The Random Thread

[TheOstrich]

Meanwhile, back in the real world far away from cybernetics:

POLICE INVESTIGATE COCKEREL THEFTS

Dorset Police officers investigating a theft from a farm in Shaftesbury are appealing for anyone with information to come forward. Some time between 11.30am and 8.50pm on Saturday 18th January five show cockerels were taken from a secured outbuilding in the Mampitts Lane area. When their owner went to check on them he found that the barn door was open and some of his birds were missing.
The cockerels are of various breeds, including a Bearded Asil and a Shamo Stag. They are worth £300 each.
Police Constable Neil Hawkes, of Dorset Police, said: “We are continuing to make enquiries to identify who is responsible for these thefts and I am appealing to anyone who may have witnessed any suspicious activity in the area at the relevant time to please contact us. I would also like to hear from anyone who may have come across any cockerels in unusual circumstances since Saturday 18th January.”

So if, when you're taking a break from answering all those emails, you come across any cockerels in unusual circumstances, do call Crimestoppers …..

[cromwell]

Hopefully the miscreants will soon be brought to cluck...

[JoM]

Hopefully the police won’t cock up the investigation

[Kaz]

Poor Mick, two weeks off work and 3,783 emails waiting on his return!

John gets that too, and a lot of them are unnecessary; just people replying to an email and copying all into it. He'll sometimes log in while on holiday just to clear the amount so he's not going back and having to spend most of the day sifting through them.

However, that's more pleasant than the time we were woken at 4am in New York a couple of years ago because one of the admin staff couldn't find a password and thought John might happen to know it (he didn't)

Sounds familiar Jo! He's ploughed through most of them already. They do Crommers, he's the proxy server lead for the whole of BT, so you can imagine Only for a couple more years though xx

[Kaz]

Ossie, hopefully the thieves will be doing bird soon!

[Gal2]

My tablet has died It did the same a week or two back and I rebooted it successfully, but it's not having any this time

[JanB]

Wearing flip-flops for the first time this year

[JoM]

Is it just us who experience sheer incompetence when dealing with companies etc?

I ordered a hoover from Currys and when I picked it up from the shop on Monday and got it home I found out that they'd sent the wrong one.

Yesterday I mailed something using Royal Mail Signed For, the postage and signed for labels were put on the front alongside the recipient's address and the PO counter assistant told me to write our address on the back so I did, in small writing up the corner.
I've just picked the post up off the hall floor and there was my envelope - it's been delivered to me, and obviously hasn't been signed for!

[JanB]

I was looking forward to the first strim of the year this afternoon. Got myself kitted out, mask, ear muffs. proper boots and the blasted thing wouldn't start

Grumpy's is too heavy for me and I'd have to mess around with the harness, so we're off to see Nelson tomorrow morning.

[Workingman]

I've just picked the post up off the hall floor and there was my envelope - it's been delivered to me, and obviously hasn't been signed for!

When schools taught us things that were useful one of them was addressing envelopes.

Stamp(s) at the top right - highest denomination at first left. Address of recipient in the middle in clear single lettering, not handwriting. On the back: 'From' followed by two diagonal lines then below them the sender's address, bottom right.

When I had a contract with the PO a few years back that was still the preferred way because it avoided confusion... but you should have seen some of the 'methods' the sorters now have to decipher!

Letters tend to be machine sorted and they can normally make sense of what most of us do. Basically if the postcode can be read then on it goes, but if it can't it gets kicked out and then the fun starts.