LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME - 2021

All part and parcel of the great 'ecological' scam being perpetrated by our respective governments.

 

I heard on the news that France had recalled it's ambassador from the US and Australia, but they didn't mention the UK.

 

No I remember it as 7pounds of potatoes, you always went up weight in 7 pounds at a time.

 

My first though was I'll be okay I can still remember them, but the younger people I work with have only lived with metric weights and measures

 

Because that was half a stone.

 

That's ok, the educational system may have left them as blissfully ignorant of metric as any other measurements. My bright child hasn't got a clue what 1cm thick slices could look like, and happily tries to measure 500 mm of sugar.

I will be totally lost with the pounds and stones, fathoms and barleycorns and whatnots, it will probably feel very exotic. Almost like being in a foreign country. Wait...

 

It was probably their way of going metric, at the time.
I can remember DIY shops selling timber in 300mm units, but they always stated, "we have now gone metric ".

 

The account scandal scuppered all their involvements in nuclear, that's the reason why Moorside fell through. I think the South Carolina nuclear construction which they and Westinghouse were constructing cost roughly 9 billon before it was scrapped.

 

I blame Haagen Dazs! Just look at one of their pots and you go up in weight by 7 pounds at a time

 

This going back to imperial measurements is just to appeal to a certain type of voter, besides that its another distraction, people tend to pickup on the most outrageous news items and ignore the more important stuff, plus is good clickbait for online toilet......err news papers.

I keep reading this endless garbage coming out of the government, it doesn't bother me at all because I know one day I will wake up and realise I was dreaming about a remake of Monty Python.

 

I need to pay a bill and the recipient wants it done by bank transfer, its not something I have done before so out came the never used card reader and I logged onto online banking, this was last night.
Jumped through a series of security hoops on the bank website, even got a code number sent to my phone, all going well I thought, then when I put my card in the card reader it said no power.
I've probably had it for about 5yrs. Guessing batteries dead.

So I thought I'd give the bank a call and do it over the phone, went through all the bla bla blah aging after waiting to get someone on the other end of the phone.
Turned out he couldn't do it either, the technology had beaten him aswell.

Anyway, poked around with a knife and managed to get the batteries out and by a stroke of luck I actually had two spare batteries that fitted.

Just gone online a jumped through all the hoops again and at the end it said ,Activate your card reader, so went through another load of security doing that, then found all the other info I had put in had vanished.

Its driving me slowly around the bend, and I'm not sure if I've paid the bill or not to be honest.
I might have yet another go tomorrow.

 

@pete Wife's not long gone through a similar experience with some card making supplier, flaming card read needed activating numerous times and each time the details failed so we gave up on it, Monday morning she emailed the online shop who arrange to pay over the phone instead of transfer, its so ridiculous, a card reader to increase security that doesn't work without a load of grief so you do an over the phone payment.

I guess the number of people and companies who can not show competence is becoming longer by the day.