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On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:40:28 +0100, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Wolf K wrote: Exactly. But JWK can't imagine anything he hasn't seen with his own eyes. At least three times. And lack of empathy seems to be a thing nowadays... If someone's feelings are similar to mine, I understand them. If they're different, then clearly they're wrong. |
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On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 17:23:44 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote: 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. That's sounds very similar to my house. Lots of room in the drive and a garage but I don't need car so it's a free for all parking area for people who visit me as they all have cars. If I want to go out I get a taxi. Steve -- http://www.npsnn.com |
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 10:18:56 -0400, "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 just phone my order to some huge store in the next town. The delivery van drivers take round trips to lots of houses. I'm on one of the Wednesday morning delivery rounds so the cost is very low so that's the day I pick. Shopping by telephone is very common in the UK. Steve -- http://www.npsnn.com |
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On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 13:36:00 -0400, 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. My Auntie lives in a very posh area of LA. For shopping she goes to some store or other and picks what she wants. She stays for a free coffee while all is delivered to her home. The cost is some percentage of the order value. It is almost a competition to get home before the delivery arrives. Steve -- http://www.npsnn.com |
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On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 23:25:08 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 17:23:44 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote: 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. That's sounds very similar to my house. Lots of room in the drive and a garage but I don't need car so it's a free for all parking area for people who visit me as they all have cars. If I want to go out I get a taxi. My garage is converted to a bird aviary and storeroom, and my drive currently holds 1 car, 2 tonne-bags of ballast, and an enormous pile of tree branches I cut off my neighbour's tree. |
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 13:12:20 +0100, "NY" wrote:
[snip] hundred yards. Likewise they will drive from one car park to another when visiting two shops that are almost next door to each other in a shopping mall. When they *do* walk along a road that has no sidewalk, they always Within the same mall? Silly. However, if the shops are in adjacent malls, you may have to move to avoid your car getting ticketed or towed. [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko |
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On 10/7/2018 2:13 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
You must be using some very expensive paper, because everyone gets paper jams. Just regular A4 papers... -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不*錢! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 不求神! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message
... My Auntie lives in a very posh area of LA. For shopping she goes to some store or other and picks what she wants. She stays for a free coffee while all is delivered to her home. The cost is some percentage of the order value. It is almost a competition to get home before the delivery arrives. It's just been announced in the UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45747673 that Waitrose, one of the smaller supermarket chains (not as big as Tesco or Sainsburys), is to start delivering *and unpacking* groceries while you are out. You have a special lock fitted that the Waitrose driver can open, using a one-time password, and he wears a body camera which allows you to look at the footage afterwards in case of disputes about theft or breakage by the driver. The problem will be telling the driver exactly where to put things - which cupboard, which shelf of the freezer etc - and to use stock-rotation so they put the new object behind an older one that you may already have. And will they have the patience to play "fridge tetris" to move things around to fit everything in? Makes a change from this story https://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news...ivery-15226512 in which a delivery driver refused to carry a pregnant woman's shopping up a flight of stairs into her house. |
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On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 19:02:13 GMT, Mark Lloyd wrote:
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). PDFTT beware xpost w10 and aue FU to alt.comp.os.windows-10 only -- Bah, and indeed, Humbug. |
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 03:16:49 +0100, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 13:12:20 +0100, "NY" wrote: [snip] hundred yards. Likewise they will drive from one car park to another when visiting two shops that are almost next door to each other in a shopping mall. When they *do* walk along a road that has no sidewalk, they always Within the same mall? Silly. However, if the shops are in adjacent malls, you may have to move to avoid your car getting ticketed or towed. Any shopping centre which has any restrictions on my parking whatsoever doesn't get my custom. |
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 05:22:39 +0100, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 10/7/2018 2:13 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: You must be using some very expensive paper, because everyone gets paper jams. Just regular A4 papers... Judging by your name you probably feed it in precisely, to within a tolerance of 0.00001 degrees. |
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 10:13:18 +0100, NY wrote:
"Stephen Wolstenholme" wrote in message ... My Auntie lives in a very posh area of LA. For shopping she goes to some store or other and picks what she wants. She stays for a free coffee while all is delivered to her home. The cost is some percentage of the order value. It is almost a competition to get home before the delivery arrives. It's just been announced in the UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45747673 that Waitrose, one of the smaller supermarket chains (not as big as Tesco or Sainsburys), is to start delivering *and unpacking* groceries while you are out. You have a special lock fitted Change my lock just for that? Err.... I can't see that catching on. that the Waitrose driver can open, using a one-time password, and he wears a body camera which allows you to look at the footage afterwards in case of disputes about theft or breakage by the driver. Can't he just pause it while he robs you? Or put it down and pretend he was stood still for 10 seconds while he reaches behind him and steals something? The problem will be telling the driver exactly where to put things - which cupboard, which shelf of the freezer etc - and to use stock-rotation so they put the new object behind an older one that you may already have. And will they have the patience to play "fridge tetris" to move things around to fit everything in? Makes a change from this story https://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news...ivery-15226512 in which a delivery driver refused to carry a pregnant woman's shopping up a flight of stairs into her house. Since when was pregnancy a disability? |
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:50:20 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote: On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 03:16:49 +0100, Gene Wirchenko wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 13:12:20 +0100, "NY" wrote: [snip] hundred yards. Likewise they will drive from one car park to another when visiting two shops that are almost next door to each other in a shopping mall. When they *do* walk along a road that has no sidewalk, they always Within the same mall? Silly. However, if the shops are in adjacent malls, you may have to move to avoid your car getting ticketed or towed. Any shopping centre which has any restrictions on my parking whatsoever doesn't get my custom. Such a shopping centre can then have their parking spaces used by people who are not shopping there. That does not gain them anything useful. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko |
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On Tue, 09 Oct 2018 05:14:54 +0100, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:50:20 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote: On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 03:16:49 +0100, Gene Wirchenko wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 13:12:20 +0100, "NY" wrote: [snip] hundred yards. Likewise they will drive from one car park to another when visiting two shops that are almost next door to each other in a shopping mall. When they *do* walk along a road that has no sidewalk, they always Within the same mall? Silly. However, if the shops are in adjacent malls, you may have to move to avoid your car getting ticketed or towed. Any shopping centre which has any restrictions on my parking whatsoever doesn't get my custom. Such a shopping centre can then have their parking spaces used by people who are not shopping there. That does not gain them anything useful. It gains them customers. Why should I jump through hoops to park at a shop? All the supermarkets here have unrestricted parking. |
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On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 17:38:53 +0100, Lewis wrote:
In message Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:47:15 +0100, Lewis wrote: In message Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Sat, 06 Oct 2018 00:06:37 +0100, Char Jackson wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 12:24:23 -0500, Mark Lloyd wrote: On 10/05/2018 08:08 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: [snip] If they can't speak English that's their problem. I think that knowing English should be a requirement for things like registering a vehicle (in an English-speaking country). Some people don't. I'm in the "some people don't" category, although I'm not militant or hardcore about it. I've spent quite a bit of my adult life in other countries and was always rather amazed at how I and my fellow travelers just assumed that everyone we encountered would know English - because mostly they did, to varying degrees. So in this country, (USA), I'm willing to do my best to talk to anyone. Today, for example, there's a crew at the house putting on a new roof. Out of the 7 people, only one apparently speaks English. For the others, I use my High School Spanish plus what little I picked up during my frequent visits to Spain back in the 1980's. When my grandparents came to this country, none of them spoke English. They each learned, but I imagine that that took a while. To be fair, the person who became my paternal grandmother didn't know any languages at all when she arrived, since she was born aboard ship during the trip. I think people should learn the language of the country they're in only to make their own lives easier, not to make my life easier. My life is already easy enough. 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 can't even count. The French for "84" is "four twenties and four" It's a miracle there were any French mathematicians at all. I like 99.99 on a radio advert: "quatre vingt dix neuf quatre vingt dix neuf" spoken very quickly. Stupid language. I was talking to a native French speakers this week it's he said "French is a dead language that doesn't know it's dead yet." I said "any language that needs a government committee to try to preserve it is terrified of being irrelevant." He agreed. The government is trying to preserve it? I thought all French spoke it as their primary language. This is news to you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadmie_franaise A few years back, France tried to make the word 'jeans' illegal, and banned any non-French origin words from official records, or some such.. It appears the only thing the French hate more than the creeping influence of English is the creeping influence of non-French French speakers, like Canadians or Algerians. Even parrots hate it: https://youtu.be/OseH-G24afs |
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