Things that annoy you!

Was that the OFF, by any chance?

 

Deaf by any chance? The white ones usually are, beautiful dog though, just watch out for furunculosis, the silent killer of German Shepherds.

 

Yes the mods obviously read PMs!

 

We had that some years ago on an engineering forum I went on, it caused uproar, PM's are supposed to be just that, Private Messages.

 

We don't realize how lucky we are on HF. Once Skip and the mods get to know us, they are very open minded about mentioning other sites as long as it is not deliberate spam.
I think that most people who get banned here have mostly been naughty boys on the PM's. They must forget that they legally have to be checked for content relating to terrorism or organized crime.

 

Under the law, a site has to check PM's for criminal activity and promotion of terrorism. That is why You-Tube were forced to shut them down by the internet regulator.
The mods here can only see a PM if the recipient reports it, but Skip can open them all.

 

Oh yes, I agree with that, but some sites just have a big brother attitude and that is wrong, still those sites will lose out when people start leaving.

 

Take a look at my reply above.

 

Absolutely true.
You-Tube only got into trouble when the UK government spotted considerable ISIS propaganda.

 

It is so funny. It even happened to me when I drove a London Ambulance for a few years.
Christina is based at Westminster, so getting out of the station can take ages when she goes off shirt during the rush hour. When she is driving a marked police vehicle, she is out within seconds, even without blue lights.

 

Atm Withdraw fee.

 

Yeah but then, as usual, they went over the top on everything, we had a YT page with some video's on it, a while ago for a bit of fun the wife did a few of those WAM videos, wading in mud in her boots, they'd been on for a good while with no problems, after all there was nothing sexual in them, she was wearing boots, jeans and a jacket, then all of a sudden we get told they are classed as 'adults only' due to their content! Work that out, it's ridiculous, it really is, they go from one extreme to another.

 

I used to be a volunteer with the fire service on the incident support team, anyway I owned a Landrover at the time and used it for work, they covered it on their insurance during calls, I had it liveried up and some beacons fitted to it for use at incidents that got some looks. One day I had been at an event at the local fire station, promoting fire safety, I was trying to pull out of the side road but nobody would let me out, I must have sat there for a good 15 minutes, traffic was solid, well you know how selfish some drivers are anyway I'd had enough and activated the lights, the traffic stopped and I pulled out, I got about half a mile up the road and then cancelled them. I can honestly say it's the only time I've ever 'abused' them, lol.
I still have all the kit on my current truck, blues, reds, etc, all covert just in case I need them as I still stop to help at incidents, all the local police know me and are quite happy if I turn up at a 'job'.
Given my training and the kit I carry it's just like having an extra traffic car on scene, I had one the other evening on the motorway, I stopped to help as I was first on scene, the warning signs were lit but traffic was still hurtling along at over 80 mph, it always makes me smile though, watching the drivers slow down when they see the flashing rear reds on the 'unmarked cop car' parked at the side of the road.
It was really funny one time, we have one of those busybody neighbours and he reported me for impersonating a cop, just because of the kit I have on my vehicle, what he didn't know was the local police knew all about the vehicle, and were quite happy with it. non of the lights are blue, except one on the rear which is only used at major incidents when parkedand is never used to get anywhere faster. The local traffic sergeant looked at it and his only comment was 'if they are used at an incident then fine, if you use the to get to the chippy then there's going to be trouble'. There was a major incident down the road a couple of years ago, the only available cop in the area was on a motorbike so he had no kit. I was passing and stopped, I put a lane closure on and went on point duty directing traffic, so he could deal with the actual incident, in the end they didn't even bother sending other units, so it was a plus for them and it helps me to keep my hand in, I only came out of the job because of politics and it's a shame to waste my skills.

 

You tube do not have any mods, their system is fully run by computer bots.
During all the scandal, they were asked to set up a new system, but the figures showed that checking one days uploads would take a mod 325 YEARS. They would need 20 million mods simply to keep pace with current uploads. Comments are simply removed by other people flagging them. No humans are involved.
Few people realize that you tube servers alone consume more electricity than the output of a nuclear power station.

The hardest part for them was with videos like this. At one point, a link to a terrorist site was posted, then tens of thousands or PM's were sent out to reveal the time code where it appeared for 1 second.

 

How things have changed. We had a chippy next door to one of our theaters in the 60's and every night at 10:59, emergency vehicles were arriving with light and sirens to catch them before they closed.
A few years ago, one of Christina's friends was demoted because she stopped on a yellow line to buy a bottle of water at Tesco's.
Some nitwit reporter took a picture and published it in the London evening standard, causing a huge uproar. He forgot to mention that she went to buy the water after working for 6 hours at a murder scene in full uniform on one of the hottest days of the year.

 

Ah, but that's the issue, you are not supposed to eat, you are supposed to be like little duracell bunnies and just keep going, we had a similar thing, a member of the public brought us some food as we'd been at a major fire for hours, I had been called out on the way home from my day job so hadn't even had dinner, some idiot complained that we were eating, I said it was an odd thing but if we didn't we tended to drop down and die.
We had two major incidents near me recently, and on both occasions I rocked up with stuff for the crew, usually it's bottles of water and crisps and biscuits, penguins and stuff that they can eat quickly, at one incident though I was really popular, it must have been about 30 degrees C and I rolled up with a load of ice lollies! If you've been there then you know just how important a cold lolly or a bag of crisps can be. People need to be nicer to the lads and lasses of the emergency services because like it or not, we'll all need them some day.

 

He has fantastic hearing. He knows the sound of the mail truck when its up the street and it puts him on alert.
The sound of a cheese wrapper will wake him up.

 

Bet he suffers from 'selective deafness' though, mine's like that, she can hear the fridge door being opened while she's upstairs in the bedroom fast asleep, but if she's lying on the floor in front of you and you tell her it's time for her nails clipped she doesn't seem to hear. lol cracking dogs though, I wouldn't be without one. Speaking of mail trucks, there's another dog down our street who 'shouts' to her to let her know the postman is coming. I can sit in the back garden with her all day and dogs will bark and she does nothing, this one makes a certain bark and she runs into the front room just in time to growl at the postman as he walks past, why do they hate postmen?

 

1. When people refer to action figures as dolls.
2. The telephone ringing when I am trying to watch a movie.

I'm sure there is more that I will remember later