What cheeses me off

[leadman]

At home, I keep the remote handy so I can flick the mute button to at least avoid hearing those annoying Trivago and Clearscore ads. But arrived USA and Canada, the first thing on TV was the same "cheap & annoying" ads, albeit dubbed into local voices. Even with that stupid "squeaky", who I wish would drown; sooner the better!
So I had a look at their advertising budgets; Trivago spent €122million Q3 2025 and Clearscore €35million 2025. So with the cheap, tacky ad's they keep running, we might see them for a long time. If Trivago is spending that kind of money, the parasitic nature of feeding off other websites is paying dividends.

It was once rumoured Roger Dautry wanted to buy the company that supplied music for elevators and erase every tape, wouldn't mind it happening here. And would you believe, as I'm typing this, squeaky is still drowning in the washing machine!!!!!!

 

[JohnM]

I wasn't sure if a printed copy would be acceptable, but seems like it would be if that has been your experience. Good to know, I wasn't particularly happy at not getting a physical copy.

I haven't used it for anything.

I was merely suggesting that it should meet the OP's needs, given that the mortgage is paid off and the title must therefore now be with the OP.

 

[DejaBrew]

Attended a conference in the SYD CBD today and as I thought my phone would get a bit of a workout, I took my power bank along. Arrived for the breakfast/coffee reception and sat down to have a coffee. Made the mistake of placing the power bank on the seat as it was uncomfortable in my pocket, then after imbibing said caffeinated beverage, got up to head in for the keynote and promptly left the power bank behind. Went back a couple of hours later and it was naturally gone, but had not been handed in to lost property. Despite leaving my contact details, am yet to receive any word that it was handed in. Sigh.... To rub salt into the wound, I didn't end up needing it anyway as the event wasn't that good and I didn't take many photos. Typical.