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10 Feb 2024, 7:14 pm

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Retail stores are lucky to have any regular customers.
Especially art and hobby shops.

I hope you spam them on a Google review.


I think I will.


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10 Feb 2024, 7:25 pm

Up and down sadness today.



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10 Feb 2024, 7:25 pm

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That's a bit harsh


I agree. I hope a certain member doesn't tell me to change my ways like he tells me to change my avatar.


Has anyone ever told you to change your avatar, outside of when you ask if you should try a new avatar for awhile? :scratch:

It'd be kinda rude to tell you that unprompted, but when you ask for people's opinions you're likely to receive them.

I don't see you as the sort of be threatening or intimidating or loud or abusive towards people so I presume it was an over-reaction. Unless you made a big scene it seems really unfair for them to kick you out. Even if they like him, no politician is above criticism.


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10 Feb 2024, 7:26 pm

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Up and down sadness today.


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10 Feb 2024, 7:28 pm

I was working on a project that involved fastening bits of wood to a cupboard, using screws. The cupboard is in a very confined space and there isn't enough room to drill pilot holes in the cupboard, and I went and used cheap screws. They needed so much force to make them tap their own holes that the screwdriver destroyed the "slots" in the head of one screw, and the other screw broke. So now the plank isn't securely fastened in place, but it's secure enough to mean that it'll be a devil of a job removing it and extracting the broken screws. Wouldn't be so bad if I was in my UK home where I've got lots of tools.

Also today I tried to get a file conversion service called CloudConvert.com to convert a big .mkv video file to a .mp4 file, but it stopped halfway through and said I'd exceeded my conversion time limit. The whole CloudConvert thing stinks of bait-and-switch. They let you do a few conversions for free, without telling you about any limits, and then when they've got you depending on the service, they start applying limits out of the blue. Even the limits don't make sense, e.g. when you're halfway through running a job they tell you that you've exceeded your 10-file-per-day limit, even though you haven't converted 10 files in your entire life and have only converted one file on that day. Of course there's a paid-for option that they say will fix all that nonsense, but as they're so dishonest, they don't deserve my money and I wouldn't trust them anyway.



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10 Feb 2024, 7:29 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Retail stores are lucky to have any regular customers.
Especially art and hobby shops.

I hope you spam them on a Google review.


I think I will.


Yeah I mean I don't know what spamming on Google means but I wouldn't go digging yourself any deeper holes. You might end up giving yourself anxiety over it.

Best to move on sometimes and find something else


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10 Feb 2024, 7:37 pm

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Yeah I mean I don't know what spamming on Google means but I wouldn't go digging yourself any deeper holes. You might end up giving yourself anxiety over it.

Best to move on sometimes and find something else


You're likely right.
It might stress him out.

For the record though, Google reviews are when you google a place and there are ... reviews.
Lol.
Usually shops and restaurants have a five-star rating where you can write a review.
You don't need to use your real name although you need a gmail or Google account to do them (I think).
I've done them a few times, usually for places I really love though.

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10 Feb 2024, 7:40 pm

Oh I call it trust pilot


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10 Feb 2024, 7:46 pm

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I was working on a project that involved fastening bits of wood to a cupboard, using screws. The cupboard is in a very confined space and there isn't enough room to drill pilot holes in the cupboard, and I went and used cheap screws. They needed so much force to make them tap their own holes that the screwdriver destroyed the "slots" in the head of one screw, and the other screw broke. So now the plank isn't securely fastened in place, but it's secure enough to mean that it'll be a devil of a job removing it and extracting the broken screws. Wouldn't be so bad if I was in my UK home where I've got lots of tools.

Also today I tried to get a file conversion service called CloudConvert.com to convert a big .mkv video file to a .mp4 file, but it stopped halfway through and said I'd exceeded my conversion time limit. The whole CloudConvert thing stinks of bait-and-switch. They let you do a few conversions for free, without telling you about any limits, and then when they've got you depending on the service, they start applying limits out of the blue. Even the limits don't make sense, e.g. when you're halfway through running a job they tell you that you've exceeded your 10-file-per-day limit, even though you haven't converted 10 files in your entire life and have only converted one file on that day. Of course there's a paid-for option that they say will fix all that nonsense, but as they're so dishonest, they don't deserve my money and I wouldn't trust them anyway.




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10 Feb 2024, 7:57 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
CockneyRebel wrote:
babybird wrote:
That's a bit harsh


I agree. I hope a certain member doesn't tell me to change my ways like he tells me to change my avatar.


Has anyone ever told you to change your avatar, outside of when you ask if you should try a new avatar for awhile? :scratch:

It'd be kinda rude to tell you that unprompted, but when you ask for people's opinions you're likely to receive them.

I don't see you as the sort of be threatening or intimidating or loud or abusive towards people so I presume it was an over-reaction. Unless you made a big scene it seems really unfair for them to kick you out. Even if they like him, no politician is above criticism.


That has been happening to me since 2016.


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10 Feb 2024, 8:04 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:
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I was working on a project that involved fastening bits of wood to a cupboard, using screws. The cupboard is in a very confined space and there isn't enough room to drill pilot holes in the cupboard, and I went and used cheap screws. They needed so much force to make them tap their own holes that the screwdriver destroyed the "slots" in the head of one screw, and the other screw broke. So now the plank isn't securely fastened in place, but it's secure enough to mean that it'll be a devil of a job removing it and extracting the broken screws. Wouldn't be so bad if I was in my UK home where I've got lots of tools.

Also today I tried to get a file conversion service called CloudConvert.com to convert a big .mkv video file to a .mp4 file, but it stopped halfway through and said I'd exceeded my conversion time limit. The whole CloudConvert thing stinks of bait-and-switch. They let you do a few conversions for free, without telling you about any limits, and then when they've got you depending on the service, they start applying limits out of the blue. Even the limits don't make sense, e.g. when you're halfway through running a job they tell you that you've exceeded your 10-file-per-day limit, even though you haven't converted 10 files in your entire life and have only converted one file on that day. Of course there's a paid-for option that they say will fix all that nonsense, but as they're so dishonest, they don't deserve my money and I wouldn't trust them anyway.




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10 Feb 2024, 8:15 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
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I was working on a project......(snip).....

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Thank you both :-) I've managed to get those screws out now, and I think I've got a (very tedious) workaround for the video conversion job, so things are looking up.



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10 Feb 2024, 9:25 pm

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CockneyRebel wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Retail stores are lucky to have any regular customers.
Especially art and hobby shops.

I hope you spam them on a Google review.


I think I will.


Yeah I mean I don't know what spamming on Google means but I wouldn't go digging yourself any deeper holes. You might end up giving yourself anxiety over it.

Best to move on sometimes and find something else


I've decided not to spam.


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10 Feb 2024, 11:01 pm

I feel as though my life is over.


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10 Feb 2024, 11:02 pm

customer experience manager norman had the nerve to say "what?" to me.

a customer had the nerve to say "huh" to me.

(hardware? lot?) attendant amir had the nerve to tell me to push more carts, but that idiot wasn't in the parking lot before he told me that. and he was only in the parking lot a couple minutes after he told me that. but he was clocked in.

neither mister redelings nor kayla b***h bothered to write me letters of apology.

i was still alive today.

despite my efforts, i am still not a skinny smart handsome cisgender neurotypical man.



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11 Feb 2024, 12:15 am

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customer experience manager norman had the nerve to say "what?" to me.

a customer had the nerve to say "huh" to me.

(hardware? lot?) attendant amir had the nerve to tell me to push more carts, but that idiot wasn't in the parking lot before he told me that. and he was only in the parking lot a couple minutes after he told me that. but he was clocked in.

neither mister redelings nor kayla b***h bothered to write me letters of apology.

i was still alive today.

despite my efforts, i am still not a skinny smart handsome cisgender neurotypical man.


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