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Splodges incident on board british airways a320 lgw-inn

 Seat 1f on british airways. Medium sized brown splodge in middle of seat. Came off with some rubbing from cleaning cloth. Similar white splodge down side, ditto. Smaller white splodges didn’t come off. Will assume they’re like dry paint and ignore. Behind seat cushion is more grime and trash. Steward said they have “cleaners”. As in, he did scare quotes with his fingers as he said “cleaners”. And, looking into the cockpit, they don’t even make the pilots shave any more. British Airways in 2026. It still says “to fly to serve” on the side of the plane lol”. Can’t add the screenshot that’s on my phone right now because “can’t access your Google account”. Even though logged in to Google account from multiple apps on phone, including this browser. And it gives me no way to “access Google account”, just says can’t.
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airline in unable to check passenger in shocker

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 Bought ticker on BA web site.  Every time I try to check in online, I get this page: " We are experiencing high demand on ba.com at the moment".  The text doesn't indicate whether it's just going to take a long time to load, or whether it's just not going to work.  But from the fact it's a static page, and no re-loading is going on, this is a dead end.  That's it.  A major airline in 2026.  This is what happens when you try to check in:
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the "we don't have change" scam: Oxford Tube (Stagecoach)

You can use cash, as long as we can keep the change, seems to be the new push for the cashless society. Case in point: Oxford Tube, cost 25.50, gave 30 GBP, "we don't have change, have this scrip instead, see at end of coach ride". At end of coach ride, no they didn't have change. On return journey later that day: no change, "check at end".  At end: no change. So, due to Stagecoach policy, they got to keep the 4.50 GBP, and I ended up with a useless ticket saying "4.50" on it. What would happen if a customer tried paying for a coach ride with their own scrip?
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vodafone 500 internal server error on password change

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Signed up to Vodafone UK contract. Got email with username and tmp password, saying I had to log in with it to complete. Did that. Got asked to set new password. Got 500 Internal Server Error: This must be a "user journey" that happens millions of times every year.
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vodafone data SIM: APN and user / password required

I've just set up a Fritzbox 5G router (the 6850) with a Vodafone UK pay monthly data SIM. It would be nice if you could insert the SIM, connect to the wifi, and you are on the internet.  That didn't happen.  The "power / mobile" LED did go solid green, indicating the router thought it had mobile data, but it didn't.  And why are those two things sharing an LED? So I connected to the management interface, and went through the setup wizard.  I had bought the router in Switzerland.  I selected UK.  It didn't have networks listed, so just chose "other" or something.  Didn't set APN or network username / password.  Some reboots and more config wizard until it was finished. Got no internet, so looked up vodafone info, found that APN should be wap.vodafone.co.uk, username "wap" and password "wap".  Set these.  Then I had internet.  In 2025. This is config that shouldn't exist.  There is no point to any of these settings.  It shou...
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USB C PD outlet used to power monitor

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The Samsung U32J590QR, and quite a few other monitors, take a 19V DC power supply, and come with a power brick.  This is annoying, until one notices that 19V is the same as laptops, and that one can easily get USB C PD to laptop DC barrel connector power adapters, probably 20V which is close enough, and that one's favourite mains sockets with USB C PD outlets can deliver power that will run the monitor. Nice.
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stopping Smeg cooker clock flashing

A Smeg cooker came with a house.  It doesn't have a model number visible.  After a power cut, the clock flashes. I tried pressing the 5 buttons on the front, which are labelled with hieroglyphs.  Singly, then mashing them.  Still flashing. You have to press the second-from-left and third-from-left buttons together to stop it flashing.  Apparently, these buttons are called "timer cook" (hieroglyph: bucket with wibbles) and "end" (hieroglyph:  bucket with the wibbles crossed out).  Then you can use + and - to set the time, if you want.
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