Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Takes me back - I can't remember the nth shot you should shoot the flying saucer with to get the maximum (300?) points.

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Plateman,

One of the funniest posts I have seen on this thread. Pity it's all true. Have e-mailed it to everyone I know.

Regards Greek.

Funny, no.
Tragic,yes.

Ref post 7932

Just had a fun few days.....

Our car is a LandCruiser and I absolutely love it. It's mostly in an immaculate condition and it's obvious to all and sundry we're quite proud of it as well as very pleased with it.

Horror of horrors!

The car remote wouldn't seem to work on our own drive! It wouldn't lock or unlock the car and if you used the master key to manually unlock the vehicle, then the alarm sounded. In fact it even sounded and continued to sound even when one of us started the engine and drove off.

The noise was horrendous! And so embarrassing, too! What a din!

And what a bummer problem because we didn't know what the hell was wrong. Investigation and experimentation revealed the remote would work when the vehicle was not too far distant from our home. So it was only on our own drive and in front of our own home, that the alarm and remote wouldn't work.

Aaaargh!

We took the vehicle twice to the dealers. They couldn't help. They re-set the whole thing up and re-matched the alarm to the keys. Everything seemed to work OK at the dealers and in fact, it seemed to work everywhere else too.

Except when we got home. Click. Nothing. Click, click, click. Nothing, nothing, nothing!

So......a lot of research on t'Internet told me that most likely problem was that something in close proximity, and most probably within our home, was continuously emitting a 433MHz frequency signal. This was the same frequency as the car alarm, you see. Everything pointed to us getting continually transmitted, localised interference.

Has someone bugged the car? Is someone messing up the alarm so as to steal it?

Hmmm?

And then 'Bingo!' I found out the culprit!

I had both moved and changed the batteries in one of those 'Wireless Weather Station' thingummies. It seems they also run at 433MHz.

I took out it's batteries. It stopped transmitting. Car alarm sorted.

I don't want to stop using this thing . It automatically receives the exact time from the Rugby transmitter. It has two satellites from it to tell us the temperature. One is in the loft near the water tank. The other is in the garden on one leg of the pergola post.

Hmmm? Perhaps I can find another location for it? Or maybe use weaker batteries?
Anyhow, I'm not upsetting my neighbours now and I can lock up my car with its remote once again.

I hope it doesn't happen to you. If it ever does, you'll know what causes it.

You might just be opening a can of worms there Exec!!! ;o)

Fascinating stuff. These MHzs etc are beginning to have a little war all of their own; will the day come when nothing works any more because they are all in competition with each and jamming their own signals? Pass me my abacus.

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Good news today.we are out of recession.its official. the economy grew 0.1% last quarter, that means we are now officialy out of recession. phew! thank goodness for that. what has always puzzled me is why it takes 2 quarterly results before officialy being in one and yet just the one to officialy come out. no matter. about time we had some good news somewhere.
regards
jkd

I wouldn't mind that 0.1% in my pay packet.



OH!




I forgot that it already is in the hands of the bankers and MPs' expenses.

re my post 8039
forgot to add the LOL
regards
jkd

Just had a call from one of these insurance bods, they know my name, telephone number, and home address, and, quoting The Data Protection Act they want ME to confirm my name and post code to THEM to ascertain that I am the person at that address they want to speak to. THEM being someone I don't know and have no way of checking whether they are bonafide or not, these people seem to think the DPA is a one way thing. Really p----s me off.
2517

i had a call from my bank couple of weeks ago, before they could tell me what it is about they wanted to confirm some private details just to be sure they were talking to the correct person. but you called me i said.yes say they but for security reasons i just need to be certain i am talking to the right person. is it important and urgent i ask. if so i will go into my local branch to discuss. talk about apologetic, no, no, it is nothing to be concerned about and visiting your local branch is not required.
hopefully they will have it on record and not call again.
regards
jkd

I had a query with SKY back along which is in my wife's name, so I rang them and a rather sensible girl asked me several questions about my wife which I answered and she then sorted out my query. Two weeks later different query and I get a chap who can't speak to me because the account is in my wife's name, never mind it's paid from our joint bank a/c. So I give the phone to my wife and the guy asks her name and date of birth and that's it, she could have been anyone with knowledge of those basic details even our next door neighbour.
2517

I agree with the comments above.

Our water is supplied by Anglian Water. They have only recently had an online payment facility. Ordinarily for a supply like this we would have automatically set up a Direct Debit for paying the water bill. However, with these people we hadn't done.

So, we got a bill through the post and I would try to use online banking to pay it, but wouldn't easily be able to do so. When and if my wife dealt with it, well, she just fired them off a cheque.

One day, we got a letter from our bank telling us we could now pay Anglian Water with a new online facility. It was called OneVu

Then recently, we got an e-mail, apparently, via the bank to say there was an even newer facility to pay Anglian Water. It's OneVu under a new name. It's these guys:

http://www.mybillsonline.co.uk/

Actually, it seems they have only just kicked off in the UK and only have just a few organisations signed up thus far. Anglian Water being one of the few.

Well, I had a look at the site and because of the banking payment facility thingy, I appear to already be signed upon to them, complete with a Username and Password.

So why am I telling you about them?

Well, their security questions are so very, very basic! D of B, that kind of thing. The questions they require the answers to really are so very simple and basic.

BUT they say they can also help me pay my credit card bills too! Behind all the very few water and electricity companies and the like that they can list (less than 10), they also want to know what credit cards I use and piles and piles of other such similar information about where and how I might be spending my money.

I thought to myself, "You guys are joking! I'm not telling you all that information!"

They haven't yet even got signed up with the credit card companies and such like. I guess they are just building leverage to go and talk to them. And, as I say, their security information requirements and safeguards are so basic as to be pathetic. Anyone could get hold of them and find them out and then get into this site and swipe loads of information about you.

Steer clear of them, is my advice. Steer well clear of MyBills Online

And another thing.....

My bank is very open plan.

If I go in to ask them something and they have to call over a colleague from another monitor and it's likely to keep them away from that monitor for more than a few minutes, then the colleague has to go back to and log out of that monitor.

I thought, "Why?"

I guess the answer is, that someone else could do something on that monitor or station, whilst logged in on the other original colleague's details.

ie. They don't trust each other.

Now if they don't trust each other then which amongst them are the ones that we also should not trust?

My experence of it was that the junior colleague fetched over the senior colleague and it was the latter, the senior colleague, who then went back and logged out.

So was it she who could be trusted? Or was it she who didn't trust ANYONE else, particularly the junior guys?

The mind boggles on it, eh?

Hmmm? They also film you and record it all on CCTV too.

Hmmm? I don't think they trust the customers either. These are dark days, indeed.

just read a thread that is not there
still searching
regards
jkd

What odds Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner getting the old tin tack?he is currently squirming.great viewing.

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World,

A job centre in Thetford, Norfolk, refused a job advert because it contained the word, 'RELIABLE', as it would discriminate against 'unreliable' people.

I suppose words such as, Honest, Punctual, Enthusiastic, Loyal, Hard working, etc will also be liable to discriminate for similar reasons.

After publicity re this the add was accepted.

You couldn't make it up.

I have been to Thetford on a number of occasions Greekmanlet me tell you nobody there is reliable!!!
Getting back to Geithner and come to that Paulsonthey believe all Banks are equalit is just that Goldman Sachs appears to be more equal than mostby by GeithnerObama will give him the hook