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Oops! The Silly Mistakes Thread

Salmonellus said:
It is a bit tangential, but if I ever lose a finger I'll have one of these installed. Apparently they''re a real thing.

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A touch more low tech, riff-master Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) used melted washing detergent bottle tops for his.
They certainly did the job though;
 

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Disaster - My Samsung phone ended up in the toilet after falling out my back pocket. Fortunately there was no No.2 involved. I fished it out pronto & dried it as best I could but in the morning the screen was dead. I need the phone to use as my temporary router from Monday next week as I’m having some work done on my house which will involve removing the phone/internet point. Without the phone I’d be without internet for a couple of weeks.

I spent the morning trawling local phone emporiums & found one with the right screen. The back had to be prised off as it’s glued on. Miraculously the guy fixed it & the phone is working. I’m taking the hint to remove it from my back pocket in future.
 
Floyd said:
A touch more low tech, riff-master Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) used melted washing detergent bottle tops for his.
They certainly did the job though;
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I'd never heard of this until Techy told me, possibly as recently as ten years ago. :dunno:
 
hunck said:
Disaster - My Samsung phone ended up in the toilet after falling out my back pocket. Fortunately there was no No.2 involved. I fished it out pronto & dried it as best I could but in the morning the screen was dead. I need the phone to use as my temporary router from Monday next week as I’m having some work done on my house which will involve removing the phone/internet point. Without the phone I’d be without internet for a couple of weeks.

I spent the morning trawling local phone emporiums & found one with the right screen. The back had to be prised off as it’s glued on. Miraculously the guy fixed it & the phone is working. I’m taking the hint to remove it from my back pocket in future.
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I spoke too soon - I’ve had no network connection since. I got a new SIM card today - thought that might be the problem, but it’s made no difference - still no network connection. I’m going to have to get a new phone. I’d only had the previous one 2 or 3 months. Bugger.

You don’t realise how dependent you become on them - I currently can’t buy anything online as I can’t receive the OTPs [one time passcodes] from my bank.
 
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hunck said:
I spoke too soon - I’ve had no network connection since. I got a new SIM card today - thought that might be the problem, but it’s made no difference - still no network connection. I’m going to have to get a new phone. I’d only had the previous one 2 or 3 months. Bugger.

You don’t realise how dependent you become on them - I currently can’t buy anything online as I can’t receive the OTPs [one time passcodes] from my bank.
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Don't sim cards sometimes take a while to activate?
 
Regarding phones in back pockets, I see a lot of women carrying theirs in their back sky-rocket.
I wonder how many lose them that way - and a good pick-pocket could probably steal it quite easily as well.
 
Floyd said:
Regarding phones in back pockets, I see a lot of women carrying theirs in their back sky-rocket.
I wonder how many lose them that way - and a good pick-pocket could probably steal it quite easily as well.
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I think even a bad pickpocket can hook a phone from a back pocket.
 
Floyd said:
Get onto them @Kondoru;

Never used, already crumbling: Road that cost £40m​

An aerial shot of the unfinished and deserted road near Wanborough. There are fields either side of the Tarmac single-lane carriageway and walking paths immediately next to the road.

Work to build the road was delayed when the construction company went into administration in 2023

An unused and unfinished road that has so far cost nearly £40m is "defective", a councillor has said.

The Southern Connector Road in Swindon has never been opened but already parts of it are cracking and crumbling away.

The company building it – Buckingham Group – went into administration in 2023 before its completion, with Swindon Borough Council taking on repairs, which are hoped to be finished by the end of the year.

Councillor Gary Sumner said: "I feel really, really sorry that we're at this position now that we have got a road that we can't use."
He added: "Nobody expected a road that we spent close to £40m constructing to be as defective as it's turned out to be."

Running from South Marston to north of the Commonhead roundabout, the road will serve 8,000 homes being built in the New Eastern Villages (NEV) development.

The road's current owner, administrator Grant Thornton, wants the council to pay for it so it can be handed over but the council argues it is not fit for purpose and needs repairs, including "significant" work to a bridge.

The bridge is being surveyed as it has moved significantly and is now believed to be unsafe.

Mr Sumner said: "I want to see the road completed safely, as swiftly as possible. But understanding that, there is significant concern about parts of the construction. They've got to get it right."

The council is also having to spend £440,000 on security to prevent road misuse such as illegal car racing.

'Blood, sweat and tears'​

Mr Sumner said villagers in nearby Wanborough "went through blood, sweat and tears" during the road's construction.

He said: "The village was shut off at different ends during the construction process and that caused huge inconvenience for a long period of time.

"There should have been cars coming up and down here by now, construction traffic for those new housing developments, and pedestrians.
"Residents should have been able to enjoy a jog or a horse ride beside this road."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c07k0n5v1vzo
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East Swindon...Never go there
 
I went to Stratton St Margaret once, but for an old church...its exceeding dull.

Rodbourne (In the West) has at least Anglo Saxon carvings.
 
This one is ongoing. A faulty foghorn won't stop sounding.

Guardian story -
Land’s End lighthouse fog alarm sounding every 13 seconds
The National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) Gwennap Head, a maritime charity, said on social media that the horn had been sounding “all day, all night” and “a set of earplugs might be a good investment”.

In a statement, it said: “Anyone living in the area may have noticed that, for the past six days, the Longships Lighthouse has been sounding its foghorn every 13 seconds … all day and all night.
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escargot said:
This one is ongoing. A faulty foghorn won't stop sounding.

Guardian story -
Land’s End lighthouse fog alarm sounding every 13 seconds
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I read about that as well. As with all things technology, it never seems to occur to them that their highly complex remote computerised system could actually go wrong? The blindingly obvious isn't built in to the system. Like a 'turn it off' switch.

Where I live in a tower block and due to the new fire safety regulations and after over a year of installing it and it's still not finished yet, the fire safety system and alarms that have been installed are tested every Monday at 11am.

A few Mondays back the alarms went off albeit in 'quiet mode' which is still loud but not seriously loud, but then the alarms for what ever reason couldn't be turned off for a few days due to a wiring fault. Fortunately, the alarms for this floor hadn't been yet fitted so it didn't affect me. Those on the floors below went nuts.

There is no kill switch due to the same regulations. How stupid is that? Even when it's obvious there is no fire, paranoia takes over.
 
A customer was supposed to have a bank account credited for $280. They credited it for $81,000,000,000,000 instead.

Citigroup mistakenly credits customer account $81 trillion in "near miss", FT reports

Feb 28 (Reuters) - Citigroup (C.N), opens new tab erroneously credited $81 trillion, instead of $280, to a customer's account and took hours to reverse the transaction, a "near miss" that shows up the bank's operational issues it has sought to fix, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
The error, which occurred last April, was missed by a payments employee and a second official assigned to check the transaction before it was cleared to be processed the next day, FT said, citing an internal account and two people familiar with the event.
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https://www.reuters.com/business/fi...unt-with-81-trillion-near-miss-ft-2025-02-28/
 
Last week Techy and I received a text from our doctors' practice saying medicines could not be ordered via the triage system.
As we'd both been dealing with prescriptions through the regular app this was puzzling.

Yesterday when at the surgery I heard a patient asking a receptionist why they'd had this message. The reply was that it had been sent out to everyone because of a glitch and he should ignore it.

So the texts Techy and I received were part of the glitch. Nobody's had a follow-up message. A bit poor really.
 
Floyd said:
Did you get it sorted?
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The new simcard didn’t work. The new screen means I can use it for functions other than as a telephone but I had to buy another phone for network connection. The knackered phone was only 2 or 3 months old.

Moral of story - don’t drop your phone down the bog. A lot of people seem to have done it at some point - my brother has, & I have a friend who’s dropped 3 of her iPhones in the bog over the years. I think they’re waterproof to some extent though.
 
hunck said:
I have a friend who’s dropped 3 of her iPhones in the bog over the years
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That's the weirdest aspect of this story. After the first or even second time you'd surely be more careful. :dunno:
 
And you wonder why we call them The Hun ...

The Count of mounty Bisto part Due

@SeanBra33633981

Ranger's supporters Oswald Bar in Glasgow has it's own website that promoted The Armed forces day at Ibrox football club sponsored by Rangers, Look closely at its website Under its says Lest we Forget Now look at the photo

That's a fecking German officer

,Omg the Pricks!

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ramonmercado said:
And you wonder why we call them The Hun ...

The Count of mounty Bisto part Due
@SeanBra33633981

Ranger's supporters Oswald Bar in Glasgow has it's own website that promoted The Armed forces day at Ibrox football club sponsored by Rangers, Look closely at its website Under its says Lest we Forget Now look at the photo

That's a fecking German officer

,Omg the Pricks!
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7:02 PM · Mar 2, 2025
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First reported in November 2010 according to Tineye.:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...cture-Remembrance-Day-programme.html?ITO=1490

maximus otter
 
ramonmercado said:
And you wonder why we call them The Hun ...

The Count of mounty Bisto part Due

@SeanBra33633981

Ranger's supporters Oswald Bar in Glasgow has it's own website that promoted The Armed forces day at Ibrox football club sponsored by Rangers, Look closely at its website Under its says Lest we Forget Now look at the photo

That's a fecking German officer

,Omg the Pricks!

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7:02 PM · Mar 2, 2025
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Not Rangers, but Airdrie. The cover of that match programme is well known in Scottish football circles, and no-one was surprised.
 
escargot said:
That's the weirdest aspect of this story. After the first or even second time you'd surely be more careful. :dunno:
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As I noted somewhere the other day, I see many women carrying their phone in their back sky-rocket.

And I look at a lot of women's arses, believe me.
 
Utrecht adjusts street signs Prince Bernhard

Utrecht has adjusted the street signs on Prins Bernhardlaan and Prins Bernhardplein. Under the prince's name there is now a QR code. Scanning it takes you to a Wikipedia page about the prince's life and his membership of the NSDAP, Adolf Hitler's political party.

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https://nos.nl/artikel/2559335-utrecht-past-straatnaamborden-prins-bernhard-aan

In Utrecht, the texts on street signs have long been the subject of debate. Almost a year and a half ago, the debate gained momentum when historian Flip Maarschalkerweerd found Prince Bernhard's original NSDAP membership card in his private archive.

This was remarkable because the prince had always denied having been a member of the Nazi party. In an interview published in the Volkskrant after his death in 2004, the prince said: ‘I can declare with my hand on the Bible: I was never a Nazi. I never paid the party membership, I never had a membership card.’
 
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