If you haven't got the dark mode available on your phone/tablet/ PC which is under Settings, Chrome has an extension.

Still there from the last time. ;-)

Udder cream should work well.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Battles-Udder-Cream-400-g/dp/B00CUBSO6O

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Well done you - worth the effort to check

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…and another claim today!

I would have a good moan about it, but it's not the weekend. ;-)

I used to call Indi a little tick, because she was little and fat and bloated when I first got her.

I thought the black puppies looked like tadpoles with their round bodies and little tails!

😂 @Kenny b

@ kb, Chuckle did i.. :-) :-) :-)

I didn't realise we needed to let Em know. I'll need to do that so that I can see them to.

@Beth. Finally got around to asking Em to send me the puppy photos. Love the one where they are all dining from their little bowls. Cute! 🐾🐾🐾

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I’ve clicked on over 30 PureSpectrum ones today with the usual result! I like to get them out of the way so I can spot surveys from other sources more easily!😂

Still waiting and ready to spot……..

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Trayistats ask if you want to try another survey, usually anyway. I say 'no' and get 5p.

I have found Trayistats pretty good at completing , whereas PS do screenouts nearly every time

It's pure spectrum going to Trayistats that is doing this, happened to me a couple of times today. plus umpteen times over the last week too.

But I just carry on rather than complain.

Possibly they're just whinging (repeatedly I agree) & don't want an explanation 🤔

Maybe I better email this member since they are clearly not coming back and checking the replies to their comments. (Done)

Makes the fourth time this has been mentioned, and Em has explained at least three times already.

So did Gibraltar (but you can't use them) and the Isle of Man. The 3 you can use are in the British Isles

Yep, its Guernsey. Even though, as a Crown dependency, its technically not part of the UK it adopted Royal Mail's system. (Jersey did the same.)

Guernsey ???.. ;-)

Lol 63. That's happened to me in the past, I suspect that's why they make toilet seats with a cut-out at the front. You're not likely to see those in ladies public toilets...or at least you wouldn't have done years ago.

Tell it like it is, Kat! They’re probably sitting up above, (or down below) sticking pins in a doll of you. Wait till you meet them on the ‘other side’

Doesn’t seem to be any love lost there Kat. 🤦‍♀️

Ouch!

@A Nick Name reminded me of the thick bit of carpet that Nan had attached to the top of the loo lid by two straps of knicker elastic. It was just thick enough to stop the seat staying up on its own, but it stayed up just long enough to make you think you didn't need to hold it up while having a stand-up pee. Halfway through and mid-stream, BANG! Down it would come.

If you can imagine how tall I would have been at about 5 or 6 years old, I was lucky not to receive a life changing injury.

Why anybody would want all that stuff in a bathroom I don't know. Clutter & fripperies are a disincentive to cleaning. My late MIL & her blessedly late daughter collected crap like magnets. Looking around their dust & crud encrusted home was like looking at a prize shelf at a coconut shy, only tackier. I shudder to think just what must haves they'd have bought from Temu, whilst the final demands from all & sundry were piling up in the 'ornate replica resin postbox' wobbling on the gatepost.

Those two didn't even have the redeeming feature of being pleasant!

Go back far enough and the Victorians put frilly covers on table legs, because LEGS were immoral and Not To Be Mentioned, let alone seen.

I've only just seen this ad. I clicked through to find out more about it - it has a matching fabric-covered toilet seat as well.

As Jaffa says, a hygiene nightmare!

(And, having clicked on it, I'm going to be bombarded wih similar ads for who knows how long)

They used to be the height of fashion. I never understood why.

There was another knitted lady with a foam underskirt which you soaked in cold water and placed over your milk bottles to keep the milk cold.

Barrie you are just confirming all the worst thoughts I had!

Nick this is even worse.

I just saw that advert & thought "If that was in our house, I'd deliberately urinate on it".

Jaffa. I'm guessing you weren't around in the 70's then? The seat covers were all the rage back then. You'd get the set of three, seat cover, floor mat to sit around the base of the loo and the small mat for beside the bath. And of course if you had those you had to have the lady who covered your loo roll with her skirt.

An aunt of mine had one. It was years before I learnt its purpose. I suppose it kept dust off the roll.

We had one of those dolls with a knitted dress too, never used it in the end as guests could never find it 🧻. Why would anyone be offended by seeing the roll?

I see that too. Reminds me of the loo roll "hider" in my Nan's house, a little doll with a huge crocheted flamenco dress so that nobody got embarrassed about having to look at the spare loo roll. Except this one covers the entire bog.

You mean.that one with red top & white tassles? I was wondering what it was at first, & what sin we committed to materialise that abomination.

If you're new, welcome to our community.

Keep checking and never give up hope! Any active account could win at any time.

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Best of luck, Sirsasana !!! "eat bananas"

@Dekko, that really is a complete lie.

Hi all.. Thanks again for the responses - Em, I’m also hoping that the action scenes and the music will keep me going, along with the Red Bull…🤞

LLAP 🖖!

And don’t forget the older you are the less sleep you need…….allegedly!😴

Ah, all nighters, fond memories.... sorry, TMI! 🫣You're talking about films. 🤣🤣🤣

We did a few all nighters when I was at University, don't remember what series of films they were though

The music and the fight scenes will keep you awake, I'm sure.

Trekker, I would expect several calls of nature with several cans of Red Bull involved. It's powerful stuff though. On one of my long drives I had a bottle of similar stuff ready for motorway stretches without exits or services to provide a chance to rest. Csikiedit also drank some (to keep me company) and after a while she wondered why our baby wasn't sleeping. Breastfeeding passed on the stimulant.

I used to do all night elvis movies.10 pm till 7 in the morning the ABC cinema had a huge screen…great memories from the 80s

I too did the Star Trek marathon at the Odeon Leiceter Square, but back then it was only the first four movies.

I think I got a tactical nap in during The Slow Motion Picture (the first film) so as to be alert for the three that were worth watching.

Thanks everyone for the encouragement - I’m certainly going to try my best (there may be several cans of Red Bull involved…!). The show starts at 10pm on the 25 April (which means I’ll be able to check the 9pm Stackpot…👍), and we get out at 10am the following day, so 🤞for the 9am…! I’ve booked an end row seat, so hopefully if there are any, ahem…, “calls of nature”, I won’t disturb anybody if I get up to answer them…😉! I’ll post an update after the event - whatever happens..🥱!

LLAP 🖖!

Vue cinema at Livingston just hosted them too. The cinema features comfortable,, recliner seating for the long runtime. The total running time for all three movies is approximately 11.4 hours (682 minutes).

The Two Towers Extended Edition (2002) Friday 6th Feb, is a 3-hour 55-minute version of the film, adding 44 minutes of new scenes, enhanced special effects, and music. Key additions include Eowyn singing at Theodred's funeral, more developed scenes with Faramir, Boromir flashbacks, extended Ent scenes, and the appearance of Huorns at Helm's Deep.

The Return of the King (Extended Edition): Saturday 7 Feb: 16:00

The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition): Sunday 8 Feb: 13:40

Don't forget the matchsticks to prop the old eyelids open. Hope you stay awake to enjoy them.

I still imagine driving half way across Europe at 70 (years of age, not mph - average closer to 70 kph) as I did a few times twenty plus years ago. Not sure now that I would be safe driving all through the night.

Give it a whirl and challenge yourself to last the distance.

We did a cinema overnight marathon of Friday The 13th parts 2 to 6 (or 7?) back in my youth. No idea why they skipped number 1 though.

Anyway, we definitely started to nod off but once the local gangs started to fight in the toilets between each movie, we were *definitely* awake!

It's also freaky to exit the next morning into blinding daylight.

Go for it you might surprise yourself!

I wouldn’t mind doing that, too - but then it’s so much easier to sit at home and watch the DVDs with coffee, cake, my own toilet, rewind if I fall asleep… no, I’ll give it a miss.

Good Luck, I'm sure you can do it! 👍

Wow I think this is great. Why not - I'd be up for it if I had the chance and I am a few years older. Of course you will make it, you are a spring chicken!

Go for it T and have a good time. Keep hydrated, but not to hydrated if you know what i mean!!.. LLAP..

You're welcome Majs.

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Trustpilot can be quirky like that.

Congratz.

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Well Done Majs, spend it wisely, till your next win...

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Congratulations Majs..👍

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Well done Majs...

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He spoke to his heart (bypassed the ears).

Should have used spell check!!

The Lord say INTO Moses?

😂@ Kenny b

Enver, big square nose?

Did The Lord apologise to Aaron for giving him a big square nose?

:-)

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@ImReallyAnElf - don't feel bad, exactly the same here. 😉🤣

Hadn't heard it before - it took me a moment I'm ashamed to admit, then it did have me giggling.

:-) :-)

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Old but never ceases to amuse.

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Stayed for a few months in my friend James's house built long ago on fen. Very few right angles. Some time later a mutual friend asked me to sort out the legs on a bed she'd been given as it would not stand level. Hardly needed to ask if the bed had come from James.

:-) :-).

That's actually not bad!

Except I bought a corner shelf to to put up in my Westbury built house and discovered that the corner of the room is about 95 degrees!

You’re often told to stand in the corner so you should be hot most of the time😜

Not sure when they're cleared down though. 🤔

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Feliway? I’ll get in trouble for you. 😊

Beth8it! Glad the vets went well x We went to the vets today with our 2 new Kittens Maine Coons brothers) for their 2nd jabs. Luckily there was enough loose skin to inject into it didnt look like they felt anything bless. Same as you we came away with worming medicine . . oh the joys hey ;) Weve had them a week now and one of the resident cats has already taken to playing with them and eating with them, its lovely to watch. We did do belt and braces and bought a calming spray (it wasnt cheap but wow it seems to have worked really well, weve tried a few in the past, around op time or new additions etc but this one is def the best. Even our quiet/shy girl now sits on the stairs to watch them zooming about, which is a first. Apparently it can be used for horses as well as the usual dogs, bunnies etc, not sure if im allowed to mention its name, sorry)

Wish I could have seen the scene at the vets!

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Edit - Believe it or not, that's a 'thumbs up' emoji - not that you can tell very easily after the update 🙄

Yes, Jet and Jasper are two on the list, although my brother had a black lab called Jet, and I feel a bit unsure about ‘pinching’ another dog’s name. Might do, but it’s not a name you can shorten or lengthen.

May already have been proposed, but if you're going down the precious and semi-precious stone route, how about Jet for one of the black ones?

Mad- I am NOT calling one Banana, no matter how much you nag me! Ruby seems to be sticking with the biggest female, the yellow one, and I would like to rename Woody for the other yellow one but can’t find anything better that really appeals. Either Jade or Ivy for the little green-collared bitch, Amber for the orange-coloured one, maybe Jasper for the purple-coloured one? Not really sure. I like Storm, or Shadow, but think it is really up to the new owners. Not very original after all the great suggestions you all gave, but until their personalities come out a bit more, it’s easier to just give ‘colour’ names, like Indi (Indigo).

They have just started trying to play now - one or two chewing the others’ ears and tails, sometimes one will jump on another and flatten it. I gave them their first wormer dose today - don’t think I am very popular now. Two more days to go.

Are you still thinking about names Beth !!!.. ;-)

They’re lovely. 💚

I showed my granddaughter the photos and she wants to go and steal one (or six) 😂

Glad to hear all went well and all puppies returned home!

Em, I can see all new messages now, so it's all good 👍.

Thank you Anonymous for helping Poppy.

Poppy, I hope a cache clear worked.

Thanks Anonymous, I'll give it a go! ☺️

Might be worth clearing your cache and/or cookies for this site then restarting your device.

That has solved many issues on other sites over the years. 😆

Thanks Anonymous. I tried that and it didn't work but I'll keep trying 👍

Most recent comment was 11 minutes ago.

This happened on my iPad yesterday on all the pages comments. I logged out and back in again and everything was back to normal. 😊

FORGIVE CAPS PMP.

A NICK NAME,

I NEARLY POSTED THIS ON THE OTHER THREAD AS IT WAS 1 OF MY FATHER’S SIGNATURE JOKES IN HIS REPERTOIRE.

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This evening I have done the usual £1 survey, which took a fair bit longer than the 10 mins stated, but went through OK (Local, National and Global affairs). I then got another- £1 for political questions (Pure Spectrum, I think), spent about the same time on it and suddenly got screened out. I don't know how far through it was, so won't bother Admin with it, but I agree it is a real pain to get through most of the questions and then get dumped. I know they may get filled up at any time, but it is infuriating!

As the external surveys are advertised across many sites, there could be many people completing the surveys at once, potentially hundreds, and it is possible that your demographic bracket could reach its quota at any point, while you are in the middle of the survey or even at the end.

Their system wants the same amount of responses from each bracket for a fair comparison. It's not uncommon to have multiple people from the same bracket be coming to the end of the survey at the same time, so you'll have multiple panellists currently answering but say the bracket only has 3 completions left for the bracket to become full, therefore not everyone can be a successful completion and be rewarded by their system.

However, we will always help those who reach 80% or beyond.

Demographics and screen outs is just the nature of market research I'm afraid.

Its being redirected from one survey to another, to another, etc which I want to focus on and try to prevent. If I can.

Yes, I'm not sure it will have an impact either Fubsy, but I am trying to think about what I can do to provide the community good customer service. With any other companies and complaints, after you receive so many, the company knows that it is a problem which needs addressing. But with external surveys we've just been accepting the status quo for years, adding to our PMP member's bonuses and doing nothing more. I feel like I should be doing more. Whether it helps or not.

Your screen recording idea is a good point, but isn't it a bit much to say to members "before you click/tap on an external survey, please start your screen recorder on the off chance it might redirect you on to a second survey upon completion or screen out instead of bringing you back to us."

It might feel a waste of time for some if they have to keep deleting recordings that haven't captured evidence of redirections on instead of back.

But if you want to give it a try, please feel free to do so. We can use We Transfer, Drop Box, Google Drive etc to share the recordings with Lucid, Prodege & Pure Spectrum.

To all who are willing, please do write me some testimonials and I will let them know how members feel about the situation and see what happens.

Em, yes, I would be willing to write a testimonial along the lines you suggested, should you decide to go ahead with this, and would be happy for you to share my email address with them. I must admit I’m sceptical that it would be enough to get them to change their systems etc, but it’s worth a try!

Incidentally, in relation to your point about the difficulty in getting screenshots due to the speed of change, it’s worth remembering that members who are a bit tech savvy could record a video of their survey activity instead of just trying to take a single screenshot. That would then clearly illustrate the issue. However, the resulting video file might be too big to send to you as an email attachment, so if you were to ask people to do that, you might need to ask your techies to set up a means of transferring large files.

In Windows 11 you can start the screen recorder by pressing the Windows key + shift + R. Android and iPhones also have built in screen recording apps.

I've complained several times about SaySofor Good mining data & continually siguing into another survey with no redirect to PMP. When I see SaySo I normally bail asap. There's one site which asks if you want to try another survey & I always click no thanks & get 5p. Which is much to be preferred over the SaySo model (con?)

They don't tell us that their tech is basic. It's just my hunch that they've probably needed an update or a full system overhaul for years but they don't have the money to do it. They only do "patchwork" because that is cheaper and also a full update might require having their site down for a time, which will impact revenue. So it might cost them to do the update and prevent money coming in while it's happening, perhaps. But it's just my theory.

Our reputation should be separate to that of the external survey companies because we are a free prize draw giveaway, not a survey site and we help those who reach 80%. We are generous. We are not like them.

I think its a great thought and idea Em. I credit you for thinking it will/may make a difference, but as I've said before these Survey companies are telling you one thing at PMP, that the technology they use is really basic and old school. Yet with this really basic technology they somehow they manage to be able to screen us out, redirect, identify false/supposed false responses, use AI in the questions, harvest data, mislead on timings of surveys, allow people to get all the way to 80/90% completion and screen them out. This is the 21st Century these companies wouldn’t exist based on their explanation of basic technology. So for want of a better phrase ‘They are paying you (PMP) lip service’. I appreciate you need the revenue to pay to run the site which is why it must be really difficult, but at the end of the day users aren’t going to blame the survey companies because it is PMP who is hosting the facility to generate the revenue. It is your reputation that is going to take the hit. I’d like to think majority of users appreciate the wonderful site, but it is by adding new users that the site will grow, not the long term members who get the full picture of what its all about. I’d be happy to contribute / give testimonial as it is my biggest and only frustration with this site.

We already pass reports on about Technical issues when members take the time to screenshot, email us and grant us permission. Technical issues have to be an individual thing, rather than an overall complaint.

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/156-technical-issues-with-external-surveys

There is no point passing anything on about demographics questions as they will just state that it's the nature of market research.

This is just focusing on the constant redirections.

We complete surveys purely for the rewards, certainly NOT because we find surveys an interesting & relaxing passtime.

It is even more frustrating when you complete the said survey (which is usually longer than stated), & then get told you were screened out, or redirected to a second survey where there is maybe a screenout & further surveys to do for nowt, or an invitation to sign up to some site, before being returned to PMP for the stated (usually small) credit, unsuitable tickbox answers with no opt out, or a programming error leaving you with no option but to close the window.

I occasionally get frustrated with filling the endless demographics on every survey too, so I can go months without trying any. It would also be helpful if all demographics were autofill & on the first page so filled with one click.

This sounds like a good idea Em, I will write something and email you.

There's always Amber for the gemstone theme.

Nice collection of sweethearts.

Saffron's a great name, would be ideal for the one I was going to call Ruby! We will have another ideas-session when my friend's daughter comes back to see them.

Madd - still No.

Great picture of the puppies enjoying their noms…😋!

LLAP 🖖!

Like Saffron.

FORGIVE CAPS PMP.

BETH8IT,

HOW ABOUT SAFFRON OR CITRINE FOR THE ORANGE COLLARED 1?

PLEASED THEY’RE ALL THRIVING 🥰

Oh just too cute.

Lovely picture! Thanks very much Beth and Em ☺️

Thanks, Forwarded it, can see them all clearly now.

Great pic Beth. Now you'll find out what personality each one has .... the bossy one, the greedy one, the quiet one etc.

Beth has provided us another photo of them eating from their bowls, it's now on its way to the 20 people who wanted to see the puppies.

My goodness, imagine having six toddlers throwing their food around ..😮

I can just picture the food fun!

Banana, Banana, Banana ?????.. ;-)

No need for TV in your house, Beth! As an unmarried mother, Indi is doing really well. I hope Daddy has been to see the puppies.

I love hearing about the updates on your adorable puppies, but I think you should be careful about the name of the yellow one (woody) as I'm sure Maddadof would have a great suggestion 🤣