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Jose posted:that sucks whatevil For dad's funeral the undertaker provided a wheeled trolley under the coffin and my brothers and two oldest nephews escorted it. Same as you, two over 6ft and two 5ft 9s. We also had a tussle with the vicar over the final music - dad wanted a particular tune which us 'kids' were very up for (The Seekers Pearly Gates) vicar tried to stop us but we won. My sister is a fiercesome beasty despite her angelic good looks and ground him down. Ed: we openly discussed wishes with dad in the weeks before he died and I recorded them on card (mum was in total denial until a few days before he died) we had a believe-it-or-not good family evening a couple of weeks earlier with dad playing the hymns on the piano and singing along. Dad had a good relationship with the almighty. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Oct 26, 2020 |
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The Welsh Government has decided to limit non essential purchases during the firebreak lockdown. Apparently one tesco store said this included sanitary pads even though this isn't apparently true. Original tweet (screenshotted) https://twitter.com/JohnGeeMcCarthy/status/1320674366435299330?s=20 Welsh Govt response https://twitter.com/WelshGovernment/status/1320677011505991681 Basically it seems like tesco stores are doing blanket blocks on aisles even if there are essential products there: https://twitter.com/nicholasmith6/status/1320624139426779137?s=20
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Oct 26, 2020 12:14
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crispix posted:I'm in the small potato town close to there and in the summer a Tesco delivery man told me he had that day turned up at a house on a well known estate and a bloke sunbathing in the driveway wouldn't confirm the name on the delivery and got angry and abusive when the driver realised he was on the wrong street because he wasn't getting free other people's groceries Ahahahaha, £5 says I know where that was. Never change boys
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Stormgale posted:The Welsh Government has decided to limit non essential purchases during the firebreak lockdown. Apparently one tesco store said this included sanitary pads even though this isn't apparently true. Love the @piersmorgan like he's going to loving save the day.
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This nonessential products thing is ill thought out. Suppose your kettle stops working or your heating. Then a kettle and a heater become essential and can't wait til after lockdown. Likewise a blender if you have to make up formula for babies or soupy food for invalids. These are quite cheap in Home Bargains but they're not allowed to sell them. So you resort to Amazon or wherever. Unless the local hardware store sells them and they're 'allowed' but they cost 2-3 times more than in Home Bargains. I understand why Welsh Government has done it but a blanket ban on electrical items for example is not sensible.
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Oct 26, 2020 12:23
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Yeah it's dumb as poo poo. Closing the shops that normally sell them makes some sense, but closing the areas of the shops that sell them along with other essentials is just bafflingly stupid.
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Stormgale posted:The Welsh Government has decided to limit non essential purchases during the firebreak lockdown. Apparently one tesco store said this included sanitary pads even though this isn't apparently true. Who could have seen this coming, when the agile minds of WG made this loving stupid decision, designed to piss people off. The mad part is that they initially said it was to level the playing field because small non-essential shops would be shut, so it was better that people couldn’t buy non-essential things at all. Then they realised that’s insane and retrofitted a new explanation about reducing time spent in shops.
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Oct 26, 2020 12:25
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O great knowing thread, the usual broadband question, I'm afraid: Any good deals out there, with at least a semblance of reliability? I am on Post Office and its laughably crap. I hate to say it, but think BT might be best, and looking through Virgin reviews I think Myra Hindley had more fans.
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Oct 26, 2020 12:29
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Trickjaw posted:O great knowing thread, the usual broadband question, I'm afraid: Any good deals out there, with at least a semblance of reliability? I am on Post Office and its laughably crap. I hate to say it, but think BT might be best, and looking through Virgin reviews I think Myra Hindley had more fans. I've personally had good experiences with Hyperoptic and Vodafone. Currently on Sky which is acceptable but their router is very restrictive and it's not an easy task to change as they have some very specific configuration requirements. Unfortunately my choice was between Sky, BT and Virgin so it was the best of a bad lot.
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Oct 26, 2020 12:33
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Filboid Studge posted:Who could have seen this coming, when the agile minds of WG made this loving stupid decision, designed to piss people off. To be fair it wouldn't surprise me if Tesco was intentionally interpreting the rules badly/passing on poor guidance to staff, in order to create situations like these and drum up opposition to the measures/government.
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Oct 26, 2020 12:41
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Interesting dig into the conspiracy mindset from the author of Private Island.
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 Apologies if/when theblockflag turn out to be Nazis
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Trickjaw posted:O great knowing thread, the usual broadband question, I'm afraid: Any good deals out there, with at least a semblance of reliability? I am on Post Office and its laughably crap. I hate to say it, but think BT might be best, and looking through Virgin reviews I think Myra Hindley had more fans. I'm on virgin broadband- once I switched the incredibly lovely router/modem into just a modem and got my own router for WiFi stuff (30 quid or so tplink thing, next to zero effort/knowledge needed to do it) it hasn't given me a single issue whatsoever. Before that, I needed to reset the poo poo router/modem pretty much daily, and the wifi struggled to reach stuff in the same room with direct line of sight.
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I've not had any issues with Virgin personally, but I've also not had to deal with customer services. It also helped that they were giving everyone free upgrades to their newest router, which has worked a whole lot better than the shite they were supplying before.
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Oct 26, 2020 12:52
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Trickjaw posted:O great knowing thread, the usual broadband question, I'm afraid: Any good deals out there, with at least a semblance of reliability? I am on Post Office and its laughably crap. I hate to say it, but think BT might be best, and looking through Virgin reviews I think Myra Hindley had more fans. Usually the nerd recommendation is either Andrews & Arnold or Zen, though the former are definitely on the 'reassuringly expensive' end. I'm with the latter these days and they're fine? 
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Oct 26, 2020 12:56
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I forget what a tech-nerd bubble I live in sometimes. I was playing a game with some old friends last night, and they all agreed there were parts of the house they couldn't be in because the wifi wasn't good enough. Meanwhile I set up a basic LAN with Ubiquiti APs on every level the week we moved in, and I'm looking at replacing the router and segregating IoT stuff onto its own VLAN. [Homer yelling NEEEEERRRRRRD.gif]
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Oct 26, 2020 13:11
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I like DrayTek's mesh network stuff, PoE capable and plug and play mesh, so if you've got an area where you've got bad wifi or an area where you've got no network cable and you need a cabled network device or an area where you've got no power sockets and you do have network cable you can just slap one down and get range extension/network sockets. I also like that work paid for the one I'm using to WFH, that's a bonus.
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Oct 26, 2020 13:16
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Bobstar posted:Re speediness of funerals, what's the typical time between dying and funeral service in the UK? Though it's hard to give an accurate ballpark because he was disorganised as gently caress, kept losing things, forgetting paperwork, lying to customers and paying his bearers out of petty cash. Was fired because he was a prick who's SOP changed day to day, was constantly losing paperwork and expecting me to cover for him, would keep all his notes in his car and then expect me to know stuff he never told me, only hired me because his previous admin walked out, and fired me the moment she came back. Long ago enough that there's probably no way I could do anything about it. Somehow well respected local businessman except he had a previous conviction for switching ashes, and even after I left was found guilty of some shady dimissal processes at tribunal. Trickjaw posted:O great knowing thread, the usual broadband question, I'm afraid: Any good deals out there, with at least a semblance of reliability? I am on Post Office and its laughably crap. I hate to say it, but think BT might be best, and looking through Virgin reviews I think Myra Hindley had more fans. Our local exchange keeps overloading, throttling our upstream which then crashes our connection for half an hour. We had a few engineers out until eventually we got a supervisor who fitted a limiter that we 'shouldn't need if the exchange was working correctly.' The next level of escalation if it happened again was looking at the exchange, which they never did despite it happening numerous times after that. It was doing this constantly a few months ago until I reported directly to Openreach that the door on the exchange had been jimmied open. I also passed on the info about the upstream problems from the last engineer and although they insisted it was Virgin Media's issue, the next week there was an extra box fitted to the side of the exchange and we didn't have the problem any more. Everyone else around here is a bit middle aged and probably didn't notice their internet was poo poo as long as the telly was fine, so I think Virgin assumed it was just us. Annoying because the upshot was that matchmaking wasn't working in a bunch of games, it would just sit there trying to find opponents for about 10 minutes unless you joined someone else's game. Also had a lot of NAT issues due to the way the router / Virgin's connection upstream handles things, though that seems to have stopped recently. Hostorically they are very bad at keeping up with networking demands from gaming. Their router is terrible at being a router, even the new 3rd gen one they keep boasting about (it can't do UPnP properly and constantly needs resetting). The only plus points are that they gave me 6 months half price when I tried to leave, and they put a button on their service site that does the automated connection restart and diagnostic from their end that you'd normally have to phone up for. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Oct 26, 2020 |
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Oct 26, 2020 13:21
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Took 10 days to register dad's death before we could even start planning the funeral. Total time death to funeral 5 weeks. Logistical issues aside, that's much longer than any country I have experience with - people tend to be buried within a week after passing away. Some years ago my cousin died on Christmas morning (which is exactly as horrible as you might expect) and was buried on the 30th. It is often even faster in warmer countries for obvious reasons (e.g. 2-3 days). e: you mentioned Egypt which would presumably also do this? SixFigureSandwich fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Oct 26, 2020 |
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Oct 26, 2020 13:28
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Guavanaut posted:Interesting dig into the conspiracy mindset from the author of Private Island. I have a pet theory that the so-called paranoid style persists as background radiation at all times, as an essentially human constant, and underpins a great deal of the politics of people we don't normally hear very much from because they're not marginal participants in the political process it is when realignments are in the offing that suddenly these move to the forefront
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Took 10 days to register dad's death before we could even start planning the funeral. Total time death to funeral 5 weeks. I'm sorry for your loss, but I am curious how this jives with religious stipulations (Muslim ones specifically) that need the burial to be within 24 hours? I've had to do a death cert once coming off a night shift because the family needed the funeral ASAP for religious reasons.
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ronya posted:I have a pet theory that the so-called paranoid style persists as background radiation at all times, as an essentially human constant, and underpins a great deal of the politics of people we don't normally hear very much from because they're not marginal participants in the political process The actual subjects (heroes and villans, motivations) of the conspiracy and the number of people who find it plausible say more about the nature of the current realignment than whether there are people like Icke deep into the messianic struggle for the Weltgeist.
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feedmegin posted:When I first moved to America, I wanted to make pickled onions because they're expensive and hard to find imports over there (and often a bit soft because they've been sitting round too long). I remembered my dad always made pickled onions for Christmas so I phoned him up to ask for the secret family recipe. This is what he handed down to me: Haha I had much the same thought when I asked my dad about the "recipe". Although you did forget "pour in half a tub of pickling spice" to the vinegar so you get a load of peppercorns etc floating in it. Also brine the onions for 24 hours first. I tell you what the grocery delivery guys give you weird looks when they unload 2kg of onions.
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u brexit ukip it posted:Logistical issues aside, that's much longer than any country I have experience with - people tend to be buried within a week after passing away. Some years ago my cousin died on Christmas morning (which is exactly as horrible as you might expect) and was buried on the 30th. It is often even faster in warmer countries for obvious reasons (e.g. 2-3 days). Egypt is usually within 24hrs (or sundown of the day you die). There's no cremation and I'm not sure they do much by way of undertaking. I know in rural areas they sometimes find evidence in family crypts where the person was interred but not actually dead and tried to get out (in modern times not olden days). It's a Muslim thing to be buried same day but I expect the Copts do too (though I might be wrong).
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Z the IVth posted:I'm sorry for your loss, but I am curious how this jives with religious stipulations (Muslim ones specifically) that need the burial to be within 24 hours? Dad died in the UK. He was C of E. I'm not Egyptian btw just lived there.
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thespaceinvader posted:Yeah it's dumb as poo poo. Vaguely well meaning but systemically incompetent is very Welsh Government. And also what Jabby said: Tesco might be playing a game. I believe they were pretty bad at moving to majority deliveries compared to the other shops. They really don't like people not being in the stores. Regarde Aduck fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Oct 26, 2020 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:Vaguely well meaning but systemically incompetent is very Welsh Government. Everyone's going bonkers on my FB especially over essential electrical items, birthday cards and kids' books and toys. And.. this is bad for Jammy Crobyn who is getting the blame from some on account of Drakeford being a bit left.
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Trickjaw posted:O great knowing thread, the usual broadband question, I'm afraid: Any good deals out there, with at least a semblance of reliability? I am on Post Office and its laughably crap. I hate to say it, but think BT might be best, and looking through Virgin reviews I think Myra Hindley had more fans. I've honestly been with Sky forever and they've been great (including a free upgrade to fibre at one point) - I put a Google nest wifi in front of it to do local QoS and a pihole as DNS because i am a huge nerd
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Although you did forget "pour in half a tub of pickling spice" to the vinegar so you get a load of peppercorns etc floating in it. Also brine the onions for 24 hours first That's the thing, he didn't even do that.  pre-spiced vinegar like I said. Pickling spice per se is also not something that's easy to get in the US but as I say I basically made my own (did forget to mention peppercorns on top of the other stuff).I don't brine the onions in water or anything, just peel them and stick them in a colander overnight with a bunch of salt over them. Then on the day of, put spices and chilies in vinegar (apple cider works perfectly well if malt's hard to find), briefly bring it to a boil, let it cool, put onions into jars brushing most of the salt off, top with the vinegar up to the brim making sure you get an even number of chilis in each jar, put lids on jars, leave in the cupboard for at least a couple of weeks. Which reminds me, I need to make up my Christmas onions before too long!
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Big outbreak of covid cases around my hometown. Half the staff at Mum's local supermarket in isolation. Lot of cases in the special needs college as well, supposedly. A few old blokes my parents know by the names of the farms they grew up on in hospital. Blame falls on English tourists and hippy communes.
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Just letting the thread know that if you google "who invented amazon echo" you get the most English name possible.
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Z the IVth posted:I'm sorry for your loss, but I am curious how this jives with religious stipulations (Muslim ones specifically) that need the burial to be within 24 hours? I got asked to pop and see a palliative patient on my ward, never met them before, and then at 5.05pm exactly they died and all the other docs immediately cleared off. Turns out they were Muslim, and the family wanted the death cert that evening. It took three hours to get a manager to come down, go to the security office, get the key for bereavement, watch me write the death cert and give it to the family, then they had to complete a whole set of forms to release the body. If I hadn't offered to stay, it wouldn't have happened that night (and it was a Friday too, so probably not before Monday). We aren't well set up for it.
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Condolences whatevil, very sorry for you and yours  I also had to lift the coffin with my cousins and my grandma was NOT a light woman. We walked her coffin in to the service as the Doctor Who theme played very loudly and that combination of sadness, amusement and a very heavy object is etched into my brain. If she was watching she would have been offended then ultimately had to laugh herself
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Communist Thoughts posted:Condolences whatevil, very sorry for you and yours At my grandad's funeral I had to hold one of the corners as it was lowered into the grave & I was fidgeting & thoughtlessly wrapped the cord around my hand and when they started lowering the thing I almost fell into the grave. That'd have been cool.
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So sorry for your loss, WhatEvil. Also living abroad with my parents in the UK, your situation right now has been my nightmare the past few months. I hope you're able to take part in the funeral in some way.
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