Malc Seventyfour

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I have no idea what you’re talking about.

Page 1 of the Grolier/Mindflight Software Index, listing 24 educational titles.
A 5-1/4” floppy disc version of The Story of Miss Mouse by Grolier/Mindflight Software.
Carter, Bell and Sarge from Nightingales.
A screenshot showing the air quality health index at eleven. Out of ten. To be fair, it *is* pretty smoky here.
The weather forecast for the next couple of days in the Thunder Bay area, with the “highlight” being Monday, where the daytime high will be 35 degrees Celsius (feeling like 41 with the humidity) and the night time low will be 25. Never mind. In six months time it’ll the same temperatures, but with a minus in front of them.
NuCommodore not waving, but drowning.
An article from the BBC website with the title “Lack of World Cup segregation a risk - fans’ chief” along with a picture of Japanese and Dutch fans thoroughly enjoying themselves.
The Burger King Logo, but instead of the usual bollocks it says “Sir! Are you absolutely sure?” between the top and bottom buns and then “It does mean changing the bulb” as the tag-line underneath. This may or may not be a Red Dwarf reference. I could tell you, but then my collection of singing potatoes would have to kill you.
A rightfully angry feline, delivering swift, bitey justice to his idiot human pet because the idiot human DOES NOT WANT SNUGGLES at this exact point in time. I mean, what the hell is up with that?! Stupid human.
A cunt, several yesterdays ago.
A snowy back garden. Because I live in fucking Lapland, apparently.
The Dune poster, with the text reading “There’s nobody here but us chickens”. Which is from the cult (and very surreal) 1990’s British sitcom “Nightingales”.
A picture of an old nonce, looking alarmingly like Shaun Ryder of the Happy Mondays.
Chris Barrie as Arnold J Rimmer (BSC, SSC)
Carter, Bell & Sarge, from surreal Channel 4 comedy Nightingales, looking suitably confused as to why they’re visiting this particular berk.
A slow motion shot of a waterfall (Kakabeka Falls, just outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario).
The “End Screen” of Dick Tracy on the ZX Spectrum is literally the word “Congratulations” flashed up on the screen. The game then freezes, meaning you would have to reset your machine and reload it to be able to play it again. You wouldn’t want to play it again.
Chase HQ II on the ZX Spectrum, showing your car (which looks crap), another car in the middle distance (which looks crap), some lamp-posts (which look crap), and some mountains in the distance (which look crap). Not pictured is the music, which is crap.
The loading screen of Chase HQ II on the ZX Spectrum. It… doesn’t look very nice.
A series of pictures showing what you can apparently do with your new vacuum sealer, including dry, moist, sous vide, camping, beloved pets and, er, “Rodsters”.
Kenny Dalglish Soccer Match on the ZX Spectrum, with the goalkeeper ready to take a goal kick. If you get a goal kick you can just leave your keeper standing there without taking it until the match ends. Which is far more entertaining than playing the damn game.
Dog didn’t eat his breakfast this morning, so we put the bowl downstairs so the cat can’t get to it. Little fat prick has been camping beside the door, waiting to sneak through when someone comes in. Finally managed it when my daughter came home from school. Ate half of a pretty big bowl of food before I realised he was missing. Git.
My therapist is Rab C Nesbitt. “It’s all pish!”
Cold. It’s cold.
Page 1 of the software index, showing a list of C64 and Apple II educational titles from Grolier and Mindflight.
Another pair of disks, showing the titles “The Story of Miss Mouse” and “Rhyme Land”.
Title page of the instructions, showing the Grolier & Mindflight logos.
About a million consoles and computers on display that maybe one day I’ll have set up properly.
Yes, I’m an idiot.
The top one is the original broken one. The bottom one has now developed the exact same fault (I think) as the top one. Yes, I suck at this.
And yes, the big capacitor is a hopeless bodge because the original axial was leaking and I didn’t have a proper replacement.