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I blame ASDA* for having an "end of range clearance" offer on Taylors Hot Lava Java in bean form. I bought quite a few packets - this was before CORVID-19 and stockpiling - but my old hand grinder really was never up to grinding as fine as you need for Espresso, so the Espresso machine has sat neglected in a corner of the kitchen for seven years.
Until I bought a new electric grinder and found it has several Espresso settings ... and a thorough clean, purge, and test later - BOOM - fresh ground beans into fresh made Espresso, the way it should be.
I'd forgotten how good it could be ... and how useful a wake up device it is ... 
* For your colonial cousins, think Walmart - they own ASDA, but it's nowhere near as naff
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OriginalGriff wrote: I bought quite a few packets - this was before CORVID-19
now's the time to put it into small baggies and get your listing ready.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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ASDA part of the WalMart family!
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But without the Walmart family people[^] 
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Hmmm, point, mind you the local ASDA does have it share of 'What, why, nevermind'!! 
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Corvid-19? How dare you impugn my crow, raven and jay friends.
Real programmers use butterflies
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OriginalGriff wrote: got back into Espresso
But the cups are so small - how do you fit?
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Hi All,
I am trying to work from home but have an issue with MS Teams, if I use it over a VPN to my Work machine it work fine. However voice calls don't, I need to attend a voice meeting over Teams this Tuesday. If I try to install Teams on my Desktop I get the error code 135011 and a Contact the Administrator. This I do and after being fobbed off once with a 'Well you have gone outside your licence' phone again get someone else who is slightly more helpful and has escalated it to second line and they will contact you by the end of the day, they didn't. I am now looking to try to install it on a old Win 7 Box I have.
HELP!
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is your teams under O365 business subscription?
ms themselves are pretty good with support for the business subs.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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I think it is, the issue we no longer maintain the machines that is done by a third party who we have to talk to for all these type of issues, who fobbed me off!
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ahh, the "value add" of a 3rd party provider.
quick google pointed me at: Connection issues in sign-in after update to Office 2016 build 16.0.7967 - Office 365 | Microsoft Docs[^]
Under the Symptom 2 header:
Description: AADSTS70002: Error validating credentials. AADSTS135011: Device used during the authentication is disabled.
perhaps can check event logs if that's the issue and pass that on to the 3p-support (basically: doing most of the leg work for their lazy asses then leaving them no option but to fix it)
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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Country music star Kenny Rogers dies - BBC News[^]
Country (or was it western, I can never tell the difference) music was never my "thing" - but he had a good gravelly voice. RIP: ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Country (or was it western, I can never tell the difference)
We got both kinds, we got country and western! - YouTube[^]
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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Quote: 2000 bucks and it's yours. You can take it home with you. As a matter of fact, I'll throw in the black keys for free.
Good film!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Good film!
Awful sequel!
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Aren't they all?
I'd be hard pressed to think of half a dozen sequels that were as good as the original, much less better. I think it's the way Holywood works: the sequel must be the same as the original, but with more explosions. For number three they can get creative, because two flopped so badly and they want the franchise to continue ...
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well star trek has a few "better" sequels
then again with later release shows changing the past, past-future, future-past ... are they really sequels? requels? unquels? un-de-se-re-quels? ...
(terminator likewise but T1 definitely had the best lines.)
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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OriginalGriff wrote: I'd be hard pressed to think of half a dozen sequels that were as good as the original, much less better.
Put Wrath of Khan on your list (but only because the first Star Trek movie was so dire).
The second Paddington movie was a brilliantly crafted piece of work, too.
An even smaller list would be of movies that are better than the books they're based on.
The only one I can think of is Logan's Run. It's not a brilliant movie, by any reasonable standards, but a Hell of a lot better than the godawful book.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: An even smaller list would be of movies that are better than the books they're based on.
"Blade runner" / "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" is one of 'em.
"Ender's Game" definitely in the poo pile.
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Ender's Game" definitely in the poo pile.
Isn't that mostly the curse of high expectations?
The movie wasn't bad actually, it was just that the book was so much better.
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I think the problem was that the movie was just too short - they had to cut out 2/3rds of the book to fit it in, and what was left didn't make any sense.
If they'd done it as a "The Expanse" style hour-long-per-episode TV series, it could have been brilliant.
But most movies are like that - a short story spread over 2 hours. 
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The same as with the ring trilogy.
Way to short I say, way to long my wife says. 
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Aliens. It is also a vastly different movie than Alien - which I view as more of a space based slasher movie.
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DRHuff wrote: Aliens. It is also a vastly different movie than Alien
Indeed.
I allowed my young daughter to watch Aliens, because it's just a monster/action movie, and kids live monster/action stories.
Alien, however, wasn't on the cards until she was a lot older.
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My folks were country fans and never missed an opportunity it seems to crank up the volume whenever they heard Kenny Rogers on the radio. As a kid, I hated it.
But as an adult, I've grown to appreciate what he did. The Gambler is such a catchy classic.
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