Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Anthony Darby]

What make Mark? My Epson didn't and neither did Vivienne's Canon.

[Maggi Young]

Ian bought a laser printer (Black and white) for the local Group's printing... it came with a toner wotsit or whatever it has ... new ones cost £50 I think. Bulky, plain looking thing, but it's fast and no, I'm not talking about me....

[Anthony Darby]

Perhaps we should rename you "Miss Toner" Maggi? Are you into Tutti Fruity ice cream?

[Paul T]

Anthony,

If you're going to call her "Miss Toner", I think you'll have to attribute a month name to her as well?  It sounds like a name for a calender girl anyway.

[Maggi Young]

Not that crazy about Tutti-frutti ice cream... I prefer vanilla ...... and if I were by some horrendous happening, ever to be a calendar girl.... I'd have to be Miss Behaving.

Paul, did you get the TV series, Tutti-Frutti over there? It 's from 1987.... but I think it was due to be shown again here... or maybe just has been.... because it was very popular.

Starred Robbie Coltrane and Emma Thompson, among others..... "Miss Toner" was the secretary/sidekick of Eddie Clockerty, played by Richard Wilson http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/789683/index.html  It was written by the wonderful John Byrne.

[Paul T]

Maggi,

If it was here a couple of years after that (which is usually the case), I would have been a computing nerd at University, so I wouldn't have seen it.  Can't say I've even heard of it.

Wouldn't you be Miss Misbehaving?  Miss Behaving sounds far too angelic for a chocolate addict such as yourself. 

Maybe you'd just be in the Miss Chocolate calendar, and arrange to be the Easter Bunny in the calendar..... of course that would mean that no-one else got any chocolate, anywhere in the world, for Easter. 

[Maggi Young]

We Global Moderators have to Behave, Paul, if that's what we want others to do.... so I think I'll stick with Miss Behaving...... I like the idea of the Easter Bunny, though...... ALL the chocolate in the world, eh?



 I'll make preparations......
   

..though there may be competitors for the job......
 

[Mick McLoughlin]

Mick, I suspect your printer for £37 came without ink cartridges? I may be wrong, but they usually do now?

Anthony cartridges were included, well I havent bought any yet and shes using it, no connecting cable included though. 'They assume that you already have one, but you can have one for half price if bought with printer.' Do you take the risk you've got one that fits at home?

Don't get me going on this one. Why do all makes of mobile phone have a different charger and you get a new one with every phone whether you need it or not? Anybody want a drawer full of phone chargers?

[mark smyth]

Tutti-frutti? I saw them in a shop this morning. Maybe I'll go back and buy a packet.

Anthony my printer is an Epson. Cartridges are a scandelous price but there is anow a shop 10 miles away who sell copies, in 4 colours, for £5 each.

[Diane Clement]

Anthony my printer is an Epson. Cartridges are a scandelous price but there is anow a shop 10 miles away who sell copies, in 4 colours, for £5 each.

I have now had 2 Epson printers over the last ten years or so.  I chose Epson because the compatible cartridges are CHEAP.  My current printer is a cheap Epson that I have had about 5 years, it is a workhorse and frequently has to print hundreds of copies for AGS seed exchange and Local group work.  I just bought black cartridges at £14 for ten.  Colour cartridges are £22 for ten.  Each cartridge does well over a hundred copies, so I usually reckon on 1p a page (black).  Prices do vary a lot, depending on the model

[Anthony Darby]

Not that crazy about Tutti-frutti ice cream... I prefer vanilla ...... and if I were by some horrendous happening, ever to be a calendar girl.... I'd have to be Miss Behaving.

Paul, did you get the TV series, Tutti-Frutti over there? It 's from 1987.... but I think it was due to be shown again here... or maybe just has been.... because it was very popular.

Starred Robbie Coltrane and Emma Thompson, among others..... "Miss Toner" was the secretary/sidekick of Eddie Clockerty, played by Richard Wilson http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/789683/index.html  It was written by the wonderful John Byrne.

Maggi, it's out on DVD. It launched the careers of the above stars and is rightly a classic.

[Lesley Cox]

Don't get me going on this one. Why do all makes of mobile phone have a different charger and you get a new one with every phone whether you need it or not? Anybody want a drawer full of phone chargers?

Yes, and when your dog eats the darned thing, it costs a fortune to replace it. Or if the phone's a couple of years old, you can't get a new charger anyway. Have to get a phone with ANOTHER new charger.

[Maggi Young]

Okay, you pressed one of my buttons with this.... whay is is near impossible to get replacement mobile phone batteries.... they stop haolding the charge properly and it is so hard to source new ones..... you get told.... why not replace the phone, is alomst as cheap.... yes, but I've only just workded out how to use the one I've got, and the newer ones are so  small I can't see the ruddy phone, never mind see and use the buttons and read the text ..... and don't tell me to get new specs because every time I "drop in- appointments are not always necessary" I find that they are too busy and Yes, an appointment is necessary, so when I have time I phone for an appointment and there isn't one any time I can manage to be there....... moan, moan, moan.......

[Lesley Cox]

And the phone is so small that if you drop it in the garden or lose it somewhere, it is never seen again.

[Michael J Campbell]

Did you know that all new printers come with ink cartridges only half full, and they cannot be refilled.