chrisp65 Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 17 minutes ago, Genie said: .More like family if anything. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Davkaus Posted September 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted September 29, 2021 We've just turned on the speech-to-text transcribing in MS teams, because everyone asks to record meetings instead of just writing things, so we have to all feel uncomfortable about being recorded even though there's a 99.99% (repeating of course) that nobody is ever going to watch them again Anyway, I've been told in no uncertain terms that using increasingly weird phrases in an attempt to break the transcription is not a game that will be tolerated in meetings. The subtext of which is I need to sneak weird comments into calls without anyone noticing. Challenge accepted. 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, Davkaus said: We've just turned on the speech-to-text transcribing in MS teams, because everyone asks to record meetings instead of just writing things, so we have to all feel uncomfortable about being recorded even though there's a 99.99% (repeating of course) that nobody is ever going to watch them again Anyway, I've been told in no uncertain terms that using increasingly weird phrases in an attempt to break the transcription is not a game that will be tolerated in meetings. The subtext of which is I need to sneak weird comments into calls without anyone noticing. Challenge accepted. That reminded me of something I was thinking the other day, many people consider the c-word to be the most offensive we have in English. However, it gets said a lot more often than people realise as a lazy version of “couldn’t”. He couldn’t make it till 6 I challenge to get the speech-to-text to pick up a c-bomb without anyone realising. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 (edited) I've said it on here before, but why do the batteries on smoke alarms start to fail in the middle of the night. 2am this morning - the piercing intermittent beep. You can't leave it. Out come the stepladders and screwdriver. i'm not exaggerating but i've a 100% record on batteries going in the middle of the night. 2 at my old place, 2 at my current place. Edited September 29, 2021 by Xela 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 5 minutes ago, Xela said: I've said it on here before, but why do the batteries on smoke alarms start to fail in the middle of the night. 2am this morning - the piercing intermittent beep. You can't leave it. Out come the stepladders and screwdriver. i'm not exaggerating but i've a 100% record on batteries going in the middle of the night. 2 at my old place, 2 at my current place. I know this. When it's cooler in the night, batteries are at their weakest. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 4 minutes ago, Seat68 said: I know this. When it's cooler in the night, batteries are at their weakest. Lesser known fact, batteries **** hate @Xela 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted September 29, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 29, 2021 16 minutes ago, Xela said: I've said it on here before, but why do the batteries on smoke alarms start to fail in the middle of the night. 2am this morning - the piercing intermittent beep. You can't leave it. Out come the stepladders and screwdriver. i'm not exaggerating but i've a 100% record on batteries going in the middle of the night. 2 at my old place, 2 at my current place. That is a fact. I've often wondered if they've been going all evening but you've just not noticed with noise and life in the house, but I know that's not the case and the mother **** have just started going off at 3am. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 The reality is that from about 7:00-19:00 people are out of the house or just leaving/arriving from the house so don't really care about the occasional beeps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted September 29, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 29, 2021 (edited) When we moved into our house it had previously been owned by a very old couple. They had had one of those 10 year smoke alarms fitted. Started going off in the middle of the night. No pause button, no way to open it, a completely sealed unit. It was screeching and screeching proper ear splitting, on and on. I couldn't find any way to remove it from the ceiling. Ended up having to physically rip it off the ceiling bringing down masses of plaster as the rawl plugs ripped out of the ceiling. Still could find no way of opening it so had to take it into the garage and smash the shit out of it with a hammer until the bastard thing finally died. Yeah, I was getting back to sleep after that, what a ludicrous bit of technology. Edited September 29, 2021 by sidcow 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 29, 2021 Moderator Share Posted September 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Davkaus said: Lesser known fact, batteries **** hate Oasis FTFY 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted September 29, 2021 Moderator Share Posted September 29, 2021 1 hour ago, sidcow said: When we moved into our house it had previously been owned by a very old couple. They had had one of those 10 year smoke alarms fitted. Started going off in the middle of the night. No pause button, no way to open it, a completely sealed unit. It was screeching and screeching proper ear splitting, on and on. I couldn't find any way to remove it from the ceiling. Ended up having to physically rip it off the ceiling bringing down masses of plaster as the rawl plugs ripped out of the ceiling. Still could find no way of opening it so had to take it into the garage and smash the shit out of it with a hammer until the bastard thing finally died. Yeah, I was getting back to sleep after that, what a ludicrous bit of technology. Been there, just before going on holiday. I put it in a half full bag of Patio sand out the back which completely deadened the sound, came back from holiday and the next day remembered about the smoke alarm. Took it out of the sand and the f***er was still beeping away and the samd was even very wet. The bloody thing would still beep away in the middle of the Mariana Trench if I hadnt taken a sledge hammer to it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BOF Posted September 30, 2021 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted September 30, 2021 Had to rush in here to tell you all. I just got off a conference call where the person signed off with "As Biggie Smalls would say, 'Mo money, mo problems'" 1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 34 minutes ago, BOF said: Had to rush in here to tell you all. I just got off a conference call where the person signed off with "As Biggie Smalls would say, 'Mo money, mo problems'" I hope the manager of the call said "ahh yes, about that... could you stay on for a few minutes with me?" Just to put the shits up him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted September 30, 2021 Moderator Share Posted September 30, 2021 5 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: I hope the manager of the call said "ahh yes, about that... could you stay on for a few minutes with me?" Just to put the shits up him. I've reported him to HR. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 "It's freezing in here" It's not. It's drop a few degrees. Put on a long sleeve top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 12 minutes ago, rodders0223 said: "It's freezing in here" It's not. It's drop a few degrees. Put on a long sleeve top. Heating on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted September 30, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 30, 2021 Yep heating gone on for me. It's **** freezing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted September 30, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 30, 2021 (edited) Mrs Sidcow has this bad cold which is going round with accompanying hot sweats so is sitting thee with the patio door slightly open. I have my heavy duty long sleeve check shirt on Edited September 30, 2021 by sidcow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 30, 2021 Share Posted September 30, 2021 its against the law to wear long trousers until 1st October ...shorts and t-shirt still for me 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted September 30, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 30, 2021 8 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: its against the law to wear long trousers until 1st October ...shorts and t-shirt still for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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