Nick Against the World (83 Viewers)

[Martin]

Sickness!!! :sick:

So here's my admitted lameass geek moment. After having my home espresso machine down for the count for the past few weeks due to pressure problems, I just successfully spent the afternoon taking the damn thing apart and replacing six different seals and gaskets I had to special order (not to mention various bizarre tools added to my toolbox, including universal retaining ring pliers ... in case anyone needs them :rolleyes2).

After a false start and a poorly-fitting piston (how's that for a double entendre?), I may still have lubricant and grease on my hands (and now on my keyboard), but this baby is back together and purrrrring.

Who wants a shot?! :coffee: You in, DB?!

Caffè is once again on the menu at La Casa della Nazista del Espresso.

I'd Skype it up with you, but I need to spend some "quality time" alone with my espresso machine, boys...

(Yeah... think Sergio replacing the engine block on his 5.0L Mustang, and you might get where I'm coming from... )

Greg, I didn't know you were a mechanic. Ah, it's always the same. For everything mechanical we own we have to be mechanics to keep it in order. Like bicycles, super useful, but so effin annoying when the brakes start slacking or I get a puncture. And don't even get me started on computer hardware..

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[flieeeekke]

wonder if i liked to "skype it up, yo" with these nigels..

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

You tryin' to later?

 

[Slagathor]

I'm sick of everything that remotely resembles a phone after having spent two hours on the phone with the IRS. Effing nazi's

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

What did they want with you?

 

[Slagathor]

What did they want with you?

I need to let them know I switched banks. First I called them but the hag on the phone told me I need to do it online, so I went to their site and it said I had to download some programme.

Whatever, fine.

So I got my hands on some cheapskate windows 95 rip off because some jackass made the original version crash. I clicked on "Do you wish to change your details" and it sends me to a 10 page questionnaire.

WTF.

So I verified I had to fill it out and anwered all the questions. Weren't one-liners either. Idiotic nonsense such as "Do you live with more than one other person in the household of which one or more persons have financial or other official ties with you that have been registered with a governmental organisation if so please specify which contracts, list their numbers and provide us with contact details regarding other said members of the household."

Bah.

Took me a full hour and a half to finish that crap, then I reached the end where I had to fill out a password. Don't have one. So I clicked "I don't have a password yet" and it sent me to a form that I had to fill out, PRINT OUT, and SEND to them via REGULAR MAIL.

Seriously, WTF.

So I called them again, was put on hold for 20 minutes. They don't even bother with music, just some lame character with a monotone voice going "Please wait" once every two minutes.

New hag said she'll send me a form I have to fill out with my new bank details and that should settle it.

I feel like seriously hurting someone.

 

[Enron]

I need to let them know I switched banks. First I called them but the hag on the phone told me I need to do it online, so I went to their site and it said I had to download some programme.

Whatever, fine.

So I got my hands on some cheapskate windows 95 rip off because some jackass made the original version crash. I clicked on "Do you wish to change your details" and it sends me to a 10 page questionnaire.

WTF.

So I verified I had to fill it out and anwered all the questions. Weren't one-liners either. Idiotic nonsense such as "Do you live with more than one other person in the household of which one or more persons have financial or other official ties with you that have been registered with a governmental organisation if so please specify which contracts, list their numbers and provide us with contact details regarding other said members of the household."

Bah.

Took me a full hour and a half to finish that crap, then I reached the end where I had to fill out a password. Don't have one. So I clicked "I don't have a password yet" and it sent me to a form that I had to fill out, PRINT OUT, and SEND to them via REGULAR MAIL.

Seriously, WTF.

So I called them again, was put on hold for 20 minutes. They don't even bother with music, just some lame character with a monotone voice going "Please wait" once every two minutes.

New hag said she'll send me a form I have to fill out with my new bank details and that should settle it.

I feel like seriously hurting someone.

I think that is why someone invented the firebomb.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

I think that is why someone invented the firebomb.

And the dropkick.

 

[Enron]

Very true.

 

[Martin]

Enron, I saw the picture of you and Burke, you look like someone.. can't remember who it was.

And Burke doesn't look like anyone I've ever met I think.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

Martin, I am glad to know that i am that unique.

And I think you are confusing Enron with himself, he is just better known as the Irish Gattuso.

 

[Enron]

Enron, I saw the picture of you and Burke, you look like someone.. can't remember who it was.

And Burke doesn't look like anyone I've ever met I think.

You're right I do look like someone, though I don't know who. People tell me that all the time.

 

[flieeeekke]

ginger beard or what was that character called, his pic was around last week i think.

 

[flieeeekke]

fuck, this yellow card scares me..

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

Can't you take it away?

 

[mikhail]

Can't you take it away?

That'd be cheating. :biggrin:

 

[flieeeekke]

yeah, and i would be called a shite mod again.


it still bothers me though, we all remember what happened last time i was on a yellow

 

[mikhail]

yeah, and i would be called a shite mod again.


it still bothers me though, we all remember what happened last time i was on a yellow

Look, if you want, we could ban you for a month. When you come back, the card would be gone. :wink:

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

So what, take it away.

 

[Bozi]

Was up north for a week. Spent a saturday in Edinburgh and then went fishing in Argyle county.

just got back today. I would never expected to see that many people wearing kilts though. I thought it was only a stereotype.

well the thing is edinburgh in particular becomes a litle bit mad at this time of the year with all the tourists and thesps here for the festival. pretty much averyone goes into comic book stereotype for thee ntertainment of the gawping americans that turn up here every july. bagpipes,kilts,and ginger wigged madmen are around every corner and you cant really judge the city by this
argyle though is a different story its like the lost world of scotland, they are currently raving about the new fangled indoor plumming that is the latest craze

I don't want to be Scottish, i just want to be you.

awww shucks burkey you know i luv ya