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Other What's ruining your life right now?

Discussion in 'General' started by TheMusician, 28 Oct 2009.

  1. fix-the-spade

    fix-the-spade Multimodder

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    My solution to secret santa has always been to feed the note with the name into the shredder without ever opening it.

    One year they thought I was bluffing, the chaos was glorious when they realised that nobody, not even me, had any idea who wasn't getting a secret santa present this year.
     
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  2. TheBlackSwordsMan

    TheBlackSwordsMan Over the Hills and Far Away

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    or a box of floppy and say they’re bottle coasters.
     
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  3. The_Crapman

    The_Crapman World's worst stuntman. Lover of bit-tech

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    I shall have to give that a watch when it comes out. James Acaster's repertoire is phenomenal, you may identify with some of it, the rest is just bat **** crazy.
     
  4. liratheal

    liratheal Sharing is Caring

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    I honestly don't think I have one anymore. If I did, I would. Although knowing my luck it'd go to someone who was building a retro PC.

    Ah, there's an addtional spanner in the works here. So rather than it being for someone (Which, IMO, would make it easier - I can think of a few things that I own that would be useless to everyone for different reasons), we all do something, and it gets given a number. Then we pick numbers out of a hat and bam. That's our "Gift" as it were.

    If I had some, that would be a sterling idea.

    Noted!
     
  5. wolfticket

    wolfticket Downwind from the bloodhounds

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    -Find a reduced advent calendar in the shops
    -Open all the doors up until the day of the gifting (more the better)
    -Wrap
    -Present
     
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  6. Almightyrastus

    Almightyrastus On the jazz.

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    I'm sure that I have a 6GB Quantum Bigfoot kicking around somewhere.... :hehe::hehe::hehe:
     
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  7. TheBlackSwordsMan

    TheBlackSwordsMan Over the Hills and Far Away

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    Update on the i7 4790K:
    The bloody hunk of scrap-circuitry is alive! Turns out, the CPU wasn't compatible with the bios of the board I used to test it.
    After updating to the latest version, the test PC boot just fine. I'll just have to find a replacement for the Z97-P which shouldn't cost more than a 100$. :)
     
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    Guest-44638 Guest

    My old Z97X board ran out of BIOS updates in ~2015, iirc...
     
  9. Behemoth

    Behemoth Timelord in training

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    In a house full of adults (if thats the case) there is no excuse for it. In my house with three kids it was one of them, neither of which are admitting who the poopitrator is.
     
  10. Dr. Coin

    Dr. Coin Multimodder

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    Evil idea. I like.
     
  11. Fingers66

    Fingers66 Kiwi in London

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    Sigh. Up at 4am this morning for the Dublin flight (for work), busy (but productive) day meeting & greeting new clients, treating the Dublin team to an xmas lunch, visiting in-laws (would be shot if I didn't), last flight back (so delayed as usual), it's almost 1am and I am wide awake posting here waiting for the whisky to kick in...

    Edit: and just to make it worse, last week I ported 3 numbers from EE to VM, was supposed to go through last week, didn't actually happen until today (2 of them) whilst I was in Dublin, plugged in the third one when I got in tonight and got an instant text message from VM - oops, something isn't right with your switching request, call us on etc... last time I called them I lost an hour of my life on hold, looks like another hour lost in the morning....
     
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  12. Vault-Tec

    Vault-Tec Green Plastic Watering Can

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    Wait until they grow up and get their own place, then go round and deliver them an upper decker.

    Just make sure you've had lots of fibre so it disintegrates if they try picking it up.

    That ought to fix it.
     
  13. liratheal

    liratheal Sharing is Caring

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    I have a partially consumed Toshiba advent calendar..

    Although I was pondering last night, and decided on this;

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    It's an old bootloader Nano, so it annoys me that I have it, the screen was too small for the original purpose so now has sat in the bottom of my electronics box for at least six months.

    I thought about making it scroll one 'no' per language I could think of, but thought that might be too useful.

    The actual item is all soldered, so no useful breadboard or power distribution thingy.
     
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  14. Wakka

    Wakka Yo, eat this, ya?

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    Nightmares and tummy ache for a 14 month old - 3 hours sleep (of which maybe 1 was proper sleep). In work. Not enough coffee in the world.
     
  15. Jake123456

    Jake123456 Surprise!

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    Poopitrator, haha I absolutely love it. Yeah it is a house full of adults but I'll be moving out when Easter comes around to a 2 bed house. I cannot wait for the freedom!
     
  16. Wakka

    Wakka Yo, eat this, ya?

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    Got a message from my mum last night to say my nan had a seizure on Sunday and she has been diagnosed with lung and brain cancer - she won't be coming out of hospital.

    They are doing a good job of keeping her comfortable, but it's hard work trying to figure out what I can do while also juggling an unwell baby, mounting work load, very little sleep and all the other usual stresses that come with this time of year...
     
  17. bawjaws

    bawjaws Multimodder

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    @Wakka , mate I am so sorry :(
     
  18. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    @Wakka ,so sorry to hear mate.
     
  19. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Excueese me, Casio? What do you mean straps are excluded under the warranty? It's a sealed watch with a ten-year battery, other than the strap what the hell else is likely to break?

    Not paying £19.03 to replace the strap on a £19.99 watch. Not buying a replacement either. Guess it's back to checking the time on my phone for me!
     
  20. GeorgeStorm

    GeorgeStorm Aggressive PC Builder

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    I believe straps are rarely covered when it comes to watches + warranty.
    Guessing because they can often be removed?
     

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