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[Tahrey1043]

should be in bed for work tomorrow but cant kip right...

just wondering

i wanna big up the midlands crew
even if they are living in a culture of silence (or not, in fact, members of the board)

because whenever i seem to ask the location of someone on here for getting parts or whatever

they're all bloody miles away

north london
saaf landan
sheffs and environs
merseyside
the nottingham and loughborough massives
so'wan and so forth

i know theres dave and the shock team down the east side of brum
and................. aagh... someone in a red car who was it again. quiet fella in terms of posts. over castle brom way.

but thats about all i know.
how many lurkers are secretly in the west mids kinda way?
particularly the north birm / south walsall / west warks area
be interested just to see a show of hands
chhhhhuuuuuuaamone

jeeesus and im not even drunk - i was the stone cold sober designated driver tonight. maybe its the after effects of installing a 10 year old OS (win95!) onto a 10 year old PC (p120.. um i mean p75.. no p133... nooooo p60 laptop hehe) via arcane methods to bring it kicking and screaming into the mid 1990s and the age of flash memory adaptor hardware and high-speed hard drive / video bus controllers

hmmmm seems theres a maximum number of options and i done went breached it!

May have to back this up with a local leafletting campaign..

[GroovyCarrot]

Don't quite know where east anglia comes under that.. but I've said I'm eastern anyway
Still, brum's not that far, only takes a couple of hours to get there and it's an easy route.

jeeesus and im not even drunk - i was the stone cold sober designated driver tonight. maybe its the after effects of installing a 10 year old OS (win95!) onto a 10 year old PC (p120.. um i mean p75.. no p133... nooooo p60 laptop hehe) via arcane methods to bring it kicking and screaming into the mid 1990s and the age of flash memory adaptor hardware and high-speed hard drive / video bus controllers

I feel for you Got to be the most endlessly frustrating job in existance!

[13twelve]

um in manchester

b'ham is only hour and half away ish

an easy drive



and one i've done alot and will do for pretty much any reason lol

[polopowah]

A beast from the East (well south-east anyways)
-Ben-

[SteveB]

Exeter, Devon well its south but also west. What do I put! Hmmm I put south.

[dino]

im from Dunstable, beds. Guess it makes me a southern pansy

[mikegti]

Brummie Land!

Although for a lot of my mates that makes me a northern monkey

[Si_GTi]

Ich bin ein Midlander!

Shropshire lad me. A worryingly short distance from the Welsh border (good for going off for a weekend blast round the North Wales scenery). Birmingham is maybe 40 minutes away on the M54/M6 route, or at least it takes about that long to get to th'airport

[ste mk1lx]

northern monkey........anybody got any banana's?

[Gra-GT]

Cannock for me.

Thats about 25ish miles from Central Brum. Used to work in Walsall so getting even closer.
Although apparantly I've got a right Brummie accent according to people at work, but thats in Telford so they just dont seem to have an accent there.

SiGTI should know what i'm on about being a Shropshire lad

[13twelve]

the remains of last nights take away pizza is what i got lol

[Si_GTi]

Haha no, we don't have accents here. Its just all the rest of you who have those, we can't afford them

[Tahrey1043]

hiya mike, kipper tie?

hm, id put shropshire as western of the middle lands but hey ho ... my mental borderline i think was 30-45 minutes, about as long as it would take to reach bromsgrove (where the m42 hits the m5) so you're just inside the cut

cannock is much more midlandy

(ok maybe i'm just thinking "brum" instead of "midlands" as thats the nearest city, but eh..... the geographical centre of britain is only a few miles out from bham airport)

oh and groovy it wasnt a job.... more of a.... hmmm... hobby. or neccessity. one of the two. it continues apace after a couple of bizarre setbacks - now all fully installated, driverised, l33t h4x0r optimised and defragmenticated plus a static swap file put in place. Now to see which software is still usable and what'll need changing. Oh and to try out the hardware for which i did the upgrade in the first place.

[GroovyCarrot]

Ah yeah, not actually what I meant by 'job' anyway When it's actually a job is when it becomes unbearable..

[Tahrey1043]

i hear that .............. why else you think i've left my mums to rot a year? that became mostly a "job" trying to keep it on it's last legs, then on crutches, and a wheelchair.

and you can feel the hate that flows through most paid IT guys veins from the shoddy work that tends to rear its head. (guess thats what happens when they get fixed fees for stuff that has no fixed repair time scan)

my own job was crap today to boot..... as i was knackered all morning til the 10.30 "two-cup emergency" coffee break! i wonder why! then spent the rest watching people drink orange juice and blow bubbles in little pots of blue chemical stuff... no i dont work in an old folks home or special school... a shortbread cookie goes in prize winnings to anyone reading who spend any day this week doing the same!

just spotted yet another chesterfield guy selling a G on here..... feel like asking the chesterfield massive to put their hands up as well as they could probably meet the midlanders for numbers!

was it ZOMB1E in castlebwich?