Annoying printers

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

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

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

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!

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http://www.npsnn.com

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!

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

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

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

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

"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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.