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    Richard got a reaction from KruJoe in What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread   
    I must admit I wasn't convinced by this but it worked! I've recovered a year's worth of photos and about five years worth of other crap. Thanks to Cobblers' Classic Shell suggestion the new laptop is proving quite acceptable to use, a good result all round.
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    Richard got a reaction from Cavcraft in The grumpy thread   
    Alan Partridge (the character, not the Autoshite member) had a bit of a meltdown during his Toblerone addiction and drove to Dundee in his bare feet. He didn't feel up to driving home so he got his assistant to come up to drive him home- except he took over after a few hundred yards because he didn't like the way she was driving..
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    Richard got a reaction from Bobthebeard in The grumpy thread   
    Alan Partridge (the character, not the Autoshite member) had a bit of a meltdown during his Toblerone addiction and drove to Dundee in his bare feet. He didn't feel up to driving home so he got his assistant to come up to drive him home- except he took over after a few hundred yards because he didn't like the way she was driving..
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    Richard got a reaction from brickwall in The grumpy thread   
    I have told my work that I'll walk out if they try to make me use an iPhone.
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    Richard got a reaction from Alexg in Autoshite cliches, myths and old wives tales...   
    You can take the dye out of red diesel by filtering it through a loaf of bread.
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    Richard reacted to cobblers in The grumpy thread   
    http://www.classicshell.net/downloads/latest
     
    Download that, click OK a few times, boom it's 99% like windows 7 again. I've had to install it on dozens of laptops for people, nobody I've met could deal with windows 8 for more than a few minutes before completely giving up, it's like they got a bloke who designed kit cars in the late 80s to design a user interface.
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    Richard got a reaction from Cavcraft in The grumpy thread   
    I've gone to the Windows 8 side now. I really was needing to replace the laptop anyway, there were more and more websites that I just couldn't use. Windows 8 isn't quite as hateful as I expected, though I was expecting it to be as hateful as a Vauxhall Insignia displaying Lib-Dem stickers and loaded up with golf clubs, so the bar was quite low.
     
    It would be nice to get my data back but it's not going to happen.
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    Richard reacted to daveb47 in The grumpy thread   
    Just get another hard drive...
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    Richard reacted to KruJoe in The grumpy thread   
    ^ What Dave said.
    Go for an SSD (solid state) no spinning disk, it's like a giant memory stick.
    I just did mine, it's fast as fook! My computer's like a red-top powered Samara now, and I'm still enjoying XP.
    MY SSD was £60 on ebay, if you can't install everything on it yourself, your local computer guy should do it for about £40.
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    Richard reacted to cobblers in The grumpy thread   
    Install "classic start" on it to turn off most of the new windows 8 metro rubbish, and it'll become quite usable.
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    Richard got a reaction from Lacquer Peel in Autoshite cliches, myths and old wives tales...   
    I picked up two hitch-hikers in my Chrysler Sunbeam when there were already six of us in it. It made the steering nice and light.
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    Richard got a reaction from hennabm in Autoshite cliches, myths and old wives tales...   
    You can take the dye out of red diesel by filtering it through a loaf of bread.
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    Richard got a reaction from blackbart in Lazy spotters thread   
    I've got a few knocking around that I don't think I've posted here yet.
     

    DSC_0963 by RichardB5, on Flickr
    I didn't know there was such a thing as a B10, but this isn't one.
     

    DSC_0967 by RichardB5, on Flickr
    This Citroen DS was in a shed near the BMW. The fire was only last year
     

    DSC_0958 by RichardB5, on Flickr
    This is parked outside a great little motor museum. It was meant to be for kids to play in but it's far too unpleasant even for that.
     

    P1050034 by RichardB5, on Flickr
    I'm pretty sure this was the oldest car on Shetland by several decades. It's a brave man who drives up there in a 50 year old car that's famous for rust.
     

    DSC_1266 by RichardB5, on Flickr
    I happened to look out of the front door one evening and this was parked across the road. It was gone in the morning and I wondered if I had really seen it at all.
     

    DSC_1620c by RichardB5, on Flickr
    I can't work out what this is at all. Some kind of Vauxhall or maybe a Volvo 140?
     

    P1050118c by RichardB5, on Flickr
    This belonged to a woman in her 60s who bought it when it was already quite an old car.
     

    DSC_1743 by RichardB5, on Flickr
    I quite like this, at least it hasn't got a fugging Webasto.
     

    DSC_1782 by RichardB5, on Flickr
    Decayed AX that doesn't appear on Streetview so it's been there less than 3 years
     

    DSC_2107 by RichardB5, on Flickr
    And finally this. I was driving home from Ullapool when I spotted a gate with a "dangerous building" sign on it. I felt there had to be something interesting up the drive, and there was!
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    Richard got a reaction from Stixy in Autoshite cliches, myths and old wives tales...   
    You can take the dye out of red diesel by filtering it through a loaf of bread.
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    Richard got a reaction from Cavcraft in Autoshite cliches, myths and old wives tales...   
    You can take the dye out of red diesel by filtering it through a loaf of bread.
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    Richard got a reaction from brickwall in Autoshite cliches, myths and old wives tales...   
    You can take the dye out of red diesel by filtering it through a loaf of bread.
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    Richard got a reaction from Junkman in Autoshite cliches, myths and old wives tales...   
    You can take the dye out of red diesel by filtering it through a loaf of bread.
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    Richard got a reaction from inconsistant in The grumpy thread   
    See also Hob Nobs. They have been virally marketed as a treat, in reality they are the kind of biscuits your mum would make you eat.
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    Richard got a reaction from rml2345 in The grumpy thread   
    I covered a big Savanna once, Provident IIRC.
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    Richard got a reaction from Barry Cade in Big Bills   
    And you would have to work about two days to buy an hour of your own time. That sounds a bit like my job too.
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    Richard got a reaction from saucedoctor in Big Bills   
    And you would have to work about two days to buy an hour of your own time. That sounds a bit like my job too.
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    Richard got a reaction from drum in Big Bills   
    And you would have to work about two days to buy an hour of your own time. That sounds a bit like my job too.
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    Richard got a reaction from eddyramrod in 2014 Autoshite Calendar Photo dump Thread - Closed   
    HA Viva, the van outlasted two more Viva incarnations, one of which had an exceptionally long shelf life itself, and almost saw out the Chevette.
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    Richard reacted to RedSparrow in What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread   
    The text is bloody neat. Almost as if it was added on a computer later...
     
    I look forward to the day when the shitty tattoo trend ends. Many a good looking girl ruined by massive ugly tattoos.
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    Richard got a reaction from alf892 in The grumpy thread   
    The guy who came up with "Winterval" was on the radio last year. It wasn't called Christmas because it was a programme of events covering the whole of winter. I've a feeling it happened several years before the papers hijacked it for their "PC gone mad" angle.
     
    The problem with these made up stories is that they can come true. Stupid people in positions of authority believe them and get it into their heads that they should do something similar in their organisation.
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