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l hope everything goes alright Weenie as yes like any procedure its never going to be totally comfortable but the staff involved are very good at putting the patient at ease so try not to worry too much.

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For anyone who's had or going to have a colonoscopy, you should search for 'Billy Connolly colonoscopy'. - Cracks me up every time I watch it.

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Thanks for your replies feeling slightly better at the thought of it now.

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Sorry weenie, hope it is nothing too bad.

My moan is this meal tonight me and my sister are having as a joint birthday thing. I was under the impression it would be Bella Italia, which although the food is lovely portion size for price is not so good value. Now it is a Chinese buffet thing, and looking at their menu online it looks like I will be existing on egg fried rice all evening. Oh well, have to suck it up I suppose.

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One of my friends is in hospital with heart pains and it looks like they will be doing a Angiogram tomorrow to find out the extent of the problem.

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Sorry to hear that den, hope everything goes okay tomorrow for your friend.

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Good luck to your friend den.

The Chinese was actually better than I expected, so pleased I went now.

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My partner got a parking ticket earlier on a technicality.:(

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A relative did too, her ticket blew off the dashboard so it wasn't visible. Her appeal is still in a queue. This was issued in July. Hope she can fight it and win den.

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A lot of overzealous Parking enforcement officer's don't allow any leeway at all Mark as you can be 1 minute late and they will still put a ticket on you whilst councils up and down the country see it as a very lucrative money spinner picking on the motorist's in this country.

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Yes den many traffic wardens seem to be deliberately uncooperative and act in an extremely unhelpful manner.

Drew has broken his brace don't think the Orthodontist is going to be to pleased with him or me, thank goodness I managed to get an appointment for him today. I hope he did not break it on purpose as I know he hates his brace. One day he will be thankful that we took such an interest in his smile. :D

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Well back from the Orthodontist minus Drew's brace, Drew has to back in three weeks to get a track brace fitted now let's see if he can break that one.

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I had to have one recently & while not pleasant it wasn't as bad as I thought. I honestly hardly felt the camera being inserted. The worst bit for me was the air they inject through the tube to open up the bowel for a clear view. That felt like a bad case of 'trapped wind', but no worse. I had 'gas & air' rather than a sedative as they let you out quicker.
Good luck & don't worry too much!

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Thank you idiosyncratic, I'll try not to till the 10th of October anyway LOL. At least I'm a morning appointment.

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Hope you are ok Dill.

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Three(3). I got my 4g dongle unlocked and managed to use my one plan sim in it for a few days but now they have cottoned on GGRRRRR... LOL.

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My sister and my borther-in-law.

Cheers

Grim

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Having decided on what to get from our local Chinese takeaway we get there only to discover that it was closed :(

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l hope you found another takeaway in the end weenie.

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Thanks den, hubby & the boy's decided on an Indian takeaway whereas I came home and had roasted cheese instead. So all good in the end.

My moan today is the pile of ironing that I have to do I swear it has doubled from last night and most of it is shirts and trousers which I absolutely hate ironing anyway.

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Idiots who block the newspapers in a supermarket and look at you like muck when you lose patience after they ignore 3 excuse me pleases and being barged through to get the papers. If you want to read them, BUY ONE FOR CHRIST SAKES.

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If you think it was unfair there's some good info here

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My moan: People who don't move out of the way when you push a large, very heavy object on wheels in their direction.

I had to move a fully loaded laptop trolley to another building today, and actually had to shout "excuse me" at people to get them to move out of my way. The trolley probably weighs more than I do (and I am not a small man) and believe me when I say it hurts if it hits you. I found that out when I was going around a corner and through a door and didn't have quite enough strength to keep it from crushing my hand against the frame (thankfully my hand is OK apart from some scraped off skin and a definite feeling I have a large and painful bruise coming).

The thing that really gets me is when you have a group of them all standing still watching you after you have shouted excuse me.

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Sadly Stuart some people have no manners at all. Sorry to hear you hurt your hand :(

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Yes sadly good manners and common courtesy have gone out of the window increasingly in modern society as l discovered getting on and off some trains in London recently although there are some who are helpful.

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I hate it when people in supermarkets just stand and stare at you until you notice and get out of their way. I'd rather someone shout at me (if 'excuse me' is not in their vocab, and it often isn't).

My goodness, I'm snippy today, I must need chocolate as my hormones are not to blame at the mo.

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Being polite does seem to be dying out doesn't it?

You should have heard some of the abuse I got while I was shopping yesterday for daring to be in people's way as I was looking at the reduced bread section in my chair.

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So sad because it's not in the least bit surprising.

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Afraid to say it was your fault, I mean browsing in the reduced aisle, everyone knows you just pile it in the basket and worry about what's actually in said basket at checkout. They're like vultures circling a carcass when the reduced stuff comes out, I've seen people actually fighting over stuff, I wonder if it clicks when they get home that they've involved themselves in fisticuffs over a 12p bap

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The worse time of year is Christmas when you have women fighting over the turkey crowns in the supermarkets. Goodwill to others just goes out the window.

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Just wait until someone isn't looking and whip it out of their trolley into yours. ;)

Or if someone has really annoyed you, add things to their trolley. :)

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When I worked at Asda some customers who got annoyed at others who deliberately wouldn't get out of the way used to secretly drop pregnancy kits in to their trolley or basket.

Now I'm not saying I think it's a good idea - but I understand ;)

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Christ, is a bit of turkey REALLY that important to women? I'm getting my shopping delivered this year I think.

My moan is those who mess about with computers needing to reinstall the whole thing again. Yes, me in this case. Tried to remove a partition and totally botched it somehow. The air was several shades of blue. Only got my printer to install and I am back pretty much where I was. Luckily now I keep everything important on the external HD and the smaller stuff on various cloud sites. Phew.

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Sadly Mark to some it is as I have witnessed this first hand when working on the floor and at the checkouts believe me seeing is believing.

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Hehe, it doesn't just go out of the window, it's thrown mercilessly, kicking and screaming.

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My mate did that once, it was an old frail lady, who got to the till with half a dozen pregnancy testing kits.

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I had almost the opposite once. In sainsburys, I was looking at some food. A woman walked right up to me, said "Excuse Me" loudly, then waited for me to move out of the way. She totally ignored the 4 feet of space between me and the shelf behind me.

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And yes kids, this is why running is SO good for you....

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l hope that's not your leg and foot Russ.:shocked::Yikes:

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You've been picking that scab again. haven't you.

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How???

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Did my usual route this morning but was the first time I'd done it so dark and early and I didn't notice that the council had dug some potholes. I've got a LED light for my running cap but as I know the route so well I stupidly thought I wouldn't need it.

Didn't even know the pothole was there until I was flat on my face. What made it worse was it was so dark I didn't even notice the blood until I got to a lamp post a few hundred yards down the road. That's when I realised it was probably best if I made my way back. My main concern was how I'd get the blood stains out of my sock and Asics....the pain I can deal with later :spin:

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Had a call on the home phone this morning from a guy asking for Wayne someone or other. Told him he'd got the wrong number so he demanded to know my name etc, but Mrs G's told me I'm not allowed to give my details to strangers so told him to go whistle. He then just lost it, but he was using so many expletives I couldn't help but start laughing. The more I laughed the more crazed he got!!

When he'd put the phone down I thought I'd try and call him back - and low and behold he answered - and off he went again. This time however he's threatening to come round my house with 'his boys' and cut me in to little bits, and that I'm stupid for crossing him.

Now I'm not too worried myself as we've had many calls over the years asking for Wayne, and I know these companies have got an address on the other side of town from us, and he even said we'll be round there later to 'sort me out', and told me the road name. Should I make the guys day and report him (and if so to who)? I doubt very much he would but if they did come and chop Wayne (or whoever lives at the address) in to little bits I'd feel pretty guilty!!

I've got the rest of the day free so I'm so tempted to keep ringing him and see how mad I can get him, or should I just have a snooze on the sofa as I'd planned.

Cheers

Grim

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I keep some uncancelled anti-theft tags in a metal wallet and add one to their shopping...

My moan: Why is west Penwith without any 3G. It's not like there's no people living here or tourists. Only Penzance has 3G. Everywhere else is 2G/GPRS and it's painfully slow even if you can get a stable connection.

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Received an email today in French :confused: it was not till I opened it that I realized that it was phishing, as I thought it was from Amazon. I have reported it it to Amazon and forwarded it onto them at their request.
Did a scan, changed password on Amazon just to be on the safe side and will be watching bank, Amazon etc closely for the next couple of weeks for anything unusual.
Just posted this to warn other CF members of these emails. If you receive any suspicious emails from Amazon do not open them forward them to stop-spoofing@amazon.com then delete them please do not do what I did.

I am feeling very foolish for opening that email. :dunce:

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Thanks for the warning weenie. Be vigilant but don't beat yourself up. <<hugs>>

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:) Thanks

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Michigan weather.

A beautiful 80F today, forecast to be 58F tomorrow... :eek:

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Why is it when you are waiting for a date and time, the day's drag in :eh: Roll on Friday ... maybe will hear something then hopefully fingers crossed.

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Came home from work just now to find the London Marathon rejection magazine. Here's to next year's application...

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Sorry to hear that Russ. Good Luck for next year.

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Same here. If I decide to do another next year it'll be Inverness or Arran.

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I'm thinking of doing Manchester, apparently many regard it as the UK's number 2 marathon behind London.

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Snide, bitchy, spiteful people.

I really try to be polite and considerate to everyone, especially the people I work with, but some folks do not know how to be nice. I want to:
A. Understand them
B. Pity them

Or

C. Gut them with a rusty spoon.

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My vote would be option C but I would have added a fourth option ...

D. Be nice to them and give them a beaming smile. It can be a very effective way to make them take a step back if they think you may just be deranged. :D

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:LOL:

Deranged. Love it. Gonna try it. x

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It’s truly sad that some people choose to be this way, but unfortunately they are many Snide, bitchy, spiteful people around. Like your way of thinking joglynne and be nice to them and give them a beaming smile.

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Once had the office nasty person turn on me and splutter "stop being so dammed nice" everyone in the office howled with laughter and I gained a few kudos points as no one else had ever been able to make Ms Nasty loose her annoying condescending supercilious manner. :)

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Brilliant :)

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Bad script writing.. I'm just watching an episode of Star Trek, and McCoy, despite apparently being Starfleet's best doctor, and having access to medical equipment 300 years more advanced than ours apparently didn't notice that the body he was examining and couldn't find the cause of death for, had a complete lack of Sodium.

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dam it jim he's a doctor not a chef;)

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Lol

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Postman hasn't turned up... yet!

nothing new tbh > http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/22...l#post35677749

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What else can you expect when shareholders and profit's are put before a decent daily postal service.

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People who can't tell a budget from a budgie.....

We have so much to spend, agreed amounts on hardware, software, staff costs, consultancy, with some contingency - it's not really helpful coming back to me having overspent on hardware (without discussion or agreement) and expect the magic money tree to be in bloom.......

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The pain in my wooden leg. Takes me an hour longer every year to deliver all the letters on my round ...

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Beat em with the exec level approval for all spend stick, now with added red tape.

That usually does the trick

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Cos' I love spending all day every day approving PO's. ;) (our IT spend is £27 million a year....)

We try to give people responsibility and latitude, and then someone has to behave sub-optimally....

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RM wasn't taken over 10 odd years ago Den.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2014/10/11.gif not funny

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I'm efficient :)

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I have far too many moans and hates to list specifically so I'll just say - grr ;)

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Heh I spent most of yesterday doing the paperwork to justify £90K of capex on network equipment... and that's even with it being re-billed to one of our customers with a tasty margin.

Woe betide you if you drop your mobile phone or have an accident with your laptop ;)

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That is very true but year by year the service has got worse and now all we will have is a third rate service since privatisation as both Labour and the Conservatives increasingly ran it into the ground during those last 10 years.

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Another day of no post! I'm getting really pee'd off of this.

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As a rule our local postal service is good. The problem I keep having is that my address is:

Mr R W Davies
Rhyds Towers
North Wales Village
XX11 1XY

The problem there is that there's another person down the road with the address:

Mr R W Jones
Rhyds Towers
Station Road
North Wales Village
XX11 1XW

and I regularly receive their post, and as I live alone I naturally open any envelope stuffed through the door without checking (when you see a water bill posted through the door you don't tend to check the address as a matter of course), so I end up having to sheepishly stuff the now opened letter through their letterbox.

At least they're not that far away. My parents' post keeps getting mixed up with another address 7 miles from where they are!

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I think we have a new postman. He just appeared looking lost then disappeared. It seemed like he was looking for an address all the while having a big stack of post in his arms.

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I've posted on this subject before but it really winds me up dog poo in a swing park where children are playing, took Drew and his two friends to a local country where it has a coffee shop, nature trails and of course a swing park. The swing park had dog poo in it and I thought how selfish of the dog owners to let their dogs not alone into the sealed off play area but also let them mess in it where children are more than likely to stand in it. I am a dog owner and when my dog poop's in the street for example I pick it up with a scented bag and dispose of it in a dog litter bin. Really winds me up people who don't pick up their dog poops anyway but even more so when in a swing park where children are playing. :mad:

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:mad: the postmans shift ended so he pee'd off home so yet another days worth of post not delivered. Homes across the road did get post before his shift ended.

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You expecting something important thenry?

We used to have a foreign postman that couldn't read English, we used to go out with the rest of the street swooping letters, you'd have thought the only requirements to be a postman would be the abilities to walk and read but clearly not.

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Sadly one of my family gave me a bad cold and sore throat.:nono:

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Not really. Just a little excited to receive stuff I have ordered :D

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I've called up my local sorting office in the past, might be an idea for you to give them a shout if your expecting something specific

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People who collect their dog poo in a bag, tie it up with a knot and then dump the bag on the footpath. What's that all about?

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Laziness. I have to go to a hospital appointment tomorrow morning in pouring rain. Time to dig my coat out, get rid of the smell of mothballs lol.

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Half - hearted effort otherwise known as laziness.

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Good luck at hospital tomorrow Mark, I'm at hospital on Friday then hopefully will be able to get back to work if the doctor declares me fit for for work after test results (fingers crossed) as I need the money my sick pay is rubbish tbh.

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I did call Crawley RM... amusing stuff when explaining postman pat is lost.

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OK, so the Cardiff half marathon was probably enjoyed by quite a few people, but when they said the roads would be open again at 1pm, why were they still closed at 3:30pm causing traffic chaos?

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Russ was still running.

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Finished in 2 hours :)

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It could have been one of the kids. :D

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Now There's a Thought! :Yikes:

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Everything hurts.

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hold on to that thought- that's what being old feels like all the time :)

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Not looking forward to tomorrow afternoon at all, as I am taking my wee one to the Orthodontist where he has to get impressions done along with x-rays as he needs to have a bar fitted (whatever that is) for his track brace but his Dad can take him for that appointment me thinks :D

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Updates for Windows. Why do I always manage to mess up the laptop? This is the third time I have done the upgrade to 8.1 and this is the third time it has mucked the laptop up. Thankfully, I have found a way to disable the message prompting me to upgrade so hopefully it will work. Never upgrading to 8.1 again. NEVER!

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Not really a moan, more a lament of where I was this time last year. This time last year, I had done 3 shifts of my work experience which turned into the biggest waste of my life. I met some nice people there, but unfortunately the manager turned out to be someone who tells people what they want to hear but screws them over.

All in all I am pleased I do not work there permanently now. I see someone I used to work with occasionally, and she tells me that morale is really low there. Hopefully this job interview next week with an agency will see me get some work in the run up to Christmas. Temp work for 3 months is not to be sneezed at really.

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The download servers for Unreal Engine 4.

We have an educational subscription at work and I'm just trying to make an install we can copy to multiple machines. They give you a link to a nice, small MSI you can download and (in theory) distribute easily. The MSI installs a launch menu which you use to sign in to their service (fair enough). You also have to use this to download and install the actual engine.

The trouble is, this is a 3 gig download and is currently downloading my machine (which has a connection to the internet that is fast enough that it only takes a couple of minutes to download multi gigabyte files from various sites (e.g. Apple and Microsoft). The site the Unreal Engine launcher downloads from is currently averaging around 20kBPs, and occasionally jumping to anywhere between 0BPs and 1.2MBPs So, about 2 hours after I started the download, it had got to around 10%. Then, to answer a question, I needed to reboot my mac into OSX. No problem, I thought, I'll just resume the download. No such luck. Either the software, or the server, does not support resuming.

Honestly, I'm beginning to wonder if I've been magically transported back the 90s, what with the dial up speed and non resuming downloads.

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Local council - or the post.....

Still waiting for my new blue badge (Which expires tomorrow).

I've both phoned and emailed them and they tell me it'll arrive in time for it's expiry.

HHHmmm.

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Hope it arrives tomorrow for you dilli, fingers crossed it does. I think it is quite shocking to be honest with you that they do not send it out 7-10 days before the expiry date as I would imagine it must cause a certain amount of worrying not to have it.

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Luckily I'm not due out anywhere 'till the weekend.

They are supposed to let me know when it's done to collect the payment (£10) and then send it to me in time so I don't know what's going on.

But I'll have to see what happens tomorrow.

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Hopefully you will be posting on the Happy thought thread "Hooray Blue Badge is here" :)

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Well I'm getting really nervous at the moment about tomorrow and the thought of the Colonoscopy, and tbh not looking forward to 5pm and 8pm tonight at all when I have to take the Moviprep.
Also I'm getting quite hungry now although I suspect it's because I know I can't eat what I would like therefore more in the mind rather than true hunger.