It wouldn't be so bad if the TV reception worked. Some days it is nearly okay, others we sit and watch for a while as that little red ring spins around with 0% progress. Then we give up and turn it off. So I am paying for literally nothing most of the time and even when it works I still have to pay for Netflix because there is nothing for me to watch without it.
In a fit of pique I cancelled on the spot, paid them off and marched out in high dudgeon.
I was not in the sunniest of moods when I arived at the AIS shop around the corner. Here is my main moan: there were two women staff at the counter without any customers and when the gf and I walked up neither of them even lifted their eyes from their mobile phones. They completely ignored us when we were standing immediately in front of them and the gf was asking about home Internet. I have been here long enough to know that getting angry doesn't make things go better and I have learnt to (mostly) button my lip when confronted by ignorance and discourtesy. I spend a lot of time in silence. The gf is sensitive to my moodiness and soldiered on, eventually one of the two women walked off without ever acknowledging our presence and the second was left to raise her eyes for a sheepish glance at us, but without stopping tapping on her goddam mobile. Anyway the end result was that our village doesn't show as a reception area and she didn't want to sell us the home router because it probably wouldn't work. We left empty handed.
I don't have too much of a moan about having no tv because I still have my phone for home Internet. Just a small moan about my own incompetence at being unable to cast from my phone or download movies onto a USB or anything technical. The technology has left me behind and I haven't had a tv for so many of the last ten years that it hasn't bothered me too much. The gf though would like to watch a bit.
No, my core moan is zombie staff transfixed by their mobiles. It is everywhere, Global House is full of these people, every corner you turn there is a young person skulking with face in phone. The other day in a coffee shop I ordered and sat and, there being no other customers than the gf and I, after nearly 5 minutes (no exaggeration) I stood up and returned to the counter to ask about my coffee. The barista looked up from her phone, returned to planet earth, eyes opened wide and she burst into peels of laughter. She had completely forgotten my order.

[Edmond]

dAILY MOAN: wALL OF TEXT WITHOUT SPACED PARAGRAPHS


hAVING cAPS lOCK ON WITHOUT REALISING IT.

[Freed]

^^ You have to laugh at these people that say Thailand is different.

[Shutree]

dAILY MOAN: wALL OF TEXT WITHOUT SPACED PARAGRAPHS

Fair enuf.

[nidhogg]

No, my core moan is zombie staff transfixed by their mobiles. It is everywhere, .

Got to agree. Went to do my Visa and work permit today, together with the assigned HR person. She was f*cking glued to her phone. At one point she had no idea the immigration was talking to her, so she got a right bollicking from me.

[Stumpy]

I don't have too much of a moan about having no tv because I still have my phone for home Internet.

Tough Day Shutree.

I, to this day, cannot for the life of me understand how people can sit and stare at a 4" to 5" smart Phone all day watching TV shows. It blows me away. If you can watch on a 5" phone, you can watch on a proper size TV. ( Assuming it has WiFi capability) Just turn on hot spot and connect. Simple as apple pie. It was amazing how many people here I have had to show that too. They sit and watch their phones and I ask why, they say cable/internet bad. I ask, can you watch on your phone? Yes, no problem. Then watch on your TV. Of course if you have a pay as you go type phone deal then you are SOL. So step up and buy an unlimited package and call it a day.

As others noted Shutree, Paragraphs help.

[malmomike77]

A lot of the problem is that they are paid peanuts and if they lose their job they can always walk into another, at least pre-COVID they could, coupled with not having a boss around to hold them to account. It does seem to be getting worse though.

[Edmond]

in a coffee shop I ordered and sat and, there being no other customers than the gf and I, after nearly 5 minutes (no exaggeration) I stood up and returned to the counter to ask about my coffee. The barista looked up from her phone, returned to planet earth, eyes opened wide and she burst into peels of laughter. She had completely forgotten my order.

If they walk perpendicular to the wind they start to whistle.

[Shutree]

As others noted Shutree, Paragraphs help.

Mea culpa. I just jumped on my soap box and ranted and jumped off again.

I should really have taken the time to go to the 'Advanced' view and see what it looks like. Not an excuse but the TD drafting window is small, better suited for shorter messages.

[Shutree]

If you can watch on a 5" phone, you can watch on a proper size TV. ( Assuming it has WiFi capability) Just turn on hot spot and connect.

For me, this is a yes and a no.

I can open the hotspot on my phone and run the tv from that Internet connection, yes. I can watch on the tv what is playing on the tv.

Can I watch on the tv what is playing on my phone? No. My phone has apps which are not on my tv and I'd like to cast my phone screen on to the tv. I know it is possible and I have even, very briefly, seen a photo from my phone on the tv screen. The two things each know the other is there, they just don't want to talk.

I guess it just isn't important enough to me to figure out exactly why it sort of nearly works sometimes. Old cars can be like that, modern electronics are generally more consistent.

[Joe 90]

I'm perturbed!

I inadvertently scratched my arsehole whilst slumbering to the toilet this morning then picked my nose with the same finger.
I had a shower and thorough clean .
Unfortunately I have been getting random wafts of said smell all morning.

You live and learn....