The "I'm Such a Fecking Div" Thread

[ian]

If I got rid of the manky old Ikea furniture I could get more bikes in there. We did buy a new Brompton, but that's arriving Sept Oct Nov now.

Not that I cycle much in these plague-blighted days, mind.

[quixoticgeek]

Just get two garages.

I haven't got that many bikes though.

Get more bikes...

J

[citoyen]

Get more bikes...

I like your way of thinking.

[Beardy]

Get more bikes...

I like your way of thinking.

It does seem like the obvious solution and it’s not something your SO can argue with really.

[Mr Larrington]

When binning the plastic wrapping from a six-pack, it is better not to leave a can of Fizzy Pop inside it.  Now it's all warm

[T42]

Opened my workshop windows when the air was cool and set a fan on the windowsill blowing in.  Then proceeded to forget about it until it was already >28° out.

...two days in a row.

[Regulator]

Just get two garages.

I haven't got that many bikes though yet.

FTFY.

[citoyen]

Just get two garages.

I haven't got that many bikes though yet.

FTFY.

Believe me, I'm working on it.

[Mr Larrington]

I should probably have closed the Velux window above my bed before it started raining 

[TheLurker]

I should probably have closed the Velux window above my bed before it started raining 

Nah.  Efficiency.  Kip and a shower at the same time.  More time for drinking coffee when you get out of your (soggy) pit. 

[Mr Larrington]

You know when you've got a load of small fiddly things, right, and you put them in an ice cube tray to make sure they don't get lost, yeah?  And then you knock the ice cube tray onto the floor?

Yes, exactly like that.

[ElyDave]

If you've ever dealt with elderberries, its very much like that. Ping! There goes another of the little fuckers.

Where did It go? Squish!
Oh yes, there it is, staining the floor purple under my foot.

[T42]

...unless it's a tick that just fell off the dog.  Last night, with that in mind, I stalked and pounced on an errant pea that had somehow made it to the skirting beneath the kitchen window.

[Mr Larrington]

Doorbell not working.  Diagnosis: mains wire has come out of transformer.  Unplug, unscrew, poke, prod.  Oooh, look at the pretty blue spark… oh, wait!

No, the doorbell is the one with the WHITE plug

[Mr Larrington]

You know when you've got a load of small fiddly things, right, and you put them in an ice cube tray to make sure they don't get lost, yeah?  And then you knock the ice cube tray onto the floor?

Yes, exactly like that.

“Again!  Again!” cried the invisible Teletubbies in the Chips Room of Larrington Towers.  Mr Larrington duly obliged.  Is it Wrong to install a disk drive using d/s tape?

[Beardy]

You know when you've got a load of small fiddly things, right, and you put them in an ice cube tray to make sure they don't get lost, yeah?  And then you knock the ice cube tray onto the floor?

Yes, exactly like that.

“Again!  Again!” cried the invisible Teletubbies in the Chips Room of Larrington Towers.  Mr Larrington duly obliged.  Is it Wrong to install a disk drive using d/s tape?

i have a large pot of assorted Babbage engine fixings after the last time I took one to pieces*. I can send you a handful if you’d like.

*The intention was to repair it, but it became increasingly obvious economic repair was not an option.

[Mr Larrington]

Ta, o Bearded Wonder, but the d/s tape seems to be working for now.  We'll see how it gets on once the Babbage-Engine gets properly warm.

[fuzzy]

Does the elastic band put the disc drive under tension?

[Jurek]

The SSD which is running this iMac is attached to the back of it using Blu-Tack.

[PaulF]

Ta, o Bearded Wonder, but the d/s tape seems to be working for now.  We'll see how it gets on once the Babbage-Engine gets properly warm.

I'm just waiting for the "Things that go bump in the night" thread now

[ScumOfTheRoad]

“Again!  Again!” cried the invisible Teletubbies in the Chips Room of Larrington Towers.  Mr Larrington duly obliged.  Is it Wrong to install a disk drive using d/s tape?

You have a room dedicated to Chips? With sauce dispensers and deep fryers and everything?
Beats the pants off Dom Cumming's boring old tapestry room.

[T42]

You know when you've got a load of small fiddly things, right, and you put them in an ice cube tray to make sure they don't get lost, yeah?  And then you knock the ice cube tray onto the floor?

Yes, exactly like that.

“Again!  Again!” cried the invisible Teletubbies in the Chips Room of Larrington Towers.  Mr Larrington duly obliged.  Is it Wrong to install a disk drive using d/s tape?

Back in the days when a BFO disk held a whole 14 Mb and the drive weighed over 50 kilos, I saw one installed in a cabinet by four bolts at the front and a couple of zip ties at the back.

[Tim Hall]

When I did the Big Cannibalising Exercise to make one (just about) working Babbage Engine from two banjaxed ones I ended up with an SSD secured by SFA and just resting in the too-big-for-it drive bay.

[T42]

Managed to let the eggs slip down the side of the shopping-bag before squeezing it into a rear footwell.  Crunch.

[Legs]

Daniel (3) is magnetically drawn to the cattle grid at the field entrance over the road.  He's astride his balance bike and the front wheel slips on the wet grate, resulting in a little wail.
Legs (39) crouches down to pick up the pieces, uttering words of sympathy and placation, and finds out just how fucking slippery it was.    Hope I haven't chipped a bone in my ankle...