Annoying printers

On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 13:43:45 +0100, NY wrote:

"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message
...
Most of the houses I lived in were built before cars were invented and
so there was no need for parking space. Now I live in a modern house
with lots of parking space but I don't need a car!

Ah, your modern house must be older than a *really* modern house which has
one parking space irrespective of the size of house and therefore the number
of working adults who may each need a car to get to work.

I've seen those, I assume they're cheap to buy, tiny little houses with about 2 feet between them and the next house. Technically detached, but no bloody privacy. And they often build them with utterly stupid roads which are only one lane wide with no pavement, so you can't even park on the road. And they put in (for aesthetics?!) artificial bends everywhere, so people are driving around with one lane, and can't see the kids round the next corner playing in the middle of the road because there's no pavement for them to be on.

On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 10:02:59 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 17:06:06 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:

On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 16:42:08 +0100, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

NY wrote:
I've always wondered... In countries where houses have mailboxes on the
roadside, how do they solve the problem of the postman having access to
the mailbox to put mail in it, without there being a problem with theft
or vandalism of mail by people walking along the sidewalk?

Sidewalk? "We need no stinkin' sidewalks!"

In the UK, that's where we park our cars as the roads are so ****ing narrow and there are so many stupid people who own more cars than driveway.

Most of the houses I lived in were built before cars were invented and
so there was no need for parking space. Now I live in a modern house
with lots of parking space but I don't need a car!

My house was built in 1979. I can get 5 cars in the drive and 1 in the garage (yet it's only a 2 bedroom house). I've had as many as 3 cars, usually not all functional.

On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 13:01:03 +0100, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:

On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 01:16:10 GMT, Peter Moylan
wrote:

On 07/10/18 04:49, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Englishman in his best French to a sexy lady in the dining room:

"Je t'adore!"

Sexy lady:

"Shut the door yourself sir!"

And when once more
She whispers "Ferme la porte"
C'est magnifique.


Watch the xposts
[w10 removed]

**** off.
[w10 added]

On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 11:33:33 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 19:13:28 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote:

On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 17:22:49 +0100, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 10/6/2018 7:10 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

I tried slotting it in by gravity, I tried pushing it a bit further, I even tried gently pushing while it tried to feed it. It either didn't grab it at all, or only grabbed one side and screwed it up, then continued trying to print on it, whether it was there or not.


I have yet to meet a printer that jams paper.... No further comments nor
advice.

You must be using some very expensive paper, because everyone gets paper jams.

I use the cheapest paper in the cheapest printer. I never get paper
jams

I've even seen pretend paper jams, caused by paper dust in the sensor.

On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 10:14:00 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 10:09:24 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 11:59:49 -0500, Mark Lloyd
wrote:


I've always wondered... In countries where houses have mailboxes on the
roadside, how do they solve the problem of the postman having access to
the mailbox to put mail in it, without there being a problem with theft
or vandalism of mail by people walking along the sidewalk?

I have seen some with a slot in the front, arranged so mail can not be
removed that way; then a locked door on the house side.



I had friends in Connecticut who had a problem with vandalism, not
theft. Kids used to put firecrackers in the mailboxes there.

There is only one house on my street that has a mailbox. That's
because the front garden has a 8 foot high fence to keep the dog in.
The dog goes for people, like postmen, walking up the drive.

I once posted something to a person with such a fence (although it was only 3 to 4 foot high). But there was no mailbox, so I opened the gate. The huge dog immediately bounded out of the gate before I had a chance to close it. A woman came tearing out of the house telling me I was "bloody stupid and he could have bitten me" (like I had another option but to open the gate?). So I jogged off, played with the dog, and got him to come back, then told her it was friendly. She was lost for words. Animals just don't attack me for some reason.

On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 00:37:27 +0100, Lewis wrote:

In message Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 21:14:57 +0100, Lewis wrote:

In message Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 17:42:05 +0100, Lewis wrote:

In message Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 05:13:42 +0100, Peter Moylan wrote:

On 06/10/18 09:13, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

Everyone should speak the same language on the entire planet, for
ease of communication. English is the most widespread, and one of
the more sensible ones (no genderised nouns for a start). Is it true
that in French a female cat is male, as it's "le chat" no matter if
it's male or female? Preposterous!

French has "le chat" for a male cat and "la chatte" for a female one,
but in practice not many people bother checking the sex of the cat
before talking about it.

It's not like English, where everyone knows that every cat is "she".

I might call a ship "she", but a cat is an "it", so is a human baby.

Around here people get very angry if you use 'it' for a baby. Or even
MORE angry if you use the wrong gender pronoun.

You can't tell the sex of a human baby without looking in its nappy.

Which is why people are super careful to dress their babies in rigidly
gendered clothing and possibly ribbons or pierced ears for girls.

Why is it so important?

I have no idea. It is one thing I have never understood about Americans.

I've often referred to someone's dog as "he" and simply been corrected
to "she". Surely the same can happen with babies?

Maybe. But sometimes people will be deeply offended or genuinely angry.

A better way I use is to call the baby ugly, or sometimes I'm slightly more polite and say "I guess it'll look better when it grows older". I really don't understand people who think a thing with an enormous bald head is somehow cute.

"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote:


I assume you're in America. Do you get home deliveries from
supermarkets over there, if so is it expensive? In the UK, as
Stephen said, it's only a few pounds.

Many supermarkets have home delivery services. Not sure just what they
cost, but it's enough to get me to drive to the supermarket instead (a
drive of just a few minutes for a choice of markets). One of them also
has a service where you pick out what you want online, the staff goes
around the store and fills bags for you, then you drive up and stop in
a special lane and they bring it out for you, load it in your car, and
take your credit card right there at the curb. Cuts down your time at
the store. There's a fee for that too.

--
Tim Slattery
tim at risingdove dot com

On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 18:36:00 +0100, Tim Slattery wrote:

"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote:


I assume you're in America. Do you get home deliveries from
supermarkets over there, if so is it expensive? In the UK, as
Stephen said, it's only a few pounds.

Many supermarkets have home delivery services. Not sure just what they
cost, but it's enough to get me to drive to the supermarket instead (a
drive of just a few minutes for a choice of markets). One of them also
has a service where you pick out what you want online, the staff goes
around the store and fills bags for you, then you drive up and stop in
a special lane and they bring it out for you, load it in your car, and
take your credit card right there at the curb. Cuts down your time at
the store. There's a fee for that too.

Yes ours also do that. I drive to four supermarkets (all close to each other), so I can take the best/cheapest from each.

On 10/06/2018 01:01 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

[snip]

it's much easier to flip to a specific city or town, since they're
alphabetical. it's the side streets that matter, so only the last part
of the trip is needed, not the entire thing.

i've used both, and one city/town per page is much better.

I disagree.* If I'm driving along a road and come to the edge of the
page, I don't want to have to know what town is next and find it
alphabetically, I just want to flip to the page specified in the little
arrow.

Each edge should have one or more notes like "continued in Fargo, page 5".

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day).

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"Think about the bio-mass involved [with the Biblical flood]. What
happened to all the corpses?"

Sharks, for one." [Raoul Newton,
net.fundie.idiot]

On 10/06/2018 01:03 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

[snip]

I've never answered my phone with the number and thought it a very odd
thing to do.* When I phone someone, I want to hear "hello" or their
name, not their ****ing number.* What use is that?!

Maybe to help the caller realize he dialed the wrong number.

At one time I had a number starting with 926. One day I got a call from
someone (sounded like a teenager) saying "I want some pussy.". I suppose
he thought he was calling 976 (pay services, often phone sex).

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79 days until the winter celebration (Tue Dec 25, 2018 12:00:00 AM for 1
day).

Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"Think about the bio-mass involved [with the Biblical flood]. What
happened to all the corpses?"

Sharks, for one." [Raoul Newton,
net.fundie.idiot]

Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:18:56 +0100, Jonathan N. Little
wrote:

It's a 37 mile round trip for me to get to a grocery store, and I am in
the more "compact" eastern part of the country. Out west rural is much
more spread out.

I assume you're in America.*

Yes, said so elsewhere when I said we have states bigger than your whole
country. Not everything is as "compact" as it is in UK.

Do you get home deliveries from supermarkets over there, if so is it
expensive? In the UK, as Stephen said, it's only a few pounds.
No. Just checked. Only one other grocery store left once Wally-mart
arrived...a sore spot for many rural communities.

For other supplies, yeah shop online otherwise is 100+ mile round trip
to a nearest city with stores of significance.


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Take care,

Jonathan
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 18:26:27 +0100, í*½í¸‰ Good Guy í*½í¸‰ wrote:

This is sad. Just take this to Usage.English so that they can teach you
how to increase your vocabulary so that you can explain yourself
adequately. this is not something Windows 10 users can help you with.

Good bye.

Another braindead smartass who doesn't get what this is about! BG

On 10/06/2018 01:13 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

[snip]

Quoting is very important.* Snipping isn't.* Say two or three people are
in a conversation.* If one doesn't snip but the other does, it'll only
ever be one or two more levels than they want.

Snipping is important is someone quotes 300 lines of nonsense, and adds
a 2-word reply on the bottom. Some readers will never see it.

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79 days until the winter celebration (Tue Dec 25, 2018 12:00:00 AM for 1
day).

Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"Think about the bio-mass involved [with the Biblical flood]. What
happened to all the corpses?"

Sharks, for one." [Raoul Newton,
net.fundie.idiot]

On 10/06/2018 01:13 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

[snip]

I have yet to meet a printer that jams paper.... No further comments nor
advice.

You must be using some very expensive paper, because everyone gets paper
jams.

A special form of "actuality controlled" paper, that ceases to exist
whenever it's curled too much. It makes paper jams non-actual (and trash
cans never get full since any wadded-up paper isn't).

On 10/06/2018 01:27 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:

[snip]

Surely kids would constantly be knocking on the door for a laugh as they
walked past?

And putting trash in the mail slot?

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79 days until the winter celebration (Tue Dec 25, 2018 12:00:00 AM for 1
day).

Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"Think about the bio-mass involved [with the Biblical flood]. What
happened to all the corpses?"

Sharks, for one." [Raoul Newton,
net.fundie.idiot]