What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[wuvvum]

I still use a CRT monitor. It works fine so I see little point in changing it.

[Negative Creep]

I hate the things, they give me headaches. I'm not usually bothered about technology but buying a flatscreen tv is one of the best purchases I've ever made

[dollywobbler]

Headaches? Odd. They used to give me backache when I worked in IT. A 21" CRT is bloody heavy.

[Negative Creep]

It's the buzzing sound thy make when on (although tvs were worse for this than pc monitors)

[pogweasel]

This made me LOL moar than I should have today:

 

L_J_K_Sethwright

[fiatdaft]

sold that audi the day. yipee.

[Pillock]

I didn't think people still used DOS programs, crt monitors or trackball mice - until I started my current job

 

I'll raise you a multinational company relying on tape backups and as400 shit.

On the plus side, it keeps a whole bunch of us in a job as all the manuals have disappeared and the cryptic keystrokes needed to work the things have no bearing on common sense.

[seth]

This made me LOL moar than I should have today:

 

Having no idea where that is can I assume it is on some social networking business site?

[trigger]

Seth - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10911&start=15

[seth]

Oh, thanks Trig. Missed that one. Oh, for when Autoshite had about 10 posts per day...

[Guest]

I work for a council and we use some right old antique software, I like it though - it's from the days where someone would just scratch-write a program to suit the specific needs of a place instead of just trying to make do with some one-fits-all solution from some tosspot outsourcing company - we've gone backwards in that respect. I spend most of the day using legacy systems on an emulator which are mostly from the very early 80s. I like the sense of humour in some of the messages, in one of the programs if you type the wrong thing it'll tell you "Don't be silly" and suchlike.

[Lord Sterling]

I've only recently changed over from CRT moniter to flatscreen about the same time as swapping my trackball mouse for an optical one. Swapped a car stereo for PC complete with flatscreen, best thing I've done so far.

[Richard]

How does that mount in the dash then?

[Pillock]

, in one of the programs if you type the wrong thing it'll tell you "Don't be silly" and suchlike.

 

A friend of my sister's used to write software for Boots, just in-house problem-solving stuff. He'd always throw in odd error messages like "Situation Mauve: The giraffe is back" and "DON'T MOVE! They're behind the water cooler...." - except he'd keep a list of each error in each application, so when someone phoned him on the helpdesk saying "Erm, MergeForms v1.3 keeps telling me to stroke the clouds with my wand of glee" he'd know that in fact, it was a file input format error and could assist appropriately.

 

Keeps you in a job I suppose!

 

I once got marked down on a college programming assignment for writing an error message that included the word "Dickhead".

[triang1]

, in one of the programs if you type the wrong thing it'll tell you "Don't be silly" and suchlike.

 

A friend of my sister's used to write software for Boots, just in-house problem-solving stuff. He'd always throw in odd error messages like "Situation Mauve: The giraffe is back" and "DON'T MOVE! They're behind the water cooler...." - except he'd keep a list of each error in each application, so when someone phoned him on the helpdesk saying "Erm, MergeForms v1.3 keeps telling me to stroke the clouds with my wand of glee" he'd know that in fact, it was a file input format error and could assist appropriately.

 

Keeps you in a job I suppose!

 

I once got marked down on a college programming assignment for writing an error message that included the word "Dickhead".

 

Happy days - I used to work for Renault UK aeons ago ( clue the Renner 14 had just come out when I joined ) - All our programmes written for the IBM Mainframe had french explanations which we were warned not to change on pain of death in case a froggy bigwig came over from Paris to change something.

 

Of course we did - data misfeed became "Machine he go bongo-bongo" or "Fonz he say BLAAAAHH!" ( Fonz was big on Happy Days at the time). "Mr Shipleys result equals a starfish of chocolate" (Mr Shipley being entirely made up) was a favorite.

 

We never got found out and I just pray some French boss got to see it...

[cms206]

Spent the last two days on a route I don't normally do, spotted some superb shite; a B-reg Rover SD1, an F-reg Cavalier Calibre, a locally registered BMC 1100 of sorts... and an Alvis TE21

[Negative Creep]

Got a brand new, completely non shite smartphone. Plus I only found out today there are special clips under the bonnet which allows me to store the sunroof there

[M'coli]

Spent the last two days on a route I don't normally do, spotted some superb shite; a B-reg Rover SD1, an F-reg Cavalier Calibre, a locally registered BMC 1100 of sorts... and an Alvis TE21

Wow! The TE21 - saloon or convertible? The saloons are really nice.

[Cavcraft]

Spent the last two days on a route I don't normally do, spotted some superb shite; a B-reg Rover SD1, an F-reg Cavalier Calibre, a locally registered BMC 1100 of sorts... and an Alvis TE21

 

If you ever see it again please try and grab a picture. It was reputed there was only ever 17 (of the 500) made on an 'F' plate and they're all a bloody rare site now as it is.

[eddyramrod]

Finally got my internet back on, only 12 days after we moved house! Must be some kind of record for Cyta...

[cms206]

Spent the last two days on a route I don't normally do, spotted some superb shite; a B-reg Rover SD1, an F-reg Cavalier Calibre, a locally registered BMC 1100 of sorts... and an Alvis TE21

Wow! The TE21 - saloon or convertible? The saloons are really nice.

 

 

Saloon from memory; it was bloody lovely. Dark green, fella in his fifties driving, Edinburgh registered on a B IIRC.

 

The Calibre was F124 CJE or something like that; like a twat I've cleared my sent messages which included the message I sent to mate saying I'd seen it. Checking just now to see if he's kept it...

[chaseracer]

Got a brand new, completely non shite smartphone. Plus I only found out today there are special clips under the bonnet which allows me to store the sunroof there

 

Your phone has a sunroof..?

[autofive]

 

 

[scaryoldcortina]

That's about 2 minutes away from the MoT garage... the road still isn't flat now, and the railway's been gone since 1971

 

Bus looks like it's stuck under the station road bridge at kip hill... bloody lethal 1 in 4 bank, with a turn and a narrow bridge at the bottom, lovely.

[Albert Ross]

Gr8 week for oddball spots (no pics, driving)

Green Morris Land Crab ADN 931K,

 

 

Yellow P1800ES, and.....

 

 

Lancia Beta Monte Carlo, CAA 215R I nearly fell off my seat. Good job I never did, as it was closely followed by an Audi, reg SWA110W!!

[pogweasel]

Had some great un-papped spots this week,

theres a chap doing his daily commute in a mint un-OSF'd Mk2 Cortina, and saw a Viva HB in autoshite spec (grimy, mismatched panels) being blezzed round Hatfield the other day.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I've been thoroughly enjoying animated spy comedy Archer recently, and someone there likes drawing cars...

 

There are a lot of Renault 12s in New York

 

And Minis

 

Paris

 

 

What says Miami better than an open top Trabant?

 

How many cylinders in that engine?

 

Six?

 

[Tayne]

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[wuvvum]

Just been over to RR and the ad that flashed up at the top of the screen was one for Gumtree. It showed three adverts at random that have been posted to my local Gumtree, and one was my ad for the Alfa 166, which made me grin. I'd be grinning even more if somebody would buy it though.

[Pillock]

Sarfside BusBoys Drifters CC, yo! Takes em sidewaze little or bigs, whatcha got, mate?

 

Pah. Amateur.

 

Earlham Rd, Norwich.