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Title: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 09:46:30 AM
To curtail The Boy's illicit nbocturnal internet related activities Mrs Nick completely disconnected my computer last night and hid the box and cables at different locations around the house. eeek: She forgot where she had put some items Banghead

It has taken me TWO HOURS to find everything and get the bastard reconnected! cussing: cussing:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 14, 2008, 09:48:08 AM
I did mention a while back that getting an isometric thumbprint reader for the computer would be far less hassle than all this.  point:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Barman on March 14, 2008, 09:56:05 AM
I did mention a while back that getting an isometric thumbprint reader for the computer would be far less hassle than all this.  point:
Good idea actually...  rubschin:

'Cept Nick would prolly wake up one day with a digit missing...  scared2:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 14, 2008, 09:59:52 AM
The idea was to wait til AFTER Nick had installed it before mentioning that drawback BM  whistle:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Barman on March 14, 2008, 10:00:51 AM
The idea was to wait til AFTER Nick had installed it before mentioning that drawback BM  whistle:
Oh...  redface:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 10:03:17 AM
I recall that happening to some bloke in the Far East whose expensive car was activated by a thumbprint reader eeek:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Barman on March 14, 2008, 10:09:46 AM
I recall that happening to some bloke in the Far East whose expensive car was activated by a thumbprint reader eeek:
You need a system controlled by a retinal scan then – he wouldn’t gouge your eye out would he?  scared2:

Alternatively, junk the PC and buy a laptop – you can sleep with it under your pillow…  whistle:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 10:10:38 AM
We found my laptop switched on under his bedclothes last week!! evil:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Barman on March 14, 2008, 10:12:07 AM
We found my laptop switched on under his bedclothes last week!! evil:
Remove battery, keep it in safe, etc.
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 10:13:17 AM
It is now hidden, along with the TV! evil:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 14, 2008, 10:13:54 AM
Put a lock on the study door....  whistle:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 10:14:57 AM
It may come to that yet. Trouble is, tbh, that the house is nearly 300 years old and the doors are original. Mrs Nick would not welcome me drilling holes in them and suchlike
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Uncle Mort on March 14, 2008, 10:32:42 AM
Or The Boy drilling the locks out later.  ;)
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 10:34:13 AM
He is getting quite resourceful. WHich is, of course, a good thing! evil:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Barman on March 14, 2008, 10:35:03 AM
Or The Boy drilling the locks out later.  ;)
Or worse!  eeek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_GeQR8fJo
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 10:38:14 AM
Don't worry me further. I didn't even need to watch that clip to get the point.

When he isn't fiddling about with gadgets he is negotiating like a mixture of ALan Sugar and a top barrister. WHat have we taken on? eeek:

And then there is the saxophone? And his insistence on regaling the painter with a harmonium recital. noooo:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Barman on March 14, 2008, 10:41:56 AM
Don't worry me further. I didn't even need to watch that clip to get the point.

When he isn't fiddling about with gadgets he is negotiating like a mixture of ALan Sugar and a top barrister. WHat have we taken on? eeek:

And then there is the saxophone? And his insistence on regaling the painter with a harmonium recital. noooo:
He sounds like a budding genius/inventor… why don’t you set him a challenge for something to invent…?  whistle:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 10:43:08 AM
He is presently working on his origami! evil:

The whole house is littered with bits of paper!
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Barman on March 14, 2008, 10:46:00 AM
He is presently working on his origami! evil:

The whole house is littered with bits of paper!
Get him to build a briodge out of newspaper that will carry a human - they did that on Blue Peter once... I think...  whistle:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 14, 2008, 10:46:47 AM
When he isn't fiddling about with gadgets he is negotiating like a mixture of ALan Sugar and a top barrister. WHat have we taken on? eeek:

Sic him on the painter and see if he can get a reduction on the bill. Tell the boy its a day less without TV/Computer access for every £20 he can get knocked off the price. whistle:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 10:47:13 AM
He could build a bridge to Snoopy's house. Good plan eveilgrin:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 10:48:01 AM
When he isn't fiddling about with gadgets he is negotiating like a mixture of ALan Sugar and a top barrister. WHat have we taken on? eeek:

Sic him on the painter and see if he can get a reduction on the bill. Tell the boy its a day less without TV/Computer access for every £20 he can get knocked off the price. whistle:

The painter has now gone,  so too late, but I imagine he could do it, tbh. He talks all the time. Even in his sleep!
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Barman on March 14, 2008, 10:49:02 AM
He could build a bridge to Snoopy's house. Good plan eveilgrin:
Where is Snoopy? And Wenchy...  rubschin:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 10:49:29 AM
Canoodling?
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Uncle Mort on March 14, 2008, 10:49:56 AM
Canoodling?

Very sharp  ;D
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Barman on March 14, 2008, 10:50:12 AM
Canoodling?
Prolly...  noooo:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 14, 2008, 10:50:54 AM
Canoodling?
Prolly...  noooo:

 :lalalala


Wenchy is prolly on a pre sale tat buying bonanza  whistle:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Bar Wench on March 14, 2008, 11:02:53 AM
I AM LISTENING YOU KNOW!
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 11:05:22 AM
 scared2:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Bar Wench on March 14, 2008, 11:07:36 AM
Indeed evil:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 14, 2008, 11:09:45 AM
I AM LISTENING YOU KNOW!

You are Nickolette and I claim my £5  whistle:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 11:15:06 AM
Wenchy and I are not related (except via Adam and Eve etc) or more likely those primates in the African Rift Valley.
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Darwins Selection on March 14, 2008, 11:41:55 AM
Don't worry me further. I didn't even need to watch that clip to get the point.

When he isn't fiddling about with gadgets he is negotiating like a mixture of ALan Sugar and a top barrister. WHat have we taken on? eeek:

And then there is the saxophone? And his insistence on regaling the painter with a harmonium recital. noooo:
He sounds like a budding genius/inventor… why don’t you set him a challenge for something to invent…?  whistle:
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Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Just One More on March 14, 2008, 11:44:55 AM
I recall that happening to some bloke in the Far East whose expensive car was activated by a thumbprint reader eeek:

I remember that too, see here[url] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4396831.stm)
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Barman on March 14, 2008, 11:45:43 AM
I AM LISTENING YOU KNOW!
What have you done with Snoopy?  shrugs:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 11:46:51 AM
Spect she sat on him. There is no hope of survival noooo:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Bar Wench on March 14, 2008, 11:52:22 AM
I AM LISTENING YOU KNOW!
What have you done with Snoopy?  shrugs:

I am beginning to wonder too.  rubschin:

Perhaps Mrs Snoopy has locked him up somewhere for offering strangers handmade soap.  whistle:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Barman on March 14, 2008, 11:55:54 AM
I AM LISTENING YOU KNOW!
What have you done with Snoopy?  shrugs:

I am beginning to wonder too.  rubschin:

Perhaps Mrs Snoopy has locked him up somewhere for offering strangers handmade soap.  whistle:
Ah... p'raps he is helping her cook a double-big batch to meet the demand...  whistle:

Can you see smoke from that direction Nick?  rubschin:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Barman on March 14, 2008, 11:58:38 AM
Here he is!!!!!!!!!!  cloud9:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 14, 2008, 12:12:28 PM
I told you before, rattle a box of bonio and he's here like a shot...   scared2:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Snoopy on March 14, 2008, 12:29:44 PM
If the Boy has difficulty with his paper crafts Mrs S is the resident expert on such matters. I think a bridge may be beyond her but she does teach paper crafts among other things.
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 12:44:05 PM
 eeek:

Oh yes, you live in Wales. Paper crafts are in big demand there































 noooo: surrender:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Snoopy on March 14, 2008, 01:12:08 PM
eeek:

Oh yes, you live in Wales. Paper crafts are in big demand there



Sarky Sod!.... She teaches Basic Skills to "fragile persons" through the medium of Arts and Crafts. You know what that jargon means.
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 01:13:40 PM
Paper folding is, of course, well known to soothe the troubled mind. Maybe Wenchy should try it?
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 14, 2008, 01:24:36 PM
And add mounds of paper to the tat mountain?  scared2:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Bar Wench on March 14, 2008, 01:34:18 PM
It already is. I also flirt with card making and scrapbooking.  redface:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Darwins Selection on March 14, 2008, 01:42:46 PM
It already is. I also flirt with card making and scrapbooking.  redface:

Flirt you say?  rubschin:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 14, 2008, 01:58:20 PM
It already is. I also flirt with card making and scrapbooking.  redface:

Flirt you say?  rubschin:

"Oh Mr Card, you feel so stiff and strong"  whistle:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Bar Wench on March 14, 2008, 02:08:33 PM
 Banghead
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 02:09:47 PM
Make as nice butterfly or summat. It will impress Mr Wench no end




















































 noooo:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Bar Wench on March 14, 2008, 02:11:02 PM
I also fondle my stash of fabric and wool.  redface:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 02:11:39 PM
Words fail me.
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Bar Wench on March 14, 2008, 02:15:41 PM
 eveilgrin:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 02:17:05 PM
More fondling, less angst

As my grandma used to say.

See also: VASELINE
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 14, 2008, 02:18:16 PM
I also fondle my stash of fabric and wool.  redface:

I'm not going to risk commenting on that one, Darwn over to you old boy.  scared:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 02:19:01 PM
COWARD
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Grumpmeister on March 14, 2008, 02:22:17 PM
Not at all Nick, I just dont have a death wish.  scared2:



Grumpymojo may protect me against Nick-o-rays but its ineffective against the abominable tatwench.  scared2:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Bar Wench on March 14, 2008, 02:24:33 PM
Most wise!
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Darwins Selection on March 14, 2008, 02:25:37 PM
I also fondle my stash of fabric and wool.  redface:

I'm not going to risk commenting on that one, Darwin over to you old boy.  scared:

Even I am speechless about that one. eeek:

Did TMR make a related comment about typing recently?
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Bar Wench on March 14, 2008, 02:26:44 PM
 Banghead
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: Nick on March 14, 2008, 02:30:47 PM
 point: point: point: point:
Title: Re: Precautionary disconnection
Post by: The Moan Ranger on March 28, 2008, 11:40:44 AM
I also fondle my stash of fabric and wool.  redface:

I'm not going to risk commenting on that one, Darwin over to you old boy.  scared:

Even I am speechless about that one. eeek:

Did TMR make a related comment about typing recently?

Don't involve me in this Darwin, you're on your own here  eveilgrin:

Don't suppose anyone saw a program on Channel 5 at 11pm last night, did they...?