TheAuthority Posted January 18, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 18, 2023 On 17/01/2023 at 11:27, Xela said: I remember the Sunday night blues. I absolutely hated secondary school so every Sunday night was awful. Highway with Harry Secombe or Songs of Praise on the other channel were the trigger for me! Yup that Sunday night dread - usually had wet hair because it was bath-night. Hated schol. On 17/01/2023 at 11:21, sharkyvilla said: Masterchef from the Lloyd Grossman era followed by Antiques Roadshow and Heartbeat in our household. Absolutely misery for me. The only good thing about Sundays was Football Italia. Lost in Space was quite good - afternoons on Channel 4. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 18, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 18, 2023 11 hours ago, fightoffyour said: Thank **** nothing is impossible. I so HATE flying to and from holidays. I've always thought it would be SO much nicer to just instantly teleport there and back. Anyone know how I get hold of the bloke who wrote this so I can get his instructions on how to achieve this because Google has let me down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 2 hours ago, tonyh29 said: The Professionals when I was a kid , 21:00 Sunday …if my dad was in a good mood he’d let us stay up past bedtime to watch it This was the exact same time and scenario for me except it was London’s Burning. For some reason I really liked it as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 20, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 20, 2023 The adverts on YouTube have gone out of control recently. Double adverts that can’t be skipped 4 or 5 times in a 15 min video 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted January 20, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 20, 2023 3 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: The adverts on YouTube have gone out of control recently. Double adverts that can’t be skipped 4 or 5 times in a 15 min video Yup. They finally got me and I subscribed to Premium. Luckily with a vpn and a "family plan" it works out pretty cheap if you can find others who are interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 20, 2023 Moderator Share Posted January 20, 2023 13 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: The adverts on YouTube have gone out of control recently. Double adverts that can’t be skipped 4 or 5 times in a 15 min video Agreed but for some reason, I seem to get far less ads if I cast from my iPad to my firestick than if I select a video direct in-App on the firestick, which is just odd I don't get any ads at all on my PC in firefox but that is because I have a Youtube extension which blocks the ads but I installed it for greater functionality But anyway yes, the Ad attack is getting silly. It's all to try and get you to subscribe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 20, 2023 Share Posted January 20, 2023 32 minutes ago, PieFacE said: Yup. They finally got me and I subscribed to Premium. Luckily with a vpn and a "family plan" it works out pretty cheap if you can find others who are interested. By VPN you mean buying from Brazil, Turkey or India? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted January 20, 2023 Share Posted January 20, 2023 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Genie said: By VPN you mean buying from Brazil, Turkey or India? They can also be used to obfuscate your identity and hence the algo will not treat you in the personal way it has based on your online identity (for better or worse). Or you can poison their various profiling methods at a minimum. This assumes you also have the appropriate cookie/script blockers enabled and that you empty the browser caches on shutdown and do so regularly. It's becoming increasingly hard to be truly anonymous and hide from the advertisers though. Edited January 20, 2023 by villakram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted January 20, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 20, 2023 18 minutes ago, Genie said: By VPN you mean buying from Brazil, Turkey or India? Indeed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted January 20, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 20, 2023 (edited) 57 minutes ago, villakram said: This assumes you also have the appropriate cookie/script blockers enabled and that you empty the browser caches on shutdown and do so regularly. It's becoming increasingly hard to be truly anonymous and hide from the advertisers though. Any recommendations? Edited January 20, 2023 by Rds1983 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 (edited) When my employer told me I had to work from home in March 2020 (can't remember why), I was told I'd be given a work laptop. I said I didn't really want or need one as I could use my own PC, but was told it was compulsory. For the next 21 months, I was constantly pestered by various people about them sending me one, but it never happened and I was eventually made redundant in December 2021. I had a voicemail from an unknown mobile number yesterday, asking me to ring them back to arrange a time for someone to come and collect my laptop. I rang them back this morning at 10am to explain I'd never received one. Their response, "okay, well I'm not logged in at the moment, do you think you could ring back when I'm actually at work? I can't really do anything about that at the moment." FFFFUUUUUUUUUUU Edited January 25, 2023 by Paddywhack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 33 minutes ago, Paddywhack said: "okay, well I'm not logged in at the moment, do you think you could ring back when I'm actually at work? I can't really do anything about that at the moment." Sounds like this **** never got his laptop either 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted January 25, 2023 Moderator Share Posted January 25, 2023 49 minutes ago, Paddywhack said: When my employer told me I had to work from home in March 2020 (can't remember why), I was told I'd be given a work laptop. I said I didn't really want or need one as I could use my own PC, but was told it was compulsory. For the next 21 months, I was constantly pestered by various people about them sending me one, but it never happened and I was eventually made redundant in December 2021. I had a voicemail from an unknown mobile number yesterday, asking me to ring them back to arrange a time for someone to come and collect my laptop. I rang them back this morning at 10am to explain I'd never received one. Their response, "okay, well I'm not logged in at the moment, do you think you could ring back when I'm actually at work? I can't really do anything about that at the moment." FFFFUUUUUUUUUUU Oh that would definitely piss me off. "I will not be ringing you or anyone else back. I have no laptop. Do not ring me again". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Seat68 Posted January 25, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2023 Absolute mental morning, really bugging me. Was on the toilet playing candy crush, it's going well, I had five moves left and only had one cherry to drop one more block. Anyway, my phone starts ringing, I am on the toilet, they can do one. Again it rings, and again I cancel the call. A third time and I give up and its some bloke on the phone, hard to understand what he was saying, my first thought is this guy has issues, lets be kind #bekind, so I listen to him waffling on for a good six minutes about a laptop, OK I thought, carry on, and he continues on and on about this laptop thing, how he hasn't even got a laptop. I said to him, I need to stand up as I have to wipe, can you call back, weird thing was he said could I describe what I am doing. Anyway I am about to hang up and it dawns on me, this was the guy that got made "redundant" for his lift shenanigans and his constant visits to the toilets. Long story short I said call me back when I am actually at my desk and not taking a dump. He didn't hang up, he stayed on the line remaining silent. Odd. 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted January 25, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 25, 2023 *Jams knife into temple at the sheer hopelessness of humanity* 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 On 20/01/2023 at 14:31, Stevo985 said: The adverts on YouTube have gone out of control recently. Double adverts that can’t be skipped 4 or 5 times in a 15 min video Nightmare if you are a prog rock fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Absolutely agree with auditing for the baddens in our police forces, especially the criminals who have slipped through the net. But let's remember you need a certain personality to be a decent copper, we seem to wanna make them all into paper tigers. If anyone has experience of police forces in other European counties, you will know not to **** about there. Here in the UK the teenages are just taking the piss out the out police cause they cant even raise their voices.. While I'm on my high horse, it's the same with athletes who have achieve numerous gold medals and are now superstars, complaining they were shouted at and forced to train till they drop. We will end up winning l f*** all at anything if we are gonna start living in this polite idealistic world!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Stevo985 Posted January 25, 2023 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2023 48 minutes ago, foreveryoung said: Absolutely agree with auditing for the baddens in our police forces, especially the criminals who have slipped through the net. But let's remember you need a certain personality to be a decent copper, we seem to wanna make them all into paper tigers. If anyone has experience of police forces in other European counties, you will know not to **** about there. Here in the UK the teenages are just taking the piss out the out police cause they cant even raise their voices.. While I'm on my high horse, it's the same with athletes who have achieve numerous gold medals and are now superstars, complaining they were shouted at and forced to train till they drop. We will end up winning l f*** all at anything if we are gonna start living in this polite idealistic world!! You should work for GB News 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 15 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: You should work for GB News Okay twinkle toes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Davkaus Posted January 25, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2023 You can hardly go a day without reading about a copper being done for raising their voice. Constantly hearing about them being bollocked for it, despite their colleagues turning a blind eye. Oh no, it wasn't shouting, it's rape, they like to rape. I always get those two mixed up. 4 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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