Well in all fairness she probably looked like Sally O brian after that amount of pints
Au Cointreau!!!!Diamonds of Frost wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 12:53 pm My birthday present to myself arrived and it's too small. A lovely jumper. It's short and given my lack of flatness makes me look like a little...I dunno......egg or something.
The arms chest and shoulders fit perfectly but belly not so much
I've been struggling lately with a changing body shape. Since turning 40 I can't seem to lose weight and it's going to places it didn't used too. I'm not a naturally thin person, I've always had curves even at my smallest.
The shop (Sezané) I bought the jumper from is one of my absolute favourites. Unfortunately seeing their models is impacting upon me and I had thought my sense of self was stronger than that. Each time I look at the site I'm focused on how beautiful and gazelle like the women are and it reinforces the negative rubbish in my head.
Sorry I know this isn't a therapy session
I bought a jumper online last year. It looked so gorgeous in the pictures, a delicate wool, a lovely pattern and colour. It fits. But it makes me look like I am always instantly ready to take part in a line-dance or a hoe-down. Nothing like the online pictures of the lady wearing it. If I was a girl-cowboy it would be just the jumper for me. It looks fecken ridiculousDiamonds of Frost wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 12:53 pm My birthday present to myself arrived and it's too small. A lovely jumper. It's short and given my lack of flatness makes me look like a little...I dunno......egg or something.
The arms chest and shoulders fit perfectly but belly not so much
I've been struggling lately with a changing body shape. Since turning 40 I can't seem to lose weight and it's going to places it didn't used too. I'm not a naturally thin person, I've always had curves even at my smallest.
The shop (Sezané) I bought the jumper from is one of my absolute favourites. Unfortunately seeing their models is impacting upon me and I had thought my sense of self was stronger than that. Each time I look at the site I'm focused on how beautiful and gazelle like the women are and it reinforces the negative rubbish in my head.
Sorry I know this isn't a therapy session
I bet you look fabulous in itisha wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:12 pm I bought a jumper online last year. It looked so gorgeous in the pictures, a delicate wool, a lovely pattern and colour. It fits. But it makes me look like I am always instantly ready to take part in a line-dance or a hoe-down. Nothing like the online pictures of the lady wearing it. If I was a girl-cowboy it would be just the jumper for me. It looks fecken ridiculous
Growing older is not for wimps, but you have to take heart and LOVE yourself, because the alternative is worse. Happy HAPPY Birthday x
Always our own worst critics.Oooof. That puts my banking annoyance into perspective.Norman Breaks wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 2:44 pm Got a mortgage last October. Well before we even signed anything I made it explicitly clear that we wanted it semi monthly, because that is how I get paid. They said it can't be set up like that in the beginning but that we can change it after it is all set up. To do this either me or my OH has to physically go in to a branch to make the change.
A week or so after all the papers were signed and filed my OH went in to the branch to make the change. I couldn't make it due to work.
Fast forward to Saturday and I open a letter from the bank.
"Due to you not honoring your mortgage agreement we're going to fine you $48." Basically.
I was in shock. I've been super militant about getting the money into the account on time. I call my OH from the other room, she was about to nap, and we log into the account online. We look over the last few months of transactions and from what we see it looks like we had the money in the account for the 1st and 15th every time. We called them up, while on hold my OH went to the details page of the mortgage. It was still set to bi-weekly.
I got pretty irate on the phone when the person on the other end of the line basically gas lit us saying we never went in any branch, there is no record of any of that on our file, yadda yadda. After I hung up we searched for the paper that she remembers getting on the day she was there. We couldn't find it BUT then she remembered that she had sent me a video of the interaction with the clerk. In the video, taken with consent, it is clearly audible that the clerk said she made the change and it will now be on the 1st and 15th of every month. So, since it was a Saturday I calmed down a but and went about the rest of my day. It's now Monday. OH will be picking me up at lunch time. We will be going in to the branch, explaining what happened and then showing them the video. We will the insist they not only remove the $48 but expunge the entire occurrence of a fee completely from the system.
I already told the OH that she should do the talking since I might just lose it.
Try to log in using usual banking laptop; "it's been more than thirty days since your last confession - you need to confirm your identity; please enter the code we've sent by SMS to your [completely insecure] mobile phone." Go looking for phone, receive code, enter it on log-in screen. "This device is not recognised, please click the link in the e-mail we've just sent to authorise it". FFS. Collect e-mail, click link, get through to account dashboard. Red message flag on the envelope icon; click, takes me to "messages" tab, with red message flag against the "new messages" sub-menu. FFS. Click new messages sub-menu, new message subject line in bold "important account information" Click subject line "You have received a payment." WTF??? 
I don't know if this is a thing but it should be - to be able to select a chunk of text and DE-CAPTILISE everything that is not after a full stop.Happy Days wrote: ↑Wed Feb 15, 2023 8:13 am Bought a new work keyboard. However the Caps Lock is very sensitive. There I am bashing away only to look up and realise I've typed the last few paragraphs all in caps:(
I never knew you worked to such fine tolerances.......I'm impressed nowCelticRambler wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 11:36 am When you decide that Today's The Day for one of those long-fingered optional maintenance-and-upgrade jobs. One for which you did research, order and receive the necessary parts (some time ago) but just never got around to the actual work, because it means breaking something to make it better, and also it's the kind of job that needs to be done in one go.
But Today's The Day, so out you go, armed with the new parts and all required tools. Should be straightforward - undo part A from part B, remove, fit new part C to A, and fit old part B to C. Repeat on t'other side. Job done. New, exciting opportunities await.
Only when you remove part B, you find that whatever it says (in Chinese) on the label affixed to part A - identical to the label on part D, being the opposite end of part B and from where you took all your measurements, part A is not in fact identical to part D, and a 1mm difference in diameter means nothing fits correctly.
That said, I'm (wood)working on a sort of training exercise at the moment, and greatly annoyed at finding that one 15° cut is 2mm off where it should have been, because I marked the guideline on the reverse of the piece using the reference line from the front. Really annoyed about that, as I'd up to that point, I'd been especially careful, and even remembered to take account of the 0.9mm blade kerf.
Just when I thought you were saved...you go and tell me that you are happy to be within 4" of what you want....aw feck.CelticRambler wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 12:36 pm I'm happy to work to +/-5cm for most purposes, but the liquids in some of the machinery I use are a bit more sensitive to this kind of thing.
With a bit of luck, my Chinese saleswoman is still in the same job and can give me the exact spec, coz as far as I can work out, it doesn't seem to be anything from the BSP, NPT or DIN ranges.
I had something like that in the past, someone not realizing that when at work, calls can't be answered. Years ago, I was with a telephone company that sounded like FlodaFlone. I had two mobiles with them on the one account, my own and one for the parents. I was at work so the phone was left in the car (no phones allowed on site). I finished work and saw two missed calls from an unknown number. I thought "ah well" and gave it no more though.
Many moons ago I worked for a company that sounded like Flodafone. The call you got was from The Outbound team as they were then known. It was all commission based and their basic salary was a pittance.Hairy-Joe wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 4:43 pm I had something like that in the past, someone not realizing that when at work, calls can't be answered. Years ago, I was with a telephone company that sounded like FlodaFlone. I had two mobiles with them on the one account, my own and one for the parents. I was at work so the phone was left in the car (no phones allowed on site). I finished work and saw two missed calls from an unknown number. I thought "ah well" and gave it no more though.
Talking to the parents a day or so later, I got the story. The rep from FlodaFlone rang me to sell an upgrade (I was going out of contract) and couldn't reach me (as I was at work). Not getting an answer, the rep rang the other number on the account and got the mother. The rep was looking for "the account holder" and was slightly annoyed that I didn't answer. The mother explained in her simple direct fashion that I was at work and couldn't answer the phone. The rep didn't take the hint and asked what sort of place did I work that couldn't allow me to answer the phone. The mothers answer was something like "when he's at work, he's paid to work and not take silly sales calls from companies" . The rep didn't like that....
And yes, he was stupid enough to ring back a few weeks later!
Edit. I think the mother may have used words like "Are you stupid, he's at work. Of course he can't answer the phone"
I understand there are protocols and procedures but they could be achieved with compassion.
Too many computer-says-no people working in these roles. No cop on.PlaneSpeeking wrote: ↑Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:34 am I understand there are protocols and procedures but they could be achieved with compassion.
