The TPU UK Clubhouse

[cheesy999]

I will never forget that scene haha!

i went paint-balling yesterday and we all started singing bohemian rhapsody very loudly about 2 hours in

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Tatty was an artillery gunner????

Whenever i think of artillery I think back to the days of CoD1 when i used to play on a map called Pavlov. Atrillery on such a small map is very traumatic. especially when they called it on the house you were in.

 

[cheesy999]

Tatty was an artillery gunner????

possibly, he was something in the military, and i think it may have been that, all i really know is that he was quite a high rank

 

[FreedomEclipse]

possibly, he was something in the military, and i think it may have been that, all i really know is that he was quite a high rank

even pen pushers who drive a desk hundreds upon thousands of miles away from the front line where the closest thing they come to any war is putting a chicken in a microwave oven can have a high rank.

Im not saying tatty is one. I know he isnt!! but there are those that are

 

[TheMailMan78]

Tatty was a sniper or was trained as one at a given time from what I know.

 

[Tatty_Two]

I found a picture of Tatty!

http://img.techpowerup.org/110725/183462_196952250332592_100000534559290_655083_8379343_n.jpg

pfffft he looks so much better than me, and probably younger!

Edit: When I joined, I was in the Infantry and trained as a Sniper in a recce platoon, did that for 6 years, then decided a 7.62mm round didnt do enuff damage so transfered to the Royal Artillery, spent 9 years with them finishing off on the AS90 (google that piece of kit ), then when I reached Warrant officer I went on the "Ops" side and did a bit of crawling around in unpleasant places until I got commissioned in 1998 (from the ranks you go straight to Captain), I then went back to Infantry Battalions doing Ops and Training until I left in 2004 as a Major, most recent operational experience was in thefirst UK battle group into Afghanistan in Jan 2002 (R Anglian), Iraq invasion in 2003(King's), did the first Gulf War in 1990, did Bosnia, Kosovo and NI in the 90's and my first "blooding" was the Falklands war in 82 where I was part of the 5th Airborne Brigade.

 

[cheesy999]

pfffft he looks so much better than me, and probably younger!

*tatty blatantly ignores the debate we're having

 

[Tatty_Two]

*tatty blatantly ignores the debate we're having

See edit above

Further Edit: just to add to the mystery, an old classmate (female ) linked me to a class picture on freinds reunited, so I attach my class of 1973/74..... now that was a look! and no I am not going to point me out.

 

[cheesy999]

having some problems with my hard drive, problem is i don't think i have grounds to RMA, i should still have warranty from maxtor, but the problem is on and off, so they may just say there's no fault and mail it back

EDITTATTY, i think you were the one on the middle of the first row

 

[Millennium]

cheesy what's with all the problems? I though I had pc trouble seems to be nothing compared to your recent ones !

 

[cheesy999]

cheesy what's with all the problems? I though I had pc trouble seems to be nothing compared to your recent ones !

everything keeps braking, everything that breaks is USB related though, motherboard header, case ports, Hard drive etc

i would of dismissed this as a one of problem with the drive (lost all it's formatting), if it had not happened twice in the past, and for some reason the drive has now slowed to 5MB a second, i think it's something to do with the internal temperature being reported at 73'c but i'm not sure

EDIT:Can't even run chkdsk properly, did the first 20000 or so fairly quickly, then started to slow down, spent about 20 minutes doing it at about 1 record every 2-3 second, then just stopped, just liked when i was trying to compress files on it using 7-zip

 

[TheMailMan78]

pfffft he looks so much better than me, and probably younger!

Edit: When I joined, I was in the Infantry and trained as a Sniper in a recce platoon, did that for 6 years, then decided a 7.62mm round didnt do enuff damage so transfered to the Royal Artillery, spent 9 years with them finishing off on the AS90 (google that piece of kit ), then when I reached Warrant officer I went on the "Ops" side and did a bit of crawling around in unpleasant places until I got commissioned in 1998 (from the ranks you go straight to Captain), I then went back to Infantry Battalions doing Ops and Training until I left in 2004 as a Major, most recent operational experience was in thefirst UK battle group into Afghanistan in Jan 2002 (R Anglian), Iraq invasion in 2003(King's), did the first Gulf War in 1990, did Bosnia, Kosovo and NI in the 90's and my first "blooding" was the Falklands war in 82 where I was part of the 5th Airborne Brigade.

Falklands? Well thank G-d the Argentinians were such crappy shots with their strafing runs or we wouldn't have our Tatty.

On a side note I always loved rubbing that war into the Argentinians I have worked with in the past. Most (Not all) are arrogant as shit and thats a nice reality check (Brits kicked their asses). Also they seem to worship the Nazis. I love reminding them that not only did the Brits kick their asses but kicked their role models ass too.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I laugh at the same idiot who tried to use a lawn mower on unlevel ground full of dogshit, stones and big rocks to mow weeds with stalks thicker then your average marker pen.

Who is now trying to ride a moped around his small garden, theres not even enough space in the garden to turn the bloody thing round let alone ride it properly.

If i ever had kids, I hope their not as retarded as this one here.... idiot would probably try open a tin of beans with a rubber knife. my god.....

 

[cheesy999]

I laugh at the same idiot who tried to use a lawn mower on unlevel ground full of dogshit, stones and big rocks to mow weeds with stalks thicker then your average marker pen.

Who is now trying to ride a moped around his small garden, theres not even enough space in the garden to turn the bloody thing round let alone ride it properly.

If i ever had kids, I hope their not as retarded as this one here.... idiot would probably try open a tin of beans with a plastic fork. my god.....

who? Tatty? themailman?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

My neighbour. tatty would probably call in a favour with one of his mates and they'd roll a tank over his lawn, no need to mow it

 

[cheesy999]

My neighbour. tatty would probably call in a favour with one of his mates and they'd roll a tank over his lawn, no need to mow it

hahahahaha

EDIT: have you guys seen the latest ASP comic

Spoiler: bonus comic

EDIT: why is 1 panel so much bigger then the other 3 just cause it's a jpeg?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

On a more serious note.... Im dying for an ice cold cider.

 

[cheesy999]

On a more serious note.... Im dying for an ice cold cider.

on another serious note, can you help me --> http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=149608

 

[FreedomEclipse]

on another serious note, can you help me --> http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=149608

6 pack of strongbow first then we talk business!

 

[Millennium]

On a more serious note.... Im dying for an ice cold cider.

try some of this stuff.. on offer in tescos!

 

[FreedomEclipse]

f**k that! tesco's is too far to walk. got a small shop 1min walk away. going to get me some cider

 

[FreedomEclipse]

well I got w large bottles of cider. Anyway --- RMA the hard drive. Explain to Maxtor whats wrong with it and the problems you are experiencing. when they send it back to you. Flog it on ebay/TPU. buy a samsung spinpoint 1tb for £45 then a cheap external drive caddy/casing for £10-20,

Problem solved. Maxtor is terrible. trust them as far as i can toss this bottle cap

:edit:

unfortunately 2 bottles of cider aint enough to get me drunk

 

[MilkyWay]

f**k that! tesco's is too far to walk. got a small shop 1min walk away. going to get me some cider

Thought you only drank spirits?
Hmmmn might wire into this half bottle of Jack i have left
They are selling Makers Mark in Tesco for £20 its pretty good.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

nah. I do cider aswell. though I prefer proper pub cider. none of this magners crap. I know a good pub in london that brews their own. 1pint = something like 10-15% ALC. Worth every penny i tell you

 

[MilkyWay]

Sweet, dry, white, cloudy well i only wont drink white; all the kids drink 3L of white cider like Frosty Jacks ect.

Cloudy is the same as scrumpy i think, i like a good cloudy cider from the pub unfortunately my local only sells strongbow and magners gold draught. My locals kinda crap come to think of lol. I dont really drink a lot or go out for a drink a lot. Pubs an old mans game, most of my peers go to the student bar because its dirt cheap.

I wouldn't base a good cider from its alcohol content as there are cheap high alcohol content drinks that pass as cider, its more the percentage of real juice that makes a great cider.

Dont you hate it when the phone goes half way through doing something! (as i was making this post)