What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[somewhatfoolish]

28 minutes ago, STUNO said:

I needed two ink cartridges for my Canon Pixma printer. It cost $30.00 a year or two ago. So into the shop where I bought it as they will have cartridges.  Looked about the shop and they had new Pixmas out for sale just the same as I had. So over to the counter and asked for the Cartridges I wanted, Price for Black is $30.00 and Colour is $42.00 . Price of a new printer with cartridges is now $18.00  YES eighteen dollars.

Anyone want a brand new printer with no cartridges ! Thought not....

It really should be a grump.

https://www.noelleeming.co.nz/shop/computers-tablets/printers/printer/canon-pixma-mg2560-multifunction-printer/prod144653.html

 

As if that wasn't enough to fuck with the minds of consumers the gits don't put a full load of ink in the ones that are shipped with new printers.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Think I might have stumbled across a possible new source of (used) CX spare parts....

[MikeR]

getting home after a first Monday back after the hols ..

 

 and my shares divi cheque has crashed throu the letterbox and slid along the hallway floor  ......

party time !!!!

 

[Saabnut]

30 minutes ago, MikeR said:

getting home after a first Monday back after the hols ..

 

 and my shares divi cheque has crashed throu the letterbox and slid along the hallway floor  ......

party time !!!!

 

Oooh, what time do we need to be there?

 

[myglaren]

On 6/2/2019 at 10:37 AM, Joey spud said:

 

Ok own up who was it...  ??

Practising for the Bantry festival perhaps?

[Frogchod]

Buick has passed it's controle technique

[hairnet]

19 hours ago, STUNO said:

I needed two ink cartridges for my Canon Pixma printer. It cost $30.00 a year or two ago. So into the shop where I bought it as they will have cartridges.  Looked about the shop and they had new Pixmas out for sale just the same as I had. So over to the counter and asked for the Cartridges I wanted, Price for Black is $30.00 and Colour is $42.00 . Price of a new printer with cartridges is now $18.00  YES eighteen dollars.

Anyone want a brand new printer with no cartridges ! Thought not....

It really should be a grump.

https://www.noelleeming.co.nz/shop/computers-tablets/printers/printer/canon-pixma-mg2560-multifunction-printer/prod144653.html

been like that for years spesh with canon

hp do it also - madness

unless you have them filled its cheaper to buy the printer

[beko1987]

I bought a black cartridge for my £18.99 Canon 2 months ago... Tesco stopped having the printer on cheap, and the cartridge was low. 

2 months later its still printing, cartridge is still in the wrapper! I use it so little I cba to just buy a new one, and it's WiFi which is handy. Anything over 3 or 4 pages gets printed out at work for free! 

Plus the genuine cartridge was £14 from ebay

[SiC]

On 6/2/2019 at 6:45 AM, Snipes said:

I just thinking that power switch and grab combination looks awful until I realised it's probably set up for left hookers. 

Like most grinders, you can put the handle on and turn the guard to either side. I'm right handed but I change to either, depending on which setup gives the best positioning given where I am working. 

[New POD]

I have 4 printers at home, all owned technically by my ltd company. All working, all with spare cartridges. 

[chaseracer]

Error 502...?

?

[hairnet]

been three months since stena tried to kill my bike

was not madly in a hurry but after giving bank details once they said ok we'll cough

still took them a month (we put through your details with slightly wrong numbers) ?

paid on friday WOOP

this means flight from usa - theyve paid for it AND give me 20 quid

 

[hairnet]

1 minute ago, chaseracer said:

Error 502...?

?

its the beards fault

[myglaren]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

I bought a black cartridge for my £18.99 Canon 2 months ago... Tesco stopped having the printer on cheap, and the cartridge was low. 

2 months later its still printing, cartridge is still in the wrapper! I use it so little I cba to just buy a new one, and it's WiFi which is handy. Anything over 3 or 4 pages gets printed out at work for free! 

Plus the genuine cartridge was £14 from ebay

I have a very sexy HP Envy printer/scanner and found the cartridges cheaper in Tesco or Amazon.  The long-life cartridges never lasted though, the cheaper ones lasted ages. It went nuts a while back, wouldn't print anything or photocopy anything, just came out as a load of scrambled lines.  I keep it as a scanner, that works OK.

Bought an HP Laser printer - always buy HP as they always work with Linux painlessly - except this one, there are no drivers for it.

Anything I need printing has to be emailed to it via the HP print service.  It did work with Chromium and Google print for a while but that has packed up too now.

Dreading replacing the toners for it, can't/daren't think what they might cost and no, I'm not going to look.

[Alex66]

Epson do printers with re loadable ink tanks,  which should be cheaper to run. However its an Epson and the last one I had was shockingly bad for clogging heads that after 4 sets of replacement heads under warranty I gave up and got a refund. It was their top of the line A3 also so I got the Canon equivalent and no issues, being a high printer ink did work out less though per ml .  Need to find out if Epson have sorted their heads out  they do a nice A2 and A1 set that have stunning photo output set of inks aint cheep though but massive cartridges. 

[wuvvum]

13 hours ago, Frogchod said:

Buick has passed it's controle technique

Excelsior!  We look forward to seeing it at Shitefest.

[myglaren]

11 hours ago, Alex66 said:

Epson do printers with re loadable ink tanks,  which should be cheaper to run. However its an Epson and the last one I had was shockingly bad for clogging heads that after 4 sets of replacement heads under warranty I gave up and got a refund. It was their top of the line A3 also so I got the Canon equivalent and no issues, being a high printer ink did work out less though per ml .  Need to find out if Epson have sorted their heads out  they do a nice A2 and A1 set that have stunning photo output set of inks aint cheep though but massive cartridges. 

Another reason I always go for HP, if the heads clog it is only a matter of changing cartridges. Mu printers can go for months without doing anything.

[Bobthebeard]

Another long weekend break at the static caravan in Scotland. Weather a bit rubbish with lots of rain and wind, the hawthorn blossom blowing everywhere and sticking to everything like a snow drift! The Honda Accord was due a gearbox oil change (180,000 miles, no record of ever being done) so another job done. Bit of a faff locating the drain and level plugs whilst using the jack and axle stands on gravel but all done now. Two litres of Honda MTF-3 now resides and the 'snick snack' rifle bolt Honda gear change restored. The old fluid didn't look too murky TBH when drained but the new stuff has made a noticable* difference. Or maybe it is just my imagination. Anyway, whatever. Good for another 100K.

[hairnet]

Jeremy Coney

The wither might be a bit wit

@STUNO

 

[Aston Martin]

I did not laugh at these two guys with shovels and their split bag of spuds...

[Frogchod]

10 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Excelsior!  We look forward to seeing it at Shitefest.

Sorry to dissapoint you but I'm still going through the registration process . Until it's 100% legal I won't be crossing borders.

I'm taking my XM this time.

[Joey spud]

 

 

Caravan wheel somewhere.

Oh the irony.

"Yeah i got this rubbing noise.No i'm 100% certain i haven't run anything over".

[barefoot]

I was just reprimanded on the Download festival forum, I complained that my tickets had arrived, but that my security approved rucksack hadn't.

Moderator told me I should be able to collect it at the gate.

I asked him what I was supposed to carry my stuff to the gate in, and suggested another rucksack.

He told me to 'back off' with my attitude - twat!

[chaseracer]

1 hour ago, Frogchod said:

I'm taking my XM this time.

Is this the same one you had in Rugeley, Keef?

[Wack]

Just got a phone call from a mate I've not seen in a while 

Can you get Thursday, Friday and Monday off work 

I think so ,it's pretty quiet, why 

Do you want to go to the IOM TT for free 

Fuck yeah

so I'm going Thursday, foot passenger on the ferry and camping though , unless I spot a vacancies sign in a B&B from the bus 

STOP THE BUS

[Wack]

I'm not sure grin is the right word but if you want to watch the most powerful , moving and thought provoking programme that's been on TV in years 

Watch Chernobyl, it's definitely one not to miss 

On sky / now TV 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 minutes ago, Wack said:

.... Chernobyl, it's definitely one not to miss 

On sky / now TV 

Neither of which I subscribe to. Maybe a DVD will be released in time?

[omegod]

21 minutes ago, Wack said:

I'm not sure grin is the right word but if you want to watch the most powerful , moving and thought provoking programme that's been on TV in years 

Watch Chernobyl, it's definitely one not to miss 

On sky / now TV 

Aye it's great, I love soviet stuff from the 80's. I'm also enjoying "The Virtues" on C4 

[Wack]

Probably cheaper to subscribe to now TV for a month £7.99 or you could take the 7 day free trial , 5 episodes , Iwatched 3 in one night, couldn't turn it off then had to wait 2 weeks for the next 2 episodes 

It's only on there for 5-6 weeks though 

 

[Wack]

5 hours ago, omegod said:

Aye it's great, I love soviet stuff from the 80's. I'm also enjoying "The Virtues" on C4 

Have you seen Deutschland 86 , that's really good