Anything goes in The Snug, General Discussion's rebellious little brother. An off-topic den of iniquity where any subject not covered elsewhere may be discussed. Well, anything except golf, Star Wars and Arsenal.
Francoisvander or else wrote: ↑Fri Sep 16, 2022 8:20 pm
TV adverts that use classic songs and insert lyrics to fit what they are trying to sell. The most annoying at the moment is the Flash cleaner advert that unashamedly uses Queens Flash.
No, my friend, the most annoying is the know nothing, pathetic cultural pigmies that use Janis Joplin tracks to flog foul-smelling chemically polluted water in fancy looking bottles for pimply teenagers to give (at immense expense) to some old swamp donkey at Christmas, in the (usually vain) hope of giving her a portion.
[basically, I'm agreeing with you, but I really needed to get that off my chest...]
Yep, we were delayed by 60 mins into Stansted at 4am also, then had to wait an hour for the long stay bus due to the queue being longer than expected because of the delays.
OFT wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 9:43 am
Every time I open the snug seeing the When I Was Young thread and hearing the opening lines of Cliff Richards 'Batchelor Boy' in my head.
It's not just me is it? please say it's not just me :arry:
jastons wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 8:08 pm
Virgin Media Hub 3 and its piss poor WiFi coverage
A breathtakingly sh*t piece of hardware. They gave me a MH5 a couple months back - improved things a little bit but not significantly. Ended up re-cabling my front room to put it in a better place, and that’s kinda fixed it but still acutely annoying that ISP combination router/switch/wireless access points do all things so poorly.
I have a VM2 router (I think) with internal antennae. I still had my previous router with two external stub antennae, so after a quick bit of surgery the VM2 now has external antennae, which made a small but noticeable difference.
Yeh - the SH's are only decent for small coverage - if you have anything bigger than a 2 bed flat or old house with thick walls you are better off putting them in modem mode and running either : decent router with better external antennas, external APs (I run 5 Ubiquiti Pro-Lites) or a mesh environment.
Eggchaser wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 4:40 pm
Booking a short cruise to Amsterdam and being told on the morning of departure that we were now going to Cherbourg and Le Havre instead.