GRIPES

[facthunter]

Put the Milk in the same type of container used on Pushbikes.  Nev

[nomadpete]

3 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Put the Milk in the same type of container used on Pushbikes.  Nev

How would a saddlebag help him?

[onetrack]

I just want to know how they find cows that give chocolate milk?

[nomadpete]

Just now, onetrack said:

I just want to know how they find cows that give chocolate milk?

There's a bunch of them in a paddock by the River Derwent (Hobart), down beside the Cadbury factory 

[facthunter]

It clips into a wire frame but you don't have to use that. WE use them in cars all the time.  Nev

[nomadpete]

Just now, facthunter said:

It clips into a wire frame but you don't have to use that. WE use them in cars all the time.  Nev

That sounds like a dashcam. 

[facthunter]

Cupholders or your MAN Bag.   They are like a thermos made of double skinned aluminium. (Insulating). Nev

[old man emu]

It's not the holding of the liquid that is the problem. It's the obtaining of it in a desireable volume, in a suitable container.

[facthunter]

GEEZ Louise do WE have to do everything for you.? You "Bush Blokes" are supposed to be resourceful.  Haven't you got a small  fridge to bring your Lobster Home in?  Nev

[pmccarthy]

When I was a kid you could get a straw that turned plain milk into chocolate milk as you sucked it through.

[spacesailor]

I have laundry basket like the,  "  chocolate straw " .

I throw dirty cloths in & they magically appear in my drawers, clean & folded . LoL

spacesailor

[old man emu]

5 hours ago, facthunter said:

GEEZ Louise do WE have to do everything for you.?

It's not the conveying of the liquid that is the problem. My gripe is quite simply that supermarkets don't carry sufficient stock of chocolate milk in containers the same size as those containing a wide variety of coffee; strawberry or malted flavours. 

[facthunter]

IF there's a demand they will do it or Miss out. Meantime why not add your Own chocolate to taste.? Nev

[old man emu]

20 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Meantime why not add your Own chocolate to taste.?

Because I'm not at home. I'm in a supermarket, doing grocery shopping after which I will be getting in my car to drive for an hour to get home. I want to have something to drink while I'm driving home. I don't drink soft drinks or fruit juices, and I don't like coffee flavoured milk drinks.

[facthunter]

I'm out of ideas.  Nev

[old man emu]

39 minutes ago, facthunter said:

I'm out of ideas.  Nev

You missed the point of my gripe. All I was griping about was the scarcity of conveniently-sized containers of chocolate flavoured milk in comparison to the plethora of similarly-sized containers of other flavours.

[facthunter]

Yeah I GET That but have we all gone soft?  Like IF THAT is all you have to gripe about you're doing OK. Nev

[red750]

How do I remove the device in my car that turns traffic lights red everytime I get within 75 metres of them?

[spacesailor]

Just remove the ' impatient  ' foot from the go-fast pedal. 

spacesailor

 

PS. : Windsor road from Windsor towards Kellyville.  Is  , drive ten ks over the,limit  or the same ten k's under , to catch those illusive green lights .

Works every time .

Edited yesterday at 05:28 AM by spacesailor
PS added

[Jerry_Atrick]

4 hours ago, facthunter said:

Yeah I GET That but have we all gone soft?  Like IF THAT is all you have to gripe about you're doing OK. Nev

Maybe.. but without gripes, there is little drive to improve things. So, while some are negative and just bickering, add them all up and you have a big gripe.

[facthunter]

The TOPIC IS GRIPES but you shouldn't flog a dead Horse. That's MY gripe And somethings gone wrong with the size of my script. Nev

[red750]

Eons ago, when cable TV first came out, Optus TV broadcast the VFL footy (pre AFL). My younger son was a dead keen Richmond Tigers supporter (still is), so we got Optus cable TV so he could watch the footy. If you had an Optus account, you could get free Optus webmail accounts. So I got two, my wife, two sons and daughter got one each. The footy is now on Foxtel, but my daughter has an Optus mobile wi-fi device she uses with her iPad when she is at a sport event or travelling on the train, so she can watch things like F1 racing etc.

 

The account was still in my name from all those years ago, but she had a problem with her password and tried to change it. To do this required one of those one-time codes, but she didn't know where it was sent. The phone on the account was mine, so the code should have been texted to that. But I never received it so she couldn't access her email. She had ordered tickets to the finals and to the F1 Gp which were sent to her email, but she couldn't access them. 

 

She eventually got onto someone in their customer service call centre, but they needed to speak to me as account holder to OK things. To cut a very long story short, we decided to transfer the account into her name but to do that proved more uphill than climbing Mt Everest.

 

My hearing is totally shot. Trying to listen to something is like listening down a vacuum cleaner hose.  The call centre is in India, so the accents are hard to listen to for most people, but with my codition, it was near impossible. The other problem was that when then called us back, it was at a time we were travelling home, or I was trying to listen to the news, usually around 6:30 pm. Ans despite being told on at least 3 occasions to call my daughters phone, they rang mine, and we were often nowhere near one another.

 

Finally (hopefully), we got it sorted out tonight, after over half an hour and at least three sepearte calls on two phones. The operator was pleasant and patient, but the customer service would hardly rate a 3 out of 10 due to foreign accent, particularly for a senior like me. I explained I was extremely deaf and used the phone more for texting than talking. Why can't they have Australian call centres and operators?

[onetrack]

The heavy Indian accents are a curse to those of us that are hearing-challenged. I often hand the phone to SWMBO, who has perfect hearing, and let her sort it out - but even then, she often has problems understanding them.