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  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    ....sorry meant 3 Environmental Health starred
  • DyerConsequences
    DyerConsequences Posts: 2,636
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    ....sorry meant 3 Environmental Health starred
    That high? Most of the ones I used to go in were 2 at best. 
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,995
    One on Pickford Lane is great. Get two chicken burgers, chips, a drink and 3 wings for about £5
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    Heard some weird things about those Alexas
    They are gathering data on you all, I got laughed at when I mentioned this a while back
  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,128
    eaststandmike said:
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    Heard some weird things about those Alexas
    They are gathering data on you all, I got laughed at when I mentioned this a while back
    Yeah, my Alexa laughs at me too 
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    eaststandmike said:
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    Heard some weird things about those Alexas
    They are gathering data on you all, I got laughed at when I mentioned this a while back
    They'd do well gathering data on me mate, I ain't got one and I don't think my 94 year old next door neighbour,  3 miles up the road, has an Alexa, seeing as she only got electricity about 11 years ago 😉
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    eaststandmike said:
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    Heard some weird things about those Alexas
    They are gathering data on you all, I got laughed at when I mentioned this a while back
    They'd do well gathering data on me mate, I ain't got one and I don't think my 94 year old next door neighbour,  3 miles up the road, has an Alexa, seeing as she only got electricity about 11 years ago 😉
    I tell my one all about you 
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    cafcdave123 said:
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    eaststandmike said:
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    Heard some weird things about those Alexas
    They are gathering data on you all, I got laughed at when I mentioned this a while back
    They'd do well gathering data on me mate, I ain't got one and I don't think my 94 year old next door neighbour,  3 miles up the road, has an Alexa, seeing as she only got electricity about 11 years ago 😉
    I tell my one all about you 
    Grass nonce racialist
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    cafcdave123 said:
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    eaststandmike said:
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    Heard some weird things about those Alexas
    They are gathering data on you all, I got laughed at when I mentioned this a while back
    They'd do well gathering data on me mate, I ain't got one and I don't think my 94 year old next door neighbour,  3 miles up the road, has an Alexa, seeing as she only got electricity about 11 years ago 😉
    I tell my one all about you 
    Grass nonce racialist
    Who you calling a grass?
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    If you get the chance watch Panorama that was broadcast on Monday 17th, it will be on BBC catch up. People on there that worked for Amazon saying they switched Alexa off if they wanted to discuss private things. Also take a look at the data Amazon are collecting on their clients.

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  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    edited February 2020
    Ebay adverts with a bloody great Union Jack on claiming to be in the UK, and they are not. They are in  China.
  • muppetman
    muppetman Posts: 287
    eaststandmike said:
    If you get the chance watch Panorama that was broadcast on Monday 17th, it will be on BBC catch up. People on there that worked for Amazon saying they switched Alexa off if they wanted to discuss private things. Also take a look at the data Amazon are collecting on their clients.
    Can anyone see the resemblance?
    Image result for jeff bezos
    Image result for dr evil
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,004
    Data rules in this modern world. My view is you kinda accept it, as long as you have nothing to hide, or you go and live off grid in a Yurt. If a company wants your data enough they will get it if you have some kind of online presence. in which case you might as well suck it up and take the benefit of the products they're offering. 

    Just my view
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,693
    After much research Professor Derek Heim believes there is now evidence to support the existence of beer goggles after a couple of drinks.  Really?




  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    edited February 2020
    cantersaddick said:
    Data rules in this modern world. My view is you kinda accept it, as long as you have nothing to hide, or you go and live off grid in a Yurt. If a company wants your data enough they will get it if you have some kind of online presence. in which case you might as well suck it up and take the benefit of the products they're offering. 

    Just my view
    Watch the programme, it went way beyond them checking your purchase history and offering you things you may be likely to buy. There was evidence that can harvest the data from the sites you had recently visited before and after you click onto Amazon. One lady suspected her political views were being logged.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,004
    eaststandmike said:
    cantersaddick said:
    Data rules in this modern world. My view is you kinda accept it, as long as you have nothing to hide, or you go and live off grid in a Yurt. If a company wants your data enough they will get it if you have some kind of online presence. in which case you might as well suck it up and take the benefit of the products they're offering. 

    Just my view
    Watch the programme, it went way beyond them checking your purchase history and offering you things you may be likely to buy. There was evidence that can harvest the data from the sites you had recently visited before and after you click onto Amazon. One lady suspected her political views were being logged.
    I'm sure they are doing that. My point is this will happen by one organisation or another if you have any online presence so why spend your life worrying about it. its gonna happen either way so unless you've got something to hide accept it.
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,661
    Road closures with no diversion.

    Last night had to go to Gatwick Airport. Junction 7 of the M25 closed Southbound. No advice as what to do.

    The flight was delayed anyway and I had to try and find an alternative route to Gatwick. I don't have a sat nav and could not stop to get a map out. I am fortunate enough to know that the A23 would get me there leaving me with the problem of how the hell to find the A 23. Just to make it more difficult they decided to close the M25 between junctions 8 and 9 too!

    I ended up taking the M23 North, the rationale being that eventually it would take me to Croydon if the worst came to the worst and I could link up with the A 23 there. I eventually found a petrol station and thought I'd ask on the off chance someone would know a better way to the A 23. Luckily the bloke in there knew his way about and told me to turn round follow the signs to Redhill which I knew was on the A 23. This was in Coulsdon. I arrived at Gatwick probably 15 minutes later than I would anyway with all the average speed cameras.

    I was lucky to have a modicum of local knowledge. Another satnavless person with no local knowledge would have really struggled. No accountability of course. Faceless bureaucrats just give travellers grief on a whim.
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    People without sat navs, why?
    Sat navs are a driving necessity.
    Not a dig Len, I just don’t get it? 

  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,661
    Greenie said:
    People without sat navs, why?
    Sat navs are a driving necessity.
    Not a dig Len, I just don’t get it? 

    Never had one. I am technologically challenged and the computer skills necessary to be able to interact on this forum are an achievement for me.

    I do occasionally borrow my daughter's if driving to somewhere I don't know but she sets it up and I just listen.

    I know where Gatwick Airport is and where I live so didn't need it as I thought.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,004
    LenGlover said:
    Greenie said:
    People without sat navs, why?
    Sat navs are a driving necessity.
    Not a dig Len, I just don’t get it? 

    Never had one. I am technologically challenged and the computer skills necessary to be able to interact on this forum are an achievement for me.

    I do occasionally borrow my daughter's if driving to somewhere I don't know but she sets it up and I just listen.

    I know where Gatwick Airport is and where I live so didn't need it as I thought.
    Tbh I genuinely dont know how I'd survive without google maps when I drive. I even use it on routes I know fairly well. It's not for a lack of geography it's because you never know when you will encounter an accident or road closure and to help with the complexity of the road system particularly driving in and around london. It allows for a bit more anticipation and allows you to plan ahead particularly to get in the correct lane for some madly complex junctions. Half the time road markings and signs dont tell you which lane you need until it's too late to change when its busy. It makes a hell of a difference.

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  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,884
    LenGlover said:
    Road closures with no diversion.

    Last night had to go to Gatwick Airport. Junction 7 of the M25 closed Southbound. No advice as what to do.

    The flight was delayed anyway and I had to try and find an alternative route to Gatwick. I don't have a sat nav and could not stop to get a map out. I am fortunate enough to know that the A23 would get me there leaving me with the problem of how the hell to find the A 23. Just to make it more difficult they decided to close the M25 between junctions 8 and 9 too!

    I ended up taking the M23 North, the rationale being that eventually it would take me to Croydon if the worst came to the worst and I could link up with the A 23 there. I eventually found a petrol station and thought I'd ask on the off chance someone would know a better way to the A 23. Luckily the bloke in there knew his way about and told me to turn round follow the signs to Redhill which I knew was on the A 23. This was in Coulsdon. I arrived at Gatwick probably 15 minutes later than I would anyway with all the average speed cameras.

    I was lucky to have a modicum of local knowledge. Another satnavless person with no local knowledge would have really struggled. No accountability of course. Faceless bureaucrats just give travellers grief on a whim.
    Len, I live in a proper house and get grief as well.
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    cantersaddick said:
    eaststandmike said:
    cantersaddick said:
    Data rules in this modern world. My view is you kinda accept it, as long as you have nothing to hide, or you go and live off grid in a Yurt. If a company wants your data enough they will get it if you have some kind of online presence. in which case you might as well suck it up and take the benefit of the products they're offering. 

    Just my view
    Watch the programme, it went way beyond them checking your purchase history and offering you things you may be likely to buy. There was evidence that can harvest the data from the sites you had recently visited before and after you click onto Amazon. One lady suspected her political views were being logged.
    I'm sure they are doing that. My point is this will happen by one organisation or another if you have any online presence so why spend your life worrying about it. its gonna happen either way so unless you've got something to hide accept it.
    if you've got nothing to hide in your browsing history then you're internetting incorrectly 
  • muppetman
    muppetman Posts: 287
    LenGlover said:
    Greenie said:
    People without sat navs, why?
    Sat navs are a driving necessity.
    Not a dig Len, I just don’t get it? 

    Never had one. I am technologically challenged and the computer skills necessary to be able to interact on this forum are an achievement for me.

    I do occasionally borrow my daughter's if driving to somewhere I don't know but she sets it up and I just listen.

    I know where Gatwick Airport is and where I live so didn't need it as I thought.
    I downloaded the waze app to my phone, it is very good but can be a bit temperamental at times.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,052
    Got an awful cold. Started as a piercing earache for two days, and yesterday everything just decided to fall out my nose. Woke up with my moustache so snot encrusted it looked like I was playing a harmonica no handed. To top it all off, I make an extra spicy curry so that I had a chance to taste it, and my aris is going like the whistle on a kettle
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,130
    McBobbin said:
    Got an awful cold. Started as a piercing earache for two days, and yesterday everything just decided to fall out my nose. Woke up with my moustache so snot encrusted it looked like I was playing a harmonica no handed. To top it all off, I make an extra spicy curry so that I had a chance to taste it, and my aris is going like the whistle on a kettle
    Thanks for sharing  ;)
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,169
    Those who continually resurrect the Diego Poyet/Tony Watt threads.

    What’s the fascination?
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,004
    sillav nitram said:
    Those who continually resurrect the Diego Poyet/Tony Watt threads.

    What’s the fascination?
    People who open threads that they have no interest in and then moan about it.
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,554
    People who moan about people who moan about threads that they have no interest in. 
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,169
    edited February 2020
    cantersaddick said:
    sillav nitram said:
    Those who continually resurrect the Diego Poyet/Tony Watt threads.

    What’s the fascination?
    People who open threads that they have no interest in and then moan about it.
    I don’t need to nor do I open they’re there in plain sight.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,169
    edited February 2020
    cafcsinger said:
    People who moan about people who moan about threads that they have no interest in. 
    People who moan about people who moan about people who moan about people, who moan!😹
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