| daftykins | ooh dear, went into the ISP high-street shop to request upgrading a client's broadband, i got the trainee kid that probably screwed up my other client's one a bit ago xD | 17:03 |
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| daftykins | had to correct him with Megabits versus Megabytes pretty early on in the exchange! tut tut ;) | 17:04 |
| zxm-pi | you don't have glove puppets to explain the technical details in face to face meetings? :-P | 17:06 |
| daftykins | hmm, no grandmothers left to create 'em now! | 17:07 |
| daftykins | "oh no, here comes the unskilled electrician to undo all of our good work!" | 17:07 |
| daftykins | "here's the telco engineer to save the day! but wait, they'll only speak to the bill payer!" | 17:07 |
| daftykins | in other entertaining news, i popped in a historic library here on the island which catalogues a lot of ye olde maps and photography of the place, i was searching for some snaps of my house to try and see what the front window might have looked like originally - on entering the place i set off the alarm | 17:09 |
| zxm-pi | sparky the smouldering engineering puppet and eyebrow the monobrow developer :-P | 17:09 |
| daftykins | hehe | 17:10 |
| zxm-pi | wasn't there a service online that could find images based on location based on dates so you coud see locations through time? | 17:10 |
| daftykins | pass! | 17:11 |
| daftykins | i found a 1975 snap centred exactly on my place though :D kinda funny i had to pay £5 to have a copy sent to me by email, but eh - kinda helps support the place i suppose | 17:12 |
| zxm-pi | https://www.pinterest.ie/jdebertrand/old-guernsey/ | 17:17 |
| daftykins | think that's the fella that digs 'em out and puts them in the paper regularly | 17:29 |
| zxm-pi | local historian puts out a twice year booklet here filled with pics, documents and history items. | 17:41 |
| daftykins | neat | 17:42 |
| daftykins | Jersey appears to have trouble: https://www.bailiwickexpress.com/jsy/news/three-hospital-covid-cases-pass-600/ | 17:46 |
| zxm-pi | yeah, delta seems to have changed the rules for places that managed to get to zero covid | 17:46 |
| zxm-pi | taiwan, australia are having cases again. here in ireland it's most cases now. numbers are starting to creep up. we're expecting a high by late july | 17:47 |
| diddledan | despite my better judgement I'm watching some balls sporting | 21:10 |
| daftykins | oh dear | 21:34 |
| daftykins | i'll know if you come smash my window after | 21:34 |
| diddledan | through to the final | 21:36 |
| daftykins | drat | 21:36 |
| diddledan | 2-1 to ingerland | 21:37 |
| daftykins | who's the opposition? | 21:39 |
| diddledan | in the final it'll be italy | 21:39 |
| diddledan | today was denmark | 21:39 |
| m0nkey_ | football's coming home? | 22:10 |
| m0nkey_ | first time since 1966, eh? | 22:11 |
| diddledan | I guess? | 22:12 |
| diddledan | how does that work for you foreigners? | 22:12 |
| daftykins | there's this sports club locally, beside a cricket ground... fans trashed a brand new deck setup they had, they've already repaired it and have invited the public back xD | 22:12 |
| daftykins | such madness | 22:12 |
| m0nkey_ | well, we got a hockey team in the playoff finals | 22:12 |
| m0nkey_ | and now i got england in the euro final | 22:13 |
| daftykins | you personally? :D | 22:13 |
| m0nkey_ | The NHL team from Montreal is playing against Florida. So it's basically down to Canada v USA | 22:14 |
| m0nkey_ | My mother is probably pissed because she's gotta put up with another footy match | 22:14 |
| daftykins | your Dad a big fan? | 22:19 |
| m0nkey_ | He just likes watching the footy | 22:25 |
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