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Cuprajake that’s what I did the sky doesn’t finish till aug 11th.

Yet here I am lol.

Well that’s a right bu …. erm, <insert phrase I’m sure I can’t use here.>

yeah was a total pita, that resulted in £45 worth of bolt ons and nearly 5 days with no internet. first world problems i know

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the next thing is the tv finishes on the 11th, now with sky you can use the dish for free sat, mines sky q, there are 4 types of lnb, now only 1 poss 2 are compatible, the other 2 you have to replace, whats betting i need to replace

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I use a Google Chromecast, it’s 4k HDR etc etc

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    Cuprajake a friend has one and some subscription. Seems the only thing missing is the ability to record.other than that,everything is there,every channel,film,series etc

    Well Freesat works. I’m blown away. 😂

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      Cuprajake Can’t believe we paid these sky guys at least £600 a year x a 20 years!

      Scary eh

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        Cuprajake I dumped sky 26 years ago, realised I was paying for nothing much. I didn’t have movie packagages. Sky was something I didn’t miss at all .. surprised it’s still going.

        Yeah. I like the interface and back then it was unique.

        Now though it’s nothing special.

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        2 months later

        went to buy football boots for the lad this weekend, only one shop you can walk into now, sports direct,

        find a pair, ask for a size six, sorry last pair, only in 9

        ok do you have any in a 6? poss some you just have to look on the wall, guy was a waste of space, just said its ok we will go to another shop.

        wtf is wrong with people zero f’s given

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          Cuprajake I think often there is not the same work ethic there used to be. It’s just a job and pride is not taken in doing it well.

            Sports direct staff from what I have been told are paid the bare minimum, with zero hour contracts and they are treated pretty badly by the company. I’m not surprised they don’t put much effort in, company that don’t help their staff aren’t going to get good work ethic from employees

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            Id gladly go elsewhere but theres nothing local,

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            And the second grind, UPS i have a package coming, said today, id be out, but cant change the drop off due to technical difficulties their end, gets 2 update emails yesterday, saying 18th del, check the tracking my package only missed the plane in germany and is still over there…meh

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            I never had Sky. In fact, I never subscribed to any TV service. I can’t see the point, unless you watch a lot of TV. For the few hours a week I watch TV, it’s totally wasted on me. Only recently (pre lockdown) I subscribed to Netflix, and I see to watch some of the series. But even then, if I needed to save £130 over one year, I’ll drop the subscription today and I wouldn’t miss it. Same with regards to Amazon Prime - it auto-renewed automatically and I didn’t notice, so must remember not to renew for the next term. Waste of money I think these days - it was convenient during the pandemic.

            JahLaza Anyone considered the Amazon Firestick?

            I have it. Bought it on a deal a while back because my TV is quite old and the “smart” features are non-existent. It works well. I have a Chromecast too which I bought many, many years ago (like, 10 years ago maybe, if not more?). It was pretty dumb in the sense that it has no built-in apps as such like the Amazon Fire Stick - all you can do is cast to it. But I think that has changed now, although I’m not sure.

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              Agree customer service is barely existent in a lot of places.

              I mentioned this before but last year my Dad and I walked into the local Triumph dealership, both ready to buy a bike with cash. Walked around for a good half hour, Saturday afternoon, literally not a sole asked if we would like some help. We walked out and shopped at West London which was an hour away but infinitely better.

              Friend of mine went to look at a house, the estate agent goes in, takes her shoes off, reclines on the sofa and says ‘feel free to have a look round’… needless to say it sold regardless the same day.

              Last week I was in the Post Office, queue is out the door, I’m a good six or seven people back with 2 behind the counter. One gets up, closes the counter and says ’Ok I’m going for lunch then’… I don’t know if I felt worse for the queue of people or the poor assistant left alone to deal with the rest of the lunchtime rush. I get that people need to eat, but plan the breaks…that Post Office is completely empty for much of the morning and afternoon!

              Recycling day in our street is always pretty comical. It’s weird, I see a big van with the containers in the back but I don’t know what goes in there because clearly the right place for the recycling is just all over the road and pavements.

              I’ve just never understood the lack of care people put into their job. If I took the same approach to mine I’d be fully expecting to look for a new job pretty sharpish!

              Also repeating the in-car phone use… still see it, every single day. Queue of cars at the lights, 50% of the drivers on their phones. PUT THEM AWAY! Drives me mad. So unbelievably stupid and selfish. I saw an article about cameras catching people doing it and they can’t come soon enough.