The ghost writer is a bit stressed, or a
lot stressed as BT in their infinite wisdom have changed their email server
details and so several people are now shouting at him. He has one weakness as a
IT guru of note and that is email, me hates setting up email even though it is
a bit like buttering toast, well not really like buttering toast because the
butter melts and drips and you can then add loads of peanut butter YUM, that is
not quite the same as email. But he is a bit stressed due to what he has described
as abject failure which I am led to believe is not really all that good. So in
the morning he has said he will phone the BT helpline, which means that things
must be bad because phoning one of those BT helplines is a bit like the kiss of
death. For one thing they are automated nightmares and if you get your options
wrong you find yourself either back where you started or talking to a nice man
in an Indian call centre and although he may be a nice man, he has sadly learnt
to speak English from an old 1950’s BBC news reader and therefore cant
understand a word that the average British citizen says because we all talk a
sort of semi-trashed localized English. Let’s face it someone from Birmingham is never going
to understand a word a Glaswegian, so an Indian call centre is doomed unless
the queen calls up. He is going to spend
the evening playing tiddlywinks now with a seagull hiding in a dark cupboard
and saying bleep bleep bleep much like the ghost of the old Sinclair ZX-81 did last night.
The sun came out today it was a bit of a shock on the eyes first thing
and as I staggered about trying to find my way to the bus stop to go to school,
I accidently fell into a hairdressers resulting in yet another haircut this
year. I have had three of them now which is terrible how is a chap meant to
remain scruffy if he has three haircuts in a year. Then of course because I was neat, I was then
viewed with suspicion. I have found that many neat people are also somewhat
suspicious, just look at car salesmen or politicians or insurance salesmen they
are all very neat but none of us would blindly go and sign things they give us
without a jolly good read first. In fact
the safest politicians to trust are the quiet scruffy ones, that is worth
remembering next to you vote for any make sure they are scruffy and quiet; the
same with car salesman although scruffy and enthusiastic would be better, maybe
look for a bit of oil or grease on their shoes.
OK where was I . . . . . . . . ..
AH yes school. Some foolish person (I mention no names Miss Fionaski . . . . .
. . . . AH DAMN . . . .I did sorry about
that) suggested we do our 0.45 times table. Well James made the mistake of
trying to use his fingers which proved very messy and there was blood
everywhere but give him his due he was persistent even if he had to get someone
else to write down the answers.
I will say one thing about today it may have been sunny and dry but it
was jolly cold, I have resorted to wearing several jumpers and even though the
dog pushed he onto my back I got up with ease although it did take forty five
minutes, but that was only because the dog laughing at me, put me off…
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I never learned my 0.45 times table at school. I tried to cheat in my GCSEs by bringing in severed hand to count it on, but the teacher confiscated it and never gave it back. Something to do with "scandal", I don't know.
ReplyDeleteI think that was a little unfair after all they let people use calculators these days and that is far less eco friendly than a hand, which is very biodegradable and natural.
DeleteI have a very clear image of the Queen coiling one of those twisty phone cords around her royal finger while listening to Greensleeves because her broadband has gone!.. She keeps trying to get Philip to put the kettle on and turn the TV down, but she whispers because she thinks the people on the other end can still hear her even though she's on hold.
ReplyDeletesilly Queen!
I am not sure if the Queen would understand the technical aspects of the telephone, as she may well have her own personal phone dialler. Which of course would involve having to keep a proper phone with a dial.
DeleteOne has standards to maintain. I believe the Queens broadband is know to all as the home counties . . . . .