Random Irritations

[Lord Tyrion]

Wouldnt happen with cold hard cash

No, with cash you would feel every bit of the pain

 

[Imurg]

A communication fron British Gas informing us that our Smart Meter must be replaced as it will stop functioning properly at the turn of the year.
It's free ( we actually get a 30 quid rebate for the inconvenience ) and will only take a couple of hours....
Bearing in mind that I gotmthe letter today I rang up and booked a date and they're coming on the 19th...........of January
Er........OK...so 3 weeks without a properly functioning smart meter.
This could get interesting......

 

[backwoodsman]

A communication fron British Gas informing us that our Smart Meter must be replaced as it will stop functioning properly at the turn of the year.
It's free ( we actually get a 30 quid rebate for the inconvenience ) and will only take a couple of hours....
Bearing in mind that I gotmthe letter today I rang up and booked a date and they're coming on the 19th...........of January
Er........OK...so 3 weeks without a properly functioning smart meter.
This could get interesting......

Not as possibly problematic as ^^^ - but got message from Virgin Media today saying that (as as agreed), they'd be disconnecting our service soon. A mere 7 days after having done so . (Why does the phrase 'good riddance' have such a nice ring to it ...)

 

[cliveb]

'Drumeo' on YouTube does a series where they get drummers to play on other styles of music that they're maybe not familiar with, listen to a popular song with the drumtrack removed, and see what drums they come up with. It's a great series and very enjoyable, but I just can't believe some of the songs these guys have supposedly never heard before! One I watched last week they had a drum teacher from Juilliard who reckoned he'd never heard Nirvana's In Bloom before. Seems unlikely, but ok. Now I've just watched one with the drummer from Megadeth on - they play him Mr Brightside by the Killers and he claims he's never listened to that before. Come off it! I refuse to believe anyone on earth hasn't heard that song! They have to be having us on??

The world is a large and varied place. There is vastly more stuff out there that each of us isn't aware of than stuff we are.
I didn't recognise the names of those songs, so I checked them on Spotify just to see if I had heard them without knowing their names. I hadn't.
But I'm from a generation or two before you. I bet I know a heap of iconic songs from the 60s and 70s that you've never heard of.

I do have to admit, however, that YouTube videos of "first time hearing Stairway to Heaven" does seem a little difficult to believe

 

[Orikoru]

The world is a large and varied place. There is vastly more stuff out there that each of us isn't aware of than stuff we are.
I didn't recognise the names of those songs, so I checked them on Spotify just to see if I had heard them without knowing their names. I hadn't.
But I'm from a generation or two before you. I bet I know a heap of iconic songs from the 60s and 70s that you've never heard of.

I do have to admit, however, that YouTube videos of "first time hearing Stairway to Heaven" does seem a little difficult to believe

Mr Brightside is ridiculously overplayed though. You could flick through a couple of radio stations and hear it twice a day. It's on TV programs, it'll be playing in shops and pubs that have music on. It is without doubt one of the most-played songs of all time - for a long period it was impossible to avoid. I don't think anything from the 60s or 70s can possibly have the same level of over-exposure due to the internet age etc. And this guy is the drummer from Megadeth, so while it's obviously not the same genre, it's not a million miles away from it, like he's a jazz drummer or something. If someone told me they'd never heard Mr Brightside, I'd assume they just don't hear music at all because they're not into - I'd be shocked if they then told me they're not only into music but in a band.

 

[cliveb]

Mr Brightside is ridiculously overplayed though. You could flick through a couple of radio stations and hear it twice a day. It's on TV programs, it'll be playing in shops and pubs that have music on. It is without doubt one of the most-played songs of all time - for a long period it was impossible to avoid. I don't think anything from the 60s or 70s can possibly have the same level of over-exposure due to the internet age etc.

Well, maybe I have heard it in passing, but I certainly didn't recognise it when played on Spotify.
But that might be because it sounded pretty much just like most other so-called "rock" songs released this century, so it wouldn't have registered even if I had heard it.

 

[Hobbit]

Well, maybe I have heard it in passing, but I certainly didn't recognise it when played on Spotify.
But that might be because it sounded pretty much just like most other so-called "rock" songs released this century, so it wouldn't have registered even if I had heard it.

Well, I’ve just YouTube’d Mr Brightside… never heard it before. But, equally, the radio station that’s on in the car plays 95% 60-70-80 + 5% of the odd modern track.

 

[Imurg]

I know of thensong and have probably heard it but I couldn't hum the tune or recite any lyrics....
Quite easy to hear a song by a band, not get into it and never pay them any attention again...

 

[Imurg]

Another PITA trip to Tesco earlier...
Everywhere I wanted to be there was someone having a shopping experience and taking 5 minutes to decide between product A and product B......just pick one!!
Then the, seemingly, weekly pillock who can't be bothered with a basket or a bag and drops something smelly and sticky in the most inconvenient place resulting in a 10 minute queue to exit....
And the 2 blokes trying to buy 100..yes 100...tubs of Quality Street when the maximum is 10.
They started kicking off and security had to be called.....
Jeez..........

 

[PJ87]

A communication fron British Gas informing us that our Smart Meter must be replaced as it will stop functioning properly at the turn of the year.
It's free ( we actually get a 30 quid rebate for the inconvenience ) and will only take a couple of hours....
Bearing in mind that I gotmthe letter today I rang up and booked a date and they're coming on the 19th...........of January
Er........OK...so 3 weeks without a properly functioning smart meter.
This could get interesting......

Unless you are on a smart tariff a non functional smart meter won't be an issue. It will just be a dumb meter and they will take the readings when the meter is changed and you won't notice

 

[Fade and Die]

Unless you are on a smart tariff a non functional smart meter won't be an issue. It will just be a dumb meter and they will take the readings when the meter is changed and you won't notice

On this, if anyone has a digital key meter and it goes blank don’t report it, the default is Free Vend.

 

[ColchesterFC]

Mr Brightside is ridiculously overplayed though.

Certainly is in our house. Younger Colch jnr is learning to play the guitar and that's one of his favourite songs to play. I must hear it at least ten to fifteen times a day. I've been away working for 10 days so far and any time a tune pops into my head it's that one.

 

[Beedee]

'Drumeo' on YouTube does a series where they get drummers to play on other styles of music that they're maybe not familiar with, listen to a popular song with the drumtrack removed, and see what drums they come up with. It's a great series and very enjoyable, but I just can't believe some of the songs these guys have supposedly never heard before! One I watched last week they had a drum teacher from Juilliard who reckoned he'd never heard Nirvana's In Bloom before. Seems unlikely, but ok. Now I've just watched one with the drummer from Megadeth on - they play him Mr Brightside by the Killers and he claims he's never listened to that before. Come off it! I refuse to believe anyone on earth hasn't heard that song! They have to be having us on??

(For the record, I very much liked what he came up with, probably better than the actual song.)

Really liked the one where Domino Santantonio played Slipknot for the first time.

btw - totally agree about the Megadeth / Mr Brightside one!

 

[Mudball]

Whats that for? Buildings and contents combined?

Yes building and content .. Surrey pricing

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I could have put this in the laughter thread, it could go either way.

A customer placed an order last night, their account is on hold because they have overdue invoices. I tell them this.

I come in this morning to an email which points out that according to their payment terms everything is fine. 1/ It is is our payment terms that matter, clearly marked on every invoice 2/ Even by their payment terms they are still overdue

Pay up, the order is going nowhere.

 

[Beezerk]

People who set an alarm for x o clock then hit the snooze button three times.
Sleep thieves

 

[jim8flog]

Not having a deg symbol is a pain but surely typing deg or degs is quicker than all the alt etc.

 

[jim8flog]

'Drumeo' on YouTube does a series where they get drummers to play on other styles of music that they're maybe not familiar with, listen to a popular song with the drumtrack removed, and see what drums they come up with. It's a great series and very enjoyable, but I just can't believe some of the songs these guys have supposedly never heard before! One I watched last week they had a drum teacher from Juilliard who reckoned he'd never heard Nirvana's In Bloom before. Seems unlikely, but ok. Now I've just watched one with the drummer from Megadeth on - they play him Mr Brightside by the Killers and he claims he's never listened to that before. Come off it! I refuse to believe anyone on earth hasn't heard that song! They have to be having us on??

(For the record, I very much liked what he came up with, probably better than the actual song.)

Who are they?

 

[jim8flog]

And the 2 blokes trying to buy 100..yes 100...tubs of Quality Street when the maximum is 10.

Buying 100
Could have gone to LIDL and saved £50

 

[Robster59]

Who are they?

Some pop bands that appeared after The Seekers and Racey.