Every Laugh Is The Energy

David.

zagubov wrote: »

I swear by apple computers but I reckon their OS software peaked years ago, and all subsequent "upgrades" are totally dubious and unnecessary. I'm looking for a Snow Leopard disk to go back to an earlier version on my Lion laptop.

Most of their upgrades switch off essential features and disable software that's expensive or impossible to run afterwards.They don't believe in back-compatibility.

I'd always be extremely reluctant to upgrade anything until you've checked it out. I'd imagine that advice would hold true for their phones and tablets as well. When anything new comes out, ignore all the hype, and wait a few months while you check on the internet for new OS problems.

God help us, if cutlery manufacturers tried to tell us that last years knives were now rubbish at cutting, the forks were rubbish at spearing and picking up food, and spoons couldn't scoop up soup or puddings properly, compared with the shiny new cutlery sets they've flooded the market with, we'd see through that nonsense in a flash, but we're suckers for this nonsense about sparkly new software being better. :mad:

Anyhoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfjPivYmV7Y

As you mentioned for who :eek:

David.

fairclaire wrote: »

and now I'm talking to myself :eek:


Oh, thanks to OP of the ideal £5 off thingy. I just spotted a box in the greenhouse earlier and it was my hanging baskets. No note through the door to say.......
But pleased very good quality. So thank you :A

Again
I know the truth can hurt :rotfl: but most people have you on ignore

mhoc

fairclaire wrote: »

and now I'm talking to myself :eek:


Oh, thanks to OP of the ideal £5 off thingy. I just spotted a box in the greenhouse earlier and it was my hanging baskets. No note through the door to say.......
But pleased very good quality. So thank you :A

Usually its me talking to myself, either at 4 in the morning on a sleepless night or mid morning,everyone else having gone off to do something usefull and productive ...

mhoc

Anyway my Saturday was rubbish.

Eldest son came back this morning basically to get his car fixed - he really does not have much luck with cars. Every car he has had has been a money pit and the one he has now even though its much newer and modern is much the same.
He also does not have much in the way of practical skills - both Grandads, OH, youngest son - all very practical and hands on menders and fixers but the practical gene has passed eldest son by
Very much Nice but dim - only a mum can say that

So OH looked in the engine which had brown sludge and found a top hose hole where water had been gushing out. Oh could not get the hose off. Main dealer did not have replacement in stock and even if they did it would be £28 for a 4 inch piece :mad:
So they went to halfords and got some sealant tape and more blue coolant - sealant tape seems to have worked.
also changed a very expensive light bulb.
Also pumped tyre up - OH thinks there is a slow leak.
So Sunday eldest son has to go in search of a tyre and hopefully kwik fit has the size in stock.
Then OH got worried about the oil levels so they went to top it up.
Bonnet would not open.
Checked you tube and google for fixes but nothing worked.
So off he went to girlfriends and rang the AA and they finally came out at 9 o'clock but the chap was clueless, he could not open the bonnet either - possibly a catch problem or a stretched cable

Fingers crossed that kwik fit have a tyre tommorow and the fixings to open the bonnet

fairclaire

mhoc wrote: »

Yes I did but by the time I realised the dates I'd already booked our midweek break for the wrong week, typical of me - oh well there is the September one.
I get to Tatton most years - very end of July and usually the BBC NEC one
Between all of the food festivals and garden shows now its difficult fitting them all in ...

I have the bug now and I definately want to go bigger it's a shame the best ones involve an overnight stay. My organisation is on a total high after winning a prize so you never know....we might be aiming higher.
I had exhibitor tickets today and blagged a space in the exhibitors car park :rotfl::rotfl: well if you don't ask......

I loved the Yorkshire food marquis today it has chandeliers which is a lovely touch. I got a cold coffee this afternoon and took it back and they refunded my whole order :rotfl: 8 cups of tea, 1 coffee and DS2 chocolate cake.

Couldn't fault it. no problems parking or getting out. FAB choice of food, spotless loos (which I used once ) and an abundance of staff on site. Very well organised

fairclaire

David. wrote: »

Again
I know the truth can hurt :rotfl: but most people have you on ignore

Well I know you are not most people :kisses3:

Savvybuyer

:hello:Well you know what happened about this time last week:D. I've been checking wombles and, now I've seen all the results, sadly I've nothing as good as that. A few things here and there for me to post about - unfortunately I'm a little tired at the moment so will try to get to, but, for now, although this is new website, I suspect same result will apply to old - it seems avoid Tangfastics 160g as they are comparing 79p vs £1:( for M rather than vs 50p for M. And I had some Finish Quantum 30 going at something like £5 A vs £11.95 M:eek:. Something like that. Phew - it turns out I have none of that size of Finish on my list.

In fact, I'll try and summarise quickly here, but I'll need to go and recheck these as this is all from memory:

Sweet Pears 650g - it seems I can't rely on T comp anymore:(, as new website returning A £1 each vs T N/A. Msm.co.uk says 69p (again this is memory) - should be 73p on weight adjustment, appears it will work if you still have old site but new site not using msm instead using scans of T's website which I think A is doing itself on the new site, or its contractor is, msm.co.uk (which eventually reaches the old site APG) has Sweet Pears linked up to some 610g pears on t.com (all memory btw, could be wrong, but very very probably not), but they do not use the word "Sweet" in their title on t.com so, this is completely all logical and I understand it absolutely, it therefore, quite logically, is not picked up by the new site's scan and therefore N/A on new site.

A number of old items that have not only gone OOS but dropped off entirely and which now show "---" on msm for the relevant competitor and therefore have been N/A for a while on the old site, are nonetheless now comparing against the old last price on the new site. It may be that these items are still on the competitor's website, or there somewhere in the background, but no longer being picked up on msm.co.uk and hence N/A on old site. However, if you have the new one, you can, once again, compare SP Cooked Ham (400g) vs £1.55 at Sains as best, SP Chocolate Swiss Roll is comparing 25p vs 25p T and some other item as well but can't immediately remember it.

Whitworths Granulated Sugar (2Kg) is comparing £1.15 vs £1.20 Morries. May think the new Silver Spoon sugar in M (on eday price:eek::eek:, maybe avoid after all:rotfl:) is Whitworths.

Harpic White & Shine Citrus(?) rim block twin is comparing 2 for £3 A mbuy vs straight individual price 99p each at Morries (therefore £3.00 vs £1.98, I mean no need to buy two packs).

Walls Max X-Pop Lollies (6x50ml) - I assume they are this one - new site comp. does not have the word "Max" but can't find any others that they could be - are comparing vs 99p at T on new site. I can't see T with any pricing at all on msm, so how would I ever have known about this one?!?:mad: I assume it would be a £2.00 vs 99p comp. for straight purchase (they bought one as part of 2 for £3 A mbuy) - nonetheless I feel I can't trust this as how do I know whether it will continue to be picked up at 99p tomorrow when it's not even on msm? Again, this may be on t.com or 'in the background' on t.com somewhere and being picked up by the direct scan that is used by the new site, which takes a scan I understand twice a day.

Tiger Baguette is comparing 80p vs 50p M, new site and I suspect old one too - I imagine Morries data is consistent between the new and old sites (unlike the T, S and W data), except for items that the new site has described differently, such as Smart"P"rice Jafffa Cakes and "Whole Cucumber (Each)" (my emphasis) which, obviously, Whole Cucumber and Whole Cucumber (Each) are, in the APG computer-systems world, and in Savvy's world, two different things and the former is linked up to the Morries price collection item but the latter is not - hence comparison on old site but N/A on new. I understand it:rotfl::D:T. That is to say, Morries data for Scotland on the old site is consistent (subject to the exception circumstances I've just mentioned) with Morries data for Scotland on the new; and Morries data for England/Wales on the old (subject to the same exceptions) is consistent with Morries data for England/Wales on the new, as there are two actual sets of Morries data (one for Scotland, the other for the rest of GB), the new site does not use separate ones as clearly they are not using further price collection teams and doing a separate price collection for the new site - it's a description issue which fails to pick up some items that the old site does, unlike Avs T/S/W which do have different data for new site and old, as new site does not use msm and, technically, it could get slightly different info. In theory it should be the same and to be fair they will be largely the same, but they are different systems and I'm pointing out these few differences that I'm noticing.

Anyway, Tiger Baguette comparing 80p A vs 50p M. I guess I need to update my Morries list again:rotfl:. (A's price, according to that 80p on the comp., appears to have changed.)

Back later - if I waffle on enough I might wake up a bit more:rotfl::wave:.

Savvybuyer

zagubov wrote: »

I swear by apple computers but I reckon their OS software peaked years ago, and all subsequent "upgrades" are totally dubious and unnecessary. I'm looking for a Snow Leopard disk to go back to an earlier version on my Lion laptop.

Most of their upgrades switch off essential features and disable software that's expensive or impossible to run afterwards.They don't believe in back-compatibility.

I'd always be extremely reluctant to upgrade anything until you've checked it out. I'd imagine that advice would hold true for their phones and tablets as well. When anything new comes out, ignore all the hype, and wait a few months while you check on the internet for new OS problems.

God help us, if cutlery manufacturers tried to tell us that last years knives were now rubbish at cutting, the forks were rubbish at spearing and picking up food, and spoons couldn't scoop up soup or puddings properly, compared with the shiny new cutlery sets they've flooded the market with, we'd see through that nonsense in a flash, but we're suckers for this nonsense about sparkly new software being better. :mad:

Anyhoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfjPivYmV7Y

I bet businesses in general want to upgrade people in order then to charge them more or, in any event, to keep people upgrading and paying for new stuff every so often (re. The Men Who Made Us Buy). Every change to a new computer system is always to something that is worse than the previous version IMO and always to an inferior system:mad::mad:! Oh well I suspect we just grin and bear it for a few months after the change, then we forget about it and continue now on the new one as before. It's a bit like that pendulum clock that is based on someone's design from the 18th century that no-one ever took seriously at the time. Just broken a world record - had 100 days and is still accurate to within a second. There you are - don't need radio-controlled clocks, just build a pendulum clock that actually works unlike every pendulum clock that they've been building for hundreds of years that all failed to keep very accurate time and were therefore rubbish at doing their job. Despite the pendulum clock industry selling them to what must have been the very easily gulled public! Yet again, the entire clock industry for hundreds of years, that thought they knew best, turn out to be totally wrong! Turns out to have selling us inferior pendulum clock systems that did not keep time as well, did not do the job and were less efficient.

("...t's important to realise his design goes against everything the establishment has claimed is best throughout history." - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/john-harrisons-longitude-clock-sets-new-record--300-years-on-10187304.html (with a, completely unneeded, warning for explicit content on that link, namely in the headline of one of the promoted stories at the moment. Unless those promoted stories are being selected specifically for me and therefore are based on me doing something naughty, but not illegal, with my computer:rotfl:). So, anyway, back to the point of what the establishment were claimed is best, I will therefore have no truck whatsoever with any advertising or promotion material claims at all. They are all wrong. I'm having none of it! Rant, rant...:rotfl:)

I think almost every generally accepted assumption that people generally hold is probably wrong:p. I make an exception for murder, rape, child abuse, stealing, damaging someone's property etc. - I agree that those things are wrong, and therefore the generally held view on those is correct, but, beyond those things, everything else I can think of - everyone else is all wrong!:p Think it's time to get this one out again: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-public-wrong-about-nearly-everything-survey-shows-8697821.html. Just in order to support my own argument that they're all wrong and I'm correct, once again:p:o:rotfl:.

Bananababe

That was one exceptionally long day with the highlight being OH bringing me coffee and a creme egg into my work

He is an :A

How's everyone and is anyone about ?xx

davemorton

fairclaire wrote: »

Oh dear I am agreeing with you too much tonight I only get shopping twice a week just now but am grateful to be able to get a voucher when I do

I would just ask that SFSB posts his Wednesday glitches a little earlier because my school run interferes with them :rotfl::rotfl:

Yes, I agree, perhaps if he could put a little effort in and post them on Tuesday, that would be good