evil c Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 2 hours ago, Ooogh said: Knowing that a whole bunch of guys will be having a whale of a time at @evil c dinner party, falling over in the wee small hours , talking about it for the next six months and I won’t be there. You forgot the "warm up " shindig at joz place. Your fellow South Australians are settling into the festivities very well! 3
Addicted to music Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 I’ve call it the day too, unable to attend @joz GTG, I’m gonna miss seeing you guys...... work has overworked me the last fortnight..... No doubt the great host will never disappoint..... enjoy everyone!
Ooogh Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 45 minutes ago, evil c said: You forgot the "warm up " shindig at joz place. Your fellow South Australians are settling into the festivities very well! Is that Tony and Tubularbells talking? Two incurables together, could run a hifi shop with the amount of gear they have been through.
metal beat Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 19 hours ago, cafe67 said: When you are trying to sell something and cretins contact you with "what's your best price?" Yes f-head the best price for me is the one I'm asking! So very true. 2
LogicprObe Posted October 18, 2019 Posted October 18, 2019 2 hours ago, metal beat said: So very true. I usually say double the asking.
likwidsh0k Posted November 25, 2019 Posted November 25, 2019 (edited) Oh wow thought this would still be going, apologies for the necro-bump.. RE Tech these days I used to work in tech but now its making me feel like I have my dressing gown on with one slipper on the grass as I reach for the hose and eye those millenials approaching my lawn.. Updates - Things used to be updated many months apart so were checked throughly and worked the way you liked them for a long time, now they get updated every 2 days and seemingly no quality control as can just update it tomorrow and are more regularly changing things I liked. Browsing - Used to piss me off with the iPad when it would refresh the page after 5 mins, but now it is doing that on my desktop?!? If I don't visit a tab for 10 minutes it reloads it, when most often the information on the page has not changed, and that is what the refresh button is.. was for Standardised - Most things used to work the same with similar setting locations etc, now seems they all want to be hip and cool and do it there way. Windows - Don't get me started on Windows, I had XP for over a decade and was brilliant, went to 8 had issues and so went the free 10 update and there are so many infuriating little glitches. Seems they have tried to work across all different platforms and made a completely mess of it. Seems everything now has to be real time and updated for the online / social media mentality etc when it just adds completely unnecessary time wasted. Serenity now...... Edited November 25, 2019 by likwidsh0k 1
Guest Muon N' Posted November 25, 2019 Posted November 25, 2019 Tell me about it, I used Win 10 for a month and couldn't wait to get back to Win 7. And social media is the toe fungus of society, too much to say about that one and not enough time. Tech' is more and more about consumerism, everything is disposable and It's a race to add it to landfill. Consumerism is probably more eco' destructive than cars on the roads.
mrbuzzardstubble Posted November 25, 2019 Posted November 25, 2019 That's the problem with phones too. Update 15 -20 apps and 3 days later you get a notification that 15-20 apps need updating again. 1
Luc Posted November 25, 2019 Posted November 25, 2019 I turn them off Martin. I get pestered once a day that 49 apps need updating, indeed they tell me that they want updating but I put that down to semantics. 1 1
cafe67 Posted November 25, 2019 Posted November 25, 2019 A mate dying of cancer, before you got chance to see them again
Guest Muon N' Posted November 25, 2019 Posted November 25, 2019 29 minutes ago, cafe67 said: A mate dying of cancer, before you got chance to see them again Yeah, that sucks
likwidsh0k Posted November 30, 2019 Posted November 30, 2019 On 25 November 2019 at 10:12 AM, Muon N' said: Tell me about it, I used Win 10 for a month and couldn't wait to get back to Win 7. And social media is the toe fungus of society, too much to say about that one and not enough time. Tech' is more and more about consumerism, everything is disposable and It's a race to add it to landfill. Consumerism is probably more eco' destructive than cars on the roads. Yeah it's really annoying, the most simplest stuff like you maximise a window and then click to return to how it was and it goes to another size?!? Mentioned the same thing in a PM about Windows 10 on another site and he rattled off a dozen little apps he had installed so it would work the way it should, like a universal zoom for everything. Unbelievable! Using some of these social media apps is incredibly frustrating especially searching as they seem to be designed with the memory of a goldfish that if it didn't happen in the last 24 hours it didn't happen. Yeah consumerism gone mad, I had my old really basic Nokia 6011 or something for a decade or so too it was unbreakable and battery lasted for a week. Now where did I put that hose... On 25 November 2019 at 11:55 AM, mrbuzzardstubble said: That's the problem with phones too. Update 15 -20 apps and 3 days later you get a notification that 15-20 apps need updating again. Yeah was about all tech and the bit about Apps was definitely including phones as they are as you say the worst bloody offenders. And I don't know how Samsung became the default Android phone when the GPS was woeful on the S4 and S6 I've seen and that is a major part of a mobile phone these days.
ssar Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 Cigarettes. The detrimental flow-on effects of smoking are grossly underestimated, including the filthy stench & tobacco-related chemicals from passive, 2nd & 3rd-hand smoke. I'm majorly concerned with my (or any) children in any smoking environments, particularly households with people who smoke. Often such houses stink of smoke, are rife with residual tobacco-related chemicals, & unlikely to be cleaned well throughout. Such environments can severely affect growing children, incl. facilitating breathing disorders & increased propensity to illness. More needs to be done to reduce all such effects on the natural environment & the normal populace; & harsh as it may seem to some, incr. taxes seems one of the only effective ways - quadruple them & allocate the revenue to public healthcare & govt litter/cleanup processes. A recent article on thirdhand smoke: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/scientists-say-thirdhand-smoke-poses-significant-health-risks? "Scientists say 'thirdhand' smoke poses significant health risks A new study by scientists has found that compounds from tobacco smoke can infiltrate well-ventilated rooms by hitching a ride on peoples' clothes, skin, and hair and then evaporating slowly over time in a process called 'off-gassing.' "The Yale team, led by Drew Gentner, an environmental engineer, examined a cinema in Mainz, Germany, that has had a smoking ban for 15 years – long enough for any pre-ban contaminants to clear out. Over the course of four days, they found the levels of 35 tobacco-related chemicals surged when audience members entered the theatre. These included cancer-causing compounds like benzene and formaldehyde." Just. Don't. Smoke. 1
mrbuzzardstubble Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 7 hours ago, ssar said: Cigarettes. The detrimental flow-on effects of smoking are grossly underestimated, including the filthy stench & tobacco-related chemicals from passive, 2nd & 3rd-hand smoke. I'm majorly concerned with my (or any) children in any smoking environments, particularly households with people who smoke. Often such houses stink of smoke, are rife with residual tobacco-related chemicals, & unlikely to be cleaned well throughout. Such environments can severely affect growing children, incl. facilitating breathing disorders & increased propensity to illness. More needs to be done to reduce all such effects on the natural environment & the normal populace; & harsh as it may seem to some, incr. taxes seems one of the only effective ways - quadruple them & allocate the revenue to public healthcare & govt litter/cleanup processes. A recent article on thirdhand smoke: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/scientists-say-thirdhand-smoke-poses-significant-health-risks? "Scientists say 'thirdhand' smoke poses significant health risks A new study by scientists has found that compounds from tobacco smoke can infiltrate well-ventilated rooms by hitching a ride on peoples' clothes, skin, and hair and then evaporating slowly over time in a process called 'off-gassing.' "The Yale team, led by Drew Gentner, an environmental engineer, examined a cinema in Mainz, Germany, that has had a smoking ban for 15 years – long enough for any pre-ban contaminants to clear out. Over the course of four days, they found the levels of 35 tobacco-related chemicals surged when audience members entered the theatre. These included cancer-causing compounds like benzene and formaldehyde." Just. Don't. Smoke. Or drive. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5664766/ 1
metal beat Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 Stories on the news and social media about toilet paper. who gives a schitt 2
Soundscape Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 4 hours ago, metal beat said: Stories on the news and social media about toilet paper. who gives a schitt This, and social media memes making fun of it.
turnthetable Posted March 6, 2020 Posted March 6, 2020 5 hours ago, metal beat said: about toilet paper. who gives a schitt I've thought about this maybe a little too much over the last couple of days to try and comprehend what's going on, I've also conferred with my better half who has different genitals to me and it seems that we men just fling around our willy, willy nilly where as woman use papier de toilette to dry off, so it's not all about schitt
metal beat Posted March 7, 2020 Posted March 7, 2020 FLIPPERS !! especially with vinyl - person who buys multiple copies of an album just to try and get short term profit from potential fans who missed out. Especially prevalent now with very small vinyl runs. I refuse to feed FLIPPERS even if I really want the album. ps - I bought the recent John Foxx release - Concrete And Organised Noise - 500 copies only pressed and I think only from his John Foxx shop - It is SOLD OUT and zero flippers on discogs as of today. I hope that means 500 music lovers got the album 2
mrbuzzardstubble Posted March 7, 2020 Posted March 7, 2020 Interviewees who start all their responses with the word 'so'. 2
keyse1 Posted March 7, 2020 Posted March 7, 2020 What about interviewees that that think Australians like me that disagree with them are fake Australians????? 1
Hazzzy Posted March 7, 2020 Posted March 7, 2020 On 03/08/2018 at 8:35 PM, eltech said: Privatisation of utility companies And anything else saleable so the gov at the time look like they have balanced the books with their big fat retirement costing us taxpayers big time.
turnthetable Posted April 6, 2020 Posted April 6, 2020 The word "scenario" usually preceded with, "worst case"
ThirdDrawerDown Posted April 6, 2020 Posted April 6, 2020 TV weather presenters. When they say, "now for the satellite". They never show the satellite, just some dumb clouds. 2 3
Addicted to music Posted April 6, 2020 Posted April 6, 2020 32 minutes ago, ThirdDrawerDown said: TV weather presenters. When they say, "now for the satellite". They never show the satellite, just some dumb clouds. On a map.... satellites are boring 1
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