The grumpy thread

[andy18s]

Things like that wouldn't worry Mr Brewer

Remember the "unregistered " Cobra rep??

[Kiltox]

Just tried the plates and they'd have offered me zero for both cars.

Fair enough. Depends on location I guess.

 

CTB is god awful around here.

[dave21478]

why cant technology just fucking WORK?

 

I found some music I have been looking for for a very, very long time on youtube. I googled it and its apparently easy enough to rip audio so I used the first link google suggested. It turned the audio into MP3 and I downloaded them. Hundreds of mb per file, which since my connection runs at 0.7mb at best, a not insignificant downoad time.

Grand though - worth waiting for. Except each file cuts out after 15 minutes or so. Tried various different players, but fucking NOPE - wont play.

 

Ok, its hardly the end of the world and I can look up my youtube history to find the clips again and try another audio ripper but why the fuck do I have do do it twice? I thought the whole point of computers is blah blah blah moan moan fucking moan etc.

 

 

tl:dr - can anyone recommend a thing to download audio from youtube?

[tinribs]

Try jdownloader. Just be mindful of the installer trying to install unwanted shite. I did link to the clean installer, but still. It also works with those "one click hosters" if you ever use them.

 

There are various plugins for browsers but the ones for Chrome don't work on Youtube because Google say so. If you use Firefox try "flash video downloader".

[Ghosty]

Finally moved that desk out of my neighbours' house, and into mine. With this all done I set up my new monitor speakers for the Yamaha DX7 I'm getting for Christmas, and dug the keyboard out to see if it'd fit and how it sounded. After using it for a couple of minutes some bad smelling comedy smoke came out of the keys, and it started powering on and off on its own. I did knock it a bit on the way home because the cheap keyboard bag I bought in a hurry turned out to be a POS that couldn't carry the weight, so I'm worried it might be my fault, but equally I'm wondering if I can get any recourse from the music shop I got it in (typically it's in London).

 

Fuck sake, that's a £200+ brick unless I can find out what's wrong with it (I hope it's not serious).

edit: blown capacitors? seems to be a power supply problem.

 

Also just had to do a £20 refund for something on eBay because it's more broken/temperamental than I thought it was.

[DVee8]

^^ what are the cars? Chuck them on here someone may have a use for them.

[myglaren]

why cant technology just fucking WORK?

 

I found some music I have been looking for for a very, very long time on youtube. I googled it and its apparently easy enough to rip audio so I used the first link google suggested. It turned the audio into MP3 and I downloaded them. Hundreds of mb per file, which since my connection runs at 0.7mb at best, a not insignificant downoad time.

Grand though - worth waiting for. Except each file cuts out after 15 minutes or so. Tried various different players, but fucking NOPE - wont play.

 

Ok, its hardly the end of the world and I can look up my youtube history to find the clips again and try another audio ripper but why the fuck do I have do do it twice? I thought the whole point of computers is blah blah blah moan moan fucking moan etc.

 

 

tl:dr - can anyone recommend a thing to download audio from youtube?

I have been using this for a while now: YouTube to MP3 Converter

 

Used to be, with Linux, that the video you were watching was in the temporary files folder - changing the name stopped it evaporating once finished.

Can never find it these days.

[scaryoldcortina]

Dave, if you send me the youtube links I'll rip the audio and then bung it on a cloud somewhere for you.

[beko1987]

Or Dave's secret Santa match could message you and a old fashioned cd or cheap pen drive could work it's way into the shite Santa gift?

[dave21478]

Thankyou for the offers, but I think I have it sorted - downloading now.

 

 

I never did secret santa this year as its unfair on whatever poor sod has to spend 15 quid to send me a fivers worth of stuff.

[The Moog]

Thankyou for the offers, but I think I have it sorted - downloading now.

 

 

I never did secret santa this year as its unfair on whatever poor sod has to spend 15 quid to send me a fivers worth of stuff.

You are talking about people who buy a ticket for a £5 car which will cost £600 to collect. Logic doesn't apply.

[Parky]

Bought Parky Jr some very nice Basketball boots. He plays for his school so it's part fashion/part sports kit and you know what kids are like these days about labels, etc.

 

He found a pair he liked colour combo he wanted was only offered in the US. No problem, found a reputable site for a Californian Nike retailer and placed an order. All sent registered guaranteed UPS according to the site so I was fairly happy. Price was about the same as in the UK so I thought they were kosher.

 

Well they arrived yesterday in a box covered in Chinese writing.....alarm bells stated to ring. Some investigation suggested they were fakes and a trip to the Nike store revealed that the bar codes and serial numbers are not registered to Nike in the UK or US. The cheeky counterfeiting bastards.

 

Thank Christ I paid on my Visa card as you can do charge back against this sort of thing. I know some people think knock-offs are OK but only if they are mega cheap and obviously fakes but Christ knows what sort of terrorist/triad gang I have inadvertently funded. Also need to cancel my credit card as I have innocently given my details to these scumbags. That's twice in a month I have been scammed so I think my New Years resolution will be cash only.

[xtriple]

Finished writing the piece for 'The Spirit' magazine.  I had forgotten just how bloody hard it is to keep words down and how fucking long it takes to do! Spent days on the bastard and it's still massively too long! Just sent the lot off and let the editor sort my mess out!

[Eddie Honda]

Used to be, with Linux, that the video you were watching was in the temporary files folder - changing the name stopped it evaporating once finished.

Can never find it these days.

I just use youtube-dl with youtube-DLG GUI.

[myglaren]

^Thanks for that - I do look occasionally on what download programs are available but haven't done anything about it.

As said, it used to be deadly simple.

[jakebullet]

This: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38248488

 

Great plan, you're turning left and it's going to be your responsibility to make sure some deliveroo tosser isn't coming up the inside asking for a squashing? Why not have a "no overtaking on the inside" rule instead, like for the rest of vehicles?

[AMC Rebel]

That looks superficially a good idea - it hasn't happened to me (mainly cos I hardly ever ride a bike) but being left-hooked is no fun.  With that said, I cannot imagine how in the name of flip the poor drivers of artics and buses in London would ever be able to turn left again.

 

In the olden days when you could still have a laugh, my mate set one of his washer jets so it soaked any cyclists coming up the inside.

[Supernaut]

This: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38248488

 

Great plan, you're turning left and it's going to be your responsibility to make sure some deliveroo tosser isn't coming up the inside asking for a squashing? Why not have a "no overtaking on the inside" rule instead, like for the rest of vehicles?

FUCK OFF YOU SELF-ENTITLED TWATS!

 

Why can't cyclists follow the universal rule of the road: don't fuck with anything bigger than you.

 

These sort of people make me ashamed to call myself a 'cyclist' and instead I just refer to myself as a person who sometimes rides a bicycle.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

For fucks sake man pull yourself together. It's a rule that puts a responsibility on the driver to check he's not going to squash anyone when he turns left. What exactly is the problem?

 

Yeah of course bikers should not come whanging through on the nearside, but loads do. If they get cleaned up its them who's going to suffer. A rule that puts some responsibility on the driver to check for these people is perfectly sensible.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

As for 'ashamed to call myself a cyclist' what a load of internet outrage bollocks.

[M'coli]

Perhaps drivers could also give fair warning that they're planning to turn left, e.g. by, perhaps, using that little stalk beside the steering wheel that switches on these flashing orange lights on one side of their vehicle?  Seeing as I nearly got into an argument with a tosspot in a Focus the other night as I was crossing a road-end (using the cyclepath) because they couldn't be arsed to use their indicators and then told me to eff off, it's not too much to ask, is it?

[cros]

Radio 4's mid day news has just announced that cases of VD are up in my generation's demographic. The opportunity to contract it would be a fine thing.

[beko1987]

For fucks sake man pull yourself together. It's a rule that puts a responsibility on the driver to check he's not going to squash anyone when he turns left. What exactly is the problem?

 

Yeah of course bikers should not come whanging through on the nearside, but loads do. If they get cleaned up its them who's going to suffer. A rule that puts some responsibility on the driver to check for these people is perfectly sensible.

 

Isn't that like rule 3 of driving anyway, try not to hit/squash/kill anything regardless of if they are asking for it/it's their fault as a matter of course? Yes it might be mightily tempting to squish the cheeky/rude cyclist who cuts you up or tries to beat you to a junction, but in those situations the car driver rarely wins even if they are 'right', so surely just don't hit the fucker?

 

I once drove through Oxford though (to pick Lord Sterling up when he got BV's brothers beemer), fuck me never again! Spent more time looking in the mirrors than ahead! Couldn't overtake at points either because cars on the other side were trying too so we all just ended up doing 7mph along with the bikes until they turned off/a gap appeared/the road widened.

 

Then we got onto the A40 and I slowed again to go past the old rover plant so LS could have a good ogle!

 

TL;DR - Oxford is a prick

[Lankytim]

It does seem to remove the element of common sense from cyclists. Loads of cyclists have been killed passing lorries on the left when they've been turning, visibility on the passenger side of lorries is a problem anyway and you can't check for pedestrians/cyclists e.t.c in every mirror and window at the same time as you turn. Anyone passing on the near side while the vehicle is indicating left or starting to turn is taking their lives into their own hands, it deffo shouldn't be encouraged.

[dollywobbler]

That's what worries me Tim. Frankly, visibility is quite shit even in a car these days. Spotting cyclists is bloody horrendous at the best of times. If it educates people not to overtake a cyclist and immediately turn left across their path, then that's a good thing. I can't say I agree with actually giving cyclists priority though.

[AMC Rebel]

Saw/heard a lorry the other day that had a loud voice wired up to the left hand indicator saying "Attention! this vehicle is turning left" - made me smirk a bit and I thought about how I might re-record the message. 

[Supernaut]

I over-reacted, yes. However if this law goes through I can almost guarantee that the hardcore militant cyclists will take it as free reign to exercise zero common sense (as if they do anyway).

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Well if they do, more fool them as large numbers of them will get squashed! They can argue about whose fault it was from their hospital bed.

[Craig the Princess]

Not a bad idea to make driver's look to the left before turning but if you make it the rule that cyclists have priority up the inside it will empower the twat element to go up the left then complain that a lorry that couldn't see them almost hit them.

 

Edit: or what DW said while I was typing.

[Lankytim]

Cyclists were up in arms over that "cyclists keep back" via loudspeaker, "how dare they tell us what do do, it's their responsibility to check" etc.