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  1. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    Sorry out of date piece....why do they do that?
     
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  2. Saint Helen

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    They were due to restart filming next week but it sounds very much more serious now :( Love him in Teen Wolf.
     
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  3. Saint Helen

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    No, it's not out of date, just updated with worse news.
     
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  4. Le Tissier's Laces

    Le Tissier's Laces Well-Known Member

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    I was there :)
     
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  5. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Possibly. Most enjoyable lap was the one where Nigel Mansell reeled Nelson Piquet in at Silverstone, sent him a fantastic dummy and overtook him to win. That was in the days when I still watched 4-wheeled sport.
     
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  6. Piebacca

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    Jon Snow is coming back to life this week. My faith is strong.
     
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  8. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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  9. RSS

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    Interesting. I'll need to give that a watch. I climbed Kilimanjaro in October, (a mere smidge at 5895m in comparison to Everest). Its much more of a walkers mountain, with only a little bit of climbing involved. Much less dangerous than Everest in many ways, however it's easy to be caught out by the altitude as you can climb fairly quickly. I got very sick, and had to be rushed down the mountain (having stubbornly pushed on to the summit despite already having dangerously low blood oxygen levels). I was in trouble when I was no longer able to get my body to do what I wanted and kept falling over on the initial descent from the summit. My blood oxygen level was 46% and the amazing porters essentially carried me on their shoulders down to about 4000m. It's easy to be caught out and think you can get through it, but altitude sickness doesn't work like that. Interestingly the smokers in my group consistently had the best blood oxygen levels.
    I'm unlikely to ever take on Everest, though I could be tempted to do Everest base camp. I'll give the film a watch though, from the comfort of my sofa!
     
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  10. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

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    Anyone been watching Hinterland which has escaped from BBC Wales to BBC4. It is a police series set in some godforsaken part of Wales that is so depressing even the sheep have to be kept away from loaded guns and sharp objects in case they off themselves. The director has learnt every trick of the trade from some book that sadly must have had some pages stuck together. No actor ever answers a question directly but prefers to brood into the middle distance....they stand looking at each other as if they are waiting for the director to yell cut or they have forgotten who has the next line.
    Every actor, however small his part, has been told that he has some dramatic back story that can only be imparted by silent stares. Yes, I may be a lowly farmworker pointing out a cottage to a Police Inspector, but I am really a Polish concert pianist who can no longer play since my lover and unborn child died in a plane crash in the Alps. I am doomed to walk this windswept landscape forever giving policemen directions.
    The main character tried to talk down a woman who was suicidal after killing her son...he told her that he felt responsible for the death of his daughter and you never get over it. She jumped....and I'm not even sure that was in the script. Faced with a war-damaged soldier with a loaded gun, would you a) take the gun and get help or b) join in a game of Russian roulette. I think you've guessed the answer.

    I love it.
     
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  11. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    You should probably get a job on their writing team; and moonlight with a bit of Scandinavian noir drama.
     
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    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Bank Holiday shopping ... I don't deserve this :(
     
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  15. davecg69

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    Always sad to see a young life taken too soon. :emoticon-0101-sadsm
     
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    Uh oh - I suppose it would be unfair to tell you I just had a late brunch and am sitting down to do the crossword with a large coffee, good music playing in the background ....... :emoticon-0100-smile
     
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  17. tomw24

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    Wounds. Salt. Rubbing. :)
     
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  18. davecg69

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    Of course!! :emoticon-0116-evilg
     
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  19. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    A lesson for budding computer builders - even the most innocent of arrangements may be the cause of major problems.

    You get so many firsts in screwing around with computers and here's another one for me. A few months back I realised that the puny [puny being relative] 256Gb data HDD in the recycled PC I had was getting a bit tired. The evidence was overwhelming. It was screaming to be let out of the box and do much lighter duties. I must admit, on this quite powerful PC the data HDD does get a hammering. So I replaced it with a 1Tb HDD I bought [yes bought, really] second hand off ebay for almost nothing.

    All was well. Then the freezes started. Right in the middle of something [usually lots of things] boom, gone. OK, restart the PC and we're away again. A couple of weeks later it happened again, then again. Now I was getting a little peeved. I put the old HDD back in and, after a while, boom gone again. OK, now I had to build a trust in the basic components again, by substitution of the hardware. Problem was, nothing worked. I began to suspect the motherboard. This was, after all, a fished-out-of-the-recycle-bin computer, but fundamentally I knew it was OK, as was the CPU.

    To cut, what could be an extremely long story short, I noticed that the HDD message light no longer flashed at me [or the power light for that matter]. Normally, this is nothing. I've never known a system complain if its HDD message light didn't flash. But seeing as the side was off again I pulled off the connection and reversed it, so that the + and - were the right way round. This was sort of done as an afterthought, but it has entirely cured the problem. No more Adobe flash crashing, no more system freezing, nothing. Just bloody quick computing again. I'd obviously reversed the connections at some point during a bit of maintenance. As I said, it's a first.

    I've never cared whether the report lights on a computer function or not. I generally know the thing's working. I do care now.
     
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    Any one that eats at Las Lagunas don't tip.


    Las Lagunas will take tips from staff, even cash ones. They have a rule were the waiter has to pay 5% of the money the table they wait on pay if they are tipped.

    So:

    Table spends: £60
    Waiter gets : £5 tip
    Waiter has to give £3 to owner.
     
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