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Class.

At last, a bit of pace up front. Could be our saviour. Handy with a cross too. Etc.

I'll just say "well" a few more times, since that wasn't nearly enough. Well well well.

Well howdy stranger. Aforementioned gripe aside, all is well enough ta. Hope you're well.

I've been behaving of late. It's good for the waistline but spectacularly dull. I'm currently sipping on a green tea and wishing it had ever been within 200 miles of Strathspey.

Gearing up to buy a new PC.

Well at least we know Shay will never catch aids, he'll never come for it. Fucking hell.

I'll nip to the shops and stock up on basics in the morning before anyone else does, just in case. The local Tesco Express was out of milk and bread for 48 hours after Monday's flurry.

Of the big boys, Nationwide is among the least likely to go to the wall. Not that that helps you much right now, but you might be thankful at a later date. None of which explains why I'm still with Barclays to be honest (other than general apathy/stupidity).

Ah fuck.

The paradox is that you can have plenty to say and still be boring as owt.

I'd say "utterly taboo" is overstating it a little. Anyway, this lot have the right idea (and I'm proud to be an accidental member ) http://www.vhemt.org/

Speaking as a specky cunt, I bet the opticians are pissed off that kids aren't being allowed out at playtime. Iceball Season must be their most profitable time of year.

I wish they'd done it this year, I'd love to see them tackle an Andrew Lloyd Webber song.

Getting old Happy birthday fella.

Elbow orchestral gig on BBC1 red button.

He looks like one. So does Carroll

Or http://www.sickchildrenstrust.org/ - you can ask for donations to be directed specifically to the Newcastle house.

http://www.percyhedley.org.uk/ ?

Five? Typical dumb blondes. I just speculated at random. However his name is spelt differently I think there is an extension "Krul!" "Cruel"?

"That was close, we nearly scored a goal"

It's just the onboard, for what it's worth. Will see if I can find someone to borrow A. N. Other Actual Graphics Card from and see if that changes anything.

Interesting. Could that cause the system to hang like that (and not be CTRL-ALT-DEL-able), not boot in the first place etc.?

OK, so my nearly two-year-old PC running Vista (I know) has behaved itself impeccably up until the last month or two. Since then, I've had trouble booting it - it'll often either freeze or power down while Windows is starting up and only boot all the way at seemingly random intervals. And, presumably not unrelated to that, when running it occasionally powers down completely or freezes like this: or this (and yes I was reading this forum at the time i.e. whatever's on the screen at the time ends up looking all skewed like that and there's nowt to be done but reset. It isn't related to me using any specific applications or devices, it just seems to happen whenever it wants to. For all I'm basically a techno-ignoramus, I don't see any reason it'd be a software or driver thing based on what I've done to the system recently (System Restore etc. did nowt either), so I can only assume something's fucked on the motherboard (which I'm totally incapable of diagnosing)... haven't tried anything like swapping out the RAM yet (since I'd have to buy more), so I don't know if it's anything at that end, though the Windows memory diagnosis tool thing says there's nothing wrong there. Oh and now it's just done the whole skewed screen crash thing while attempting Startup Repair. Which never makes a difference anyway. Anyone encountered this before or got any bright ideas? I've had a sniff about on Google but it's quite hard to describe the symptoms...

Proper brilliant snow down here (by London standards). You can see the nature and everything.