Ant

Just turned my media player on to watch homeland, and realise theres no sound coming out the speakers. So i check a few other files on my nas and they aren't working either. But i can hear the clicks when a key is pressed

It worked yesterday pefectly

So i then connected direct to tv to check it was my av amplifier - Nope not that

Changed the hdmi cable - nope

tried the coaxial output incase it was the hdmi socket- nope not that

re-loaded the firmware - nope

So as my warranty is about to run out , send off a email to the company saying i would like a replacement as this is faulty.

Then i try one last thing the most simplest, i checked if the volume control was up on the unit itself and somebody (probably my daughter) had turned it that low it was on must


So i've had to send a sheepish email apologising





Reading this back i sound like jeff

alcazar

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Spent an hour or so trying to get the same answer as was given for an "A" level maths question.

I couldn't, only for part of it.

Tried every which way.

Eventually went to make a drink , and suddenly realised the answer was in radians.......D'Oh!

steve ex vauxhall

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Hell yeah !

We have a coal fire, and pretty much burn all our rubbish on it, everything that will burn anyway.

One day I'm bent over in front of it, trying to light some wet coal,and it's having none of it

My daughter comes down from upstairs with a bag of rubbish and says " mum says use this"

I would usually have a quick look in the bag to make sure, but on this occasion I didn't .

Got a cracking fire going pretty quick, but then.......

Massive bang, flash , eyebrows gone, hair off both arms gone, practically scalped and all the smoke alarms going off.

From that day forward I now always check for aerosols

davegtt

I usually say it as soon as I wake up after a session on the beer.

Kwik

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I recently wall-mounted my 42" 3dtv, so thought I'd be flash and drill out the wall for the cables. All trunked and plastered over I then wallpapered the wall to make it look as smooth as a baby's bum. And then I put the TV up on the bracket and stood back to admire my handy-work and noticed the power lead dangling from the TV.

Ant

Haha that's brilliant, I do part of this for a living and die if I did that

Kwik

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If you knew me personally you'd know this was just the sort of thing I do daily. I've been debating whether to take a picture of my still-purple big toe nail 2 months after trying to stop a cylinder head hitting the floor.

davegtt

Now thats funny, you were never going to stop that head from falling, what possessed you

scoobyvirgin

My best one recently was taking a car to the auctions. It had got an over heating problem and had previously been a cat c write off. Not the sort of thing i'd really want to sell from home.

The fan didn't kick in at all so I'd put a permanent feed in from the battery, only problem was, the battery was shagged and I needed fuel. I didn't want any unnecessary drain on the battery, so started the car without the fan wire connected. Once i'd fuelled up, I popped the bonnet on the garage forecourt and connected aforementioned fan wire.

No problem.... apart from all the sparks! I could have kicked myself for being such a numptie.

An0n0m0us

Yes, tonight after opening the front door and not standing with my feet clear of it and raking it right over the top of my toes. The kids had only just gone to bed so had to slap my hand over my mouth to prevent any expletives from escaping

mike74

Spent £500 on a new TV cos I thought my old one was f****d (the picture had gone all yellow/pink) then realised all that was wrong was the scart had come slightly loose!

Took the cover off an extractor fan and started poking round with a screw driver to see why it was making a buzzing noise... didn't occur to me turn the elec supply off first, with inevitable consequences.

TelBoy

When i walked up an aisle and said "i do".

windyboy

whilst I was removing the rear suspension from my car I spent ages with a ratchet strap and jack and after hours jacking up the suspension and tightening the strap on the spring and repeating the process several times I released that the suspension would come out if it wasn't compressed, i.e. normal. I also did other things whilst trying to get the first one out, needless to say the second one came out alot quicker than the first.

PS I now have a set of spring compressor's as I needed them to wind down the springs so that I could remove the top mounts.

Leslie

Happens all the time...I can't remember them all! Its the recovery from the situation which counts though!

Les

mattstant

Happens to me almost Every time i click on to a Ps Lewis thread

the shreksta

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in my younger days i had a rover 220gti with a massive ice install in it,i pulled up to a junction to turn left and there was this old coffin-dodger in front of me,i just knew he was gonna ages.i started to get really angry with him not pulling away and i started shouting (not that he could hear me because he was ancient and deaf and i had my music up really really loud) i then punched my steering wheel in a fit of rage,he pulled out in the end and all was good...............................or was it?

because i had my music up so loud i didnt realise that when my giant hand whacked the steering wheel i crushed the center part activating the horn to blast constantly

i wondered why people were giving me strange looks thru the town center

SirFozzalot

great thread. Glad I'm not the only one that does stupid stuff from time to time!