The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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Frizz1974 said:
My Audi TT is named Audrey - she is a little silver beast. My Subaru Impreza is Saphire. She’s getting old & delapidated these days but I’ve kept her for the learner driver.
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Oh my gosh! Do you give names to cars? Well OK! I am going to name my little Vauxhall Corsa 'Bluebell'. She is blue...
 
morning glory said:
Oh my gosh! Do you give names to cars? Well OK! I am going to name my little Vauxhall Corsa 'Bluebell'. She is blue...
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I have not officially named my Kia, but I did call it a few choice names on Saturday when I was out in the Essex countryside with the mutt and it refused to start when we decided to come home. At least it started on Sunday after the greyhound walk. I shouldn't really complain, though. The car is 13 years old now, and it's only the third time I've had any problems with it, and even then nothing major.
 
My brother and sister went through a phase of refusing to go to bed. They would simply go to my mother's room, curl up in her bed and watch TV when told to go to bed. Unless you went up to check on them you'd not know because of the "U" shape nature of the house (two staircases, one at each end to access different areas of the house).
Several checks later, then moving to their own rooms, then sneaking back into mums room because hers had a TV in it,my temper finally got the better of me.
I told them quite clearly that if they didn't go to bed I'd ' break the TV '.
They tried calling my bluff... I stormed out after turning the TV off and unplugging it, down to the kitchen, picked up a pair of scissors. Yelled they had one more chance and went back up to find they had plugged it back in, and we're watching it again. So I yanked the plug out of the wall, counted to 10 (mostly to get rid of residual energy...) and proceeded to cut the plug off the TV as close to the plug end as possible. Then handed them the plug, their faces were a picture, and walked out and went back downstairs to my mother in the sitting room. Explained as crying broke out upstairs. Needless to say they then went to bed. I didn't "fix" the TV for a couple of nights. After that they didn't argue with me again. Neither of them can wire a plug even to this day!
 
We are expecting a courier delivery today. They provided us with a tracking link, so I had a look at it an hour ago. It said that the driver was on stop 17 of 94. I had another look a couple of minutes ago and now it tells me the driver is on stop 12 of 94.

Who the hell is the driver, Doctor Who?
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
My brother and sister went through a phase of refusing to go to bed. They would simply go to my mother's room, curl up in her bed and watch TV when told to go to bed. Unless you went up to check on them you'd not know because of the "U" shape nature of the house (two staircases, one at each end to access different areas of the house).
Several checks later, then moving to their own rooms, then sneaking back into mums room because hers had a TV in it,my temper finally got the better of me.
I told them quite clearly that if they didn't go to bed I'd ' break the TV '.
They tried calling my bluff... I stormed out after turning the TV off and unplugging it, down to the kitchen, picked up a pair of scissors. Yelled they had one more chance and went back up to find they had plugged it back in, and we're watching it again. So I yanked the plug out of the wall, counted to 10 (mostly to get rid of residual energy...) and proceeded to cut the plug off the TV as close to the plug end as possible. Then handed them the plug, their faces were a picture, and walked out and went back downstairs to my mother in the sitting room. Explained as crying broke out upstairs. Needless to say they then went to bed. I didn't "fix" the TV for a couple of nights. After that they didn't argue with me again. Neither of them can wire a plug even to this day!
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My step-daughter had a TV in her room. We didn't mind her watching it, but she never unplugged it or switched it off at the plug, and often the quilt was be caught in between the plug the socket. My ex told her if she did that again, he would remove the TV from her room. The next night, there it was, exactly the same. That TV left her room express air-mail. It was not replaced.
 
The saga of my elderly cat and my laptop continues.

I was sitting on the sofa, listening to a podcast on iTunes earlier. I fell asleep. A short time later I was woken up by Atomic Blondie being played full blast. MS Word was open, the language was set to German, Cortana was in meltdown, and more worryingly the settings page had been opened. Also, the keyboard was covered in tabby cat fur. I think I will have to find a new place for the laptop, out of harm's way :laugh:
 
Forum's been a bit up and down this afternoon (my time) - it could be my ISP of course.
 
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