What's Boiling Your Pi$$ Today?
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chas
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Scrappy
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For me printers have been cause of much stress and some violence in the past, and I discovered printers don't put up much resistance to a fight. However my current printer has been working faultlessly for about 18 months so far. I can recommend the HP Envy 6000 series printer/scanner/copier and the HP ink subscription service which cost £3 a month and they automatically send you ink cartridges before you run out, which is quite good considering colour and black cartridges for my old printer were nearly £40.
John Lewis provide a two year guarantee, if you buy from them. (Edit: HP provide a two year warranty)
HP ENVY 6020e All-In-One Wireless Printer, HP+ Enabled & HP Instant Ink Compatible, Cement
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Tallpaul
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Thanks for the info, but I have decided to try to go "print free". Most stuff is digital and can be downloaded to my phone.For me printers have been cause of much stress and some violence in the past, and I discovered printers don't put up much resistance to a fight. However my current printer has been working faultlessly for about 18 months so far. I can recommend the HP Envy 6000 series printer/scanner/copier and the HP ink subscription service which cost £3 a month and they automatically send you ink cartridges before you run out, which is quite good considering colour and black cartridges for my old printer were nearly £40.
John Lewis provide a two year guarantee, if you buy from them. (Edit: HP provide a two year warranty)
HP ENVY 6020e All-In-One Wireless Printer, HP+ Enabled & HP Instant Ink Compatible, Cement
Buy HP ENVY 6020e All-In-One Wireless Printer, HP+ Enabled & HP Instant Ink Compatible, Cement from our Printers range at John Lewis & Partners. Free Delivery on orders over £50.www.johnlewis.com
I purchased one of these for £22.99 (Actually It was £27.99 but I had a free £5 voucher for registering another payment card)The scam that is Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. I don't think I've seen any genuine bargains, but I have seen loads of examples of rip offs.
Some examples:
- A few weeks ago I purchased a guitar for about £350, that same guitar is now supposed to be on sale at £350
- Amazon have been selling certain brands of whiskey at decent prices for some time, but about 2 weeks ago all the discounts finished, then comes Black Friday sales and the prices go back to the same they were a couple of weeks ago e.g. Tullamore Due was about £16 then went up to about £22, now "on sale" for £17
- I brought a guitar effects pedal exactly 2 weeks ago for £19.60, now its in the Black Friday sales for £51.16 with 25% off making it £38.37 nearly twice what I paid 14 days ago!
Its disgusting, but I guess there are some very stupid people that fall for these obvious scams
Amazon are claiming the regular price is £49.99. No idea if that's true, but it's an awesome bit of kit.
I recently upgraded my phone contract to get 120GB of data per month. Thus enabling me to set up a wifi hotspot to use the Fire TV Stick on any non internet enabled telly as long as it has an HDMI & USB socket.
My Ford has a UK 3 pin 240v socket. So, technically I could watch internet telly when out & about anywhere that I can get a phone signal
Sometimes I don't hate technology. Just most of the time!
Big Sandy
Legendary Knight
Sat in the T4 with a burst cooling pipe, (one of the steel ones, couldn't be simple, could it?) awaiting recovery. 3 hours so far.
Guy came and looked at it an hour ago, said "needs recovery" and left. Pffft. Told them it wasn't fixable at the roadside when I rang them.
Guy came and looked at it an hour ago, said "needs recovery" and left. Pffft. Told them it wasn't fixable at the roadside when I rang them.
Why do they never accept that you know it needs recovery? Just adds ages to your waiting time.
Don the Don
Legendary Knight
I called the AA years ago to say my 1983 Triumph Acclaim required a tow truck.
The conversation went something like this...
"We can't take your word for it Sir. It could be fixable at the roadside?"
"There's a piston & rod hanging out of the side of the engine block!"
"There's a what?"
"Please just send a recovery truck"
"No can do Sir, but a patrol is on its way"
Patrol turns up, I lift the bonnet & he says...
"Oops! That's f#cked mate. You'll be needing a recovery truck"
"Thank you so much for your expert diagnosis of the fault!"
Fortunately the pistons bid for freedom happened approx 50m from a pub. And being the forward thinking/resourceful fella that I am. I managed to freewheel into the car park.
The landlord was kind enough to open the place at around 9am due to my predicament. So we drank beer & put the world to rights.
Well, it would have been rude to refuse, wouldn't it
Scrappy
Legendary Knight
I called the AA years ago to say my 1983 Triumph Acclaim required a tow truck.
The conversation went something like this...
"We can't take your word for it Sir. It could be fixable at the roadside?"
"There's a piston & rod hanging out of the side of the engine block!"
"There's a what?"
"Please just send a recovery truck"
"No can do Sir, but a patrol is on its way"
Patrol turns up, I lift the bonnet & he says...
"Oops! That's f#cked mate. You'll be needing a recovery truck"
"Thank you so much for your expert diagnosis of the fault!"
Fortunately the pistons bid for freedom happened approx 50m from a pub. And being the forward thinking/resourceful fella that I am. I managed to freewheel into the car park.
The landlord was kind enough to open the place at around 9am due to my predicament. So we drank beer & put the world to rights.
Well, it would have been rude to refuse, wouldn't it
You drove a Triumph Acclaim
The one with the 1.3 Honda engineYou drove a Triumph Acclaim
My Grandad was so proud that I owned a Triumph. And he warned me about the powerful nature of such a machine.
Then I told him about the Jap engine. It all went a bit Pete Tong at that point!
I expected to find it with garlic hanging from its door mirrors & a pile of bibles on the bonnet
PS....
I got it dirt cheap as an insurance write off. It had a coming together with a fat old labrador. That was enough to f#ck the lower valance, bumper, grille & both wings. But there was zero structural damage. Approx £100 later in the scrapyard & half a day swapping the panels. It was as good as new!
Then I blew it up by driving it like a teenage bellend. I'm no longer a teenager but everything else remains very similar
Don the Don
Legendary Knight
The thing about the old days and the cars that shamed a generation ie anything made by BL, you drove them, they broke down, you dumped them and thumbed a lift home and bought another one
Scrappy
Legendary Knight
The one with the 1.3 Honda engine
My Grandad was so proud that I owned a Triumph. And he warned me about the powerful nature of such a machine.
Then I told him about the Jap engine. It all went a bit Pete Tong at that point!
I expected to find it with garlic hanging from its door mirrors & a pile of bibles on the bonnet
PS....
I got it dirt cheap as an insurance write off. It had a coming together with a fat old labrador. That was enough to f#ck the lower valance, grille & both wings. But there was zero structural damage. Approx £100 later in the scrap yard & half a day swapping the panels. It was as good as new!
Then I blew it up by driving it like a teenage bellend . I'm no longer a teenager but everything else remains very similar
My step dad had one, and was quite proud of it, he didn't appreciate me saying that I preferred his previous
His
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Is that not a Dolomite Sprint?My step dad had one, and was quite proud of it, he didn't appreciate me saying that I preferred his previous Toledo Sprint
His Toledo was green like this:
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One of the first mainstream production 4 cylinder engines to have 16 valves.
Scrappy
Legendary Knight
Cool!Yes it was a Dolomite he had. Where did I get Toledo from
I'll collect my anorak on the way out. I borrowed it from Sarky. So it's a bit on the snug side & the big pocket in the front is full of Vicks Vapour Rub, train spotting guide books. And a copy of Mens Health magazine with several pages stuck together
Doc Strange
Legendary Knight
Yes it was a Dolomite he had. Where did I get Toledo from
There was a Toledo and a Dolomite - one was more powerful than the other iirc.
It'll be out there on the interweb somewhere!
DS
Sarky B’stard
Legendary Knight
Toledo was an asthmatic 1300 in a shortened body. The Standard 1500 shared its floor pan with the 1850 Dolomite and 2000 Dolomite Sprint with a revised cylinder head that produced a mighty 135 bhp SAE because it sounded more than 127 bhp DIN..... !
My Mum had the 1500
. It was a plush looking dog.
My Mum had the 1500
. It was a plush looking dog.
MartytheMartian
Legendary Knight
Boiling my piss today is that black woman hounding an eighty five year old woman as a 'racist' because she ballsed up trying to make conversation. She is clearly out to make as much capital out of the incident as she possibly can. She has turned what was more than likely a cack handed attempt at being friendly and inquisitive into seeming to be something akin to an SS interrogation and the press are loving it because it gives them another chance to bash the Palace and the white population at large with accusations of racism. I find the sheer brutality and willingness to destroy others for personal gain these days really disgusting.
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