Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 27)
Discussion
EvoDelta said:
We'll mainly be on the look-out for Lego. My 8 year old lad has been waiting for the free market for months.
Good plan, although i usually find that lego-wise it isnt much, the general population is far too well clued into the fact that Lego is worth money, so it goes on marktplaats with a decent pricetag rather then onto the free market for pennies. Enjoy the rummaging with the kid though! I can imagine he's been looking forward to it.Iva Barchetta said:
The clog wearers are taking over TT....
Vengeance for you guys being dicks during colonial times! You may have taken New Amsterdam from us, we'll take over TT in retribution! (kidding if that wasnt obvious enough)In positive news, just got off the phone with the ex, i'd drafted a set of agreements for how we'll be handling our mutual matters (kids, house which we still both own) going forward, and she's quite OK with it, some minor things need adjusting, but that'll dissolve the cohabitation-contract we had, and practically gives me 100% right to the use of the house until we get it sold.
Good to see this stuff getting handled reasonably
) will be heaving 
Vitorio said:
Good plan, although i usually find that lego-wise it isnt much, the general population is far too well clued into the fact that Lego is worth money, so it goes on marktplaats with a decent pricetag rather then onto the free market for pennies. Enjoy the rummaging with the kid though! I can imagine he's been looking forward to it.
Yeah, there's no chance of any sets, but we had a fairly good haul last year. He's got an amazing eye for mini-figures and accessories in amongst all of the other clutter, and there's occasionally a bag of mixed bricks for a couple of Euros too.Vitorio said:
From the looks of it, the technic set is much larger, and while it does look more gappy (which to me is a feature, the megablock set uses a lot of big bespoke panels), it also has a proper (fake) engine, a working flappy paddle gearbox etc... there is no comparing the two really.
All true but £30 vs €300?That said, I'd have the Technic Unimog in a heartbeat.
Have you seen the group buy threads?
Pixel Pusher said:
All true but £30 vs €300?
That said, I'd have the Technic Unimog in a heartbeat.
Have you seen the group buy threads?
Agreed on the price, but im a lego purist, for me megablocks (or any of the knock-offs) isnt an option. And they are still very different products, i'd argue the megablocks is much closer to a die-cast or DIY kit, considering once its together its got no real features beyond rotating wheels. The Lego set meanwhile has function drive, gearbox, engine etc...That said, I'd have the Technic Unimog in a heartbeat.
Have you seen the group buy threads?
Havent seen any of the group buy threads, and considering im not UK based i dont know if it'd make any sense for me either way.
Im not sure if ill pick up the big porsche TBH, i mean im a sucker for a good technic car (have the F1 and LMP1 cars from recent years, along with the ferrari 599 and enzo, and the old school 8880 super car), but €300 is indeed a biiiiiig pricetag, and the 911 is the one supercar i really dont like (squashed beetle, they all look the same, engine in the wrong place, the usual prejudices)
Jimmy Recard said:
Ideas would be welcome actually. He's a bitter man who does a lot of petty and spiteful things
One annoying wretch we used to work with had a length of pencil placed in the lifting mechanism of his chair that activated the height adjust constantly.Every time he sat on it, it went down. Every time he stood up, it went up.
Took him months to work it out.
Vitorio said:
Jimmy Recard said:
Ideas would be welcome actually. He's a bitter man who does a lot of petty and spiteful things
Does he leave his computer unlocked when away from his desk? that alone would be an opening for a huge variety of pranks/vengeance actions
EvoDelta said:
Control Alt and the down arrow springs to mind.
Indeed, but that only works on something with intel graphics and the shortcut keys enabledOther good ones are taking a screenshot of his desktop, setting that as background and then removing/hiding all icons/taskbar. Or if you really hate him, make a shortcut to a browser with a link to something musical (or if you want to really f
k with him, NSFW) site, copy said link a few hundred times and put them into the startup folder.Or if he is a pack-rat on his desktop, windows+D, Ctrl+A, Enter should keep him entertained for a few minutes trying to wrest control back from his PC
Jimmy Recard said:
I just three a workmate's shoes in a skip. I always leave a closed bottle of water on my desk and he empties it out and throws it away when I'm not there.
Every time he does it, I'm throwing something of his away. So far a mug which was painted by his son and a pair of black shoes.
Punch him in the throat and tell him to grow the fEvery time he does it, I'm throwing something of his away. So far a mug which was painted by his son and a pair of black shoes.
k up.Vitorio said:
Does he leave his computer unlocked when away from his desk? that alone would be an opening for a huge variety of pranks/vengeance actions
This is always a wheeze. I once took the opportunity to out a mate as gay on the RX-7 forum when he left his computer on. Used his log in, username and everything... "There's something I've been meaning to tell you all for some time..." By the time he found it the thread was pages long of everyone saying "thought so" 
Iva Barchetta said:
I didn't know there's a train dispute today.
Yep. The guards/conductors on Southern trains are moaning that the new generation of train will have their doors operated by the driver instead of them. The management say this will allow the guards to spend better time with the customers and doesn't mean anyone will lose their job, whereas the union see it as a way of introducing driver only trains and is unsafe.
Usual stoneage arguments from the rail system.
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