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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 5, 2017 11:10:10 GMT
2803. All of the videos that go into autoplay on the internet when I am just trying to read something calmly.
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Post by rikita on Oct 5, 2017 11:31:09 GMT
2804. when i put a pile of dishes into the sink filled with water, only to realize after a while that there was still food on the lowest plate and all the other plates were just stack on top of it ...
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Post by tod2 on Oct 19, 2017 16:28:50 GMT
2805: Huckle, I have the Druid Box as well but, and this is a big but, you have to have been connected to the internet to be able to view stuff. This is the disaster we have faced - Again this morning awoke to NO INTERNET due to the fact the cable has been stolen for the third time. Just before I left for my holiday I had no internet...that was halfway through August. No internet all of September and came back on 5tth October, the day after we got back home. Everything honkey-dorey since but this morning BOOM! Nothing. I am now using a dongle loaded with 100 gigs. Damn expensive.
I am mad as hell at our telephone communication company (government) because the are stupid beyond stupid. The amount it must cost to replace the cable could have paid for 24hr surveillance teams to monitor the cable for more than a year. Africa makes me sick.
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Post by rikita on Nov 17, 2017 9:03:52 GMT
2806. going to my home village, seeing my former childminder (by now a very old lady), having to hug her and having to smile when she tells me how i was a very stubborn child. she says it friendly, but i don't at all like the word she uses (zickig).
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 20, 2017 16:26:53 GMT
2807. 6 months ago I bought two new pairs of glasses, one for reading and computer work and the other for driving and TV watching.
The reading pair became terribly scratched for some reason and the optician agreed to replace them free of charge.
Picked them up today only to find they have made up the wrong prescription and I now have two pairs of driving glasses and no reading glasses.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 2, 2017 11:36:50 GMT
2808. Vending machines with screens that ask you "don't you want to buy this too?" instead of just selling you the crap you want.
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Post by whatagain on Dec 2, 2017 11:39:37 GMT
2809 'thank you for your comprehension' that I just saw on a mail telling me my deliverty will be delayed. I answered that I was NOT comprehensive so there was no need to thank me.
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Post by whatagain on Dec 7, 2017 5:15:51 GMT
2810. Trying to get a car at Schoenefeld airport at 21 h when your last 2 credit cards fail on you. Coming back with 500 € in cash and hear that no you won't get a car and negotiating a taxi down from 350 € min to a fixed 250 and driving nearly 2 hours to reach your hotel fuming.
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Post by rikita on Dec 7, 2017 10:08:32 GMT
oh, are you in berlin? where is your hotel? two hours and 250 euros from schönefeld sounds a lot ...
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Post by whatagain on Dec 7, 2017 11:45:11 GMT
I was in Torgau. About 140 kms from Berlin on the Elbe river. Was there that US and soviet troops met in April 45 cutting nazi germany in 2. Charming town. Absolutely boring. I took the train back then to Paris now in Belgium. I know a lot of people think it is 'blase' to say so but for the moment I am fed up with traveling.
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Post by rikita on Dec 7, 2017 14:37:03 GMT
ah, that explains the length and cost of the taxi ride ...
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Post by mossie on Dec 7, 2017 15:29:41 GMT
2811 When returning a mail order item I am emailed a return label. And my printer paper hasn't got a gummed side, my ability with sticky tape is zero.
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Post by whatagain on Dec 16, 2017 13:39:42 GMT
2812. Jingles bell and similar when shopping in December.
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Post by patricklondon on Dec 16, 2017 21:04:58 GMT
2813 (having just sat through the final of Strictly Come Dancing) - When they string out and string out the wait to announce the winner of something. And the winner is..... . Anyone who has still retained the will to live My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 17, 2017 1:05:21 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 17, 2017 22:53:49 GMT
I'm full up. Everywhere we go at this time of year people try to force food on us...and because I am a chubby chops they assume that I want to stuff my face.
I've hit the brandy to try to settle my stomach....hic.
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Post by rikita on Dec 18, 2017 2:03:37 GMT
2814. having to take decisions now about details of things i will do in half a year - without knowing all the surrounding facts/having time to research them ... the exhausting part of participating in group activities, i suppose ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 18, 2017 12:50:45 GMT
2815. Selfies at the bus stop, selfies in the supermarket, selfies in front of a blank wall. Selfies.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 18, 2017 15:33:32 GMT
2815a. The expressions on their simple faces as they take the selfies
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 18, 2017 16:17:14 GMT
But they are happy selfies. I have never seen a sad selfie. (Don't get any ideas, anyone!)
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Post by Kimby on Dec 18, 2017 17:54:51 GMT
(The Japanese are probably going wild with selfies. They take photos in front of dumpsters, as long as it has a person in it.)
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Post by whatagain on Dec 18, 2017 18:45:38 GMT
Cheery, I associate with you -same here. Rikita - I suffer too. I hate deciding 'so long in advance'. I ma trying to build a vision of the future, but 6 months is still sooooo far away ;-) Selfies : I got a young (stupid) girl in a thalys who spent 40 min taking a lot of selfies. Maybe longer but I could not stay so went to the bar. If I become an alkie, it will be because of selfies.... Japs : indeed I saw 3 japanese women taking selfie after selfie in front of track nr 5 of the Gare du Nord in Paris... can't imagine what they'll do in the Louvre. I discovered my cellphone has a special folder for selfies. I have 9 pics in that folder. including 4 of my teeth when I wanted to know which one was the cause for my pain. IUgly pics, deleted now.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 18, 2017 19:43:06 GMT
whatagain...a kindred spirit 2816 Nasty superior posters on fb who delight in ridiculing other posters' opinions, grammar or spelling. (not just mine incidentally...I know that my grammar stinks but I don't really care)
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 18, 2017 20:13:49 GMT
Cheery, as much as I agree with you I must admit is frustrates me sometimes when I am trying to follow what someone is saying and I give up because of the lack of a coherent structure as their are few capital letters or punctuation, defined sentences or paragraphs. I ignore most and try and plough through as best as I can depending on the interest I have in the subject. Small mistakes or omissions I have no problem with at all and I don't correct anything anyway, but, I rue when the day came people could post using a small keyboard on a phone. As an extreme example from a travel related page that was re-posted that I copied and pasted to my computer to examine later to see if it was of merit was this - (you don't have to read the whole thing obviously) -
I just got on the website and it states that there's one designated smoking area at Will Rogers World Airport everytime I take a taxi they reek of cigarette smoke the drivers clothing the upholstery I'm highly allergic to cigarette smoke I start sneezing and coughing and sputtering and sometimes end up in the emergency room at the hospital because I can't breathe and everything swells up it is poison there are hundreds and thousands of carcinogens cancer-causing and allergens in one cigarette so because I want to take public transportation others are allowed to pour poison down my throat and nose into my body and system to where I can die it's literally not just a longtime health hazard it's also a life-threatening situation I don't smoke but yet I have to smoke through six taxis and 6 Vans when I walk down the line to take public transportation when I get in it reeks of smoke it's all in the interior it's in the seats I Drive taxi myself sitting out in the waiting area everybody outside smokes walks by my car and pours smoke into my taxi I am finishing my criminal justice degree you cannot smoke within 150 ft of the building so they don't Port smoke and cancer-causing allergens on anyone else forcefully so why can they smoke as they walk by my taxi in the waiting area north of the airport 150ft of the building but I'm out here with 100 drivers and all they do is smoke and smoke and smoke in their cabs outside of their cabs we should have a check on the taxis because they smell like cigarettes B commission the taxi downtown law enforcement made a law for years ago no smoking in the taxi not on the Sheraton line not at the airport they sit up on the service line right there smoking as people walk down the taxis and down the Vans and their faces as they're trying to avoid it then their cigarette butts go down on the ground we have the trashiest airport with cigarette butts smoking should not even be allowed on the premises Uber drivers do not pull up smoking tacky cigarettes that smell and poison and kill others around them Uber is my worst competition but they are clean smoke-free decent mind their manners and don't just disrespect International Federal property and the public it looks tacky when people came out of the airport and there's outside of their cars sucking on cigarettes and there smoke goes in the passengers face nose and mouth and eyes that just got off of the plane if the robbery now they've got to take public transportation and be forced into a car with years of smoke and bedded into it and the driver gets in and it's in all in his clothes hair and skin I watched the good changes over the last 6 years these drivers used to smoke marijuana and hash before they drove to the service line they've drank alcohol and went up there at 8 a.m. drunk and stone to pick up somebody mothers Brothers sisters father's head of household Breadwinners coming into work in Oklahoma planes and then flying back end of week I should not be forced when they come to Oklahoma City to work and step out of our beautiful airport with the new facelift wonderful Gardens the statue of Will Rogers they're very impressed with and then be hit with unbearable filthy poisonous cigarette smoke in their face as they pass even to go to the rental cars you can see tacky taxi drivers puffing on cigarettes and blow in their smoke out of their mouth which is disgusting in the first place into somebody else's face nose mouth eyes and body as they go by there's no other route they have to walk down that sidewalk to get to a taxi or rental car bus they have no choice this is what they're greeted within our city of many changes and progress the past four years we've had so much upscale districting the trolleys coming downtown and I always welcome people with a smile and a clean-cut professional look my taxi is clean and smoke-free these guys come to work tacky looking like dope-smoking hippies they smell like it too and in my industry of law enforcement elimination and not providing the environment for delinquency is the best deterrent true they all or a lot of them smoke maybe the majority but the rule is the rule and we apparently have one smoking area at the airport but yet taxi drivers jump out of their car wherever they feel like it to smoke it's not offending others it's poisoning others and causing others health problems I end up in the hospital if I'm near cigarette smoke because I'm allergic to it it closes my throat and breathing because they're pouring their poison into my breathing orifices nose and mouth and then into my lungs that second hand smoke way worse than what even they're getting on there and what can we do about this filthy dirty addiction that somebody else is problem it should not be mine or the people that come into our Airport or City that's a terrible representation first impression is we are uneducated dirty second-class citizens it's a filthy addiction that kills and alcohol and marijuana that was used and consumed all the way up until only 4 years ago Uber has done a lot to change this as have I reporting incidents of taxi drivers firsthand when I observed the behavior or crime how can the rule be made for people flying in on airplanes to our city when they walk right into it outside and they're forced into it by others to break the rule this is also a city ruled by the police department enforced by the city not to be smoking in a taxi I've seen many people jump out of taxis and I take them instead of the front of me because I do not want to get into a taxi with cigarette smoke in the upholstery address now I'm sitting in the waiting area and I roll my windows up 3 times and I have to burn my gas to keep their cigarettes from coming in my window as they walk right by careless and offensive and fill my taxi up with smoke a lot of them would not pass a hair follicle test although it's been cleaned up a lot in the last few years cigarettes are not filthy disgusting or trashy second class the cigarettes are harmful to your health and should not be allowed anywhere on the airport grounds if it is stated there is only one smoking area then that is the only place anyone should smoke we have our state and Country right now paying free for anyone who wants to call and get Patches gum or Lawson just quit there's every help available in rehab for every other addiction why should me and everyone else that comes into our city have to endure what others addictions put on us and that is life risk health risk even though it would be my job I would love to see this airport clean and smoke free down that line I've even seen the garbage cans catch on fire and our City's money has to bring hook-and-ladder out to put out a garbage can fire because of these careless smokers throw them in the garbage that's not even a smoking area why should that be a smoking area when it's right where everyone comes out of the front door Will Rogers Airport and you will catch five out of six cab smoking it in and given time not to mention the vans it's not just tacky it's not just offensive it's a violation of Health codes rules and city laws if all of these drivers are going to continue to smoke why don't we smoke in a health department why don't we smoke in a church or a hospital so why are they allowed to give us allergic reactions and cancer an emergency health risk of not being able to breathe at Will Rogers Airport if they're not allowed to do it in a hospital School room or health department our city is changing and it's great it looks super the progress made the changes the districting I bought a house in the plaza District and that District two years ago was infiltrated with prostitution and drugs we decided not to take it anymore and make positive changes and you might see one or two stragglers now my yard is no longer full of condoms and syringes and trash this is a airport that's about to become International not only is our state looking bottom of the barrel to our country now our country will look bottom-of-the-barrel to other countries we really need to step things up it's not this way in other countries or other states they maintain rules rules are made for a reason we are already number 3 in the nation in unplanned pregnancies teen pregnancy I think number one for meth convictions also top 3 in the nation for low education levels I mean we're in the top three for everything undesirable so when they fly in Oklahoma it would be nice for our first impression to override some of the realities we're still working on at least balance out the playing field our people are some of the friendliest in the nation I hear from my passenger it would be nice if we were among the cleanest as well and not ranked as bottom-of-the-barrel because although Uber is not regulated the City of Oklahoma City taxi cabs are and there is a law that the police enforce for non-smoking in taxi cabs no matter where they're at the guy stand out to smoke on the line the butt goes on the ground the smoke goes in the passengers face that just landed in Oklahoma City Point made appreciate your time and looking at this thank you
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 18, 2017 21:34:03 GMT
I get your point and agree to a certain extent. Punctuation can be subjective I find. I gave up reading the above example because it made my head hurt. I'm talking about those smug gits who will correct a simple/short post on Facebook where the meaning is obvious but either auto correct has changed worms 😉 or where there is a small grammatical error. I missed a lot of school you know.....
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Post by questa on Dec 18, 2017 22:36:00 GMT
I have been chastised for using my three little dots as punctuation marks as they are not 'accepted grammar'. Does this bother me?...no way! The example of verbal diarrhoea above is virtually illegible.
The idea of punctuation arose when Scriptures were read to the illiterate population by the monks. They needed a guide as to when to draw breath, pause, denote a question or emphasize a point that remained consistent with other readers.
The use of these symbols spread, as a glance at the top row of a qwertyuiop keyboard shows, but some have fallen into disuse. I see that this page alone has '...' from 4 other posters as well. I think we all understand what it means, even if our meanings differ...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 19, 2017 21:14:05 GMT
Oh Questa I have been using ... dot dot dot for years too.... in my case it's probably a result of my grammar insecurity.
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Post by patricklondon on Dec 22, 2017 7:47:40 GMT
I have been chastised for using my three little dots as punctuation marks as they are not 'accepted grammar'. Does this bother me?...no way! Nor me, for the simple reason that grammar has nothing to do with it. It's purely a matter of style, euphony and comprehensibility, and whoever chastised you over their idea of grammar really ought to know the difference. I shall go on using runs of dots, interrobangs and all the rest of them as long as they don't seem too overdone. No punctuation or paragraphs is illegible enough! But so is an exclamation mark where it's not needed! At the end of every sentence! Can anyone find every single thing as exciting! I don't think so! (And I have seen posts like that online...) My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 22, 2017 9:27:16 GMT
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Dec 22, 2017 15:29:59 GMT
I often use smilies instead of punctuation..in fact when I write letters and cards by hand I quite miss them. Patrick, I often have to go over my posts removing inappropriate or excessive exclamation marks
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