Got a leaflet from The Partnership today about my credit card suggesting I won't be able to shop online without a mobile phone! I am not a technophobe but I don't have a mobile phone, never have, never will, so am I not allowed to shop online with the big green W?
Spoke to a harassed young man in the Customer Service call centre who clearly had a script. Said they hadn't made the changes yet so still OK to shop and they will let me know when an alternative to 'the phone' is agreed. It was not very reassuring
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
The whole internet has been downgraded thanks to phones and touch pad devices. It's one of my biggest bugbears along with how Pinterest has ruined Google image search.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Don't know about Pinterest @wild edges but I'm guessing the card companies are using peoples phones as random number generators to 'top up' security. So just send me a random number generator! My bank have and its fine.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
It's one of my biggest bugbears along with how Pinterest has ruined Google image search.
With you there WE - really aggravating
Herb - I wonder why they can't send a text to your landline phone. It is possible - the BT woman reads out the message to you. If that's just an access number code, I can't see why it would be an issue.
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Honestly @raisingirl there are a multitude of ways, just needs someone with half a brain to find that out! If I'm shopping online why not send me an e-mail? It's the assumption that annoys me, I choose not to have a phone but I bet there are plenty of people who rely on a grocery delivery 'cos they are in the middle of nowhere with no signal! What do they do?
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Here what *****s me of, is the cyclists that insist on cycling on the pavement a couple of roads away where there are cycle tracks, norrowling missing me and or my dogs, I usually say "wont your Mummy allow you to ride on the road", you can imagine what they say to me!!!
I like it. Many years ago I was walking outside a row of shops when somebody behind me yelled "Get out of the f'ing way" I looked back and it was a cyclist. As he forced his way past I just dropped my shoulder and he ended up in a heap on the floor. I simply carried on walking.
Here what *****s me of, is the cyclists that insist on cycling on the pavement a couple of roads away where there are cycle tracks, norrowling missing me and or my dogs, I usually say "wont your Mummy allow you to ride on the road", you can imagine what they say to me!!!
I like it. Many years ago I was walking outside a row of shops when somebody behind me yelled "Get out of the f'ing way" I looked back and it was a cyclist. As he forced his way past I just dropped my shoulder and he ended up in a heap on the floor. I simply carried on walking.
I can beat that. One day I emerged from a footpath between buildings, onto the pavement, just as two young lads came hurtling along on bicycles and turned into the footpath, which has a"no cycling" sign, and almost crashed into me. "You wanna watch where you're walking!" one of them yelled as they made off. That's funny, I've been walking on pavements all my life, I thought that's what they were for. I wonder where he thought I should walk?
The one that bugs me is cyclists who ride on the road in city centres (so far, so good) but seem to think that traffic lights don't apply to them and hurtle across pedestrian crossings expecting the pedestrians who are crossing to get out of their way.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
There is a move to update road traffic laws so that cyclists can be prosecuted for killing a pedestrian. At the moment there is no 'death by dangerous cycling' law. There really needs to be.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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Spoke to a harassed young man in the Customer Service call centre who clearly had a script. Said they hadn't made the changes yet so still OK to shop and they will let me know when an alternative to 'the phone' is agreed. It was not very reassuring
Herb - I wonder why they can't send a text to your landline phone. It is possible - the BT woman reads out the message to you. If that's just an access number code, I can't see why it would be an issue.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”