101 Things that get on our tits but don't actually matter in the slightest. - The Bear and Badger

g.man

Frosty wrote:

The roads in Glasgow suck shit. Be good if they could bother their arses to fix the pot holes and maybe repaint a few lines and road markings so I can actually see where I'm supposed to go.

Aye, our roads are a complete shitshow.

SpaceGazelle

Glasgow council are still fucked from the equal pay bill.

b0r1s

Same with Brum. £1.1bn sorts a lot of roads. But I’m gonna take people being paid equally for the job they do over someone worrying about a bump or two in the road.

davyK

Brum issue with equal pay isn't the only woe. They pissed away humongous money on an IT system that still doesn't work. They're the talk of the public sector IT community.

Moot_Geeza

Kow wrote:

You can set Tidal as an Alexa skill, or whatever they're called, and it'll automatically use your Tidal account for playing music. I don't think it has any bearing on number of devices or anything like that. It's tied to your account.

Just got round to trying this. Not in the UK, unfortunately.

Kow

Really? All you're doing is setting Alexa to use Tidal as the go-to music provider in the settings (the same way you can choose Spotify or whatever over the default Amazon music). I can't see how that could possible be excluded in the UK.

Moot_Geeza

Spotify is an option, along with a couple of others. Couldn't see Tidal - only had a quick look though. I Googled and found people moaning about it on Reddit from late 2023, so it does seem to be a thing.

Kow

Maybe I'm misremembering. I haven't had Tidal for ages and I haven't used Alexa since I don't know when but I thought it worked for me. Maybe not. I just tried to connect via Qobuz, which I'm using at the moment, and that doesn't show up either. Maybe Alexa is just shit, like Amazon in general.

The Daddy

I never managed to get tidal to play with Alexa.

Kow

At a stretch I guess you can just use the thing as a bluetooth speaker and tell your phone what to play rather than Alexa.

Moot_Geeza

Oh right can you? That'd do. My portable boothtooth speaker is shite.

Kow

Yeah, when I'm driving I just tell my phone what to play and it connects to the bluetooth and does it no problem. The Echo speakers work the same, you just have to tell Alexa to go into bluetooth mode or pairing mode the first time and pair your phone.

equinox_code

Got robbed in a pub quiz. One of the questions was ‘from which city did the Titanic first set sail’. Literally exactly those words, so the answer is clearly Belfast, where it was built. Quizmaster had other ideas and only awarded marks for Southampton.

We were tied for first place at the end but lost the tie breaker, but it shouldn’t have got that far.

Frosty

I remember getting fucked over by a "what is the lowest scoring colour in snooker?" to which the answer is clearly yellow as reds are not colours. Quiz bellend obviously had other ideas.

nick_md

The white doesn't get you any points!

Moot_Geeza

It got me loads of points last time we played.

nick_md

:shakesfist:

MyNameIsKrisG

"The good times sound like this".

*Plays some innocuous, boring shite from the 80's*

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