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#31
Film & TV / Re: Current TV Boxset Addiction
06 September, 2023, 11:49:50 PM
Quote from: Definitely Not Mister Pops on 06 September, 2023, 12:14:13 AMI'll see your daft saucer separation and raise you "Fully Functional", or the episode when they visit Planet of the Tit-Tapes, Wesley is put on trial for violating a shrubbery and Picard's response is "Tough shit Bev". Or every scene with Worf.


You forgot the Scottish ghost fucker
#32
PRSVRYPRFCTMN, / VRKPTHSPRCPTSTN

Inscription from a Welsh church, over a depiction of the ten commandments (clue)
#33
Off Topic / Re: Threadjacking!
28 August, 2023, 04:49:25 PM
Quote from: JohnW on 25 August, 2023, 10:35:58 PMToday I bought the affection of my students with ice cream.

And they say educational standards are slipping.
Northing wrong with it. In my day it was wheeling in the big telly on a stand that would win over any class
#34
Attempt #2 - taking no chances. I'm checked in, bag dropped and through security lickety split. It's over 2 hours to my flight. Time for a pint I think.
#35
going on holiday today and missed my feckin flight. Every time I have followed the instruction to arrive 2 hours early, I've then had an hour and a half wait in departure lounge but due to problems with the baggage system the queue was immense and arriving an hour and a quarter early wasn't enough - I was still queuing for security when the gate closed. Back home now with an afternoon flight booked that has added another £150 to my trip.
#36
success .. of a sort. Moved the file (an episode of Babylon 5) to idrive, found it on the ipad - took ages to download though with my shitty broadband speed. I'll have to take my laptop somewhere with better wifi and copy the rest.

Thanks for all the tips, moral support and of course, the cheese. Tread caerphilly now, don't cheddar tear, it will all brie fine, things are getting feta all the time.
#37
the annoying thing is, I've got icloud drive on the laptop and it gets the photos off my phone no problem - I don't think there's a fault, I just can't work out how to do it.
#38
tried bluetooth "the operation was not performed because the device has not been authenticated" - WTF does that mean?
#39
tried several cables, including an official Apple one, no go. The USB port is regularly used. I've been suggested to download iTunes on the laptop but I dunno...

Could it be something as simple as changing one of the million and one settings? (when I tried to access my emails it just kept asking for my password but then did nothing, no explanation or error message - after two days fiddling, I found the appropriate setting was set to OFF)
#40
Tried to copy a whole folder full, then tried individual files - but when I first plug in the cable, the little charging symbol on the ipad lights up but then immediately goes out, sugggesting it's not accepting the connection at all.
#41
Please give this poor old fella some technical help.

I just bought a new ipad but I can't transfer any files from my laptop - got comics and movies that I want to be able to access on the ipad. When I connect them (USB to charging port) I just get "cannot copy files. The device has stopped responding"

Any ideas?

(took me 2 days to find the partciular setting buried away that let me access my emails on it!)
#42
Off Topic / Re: Stuff You’ll Never Read Again...
08 July, 2023, 09:56:30 PM
my shelves are groaning with books I'll never read again, but books are like pets .. you can't just ... get rid of them ...it's inhumane!  Look at them on my shelves, see how well-read I am, fondle them, remember them, but I'm physically incapable of dumping them.

I am grateful for my English degree that I ever read poetry and shakespeare at all - I've got a whole shelf of Byron, Keats, Owen etc, and I'm glad that the academic discipline forced me to read and understand them, but I'm never going to think "y'know what? I fancy a bit of Keats tonight"

Lord of the rings however is a book I can reread to infinity. I reread it for four consecutive summers in my teenage years, and 3 or 4 times since, and I know I'll do so again. Gave up on the Silamrilion when I was 15 however, and have no desire to revisit it.

Never read Ayn Rand and never want to - read enough about it to know that life's too short for that crap
#43
General / Re: Dreddverse Map
03 July, 2023, 11:08:55 PM
and the post-Chaos Day Goblin King.

Back to the map - Remind me: What's the Web and where was it mentioned?
#44
Whether it's Left, Baby, Blahaj or Legendary, the internet needs sharks. Stay well buddy.
#45
Welcome to the board / Re: Hi From London
20 June, 2023, 08:14:28 PM
Quote from: sheridan on 14 June, 2023, 10:42:53 AMCopied and pasted from facebook:

SATURDAY, 24 JUNE 2023 AT 13:00
Pre Summer 2023 Southern Contingent Gathering
The Spice of Life - Soho

Hello fellow drokkers!
Summer is basically here, so let's gather before we're all sat at airports for days on end.
The pub this time will be The Spice Of Life, so make sure to take note of the location. It looks like some of us popped in there 6 years ago, from my google maps notification, so it can't be that bad!
See you all for a good old natter over a drink or two...

Sadly, I'll  be on a Greek beach - maybe the next one