I'm currently suffering from "enforced family time" and I'm itching to do something else, anything else.
Anyone else have a spouse who insists that Christmas should be about family time, when said family would rather be doing their own thing (Xbox, work, etc) instead of watching crappy mind-numbing films and pretending we actually like one anothers company? :laugh:
BAH HUMBUG!!!
Nope! Very early on I demonstrated what would happen if I was forced to integrate with normal people, it's never been asked of me again.
Where is your little hubsan Steve I been trying to land close to visitors and chasing the budgie it fills in the time lol ;)
dizzy ;)
I'm with you steve... my missus insists that I come in from tinkering in the garage and that my Daughter come down from watching minecraft videos on her iPad, and all sit in the living room to watch a crappy "Christmas" movie...... all the time we're both sitting there bored crapless and she's still on her iPhone complaining about what someone else has put on facebook
Quote from: BlueFlyer on December 28, 2015, 07:29:20 PM
...watching minecraft videos on her iPad
Helllooooooo! And welcome to Stampy's lovely world.
Quote from: iPeel on December 28, 2015, 07:33:33 PM
Helllooooooo! And welcome to Stampy's lovely world.
Haha, how did you guess? :)
This is why she got a new pair of headphones for Christmas ;)
I suddenly feel so much better! :D I'm not alone!
Lol I have suffered the same fate so far. Its OK i guess because I should spend more family time, and my FPV MOJO has taken a massive battering. I do though know that by Jan 2nd its back to normal running and countless hours in the man cave topped with selfish amounts of time used up flying are coming soon :)
I did some soldering using some real resin based Solder....Instead of that crappy Health And Safety solder that provides a dry joint every time.....
Ah, I feel so much better now.....I love being a renegade.....are you listening EU..?.....You overpaid stuffed shirts.
:P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :flagUJ:
:vulture:
I had to endure nearly 3 hours of shrek the musical in the Cardiff millennium centre, I nearly pulled out my eyeballs
Spent the afternoon hooning around FPV on a 300 Watt Axion Laser Arrow in the wind :)
Just about 100 MPH groundspeed downwind (T.W.O. in a gentle dive) ;)
Oh the joys of being single :D
Shrek the musical?
It's like they make things up on purpose to piss people off at Christmas!
Quote from: iPeel on December 28, 2015, 07:33:33 PM
Helllooooooo! And welcome to Stampy's lovely world.
Not that chuffing idiot. My lad whatches him. That inane laughter makes me want to shoot him with a bullet with
jagged edges, but at least he doesn't swear.
My boy started watching someone called Paul Sholes(?) jnr who is quiet instructive on the Minecraft front.
Cheers, Mark
Edited for speeling.
Youtube channels where there aren't any swearing are my holy grail, I'd love to be able to watch stuff in the living room with the kids around but without TV-style watershed stuff you just never know.
Just in case you didn't hate him enough already:
(http://www.peely.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Screen-Shot-2015-12-28-at-23.04.27.png)
http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/stampylonghead (http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/stampylonghead)
No it's ok I hate him enough thanks.
Well my little one is into:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ldshadowlady (https://www.youtube.com/user/ldshadowlady)
https://www.youtube.com/user/PopularMMOs (https://www.youtube.com/user/PopularMMOs)
https://www.youtube.com/user/GamingWithJen (https://www.youtube.com/user/GamingWithJen)
https://www.youtube.com/user/iHasCupquake (https://www.youtube.com/user/iHasCupquake)
no swears :)
Quote from: iPeel on December 28, 2015, 11:47:32 PM
Just in case you didn't hate him enough already:
http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/stampylonghead (http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/stampylonghead)
I have not been acquainted with this Stampy character, but judging by the responses I think that will be a link I will not be clicking on :)
to be fair, it's actually quite entertaining... if you like that kind of thing
Quote from: Coyote on December 29, 2015, 12:11:52 AM
I have not been acquainted with this Stampy but judging the responses to the name I think that will be a link I will not be clicking on :)
Lol, that's not a link to Stampy, it's a link to a site that estimates his YouTube earnings!
Not fall for it Neil :)
! No longer available (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VH-tJSpkjA#)
That about sums it up...
Steve: you're obviously not alone! I for one have just escaped to the mancave on the premise that "I have a lot of wires to sort out". You know, that box of wires that grows ever larger, more tangled, and is a welcome respite from simply too much "family time".
Quote from: BlueFlyer on December 28, 2015, 07:29:20 PM
I'm with you steve... my missus insists that I come in from tinkering in the garage and that my Daughter come down from watching minecraft videos on her iPad, and all sit in the living room to watch a crappy "Christmas" movie...... all the time we're both sitting there bored crapless and she's still on her iPhone complaining about what someone else has put on facebook
Sorry but this made me laugh .. we're not on Facebook at all any more, but I still remember it well.
Ban that crap ASAP!
I'm glad mine are grown up and I have mucho tinker time available. For all that have young kids, it does get easier !!
Quote from: Steve W on December 29, 2015, 10:23:11 PM
Sorry but this made me laugh .. we're not on Facebook at all any more, but I still remember it well.
Ban that crap ASAP!
I'm not on facebook anymore either... I binned it just before Christmas.
There was no way I was going to torture myself with pictures of people's christmas dinner clogging up my newsfeed lol
Quote from: English Turbines on December 28, 2015, 08:38:29 PM
I did some soldering using some real resin based Solder....Instead of that crappy Health And Safety solder that provides a dry joint every time.....
Ah, I feel so much better now.....I love being a renegade.....are you listening EU..?.....You overpaid stuffed shirts.
:P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :flagUJ:
:vulture:
Just the smell of that resin takes me back 50 odd years to Sunday afternoons tinkering with my dad in the shed! He was in the REME during ww2 and was stationed at Bletchley Park as an electrical engineer. So I guess it's in the genes
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Yes, proper lead based ersin solder....Not that crap they use now...bright silver joints, not grey....lol....Its ok, as long as your not using it on a daily basis...
You can still get it from RS believe it or not....In a plain brown wrapper from under the counter...:)
:vulture:
My Solder (http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/solders/0556503/)
For use on battery connectors. High melting point so very safe
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Bored.. with so many odds and sods kicking around i dug out enough bits to put together a "test bed" for random cams, Vtx etc etc. Thought I'd make it a plug and play type effort. I'm going to use the Tarot FC and OSD so i get to test it before putting it in the "Big Fricken X8" copter.
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b287/ukbeast/20160108_161929_zps6fjdlp17.jpg)
yep ... a good old 450 Flame Wheel ressurected like a phoenix from a set of burning underpants. All the bits were in random drawers of the man cave ;D
So .... 1.2ghz stanby for range testing, Taranis 8dbi Antenna mod, standby for more range testing..... In fact, amazing what you dig around and find when bored.... :D
You know what, I bet it flies better than anything else you own
QuoteYou know what, I bet it flies better than anything else you own
No other 450 sized quad has ever beaten my old 450 Flame wheel records so you're probably right there steve. When i upgraded to a tbs disco, after 2 months i threw the disco frame in the bin, ended up digging it out of a skip for ROVguy many moons ago.
I think if i stick a 4s 5000 that i normally lob in the Disco Pro, and a 1.2 Vtx I'll be laughing.