Benjamin Cooke

Professional Coach (ICF ACC, Scrum Alliance CTC) and sometime musician. Loves synthpop, style, #Agile, technology, PetShopBoys and my N7/N19 neighbourhood

[Benjamin Cooke @rainingBen]

@tracey_thorn Phew! I think I said this when I bumped into you in Hampstead once. didn't want to distract from your day but was great to see you.

[Benjamin Cooke @rainingBen]

@PoliticsVeteran @jeremycorbyn I've written about domestic UK issues, problems with the economy that have been created by government ignorance and even about the dreadful treatment of minorities in Chechnya. Nothing. I'm half expecting he might start to reply now its an election period.

[Benjamin Cooke @rainingBen]

@PoliticsVeteran @jeremycorbyn Its tricky bring in the constituency when there's such high regard for his JC's name but few with the experience of actually trying to engage on an issue that, I assume must be outside of a handful of his pet causes.

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@alex__ross @jeremycorbyn I last had a reply in the 2015 election period where I raised concern on housing quality and the need for reform of the rental market. I've written 6 times since about different things and he's just not engaged.

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@virginmedia VM cancelled the appointment this morning as the issue is a network problem. I already knew this but your agent insisted we book it.

You've sent me this now. It's not fixed at all but your website says there's nothing is wrong. What's actually going on with the listed issue?!

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Day 3 of Schroedingers outage. @virginmedia sends texts telling me the engineer is both on their way and has been there today, while their website tells me there's nothing wrong. Connection still pretty much dead here and communications about it are pathetic.

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@virginmedia Thanks for the reply. Bafflingly your colleague on the phone has insisted I book an engineer for Friday afternoon. Doesn't seem to know much about this issue despite me sharing the ID. Still no idea why your website denied there's an issue.

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@rexthedog1980 watching last week's totp rerun, great to see you on there as JX 😎

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@GergelyOrosz I use justwatch to check where a film is available and whether it's included in any streaming services. I agree it's a pain though. https://t.co/yB54u4q7PF

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@thatbloodyMikey Did you watch the doc about canon films that came out a few years ago?

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@phil_marriott It is a pretty good listen, once it arrives

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@KidKasio I never realised how much that chorus strains the voice

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@sainsburys This is bonkers. Its as if your checkout staff routinely broke your biscuits up while scanning them. You need to do something.

[Benjamin Cooke @rainingBen]

Hi @sainsburys getting fed up of orders delivered from your Haringey store arriving with the crisps smashed up because they routinely pack heavy bottles in the same crate. Spoke on the phone to store just now but they just speak in cliches and no connection to issue.

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@sainsburys Today 2 bags were burst open and left broken crisps on my floors and over crates underneath. Driver said many customers have same issue and he feeds this back but those who do the packing dont care.

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@brokenbottleboy It's easy to play but hard to stay awake while you're playing it, and trying to work out where we are in the song.

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@brokenbottleboy I'm a huge Bowie fan of many years but think Heroes is nowhere near his peak. Always seems to be the one people choose to cover since he passed away