Gummy,I’ve been onto the shop…an Apple specialist shop,just this very day…now,bearing in mind they specialise in Apple and boast on various forms of communication [both net and physical] of their expertise,plus that the pox-ridden laptop in question is the pooch’s swingers [supposedly] of these devices…they admitted they’re flummoxed,puzzled,stumped and still remain after several days,totally without improvement or cure. Hmm;goodole Silicon Valley,eh? Farmed the actual construction and manufacturing out to the place of cheapest labour. I’ve told the ‘specialists’ to strip the HDD out and put in a new,unused one,of 2tb,then strip all the codec and o/s out and re-disc it. A thing I could have done myself,had I known it was totally bollo…er…that there was a codec fault in the parcel-loading activity,ffs! But,my point is,you’re right [GAWD,how it hurts to have to say that to dear ol’ gumbud,of all peeps!] In regard to luck,it’s merely a machine,so sod it. As Fruitisimo referred to,luck comes in many guises. I’ve survived being shot,stabbed,blown up,skiing into the ONLY fkn tree on the mountain in Hammerfest [that twinged a tad,I can tell yerz] & a parachute not fully opening…so a poxy little machine designed by huge egos but built by tiny wage-packets,being faulty just doesn’t enter the equation. LUCK,is tripping over the cat as you carry a hot cup of coffee to your desk,then as you’re laying on the floor thinking various colourful things,spotting a £10 note under your amp-stack,that you didn’t even know you’d lost. So-yay,karma…it knows what it’s doing-it doesn’t need US to understand it’s workings…it just works. 
Oh dear Pugsy Bear:shock:
You are not having much luck with your puter.
I hope things don’t come in threes.
We have an Apple Source man. He fixes in-house mostly.
Calm down and think of …
but that is the point I’m making - don’t fix it replace it??
I knew I should have used sentences of one syllable or less in the beginning!
God wish old spittie was 'ere - 'eve give ya a solution in three words or less [not that you’d always understand it!]
Where is Spitty???
He would just post Dilly Dilly - We all know that.
I say-it’s that scrumpatious little Sweetikins,back to brighten the décor!
Gums,I don’t g-a-f about the replacement factor,bro. After all,if they all come from the same batch,or were shipped on the same consignment,this fault could be widespread. So,replace the ‘dicky’ bits,then reload the os to EPOS standard,test it…and ol’ Puggy’ll be chuffed wivvit. After all,it’s just a machine. I was saying just this very day to a concerned acquaintance that this kinda fing just emphasises the fragility of communications in this present day. We [most of us,anyway] all spent 10+ years in school learning and perfecting grammar,penmanship,calligraphy and various tenses,along with synomyms,proper nouns,punctuation and spelign…only to have ‘autocorrect’ and/or ‘predictive text’ transform written verbosity into the U.S. version. Typewriters were-and still are-a method of putting onto parchment the words you wish to communicate to ONE other person. As is writing a letter. ONE recipient. Whereas,today,texts,emails,tweets and even Skype or Facetime,are open to the world. It’s a hackers paradise…and it stems NOT from convenience,but from laziness. Writing a letter [or,should one be of a mind,TYPING a letter] has become too much effort for the ‘I wannit NOW!’ generation.
Yours;Prof Pissdorph-Huffingly Smythe.
True very true.
I suppose I am that impatient too, as it is catching Pugsy Bear.
I think my laptop fell off the back of a lorry, never had a problem so far.
Gregory Pecks the lowest hour, I hated the film & he ruined his career playing “out of character”
hm mm - Robert are you playing in or out of character here?
you could be ruining your retirement career??
I see we’ll have to do this the hard way - I need a couple of strong guys here - not RJ he’s teetering - spittie has gawn AWOL so it will have to be the Irish man and the hayrackers from dorn seth!
I just need yuz two lads to hold young pugsy down whiles I give him a verbal ear wash:
pugsy old dear - listen carefully - taking out parts and replacing them invalidates the product - exchanging it for another new one doesn’t - it’s that feckin simple old bean
and this silly comment that if one doesn’t work they all won’t is just infantile
OK lads let 'im go and play wiv hiz apples that switch on and off and throw sunbeams in the air!
ps: wot woz that young Jem you arsk - wot abart iz ear - no I can’t hear a fing!
He was upset by the extremely negative reactions to his Mengele performance and said “Some critics seem unwilling to accept actors when they break what they think is the mold or the image”
However as much as I admired Mr Pecks acting I loathed his portrayal of the obsessed Captain Ahab but he exonerated himself in The Guns of Navarone so all ended well for me on celluloid screen at least. .
I never liked the Moby Dick story Solo, from the time I first came across it in one of the old ‘Classic’ comics, remember them? I loved them.
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Oh yes Pug that’s Apple for you, the bees knees in technology according to themselves.
Have we peaked in the technology stakes? No new gadgets coming out recently I noticed, we do have ‘The new generation box’ type of thing but they are only slight variations on the old stuff, we need something spectacular or eyecatching.
I remember reading about twelve years ago that we were to have virtual television sets in a few years, with this kind of TV you can actually walk around it and see the person on it from all angles, like the person was miniature and in the same room, however it never came to pass.
I have a theory about all this,
The rapid advances we’ve had since the seventies came about because the three little green lads they captured in Roswell back in the fifties were forced to spill the beans and tell all they knew, but in order to ensure their good treatment in captivity they let out secrets very slowly, don’t forget these lads can communicate with each other through thought no matter how segregated they may be, no fear of one ratting on the others.
Well a terrible tragedy occurred in the Winter of 2016 in Area 51, the three little guys caught the flu and couldn’t handle it, all three died at the same time. No matter how hard they tried the authorities could not drag the secret of anti gravitation from the three brave captives, God rest their souls or whatever they have for souls. The results of this are that the powers that be will not be receiving any more new technical information, that’s the simple reason we are not getting any new stuff and won’t be anymore, lest they can capture a few more greenies, but I doubt that they’ll come within light years of us seeing the state we’re in at the moment with nut cases running the show all over the world.
So my friends enjoy it now for this is as good as it gets, it’ll be all downhill afterwards and in years to come he who knows how to make a crystal set shall be King.
Right…someone get gumbud into the dreaded Mongolian Chuff-Lock and hold him still as he ATTEMPTS to understand that items such as computers,vacuum-cleaners,mobile ‘smart’[haha-bloody-ha!] phones,microwave ovens,fridges,washing machines,etc,etc,arrive in shiments,NOT as singularities. THIS means they are ‘batched’,y’see gummy…which in turn means this particular consignment has been whipped off a conveyor,stacked,stamped,batched together,shoved into containers,then sent off around the planet. NOW…if,perchance,a ‘dicky’ section of solder,or a faulty set of cpu units…or even merely an inattentive attendant was distracted by Sweetikins sashaying seductively past JUST as the inspection and testing was taking place,then a FULL CONSIGNMENT may have/contain the same faults. I actually DID utilise both braincells symmetrically and asked the Apple [note that? APPLE. NOT 'Honest Johns’s Used/sort of refurbished Backstreet Computers] staff in the APPLE shop,to test a few of the currently on sale models…and blow me down-they have FIVE of the eleven currently on the shelves,on show for sale,that have EXACTLY the same fault! FIVE. So…I,being a bear of very little brain,chose the path of 'replace with new pre-tested parts,the internal items that are faulty,as I do NOT want to go happily away with a replacement that ALSO won’t operate properly when using the parcelling codec for actual WORK,as opposed to being sarcastic on forums…y’see? If there’s no joy-cash back,SOD Apple,hello Linux. No big deal. If it DOES work with new parts in it,from a completely different consignment,no problem-I just saved TDA Apple the embarrassment of selling faulty laptops that work perfectly well until complex algorithmic equations are attempted…at which point the parcelation codec jumps ship. None of which has ANYTHING to do with Roswell,I admit,Jem. But,the thought does linger that,with all this alien technology to hand,rather than keep re-hashing the iphone,how come we humans haven’t colonised Mars yet? After all,SURELY it’d be a feather in the cap of D Trump Esq [and by the way,you’re now allowed to call Washington D.C. 'Trumpton] to be first to do so? MUCH more so than tweeting about some lady named ‘Stormy’ with whom he apparently had ‘congress’. [congress-geddit?] After all-her name’s Stormy-how could he expect THAT to end well?! Nah…MUCH more fun to be first to erect a tent on Mars,then act super casual about it when Vlad Putin & Kim Wossname pop round for tea & biccies. Don’tcha think?
Captain Ahab and the Roswell affair have a lot in common Jem. He was obsessive about a whale and so were those that were determined to find out how those little green fellas ticked. Always find that kind of obsession destructive.
Followed your Laptop angst Pug and all I can say is , Is this a classic case of A poor workman always blames his tools !!!. 
Today is ‘Spy Wednesday’ in the christian calendar, hear anything about spies lately.
Anybody spied Spitty?
Rumour has it he is looking for the Golden Halo 
Has that anything to do with the Golden Fleece?
That was meant to read tomorrow is spy Wednesday, I was just talking to the wife and I thought it was ash Wednesday but that was at the beginning of lent several weeks ago.
Very confusing is the christian calendar, what with ‘movable feasts’ ‘fasting days’ ‘holy days of obligation’ we even had ‘moving statues’ over here at one time, wonder what happened to them?
On ash Wednesday we used to get a dash of ashes on our foreheads to remind us we’re all made from ashes and shall return to ashes, on palm Sunday we all wore a sprig of palm in our lapels, not sure why that was, but as I say if your not on the ball it can be very confusing being a christian…
If I had come home covered in ash my mother would have walloped the priest to remind him of who was boss on Earth.
You might say she was a bit of a lapsed soul and truly used to enjoy shocking the priest by telling him the palm cross was only good for protecting the house from fire.
Like most things the palm bit was nicked by Christians from the old Egyptians funereal procession. We had this habit of nicking things to suit our own purposes so it does make you wander what those old Knights Templars got up to when they were not playing on their abacuses.
I find your story and rationale quite implausible; full of grammatical errors; mispellings and insane emotions - go and get a new replacement - your logic is floored Holmes!
well whisper whisper - he told me he was going for a golden shower or two or three?? so no more nod nod wink wink.
Here’s one I prepared earlier.
All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small
I don’t have to go in search of them
Now I’ve got digital.
Golden Showers!!!
Gummy, suck it Up.