ashmicro Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 Haven't heard this in years: Taxi dispatcher takes it well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobT Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Episode 1 series 1 of The Sweeney was on ITV4 earlier which cheered me up, loads of Bedford CAs and grim looking south London suburbs, lovely stuff! Made me think of this too: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted April 6, 2011 Share Posted April 6, 2011 Great isn't it, I've started to watched the complete box set i got for Christmas a few days ago, I can Imagine Hirst modeling himself on Jack Regan!. I've started to upload a few screen shoots of the cars onto my flickr site. http://www.flickr.com/photos/triggersca ... 592593605/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Episode 1 series 1 of The Sweeney was on ITV4 earlier which cheered me up, loads of Bedford CAs and grim looking south London suburbs, lovely stuff! By chance I watched that, didn’t realise it was the first one. It was great! Brian Blessed didn’t shout too much either, good to see ‘Dot Cotton’ in it too - always fun to spot the Eastenders/Bill/Casualty actors-to-be. This morning, driving my Laurel (itself grinworthy) and seeing a Y-reg Rialto, H-reg Mini (both suffix plates, no prefix nonsense) and a minty Capri 2.8i. I look forward to the good weather bringing more old crocks out into regular use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Firstly, watching the young assistant jacking the 2CV up to check the rear suspension for the MOT. Runs out of lift and has to get more blocks of wood. Happens every year, but always makes me chuckle. Foolish I know. Then a swallow flew into the workshop - undercover for VOSA? Certainly kept an eye on things. Then, I get my MOT pass. Chap says there's plenty of work for me to do, but not surprising given the fact it's covered 83,000 miles. "Er, that's its second time around the clock mate!" He grinned too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Nice one Dolly. I once had much amusement when the Herald was jacked up by the yoof memebr of staff at a tyre shop. He thought he'd broken the rear suspension! I'm happy now 'cos I've lowered my car a little bit more (hears collective Autoshite groan) but for free with the original stiffer leaf springs than those that have been on it for the last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CIH Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 We've got a 1970 Alfa GTV and a Daimler Dart due in work tomorrow. Had a mk2 RS2000 in today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Had another month added to my contract. Although to be honest I'm not celebrating that much, since they told another group they would be there until the summer then called them into the office to say "we've run out of work, you can either leave at lunchtime or at the end of the day" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Just snagged this at a much lower price than anticipated.Been wanting one (or at least the amp, rather than a tuner) for years and managed to miss any amount over the past couple of years.Want to match it with my Sonab 75S turntable, bought in 1971 and bung in the dining room.Be nice to add a pair of OA6 or )A8 speakers but that isn't too likely to happen. Should really get a SAAB to go with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Also, just seen at the top of my Gmail page - where the adds that I ignore live "You can make a lovely hat out of previously-used aluminium foil" Do you think they are trying to tell be something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashmicro Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Being given 5 busted laptops, and making 3 working ones out of them. One of them is a 286/12 with a whopping 1MB RAM, and no hard drive - LAPTOPSHITE! The 286 is also the same weight as a 6 cylinder Landcrab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 I didn't think people still used DOS programs, crt monitors or trackball mice - until I started my current job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 I still use a CRT monitor. It works fine so I see little point in changing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Headaches? Odd. They used to give me backache when I worked in IT. A 21" CRT is bloody heavy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 It's the buzzing sound thy make when on (although tvs were worse for this than pc monitors) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 This made me LOL moar than I should have today: L_J_K_Sethwright Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiatdaft Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 sold that audi the day. yipee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Seth - viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10911&start=15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 Oh, thanks Trig. Missed that one. Oh, for when Autoshite had about 10 posts per day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 How does that mount in the dash then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 , 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". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triang1 Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 , 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cms206 Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Creep Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'coli Posted April 8, 2011 Share Posted April 8, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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