Random Irritations

[PaulMdj]

That's one of the most wasted jokes known to man because when people don't know it means nothing and in this case I very much don't know

His name was Fish, ex-Para, great bloke, only downfall was he was a Chelsea fan, hardcore though, followed Chelsea home and away and across Europe.

 

[Bazz]

Why's it always the morons who pay for twitter that have got the worst opinions?

 

[jim8flog]

Glad his error of message has been cleared up
Doing weddings etc is a tough gig to crack, even more so since the world went digital. Long gone are the days you can just had over a few dozen pics in an album (I’m sure he’ll know this)

He mustn’t underestimate how many ppl book a photographer for those kind of days based more on personalities/behaviour/instantly building relationships. Lots of ppl can knock up decent pictures but lots would be unable to bond/communicate with 100 guests and in particular the couple

He might also consider corporate work for something a bit less time critical and a lot less emotional

I did a family wedding as an amateur photographer, doing a wedding gig is tough period.

 

[jim8flog]

My contract with BT is actually up, so I may take a look at them. Heard good reports.

If the problem is with the network changing provider will make no difference as they all use the same wires. Plusnet is part of BT.

 

[GreiginFife]

My contract with BT is actually up, so I may take a look at them. Heard good reports.

Plusnet’s standard hub is just a firmware hash of the BT hub (but white) and the WiFi is awful from it. We’re on a 900 FTTP connection and max the router will give when standing right next to it is 550ish. They also don’t support separating the 2.4 and 5GHz networks. You can switch one or the other off but not separate them.

We now use a TP Link AX3000 router with the Plusnet garbage in modem mode and at the same range get around 830-840 from the WiFi. Plus I have 2.4 and 5GHz networks separated for different devices.

 

[upsidedown]

Can see why they'd do it, as it's pretty expensive. Was once told the figure for us - I can't now remember it, but it was a heck of a lot.

I guess each club has to work out whether the cost of it justifies the return it gets by other means. (We kept Sky but ditched BT - as was - because couldn't justify both).

Last I heard at our place it was over £7,000

 

[Billysboots]

If the problem is with the network changing provider will make no difference as they all use the same wires. Plusnet is part of BT.

That’s the biggest issue I have - nobody can really say. Once the engineer has been, if the fault is rectified, I’ll look at switching. It’s just becoming a bit of a farce.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

If the problem is with the network changing provider will make no difference as they all use the same wires. Plusnet is part of BT.

It’s a little bit more complicated than that at the end of the day

Plusnet used infrastructure from a few companies

 

[Taz]

Plusnet’s standard hub is just a firmware hash of the BT hub (but white) and the WiFi is awful from it. We’re on a 900 FTTP connection and max the router will give when standing right next to it is 550ish. They also don’t support separating the 2.4 and 5GHz networks. You can switch one or the other off but not separate them.

We now use a TP Link AX3000 router with the Plusnet garbage in modem mode and at the same range get around 830-840 from the WiFi. Plus I have 2.4 and 5GHz networks separated for different devices.

First thing I did with BT was dump the hub ( before later dumping them)
Setting up your own router is pretty simple

 

[backwoodsman]

Last I heard at our place it was over £7,000

I had £6k in my mind, so you're probably right .

 

[GreiginFife]

First thing I did with BT was dump the hub ( before later dumping them)
Setting up your own router is pretty simple

BTs current FTTP offerings don't supply a hub that has modem only mode.

 

[Taz]

BTs current FTTP offerings don't supply a hub that has modem only mode.

I'm glad I am with a local independant now

 

[The Squirrel]

For a business I ditched BT and now pay significantly more for my cloud phone and internet services from a local independent AND AM VERY HAPPY WITH THAT. It’s worth every penny as now I phone up a bloke called Simon, on his own mobile number, who solves the issue or tells me how to (not that there are many any more). I used to bounce round nameless operatives in various BT departments and call centres on the phone, none of whom can communicate with the others or do what they say.

BT: Absolute shambles of an organisation.

 

[Billysboots]

For a business I ditched BT and now pay significantly more for my cloud phone and internet services from a local independent AND AM VERY HAPPY WITH THAT. It’s worth every penny as now I phone up a bloke called Simon, on his own mobile number, who solves the issue or tells me how to (not that there are many any more). I used to bounce round nameless operatives in various BT departments and call centres on the phone, none of whom can communicate with the others or do what they say.

BT: Absolute shambles of an organisation.

I recall the chaos when I first signed up for BT Infinity 2. For weeks they kept telling me I was connected when I wasn’t, they charged me incorrectly, made promises time and again that they failed to keep. It was so, so bad it was funny.

I stuck with them because, once connected, the service was top notch. Until the last twelve months, during which time it has been beyond awful.

 

[Oddsocks]

Putting a nice new suitcase onto easy jet Friday morning at Gatwick only for it to arrive in France with the wheel smashed off! Great had to carry a 19kg case about a mile two and from the station to the hotel.

No contemplating whether to claim on my holiday insurance for luggage damage, any one ever done it?

 

[Tashyboy]

That leaves me even more clueless then! Plus anything Piscine puts me further out of the equation I don't do water and can proudly say i've never passed a Military swim test, I'm very much a dry land mammal


Common misconception due to films and cinema that the Barratt is a Sniper rifle, it's more of an Anti-Material rifle. Due to the calibre of the rounds and velocity it's used more to disable vehicles, light armour or how it was taught to me to set off Explosive Ordnance /mines from a safe distance. It would leave a hell of a hole in an Engine block or penetrate through a moving vehicle, come out the other side and take out what's behind. Certainly something designed for maximum destruction and nothing would survive it.

Though I believe Americans can do range days with them and would probably class it as Sniper rifle for those purposes, the recoil if your not expecting it would do serious damage to your face so wouldn't surprise me if that is what it was from what you describe, good friend of mine has perforated ear drums from firing one and not having his ear defence correctly placed on his head. I never knew ear drums could bleed like that

That's actually quite funny the AK is hell of a reliable bit of kit as there is so little working parts to go wrong.

Fair enough, definitely didn't get the reference then.

Daughter who is in the Police firearms was telling me a story. When the bad people were using Lorrys as weapons in mowing folk down at markets etc, the police realised they never carried anything strong enough to go through an engine block. So off she and a few workmates went to west yorks to try out a few bigger guns. She tried one. Now she is probably 8 stone wet through and Fit as a butchers dog. She pulled the trigger and she swears her shoulder is still on the range. She said the recoil was brutal.
So roll back a few years to 2017. Tash and three other guys went to watch City v Monaco in Monaco. Mbappe, Bernado Silva, Mendy, and a few others tore City apart new ring piece. The following day we went into Nice before catching the plane home. Us four were sat in a beachfront restaurant having a lovely breakfast. One of the guys was halfway through his breakfast and suddenly got up. He went to the front door and looked left and right. He then went to the guy behind the bar and was rabbiting away in French. They both went back to the front door and the guy was pointing here here and here. He put a tissue to his eye and walked off. So we asked the guy what was that all about. He said “ I was sat here eating and I recognised something outside so I went and had a look”. He had recognised something from the Nice terrorist attack the year before. He asked the bartender about it and the bartender showed him that people died here, here, and here and loads sought refugee in the restraunt we were in. The guy walked off after he got emotional talking about it. Some ISIS guy decided to wipe out 86 people that day using a lorry as a weapon.
Those big guns. Hope there never needed.

 

[Pants]

Putting a nice new suitcase onto easy jet Friday morning at Gatwick only for it to arrive in France with the wheel smashed off! Great had to carry a 19kg case about a mile two and from the station to the hotel.

No contemplating whether to claim on my holiday insurance for luggage damage, any one ever done it?

Many years ago I had damage to my golf club flight bag (had fallen off the baggage trolley and burst the zip). Contacted the airline and they paid for a new bag. Not sure that would happen now though

 

[srixon 1]

His name was Fish, ex-Para, great bloke, only downfall was he was a Chelsea fan, hardcore though, followed Chelsea home and away and across Europe.

A former HFH champion too.

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

Previous poster who used an aquatic pseudonym. Has been long escorted from the premises.

Got to your post later in the day and, having no idea of the reference, thought "Well that sounds fishy" would be a witty reply. Then scrolled on and thought "Obviously not"

 

[venger]

April Fools Day.