Pencil on hard drive

[tenpolequint]

After just reading a thread about cooling fans I just pulled out my pc to have a look at it, I've got a clear side panel and all lit up with blue when I noticed an odd looking cable on my hard drive. I focused my eyes and no it is a pencil with the eraser bitten off posted through the open floppy port.

Don't you just love little kids.

[tenpolequint]

Make that two pencils with the rubber ends bitten off.

[Baby_Rhino]

oh to be young and not know any better... :(biglaugh):

[mark.yellow.series.3]

lego in the video player,
horse complete with fence in the subwoofer speaker.
i love kids aswell

[Manicminer]

I have just replaced my cd-rw drive after the youngest shoved 4 cds into the old one at the same time. I can hear the 'head'? rattling about inside :roll:

[paul and sam]

the kids of today are clever they were just cleaning the hard drive and erasing some of there work/games!!!!!!!!!  i know i will get my coat lol










and they say this is ment to be fun :(biglaugh):

[bezzabsa]

well between our 4 we have had :-
toast in cd player AND video
£1.45 posted into the video!
jam in my cd drive (dont ask!)
best one was our eldest (shes 14 now) when she was 2 trying to fit a 7" single into a cd player....by biting the edges off till it fitted  :shock:
dont ya' just love 'em??

[tenpolequint]

And I dont have any tooth paste - all eaten, shampoo - used to wash dollies, swarfeger - also used on dollies and all the paper in my printer has been signed, along with the walls and cabinets.

[Evilgoat]

After several years of doing electronic repairs :

VCRs:

Biscuits, various toys, toast, bread (on assumption that the VCR will toast it, CDs (In cases too), Casettes, Beta/VR2000 tapes in VHS machines. The lot. Incidentally a jam sandwich will normally write off a VCR :) As will WD40 to stop squeaks. Yes people do just hod the flap open and squirt away. When the 33000 odd RPM drum touched your nice thin tape and the head's covered in jam it does some wicked things :) An E240 tape ca actually be unraveled before you realise.

CD Plarers:
'skinned' 5.25" floppies, CDs with bits missing, coasters, trimmed 45's and ocasionally a CD explodes, which can be spectacular.

I wont even go into the things I'ce seen stuffed in PCs :)

[Range Rover Blues]

Ok here's scary, anyone into Hi-Fi in a big way?  Remember the 4mm banana plug that was becoming the standard speaker connection.  Do you know why it was banned by the EU?   Someone's kiddie wanted to listen to music so plugged the speaker into, you guessed it, the MAINS.  Nearly got killed by the voice coil as it flew out of the cabinet.

So what did the EU ban? not the socket, oh no, the plug.  Whatever next, Knitting now elegal? can't have a compass anymore?  pen's/pencils? when will they learn?

Best bit is there is now an EN (European Norm) standard for electrical conncetion.  This will become the Europe wide standard so had to be compatible with either ours, the French, the German or so difficult it could not be confused with any of them.  They rejected ours because it was 'over engineered' ie TOO SAFE.

For pity's sake, we let ourselves be rule by people who think a £0.60 plug from Wilco is too safe and want something cheaper :(bigangry):

[mark.yellow.series.3]

ive had to alter some of our distribution equipment to suit the french, and what a crock of s**t  there plugs and sockets are :?  :?  :?

[blackbob]

we got adaptors for our bulgarian house so we can keep the british fused plugs

[mark.yellow.series.3]

we got adaptors for our bulgarian house so we can keep the british fused plugs

oooo arnt we posh,  i have another house as well.......it aslo called the garden shed :oops:  :oops:

[blackbob]

only got it this year cost £7000.
so your sheds prob woth more :lol:  :lol:

[mark.yellow.series.3]

that place looks the bussiness,  :D
when do you get started on it?

[tenpolequint]

Does it come with chickens and a donkey?

[blackbob]

going out at the end of the month for 5 weeks
loads to do to bring it up to standard

[thermidorthelobster]

I wont even go into the things I'ce seen stuffed in PCs :)

Oh, go on...

[marjan]

Guys, you want to see the things that I regularly pull out of gas fires when doing routine service work  :shock:

I had one the other day with the following in :-

3 Knives
2 Spoons
3 Plastic Toy Cars (melted).
1 Credit Card  :shock:  (melted).
various sweets and lollies
2 Biros
1 Silver earing.

All in 1 fire !!!.

[bezzabsa]

Guys, you want to see the things that I regularly pull out of gas fires when doing routine service work  :shock:

I had one the other day with the following in :-

3 Knives
2 Spoons
3 Plastic Toy Cars (melted).
1 Credit Card  :shock:  (melted).
various sweets and lollies
2 Biros
1 Silver earing.

All in 1 fire !!!.

did they have a toddler???


usuallyy accompanied by -'designer' wallpaper - doors -windows - fridge and anything up to about 3 feet ... hmm guess who has a 2 year old????

[marjan]

Yep they had a 2 year old & a 4 year old. The mother thought it was quite amusing till I told her that the plastic could have carried on burning after the fire was turned off and even cause the house to burn down :shock: .

[MTyrrell]

Apparently when I was little I was responsible for the destruction of at least two VCR's and a record deck. Not sure what I did to the record deck but the VCR was a prime target for pretty much anything that would fit.

 Also managed to flood the kitchen by opening the washing machine, it was old and didn’t have a lock.

[ben_haynes]

well i destroyed 2 toasters and a a fridge-freezer with sharp and blunt knives :oops:  :lol: