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Post by whatagain on Apr 10, 2017 8:25:55 GMT
2783. Cancelling the TER hyeres toulon. Rerouted via Marseilles losing my connection and arriving 3 hours later. So I'll be at work at 4 30 pm. Late ...
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Post by whatagain on Apr 10, 2017 10:09:11 GMT
2784 Abandoned luggage in train stations.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 10, 2017 10:54:30 GMT
2785. Old TGV with no plugs when your laptop happily discharged its battery in your backpack.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 10, 2017 11:44:20 GMT
2782. Parents who use fallacious arguments not to buy something for their child. Case in point - over the weekend, I was at an event with lots of families, and there was a little girl, perhaps 4 years old, who wanted an Elsa balloon. Her father pointed to an Elsa balloon tied to a stroller and said, "See, those are only for babies, not a big girl like you!" I'd be interested to know what your parenting advice would be to avoid a fallacious answer in this and similar cases. I'm always willing to learn new things.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 10, 2017 13:08:19 GMT
As long as you don't want a fellatious answer.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 10, 2017 13:49:06 GMT
Not unless my name is Linda Lovelace.
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Post by tod2 on Apr 10, 2017 17:36:38 GMT
Oh my gawd...we had to travel to another country to watch any of her antics...1978 South Africa.
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Post by tod2 on Apr 10, 2017 17:40:23 GMT
2786 - Parents who allow their children to have a 'free-for-all' by pulling as many items off the shelves as they can in 10 min. School holidays are my worst nightmare and I seem to go into "School marm" mode with a voice to match when I stop the little buggars.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2017 20:59:23 GMT
In the same vein, there is currently an E. Leclerc supermarket chain commercial in France pointing out how many years Leclerc has been part of the family. In the final scene, the little boy, now a teenager, flips a package of condoms onto the belt as the family is checking out.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 10, 2017 21:25:58 GMT
I remember putting condoms on the belt and my son asking what that was. He was 8 at the time. The cashier - female of course - asked me ' good question daddy !'
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Post by tod2 on Apr 30, 2017 8:01:34 GMT
2787 - Drivers that park with the cars front wheels inbetween the white lines but their back wheels way over into the next parking bay. Or even both wheels over the line. This causes one to squeeze out of the car door or unable to even get in your car.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 30, 2017 11:38:45 GMT
2788. When you click on a link for "free reverse phone lookup" and find out that it isn't free at all. Nor are any of the other free phone lookup sites that Google finds free. What's up with that?
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Post by patricklondon on Apr 30, 2017 15:41:43 GMT
2788. When you click on a link for "free reverse phone lookup" and find out that it isn't free at all. Nor are any of the other free phone lookup sites that Google finds free. What's up with that? Clickbait. You might be tempted to pay up out of desperation, but whether or not, they count your clickthrough when it comes to selling themselves to advertisers. My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by mickthecactus on May 2, 2017 7:49:09 GMT
2789. Computers that automatically correct your spelling even though your spelling is correct.
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Post by mossie on May 2, 2017 13:43:47 GMT
Agreed, make sure your language is set to English (UK)
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Post by mickthecactus on May 2, 2017 13:55:09 GMT
It is but it just knows better. When I entered Echinocereus pulchellus v sharpii it corrects it to sharpie. Perhaps I should set it to Latin....
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Post by onlyMark on May 2, 2017 14:18:07 GMT
If it's a regularly used word with me then I make sure it is spelt how I want it, which gets the wavy red line underneath, then right click and 'add to dictionary'. It doesn't try and do it again. The problem we have is that Mrs M has a smart phone for work, but set to German. Whenever she tries to sms or whatsapp me in English, it tries to correct it and I end up with gibberish.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2017 14:36:57 GMT
One of the good things about Windows (and I suppose that Macs work the same in this respect) is that when you do an official spellcheck, you can add any words or spellings to the internal dictionary that you want, which is very useful when you type certain foreign words often.
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Post by bjd on May 2, 2017 15:12:27 GMT
If it's a regularly used word with me then I make sure it is spelt how I want it, which gets the wavy red line underneath, then right click and 'add to dictionary'. It doesn't try and do it again. The problem we have is that Mrs M has a smart phone for work, but set to German. Whenever she tries to sms or whatsapp me in English, it tries to correct it and I end up with gibberish. You can disable the spelling corrections in a smartphone too. Just go to settings and get rid of the predictive text.
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Post by rikita on May 2, 2017 17:14:14 GMT
my phone seems to switch languages at times, so it is often set to the wrong one ... but each time i insist on a spelling it adds it to the dictionary, so now the german setting also knows lots of english words and vice versa ... funny is though when i by mistake insist on a wrong spelling ... so there are lots of wrong words in the dictionary too ...
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Post by onlyMark on May 2, 2017 17:35:43 GMT
bjd, try explaining that to Mrs M. Every time I try to do something with her phone she shouts at me to leave it alone. So I do. Whenever I get a gibberish text I ask her to correct it so I know what she means. I'm hoping she gets so annoyed she'll let me fiddle with it.
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Post by questa on May 3, 2017 0:29:55 GMT
I had predictive text/ spelling set to English. Indonesian word for 'I' is 'saya' which constantly showed up as 'says' until I realised why. I am a techno dinosaur. D'oh!
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2017 13:29:23 GMT
2790. Being a sucker for click bait is bad enough when something about the subject interests me but sometimes clicking on crap that doesn't interest me at all is inexcusable (such as about 10 minutes ago when I clicked on news of the algae diet of a media personality whom I don't care about any more than I care about anybody having an algae diet).
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Post by bixaorellana on May 16, 2017 0:39:13 GMT
2791. Michelle Fairley
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Post by rikita on Aug 4, 2017 19:32:58 GMT
2791. when you are watching or listening to something, and every five minutes someone comes in and just starts talking, without maybe asking you to pause what you are listening to, first ...
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 5, 2017 7:35:11 GMT
2792: When TV channels all switch to adverts at the same time (and they're all the same too). My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 5, 2017 10:53:34 GMT
And they do that in every country!
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 7, 2017 15:33:35 GMT
2793: When you're confined to barracks with a stomach upset and every other damn programme and advert on TV features FOOD. My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by whatagain on Aug 8, 2017 7:48:48 GMT
2794. When your friends loses her glasses in the water and cannot retrieve them and her husband says he cannot dive more than 3 meters and the skipper says there is 6-8 meters max deep. Bullocks it was 10-12 meters deep at least and I blew half an ear. But I got the glasses. Which according to the friend are about to disintegrate due to old age.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 8, 2017 7:51:59 GMT
You are an optical hero.
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