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McRainy reacted to scarboroughwa in Random stuff that people do that annoy me
Paying at a hospital in the first place.
c****.
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McRainy reacted to Ramslad1992 in New joke thread (trigger alert, may offend if you want it to)
What's green and not heavy?
Light green.
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McRainy reacted to May Contain Nuts in Beer Thread
Nah, Wolverhampton & Dudley masquerading as Marstons
A bit like if Fawaz had forced a hostile takeover of Derby & merged us with Nottingham Forest, before deciding that he'd keep the Derby County FC name & branding whilst running it as shoddily as he ran Forest.
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McRainy reacted to froggg in Beer Thread
Live in Christchurch so I can get to the Square and compass in thirty minutes if Mandy is driving or in about an hour by train and open top bus.
Sadly Ringwood beers have gone downhill under Marstons.
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McRainy got a reaction from Stive Pesley in Beer Thread
Just had several very pleasant pints of Burton Bridge Bitter in the Royal Oak at Wirksworth. The landlord is an old friend and he knows his stuff. It's their standard bitter now, so well worth a visit.
If £3.00 a pint is too much to pay it's also on in the Yew Tree at Cauldon Low for £2.80. You can sleep in the garden if necessary.
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McRainy reacted to Day in Apple
Would never queue but but can understand why he would sell the devices on early. Used Apple prices in good condition with the box are really good.
Say you hold on to an iPad for years, it would work great but you may miss out on features, iOS does slow devices down if you're installing the latest version on say a 3 year old phone, it works but just a bit slower.
When it ultimately comes time to buy a new one, you might have to pay £600-£700, your old device being pretty much worthless. Trade it in each year, never have any problems and you will maybe get £400 for your old iPad.
If you keep trading in each year you get maximum resale value, I've never done it before receiving the new device but say you pay £800 for the iPhone 7, you can expect to get around £600 resale value. The iPhone 8 might cost £850 so it's cost you £250.
As I said to Lester earlier, if you go sim free it works out much cheaper, you get a better contract, the latest phone each year whilst saving £20-30 per month. Plus the initial outlay of a phone that would be on a 2 year contract.
For many people having the latest and greatest doesn't matter, all you do is browse the Internet, not fussed about iCloud and all that. An original iPad if you didn't max out the iOS updates would do just that.
I make websites, it's what I do, I need to see how it looks on all screen sizes, like building a car without having a road to test it on. No way can I afford to stay and one device and run it's course, then suck up the costs of replacing all the devices with no resale value on old.
New iPad and iPhone each year, minus the contract would cost me around £400, that's £33 a month, little over a pound a day.
Listing all Apple devices might make you look mega rich but you play the smart game it's really not that expensive after you've made the initial jump.
(this only works if you take care of devices, Not chuck them around like toys)
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McRainy reacted to Ewe Ram in Apple
We have Apple TV, 2 iPads, a MacBook, 3 iPhones, a Magic Trackpad, Philips hue lights and Hive heating all controlled by Apple products and an Apple Watch.
We got rid of the laptop that, every time you turned it on, said 'downloading updates 1 of 46' and proceeded to grind through 10 mins of updates before you could do anything. Got rid of the blackberry that kept having service outages and the work phones made by Samsung that aren't fit to be in the same league as the iPhones.
For whatever reason you don't like Apple products it's up to you but they are far superior so it can't be on their performance.
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McRainy reacted to Gritstone Ram in Apple
Load of ********. I've been told not to believe anything in the Daily Mail.
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McRainy got a reaction from Stive Pesley in Random stuff that people do that annoy me
Presumably you'd like to see them harmoniously integrated.
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McRainy got a reaction from StringerBell in Random stuff that people do that annoy me
Presumably you'd like to see them harmoniously integrated.
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McRainy reacted to StringerBell in Random stuff that people do that annoy me
Any football team called United which is based in a city that has a second team.
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McRainy reacted to admira in How GOOD is your Rams' Mug?
I believe mine is rather marvellous. I've had it for 40+ years and it's never been used either.
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McRainy reacted to Pearl Ram in Random stuff that people do that annoy me
And there was me thinking you could only commit suicide the once.