Lightning again, ffs!

[TG]

Third time in 2 months my house has had a nearby lightning strike.

This time it hit my electric fence. Huge shower of sparks, and it broke one of the strands.

I had unplugged my brand new cordless phone (to replace the previous one that was taken out by lightning) - but the base unit and the power brick got fried by a surge. Lost my server's monitor, and my wife's UPS is screwed.

*sigh*

I'm getting sick of this crap.

[gus]

You should move to Cape Town. Here lightning is so rare, they hide under the beds when it happens.

Sorry to hear about the damage.

[TG]

And to top it all off, my ADSL is dropping every 5 minutes. Grrr!

I think water got in somewhere it wasn't supposed to - like last time. Took ages to come right.

[TG]

Last time [-]I[/-] my house got struck, I accidentally left my cordless phone base unit plugged in, so that and the adsl filter got fried. Fortunately I had a spare filter.

This time, I was conscientious enough to unplug the phones as well as the ADSL line, but the base unit got fried by a power surge, and it caused the unplugged ADSL filter to fry as well.

I can't win!

*sigh*

Oh well. Off to buy a few 1000VA UPS's tomorrow.

[Singit696]

I remember those thunder storms...rather scary sometimes. Sorry to hear about your loss :(

[Alluvium]

yeah come to cape town. we dont have electrical storms... come to think of it we dont have electricity period :(

[rainy]

Well, if anyone needs it, I have a spare ADSL filter lying around here...

[Megnut3025]

Last time I got struck,

Hey Tg, You should really be careful how you word this because when I first read it I thought you had gotten struck...which would explain all of that strange behaviour we have experienced from you lately. ;)

Shame man, that really is a nasty one. Thankfully we do not experience much lightning down here in P.E. but I know that often when I phone my mom in Jhb, then she can't talk because of the bad storms.

Hope you get everything sorted out soon (& at half price!) so that we can have you back on the field :)

[stoke]

Lets see ... 20m lightning rod installed = around 3500 bucks.
Na ... far too simple a solution ...

[Ruslan74]

the last time i got en-lightened was in Moz... our flat got struck on the top of the building and lost my UPS... only the next morning did i go outside to see bricks missing from where it struck... barely 6 metres away from my room... eish.

[FeralBanana]

ouchies useless...

[Bass]

Ouch TG !!

Also had a modem & switch taken out by the very FIRST lightning strike of a storm - I always unplug the modem when lightning starts, so that was quite painful too.

Surely insurance covers lightning strikes though ?

[TG]

Discovered another casualty - my gate motor :(
It runs off battery - which went flat this morning finally - discovered that the charger had fried. Fortunately it was easy to replace, and not too expensive.

Yes, I could claim from insurance - but the hassle I can do without, and considering I would lose my bonus :p
(Yeah, I get paid not to claim)

[FeralBanana]

Thats almost like... blackmail...


I really don't want to grow up sometimes. :(

Wow... I think that's the first completely serious post ive ever made since i first arrived here...

[TG]

Trust me, enjoy your childhood. Being an adult has serious disadvantages. :p

But then again, there are nice perks. :D

[FeralBanana]

ag nee man tg! y'd you have to go roll my posts into one! now its NOT the first serious blah blah blah are you still reading this? You must be mad or a war geek... probably the former...

0_o

In conclusion: What a contradiction in terms.... :(

[Megnut3025]

I go with TG on that one....BTW what are the perks??

[FeralBanana]

yep, i was wondering that too..

[gus]

You should move to Cape Town. Here lightning is so rare, they hide under the beds when it happens.

Sorry to hear about the damage.

Please ignore this advice. My ADSL modem got bricked by lightning yesterday evening. :cry:

[TG]

Ahh bummer.
I feel for you, having suffered with damaged equipment recently.

[N3ddy]

I, blindly and optimistically, keep EVERYTHING running in storms! Hell, sitting around looking at all the lights flash inside and outside keeps us entertained! No damage yet. Proof that there's no justice in this world, eh? Power to the simpletons!

[SaintMg]

see you seem to have a good plan there neddy by running everything at once the power surge has more place to escape through hench lights not trip just dip

my therory any way PLEASE DONT TAKE AS GOSPIL

last thing i need is some law suit for say what i say best nothing

RN :spam: 65

[N3ddy]

So there is some merit to my idiocy? I'm just too dumb to switch stuff off....

[FeralBanana]

You mean lazy, don't you? No WarGeek's DUMB, just too lazy to be right often :p

[stoke]

April Dumberness ?
/me wonders about the "No WarGeek's DUMB" claim ...

[SaintMg]

done be poking at me again toke`e

impostrer i may be but dumb im not most folks have to beg me to shut up

others just shout &#@% 044

and there was that one time with the leather chains and wips.. (Damm she know how to get her own way)

[TG]

/me adjust his decoder ring...

Errmm... nope.

/me adjust his decoder ring again...

/me sticks his finger in his ear and twiddles it around *skwik skwik skwik*

/me adjust his decoder ring. Fsck.

/me gives up and tosses his decoder ring out the window.

[FeralBanana]

What, you don't have a babel fish?

[stoke]

What do you mean it's not sushi ?

[FeralBanana]

Um.. No. Sushi=Stokemeat? Doesn't it?

[stoke]

/me hands feral the offcut of stoke lying in the corner.
DOES THAT LOOK, TASTE, SMELL, or FEEL LIKE SUSHI ?
Stokemeat is definately not sushi.
Grrrrrrrrrrr

[FeralBanana]

/me sniffs...


Smells raw... :p

[stoke]

*resigned sigh*

[TG]

* stoke hands feral the offcut of stoke lying in the corner.
DOES THAT LOOK, TASTE, SMELL, or FEEL LIKE SUSHI ?
Stokemeat is definately not sushi.
Grrrrrrrrrrr

I thought it was boep fat.

Fat <> Meat||Fat != Meat (Depending on how you look at it)

[FeralBanana]

Tg, ENOUGH

..

of your complex formulae and silly bits!

[TG]

Fat not equals Meat OR Far not equals Meat (Depending on how you look at it)

Not equals is <> on some systems and != on others. :p

[gus]

What about:
.ne.
/==
=/=
not (Fat == Meat)
!(Fat == Meat)

:D OK, I will get back into my box.

[TG]

Eye iz not dat edumakated.

[stoke]

(fat == meat && 1 == 2)
P.S. I'm hurt that you'all think that me boep contains 0% fat :sad:.