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stui magpie 
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| Tannin wrote: | | By the way, I regularly use a different small mower to take care of a steep bank. It's quite difficult, and every now and then I lose control (no, not that sort of control, David!) and do a barrel roll down the hill. It hates being upside down! Blue smoke everybloodywhere! |
That could be a very interesting way to do some manscaping if you're not very careful. 
Barrel rolling downhill with a lawnmower could result in an unintended brazilian or circumcision or worse.
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Why does my Foxtel keep effing up?
I've had it for about a month and have had to reboot it 2 twice.
2 daze ago it froze on 1 station and no amount of restarts could get it to respond.
Now when I try powering it down and back up I'm getting absolutely nothing.
I've looked on the Foxtel troubleshooting site and isn't telling me what to do (apart from replacing the batteries and checking my connection.
If anyone out there has had similar problems and has some advice I'd love to hear it! |
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Wokko 
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| 3.14159 wrote: | Why does my Foxtel keep effing up?
I've had it for about a month and have had to reboot it 2 twice.
2 daze ago it froze on 1 station and no amount of restarts could get it to respond.
Now when I try powering it down and back up I'm getting absolutely nothing.
I've looked on the Foxtel troubleshooting site and isn't telling me what to do (apart from replacing the batteries and checking my connection.
If anyone out there has had similar problems and has some advice I'd love to hear it! |
Rupert's too busy with Jerry Hall to care about his business right now.  |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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| 3.14159 wrote: | Why does my Foxtel keep effing up?
I've had it for about a month and have had to reboot it 2 twice.
2 daze ago it froze on 1 station and no amount of restarts could get it to respond.
Now when I try powering it down and back up I'm getting absolutely nothing.
I've looked on the Foxtel troubleshooting site and isn't telling me what to do (apart from replacing the batteries and checking my connection.
If anyone out there has had similar problems and has some advice I'd love to hear it! |
You got cable or satellite dish?
If dish, check where it's pointing and make sure no trees in the road, also check all the connections.
If all looks good, check here http://servicestatus.telstra.com/ to see if there's an outage. Rain can sometimes mess things up.
Other thing, you could just have a dodgy box and need a replacement.
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Tannin 
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Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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Sorry 3, no idea at all about Foxtel. I don't even have a normal TV.
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3.14159
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| stui magpie wrote: |
You got cable or satellite dish?
If dish, check where it's pointing and make sure no trees in the road, also check all the connections.
If all looks good, check here http://servicestatus.telstra.com/ to see if there's an outage. Rain can sometimes mess things up.
Other thing, you could just have a dodgy box and need a replacement. |
I had a new satellite dish and new box put in a few weeks ago, no severe storms, connection seems fine but the screen is frozen.
Did several full system restarts but it's just gotten worse.
On the trouble shoot page it tell you everything except how to fix a no responsive screen.
My guess is the remote isn't functioning properly/barely at all or the box is rooted.
| Fuxall wrote: | | Weve noticed some Foxtel iQ3s snuck through our system without the latest software on it and this could be causing you some technical issues |
I should have read the fine print.
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stui magpie
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Why are crotch coverers in their various incarnations and styles referred to as a plural?
If you go shopping you buy a pair of:
Pants
Jeans
Trousers
Shorts
Underpants
Jocks
Briefs
Boxers
etc
But you only get one clothing item. How the **** is it a pair? And why?
A pair of socks you get 2, after the washing machine does it's thang, you'll have 1 sock.
A pair of gloves you get 2, each one called a glove.
If it's somehow related to having 2 legs, you don't get a pair of shirts, jumpers, jackets etc, you get one and it has 2 bloody arms in it.
OK, so you get a pair of spectacles or glasses but you can buy single ones, called a monocle. A pair of binoculars are 2 small telescopes bolted together, I get that.
But WTF would a "pant" be? One leg and half your crotch covered?
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Skids 
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Maybe it's because of what they carry? A pair of balls ?
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luvdids 
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Well that can't be it, I wear pants, jeans, underpants, shorts etc and I aint carrying any balls in them!  |
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David 
I dare you to try
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Location: Andromeda
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| stui magpie wrote: | Why are crotch coverers in their various incarnations and styles referred to as a plural?
If you go shopping you buy a pair of:
Pants
Jeans
Trousers
Shorts
Underpants
Jocks
Briefs
Boxers
etc
But you only get one clothing item. How the **** is it a pair? And why?
A pair of socks you get 2, after the washing machine does it's thang, you'll have 1 sock.
A pair of gloves you get 2, each one called a glove.
If it's somehow related to having 2 legs, you don't get a pair of shirts, jumpers, jackets etc, you get one and it has 2 bloody arms in it.
OK, so you get a pair of spectacles or glasses but you can buy single ones, called a monocle. A pair of binoculars are 2 small telescopes bolted together, I get that.
But WTF would a "pant" be? One leg and half your crotch covered? |
According to the great mind of Dr. Google, 'pant' is Welsh for 'hollow' (as in the noun sense of the word). I guess it makes sense then that 'pants' is referring to a pair of hollow sections. 
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watt price tully 
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| stui magpie wrote: | Why are crotch coverers in their various incarnations and styles referred to as a plural?
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Is it related to the Buckley's, the Hirds and the Voss's?
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Tannin
Can't remember
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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- Pants: there are two of them, one on each leg
- Jeans: there are two of them, one on each leg
- Trousers: there are two of them, one on each leg
- Shorts: there are two of them, one on each leg
- Underpants: they go under your pants
- Jocks: back-formation from shorts and pants? Nothing else makes sense, and even this explanation doesn't make a lot of .... sorry ... doesn't make a lot of sen. To make sense you need two.
- Briefs: ^ see above
- Boxers: ^ see above
PS: Nicely done WPT
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3.14159
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Is anything worn under Scotsman's kilt?
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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3.14159
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It wasn't meant to be but sure...why not?
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