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by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:43 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

Devils_Advocate wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:35 pm
Yes they do but most people would use a digital bank statement via their online banking account
That's what I thought people did. But if the executors or next of kin just have to watch the letterbox for a month to get the next paper statement, then it's an awful lot easier than unlocking a phone.
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Passport problems
Replies: 47
Views: 1341

Re: Passport problems

I booked a non refundable £2k holiday yesterday, to leave on Saturday for the EU. Today, after seeing the BBC website, never having heard the 10 year rule, I checked my passport and despite having plenty of time left it was 10 years and 3 months since issue. I then checked the Urgent 1 Day passport...
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:40 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Passport problems
Replies: 47
Views: 1341

Re: Passport problems

The reason the Passport Dates Rules are not promoted is down to the blanket media avoidance of the B word. BREXIT. The irony being the rules - as were allowed while in the EU actually still stand to travel to many other Countries, just now no longer to the EU. The change in UK passport standing has...
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:32 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

Devils_Advocate wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:30 pm
The money is in your bank account and your bank statements would be the paper trail.
I didn't realise internet banks still sent out paper statements. I know credit card companies don't if you let them get away with it.
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Policy on taking babies on Turf Moor
Replies: 86
Views: 2126

Re: Policy on taking babies on Turf Moor

Well offer your opinion then. Do you think it's wise to take babies onto football matches. I can't think of 1 single benefit the baby will get out of it not at that age. 1. It gets used to loud noises before it's old enough to object. (Obviously if it cries like a baby it will be removed.) 2. Like ...
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:19 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

Getting bored of this. Yes, it includes 5 GB per month, which would be well ample for your banking and ticketing needs. Anyhow, on reflection, I now think you should stick to your rubber finger and continue to ignore stuff that makes life easier. The second sentence isn't really necessary, is it? O...
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:14 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

Walton wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:32 pm
Lebara have a non-contract deal for unlimited calls and messages with 5gb of data for £1.98pm for the first 3 months, then £4.95pm thereafter, working out around £4.20pm for a 12 month period.

They do cheaper deals as well
Brill. How much for the handset?
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

Bare minium of £120 per year? You can get a sim card with unlimited text and minutes for £4.00 per month. Anyway, I'll leave you to it. Nearly every post you've made on this thread has been massively ill-informed. Smartphone for £4 per month? You're sure that's internet access, not just phone calls...
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:32 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

Sounds like you're making life needlessly hard work for yourself - and all because you think there's a possibility that someone will gain access to your phone by using a cloned fingerprint grafted onto a rubber-finger or some other nonsense. Hardly. It is possible to own a smartphone without puttin...
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:19 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

You live in a different world to me I haven't found anywhere yet that absolutely refuses to deal with a smartphoneless person. Some American sports are getting dangerously close, though. I'll be at a Chicago Fire game in early May where the protocol for non-Smartphone possessors is to go to the box...
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:15 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Policy on taking babies on Turf Moor
Replies: 86
Views: 2126

Re: Policy on taking babies on Turf Moor

It seems to be taken for granted that all babies cry, all the time. Can this be proved?
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

ClaretTony wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:07 pm
I'm sorry but I'd be lost without my phone
You can carry a map too. ;)

My mobile phone is just that - a phone, not a smartphone - which means that I don't need to carry it. Which is just as well, because every time I want to use it I find I've left it switched on and the battery is flat.
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:58 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Policy on taking babies on Turf Moor
Replies: 86
Views: 2126

Re: Policy on taking babies on Turf Moor

ŽižkovClaret wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:50 pm
Have to agree tbh. I'm not sure a noisy football match is a place for a small child.
Surely that would depend on the child.
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:45 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Policy on taking babies on Turf Moor
Replies: 86
Views: 2126

Re: Policy on taking babies on Turf Moor

I think it's selfish personally. I don't wish to listen to a screaming brat next to me, especially if the game isn't all that at the time either. Get a babysitter. If the baby is screaming every week, then they almost certainly won't keep bringing it, and will take it home early. That's how parents...
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:21 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Policy on taking babies on Turf Moor
Replies: 86
Views: 2126

Re: Policy on taking babies on Turf Moor

fidelcastro wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:16 pm
Why on earth would you want to take a tiny baby to a football match?
So that by the time they are old enough to object to going, it will have become a fact of life and they won't realise they had a choice!
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

Fretters wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:00 am
It's more the not having to carry a wallet around with me that I like.
On the other hand, with a card or cash you don't have to carry a phone. Even better. :D
by dsr
Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:23 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Season tickets next season
Replies: 714
Views: 42418

Re: Season tickets next season

Ightenhill_Claret wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:30 am
Was told back end of last week to expect the biggest increases to be for U18/21 and senior tickets. And talk of a 25% increase on hospitality prices!
Hospitality prices went up 25% last year. Surely they don't expect people to return if they do it again?
by dsr
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:35 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
Replies: 53
Views: 2395

Re: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!

BurnleyFC wrote:
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:17 pm
Don’t believe everything you read.

It was Bill Gates.
That's what those vaccine microchips were for.
by dsr
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:03 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

If there is it has nothing to do with google pay and fingerprint recognition. Your fingerprints are still on your phone case regardless of if you are using it to unlock your phone and so this has no baring on what internet fraud could take place following them stealing your phone and cloning your f...
by dsr
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:59 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

I’m not really sure where you’re going. Someone could sit behind me on the train and see me enter my phone password. Ditto my PIN number at the cash machine. Someone could beat me up, steal my house keys and rob all the money from my house (about £1.27). Nothing is foolproof, but I would say finger...
by dsr
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:54 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

No, you can't just scan someones fingerprint on a random device and link to some remote bank account via google pay. Thank you, but that's not really what I am wondering what might happen. I was speculating that there may be sophisticated methods of internet fraud. I wasn't assuming that all crimin...
by dsr
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:41 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Truro City - fixture congestion and ground (pitch) problems
Replies: 42
Views: 1499

Re: Truro City - fixture congestion and ground (pitch) problems

And after another postponement yesterday, Colne's last week of the season has matches on Saturday Monday Tuesday Thursday Saturday. So still room for two more!
by dsr
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:36 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

But you said ‘Steal a phone, and if it has a good fingerprint anywhere on the case, you're in’, which suggests it’s quite a simple task and a valid security concern which it obviously isn’t. If someone stole my phone I think there’s a good chance I would be able to lock it before someone cloned my ...
by dsr
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:32 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: James Trafford England call up
Replies: 194
Views: 8003

Re: James Trafford England call up

Well one has to assume that he has some potential to play in league one because he's said to have had a decent season, but there's one hell of a gap between league one and Premier league. And also a hell of a gap between England u21 and premier league imo. As lot's have said, if vk and the recruitm...
by dsr
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:24 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

Nonsense, biometric data like anything can be hacked but the idea that anyone who robs a phone has the capability to use a fingerprint on the case to get into it is rubbish. No doubt its possible but it will very much be the rare exception that the thief can do this themselves and by the time a thi...
by dsr
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:22 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

Rileybobs wrote:
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:51 pm
How exactly would you get into someone’s phone with a fingerprint from the case?
No idea, not my field. It is, however, possible to make a rubber finger with any given fingerprint on it, if you have the print. Any suggestion that it can't be done and never will be able to be done, is unlikely.
by dsr
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:33 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Google Contactless Pay
Replies: 61
Views: 1715

Re: Google Contactless Pay

Steal a phone, and if it has a good fingerprint anywhere on the case, you're in. One worry about fingerprint technology is that once the thieves have it (and they will, because no system is foolproof) then you're a bit stuffed. you can change your PIN number, but you can't change your fingerprints. ...
by dsr
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
Replies: 53
Views: 2395

Re: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!

Quickenthetempo wrote:
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:28 pm
Would a ship that large not take a straight line to the gap it was going in for at least half a mile?
So if they lost power, it would still go on the right course?
No. Oceans have currents which would tend to push a ship off its course as soon as it loses power.
by dsr
Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:28 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: James Trafford England call up
Replies: 194
Views: 8003

Re: James Trafford England call up

I really don't see where some people see potential, I can't. All aspects of he's game are weak, I've tried to see positives but there are seriously none there imo, the only thing I see is that he's reflexes are quite good most of the time, but it's not always consistent. Maybe it will change in a y...
by dsr
Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Season tickets next season
Replies: 714
Views: 42418

Re: Season tickets next season

The Shire Claret wrote:
Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:27 pm
My Bad, just seen it all now
What have you seen? Have the prices been announced?
by dsr
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!
Replies: 53
Views: 2395

Re: Baltimore Bridge has fallen down!

FCBurnley wrote:
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:47 pm
911 mark 2 ?
Do they commit terrorist actions in the dead of night with no-one watching and relatively few people killed?

It's a cargo ship that lost power and crashed.
by dsr
Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:15 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: James Trafford England call up
Replies: 194
Views: 8003

Re: James Trafford England call up

PremierLeagueClass wrote:
Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:03 pm
I can’t remember the last time I went on the club website for news.
I check this website. I suspect most of us do. It's a lot more up-to-date and professionally run than the official club website.
by dsr
Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:04 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Truro City - fixture congestion and ground (pitch) problems
Replies: 42
Views: 1499

Re: Truro City - fixture congestion and ground (pitch) problems

South West Claret. wrote:
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:40 pm
Not the point dsr.
Fair comment.

However, the price of houses in Cornwall does seem to suggest that more people than not think it's a good place to live. Hospitals and football notwithstanding!
by dsr
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:30 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Season tickets next season
Replies: 714
Views: 42418

Re: Season tickets next season

ClaretTony wrote:
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:52 pm
That's absolutely spot on - last increase was back in 2017 and they have kept them at the same for next season. They also provide free coach transport to every away game.
2007?
by dsr
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:18 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: James Trafford England call up
Replies: 194
Views: 8003

Re: James Trafford England call up

You are way off the mark here. I don’t dislike Trafford and I have never said anything abusive about him on this board unlike some other posters. I just don’t think he is a very good goalkeeper at present and our manager has made a massive error of judgement in keeping him in the side up until the ...
by dsr
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:13 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Truro City - fixture congestion and ground (pitch) problems
Replies: 42
Views: 1499

Re: Truro City - fixture congestion and ground (pitch) problems

South West Claret. wrote:
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:08 pm
For instance they only have one General Hospital.
Is it a good general hospital? The question would arise, is it better to live 50 miles away from your hospital but it's a good one, or to live in the East Lancashire Hospital Trust area?
by dsr
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:20 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: James Trafford England call up
Replies: 194
Views: 8003

Re: James Trafford England call up

The James Trafford appreciation society must have been absolutely creaming themselves when this news broke. I think that to sneer at people because they happen to support a current Burnley player is poor form. Maybe you don't llke one or more of the players representing our club, but even so, don't...
by dsr
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:11 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Truro City - fixture congestion and ground (pitch) problems
Replies: 42
Views: 1499

Re: Truro City - fixture congestion and ground (pitch) problems

How much does it roughly cost to have an artificial pitch installed? With the weather getting more extreme it seems to be becoming more of a problem for non league clubs. Would make sense for some of the tv money in the game to be siphoned down the leagues for that purpose I doubt the increase in p...
by dsr
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:07 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Truro City - fixture congestion and ground (pitch) problems
Replies: 42
Views: 1499

Re: Truro City - fixture congestion and ground (pitch) problems

Colne are the same. 11 league games and a cup semi-final to play, Mon-Wed-Sat-Mon-Wed-Sat-Mon-Wed-Sat-Tue-Thur-Sat. Don't know where the possible cup final might fit in!
by dsr
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:59 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Turf Moor Parking
Replies: 6
Views: 1325

Re: Turf Moor Parking

Does anybody have any details on who to contact to enquire about match day parking behind the JH stand and how much it costs? Looking for next season as my dad recently had a heart attack and finds it difficult to walk from our usual parking spot so looking for somewhere closer Another option could...
by dsr
Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:48 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Wife carrying race (only in the America of course)
Replies: 15
Views: 945

Re: Wife carrying race (only in the America of course)

When you say "only in America", I take it that you haven't read the bit about it being a Scandinavian tradition since the 1800's? :?
by dsr
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:56 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Season tickets next season
Replies: 714
Views: 42418

Re: Season tickets next season

Superjohnnyfrancis wrote:
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:45 pm
Are you sure about that? Never heard that before.
It's normal tax rules. If you make a contract to supply any service, the taxable income is based on when the service is provided, not when you raise the invoice or get the cash.
by dsr
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:33 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Season tickets next season
Replies: 714
Views: 42418

Re: Season tickets next season

They might be waiting until the new tax year to do a tax write off or something. If they get a load of income they’ll have to pay tax on it before the deadline. That’s assuming they use the normal tax schedule. Any money that comes in re. next season won't be taxable until next season. It makes no ...
by dsr
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:16 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Princess of Wales
Replies: 82
Views: 3461

Re: Princess of Wales

yTib wrote:
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:14 am
justified by whom? the court of popular opinion? the sun or the mail?

i'm sure you'd feel different if you had over 14 billion tiktok nonsense posts about your business.
Either you've misunderstood my post or I've misunderstood yours. NO justification, I said.
by dsr
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:14 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: PSA Testing Saturday 23rd. Help please.
Replies: 42
Views: 2106

Re: PSA Testing Saturday 23rd. Help please.

They've sent me two emails with this info. (I don't usually have any problems negotiating websites and downloading stuff) PLEASE PRINT YOUR BOOKING FORM : IT IS ESSENTIAL YOU PRINT AND BRING A PAPER COPY OF YOUR BOOKING FORM WITH YOU AS THIS WILL NEED TO GO WITH YOUR BLOOD SAMPLE SO THAT THE LABORA...
by dsr
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:08 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Princess of Wales
Replies: 82
Views: 3461

Re: Princess of Wales

Completely agree that she needs privacy. Let's hope that this also extends to her life when she's recovered. Can't have it both ways surely. Surely you can have it both ways? Not just members of the royal family, but all people, may want to be treated differently when they are seriously ill from wh...
by dsr
Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:32 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Burnley away - 1970's quiz question
Replies: 21
Views: 970

Re: Burnley away - 1970's quiz question

"Follow Blackpool Home and Away" is a good clue as to the opponents and ground, unless it's a massive trick question. As for the players, I'll start with number 7 - either Brian Flynn, or the mascot forgot to leave the pitch.
by dsr
Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:29 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: The Royals.
Replies: 46
Views: 3356

Re: The Royals.

As for the point about it’s better for royal family to be “head of state” than some of the PMs we have had. Whilst in theory this may be ideologically correct - in practice the head of state is powerless in terms of any decisions that matter. The PM is effectively the head of state - their powers a...
by dsr
Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:20 pm
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Club or country
Replies: 59
Views: 1955

Re: Club or country

The best thing about those cheap little Made in China flags is that I can post photos of my car decked out in them for my three thousand+ friends to see on Facebook. I know they litter our streets, roads, and especially the motorways, but just think of the joys they bring. The best thing about thos...
by dsr
Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:42 am
Forum: The Bee Hole End
Topic: Notts Forest: do you now have hope we will survive?
Replies: 94
Views: 5415

Re: Notts Forest: do you now have hope we will survive?

People who make up these “tables if VAR worked” seem to forget to include decisions where it went for us such as WHU away. Edit - in fact did it even get used for that penalty they should have had at the end? Yes, it was used, an in accordance with the current rules of handball the penalty was not ...