Author Topic: what I have learned today.  (Read 847369 times)

fuzzy

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #325 on: 16 October, 2014, 12:50:42 pm »
That Great Confucius, he say "Wise man never use hand with cuts and scrapes to stir rock salt in spreader"

'kin ouch :o

fuzzy

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #326 on: 24 October, 2014, 02:55:49 pm »
That I and my crewmate built what may be the longest bench in the UK- 100 feet of plastic bench made from 120,000 recycled bottles.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #327 on: 24 October, 2014, 09:41:10 pm »
That bioscope is the South African word for cinema.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #328 on: 24 October, 2014, 10:00:40 pm »
How to deep fry both cheese and chocolate. :D (Not at the same time, though that could be interesting too.)

Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #329 on: 24 October, 2014, 10:28:32 pm »
How to deep fry both cheese and chocolate. :D (Not at the same time, though that could be interesting too.)

Sounds like you're going native...

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #330 on: 24 October, 2014, 10:34:58 pm »
I've still not developed a taste for Irn-Bru. ;D

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #331 on: 24 October, 2014, 10:43:39 pm »
Next...... the deep fried marshmallow....... :D
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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #332 on: 25 October, 2014, 09:17:59 am »
That bioscope is the South African word for cinema.

BRITAIN used to have bioscopes too.  Spike Milligan mentions one in one of his volumes of war memoirs.
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Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #333 on: 25 October, 2014, 02:32:04 pm »
That our new neighbours constant rowing, shouting, screaming, threats of physical violence is only interrupted by sleep and meals. Am seriously contemplating arson . . .

 . . . or moving.
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #334 on: 25 October, 2014, 03:09:21 pm »
Or you could eat or sleep more - maybe I've got the wrong house?

Torslanda

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #335 on: 25 October, 2014, 03:12:43 pm »
Or you could eat or sleep more - maybe I've got the wrong house?

Careful, you. I've got your bike and haven't done the bill - YET!  ;D

BTW Today I haz learned that old skool Deore cantis are an absolute bastard to set up . . .  >:(
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #336 on: 28 October, 2014, 12:12:00 am »
Ha!

Is that the set I left with you?  I'm open to suggestions.....

Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #337 on: 28 October, 2014, 02:21:53 am »
That if you subject the word "ebola" to the ROT13 treatment you get "robyn".

And vice-versa, obv.
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tiermat

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #338 on: 28 October, 2014, 10:30:17 am »
I have a new work laptop.

It is a IBMLenovo Thinkpad T440p.

There is no buttons next to the trackpad.

The trackpad is actually the left/right mouse buttons, i.e. the whole pad moves up and down!
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hulver

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #339 on: 28 October, 2014, 10:46:34 am »
I have a new work laptop.

It is a IBMLenovo Thinkpad T440p.

There is no buttons next to the trackpad.

The trackpad is actually the left/right mouse buttons, i.e. the whole pad moves up and down!

Urgh, I have one like that (an Asus, only the bottom part of the trackpad moves). It's like they thought "How can we make this harder to use". Horrible.

Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #340 on: 28 October, 2014, 11:21:47 am »
+1.  I keep hitting the wrong bit and now use a trackball all the time, not just when on holibobs.
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Pingu

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #341 on: 29 October, 2014, 10:41:29 pm »
I have a new work laptop.

It is a IBMLenovo Thinkpad T440p.

There is no buttons next to the trackpad.

The trackpad is actually the left/right mouse buttons, i.e. the whole pad moves up and down!

Our Thinkpad does that, but it also has buttons above the trackpad. I find myself switching between them without any apparent consitency.

tiermat

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #342 on: 30 October, 2014, 08:49:11 am »
I have a new work laptop.

It is a IBMLenovo Thinkpad T440p.

There is no buttons next to the trackpad.

The trackpad is actually the left/right mouse buttons, i.e. the whole pad moves up and down!

Our Thinkpad does that, but it also has buttons above the trackpad. I find myself switching between them without any apparent consitency.

TBH, it being a new job, having to take a load of stuff in and try and work out just what on earth I am supposed to be doing, I didn't actually notice!  Strangely, the little red nipple still lives on, not that I think anyone uses it as the natural place for the base of your thumb to rest, whilst using it, is on the trackpad!
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ian

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #343 on: 30 October, 2014, 09:34:00 am »
I have a new work laptop.

It is a IBMLenovo Thinkpad T440p.

There is no buttons next to the trackpad.

The trackpad is actually the left/right mouse buttons, i.e. the whole pad moves up and down!

Our Thinkpad does that, but it also has buttons above the trackpad. I find myself switching between them without any apparent consitency.

Other than Apple trackpads, they're universally suckier than a grumpy black hole. My Dell has a trackpad so ludicrously over-sensitive that it can detect a ghost farting next door sending the cursor scurrying to the edge of a screen. The only way to type with it active is with ballerina hands, your wrists painfully angled so your palms come nowhere near the damn thing. Ah, turn it down in the settings, you say. You can. Despite an entire slider, it has two modes. Hypersensitive and insensitive. In the latter mode, it just shrugs nonchalantly every time you try to use it. What's that, you want me to move the cursor... As a back-up it has a nipple-thing. I thought that kind of shit was embedded in temporal concrete and disposed of back in the 1980s. Trust me, if you used the kind of force that kind of nipple requires on a real nipple, you'd have some explaining to do.

Both options conspire to make you turn them off and get a mouse (in my case they've provided a home for the old Mighty Mouse, a nice mouse, but another venture into bad nippledom). Computer designers, just stop with the nipples, OK?

The Macbook trackpad on the other hand is a thing of swipy beauty. Mine does one tap for left click, two for left.

Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #344 on: 30 October, 2014, 11:49:48 am »
The only time my former The Boss a.k.a. the Hairless Scotsman ever made me laugh was when he said that his baby daughter enjoyed snacking on nipples, including the one on his laptop.

Sometimes the fondleslab behaves similarly, in that you can whack a link half a dozen times before it deigns to respond while at other times even heaving a great sigh at for e.g. some particular piece of Super-Twattery can bring up the "Report to Moderator" wossname.  And Wikinaccurate always wants links to be tapped twice, except when it doesn't.
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Andrij

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #345 on: 30 October, 2014, 06:23:09 pm »
There is such a thing as a Gin Pennant!  :D

;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

David Martin

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #346 on: 02 November, 2014, 07:17:27 pm »
The first recorded demonstration of wireless telegraphy was in Dundee in the 1830's.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #347 on: 02 November, 2014, 07:21:16 pm »
That our new neighbours constant rowing, shouting, screaming, threats of physical violence is only interrupted by sleep and meals. Am seriously contemplating arson . . .

 . . . or moving.

That Torslanda lives next door to Sir Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent.
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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #348 on: 02 November, 2014, 10:51:37 pm »
That glasses cleaning wipes from Lidl melt microsoft mouse wheels.
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Pingu

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #349 on: 02 November, 2014, 11:19:25 pm »
There is such a thing as a Gin Pennant!  :D



Well, duh  ::-)  ;D

And that pennant is way to fancy  :P



gin_pennant by The Pingus, on Flickr