I’d be removing the hard drive and smacking it with a sledgehammer. Recycle the remainder.
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I have to ask....... Would you put it on the bin for the dustmen once it was smashed up?
I soak it in bleach and water for a few days and then bin itI have to ask....... Would you put it on the bin for the dustmen once it was smashed up?
I give mine to a trusted business, a friend of mine knows someone who recycles them, he destroys the harddrive which has the data then recycles or reuses what he can
If it's a good reputation company then they shouldn't access your data
That's just it, I wouldn't trust anyone. I've decided to destroy the hard drive and recycle the computers without it
Saw the hard drive in two with an angle grinder and then dump it in the Thames. It worked for News International when the Leveson Enquiry asked them to submit their data.
Mould question. My neighbour has just moved in and, being young and very naieve has no idea about bills or anything really. They don’t understand that the bills will add at least £300 a month to their rent which went up by £150 a month before they moved in. The heater only works over night. WiFi isn’t provided etc.
So their flat has a massive black mold problem (it can be seen other side of street) - last tenant put in hospital due to it sort of problem. Before they showed people around the mouldy curtains were replaced and the place bleached within a inch of its life, furniture binned and everything painted (two weeks ago) yet already the shadow of black mould can be seen..
They’ve blocked the air vents and the landlords thick heavy duty curtains means theres no air flow, which seems to me to be a big problem (well apart from the single glazing kitchen windows, the ill fitting main window 3 inch gap between window and window ledge..) with mould but maybe I’m wrong? They’ve really taken advantage, lying about the cost of bills. He’s has signed to take responsibility of the gardens as well..
So their flat has a massive black mold problem (it can be seen other side of street) - last tenant put in hospital due to it sort of problem. Before they showed people around the mouldy curtains were replaced and the place bleached within a inch of its life, furniture binned and everything painted (two weeks ago) yet already the shadow of black mould can be seen..
They’ve blocked the air vents and the landlords thick heavy duty curtains means theres no air flow, which seems to me to be a big problem (well apart from the single glazing kitchen windows, the ill fitting main window 3 inch gap between window and window ledge..) with mould but maybe I’m wrong? They’ve really taken advantage, lying about the cost of bills. He’s has signed to take responsibility of the gardens as well..
If I were your neighbour I would be taking it up with the Landlord (or if it was rented through an agent, contact them). They should be able to get someone in to look at ways of resolving the damp problem. Bleaching it won't fix it, it will only temporarily get rid of it. Obviously your neighbour needs to ventilate the place but really they should be taking it up with the Landlord.
Would you have gravy with a chicken and leek pie?
The landlord (who owns agency) won’t do anything. They didn’t after the last tenant ended up in hospital just said she must have been drying clothes in there and took money from deposit to ‘fix it’
Depends on my mood; is the pie a creamy one? If so, then no
I have gravy with anything I can
when I moved up north I said as a joke to my new boss I'd only moved for the gravy, and they printed that quote alongside my photo on the global company website 
In that case I'd be looking for another property.The landlord (who owns agency) won’t do anything. They didn’t after the last tenant ended up in hospital just said she must have been drying clothes in there and took money from deposit to ‘fix it’
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/h...your-tenancy/complaining-about-your-landlord/ there's info here about what they can do to complain (beyond the Landlord)
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I'd have ketchup
*patiently awaits a sick reaction
It is a creamy one! My partner thinks gravy with it but I think not!
this is too funnyI have gravy with anything I can
Usually I'd make it with a white sauce, an then my dad drowns it in salad cream
If it was Pie + potatoes + veg = yes
Pie + chips = hmm still probably yes actually
Thanks guys 
we had it with gravy and it was banging
we had it with gravy and it was banging
The sledgehammer idea, while funny, definitely has merit. One thing you can do is tear the computer apart, take out the harddrive, and recycle the rest. If it still turns on, you can wipe the drive with a tool like CCleaner which will run over the whole disk flipping all bits to 0. This is especially important for HDDs - Fragmentation often meant you could recover bits of data from disk sectors that were set as "free for overwrite" that weren't yet overwritten.
You can do the same (overwriting everything) for SSDs as well.
Or you can smash them to bits
Not really a problem, more general advice
Looking for good cook books, I have bored of lunch an pinch of nom, I need ones I can reheat in a microwave as I take dinner into work so anything that's mostly pasta or fish is out as I've found that those dont reheat great
If it's not slow cooker then I prefer ones I can make quickly as usually I don't have much time to put something together so either I need to shove it all in the slow cooker in the morning or make it within the hour before my work
Looking for good cook books, I have bored of lunch an pinch of nom, I need ones I can reheat in a microwave as I take dinner into work so anything that's mostly pasta or fish is out as I've found that those dont reheat great
If it's not slow cooker then I prefer ones I can make quickly as usually I don't have much time to put something together so either I need to shove it all in the slow cooker in the morning or make it within the hour before my work
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