Grumpy old buggers thread

[rick130]

Bloody Spotify playing their ads at 50% greater volume than the tunes for us tight arses that won't stump up for premium gets on my goat.

[scarry]

Bloody Spotify playing their ads at 50% greater volume than the tunes for us tight arses that won't stump up for premium gets on my goat.

The free to air TV channels do this as well,maybe not 50%,but definitely louder than the programme that is interrupted

[DiscoMick]

Where I am, there is one Channel 9 channel which is much louder than the others.

[Saitch]

Strewth! You blokes certainly are grumpy, hey?

Just turn your hearing aids down.

[DiscoMick]

Yeah, I know, it's a first world problem. Our sound runs through a separate speaker system, so I have to change remotes to adjust the sound.

[ramblingboy42]

Strewth! You blokes certainly are grumpy, hey?

Just turn your hearing aids down.

I don't watch tv with my hearing aids in as I have a Sennhieser thingy like a stethoscope I wear with its own volume control.

It has some strange magnetic quality though.

As soon as I sit down and put the earphone thingy on my wife comes in and wants to talk.

[Saitch]

As a carry on ( in more ways than one), my computer tech dropped in yesterday arvo and our desktop has been neutralised. It appears that the damage was done by input through the phone line, as the modem is cactus, too. Another reason is that all the other gizmos in the same power boards are OK.

Carry on #2. After extolling the virtues of one 'Francisco', I received a phone call from the big 'T' at 1835 yesterday, saying that their tech couldn't make the allotted Friday appointment time and a tech will now appear on Wednesday 29th, between 0800 and 1700!
.....................and so, it begins! Talk about 'Déjà Vu'!

Well, today is the big day. I received a message from the 'T' last night that confirmed a technician visit between 1200 and 1600 today.

It's amazing how Energex crews can remove a fallen tree from power lines, repair said lines and repair/replace a transformer in 24 hours but it takes 'T' a week to pay a visit.
I'm hoping it's not like last time where I had a visit from seven different crew, over an eleven month period, before my internet and phone problem was properly sorted.

One bloke spent a full day digging a pit on the side of the road, about 200 metres away from our property pole, to enable a cable to be run under the road. The cabling crew arrived several days later and strung the cable from the top of a power pole to our neighbour's pole which is at their gate. I filled the hole in after a few weeks.
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad and our phone bills not supporting this ineptitude.

[4bee]

I don't watch tv with my hearing aids in as I have a Sennhieser thingy like a stethoscope I wear with its own volume control.

It has some strange magnetic quality though.

As soon as I sit down and put the earphone thingy on my wife comes in and wants to talk.

.......and remind you of those jobs that you were supposed to do but because the Tennis was on, you didn't....... yada yada yada

You should think yourself lucky, I can't get a word out of my one except to order me to make her a coffee between the breaks.

I don't even play tennis. All I want is Midsummer Murders to get some ideas.

[4bee]

Well, today is the big day. I received a message from the 'T' last night that confirmed a technician visit between 1200 and 1600 today.

It's amazing how Energex crews can remove a fallen tree from power lines, repair said lines and repair/replace a transformer in 24 hours but it takes 'T' a week to pay a visit.
I'm hoping it's not like last time where I had a visit from seven different crew, over an eleven month period, before my internet and phone problem was properly sorted.

One bloke spent a full day digging a pit on the side of the road, about 200 metres away from our property pole, to enable a cable to be run under the road. The cabling crew arrived several days later and strung the cable from the top of a power pole to our neighbour's pole which is at their gate. I filled the hole in after a few weeks.
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad and our phone bills not supporting this ineptitude.

Unfortunately this bad service was predicted to happen when they started getting rid of good Tech Staff inc Linies which was made easier for the staff by huge payouts offered. We waited for 3 weeks to get a Tech to call & investigate our problem (b4 NBN) He then said he needed to arrange a Cherry Picker which was going to take another 3 weeks. FFS! A great old lag T Tech arrived out of the blue one day chucked his ladder up against the pole, strung a new cable & was on the ground in "two shakes of a Lamb's tail" made the final connection elsewhere & Voila, job done. It is as though each Gang hasn't a clue what another repair gang has done or is doing or plans to do.

A scary thought is this geezer from the Asian subcontinent eventually could get a job with NBN & so the the crap service continues.

[Tombie]

Yeah, I know, it's a first world problem. Our sound runs through a separate speaker system, so I have to change remotes to adjust the sound.

Universal remotes rule