Notices by Ben Curthoys (bencurthoys@mastodon.social), page 2

My partner reluctantly shelled out for a limited trial of NOW TV in order to watch The Lazarus Project and it has just decided to show us some fucking adverts!

I believe we are contractually unable to cancel it at this point, or I would be straight to the Pirate Bay as a matter of principle, but for everyone else: these cunts screen you adverts even when you are actually paying for a subscription and should not be rewarded with a single penny of your cash.

@goatsarah don't forget to remove and boil all your clothes as soon as you arrive!

@richlv @tellyworth @sukiletxe @simon If I had a pound for every some someone reported that when they clicked on something "nothing happened", when in reality when they clicked on the thing a concise and informative error message appeared...

@richlv @tellyworth @sukiletxe @simon People are liars. You said it was a blank page: they fundamentally don't trust you even to recognize what a blank page looks like, because they have been lied to SO MANY times before and wasted SO MUCH time by trusting what people said and starting to diagnose a problem based on incorrect data and assumptions.

If you are doing customer-facing technical support you quickly learn: trust no one.

@richlv @tellyworth @sukiletxe @simon Well we all wish there was an xkcd shibboleet sometimes :)

@goatsarah You have reminded me, and so for the benefit of those who few who don't already know it, here is a link to the "bag of chips at the train station" story:

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/02/02/story-man-feeding-seagull-train-station-hilarious/

@evan Ocean specifically? Doesn't the sea count?

@Gargron Is there any way we can get Ol' Musky to give you a heads up before he does anything else stupid with Twitter?