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  1. Tim V

    Out for a curry!

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      And I was in for a curry!

  2. Tim V

    I would love to be able to visit Leicester, to pay respects to a former King.

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      I would love to be able to visit Leicester, to pay respects to the former Great Central Railway.

    2. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      I would love to be able to visit Leicester, so as to be able to track down the elusive Red Leicester Sausage

  3. Tim V

    Three weeks without broadband. Finally back on line!

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Meanwhile, in an office in Ealing, we've been without broadband and phone since last Thursday and thinking of claiming compo....

    3. Trebor

      Trebor

      ah, the joys of super fast boredband...

       

    4. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Oh Tim, we've missed you!

  4. Tim V

    22 minutes into a call to our broadband providor...

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      How much of that was being held in a queue whilst being told that your call is important to them?

    3. Trebor

      Trebor

      I just got 65.00quid refu ded for missed appointments and utter incompitence...

    4. Tim V

      Tim V

      I gave up at 30 minutes, then emailed them. I am extremely p****d off!

  5. Tim V

    Bleeding Radiators

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    2. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      Poor radiators. Murdered from behind.

    3. RedgateModels

      RedgateModels

      Not got any - warm air heating is great!

    4. Tim V

      Tim V

      The saga continues...

  6. Tim V

    C**pware on tablet....

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Was it a laxative tablet?

    2. Trebor

      Trebor

      Soon to e replaced with jmri I hope...

    3. Tim V

      Tim V

      Rooting eventually solved the problem!

  7. Tim V

    If you don't know what to do with those chickens, give them to me and I'll sell you their eggs.

    1. SHMD

      SHMD

      I/we want two chickens!

    2. davefrk

      davefrk

      But, have you got a rooster????

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Five buckets of apple juice

  8. Tim V

    If I got Sky TV, and watched it, would I be able to avoid Sky TV adverts?

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    2. Steve Taylor

      Steve Taylor

      7/8lb sausages, and don't do it. Any advantages brought by sky (or virgin or any other) are quickly nullified by a lack of interest in celebrity driven "yoof" telly.

    3. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      I remember when I tried Sky. Instead of five channels of terrestrial crap, I suddenly had a choice of over 400 channels of satellite crap.

    4. farren

      farren

      No you end up with emails saying how much you can save with this that and the other.

      Plus when you phone them up you get a text asking to do a flameing questionnaire every bleeding time.

  9. Tim V

    Just had to take avoiding action when a driver reversed into an A road from her drive. Now I've just read that the DVSA is contemplating dropping reversing into parking spaces. Says it all...

  10. Tim V

    Is then no nook of English ground secure. From rash assault? Wordsworth 1844 on the railway from Kendal to Lake Windermere

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      No crannies either

  11. Tim V

    So you win again, you win again...

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Green vegetables

  12. Tim V

    Guy Fawkes, the only person to enter the Houses of Parliament with honest intentions....

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    2. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Yes, a totalitarian dictatorship seems preferable these days.

    3. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      Tripe

    4. cornamuse

      cornamuse

      love the comment!

       

  13. Tim V

    And there but for fortune, may go you or I

  14. Tim V

    A tip is not the law

    1. DougN

      DougN

      Be good to your mother?

    2. DougN

      DougN

      Or... Be good to your children they choose the nursing home....

  15. Tim V

    A brave man once requested me to answer questions that are key 'is it to be or not to be' and I replied 'oh why ask me?'

  16. Tim V

    Just turned out the lights

    1. 10800

      10800

      I hope many did.

  17. Tim V

    "Whom computers would destroy, they would first drive mad..." Anonymous

    1. Captain Kernow

      Captain Kernow

      'Madness is as madness does'...

  18. Tim V

    Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mecanics 1949

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    2. NGT6 1315

      NGT6 1315

      640K ought to be enough for anybody. - Supposedly said but denied by Bill Gates.

    3. SHMD

      SHMD

      I once Said 4k would be enough!!

    4. figworthy

      figworthy

      I had some college notes from the early eighties stating that a main frame was a computer with more than 1 meg of memory.

  19. Tim V

    A bus station is where a bus stops. A Railway station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a work station...

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    2. Mallard60022

      Mallard60022

      Like.....

    3. lyndonsdad1

      lyndonsdad1

      and me

    4. Judge Dread

      Judge Dread

      Don't like people saying "like" every other word! You know what I mean.

  20. Tim V

    Yesterday, Portaloos, now today, the people to fill them. Yes, it's Glastonbury time again - traffic chaos!

    1. Horsetan

      Horsetan

      Apparently copious mud is promised...

  21. Tim V

    Just seen several hundred portaloos on their way to Glastonbury!!

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    2. Tim V

      Tim V

      You said it!

    3. Trebor

      Trebor

      Is this a new definition of taking the P**s

    4. Trebor

      Trebor

      Is this a new definition of taking the P**s

  22. Tim V

    All my life's a circle, sunrise and sundown The moon rolls through the nighttime, till the daybreak comes around

    1. Metr0Land

      Metr0Land

      Are the New Seekers still new?

    2. Tim V

      Tim V

      I'd forgotten they did it, it was Harry Chapin I remembered!

    3. trisonic

      trisonic

      Oops!

       

  23. Tim V

    just spotted a new digital channel, Channel 5 -24. yes it's tomorrows programmes. No sign of tomorrows news though....

  24. Tim V

    Spent a lot of today on the West Somerset travelling behind Thomas the Blue Engine....

  25. Tim V

    Spare Multimeter packed up

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    2. Tim V

      Tim V

      Defunct!

    3. BoD

      BoD

      Just as well it was the spare then.

    4. Tim V

      Tim V

      Yes, a quick test with my main one showed the problem. Always have two!

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