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On 07/10/18 05:03, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
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?! Call centres also want you to answer with your name. I refuse to give them the pleasure. As a child I was taught to answer the phone with "Seymour 534" or just "534". My father managed to keep that number for his whole life, even when he moved house. Over the years the three-digit number morphed into a ten-digit number, with a few intermediate steps, but the last three digits were always 534. -- Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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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. -- Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 20:38:46 -0400, "Jonathan N. Little"
wrote: Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:47:48 +0100, Jonathan N. Little wrote: Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Anyway the postman's job is to deliver your mail to YOU, not something 200 yards away. Obviously you have no concept of rural. It's still their job.* We have rural in Scotland, but the postman drives to your door. They drive to my door when I have a pickup or delivery too large for the box. But even in "rural" UK folks tend to cluster in villages. It not like that in USA. I'm in the county and not in an incorporated town or village. The "cluster" I live in only has 8 houses but then that cluster is in a bigger cluster that could be described as a village. Years ago I lived in a house that was out in the country but I had to have a car or walk about a mile to the nearest shop. I gave up driving a few years ago. I now get a weekly delivery of everything I need. The cost of delivery is £3 a week. Steve -- http://www.npsnn.com |
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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! -- http://www.npsnn.com |
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Troll-feeding Senile Idiots Alert!
On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 22:13:47 -0400, Wolf K wrote:
On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 18:33:56 +0100, NY, another mentally handicapped, troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered: FLUSH senile bull**** unread What has all this sick **** got to do with the groups you keep crossposting it to? Just after a few replies to the abnormal Scottish troll and attention whore, you sound as retarded as him! Such is the "power" of his idiocy! BG Beware of the Power! It infects everyone! Even you! That's right! And I AM always wary of that! |
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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. Steve -- http://www.npsnn.com |
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Troll-feeding Senile Idiot Alert!
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 12:11:04 +1100, Peter Moron, another brain damaged,
notorious, troll-feeding senile idiot blathered: Call centres also want you to answer with your name. I refuse to give them the pleasure. As a child I was taught to answer the phone with "Seymour 534" or just "534". My father managed to keep that number for his whole life, even when he moved house. Over the years the three-digit number morphed into a ten-digit number, with a few intermediate steps, but the last three digits were always 534. Driveling IDIOT! The troll thanks you muchly for feeding him with another load of your senile ****, Peter Moron! tsk |
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Troll-feeding Senile Idiots Alert!
On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 23:37:27 -0000 (UTC), Lewis, the braindead notorious
troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered: ns 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. F'up to alt.idiots where ALL your crap belongs! What a bunch of idiots indeed! tsk |
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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 Steve -- http://www.npsnn.com |
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"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. |
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In message Peter Moylan wrote:
On 07/10/18 03:42, Lewis wrote: Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. I have sometimes thought that that is the most memorable sentence in all of science fiction. It is a good one, and one that I spent more than a little time thinking about when I was pretty young. I finally figured out that it was the "without any fuss" that really made it work/ That and the simplicity of the phrasing. It is often the case that the most powerful messages are convey with the simplest words. "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Every word in there but one is pure Anglo-Saxon English, and it used the rhetorical trick of repeating a key phrase to drive it home. What's teh quote about, fighting, what's repeated, "fight". In Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a Dream" speech he repeats that phrase 8 times over the course of only a few paragraphs, but he repeats "Let Freedom ring something like 12 times in the closing minute or two of his speech. It's something I think about when I see some nonsense mission statement using "words" like strategize or phrases like "core competencies". -- "640K ought to be enough RAM for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981 |
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In message Peter Moylan wrote:
On 07/10/18 05:03, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: 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?! Call centres also want you to answer with your name. I refuse to give them the pleasure. As a child I was taught to answer the phone with "Seymour 534" or just "534". My father managed to keep that number for his whole life, even when he moved house. Over the years the three-digit number morphed into a ten-digit number, with a few intermediate steps, but the last three digits were always 534. We have a Google voice number that was migrated through various steps and is the number my father-in-law and mother-in-law got in 1963 when they were first married. I think Denver had just stopped using named exchanges but their number was on the PEARL exchange, iirc. It's a bit of history that there isn't much accounting of. I once spent a good day finding all the various exchanges that were used, but it took a lot of searching. Most of them I can recall just by looking at the keypad, "Oh right, 722 was RACE and 777 was SPRUCE". An outlier was that the University of Denver had its own exchange, but it became 871 (and even now, most 871 exchange numbers are DU numbers), I guess from UniverSity? That one I've tried to find some more information on since it doesn't fit any of the patterns with other exchanges. I may have to trek down to the main Library and talk to someone. The first exchange was YORK in 1898, and it was to distinguish new numbers from the main exchange, but that is so far back that some numbers included prefix or postfiox letters. "YORK 230-c" Oh, one little tidbit I did find, when International calls were first introduce they were to England, Scotland, and Wales. You could call between 6am and 11am Denver time and the cost was $84 for the first minute and $26 for each additional minute. In 1927. Or, put another way, for the cost of 5 1 minute calls, you could buy a brand new car and have enough money to fuel it for a year, at least. -- Silence is golden, duct tape is silver. |
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On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 02:11:04 +0100, Peter Moylan wrote:
On 07/10/18 05:03, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: 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?! Call centres also want you to answer with your name. I refuse to give them the pleasure. Do they? I usually get: Me: "Hello?" Call cent "Is that Mr Knife?" Me: "If you don't know, then you shouldn't be calling me." Call cent "Excuse me sir?" Me: "Why did you call me if you don't know who I am, did you just type in a random number? Kindly **** off." Call Cent [NO CARRIER] As a child I was taught to answer the phone with "Seymour 534" or just "534". When someone answers me like that I ask them if they're a human or a robot, or ask them if they're an answering machine. My father managed to keep that number for his whole life, even when he moved house. Over the years the three-digit number morphed into a ten-digit number, with a few intermediate steps, but the last three digits were always 534. |
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Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 20:38:46 -0400, "Jonathan N. Little" wrote: Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:47:48 +0100, Jonathan N. Little wrote: Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Anyway the postman's job is to deliver your mail to YOU, not something 200 yards away. Obviously you have no concept of rural. It's still their job.Â* We have rural in Scotland, but the postman drives to your door. They drive to my door when I have a pickup or delivery too large for the box. But even in "rural" UK folks tend to cluster in villages. It not like that in USA. I'm in the county and not in an incorporated town or village. The "cluster" I live in only has 8 houses but then that cluster is in a bigger cluster that could be described as a village. Years ago I lived in a house that was out in the country but I had to have a car or walk about a mile to the nearest shop. I gave up driving a few years ago. I now get a weekly delivery of everything I need. The cost of delivery is £3 a week. 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. -- Take care, Jonathan ------------------- LITTLE WORKS STUDIO http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com |
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On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:18:56 +0100, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Stephen Wolstenholme wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 20:38:46 -0400, "Jonathan N. Little" wrote: Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:47:48 +0100, Jonathan N. Little wrote: Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Anyway the postman's job is to deliver your mail to YOU, not something 200 yards away. Obviously you have no concept of rural. It's still their job. We have rural in Scotland, but the postman drives to your door. They drive to my door when I have a pickup or delivery too large for the box. But even in "rural" UK folks tend to cluster in villages. It not like that in USA. I'm in the county and not in an incorporated town or village. The "cluster" I live in only has 8 houses but then that cluster is in a bigger cluster that could be described as a village. Years ago I lived in a house that was out in the country but I had to have a car or walk about a mile to the nearest shop. I gave up driving a few years ago. I now get a weekly delivery of everything I need. The cost of delivery is £3 a week. 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. 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. |
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