The grumpy thread

[skattrd]

It serves you right for using Macbooks - Apple are evil

[vulgalour]

Authors have been warning us that Apple is evil for years, remember Snow White? Evil Apple.

[scaryoldcortina]

  volksangyl said:

Authors have been warning us that Apple is evil for years, remember Snow White? Evil Apple.

 

 

Genesis 3:6

[pompei]

Their famous unreleased bootleg

[messerschmitt owner]

  Negative Creep said:

maybe it is jut me, but surely the only sensible design for an extension lead is to have the leads to the outside? Surely, the fault is yours for buying 1. an eight plug extension lead, when you can theoretically only take 13A out of the socket and 2. buying one where the plugs go in the wrong way!!!

[cheguava]

  messerschmitt owner said:

maybe it is just me, but surely the only sensible design for an extension lead is to have the leads to the outside? Surely, the fault is yours for buying 1. an eight plug extension lead, when you can theoretically only take 13A out of the socket and 2. buying one where the plugs go in the wrong way!!!

 

I think you can either have sensible design, or cheap design. Think of the pennies saved on the earth for that baby! Plus, a conventional plug lead exits from the other side to the earth pin.

[DSdriver]

More to the point, the number of different transformer plugs needed nowadays is ridiculous.

[scaryoldcortina]

^ especially considering 95% of them are 5VDC.

[skattrd]

I've been hijacked in to helping a mate collect a car for his girlfriend ... a Nissan Almeria, really can't be arsed

[MrDuke]

  messerschmitt owner said:

  Negative Creep said:

maybe it is jut me, but surely the only sensible design for an extension lead is to have the leads to the outside? Surely, the fault is yours for buying 1. an eight plug extension lead, when you can theoretically only take 13A out of the socket and 2. buying one where the plugs go in the wrong way!!!

 

The sockets are facing the right way for a normal plug - for some reason, newer transformer plugs are arse-about-face. If you plugged them into the wall, the leads would go upwards.

 

On a similar note, why exactly do my landline phone base and router even need transformers, when they have no separate battery units, and therefore no apparent need for reduced voltage input?

[FredTransit]

Bollox. SWB minhbus failed her test today (bit of welding and a headlight out). Retest monday. The LWB gearbox went tits up too and so might have to take an amby to the shops at this rate!

[scaryoldcortina]

House phones and routers have mains adapters because they contain circuitry that can't be powered from the phone line. They don't have batteries because they aren't required to be mobile.

[autofive]

 

 

scary did a temp. repair on the granada auobox cooler pipes weeks ago, and today i had to extend both, while getting dripped on. After taking deep puddles at speed this morning one was dripping and the other 'seeping'. but after I cleaned the atf to have a better look and restarted the engine one became a fountain.

 

Think i might have to replace the whole steel pipe.

[Albert Ross]

This solves at least 2 issues..... your leak and the leak in SOC's kitchen. He's used his fucking gas pipe!

[autofive]

  Albert Ross said:

This solves at least 2 issues..... your leak and the leak in SOC's kitchen. He's used his fucking gas pipe!

 

yes, it was a temp repair, and no steel pipe of the right diameter was available, today i bought more pipe and olives

[warren t claim]

W.T.C is now single. Not sure how I feel about it at the moment as it was my idea/fault.

[Cavcraft]

[warren t claim]

  Cavette said:

 

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... R3M9K4cmSA

[MrDuke]

  scaryoldcortina said:

House phones and routers have mains adapters because they contain circuitry that can't be powered from the phone line. They don't have batteries because they aren't required to be mobile.

 

Yeah, I understand why they need mains power, and why they don't have batteries. I just don't understand why the voltage needs reducing, necessitating a whacking great transformer plug. Surely they could've designed them to take 240v? Sorry, I'm in truly pedantic mood at the moment.

[scaryoldcortina]

  MrDuke said:

  scaryoldcortina said:

House phones and routers have mains adapters because they contain circuitry that can't be powered from the phone line. They don't have batteries because they aren't required to be mobile.

 

Yeah, I understand why they need mains power, and why they don't have batteries. I just don't understand why the voltage needs reducing, necessitating a whacking great transformer plug. Surely they could've designed them to take 240v? Sorry, I'm in truly pedantic mood at the moment.

 

OK, imagine you are the manufacturer of these items, and are based in south east asia somwhere - what is easier, making one appliance and boxing it with a suitable mains to DC adapter for the country you are shipping to or making 27 variants on the appliance.. Also transformers are bulky and people (marketing people) like their electronic giszmos as small and sleek as possible.

 

[PhilA]

Yep, and it also covers for crappy design- we had a job lot of cable modems (500+) which had a tendency to burn up their power supplies during bad weather. If they were all in one then we'd have to change the entire thing out. Plus it keeps the quite considerable heat a switch-mode power supply creates out of the device itself.

 

Here most low voltage adapters have two pins which aren't polarized, so you can arrange them on a power strip as needed, but there's always the few which fit the stupid way and take up the entire power strip or go over the switch...

[MrDuke]

Extra marks for using XKCD to illustrate your point, SOC

 

Just to add to my irritation, why do the adaptor plugs have their output voltages printed in the tiniest font possible, meaning that by the time I've found one, then found my glasses, then found a magnifying glass, then read through the whole label, then found and read another five plugs, I can't remember what I wanted the fecking thing for in the first place? I thought the other ends were supposed to be colour-coded, but none of mine seem to be?

[Ross_K]

  scaryoldcortina said:

OK, imagine you are the manufacturer of these items, and are based in south east asia somwhere - what is easier, making one appliance and boxing it with a suitable mains to DC adapter for the country you are shipping to or making 27 variants on the appliance.. Also transformers are bulky and people (marketing people) like their electronic giszmos as small and sleek as possible.

 

I spent today doing warranty repairs on a bunch of T*****a-branded laptops. All of the laptops were made in the last three years (by the same manufacturer) but five different power supply connectors... Arse.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

  MrDuke said:

Extra marks for using XKCD to illustrate your point, SOC

 

Just to add to my irritation, why do the adaptor plugs have their output voltages printed in the tiniest font possible, meaning that by the time I've found one, then found my glasses, then found a magnifying glass, then read through the whole label, then found and read another five plugs, I can't remember what I wanted the fecking thing for in the first place? I thought the other ends were supposed to be colour-coded, but none of mine seem to be?

 

Dearie me you are having a bad day arent you!!!! Come on Meldrew get it together.

[Micrashed]

Managed to tear my supraspinatus tendon again and its bloody agony. Not only that my left arm wont go up and down any more.

 

Thank crap its not my wanking arm

[warren t claim]

Having a very public row with my ex. Not good at all.

[morris_ital_lover]

  Quote

"The Skoda Citigo Your New Communication tool"

 

No it's a car you shower of cunts.

[Polystratus]

  morris_ital_lover said:

  Quote

"The Skoda Citigo Your New Communication tool"

 

No it's a car you shower of cunts.

 

Seen one of these at a car show recently, wasn't at all impressed- felt cheap, ,was about £10k and the sales chap on the stand said I could have a brand new Fabia for £8k

[Vin]

I just had to google 'skoda citigoo' as I'd never heard of it.

 

Saw what came up through google images, then realised I saw one the other day. Well, what I saw had a VW badge on but I can't remember what the model badge said. Twas all a bit

[morris_ital_lover]

VW are mastering the badge-engineering system there's the Up! and the Citigo and possibly Audi/Seat versions... there's as much difference between them as the various ADO16s. It's their Citigo's advert that the most annoying as it trys to appeal to "yoof" with their wanky faux-funny advert showing their cars as the latest piece of tech to compliment the MacBook Schmo and WANKYPHONEhd.