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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2021 14:57:18 GMT
So I discovered that it's possible to break into the casing of an external hard drive using a kitchen knife! Reminds me of when Big Clive on YouTube was showing how a decorative light bulb worked. He said "let's look inside it with an X-Ray", brought into view a hammer labelled X-RAY, and revealed what was inside the bulb. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 4, 2021 18:35:27 GMT
Email from Amazon 13.44: "We thought you'd like to know that we've dispatched this portion of your order separately to give you a quicker service".
Email from Amazon 15.52: "We thought you'd like to know that we've dispatched the remainder of your items".
How can dispatching one item 2 hours and 6 minutes earlier make any significant difference to its arrival? Both parcels are due to arrive on Saturday & it's been a long time since we've had more than one postal delivery per day so surely they'll just arrive together!
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Post by marob on Mar 4, 2021 18:46:57 GMT
Email from Amazon 13.44: "We thought you'd like to know that we've dispatched this portion of your order separately to give you a quicker service". Email from Amazon 15.52: "We thought you'd like to know that we've dispatched the remainder of your items". How can dispatching one item 2 hours and 6 minutes earlier make any significant difference to its arrival? Both parcels are due to arrive on Saturday & it's been a long time since we've had more than one postal delivery per day so surely they'll just arrive together! Out of curiosity, is there tracking? Have they been sent from the same warehouse? |
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Post by alece10 on Mar 4, 2021 18:56:53 GMT
Yes I've had that before and usually it's because they came from different warehouses.
Mind you last year in lockdown I did a John Lewis boredom shop. Ordered 4 items with named day delivery and i had 4 separate deliveries that day, each about 30 mons apart. Talk about carbon footprint.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 4, 2021 20:02:15 GMT
Out of curiosity, is there tracking? Have they been sent from the same warehouse? I can't tell. When I click on the "Track your package" button in the email the web pages that comes up for both just say "Dispatched today". |
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Post by Forrest on Mar 4, 2021 20:22:39 GMT
Dawnstar, I get baffled by these Amazon delivery policies too. When I had my recent covid scare, my sister ordered me a care package from Amazon: canned soup, honey, vitamins, tea, tissues, ramen... that sort of stuff. It arrived as four different deliveries, three of which were on the same day, 20-30 minutes between them. My flatmates thought I'd gone mad with shopping, because they just kept coming around lunchtime, it was really funny.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2021 20:37:20 GMT
A couple of weeks ago Amazon told me a package was going to be delivered a day earlier than I was expecting. Sure enough, a package arrived on that earlier date, but it wasn't my package. It wasn't my name or my address. Somehow they'd managed to track it as the wrong item and nobody, including the person who posted it through the door, noticed that the place it was going was nothing like the place it was supposed to go. I can understand that it might have had the wrong barcode applied in the warehouse, but surely there must be some point where someone looks at the actual address.
My actual parcel turned up the next day, completely untracked. Which is even more confusing, because if my tracking information was associated with the wrong parcel then what tracking was associated with the right one? How did it reach me if they already considered it delivered?
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 5, 2021 18:59:32 GMT
Both my Amazon parcels have just arrived together!
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Post by CG on the loose on Mar 6, 2021 10:40:30 GMT
Vaccine booked - never did I think to be so excited to be 57, but all aged 56 and over can now book!
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Post by peggs on Mar 6, 2021 14:43:02 GMT
Vaccine booked - never did I think to be so excited to be 57, but all aged 56 and over can now book! I messaged people I knew that I thought might now be in age range, missed response of 'i'm booked!' to 'how dare you suggest i'm that old!'  |
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Post by sfsusan on Mar 6, 2021 17:48:40 GMT
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Post by peggs on Mar 6, 2021 20:24:37 GMT
I would have thought this was the one time being older was a winner. bonnets, so they're dressing several centuries old? |
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Post by sfsusan on Mar 6, 2021 20:49:56 GMT
bonnets, so they're dressing several centuries old? Yeah, I didn't quite get that, either. And they live in Florida, so it's not like they've never seen old folks before. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2021 15:04:11 GMT
One of my neighbours has a car that beeps when he locks it with the remote, and the beep sounds exactly like the scanner used by delivery people scanning barcodes and at a volume that sounds like it's just outside my door. Every time he gets home it makes me think I'm about to receive a parcel, even when I'm not expecting anything. It's been several weeks now and I'm still not used to it.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 9, 2021 17:11:44 GMT
Yesterday our boiler broke for the second time in 3 and a half months. Fortunately the heating company were able to send a workman that afternoon and it was quickly fixed, just a loose connection. However I'm not impressed with the boiler for breaking twice during a pandemic after years of working fine!
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Post by peggs on Mar 9, 2021 18:35:02 GMT
Yesterday our boiler broke for the second time in 3 and a half months. Fortunately the heating company were able to send a workman that afternoon and it was quickly fixed, just a loose connection. However I'm not impressed with the boiler for breaking twice during a pandemic after years of working fine! Have seen more boiler men in this last year then altogether in my life. I'd say it was extra usage but strictly off during the day. |
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 9, 2021 22:03:43 GMT
Have seen more boiler men in this last year then altogether in my life. I'd say it was extra usage but strictly off during the day. We may have used ours slightly more but not massively. It feels like the boilers are just being deliberately awkward! |
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Post by david on Mar 12, 2021 11:00:45 GMT
Just picked up Theatremonkey's updated seating plan guide from the Amazon locker (called Brian. Why are Amazon lockers given names?) in my local Morrisons. Any excellent guide and with Baz tweeting new theatre show information last night and more productions now going on sale, it's great to actually to be able to have something new to put into the theatre diary.
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Post by anita on Mar 12, 2021 12:36:40 GMT
Just picked up Theatremonkey's updated seating plan guide from the Amazon locker (called Brian. Why are Amazon lockers given names?) in my local Morrisons. Any excellent guide and with Baz tweeting new theatre show information last night and more productions now going on sale, it's great to actually to be able to have something new to put into the theatre diary. Just ordered it. I still regularly use his old one. |
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Post by sfsusan on Mar 12, 2021 18:59:23 GMT
with Baz tweeting new theatre show information last night Do you have a link to this? Thx. |
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Post by david on Mar 12, 2021 22:25:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2021 9:02:04 GMT
This story is a couple of days old but it's only just come to my attention, so...
There was a book on Amazon that represented gender identity as a mental illness. When it was drawn to Amazon's attention the company decided it was offensive and withdrew the book from sale. In the US a group of Republican senators were outraged about this attack on the bigotry they hold dear and said it was unfair to single out this book in this manner.
"You're quite right", Amazon said. "We shouldn't single it out. We'll ban every book that treats LGBTQ+ issues as mental illness."
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Post by sfsusan on Mar 13, 2021 17:07:57 GMT
Thank you! To the powers-that-be, do you think it would be appropriate to have a new topic where we could collect information on shows and theaters that are re-opening? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2021 15:59:56 GMT
Browsing around the Internet I came across a screenshot of an advertisement for an advanced Internet-connected smart toilet. It promises a "fully immersive experience".
I don't know about anyone else, but when it comes to my expectations of what I would hope to experience from a toilet anything that can be described by the phrase "fully immersive" comes very far down the list.
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Post by david on Mar 15, 2021 16:51:23 GMT
The big unveiling of the new UK Govt. Media briefing room at a cost of £2.6 million pounds for the renovation. I was hoping for something a bit more for the money spent. It just looks really ugly. I just hope at that price the room comes with one of those clicker devices for the slide shows.
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