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My GP's Surgery is spamming me. I just had a text message to say I am in the category for FREE COVID and Flu jabs and that they will be sending me a text in a couple of weeks' time to invite me along for a stabbing.

Wouldn't one text be sufficient?



Today, Burger King, 12:40

𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿: "Can I have a cheeseburger but without the cheese?"

I shit you not! 😱



I've had to revert back to horizontal desktops because Gnome 42.2 hates the Vertical Overview extension. Was having to Ctrl+Alt+F3 then Ctrl+Alt+F2 because the screen lock kept freezing then all the apps icons disappeared.
Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS is a lot happier now. :-(


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We're forever chucking stuff out. The Motherboard is probably knackered.
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You don't take out the RAM! Always keep the RAM. And the power supply.


When someone you haven't spoken to for probably twenty years phones you up: "Hi Pete, remember me? I've got some work you might be interested in quoting for." I'm ALWAYS interested in quoting for work.

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Our phone number must be on a list doing the rounds in India. We keep getting different people calling asking to speak to one of our customers whose website we, in fact, host, so it kinda shoots them in the foot when they ask: "Can I speak to Mr Mark S.... please?" straight away we know who they are.


Right, stop ya moaning! ASDA weekly shop. £22.00!
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Just claimed $0.01 (Curation?) reward #hive
Of course, no sympathy, so it's not worth saying anything.
#Hive
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How dare you quote back at me the very same attitude I present to folk who say, "Just found 2p in the road." 🤣



You can tell it's nearly back to school time. The #BBC has started its annual "Parents can't afford uniforms" reporting.
#bbc


Hmm? I've been hit by the gjs bug in Ubuntu 20.04

OK, OK, it's not a bug; it's supposedly an extension I've installed. Probably "Vertical Overview" but I hate horizontal desktops!





I can remember almost religiously selecting "Freebird" on the pub jukebox at least twice, if not three times, most nights, but I don't remember anyone or me, for that matter, singing along to it? 🤔



Waiting for our wonderful news outlets to start telling us we're all gonna drown from the thunderstorms. 🤦‍♂️


For all the people you see bemoaning Donald Trump, many of his policies are still in force and being actively pursued!
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Maybe it's not enough to focus on Trump, the person? Maybe America needs to think about itself?


I am running #Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish. Now for the remedial work!
1. Remove Google Drive from favourites.
2. Reinstate Vertical Desktops.
3. Reinstate Favourites bar hiding.
That's as far as I've got. #LeSigh


I'm always cold!

It has taken seven days, but my body has finally reached a temperature state whereby I cannot now stop perspiring. Last night was the first night I had trouble sleeping.



Had a customer's HDD [supposedly] go faulty and Windows no longer accessed it.
𝗘𝗻𝗴: "You got one of those shitty Linux PE disks?"
𝗠𝗲: "You mean live? I have an old one, yeah."
Voilà! Ubuntu 12.04 to the rescue!


Bugger! I think my #raspberrypi 4 is down at home. I wonder if the CPU has burnt out in this heat?

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It was highly recommended to use the 4 with active cooling. 😉


You know, I genuinely love @Grammarly and personally, I think it's well worth the money. Still, it's marginally crap regarding Twitter et al. because the AI doesn't understand you're effectively having a conversation on social media. So it has poor points of reference.



Little do they know, but I listened to the opening few minutes of @thebugcast last Friday and I have to say it must have been a very old recording because Dave and Caroline sounded waaay too young.



A couple of the lads have been working the last few days outdoors. One of them was sorting out the van when a bottle of sun tan lotion was dropped onto the floor.

𝗠𝗲: "What the...? You're supposed to be working! Next, you'll be showing me lip balm!"
𝗟𝗮𝗱: "Actually..."
🤦‍♂️



Why do fookers up the park jogging or on bikes insist on maintaining their line of approach towards you in an inevitable game of 'chicken' when there is ample room and time for them to maintain their momentum by either moving to the left or the right?



𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲
Yesterday you said: "If only." The day before, you said it too and the day before that. Today let's make it happen!
#BeExcellentToEachOther #TZAG #GoodMorning
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Hey! Today's a great day to top up your sun tan and down a couple of cheeky beers. Enjoy


For the love of the Pond Gods! Having seen Ozzy on the news, I now have "Paranoid" playing over and over in my head.


Are you allowed to get frustrated with someone when twenty-five years down the line, they still don't know what things are that they've placed orders for in the past?

Does it fix to the ceiling? No.
Is it clip-on? No.

It sits on a desk or shelf or cupboard; you can plonk it on a chair if you like! 🤦‍♂️



𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲
Say something nice to your mum today; some of us no longer can.
#BeExcellentToEachOther #TZAG #GoodMorning
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Charlie is taking advantage of the beers I'm enjoying and extorting numerous treats from me under threat of grassing me up to the wife in the morning.


Be my Wife.
Probably one of my favourite songs. I so hope he was smacked off his head when he recorded it, just like the video. Slightly crying inside, still numb he's gone.


Drinking beer and listening to Björk way too loud on headphones.


𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲
Today, at lunchtime, get out of the building and sit on a bench, ideally feeding the ducks.
#BeExcellentToEachOther #TZAG #GoodMorning
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It is. But no throwing a full uncut loaf at them and stunning the poor sods.


There's a large group of women outside The Chicken Shed. The woman in the paper shop asked if I knew what was going on. I replied: "I think they're protesting for Free Chicken for women!" she seemed to like that one. 🤣


Poor Charlie, I walk him every morning before work. Today, however, I had to come to the office early.

Charlie, as usual, came up to me, tail wagging like crazy: "Sorry mate, mum's going to have to walk you this morning." His tail stopped dead, and I swear to the pond gods, his face read. "WTF?"

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TBH, that was from yesterday when he came in to work with me to help me deal with a sales enquiry. I don't think "Have him dad!" is in the sales training manual? 🤣


If there's one thing I've learnt using #hive it's that members who use their mobiles for blogging and interacting far outstrip people like me who just use a PC or Laptop.
#ecency #community #blogging #rewards

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Yes, why wouldn't it be?


And so the tradition with my employer recommences after lockdown. I have just booked off every Friday and Monday through November and this side of Christmas December. That means five long weekends for me. \o/



𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲
You can't pay the gas bill with kind words, encouragement and worn-out examples sometimes you have actually to do something to help people.
#BeExcellentToEachOther #TZAG #GoodMorning
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This morning's game in the office is; to stay on the phone as long as possible because that way, you don't have to do anything else! I swear to The Pond Gods I heard one guy's voice in the hallway, and yet his extension line light was on??



𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲
The things you take for granted today we could only dream about fifty years ago!
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I was desperate for a magnum ice cream last night, but when the dog and I looked in the freezer, there was none. I did, however, find a tub of carte d'Or ice cream hidden under some frozen chicken breasts. When the wife finds out, I'm dead!