Jonboy

Sadly I suspect it’s going to simply be a case of winner is whoever is closest to the pit lane when the safety car comes out….

https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/29/jimmy-carr-urges-unvaccinated-fans-to-slap-themselves-across-the-face-15682947/

4 hours ago, AndrueC said:

Yeah. I think they've had the system for many years now but certainly not when they first started. I also hate companies (not Amazon) who pass your email address onto third parties eg; couriers or external payment sites. It risks defeating my DEA system.

Working for a wholesaler who do everything by courier I did some analysis around 12 years ago before passing emails to couriers was almost mandatory (in the couriers eyes at least!) and at that point almost 30% of our customer service contacts were “where’s my order????”
 

These days with email and text initiated tracking its around 2% leaving staff to get on with more worthwhile work….and reducing boredom related staff turnover!!!

4 minutes ago, 57xx said:

 

Was it a Sky interview he made the comments on? On the C4 coverage it was his ex-driver Mr Coulthard  calling the marshal rogue.

That would explain last week if the stewards are watching the Sky coverage rather than their own feeds….

7 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

Oddly; yesterday I just picked up (for free, btw) a book of "corny jokes" . Having read some of them, it will be one book that will be in the trash tomorrow!

  For everyone else’s benefit Corny jokes

A colleague text me this morning to say they had a positive LFT, and were awaiting a PCR result.

My phone offered 3 one click auto answers “great”, “ok thanks” or “that’s great news”….!

Dunno about anywhere else but round here we have a lovely new shopping centre with around 12 empty units (2years on from its extension) who’s estate agents will not even talk to people looking to start or relocate independent shops….

11 hours ago, Ian J. said:

I gather 'Proton' is the part of Steam that allows Windows games to be played on Linux?

Yes it’s a porting tool, similar to wine that also works well.

I have seen a reminder elsewhere that cross EU credit card fees were capped in the single market, when we left the EU Visa removed this cap on UK to EU transactions as they were cross border payments….

If you look at your Amazon.co.uk receipts they are normally from Amazon Sarl of Luxembourg, and not the Amazon ltd uk that handle the operational side of their uk warehouses and deliveries.

1 hour ago, rab said:

The company I worked for did a deal with Amex which meant that

all business trip expenses had to be paid using company Amex cards.

It wasn't long before the complaints started flooding in

about hotels and restaurants not accepting Amex.

We used to accept Amex at work, but they insisted on a separate merchant account that used to take 5-6 days to pay rather than 1-2 for a visa/mc merchant account.

We then found that if customers chose not to give you their card for some many months they close said merchant account without notice, but your payment terminal will still accept the payments and they take the money from your customers bank account….

I have found steam proton is great with Linux Mint, except for when there are major version upgrades of mint. This is because their default is to revert to their open source graphics driver, but I find Proton is far happier with the AMDGPU driver set.

The AMD driver set has been a bit of a pain to install (really really didn’t like the keyboard, video, mouse switch I use to share the with my work and home desktop towers).

LQ is a funny old game, even though there are general exceptions in law you often have to have the specific items cleared by each carriers compliance department before starting to ship them to any customer.

This generally involves submitting their application form, the material safety data sheet and photos of the product and intended packaging materials for each item/range before any shipments.

This can take 4 weeks for them to process and approve, just for domestic shipments. If you apply and they decline that is it game over, end of story.
 

Even at a wholesale level we don’t normally get involved for overseas as any random decisions by any carrier or customs agents that it’s non compliant and to be disposed of, is at our cost regardless of whether they are correct or not.

Part of that is as a shipper you have to pay for an export clearance procedure per shipment, as well as the receiver paying an import clearance charge…and it needs to be recovered somewhere.

With the carriers we work with from the uk to EU, it is a fixed fee, but still works about between 20-35% of the original cost of shipping depending on destination.

http://cdn-9.motorsport.com/static/img/mgl/1500000/1580000/1583000/1583300/1583379/s1_1.jpg

Sign of champion material, nothing to see here, move along please…

I have to say that (even though I double jabbed as quickly as possible) as we don’t know the long term health implications of COVID or the vaccine I have sympathy with those that are hesitant.
Part of this is on the basis of how long things conditions as asbestosis can take to show up and how long they can take to be formally investigated and recognised.

My wife on the over hand is all for it, and it has got to the point we have accepted neither will change the others view and stopped talking about it….which is probably the first subject we have ended up in this position on in almost 20 years together.

Slightly surprised to see workers crossing in front of the active dragging attempts at the end of the clip, I assume a strap snapping would have seen it lurch forward a fair way?

On 09/11/2021 at 09:33, 3rd Rail Exile said:

 

Well my GP surgery has now been in contact to say that there are no appointments to book at the local centre in the Civic Hall, and not to contact the practice about a booster unless you are housebound.  The message does then say that they are keen to encourage all eligible patients to take up a booster, and directs them to the national NHS booking website...

The walk in I mentioned the MIL getting above was at the Kassam Stadium.

My mother in law gave up trying to ask her surgery and got a walk in at a regional centre.

I believe the problem is our local gp’s are now concentrating on their other backlogs, rather than the boosters at this point,

They could do a lucky dip for the sprint race grids which would spice up the action a bit and make it different to the main championship race.

Last time I used calor gas for the first cylinder I paid £X for the cylinder rental and £Y for the gas inside it. When I had finished with it I took it back and got none of £Y back, but £X was partially refunded on a sliding scale depending on how long between the original rental and the surrender of the cylinder.

If I had needed to swap it out it would have been for the cost of £Y only.

I seem to recall that a missing initial receipt/agreement automatically dropped £X to the lowest possible refund.

(This was to a main agent depot with hundreds of bottles in stock, rather than a retailer).

https://www.calor.co.uk/gas-bottles/advice/returns

4 minutes ago, Dunsignalling said:

I've had the privacy agreement page come up every time I've clicked in today. Usually only comes up after my laptop clears trackers.

There’s a separate thread on that with the suggestion of clearing rmweb cookies and cache to fix. 

I had a lot of day to day involvement with managing a warehouse for many years and the only interaction we had with 90% of the drivers turning up (container and artic delivery’s) was “park there please, toilets are down the corridor, kettle is through that door, and let me find a pen” with an occasional, “shop is 300 yards down that road”.
 We would sometimes get a keen one who wanted to help unload and get on their way (normally the inbound European delivery’s) but most either sat in their cab or stood off to one side.

The daily collection drivers were a bit more involved as they would be there regularly, and often hanging around on their tacho breaks etc (partly cause we would let them use the aforementioned toilets and kettle!!!) , so got into a bit more banter with the lads.

Wife is the same, in the routine of she puts them on, I take a photo on my phone, and she swaps back and looks at it…

FYI the testing and licensing regime change next month and make it easier to get to driving artics…. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/changes-to-hgv-and-bus-driving-tests-from-autumn-2021

Also changes to the weight limits of trailers for class B license holders https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-rules-for-towing-a-trailer-or-caravan-with-a-car-from-autumn-2021

(any discussion on the rights and wrongs of these changes probably belong in their own thread or driving standards!  )

7 hours ago, Andrew P said:

So, Am I right in thinking that the F1 pinnacle of Motor Sport Drivers and Constructors World Championship could be decided by who has the least no of Engine Penalties.

Well no, if that was the basis it likely be Mazapin, who is being very careful to minimise the mileage on his engines….