Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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I sometimes get the train into Farringdon from Sutton, it's almost impressive how much of the journey has no phone reception. It's hardly out in the sticks.
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That isn't my experience of the Borders.
I'm amazed by the lack of signal across the Somerset levels. Must be all the hills blocking the signal.
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I think we are more or less agreeing. Functioning WiFi suitable for work browsing and emailing on any train really should be a baseline expectations. If you are a forty minute drive from the nearest station and twenty from the nearest town then some gaps would be acceptable. It's unfortunate that an aluminium railway carriage body provides a half decent Faraday cage, and railway lines tend to run away from built-up areas (outside of cities) so I get why it is more challenging to provide good coverage on trains, but this feels like a problem worthy of solution.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Train WiFi is just a rebroadcast mobile signal. This means it can be very strong but have no actual internet in it for large parts of a journey.
In locations where it is okay, mostly one is better off using the same signal directly, so you don't share the bandwidth with the children streaming HD and playing it over their phone speaker.
Either way, the issue of crap reception remains.
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Yes, I know. My brother is a rolling stock engineer. Masts along the track are being looked at, but of course UK + infrastructure = 💩
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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My point precisely.
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FA, moving to rural Devon and complaining about the phone signal is like moving in next to a pub and complaining about the noise.
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I remember travelling in Iceland in 2010 and getting a strong 3G signal everywhere. And we got a long way off the beaten track, right up to the West Fjords. There is even a decent signal on the dirt road to Landmannalaugar.
So I am not sure the UK, with it's pimples that pass as mountains, has much of an excuse.
Besides, I don't think the main rail route from Plymouth, through Exeter and Bristol to London necessarily qualifies as rural Cornwall. This year I've also been dismayed on trips via Leeds and Newcastle to Edinburgh. As soon as one gets outside of a city, the reception is patchy. This includes our main transport arteries, which is not hopeless, it is hapless.
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People doing parcel collection and drop off at my local shop. At the best of times it seems to take ages and lead to queues developing for people just wanting to buy stuff and even worse when it is a courier. Today I just wanted to quickly grab a few bits for lunch and their system was down with several people trying to sort out parcels including an Amazon driver. Rather than just accept it wasn't working or trying to get anyone wanting parcel services on the one till both till operators were faffing around trying to sort parcels up whilst a queue developed around the shop. 10 minutes just standing there waiting to pay for some bread and a bag of crisps.
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It's not the people it is the system. It's easier to get a visa to enter North Korea than it is to post a parcel.
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We have those automatic locker things outside the local train station, seems to work well for sending parcels
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For some odd reason Auto-correct on my phone insists on changing "hope" to "Hooe" in almost every message I write. Never been to Hooe. Never written about Hooe. Didn't even know it was a place until I looked it up. Now my phone seems to think it's a good way to start a sentence.
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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I find those Evri drop off/print your own label jobs are quite easy to use.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I was thinking more the post office.
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They're OK once you get to the front of queue in my experience...whether they actually get delivered on time is another question - my OK now uses DPD or similar as they're more reliable.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
My television, it won’t switch on from standby so I have to turn it off at the mains then when it goes back to standby it turns on. Prior to that it would randomly go to the home menu with no-one going anywhere near the remote. I suspect it’s software update glitches.
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This. And it's always ♀️ returning (online bought) garments and similar. My errand will only take 90 seconds max, and yet I always have to wait. 🤬
You're the light wiping out my batteries; You're the cream in my airport coffee's.0 -
An answer to why mobile data coverage is so patchy in London.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Peak RangeRover behaviour
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Could be a bad case of 'ladyparking'. But in any event, worthy of a submission to YPLAC.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
It reminds me of the joke "What's the difference between a Range Rover and a hedgehog?"
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Look, I paid for four parking tickets.
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Definitely a him. Not so much parked as just stopped driving.
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If a Range Rover parks badly and there's no one there to see it, is the driver still a wanker?
Car park looks pretty quiet, is all I'm saying.
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When you go to the petrol station and someone has put the nozzle back by threading it it through the other nozzles. A pain if you notice and have to unthread the one you want, and a bigger pain if you don't notice and pull out the others by accident.
This was to be deliberate.
FFS if you are old enough to drive, grow up!
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
This horrid storm that's due to go on all night. Rotten thinking that it's the start of many to come. Just waiting for the sound of tiles blowing off.
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Been a bit of a disappointment for me so far. I expect storms to be much worse that what I consider to be typical of bad autumnal weather. I do realise not all locations experience the same weather.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Caught hardly anything of it Devon. I do like a good storm, as long as my house doesn't fall down and no one gets killed.
Update on the Ardèche storm is that one person did die two days after the storm, going round barriers to look at a sink hole in the road, and he fell in, then got washed into the swollen river then into a ravine. Darwin Award
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Annoying that my 'smart' meter here is still not sending any readings to EDF. On the cheering up side of things, I've just sent an actual reading, and it's far lower than their estimates.
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