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  1. 06-Jul-2007 #1
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    Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! FFS!

    Well over 15+ years ago I spent a large lump of money (to me at the time) on a Sony hifi... For all these years I've carefully looked after it. It's got a beautify sound (it's bi-amp) and with an appropriate 90W Sony sub woofer I've just never got tired of its great sound...


    Moving stuff around today one of the speakers fell of the top of a cupboard... One of the speakers inside the unit is now loose inside and rattling around out of site

    I'm going to have to try and find a 20cm long philips screw driver and try and open it up. Hopefully I can glue the speaker back into place and all will be OK.


    This thing has been a 'friend' to me for soooo many years I really would get quite upset having to chuck it

    Sounds daft doesn't it



    It's a beautify system! All the blocks for the hifi are separate so you can arrange it anyway you like. In a tower, side by side... The speaker are also in two separate block as well...

    Anyway... It's just a lump of wood, plastic and wires...

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  2. 06-Jul-2007 #2
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    Guttage! There's always a time when we got to kiss goodbye and let go of the ones we love, especially if they ain't in good condition anymore.
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  3. 06-Jul-2007 #3
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    I think it's on the back of my pile of ****e/aggro at the moment. This is just part of the extension aggro I'm going thru.

    It turns out when they fitted the floor in my study X weeks ago they didn't glue it down. So I asked them if I could move MOST of the stuff out I'm care put & wired in, but just leaving two cupboards. They could then come in and glue everywhere except under the cupboards... Fine they said...


    They turned up today to say, oh no, the floor needs sealing first so you'll need to take EVERYTHING out...

    So tonight I started gutting the entire study and voila the speaker falls off the cupboard bang!

    TBH its like a script. Just today I was talking to a friend saying how much I like my super old stereo, and I was even looking at getting some new longer (bi-wire) speaker wire for it so I could fit it in study even better...


    It's like someone up above is writing this stuff!!!!!

    Let's make the poor f***er move everything into the room...

    Now let's make him move most of the stuff out...

    Now let's make him move it all out...

    Hey! You know his prized stereo he was talking about today... Let's smash it
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  4. 06-Jul-2007 #4
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    My popcorn machine broke yesterday.

    And I REALLY like popcorn!

    Oh, and I'm sorry about your stereo.
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  5. 06-Jul-2007 #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by EvilNed View Post
    My popcorn machine broke yesterday.

    And I REALLY like popcorn!

    Oh, and I'm sorry about your stereo.
    Did you mention to someone yesterday how much you liked your machine? If so... God heard you!
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    if you had of never mentioned how much you love it , it would have lasted forever...
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  7. 06-Jul-2007 #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by fartpants View Post
    if you had of never mentioned how much you love it , it would have lasted forever...
    Seriously... God's been watching me for the past 4-6 weeks with his itchy finger right on that 'nobble' button!
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    may it rest in peace...
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  10. 08-Jul-2007 #10
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    Here's the example of God nobbling me again... So the only reason the speaker got broken was because I had to empty the new study because they didn't glue the floor down 3 weeks ago when they should have...

    ...so the floor guy popped around over the weeked to take a moisture reading of the new floor. Guess what! It's too wet to seal and could be that way for WEEKS or MONTHS!

    So we spent hundreds of pounds getting a floor, which we cannot fit for near future... Meanwhile everything from the study is just forming yet more piles of mess around the house!

    Three weeks ago we felt we were making headway because at least we had the study pretty much sorted out... Now that's f***ed and we're in even more of a mess...

    I tell you... He's up there laughing his arse of at me!


    Well **** him, at least I managed to get a specialised screw driver, take the broken speaker apart and fix it!

    YOU MAY TAKE MY STUDY, BUT YOU'LL NEVER TAKE MY SPEAKER!!!
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  11. 08-Jul-2007 #11
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    Glad the speaker is back in order, I know how you feel about your favourite bits of household tech, I'm sorry to see something go when it conks out to be honest.

    What on earth kind of floor did you get?! Moisture readings? WTF?!

    Why not some of that click-together wood panel stuff? We've got it in this room I'm in now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    Glad the speaker is back in order, I know how you feel about your favourite bits of household tech, I'm sorry to see something go when it conks out to be honest.

    What on earth kind of floor did you get?! Moisture readings? WTF?!

    Why not some of that click-together wood panel stuff? We've got it in this room I'm in now.

    The floor is only 5-6 weeks old and it can take months and month for all the moisture to work out of the cement etc. So you really cannot seal it 100% with anything. If you were to put that sort of hard wood floor on it would warp over time due to the moisture...
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    Oh I see a whole new concrete floor...ah that explains it...still, what a buggery eh?

    I doubt you'll be recommending any of these builders to your friends eh? You can't get like those big moisture sucking fan things in, like you see on TV after someone's been flooded, they suck the moisture out the walls and stuff ... but I'm not sure if that would weaken the concrete...just a thought.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    Oh I see a whole new concrete floor...ah that explains it...still, what a buggery eh?

    I doubt you'll be recommending any of these builders to your friends eh? You can't get like those big moisture sucking fan things in, like you see on TV after someone's been flooded, they suck the moisture out the walls and stuff ... but I'm not sure if that would weaken the concrete...just a thought.
    Tis nothing to do with the builders... Basicaly the floor people didn't think it thru and recommended/sold us something that just can't be layed on the floor until it's dry enough (in weeks/months from now)...

    God pressed that nobble button and made them forget to ask the right question(s)!
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    *Eats microwave popcorn*

    Meh, they suffice.
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