Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@johncalmc Think you might have been living in the Pantheon.

I always started with a Hooch. Smirnoff Ice was for staggering round the club hammered. 🤣

@JohnnyShoulder a vintage selection 🤣

@JohnnyShoulder Venom is the drink of champions, blue WKD, orange juice and vodka until it turns bright green 😂

I used to love strawpedoing Reefs back in the day. Funnily enough I picked up a 4 pack of Blue WKD the other week just for fun.

Ahhh alcopops. I think I only remember and have tried wkd and Smirnoff. Smirnoff was always too lemonadey for me but for some reason I used to like wkd blue before I got a taste for the non sweet flavours of beer and spirits. I think I quickly realised that it wasn't a cost effective way to get drunk though. Don't know if I'd like it now or if it would make my head spin with all that sugar

@render A vintage selection for vintage times!

@nessisonett That sounds familiar! Think where I was from we might have swapped the orange juice for something else. Probably more booze!

@ralphdibny alcopops still exist.. they are just sold as “ciders” now and cost a bit more!

@kyleforrester87 "strawpedoes" was the first thing I thought of seeing a Reef too

I had a Hooch not long ago cause I spied some in a shop near me and felt like travelling back in time. It was absolutely lifting. But we liked it as kids.

@Kidfried Wow, I’ve always wanted to try the Virtual Boy. I mean, I’d probably end up with a migraine but worth it!

Dear lord. So I just had a company presentation over Microsoft Teams for a role that I applied to and the meeting was at 13:00 so I thought I'd join the meeting at 12:55. Lo and behold, Teams needed a mandatory update right then! I panicked, so I tried to update it, then the page told me to log in and I thought, well this is going to take a long time so I should just use the app through the browser. Then the browser app told me that I needed to log in, then I needed to add a phone number and enter a code that they'd send me. Then the page directed me to add a phone number again and when I did that an error showed up. So I thought, well alright I'll just download the update then since I have no other choice. I had to download the app again, install it and that went smoothly. But then I couldn't get the link to work, so I opened the app and realised that I needed to log in there. Then the link worked and finally I could connect to the meeting.

I still can't believe I did all of that in just 5 minutes just as the meeting was about to start. Sometimes I really hate technology.

@LtSarge I can seriously sympathise with you on Teams and interviews. I have tried to join a meeting for an interview a few minutes early, on my personal laptop. Well I had logged into my works Teams on there once, so when I tried to do it via the web app it kept trying to do it via my work account! Like you, I panicked and just tried all sorts very quickly. Thankfully I managed to somehow sign out of my work account and join as a guest!

I tried to recitfy this mistake by logging into my personal account on the desktop app, but I also had my work account to work from home. Had the exact same issues again! It wouldn't let me choose the personal account. So had to go via the web app and had to try and sign out again.

Teams is a mess at times.

@NedStarksGhost Yeah I can definitely see a lot of people encountering problems like this. I've never had issues with these apps before though. During my studies, we would mostly use Zoom for meetings and it would always work. But for some reason, Microsoft has to constantly update their apps which leads to problems such as this. I'd honestly rather use Zoom instead since it doesn't seem to need updates as much as Teams.

@Thrillho Excited about the Ashes? What are your thoughts?

@LtSarge That happens to me what feels like every time I open Teams. I go through this frenzy of updating the app, getting the link to work, realising that I need to open Authenticator on my phone for the 2 factor code to get logged in and then find that somehow it's changed all my audio settings.

I've lost count of the number of meetings I've been late to for that reason. If I opened it 30 minutes before it would probably still find a way of screwing me over 😂

Hope you get the role btw.

I have Teams open literally all the time so I can't say I relate 😂
It's mostly on Linux and iOS though, so my experience could be different

@Jimmer-jammer @Th3solution How are you guys? What are you up to this week? @Voltan How are you? How's life in the music business?

@TheBrandedSwordsman I might be in music but hardly in the music business - I mean, I’m either not in it or very bad at it!
Anyway, I’m terribly busy at work and it’s been a bit draining tbh. I have a couple things to do soon musically but I’m too exhausted by work to start them. That should be over soon though so I’ll be alright
Also, finishing mixes for that album I was recording a while back.

I bought the turkey for Christmas. Sounds insane given it’s October but mark my words, UK peeps here will find it hard to get a turkey in the coming weeks.