A 10mph speedball?
2 years ago
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Drinking on your own, or out with a few friends?
I spent most of last week in London, couple of beers each night catching up with either colleagues or old friends, didn’t drink as much as I used to but enjoyed them and felt fine the next morning.
I don’t drink much in the house, apart from the odd glass of wine with dinner, partly as Señora Mus doesn’t drink.
Mus: not ready to give up yet.
The number of people strolling around tube stations, staring at their phone, paying no attention to their surroundings seems to have increased significantly in the last few months.
Did you type this whilst in the tube?
Currently on the tube. The phone coverage is really ramping up. I've pushed post on this in a Northern Line tunnel. Which I presume is linked to Simons comment.
Most likely it has not, rather what has probably happened is that you have advanced to the next phase of being a grumpy old cunt who thinks everyone else is existing incorrectly*. It’s not that there is more of it, just that you’re less tolerant of it and, consequently more aware of it.
TLDR: Ok Boomer
*which they are, obviously
Next you’ll be telling me it’s unreasonable to apply a twelve month flying ban for those people who stop their trays after security screening to slowly unload them while everyone else’s tray gets backed up in the machine. (Five years for a second offence, death penalty on the third.)
Nothing shows the downhill of society like the announcements we now have on the tube telling people to please take their backpacks off their backs so there is more room on the train.
People having to be told to be decent with consideration for others, we are fucked.
Also, what probably triggered it was a phone zombie walking into me at London Bridge, after which I noticed the slow walkers i had to dodge who were staring down at phones.
We haven't done it for a while, so the "as long as the kiddies are happy that's all that matters" mob and the cutthroat partisan carnage causing school run huns are due another battering by vitriol.
Why does Will Hughes playing top flight football still annoy me?
I'm with you. It's because he is and has always been a smug, irritating prick on the pitch, and he started it at Derby.
For what it’s worth, I get the impression he hates all things Forest. So the feeling is pretty mutual
My Google Pixel 8 has IP68 waterproof rating. Supposedly ok in upto 1m of water for upto 30 minutes. Yesterday I dropped it in the sink and immediately pulled it out, yet 30 minutes later it turned off without warning and won't turn back on again. I can see water marks in the camera lens area. Fuck sake. Well, it's under warranty, so I'm going to take it to the 'Google Repair Partner' this morning. Except a little googling tells me that water damage is NOT covered by the warranty. How the fuck can they claim it has IP68 rating, yet a dunk in a bowl breaks it and isn't covered by warranty. Wankers. Expecting them to issue me a big bill to repair. Might have to do an insurance claim. I was going to take Miss Shady on a bike ride this morning but now kinda got to prioritise getting the phone fixed.
One of my favourite things is how proud consumers demonstrate a capability of their shiny new thing. Breaking it in the process.
Sorry shades.
For the record, there's all sorts of things that can go wrong with a waterproof seal on electronic devices. Water is quite clever at finding holes. Particularly if it has a bit of pressure to work with.
If a mobile phone doesn't immediately explode in a light shower, consider everything else a bonus.
They also regularly advertise their ability to survive a drop. Don't drop them. And armour them up with a shock absorbing case and tempered glass screen protector.
My phone is more important than my kid is the main takeaway here.
