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clan chieftain

Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:32 am Post subject: Once a Dinosaur |
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I must be a real dinosaur. Still living in a timewarp 40 years ago. I just cant grasp all this modern stuff . Mobile phones do my nut in. I can make a call and answer one but thats it. Wii MP3 player....whats that about. I am still on cassettes and cds. I can do the brakes and service my Mazda Premacy but thats about it. As for computers I can switch them on but I dont know much about them.
I suppose thats why I have the marina.....because I can fix it. None of this £60 to plug it in and tell you whats wrong with it. It might be this sensor then again it might be another one. Half these diagnostic wizards are just guessing I think.
Bring back the good old days when a set of plugs and points was the answer. Oh well will go and watch the Beach Boys on you tube before I turn in...I can manage that.  _________________ The Clan Chieftain |
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P3steve
Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 542 Location: Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 1:09 am Post subject: |
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Got a Ford Focus Titanium as my daily (company car) only six months old when its on tick over the revs fluctuate up and down between 400 to 800 revs and from time to time will just die when on tick over or when you put the clutch in. Took it in to the local Ford garage who had it for half a day plugged into the magic box but gave it back claiming they couldn't find a thing wrong with it. I drove home and while sat on my drive filmed with the video on my phone the revs going up and down and the engine cutting out twice, next day went back to the garage and insisted on seeing the service manager and foreman and played them the video, they admitted that they hadn't even stood and listened to it ticking over just plugged it in and as the diagnostic computer couldn't find anything they had done nothing. Another half day and this time the computer said there was a fault but they couldn't locate it so they would need it for between three to five days to test all the car computers and connections. Farce!! on my 1949 Rover or the 1957 Standard Ten I can open the bonnet adjust the tick over and close the bonnet in less than thirty seconds on either car so where has all this progress got us? |
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buzzy bee

Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:56 am Post subject: |
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Well my super duper phone would not come off the facebook last night, I tried to get it off the net for an hour, but it was simply messing me about, about £12 later and several close shaves where it nearly got thrown, it sits by the side of me, not sure if it is still on facebook, just that I can't see it!
OOOO it anoys me something rotten, I can't grasp why windows keeps bringing new versions out, I want this new laptop, the spedd that it is, but with windows 98, instead I have windows 7, meaning I can't find anything, even to get on the net, my internet explorer icon in start has gone, so I click the pre installed icon on the desktop, Ebay, and go from there!
Driving me slowly mad, you would think that they wqould be able to make things easy to use now with all these clever bods, but it seems they complicate things so themselves can understand it, but no one else!
I will stop there, but there is plenty more if anyone wants any!
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clan chieftain

Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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What is facebook and bebo anyway. Is it not easier to lift the phone instead of sitting google eyed to a keyboard all night in a chat room.....whatever that is.
Have I got the latest ipod or iphone . I see my grandchildren and even my own children who are now in their thirties playing with a wii with their arms and legs going all over the place. You are scared to move in case you get in the way. These things cost fortunes. I remember when a wee cost a penny....oops different wee.
Get the latest satnav only £200. A £2 book of maps out of the petrol station will do me. The one I got in 1992 still works. Maybe I should change my user name to Victor Meldrew.we seem to have a lot in common.......anyone got the number for age concern  _________________ The Clan Chieftain |
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Richard H
Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 2150 Location: Lincolnshire, UK
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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ME, sounds like what you need is Nick Swainey and the Outward Bound Scheme for the Elderly
(btw he drives an Allegro in OFITG) |
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clan chieftain

Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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clan chieftain

Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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Wonder what the average forum members age is.??????? _________________ The Clan Chieftain |
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Dirty Habit

Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 398 Location: West Midlands, UK
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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I bet some clever so and so on here could some sort of thingy where you enter your age and the average is worked out  _________________ 1964 International Harvester |
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clan chieftain

Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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Here goes.
Parrot.......................something that squaks in a cage.
net.....................for catching fish in.
mouse...................a rodent with a big tail.
blue tooth...............one thats rotten and needs pulled.
surf.....................the sea.
There are bound to be dozens more but I cant think of any for laughing  _________________ The Clan Chieftain |
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buzzy bee

Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 3382 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 12:53 am Post subject: |
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marina estate wrote: | What is facebook and bebo anyway. Is it not easier to lift the phone instead of sitting google eyed to a keyboard all night in a chat room.....whatever that is. |
Hi
You have nearly hit the nail on the head, it is indeed easier to sit on facebook and keep intouch with friends, or on skype than on the telephone. And to add to this it is free!
More money to spend on the cars.
Cheers
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roverdriver

Joined: 18 Oct 2008 Posts: 1210 Location: 100 miles from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:18 am Post subject: |
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Took a trailer load to the rubbish tip today. A large screen T.V. set, used for 3 years, died and unfixable. A lazer printer, used for four years, died and unfixable. Eight computers some as much as 12 years old, all died and unfixable. Electric kettles ditto and so it goes on.
With what did I tow the trailer? Well a 55 year old car that has never died and is always fixable! _________________ Dane- roverdriver but not a Viking. |
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Jim.Walker

Joined: 27 Dec 2008 Posts: 1229 Location: Chesterfield
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Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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Help! Rescued a Widget from a can of beer for my mobile phone, but it won't fit any of the slots!  _________________ Quote from my late Dad:- You only need a woman and a car and you have all the problems you
are ever likely to want". Computers had not been invented then! |
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MVPeters

Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 822 Location: Northern MA, USA
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 12:23 am Post subject: |
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Well, Marina Estate, I'm sorry you started this thread, but since you did, all I can say is that you're in very good company!
I can't "dial" my mobile phone & when I "hang" it up, it slides off the dashboard.
We call them "cell" phones in the US because you're trapped into buying them.
Phones should be black with a rotating dial & a three-foot fabric-covered wire & on an antique hall-stand just inside the front door. If I answer it, I'm home - if I don't, I'm not.
If it's engaged, I'm busy (or is it the other way round?). _________________ Mike - MVPeters at comcast.net
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Jim.Walker

Joined: 27 Dec 2008 Posts: 1229 Location: Chesterfield
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Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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I read a quote somewhere, comparing a computer with a car. Can't remember where or when though it might have been from someone high up at General Motors. Obviously not recently.
I remember it included something like "to switch it off press ON" and lots more in a similar vein.
Anyone else remember it? It was a real education in twisted logic.
Jim. _________________ Quote from my late Dad:- You only need a woman and a car and you have all the problems you
are ever likely to want". Computers had not been invented then! |
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victor 101
Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 446 Location: East Yorkshire
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