Happy Days....

[throdgrain]

So the other day I decided I needed a few more USB ports, and that as I didn't have many, and no 3.0.

So, I went off and bought a PCI stick, and put it in my pc. In the process I bent my (very tall) cooler, and my lovely Sandybridge i7 overheated. I tried to fix the cooler but it was no good, so I bought a water cooler. In the process I bent the pins of my (formerly lovely) i7. So, I got pissed, and forgot about it for the night.

Next morning I got up, and thought it I'd go get a new motherboard and cpu, and fix my pc. It was a nice day, so I got on my Harley and rode the 60 miles to Novatech in Portsmouth. On the way though, it pissed with rain, I had no waterproofs, and got wet, and my bike got covered in shit. More of this later.

So, I got home and fitted me stuff, reflecting that the £25 USB port had cost me £320 for a new motherboard and cpu, £50 for the water cooler that had broke the old CPU, and then I noticed that the old motherboard had 3.0 anyway. For fucks sake.

Then today my phone packed up, I'm told because of water damage incurred the other day.

Tomorrow that PCI stick is going to get shot with a 12 bore. Happy days

 

[old.Osy]

#firstworldproblems

 

[caLLous]

Well, "PCI stick" is a new one for me.

 

[Moriath]

Awesome story. Sorry for your pain.

 

[throdgrain]

Well, "PCI stick" is a new one for me.

I am drinking. That took a lot of effort, and several edits.

 

[Raven]

Most expensive shotgun cartridge ever.

 

[throdgrain]

Nice little ending to this tale, my phone went wrong on saturday, checks now show it's been busted by water damage, incurred when I went to Portsmouth the other day. Oh joy

 

[Draylor]

 

[Ch3tan]

Throddy.... are you @Trem in disguise?

 

[ECA]

I always think of them as an extension of the same person anyway, just with two different jobs/lives that have merged into one long ginormous entertaining cockup.

 

[Shagrat]

I imagine there would be some form of cataclysmic singularity if they were ever in the same room.

 

[TdC]

a power-tool and shotty yielding singularity would form, starting the big crunch, that would take the shape of a badger/labrador hybred.

 

[Trem]

I'm way more useless than throd, at least he does stuff. I am also much, much younger and way more sprightly

 

[caLLous]

a power-tool and shotty yielding singularity would form, starting the big crunch, that would take the shape of a badger/labrador hybred.

...armed with a shotgun and some really awful pottery.

 

[TdC]

way more sprightly

I have a deep love for Throdbadger, but "sprightly" is indeed not a word that comes to mind when I consider his many ways.

 

[throdgrain]

Trem is MUCH older than me

 

[Jupitus]

I can't rate both Funny and Optimistic

 

[Moriath]

...armed with a shotgun and some really awful pottery.

Vogon poetry?

 

[Jupitus]

Vogon poetry?

Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
thy micturations are to me
as purple gabberblotches on a turgid bee

... and so on.

***Purely from memory... how did I do?

 

[TdC]

2/10 ;-)


actually, I don't know. it's a million years since I read THHGTTG

 

[Edmond]

Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
thy micturations are to me
as purple gabberblotches on a turgid bee

... and so on.

***Purely from memory... how did I do?

"Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts
With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"

Not far off

 

[Jupitus]

"Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts
With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"

Not far off

Ooo not bad then... was yours from memory too?

 

[Edmond]

Ooo not bad then... was yours from memory too?

Of course, well Wikimemory, but the same thing really