Things that don't deserve their own thread

[Gumboot]

Slightly odd story - she says she only has 4 days to live after an accident

Virginia Giuffre in hospital after 'serious accident', spokesperson says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yl5vle2nmo

She has died by suicide at 41 years old.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ad-aged-41

[Uncle fester]

Slightly odd story - she says she only has 4 days to live after an accident

Virginia Giuffre in hospital after 'serious accident', spokesperson says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yl5vle2nmo

She has died by suicide at 41 years old.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ad-aged-41

Well that's shit. Leaves 3 children behind.

[Slick]

Slightly odd story - she says she only has 4 days to live after an accident

Virginia Giuffre in hospital after 'serious accident', spokesperson says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yl5vle2nmo

She has died by suicide at 41 years old.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ad-aged-41

Suspected we might be heading here. Poor woman

[Blackmac]

Slightly odd story - she says she only has 4 days to live after an accident

Virginia Giuffre in hospital after 'serious accident', spokesperson says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yl5vle2nmo

She has died by suicide at 41 years old.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ad-aged-41

Suspected we might be heading here. Poor woman

When you read about her upbringing and her families behaviour after her first interactions with Epstein you get the feeling that she didn't have much chance in life.

[Rhubarb & Custard]

I'm birthday shopping this morning and in going flat out on the imagination front I'm looking at sporting merch. In doing do I came across an item reduced in value, but not even close to reduced enough

https://f1store.formula1.com/en/mercede ... r5c2:po-17

I'd pay £2.....maybe.

Is the recipient under the age of 12?

Physically add 3 decades, mentally halve that

[Tichtheid]

Who knew?

[fishfoodie]

16 year old arrested.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... dApp_Other

I always found vandals to be the most senseless and despicable criminals. Whatever the maximum sentence is I hope this little Cnut gets it.

The UK's contenders for the Worlds dumbest criminals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg93k0950pt

Texting about it,
Keeping the wedge as a "Trophy",
and shooting a video of your crimes

[Slick]

Having an absolute nightmare with my business.

Yesterday morning emails stopped working and when I checked our website it redirected to a site offering our domain for sale. Turns out the IT guy that set it all up got my email and phone number wrong so they have been trying to contact me for payment etc but it hasn't been getting to me. Because they can't send me verification stuff as the details are wrong I've had to send loads of ID and information to their security team who have said it might take 72 hours before they can come back to me.

Do not need this.

[Slick]

Having an absolute nightmare with my business.

Yesterday morning emails stopped working and when I checked our website it redirected to a site offering our domain for sale. Turns out the IT guy that set it all up got my email and phone number wrong so they have been trying to contact me for payment etc but it hasn't been getting to me. Because they can't send me verification stuff as the details are wrong I've had to send loads of ID and information to their security team who have said it might take 72 hours before they can come back to me.

Do not need this.

[Sandstorm]

Having an absolute nightmare with my business.

Yesterday morning emails stopped working and when I checked our website it redirected to a site offering our domain for sale. Turns out the IT guy that set it all up got my email and phone number wrong so they have been trying to contact me for payment etc but it hasn't been getting to me. Because they can't send me verification stuff as the details are wrong I've had to send loads of ID and information to their security team who have said it might take 72 hours before they can come back to me.

Do not need this.

Same issue here this morning, the company credit card renewed and no-one in IT noticed the reminder emails that our payments weren't going through. Our domain went offline at 3am this morning.

Took some frantic phone calls this morning to restore service. Geek idiots down the corridor are getting slaughtered around the water cooler. !

[Slick]

Having an absolute nightmare with my business.

Yesterday morning emails stopped working and when I checked our website it redirected to a site offering our domain for sale. Turns out the IT guy that set it all up got my email and phone number wrong so they have been trying to contact me for payment etc but it hasn't been getting to me. Because they can't send me verification stuff as the details are wrong I've had to send loads of ID and information to their security team who have said it might take 72 hours before they can come back to me.

Do not need this.

Same issue here this morning, the company credit card renewed and no-one in IT noticed the reminder emails that our payments weren't going through. Our domain went offline at 3am this morning.

Took some frantic phone calls this morning to restore service. Geek idiots down the corridor are getting slaughtered around the water cooler. !

Really? Bloody hell, what are chances!

[mat the expat]

Having an absolute nightmare with my business.

Yesterday morning emails stopped working and when I checked our website it redirected to a site offering our domain for sale. Turns out the IT guy that set it all up got my email and phone number wrong so they have been trying to contact me for payment etc but it hasn't been getting to me. Because they can't send me verification stuff as the details are wrong I've had to send loads of ID and information to their security team who have said it might take 72 hours before they can come back to me.

Do not need this.

Same issue here this morning, the company credit card renewed and no-one in IT noticed the reminder emails that our payments weren't going through. Our domain went offline at 3am this morning.

Took some frantic phone calls this morning to restore service. Geek idiots down the corridor are getting slaughtered around the water cooler. !

Usually the sign of a controlling CFO type rather than an IT Bod - had any changes in that regard with archived emails?

[robmatic]

16 year old arrested.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... dApp_Other

I always found vandals to be the most senseless and despicable criminals. Whatever the maximum sentence is I hope this little Cnut gets it.

The UK's contenders for the Worlds dumbest criminals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg93k0950pt

Texting about it,
Keeping the wedge as a "Trophy",
and shooting a video of your crimes

I don't understand why they did it.

[Slick]

I always found vandals to be the most senseless and despicable criminals. Whatever the maximum sentence is I hope this little Cnut gets it.

The UK's contenders for the Worlds dumbest criminals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg93k0950pt

Texting about it,
Keeping the wedge as a "Trophy",
and shooting a video of your crimes

I don't understand why they did it.

Views and Likes probably.

It's very hard to understand

[Niegs]

The things you stumble upon.

[mat the expat]

^ Very good!

Loved the Commando nod

[Guy Smiley]

and now for something completely different...

[mat the expat]

and now for something completely different...

Having closed the pool for winter, I was actually looking at RC boats at the hobbystore at the weekend

[Guy Smiley]

Have a watch of that clip... she's a story worth knowing.

[mat the expat]

Have a watch of that clip... she's a story worth knowing.

I will!

I can see me recreating the Battle of Trafalgar on it in a few years!

[Slick]

Good to hear!

Yes, maintaining the rage is a thing - but at the very least, if he drops it later, most people return to it as adults

We went down to the clubs outdoor course for the first time at the weekend, absolutely amazing! It's situated in a corner of a stately home in stunning countryside. The actual area the club has is half wooded, half kind of grassland with a couple of small rivers running through it in a valley. We have 28 targets set up around the area (including 3D animal type things), a practice area and a lovely wee clubhouse with BBQ facilities. Totally private for club members and we were the only ones there on a sunny afternoon. Blown away by it.

Nice setup - I've just started shooting, Japanese style, at the local archery centre - it's an old quarry smack bang next to the largest hospital here (handy!)

I was the only one there last Saturday:

First outdoor competition of the season. The boy won his age group and I won the adult novice group!

[mat the expat]

First outdoor competition of the season. The boy won his age group and I won the adult novice group!

Hooked!

[Niegs]

This was a wild thing for the ol' algorithm to pitch to me!

[Sandstorm]

That’s crazy pre-school teaching!!!

[Kiwias]

https://packaged-media.redd.it/wom5jqf9 ... f60faca477

[Gumboot]

Reminded me of the "nark dog" scene in Drugstore Cowboy.

Police in Ohio were surprised to discover a pet raccoon called Chewy with a meth pipe in its mouth during a traffic stop in the town of Springfield.

In a statement, Springfield Township police department said that one of its officers, Austin Branham, made the stop after spotting a vehicle whose owner had an active warrant and a suspended driver’s license...

“As Officer Branham returned to the vehicle, he observed a raccoon named ‘Chewy’ sitting in the driver’s seat with a meth pipe in its mouth. Chewy had somehow gotten hold of a glass methamphetamine pipe, leading officers to further inspect the vehicle.”

Police then discovered a bulk amount of methamphetamine, some crack cocaine and three used glass meth pipes.

[fishfoodie]

16 year old arrested.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... dApp_Other

I always found vandals to be the most senseless and despicable criminals. Whatever the maximum sentence is I hope this little Cnut gets it.

The UK's contenders for the Worlds dumbest criminals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg93k0950pt

Texting about it,
Keeping the wedge as a "Trophy",
and shooting a video of your crimes

4 & a half hours of deliberations, & still no verdict

[Kiwias]

For anyone using chatgpt, what is your preferred one? my wife suggested OpenAI but it is owned by Musk so I am not so keen on using it.

Any suggestions would be welcome/

[fishfoodie]

For anyone using chatgpt, what is your preferred one? my wife suggested OpenAI but it is owned by Musk so I am not so keen on using it.

Any suggestions would be welcome/

Not for some time, he had a spat with everyone else because he wanted to take complete control of it. He has since bolted on his own AI onto twitter, & it's called Grok, & it's the AI chatbot for incels.

Which one to use is based on what you want to do with it ?

ChatGPT & Microsofts Copilot are both good starting points

[Sinkers]

Admittedly he taught in China for a while and has a much more positive view of the PRC than I do, but my neighbour swears by Deepseek.

[PornDog]

Depends on what you want to use it for I guess. ChatGPT is very good, as is Ask Claude. China's Deep Seek is a little rough around the edges but there are signs of improvement. Copy.ai is also decent if its writing you are looking for (articles, blogs, website copy etc.)

[Blackmac]

My daughter and son in law leased a Ford Explorer EV three months ago. Mainly because he has a 90 mile round trip to his work. They only had it few weeks when lots of fault lights came up on the dashboard. Cue a trip to the Ford dealer in Edinburgh who stated that there is a software problem which is affecting the vast majority of these cars. They are now approaching 8 weeks without the vehicle as it would appear whilst Ford are quite happy to flog these cars they aren't so keen in training up enough technicians to cope and the few that they do have are travelling the country trying to sort all the bricks lying in their rear courtyards. Just another fly in the ointment of electric vehicles.

[Guy Smiley]

My daughter and son in law leased a Ford Explorer EV three months ago. Mainly because he has a 90 mile round trip to his work. They only had it few weeks when lots of fault lights came up on the dashboard. Cue a trip to the Ford dealer in Edinburgh who stated that there is a software problem which is affecting the vast majority of these cars. They are now approaching 8 weeks without the vehicle as it would appear whilst Ford are quite happy to flog these cars they aren't so keen in training up enough technicians to cope and the few that they do have are travelling the country trying to sort all the bricks lying in their rear courtyards. Just another fly in the ointment of electric vehicles.

They bought a Ford. That's your fly in the ointment.

https://www.wired.com/story/ford-electr ... est-drive/

Meanwhile, I've just passed 60000km in my Chinese EV and haven't had an issue.

[Blackmac]

My daughter and son in law leased a Ford Explorer EV three months ago. Mainly because he has a 90 mile round trip to his work. They only had it few weeks when lots of fault lights came up on the dashboard. Cue a trip to the Ford dealer in Edinburgh who stated that there is a software problem which is affecting the vast majority of these cars. They are now approaching 8 weeks without the vehicle as it would appear whilst Ford are quite happy to flog these cars they aren't so keen in training up enough technicians to cope and the few that they do have are travelling the country trying to sort all the bricks lying in their rear courtyards. Just another fly in the ointment of electric vehicles.

They bought a Ford. That's your fly in the ointment.

https://www.wired.com/story/ford-electr ... est-drive/

Meanwhile, I've just passed 60000km in my Chinese EV and haven't had an issue.

Leased, thank god. Yeah I tried to steer them to the BYD or Omeda route but they liked the look of the Ford.

[Biffer]

Former president of Uruguay has died. A quite remarkable man in many ways, I've always found his story, and his attitude to the presidency, hugely interesting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j71402z58o

[Slick]

Former president of Uruguay has died. A quite remarkable man in many ways, I've always found his story, and his attitude to the presidency, hugely interesting.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j71402z58o

A good mate of mine was the British Ambassador at the tail end of his Presidency and liked him. Said he was more loved overseas than at home. Was also suspected of being behind the kidnapping of an earlier Ambassador for 12 months, which must have been awkward

[tabascoboy]

I...don't know what to think about this. Evri aka ex Hermes have a pretty well deserved reputation of being largely shit, especially with near non existent customer complaints handling. That said I've had a many deliveries from them on time and without issues so service could well vary according to how the local depot is run. Never had any issues with DHL, mostly the global service with orders from overseas that have excellent and detailed tracking and have always arrived either on the estimated date of delivery or the day before.

Will this improve Evri or will DHL go down the shitter now...?

Couriers Evri and DHL merge to form UK delivery giant

Evri will merge with DHL's UK parcel delivery business to create a combined courier firm handling more than a billion parcels and a billion letters a year.

DHL focuses on faster, secure higher-value deliveries of items such as computers or phones, whereas Evri handles much larger volumes of lower-value goods such as clothing.

Evri's deliveries are handled by self-employed couriers using their own vehicles, while DHL's parcels are delivered by a combination of couriers and the company's own fleet of vehicles.

The companies hope that combining the two operations will offer "greater choice" and "cost-competitive solutions" in the UK.

Evri said the deal will also expand its international delivery capacity by giving it access to DHL's global network.

DHL's e-commerce business will be renamed "Evri Premium – a network of DHL eCommerce".

DHL delivers a billion letters a year in the UK, mainly for businesses sending out bulk mail to clients – and the merger will see Evri offer a letter service for the first time.

It hopes to use this service to handle deliveries of smaller items as well as letters.

The group said its combined operation will have access to a network of 15,000 out-of-home delivery points in shops and lockers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwywd2wzxp2o

[ScarfaceClaw]

DHL focuses on faster, secure higher-value deliveries of items such as computers or phones

Which is why I had three separate laptops deliveries go missing at the DHL depot. All recorded as received but no further record. Refused to take any responsibility for it and I had to sort it out myself with the merchant. DHL can eat a bag of dicks.

[fishfoodie]

Every now & then the US Justice system does something I heartly agree with !



The comments below this video show I'm far from alone in think this is completely the correct response to someone repeatedly attempting murder, & never being stopped.

[Biffer]

Oh dear, what a shame, nevermind.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/ ... es-393241/