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nickj wrote:I'm not good enough to offer you a game now, but if you wanted to try out chessmaster I could plug your moves into it via email.

This idea intrigues me...

However, could this game not end up taking several weeks to complete?

Well, if I'm in one evening I would happily sit and mediate via MSN for an hour or so; I enjoy watching a well played chess game.

Aha! Now that, my friend, sounds like a plan and a half!

Big moan about ever increasing 'customer feedback' requests. It seems to me that as soon as I make contact with a website or service provider by e-mail or phone, they want me to rate their performance, by filling in long winded and very irritating questionnaires. Our accounts software provider always does this after any contact is made but they don’t even send the questionnaire, you have to log in and complete it.

Now I know I'm a grumpy old f@rt most of the time but as far as I'm concerned, if they haven't done the job right or I'm not happy then I don’t need to wait for a questionnaire, I'll blo*dy well tell them! If they've done the job right then that's only what they're supposed to do and they don’t need to be patted on the back like a puppy clamouring for constant praise. I contacted Customs & Excise recently over a very trivial matter and in return received a request for feedback on how useful the answer was etc. I was about to point them in the direction of Hades but thought better of it and said they were just wonderful in every respect. Nobody in their right mind should upset the Customs & Excise as they're likely to get a surprise 4am visit with latex gloves and, if you're very lucky, KY Jelly being heavily involved.

On the way back to work at lunchtime I got stuck behind a large van with a sticker on the back doors proclaiming, quite correctly and showing an excellent grasp of physics, 'If you can't see my mirrors, I can't see you.' Whilst I have no problems with the accuracy of this statement, my immediate thought was 'So what?' Does that mean the driver can ignore the rules of the road, the Highway Code and drive like an idiot with full justification? As far as I'm concerned, all vehicles with poor rearward vision should be driven as though there were a vehicle in close proximity anyway.

OK, I've had a couple of my little pink pills and I feel much better now, thank you…..just don't get me started on Heavy Goods Vehicles taking 20 minutes to overtake other HGVs on the M6...

Oh the M6 and the A38..... 2 roads that were the bain of my life being brought up in Brummagem!!

I know the HGV problem only too well!! Used to jump on A38 then M6 at spag Junc to get back to castle vale via the castle brom turn off..... then it'd be Bromford lane that'd kill me.....

But those days are over now......thank god..... cos I live in Cambridge now !!!

My moan is that I've been up the top of trees today cutting them right back (pollarding) and it's been very very wet and I'm scared of heights.... had a couple of mini slips, nothing to worry about, just a few centimetres slip on a moss covered branch but when you are scared of heights it really doesnt matter how safe you are it's bloody scary!!!

Ahhh! Dont talk about driving! I work in a petrol station just 5 minutes drive from the M6 J11, and all i hear about all day is the problems with the traffic and the idiots on the M6!! And i also have to direct a good portion of those idiots to there from where i am! Quite often in Polish!

If you ever get bored and fancy a chat, come to Sainsburys in Cannock! Im there most of my waking hours! As long as you dont talk about traffic or the fact that the petrol pump was a bit slow! I'll probably be off my face on caffeine as per usual!

Arghhhh..... I finally got my Elmsley down, and I learnt a couple of effects with it..... so I go get my rarely used webcam and plug it into pc.... go to video on it and pc crashes.... so I try again and again pc crashes... and again and so on

Don't know what's happened to it but while pc was out of commission and everything was chucked in a box it must've somehow been damaged and now I can't record anything to show you guys.......

This is a relieved, not-too-hard moan as the problem has sorted itself out, but...
The computer problem that has been tormenting me for weeks and involved me taking it back to Sheffield to be fixed, only for them to find nothing wrong with it, then reinstalling Windows with all the hassle that this entails etc etc...

I sorted it out today... how?

By powering my computer from the socket, rather than a multiplug adapter thingy

(For a proper moan - I bought a car on friday and there has just started to be a slightly whiney, grating noise when I use the steering I'm expecting a rather expensive trip to the dealers tomorrow...)

Power steering???? Check the transmission fluid reservoir

talkmagic is getting worse now every so often it causes ie7 to shut down completly, only this site so i don,t know.

iv'e changed my firewall, av and and antispy even rebooted windows.
sortit out guys pleeese I'm feeling realy unapreciated.

Cars!

Mine seems to attract idiots. I've had four insurance claims and a couple of bits of damage I've paid for myself in the last year and a half. My last one was fixed about a month ago having dragged on for ages so I was quite pleased that nothing bad had happened for a while.

So then, last night, I decide I need to nip to Tesco for something to eat. I'm sitting in the right hand lane to turn right at a roundabout when some prat drives from my lright into the middle of the roundabout and stops. Then he indicates left. Then he turns left. Into the lane to MY LEFT and removes the passenger side of my car.

A quick spin around the roundabout and I follow the guy, who is now a couple of cars ahead of me, at about 15 mph until he pulls over a quater of a mile on. I helped him out of his car and it turns out that he is 75, not feeling very well, and competely unaware that he has hit my car at all.

After 20 minutes sitting in my car he seems fine. We had exchanged details and I had offered him a lift somewhere, offered to call someone to pick him up and even offered to follow him somewhere as I thought it best that he didn't drive too much further. He refused.

So I went on to Tesco, picked up a microwave Tai curry and headed home only to drive past the same chap, sitting in his car with his airbag inflated talking to a paramedic after having rear-ended a car at a junction less than a quater of a mile from where I had left him 10 minutes previously.

The worst bit is that I have never caused any damage to a car (as long as you don't count the broken reflector on the back of my dad's car a week after my test) in seven a and a half years of driving but my insurance premium is bound to go up again all the same, and I can't really change insurance companies because I have to answer 'yes' when they ask if I've been involved in any accidents.

AAAARRRGGGH!

magicdiscoman wrote:talkmagic is getting worse now every so often it causes ie7 to shut down completly, only this site so i don,t know.

iv'e changed my firewall, av and and antispy even rebooted windows.
sortit out guys pleeese I'm feeling realy unapreciated.

I had huge problems with IE7 with lots of sites..... I ended up uninstalling IE7 and all the problems stopped.

Jordan C wrote:Power steering???? Check the transmission fluid reservoir

Cheers - I still took it up to the local garage (literally the street next to mine, so it's not much of an ordeal) as I have neither the time at the moment or the knowledge (ever!) to sort that out myself, but I always like to have a vague idea of what could be the problem when I go in, so I can ramble slightly about "it's doing this... I was thinking transmission fluid or something... I'm busy... blah blah blah" in the hope that the pretence of knowing what I'm talking about prevents them from screwing me over!

I do like this new car, but you couldn't beat my old fiesta mkII for Haynes-tastic self repair! Only one step up from mecano!

in the engine bay you will have fluid reservoirs..... one for oil (that one's easy to find), one for water for radiator, one for windscreen wash, one for brake fluid and finally you should have a reservoir for transmission fluid.

If all you needed was to top up the fluid then you have just cost yourself £50+ for a £5 bottle of fluid!!

If you got an owners manual with the car then it will be detailed in there!!

Well they don't seem to hear the problem, so I'll try that before pursuing anything further!

Sadly though - mooooan - it was actually sounding slightly gravelly too, which I thought I'd leave for another time, but they're pretty thorough at the place I go (for all my worries about being screwed over, they're pretty good at doing stuff on a student's budget!) but he did notice some prob. with exhaust/catalytic converter, so that's another £200 down the drain

It would #?@! me off but I knew there may be bits of work that needed doing on it soon when I bought it, so took out a generous loan! Banks seem to love throwing money at medstudents