Things that have bothered you for a long time.

[ebikeerwidnes]

Ok - this one bothers me a lot
and it has happened the last 2 days

SUbject - scheduled recordings on Virgin - I presume Sky are the same
now - in the olden days - I had a VHS recorder and I could record a programme - e.g. Tour de France - and it would record it based on the times I keyed in - if the programme over ran or was running late then that was my problem

Then they introduced a new system where you could type in a anumber from the Radio Times (or whatever) and that would decode to the proper time - which was easier
THEN - someone came up witha system where, if you used this special number number, then it would notice that you wanted this programme recorded and would adjust the times to get it at the right time
BRILLIANT

Now - back to today (at last !!)
SO now I have this very sophisticated Virgin system controlled by a computerised box with a high speed network link to the central Virgin TV stuff
AND - it has an internet connection

so - WHY can it not realise that I have set up a recording for a specific programme does it just record the time and length as on the schedule
and not realise that the times of broadcast have changed???

when they could in the 1970's/80s!!!!

has happened with the Giro highlights for the last 2 days due to the tennis over running

 

[DaveReading]

Ok - this one bothers me a lot
and it has happened the last 2 days

SUbject - scheduled recordings on Virgin - I presume Sky are the same
now - in the olden days - I had a VHS recorder and I could record a programme - e.g. Tour de France - and it would record it based on the times I keyed in - if the programme over ran or was running late then that was my problem

Then they introduced a new system where you could type in a anumber from the Radio Times (or whatever) and that would decode to the proper time - which was easier
THEN - someone came up witha system where, if you used this special number number, then it would notice that you wanted this programme recorded and would adjust the times to get it at the right time
BRILLIANT

Now - back to today (at last !!)
SO now I have this very sophisticated Virgin system controlled by a computerised box with a high speed network link to the central Virgin TV stuff
AND - it has an internet connection

so - WHY can it not realise that I have set up a recording for a specific programme does it just record the time and length as on the schedule
and not realise that the times of broadcast have changed???

when they could in the 1970's/80s!!!!

has happened with the Giro highlights for the last 2 days due to the tennis over running

Isn't it up to the broadcaster to make sure that last-minute changes are propagated to the EPG ?

It may not be Virgin at fault.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Isn't it up to the broadcaster to make sure that last-minute changes are propagated to the EPG ?

It may not be Virgin at fault.

Maybe not - but if so it is a rubbish system
you would have thought - in this day and age - they would be able to work out a way of updating things on a timely manner

I mean - they could do it in the 1980s before the Internet existed
(OK - for the pedants - before the Internet was available and accessible to normal people!!!)

 

[Yellow Fang]

Didn't the main character die/snuff it/cease to be/popped his clogs/croak (delete as appropriate) ?

I thought that too, but the BBC cancelled it before he died. I don't think he died until several years after. I read that he was disappointed because the BBC were airing the American remake. A sad thing about that series was that the main actor's son was his son in the series. At the end of the second series, Tiger was about to emigrate. I wonder whether the actress was going to leave the series. If that was the case then it was just as well they cancelled it.

 

[Yellow Fang]

People were a lot shorter in the past. For instance, Thomas Hardy was 5'1". Initially I assumed that was because most people were underfed. However, some years ago I read a book about how anti-biotics were losing their efficacy through overuse. It said one of the effects of antibiotics in was increased growth. So, might another reason that people were smaller in the past be that their bodies were using a lot of energy fighting disease?

 

[Yellow Fang]

Rugby Union and Rugby League, why don't they unite the two different forms?

 

[Yellow Fang]

Taxi drivers - how do they make a living? They have the taxi to buy/rent, fuel and maintain. The average fare is what, £10? And they spend a lot of their time either driving back to the taxi rank or waiting there.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Taxi drivers - how do they make a living? They have the taxi to buy/rent, fuel and maintain. The average fare is what, £10? And they spend a lot of their time either driving back to the taxi rank or waiting there.

From talking to some locally; with great difficulty, although here there's some protection in that the town only issues a set number of concessions and Uber hasn't managed to make many inroads in the local regulatory framework.

 

[Sterlo]

Rugby Union and Rugby League, why don't they unite the two different forms?

Get out now!!!!!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Rugby Union and Rugby League, why don't they unite the two different forms?

And - on the same level
Jam or cream first????
helmets or not??
wet or dry lube??

just a list of question NOT to ask

 

[fossyant]

My family, generally don't give a poop about me.

MIL died two weeks ago, not even a card from my 3 siblings or my folks. Made them aware of the funeral, loads of excuses, only my folks will come to the service, not the wake etc. We had no support whilst in hospital 24/7 for a week with MIL.

After basically no-one wanting to pay respects to MIL (whom they have all known for over 30 years) I told them last night that I was "disappointed with their lack of support" recently - nothing aggressive, those exact words.

My mum went 'do you not know three of them had covid' - this was 3-4 weeks ago (all vaxxed so not a big deal ?) , so I said MIL had it too recently (in a care home) and you lot got it on a plane on your jollies- like no sympathy from me.

Anyway they didn't like me telling them.

As I don't do facebook, I've just deleted myself off the family 'Whatsapp' - they can go fcuk themselves, the lot of em.

Not interested in my brother and his son in matching t-shirts whilst on holiday (seriously sad) - you put anything serious on, and SIL hijacks it with nephew photos...

Grrr Family.

 

[Chris S]

Why do my neighbours' cats walk along my garden gate, jump down into my garden and then crawl under the gate to get into the alley behind it? Wouldn't it be easier just to jump down into the alley in the first place?

 

[Alex321]

Why do my neighbours' cats walk along my garden gate, jump down into my garden and then crawl under the gate to get into the alley behind it? Wouldn't it be easier just to jump down into the alley in the first place?

Maybe a softer landing in your garden than in the alley?

Or safer from being attacked by other cats or dogs?

 

[Threevok]

Why do my neighbours' cats walk along my garden gate, jump down into my garden and then crawl under the gate to get into the alley behind it? Wouldn't it be easier just to jump down into the alley in the first place?

Cats are creatures of habit

Our one cat will walk around the coffee table to get to the kitchen, rather than take the direct route, yet won't on the return journey

I've given up on trying to understand cats - tis folly

 

[DCBassman]

Cats are creatures of habit

Our one cat will walk around the coffee table to get to the kitchen, rather than take the direct route, yet won't on the return journey

I've given up on trying to understand cats - tis folly

This.