Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Paddy Tobin]

She may start a new thread on her return - a walk in the UK.

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

I got a lovely card from her today..... 

[Mick McLoughlin]

Grumpy old man 1 - 0 PC 'thinks it owns the' world

Called at the well known computer store for some paper tonight.( ???I know but it was on the way home and I needed some special card tonight).
The assistant scanned the purchase in and then said:
"Can I have your name and address please."
"What do you want that for?"
"It must be for the guarantee."
"You guarantee paper now? Against what exactly, fire?"
He then tried to bypass the request on the computer/till. 2 managers later and I was entered as Mr Xx from postcode the same as  the store then it wanted my house number.

If they want to try and steal my personal details they should at least have a way out of it when they get caught.

Surprised they didn't try to sell me extended warranty, they do on everything else.

[Anthony Darby]

 
Surely they must have more than one grumpy old man in your neck of the woods Mick?

I'm grumpy tonight because I want to be in one place, but have to be two others instead!

[Lesley Cox]

That's clever of you Anthony, if you manage to pull it off.

[Anthony Darby]

That's clever of you Anthony, if you manage to pull it off.

The one place I wanted to be occupied more time that the two places I had to be. Simples.

[gote]

I moved from a HP inkjet to a HP laser because of the ink cost. The HP inkjet was not as good as my old Canon Inkjet. The prints were less good and it could not print envelopes properly since the software placed the printing in the wrong place.
The bonus, which I did not realize at the time, was that I could use a much cheaper paper or rather that the cheap paper I was using anyway, gave much better results.
It seems that the toner does not creep into the paper in the same way as the ink does and that gives more "depth" in the colours.
Backside is that I cannot use cheap refills since the toner comes with the cylinder. (meaning that there is no cylinder cleaning by an expensive pro)
Cheers
Göte
 

[art600]

When I went to have my Swine flu jab, the surgery looked remarkably bare - there were no toys for the kids to play with, and all magazines had been banished.  Apparently Health & Safety at work.

Has anyone else encountered this?

My first thought was - do we close Public Libraries? 

[mark smyth]

I left magazines in my health centre this week and their tables have magazines on them

[ranunculus]

Ours have them ... but only periodically!   

[art600]

     

[Paul T]

You'd better watch out, Cliff.  I reckon the puns are getting so bad now that Maggi is keeping a journal!!

[Maggi Young]

My first thought was - do we close Public Libraries?

No need, Art: so few people can read nowadays there are never enough people in a Library to constitute a health threat.  

[Joakim B]

My first thought was - do we close Public Libraries?

No need, Art: so few people can read nowadays there are never enough people in a Library to constitute a health threat.  

Maggi is not libraries for lending DVD and CD? Or maybe having some unknown IP address for Your internet obscure use?
For the first two You don not need to read so there is room for some people in the libraries.

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Joakim, in our libraries you can use the internet - free- also there are CDs DVDs to borrow.... the place is still not as busy as I wish it would be! I wish every library were full of happy people!!