An exercise in old machine costing.

[Rosco-P]

Almost makes me wish Airsmith would return.
He shows ya stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1HDe...SXaVtTJQpgAFs=
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgNk0...czJntQwHwF8%3D

At least he was entertaining and not tedious.

[sasquatch]

selfish agitator.

[Boostinjdm]

just to remind the sticky beaks and do-gooders et al that they don't have any say in what I do or don't do with my stuff.

You're making it awfully hard for anyone to forget.

[Arcane]

Nope.

I'm keeping all those pics of "what is" to go with the "what was" when its all in the "bin" - just to remind the sticky beaks and do-gooders et al that they don't have any say in what I do or don't do with my stuff.

I can believe it and certainly don't like it that so many seem to think that they have the right and entitlement to intefere in what others do or don't do with their own property (tools and machines).

Perhaps saying what they think is OK mostly but saying what to do or not do with that "stuff" is quite another - and being forceful and/or insistent as if it is or should be their own is just ignorant and plain arrogant (to put it politely).

If those pics "get up their singular and collective noses" - all the more reason to keep those pics.

If it drives them nuts? - or rather they drive themselves nuts over it?

It won't get better than that.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/get+up+nose

But as its mainly "Chinese" and "everyone knows" that "Chinese stuff is no good at all to no one at all", I can't see what all the bother is about, and if thats so I'm doing them a favour by saving them from themselves and a "fair maidens" fate worse than death.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/134650.html

Sort of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_in_the_manger

[oldtiffie]

Originally Posted by oldtiffie

just to remind the sticky beaks and do-gooders et al that they don't have any say in what I do or don't do with my stuff.

You're making it awfully hard for anyone to forget.

If I succeed in that I will be more than satisfied - the effort will have been worth it.

[oldtiffie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_in_the_manger

The story and metaphor of The Dog in the Manger derives from an old Greek fable which has been transmitted in several different versions. Interpreted variously over the centuries, it is used now of those who spitefully prevent others from having something that they themselves have no use for. Although the story was ascribed to Aesop's Fables in the 15th century, there is no ancient source that does so.

That also in modern parlance seem to infer that everybody else has a communal share or right in anothers property when it could be extended to mean that "others" may deem or decided that property of another is not "used" or that the owner/s "have no use for it" whether that is right in fact or not.

Maybe else-where - but not here.

If they have built their expectations on false hopes of their own making it is also a problem of their own making.

In short - I am not depriving anyone of anything that they have a right to or for.

[oldtiffie]

If you don't use the machines, have no interest in using them, then why do you bother visiting this forum ?

You are getting more like a troll every day.

I didn't say any of that - you did - as did others.

A troll is a supernatural being in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore. In origin, one of the meanings of the term troll was a negative synonym for a jötunn (plural jötnar), a being in Norse mythology, although the word was also used about witches, berserkers and various other evil magical figures. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human beings.

Later, in Scandinavian folklore, trolls became beings in their own right, where they live far from human habitation, are not Christianized, and are considered dangerous to human beings. Depending on the region from which accounts of trolls stem, their appearance varies greatly; trolls may be ugly and slow-witted or look and behave exactly like human beings, with no particularly grotesque characteristic about them. Trolls are sometimes associated with particular landmarks, which at times may be explained as formed from a troll exposed to sunlight. One of the most famous elements of Scandinavian folklore, trolls are depicted in a variety of media in modern popular culture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll

What a bummer - I thought I'd achieved and surpassed troll status and standing long ago.

If or as I'm not there yet and don't know how far I have to go or how long I've got to get to that Holy Grail of mine - troll status - I'd better get my finger/s out and really get moving.

So you will appreciate that I am really pleased you told me that.

[gwilson]

You keep posting references to simple words as if you think no one here has enough education to know these things already.

[oldtiffie]

Nope - its for my own benefit as I am old and keep forgetting.

[Boostinjdm]

Nope - its for my own benefit as I am old and keep forgetting.

Could you maybe just forget to log in from now on?