Random Rants

[Tago Mago]

My order is stuck in Cologne. @tody are you trying to hijack my new jacket and shirt?

[Matt]

@GraemeE criminal.

[Tago Mago]

Update: UPS don’t deliver on a Saturday, at least not where I live. And I’m off to Cologne on Monday morning… the wait continues

[goosehd]

@Tago-Mago How long are you going to be in Cologne? Might be able to do a redirect…

[Tago Mago]

@goosehd by now they’ve managed to stick it on the pony express to Regensburg. If it arrives early enough I may be able to pick it up on the way

[goosehd]

@Tago-Mago I had a few UPS packages delayed for a week due to inclement weather (it wasn’t), couldn’t find my address (bull shit), recipient not home (I was), and just plain didn’t try…

It’s always frustrating, but in the end it’s always worth it.

Good luck and hope you get it soon!

[Tago Mago]

@goosehd thanks, it will get here eventually. Their local depot is 2 miles down the road. So close yet so far

[Matt]

Someone bought a Piglet UHF yesterday and it wasn’t me.

[Tago Mago]

@Matt need a hug?

[Walery Smirnoff]

@Matt said in Random Rants:

Piglet UHF,

Fuck, a glass of vodka is better, it heals))

[Matt]

Thanks guys.

[endo]

now I want a glass of vodka

[Walery Smirnoff]

@endo said in Random Rants:

now I want a glass of vodka

))))))

[Brian]

I got so sick on vodka when I was 15, must have necked 1/2 a litre before going into a club, never been so ill, worst bit was my folks had to come and pick me up from the venue and had to end their dinner at a restaurant to do it, I don't even remember telling the security guards where they were but I obviously did. Haven't drank clear spirits in over 25 years due to that night

[Walery Smirnoff]

It's sad, of course. Vodka is a drink for crisis situations. When you need to get drunk quickly and hopelessly. But for a holiday and love, good wine is better.

[Nick]

I need to rant about the DVLA. I had to get the address on my driving licence updated. Online process included linking my passport which has been very recently renewed and thus has a fresh new mug shot of my hairy face. So, I expected them to simply grab my new passport photo, digitally, and send me a new licence with updated addy + updated photo (considering the old one was from 15 years ago when I was thinner in the face and only had a stubble).

Alas no. In their infinite wisdom they instead took my old photo and blackened my stubble to look like a beard, darkened my eyebrows and also gave me a bonus weird frown. They've literally touched up the old photo and turned it into a bizarre crime photofit snap..."Have you seen this man?"

I'm honestly stunned by the logic here.

"Oh, he looks different now"
"Not surprised, original photo is 15 years old"
"Should we use his passport photo?"
"Nah mate. Let me open up Microsoft Paint"

The new photo was RIGHT THERE FELLAS, right there for you to use. But nah, let's use crayons to give him a thicker beard instead. If this was AI that blessed me with a McLovin style licence, then safe to say, tech won't be the overlords of humanity anytime soon.

Livid.

[tody]

@Nick pics or it didn't happen.

[ZackB]

@Nick man I am cracking up over here but don’t understand the logic either. I’d be pissed too but definitely a conversation starter

[Walery Smirnoff]

Don't worry, brother! You're not the only one)) When I was given my previous license, I saw a zombie from a pig farm on it)) Everyone laughed around))

[ARNC]

I saw a new linguistic abomination in the Times today, a “door” for a denim chore jacket. Really hope it doesn’t catch on - it doesn’t even work!