I just happened to be doing something extremely important whilst still in my pit yesterday morning - an update for our Terry Pratchett ~ Going Postal page - when I heard the shout from Oddjob below ... "I've got 'can't find server' has t'interweb gone off?" ... expected today as we've cancelled it.
I leapt out of bed and shimmied into the front bedroom where the router now resides since the bedroom swap. And there before me was the saddest sight a t'interwebber can ever see ... two green lights - power and wifi - and one amber light - no t'interweb - sob.
"Yeah, we've been cut off, switch the mifi on" I shouted ... I knew I was wasting my breath so followed my voice downstairs to do it. I did the deed, connected the laptop to the correct network - I couldn't quite bring myself to unplug the router yet, so I had to manually get the laptop to swap networks - and tootled off back upstairs.
"Great", says Mr Grumpy a little later when the phone was also dead - not even an amber light on the router now ... "no more phone calls from people I don't want to talk to". Despite being on the 'do not phone us or accept you're going to be verbally abused' -TPS - list, we got an inordinate amount of unsolicited phone calls.
Less than ten minutes later I heard his mobile phone ringing ... no one phones him except me, his mate in the next door but one tin hut or the doctors.
It turned out to be a cold caller waffling on about tax and insurance in 2010 ... I haven't stopped laughing since ...
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Registered with the TPS many years ago but sadly too many Companies with-hold their number, which I feel should be made illegal and so the nuisance calls continue. Without finding out the Company name and address plus their telephone number it is impossible to report them and so it continues, week after week !
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Yeah, we registered years ago, it was fine at first but eventually we were getting at least two calls a day. If I'd got time I kept them talking and wasting their time before asking for their real name and the company they were working for, as I was reporting them for breaking the rules. The amount of James' or Daniels I was talking to - with distinctly foreign accents - was unbelievable.
DeleteHi GOW, Do you have a contact address as I would like to send you a small story of young trouble makers with the damages they do as the problem is getting worse in Langley mill. I wrote a letter to the local paper though I somehow think it won't get published so would like to send it to you for inclusion. exxos_uk (AT) yahoo dot co dot uk
ReplyDeleteNot sure if you can email me through my profile, if not I'll email you later.
DeleteI couldn't find any way to contact you on here. Got your email, replied, thanks :)
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