It’s a banger in fairness. Reminds me of:

Classic

was this cropped by David Blunkett?

Mad optical drive respect.

Giving people the ability to play 90s games and burn fire mix CDs like it’s 2k all over again.

I enjoyed that game. Not sure how it was ever pushed out as a full release rather than a Net Yaroze style special, but fair play to them.

Kurushi (as it was known in the UK and Europe) is like rocking horse shit now. A nice little treasure if you find one in your collection.

I suppose the TV licence in the UK is a sort of paywall, even if it is made of swiss cheese and enforced by folk with all the legal standing of Larry the Head Mouser or whatever moggy it is now.

I pay it, but I’m loathed to now. Not because I watch any live TV or BBC programming, but because I use the BBC News site a metric fucktonne and I suppose I justify it to myself as funding the BBC News department rather than Graham Norton’s salary.

Maybe I’ll fuck it off though. I do fancy a letter war with Capita or whoever managed the enforcement these days.

Absolute banger of a game.

“why can’t we get a mortgage?”

“Well I bought a hot dog on a payment plan for a laugh, and I defaulted on a 38 cent payment”

“oh no”

Good ol’ Comical Ali, haven’t seen these memes wheeled out since the last time the west started fucking about with the Middle East.

Which weirdly, wasn’t all that long ago.

Brooks be spinning in his grave so fast, you could wire him up to a dynamo and power a small African country

classic

Outlook 2000 was magic, even if it had more security warnings than a trip to Yemen. The current iteration of Outlook that they’re pushing with Office 365 is an absolute disaster, as if they’ve dragged it down to Teams’ level and let it rot away.

As you can tell, I’m not a fan.

Access got FoxPro’d, right in the kisser

The seven horsemen of the 90s workplace computer apocalypse.

I was doing some poxy arse-covering COSHH awareness course in the office which sat on the entertainment scale somewhere between “chewing tinfoil” and “drowning”. The worst part of it was that there was no ticket or certification at the end of it, just an eight hour classroom input that absolved the job if we were to drink bleach or put cordite in the microwave or something.

The trainer was pleasant enough, and signed our certificates, handed them out, and looked confused when I fed it straight into the shredder.

Everything gets a certificate now. It wasn’t the trainer’s fault, but my in-tray and mailbox was already twice as full as it should have been without more pointless certificates to sift through.

Did someone say…

…panda lamp?

My eldest asked me “have you seen the memes about this One Pound Fish guy?”

I’m like “dude, I paid my 79p to try and get that song to Number 1”… back when it mattered.

For most of them, it doesn’t matter. When the film is wound on, it would hit a ratchet stop to prevent you winding it beyond the next film cell anyway - which would only be released when the shutter button was operated, so you’d intuitively feel whether the film had been already wound forward or not.

This thread reminds me of inexpensive package holidays as a child. It’s brilliant.

Yeah laser units are pretty much indestructible in decent conditions. Can yours be connected by USB or parallel instead?

We bought a laser printer during the pandemic to keep the kids occupied with educational tasks and general craft type models.

It has been fucking awesome this past few years. It has supported the weight of many a schoolbag, been a home for car keys, kept a judo gi flat for a few days, and has even proven to be a worthy store of the multitude of swimming goggles we seem to accumulate.

Oh, it’s printed a couple of documents too. I can’t remember the last time I refilled the paper tray.

I’m guessing you’ve got a study that backs that assertion up as well?