[Closed] Christ - I need to get out more...

Chilled beer?

Fags?

Condoms?

Whole live crabs?

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No it's true! Look!

You're making an awful lot of assumptions here Derek. Perhaps they'll throw a real curve-ball at you and replace the drinks vending machine with one that spits out novelty, luminous, flavoured condoms and those viagra-esque tablets

They might be trying to say that you do indeed need to get out more, so they're livening up your lunchtimes

It'll be the same stuff in it, just more expensive
Should of emptied the old one while it was cheap(er).........

Chilled beer?

Fags?

Condoms?

Whole live crabs?

I'd like to see a live crab with a beer in one claw a fag in the other and a condom on his little crab knob.

One of the coffee machines back at college used to dispense ingredients one at a time; so if you got orangeade (say), it'd pour orange concentrate, then the water, then highly carbonated water.

Being bored college students, this led to some mix & match experimentation as we swapped out cups halfway through dispensing cycles. I can therefore confirm that teacoffee is rank, orange and blackcurrent is really nice, but the big surprise was that fizzy chicken soup was lovely.

You swapped OUT the cups?

What was the colourway of the fizzy chicken soup? 🙂

perhaps it will merely vend your fortune
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or a car?
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I like this one.

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DISAPPOINTED.

It's badged up "BUNZL" and looks to be circa 1998.

There are various coffee/chocco fusions, SOUP (flavour not stated), the usual tea and coffee and sparkling lemon or orange.

We always get crap vending machines at our place - but they are subsidised and a brew costs just 10p - the same price as when I joined the company in 1989!

The care company I work for has a small fleet of Smart Cars for use by the staff for transporting clients.

Only, you can't get a wheelchair in a standard Smart...........

You couldn't make it up, honestly.

Ah, the good old BUNZL. Me and the BUNZL have had a lot of great times together.

Drinking tea, brewing tea, exchanging money, the list is endless. Possibly.

[i]one that spits out novelty, luminous, flavoured condoms and those viagra-esque tablets[/i]

And where could I find one of these machines?

I've worked at one site in Germany that had beer dispensing vending machines.

I've just had a nosey at it. It looks like a cross between a Cylon and a fridge freezer.

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Ours is the one on the right.

I want one of these in the front room

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Much more interesting than a coffee table

I'd like to see vending machines at trail centres. Chains, lube, tyres, tubes, patches, gels, energy bars, 29er self help pamphlets and the like.

Would Duncan Bannatyne go for d'you reckon?

The Barclays office (in Madrid) I did some IT work in a couple of years back had beer in the vending machines.

They have some of those shoe vending machines in Newcastle.

Ideal for the "ladies" who have gone out in killer heels, but discovered they can't walk home in them after a few too many Bacardi Breezers.

Aaaah, that takes me back.

We had one of those vending machines, DS, at my last workplace.

It whirrs & a cup drops, but occasionally no cup comes out; invariably when a visitor is making a selection. It would make a different whirring sound when 'no cup' and those in the canteen with their finger on the pulse would whirl round and shout 'CUPPPP', just as the machine began to splash hot beverage all over the place. Sometimes the cup would jam which would then act as a reflector for the hot beverage which would then be fired all over the place......

Free vend too! Aaaaaaah, did I mention those were the days........?

Wanders off with tear in the eye.......

You swapped OUT the cups?

I knew I'd get pulled up for that.

"Swapped out" implies 'I replaced one of these with another one,' as opposed to "swapped" which would imply 'with something else'.

Eg,

"I swapped out the cups" - I exchanged a cup for another cup.
"I swapped the cups" - what did I get for them?

Nah, you've just been reading too much Pinkbike.

What did you get for them?

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yossarian - Member

I'd like to see vending machines at trail centres. Chains, lube, tyres, tubes, patches, gels, energy bars, 29er self help pamphlets and the like.

Would Duncan Bannatyne go for d'you reckon?

already exist

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yossarian - Member

I'd like to see vending machines at trail centres. Chains, lube, tyres, tubes, patches, gels, energy bars, 29er self help pamphlets and the like.

Would Duncan Bannatyne go for d'you reckon?

already exist

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Cougar, not in this country it bloody doesn't!

Swap 'out' may be acceptable in Power Cable, Nebraska when discussing truck gearboxes, but we've managed perfectly well with 'swap' for many years here.
You may add 'over or 'round', but 'out' suggests you secretly go line dancing, chew tobacco or fancy Sara Palin.

Unless you really are American of course, in which case you have my deepest sympathy. 😉

It's used extensively in IT when referring to hardware replacement, and also when talking about memory management (where it indicates direction; data is swapped in and swapped out, merely saying that the data is 'swapped' would be nonsensical).

So what's wrong with 'replace' or 'swap over'?

Just an unecessary Americanism, the fact that it's jargon just makes it worse.

When you "swap over" memory then, is that going into the page file or out of it?

It's a technical term, you might as well argue against computer "program" and floppy "disk". It's just kinda encroached into my language. Deal with it.

:-p

It's used extensively in IT when referring to hardware replacement

Ah, right; so it's geek speak then. 😆

Yeah, you wouldn't understand.

I worked at a place that had a machine that dispensed lemon and lime squash. They kept the concentrate in a 5l container down the side of the machine and for ages I thought it was cleaning fluid, it was that lurid and green.

isn't there a vending machine at one of the services on the M62 that vends pron mags??

btw I ain't googling for proof, heard it from a fellow scuba diver who drove lorries for tesco (overnight deliveries of toilet rolls ironically)

oh yeah rusty, here's another use of your favourite bon mot

http://on-one.co.uk/i/q/FROOIN26V3/on-one-inbred-swap-out-frame

My friend. who's a not infrequent visitor to Japan, said he encountered a vending machine that dispensed worn, un-washed ladies glamour knickers.

Yeah, your 'friend', eh? Right, ok, sure.... 🙄

You dirty bastid. 😡

No need for that at all. Sick. 😐

WTF are "glamour" kecks?

No need for that at all. Sick

Yeah it is a strange. I thought he was pulling my plonker, but no, he was quite serious.

I'll give you a clue, not this kind
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😯

They can be a bit odd, can the Japanese sometimes...

(Deletes Google search history for fear the FBI will be kicking the door in...)

Back one?

When you "swap over" memory then, is that going into the page file or out of it?

I have no idea what you're talking about. 🙂

It's a technical term, you might as well argue against computer "program" and floppy "disk". It's just kinda encroached into my language. Deal with it.

Ed, in the On One sense, surely it's just a contracton of 'swappable dropout', therefore acceptable.