Moaners

[soulfinger]

Micrososft increasingly release stuff at a stage of development that falls way short of being acceptable. Windows 10 is just crap.

Oh, and I hate the fact that no fecker seems to be able to drive in a bit of snow. 15 minute commute took nearly 90 minutes today.

[Heather]

Micrososft increasingly release stuff at a stage of development that falls way short of being acceptable. Windows 10 is just crap.

Oh, and I hate the fact that no fecker seems to be able to drive in a bit of snow. 15 minute commute took nearly 90 minutes today.

I stopped using Windows when they decided they weren't going to support XP anymore.

I was going to buy a MAC but they were expensive.

I ended up with a Chromebook which runs off a different system (that you've probably never heard of before) called Chrome OS.

It's OK just if you want to use the internet, but if you do a lot or writing like me it's useless because you can't download any programmes, so I can't use the desktop version of Microsoft Word and have to use Word Online (which is more fiddly) and have to store all files on a cloud, hardly ideal.

I've also discovered another problem with it.

I'm swapping internet provider's early next week (10 years with AOL Talk Talk, I must have been mad) and won't be able to set up the new router on it because it has no phone socket.

So what I'm going to have to do is install it on an old laptop then search for it under the available internet connections and get connected to it that way

[firehazard]

... I hate the fact that no fecker seems to be able to drive in a bit of snow. 15 minute commute took nearly 90 minutes today.

Snow in Manchester. It's not the natural order of things.

No snow here. On the fifth day of March it was sleeting. Sleet is just annoying. It's neither one thing nor the other. It needs seriously to sort itself out.

[old barney greyheron]

I hate snow...I hate it so much I can't find words to describe my hatred...I hate news coverage in this country when it snows..it's all they talk about...there has been no snow where I live, but in town today everyone I bumped into was talking about the possibility of snow..I hate it when everyone says it might snow..us Brits do like to talk about the weather. So I came home and scribbled a quick poem about all the snowy bullshit we love in the UK..i'll stick it in the relevant thread maybe tomorrow..

[Low D]

After a trip to the doctor and 3 trips to the emergency room all over 4 days, many rounds of I.V. antibiotics, anti-inflamatories, painkillers & anti-nausea drugs, plus a few litres of re hydration, Mrs. Me is home resting on the couch, recovering from a sinus infection that went truly evil. Now she's just at a regular level of really horribly sick. But once again I'm happy to live in a nation with more-or-less socialized health care (we pay $130/month for the whole family, which would probably have only paid for the two bags of re-hydrating fluid and a single syringe or something in the "free market").

On another note, having grown up in central Canada but moved as an adult to the temperate west coast, I miss the snow! Sleet, on the other hand, has no business existing. The. Worst.

[Mike from Boston]

To be honest, I never really understood the lack of love for Bono on this Forum. But, I am starting to understand....

Never one for holding back on an opinion, Bono has come up with a new way of destroying Islamic State – not with bombs, but with belly laughs. The U2 singer said sending comedians such as Amy Schumer and Sacha Baron Cohen would be an effective alternative to airstrikes.

Although, to be fair, isn't everything done by Cohen been a bomb??

[DzM]

Although, to be fair, isn't everything done by Cohen been a bomb??

Ahhh! I see what you did there!

Reminds me of the old classic joke:

"How does Kevin Costner phone in a bomb threat?"

"I dunno. How?"

"'Hey you guys, I have this idea for a sequel to Waterworld.'"

[firehazard]

When you find out that the Specials are playing your local venue and you hadn't heard about it in time and it's all gone and sold out. Asre.

[Low D]

When you find out that the Specials are playing your local venue and you hadn't heard about it in time and it's all gone and sold out. Asre.

I'm sure it'll be a good show, but with Neville and now Roddy out, and Ray Bradbury dearly departed, I think the reunion has played itself out. I'm sad they didn't manage any recording!

[DzM]

the Specials are playing

[with] Ray Bradbury dearly departed

The Sci Fi writer? Man, that guy got around.

[soulfinger]

When you find out that the Specials are playing your local venue and you hadn't heard about it in time and it's all gone and sold out. Asre.

They're not doing Manc this year, so we are having to go to Liverpool - which I do have an aversion to doing.

[Low D]

the Specials are playing

[with] Ray Bradbury dearly departed

The Sci Fi writer? Man, that guy got around.

Oh sure, when he wasn't busy defining a literary genre or two, he contributed to new musical genres as well!

Er, of course, I meant the late great John Bradbury

[firehazard]

When you find out that the Specials are playing your local venue and you hadn't heard about it in time and it's all gone and sold out. Asre.

They're not doing Manc this year, so we are having to go to Liverpool - which I do have an aversion to doing.

It's just bloomin' annoying. I normally scout the gig announcements at local venues pretty obsessively, but somehow that one slipped through till it was too late. First time they've played this city in more years than I can remember.

[Heather]

When you find out that the Specials are playing your local venue and you hadn't heard about it in time and it's all gone and sold out. Asre.

They're not doing Manc this year, so we are having to go to Liverpool - which I do have an aversion to doing.

Good luck with that.

The Olympia is 10 minutes walk from my house, we did it last time they played, it's a terrible venue (you'll see what I mean when you get in there), in a rough area between the Orange Lodge Hall and St Michaels Irish Centre.

It used to be a circus years and years ago, before it was modernised and made into a cinema, then a concert hall (I know the history of most of the cinemas/theatres in Liverpool).

Be prepared also for the long walk uphill from the station, you could always get a bus but it'll cost you £2.20 standard fayre.


Beer in the venue as you can imagine is expensive and comes mostly in cans. There's no way you can bring your own though because everyone gets frisked on the door.

Oh and one final thing, do not, whatever you do, go into any boozers round there, you're liable to be set upon by the locals.

Enjoy the gig.

[Low D]

The Olympia is 10 minutes walk from my house, we did it last time they played, it's a terrible venue (you'll see what I mean when you get in there), in a rough area between the Orange Lodge Hall and St Michaels Irish Centre.

Would you describe the area as a ghost town, or more of a concrete jungle?