{OT} Never Do Tech Support ..

.... for friends.

SO's cousin, whose machine I reinstalled with XP a while back, called,
_screaming_ hysterically down the phone, 'I can't take it, I CAN'T TAKE IT,
my PC is FUCKED !!!!!!!!!!!!'

Once she calmed down, I managed to figure out that she was putting a USB
key into the box, and it 'wasn't seeing it'.

I go over there last night, put the key in, click on Explorer, and ask,
'what's that ?', as I point to 'removable drive'.

'Oh', she says.

'Yes', say I.

That's the _last_time_ that I 'fix' someone's PC. I suffered IT for seven
bloody years, and if I'm out of it now, it's precisely so that I _don't_
have to interact with frigging machines day in, day out.

<fx: walks off glowering>

 

It's obviously affected you quite badly ....

.... you didn't make a single reference to either you, your SO's cousin or
the computer genuinely being French or use loads of flowery French words.

 

I didn't have to; we all are [1]

I'm waiting for Cab to put his French course [2] online first ..


[1] well, the PC is a Sony ...
[2] _aprender a parller le Francais_

 

Isn't retreating from something difficult a French Trait?

 

{ snip }

Sure, that's why France lost 1.5 million men, charging machine guns with
bayonets.

Sometimes .. you can come out with some of the most crass, idiotic rubbish
since Dan claimed I wasn't French..

 

And Cheese Eating.

 

So add stupidity to the list of traits?

--
Alex

YZF 600

"I laugh in the face of danger"

"Then I hide until it goes away"

www.upce.org.uk
www.drzoidberg.co.uk

 

It was stupidity on a grand scale. The French army orthodoxies,
developed during the Napoleonic era, stuck to the idea that men needed
to advance shoulder-to-shoulder to ensure they all stuck together and
didn't run away. So concerned were they about the possibility of this
line breaking up if men stopped to fire their weapons that many of the
WW1 bayonet charges were made with _uloaded_ rifles so they couldn't
fire at all.

Madness of the first degree.

 

[2a] Since when was "parler" spelt with a double "l"? [3]

[3] Just proving that I'm paying attention.

 

That's the point I think you'll find.

 

*le ding*

Not to mention 'apprender' != 'apprendre' ... 'le' is not used in talking
of speaking languages, and 'français' is written with a small 'f' (and a
cedilla) ...

Too subtle for some folk..

 

genuine_froggie wrote

GPS, ykims.

 

Ace wrote

ain't dat de truff.

 

And Britain joined in with the same tactics. What does that say then?

 

No they didn't. They'd long-since abandoned the idea that this was the
only way to wage war. The rifles regiments had proved during the
peninsular wars that skirmishing tactics also had a valuable role to
play. I'm not saying they didn't still employ these tactics on
occasion (but never with empty guns) just that they didn't
dogmatically stick to a doctrine that was outdated by 100 years.

 

"Zey iz just overe ze next 'ill!"

"Wot 'ill, and why iz zere a windmill over zere?"

 

Twat

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

A bit harsh. He's quite witty most of the time.

 

Aha, good evening Des, a well placed post and lo, you respond, dead on cue.

How the **** are you? ( in case you were wondering I am fucking superb, and
well into a box of exceptionally mediocre Tempranillo).

Good man, keep it up...

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Don't you mean that you were 'just trolling'?

Life is sweet, since you asked. SO is at her parents', I'm sitting
playing with her Mac, playing a Norah Jones CD in it, and surfing our
recently-acquired ADSL. Tonight it's chicken curry, homemade of course, so
I'm going to ride over to Passage Brady, where they sell Indian spices.