All: seems most joints like Total Tools, Sydney Tools, hell, near
everyone, has got on the Black Friday bandwagon. I'm not a fan of ads on
the radio where they scream at you, like Sydney tools, Ultimate wood
heaters, et al... but:

at Total tools...(yesterday) 3 piece Stanley wood chisel set.. $15.
comes with a good old stanley knife, worth $15.00!
a TT home brand (iron air) retractable air-hose reel, 10mm x 20 metres,
$59.00 from memory. ( better/cheaper that a $250 Retracta jobbie. When
it shits itself, throw another on the wall. My first one has lasted 3
years so far, and still going. Now have 2 spares. :-) )

Then my Son walked into work this morn, and whilst having morning tea,
he says "you like Civilization game on your computer?" I've been playing
the Civilization franchise, nearly exclusively Civ 2, since the Amiga
days. Still play Civ 2 now. Played last nite! Anywho, boy tells me Civ
6, and a shitload of dlc's inc Australia, are now 88% ? off on Steam.
Not a steam fan, GOG does it for me as you can buy your games and store
them on a NAS, without any need of a connection to play. Never mind, for
that price, i'll do Steam again... Also got Command and Conquer and Red
Alert remastered for $15.00, and Sims 4 for $6.00. I wanna see if i can
knock the diamond off a sims head. :-)

The piece de resistance (fuck French): My Wurth rep rocked up today, a
week after his last visit. He's a lovely bloke, massive smile, swears
like a trooper, and always seems to have something on offer worth
while.. Last visit he's showing me the cattledog, and lo and behold,
they've fucked up, and have 6 spring clamps for $8.99. 2 x 6 inch, 2 x
4", and 2 x 2" $9.00. " I'll take 4 packs". And yep, delivered next day,
24 spring clamps for about $39.00. Misprint in the cattledog. So all
good... move forward to today... he's damn near ran into the office
today... Top bloke. Funny as buggery. He asks "you use cordless tools?"
I replied "yeah, but not yours". Until he showed me what was on offer.
An 18v cordless, brushless hammer drill, complete with normal AND SDS
chucks, 2 x 5AH batteries, charger, and crate. Normally $1000+, i've
scored one for $299. Top bloke, Mal. 😃

And a mate of mine who is a manager (taking note Tommy? a REAL manager,
not some flog you invented to pad your bullshit out) of a paint shop has
got me a Festo 150 Rotex
https://sydneytools.com.au/product/festool-ro-150-feqplus-720w-150mm-6-3in1-rotex-random-orbital-sander?gclid=Cj0KCQiAhf2MBhDNARIsAKXU5GSYKdOuu3eLU0q62tzr21qEPYviR-ug5zn2EseiaaUD9N3N7cZeqg8aAtXJEALw_wcB
without the stupid plastic systainer, for $680.

On top of all that, I pick my new mower up in 7 days (it's actually in
stock!) The world is (nearly) good. :-) Have to wait for the tractor,
and cant buy the tree-puller until the tractor arrives, but will get a
fair bit of clearing done before the summer hits big time... Hopefully. :-)

On 25/11/2021 5:03 pm, lindsay wrote:
>
> All: seems most joints like Total Tools, Sydney Tools, hell, near
> everyone, has got on the Black Friday bandwagon.

More American bullshit.

I'm not a fan of ads on
> the radio where they scream at you, like Sydney tools, Ultimate wood
> heaters, et al... but:
>
> at Total tools...(yesterday) 3 piece Stanley wood chisel set.. $15.
> comes with a good old stanley knife, worth $15.00!
> a TT home brand (iron air) retractable air-hose reel, 10mm x 20 metres,
> $59.00 from memory. ( better/cheaper that a $250 Retracta jobbie. When
> it shits itself, throw another on the wall. My first one has lasted 3
> years so far, and still going. Now have 2 spares. :-) )
>
> Then my Son walked into work this morn, and whilst having morning tea,
> he says "you like Civilization game on your computer?" I've been playing
> the Civilization franchise, nearly exclusively Civ 2, since the Amiga
> days.

Uh-oh... that makes you an "Amiga wanker" according to NoddyLiar.

On 25/11/2021 8:03 pm, lindsay wrote:
>
> All: seems most joints like Total Tools, Sydney Tools, hell, near
> everyone, has got on the Black Friday bandwagon. I'm not a fan of ads on
> the radio where they scream at you, like Sydney tools, Ultimate wood
> heaters, et al... but:
>
> at Total tools...(yesterday) 3 piece Stanley wood chisel set.. $15.
> comes with a good old stanley knife, worth $15.00!
> a TT home brand (iron air) retractable air-hose reel, 10mm x 20 metres,
> $59.00 from memory. ( better/cheaper that a $250 Retracta jobbie. When
> it shits itself, throw another on the wall. My first one has lasted 3
> years so far, and still going. Now have 2 spares. :-) )

Nice. I bought one a little while ago and they're great. Mine's only a
15mtr job and I was going to get a 20, but I plumbed air all around the
permimeter of workshop have three hose reels hanging off it at different
locations so I don't have to reach from one end to the other with a
single hose. The ratchet mechanism is grouse.

I've got a Projecta as well, and that's a heap of shit. Apart from
having to manually lock it with the lever, the hose itself is terrible.
It's as hard as a rock and quite difficult to use.
>
> Then my Son walked into work this morn, and whilst having morning tea,
> he says "you like Civilization game on your computer?" I've been playing
> the Civilization franchise, nearly exclusively Civ 2, since the Amiga
> days. Still play Civ 2 now. Played last nite! Anywho, boy tells me Civ
> 6, and a shitload of dlc's inc Australia, are now 88% ? off on Steam.
> Not a steam fan, GOG does it for me as you can buy your games and store
> them on a NAS, without any need of a connection to play. Never mind, for
> that price, i'll do Steam again... Also got Command and Conquer and Red
> Alert remastered for $15.00, and Sims 4 for $6.00. I wanna see if i can
> knock the diamond off a sims head. :-)

Lol :)

I like military strategy games, as in real time ones. I can't stand turn
based strategy games which is unfortunate as that's what most of them
seem to be. Haven't played any of the Civilisation series for years but
I remember playing Command and Conquer to death :)

> The piece de resistance (fuck French): My Wurth rep rocked up today, a
> week after his last visit. He's a lovely bloke, massive smile, swears
> like a trooper, and always seems to have something on offer worth
> while.. Last visit he's showing me the cattledog, and lo and behold,
> they've fucked up, and have 6 spring clamps for $8.99. 2 x 6 inch, 2 x
> 4", and 2 x 2" $9.00. " I'll take 4 packs". And yep, delivered next day,
> 24 spring clamps for about $39.00. Misprint in the cattledog. So all
> good... move forward to today... he's damn near ran into the office
> today... Top bloke. Funny as buggery. He asks "you use cordless tools?"
> I replied "yeah, but not yours". Until he showed me what was on offer.
> An 18v cordless, brushless hammer drill, complete with normal AND SDS
> chucks, 2 x 5AH batteries, charger, and crate. Normally $1000+, i've
> scored one for $299. Top bloke, Mal. 😃

Fucken hell :)

> And a mate of mine who is a manager (taking note Tommy? a REAL manager,
> not some flog you invented to pad your bullshit out) of a paint shop has
> got me a Festo 150 Rotex
> https://sydneytools.com.au/product/festool-ro-150-feqplus-720w-150mm-6-3in1-rotex-random-orbital-sander?gclid=Cj0KCQiAhf2MBhDNARIsAKXU5GSYKdOuu3eLU0q62tzr21qEPYviR-ug5zn2EseiaaUD9N3N7cZeqg8aAtXJEALw_wcB
> without the stupid plastic systainer, for $680.
>
> On top of all that, I pick my new mower up in 7 days (it's actually in
> stock!)  The world is (nearly) good. :-) Have to wait for the tractor,
> and cant buy the tree-puller until the tractor arrives, but will get a
> fair bit of clearing done before the summer hits big time... Hopefully. :-)

Christmas certainly came early for you.

I've been wanting a universal tool and cutter grinder for ages. I never
bothered with one until now as it used to be cheaper and easier to just
use Chinese end mills until you could no longer get a decent cutting
edge on them with a diamond lap and then just throw them away and use a
new one as you could buy a decent universal Metric or Imperial set for
70 bucks and it was just quicker and easier to treat them as disposable
items rather than to tool up to sharpen them properly.

However times change, and now a "cheap arsed" Chinese set of end mills
that are decent enough to be useful are pushing 300 bucks a set, and a
that price they're getting a bit exxy to be dropping into the bin.
Especially if you only get 10 seconds use out of one after going in a
bit too heavy and blunting the fuck out it :)

So I made the decision to buy myself a grinder. They're normally around
a couple of grand for a decent one, but sometimes waiting pays off. Hare
& Forbes in Dandenong were having a 3 day sale where they were doing the
grinder with a decent collet set, end mill side flute attachment, lathe
tool attachment, a drill bi sharpening attachment and a spare grinding
wheel for 1600 bucks, so I jumped in the ute and made the three day trip
across town from Bacchus to Dandy along Melbourne's perpetual roadworks
display to get one.

And it's grouse. The only problem is that not long after I rearranged my
tool room to make a spot for it some dickhead t-boned my Mum's car and
I've been repairing that and haven't had a chance to use the grinder yet :)

--
--
--
Regards,
Noddy.

On 26/11/2021 8:07 am, Noddy wrote:
> On 25/11/2021 8:03 pm, lindsay wrote:
>>
>> All: seems most joints like Total Tools, Sydney Tools, hell, near
>> everyone, has got on the Black Friday bandwagon. I'm not a fan of ads
>> on the radio where they scream at you, like Sydney tools, Ultimate
>> wood heaters, et al... but:
>>
>> at Total tools...(yesterday) 3 piece Stanley wood chisel set.. $15.
>> comes with a good old stanley knife, worth $15.00!
>> a TT home brand (iron air) retractable air-hose reel, 10mm x 20
>> metres, $59.00 from memory. ( better/cheaper that a $250 Retracta
>> jobbie. When it shits itself, throw another on the wall. My first one
>> has lasted 3 years so far, and still going. Now have 2 spares. :-) )
>
> Nice. I bought one a little while ago and they're great. Mine's only a
> 15mtr job and I was going to get a 20, but I plumbed air all around the
> permimeter of workshop have three hose reels hanging off it at different
> locations so I don't have to reach from one end to the other with a
> single hose. The ratchet mechanism is grouse.
>
> I've got a Projecta as well, and that's a heap of shit. Apart from
> having to manually lock it with the lever, the hose itself is terrible.
> It's as hard as a rock and quite difficult to use.
>>
>> Then my Son walked into work this morn, and whilst having morning tea,
>> he says "you like Civilization game on your computer?" I've been
>> playing the Civilization franchise, nearly exclusively Civ 2, since
>> the Amiga days. Still play Civ 2 now. Played last nite! Anywho, boy
>> tells me Civ 6, and a shitload of dlc's inc Australia, are now 88% ?
>> off on Steam. Not a steam fan, GOG does it for me as you can buy your
>> games and store them on a NAS, without any need of a connection to
>> play. Never mind, for that price, i'll do Steam again... Also got
>> Command and Conquer and Red Alert remastered for $15.00, and Sims 4
>> for $6.00. I wanna see if i can knock the diamond off a sims head. :-)
>
> Lol :)
>
> I like military strategy games, as in real time ones. I can't stand turn
> based strategy games which is unfortunate as that's what most of them
> seem to be. Haven't played any of the Civilisation series for years but
> I remember playing Command and Conquer to death :)
>
>> The piece de resistance (fuck French): My Wurth rep rocked up today, a
>> week after his last visit. He's a lovely bloke, massive smile, swears
>> like a trooper, and always seems to have something on offer worth
>> while.. Last visit he's showing me the cattledog, and lo and behold,
>> they've fucked up, and have 6 spring clamps for $8.99. 2 x 6 inch, 2 x
>> 4", and 2 x 2" $9.00. " I'll take 4 packs". And yep, delivered next
>> day, 24 spring clamps for about $39.00. Misprint in the cattledog. So
>> all good... move forward to today... he's damn near ran into the
>> office today... Top bloke. Funny as buggery. He asks "you use cordless
>> tools?" I replied "yeah, but not yours". Until he showed me what was
>> on offer. An 18v cordless, brushless hammer drill, complete with
>> normal AND SDS chucks, 2 x 5AH batteries, charger, and crate. Normally
>> $1000+, i've scored one for $299. Top bloke, Mal. 😃
>
> Fucken hell :)
>
>> And a mate of mine who is a manager (taking note Tommy? a REAL
>> manager, not some flog you invented to pad your bullshit out) of a
>> paint shop has got me a Festo 150 Rotex
>> https://sydneytools.com.au/product/festool-ro-150-feqplus-720w-150mm-6-3in1-rotex-random-orbital-sander?gclid=Cj0KCQiAhf2MBhDNARIsAKXU5GSYKdOuu3eLU0q62tzr21qEPYviR-ug5zn2EseiaaUD9N3N7cZeqg8aAtXJEALw_wcB
>> without the stupid plastic systainer, for $680.
>>
>> On top of all that, I pick my new mower up in 7 days (it's actually in
>> stock!)  The world is (nearly) good. :-) Have to wait for the tractor,
>> and cant buy the tree-puller until the tractor arrives, but will get a
>> fair bit of clearing done before the summer hits big time...
>> Hopefully. :-)
>
> Christmas certainly came early for you.
>
> I've been wanting a universal tool and cutter grinder for ages. I never
> bothered with one until now as it used to be cheaper and easier to just
> use Chinese end mills until you could no longer get a decent cutting
> edge on them with a diamond lap and then just throw them away and use a
> new one as you could buy a decent universal Metric or Imperial set for
> 70 bucks and it was just quicker and easier to treat them as disposable
> items rather than to tool up to sharpen them properly.
>
> However times change, and now a "cheap arsed" Chinese set of end mills
> that are decent enough to be useful are pushing 300 bucks a set, and a
> that price they're getting a bit exxy to be dropping into the bin.
> Especially if you only get 10 seconds use out of one after going in a
> bit too heavy and blunting the fuck out it :)
>
> So I made the decision to buy myself a grinder. They're normally around
> a couple of grand for a decent one, but sometimes waiting pays off. Hare
> & Forbes in Dandenong were having a 3 day sale where they were doing the
> grinder with a decent collet set, end mill side flute attachment, lathe
> tool attachment, a drill bi sharpening attachment and a spare grinding
> wheel for 1600 bucks, so I jumped in the ute and made the three day trip
> across town from Bacchus to Dandy along Melbourne's perpetual roadworks
> display to get one.
>
> And it's grouse. The only problem is that not long after I rearranged my
> tool room to make a spot for it some dickhead t-boned my Mum's car and
> I've been repairing that and haven't had a chance to use the grinder yet :)
>
>
>
>

LOL... and here we go, captain irrelevant has turned to the conversation
to himself again and of course into a pissing contests.

Like to chestbeat much, boy?

On 26/11/21 11:07 am, Noddy wrote:
> On 25/11/2021 8:03 pm, lindsay wrote:
>>
>> All: seems most joints like Total Tools, Sydney Tools, hell, near
>> everyone, has got on the Black Friday bandwagon. I'm not a fan of ads
>> on the radio where they scream at you, like Sydney tools, Ultimate
>> wood heaters, et al... but:
>>
>> at Total tools...(yesterday) 3 piece Stanley wood chisel set.. $15.
>> comes with a good old stanley knife, worth $15.00!
>> a TT home brand (iron air) retractable air-hose reel, 10mm x 20
>> metres, $59.00 from memory. ( better/cheaper that a $250 Retracta
>> jobbie. When it shits itself, throw another on the wall. My first one
>> has lasted 3 years so far, and still going. Now have 2 spares. :-) )
>
> Nice. I bought one a little while ago and they're great. Mine's only a
> 15mtr job and I was going to get a 20, but I plumbed air all around the
> permimeter of workshop have three hose reels hanging off it at different
> locations so I don't have to reach from one end to the other with a
> single hose. The ratchet mechanism is grouse.
>
> I've got a Projecta as well, and that's a heap of shit. Apart from
> having to manually lock it with the lever, the hose itself is terrible.
> It's as hard as a rock and quite difficult to use.
>>
>> Then my Son walked into work this morn, and whilst having morning tea,
>> he says "you like Civilization game on your computer?" I've been
>> playing the Civilization franchise, nearly exclusively Civ 2, since
>> the Amiga days. Still play Civ 2 now. Played last nite! Anywho, boy
>> tells me Civ 6, and a shitload of dlc's inc Australia, are now 88% ?
>> off on Steam. Not a steam fan, GOG does it for me as you can buy your
>> games and store them on a NAS, without any need of a connection to
>> play. Never mind, for that price, i'll do Steam again... Also got
>> Command and Conquer and Red Alert remastered for $15.00, and Sims 4
>> for $6.00. I wanna see if i can knock the diamond off a sims head. :-)
>
> Lol :)
>
> I like military strategy games, as in real time ones. I can't stand turn
> based strategy games which is unfortunate as that's what most of them
> seem to be. Haven't played any of the Civilisation series for years but
> I remember playing Command and Conquer to death :)
>
>> The piece de resistance (fuck French): My Wurth rep rocked up today, a
>> week after his last visit. He's a lovely bloke, massive smile, swears
>> like a trooper, and always seems to have something on offer worth
>> while.. Last visit he's showing me the cattledog, and lo and behold,
>> they've fucked up, and have 6 spring clamps for $8.99. 2 x 6 inch, 2 x
>> 4", and 2 x 2" $9.00. " I'll take 4 packs". And yep, delivered next
>> day, 24 spring clamps for about $39.00. Misprint in the cattledog. So
>> all good... move forward to today... he's damn near ran into the
>> office today... Top bloke. Funny as buggery. He asks "you use cordless
>> tools?" I replied "yeah, but not yours". Until he showed me what was
>> on offer. An 18v cordless, brushless hammer drill, complete with
>> normal AND SDS chucks, 2 x 5AH batteries, charger, and crate. Normally
>> $1000+, i've scored one for $299. Top bloke, Mal. 😃
>
> Fucken hell :)
>
>> And a mate of mine who is a manager (taking note Tommy? a REAL
>> manager, not some flog you invented to pad your bullshit out) of a
>> paint shop has got me a Festo 150 Rotex
>> https://sydneytools.com.au/product/festool-ro-150-feqplus-720w-150mm-6-3in1-rotex-random-orbital-sander?gclid=Cj0KCQiAhf2MBhDNARIsAKXU5GSYKdOuu3eLU0q62tzr21qEPYviR-ug5zn2EseiaaUD9N3N7cZeqg8aAtXJEALw_wcB
>> without the stupid plastic systainer, for $680.
>>
>> On top of all that, I pick my new mower up in 7 days (it's actually in
>> stock!)  The world is (nearly) good. :-) Have to wait for the tractor,
>> and cant buy the tree-puller until the tractor arrives, but will get a
>> fair bit of clearing done before the summer hits big time...
>> Hopefully. :-)
>
> Christmas certainly came early for you.
>
> I've been wanting a universal tool and cutter grinder for ages. I never
> bothered with one until now as it used to be cheaper and easier to just
> use Chinese end mills until you could no longer get a decent cutting
> edge on them with a diamond lap and then just throw them away and use a
> new one as you could buy a decent universal Metric or Imperial set for
> 70 bucks and it was just quicker and easier to treat them as disposable
> items rather than to tool up to sharpen them properly.
>
> However times change, and now a "cheap arsed" Chinese set of end mills
> that are decent enough to be useful are pushing 300 bucks a set, and a
> that price they're getting a bit exxy to be dropping into the bin.
> Especially if you only get 10 seconds use out of one after going in a
> bit too heavy and blunting the fuck out it :)
>
> So I made the decision to buy myself a grinder. They're normally around
> a couple of grand for a decent one, but sometimes waiting pays off. Hare
> & Forbes in Dandenong were having a 3 day sale where they were doing the
> grinder with a decent collet set, end mill side flute attachment, lathe
> tool attachment, a drill bi sharpening attachment and a spare grinding
> wheel for 1600 bucks, so I jumped in the ute and made the three day trip
> across town from Bacchus to Dandy along Melbourne's perpetual roadworks
> display to get one.
>

Like that description of your trip, wife's brother lives in Officer and
it took just on 1.5hrs to get there last Saturday afternoon and 1hr
20mins to get home at 1.00am Sunday, the fwys are disaster zones.

> And it's grouse. The only problem is that not long after I rearranged my
> tool room to make a spot for it some dickhead t-boned my Mum's car and
> I've been repairing that and haven't had a chance to use the grinder yet :)
>
>

Plenty of dickheads drivers about, son sent me dashcam video of a crash
he witnessed a couple of days ago on Bell St, a Mazda 3 heading towards
him was clipped on the left rear by a Commodore that came out of a side
street without looking, the Mazda span hit a kerb and rolled then slid
on its roof, son helped the woman get out of the Mazda, she wasn't
physically injured but she was in shock.

--
Daryl

On 26/11/2021 11:01 am, Daryl wrote:
> On 26/11/21 11:07 am, Noddy wrote:
>> On 25/11/2021 8:03 pm, lindsay wrote:
>>>
>>> All: seems most joints like Total Tools, Sydney Tools, hell, near
>>> everyone, has got on the Black Friday bandwagon. I'm not a fan of ads
>>> on the radio where they scream at you, like Sydney tools, Ultimate
>>> wood heaters, et al... but:
>>>
>>> at Total tools...(yesterday) 3 piece Stanley wood chisel set.. $15.
>>> comes with a good old stanley knife, worth $15.00!
>>> a TT home brand (iron air) retractable air-hose reel, 10mm x 20
>>> metres, $59.00 from memory. ( better/cheaper that a $250 Retracta
>>> jobbie. When it shits itself, throw another on the wall. My first one
>>> has lasted 3 years so far, and still going. Now have 2 spares. :-) )
>>
>> Nice. I bought one a little while ago and they're great. Mine's only a
>> 15mtr job and I was going to get a 20, but I plumbed air all around
>> the permimeter of workshop have three hose reels hanging off it at
>> different locations so I don't have to reach from one end to the other
>> with a single hose. The ratchet mechanism is grouse.
>>
>> I've got a Projecta as well, and that's a heap of shit. Apart from
>> having to manually lock it with the lever, the hose itself is
>> terrible. It's as hard as a rock and quite difficult to use.
>>>
>>> Then my Son walked into work this morn, and whilst having morning
>>> tea, he says "you like Civilization game on your computer?" I've been
>>> playing the Civilization franchise, nearly exclusively Civ 2, since
>>> the Amiga days. Still play Civ 2 now. Played last nite! Anywho, boy
>>> tells me Civ 6, and a shitload of dlc's inc Australia, are now 88% ?
>>> off on Steam. Not a steam fan, GOG does it for me as you can buy your
>>> games and store them on a NAS, without any need of a connection to
>>> play. Never mind, for that price, i'll do Steam again... Also got
>>> Command and Conquer and Red Alert remastered for $15.00, and Sims 4
>>> for $6.00. I wanna see if i can knock the diamond off a sims head. :-)
>>
>> Lol :)
>>
>> I like military strategy games, as in real time ones. I can't stand
>> turn based strategy games which is unfortunate as that's what most of
>> them seem to be. Haven't played any of the Civilisation series for
>> years but I remember playing Command and Conquer to death :)
>>
>>> The piece de resistance (fuck French): My Wurth rep rocked up today,
>>> a week after his last visit. He's a lovely bloke, massive smile,
>>> swears like a trooper, and always seems to have something on offer
>>> worth while.. Last visit he's showing me the cattledog, and lo and
>>> behold, they've fucked up, and have 6 spring clamps for $8.99. 2 x 6
>>> inch, 2 x 4", and 2 x 2" $9.00. " I'll take 4 packs". And yep,
>>> delivered next day, 24 spring clamps for about $39.00. Misprint in
>>> the cattledog. So all good... move forward to today... he's damn near
>>> ran into the office today... Top bloke. Funny as buggery. He asks
>>> "you use cordless tools?" I replied "yeah, but not yours". Until he
>>> showed me what was on offer. An 18v cordless, brushless hammer drill,
>>> complete with normal AND SDS chucks, 2 x 5AH batteries, charger, and
>>> crate. Normally $1000+, i've scored one for $299. Top bloke, Mal. 😃
>>
>> Fucken hell :)
>>
>>> And a mate of mine who is a manager (taking note Tommy? a REAL
>>> manager, not some flog you invented to pad your bullshit out) of a
>>> paint shop has got me a Festo 150 Rotex
>>> https://sydneytools.com.au/product/festool-ro-150-feqplus-720w-150mm-6-3in1-rotex-random-orbital-sander?gclid=Cj0KCQiAhf2MBhDNARIsAKXU5GSYKdOuu3eLU0q62tzr21qEPYviR-ug5zn2EseiaaUD9N3N7cZeqg8aAtXJEALw_wcB
>>> without the stupid plastic systainer, for $680.
>>>
>>> On top of all that, I pick my new mower up in 7 days (it's actually
>>> in stock!)  The world is (nearly) good. :-) Have to wait for the
>>> tractor, and cant buy the tree-puller until the tractor arrives, but
>>> will get a fair bit of clearing done before the summer hits big
>>> time... Hopefully. :-)
>>
>> Christmas certainly came early for you.
>>
>> I've been wanting a universal tool and cutter grinder for ages. I
>> never bothered with one until now as it used to be cheaper and easier
>> to just use Chinese end mills until you could no longer get a decent
>> cutting edge on them with a diamond lap and then just throw them away
>> and use a new one as you could buy a decent universal Metric or
>> Imperial set for 70 bucks and it was just quicker and easier to treat
>> them as disposable items rather than to tool up to sharpen them properly.
>>
>> However times change, and now a "cheap arsed" Chinese set of end mills
>> that are decent enough to be useful are pushing 300 bucks a set, and a
>> that price they're getting a bit exxy to be dropping into the bin.
>> Especially if you only get 10 seconds use out of one after going in a
>> bit too heavy and blunting the fuck out it :)
>>
>> So I made the decision to buy myself a grinder. They're normally
>> around a couple of grand for a decent one, but sometimes waiting pays
>> off. Hare & Forbes in Dandenong were having a 3 day sale where they
>> were doing the grinder with a decent collet set, end mill side flute
>> attachment, lathe tool attachment, a drill bi sharpening attachment
>> and a spare grinding wheel for 1600 bucks, so I jumped in the ute and
>> made the three day trip across town from Bacchus to Dandy along
>> Melbourne's perpetual roadworks display to get one.
>>
>
> Like that description of your trip, wife's brother lives in Officer and
> it took just on 1.5hrs to get there last Saturday afternoon and 1hr
> 20mins to get home at 1.00am Sunday, the fwys are disaster zones.
>
>> And it's grouse. The only problem is that not long after I rearranged
>> my tool room to make a spot for it some dickhead t-boned my Mum's car
>> and I've been repairing that and haven't had a chance to use the
>> grinder yet :)
>>
>>
>
> Plenty of dickheads drivers about, son sent me dashcam video of a crash
> he witnessed a couple of days ago on Bell St, a Mazda 3 heading towards
> him was clipped on the left rear by a Commodore that came out of a side
> street without looking, the Mazda span hit a kerb and rolled then slid
> on its roof, son helped the woman get out of the Mazda, she wasn't
> physically injured but she was in shock.
>
>
We live in a cul-de-sac with a roundabout at the end where you join the
road that runs through the suburb. I was coming out in the MX-5 and
there was some little shitbox approaching from the left.Since I was
already in the roundabout I thought that it would give way, but it
didn't. The woman driving didn't even look to the right and just carried
on. I had to brake hard (may have left some rubber on the road) to avoid
t-boning her. I gave her a severe horning, and she just lost it, at the
next roundabout she signaled left and turned right, then signaled right
when she left the roundabout. A hundred metres up the road, she pulled
over presumably to change her knickers.

On 26/11/2021 12:01 pm, Daryl wrote:
> On 26/11/21 11:07 am, Noddy wrote:

>>
>> So I made the decision to buy myself a grinder. They're normally
>> around a couple of grand for a decent one, but sometimes waiting pays
>> off. Hare & Forbes in Dandenong were having a 3 day sale where they
>> were doing the grinder with a decent collet set, end mill side flute
>> attachment, lathe tool attachment, a drill bi sharpening attachment
>> and a spare grinding wheel for 1600 bucks, so I jumped in the ute and
>> made the three day trip across town from Bacchus to Dandy along
>> Melbourne's perpetual roadworks display to get one.
>>
>
> Like that description of your trip, wife's brother lives in Officer and
> it took just on 1.5hrs to get there last Saturday afternoon and 1hr
> 20mins to get home at 1.00am Sunday, the fwys are disaster zones.

It's hopeless, isn't it? There's roadworks going on virtually the whole
way from the Ring Road to warragul Road, and it seems to have been in
that state for the last 10 years.

> Plenty of dickheads drivers about, son sent me dashcam video of a crash
> he witnessed a couple of days ago on Bell St, a Mazda 3 heading towards
> him was clipped on the left rear by a Commodore that came out of a side
> street without looking, the Mazda span hit a kerb and rolled then slid
> on its roof, son helped the woman get out of the Mazda, she wasn't
> physically injured but she was in shock.

Nasty.

Mum's car wasn't all that serious. A woman in a Suby wagon came out of a
car park a little quicker than what she should have and drove into the
side of my Mum's old Getz. It pushed in the driver's door and rear
quarter panel which I'm repairing now. I'm also giving it a bit of a
make-over repainting things like mirrors, door handles and bumpers as
the clearcoat is peeling off and it needs a tidy up.

It's also been a long time since it has anything done to it
mechanically, so it's getting a decent service and a timing belt.
Believe it or not it's 18 years old and only just clicked over 30k km's
and is still on it's original factory timing belt :)

--
--
--
Regards,
Noddy.

On 26/11/2021 12:55 pm, keithr0 wrote:
> On 26/11/2021 11:01 am, Daryl wrote:

>> Plenty of dickheads drivers about, son sent me dashcam video of a
>> crash he witnessed a couple of days ago on Bell St, a Mazda 3 heading
>> towards him was clipped on the left rear by a Commodore that came out
>> of a side street without looking, the Mazda span hit a kerb and rolled
>> then slid on its roof, son helped the woman get out of the Mazda, she
>> wasn't physically injured but she was in shock.
>>
>>
> We live in a cul-de-sac with a roundabout at the end where you join the
> road that runs through the suburb. I was coming out in the MX-5 and
> there was some little shitbox approaching from the left.Since I was
> already in the roundabout I thought that it would give way, but it
> didn't. The woman driving didn't even look to the right and just carried
> on. I had to brake hard (may have left some rubber on the road) to avoid
> t-boning her. I gave her a severe horning, and she just lost it, at the
> next roundabout she signaled left and turned right, then signaled right
> when she left the roundabout. A hundred metres up the road, she pulled
> over presumably to change her knickers.

Lol :)

--
--
--
Regards,
Noddy.

On 26/11/21 2:05 pm, Noddy wrote:
> On 26/11/2021 12:01 pm, Daryl wrote:
>> On 26/11/21 11:07 am, Noddy wrote:
>
>>>
>>> So I made the decision to buy myself a grinder. They're normally
>>> around a couple of grand for a decent one, but sometimes waiting pays
>>> off. Hare & Forbes in Dandenong were having a 3 day sale where they
>>> were doing the grinder with a decent collet set, end mill side flute
>>> attachment, lathe tool attachment, a drill bi sharpening attachment
>>> and a spare grinding wheel for 1600 bucks, so I jumped in the ute and
>>> made the three day trip across town from Bacchus to Dandy along
>>> Melbourne's perpetual roadworks display to get one.
>>>
>>
>> Like that description of your trip, wife's brother lives in Officer
>> and it took just on 1.5hrs to get there last Saturday afternoon and
>> 1hr 20mins to get home at 1.00am Sunday, the fwys are disaster zones.
>
> It's hopeless, isn't it? There's roadworks going on virtually the whole
> way from the Ring Road to warragul Road, and it seems to have been in
> that state for the last 10 years.

Its been going on for so long I can't remember when it started, its a
sick joke.
>
>> Plenty of dickheads drivers about, son sent me dashcam video of a
>> crash he witnessed a couple of days ago on Bell St, a Mazda 3 heading
>> towards him was clipped on the left rear by a Commodore that came out
>> of a side street without looking, the Mazda span hit a kerb and rolled
>> then slid on its roof, son helped the woman get out of the Mazda, she
>> wasn't physically injured but she was in shock.
>
> Nasty.
>
> Mum's car wasn't all that serious. A woman in a Suby wagon came out of a
> car park a little quicker than what she should have and drove into the
> side of my Mum's old Getz. It pushed in the driver's door and rear
> quarter panel which I'm repairing now. I'm also giving it a bit of a
> make-over repainting things like mirrors, door handles and bumpers as
> the clearcoat is peeling off and it needs a tidy up.
>
> It's also been a long time since it has anything done to it
> mechanically, so it's getting a decent service and a timing belt.
> Believe it or not it's 18 years old and only just clicked over 30k km's
> and is still on it's original factory timing belt :)
>

LOL, amazing it lasted so long.

--
Daryl

On 26/11/2021 2:48 pm, Daryl wrote:
> On 26/11/21 2:05 pm, Noddy wrote:

>> It's hopeless, isn't it? There's roadworks going on virtually the
>> whole way from the Ring Road to warragul Road, and it seems to have
>> been in that state for the last 10 years.
>
> Its been going on for so long I can't remember when it started, its a
> sick joke.

It's fucking bizarre. It's like they keep changing their minds about
what they should be doing to address traffic problems and continually
alter the works plans. I honestly can't remember the last time I drove
anywhere along that length of freeway when there *wasn't* works going on.

>> It's also been a long time since it has anything done to it
>> mechanically, so it's getting a decent service and a timing belt.
>> Believe it or not it's 18 years old and only just clicked over 30k
>> km's and is still on it's original factory timing belt :)
>>
>
> LOL, amazing it lasted so long.

I think the motor is actually shagged as it never gets warmed up. The
longest trip it ever does these days is 4km which is from her house to
her medical specialist, and that's once every six months or so. The
average trip is 1.2km's from her house to the shopping centre once a week :)

--
--
--
Regards,
Noddy.

On 26/11/2021 11:05 am, Noddy wrote:
> On 26/11/2021 12:01 pm, Daryl wrote:
>> On 26/11/21 11:07 am, Noddy wrote:
>
>>>
>>> So I made the decision to buy myself a grinder. They're normally
>>> around a couple of grand for a decent one, but sometimes waiting pays
>>> off. Hare & Forbes in Dandenong were having a 3 day sale where they
>>> were doing the grinder with a decent collet set, end mill side flute
>>> attachment, lathe tool attachment, a drill bi sharpening attachment
>>> and a spare grinding wheel for 1600 bucks, so I jumped in the ute and
>>> made the three day trip across town from Bacchus to Dandy along
>>> Melbourne's perpetual roadworks display to get one.
>>>
>>
>> Like that description of your trip, wife's brother lives in Officer
>> and it took just on 1.5hrs to get there last Saturday afternoon and
>> 1hr 20mins to get home at 1.00am Sunday, the fwys are disaster zones.
>
> It's hopeless, isn't it? There's roadworks going on virtually the whole
> way from the Ring Road to warragul Road, and it seems to have been in
> that state for the last 10 years.
>
>> Plenty of dickheads drivers about, son sent me dashcam video of a
>> crash he witnessed a couple of days ago on Bell St, a Mazda 3 heading
>> towards him was clipped on the left rear by a Commodore that came out
>> of a side street without looking, the Mazda span hit a kerb and rolled
>> then slid on its roof, son helped the woman get out of the Mazda, she
>> wasn't physically injured but she was in shock.
>
> Nasty.
>
> Mum's car wasn't all that serious. A woman in a Suby wagon came out of a
> car park a little quicker than what she should have and drove into the
> side of my Mum's old Getz. It pushed in the driver's door and rear
> quarter panel which I'm repairing now. I'm also giving it a bit of a
> make-over repainting things like mirrors, door handles and bumpers as
> the clearcoat is peeling off and it needs a tidy up.
>
> It's also been a long time since it has anything done to it
> mechanically, so it's getting a decent service and a timing belt.
> Believe it or not it's 18 years old and only just clicked over 30k km's
> and is still on it's original factory timing belt :)
>
>
>

She needs to find herself a competent mechanic. Timing belts need to be
changed by time or distance, every mechanic knows that. The bloke who
maintains it is clearly a shonk.

On 26/11/2021 2:37 pm, Noddy wrote:
> On 26/11/2021 2:48 pm, Daryl wrote:
>> On 26/11/21 2:05 pm, Noddy wrote:
>
>>> It's hopeless, isn't it? There's roadworks going on virtually the
>>> whole way from the Ring Road to warragul Road, and it seems to have
>>> been in that state for the last 10 years.
>>
>> Its been going on for so long I can't remember when it started, its a
>> sick joke.
>
> It's fucking bizarre. It's like they keep changing their minds about
> what they should be doing to address traffic problems and continually
> alter the works plans. I honestly can't remember the last time I drove
> anywhere along that length of freeway when there *wasn't* works going on.
>
>>> It's also been a long time since it has anything done to it
>>> mechanically, so it's getting a decent service and a timing belt.
>>> Believe it or not it's 18 years old and only just clicked over 30k
>>> km's and is still on it's original factory timing belt :)
>>>
>>
>> LOL, amazing it lasted so long.
>
> I think the motor is actually shagged as it never gets warmed up. The
> longest trip it ever does these days is 4km which is from her house to
> her medical specialist, and that's once every six months or so. The
> average trip is 1.2km's from her house to the shopping centre once a
> week :)
>
>
>
>
>

But she was involved in an accident, not her fault according to you but
you're fixing it... What are the odds?

On 26/11/21 5:51 pm, Clocky wrote:
> On 26/11/2021 11:05 am, Noddy wrote:
>> On 26/11/2021 12:01 pm, Daryl wrote:
>>> On 26/11/21 11:07 am, Noddy wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> So I made the decision to buy myself a grinder. They're normally
>>>> around a couple of grand for a decent one, but sometimes waiting
>>>> pays off. Hare & Forbes in Dandenong were having a 3 day sale where
>>>> they were doing the grinder with a decent collet set, end mill side
>>>> flute attachment, lathe tool attachment, a drill bi sharpening
>>>> attachment and a spare grinding wheel for 1600 bucks, so I jumped in
>>>> the ute and made the three day trip across town from Bacchus to
>>>> Dandy along Melbourne's perpetual roadworks display to get one.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Like that description of your trip, wife's brother lives in Officer
>>> and it took just on 1.5hrs to get there last Saturday afternoon and
>>> 1hr 20mins to get home at 1.00am Sunday, the fwys are disaster zones.
>>
>> It's hopeless, isn't it? There's roadworks going on virtually the
>> whole way from the Ring Road to warragul Road, and it seems to have
>> been in that state for the last 10 years.
>>
>>> Plenty of dickheads drivers about, son sent me dashcam video of a
>>> crash he witnessed a couple of days ago on Bell St, a Mazda 3 heading
>>> towards him was clipped on the left rear by a Commodore that came out
>>> of a side street without looking, the Mazda span hit a kerb and
>>> rolled then slid on its roof, son helped the woman get out of the
>>> Mazda, she wasn't physically injured but she was in shock.
>>
>> Nasty.
>>
>> Mum's car wasn't all that serious. A woman in a Suby wagon came out of
>> a car park a little quicker than what she should have and drove into
>> the side of my Mum's old Getz. It pushed in the driver's door and rear
>> quarter panel which I'm repairing now. I'm also giving it a bit of a
>> make-over repainting things like mirrors, door handles and bumpers as
>> the clearcoat is peeling off and it needs a tidy up.
>>
>> It's also been a long time since it has anything done to it
>> mechanically, so it's getting a decent service and a timing belt.
>> Believe it or not it's 18 years old and only just clicked over 30k
>> km's and is still on it's original factory timing belt :)
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> She needs to find herself a competent mechanic. Timing belts need to be
> changed by time or distance, every mechanic knows that. The bloke who
> maintains it is clearly a shonk.
>
>
You thought that too, huh?

Of course, you realise there's the likelihood of nothing in the story
being true. When it's all been said and done, Darren has *form*!

--
Xeno

Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing.
(with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

On 26/11/2021 9:39 am, Clocky wrote:
> On 25/11/2021 5:03 pm, lindsay wrote:
>>
>> All: seems most joints like Total Tools, Sydney Tools, hell, near
>> everyone, has got on the Black Friday bandwagon.
>
> More American bullshit.
>
> I'm not a fan of ads on
>> the radio where they scream at you, like Sydney tools, Ultimate wood
>> heaters, et al... but:
>>
>> at Total tools...(yesterday) 3 piece Stanley wood chisel set.. $15.
>> comes with a good old stanley knife, worth $15.00!
>> a TT home brand (iron air) retractable air-hose reel, 10mm x 20
>> metres, $59.00 from memory. ( better/cheaper that a $250 Retracta
>> jobbie. When it shits itself, throw another on the wall. My first one
>> has lasted 3 years so far, and still going. Now have 2 spares. :-) )
>>
>> Then my Son walked into work this morn, and whilst having morning tea,
>> he says "you like Civilization game on your computer?" I've been
>> playing the Civilization franchise, nearly exclusively Civ 2, since
>> the Amiga days.
>
> Uh-oh... that makes you an "Amiga wanker" according to NoddyLiar.

Then that's both of us, huh? Hell, there's still Holden v Ford
supporters... or Hilux v Ranger, huh?

I'm happy to wear that badge. Like the millions of Amiga users around
the world... Seems you feel a bit butt hurt, otherwise you'd not bring
it up. No skin off my nose. I loved the Amiga, and bought my first full
priced "game" ($90.00 30+ years ago) called Harpoon. Apparently at the
time it was used to teach US Navy recruits tactics. Certainly taught me
a bit....Not too bad for a "game"... I still play similar recent 'sims'
like Cold Waters at least weekly. Last game of Cold Waters, I lined
myself up against 9 chinese warships, got six of em before I checked
out... :-)

For what it's worth, I started with a Vic 20, 2 x C64's, then went to
multiple A500's inc a 10meg(!) hard disk that cost my 3rd arm, and ran
my BBS (complete with a sponsor!) for quite some time on an A500 with
the HD, a A2000?, an A1200 with 40gb internal hard disk(?) which was the
ducks guts at the time. Then moved to the "dark side".. a clone.
Amstrad SX 20. Ended up running my BBS on a full tower DX4-100, with 4
cd-roms out front, and an external SCSI 6 disk Pioneer cd-rom drive. 10
cd-roms online.. not unheard of, but still not bad for it's time. IMHO,
the Amiga prepared the world for the PC clones... I'm proud of my
entrance to the world of computers, all self taught, from Amiga's to
through MS-DOS,Windows 3.10, IRQ's, Sound blaster cards with cd-rom
drives, SCSI cards, multiple modems,.... still, proud to be called an
Amiga Wanker.

On 26/11/2021 8:27 pm, lindsay wrote:
> On 26/11/2021 9:39 am, Clocky wrote:
>> On 25/11/2021 5:03 pm, lindsay wrote:
>>>
>>> All: seems most joints like Total Tools, Sydney Tools, hell, near
>>> everyone, has got on the Black Friday bandwagon.
>>
>> More American bullshit.
>>
>> I'm not a fan of ads on
>>> the radio where they scream at you, like Sydney tools, Ultimate wood
>>> heaters, et al... but:
>>>
>>> at Total tools...(yesterday) 3 piece Stanley wood chisel set.. $15.
>>> comes with a good old stanley knife, worth $15.00!
>>> a TT home brand (iron air) retractable air-hose reel, 10mm x 20
>>> metres, $59.00 from memory. ( better/cheaper that a $250 Retracta
>>> jobbie. When it shits itself, throw another on the wall. My first one
>>> has lasted 3 years so far, and still going. Now have 2 spares. :-) )
>>>
>>> Then my Son walked into work this morn, and whilst having morning
>>> tea, he says "you like Civilization game on your computer?" I've been
>>> playing the Civilization franchise, nearly exclusively Civ 2, since
>>> the Amiga days.
>>
>> Uh-oh... that makes you an "Amiga wanker" according to NoddyLiar.
>
>
> Then that's both of us, huh?  Hell, there's still Holden v Ford
> supporters... or Hilux v Ranger, huh?
>
> I'm happy to wear that badge. Like the millions of Amiga users around
> the world... Seems you feel a bit butt hurt, otherwise you'd not bring
> it up. No skin off my nose. I loved the Amiga, and bought my first full
> priced "game" ($90.00 30+ years ago) called Harpoon. Apparently at the
> time it was used to teach US Navy recruits tactics. Certainly taught me
> a bit....Not too bad for a "game"... I still play similar recent 'sims'
> like Cold Waters at least weekly. Last game of Cold Waters, I lined
> myself up against 9 chinese warships, got six of em before I checked
> out... :-)

Lol @ "butt hurt" :)

Jerky is being his usual juvenile dickhead self. My "Amiga" comments
were directed squarely at him and his wank attitude about how the Amiga
was better than anything else. He really is a fuckwit who just loves to
reinvent history.

Agree about Cold Waters. It's a great game and I love playing it. I just
wish there was more to it as the campaigns are over in about 4 or 5
missions. There is apparently an "Infinity" type mod available for it
that allows you to play an indefinite war that lasts for as long as you
like, but I've not been able to get it to work.

"Calls to Arms: Gates of Hell" is one I'm enjoying at the moment. It can
be a little slow and a little repetitive, but if you like Germans
kicking the piss out of Russians it's not too bad :)

--
--
--
Regards,
Noddy.

On 26/11/2021 5:51 pm, Clocky wrote:
> On 26/11/2021 11:05 am, Noddy wrote:
>> On 26/11/2021 12:01 pm, Daryl wrote:
>>> On 26/11/21 11:07 am, Noddy wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> So I made the decision to buy myself a grinder. They're normally
>>>> around a couple of grand for a decent one, but sometimes waiting
>>>> pays off. Hare & Forbes in Dandenong were having a 3 day sale where
>>>> they were doing the grinder with a decent collet set, end mill side
>>>> flute attachment, lathe tool attachment, a drill bi sharpening
>>>> attachment and a spare grinding wheel for 1600 bucks, so I jumped
>>>> in the ute and made the three day trip across town from Bacchus to
>>>> Dandy along Melbourne's perpetual roadworks display to get one.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Like that description of your trip, wife's brother lives in Officer
>>> and it took just on 1.5hrs to get there last Saturday afternoon and
>>> 1hr 20mins to get home at 1.00am Sunday, the fwys are disaster zones.
>>
>> It's hopeless, isn't it? There's roadworks going on virtually the
>> whole way from the Ring Road to warragul Road, and it seems to have
>> been in that state for the last 10 years.
>>
>>> Plenty of dickheads drivers about, son sent me dashcam video of a
>>> crash he witnessed a couple of days ago on Bell St, a Mazda 3
>>> heading towards him was clipped on the left rear by a Commodore that
>>> came out of a side street without looking, the Mazda span hit a kerb
>>> and rolled then slid on its roof, son helped the woman get out of
>>> the Mazda, she wasn't physically injured but she was in shock.
>>
>> Nasty.
>>
>> Mum's car wasn't all that serious. A woman in a Suby wagon came out
>> of a car park a little quicker than what she should have and drove
>> into the side of my Mum's old Getz. It pushed in the driver's door
>> and rear quarter panel which I'm repairing now. I'm also giving it a
>> bit of a make-over repainting things like mirrors, door handles and
>> bumpers as the clearcoat is peeling off and it needs a tidy up.
>>
>> It's also been a long time since it has anything done to it
>> mechanically, so it's getting a decent service and a timing belt.
>> Believe it or not it's 18 years old and only just clicked over 30k
>> km's and is still on it's original factory timing belt :)
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> She needs to find herself a competent mechanic. Timing belts need to
> be changed by time or distance, every mechanic knows that. The bloke
> who maintains it is clearly a shonk.
>
>

lol! remember derro making a big song and dance about my questioning of
the need to change the Magna's timing belt? and how the engine would
explode if I didn't change it on time?

--
"A mans got to know his limitations"
- clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry

On 26/11/2021 6:48 pm, Yosemite Sam wrote:
> On 26/11/2021 5:51 pm, Clocky wrote:
>> On 26/11/2021 11:05 am, Noddy wrote:
>>> On 26/11/2021 12:01 pm, Daryl wrote:
>>>> On 26/11/21 11:07 am, Noddy wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So I made the decision to buy myself a grinder. They're normally
>>>>> around a couple of grand for a decent one, but sometimes waiting
>>>>> pays off. Hare & Forbes in Dandenong were having a 3 day sale where
>>>>> they were doing the grinder with a decent collet set, end mill side
>>>>> flute attachment, lathe tool attachment, a drill bi sharpening
>>>>> attachment and a spare grinding wheel for 1600 bucks, so I jumped
>>>>> in the ute and made the three day trip across town from Bacchus to
>>>>> Dandy along Melbourne's perpetual roadworks display to get one.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Like that description of your trip, wife's brother lives in Officer
>>>> and it took just on 1.5hrs to get there last Saturday afternoon and
>>>> 1hr 20mins to get home at 1.00am Sunday, the fwys are disaster zones.
>>>
>>> It's hopeless, isn't it? There's roadworks going on virtually the
>>> whole way from the Ring Road to warragul Road, and it seems to have
>>> been in that state for the last 10 years.
>>>
>>>> Plenty of dickheads drivers about, son sent me dashcam video of a
>>>> crash he witnessed a couple of days ago on Bell St, a Mazda 3
>>>> heading towards him was clipped on the left rear by a Commodore that
>>>> came out of a side street without looking, the Mazda span hit a kerb
>>>> and rolled then slid on its roof, son helped the woman get out of
>>>> the Mazda, she wasn't physically injured but she was in shock.
>>>
>>> Nasty.
>>>
>>> Mum's car wasn't all that serious. A woman in a Suby wagon came out
>>> of a car park a little quicker than what she should have and drove
>>> into the side of my Mum's old Getz. It pushed in the driver's door
>>> and rear quarter panel which I'm repairing now. I'm also giving it a
>>> bit of a make-over repainting things like mirrors, door handles and
>>> bumpers as the clearcoat is peeling off and it needs a tidy up.
>>>
>>> It's also been a long time since it has anything done to it
>>> mechanically, so it's getting a decent service and a timing belt.
>>> Believe it or not it's 18 years old and only just clicked over 30k
>>> km's and is still on it's original factory timing belt :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> She needs to find herself a competent mechanic. Timing belts need to
>> be changed by time or distance, every mechanic knows that. The bloke
>> who maintains it is clearly a shonk.
>>
>>
>
> lol! remember derro making a big song and dance about my questioning of
> the need to change the Magna's timing belt? and how the engine would
> explode if I didn't change it on time?
>

Yep!

On 26/11/2021 5:27 pm, lindsay wrote:
> On 26/11/2021 9:39 am, Clocky wrote:
>> On 25/11/2021 5:03 pm, lindsay wrote:
>>>
>>> All: seems most joints like Total Tools, Sydney Tools, hell, near
>>> everyone, has got on the Black Friday bandwagon.
>>
>> More American bullshit.
>>
>> I'm not a fan of ads on
>>> the radio where they scream at you, like Sydney tools, Ultimate wood
>>> heaters, et al... but:
>>>
>>> at Total tools...(yesterday) 3 piece Stanley wood chisel set.. $15.
>>> comes with a good old stanley knife, worth $15.00!
>>> a TT home brand (iron air) retractable air-hose reel, 10mm x 20
>>> metres, $59.00 from memory. ( better/cheaper that a $250 Retracta
>>> jobbie. When it shits itself, throw another on the wall. My first one
>>> has lasted 3 years so far, and still going. Now have 2 spares. :-) )
>>>
>>> Then my Son walked into work this morn, and whilst having morning
>>> tea, he says "you like Civilization game on your computer?" I've been
>>> playing the Civilization franchise, nearly exclusively Civ 2, since
>>> the Amiga days.
>>
>> Uh-oh... that makes you an "Amiga wanker" according to NoddyLiar.
>
>
> Then that's both of us, huh?

Apparently.

Hell, there's still Holden v Ford
> supporters... or Hilux v Ranger, huh?
>
> I'm happy to wear that badge. Like the millions of Amiga users around
> the world...

Nobody is a "wanker" for having used an Amiga.

Seems you feel a bit butt hurt, otherwise you'd not bring
> it up.

Not in the slightest. The words of a proven congenital liar have no
effect at all.

No skin off my nose. I loved the Amiga, and bought my first full
> priced "game" ($90.00 30+ years ago) called Harpoon. Apparently at the
> time it was used to teach US Navy recruits tactics. Certainly taught me
> a bit....Not too bad for a "game"...

That's quite a late game.

I still play similar recent 'sims'
> like Cold Waters at least weekly. Last game of Cold Waters, I lined
> myself up against 9 chinese warships, got six of em before I checked
> out... :-)
>

Nice. I played a lot of MoH, COD and BF2 online at one time but these
days GTA5.

> For what it's worth, I started with a Vic 20, 2 x C64's, then went to
> multiple A500's inc a 10meg(!) hard disk that cost my 3rd arm, and ran
> my BBS (complete with a sponsor!) for quite some time on an A500 with
> the HD, a A2000?, an A1200 with 40gb internal hard disk(?) which was the
> ducks guts at the time.

40MB, you probably had the A1200 HD/40 like the one I still own except
it now has a CF card instead of a IDE drive. If you still have yours,
they are worth decent money these days. The ducks guts were the big-box
Amigas like the A2000, A3000 and the pinnacle the A4000 though the A1200
was nice and compact and had (and still has) a lot of expansion options.
My Amiga 2000HD had a SCSI hard drive, accelerator and RAM expansion but
also a 486DX SBC inside with with VGA, IDE HDD and CD-ROM all accessible
through Workbench on the Amiga through a parallel network. It could run
Windows concurrently with AmigaOS 3.1 on a dual monitor setup. It was a
beast at the time. I started on a TRS-80 but have used a lot of
different computers since about 1981 after we arrived here, PC's
included so I have a pretty good basis for comparison unlike some people
with strong opinions who were caught out talking smack.

"wanker" is better suited to someone claiming to have owned a PC at a
time before they were even released I'd suggest :-)

Then moved to the "dark side".. a clone.
> Amstrad SX 20.

386SX?

Ended up running my BBS on a full tower DX4-100, with 4
> cd-roms out front, and an external SCSI 6 disk Pioneer cd-rom drive. 10
> cd-roms online.. not unheard of, but still not bad for it's time.

I might have dialed in to it though there were many to choose from at
that time.

IMHO,
> the Amiga prepared the world for the PC clones...

The Amiga showed the world the benefits of a pre-emptively multitasking
32 bit multimedia capable home computer for the creative mind some years
before those things became possible/affordable on PC's and Mac's.

I'm proud of my
> entrance to the world of computers, all self taught, from Amiga's to
> through MS-DOS,Windows 3.10, IRQ's, Sound blaster cards with cd-rom
> drives, SCSI cards, multiple modems,.... still, proud to be called an
> Amiga Wanker.

I'm lucky to have owned or had direct access to lots of different
systems. None of which made anyone any more or less of a "wanker".

On 27/11/2021 3:05 am, Clocky wrote:
> On 26/11/2021 5:27 pm, lindsay wrote:

>>>> Then my Son walked into work this morn, and whilst having morning
>>>> tea, he says "you like Civilization game on your computer?" I've
>>>> been playing the Civilization franchise, nearly exclusively Civ 2,
>>>> since the Amiga days.
>>>
>>> Uh-oh... that makes you an "Amiga wanker" according to NoddyLiar.
>>
>>
>> Then that's both of us, huh?
>
> Apparently.
>
>  Hell, there's still Holden v Ford
>> supporters... or Hilux v Ranger, huh?
>>
>> I'm happy to wear that badge. Like the millions of Amiga users around
>> the world...
>
> Nobody is a "wanker" for having used an Amiga.
>
> Seems you feel a bit butt hurt, otherwise you'd not bring
>> it up.
>
> Not in the slightest. The words of a proven congenital liar have no
> effect at all.

Seems you remember those words well....
>
> No skin off my nose. I loved the Amiga, and bought my first full
>> priced "game" ($90.00 30+ years ago) called Harpoon. Apparently at the
>> time it was used to teach US Navy recruits tactics. Certainly taught
>> me a bit....Not too bad for a "game"...
>
> That's quite a late game.

I dunno what "late" relates to. I remember seeing it in the window of a
shop at a large shopping centre... I remember buying it, (whilst having
fuck all spare cash) and I remember i had very little sleep in 5 days,
and the following weekend, couldnt get my mate off the fucking thing
whilst we (missus and I) waited to install a new Panasonic dot matrix
printer. He'd done an all-nighter, from 10pm till 11 am next day. Wife
tells me it was approx 32 years ago, as we wern't in our house at that
stage... Also introduced to the "techno thriller" genre of books by
Larry Bond, Tom Clancy and my favourite, Dale Brown.

> I still play similar recent 'sims'
>> like Cold Waters at least weekly. Last game of Cold Waters, I lined
>> myself up against 9 chinese warships, got six of em before I checked
>> out... :-)
>>
>
> Nice. I played a lot of MoH, COD and BF2 online at one time but these
> days GTA5.

I just cant do squad based games.... Having said that, I played my first
game of SIM 4 last nite. And killed my first sim in 2 hours. He wasnt
happy with the sleep deprivation. :-)

>> For what it's worth, I started with a Vic 20, 2 x C64's, then went to
>> multiple A500's inc a 10meg(!) hard disk that cost my 3rd arm, and ran
>> my BBS (complete with a sponsor!) for quite some time on an A500 with
>> the HD, a A2000?, an A1200 with 40gb internal hard disk(?) which was
>> the ducks guts at the time.
>
> 40MB, you probably had the A1200 HD/40 like the one I still own except
> it now has a CF card instead of a IDE drive. If you still have yours,
> they are worth decent money these days. The ducks guts were the big-box
> Amigas like the A2000, A3000 and the pinnacle the A4000 though the A1200
> was nice and compact and had (and still has) a lot of expansion options.
> My Amiga 2000HD had a SCSI hard drive, accelerator and RAM expansion but
> also a 486DX SBC inside with with VGA, IDE HDD and CD-ROM all accessible
> through Workbench on the Amiga through a parallel network. It could run
> Windows concurrently with AmigaOS 3.1 on a dual monitor setup. It was a
> beast at the time.  I started on a TRS-80 but have used a lot of
> different computers since about 1981 after we arrived here, PC's
> included so I have a pretty good basis for comparison unlike some people
> with strong opinions who were caught out talking smack.

Obviously, people hooked in to the Amiga scene way more than me. I loved
the comms side of it. But outgrew it for my BBS hobby. Kept building my
comps from bits... up to about 5 years ago. Recently, bought a Dell
desktop. All the bells and whistles, shitloads of horsepower inc
graphics wise, think it was $1400 with 3 year warranty. I couldnt be
fucked building PC's anymore. only use 2-3 at a time now.

>
> "wanker" is better suited to someone claiming to have owned a PC at a
> time before they were even released I'd suggest :-)
>
>  Then moved to the "dark side".. a clone.
>> Amstrad SX 20.
>
> 386SX?

Yep. Piece of shit, but I was hooked on computers, and flying blind.

>  Ended up running my BBS on a full tower DX4-100, with 4
>> cd-roms out front, and an external SCSI 6 disk Pioneer cd-rom drive.
>> 10 cd-roms online.. not unheard of, but still not bad for it's time.
>
> I might have dialed in to it though there were many to choose from at
> that time.

Couldnt tell you how many users I had at the end, but I know that
digital comms killed the BBS scene for me, and plenty of others. I
destroyed the user database in several different ways. I've an unused
Stallion card with 8 x 16550 uarts onboard somewhere...which would be
the last bit of the BBS days .. 56k was max, one way... and then digital.

>  IMHO,
>> the Amiga prepared the world for the PC clones...
>
> The Amiga showed the world the benefits of a pre-emptively multitasking
> 32 bit multimedia capable home computer for the creative mind some years
> before those things became possible/affordable on PC's and Mac's.
>
> I'm proud of my
>> entrance to the world of computers, all self taught, from Amiga's to
>> through MS-DOS,Windows 3.10, IRQ's, Sound blaster cards with cd-rom
>> drives, SCSI cards, multiple modems,.... still, proud to be called an
>> Amiga Wanker.
>
> I'm lucky to have owned or had direct access to lots of different
> systems. None of which made anyone any more or less of a "wanker".
>

On 26/11/2021 8:58 pm, Noddy wrote:

>> I'm happy to wear that badge. Like the millions of Amiga users around
>> the world... Seems you feel a bit butt hurt, otherwise you'd not bring
>> it up. No skin off my nose. I loved the Amiga, and bought my first
>> full priced "game" ($90.00 30+ years ago) called Harpoon. Apparently
>> at the time it was used to teach US Navy recruits tactics. Certainly
>> taught me a bit....Not too bad for a "game"... I still play similar
>> recent 'sims' like Cold Waters at least weekly. Last game of Cold
>> Waters, I lined myself up against 9 chinese warships, got six of em
>> before I checked out... :-)
>
> Lol @ "butt hurt" :)
>
> Jerky is being his usual juvenile dickhead self. My "Amiga" comments
> were directed squarely at him and his wank attitude about how the Amiga
> was better than anything else. He really is a fuckwit who just loves to
> reinvent history.

No skin off my nose. The Amiga did what I wanted at the time BBS, and
then the PC clone took over my BBS. Aussie software running it
too..Ezycom, by Peter Davis. (gee my memory isnt too shabby...)

> Agree about Cold Waters. It's a great game and I love playing it.

Me too. Wife's not happy with the odd sonar ping rattling through the
house at 11.00pm. Tell someone who cares! :-)

I just
> wish there was more to it as the campaigns are over in about 4 or 5
> missions. There is apparently an "Infinity" type mod available for it
> that allows you to play an indefinite war that lasts for as long as you
> like, but I've not been able to get it to work.

Someone has done a mod that allows users to inject all sorts of stuff,
including RAN's Collins class subs. I've seen it, and wouldnt mind
having a crack, but I find myself struggling to sit down for 5-6 hours
at a time.

Civ is the same.. play it, end up doing silly hours at work, sit down 3
weeks later, and "where the fuck am i?" May have a crack at Civ 6
"Australia" tonight... :-) Could be carnage between NSW and QLD... :-)

> "Calls to Arms: Gates of Hell" is one I'm enjoying at the moment. It can
> be a little slow and a little repetitive, but if you like Germans
> kicking the piss out of Russians it's not too bad :)

LOL. I played the sims4 for the first time last nite, and killed my
first sim. Dunno if thats a badge to wear or not.. :-) Hard to get 'em
to stand still when they want a piss. LOL, the Grim Reaper appeared
holding a fucking tablet!! :-D

Hahahahahhahahahahahahha
>
>

On 26/11/2021 11:07 am, Noddy wrote:
> On 25/11/2021 8:03 pm, lindsay wrote:
>>
>> All: seems most joints like Total Tools, Sydney Tools, hell, near
>> everyone, has got on the Black Friday bandwagon. I'm not a fan of ads
>> on the radio where they scream at you, like Sydney tools, Ultimate
>> wood heaters, et al... but:
>>
>> at Total tools...(yesterday) 3 piece Stanley wood chisel set.. $15.
>> comes with a good old stanley knife, worth $15.00!
>> a TT home brand (iron air) retractable air-hose reel, 10mm x 20
>> metres, $59.00 from memory. ( better/cheaper that a $250 Retracta
>> jobbie. When it shits itself, throw another on the wall. My first one
>> has lasted 3 years so far, and still going. Now have 2 spares. :-) )
>
> Nice. I bought one a little while ago and they're great. Mine's only a
> 15mtr job and I was going to get a 20, but I plumbed air all around the
> permimeter of workshop have three hose reels hanging off it at different
> locations so I don't have to reach from one end to the other with a
> single hose. The ratchet mechanism is grouse.

I expected mine to shit itself/leak, but no... its worked a treat, so
the 2 I bought will sit in reserve, although one may find it's way up
the block.. we've more to do, inc roof over two containers and a
caravan, so run the nail gun like last time...

> I've got a Projecta as well, and that's a heap of shit. Apart from
> having to manually lock it with the lever, the hose itself is terrible.
> It's as hard as a rock and quite difficult to use.
>>
>> Then my Son walked into work this morn, and whilst having morning tea,
>> he says "you like Civilization game on your computer?" I've been
>> playing the Civilization franchise, nearly exclusively Civ 2, since
>> the Amiga days. Still play Civ 2 now. Played last nite! Anywho, boy
>> tells me Civ 6, and a shitload of dlc's inc Australia, are now 88% ?
>> off on Steam. Not a steam fan, GOG does it for me as you can buy your
>> games and store them on a NAS, without any need of a connection to
>> play. Never mind, for that price, i'll do Steam again... Also got
>> Command and Conquer and Red Alert remastered for $15.00, and Sims 4
>> for $6.00. I wanna see if i can knock the diamond off a sims head. :-)
>
> Lol :)

Went close. Killed my first sim :-)
>
> I like military strategy games, as in real time ones. I can't stand turn
> based strategy games which is unfortunate as that's what most of them
> seem to be. Haven't played any of the Civilisation series for years but
> I remember playing Command and Conquer to death :)

LOL.. logged onto Steam last nite, and apparently I already own the C&C
Command and Conquer series.. will see if I can battle my Son on the
network, but he wasnt happy last time i handed his arse to him ..:-)
>
>> The piece de resistance (fuck French): My Wurth rep rocked up today, a
>> week after his last visit. He's a lovely bloke, massive smile, swears
>> like a trooper, and always seems to have something on offer worth
>> while.. Last visit he's showing me the cattledog, and lo and behold,
>> they've fucked up, and have 6 spring clamps for $8.99. 2 x 6 inch, 2 x
>> 4", and 2 x 2" $9.00. " I'll take 4 packs". And yep, delivered next
>> day, 24 spring clamps for about $39.00. Misprint in the cattledog. So
>> all good... move forward to today... he's damn near ran into the
>> office today... Top bloke. Funny as buggery. He asks "you use cordless
>> tools?" I replied "yeah, but not yours". Until he showed me what was
>> on offer. An 18v cordless, brushless hammer drill, complete with
>> normal AND SDS chucks, 2 x 5AH batteries, charger, and crate. Normally
>> $1000+, i've scored one for $299. Top bloke, Mal. 😃
>
> Fucken hell :)

Apparently delivered Monday. Dont care. Charge the batts up, and put it
away up the block. So be it.:-)

>
>> And a mate of mine who is a manager (taking note Tommy? a REAL
>> manager, not some flog you invented to pad your bullshit out) of a
>> paint shop has got me a Festo 150 Rotex
>> https://sydneytools.com.au/product/festool-ro-150-feqplus-720w-150mm-6-3in1-rotex-random-orbital-sander?gclid=Cj0KCQiAhf2MBhDNARIsAKXU5GSYKdOuu3eLU0q62tzr21qEPYviR-ug5zn2EseiaaUD9N3N7cZeqg8aAtXJEALw_wcB
>> without the stupid plastic systainer, for $680.
>>
>> On top of all that, I pick my new mower up in 7 days (it's actually in
>> stock!)  The world is (nearly) good. :-) Have to wait for the tractor,
>> and cant buy the tree-puller until the tractor arrives, but will get a >> fair bit of clearing done before the summer hits big time...
>> Hopefully. :-)
>
> Christmas certainly came early for you.

+1, Not over yet :-) Watching the rainfall, as I dont relly wanna try
getting into my joint with 400kg in/on the back, but thats why winches
were invented... I've so much work to do, so it's either next weekend or
whenever.. Gotta at least make an affore at tidying up the shed...

> I've been wanting a universal tool and cutter grinder for ages. I never
> bothered with one until now as it used to be cheaper and easier to just
> use Chinese end mills until you could no longer get a decent cutting
> edge on them with a diamond lap and then just throw them away and use a
> new one as you could buy a decent universal Metric or Imperial set for
> 70 bucks and it was just quicker and easier to treat them as disposable
> items rather than to tool up to sharpen them properly.
>
> However times change, and now a "cheap arsed" Chinese set of end mills
> that are decent enough to be useful are pushing 300 bucks a set, and a
> that price they're getting a bit exxy to be dropping into the bin.
> Especially if you only get 10 seconds use out of one after going in a
> bit too heavy and blunting the fuck out it :)
>
> So I made the decision to buy myself a grinder. They're normally around
> a couple of grand for a decent one, but sometimes waiting pays off. Hare
> & Forbes in Dandenong were having a 3 day sale where they were doing the
> grinder with a decent collet set, end mill side flute attachment, lathe
> tool attachment, a drill bi sharpening attachment and a spare grinding
> wheel for 1600 bucks, so I jumped in the ute and made the three day trip
> across town from Bacchus to Dandy along Melbourne's perpetual roadworks
> display to get one.
>
> And it's grouse. The only problem is that not long after I rearranged my
> tool room to make a spot for it some dickhead t-boned my Mum's car and
> I've been repairing that and haven't had a chance to use the grinder yet :)
>
>
>
>

On 27/11/2021 5:27 pm, lindsay wrote:
>> Seems you feel a bit butt hurt, otherwise you'd not bring
>>> it up.
>>
>> Not in the slightest. The words of a proven congenital liar have no
>> effect at all.
>
> Seems you remember those words well....

Lol :)

For someone who's not the "slightest bit bothered", he has no problems
with his recall :)

--
--
--
Regards,
Noddy.

On 27/11/2021 6:45 pm, lindsay wrote:
> On 26/11/2021 11:07 am, Noddy wrote:

>>> at Total tools...(yesterday) 3 piece Stanley wood chisel set.. $15.
>>> comes with a good old stanley knife, worth $15.00!
>>> a TT home brand (iron air) retractable air-hose reel, 10mm x 20
>>> metres, $59.00 from memory. ( better/cheaper that a $250 Retracta
>>> jobbie. When it shits itself, throw another on the wall. My first one
>>> has lasted 3 years so far, and still going. Now have 2 spares. :-) )
>>
>> Nice. I bought one a little while ago and they're great. Mine's only a
>> 15mtr job and I was going to get a 20, but I plumbed air all around
>> the permimeter of workshop have three hose reels hanging off it at
>> different locations so I don't have to reach from one end to the other
>> with a single hose. The ratchet mechanism is grouse.
>
> I expected mine to shit itself/leak, but no... its worked a treat, so
> the 2 I bought will sit in reserve, although one may find it's way up
> the block.. we've more to do, inc roof over two containers and a
> caravan, so run the nail gun like last time...

Cool.

>>> Then my Son walked into work this morn, and whilst having morning
>>> tea, he says "you like Civilization game on your computer?" I've been
>>> playing the Civilization franchise, nearly exclusively Civ 2, since
>>> the Amiga days. Still play Civ 2 now. Played last nite! Anywho, boy
>>> tells me Civ 6, and a shitload of dlc's inc Australia, are now 88% ?
>>> off on Steam. Not a steam fan, GOG does it for me as you can buy your
>>> games and store them on a NAS, without any need of a connection to
>>> play. Never mind, for that price, i'll do Steam again... Also got
>>> Command and Conquer and Red Alert remastered for $15.00, and Sims 4
>>> for $6.00. I wanna see if i can knock the diamond off a sims head. :-)
>>
>> Lol :)
>
> Went close. Killed my first sim :-)

Heh :)

>> I like military strategy games, as in real time ones. I can't stand
>> turn based strategy games which is unfortunate as that's what most of
>> them seem to be. Haven't played any of the Civilisation series for
>> years but I remember playing Command and Conquer to death :)
>
> LOL.. logged onto Steam last nite, and apparently I already own the C&C
> Command and Conquer series.. will see if I can battle my Son on the
> network, but he wasnt happy last time i handed his arse to him ..:-)

ROTFL :)

Fucking kids. No sense of adventure these days :)

>>
>>> The piece de resistance (fuck French): My Wurth rep rocked up today,
>>> a week after his last visit. He's a lovely bloke, massive smile,
>>> swears like a trooper, and always seems to have something on offer
>>> worth while.. Last visit he's showing me the cattledog, and lo and
>>> behold, they've fucked up, and have 6 spring clamps for $8.99. 2 x 6
>>> inch, 2 x 4", and 2 x 2" $9.00. " I'll take 4 packs". And yep,
>>> delivered next day, 24 spring clamps for about $39.00. Misprint in
>>> the cattledog. So all good... move forward to today... he's damn near
>>> ran into the office today... Top bloke. Funny as buggery. He asks
>>> "you use cordless tools?" I replied "yeah, but not yours". Until he
>>> showed me what was on offer. An 18v cordless, brushless hammer drill,
>>> complete with normal AND SDS chucks, 2 x 5AH batteries, charger, and
>>> crate. Normally $1000+, i've scored one for $299. Top bloke, Mal. 😃
>>
>> Fucken hell :)
>
> Apparently delivered Monday. Dont care. Charge the batts up, and put it
> away up the block. So be it.:-)

Nice.

>>
>>> And a mate of mine who is a manager (taking note Tommy? a REAL
>>> manager, not some flog you invented to pad your bullshit out) of a
>>> paint shop has got me a Festo 150 Rotex
>>> https://sydneytools.com.au/product/festool-ro-150-feqplus-720w-150mm-6-3in1-rotex-random-orbital-sander?gclid=Cj0KCQiAhf2MBhDNARIsAKXU5GSYKdOuu3eLU0q62tzr21qEPYviR-ug5zn2EseiaaUD9N3N7cZeqg8aAtXJEALw_wcB
>>> without the stupid plastic systainer, for $680.
>>>
>>> On top of all that, I pick my new mower up in 7 days (it's actually
>>> in stock!)  The world is (nearly) good. :-) Have to wait for the
>>> tractor, and cant buy the tree-puller until the tractor arrives, but
>>> will get a  >> fair bit of clearing done before the summer hits big
>>> time...
>>> Hopefully. :-)
>>
>> Christmas certainly came early for you.
>
> +1, Not over yet :-) Watching the rainfall, as I dont relly wanna try
> getting into my joint with 400kg in/on the back, but thats why winches
> were invented... I've so much work to do, so it's either next weekend or
> whenever.. Gotta at least make an affore at tidying up the shed...

Sounds like you'll be busy.

--
--
--
Regards,
Noddy.

On 27/11/2021 5:43 pm, lindsay wrote:
> On 26/11/2021 8:58 pm, Noddy wrote:
>
>>> I'm happy to wear that badge. Like the millions of Amiga users around
>>> the world... Seems you feel a bit butt hurt, otherwise you'd not
>>> bring it up. No skin off my nose. I loved the Amiga, and bought my
>>> first full priced "game" ($90.00 30+ years ago) called Harpoon.
>>> Apparently at the time it was used to teach US Navy recruits tactics.
>>> Certainly taught me a bit....Not too bad for a "game"... I still play
>>> similar recent 'sims' like Cold Waters at least weekly. Last game of
>>> Cold Waters, I lined myself up against 9 chinese warships, got six of
>>> em before I checked out... :-)
>>
>> Lol @ "butt hurt" :)
>>
>> Jerky is being his usual juvenile dickhead self. My "Amiga" comments
>> were directed squarely at him and his wank attitude about how the
>> Amiga was better than anything else. He really is a fuckwit who just
>> loves to reinvent history.
>
> No skin off my nose. The Amiga did what I wanted at the time BBS, and
> then the PC clone took over my BBS. Aussie software running it
> too..Ezycom, by Peter Davis. (gee my memory isnt too shabby...)

I remember Exycom. There was another popular piece of BBS software I
used for a short while called Remote Access. Lots of "programming" in
Ansi, and anyone who was *anyone* in the BBS scene had to have a US
Robotics modem.

The good old days.....

>> Agree about Cold Waters. It's a great game and I love playing it.
>
> Me too. Wife's not happy with the odd sonar ping rattling through the
> house at 11.00pm. Tell someone who cares!  :-)

Lol :)

> I just
>> wish there was more to it as the campaigns are over in about 4 or 5
>> missions. There is apparently an "Infinity" type mod available for it
>> that allows you to play an indefinite war that lasts for as long as
>> you like, but I've not been able to get it to work.
>
> Someone has done a mod that allows users to inject all sorts of stuff,
> including RAN's Collins class subs. I've seen it, and wouldnt mind
> having a crack, but I find myself struggling to sit down for 5-6 hours
> at a time.

Who needs sleep?

> Civ is the same.. play it, end up doing silly hours at work, sit down 3
> weeks later, and "where the fuck am i?" May have a crack at Civ 6
> "Australia" tonight... :-) Could be carnage between NSW and QLD... :-)

Lol :)
>> "Calls to Arms: Gates of Hell" is one I'm enjoying at the moment. It
>> can be a little slow and a little repetitive, but if you like Germans
>> kicking the piss out of Russians it's not too bad :)
>
> LOL. I played the sims4 for the first time last nite, and killed my
> first sim. Dunno if thats a badge to wear or not.. :-) Hard to get 'em
> to stand still when they want a piss. LOL, the Grim Reaper appeared
> holding a fucking tablet!! :-D
>
> Hahahahahhahahahahahahha

ROTFL :)

--
--
--
Regards,
Noddy.

On 27/11/2021 2:27 pm, lindsay wrote:
> On 27/11/2021 3:05 am, Clocky wrote:
>> On 26/11/2021 5:27 pm, lindsay wrote:
>
>>>>> Then my Son walked into work this morn, and whilst having morning
>>>>> tea, he says "you like Civilization game on your computer?" I've
>>>>> been playing the Civilization franchise, nearly exclusively Civ 2,
>>>>> since the Amiga days.
>>>>
>>>> Uh-oh... that makes you an "Amiga wanker" according to NoddyLiar.
>>>
>>>
>>> Then that's both of us, huh?
>>
>> Apparently.
>>
>>   Hell, there's still Holden v Ford
>>> supporters... or Hilux v Ranger, huh?
>>>
>>> I'm happy to wear that badge. Like the millions of Amiga users around
>>> the world...
>>
>> Nobody is a "wanker" for having used an Amiga.
>>
>> Seems you feel a bit butt hurt, otherwise you'd not bring
>>> it up.
>>
>> Not in the slightest. The words of a proven congenital liar have no
>> effect at all.
>
> Seems you remember those words well....

They revealed who the real wanker was with his proven false claims of PC
ownership :-) He's still *very* butt hurt about being proven wrong.

>>
>> No skin off my nose. I loved the Amiga, and bought my first full
>>> priced "game" ($90.00 30+ years ago) called Harpoon. Apparently at
>>> the time it was used to teach US Navy recruits tactics. Certainly
>>> taught me a bit....Not too bad for a "game"...
>>
>> That's quite a late game.
>
> I dunno what "late" relates to.

Late as in the quality was probably there. A lot of early games were
lazy Atari ST ports and didn't take full advantage of the Amiga's full
capabilities.

I remember seeing it in the window of a
> shop at a large shopping centre... I remember buying it, (whilst having
> fuck all spare cash) and I remember i had very little sleep in 5 days,
> and the following weekend, couldnt get my mate off the fucking thing
> whilst we (missus and I) waited to install a new Panasonic dot matrix
> printer. He'd done an all-nighter, from 10pm till 11 am next day. Wife
> tells me it was approx 32 years ago, as we wern't in our house at that
> stage... Also introduced to the "techno thriller" genre of books by
> Larry Bond, Tom Clancy and my favourite, Dale Brown.
>
>> I still play similar recent 'sims'
>>> like Cold Waters at least weekly. Last game of Cold Waters, I lined
>>> myself up against 9 chinese warships, got six of em before I checked
>>> out... :-)
>>>
>>
>> Nice. I played a lot of MoH, COD and BF2 online at one time but these
>> days GTA5.
>
> I just cant do squad based games.... Having said that, I played my first
> game of SIM 4 last nite.  And killed my first sim in 2 hours. He wasnt
> happy with the sleep deprivation. :-)
>

Unlike SimCity games I never got into the whole SIM games franchise.
GTA5 is a blast, otherwise it's getting challenged to play Forza or
Rocket League and a few others on the Xbox-One by the kids... and
getting smashed nearly every time.

>>> For what it's worth, I started with a Vic 20, 2 x C64's, then went to
>>> multiple A500's inc a 10meg(!) hard disk that cost my 3rd arm, and
>>> ran my BBS (complete with a sponsor!) for quite some time on an A500
>>> with the HD, a A2000?, an A1200 with 40gb internal hard disk(?) which
>>> was the ducks guts at the time.
>>
>> 40MB, you probably had the A1200 HD/40 like the one I still own except
>> it now has a CF card instead of a IDE drive. If you still have yours,
>> they are worth decent money these days. The ducks guts were the
>> big-box Amigas like the A2000, A3000 and the pinnacle the A4000 though
>> the A1200 was nice and compact and had (and still has) a lot of
>> expansion options. My Amiga 2000HD had a SCSI hard drive, accelerator
>> and RAM expansion but also a 486DX SBC inside with with VGA, IDE HDD
>> and CD-ROM all accessible through Workbench on the Amiga through a
>> parallel network. It could run Windows concurrently with AmigaOS 3.1
>> on a dual monitor setup. It was a beast at the time.  I started on a
>> TRS-80 but have used a lot of different computers since about 1981
>> after we arrived here, PC's included so I have a pretty good basis for
>> comparison unlike some people with strong opinions who were caught out
>> talking smack.
>
> Obviously, people hooked in to the Amiga scene way more than me. I loved
> the comms side of it.  But outgrew it for my BBS hobby. Kept building my
> comps from bits... up to about 5 years ago. Recently, bought a Dell
> desktop. All the bells and whistles, shitloads of horsepower inc
> graphics wise, think it was $1400 with 3 year warranty. I couldnt be
> fucked building PC's anymore. only use 2-3 at a time now.
>
>>
>> "wanker" is better suited to someone claiming to have owned a PC at a
>> time before they were even released I'd suggest :-)
>>
>>   Then moved to the "dark side".. a clone.
>>> Amstrad SX 20.
>>
>> 386SX?
>
> Yep. Piece of shit, but I was hooked on computers, and flying blind.

Well yeah, a 386SX was the poor man's 386 but that didn't mean it was
cheap ;-)

>
>>   Ended up running my BBS on a full tower DX4-100, with 4
>>> cd-roms out front, and an external SCSI 6 disk Pioneer cd-rom drive.
>>> 10 cd-roms online.. not unheard of, but still not bad for it's time.
>>
>> I might have dialed in to it though there were many to choose from at
>> that time.
>
> Couldnt tell you how many users I had at the end, but I know that
> digital comms killed the BBS scene for me, and plenty of others. I
> destroyed the user database in several different ways. I've an unused
> Stallion card with 8 x 16550 uarts onboard somewhere...which would be
> the last bit of the BBS days .. 56k was max, one way... and then digital.
>

The early 80's into the 90's was the best time to be involved in
computers IMO. A lot of diversity during that period which is why so
many people are into the retro-computing scene at present and so much
commercial and hobbyist development is going on.

>>   IMHO,
>>> the Amiga prepared the world for the PC clones...
>>
>> The Amiga showed the world the benefits of a pre-emptively
>> multitasking 32 bit multimedia capable home computer for the creative
>> mind some years before those things became possible/affordable on PC's
>> and Mac's.
>>
>> I'm proud of my
>>> entrance to the world of computers, all self taught, from Amiga's to
>>> through MS-DOS,Windows 3.10, IRQ's, Sound blaster cards with cd-rom
>>> drives, SCSI cards, multiple modems,.... still, proud to be called an
>>> Amiga Wanker.
>>
>> I'm lucky to have owned or had direct access to lots of different
>> systems. None of which made anyone any more or less of a "wanker".
>>
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