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paul and sam:
the kids of today are clever they were just cleaning the hard drive and erasing some of there work/games!!!!!!!!!  i know i will get my coat lol










and they say this is ment to be fun :(biglaugh):

bezzabsa:
well between our 4 we have had :-
toast in cd player AND video
£1.45 posted into the video!
jam in my cd drive (dont ask!)
best one was our eldest (shes 14 now) when she was 2 trying to fit a 7" single into a cd player....by biting the edges off till it fitted  :shock:
dont ya' just love 'em??

tenpolequint:
And I dont have any tooth paste - all eaten, shampoo - used to wash dollies, swarfeger - also used on dollies and all the paper in my printer has been signed, along with the walls and cabinets.

Evilgoat:
After several years of doing electronic repairs :

VCRs:

Biscuits, various toys, toast, bread (on assumption that the VCR will toast it, CDs (In cases too), Casettes, Beta/VR2000 tapes in VHS machines. The lot. Incidentally a jam sandwich will normally write off a VCR :) As will WD40 to stop squeaks. Yes people do just hod the flap open and squirt away. When the 33000 odd RPM drum touched your nice thin tape and the head's covered in jam it does some wicked things :) An E240 tape ca actually be unraveled before you realise.

CD Plarers:
'skinned' 5.25" floppies, CDs with bits missing, coasters, trimmed 45's and ocasionally a CD explodes, which can be spectacular.

I wont even go into the things I'ce seen stuffed in PCs :)

Range Rover Blues:
Ok here's scary, anyone into Hi-Fi in a big way?  Remember the 4mm banana plug that was becoming the standard speaker connection.  Do you know why it was banned by the EU?   Someone's kiddie wanted to listen to music so plugged the speaker into, you guessed it, the MAINS.  Nearly got killed by the voice coil as it flew out of the cabinet.

So what did the EU ban? not the socket, oh no, the plug.  Whatever next, Knitting now elegal? can't have a compass anymore?  pen's/pencils? when will they learn?

Best bit is there is now an EN (European Norm) standard for electrical conncetion.  This will become the Europe wide standard so had to be compatible with either ours, the French, the German or so difficult it could not be confused with any of them.  They rejected ours because it was 'over engineered' ie TOO SAFE.

For pity's sake, we let ourselves be rule by people who think a £0.60 plug from Wilco is too safe and want something cheaper :(bigangry):

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