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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby The Dark Knight » Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:21 pm

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The Dark Knight wrote:Not quite sure where to put this but I'm confused and annoyed about it.

So it's cricket season now (you beauty) and like anything we do in these unprecedented times we need COVID plans in place. Our association the ASCA has put their COVID plan and we must follow it if we want to play, I'm assuming all associations will have a similar if not the same COVID plan.

Fair enough but why can I play football this season, a contact sport for and play against, have physical contact with, tackle, brush up along side, handle the same footballs as fellow males from 10 different amateur league clubs most of which I've never met/seen and will never see again aswell as have umpires that handle the same footballs yet for cricket we are discouraged from shaking hands with the opposition, discouraged from celebrating wickets with my team mates, not allowed to have any contact with umpires and have them not my hat while I'm bowling. Also our teamsheets cannot be exchanged by the captains at the coin toss like usual instead be placed somewhere where a photo can be taken of them by the opposition captain yet as far as I'm aware during football teamsheets were still exchanged by team mangers as per usual.

No afternoon tea either which NH usually does yet clubs could still sell food during football season and have people eat together.

I can understand the saliva part thats a bit more serious but f**k it's going to be bloody hard not to be able to just automatically shine the ball because I'm one to try and keep the ball as 'new' as possible.

Drink bottles aren't are problem for me because everyone at my club brings their own drinks for cricket anyway.

I can understand and appreciate having these COVID plans but when I look at the two sports I'm heavily involved in I see a whole lot of double standards which makes me just shake my head in disbelief.


The difference is the blokes in charge.

SACA are a bunch of old school wet noodle types, where as Kernahs and the SAAFL are more willing to push for what makes sense.

Interestingly that ATCA didn't follow the model put forward by SACA and now SACA are looking to roll back some of their requirements after realising how silly they were.

I thought this may have something to do with it. From my experience the AdFL made our 2020 season are 'normal' as possible given the circumstances and it remained pretty much the same as previous year with no ridiculous rules or advise that our Cricket COVID safe plans have.
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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby The Bedge » Sat Oct 10, 2020 10:23 am

It’s not the stupid rules that worries me this year.. it’s the nuffy umpires or wanker opposition players that will no doubt make life difficult
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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Sat Oct 10, 2020 6:35 pm

The Bedge wrote:It’s not the stupid rules that worries me this year.. it’s the nuffy umpires or wanker opposition players that will no doubt make life difficult

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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby Pseudo » Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:05 am

Pseudo wrote:Vodaphuckingfone.

Went to upgrade my mobile phone on Wednesday. Got a recent model phone, a new plan and a new SIM card.

Saturday arvo, after 2 hours spent talking to tech support, 3 more visits to the storefront, and 2 more SIM cards, the bloody network still refuses to recognise it. Turn on the device and it happily reports "no SIM card, emergency calls only". Yet it works just dandy when someone else sticks their SIM card in it. Nobody at Vodafone is able to explain why it don't work for me. Currently waiting for a call back from tech support (on a temporary prepaid phone, natch). I half suspect it isn't going to come ... but if it does, and the support person tells me to try another SIM card, I am going to reach down the phone line and throttle the bastard.

Should it not be fixed by next week I'm going to waltz back in to Vodafone, tell them where they can stick their plan, then stroll down the mall to the Optus store.


Update. 12 days on, the service is still not working. In the interim:

The tech support guy did not call back.

Next day I called customer support to get out of my plan and return the phone. The service droid was adamant that I would be paying out the phone since I wasn't a new customer. This precipitated a pointed tirade from myself about Vodafone's treatment of customers of 20 years standing. He palmed me off on a tech support person as quick as he could, the coward.

Magically, all of a sudden, the phone said "Vodafone AU" up the top - but it couldn't make calls, send texts, or use the 4G network. Had another discussion with a tech support person who had me twiddle one setting, then another ... and then told me to go back to the store and try a new SIM card. I reminded him that I'd already tried 3. Trying it again and expecting a different result was madness. He was adamant that it had to be the SIM card. "We've exhausted all the other options". I asked him to check my account, check the network, see if there was anything against my name which would prohibit me from 4G services. "I've already done that sir".

What the hell, back to the store, new SIM card, as sure as eggs is eggs it didn't work. This time the bloke in the store had a poke around on my account and found that under the network settings, everything was blocked: Calls, SMS, 4G, all services blocked. So the tech person I had just spoken to, who assured me that my account was fine and that the SIM card was the problem, was either a baldfaced liar or a thorough incompetent. Sadly the store guy couldn't unblock the account. He raised a ticket in their system and said it would take 24-48 hours to be attended to.

48 hours later I'm on the phone to tech support, enquiring after the ticket. "Our tech team is still working on it. I will escalate it". He promised to call me back in 24 hours. He didn't.

This morning, 4 days after the last ticket was raised, still no service. Got on to their support via web chat this time (far better: don't have to deal with subcontinental accents and shaky connections). Enquired after the ticket. "Our technicians are still investigating this."

So I told her that tomorrow morning I'm going to turn my phone on, and if it doesn't work then I'm gone. She tried to palm me off on tech support "who will definitely help you get the service working". Twice. Each time I said no, I've already wasted hours with your tech support people and I have no more time to spend. "You are an important customer to us and we do not want you to leave". Well that's up to your technicians now. They have 24 hours.

I fully expect to be mooching about the mall tomorrow morning, waiting for the Optus and Telstra stores to open.
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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby Wedgie » Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:14 am

Snoop Dogs Menulog song. Liked it originally but it's been stuck in my head today since about 4.45am. :evil:
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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby DOC » Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:11 pm

Pseudo wrote:
Pseudo wrote:Vodaphuckingfone.

Went to upgrade my mobile phone on Wednesday. Got a recent model phone, a new plan and a new SIM card.

Saturday arvo, after 2 hours spent talking to tech support, 3 more visits to the storefront, and 2 more SIM cards, the bloody network still refuses to recognise it. Turn on the device and it happily reports "no SIM card, emergency calls only". Yet it works just dandy when someone else sticks their SIM card in it. Nobody at Vodafone is able to explain why it don't work for me. Currently waiting for a call back from tech support (on a temporary prepaid phone, natch). I half suspect it isn't going to come ... but if it does, and the support person tells me to try another SIM card, I am going to reach down the phone line and throttle the bastard.

Should it not be fixed by next week I'm going to waltz back in to Vodafone, tell them where they can stick their plan, then stroll down the mall to the Optus store.


Update. 12 days on, the service is still not working. In the interim:

The tech support guy did not call back.

Next day I called customer support to get out of my plan and return the phone. The service droid was adamant that I would be paying out the phone since I wasn't a new customer. This precipitated a pointed tirade from myself about Vodafone's treatment of customers of 20 years standing. He palmed me off on a tech support person as quick as he could, the coward.

Magically, all of a sudden, the phone said "Vodafone AU" up the top - but it couldn't make calls, send texts, or use the 4G network. Had another discussion with a tech support person who had me twiddle one setting, then another ... and then told me to go back to the store and try a new SIM card. I reminded him that I'd already tried 3. Trying it again and expecting a different result was madness. He was adamant that it had to be the SIM card. "We've exhausted all the other options". I asked him to check my account, check the network, see if there was anything against my name which would prohibit me from 4G services. "I've already done that sir".

What the hell, back to the store, new SIM card, as sure as eggs is eggs it didn't work. This time the bloke in the store had a poke around on my account and found that under the network settings, everything was blocked: Calls, SMS, 4G, all services blocked. So the tech person I had just spoken to, who assured me that my account was fine and that the SIM card was the problem, was either a baldfaced liar or a thorough incompetent. Sadly the store guy couldn't unblock the account. He raised a ticket in their system and said it would take 24-48 hours to be attended to.

48 hours later I'm on the phone to tech support, enquiring after the ticket. "Our tech team is still working on it. I will escalate it". He promised to call me back in 24 hours. He didn't.

This morning, 4 days after the last ticket was raised, still no service. Got on to their support via web chat this time (far better: don't have to deal with subcontinental accents and shaky connections). Enquired after the ticket. "Our technicians are still investigating this."

So I told her that tomorrow morning I'm going to turn my phone on, and if it doesn't work then I'm gone. She tried to palm me off on tech support "who will definitely help you get the service working". Twice. Each time I said no, I've already wasted hours with your tech support people and I have no more time to spend. "You are an important customer to us and we do not want you to leave". Well that's up to your technicians now. They have 24 hours.

I fully expect to be mooching about the mall tomorrow morning, waiting for the Optus and Telstra stores to open.



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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby RustyCage » Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:27 pm

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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby DOC » Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:33 am

All this football talk when it is clearly cricket season.
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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby Pseudo » Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:25 am

DOC wrote:
Pseudo wrote:Vodaphuckingfone.
(whinge whinge whinge)


Even if fixed vote with your feet and leave.


It wasn't fixed, so in to the Optus store I marched. Vodafone still had a couple of spanners to throw into my works:

If I was happy to get a new phone number then I could have walked in and out of the store in 5 minutes. However I wanted to port my number from Vodafone 'coz half my life is attached to it and it would be too much of a pain in the arse to change. To port a number from another network they first send you an SMS with a code so you can prove that you own the number. But of course my service was kaput, and I couldn't receive the SMS. Took 90 minutes to get around this little roadblock. Nevertheless I walked out of there with a working mobile phone, full bars and a 4G service, and the same phone number.

By this morning I realised that I could make calls to other phones and send messages, but certain other people could not message or call me. It seems that the people who cannot contact me are all Vodafone clients. At a guess, Vodafone still has my number somewhere in their routing database, so anyone from within trying to get to me gets channeled into a black hole.

I still haven't broken free from Vodafone's grip. :evil:
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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby stan » Thu Oct 15, 2020 10:17 pm

DOC wrote:Stan. I reckon most of us have suffered from the SADIM (midas backwards) touch at one point or another, But as my father once told me even shit is useful.

I echo Pseudos comments above. Many tasks are thankless at the time but eventually the weight of good works are rewarded.

Having the courage to post is just another good thing you have done. As for family issues, perhaps aim to have a great day with your kids tomorrow.
Those lil buggers can cheer you up in no time.
Thanks for the post mate, took your advice a few weeks back, still feels like a few rough patches but sometimes the clean crisp air does wonders.

It's so reassuring to know that alot of other people have gone through similar things ad well.
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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby Pseudo » Thu Oct 22, 2020 11:48 am

When you set up a simulation to run overnight, get to work just before it finishes, plot the results and think they don't look quite right.

Then you inspect your code and find a little glitch which meant you were storing the wrong bloody values, so you have to run the whole flippin' thing again. All for the want of a few errant keystrokes...

(My phone ain't working yet either ... :evil: )
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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby Booney » Thu Oct 22, 2020 12:18 pm

Pseudo wrote:When you set up a simulation to run overnight, get to work just before it finishes, plot the results and think they don't look quite right.

Then you inspect your code and find a little glitch which meant you were storing the wrong bloody values, so you have to run the whole flippin' thing again. All for the want of a few errant keystrokes...

(My phone ain't working yet either ... :evil: )


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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby Jase » Thu Oct 22, 2020 12:51 pm

The stress that my eldest is putting himself under for his Year 12...

He can pretty much not do the exams he has and still get the results he needs to get into Nursing, but he is stressing out so much he is almost making himself sick each night...

Breathe boy, Breathe...
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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby mickey » Thu Oct 22, 2020 12:58 pm

Jase wrote:The stress that my eldest is putting himself under for his Year 12...

He can pretty much not do the exams he has and still get the results he needs to get into Nursing, but he is stressing out so much he is almost making himself sick each night...

Breathe boy, Breathe...
This is what i have to look forward to next year with the eldest. IMO far too much pressure is put on kids to follow a university path when leaving school.
Although study is important, the pressure high schools put on kids, forcing them to think they have up give up social outings, sports etc to study is crap.

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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby Lightning McQueen » Thu Oct 22, 2020 1:05 pm

Jase wrote:The stress that my eldest is putting himself under for his Year 12...

He can pretty much not do the exams he has and still get the results he needs to get into Nursing, but he is stressing out so much he is almost making himself sick each night...

Breathe boy, Breathe...

Oh shit, has he finished all of his work, can he just fine tune it now?

My daughter was in the same boat a few weeks ago but now has everything handed in for the teachers to peruse and make recommendations for improvement, she certainly didn't get that from me.

She wants to go to uni but wants a gap year first, after a broken collarbone she missed out on being at peak fitness for the NAFC Women's team trials and wants to make sure she's fully fit for next season, hopefully what she had done before her injury holds her in good steed.
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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby Lightning McQueen » Thu Oct 22, 2020 1:07 pm

mickey wrote:
Jase wrote:The stress that my eldest is putting himself under for his Year 12...

He can pretty much not do the exams he has and still get the results he needs to get into Nursing, but he is stressing out so much he is almost making himself sick each night...

Breathe boy, Breathe...
This is what i have to look forward to next year with the eldest. IMO far too much pressure is put on kids to follow a university path when leaving school.
Although study is important, the pressure high schools put on kids, forcing them to think they have up give up social outings, sports etc to study is crap.

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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby Jase » Thu Oct 22, 2020 1:31 pm

Lightning McQueen wrote:
Jase wrote:The stress that my eldest is putting himself under for his Year 12...

He can pretty much not do the exams he has and still get the results he needs to get into Nursing, but he is stressing out so much he is almost making himself sick each night...

Breathe boy, Breathe...

Oh shit, has he finished all of his work, can he just fine tune it now?

My daughter was in the same boat a few weeks ago but now has everything handed in for the teachers to peruse and make recommendations for improvement, she certainly didn't get that from me.

She wants to go to uni but wants a gap year first, after a broken collarbone she missed out on being at peak fitness for the NAFC Women's team trials and wants to make sure she's fully fit for next season, hopefully what she had done before her injury holds her in good steed.


Yep he has handed in all of his work for the School Assessed stuff, but still has 2 exams...

They boy could Stress for Australia so these next 2 weeks will be hard for him (and us) but we'll get him through and then he can just stress about actually getting his results, and then stress about getting an offer for Uni, and then stress about his first day, and his first placement and his first exams... etc etc etc etc etc etc...

:D :lol:
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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby Lightning McQueen » Thu Oct 22, 2020 1:52 pm

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Yep he has handed in all of his work for the School Assessed stuff, but still has 2 exams...

They boy could Stress for Australia so these next 2 weeks will be hard for him (and us) but we'll get him through and then he can just stress about actually getting his results, and then stress about getting an offer for Uni, and then stress about his first day, and his first placement and his first exams... etc etc etc etc etc etc...

:D :lol:


At least he cares.
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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby Corona Man » Thu Oct 22, 2020 6:04 pm

Daughter has begun decorating my deck with Geelong posters and scarves. Vomit :YMSICK:
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Re: Things that give you the sh1ts

Postby Mr Beefy » Thu Oct 22, 2020 8:53 pm

Corona Man wrote:Daughter has begun decorating my deck with Geelong posters and scarves. Vomit :YMSICK:
Good girl!!

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