What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)

[HoffmanMyster]

And I thought this story was over....

I finished my online chat session organising delivery of a replacement router and gave my number telling them not to ring me but they needed it for the delivery man, fine.

It's 10pm, I'm in bed, I have work tomorrow... My phone rings... It's BT support in the strongest Indian accent you can imagine over a terrible line, apparently this woman has been logging into my router, changing settings and generally ****ing around without my permission and knowledge.
It's 4 ****ing hours after my chat with support how the **** can she be ringing me at 10pm telling me this random ****?!?!


WHAT THE ****ING ****

DO you have to use the BT router?   I always just buy my own, get a better model and have full control.

I don't have too, but when I got it I figured my connection wouldn't be great and in the past when I've been with BT and had a problem they have tried to 'solve' its been a nightmare (yeah even worse) if you have a 3rd party router.
Hell I remember one time a guy wanted to remote into my laptop to access something and I was running a beta of Windows 7 and I had to spend 20mins explaining what it was and why it wasn't XP...

I've never even had an ISP try to remote in to my computer (or heard of it).  That seems really strange, to be honest.

Also that still sounds like a miserable company to do business with.

[baldgye]

And I thought this story was over....

I finished my online chat session organising delivery of a replacement router and gave my number telling them not to ring me but they needed it for the delivery man, fine.

It's 10pm, I'm in bed, I have work tomorrow... My phone rings... It's BT support in the strongest Indian accent you can imagine over a terrible line, apparently this woman has been logging into my router, changing settings and generally ****ing around without my permission and knowledge.
It's 4 ****ing hours after my chat with support how the **** can she be ringing me at 10pm telling me this random ****?!?!


WHAT THE ****ING ****

DO you have to use the BT router?   I always just buy my own, get a better model and have full control.

I don't have too, but when I got it I figured my connection wouldn't be great and in the past when I've been with BT and had a problem they have tried to 'solve' its been a nightmare (yeah even worse) if you have a 3rd party router.
Hell I remember one time a guy wanted to remote into my laptop to access something and I was running a beta of Windows 7 and I had to spend 20mins explaining what it was and why it wasn't XP...

I've never even had an ISP try to remote in to my computer (or heard of it).  That seems really strange, to be honest.

Also that still sounds like a miserable company to do business with.

It's never been this bad to be honest, in the past I've not had a huge problem with there service it's just been in the last 3 months or so things have become erratic and then this last week has been a nightmare of insane connection speeds (down to 0.3mb/s) and constant d/c's... and then topped off with this pretty outstanding customer service...

Suffice to say that if this isn't sorted by next week (when I get back home) I'll be making a formal complaint, canceling my service and switching to someone else and just putting up with paying the extra for line rental (yeah the UK's infrastructure is great, BT have a total monopoly on all phone lines that arn't fiber so regardless of your ISP you have to pay BT unless your one of the few people who's lucky enough to get fiber).

[iri]

half of what i pay BT is line rental, even though i don't have a home phone.

[baldgye]

half of what i pay BT is line rental, even though i don't have a home phone.

Yup, I don't have a home phone either.
Your paying for your ISP to borrow the cables BT own, essentially. It means that BT own all the phone lines in the country and can have there own price nice and low while charging everyone else huge line-rental. It's why I originally went with BT...

[HoffmanMyster]

half of what i pay BT is line rental, even though i don't have a home phone.

Yup, I don't have a home phone either.
Your paying for your ISP to borrow the cables BT own, essentially. It means that BT own all the phone lines in the country and can have there own price nice and low while charging everyone else huge line-rental. It's why I originally went with BT...

Hooray for monopolies!

[baldgye]

half of what i pay BT is line rental, even though i don't have a home phone.

Yup, I don't have a home phone either.
Your paying for your ISP to borrow the cables BT own, essentially. It means that BT own all the phone lines in the country and can have there own price nice and low while charging everyone else huge line-rental. It's why I originally went with BT...

Hooray for monopolies!

unless u live in say london... ****ing cockney bastards

[iri]

oooh yes.

[baldgye]

Well today I was promised delivery of a replacement router. Get home from work, and guess what's missing?

[zombimuncha]

Well today I was promised delivery of a replacement router. Get home from work, and guess what's missing?

Ooh ooh I know this! Was it: "an apology"?

[baldgye]

Well today I was promised delivery of a replacement router. Get home from work, and guess what's missing?

Ooh ooh I know this! Was it: "an apology"?

And a router.

I've continued my long and now angry public chat with @btcare and they have told me it will arrive on Monday...

[ghostjuggernaut]

I have to drive 135 miles for pre employment physical. I find it hard to believe my local medical center couldn't do it.

[nubbinator]

I have to drive 135 miles for pre employment physical. I find it hard to believe my local medical center couldn't do it.

Baksheesh?

I also know some of those places have contracts with places and won't let you go elsewhere even if your insurance would cover it.  It can be a massive pain.  Just be glad you have a car to do it.  Imagine those people who rely on public transportation for stuff like that.

[ghostjuggernaut]

I have to drive 135 miles for pre employment physical. I find it hard to believe my local medical center couldn't do it.

Baksheesh?

I also know some of those places have contracts with places and won't let you go elsewhere even if your insurance would cover it.  It can be a massive pain.  Just be glad you have a car to do it.  Imagine those people who rely on public transportation for stuff like that.

Yeah that's how this is. They only work with a certain network, and the closest one is in St Louis. You are correct though, I'm not sure what I'd do if I couldn't make the trip. Rent a car I guess.

[HoffmanMyster]

I have to drive 135 miles for pre employment physical. I find it hard to believe my local medical center couldn't do it.

Baksheesh?

I also know some of those places have contracts with places and won't let you go elsewhere even if your insurance would cover it.  It can be a massive pain.  Just be glad you have a car to do it.  Imagine those people who rely on public transportation for stuff like that.

Yeah that's how this is. They only work with a certain network, and the closest one is in St Louis. You are correct though, I'm not sure what I'd do if I couldn't make the trip. Rent a car I guess.

I had to do that for my co-op when I was in school. No car and expected to travel 30 minutes outside the city when there's a huge medical center right on campus. Ugh.

[fohat.digs]

Well, it was I who was thoughtless in this case.

My apologies to all.

[burn1nsun]

That ingrown toenails and sinus infections exist

[ttzhou]

The transcendent cluelessness and stupidity of certain members of the human race rarely surprises me any more, but this:

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor, starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry.
I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
- Mariah Carey

is truly over the top.

Do you have a source for this? 

[demik]

The transcendent cluelessness and stupidity of certain members of the human race rarely surprises me any more, but this:

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor, starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry.
I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
- Mariah Carey

is truly over the top.

Well, it's not a real quote. So you can rest easy.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/carey.asp

[paicrai]

WE CALL THIS A DIFFICULTY TWEAK

STOP HITTING YOURSELF, STOP HITTING YOURSELF

[Evo_Spec]

damn it, i made this GON TKL w/ reds intending it for gaming use but it feels so amazing to type on compared to my K95 that it's making me either want to swap these switches with blues or build another custom for a daily use board.....

[paicrai]

think my gpu is dying

[katushkin]

I actually wanted to post something in the white supremacy thread and it got locked

Plus massively tired....

[paicrai]

I actually wanted to post something in the white supremacy thread and it got locked

Plus massively tired....

whats bothering me is the post right before it got locked
that **** was weak, son

[neverused]

I actually wanted to post something in the white supremacy thread and it got locked

Plus massively tired....

whats bothering me is the post right before it got locked
that **** was weak, son

I think it tied it up nicely. Put that thing to bed.

[baldgye]

>Told by BT my new router would arrive on Saturday
>It didn't
>Got told it would be with me by Monday
>It wasn't

[paicrai]

I actually wanted to post something in the white supremacy thread and it got locked

Plus massively tired....

whats bothering me is the post right before it got locked
that **** was weak, son

I think it tied it up nicely. Put that thing to bed.

yeah after you ignored my ****talk im sure youd want to

[demik]

Just got home from work. Have work in 4 hrs again and I can't fall asleep. ****.

[PunksDead]

Just got home from work. Have work in 4 hrs again and I can't fall asleep. ****.

Working overnights screws up my sleep so i try the bubble trick. Turn off all sound in your room and close your eyes. Imagine anything that pops into your head thoughts/songs/etc just floating away into a bubble out of your head. Keep repeating this as new things pop into your head, always works for me

[baldgye]

Turn off all sound in your room

I wish I could do this

[rowdy]

I plugged my USB stick in to the hub this evening - nothing.  I plugged a few other devices into various ports on the hub - nothing.

So I pulled the hub apart (it is a cheap Chinese thing) and it looks, well, ok inside, nothing obviously wrong.

Then I plugged a few devices directly into the USB port on the back of the computer - still nothing.  Tried a couple of USB port - still nothing.

Some USB devices were working (mouse, keyboard).

I rebooted.

Now everything is working again except the USB hub that is in pieces.

[neverused]

I actually wanted to post something in the white supremacy thread and it got locked

Plus massively tired....

whats bothering me is the post right before it got locked
that **** was weak, son

I think it tied it up nicely. Put that thing to bed.

yeah after you ignored my ****talk im sure youd want to

I'm sorry paicrai, I didn't mean to make you feel like I was ignoring you.

I just didn't feel that you made a valid point to reply to, though to be fair many times your replies lack meaningful content or any semblance of coherent thought.

[baldgye]

This pisses me off... Seasons 1 and 2 were perfect, same shape, same size, same placement of stuff... then season 3 gets all crazy with some special sleeve thing, FINE... but now what the **** is this **** with season 4 being ****ing thinner?! HOW IS IT NOT THE SAME SHAPE AS SEASONS 1 & 2?!

[katushkin]

Why is Better Call Saul only 10 episodes long?

[noisyturtle]

Pays for Amazon Prime

Packages still take over a week to arrive.

Ok then, so what am I paying for?

[katushkin]

Pays for Amazon Prime

Packages still take over a week to arrive.

Ok then, so what am I paying for?

Owch. I feel very lucky to get one day free delivery from the big yellow god.

[iri]

i ordered a ton of **** when on free prime.

what bothered me: i had a very tight day of work and free beers in the office were supposed to relax me... turned out to be budweiser

[tokidokijake]

Just got home from work. Have work in 4 hrs again and I can't fall asleep. ****.

I used to work 12 hours night shifts as a nurse and would have to sleep through the day...that **** sucked.

Anyways, get a good sleep mask and pop a benadryl, out like a light.

[katushkin]

Just got home from work. Have work in 4 hrs again and I can't fall asleep. ****.

I used to work 12 hours night shifts as a nurse and would have to sleep through the day...that **** sucked.

Anyways, get a good sleep mask and pop a benadryl, out like a light.

Can confirm, it sucks ass. Only sleeping 6 hours when you get back is crap as well.

[iri]

moldex earplugs + good sleep mask is my recipe.

[katushkin]

I don't tend to have trouble sleeping, it's just that if I sleep much longer than 6 hours, I lose the whole day.

[morpheus]

religious people and religion in general

[paicrai]

bloodborne is piss **** exclusive still but never forget that amazon leaked the pc port

[SpAmRaY]

Pays for Amazon Prime

Packages still take over a week to arrive.

Ok then, so what am I paying for?

Complain on chat they'll probably extend your prime membership a month or two, I think mine ended up getting extended to whatever the max was, like 6 months or a year, because packages kept being late.

[Lurch]

my chest

can't tell if getting sick or allergies

Why is Better Call Saul only 10 episodes long?

i feel you. it's a great show. i love pretty much anything bob odenkirk does.

[katushkin]

Solicitors are the worst people ever.

[baldgye]

Solicitors are the worst people ever.

careful

[nubbinator]

Solicitors are the worst people ever.

Are you talking about salesmen or lawyers?

[iri]

Solicitors are the worst people ever.

buying a house?

[katushkin]

Solicitors are the worst people ever.

buying a house?

Buying a ****ing house.

Solicitors are the worst people ever.

careful

Why?

Solicitors are the worst people ever.

Are you talking about salesmen or lawyers?

I'm buying a house. I paid my solicitors the initial £300 to start searches on the 24th of April. That money still hasn't left my account (I paid by cheque) and as of this morning, they hadn't told the seller's solicitors that they were actually working on our behalf. I called, left a message. Called back half an hour later, woman was in but couldn't find my file. Said she would call back when she found it. Called back half an hour later and she had "just found it". Said that they musn't have got their first email so they will send another.

At lease the estate agent is switched on, she seems to be chasing both parties every other day which is nice. Valuation from the bank is happening next Tuesday too. Gonna be on holiday in sunny Portugal, but I can't see anything going wrong

[Joey Quinn]

I lost some respect for my Dad today. Not sure if that's ever happened before.