What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[DSdriver]

[Spiny Norman]

 

Stolen for use on Facebook.

[Spiny Norman]

As an alternative to the wall-to-wall Olympics coverage on TV tonight, BBC4 are doing a documentary on Thin Lizzy at 9:15, followed by some other music based WIN, as is often their want of a Friday evening.

[M'coli]

[RedSparrow]

Love that olympic Eddie!

 

Also, some of you chaps are in the computer biz aren't you?

Seriously I need to buy a decent new laptop as cheap as possible. Mine is almost dead. Any recommendations?

[Ross_K]

Don't get a HP!

 

Currys/PC World are doing an alright Lenovo for 269, and an Asus for 289.

[RedSparrow]

Don't get a HP!

 

Currys/PC World are doing an alright Lenovo for 269, and an Asus for 289.

 

Thanks, I'll have a look tomorrow. Nearly got a dell in tescos today, but I promised myself I wouldn't by any electricals from them again.

Also why is everything either 10 or 15.5 inch screen? I kind of wanted something inbetween, I'm sure it used to be possible.

And yeah, I've learnt my lesson with Acers and HP/Compaqs.

[TimothyClaypole]

A cheque today from RBS/Natwest for £3800.00

 

 

(many thanks to a Savings Scheme for stupid people called PPI).

[Spiny Norman]

Currys/PC World are doing an alright Lenovo for 269, and an Asus for 289.

 

The Asus laptop I bought in 2006 is still going strong, I'd definitely have another, especially at that price.

[ayd]

Also, some of you chaps are in the computer biz aren't you?

Seriously I need to buy a decent new laptop as cheap as possible. Mine is almost dead. Any recommendations?

 

Again Asus fan here but if you can hang fire a few weeks the 'back to school' deals should start to pop up in the likes of PC World etc... you can sometimes bag a bargain with a few extras like bag etc. thrown in free.

[Albert Ross]

Last November, I received an inheritance payout after 7 years of wrangling with banks etc. I bought some furniture and a few luxuries, and settled down for Christmas. In April, some thieving little scrote broke into my house and destroyed my peace. Amongst the missing items, the new laptop got stolen. (Toshiba, £430) I waited for the payout for the insurance company, having declared the cost of all missing items. I replaced the laptop with an identical unit, from the same shop. £350.............. For brand loyalty, I got a free antivirus lobbed in, which also covers my Android phone. I was asked why I bought two of the same, within 6 months.... I did wonder if it was a shopworker who had remembered my details, who had "cased my joint", as it were.

[Pete-M]

604 Sold. Not to a banger racer you'll be glad to hear.

[vulgalour]

Congrats, it's been a long old slog but you got there in the end.

[Pete-M]

Indeed. Was quite strange seeing it go. It's the first time I've seen the old bus on the road and it does look cool as.

 

Still, its departure means the Jag can have some much needed TLC and I've got space again.

[eddyramrod]

Well done Pete. I was biting my nails over this one, glad you've found it a home.

[DSdriver]

604 Sold. Not to a banger racer you'll be glad to hear.

 

phew, that's a relief. It's a lovely motor. I hope you told the new owner he has to report back on here regularly.

[dollywobbler]

I imagine there's a LOT of relief on here! Glad you got actual cash for it in the end Pete.

[Timewaster]

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breath a word about your loss;

 

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!

 

–Rudyard Kipling

[skattrd]

Also, some of you chaps are in the computer biz aren't you?

Seriously I need to buy a decent new laptop as cheap as possible. Mine is almost dead. Any recommendations?

 

Dell outlet - factory refurbs with 12 months warranty. Stock changes regularly, so check every few hours.

I got an xps i5 laptop from there 18 months ago, for under £400, very capable laptop with v. nice screen

[skattrd]

Whist test driving an XM I saw a C6 going in the opposite direction ... reg C6 LHM ... made me grin

[dollywobbler]

Something not car. Hounded away from anything to do with actual life by the Oily Pigs, I went YouTube trawling and found this rather delightful collection of Spanish chillout music. It's 50 minutes long. I feel a lot better.

 

http://youtu.be/Ux1LVyhs6Pg

[Pete-M]

Olympics opening ceremony with HMtheQ and Bond.

 

That made me grin massively. I just hope the rest of the world saw the same footage. Well in, Queenie.

[Cavcraft]

Olympics opening ceremony with HMtheQ and Bond.

 

That made me grin massively. I just hope the rest of the world saw the same footage. Well in, Queenie.

 

 

+1.

Didn't watch it all but what I did see was superb. Really well planned/carried out and a joy to watch, another one of those reasons it makes you proud to be British, even if it does seem to be 'unfashionable' at times.

What with the jubilee, the Olympics and our recent superb efforts in the TdF, it's been brilliant to see the Union flag flying much more this year. Once it seemed it had been hijacked by racists and we need to keep finding a reason to fly it imho so they don't appear to have claimed it back.

[kinkersaab]

+1 on the olympic ceremony thing. Was good to watch, although, it took me a while to get into it...

Loved it when Team GB came into the ring and cameras cut to queen with a right "face on"picking her nails....

[Volksy]

cut to queen with a right "face on"picking her nails....

 

Haha, I though she was texting at first!

[Caffiend]

This (from News thread):

 

Things left to do are to underseal the underside, get some Iron Cross stickers, fit the lowering kit and nail some rusty saucepans to the roof. However sadly I think I'm going to end up selling it because I wanted to fit some Triumph Dollspramite alloys and they won't go on. I think the satin black paintwork suits the car, I just need to paint the roofrack (cut down car creeper) silver though I think.

 

[ashmicro]

Olympics opening ceremony with HMtheQ and Bond.

 

That made me grin massively. I just hope the rest of the world saw the same footage. Well in, Queenie.

 

+111. A great day to be British, Paul McCartney notwithstanding (but that's a personal beef). Pete, I got a text from a mate who is working in India, and it was all over the TV there. India and Pakistan don't like each other, but they love our Royal Family.

[Cavcraft]

Paul McCartney is a twat, end of.

[RedSparrow]

I was actually pissed off about the queen. Picking her fingernails looking grumpy when the British team came out. She couldn't look more disinterested, even when the whole stadium turned round and applauded her Ceacesceau style.

Cemented my opinion that the royals should be taken out and shot asap like most of the rest of Europe did years ago.

[wuvvum]

the royals should be taken out and shot asap like most of the rest of Europe did years ago.

What, you mean like Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Belgium...?

 

Anyway, I do agree that the Queen could have made a bit more of an effort when Team GB came out - OK she's pushing 90 and it was getting pretty late by then, but still. I have to say I was pretty surprised by the James Bond segment too - even though she only appeared on screen for about 15 seconds, that's 15 seconds more than any other British monarch has appeared on TV in that context.