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    Originally posted by DaveB View Post
    Well that's tonights dinner sorted then
    Yes indeed

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      Have I mentioned the optimist who asked for a 40 pin DIL wire wrap socket last week?

      In the interminable night on 14 years I've suffered here, not once has anyone asked for a wirewrap socket.

      So the remaining unused stocks got left where they were during the move and presumably ended up in a skip.

      It was inevitable, really.
      When the fun stops, STOP.

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        Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
        Have I mentioned the optimist who asked for a 40 pin DIL wire wrap socket last week?

        In the interminable night on 14 years I've suffered here, not once has anyone asked for a wirewrap socket.

        So the remaining unused stocks got left where they were during the move and presumably ended up in a skip.

        It was inevitable, really.
        Always the way

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          FFS. My iMac has gone tits up after a software update. Just Works indeed

          Now having to dick around getting it working again

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            Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
            FFS. My iMac has gone tits up after a software update. Just Works indeed

            Now having to dick around getting it working again
            Had that trouble with my iRon last week <had to dress up for a thingy>
            unplugged it and replugged it, and it worked fine

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              Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
              FFS. My iMac has gone tits up after a software update. Just Works indeed

              Now having to dick around getting it working again
              Funnily enough, a friend in Canadia is complaining about the same thing. Haven’t switched mine on since yesterday, so I can’t comment.

              In other news, The Raven in Glasgow has Stay Puft in cans.
              …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                Originally posted by WTFH View Post
                In other news, The Raven in Glasgow has Stay Puft in cans.
                is that like 'wounds my heart, with monotonous langour'?

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                  Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
                  It's open!
                  So, I went there and… not massively impressed, TBQH

                  The menu is fairly restricted - lamb or chicken "shawarma", also known as lamb or chicken doner in my book. No shish or anything else along those lines

                  They have, however, given over a fair bit of space at the back of the shop to a pizza oven and whatever else is needed to make pizzas, so presumably they expect that to be a big part of their business. In other words, it's a pizza shop with with a kebab shop bit on the front

                  Anyway, once I'd given up on my dream of a mixed grill, I tried the chicken doner meat and chips. In fact, I asked for lamb, but they were busy getting confused over a six-person order, and by the time they made the mistake I'd clocked that the lamb was looking a bit overdone, so I took what I was given.

                  It was pretty nice, actually, and a bit better than a lot of kebab shops manage. But there's a good kebab shop a few doors up the road, which is on the way back from the pub and which I've visited occasionally for over twenty-five years. And if I want a kebab for tea, as opposed to a drunken late-night snack, I drive all the way across town to a really good place I lived near over thirty years ago.

                  So I might end up going there again, but I doubt it'll become a regular thing. But the food's OK; just not anything special, and sadly lacking in the shish department.

                  If anything, I could have done with them a year or so ago when I couldn't drive or carry anything very far

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                    Tea/dinner/lunch/breakfast was more of Sunday's Saturday's lamb, which was very nice, followed by a slice of Vienetta which set my sensitive crown off with a vengeance.

                    Entertainment this evening was provided by "Street Kings" with Keanu Reeves, Forest Whittakeer, Hugh Laurie, et al.

                    Street Kings (2008) - IMDb

                    It was suitably insane & bloody, with an intermission to fit in the thing about Wales at 20:00.

                    And now it's TFBSZ.
                    When the fun stops, STOP.

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                      Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
                      FFS. My iMac has gone tits up after a software update. Just Works indeed

                      Now having to dick around getting it working again
                      Oh Dear (tm) guess what someone has been doing all afternoon.

                      All 7Gb of updates.

                      Even worse that M$.



                      I bet I'll get a sob story tomorrow.
                      Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 10 December 2018, 22:26.
                      When the fun stops, STOP.

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