TheEmpireStrikesDak

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • The guys at work used to give me energy drinks, strong coffee and caffeine gels in the hope of making me buzz.

    I don’t know if I’ve got a natural tolerance, or maybe because I eat a lot of dark chocolate I’ve built up a resistance. Caffeine doesn’t do anything to me.

    Also apparently it’s not good to down a whole mug of coffee in one go. They used to find it funny when I did that. I don’t like coffee but I’ll drink it if you give it to me.







  • Thanks. This is for my phone. It’s meant to have 14GB free, but files are corrupting and it’s now acting read only on both the phone and PC. Similar thing happened with the first card (got from a registered business seller on eBay, the postie delivered it to someone else entirely so I got a replacement, then the person got back from holiday and gave me the card so I had 2).

    I have h2testw and I kind of remember using it with the first card after it corrupted but I can’t remember if it took too long or what. I bought this card in like 2022.

    Apparently Kingston cards are meant to have a hologram on the back and neither of mine did.

    So I’m assuming it’s fake

    Also I’ve heard that Amazon dumps all their stock in the same bins as “fulfilled by Amazon” third party stock, so you never know if you get official stock or fakes.

    I’ve had to end my boycott of Argos (they sold me a faulty tablet in 2017, refused to refund it, sent it for repair and I never saw it again) in order to maintain my boycott of amazon (into my 6th year!).

    Thanks for the info, I’ll order the card :)

    Edit: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/2001447?clickSR=slp%3Aterm%3Asandisk+wd%3A9%3A92%3A1

    This is what I’m thinking of getting. It’s for photos and mp3s on my phone.




  • That robin was supertame. He and his mate just kept having brood after brood because they knew all he had to do was look at me with his big eyes and I’d buy another kilo of worms. He used to chase his juveniles and even his mate away sometimes, he was a little savage. He got a respiratory illness and I didn’t know you could take wild birds to the vet.

    I have the photos on my PC, for some reason the sd card on my phone always corrupts and so did the replacement, so I don’t know if I got two fake cards or if it’s just an android thing. I don’t have that issue on my old android 6 tablet or my old android 2 phone 🤷🏽‍♀



  • Back when I was a kid, we had all these on our street except bullfinch, woodpecker and goldcrest.

    Over the years, all the lawns have been turned to patios, nearly all the trees have been cut down and with all the cats, I can’t even feed what few birds we have left. So I don’t think I’ve seen any birds this week :( I hear a few great tits churring and a couple of weeks ago there was a blackbird whose song sounded similar to the one of the tame one I used to have. He was killed by a psycho cat. His song had been passed down the generations on my street, it was the same song from when I was a kid. And it ended when that cat got him 😡

    I used to have a tame robin and great tit.

    Edit: looks like my SD card is corrupted again :(