What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[daveb47]

Vintage Argos catalogs,a world of memories.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/sets/72157619206330728/with/3593441062/

[Pillock]

I'm with Virgin and even on a pretty sweet retailer deal (£96 worth for £48) it's pap and I need to consider moving, although that's then moving all three services and making sure I don't lose any of the shit telly channels I like to mong out to.

[retrogeezer]

Just moved to BT infinity 2 as Sky couldn't get anywhere near the price for broadband/phone/TV. Got oer 20 meg wirelessly on an old laptop and 55 if I connect to the router. Great wireless signal throughout the house too, My daughters laptop could not be further away from it and still picks up the signal.

 

Infinity 2, phone and TV was £30 (with £145 upfront for a years line rental)

 

Go through quidco and got £110 cashback, a £100 Sainsburys voucher from BT and free Youview box, homehub 5. if you don't have quidco, let me send you a request as I think I get a fiver or something if you join.

 

*edit* it's £140 cashback at the moment!

http://www.quidco.com/bt-broadband/?ac

[r.welfare]

I'm still waiting for BT to upgrade my local exchange to Infinity. Four months late and counting. Will definitely be moving given I live in the sticks and no other provider can get near. It's something like <1.0 Mbps currently. Worth the extra over Virgin, my current provider, despite the fact I still get 50% staff discount (even though I left their employ over 2 years ago).

 

Spent an enjoyable day yesterday recommissioning my brother in laws' 1979 Scalextric set which had been in storage for the last 30 years. Simple oval set up; new braids on the Walter Wolf F1 cars; 150 grit to bring the rails back to a shine and now my five year old daughter is thrashing her old man comprehensively. Drooling over the TR7s and SD1s in the 1980 catalogue currently.

[daveb47]

I get this on Virgin.

 

[r.welfare]

You're a lucky man! VM's FTTH (fibre to the home) is faster than BT's FTTC (fibre to the cabinet), but is entirely dependent on your location. Basically, if you live in a built up area that had cable installed in the late 80s or early 90s by one of the 160 legacy companies that all went bust due to loan default and were gobbled up by ntl or Telewest, you're laughing. But not all cable cabinets and headends were created equal.

[trigger]

This is with BT Infinity unlimited, no idea if it's good or not.

 

[retrogeezer]

Yep, BT FTTC reckon up to about 75ish as you still rely on copper cable from the cabinet to the house at the moment. Fibre all the way to the house will obviously be quicker but no Virgin here. Was stuck with 2.5mb on Sky.

[HillmanImp]

Bloody show offs.

 

[r.welfare]

Ha! Mine's like that.

 

BT are spending an absolute bundle on Infinity but have the advantage of coverage. VM can only cover 50% of the country by population and mainly urban areas. The only extensions come from new developments <500m from existing cable. That said, the speed increases are relatively low cost from upgrading pads and amplifiers in the cabinets - the basic architecture can support much higher speeds than currently.

 

One wonders where this leaves the other providers, the Skys, Talk Talks and Plusnets -I don't know what BT's plans are to LLU (local loop unbundle - i.e. wholesale to other providers) Infinity, because certainly VM have thus far very, very strongly resisted sharing their network with anyone else.

[Cavcraft]

Too thick to be able to post the picture but Ping 16MS, download speed 19.48 Mbps, upload speed 13.40 Mbps.

I don't actually know what any of that means or if it's good or bad, I must add.

[skattrd]

I'm slightly in the sticks, so have been relatively happy with mine:

 

However, as of next Thursday I should be moved on to 21CN, ADSL2+ (which was enabled last week) this should hopefully double my speed. No date for fibre where I am

 

Billy - for fibre thats not gr9 download speed. It's plenty fast enough for most things though.

[catsinthewelder]

Alright I take your point chaps

 

[saucedoctor]

I think Cavcraft is using a laptop w/wifi, so 19/20 is about all you'll see due to the limitations of wifi.

[Cavcraft]

I'm on my main computer, SauceDoctor!

[dollywobbler]

I'm VERY in the sticks.

 

Superfast fibre broadband may be rolled out at my exchange from December '14 though.

[spike60]

I'm with Talk Talk and aside from Email being the shits to log on to sometimes I've no complaints. I rarely download and when I did the speedtest I got 31ms, 7.31Mbps and 0.83 Mbps, though those figures are wildly different to the first set I got 5 minutes before. I too am also too dumb to post snapshops. Good, bad, or indifferent? Urban area.

[Inspector Morose]

 

 

And that's the centre of Brum.

 

Hey ho. It works as well as I want it to.

[morris_ital_lover]

Lad I went to school with came from a very rich family, due to his passion for old cars they bought him a MK1 Escort Mexico and spent thousands on it. What has he just bought to keep it company? Morris Marina Coupe in a lovely faded maroon... Top work sir!

[eddyramrod]

Another vote here for Plusnet.  They were most helpful (and in English!) over the switch from Tesco (another provider to be avoided at all costs).

[MrDuke]

I'm VERY in the sticks.

 

Superfast fibre broadband may be rolled out at my exchange from December '14 though.

 

Oooh, so there's hope for my corner of the province yet! Technically, I'm slightly nearer to main cities, and considerably less remote, but I'm lucky to see half of those speeds ^^. It's only occasionally that I really miss the extra speed (YT videos all play more or less OK, websites load up fast enough with Adblock) but when I do need it, it's immensely annoying (1.5 hours for a lightweight Linux distro to download - GR0.0001)

[Ratdat]

Won an auction for a GRP canopy for my Pony pickup on ebay the other day. 99p BARGAIN. Anyhow, just got off the phone with the seller and it turns out it's actually the canopy off my old red Pony which he's now welded up. Amazing really as it was doing some serious bridge dodging when I got it and I assumed it'd be long gone by now. Good to hear the old shitter lives on!

 

[fordperv]

I spent the Day with sutty2006 and his brother dave at his barn I changed the oil pump on my saph whilst they were doing bits and bobs of their own, had a great brunch in sainsburys halfway through and the Mrs popped up with the dog to see us, I love spending time and working with good folk and I'm not worrying about oil pump failure now, the one I took out was feeling notchy as it turned by hand

[Pillock]

Gullible people.

 

This image popped up onto my Facebook recently:

 

 

The original image has got a fair few "OMG I'm veggie and this is why, you're all eating poison" type comments, and it seemed my friend's share of it was going the same way. So I popped onto Snopes and found http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/msm.asp which is word for word the text in that picture, mostly debunked (it agrees there is some truth to mechanically seperated meat, but the bits about liquidising guts and eyes are predictably made up)

 

However, kudos must go to the other commenter that pointed out that the "factory" in the picture is, in fact, the TellyTubbies Tubby Custard Machine. This one in fact:

 

 

So all in all, a great attempt at stopping people eating meat. NOT. 

[Station]

I get:

 

 

That's fast enough for me, I find other things to do while downloading stuff.

 

I am located in the most bombed UK city during WW2. I'm just with Talk Talk that's all.

[Hertz]

[twosmoke300]

I saw something on Facebook the other day from peta the animal cruelty bods.

It was against ugg boots and showed lots of mutilated sheep (prob dog attacks) and said that this cruelty to sheep to harvest the wool must be stopped.

Now farming has changed a bit in the 15 years since we had sheep but I'm pretty sure sheep shearing is pretty harmless.

Blatent scaremongering.

Loads of people had liked and followed it. Braindead

[Pillock]

Well Uggs are made from Sheepskin, not just wool.

 

However, the number of people posting comments like "WHAAATTTT???? SHEEPSKIN IS THE SKIN OF A SHEEP?" and getting all offended is just stupid. They'll wear leather and suede too. And eat meat. But apparently, one person putting a picture of some bloody sheep and linking it to a single brand of boots without any proof is apparently all they need.

[twosmoke300]

And it's not like the sheep has just been killed for the skin is it? It's a byproduct of the bloody meat industry.

I must admit I didn't even know what ugg boots were so that's my excuse.

[MrDuke]

I hate the idea of mechanically separated meat, but at least I'd get a proper photo of it before starting a scare campaign. Anyway, it wouldn't make me a veggie, I'd just limit myself to meat that was actually sliced from bones. Ethics with Common Sense, that's my motto.