h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I did wonder what that came from...

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I've recently found a new pet hate,..........Time wasters when you are selling stuff on Gu***ee, they are so annoying! when they don't turn up as arranged

Smudger.

PH: Relevant to Ladies..
People who stuff sanitary waste bins full of toilet paper/tissues/other rubbish so pretty much unusable. Third week the bin in both staff loos in the hospital where I work has been full

I wish I could remember the quote from Gene Belcher on the episode of _Bob's Burgers_ I was watching last night. Something about there being a mailbox in the ladies room.

Ah! Found it.


"The girls’ bathroom is nice! Each stall has a tiny metal mailbox. I’m glad I was carrying around that postcard for Ken."

PH: Error 524

I've been seeing this too often this week. This is the error I see in My Convos pop-up when I lose connection to the h2g2 Ripley servers.

The problem originates with an updates mega-dump last Thursday or Friday, putting about a third of gigabyte of new code aboard on my system, for example.

When the update process contractors do that, rather than pacing updates to minimize impact, they create an internet wide potential for system crashes, including not only the personal systems of individual users, but also those of websites and server.

If they don't know any better than that, they're incompetent.

Implications of that last sentence intended.




PH: Update system megadumps.

PH: Full-screen advertising pop-ups plastered all over other people's websites.




On the latter, something that came up with the second most recent update mega-dump as a trojan carried by the update process.

Today's PH: Vital appliance that fails just before a holiday. In this case, our fridge.

Punish it by not taking it with you on holiday. That'll learn it.

Unless of course you're Tony Hawks. 'Round Ireland without a Fridge' just doesn't have the same ring to it…

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Personally, I'd never take my fridge over troubled water.

Especially not if it's a fridge too far.

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It'll be the fridge of sighs soon - on its way to fridge heaven.

Torture it into working again. Fwidges are hydwophobic. Hold it over wunning water to weduce it to tears.

Make The Fridge over the Wiver Cwy.

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...meanwhile the frost buildup that came with monsoonal haze is still growing...

...crisis defrosting in the offing...

The Jobsworth" who sent my Blue Badge renewal form back to me, because I hadn't ticked ONE BOX on page 8,

Why didn't she show it to me on the day she signed it when I was there?

She could have just out a tick in the box, instead of sending the whole lot back to me

Smudger.

Had she been useful, or even helpful somebody would have had to revoke her bureaucrat license.

They are only interested is how many people they can serve in a shift, customer satisfaction means nothing. If they can delay your benefits for a few more weeks it means more profit for their next raise.

The biggest lie in the universe 'I am here from the Government, I want to help you.'

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I know I thought of a number of Petty Hates while I was on holiday, but I can only remember two of them. Both are related to public toilets.

1. Small cubicles. Most are fine, but I've encountered some where I had to squeeze between the wall and the toilet to get the door closed. Women's toilets are particularly bad for this as we have the added obstacle of the sanitary disposal bin (aka mailbox ).

2. Badly arranged toilet rooms. I used the disabled toilet at a Service area near Edinburgh. For some reason, the hand drier was sited next to the toilet where the toilet paper holder should have been. The toilet paper holder was on the opposite wall, barely within reach. I'm about average height for a woman. Anyone shorter than me would have trouble with it.

Back to my continual PH - it's 12 midday here in Central Europe and when I log in to h2g2 nothing has happened. It's only after my lunch hour has finished that the UK come out to play.

That's excluding CD's last post here, of course. I agree entirely. I have been in loos where the automatic hand dryer goes off when you come in the door, (from outside, not into the cubicle) and others where you can't avoid starting the things off with your bottom.