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The Ranting (or Venting) Thread.
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Fcuking official voucher codes that don't work 
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Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:54 pm |
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davrosG5
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:37 am Posts: 6954 Location: Peebo
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Generally speaking, if it uses Acetone you wouldn't want to put it on anything plastic as it'll make it go brittle and opaque. A better bet is often alcohol (meths or IPA (as in iso-propyl alcohol, not the type of beer)) but again it depends on the plastic. Warm water is also good but means you have to dismantle the case which was the cause of the irritation in the first place.
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Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:16 am |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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It's apparently kind of hard to find acetone based nail varnish remover these days. Before anyone gets ideas, you can use it to remove dried superglue from surfaces or clothes, which is the problem I had. Looked all over the place, couldn't find any. Jon
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Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:19 am |
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Amnesia10
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Could it be because acetone can be used for terrorist weapon making?
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Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:23 am |
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saspro
Site Admin
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:53 pm Posts: 8603 Location: location, location
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It's rather useful is washing up cocaine to make crack as well (apparently)
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Thu Apr 04, 2013 8:04 am |
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davrosG5
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:37 am Posts: 6954 Location: Peebo
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I can honestly say that in all the time I've been working (I work in a lab and handle quite a lot of the ordering) I've never had to sign a waiver to indemnify a supplier against using Acetone in weapons manufacture. I have for various other things.
_________________ When they put teeth in your mouth, they spoiled a perfectly good bum. -Billy Connolly (to a heckler)
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Fri Apr 05, 2013 6:55 am |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Something that I learnt today! Well wouldn't it be useful to know who is ordering large scale acetone rather than removing it from stores?
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Fri Apr 05, 2013 10:03 am |
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cloaked_wolf
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm Posts: 10022
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We're gonna have to do this as well with all of the cuts in the NHS. In the end, everyone suffers and no one truly benefits. Except those higher up from us "plebs". My dad is worse. He makes hog noises whilst eating. It used to be in private, now occurs in public and isn't subtle. Not sure where you're based but if in UK you may not get a note unless you were seen by a doctor. It's fraudulent unless you assessed the patient at the time. If you've been off work for less than a week, I print out a page from direct.gov, and a scrawled note to say we cannot provide a note like this. If they insist, I ask them where to send an invoice to.
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Fri Apr 05, 2013 12:02 pm |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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My colleague (who works full time, I'm merely term time) has clearly done sweet FA over the last two weeks. Went into work to collect some essays for marking, ended up cleaning a studio, bleaching photo trays, scrubbing developing pots with bleach. He's tidied his desk. Apparently I'm responsible for the photo side of things, which is fair enough, but he's done [LIFTED] all with the media gear that came back from the dartmoor trip. It's still all sat out in a room waiting to be put away. And I know that when I see him, it'll somehow turned round to be my fault. GRAAHHHHH 
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Wed Apr 10, 2013 4:42 pm |
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
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Oh FFS. Normally I order stuff and given that it arrives sometime Mon-Fri, I have it delivered to work. This week, I ordered some stuff from Amazon and it's gonna get delivered by APLE. On Saturday. When the surgery's shut! If I'd known it was gonna arrive on Saturday, I'd have had it sent to my home address.
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Thu Apr 11, 2013 7:21 pm |
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm Posts: 5158 Location: /dev/tty0
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Got a call about an hour ago. There was a software upgrade to a vital server last night, and it didn't go to plan. They were also having issues reverting back to the previous version. Without this server running they were unable to lift blocks on the route that were applied for other works, meaning trains would have to run in a degraded mode and a much lower speed resulting in huge delays. The best bit? Because it was such a simple job the guy in charge decided he was much better off in bed in France with his phone switched off.
Thankfully the tech managed to fix it, but I am now awake and not too happy.
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Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:15 am |
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm Posts: 5158 Location: /dev/tty0
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Double post
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Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:16 am |
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timark_uk
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm Posts: 12143 Location: Belfast
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Why do people very often think that The Evil Dead is a comedy film? Have they never actually seen it?!? I know the sequel was a pseudo remake and that added lots of humour to the plot but the first film IS NOT a comedy! People should understand this but clearly I'm in the wrong. >8+<
Mark
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Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:04 pm |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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That's better than an office full of people who have never heard of it! One girl thought GI Joe 2 was 'complicated'... because she hasn't watched the original.
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Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:23 pm |
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timark_uk
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm Posts: 12143 Location: Belfast
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To be fair, it was released in 1981 and it doesn't get very many airings on TV and also isn't very well regarded outside horror film fans/film fans in general. Which is why I find it so surprising that the guy I was talking to about it in work was so adamant that it was a comedy. It just baffled me and still does. Mark
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Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:48 pm |
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