Posts by Anguilla

We'll see you on Monday, in the [Insert Name Here] roundup. ®

Mind you, IF it arrived here in a timely manner, I'd perhaps had added to the hilarity. But since it didn't arrive till MONDAY morning, my humor would be received far too late!

Me - a HK$50,000 SCMP Ikea Winner.

Many years ago - when I wore a younger man's clothes - I entered a South China Morning Post competition (can't recall what it required me to do).

I "won" a coupon worth Hong Kong $50,000 to be used on Ikea products.

Well, that sort of "win" could have required SWMBO & I to purchase another flat to use up all our winnings [and some more].

We took some items and then circulated around that anyone wanting some discounted IKEA stuff and were willing to collect the IKEA delivery from our home [Ikea demanded that all the HK$50,000 stuff was delivered to one address in a maximum of three deliveries].

That was more years ago than I can now remember. We had enough "buyers" to get rid of everything that we couldn't use and gathered in some loot for it.

Of all the items we got "for free" - only a solitary table lamp remains beside one of our TV's.

(No iniquitous TV license charge in HK !)

A Policeman's lot is not a happy one: "The Pirates of Penzance" Gilbert & Sullivan.

I recall, something like 60+ years ago, a UK man who'd fitted up his car with a bell [well I did mention it was a looong time ago] - Belled a car in front as it was driving through Thornton Heath in South London.

His choice of "prey" wasn't very good - for he'd chosen to "gong" an undercover Police car.

I don't think it turned out very well for him!!

Here in Hong Kong, during recent weeks, the "Fuzz" have been accused of failing to display their rank & numbers whilst beating up marchers against the Hong Kong Government's attempt to force extradition laws to fling ALLEGED criminals back to Communist China.

It was put about by the "Fuzz" that Warrant cards need only be carried by one member of the squad tasked with beating up violent (& not so violent protestors) on the streets.

Needless to say, I rather chuckled when the protestors surrounded the Police HQ in Wanchai all day and into the early hours of the next day - so it was effectively "sealed off" !!

I think I can say that any "goodwill" towards this in-Disciplined Service has rather evaporated if one questioned the majority of the Hong Kongers - apart from the Commie Running Dogs that infest HK.

Beats me !!

...Why he just threatened - surely the most effective outcome - for him - is to deposit a bullet into a deadly portion of Pai's body - for which many Merkans' would be eternally grateful.

Not being a citizen of Trump's crap overweight country - I'm not going to do anything against Pai's regime, but I must admit that in such a gun-crazy country, nobody hasn't stepped up to dispose of him.

Latest Win 10 update screws ALL Internet connections

It does deserve repeating - at least in my case: Latest Win 10 update screws ALL Internet connections !!

I had to reinstall Win 10 Pro twice yesterday - first an earlier update totally screwed up ALL Internet connections be it Wi-FI OR LAN.

Now, having reinstalled from DVD ROM, I'm most loath to allow ANY updates on an otherwise excellent Lenovo E440 - "4" in Cantonese sounds like "Death".

Now, I hope that someone will buy this laptop, and I can dump this "curse" on someone else!

Hong Kong Rules OKAY!!!!

It IS interesting to read the comments here - makes me VERY happy to be in Hong Kong where the mobiles I have had cost me between £60 & £70 with a dual SIM, and talking about SIMs, I only use voice & NO data, and the original HK$50 "starter" for something like 180 days actually cost me HK$30 (£3) with a "recharge" co$ting me HK$48.

The ONLY reason I "recharge" is because at the end of the recharge period I always have an astonishing HK$150 or so still in credit. I just CAN'T drive down the balance !!

Previously - I'd run the credit balance down to microscopic value - letting it expire - since a new SIM with new number would only cost me £3 for another multi-month validity.

As for the mobiles - a Doogee costing about HK$700 (£70) which I sold for $750 a couple of years later, and a Lenovo [also dual SIM] for ~£80 ----> Both from Groupon.HK.

Am I glad to have tossed UK out more than 40 years ago? You bet your life I'm glad!!

Regicide action please !

Seems such a shame that "Regicide" was not initiated many months ago on this wanker !!!

HK$10 South China Morning Post for free for many years!

Many years ago, I found that I was receiving an apparently "free" copy of the local "South China Morning Post".

I lapped it up, reading it before the usually one day late "The Register" arrived in my e'mail box.

Then I got qualms that, one day, I'd be lumbered with a massive newspaper bill.

The SCMP has gone from what I now reckon was a paltry HK$1 in the late '70s, to its grossly inflated HK$10 nowadays..... But I digress.....

I finally tackled the newspaper delivery office who also delivered SWMBO's "Ming Pao" Chinese squiggle-talk newspaper at the same time - and they calmed my fears by saying that my "free" SCMP was one of many freely handed out to bloat the SCMP's "Circulation figures".

How they also justified the free handing out the weekend edition of the "Financial Times" - I didn't bother to try to find out !!

Having spent ~20 years owning an up-market flat, I'm rather loath to sell up & move elsewhere, I'm afraid that the "free" SCMP will never re-appear!

Optical media not obsolete - Yet.

Well, I don't know about "the rest of the world" but I - in "the Pearl of the Orient" - still make use of the occasional CDROM {I used one to create a WinPE rescue disk just yesterday}..... and I've collected a load of Win 10 set-ups on DVD over the years.

I've even got a few - seldom used - 3.5" floppy disks which are VERY occasionally called in for "rescue" purposes too.

Of course YMMV.

Can't find "a" mode on modern Laptops

The LAST time I had access to "a" [5GHz] Wi-Fi connected computer was way back in the days of IBM T60 model.

I - long ago - bought a "Groupon" offer of a Belkin a/b/g router - but almost as loooong ago I sold my last IBM T60P - and since that time - I have had many Lenovo's offerings, but NOT ONE of them had the option of hopping on board of 5GHz.

I have yet to find any of the models that offered 2.4 *&* 5 GHz connections.

Come to that, none of the other manufacturers have had 5GHz on then - or even as an optional "extra".

For a few months I blasted my apartment blocks with signals on almost all of the 1-13 channels, I finally desisted when I reckoned I was just wasting my electricity & my family didn't really need such a plethora of channels to select between.

Shit VW !!

I've got a shitty VW Golf - about 5 years old - that eats batteries!!

Fault at the moment is that, despite the battery is good enough to light the headlamps, just turn the ignition key and bugger all happens, just a "click noise from somewhere around the dashboard.

If one sit there for a bit (an extendable time) & tries again [several times] the fucking VW will decide that I've waited looong enough, and then starts the engine - till the next time.

The useless official VW service station in HK fails to find the problem!

Not forgetting "Ad-Muncher" free version v4.94

I've been using "Ad-Muncher" free version v4.94.xxx for ages since the original pay-for version was offered for free on Giveawayoftheday.com website.

Watching the Bull icon at the bottom of the screen swallowing crappy adverts is most satisfying! Burp !!

I include AdBock Plus to my armoury too. Both running all the time.

Till Hell freezes over?

I suppose that there will be some sort of religious personages there - "Till Hell Freezes Over". <Snigger>

Give me "Cockies" any day!

Several - make it about 13 years ago -I had an over inquisitive Hong Kong pigeon forever landing on my balcony's floor, so I decided to get it 'pissed out of its tiny mind' by soaking some bread in some "high octane" liquor - what the Chinese call "Bamboo Wine" which is great for indigestion at 45% alcohol by volume.

Well, the pigeon partook of the alcoholic bread & managed to fly off to a lower level in my building and created such a cooing racket that it drew its friends & relations from the locality to see what the fuss was all about!

As I recall, the pigeon never came back for "The hair of the dog" again!

Where I live now, on the West side of HK Island, I can frequently see Sulfur-crested Cockatoos flying by in a gang, all squawking their heads off. They are not a "native breed" here but allegedly escaped captivity multi-many years ago and attempts by the then local council to stop 'em breeding, but filling up holes in trees with concrete was - luckily - a failure.

I like having Cockies around - much better than the drab Sparrows.

From TWTWTW - Never trust a "Krauthead"

Lenova's failure to upgrade drivers

My grouse with Lenovo is that they did not make the Windows 7 touchpad drivers available for their N500 model, so I'm lumbered with HAVING to carry around a USB Mouse *&* a spare battery for it!

Added to that, I got this model secondhand in Hong Kong from a non-techie user who couldn't get it to switch on.... I just removed one of the two RAM strips & it has booted up ever since.

Fitting a second RAM strip again caused it to fail to boot up until removed!

I now run with a single 2 GB RAM strip 'cos the Lenovo Service Dept in HK couldn't offer any solution that was co$t effective - or supply a Win 7 driver for the touchpad. <Grrrrrh!!!>

Hordes of street crapping "Locusts" from the North!

So '拜拜' is "simplified Chinese characters"??

Actually - Hong Kong uses "traditional" Chinese characters!

Neither of which are understood by most of the rest of the world - even the so called "Yellow Bananas"!

And as for Chinese place names "converted" into "English" - Pah!

A city in Canton Province's Pearl River Delta is spelt out as "Shiqi" - which you'd *think* ought to be pronounced as "She-kwi" but actually comes out as "Sek-Kay" from the mouth of a local.

And due to "re-education" - the Commie Locust hordes who pour into Hong Kong to strip the shops to resell everything from Baby Milk Powder to luxury goods expect the shop staff to speak Mandarin *&* provide "simplified" Chinese character signs too.

These used to call us "westerners" 'Barbarians' - But frequent altercations between the civilised Hong Kongers & the barbarian hordes from the North over their kids shitting and pissing on the streets of Hong Kong really show that it is THEY who are today's Barbarians!