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Discussion in 'General' started by Mr_Mistoffelees, 10 Aug 2023.

  1. Fingers66

    Fingers66 Kiwi in London

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    When mowing the lawn yourself is quicker and less stress than trying to convince your 20yo son to get out of bed and do it.
     
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  2. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    Shoe shopping...

    Everything seems to be **** quality, silly money... or both...

    Resent spending that much on something that'll probably disintegrate inside 6 months...
     
  3. ModSquid

    ModSquid Multimodder

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    I think it's going to have to be now. I was planning to race it at ludicrous speeds round a track (and probably into a wall) but now I'm getting nervous about just driving it home from the shop. Can't back out now though, they'll just deliver me the pieces, I expect.

    Might have to become an Uber driver, make it recoup some of what it's bl00dy charged me.
     
  4. Almightyrastus

    Almightyrastus On the jazz.

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    Just got into the office coming in straight from the dentist.

    Got myself all wound up expecting an extraction or root canal to find out that today's visit was for 3 fillings. Could only get 2 done as one took a long time and apparently bled a lot. On a hell of an adrenaline come down now that this part is over, the left half of my face is numb - a nerve block was applied for my lower jaw that turned out to not be needed this time, got the packing out so no longer dribbling everywhere.

    Now just to look forward to the extraction that I thought was today, that will be on the 25th, hopefully I don't get another abscess before then... We might also be able to do the other filling on that day too, the "fun" there being that the extraction is on one side and the filling will be the other. At least it'll be like the old joke - How do you tell when the stage is level? The drummer dribbles out both sides of his mouth...
     
  5. Mr_Mistoffelees

    Mr_Mistoffelees The Bit-Tech Cat. New Improved Version.

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    Yesterday, a mug I had ordered arrived. A large, handmade, lovely quality mug, from a one-man-band pottery on Etsy. I was really pleased with it and, it cost £36.

    Today, it has a 4cm crack, after I managed to smack it on a kitchen sink tap…

    Arse!
     
  6. mrlongbeard

    mrlongbeard Multimodder

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    Philip's Hue.
    Why oh why oh why does a simple bridge that only needs to control a few lamps need 20+ minutes of updates before I can use it
     
  7. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    Bc 'Smart' things are often dumb as ****.
     
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  8. mrlongbeard

    mrlongbeard Multimodder

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    Wrong you are not.
    45 minutes to get 2 lights working, after faffing about with the bridge not connecting, not updating and generally being a dick
     
  9. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    What irritates me is 'smart' [thing] that will not or can not do the [thing] unless the 'smart' is enabled and working.
     
  10. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    Put up a couple of shelves in the spare room for Lego. They're ever so slightly on the piss and one is a few mm higher than the other.

    [​IMG]

    You can't really notice it from far away, but it's all I can see every time I look at them.

    [angry sotto voce muttering...]
     
  11. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    Once it is seen, it can't be unseen.
     
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  12. Cookie Monster

    Cookie Monster Multimodder

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    Time to knock the room down and start again.
     
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  13. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    Oh no, no, no, no, no.

    This will never do young padawan.
     
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  14. Byron C

    Byron C I was told there would be cheesecake…?

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    It's not too bad, most of the house is on the piss as well, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :grin:

    If it was my house, I would have done so a long time ago. Strip out all the existing plasterboard in most of the rooms and re-do the whole damn lot.

    SO many goddamn holes in the walls where previous tenants have put stuff up and then ripped it out...
     
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  15. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    Lol, I hear you.

    Our (soon to be sold hopefully) house is over a hundred years old so if you put anything in it remotely level or straight lined then it looks anything but level or straight lined :happy:

    That's a quote directly from Dan's Big Book of Excuses: Part 3.
     
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  16. ElThomsono

    ElThomsono Multimodder

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    Today I went for another skip run in the land rover, there was a cyclist on the pavement approaching a pedestrian crossing so I was slowing and watching to see if he'd cut across it, but he didn't. Then some ****wit reversed hard off his drive, completely blocking the pavement and forcing the cyclist to swerve head on into my lane. No way was the 1900kg historic vehicle stopping that quickly, I had to cut across into the oncoming lane, had there been a car there that wouldn't have been an option :blah:

    I mean, the young lad shouldn't have been cycling on the pavement, but that driver really should have proceeded far more slowly, and not in reverse so they actually had a chance to see. Could easily have been a very different story, that road is often a lot busier.
     
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  17. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    Glad your reaction time was low enough to avoid tears all round.
     
  18. ElThomsono

    ElThomsono Multimodder

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    I think it was only by merit of me having already slowed down in anticipation of him using the crossing, had that crossing not been there I'd have been doing 30 mph, leaf sprung landies don't like manoeuvring at those speeds.
     
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  19. Pete J

    Pete J Employed scum

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    Story of my life!

    I think it's more to do with the way the shelves "clamp" in place as I have several of the same type, and despite some very OCD preparation beforehand, the same happens to me. The only solution I've found is to loosen up the shelf a little, so it at least can sit kinda right. Or use one big shelf...
     
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  20. Andersen

    Andersen I'm fine. I'M FINE! *torches a dandelion*

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    Well there's your my problem, no wonder NAS went into fans are now jet engines hot hot hot panic mode

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    Faulty sensor, IPMI says -28C. Bit of fan tweaking later the thing is quiet as usual
     

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