The Vent and Rant Thread

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by PandathePanda

This sux. Me want to buy a new PC to replace mine, but to get the same type I'm using currently (amount of ram, gpu spec, and stuff) meaning a current upper mid range pc. It'll cost me between three to five months salary :'(

How much of what you have can you recycle? You can save a lot of money by only upgrading the parts that need replacing. Or, if you're still using a hard disk drive, swap it out for an SSD. That's usually good for an additional year or more.

[PandathePanda]

Originally Posted by CRussel

How much of what you have can you recycle? You can save a lot of money by only upgrading the parts that need replacing. Or, if you're still using a hard disk drive, swap it out for an SSD. That's usually good for an additional year or more.

Upgrading works, except when you need to updrade your mb/ram/cpu like what I need to do. I tried installing win 7 on it and it was horrible, seems (according to the manufacturer the mb tweaks they did, made it compatible to XP and no later (they claim vista,but I ditched Vista for XP due to stability problems. Installing the OS once a week isn't fun).

Replacing the mb/cpu/ram is more expencive than a new.base pc

[poohbear_nc]

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[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Now available: Cat hair -- by the bale!

Your choice: Freshly plucked from the cat, or 'pre-moistened' from the carpet!

Supplies are NOT limited -- so you can stock up ALL summer!

Prepare for the glaciers rumbling your way as the polar ice shelfs melt! Woven cat hair mats make super insulation! Decorative too!
Wow your friends and family with stunning stocking stuffers!

Phone lines now open to take your orders! Free delivery! Gift wrap available!

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No thanks. I have lots here already.

[CRussel]

Sorry, we have more than sufficient right now. But hey, we can offer a special "hybrid" version that includes Cavalier King Charles Spaniel fur in a 50/50 blend.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Now available: Cat hair -- by the bale!

Your choice: Freshly plucked from the cat, or 'pre-moistened' from the carpet!

Supplies are NOT limited -- so you can stock up ALL summer!

Prepare for the glaciers rumbling your way as the polar ice shelfs melt! Woven cat hair mats make super insulation! Decorative too!
Wow your friends and family with stunning stocking stuffers!

Phone lines now open to take your orders! Free delivery! Gift wrap available!

Pooh:

You have my sincere, heartfelt sympathies. I keep wondering if I can convince my two Maine Coons to let me vacuum them, with one of those "pet grooming" attachments. This time of year, with long-haired anythings--cats like you and I have, dogs like Charlie, or equines, like some of our other MR'ers, man, it's just fuzz-city. One of my big questions is, how the hell does cat hair GET into closed tubes of mascara, anyway????

Hitch

[Glorfindel]

Perhaps it's not cat hair

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Glorfindel

Perhaps it's not cat hair

Now, that was a truly terrifying thought. However, I'm pretty sure it's Storm's coat--a lightweight, fairy-hair silver tabby coat, of intermediate length and utterly insubstantial in heft. It gets EVERYWHERE. IT's odd, because she has the flat, straight coat--very fine and thin--and it comes out if you look at it. I've seen her have one, teeny-weeny hairball in 3+ years. She also doesn't like to be groomed, and due to the airy-fairy coat, she'll get knots and small matts in it, of course.

Zep, the male, on the other hand, is not only built like the stereotypical modern MC--looks like an English Bulldog in cat drag--but has the coat of a Husky, thick and with a heavy undercoat. Doesn't come out at ALL. I comb and comb and comb, and, oh, did I mention, combing?, and he still gets hairballs that look vaguely like Polaris missiles in size. He's an obsessively clean cat--keeps himself uber-tidy, and the consequences of that are GI-normous. He adores being groomed, the big lug, but it seems to make no difference to the deadly missiles that are his hairballs. And yes: I groom him stem-to-stern nightly, smoothly pulling out handfuls of fur; makes not a whit of diff.

I ran around here half-assing it with a Swiffer yesterday, solely in the main living area, and I'm pretty sure I picked up at least one cat's worth of coat. Damned if I know where on earth it all comes from!

Hitch

[cromag]

When Shadow was around I used to tell people I was planning to knit puppies.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by Hitch

Pooh:

You have my sincere, heartfelt sympathies. I keep wondering if I can convince my two Maine Coons to let me vacuum them, with one of those "pet grooming" attachments. This time of year, with long-haired anythings--cats like you and I have, dogs like Charlie, or equines, like some of our other MR'ers, man, it's just fuzz-city. One of my big questions is, how the hell does cat hair GET into closed tubes of mascara, anyway????

Hitch

Grooming Stella is rather like de-thatching a lawn -- she has so many layers and types of hair. Her white fluffy belly hair sheds year round onto the carpets - I use a 'slicker' brush on it. Her long top coat hairs shed the most in the spring - I use a steel tooth comb to untangle this layer & brush out the tail. The body undercoat hair is a fine dense hair that mats if left alone - after using the comb I then use a Furminator to de-thatch this layer. The 'Scaredy-Cut' scissors are still very effective for her butt & leg feather trims.

It's like grooming a miniature Golden Retriever!

And yes, I too have found cat hair in sealed tubes, bottles, etc. My Swiffers end up with hair clouds larger than my head!

And yesterday Stella gifted me with a hairball the size of a sausage link! She grooms constantly too!

[WT Sharpe]

Norton sheds like crazy in the summer. I'm told it's probably his diet, but he eats mostly the same things as any other dog: Mighty Dog, Pup-Peroni, Kraft Singles, Lil' Smokies (beef), cheeseburgers, sandwich meat, cheese omelets, tuna fish, pizza....

[Dylrob]

Well great, Google has once again removed a feature from Youtube that I liked and replaced it with garbage.

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by Dylrob

Well great, Google has once again removed a feature from Youtube that I liked and replaced it with garbage.

And that is...?

[Glorfindel]

Want a list?

[Dylrob]

This time they got rid of the ability to group subscriptions.