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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 8, 2017 16:17:56 GMT
Yes, you are! according to the friend are about to disintegrate due to old age There are far more gracious ways of saying thank you.
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Post by rikita on Aug 12, 2017 23:45:22 GMT
speaking of glasses - 2795. when you think you have some dirt on your glasses and try to clean them and realize that you somehow managed to get several big scratches right in the middle of the glass for your left eye, so you'll have to live with a smudge in your vision until you find the time to get new ones (and hope they won't cost too much) ...
let's hope it gets very sunny in the next weeks, then at least outdoors i can wear my sunglasses instead ...
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Post by questa on Aug 13, 2017 11:15:34 GMT
Rikita, you can probably buy over there a gadget that looks like a lipstick but contains a "filler" of some modern wonder substance. After you clean your glasses you rub this on with the wind-up action, and gently rub it into the scratches. Wipe off excess and polish. It eliminates the scratch effect...try a shop that sells glasses...not expensive
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Post by rikita on Aug 14, 2017 0:05:51 GMT
thanks! will check that out!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 18, 2017 7:38:02 GMT
2796. People who wear such heavy perfume that you feel as though you might pass out if you have to walk behind them.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 18, 2017 15:51:16 GMT
Agree! Being on an elevator with them or having to work in close quarters is hell. I've been next to people whose perfume is so heavy that you can actually catch a wood-alcohol tang if your mouth is open.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 21, 2017 11:55:43 GMT
I experienced the opposite. A Parisian asked my friend to seat further away from her because she could not stand his body odour. He sweats a lot but doesn't smell. Then she lit a cigarette.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 21, 2017 16:39:51 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 22, 2017 7:17:35 GMT
2797. It's harvest time and the roads to work have so many slow moving tractors on them.
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Post by rikita on Aug 22, 2017 7:51:28 GMT
2797. that getting a new toy - in this case, a new phone - doesn't mean at first happily playing iwth it, but instead all the stress of figuring out how to transfer all the important stuff (and all those helpful articles offering tricks how to do that just make me dizzy), and now there are problems with activating the new sim-card, and so the new thing so far means only stress ... those people who get a new phone every year, how do they manage?
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Post by onlyMark on Aug 22, 2017 9:25:07 GMT
I have at the moment two phones. A point and shoot dumb Nokia from about seven years ago that is used for calls and SMS's and a newer smart phone that is used just for Whatsapping the kids. My daughters though go through phones at a startling rate. Either through damage or loss and they always bring them to me to set up. I've found the short cut is to keep all your contacts on the SIM card and not the phone memory, plus anything else important, like photos or documents are emailed to yourself as soon as you get them. Thus, apart from setting the time and date, I install the SIM card from the old phone, download Whatsapp and the rest can come as and when they can be bothered. Such as the screen photo, ring tone etc. When they are just travelling or hanging around, they can personalise it as they wish.
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 22, 2017 11:03:44 GMT
those people who get a new phone every year, how do they manage? You back everything up and then reinstal it into the new phone. Or, if you find you've sold your soul to the likes of Google (for Android phones) it does most of it for you automatically. My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by rikita on Aug 22, 2017 12:04:46 GMT
well for now i still can't activate the sim card, tried it through the phone this time but get always the information that there is some technical error making it impossible at the time ... i have most things on an extra sd card, and i did the whole google thing with the addresses now, but some things i am unsure about - like, when i connect the phone to the computer, it looked like whatsapp is completely on the sd card, but i have already taken out the sd card now and put it into hte new phone, but the old whatsapp messages still show up on the old phone, so i suppose they are still saved somewhere in there?
can't put the old sim card into the new phone, they sent a new card along with the phone saying i have to use that one (same provider though and i keep my number and all)
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 22, 2017 13:39:06 GMT
I do not walk out of the phone shop until the sales agent has transferred everything for me. If the saleperson refused to do so, I would cancel the purchase and go to a different shop.
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Post by spindrift1 on Aug 22, 2017 14:51:40 GMT
I do not walk out of the phone shop until the sales agent has transferred everything for me. If the saleperson refused to do so, I would cancel the purchase and go to a different shop. I would do the same thing. I dread having to change my mobile. I am forced into a new one every two years or so because the battery can't be changed and I get fed up charging the old one.
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Post by rikita on Aug 22, 2017 22:17:17 GMT
Mr. R Made our new Contract over the Phone, the Phone arrived by Mail, no salesperson to pester ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 24, 2017 13:34:49 GMT
2799. The fact that time bombs are never defused until the last two seconds in any movie or television series.
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Post by questa on Aug 24, 2017 15:16:09 GMT
Plot loses a bit when the bomb is defused by an experienced expert who says, "that's it boys, half an hour to spare, let's go down to Starbucks for coffee."
(as they get to Starbucks the coffee machine blows up...now that's an ending!)
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 25, 2017 11:48:10 GMT
(as they get to Starbucks the coffee machine blows up...) At which point hilarity, as they say, ensues - and cue end credits.... My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 25, 2017 12:48:28 GMT
They could use some ideas from the old series Six Feet Under where just about every opening sequence sets you up to expect how someone is going to die and then somebody else dies in a totally unexpected way.
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Post by questa on Aug 25, 2017 13:15:16 GMT
Haven't heard of that one...sounds like a barrel of laughs.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 27, 2017 18:50:46 GMT
I am drowning in Pet Peeve misery because we no longer have the regular internet line - the government phone company is putting in new fiber optic cable and all I can do now is tap little letters on my phone. I fly to Munich on 4th Sept and would dearly love to do last minute planning at my computer . Not going to happen so so it's a wave bye bye till October. Very very frustrating and I am peeved as hell!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 27, 2017 19:14:48 GMT
It took two hours to install a fiber optic connection in my flat, and it was a very simple operation compared to most. Those tiny cables are very fragile and apparently they can't fling them around like fire hoses -- or even normal telephone lines.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 28, 2017 8:25:54 GMT
Pathetic pet peeve : OH is always moaning about me wasting money (on essentials like shoes, gardening stuff, handbags etc). He smokes. I rest my case..
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Post by bjd on Aug 28, 2017 8:29:44 GMT
Shoes, handbags and gardening stuff are not "wasting money". What nonsense. These are the essentials of life.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 31, 2017 19:51:32 GMT
2800. I really hate all of the times I have to call my mobile phone from my land line to find out where it is. Not being a mobile phone fan, I tend to abandon it just about anywhere and quickly forget what I have done. Just for the record, I only take it out with me about once every 3 or 4 days. I kind of feel sorry for all of the people who have to look at their phones every 3 minutes. No, not really.
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Post by patricklondon on Sept 5, 2017 19:39:26 GMT
2801: When expensive electronic kit that does all that side of things perfectly well has to be replaced because of a simple mechanical failure - currently, my laptop whose charger plug has to be jiggled just so to get any power into it, just because the socket has worn loose, and likewise my PVR whose aerial socket is loose so reception is unreliable. My blog | My photos | My video clips My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 5, 2017 22:36:50 GMT
Hmmm. I was having a problem like that with one of my tablets. Fortunately it turned out to be just the charger cable, but the tech told me the socket could be replaced, were it the problem. Do you think that's possible with your laptop?
I am always paranoid about the socket in my laptop because I unplug it when not in use, due to the paranoia of having lived in two houses that had things fried because of lightning.
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Post by onlyMark on Oct 5, 2017 6:03:00 GMT
2802: Over reaction - that is my pet peeve. Imagine two firemen have done something which promotes the reaction of - "Essex Fire Service is investigating after the BBC notified it of photographs sent by a concerned party. The chief fire officer said the images had "raised concerns" and a "thorough investigation" was under way." "The photos we have seen have raised concerns, we have liaised with the appropriate statutory agencies and a thorough investigation and process has now started." "The firefighters involved are embarrassed and regretful of how this event has been interpreted." "It does not give the right impression to our public, and it is not who we are." Roger Hirst, the police, fire and crime commissioner for Essex, said: "I am clear that the behaviour shown in these photos is inappropriate and requires a thorough and robust investigation." I'd be wondering what heinous act had been perpetrated by these obviously evil members of a trusted establishment. Well, the story is that the wife of a firefighter visited the station with her two children. No ages for the kids were given. A mate of the fireman then wrapped the kids in cling film. "The children's mother said what happened "was intended as a joke" and the youngsters enjoyed it." "Five people, including the two children, were present when the photographs were taken and their mother later posted them on Facebook. The youngsters were wrapped in plastic by a colleague of their father." www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-41429546Jeez. We'll all end up being rule following zombies soon.
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Post by bjd on Oct 5, 2017 6:44:27 GMT
Not only rule-following zombies, but zombies whose first instinct is to post pictures of themselves on facebook.
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