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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,179
    Ludovico wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Ludovico wrote: »
    It's hot here in the UK and I hate it.

    Same here. It's very hot in the office and and in the car and I find my head sweats most which is very annoying though necessary.

    Thankfully I work from home. Ground floor, if I keep the curtains closed it's reasonably warm. Four years ago I worked in an office which I had nicknamed the ice box in winter and the oven in summer. I hated the job and the names were very fitting.

    Sounds like one of my exes.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 16,163
    EFFING A! MOTHER GRABBING PIECE OF CRAP!

    My Instagram account got hacked and I got booted out. Had to create another one.
    Now I have to redo all those posts again and start from scratch.

    Oh well. You win some you lose some.

  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    Posts: 14,572
    Heh, @ToTheRight said "scratch".
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 16,163
    QBranch wrote: »
    Heh, @ToTheRight said "scratch".

    :D :D :D haha!
  • GerardGerard
    Posts: 5,993
    Update on the iTunes situation : Turns out that the two problems are related. I can't engrave songs on CD because I can't read them. And I can't read them because I don't have the authorization to read them. And iTunes, no matter what I do, doesn't want to give me the authorization. So, I paid for titles I can't even listen to, or put on a CD. Frustrating, isn't it ? Any solution for that ?
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    Posts: 12,467
    Not being able to pay my dental bills makes me feel all sorts of bad.
  • GerardGerard
    Posts: 5,993
    I've received this week the bill for the costs of my appartment (heating, gardening, cleaning, and so on. And I (and all the tenants in the neighbourhood) found it quite hishg. I have to pay some 535 € in august, in addition to my rent (458 €). After five years (and maybe more, but I haven't gone that far back) where they owed me money, that's quite a blow to the wallet. All of this is due to the mounting cost of the gaz used in heating the buildings. Ah well, no trip to London this year.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,032
    Gas prices have been going down again for some time. I had the fortune to have been persuaded by a regional provider to get a new two-year contract in autumn of 2021 for my one-family home, with a price guarantee and monthly down payments actually lower than my previous provider's for two years. So until December of this year I will be paying actually less for gas than I paid before this mess started when Putin raided Ukraine. And I trust that gas prices will be down enough by this fall that I won't risk bankruptcy for the next two years either. Ok, this wasn't exactly whinging, moaning, complaining or ranting...
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 8,255
    Well, this wasn't yesterday, but I have to get it off my chest.

    A couple of weeks ago there was this James Bond in Concert - Casino Royale event in Amsterdam. The first in the country. A black tie event, so we went out to buy my wife a lovely dress and a dinner jacket for me.
    The night in question I was actually exhausted after weeks of high tension at work. We got to Amsterdam to the Concertgebouw ( Concert Hall) to see the film and live music.
    The first dissapointment was one I should've seen coming: black tie in Amsterdam means 'put on aa clean shirt - if you have one'. People came in even wearing T-shirts. So, not a very special evening then. We had front row tickets (the most expensive ones), but the screen was hung close above the orchestra, which resulted in us cracking our necks trying to see the film.
    Sitting so close to the orchestra didn't help either, with the sound beeing overwhealming.
    And then it became too much for me, I started halucinating because of me beeing exhausted and overwheamed and had to leave.

    An eavening I had been looking foreward to for months ended it bitter dissapointment. The only uptick beeing that it got my wife interested in Bondfilms.

  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,179
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    Well, this wasn't yesterday, but I have to get it off my chest.

    A couple of weeks ago there was this James Bond in Concert - Casino Royale event in Amsterdam. The first in the country. A black tie event, so we went out to buy my wife a lovely dress and a dinner jacket for me.
    The night in question I was actually exhausted after weeks of high tension at work. We got to Amsterdam to the Concertgebouw ( Concert Hall) to see the film and live music.
    The first dissapointment was one I should've seen coming: black tie in Amsterdam means 'put on aa clean shirt - if you have one'. People came in even wearing T-shirts. So, not a very special evening then. We had front row tickets (the most expensive ones), but the screen was hung close above the orchestra, which resulted in us cracking our necks trying to see the film.
    Sitting so close to the orchestra didn't help either, with the sound beeing overwhealming.
    And then it became too much for me, I started halucinating because of me beeing exhausted and overwheamed and had to leave.

    An eavening I had been looking foreward to for months ended it bitter dissapointment. The only uptick beeing that it got my wife interested in Bondfilms.

    @CommanderRoss
    That bloody sucks, mate. It does sound like an event to look forward to. To be honest, I never attend any big event anymore unless I'm sure to have found enough rest first for the same reason. But the front-row issues sound like a major oversight by the organization. And T-shirts to an event like this? Come on!
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 8,255
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    Well, this wasn't yesterday, but I have to get it off my chest.

    A couple of weeks ago there was this James Bond in Concert - Casino Royale event in Amsterdam. The first in the country. A black tie event, so we went out to buy my wife a lovely dress and a dinner jacket for me.
    The night in question I was actually exhausted after weeks of high tension at work. We got to Amsterdam to the Concertgebouw ( Concert Hall) to see the film and live music.
    The first dissapointment was one I should've seen coming: black tie in Amsterdam means 'put on aa clean shirt - if you have one'. People came in even wearing T-shirts. So, not a very special evening then. We had front row tickets (the most expensive ones), but the screen was hung close above the orchestra, which resulted in us cracking our necks trying to see the film.
    Sitting so close to the orchestra didn't help either, with the sound beeing overwhealming.
    And then it became too much for me, I started halucinating because of me beeing exhausted and overwheamed and had to leave.

    An eavening I had been looking foreward to for months ended it bitter dissapointment. The only uptick beeing that it got my wife interested in Bondfilms.

    @CommanderRoss
    That bloody sucks, mate. It does sound like an event to look forward to. To be honest, I never attend any big event anymore unless I'm sure to have found enough rest first for the same reason. But the front-row issues sound like a major oversight by the organization. And T-shirts to an event like this? Come on!

    Thanks @DarthDimi . Yeah, sometimes I feel very old, or rather old fashioned. But you know Amsterdam, no style, no class. I'm for sure not doing this in my own country anymore.

    Sadly there was no way for me to be properly rested before. I run my own company now and was hired for a high profile project. It's not something you can easily tone down.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,179
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    Well, this wasn't yesterday, but I have to get it off my chest.

    A couple of weeks ago there was this James Bond in Concert - Casino Royale event in Amsterdam. The first in the country. A black tie event, so we went out to buy my wife a lovely dress and a dinner jacket for me.
    The night in question I was actually exhausted after weeks of high tension at work. We got to Amsterdam to the Concertgebouw ( Concert Hall) to see the film and live music.
    The first dissapointment was one I should've seen coming: black tie in Amsterdam means 'put on aa clean shirt - if you have one'. People came in even wearing T-shirts. So, not a very special evening then. We had front row tickets (the most expensive ones), but the screen was hung close above the orchestra, which resulted in us cracking our necks trying to see the film.
    Sitting so close to the orchestra didn't help either, with the sound beeing overwhealming.
    And then it became too much for me, I started halucinating because of me beeing exhausted and overwheamed and had to leave.

    An eavening I had been looking foreward to for months ended it bitter dissapointment. The only uptick beeing that it got my wife interested in Bondfilms.

    @CommanderRoss
    That bloody sucks, mate. It does sound like an event to look forward to. To be honest, I never attend any big event anymore unless I'm sure to have found enough rest first for the same reason. But the front-row issues sound like a major oversight by the organization. And T-shirts to an event like this? Come on!

    Thanks @DarthDimi . Yeah, sometimes I feel very old, or rather old fashioned. But you know Amsterdam, no style, no class. I'm for sure not doing this in my own country anymore.

    Sadly there was no way for me to be properly rested before. I run my own company now and was hired for a high profile project. It's not something you can easily tone down.

    Well, all four times I've visited Amsterdam, I was rather enjoying the city. But it does get a bit 'alternative' sometimes, that's for sure. ;-)
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 8,255
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    Well, this wasn't yesterday, but I have to get it off my chest.

    A couple of weeks ago there was this James Bond in Concert - Casino Royale event in Amsterdam. The first in the country. A black tie event, so we went out to buy my wife a lovely dress and a dinner jacket for me.
    The night in question I was actually exhausted after weeks of high tension at work. We got to Amsterdam to the Concertgebouw ( Concert Hall) to see the film and live music.
    The first dissapointment was one I should've seen coming: black tie in Amsterdam means 'put on aa clean shirt - if you have one'. People came in even wearing T-shirts. So, not a very special evening then. We had front row tickets (the most expensive ones), but the screen was hung close above the orchestra, which resulted in us cracking our necks trying to see the film.
    Sitting so close to the orchestra didn't help either, with the sound beeing overwhealming.
    And then it became too much for me, I started halucinating because of me beeing exhausted and overwheamed and had to leave.

    An eavening I had been looking foreward to for months ended it bitter dissapointment. The only uptick beeing that it got my wife interested in Bondfilms.

    @CommanderRoss
    That bloody sucks, mate. It does sound like an event to look forward to. To be honest, I never attend any big event anymore unless I'm sure to have found enough rest first for the same reason. But the front-row issues sound like a major oversight by the organization. And T-shirts to an event like this? Come on!

    Thanks @DarthDimi . Yeah, sometimes I feel very old, or rather old fashioned. But you know Amsterdam, no style, no class. I'm for sure not doing this in my own country anymore.

    Sadly there was no way for me to be properly rested before. I run my own company now and was hired for a high profile project. It's not something you can easily tone down.

    Well, all four times I've visited Amsterdam, I was rather enjoying the city. But it does get a bit 'alternative' sometimes, that's for sure. ;-)

    I didn't say there was no way of enjoying yourself, that can be done without style or class. But it is dissapointing if you are going for those two, and then realise that both are not in the Dutch DNA, especially not in our 'free for all, home of the British stagnight' capital.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,032
    I must say that something being designated a "black tie event" would put me off in the first place. I'm quite satisfied that I never wore (and especially owned) a tux/dinner jacket/black tie in my entire 66+ years of life and completely ceased wearing even regular ties for at least the last three or four years. I'm about to discard the rest of those I bought during my professional life as I find them to be totally useless pieces of attire. I'm totally happy to be back to my 1970s T- or sweatshirt/Levi's days and refuse to go any place where more formality is required.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 16,163
    Took my car in to get my brake line repaired and the frame had given way. Had to be junked and I don't exactly have a way to replace this vehicle. No bus routes in my area so I'm walking from now on.
    I'd love to rob a local bank......but I don't even have a getaway vehicle now.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,271
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Took my car in to get my brake line repaired and the frame had given way. Had to be junked and I don't exactly have a way to replace this vehicle. No bus routes in my area so I'm walking from now on.
    I'd love to rob a local bank......but I don't even have a getaway vehicle now.

    Sounds like me last year when the brakes went on my old car and it reached the end of the line. The mechanic said it'd have taken £1000 to by the time he stopped counting all of the faults and that wasn't all of them. As the car was 14 years old it had to be scrapped. I was without a car for about three months, which was interesting. Walking and buses were my mode of transport for a while.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 16,163
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Took my car in to get my brake line repaired and the frame had given way. Had to be junked and I don't exactly have a way to replace this vehicle. No bus routes in my area so I'm walking from now on.
    I'd love to rob a local bank......but I don't even have a getaway vehicle now.

    Sounds like me last year when the brakes went on my old car and it reached the end of the line. The mechanic said it'd have taken £1000 to by the time he stopped counting all of the faults and that wasn't all of them. As the car was 14 years old it had to be scrapped. I was without a car for about three months, which was interesting. Walking and buses were my mode of transport for a while.

    I'm going to walk and hitch-hike like Bill Bixby at the end of every INCREDIBLE HULK episode.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited July 2023 Posts: 18,271
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Took my car in to get my brake line repaired and the frame had given way. Had to be junked and I don't exactly have a way to replace this vehicle. No bus routes in my area so I'm walking from now on.
    I'd love to rob a local bank......but I don't even have a getaway vehicle now.

    Sounds like me last year when the brakes went on my old car and it reached the end of the line. The mechanic said it'd have taken £1000 to by the time he stopped counting all of the faults and that wasn't all of them. As the car was 14 years old it had to be scrapped. I was without a car for about three months, which was interesting. Walking and buses were my mode of transport for a while.

    I'm going to walk and hitch-hike like Bill Bixby at the end of every INCREDIBLE HULK episode.

    Wobble wobble Bill Bixby:



    You wouldn't like me when I wibble wobble.
  • ToTheRightToTheRight
    Posts: 16,163
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    ToTheRight wrote: »
    Took my car in to get my brake line repaired and the frame had given way. Had to be junked and I don't exactly have a way to replace this vehicle. No bus routes in my area so I'm walking from now on.
    I'd love to rob a local bank......but I don't even have a getaway vehicle now.

    Sounds like me last year when the brakes went on my old car and it reached the end of the line. The mechanic said it'd have taken £1000 to by the time he stopped counting all of the faults and that wasn't all of them. As the car was 14 years old it had to be scrapped. I was without a car for about three months, which was interesting. Walking and buses were my mode of transport for a while.

    I'm going to walk and hitch-hike like Bill Bixby at the end of every INCREDIBLE HULK episode.

    Wobble wobble Bill Bixby:



    You wouldn't like me when I wibble wobble.

    :D
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
    Posts: 8,255
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    I must say that something being designated a "black tie event" would put me off in the first place. I'm quite satisfied that I never wore (and especially owned) a tux/dinner jacket/black tie in my entire 66+ years of life and completely ceased wearing even regular ties for at least the last three or four years. I'm about to discard the rest of those I bought during my professional life as I find them to be totally useless pieces of attire. I'm totally happy to be back to my 1970s T- or sweatshirt/Levi's days and refuse to go any place where more formality is required.

    Well, when everybody is 'in', I definately think it adds to the beauty and atmosphere of the event, but I can see that is less and less apreciated. When I had a party in Ukraine (before the war) even the kids from the 14-year old's birthday party next to hours were all dressed up and looked fantastic. It certainly made the event special. Not that I'd regularly attend such events, but it does make an evening special compared to normal evenings.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    edited July 2023 Posts: 24,179
    It's summertime. How can my nose be bunged up? Nothing going around as far as I can tell. I hate those unexplainable colds!
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,032
    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    I must say that something being designated a "black tie event" would put me off in the first place. I'm quite satisfied that I never wore (and especially owned) a tux/dinner jacket/black tie in my entire 66+ years of life and completely ceased wearing even regular ties for at least the last three or four years. I'm about to discard the rest of those I bought during my professional life as I find them to be totally useless pieces of attire. I'm totally happy to be back to my 1970s T- or sweatshirt/Levi's days and refuse to go any place where more formality is required.

    Well, when everybody is 'in', I definately think it adds to the beauty and atmosphere of the event, but I can see that is less and less apreciated. When I had a party in Ukraine (before the war) even the kids from the 14-year old's birthday party next to hours were all dressed up and looked fantastic. It certainly made the event special. Not that I'd regularly attend such events, but it does make an evening special compared to normal evenings.

    Well, to each his own, of course, and I'm not gonna be a party pooper in that regard...I'll just stay away. :-)
  • TracyTracy
    edited July 2023 Posts: 1,708
    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/snatched-child-wife-having-baby-24667010

    man wrongly accused of murder , never got 500k £ as he died before settlement paid out
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited July 2023 Posts: 3,152
    Tracy wrote: »
    https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/snatched-child-wife-having-baby-24667010
    man wrongly accused of murder , never got 500k £ as he died before settlement paid out
    Being from Yorkshire, I remember the truly horrendous corruption that railroaded Stefan Kizko into prison because it was on the local tv news a lot when I was a kid. It was blatantly obvious to everybody that he wasn't the killer, he was a victim of the notoriously corrupt and inept West Yorkshire Police. The police pressured children to lie in court and the defence barrister was an absolute incompetent, but the worst thing was that the police and prosecution knew even before the trial that Kizko hadn't done it - because they had the evidence that he was infertile, unlike the killer. But they actually hid that evidence from the court and knowingly prosecuted and imprisoned an innocent man. Absolutely appalling case and every last one of the corrupt coppers and bent lawyers got away Scot-free. British justice, eh?
  • TracyTracy
    Posts: 1,708
    terrible :(



    this dillhole has scammed people since 90s with fake autographs/memorabilia

    At 7:37 he mocks Cyrkin who runs autograph live forum......Cyrkin has been to court against this conman - and for good reason.
  • TracyTracy
    Posts: 1,708
    POTP sold several fakes yesterday : LALD LP 230$ (Moore , Kotto , Seymour , Holder.....all fake) , Beatles pre print 1k , B Lee LP 400$ (besides fantasy price tag this is also a '74 issued record) , Joplin 400$

    Nope , try again Kevin
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,179
    Tracy wrote: »
    POTP sold several fakes yesterday : LALD LP 230$ (Moore , Kotto , Seymour , Holder.....all fake) , Beatles pre print 1k , B Lee LP 400$ (besides fantasy price tag this is also a '74 issued record) , Joplin 400$

    Nope , try again Kevin

    This is one of the primary reasons why I have never even considered paying for autographs sold not directly from the source.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    Posts: 14,572
    I've had a lot of practice extracting Bond actors' signatures and handwriting from images online to flesh out custom Bond props for my collection, and knowing how easy this is to do puts me off from collecting autographs. As Dimi says, I could never be sure it's real unless I watch them sign it in person. That niggling feeling would always remain.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    Posts: 3,152
    Hooky from Joy Division once admitted to faking Ian Curtis's autograph on items he was selling on e-bay - you can't trust any of em, man!
  • TracyTracy
    edited July 2023 Posts: 1,708
    and FBI needs to wake up :

    Monroe for 1k (actually worth 8-10k+)
    Dean 500$ (worth even more)

    Even worse than Kevin is Coaches Corners , their fakes are the worst and yet yr after yr nothing is done about it :(

    Its forgers that ruins this hobby.....and also dealers asking for too many graphs thus celebs stop signing
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