The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

GDB2222

Maryland in Newham?

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

Maryland in Newham?

Is that where Maryland cookies come from?

Funny that, though.......,I mean, I knew it was a railway station, but didn't think of it as being an actual place, as had never seen it on a map!



Edit.... ah I see! There are four streets named "Maryland ........." and a primary school! Oh, and an internet cafè!

Doozergirl

Ryan has started spamming already.

michaels

chris_m wrote: »

If I were to consider one, it'd have to be the 2CV Sahara - 4WD with two engines and gearboxes, the only connections between front and rear being the control cables/linkages and the ground, no transfer box.

Could you have the front engine running in forward and the rear engine going in reverse?

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

Could you have the front engine running in forward and the rear engine going in reverse?

C....R.......A..........C............K..!!!!!


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Pyxis

Doozergirl wrote: »

Ryan has started spamming already.

Oh....is he a spammer?

I wondered why he'd joined in 2016 but hadn't made any posts until this week.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Well done on setting up your printer.

I suspect there was some luck involved... I happened to press the correct sequence of "random pokings at the button" and maybe the "wiggling the wires a bit" and "moving it a few inches closer" helped too... and, the Expert Hack: turn it off and turn it on again at the router before pressing the button (which I was lucky to have and lucky I picked the correct button).

Lots of luck there.

Glad it worked as when you buy specific items, with specific features, for specific reasons.... if that doesn't work out how you wanted/dreamed it just makes you cry and get sad for years every time you think of it

For me, the specific feature is: You don't have to have it within 2' of the PC, because of the printer lead length and still close enough to a power point .... so it ends up looking ugly and being in the way .... it can, now, simply be put into "any spot, in any room I like" until it's needed... so long as there's a power point, that's all it needs!

I have no "furniture" for my PC/printer etc. No desk.... everything's on the floor, so a printer cluttering up a floor on top of the other leads etc would simply be a nuisance.

I like the idea of having a printer, to print the occasional thing - what I don't want is a huge lump of plastic that HAS to be within 2' of the PC and to have more leads trailing everywhere.... so being able to pop it down "anywhere there's a socket" is ideal...

For now though, it's occupying a shelf on my ladder-shelving unit, but it's not going to live there forever... just until I've printed a few things ... then it'll go upstairs.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

My mad uncle lived in Piddletrenthide for a while.

It keeps coming up in my searches.... but, I'm afraid, I'm probably one of those people who could "never live there, it's such a funny/naughty/dirty name".

I think one branch of my very ancient ancestors were there about 200 years ago.... or it might've been in one of the Puddles.... it's all Piddle and Puddle round that way for names!

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I suspect there was some luck involved... I happened to press the correct sequence of "random pokings at the button" and maybe the "wiggling the wires a bit" and "moving it a few inches closer" helped too... and, the Expert Hack: turn it off and turn it on again at the router before pressing the button (which I was lucky to have and lucky I picked the correct button).

Lots of luck there.

Glad it worked as when you buy specific items, with specific features, for specific reasons.... if that doesn't work out how you wanted/dreamed it just makes you cry and get sad for years every time you think of it

For me, the specific feature is: You don't have to have it within 2' of the PC, because of the printer lead length and still close enough to a power point .... so it ends up looking ugly and being in the way .... it can, now, simply be put into "any spot, in any room I like" until it's needed... so long as there's a power point, that's all it needs!

I have no "furniture" for my PC/printer etc. No desk.... everything's on the floor, so a printer cluttering up a floor on top of the other leads etc would simply be a nuisance.

I like the idea of having a printer, to print the occasional thing - what I don't want is a huge lump of plastic that HAS to be within 2' of the PC and to have more leads trailing everywhere.... so being able to pop it down "anywhere there's a socket" is ideal...

For now though, it's occupying a shelf on my ladder-shelving unit, but it's not going to live there forever... just until I've printed a few things ... then it'll go upstairs.

I love wifi printers!

I'm in bed, in the front bedroom, tapping away on my iPad, and if I want to print something, I tap print, and the printer starts whirring away all the way downstairs in the back room! Magic!:)

Now, if only someone could invent a wifi way of replenishing the paper or changing the ink cartridge when I am similarly snuggled down upstairs!

To be fair, it does sometimes go awol, probably due to interference from a nearby signal, and then I have to reboot the router to get the wifi connection back. That can be a bit of a pain.

PasturesNew

ivyleaf wrote: »

Dental implants are quite expensive, sadly. OH had 4 done a couple of years ago and it cost 11,000 altogether. I expect costs vary a bit according to where you live, though, and we're in Greater London.

There are many teeth in a mouth ... if we round that up to 30 and say "just £2k/tooth", that'd still be £60k.

Even at £500/tooth it's £15k

At £11k for four, it'd be £80-89k

I think we can put me into the group of: Happy to eat soup, mashed potato and custard.

Maybe 3D printing will bring down the cost of the manufacture, so then you're just paying for "fitting time" in the future. I bet the whole manufacturing is a huge part of the cost.