Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

silvercar

Friend's been ill this week. Very healthy fit individual without an ounce of fat on her body or any predisposing risk factors. Unexpected heart attack. Fitted with a stent and out now. Everyone's cooking meals for her this week.

Down the gym all the time and eats sensibly. No family history AFAIK.

Must be the gym that did it!

Just shows that we should live our lives while we can.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

I know that doctor. He said that saving Muamba's life was easier than convincing the stewards to let him on to the pitch!

I heard an interview with him a week or two afterwards. He sounded like a very down-to-earth, calm kind of chap and a Spurs fan to boot. Exactly what you'd want in a doctor!

CKhalvashi

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PasturesNew

Troubles all round. I am sitting in Mr S carpark ... laptop on a laptray on passenger seat. Not sure how long charge on laptop will last.

Dongle didn't work. Used other dongle - no joy. Went to o2 shop, they said it's the best signal in the area.... topped up new dongle with full amount for a month - don't get a good enough signal to get online. I have managed to get this page to load 2x (takes 10 minutes) but couldn't post as signal dropped.

Also - can't work out how to get a landline, if they send an engineer out, I can't take a day off at all... so can't get a phone, can't get broadband, can't get mobile signal.

DOOOMED!!

PasturesNew

So - question for you NP to research between now and when I get back online:

If you are sitting in a room and can see a telephone socket on the wall, don't know if the last person had a telephone, or what the number was, or if they took it with them - how on earth do you organise a home line without an engineer coming round... unless one does Saturday/Sundays/evenings?

There is an "address checker", but my address isn't listed. I run the danger of cutting off the main house/LL's phoneline I fear..... main house is listed, my bit is not. And LL is 'away' until Xmas. I have LL's daughter's phone number, which I'll probably phone tomorrow..... but I doubt she'll know the answers to questions I am likely to ask.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

So - question for you NP to research between now and when I get back online:

If you are sitting in a room and can see a telephone socket on the wall, don't know if the last person had a telephone, or what the number was, or if they took it with them - how on earth do you organise a home line without an engineer coming round... unless one does Saturday/Sundays/evenings?

I think if you call BT (or whoever you are looking to get landline from I guess) they can tell you if the line is still 'active' or whether it needs re-activating (where they send an engineer out and charge you a small fortune).

Keep your fingers crossed it is active?

PasturesNew

On another front.... colleague lent me telly .. oh dear no SCART. Picked one up (horrendous price) on my way home. Plugged it all in ... (those connections are s0ds).... and now I am at Mr S because the set top box needed batteries in its remote.

I'm getting nowhere fast.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I think if you call BT (or whoever you are looking to get landline from I guess) they can tell you if the line is still 'active' or whether it needs re-activating (where they send an engineer out and charge you a small fortune).

Keep your fingers crossed it is active?

I did phone BT at one point - they said "engineer, Mon-Fri only".

I called them as my O2 wrapper said I had access to BTOpenZone and I am picking up a low signal for that - but can't get past the first page as it wants me to log in - so I phoned them to ask what O2 customers do and he said username/password - I said "I don't have one of those, I've used the one that my dongle/SIM profile says is the username/password for the O2 connection but that doesn't work".

O2 are very proud to tell you they are available 24/7 but don't give you a phone number. BT man even searched the O2 website for a phone number for me - but no joy.

So - if anybody can find the O2 phone number, so I can phone them to ask what my username/password are for the BTOpenZone that might be useful.

I can get a BTOZ low/dropping signal from one corner of one windowsill in the back of my place. It's better than nothing.... at a push

PasturesNew

I hadn't really looked into who to get a service with - I assumed I'd get a broadband signal off one of my dongles... and could research it.

And now that plan's crashed and burned.

I'd like a service with the cheapest. Home landline and broadband. As it is I'll be happy with "any bugg4h that'll just s0ddin' connect me soonest/easiest*

silvercar

If you are sitting in a room and can see a telephone socket on the wall, don't know if the last person had a telephone, or what the number was, or if they took it with them - how on earth do you organise a home line without an engineer coming round... unless one does Saturday/Sundays/evenings?

Plug a phone into it and dial 17070, that will tell you the number assigned to it. Then phone BT (or whoever) and get it reactivated. 9 times out of 10 they can activate it at the exchange and don't need a home visit.