Trivial things you don't understand/mildly annoy you

[Flashheart]

Oh, I know about it.

[Peter Venkman]

Oh, I know about it.

You will soon know more if its the size of these kidney stones!

[Bewster]

Oh, I know about it.

Sounds a bit daft but I've suffered in the past and used to drink lemon juice/cider vinegar mixed with olive oil washed down with a lot of water. It really helped with my symptoms.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/138953-how-use-olive-oil-lemon-juice-kidney-stones/

[Peter Venkman]

drink lemon juice/cider vinegar mixed with olive oil washed down with a lot of water.

It will never catch on.

[Bewster]

It will never catch on.

it burns your insides like a bastard but if it eases the unbelievable pain then its worth a try

[Peter Venkman]

it burns your insides like a bastard but if it eases the unbelievable pain then its worth a try

I passed a stone when I was 20 and yes that hurt like hell, luckily had none since.

[Bewster]

I passed a stone when I was 20 and yes that hurt like hell, luckily had none since.

I had two +  two operations

[Barry Scott]

That cunting PC I've been modding - or more specifically HP and their proprietary bullshit.

So, I got the cooler mounting kit from Noctua. Great.

HP hve designed their backplate and motherboard mounting system to make even this kit impossible. Not to be defeated, and powered by anger, I took a fucking drill to the case and the shit sent to me by Noctua and drilled, hacked and smashed the shit out of the motherboard and cooler mounting thing until I could then bodge parts of the Noctua kit into making my cooler mount upon my CPU. Barry 1 - 0 HP.

Cooler mounted, rewired from 4 pin fan to 5 pin to prevent HP forcing me into using their tripe and then turn it on. Boom, works great, the BIOS accepted the new CPU without issue, the RAM was perfect and resting temps of cores 22˚c. Then it dies.

Turn it back on, it just goes into a restart loop. Go into safe mode and it's fine. Restart, fine, then crashes, then restarts and restarts and restarts.

Finally worked out it seemed to throw a fit when it was just about to ask for my password as sometimes the screen went funny at that exact second. So I pull out the graphics cards, put in and older 256MB one and works fine. So it seems my guestimate of my standard PSU being powerful enough was wrong. Great.

Now I have to bodge a PSU so that I can run all my new hardware because HP decided it was beneficial to again make expensive, noisy, proprietary shite that only they sell. Fuck you HP, fucking fuck you.

[Samdy Gray]

Mines technology related too. Before the Focus went back last week I took the time to remove the dash cam I'd wired in, ready to be installed in the new car. Picked up the new car Thursday, mounted the camera and ran the cable behind trims and seals to the fusebox, all nice and tidy.

Had to wait until today to actually get it wired in because I needed some crimp connectors which were arriving in the post. I wire it in using this piggyback connector which goes in place of a fuse in the fusebox, means you don't have to splice any wires and makes it nice and easy to remove in the future.

Finally got it all ready to be plugged in and realised the bastard fuses in the new car are a different size to the bastard fuses in the old car. Now another wait whilst I order another eBay part.

Bloody car manufacturers using different sized components.

[Red Frog]

Bloody car manufacturers using different sized components.

Just wait until the UK stops adhering to European standards. I kid you not. I had to check the holes a British colleague and I had punched in our A4 paper were the same gauge this summer. You have no idea of the multiple tiny benefits of a united Europe.

[Batch]

talking of cars. lost  my keys today (now found). had to use the spare to get to work. the remote lock battery was gone. opened it with key.. beep beep beep. started engine with key, beep beep beep.

who the fuck designs a car that can validate the immobiliser chip to start but doesn't shut off the alarm when it does. Toyota.

thought it was cream crackered, but seems this is the norm. lock with key, open with key OK. lock with fob, open with key - alarm carmageddon.

[Red Frog]

carmageddon.

Nice. 

(You're secretly quite pleased with yourself aren't you.)

[Batch]

I am, but I've used that mentally for some time.

 it's the word I use for those inexplicable days where you see lots of broken down cars on the motorway. like this evening. 3 breakdowns and I only did Chippenham j17 to Swindon j16.

[Red Frog]

Maybe it was all my years with OUP, but I enjoy seeing a new word grow from the ground up. I've already had three more people adopt Fuzzy's perfect description of the outside-lane-90mph-Beemer/Merc/Audi-patrol as "Wankpanzers".

[Batch]

I like that one