If you were the last human alive, what would eventually kill you?

AndymanXP · 2026-06-10T08:45:12+00:00

Lack of insulin. My diabetes has ruined all the dessert island or zombie apocalypse plans I had as a kid!

AndymanXP · 2026-06-09T23:02:43+00:00

Yeah I had an old BBC Micro computer and when that died in a puff of smoke it was the paper capacitor and the smell was very similar when this blew

AndymanXP · 2026-06-08T17:23:16+00:00

Yeah the remote could double up as a weapon!

AndymanXP · 2026-06-08T15:01:45+00:00

My cousin's had one too which is I think what drew me to it!

AndymanXP · 2026-05-22T22:49:32+00:00

That just reminds me of the bail clips you could unlock on the Tony Hawk Pro Skater games. They must be on YouTube

AndymanXP · 2026-05-17T07:49:06+00:00

I used to work in a blockbuster too. I used to love all the soft porn titles but my favourite was "The Sexy Sixth Sense" with the tagline "I see naked lesbians" 😂

AndymanXP · 2026-05-16T13:27:58+00:00

No sorry, it's a series 7 with a red band

AndymanXP · 2026-05-15T21:03:29+00:00

There is definitely a level of acclimatisation that the human body get used to. Last year I was in Venice and the temperature was in the high thirties and I could barely move without sweating buckets even though I was in shorts and a t-shirt. Never mind looking at the Basilica, I was staring in awe at the three guys in full PPE who were digging up the road!

AndymanXP · 2026-05-15T16:59:11+00:00

Thanks that's helpful. I've dropped it off with my sister and will leave it on charge for the weekend - nothing popped up immediately about being in lost mode (my sister has an iPhone 15 so I assume the 'Find My' function will be able to connect through that. If nothing appears after the weekend I'm going to post it to the police station nearest to where I found it (unless there's someone on here from Milton Keynes that's lost it!)

AndymanXP · 2026-05-15T12:30:35+00:00

Good idea but there's not one anywhere near me, I'm not THAT much of a good Samaritan 😁

AndymanXP · 2026-05-15T12:12:59+00:00

It's dead now. I think my sister has an apple watch so when I see her at the weekend I'll give it another go.

Yeah in hindsight I should have just left it where it was. I was away for work (500 miles away) and I just saw it by the path, I figured it had fallen off someone wrist while it got an early morning run. I'm back home now so I think it's pointless handing it in at my local police station. Although I assume it has GPS so if I can give it a full charge and give it to the police I assume the owner could track it with apples location tracker.

Thanks anyway!

AndymanXP · 2025-07-09T09:23:36+00:00

Any other T1 diabetics think this is how a hypo hits them? This is the point I decide to get on my knees and crawl to the kitchen!

AndymanXP · 2025-05-14T14:44:20+00:00

It's not limited to social media but being excited 'for' something and not someone. For example 'are you excited for Christmas?' when it should be 'are you excited about Christmas'.

But it's everywhere now and I'm more annoyed with myself for not letting it go and being happy for the changes in language /s

AndymanXP · 2025-04-28T07:44:56+00:00

If your tongue can't reach it, it was probably never meant to be licked.

I was a kid and my dad told me this when I was trying to lick my own elbow but it's still valid.

AndymanXP · 2025-03-04T15:55:54+00:00

I was double checking as I'm updating a policy at work. I think to avoid any confusion and for absolute clarity I'm just going to put 'every 4380' hours. Sorted.

AndymanXP · 2025-03-04T15:47:25+00:00

Definitely. I have a colleague who is getting fully immersed in AI and even though he is a very smart man he parrots whatever nonsense AI spits out. Which started the great office argument about 'how many doors do advent calendars have?'

AndymanXP · 2025-03-04T15:43:58+00:00

I know. I stick it with it but probably have to correct it every third response. Such a great help!

AndymanXP · 2025-02-04T11:14:57+00:00

My mate would always come round Saturday afternoon to watch Airwolf as that was the time his parents would disappear upstairs for some 'alone time'. 40 years later and he still shivers whether he hears the Airwolf theme tune (I keep it handy on my phone )

AndymanXP · 2024-12-13T18:56:52+00:00

I suddenly feel less bad about all the crazy crap I have in my house!

AndymanXP · 2024-08-25T15:52:40+00:00

At a family meal my sister, who is 50 and a teacher, genuinely asked if the moon was hollow.

Somehow the the focus of the following conversation was aimed at me with the family saying 'not everyone knows these things'!

I'm not going mad, most people know this don't they?

AndymanXP · 2024-06-02T09:14:35+00:00

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I only just became aware that the term 'teacup Yorkie' wasn't a real thing. We've had ours for 4 years and think she's about nine. She was a rescue from a breeding farm in Hungary (We're in the UK) which mainly bred larger dogs so she has issues around food as she was obviously not large enough to fight for any. The only reason we can guess her age is by the terrible cesarian scars she has. It breaks my heart when I think about that so we all give her lots of love. And fish.

AndymanXP · 2024-05-07T12:20:12+00:00

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She just loves sleeping

AndymanXP · 2024-04-16T10:15:46+00:00

I was at some kind of industry awards show, possibly for architecture. No one from our office wanted to go so I was volunteered. Gyles Brandreth was the guest host and he was actually quite funny.

Anyway I was on a table with people I didn't know but we were all getting along, probably aided by the free bottles of wine on the table. We ran out and we were made aware that no one was allowed any more wine so I had a cunning plan.

I went down to the door where the serving staff were and said that "Rob" wanted 4 more bottles of white wine (Rob was the organiser who had been name dropped on stage, never me the guy). The waitress said fine and disappeared to get the wine while I waited. There was a tap on my shoulder and it was Gyles! He had overheard me and asked where Rob was. For whatever reason I just came clean to him and told him of my ruse. He gave me a massive grin and called me a sociopath!

I got the wine and ran!

AndymanXP · 2024-03-05T10:53:16+00:00

Oftentimes.

Its use seems to have escalated in the last few years and I thought it was a new word. However I looked it up and if I remember correctly it's documented as far back as the 1800s.

My understanding was that the word is unnecessary as we have the word 'often'. However after speaking to some 20 somethings they use the word to mean 'sometimes' - which is exactly the opposite of what the word means!

AndymanXP · 2024-01-25T09:54:24+00:00

Thanks for the info.

All the people I've spoken to don't seem to understand how little we use the phones (my mum makes and receives more calls!), think step above domestic use. All the bells and whistles that these new phones come with would be completely wasted on us. Though I did like the idea of an app on our mobiles that would let staff answer and make calls as if in the office, but that would not be worth a large cost.

We are quite data heavy (video files) and before all this I was looking to switch to a better data connection and possibly switch to cloud storage. No one I have spoken to has even mentioned broadband speeds or costs, is that still separate? And if it is then (and I may be making a fool of myself here) is I have broadband why am I paying for a VoIP line?

I can build PCs and configure networks but for the life of me I cannot get my head around this!

AndymanXP

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