Friday Night Rants?

[pritch]

Giving slingshot the boot after a debacle of a switch to fibre last year. Even contacting the buggets to give 30 days notice of non renewal was painful experience.
Recommendations anyone for fibre broadband?

I've had fibre for a few years and didn't change from Slingshot. I'm happy with them mainly 'cause I don't ask them for anything, but why the need to change because of fibre?

The company that installed the fibre here were a bit funny. One afternoon a guy turned up to do the job at the appointed time. After a while he got a phone call and gave the caller my address. A bit later another tech arrived, made himself comfortable, and chatted to the guy doing the work. A short time later another call and another visit. Two guys sitting in my living room just chatting to the guy doing the job. My guess is they were avoiding going back to the office in case they got another job.

Download speeds are usually nudging 320mbps down, 100 up. Noticed a difference on a free wireless network last week - 3mbps down. OK for reading KB though.

[R650R]

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Ha just got to same level and it’s like next layer has some kind of glue… just why!!!!!

I did notice the tab has pull instruction at both ends, also why????

Lamb chops covered in rosemary so it’s a good result anyway .

[pritch]

OK it's only Friday morning but this is only brief. The TV News frequently pisses me off. They often announce things that are factually incorrect or they omit significant detail which would provide important context.

Last night their latest effort concerned Putin's big military parade, TV1 said a truce has been agreed. Everything else I'm seeing says Putin has declared a three day truce from the 8th to the 10th but Zelensky has not agreed. To the contrary he has announced that he cannot guarantee the safety of anybody attending the parade.

Some of the invited leaders have reportedly cancelled their attendance. Others are having to travel by circuitous route because they are being denied permission to cross the airspace of nations less sympathetic to the celebration.

TV1 don't seem to understand, or don't care, that we have had access to the latest news for almost 24 hours before they present their version. Their mistakes are all too aparent.

[R650R]

Welcome to our world. You can attribute some of that to laziness or incompetence but after a noticing a bit more you’ll come around to the idea that we’re fed a script of what to be worried about and whose “fault” it is.

And the other side of that coin is whenever something dubious happens, isn’t it odd that suddenly they all accurately report the same information at same time yet clearly most of the time they are not capable of this…

[TheDemonLord]

OK it's only Friday morning but this is only brief. The TV News frequently pisses me off. They often announce things that are factually incorrect or they omit significant detail which would provide important context.

Last night their latest effort concerned Putin's big military parade, TV1 said a truce has been agreed. Everything else I'm seeing says Putin has declared a three day truce from the 8th to the 10th but Zelensky has not agreed. To the contrary he has announced that he cannot guarantee the safety of anybody attending the parade.

Some of the invited leaders have reportedly cancelled their attendance. Others are having to travel by circuitous route because they are being denied permission to cross the airspace of nations less sympathetic to the celebration.

TV1 don't seem to understand, or don't care, that we have had access to the latest news for almost 24 hours before they present their version. Their mistakes are all too aparent.

It warms my MAGA Heart to hear that you can see how terrible the Mainstream news outlets are.

[pritch]

Welcome to our world. You can attribute some of that to laziness or incompetence but after a noticing a bit more you’ll come around to the idea that we’re fed a script of what to be worried about and whose “fault” it is.

And the other side of that coin is whenever something dubious happens, isn’t it odd that suddenly they all accurately report the same information at same time yet clearly most of the time they are not capable of this…

None of this is new. It's just that my latest piss-off came in time for a Friday so I could post it here.

[pete376403]

This is quite good: "An Open Letter to the president" (Pence reference dates it, Lee could do ever better now with Vance)

From the Drummer of Mötley Crüe, Tommy Lee

Dear Fucking Lunatic,

At your recent press conference - more a word salad that had a stroke and fell down stairs, you were CLEARLY so out of your depth you needed scuba gear. Within minutes of going off air your minions were backpedaling faster than Cirque De Soliel acrobats... In India a week ago, i couldn’t get past the bit about your being the most popular visitor in the history of fucking india — a country of a BILLION human souls that’s only 3000 years old, give or take.!!! Trust me - Gandhi pulled CROWDS.. You pulled a cricket stadium and half WALKED out...

Do you know how fucking insane you sound, you off-brand butt plug? That's like the geopolitical equivalent of “that stripper really likes me” — only 10,000 times crazier and less self aware.

You are fucking exhausting. Every day is a natural experiment in determining how long 300 million people can resist coring out their own assholes with an ice auger. Every time I hear a snippet of your Queens-tinged banshee larynx farts, I want to scream!

We are fucking tired. As bad as we all thought your presidency would be when Putin got you elected, it’s been inestimably worse.

You called a hostile, nuclear-armed head of state “short and fat.” How the fuck does that help?

You accused a woman — a former friend, no less — of showing up at your resort bleeding from the face and begging to get in. You, you, YOU — the guy who looks like a Christmas haggis inexplicably brought to life by Frosty’s magic hat — yes, you of all people said that.

You attempted — with evident fucking glee — to get 24 million people thrown off their health insurance.

You gave billions away to corporations and the already wealthy while simultaneously telling struggling poor people that you were doing exactly the opposite.

You endorsed a pedophile, praised brutal dictators, and defended LITERAL FUCKING NAZIS!

Ninety-nine percent of everything you say is either false, crazy, incoherent, just plain cruel, or a rancid paella of all four.

Oh, by the way, Puerto Rico is still FUBAR. You got yourself and your family billions in tax breaks for Christmas. What do they get? More paper towels?

Enough, enough, enough, enough! For the love of God and all that is holy, good, and pure, would you please, finally and forever, shut your feculent KFC-hole until you have something valuable — or even marginally civil — to say?

You are a fried dick sandwich with a side of schlongs. If chlamydia and gonorrhoea had a son, you’d appoint him HHS secretary. You are a disgraceful, pustulant hot stew full of casuistry, godawful ideas, unintelligible non sequiturs, and malignant rage.

You are the perfect circus orangutan diaper from Plato’s World of Forms.

So fuck you Mr. President. And fuck you forever.

Oh, and Pence, you oleaginous house ferret. Fuck you, too. You'll be as useful as a chocolate teapot against a medical crisis you Bible thumping cock socket."

[TheDemonLord]

This is quite good: "An Open Letter to the president" (Pence reference dates it, Lee could do ever better now with Vance)

From the Drummer of Mötley Crüe, Tommy Lee

I've read tirades like this before....

I say this as an fan of Mötley Crüe - Given Tommy Lee's history (Battery against Pamela Anderson, numerous Drug charges, assaulting a Jewish Photographer, having a Swastika Tattoo, Racist assaults) - The Lady Doth protest too much, methinks.

[pritch]

Awoke to news this morning that the US had brokered a ceasefire between Pakistan and India. This may have been occasioned by Trump claiming that on his Troth Senchal account. India has since stated there was no US involvement. Not that it matters overmuch, the truce doesn't seem to be working.

[F5 Dave]

Obviously not Friday night. But the chap ahead of me orders a potato top pie.

Why. And why do they even make these?

All you get is a mince pie with a soggy mushy top instead of a (hopefully) crisp pastry covering. Heck their Steak pies were golden brown instead of a half hearted yellow almost tempting a weekday pie lunch (I'm an office dweller so I heroically deffered).

Actually I don't understand mince over Steak, wife chooses mince. Must be a gurl thing.

But potato top?

[Kickaha]

Obviously not Friday night. But the chap ahead of me orders a potato top pie.

Why. And why do they even make these?

All you get is a mince pie with a soggy mushy top instead of a (hopefully) crisp pastry covering. Heck their Steak pies were golden brown instead of a half hearted yellow almost tempting a weekday pie lunch (I'm an office dweller so I heroically deffered).

Actually I don't understand mince over Steak, wife chooses mince. Must be a gurl thing.

But potato top?

Potato top is ok, but nothing beats Steak followed by mince, cheese has no place in pies either, fuck anyone who thinks it does

[sugilite:Me]

Potato tops are for soft cocks that miss playing "ships biscuit".
Cheese can and does work, but it cannot be that tasteless paste masquerading as cheese, it must be well aged tasty cheese in order to match the manliness required to feast on such a beast.

[F5 Dave]

Tasty or Feta. But that's generally in the ones I make.

Pepper Steak? Shop i go on my typical Sunday ride, puts a bit too much Pepper in.

Which turns out is just the right amount.

Sadly the Greeks that owned the cafe sold out, and the new owners made the same pies for a while, but now don't cook them enough to compare other measures. I go there for nostalgia.

I'm trying to educate them.

[R650R]

Nothing like a good maggot bag while fuelling up mid journey on a rain soaked ride. Getting pricey now to point that stopping for a pub meal makes more sense instead.
And BP wtf are you trying to pass off as sausage rolls these days, Iv’e got expired dry tubes of gasket silicone that are more appealing….

[F5 Dave]

Actually, I forgot. My wife made a potato top pie last week, and it was delicious. I'd plumb forgotten.
But with a twist.
I'd slow cooked some lamb shanks on the Sunday. Tuesday she wanted to use the leftovers. We had one sheet of pastry. So she made it with small roast potatoes on the top and a sprinkle of cheese over that.
So it was almost crunchy.
Nothing like a bakery one and the filling was proper gourmet shit.