Stevo 666
Veteran
Are you saying it's a bit of a geek thing?
Seemingly trivial things that elicit an emotional response of some kind
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Are you saying it's a bit of a geek thing?
OP
OP
First Aspect
Guru
It is a niche for idealistic geeks with no appreciation of the overwhealming commercial need to seemlessly confirm to what all customers and competitors are using in the real world. Mostly these geeks reside in the university sector.
briantrumpet
Pharaoh
Joshing with the lady in the Post Office about returning two (crap) laptops to Amazon in as many weeks cheered me up.
Unlike the weather. Can I return that to Amazon too?
Unlike the weather. Can I return that to Amazon too?
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
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- South Tyneside
My friends are not called Norman and Derek, I will have you know 😂
briantrumpet
Pharaoh
It does actually cheer me up when I get a sensible parking place near my house (and not where it's likely to be washed by a high tide), and I can disconnect the battery because the next time I'm likely to be going to have to move the car is a couple of months away – at the moment, the next time will be for its MOT in April.
briantrumpet
Pharaoh
Being prompted into a 'deep clean' of my bean-to-cup Magnifica S machine, because it refused to work, with various warning lights illuminated, and having removed and washed all the bits I could (including the infuser) and cleaned out the chute from the grinder with the thing I use to clean the valves on my trumpets, all is good again. Man 1, machine 0.
briantrumpet
Pharaoh
With the help of a friend, I seem to have re-emerged on FB, so I can see what the French female fans have been saying while I've been away (for over three months).
No idea quite what buttons the friend ended up pressing (maybe reporting my account had been hacked, but we tried a few different combinations before the bingo moment), but all of a sudden, I got notifications on the FB app that I needed to verify my identity, and as I'd taken the precaution of taking my passport to dinner, along with the Crozes Hermitage (2018) that had been lurking in the cupboard, my account was unlocked in a few minutes.
Still no idea what it was all about, but glad I didn't give up. OTOH, I didn't particularly miss all the crap on FB. OTOOH, FB crap is but a fraction of Instagram crap, so I'll be glad to leave that behind (mostly). That said, it did allow me to keep my French FB Page going, even if I had no idea what anyone there was saying, other than « Sacré bleu, monsieur !! » I assume.
Anyway, guess I owe him another of these bottles from my secret cupboard now.
No idea quite what buttons the friend ended up pressing (maybe reporting my account had been hacked, but we tried a few different combinations before the bingo moment), but all of a sudden, I got notifications on the FB app that I needed to verify my identity, and as I'd taken the precaution of taking my passport to dinner, along with the Crozes Hermitage (2018) that had been lurking in the cupboard, my account was unlocked in a few minutes.
Still no idea what it was all about, but glad I didn't give up. OTOH, I didn't particularly miss all the crap on FB. OTOOH, FB crap is but a fraction of Instagram crap, so I'll be glad to leave that behind (mostly). That said, it did allow me to keep my French FB Page going, even if I had no idea what anyone there was saying, other than « Sacré bleu, monsieur !! » I assume.
Anyway, guess I owe him another of these bottles from my secret cupboard now.
