2020 Chuff thread - A new decade of chuffyness!

[BadMouth]

I patched the wall in the powder room today and installed the old towel ring hanging thing.  Drilled out the new holes and installed the hardware myself.  Took at least 20 minutes but came out great.  My kids will eventually rip it down again but this should give me a few months/years at least.  This is the 4th time I've done this and I was out of space in the drywall behind the mounting plate for new holes so I had to patch it.  For some reason, I'm quite pleased with being able to cross this off of the to do list LOL.

Next time use an oscilating tool to cut out a surrounding rectangle with the sides centered on the adjacent wall studs, then install a 2×6 behind where the towel rack will be using pocket screws.  New drywall will attach to wall studs and 2x6.  Towel ring screws will go into the 2x6.  Then you'll only have to replace the towel ring when they break it....but no drywall work.

[javeryh]

This is a great idea.  I’m actually close to the stud on one side so if (when) it breaks again I’ll add the plywood backer.  House maintenance never ends!

[Mike A]

If the towel ring keeps coming down then just get one that hangs over the door. Or one that hangs on the vanity door. They also make ones that mount on the door hinge.

[javeryh]

If the towel ring keeps coming down then just get one that hangs over the door. Or one that hangs on the vanity door. They also make ones that mount on the door hinge.

Eventually I want to redo this bathroom.  It was like this when we moved in and get this - the painter went around the mounting plate so if I take off the ring I would have to repaint the entire room!  There is no vanity.  Just one of those sinks with no cabinets underneath and a toilet.  It is very tiny.  Barely room to sit on the toilet and you can wash your hands while sitting there.

At some point in the very near future we are going to redo the kitchen and I’m going to make the powder room part of it... since it’s actually in the kitchen too.  I think it used to be a pantry that a previous owner converted.  Most houses on my street do not even have first floor bathrooms unless they have been renovated.

[Howard_Casto]

The drywall is your real problem.  I was raised in houses with wooden paneling.  You can beat that stuff with a hammer and it doesn't budge (I tried.)  I'm just saying... it's ugly but it's sturdy.   

[BadMouth]

Yesterday my dream of finding a bag of silver or gold while renovating came true.  Only 3 nickels, and only 2 1 contains silver.  I should have been more specific in my wishful thinking.

[Osirus23]

Drove half an hour to pick up a free 27" Trinitron from Craigslist. Got there and it's another damned 32" instead. 

[Titchgamer]

Not seen many goodies on here lately, Time to break that cycle!

I picked up a pgm mobo and a few carts i like, Also grabbed a fully adjustable mount for my old LG TV which I use on my supergun as the CRT took up to much room in my little cave.

[Titchgamer]

[wp34]

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[yotsuya]

Nice, Titch! That is a good thing! The one thing I miss is the arcade interaction with my friends, the repair parties, the tinkering. Your photos there bring a smile to my face!


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[Titchgamer]

Nice, Titch! That is a good thing! The one thing I miss is the arcade interaction with my friends, the repair parties, the tinkering. Your photos there bring a smile to my face!


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That makes me happy

But yeah I feel the same
Ready for some 4p action now though!!

[pbj]

I got the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine today.

I think it will be available to everyone soon.

Stay safe, we're close.

 

[Titchgamer]

I got the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine today.

I think it will be available to everyone soon.

Stay safe, we're close.

 

Nice one PBJ.

Could you confirm for any tin hats out there that you are not a Zombie or under the control of Bill Gates, The Illuminati or The Lizards?

Cheers

 

[Howard_Casto]

.....Bill Gates, The Illuminati or The Lizards?

You write that like they are separate things..... I think I've said too much...........chrzzzzz (radio silence)

[jennifer]

Hmmmm, curious...Election gets stolen, MikeA falls off the grid, PBJ goes under the needle for a microchip, seems awfully coincidental, Just saying.🤔

[yotsuya]

Hmmmm, curious...Election gets stolen, MikeA falls off the grid, PBJ goes under the needle for a microchip, seems awfully coincidental, Just saying.

Looks like someone’s been skateboarding without her helmet again....


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[BadMouth]

It's only fitting that the 2020 Chuff thread end up in Post Hell.

[yotsuya]

It's only fitting that the 2020 Chuff thread end up in Post Hell.

Ain’t that the truth brother


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[Howard_Casto]

All I know is I have to use three different methods to talk to everyone on this forum.  Everybody better make the ---fudgesicle--- up so I don't have to multi-task so much. 

This year sucks so I'm chuffed about it being almost over.  Less than a month folks.  Everybody better put Little Orphan Annie on a loop until then. 

[Titchgamer]

Sadly I dont think the start of 2021 is going to be much better
We have heard rumours that we will be going back into total lockdown from 4th Jan if not sooner.

Its been a undeniably ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- year but if its taught me anything its to appreciate the little things and make the most of it.

I am normally miserable as hell this time of year (seasonal depressive) but even I am feeling semi festive.

[Osirus23]

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[pbj]

I’ve had similar problems with a similar cable for original Xbox.  Psyclone?  Something like that.  It’s torn up a splitter and another time the cable snapped at the connector when I tugged on it.  I was able to snip off a couple inches and repair it, but damn.  Always twist those connectors when unplugging them and don’t yank on the wire.  The wire was surprisingly thin when I cut back all the insulation and the epoxy inside the connector housing.

[bobbyb13]

It is stupid how tight some of them are built.

Noalox helps make it not so ridiculous to remove them but go easy with it.

It's great stuff, but I have to use that spooge nearly everyday for work and it gets everywhere if you aren't careful with it.

[pbj]

Not sure if we’re allowed to be happy anymore but I did cheat my way through a couple of arcade games today.

First, I present Metal Slug.  I bought some ---smurfy--- bootleg MVS cart 20 years ago before I knew those were a thing, it locked up on level 2, my friend that came over to beat it back then has since passed away, and I’ve never touched it since.



And there we go. 

Next I present Thunder Fox, a weird mash up of Ninja Warriors, Shinobi, and a few others.



Game ends with just two shirtless bros drinking coffee…thinking about hard times…

Level 4 boss is much harder than the final boss.

 

[pbj]

---smurfy--- pic but am representing BYOAC in the UK today.

 

[RandyT]

---smurfy--- pic but am representing BYOAC in the UK today.

Eat a vending machine steak and kidney pie for me.  Used to love those things 

[pbj]

Slightly better pics, the world’s saddest arcade is in Girvan, Scotland.

[yotsuya]

This was from my trip last month to the Cotswolds. Even in ye olde merry England, there’s still MAMErs out there.






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[RandyT]

Slightly better pics, the world’s saddest arcade is in Girvan, Scotland.

Ooof.  More "Kiddy Casino" than arcade.  But I guess to be fair, they do call it an amusement center.

[MrThunderwing]

This is the sad state of what 'arcades' in the UK look like nowadays, a ton of redemption type machines and maybe 2 or 3 actual arcade machines.

[pbj]

About the same here but now we’ve got these “barcades” everywhere where you pay $10-20 to get in and it’s free play and overpriced beers.  Houston has a barcade with 200 games and it ran laps around our annual $45/day annual arcade show.  I would have never predicted the business model would work.

 

[MrThunderwing]

Barcades are starting to become more of a thing over here as well, the few I've seen are usually free entry, but you pay for the cabs as normal (some of which you can tell are not especially well optimised MAME cabinets). There's one called Four Quarters, where you exchange your hard earned pounds sterling for 25 cent pieces to play the games with. There was a pretty good one in the city centre, part of a chain called Kong's, that sadly went bust over Covid times and subsequently shutdown. There's a new one on the horizon though, which I think's going to be opening around June time, that's part of a pre-existing chain. If they get a few classic Sega arcade racers and lightgun games in there, I'll definitely pay them a visit for an overpriced drink or two.

Updated: Turn's out Kong's isn't shutdown after all, must've just been a temporary thing. One of my mate's is down at one in the fairly closeby city of Cardiff and he's just sent me a photo of one of their new additions (sadly not working though).