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Derek27
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foxwood wrote:
Tue Jul 24, 2018 11:01 pm
Derek27 wrote:
Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:27 pm
Kafkaesque wrote:
Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:02 pm
Pretty much everyone I know (who needs forecasts for more than a trivial check) and myself swear by yr.no

Haven't got the slighest if it's actually the best service anymore, but it was widely considered so at one point at least.
Thanks K, but the link's not working. :)
Try https://www.yr.no/?spr=eng also https://www.netweather.tv pretty good
Thanks foxwood, that link works.
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Derek27
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Don't know how the rant thread managed to slip down to the bottom of the second page.

I'm beginning to wish we never went digital. Wanted to watch the BBC news channel at 2 O'Clock on my mum's TV. Five minutes to figure out how to get the DTV menu up, another five minutes to find the right channel number, then I get 'loading interactive service' ???

By then I thought I've missed the main news and gave up. There was a time when we just had a few channels but at least when you switched the flipping TV on it would appear instantly (or maybe 20 seconds for the CRT to warm up), and it was just a case of pressing button 1-5!
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Derek27 wrote:
Fri Jul 27, 2018 3:08 am
There was a time when we just had a few channels but at least when you switched the flipping TV on it would appear instantly (or maybe 20 seconds for the CRT to warm up), and it was just a case of pressing button 1-5!
....and get your brother to hold the aerial in just the right position while you twiddle the horizontal and vertical holds
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Derek27 wrote:
Fri Jul 27, 2018 3:08 am
and it was just a case of pressing button 1-5!
1- 5 ? 5!! That's fancy

Ours in the front room went up to 3, and when we got it the telly handed down to me had a dial like a radio!

Best thing is with dial tuning is you always got somewhere between sound<-sound & picture->picure. Never just digial interferrence that means you get nothing at all.
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Thanks guys, I feel so young now ;)
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eeeh ba' gum watch out lads they're thinking of bringin' back Saturday afternoon wrestlin' - that means we'll all have to go an' hide in the pub cos' living rooms up and down the country will be no go zones cos yer grannies will turn into ravening wild eyes valkyries. And if the TV ain't working.......................................
YOU ARE DEAD :evil:
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Just getting our first rain and there's LOTS of it.
The harvesters were going all last night so I hope they got finished otherwise it'll be flattened, and we'll be begging Russia for some wheat. What there is looked pretty poor already.
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My mum's cleaner's calling tomorrow. Young Polish bird, but she's coming round at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon!! :evil:
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Derek27 wrote:
Fri Jul 27, 2018 6:22 pm
My mum's cleaner's calling tomorrow. Young Polish bird, but she's coming round at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon!! :evil:
Would you prefer a young Polish lad? :lol:
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I missed her, she turned up in the morning. :(
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Derek27 wrote:
Fri Jul 27, 2018 6:22 pm
My mum's cleaner's calling tomorrow. Young Polish bird, but she's coming round at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon!! :evil:
This is so unprofessional, I had the same case which ruined by the baseball game because I had to stay home until she is done. :(
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Spent all night trading whilst working on a custom Windows PE image. The PE image distracted me from getting any worthwhile trading done and the trading distracted me from making any worthwhile progress with the PE image. :(
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I think I'm beginning to monopolize this thread. ;)

It's been a long stressful night. I thought I'd take a day off trading a carry out a complete network re-installation, hoping to be trading early hours this morning, but things haven't gone smoothly. Just been arguing with Microsoft on their chat facility and they threatened to close the chat if I carry on swearing at them!!
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And now I've run out of fags and it's pissing down with rain outside!
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Derek27 wrote:
Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:00 am
And now I've run out of fags and it's pissing down with rain outside!
Its a sign! Give 'em up!

I did - way back in 1996. Still waiting to see all that money I've saved, BUT, its great - 'cos I can now do a 'Holier than though' thing with you who are still weed-dependant!

:lol: ;)
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