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Reply to Have Your Vacation Plans Been Cut Due to COVID? in Everything Else WinCustomize Forums

I don't travel too well these days anyhow so it's not going to affect me that much anyhow. I can manage the 3 hour flight between Tasmania and Queensland, but due to arthritis and stiffness I doubt that I'd want to be confined to the one seat and travel any farther than that. As for cruises, well I've been on two, plus I worked as a merchant seaman for a while as well, so I've done some ocean time and don't feel a need to stretch my sea legs any time soon. However, if I we

Reply to Farewell My Friends.... Or Not in Community WinCustomize Forums

It's just a pity that other members of WC left and never came back... or resided in the shadows and didn't speak up very often. I understand that people have lives outside of WC, but I sure as hell miss some of those departed/hardly ever here members.

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Banned for using an item of cutlery to pick your nose.

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MS was better under Steve Ballmer's tenure, since the leadership change, however, it's more like a feral dog wanting to take a bite from everyone. I'm sure there'd be some who'd disagree with me re Ballmer, but Satya Nadella has just about eliminated the customer and consumer rights since taking the helm.... and why Bill Gates allows Nadella to gradually dismantle the company he built is beyond me. Anyhow, I'm not going to get my knickers in a knot over it. Complaining and

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Banned for trying to breed kettles from pots n' pans.

Reply to Beer!!!!! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Over the weekend we tried Singha, a lager from Tailand. It has similarities to Indonesia's Bintang in that it has a sweet after-taste. Yup, quite nice.

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Banned for the kettle calling the pot black.... at least I didn't sit inside the monkey enclosure to eat dinner.

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Banned for using monkey poo to hold your brick BBQ together.

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Have had a few days off from testing international beers to try out a few more Aussie beers. Boags, Northern Tassie's go to beer has a new variety out named St George, and I must say that it is quite nice. It is a draught beer that's smooth to drink and has a mellow after-taste that's very satisfying. We also tried Cascade Pale Ale and Cascade Stout, both very nice full-flavoured beers.

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Banned for secreting unnatural fibres to use as a deterrent against dedicated anti-tamales protesters.

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Banned for blaming Bill for the hole in your wallet that was leaking bucks into the wild.

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Banned for getting into a kayak and singing 'we're all hippos rowing down the river'

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[quote who="Aussie007" reply="56" id="3785606"] Back in 1985 I was in Japan for work. We drank quite a bit of Sapporo. I actually bought back a can (empty of course) for a souvenir. I still have it. It is a 650ml Sapporo draft beer. [/quote] We had to settle for the 355ml stubbies [short necks to those not in Oz] as the 650ml cans were out of stock. However, 35 bucks for a 24 x 355ml carton isn't bad. I do like the idea of 650ml cans, though, and I will look to o

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Just in case anybody gets to thinking I became a teetotaller over the weekend: nope, not a chance, not while there's still so many beers on the market to try. On Friday we had a couple of Saporro's and some Peroni Red Lager. On Saturday we indulged in a few black 'n tan type mixtures: a 50x50 blend of Tooheys Old and Melbourne Bitter; a 50x50 mix of Coopers Stout with Boags Draught. Yesterday [Sunday] we had a half dozen cans each of Coors Lager and some Cascade Dr

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[quote who="Aussie007" reply="53" id="3785406"] Hi Starkers, Here is a challenge for you! https://www.nine.com.au/quizzical Cheers Macca [/quote] I got 4 out of 5.... got the Peroni one wrong. Oh well, 4 right isn't bad, given I've not long woken up and still on my first cuppa-tea. I've tried them all [from the correct answers] and the Indonesian Bintang is one of my

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Banned for blaming global warming on Arctic inhabitants because they light fires inside their igloos to keep warm.

Reply to My Big Beastie Died in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="24" id="3785288"] Big beastie seems to be getting bigger...[e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] Yeah, sure is, but then I always planned to upgrade the RAM, and I might just as well get it installed while the techie is doing the rebuild. I'm so looking forward to it being in working order again.... putting it through its paces with the additional RAM and the OS running off the RAID array utilising four 240GB SSDs. Yup, Big Beastie will absolutel

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Well some good news on the mobo front.... not only do I get a brand new board, I'm getting an upgrade to a better, more feature packed replacement: the MSI MEG X399 Creation. It comes with a PCIE M.2 expansion card that holds 4 M.2 SSDs that can all be linked via the in-built RAID arrays. Yup, installing Windows on a x4 SSD RAID array should give it a bit of zip. Also, Big Beastie gets a RAM upgrade, from 64GB to

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Banned for turning the precipitation around here to snow. It hasn't done it in around 50 years or more, but it is snowing quite steadily here in Launceston Tasmania. I'm told, though, that it never used to settle, but this time it is settling and is around 4 inches deep at present. The last time I saw snow was in 1990 when I went to New Zealand for 3 weeks. Before that it was in 1968 in the UK.

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Yesterday and today, Sat Aug 1, Sun Aug 2, we were/are drinking Boags Draught [brewed right here in Launceston Tasmania] mixed with Monteiths black beer from NZ in a black n' tan of sorts. It is quite nice, too.

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Banned for a brazen public display of business acumen and posing as an accountant with a penchant for Penny pinching. I reckon you should oughta leave that woman's backside alone afore her hubby turns up.

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I use Ashampoo's Movie Studio Pro 3 and Video Optimiser. I also use Ashampoo's Music Studio 7 and Soundstage Pro to edit and enhance music, which sometimes is to add music and sounds to my videos.

Reply to WC Community Question: What's Your Favorite Skinning Holiday? in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

Having no kids at home to celebrate them with any more, I don't bother with Christmas or Halloween much these days. Gone are the days of spending hours putting up Xmas trees and decorations.... gone are the days of being woken up at the crack of dawn by excited kids telling me that Santa had been. We do get presents for the grandkids, and we do have a special Christmas dinner, but after that it's just another day for me. Shoot, I don't even celebrate my birthdays anymore.

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Banned for being not enough in a competitive world that does not reward slackers for passing the buck.... and any other loose change.

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="50" id="3784940"] Yes, he does it in the keg....[e digicons];)[/e] [/quote] If ever I take up home brewing again it will be done in the keg. The other thing I'd be doing if I start up again is brew up some good ol' scrumpy..... cider to those not in the know. I did some last time and it was so potent that 1.5 longnecks is all anybody [else] could manage. I grew up with the stuff so could easily manage 3 to 4 longnecks ... think tha