Things you hate IV

Social media posts which start with 'POV.'

 

FFY

 

Also tweets from people who think they've being funny and end with 'I think about that a lot.'

 

POV

Pals of Vasini

 

FFY

 

FFY

 

I rather like that. Has a kind of retro feel.

 

Alex Scott peddling her new book on daytime TV.

 

QUOTE="Diamond, post: 3179973, member: 4243"]Alex Scott peddling her new book on daytime TV.[/QUOTE]
Just hate Day Time TV…sport fine, rest of the drivel and associated adverts, awful

 

What on Earth are you watching?

 

Mrs Diamond is stuck at home with covid, and she has This Morning on. I may start to fill up this thread fairly quickly.

 

Santander.

They keep switching my folks (old and unable to deal with on-line downloads) accounts to "paper free" without asking. Apparently it's simple to switch back on the www site except the button doesn't work and it involves talking with a representative and a week wait to reverse it.

 

All the best to Mrs D. Not sure if This Morning is good for her health though.

 

Paperless has been a thing for 30 years. It didn't sneak up on your parents anymore than mine.

There's a certain arrogance to the boomer generation's (not specifically your parents) to obstinately ignore and refuse all technological progress until it becomes an necessity, and then to bleat about how unfair it is on the Oldiwonks that you need; a mobile app to pay for parking/to use the ATM/to download statements online/submit a photo of your own meter reading/scan your own turnip at the checkout.

 

Have you seen her quiz show that's on before Pointless? I catch the tail end sometimes. Her diction is appalling to the point I can barely understand her.

 

My mum is 80, my dad is 85 with parkinsons. Neither are physically able to login and download an electronic statement. Apart from my dad being incapable of dressing himself, my mum needs regular reminding how to read a text message. There's no way in hell either is going to be able to login to a bank account, obtain a one time passcode on a mobile (my dad doesn't have one and couldn't use one anyway) use this to login, find where a pdf of the statment is on the website, know how and where to save it to the computer and then open it to print it out. Neither would know what the hell an app is let alone what to do with one or how to even use a touch screen smartphone.

They both want to receive a printed statement in the post each month so they can keep a check on their accounts and then file. It's not rocket science.

Despite informing Santander that they can't receive electronic statements, Santander still regularly switch them over to electronic ones without prompting and it's a right ballache for me getting it switched back because again neither is capable of negotiating the online or telephone systems to do it themselves and the switch on the accounts section of the website doesn't work (disabled on purpose I suspect).

 

Sounds about time for LPA so you can do the donkey work for them…

 

Have you complained? Sounds like age and probably disability discrimination to me. They've expressed a clear wish to not receive electronic statements yet it keeps being reverting to that option.

 

Other than cases like Hornmeister points out you are right, thankfully my dad (75) has managed to cope with the technological age reasonably well, he can navigate himself around a smartphone way better than he could with a VHS machine 30 years ago so I see it as a positive.

 

You are ‘Sir’ Alan Sugar and I claim my £5.

 

Watched that today for the first time. Was a pretty awful show and it gets really cringy when she's trying to generate rivalries between the contestants.

And why do they have to stare at each other 5 feet apart? You can tell they all feel a bit awkward.

 

He's not much better. Grumbling Sid James wannabe without the laugh.

 

Every time I turn on BBC1 at 5.15 pm, only to see Zander introduce his pointless friend, only for it to he Sally Lindsey. No. Just no!

 

Town Criers, they can **** off and do it quietly.

 

Yeah that doesn't work for me either, but then it was always going to be difficult to fill the shoes of Richard Osman, (quite literally).

 

Half a ton of concrete and then chuck him off the pier. Job done.

I find him somewhat irritating.

 

Sent off the LPAs for my mother at the end of April, and they're still being "checked". The OPG quote 20 weeks to process them from receipt, but they had them for 5 weeks before acknowledging they'd received them. I have a feeling it's just one person in a broom cupboard handling these things...

 

I'm also grappling with the OPG, social services and various other bodies regarding the care and welfare of a vulnerable relative and the way the OPG tries to push the families into doing the difficult, bureaucratic work really is a stain on the country. One conversation last month involved the OPG telling me that if I was unable to complete complex forms, apply for benefits correctly and administer the finances the job would have to be done by a solicitor and the money would come out of my relative's funds. I said: "That's fine, my relative has the funds to pay for necessary services." The OPG didn't like this and wanted to push the responsibility onto me. "So," I said, "you want me to do the job of a solicitor and social services, untrained, unsupported and for nothing, but under the ever-present threat that if I make a mistake I am responsible?"

Talking to the OPG really is like talking to a computer. If they don't know the answer to a question they answer a different one.

 

Yeah I noticed Dorries sneaking back into the headlines again the other day.

 

In defence of the OPG though, they're almost certainly another under-resourced public body given far too many responsibilities by a government which is happy to keep promulgating laws to do the latter without ever providing the requisite funding to carry them out. I know that doesn't help when you're at the coal face and having to deal with a difficult situation, but it is relevant I think. The OPG are just the administrators of the public guardianship scheme, not its architects.

 

Oh absolutely. A system hollowed out and now made unfit for purpose by this Government. I try to remember that despite the frustration when speaking to the human beings within the system. In my breakthrough conversation with the poor fellow assigned to our case I could almost hear him realising that his scripted lines weren't working. So, so many families must just meet that brick wall and assume that the responsibility must fall on their shoulders.