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Posted by wilbach on July 11, 2007 4:04 PM | 

aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggghSOD IT!Swearing and Eating

1. Swearing at my new mobile phone;
2. Swearing at my old mobile phone;
3. Seething at my SIM card;
4. Drinking and eating in the pub;
5. Cursing the GIT who moved his car just before the traffic wardens got there;
6. Getting a quote for the tiling of the kitchen;
7. Returning to the swearing at phones routine.

Why oh why can they not make it simple to transfer contact details from one phone to another. Oh, use the SIM card its eas… SOD OFF! I HAVE 148 CONTACTS IN MY OLD PHONE AND MY SIM WILL ONLY HOLD 48. AND, NO, MY OLD PHONE HAS NEITHER BLUE BALLS OR TOOTH AND MY NEW PHONE HASN’T GOT INFRA-RED. THERE IS NO COMPATIBLE CONNECTOR AVAILABLE AND, AND, AND…. OH B U M.
Is it not possible for a simple piece of software to exist that simply rips all the contact details from yer phone, holds it on your Apple/PC and then can up-load it to your new phone when it is connected USING THE SAME BLUDI LEAD?!

Really.

Lunch was nice, though – veggie burger and chips with Pete, in the Albany. His foot is better, which is nice.

My shoulder is a bit ache-y today though I Am Being Very Brave in that I am toddling around without a dressing on… It feels very exposed and is proving very difficult not to pick at – LOADS of crusty-but-healthy scabbing… Yummm…

Was at the hospital yesterday to see His Holiness Geoff Graham. What a lovely man. Though the new sling they have given me isn’t a patch on the old one. The old one was dark blue and a quality bit of kit. The new one? Cheap-jack tat made of the kind of grey foam rubber used to pack dodgy mobile phon…

WHY IS EVERYTHING SO BLOODY FRUSTRATING WITH THESE SODDING PHONES! I MEAN IT SHOULD… (To save you all the ravings of a plainly irate and crotchety Wilbach, I have cut this section out. He just goes on a bit about this contact list of his. Tuh – Ed.)

Still, the sun is shining and the weather is sweet, makes you want to move your dancing feet, eh.


 

Comments (10)

Mogg wrote...

Re: "Is it not possible for a simple piece of software to exist that simply rips all the contact details from yer phone, holds it on your Apple/PC and then can up-load it to your new phone when it is connected USING THE SAME BLUDI LEAD?!"

It exists. It works. Took 2 minutes.

wilbach says - and??!!

Posted by: Mogg  | July 12, 2007 3:25 PM

Mogg wrote...

Re: "Is it not possible for a simple piece of software to exist that simply rips all the contact details from yer phone, holds it on your Apple/PC and then can up-load it to your new phone when it is connected USING THE SAME BLUDI LEAD?!"

It exists. It works. Took 2 minutes.

wilbach says - please, tell me where and what it is! PLEASE! my problem is that the SIM SIMply hasn't got the capacity to hold the 150+ contacts i have in my phone, y'see. so these memory back-up affairs are not exactly what i want/need... PLEASE HELP IF YOU KNOW!

Posted by: Mogg  | July 12, 2007 3:25 PM

Andrew wrote...

understand Wilbach your frustrations with the mobile phones - think they make them complicated and basically unuseable on purpose. A conspiracy within the business - as reflected by Flanders & Swann - the gasman cometh (readers not familiar with Flanders & Swann should google it)

wilbach sings - '... his foot went through the window so i called the glazier in. oh! it all makes work for the working man to do...'

Posted by: Andrew  | July 13, 2007 9:44 AM

Paul wrote...

I have long considered that my father was the role model of Victor Meldrew. Clearly I was wrong. Cheer up you old git!
wilbach asks - why?!

Posted by: Paul  | July 13, 2007 3:56 PM

Andrew D wrote...

yes - yes that's the one - but you were a little flat when you sang "it all makes" but the rest was fine !!
wilbach says - why, thank you, sir.

Posted by: Andrew D  | July 13, 2007 9:20 PM

welshbob wrote...

What you need, my dear raving Wil, is a teenage boy. Let me qualify that!! I meant to sort your phone problems out! The boys of the over-developed thumbs seem to have a genetic ability to just "know" how to do it.
Wilbach quotes - 'a child of 5 could understand this, send someone to fetch a child of 5...'

Posted by: welshbob  | July 13, 2007 10:50 PM

welshbob wrote...

Well, dear Victor, only another 5 and a bit years to wait and you'll have your very own personal mobile phone fixer!
Until then - keep on ranting! We love it really!
Victor says - Groucho knew what he was on about, i can tell you! Ta.

Posted by: welshbob  | July 15, 2007 10:04 PM

welshbob wrote...

Of course! That's where the line came from! Hadn't twigged - bit twp in my old age! So, Victor/Groucho - have you sorted it out? For a man who hates answering the phone so much (as per a recent rant) I'm amazed you bother with a further irritation like a mobile! Chuck it out boy! Or get one that just makes phone calls and use the following WB invention - it's a litttle booklet with all your friends and relatives addresses and phone numbers in - when you change phones - guess what? You just carry on using the same book! I'm sure it will catch on - in fact, I'm thinking of patenting it - I'll call it the "WB Patent Address Book" Just remember you read it here first when I've made my millions!

wilbach says - trouble with the book idea is it still means making phonecalls... I really, really don't like them - they only bring bad news or irritation or confusion. texts are dicrete and can be dealt with at the recipient's leisure or convenience. Business or work calls are a different matter but, even then, they invariably cause shi t to happen! if i could do it all via text i would be a happy man. my neices and nephews take the mick out of me for sending elegantly phrased, spelt and punctuated texts, BTW... ah well! Now you mention it - i have got an address book somewhere - i must dig it out.

Posted by: welshbob  | July 16, 2007 11:45 PM

TheRighteousBrother wrote...

You sound a real grumpy f#cker. tw@t.
wilbach says - is that you, superdave? have you sent them over to me? charmed I'm sure

Posted by: TheRighteousBrother  | July 17, 2007 1:00 PM

welshbob wrote...

Does that mean the address book thing has been done before? Damn, back to the drawing board! By the way, agree with properly written texts, hate the cul8r txt thing, am I getting old and grumpy? Hope so - want to get on that TV programme! RighteousBrother / superdave sounds like a bundle of laughs? Hmm?

wilbach says - Superdave is actually very funny. if you like gardening and withheld naughty pictures!

Posted by: welshbob  | July 20, 2007 9:50 PM

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