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Title: why is it
Post by: tunnie on 11 November 2007, 18:33:34
when finances start to look good, selling my Nintendo Wii's just made a huge bundle on some overtime work, all the expenses come in....


my laptop just died, luckily it looks like its just the hard drive, after 4 years its not too bad!

So potentially looking at a new laptop, but hopefully this new hard drive will fix the problem

Car is running on vapour (another £55!)

Symptoms of the laptop failure:

Started locking up (no HDD activity) just froze, mouse and all.

Difficult to reboot, sometimes refuses to, once it does boot, loads fine but then grinds to a halt and runs dead slow.

Took me about 2 hours to export my e-mails from outlook, trying to save the data from the dying drive.... at least i hope its that and not the motherboard!  :(
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 11 November 2007, 18:34:50
Just £55? mine costs £70 to fill !

You're lucky, I've got to pay a huge chunk of money to HMRC !  ;)

Title: Re: why is it
Post by: TheBoy on 11 November 2007, 18:36:33
HDD sounds likely.  Double check its not overheating either...
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: tunnie on 11 November 2007, 18:37:08
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Just £55? mine costs £70 to fill !

You're lucky, I've got to pay a huge chunk of money to HMRC !  ;)


£70!  :o

Not even the Senator costs that much to fill.

I usually brim mine when it just nudges the red, usually costs £55-£60 ish to fill.

A new 120gb laptop hard drive only cost me £44  >:(
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: GastronomicKleptomaniac on 11 November 2007, 18:39:01
 I need £60 of fuel from light-on to full. Typically, Friday night, needed to fill up and got the slowest petrol pump in the world. I kid you not, it took 10 minutes while I'm stood in the freezing cold...
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: TheBoy on 11 November 2007, 18:39:37
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Just £55? mine costs £70 to fill !

You're lucky, I've got to pay a huge chunk of money to HMRC !  ;)


£70!  :o

Not even the Senator costs that much to fill.

I usually brim mine when it just nudges the red, usually costs £55-£60 ish to fill.

A new 120gb laptop hard drive only cost me £44  >:(
Shell pay at pump only allows £60. Tescos is £60 as well. At least Asda is £70 - I can normally get close to brimming it at Asda ::)
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: TheBoy on 11 November 2007, 18:40:11
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I need £60 of fuel from light-on to full. Typically, Friday night, needed to fill up and got the slowest petrol pump in the world. I kid you not, it took 10 minutes while I'm stood in the freezing cold...
Get more for your money when cold though ;)
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: tunnie on 11 November 2007, 18:40:14
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I need £60 of fuel from light-on to full. Typically, Friday night, needed to fill up and got the slowest petrol pump in the world. I kid you not, it took 10 minutes while I'm stood in the freezing cold...

Some pumps are dead slow some are faster, i found pumps in the U.S very fast!

James must have an extra big tank.... its its just pissing it straight out again!  ;D
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 11 November 2007, 18:42:10
Well, £1.03 per litre - tank holds 70 litres! That's £70 from fumes! Been the same with all my meega's...
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: VXL V6 on 11 November 2007, 18:45:53
Must be the week for it! Just had to buy a new DIMM for my home laptop (new one on order from eBuyer, cheaper than secondhand from eBay) so it's crawling on 256Mb!

Glad I brought my work laptop back this weekend!

Went to the usual Shell garage today and regular unleaded still 96.9 so had a tankful of that!

Title: Re: why is it
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 11 November 2007, 18:48:22
96.9??? Bloody bargain!!

BP ultimate here is well.... you don't want to know !
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: VXL V6 on 11 November 2007, 18:50:01
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96.9??? Bloody bargain!!

BP ultimate here is well.... you don't want to know !

V Power is 103.9 at the same place
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: TheBoy on 11 November 2007, 19:21:22
Shell is 98.9 petrol and 101.9 diesel where I work (or was on Friday)
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 11 November 2007, 19:23:01
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Just £55? mine costs £70 to fill !

You're lucky, I've got to pay a huge chunk of money to HMRC !  ;)


£70!  :o

Not even the Senator costs that much to fill.

I usually brim mine when it just nudges the red, usually costs £55-£60 ish to fill.

A new 120gb laptop hard drive only cost me £44  >:(

Not too bad Tunnie......what ya whinging at.....youngsters today  ::)

Park yer 2.2 on a slope facing downwards  :y

Came home last night...outa lpg....so on petrol....comp reckoned 18miles range.
Started it this morning....range went --.-- then after a few secs said 58 miles.....
So....i gained 40miles for parking it this way  :y ;D

Mind you after running to the lpg pump this morning.....about 2/3 miles...range had gone down to 30 miles  :o
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: TheBoy on 11 November 2007, 19:27:29
Tunnie - give me one of those Wii's, and I'll 'fill' your tank
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 11 November 2007, 19:31:05
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Tunnie - give me one of those Wii's, and I'll 'fill' your tank

The quotes make that sound a bit rude TB  ;D ;D ;)
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: TheBoy on 11 November 2007, 19:32:41
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Tunnie - give me one of those Wii's, and I'll 'fill' your tank

The quotes make that sound a bit rude TB  ;D ;D ;)
I was thinking of drinking several pints of Stella, then filling his tank...
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: tunnie on 11 November 2007, 19:33:51
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Tunnie - give me one of those Wii's, and I'll 'fill' your tank

The quotes make that sound a bit rude TB  ;D ;D ;)
I was thinking of drinking several pints of Stella, then filling his tank...


 >:( >:(

At the going rate Selling one Wii' will fill my tank 5 times!
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: CaptainZok on 11 November 2007, 19:34:46
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Tunnie - give me one of those Wii's, and I'll 'fill' your tank

The quotes make that sound a bit rude TB  ;D ;D ;)
I was thinking of drinking several pints of Stella, then filling his tank...


 >:( >:(

At the going rate Selling one Wii' will fill my tank 5 times!
I'm sure TB could fill it 5 times for you, given enough stella.  ;D
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: STMO123 on 11 November 2007, 19:38:41
Tunnie. If you think you're having a bad time of it now, wait till you've got a mortgage and kids :o
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 11 November 2007, 19:46:39
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Tunnie - give me one of those Wii's, and I'll 'fill' your tank

The quotes make that sound a bit rude TB  ;D ;D ;)
I was thinking of drinking several pints of Stella, then filling his tank...


 >:( >:(

At the going rate Selling one Wii' will fill my tank 5 times!
I'm sure TB could fill it 5 times for you, given enough stella.  ;D

 ;D ;D :y
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: tunnie on 11 November 2007, 19:54:54
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Tunnie. If you think you're having a bad time of it now, wait till you've got a mortgage and kids :o

When i had the swmbo it was bad enough!
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 11 November 2007, 20:10:45
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Tunnie. If you think you're having a bad time of it now, wait till you've got a mortgage and kids :o

When i had the swmbo it was bad enough!


You didnt have to buy her a can of coke and packet of crisps did you  ;D ;)
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: TheBoy on 11 November 2007, 20:59:21
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Tunnie. If you think you're having a bad time of it now, wait till you've got a mortgage and kids :o

When i had the swmbo it was bad enough!


You didnt have to buy her a can of coke and packet of crisps did you  ;D ;)
or a new geometry set for school?
Title: Re: why is it
Post by: MikeDundee on 11 November 2007, 21:04:09
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Tunnie. If you think you're having a bad time of it now, wait till you've got a mortgage and kids :o

When i had the swmbo it was bad enough!

Better watch she ain't watching the forum keeping an eye on you Tunnie ::) ;D