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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    philippasmith2 said:
    Close shave @BenCotto - a good thing you twigged in time.  The usual scammers seem to be out in force at the moment judging by the number of warnings going round.  The BT cutting off the phone seems particularly popular this week.
    Oooh, that'd make life nice and peaceful ... those folk wanting to do things to my computer, and sell me insulation wouldn't be able to get at me  B)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    edited November 2020
    My wife used to put the phone on a table and put the vacuum cleaner on.  That stopped them  😆
    AB Still learning

  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    For some odd reason, OH has lost incoming emails on the desktop although I still have mine but mine are not being synched with my laptop. Seems to have happened at the precise time we didn't renew our security programme - any connection do you think?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Sounds like you need to re-sync your phone and laptop ... i had to re-do mine the other day. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Because I wipe all cookies after every session and have ad and tracking blockers installed I have to go through a ridiculous palaver every time I sign on here. I am expected to believe that hundreds of companies no-one has ever heard of have a "legitimate interest" in my internet browsing habits - oh no they don't! Even more galling is to have them described as partners when none of them have ever met and no-one knows where they are based.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    It's not my phone and laptop Dove, it's between the desktop and laptop. We think it's something to do with our internet provider, spoke to them yesterday and they are supposed to be getting back to us.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Ah .. I see .., yes better get the techie folk to look at it 👍 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Is anyone an etymology expert? I gave myself a blood blister with a slip of the pliers and my wife remarked how she was told it used to be called a black man's pinch. Google doesn't seem to know where the phrase came from but says it's generally considered racist now. I don't want to start a debate on censorship or cancel culture but I'm curious as to where the phrase came from. Bruising is generally known as black, as in 'black eye' or 'black and blue' with no racist context and a black pinch just seems like a pinch with bruising.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Never heard of it either.  Always thought it was just a blood blister or, for the medically inclined, a subcutaneous haemotoma.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Definitely heard it here.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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