You know what really grinds my gears? The Gears Strike Back

Most IT projects fail (to a greater or lesser extent). Keeps me in work though!

Luckily I happened to be on a video call with my mum as the postman arrived, so I got to see her opening the personalised card that I sent.

Says something that WhatsApp is a better way of tracking post than Royal Mailā€¦

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i donā€™t know what you mean.
BADER, with its Sharepoint, Ultilearn, SMS and others have never ever had an issue in the last 20+ yearsā€¦right? :thinking:

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Happy New Year!

First day back in the office. We only have Nescafe Original in the kitchen. Itā€™s going to be a long first day back :joy:

This is full of coffee, my boss is back today so a day playing xbox keeping teams green is off the cards

Dealing with Virgin Media on live chat for a simple cancellation !

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Ah. But do you really want to cancel? Are you sure - they have such a good deal that they can offer just for you?

Iā€™ve been running with the new supplier for 2 months, just waiting to get to the end of my 18 months.

Using Toob now, 900 up & down FTTP all for Ā£29 fixed for the next 2 years

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GMG. That alarm going off this morning as we return to normal routine.

That wasnā€™t welcome.at all.

The 2025 honeymoon period is over.

Never heard of them, then I looked at their coverage map and realised why :laughing:

Yeah we are with trooli who popped out of nowhere

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Fibre was installed on our street last week. Half way down. They stopped when they got to the ā€˜smallerā€™ houses. According to the street gang drawing the cables it will be hooked up to the newer build flats and the ā€˜biggerā€™ houses opposite them.

Completed my Range Recce today for next months Short Range shoot (not a gear)

58 mile round trip = Ā£14.50 organisational cost
10 mins on siteā€¦ looks like the same barrack range I used 5 years ago
Partial day of annual leave used.

Value add = NIL

IF I had used within the past 12 months I would have only done a recce via phone to tell the warden I want 2 x Fig 11s per laneā€¦ barrack only allows Fig 11s now.

Why do we do this to ourselves?

EDIT: Range was in use with a late bid, so recce completed from outside the fence!

There is a puddle though, that may or may not be there in a month :man_facepalming:

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Bang it on value our volunteers. Itā€™s garbage like this that kills motivation and is just not common sense.

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Itā€™s an Army policy within CTR so not within the remit of our leaders to change.

@bob / @dazizian are the most likely to be able to effect change here at a HQ level.

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I know full well where it comes from but keeping quiet about the stupidity is definitely not going to change anything!

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Are cadets allowed to shoot at fig. 11s again, or do you still have to paste the legs of one over the upper body of another to create a weird four legged target (without the traditional aiming marker of the soldierā€™s wrist)?

Thatā€™s never been a thing, but if available double Legs 11 should be used.

Would be daft considering the wider implementation of blank firing nowā€¦

ā€œNo, you canā€™t shoot real ammo at a fake person, but you can shoot fake ammo at a real person.ā€

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Nah itā€™s got to be old school cadet blank firing where you have to aim 45 degrees into the airā€¦:wink:

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