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Random Irritations

SwingsitlikeHogan said:
We pay for my sons mobile phone on the same account as my wife's. Due to massive untracked (and hence unexpected) cost of download data in the past she asked Vodafone to put a monthly cap of £24 on the cost each for them both. This was done. As soon as either of them exceeded their £24/month cap they'd get sent warning messages. Their bill this month was over £100 - and no messages received by her or our son. She called Vodafone and they agreed their system had not sent the text messages. And she got the bill reduced to £48.

This is excellent but all well and good. If a DD had been set up to automatically pay the monthly charge we'd now be in that mess of trying to get money back from them. And we shouldn't have got to the £100+ bill position.

The incompetency of Vodafone over the years has been staggering - she keeps intending to move and I don't honestly know why she hasn't. That said - we must find out why the heck they've used so much data. Now that really irritates me. That a mobile/smart phone bill can be over £100 a month...when we have unlimited broadband at home.
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Perhaps link your wifes phone to the home wifi to start with.
Whilst they don't do business account, Smarty is pretty good for 30 day rolling contract mobile's. I swapped to them from Virgin a while back, and have saved quite a bit:)
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
We pay for my sons mobile phone on the same account as my wife's. Due to massive untracked (and hence unexpected) cost of download data in the past she asked Vodafone to put a monthly cap of £24 on the cost each for them both. This was done. As soon as either of them exceeded their £24/month cap they'd get sent warning messages. Their bill this month was over £100 - and no messages received by her or our son. She called Vodafone and they agreed their system had not sent the text messages. And she got the bill reduced to £48.

This is excellent but all well and good. If a DD had been set up to automatically pay the monthly charge we'd now be in that mess of trying to get money back from them. And we shouldn't have got to the £100+ bill position.

The incompetency of Vodafone over the years has been staggering - she keeps intending to move and I don't honestly know why she hasn't. That said - we must find out why the heck they've used so much data. Now that really irritates me. That a mobile/smart phone bill can be over £100 a month...when we have unlimited broadband at home.
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Could it be that your phone(s) need to have the "mobile data" setting switched to off.
If it is left on then data is used by the phone without you as the user doing anything. Automatic updates and so on.
If you have the mobile data setting at "off" then the only time your phone uses data is when the user wants to use it. Of course, it means you have to change the setting to "on" each time you use the internet, but at least you won't be spending more than you thought.
HTH
 
harpo_72 said:
Neighbour telling me the trampoline is an eye sore and I should put it somewhere else in my garden... which is true but you keep that to yourself when your house looks like a favela and is a complete eyesore, although his garden is nicely maintained ???
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Many moons ago when our children were young and we had a trampoline n our garden - our elderly neighbours complained about the noise our children were making as they bounced about enjoying themselves. Ach well. Until we moved in they'd had 30yrs with an elderly lady next door who was quiet as a mouse...
 
I'm no fan of Joe Wicks by any means, but isn't he donating all of the money generated from his "PE Lessons" to charity? He's obviously making money elsewhere from the growth in popularity of his brand (as he rightly should), but to be fair, he's getting people active that weren't previously and is donating all profits to charity, fair play to the bloke.
 
Reading about arsewipes (sorry mods can't spell arsonists ?) who set a fire in ancient woodlands in Northumberland... By all accounts one of the few areas red squirrels could be seen...
 
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Dan2501 said:
I'm no fan of Joe Wicks by any means, but isn't he donating all of the money generated from his "PE Lessons" to charity? He's obviously making money elsewhere from the growth in popularity of his brand (as he rightly should), but to be fair, he's getting people active that weren't previously and is donating all profits to charity, fair play to the bloke.
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He only agreed to donate the money after he saw his following explode. Realising that that kind gesture would probably increase it further....
 
patricks148 said:
the local idiots have vandalised fairways driving range. thenew owners spent a small fortune on sims in all the bays and a load of cocks have smashed them all... i despair:cry:
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Systematically smashing every screen in every single bay doesn't sound like a random act of vandalism. More like a targeted act of retribution.
 
Dogs renewal for insurance came through..he's only 4 but he apparently won't last the summer with his liver problem

Was £32 a month. Now £66. Ouch. Cheers for that
 
Orikoru said:
Having to work with idiots. Even over email. :cautious:
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Especially when they email to ask you what you need to process their request, you give them precise instructions as to what to do & they then do something different because their mate in the office told them they didn't need to do what I said.

If your mate knows better, why ask me? And now you've asked me, do what I've told you for crying out loud; I'm processing it, I know what I need. What makes it worse is that I was trying to save them a fortune; almost wish I processed the incorrect form & cost them.
 
Orikoru said:
I've been playing CM01/02 for the last year since I found the old disk at my parents' house. But unfortunately a few days back it basically crashed with a 'system memory' error which doesn't let me save or load new games, in fact it lost my current save that I had nearly 4 seasons on. Which is partly why I bought the new one, as I say I'm slightly regretting the fact that I did, but I'll probably play it still. It just takes some getting used to when you've been playing the near-20-year-old version. :LOL:

Actually where did you get that 97/98 download from?? Sorely tempted myself - I think that was the first one I ever had when I was a lad. Remember some legendary names on there, like Jose Chilavert in goal and Michael Twiss in attack!
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I feel your pain. The 97/98 version is very basic, but great fun and a good way to while away the hours without getting bogged down in tactics and training regimes. The instructions I were sent are here:

1. Download a free version of the game at www.fmscout.com/a-championship-manager-9798-free-download.html

2. Download a MSDOS emulator. DOSBOX is free

3. Install the emulator and save a shortcut to your desktop.

4. Unzip the CM9798 file download

5. Drag and drop the CM2E16 file into your emulator icon on your desktop

6. It will load from there

Ha funnily enough, I’ve signed Michael Twiss. Teddy Lucic, Graeme Tomlinson, Erik Nevland etc still on my list.
 
Being woken up at some time between 2 and 3 am by my wife because she cannot sleep. Then being told she has got a Waitrose click and collect spot and wants to discuss what’s on the order .. then she goes to sleep before me whilst I ponder the dilemma of what we need !
 
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