• United Kingdom chat thread V3: We still miss our empire
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[QUOTE=Doozle;52281925]It's 2017, we got incredibly powerful home computers, electric cars, you can watch live TV while walking down the street But domestic inkjet printers are still complete pieces of shit. [editline]27th May 2017[/editline] I don't think I've ever used a printer that reliably did anything it was supposed to. Yet reliably drop of the network, reliably complain about having no paper despite being full of paper, why can I print barely 20 pages before it runs out of ink that I just bought for some daft amount of money. Why does it take several weeks to cancel a job on the spooler that it's made very little attempt at? And this isn't one brand it's all of them, Epson, HP, lexmark. Every one over the past 15 years has been shit[/QUOTE] it's a conspiracy the government can't shut them down because each time the try to pass a law to make printers not suck the printers "run out of ink" until they cancel the document.
Look's like my move out date is confirmed for next Saturday. Time to move back into the middle of nowhere where the tractors are a bit quicker and everyone is off their heads on Scrumpy. On the plus side, Scrumpy.
[QUOTE=Doozle;52281925]It's 2017, we got incredibly powerful home computers, electric cars, you can watch live TV while walking down the street But domestic inkjet printers are still complete pieces of shit. [editline]27th May 2017[/editline] I don't think I've ever used a printer that reliably did anything it was supposed to. Yet reliably drop of the network, reliably complain about having no paper despite being full of paper, why can I print barely 20 pages before it runs out of ink that I just bought for some daft amount of money. Why does it take several weeks to cancel a job on the spooler that it's made very little attempt at? And this isn't one brand it's all of them, Epson, HP, lexmark. Every one over the past 15 years has been shit[/QUOTE] As an IT consultant, fucking printers are the bane of my life, they literally disgust me. Paper jams, ink issues, fucking toner spewing its shit everywhere, leaks, gear problems and the worst part, end users. The amount of times try hard technicians try to go above IT dept. and try to fix the printer themselfs and end up reconstructing the damn thing backwards and upside down for a feeder issue. Really pisses me off. Not to mention how much of a pain in the arse it is to get it on AD, and then allowing printer sharing off the domain, sitting there with the worst keyboard to input domain creds and shit, and the print spooler on windows is actually the biggest load of shite I've worked with. You want to cancel a job? Well fuck you, restart the service for a 10% chance of it working? Didn't work? Well fuck you restart your PC. Printers man, the one thing in the tech world that hasn't evolved past simple issues. EDIT: Also do yourself a favor, USB that shit because network printers, especially domestic printers are just fucking irritating. And if you have a printer that connects wirelessly, just put the printer in the nearest bin, any will do.
So it turns out my tooth ache [I]is[/I] being caused by my hayfever. There seems to be no part of your face and head that hay fever doesn't fuck up. The air is pain and people wonder why I hate summer with a passion more firey than this contemptable weather.
Watching Dara and Ed's Road to Mandalay. I'm waiting for Dara and Ed's Road to Man-to-lay where Dara finally pops the question to Ed Byrne.
Had an exam then walked down to the centre of Southampton, bought some ice cream and sat in a park with my best mate yesterday, then today I went to the beach with him and a couple of other nice people and had a great time. Don't know what you fucks are complaining about :v:
[QUOTE=Doozle;52281925]It's 2017, we got incredibly powerful home computers, electric cars, you can watch live TV while walking down the street But domestic inkjet printers are still complete pieces of shit. [editline]27th May 2017[/editline] I don't think I've ever used a printer that reliably did anything it was supposed to. Yet reliably drop of the network, reliably complain about having no paper despite being full of paper, why can I print barely 20 pages before it runs out of ink that I just bought for some daft amount of money. Why does it take several weeks to cancel a job on the spooler that it's made very little attempt at? And this isn't one brand it's all of them, Epson, HP, lexmark. Every one over the past 15 years has been shit[/QUOTE] As an offset paper press operator on a press big enough for me to crawl around in, I don't fuck with inkjet printers
That delicious-sounding food you buy too infrequently to remember that it's not as good as you keep imagining. What's its name?
[QUOTE=NeonpieDFTBA;52282873]Had an exam then walked down to the centre of Southampton, bought some ice cream and sat in a park with my best mate yesterday, then today I went to the beach with him and a couple of other nice people and had a great time. Don't know what you fucks are complaining about :v:[/QUOTE] Im at common people this weekend, it was nice yesterday but holy shit what is it doing today
a friend of mine from school performed at common people, he was in "mad king ludwig and co" idk if theyre any good ive never listened to em
Apparently Hampshire was meant to get a storm. Yet no storm, thanks Met Office.
[QUOTE=madmax678;52284580]Apparently Hampshire was meant to get a storm. Yet no storm, thanks Met Office.[/QUOTE] Dorset got it instead.
[QUOTE=zeromancer;52282150]As an IT consultant, fucking printers are the bane of my life, they literally disgust me. Paper jams, ink issues, fucking toner spewing its shit everywhere, leaks, gear problems and the worst part, end users. The amount of times try hard technicians try to go above IT dept. and try to fix the printer themselfs and end up reconstructing the damn thing backwards and upside down for a feeder issue. Really pisses me off. Not to mention how much of a pain in the arse it is to get it on AD, and then allowing printer sharing off the domain, sitting there with the worst keyboard to input domain creds and shit, and the print spooler on windows is actually the biggest load of shite I've worked with. You want to cancel a job? Well fuck you, restart the service for a 10% chance of it working? Didn't work? Well fuck you restart your PC. Printers man, the one thing in the tech world that hasn't evolved past simple issues. EDIT: Also do yourself a favor, USB that shit because network printers, especially domestic printers are just fucking irritating. And if you have a printer that connects wirelessly, just put the printer in the nearest bin, any will do.[/QUOTE] don't forget £700 fuser kits and other plastic bits of crap that costs hundreds just for the printer to recognise it to function
I'm feeling sorry for my dog because of the heat, in the past few days hes had moments of lying down in the coolest room in the house by himself and panting for a couple hours, he likes to be around people but I hate seeing him lie next to me being uncomfortable, or he'll lie down in the corner of my room away from me, he's had issues sleeping and I've heard him walk around the house at night where he'll normally settle next to the stairs. I'm about to take him out on a walk now that its cooled down since its a little late, hopefully it makes him feel better.
[QUOTE=cr2142;52284413]Im at common people this weekend, it was nice yesterday but holy shit what is it doing today[/QUOTE] Yeah it was chucking it down earlier. Glad I wasn't out in it. There was also the storm in the early hours of Saturday - we were going to go to the beach in the middle of the night but figured being on a large, wet, flat surface in a thunder storm was a bad idea.
Ed Miliband never ceases to be my favourite politician: [img]https://i.gyazo.com/cb1728f80bb4b961cfb7401cf89f711a.png[/img]
It seems the entire Pacific ocean is raining down on my house and every crack of thunder I hear I think it's a plane exploding in the sky
[QUOTE=MissZoey;52285670]Ed Miliband never ceases to be my favourite politician: [img]https://i.gyazo.com/cb1728f80bb4b961cfb7401cf89f711a.png[/img][/QUOTE] this man could have had access to the nuclear button
[QUOTE=Crooky14;52285815]It seems the entire Pacific ocean is raining down on my house and every crack of thunder I hear I think it's a plane exploding in the sky[/QUOTE]It just arrived in Basingstoke, scared the shit out of me while i was playing War Thunder. FUNNY THAT.
The F'ing thunder woke me up, it shook my lady parts all to hell. I'm a guy. :thinking:
what a start to a bank holiday monday, seeing someones car on fire [t]http://i.imgur.com/el6g2hr.png[/t]
[QUOTE=The Genie;52287976]Is anyone else getting a ton of attack ads against Labour when watching YouTube? They're really cringey holy shit.[/QUOTE] You're probably in the 1% who don't have adblocker haha
[QUOTE=The Genie;52287976]Is anyone else getting a ton of attack ads against Labour when watching YouTube? They're really cringey holy shit.[/QUOTE] I too am the 1% who has adblocker deactivated on youtube to help give content creators income. The conservative ads started today for me and my god do they piss me off. At least promote your own manifesto instead of shitting on Labour. It's not a tactic that appeals to me frankly. [sp] and I already sent off my postal vote for Labour so I feel like I should really get to be exempt... [/sp]
[QUOTE=Charm6000;52286982]what a start to a bank holiday monday, seeing someones car on fire [t]http://i.imgur.com/el6g2hr.png[/t][/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/rUma7cN.png[/IMG]
[media]https://twitter.com/huwjordan/status/869302539891638272[/media]
I'd like to see the effect of this on the polls, seen as it can only benefit labour and honestly I think Corbyn did a great job.
[QUOTE=MissZoey;52289108][media]https://twitter.com/huwjordan/status/869302539891638272[/media][/QUOTE] No! She's strong and stable and will arrest anyone who says otherwise online! /s
[img]https://preview.ibb.co/jGcafv/18813165_10211803149948696_6526321416653453218_n.jpg[/img] is this a fever dream?
Could this be a Kennedy vs Nixon-scale push towards Labour at the last minute? Corbyn's made it clearer than ever that his own views don't run the party. 'Look at the man in charge of Labour' is a less effective tactic when that man's making it obvious that he doesn't want to impose his views on the rest.
Unfortunately it mostly depends on how the media spin it, and as well as I think Corbyn did there were a few bits that I feel they'll run with to make his performance look worse than it was
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