Free internet

I've had a free internet connection ever since TalkTalk brought it out back in the days of the original TalkTalk bloke.

I did get a warning about D/L limits when I rebuilt my machine recentish from XP to 64bit Win 7 and there were all those interminable 'updates' plus all the other D/Ls required.

TalkTalk don't seem to have taken account of the bloat caused by recent O/S rebuilds.

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Post Office

In the early 80's the GPO sold off all their spare hand tools. For a while there were stalls all over Brick Lane and similar markets. I still have several tools, marked GPO. They are excellent quality, Lindstrom and Wilkinson branded, box joint pliars in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

I only recently stopped using my ex-GPO meter, the ones with the solid leather case, for a much smaller but cheap plastic digital one. They had a specialised dry cell battery and they eventually became unavailable.

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Not everyone wants builders tea

Now I drink organic earl grey teabags, with 3 sucralose tabs and no milk. It has to be boiling properly, in one of my favourite mugs, and needs stirring and squeezing for a few minutes.

But I now only have about 1/3 of my kidneys left.

Previously I used to drink 'proper' filter coffee, with 2 spoons of demerara and full fat milk.

At my grandmothers house we always used to wake up to weak black tea with a slice of lemon...

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Nail biter!

I don't like people who bite their nails.

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'Won't get fooled again'

Went to a cinema a while ago, big screen, fancy seats, free nibbles in the waiting area etc.

The sound was absolutely appalling, so load and booming and banging. The movie seemed to be slightly out of focus, there was motion blur, and most importantly was several degrees too dark. All the darker detail was all stuffed right up.

Went to another cinema, in a different part of town more recently. Smaller place, much steeper slope to climb, really ridiculous prices for food and drink.

Even more of an assault on the ears, noticeable damage to the screen, similarly badly projected, detail all dark and blocked up.

NEVER EVER AGAIN will I go into a cinema. They are just total nasty rip offs.

Whatever the movie, I can wait for the bluray to come out, where I can watch it in a civilised fashion.

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Screaming little bastards...

quote - It is funny how irritating screaming/crying babies can be on an aeroplane unless the critter in question is your progeny. - unquote

Sometimes I think people deliberately bring their little bastards to supermarkets to exercise their (the bastards) lungs. Why else do they then ignore them.

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I remember

I remember my father anticipating Quatermas on TV in the fifties. Presumably there was a good deal of advance publicity/bit of a buzz in the press or at 'work'. Of course there was only 2 channels then. I don't personally remember it being earth shattering, but I was allowed to stay up to watch.

The other TV I got late night privileges (bed by 9pm) was Hancock, which I enjoyed much more. Sadly all the extra 'business' in the 'Radio Ham' seems to have got lost, but in the original Hancock used his mouth to pull out a length of solder, and flinched when it burnt his lip. We've all done it... That was the only time I can specifically remember my father and I laughing spontaneously together.

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Warm wet places...

I used to be a music photographer.

I have entered a warm muggy pub from a freezing outside world, from my bike, and all my lenses etc (Photographic kit) immediately fogged up. I had to wait around until it all warmed up before taking pictures.

I've also been in a warm summer pub gig with a good crowd of punks all pogoing about and had to turn the camera off. There was so much moisture in the air I could barely hold the camera, I was literally bathed in sweat, and the electronics went 'funny'. Once it had dried out it was fine again.

So any crapple device could easily be invalidated...

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Remotes

I've noticed that with older but still perfectly good bedroom TV's the remotes tend to die and have to be replaced because the sound kill button goes.

Some time back I had a TV (One of those giant boxes with decent sound) which had a 'reduce sound' button so that the volume was reduced considerably during adverts. Sadly the other half watered the plant on top and the electrics died.

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Serious failure in taste

Why the appalling noise???

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Whilst getting a haircut for an entirely separate event...

I happened to remember that I have a smallish pirate (skull and crossbones) flag lying around.

50p later for rhe roof mounting stick, and the union duster consigned to the bin, and I have been driving around happily showing 'my' true colours.

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Galaxy s3

Yes, but will it blend?

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Smelly Jobs

*I think it's funny they made him work nights because he stank! Hahaha! No wonder he took to wearing turtlenecks in later life, they help keep the BO sealed in!*

I remember that theory. The idea was to stop washing and wait for your body to go back to it's natural state. If you were noticeably dirty you could rub the dirt off with earth or dust. (Like animals do, dust bath anyone?) It was suposed to take a couple of weeks or so before you stopped being 'smelly' and became a healthy human without a noticeable odour.

At that time the ordinary American women were covered in smells from various preparations, had their hair heavily treated, washed their fannies at least every day, flossed regularly, wore a bra and so on, totally - covered in stuff rather like todays women :-(

The hippies (freaks) rejected all that crap. It helped of course that the weather in the south of the US was MUCH better. And there was plenty of good grass about.

I didn't do the non washing bit because I had a live-in GF, and she did not ascribe to the hippy philosophy and made me wash regularly...Got me rocks off though!

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peace V man...

The Mu

https://www.themu.co.uk/

Expensive but terrible useful. No nasty sticking out bits of metal, slips easily in the pocket or handbag.

Highly recommended by a (female) regular user.

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I was watching CSI when the change over happened...

I was watching CSI when the change over happened and everything went blank. I can normally see the Crystal Palace tower (on a good day). I use just a cheap internal aerial pointing in the right direction.

I retuned immediately and a few (21 I think) channels came up immediately, but NOT the 5* channel I was watching - never did get to see what happened. :-(

After a while, maybe half an hour, a few more channels appeared making about 41 or so.

I gave up on telly then, and tried to sleep.

A bit later, about 3am, I turned the set on again, retuned, which showed the usual 120 (ish) channels. Then spent another half hour removing all the stupid sales channels, wank channels (why are they so ugly?) and the talking bollox channels.

I hope I don't have to go through all that again...

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Prolly another reason to get Win7 64bit to replace XP then?

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Bored of the rings

Bored of the rings - Yay - first time I've heard that mentioned since the 70's. Kinda thin compared to the original, but good for a laugh.

Tee hee

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The real winners...

French nuclear giants EDF have been fined €1.5m (£1.28m)

Greenpeace received €500,000 (£428,300) in damages.

The main victim of the hacks, activist Yannick Jadot, has received €50,000 (£42,800) in damages.

So the real winners are the lawyers who made £808,900.

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What a load of shite. And what's with the thud at the end of each sentence?

I was a newly enrolled Systems Analyst somewhere at the tail end of the sixties. I worked for Freeman's the catalogue company in Stockwell (London).

I remember one whole enormous floor of girls with machines inputting to cards, and paper tape.

I remember the computer room itself - airlock doors for a controlled environment and no-one allowed to use smelly hair gel (Brylcream etc) or the machines would jam up.

I was well into hash and acid through the weekend, so most work on a Monday got binned and redone next day.

It didn't last long, and I've never had a normal job since, but I have had a lot of serious fun elsewhere...

When I left they were doing the big change from LSD to metric, many giggles about LSD btw, I managed to design one of the agents bits of paper, which they had to fill in all the time, with a subtle mistake in the addition... (SUBVERT!) Got it as far as the printers...

They had just decided not to buy a new (IBM?) computer, but to add another s/h LEO machine to increase capacity.

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I have been tempted to try a Yahoo search a couple of times recently (within the last year anyway!). Prolly because there are various promotions which can get you nectar points or some such.

On both occasions I have been shocked at the limited scope of the results - eg most recently, timber yards in S.E. London the nearest recommended was somewhere in N. Finchley!!!

I think Yahoo are seriously crap, and deserve to sink and die.

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I've seen some of that...

Catch them and have them out doing community service orders, digging ditches, clearing gutters and drains, plenty of waste grounds need clearing of rubbish, in fact plenty of city streets right now need cleaning up!

I've seen some of that... and it basically costs more to clear up AFTER the CSO than before.

Best answer is to just kill them, preferably slowly.

(And as Arnie said, you do the politicians first)

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scumbags 2

I second that.

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Oi! Bernie - NO!!!

That man should be roasted on a spit over a slow fire, whilst all us F1 fans take turns to kick him in the delicate bits.

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