The Austro-Hungarian Empire that is.
Mein Herzland!
OH YES. The second phase of my plans for TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION have been executed without a hitch, you'll all be delighted to hear.
Those Krauts have a bad rap but they're pushovers really. A nation of millions might hold Public Enemy back but NOTHING stands in the way of the Boudicca steamroller. I just threatened to nuke David Hasselhoff's house if they didn't gimme the Reichstag.
So, in short, I'm back my holidays, and I want to blow my own trumpet a bit before Andymackem gets back with far superior stories of being hassled by dodgy Russians and eating sheeps eyes with Mongolian peasant folk .
I trust you've all been behaving yourselves?
Now I'm off to annoy everyone by digging up dead threads. I apologise in advance....
BTW if you're some kind of masochist, some of my holiday photos are up here...
http://photobucket.com/albums/y117/paintedbird/
I can't do that fancy link thing you lot do... nore can I figure out my my photies go to s**t quality when I try and reduce them to a reasonable size. Help me geeks!
And remember this face, it will be plastered on the sides of public buildings, a la Iran, pretty f**king soon...
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!!!
I GOT THE EMPIRE!
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The fancy link thing goes like this:
[ url= http://photobucket.com/albums/y117/paintedbird/ ] Clicky [ /url ] but take the spaces out.
Nice pics
[ url= http://photobucket.com/albums/y117/paintedbird/ ] Clicky [ /url ] but take the spaces out.
Nice pics
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
—Bertrand Russell
Nice pics,
I think someone set my soul alight
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It has occurred to me that myself, Mackem and Markfiend were all gone at the same time.
Who conducted agonizingly lengthy rants about counter-terrorism measures in our absence?
PS - Ta very much Mr. Fiend!
Who conducted agonizingly lengthy rants about counter-terrorism measures in our absence?
PS - Ta very much Mr. Fiend!
There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
No-one. All sentences over ten words consisting of correct grammar and syntax were automatically deleted. We posted pure bollox and it was fab.boudicca wrote: Who conducted agonizingly lengthy rants about counter-terrorism measures in our absence?
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welcome back, more exciting than the trip to the dentist then
Just back from two weeks in Cornwall myself.
Couldn't be arsed claiming it, as aside from Mr Steins rather excellent restaurant in Padstow and some pretty beaches there's cock all worth having.
How Charlie manages to scrape £50 mill a year I dread to think. Can only be some bizarre tax on clotted cream and body boards....
Return to civiliazation and technology NOT a great success however. My Home putes have been unplugged for a fortnight, so I plugged my main workhorse (Marvin) in and powered him up. He promptly told me to go f**k myself and shut himself down again.
Hmmmm. I know, I'll boot into safe mode and find out what's going on except NO!!!! You CANNOT boot into safe mode because some poxy Alcohol 120% driver won't let you... Curses!
Aha! I'll perform a repair of XP and then I'll be OK. Bum! Boot drive is a couple of 200GB SATA disks in a RAID array that isn't recognised as a valid drive and so NO REPAIR IS POSSIBLE!
Drat, Drat and Double Drat!!
It's just as well I don't have a dog called Muttley at this point by the way as if I did the scruffy hound would be sniggering at me
So; Install fresh copy of XP onto a spare IDE drive and fork out $100 for a disk utility that can restore data from corrupted RAID arrays.
This is the second time that I've had striped arrays fail like this and to say that it is a monumental pain in the arse is the understatement of the year. Or maybe month. Week maybe, but no less than that. Say a fortnight.
Mik's words of wisdom: if you really want raid on a home pc, use mirrored pairs rather than stripes, and if you want the speed, buy yourself a proper (eg Adaptec) dedicated RAID controller and at least four disks and have mirrored stripes plus a fifth disk for booting and keep all your data on the RAID array.
Here endeth the geekery lesson.
PS the thought of having to spend the next few evenings reinstalling software and then phoning up Adobe / Macromedia etc to get locked out software activations reset fills me with the uttermost depression.[/b]
Couldn't be arsed claiming it, as aside from Mr Steins rather excellent restaurant in Padstow and some pretty beaches there's cock all worth having.
How Charlie manages to scrape £50 mill a year I dread to think. Can only be some bizarre tax on clotted cream and body boards....
Return to civiliazation and technology NOT a great success however. My Home putes have been unplugged for a fortnight, so I plugged my main workhorse (Marvin) in and powered him up. He promptly told me to go f**k myself and shut himself down again.
Hmmmm. I know, I'll boot into safe mode and find out what's going on except NO!!!! You CANNOT boot into safe mode because some poxy Alcohol 120% driver won't let you... Curses!
Aha! I'll perform a repair of XP and then I'll be OK. Bum! Boot drive is a couple of 200GB SATA disks in a RAID array that isn't recognised as a valid drive and so NO REPAIR IS POSSIBLE!
Drat, Drat and Double Drat!!
It's just as well I don't have a dog called Muttley at this point by the way as if I did the scruffy hound would be sniggering at me
So; Install fresh copy of XP onto a spare IDE drive and fork out $100 for a disk utility that can restore data from corrupted RAID arrays.
This is the second time that I've had striped arrays fail like this and to say that it is a monumental pain in the arse is the understatement of the year. Or maybe month. Week maybe, but no less than that. Say a fortnight.
Mik's words of wisdom: if you really want raid on a home pc, use mirrored pairs rather than stripes, and if you want the speed, buy yourself a proper (eg Adaptec) dedicated RAID controller and at least four disks and have mirrored stripes plus a fifth disk for booting and keep all your data on the RAID array.
Here endeth the geekery lesson.
PS the thought of having to spend the next few evenings reinstalling software and then phoning up Adobe / Macromedia etc to get locked out software activations reset fills me with the uttermost depression.[/b]
Something pithy.
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I submit defenseless to Albions fairest Lady.boudicca wrote: Those Krauts have a bad rap but they're pushovers really. A nation of millions might hold Public Enemy back but NOTHING stands in the way of the Boudicca steamroller. I just threatened to nuke David Hasselhoff's house if they didn't gimme the Reichstag.
The Reichstag is at your disposal, madam.
just don't take Hasselhoff away from my people.
Put their heads on f*cking pikes in front of the venue for all I care.
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So will everyone else if they know what's good for them!canon docre wrote:I submit defenseless to Albions fairest Lady.
Oh, you're welcome to him...canon docre wrote: just don't take Hasselhoff away from my people.
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That's closer to the truth than you know, I'm afraid.CorpPunk wrote:So you went away on holiday to foreign lands, and brought back lots and lots of pictures of...yourself. I for one don't believe you ever left your bedroom!
It wasn't the best holiday I've ever had to be quite honest.
Although I do have more pictures of Austrian churches and my mother with her head in a gargoyle's mouth, if my old mug is really too much for you!
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Where are the zoo photos?
Ach, you've seen one European church, you've seen 'em all. Bring on the mother-eating gargoyle! Do they sell those on eBay?boudicca wrote:It wasn't the best holiday I've ever had to be quite honest.
Although I do have more pictures of Austrian churches and my mother with her head in a gargoyle's mouth, if my old mug is really too much for you!
(If the trip sucked I hope you're mom paid for it, at least. Fnar fnar.)
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Cross-thread fertilisation is a wonderful thing but do remember it is only 50p and ain't gonna buy alot.CorpPunk wrote:Do they sell those on eBay?
Have they let you out to play?
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But where are the giant tortoises?