Things that don't deserve their own thread

[Jim Lahey]

Why can’t I get on to NPR via home Wi-Fi but I can via mobile data or other people’s WiFi? I’ve tried switching on and off and everything else I can think of. Desperate for intellectual stimulation.

I have the same issue. Don't think I have any security beyond whatever default stuff Virgin have in place.

[GogLais]

Why can’t I get on to NPR via home Wi-Fi but I can via mobile data or other people’s WiFi? I’ve tried switching on and off and everything else I can think of. Desperate for intellectual stimulation.

What message are you getting? sounds like your local firewall might have it shitlilsted

No message. Just won’t open the page. No special security in place, iPhone 11.

[GogLais]

Should have said, I’m with Virgin as well.

[Niegs]

[Niegs]

Teacher's sat there marking thinking "Don't show the class you know who this is..."

[Uncle fester]

Teacher's sat there marking thinking "Don't show the class you know who this is..."

I had to Google her to find out who she was!

[Niegs]

Yeah yeah Fester I also just had to Google her a few times there to see exactly what she did for a living

Did you enjoy the 'skits' and the acting?

[Slick]

Why can’t I get on to NPR via home Wi-Fi but I can via mobile data or other people’s WiFi? I’ve tried switching on and off and everything else I can think of. Desperate for intellectual stimulation.

What message are you getting? sounds like your local firewall might have it shitlilsted

No message. Just won’t open the page. No special security in place, iPhone 11.

Has happened to a couple of us and then just resolved itself after a few days

[Oxbow]

This could be a headline from The Day Today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-l ... e-66415545

[Niegs]

How 'punk' were you growing up? About as much as the music on this compilation?





... saw this on insta this morning and it triggered a vague flashback. I seem to recall seeing this. Apparently the suits behind it realized their error and re-branded it Retro-80s after the first release, but those are now collector's items seeing one listed for $275 USD.

[Niegs]

I'm assuming these are prisoners?

[tabascoboy]

Hmm,

[Blackmac]

We have just paid off our mortgage and found out that we have to pay £300 to have a solicitor request a letter of discharge from our lender to prove that they no longer have a claim over our property. Just another final kick in the nuts that proves that the whole process has been set up to screw as much money out of people as possible.

[Tichtheid]

We have just paid off our mortgage and found out that we have to pay £300 to have a solicitor request a letter of discharge from our lender to prove that they no longer have a claim over our property. Just another final kick in the nuts that proves that the whole process has been set up to screw as much money out of people as possible.

I knew someone who left a solicitors practice (or was invited to leave) because among other things he didn't start charging by the half hour when someone was sitting in the waiting room to see him. Each solicitor had shares of the support staff and it was counted how much they had to bring in to cover their share of the staff, their own salaries plus profit for the partners. There was more to it than that, but it was cut-throat stuff.

[robmatic]

We have just paid off our mortgage and found out that we have to pay £300 to have a solicitor request a letter of discharge from our lender to prove that they no longer have a claim over our property. Just another final kick in the nuts that proves that the whole process has been set up to screw as much money out of people as possible.

Surely the lender should just issue something like that automatically when the mortgage balance is cleared? If not, then it is indeed basically a legalised scam.

[Sandstorm]

We have just paid off our mortgage and found out that we have to pay £300 to have a solicitor request a letter of discharge from our lender to prove that they no longer have a claim over our property. Just another final kick in the nuts that proves that the whole process has been set up to screw as much money out of people as possible.

Surely you can fax that request to the lender yourself asking for that letter?

[Blackmac]

We have just paid off our mortgage and found out that we have to pay £300 to have a solicitor request a letter of discharge from our lender to prove that they no longer have a claim over our property. Just another final kick in the nuts that proves that the whole process has been set up to screw as much money out of people as possible.

Surely you can fax that request to the lender yourself asking for that letter?

Apparently not.

[Blackmac]

We have just paid off our mortgage and found out that we have to pay £300 to have a solicitor request a letter of discharge from our lender to prove that they no longer have a claim over our property. Just another final kick in the nuts that proves that the whole process has been set up to screw as much money out of people as possible.

Surely the lender should just issue something like that automatically when the mortgage balance is cleared? If not, then it is indeed basically a legalised scam.

You would think so. They sent the deeds and a letter confirming the end of the mortgage but demanding the discharge letter from the solicitor. Presumably that was what the £180 final fee to them included . Outrageous when you think how many 100s of thousands of pounds we have paid over the years

[sturginho]

https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-ban ... f5b23aee7d

Finally someone has taken action against gay watches!

[Sandstorm]

https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-ban ... f5b23aee7d

Finally someone has taken action against gay watches!

Backward religious wankers

[Uncle fester]

I completely agree but....

Oops

[sturginho]

Rugby fans

[Uncle fester]

I completely agree but....

Oops

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/ ... servatives

African Americans would be so much better off if MLK hadn't kicked up such a fuss hmm?

[Uncle fester]

Oh fuvk off

Or only black south Africans should have opposed apartheid because it might upset the regime and "force" them to employ even more repressive measures?

In fairness, this was more or less the approach taken by Thatcher and Reagan.

[Uncle fester]

Its not the same and you are not a stupid man. You are trolling me but not using your David Gwent handle

This is possibly the nicest thing you have ever said to me.

[MungoMan]

Meeting the definition of not worth its own etc but still mildly diverting: the Victorian mushroom deaths.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-14/ ... /102725876

[Sandstorm]

Meeting the definition of not worth its own etc but still mildly diverting: the Victorian mushroom deaths.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-14/ ... /102725876

Tragedy.

[David in Gwent]

Viral song doing the rounds. Pretty good actually.



Rich Men North of Richmond.

[Slick]

Viral song doing the rounds. Pretty good actually.



Rich Men North of Richmond.

That's great

[sockwithaticket]

He's got a good voice, but it's very 'enlightened centrist' (i.e. Republican, but doesn't want to say so) lyrical content

That second verse in particular.

[TB63]

Wonder where DAC stumbled on that song..

Oh! Wait....no alterior motive here, no siree...

[David in Gwent]

Wonder where DAC stumbled on that song..

Oh! Wait....no alterior motive here, no siree...

Stumbled? The bloke has gone viral.

Decent song that touches most working class people, regardless of location, age, skin colour, political persuasion etc, etc.

I have no idea who that woman on Twitter is.

[David in Gwent]

He's got a good voice, but it's very 'enlightened centrist' (i.e. Republican, but doesn't want to say so) lyrical content

That second verse in particular.

By republican do you mean working class?

[sockwithaticket]

He's got a good voice, but it's very 'enlightened centrist' (i.e. Republican, but doesn't want to say so) lyrical content

That second verse in particular.

By republican do you mean working class?

Very much no. No neo-liberals really stand for the working class, but the Republicans actively enact legislation at state level that undermines worker protections and social safety net programs that benefit those on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder most.

[David in Gwent]

He's got a good voice, but it's very 'enlightened centrist' (i.e. Republican, but doesn't want to say so) lyrical content

That second verse in particular.

By republican do you mean working class?

Very much no. No neo-liberals really stand for the working class, but the Republicans actively enact legislation at state level that undermines worker protections and social safety net programs that benefit those on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder most.

Working class people aren't those on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder. We're the people who keep everything working, everything running - and it's these people the song is aimed at.

You don't even know who the working class are.

[sockwithaticket]

By republican do you mean working class?

Very much no. No neo-liberals really stand for the working class, but the Republicans actively enact legislation at state level that undermines worker protections and social safety net programs that benefit those on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder most.

Working class people aren't those on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder. We're the people who keep everything working, everything running - and it's these people the song is aimed at.

You don't even know who the working class are

So retail and food service workers aren't working class? How about gardners or warehouse workers? Drivers and field pickers? If not then it's you who doesn't know who they are.

Working class obviously includes higher paid members like linemen or plumbers, but there are huge numbers who don't get to earn anywhere near that much thanks to the greed of employers, enabled by deregulation that disproportionately springs from right wing governance, and so need the assistance of social programs that the right wing consistently attempt to defund and destroy.

If you actually are working class rather than online larping as one, you sound like a class traitor.

[David in Gwent]

If you actually are working class rather than online larping as one, you sound like a class traitor.

Tell me you're a white middle class wanker without telling me you're a white middle class wanker.

[David in Gwent]

I find it fascinating that Left leaning political parties actually think they stand for working class people.

Such is the disgust at the Labour Party in the UK that even after a decade of the Tory Party fucking things up, massively, the Labour party won't be voted into Government with a majority at the next election.

[Slick]

He's got a good voice, but it's very 'enlightened centrist' (i.e. Republican, but doesn't want to say so) lyrical content

That second verse in particular.

By republican do you mean working class?

Like Donald Trump? Salt of the earth that bloke

[David in Gwent]

He's got a good voice, but it's very 'enlightened centrist' (i.e. Republican, but doesn't want to say so) lyrical content

That second verse in particular.

By republican do you mean working class?

Like Donald Trump? Salt of the earth that bloke

Like Starmer or Biden are working class?