ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
So, it was you staring over the fence from the park!
Things you'd like to say, but can't
- Thread starter Stig-OT-Dump
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Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
Ditto. Definitely a geography teacher, you are spot on there.He's like a grumpy geography teacher from a 1970s grammar school!
(He is a composite of 3 or 4 of my old teachers ...)
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
So, it was you staring over the fence from the park!
I was looking for someone tall with long hair.
This has to be one of the most anti-social, annoying things that neighbours can do. Our old neighbours used to do it without warning. Luckily they buggered off elsewhere.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
It wasn't this freak was it? I often saw him lurking about ...!
I was looking for someone tall with long hair.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
To just down the road from TMN!
- Location
- Next door to Mr Benn at No 54
That's him, yes.It wasn't this freak was it? I often saw him lurking about ...!
PaulSecteur
No longer a Specialized fanboy
- Location
- Walsall, West Mids.
Mary Berry, Heston Blumen-wotsit, Ramsey, Hollywood. Its just poncy food. Stop treating it like its brain surgery.
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Maverick Goose
A jumped up pantry boy, who never knew his place
- Location
- A champagne supernova in the sky
Mine too...same old suit since 1962He's like a grumpy geography teacher from a 1970s grammar school!
(He is a composite of 3 or 4 of my old teachers ...
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Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
- Location
- Back up north
Microsoft - STOP doing things like making my computer sort out its updates when I switch it on without giving me any choice. I switch it on BECAUSE I WANT TO USE IT, not to sit watching little dots going in circles and reading a message that says 'this may take a while'
Lullabelle
Banana
- Location
- Midlands UK
That really is bad. I will only do ours towards the end of the year when it is a bit too nippy to have windows open.
You're not the only one. I mainly use this tablet for internet stuff and only turn on the computer once a week. That seems to have been a long enough interval for Bill Gates to have completely re-written Windows and then use the first 20 minutes after I pressed the on button to rearrange the furniture. After that every other bit of software I have installed decides to check for and offer me updates.Microsoft - STOP doing things like making my computer sort out its updates when I switch it on without giving me any choice. I switch it on BECAUSE I WANT TO USE IT, not to sit watching little dots going in circles and reading a message that says 'this may take a while'
I just wanted to pay my flippin' gas bill!!!!!
Can you not choose whether or not to permit MS to do things without your approval ? I had a 'Security Update' today and could choose whether or not to let it be done automatically or whether it required my permission.
Guess which one I chose ?
Guess which one I chose ?
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
To the Bianchi riding bloke in the Ipswich Bicycle Club shorts...
The car driver bibbed his horn because your ridiculous wobbly track stand in the advance stop box made it look as if you were going to hit or even fall onto his car NOT because you were in his way - even I couldn't use the box because of your antics. Does it take too much effort to clip out for a minute?
To then ride off pointing out the next advance stop box and cycle lane while shouting "for bikes" but not noticing the car had gone a different direction made you look like a prat. Then, as I followed you at a safe distance, I know you thought you were doing me a favour by pointing out the road hazards as if in a club ride - however they were only a hazard to you as you were riding way too close to the gutter. I was a couple of feet further out in a much better position.
Still, I doubt you'll tell your club mates that a bloke on a heavy Kona CX with full guards and knobbly tyres kept pace with you up Woodbridge Road hill will you?
The car driver bibbed his horn because your ridiculous wobbly track stand in the advance stop box made it look as if you were going to hit or even fall onto his car NOT because you were in his way - even I couldn't use the box because of your antics. Does it take too much effort to clip out for a minute?
To then ride off pointing out the next advance stop box and cycle lane while shouting "for bikes" but not noticing the car had gone a different direction made you look like a prat. Then, as I followed you at a safe distance, I know you thought you were doing me a favour by pointing out the road hazards as if in a club ride - however they were only a hazard to you as you were riding way too close to the gutter. I was a couple of feet further out in a much better position.
Still, I doubt you'll tell your club mates that a bloke on a heavy Kona CX with full guards and knobbly tyres kept pace with you up Woodbridge Road hill will you?
Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
- Location
- Back up north
It took AN HOUR. By which time I had better things to do. So when I eventually switched it on, it said Hi! (Spinney said F*** off). It then said We have updated your computer. (I F***ING KNOW!!!!). And took a further 10 minutes to start, with increasingly annoying 'friendly' messages...
Automatic, but automatic usually involves downloading stuff when you switch off, and maybe a couple of minutes loading/installing/whatever next time you switch on. Not an hour!!!Can you not choose whether or not to permit MS to do things without your approval ? I had a 'Security Update' today and could choose whether or not to let it be done automatically or whether it required my permission.
Guess which one I chose ?
