The grumpy thread

[Stanky]

Ubuntu is GR8, it takes a bit of getting used to, but if something doesn't work just google the issue and there will be a copy and paste solution to fix it. Its a bit more manual than Windows but a lot less of a resource hog.

 

I have a fork of Ubuntu running on my work computer and its absultely brilliant. If you need any help drop me a message and I'll assist. If you want a decent office suite get WPS office, Libre Office and Open Office are just dismal. Its free too.

[beko1987]

Ubuntu is very likeable! Head over to the room you don't like and find techy corner and tell us what it doesn't do that you want it to do...

 

Keyboards are easily changed too

[richardmorris]

Target acquired. Blimey.

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That looks big.

 

My mum, having seen far too many motorcycle accident victims from working in casualty, made me promise never to buy one. Good luck!

[anonymous user]

My mother, an ex casualty nurse, was the same, so I waited until I left home before buying a motorcycle and never told her that I had one

[richardmorris]

My mother, an ex casualty nurse, was the same, so I waited until I left home before buying a motorcycle and never told her that I had one

 

I’ve never been a rebel!

[yes oui si]

I have a new desktop. It has an old-style keyboard that I apparently can't type on. It makes lots of noise. It runs Linux Ubuntu, which is like Windows, but many things don't work. This is going to take some getting used to, but should speed up video production. In theory...

This is the single greatest and most accurate description of Linux that I have ever read.

[dollywobbler]

In other grumps, Direct Ferries. I'm convinced this company is a borderline con. We used them for the Dacia trip, and all was fine. But, I'm off to The Netherlands at the end of the month. At the very least, I could do with changing the booking to reflect the car I'll actually be in, but I'd also like to bring forward the return date. Sadly, the Direct Ferries website will not let me do either of these things, but tells me to call the office. Only, they never answer the phone. Ever. I've seen people online complaining of waiting over an hour and not having calls answered! Customer services doesn't seem to be a thing. Pretty miffed. Now, do I pack for the trip I want to have, or the one I might end up having to have? Arseholes.

[dave21478]

every year or so I would flirt with Ubuntu or Mint or whatever version of Linux was flavour of the month, and it would all go swimmingly with just the odd thing out of place until I had to do something obscure that only needed done on rare occasions and it would all fall over....stuff like getting a scanner to work.

And sure, there is help online, which says "open a thingy box and type this incomprehensible string of symbols...." and I then have to google how to open a thingy box...

I need an idiots guide to Ubuntu thats been simplified even further for a stupider than normal idiot.

[dave21478]

FUCK. RIGHT. OFF.

 

 

These rubbermothers are a hundred and thirty eurosheckels each FFS.

 

Someone better phone the RSPCA and maybe the pope as kittens and nuns will die tomorrow because this is sure-as-shit getting a mushroom plug and to fuck with "too close to the edge".

 

 

[beko1987]

Just put a big blob of tigerseal around the head and screw it in a bit more...

 

I like Linux, get on very well with Ubuntu and Mint and MX, but only ever use them as glorified netbooks, having several (too many now I think about it) windows machines to fall back on.

 

And I have more in my watch list FFS. What's wrong with me? It's because it's usually cheaper to buy whole 'spares or repairs' machines than the parts I actually need, then make one really good one out of 2. Problem is the thinkpad job lots are very cheap...

 

I should start doing youtube videos on them, they get lots of views, views mean money and I need money!

[Lord Sterling]

It's at the other end of town, normally I don't open the garage. I just check that the enormous nettle hasn't moved from the middle of the door. But I had to store a bike in there, I once went and there were Vectra Recaro seats just dumped in the rain. Today there's was a burnt out motorbike.

At least yours is only across town, mine is about 25 miles away in another town. A town which I rarely visit despite having grown up there and having family there. It's actually quite a nice drive through country B-roads and the like, I guess I just don't have enough arsed anymore. Mind you, now the garage is full to brimming, I really do need to get down there.

[DodgeRover]

That looks big.

 

My mum, having seen far too many motorcycle accident victims from working in casualty, made me promise never to buy one. Good luck!

But how many more car accident victims did she see on an daily basis?

[Parky]

On the CBT tests they show some quite graphic pictures of bike accident injuries as an encouragement to wear proper protective kit.

 

Needless to say I would never ride without proper kit regardless of weather! Pretty horrendous stuff, not “wow, that’s an amazing scar, what a road warrior badge of honour you have there” type stuff, more like “how can you function as a human being with all that flesh missing?” type photos.

 

Most car accidents don’t involve sliding along an abrasive surface at 50mph plus, quite a few bike accidents do and the injuries produced are horrendously complicated long term repair jobs. Bones and muscles can be largely repaired with time and plaster, flesh takes an awful lot more to replace and never ever looks like a good repair.

 

Be like Nyphur - overheated but protected!

[Supernaut]

Road rash heals up alright, at least in my experience.

 

I got a lovely bit of road rash on my left arm when I fell off my bicycle last July. I was keeping up with traffic downhill in a 30 zone, and was just wearing a t-shirt and jeans (the helmet didn't help in this situation). It stung a bit, but you can barely tell. It covered most of my left fore-arm too.

[dave21478]

 Someone I know works at a moped rental place in a touristy area full of Club 18-30 oiks. For a lot of renters its their first time on a moped, so she gives the pitch about how to start it, how to refuel etc. Rental includes a helmet and she tells them about wearing protective clothing. While nobody expects folk to be riding mopeds in full leathers around a Mediterranean resort, covering up skin and wearing decent footwear is recommended. She says that as she goes through the explanation...every time...EVERY time, she can literally see the point where they stop paying attention to her when she starts about safety.

At least once a week someone will find out the hard way that if you are going to lose it and go skidding down the road at 30mph then flipflops, booty shorts and a bikini top are not the ideal things to be wearing.

Apparently having your tits cheese-gratered right off is a real hazard.

[Parky]

The last line of that post actually turned my stomach. Glad they only showed pictures of legs and arms with bone showing through shredded flesh on the CBT.

 

Either way you pays your money and takes your chances. Personally I would rather be sliding down a road with leathers and Kevlar on my extremities than a pair of shorts and a vest. Of course the oncoming truck will make a mockery of your existence regardless of what you are wearing.

 

Biking - still fun though!

[3VOM]

FUCK. RIGHT. OFF.

 

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These rubbermothers are a hundred and thirty eurosheckels each FFS.

 

Someone better phone the RSPCA and maybe the pope as kittens and nuns will die tomorrow because this is sure-as-shit getting a mushroom plug and to fuck with "too close to the edge".

At least you will be able to get it out easily....

 

I'll be joining people in the Unbuntu thread wherever it is. Running it to replace Vista on a machine that must be about 15 years old, which wouldn't likely cope with more recent versions of Windows.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

My ancient hp8000 just died a death this morning. W t even boot - disk sounds like it's had it. Ubuntu just sorted too...... annoying. Partitioned and second partition used for photos and the like.

No worries thinks I - old stuff and backed up...... hmmmmmmmm the the fucking external drive that was stolen with my backpack last year from the work desk..........

 

 

Fuck it all!!!!!!!!

[Cavcraft]

The last line of that post actually turned my stomach. Glad they only showed pictures of legs and arms with bone showing through shredded flesh on the CBT.

 

Either way you pays your money and takes your chances. Personally I would rather be sliding down a road with leathers and Kevlar on my extremities than a pair of shorts and a vest. Of course the oncoming truck will make a mockery of your existence regardless of what you are wearing.

 

Biking - still fun though!

 

Sit at my computer nodding in agreement with the 'dress for the slide, not the ride' mentality. Then the sun comes out, and it's shorts and t-shirt on and out for a ride.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

The last line of that post actually turned my stomach. Glad they only showed pictures of legs and arms with bone showing through shredded flesh on the CBT.

Either way you pays your money and takes your chances. Personally I would rather be sliding down a road with leathers and Kevlar on my extremities than a pair of shorts and a vest. Of course the oncoming truck will make a mockery of your existence regardless of what you are wearing.

Biking - still fun though!

We’ve have a collective noun for Sunday riders who rag the shit out of their sports bikes whilst racing their friends on the queen’s highway.

 

Donors.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Sit at my computer nodding in agreement with the 'dress for the slide, not the ride' mentality. Then the sun comes out, and it's shorts and t-shirt on and out for a ride.

Totally get that - here in Belgo fritte land though it is actually law to wear the gear. Plod WILL pull you if out in trainers and jeans/shorts instead of proper boots jacket and bike gear etc.... I think you even MUST wear gloves every time too.

Getting all kitted up to go grab some milk is a bit of a ball ache so the bike doesn't get out as much as I'd like.....

[Guest Hooli]

How does that work with bike jeans?

[Timewaster]

I've only ever ridden in shorts / t shirt once. Southern France on a camping jaunt.

 

It was only a mile or so but I was too busy shitting myself about the potential consequences to enjoy the breeze.

And burning my leg on the exhaust and the heat off the engine... Not enjoyable at all really.

 

A couple of guys at work have ditched the hyper power crotch rockets for Lambrettas.

 

Still fun, but you can just grab helmet and gloves to get milk or whatever and they get used much more often, just on short trips rather than long runs.

 

Me? I just pushed the bike into the shed and left it there.

[xtriple]

Every sunny day, local trips, just grab a helmet and go. Gloves, boots, leathers? No way takes longer to get it all on than to do the trip. I am old, aware of the risks and a pretty observant geezer on a bike (can spot an arsole a mile off - they drive cars!    ) so managed to escape being knocked off for an alarming number of years.

 

I quite like the added danger, heightens your awareness to surroundings and other people. But then, I am odd.

[Eddie Honda]

I am old,

Well I'm not, but pretty much agree with that. If you're too hot, you can't concentrate.

[iainrcz]

Made a recycling box stand a year or two ago, stained it and put a felt top on it.

Great gear.

 

Got some new boxes t'other day.

Do they fit?

 

Do they buggery.

 

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[purplebargeken]

Letter from Enfield council re: garage rent. Has gone up from a tad over 17 quid a week to fucking 33 quid a week!!! WTF? Why??

 

I imagine it won't be long before Mrs PBK identifies this and demands that the garage does one. 

 

Where the fuck I will be able to put the stuff accrued in said garage needs to be thought about when and if she notices (and she will).

 

Bollocks. 

[Wack]

£33 a week that's £1600 a year, hope you've got an old Maserati in it or something that's increasing by more that that

[purplebargeken]

Not much bloody chance of that.

[purplebargeken]

Made a slight error.

 

Went from £16.86 a week in March to £30.42 a week in April. 

 

I hadn't noticed tbh, am stunned Mrs PBK hasn't commented already but it sadly cements the no more chod rule.

 

Cunts