It annoys us, but I bet it's fun being old and getting away with annoying others. ;-)
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It annoys us, but I bet it's fun being old and getting away with annoying others. ;-)
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I'll try to pop in more often from now and do some posting. :) Been far too long.
I bet being a new father really reduced the amount of time you had free to go online. It definitely has for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Puni/Void
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Is there a Punisher Junior now?:huh:Quote:
Originally Posted by HarrisonI bet being a new father really reduced the amount of time you had free to go online. It definitely has for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Puni/Void
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Hehe.. you hit the nail on the head there mate. :D
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Originally Posted by HarrisonI bet being a new father really reduced the amount of time you had free to go online. It definitely has for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Puni/Void
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Yes, there is. My daughter, Miriam, is soon turning three years old. Time has flown away since she was born. :D
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Originally Posted by Stephen CoatesIs there a Punisher Junior now?:huh:Quote:
Originally Posted by HarrisonI bet being a new father really reduced the amount of time you had free to go online. It definitely has for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Puni/Void
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Nearly 3? wow! Time does fly. And Tom is now already 1 year old too. If we are not careful we will blink and find ourselves retired with grandchildren! :lol:
Hi Puni/Void how are you? I forgot to tell you I sold my sam440ep I bought off you, one of my biggest regrets of 2012 :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Puni/Void
The older we get, the quicker time does seem to fly by. Almost to the point where it becomes a fast & slippery slope. It's not fun getting old though. Mind willing, body not able. I'm fitter than most for my age but there is such a lot I can't do now, but still want to. Annoying to say the least. :eyebrow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Harrison
I don't really rant about much these days but I have a real ffs that needs venting & it involves Google Chrome. :mad:
I'm fully aware of the advertising scams & pop-up's that still go on, but for crying out loud @ the random adverts based on what you might have been looking whilst surfing eBay etc. I'm talking about beeing somewhere like www.speedtest.org and seeing pictures of recently viewed items on eBay..... :dry:
They are configureable within some other web based front end of Chrome, yet such a lot require you sod off to some other site leaving you wondering what cookies & other bullshit are being spewed onto your computer whilst doing so?
It's at the point now where my Pee-Cee is just going to be used for Gaming only & will be investing in an iMac for other online interests.
The internet is almost becoming an infection in it's own right & I can only see it getting worse before it gets better.
How will the iMac help? Apple are the worst of them all for spying on their users and collecting their activity data. Also just because you are using a Mac doesn't stop malware and browser targeted adverts.
Safari doesn't appear to suffer the same indignity, certainly not on the i5 & i7 based MAC's I have seen & used recently. :huh2:
This is the link for Chrome ad-crap:
AdSense
You can use Safari on the PC. Horrible browser imo on any os.
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How about using Firefox or Opera? Or maybe Lynx?:shades:
I haven't used Safari for years but I never used to like the PC version. The Macintosh version seemed fine though.
I find Opera is great at blocking things like ads. I forget the name of the file it uses, but I have mine filled with loads of unwanted addresses which result in ads being blocked. Its really easy to unblock stuff if necessary, and its also easy to enable/disable plugins and javascript when required as well.
Is an iMac really worth the expense just for internet stuff?
@ Stephen Coates
No, it probably isn't but we are on the brink of buying a 64Gb Cellular iPad through Tesco Rewards in the coming weeks.
Todays rant.
My Mother recently bought a DAB radio for the kitchen.
So, as if Hallam FM wasn't bad enough, we now have to listen to The Hits Radio every evening and weekend.
:no::wall:
On the subject of commercial radio, this is a really good website, developed by Absolute Radio: http://comparemyradio.com/ :thumbs:
I just listen to Radio 2, or stream via Spotify.
Yuck. Radio 2 is just a retirement home for all the expired Radio nob Jockeys & that Ginger git is a total tossa.... :nuts:Quote:
Originally Posted by Harrison
I don't listen to it often early in the morning. I tend to like the shows later in the evening when you get to discover lots of new acts.
I hate it when people think WD40 is the answer to everything :mad:
Well it stopped the front brake squeaking on my Landlady's daughters bicycle on one occasion. I had to do a very silent rofl event. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stephen Coates
Did it stop the bike from stopping as well as stopping the squeak? :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kin HellWell it stopped the front brake squeaking on my Landlady's daughters bicycle on one occasion. I had to do a very silent rofl event. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stephen Coates
Yes, indeed! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stephen CoatesDid it stop the bike from stopping as well as stopping the squeak? :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kin HellWell it stopped the front brake squeaking on my Landlady's daughters bicycle on one occasion. I had to do a very silent rofl event. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stephen Coates
WD40 FTW, and transparent silicone too for another kind of fixes. :lol:
WD40 FTW..... ROFL & PMSL! :lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Phantom
I want to rant about the overuse of abbreviations which (in my experience) seems to be very common recently. I found this topic here does a reasonably good job: http://www.foolsdesign.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=196
I'm not talking about commonly used internet abbreviations, like the ones Kin used in the above post, but less common ones which tend to be used where you don't expect them and where people (me included) won't understand them.
I sometimes end up reading documents which really should have a glossary attached (but often omit this).
I was reading through a document I found on the internet about a local radio station the other day and it referred to the abbreviations SW, AM, and MS. I immediately thought of Short Wave, Morning, and Multiple Sclerosis, but it turned out they were actually just people's initials.
On the subject of these MSs, when I was at college, I was reading meeting minutes which kept explaining that certain things were to be done by an MS. I kept thinking to myself, what the hell is an MS? Apart from Multiple Sclerosis, the only thing that springs to mind is Microsoft. It took me most of the year to figure out that this 'MS' is actually the initials of the director of higher education :huh2:. There was another document which I got from college which I'm sure they wrote by using some random character generator.
Surely I can't be the only person who has trouble with abbreviations?
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Another rant for today.
I'm getting a bit fed up of people who seem to lack skills in both typing and spelling. I've recently been chatting with someone who seems to lack both a ' key and a . key, and misspells practically every word. His communication really is rather difficult to read. I would post a quote but I don't want to break any confidentiality.
This seems rather common, and I'm sure its getting worse these days.
There's also the issue of people who try and let their computers write for them, which seems to result in people saying things which are wrong, or don't make sense :unsure:.
I often fall into the trap of predictive text on here and other forums due to using a tablet a lot to post and it's predictive swipe typing being a bit to smart for its own good and trying to predict what you are writing, and not always noticing every work it inserts wrongly.
Anyway, regarding acronyms.. I totally agree. At Royal Mail (RM) they use a lot of them and some you would never guess unless told, and even then you might be left clueless as to their actual meaning. A great example is UTR.. we started to receive red sleeved yorks of packets from DOs (Distribution Offices) with red UTR labels on them a couple of years ago.. After asking various managers I finally discovered it meant Under the Roof.. but that still meant nothing to me.. until I spoke to some more people and uncovered that UTR meant another RM office had pre-cut, tipped and sorted the work being sent as UTR, so it didn't need to be processed and could bypass the initial process within the distribution centre and by moved directly to the next stage, speeding up the process. But UTR or Under the Roof is still a very strange name to give it IMO.
Do you manage OK typing on tablets? I've only done it a few times and I didn't get on with it too well, but they are big enough for a full qwerty keyboard, so I don't see the need for predictive text.
As for abbreviations, I have a document in the loft called 'DWP Corporate Abbreviations' (from the Department for Work and Pensions). It is a very long document. I should post it here just for the fun of it.
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Update: I just found a PDF of the file on the gov.uk site, which I have attached. Well worth a browse.
Tablets and phones predict the words the same way and sometimes it can waste time when it refuses to accept a word being typed.
Typing on a tablet or phone is so slow compared to a real keyboard.
I do like swype typing though. Have you tried it? You need to know a qwerty keyboard well to utilise it more easily, but it can be much faster.
Never heard of it, but then I don't have any touch screen devices, and have plenty of mechanical keyboards.
Just seen an interesting way of distributing viruses. Instead of the usual zipped SCR files, which I often get, this time I got a zipped SHTML file, which loaded a website up in an iframe, and redirected to Google Docs which downloaded the SCR file :ninja:.
Really. I don't think I've ever had an SCR file download. What and where are you downloading?
And never open attachments to dodgy looking emails. Any professional organisation will never attach a file directly to an email for things like bank forms, or links to specific logins. They always tell you to visit their site and log into your account yourself. If you don't know what it is, then don't download or open it.
I get quite a lot of emails with zipped SCR files. Usually it is an email formatted to look like it ought to be genuine, with an attachment like genuine_sounding_document.zip, which contains genuine_sounding_document.txt.scr.
But this one was curious as the zip file contained genuine_sounding_document.shtml, which contained only a link to another website.
Of course, as a GNU/Linux user, I have no idea what these executable files do, and I usually just delete them. I'm assuming they are Windows viruses.
SCR files are screensavers, and they put malware inside them, so if people did open the SCR files they install the screensaver, then when the computer next goes into screensaver mode it launches the malware with it.
I'm quite pissed off at the moment, because I'm sick. Last Saturday my throat started hurting, nothing to worry about, took some medication, didn't get better, so Monday morning I went to the doctor. Got antibiotics straight away, 3 days off work, and some other stuff, well done, thought in 2 days you'll be fine.
It just got worse, by Wednesday, I couldn't swallow anymore, it hurts so badly, never had that before plus I have all the time 39 fever. So I went back to the doctor, who changed then the antibiotics to a different one, pills against fever and I did a blood test. Plus I also have now a fungus on my tongue.
Called him on Thursday morning, and he told me that he was right the second time, that it was no mononucleosis, but bacteria infection with streptococcus type A, so the antibiotics should help.
Well I can tell you, it's still not better, I have a very hard time swallowing the pills, I didn't eat anything since Monday, and I spit into a bucket every 30 seconds because I cannot even swallow my saliva. I can't sleep, and this morning I was close to puking, as I think taking all the time the antibiotics on a raw stomach is not the best.
The throat pain is almost unbearable and I really hope I will see some progress soon. Today seems to be 5-10% better, not a lot, but that gives me hope.
Oh no. I know how bad that feels as I used to get tonsillitis a lot when I was little and it was horrible. Ice Cream is probably the only thing I could eat to try and sooth my tonsils.
Hope you start getting better soon and it's bad when you don't even feel well enough to play any video games.
Sounds bad. Hope you get well soon :).
Hi Demon, you cannot even swallow your saliva? :blink: That looks bad mate.
Hope you get better soon.
@ DC
The fungus on your tongue could be Thrush. Eat Yoghurt to help naturally, though I do believe there are oral Thrush solutions available too. - Being unwell in this manner can leave your gut short of healthy bacteria & thrush is usually the end result for this. Antibiotics also strip your gut of healthy bacteria too.
Another way to prove Thrush, is to not wash your cock for 24/48 hrs. If you start to develop cheese, that's Thrush for ya! :eyebrow:
If you are cheesing up down there, get some canesten cream. Google is your best friend or your Doc of course. ;)
Sympathies kiddo & hope you're feeling better soon. :thumbs:
Sorry to hear about this, Demon. Sounds nasty. Hope you'll get better soon. :thumbs:
& yeah.... It's best NOT to take prescribed drugs on an empty stomach. Before a meal is fine cos you'll be dumping food on top but never on an empty stomach. It could be a recipe for "Ulcer City" later in life, even if Antibiotics, head ache pills. Asprin on an empty gut will make it bleed. :(
Get well soon fella & eat loads of Yoghurt & soft fruit. :thumbs:
Thanks guys.
Day 6, and at the moment, it seems to be at least a bit better, swallowing still hurts, but is already better, I can manage to drink 3 sips of water. Since yesterday I also take vitamin pills, as I don't eat at all yet, thus getting no vitamins at all. Guess my body is quite out of minerals.
But I don't yell out yet, as it's still bad, and yesterday I had a bit the same feeling, and during the afternoon, the whole shit got worse again. Fever is also still there, have to see how that goes.
Hang in there fella! :thumbs:
Day 7.
Throat seems to be a bit better, was about time, at least I can swallow at the moment, so I can drink water :thumbs:
I think that 6 days without eating start to show, I feel very weak, and also dizzy at times. Sweating a lot, and also being tired almost all of the time. Fever is almost gone, at least not so high anymore. Fungus seems also to be almost gone, although now I have my whole mouth full of abscess, which also kinda hurts.
Perhaps I will manage to eat something tomorrow, that would be great. I'm going back to the doctor tomorrow morning anyway, because I don't feel like start working tomorrow already.
Day 8.
Throat is better, can drink, although drinks with bubbles hurt, have to drink them slowly.
Went to the doc today again, and he wrote me also this week off, so I have time to recover.
Gonna try to eat something later, went to the scale at the doc's, lost 8kg!!
Will continue my antibiotics until tomorrow, then they're finished.
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Day 9.
No big change since yesterday. Yesterday evening I ate a bit, potato mix (with tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, cream, egg), quite soft, worked out fine, just had to pay attention to eat slowly and not too hot.
why not some sort of milk shake with cerelac? it's eat to drink if you just put 2 spoons to stay liquid.
I guess is not good idea to put to much food inside. Drinking should be easy so grab everything that is strong in vitamins and put it liquid.
Day 10.
It doesn't seem to get really better, no real progress. Yesterday evening I ate a bit of pasta and fish, was ok. Still feeling weak, quite weird. I just hope this will be better again at some point. At least I drink quite a lot now, and I'm taking my vitamin pills every day.
You are to long with no proper food, you cannot be better after 2 days of eating something man.
15 days ago i eat something really fuxxx up and got a gastroenteritis, i went to the WC 15 times in 4 hours, man, i got the color of a brand new A1200.
It was 15 days ago, and i still fell my intestine and stomach screaming. I am on diet, looks like for ages... the recovery is being really slow.
What you got, was far worst i guess, not able to swallow and a lot of days without eating. Your stomach must need a lot f time to get better.
Did your doctor said to divide your daily food for a bigger number of meals? I got a friend that had something similar and we was eating very few each time, but he did it every hour. He even wake up in the middle of the night to eat. Very few each time, but that was good for recovering faster. But his bacteria was only in stomach as i remember.
Day 11.
Feeling a bit better, yesterday evening I had my first proper meal, a nice salad and spaghetti. During the day I ate a lot of fruit. Stomach was fine. I can feel that I'm getting back to normal soon, but let's touch wood. Today I also went to the toilet first time after 9 days, almost forgot how it's done :lol:
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Originally Posted by Demon Cleaner
Everything seems to get back to normal, feeling like 80% at the moment, which is absolutely great after all this painful days. Hopefully I will totally recover and it won't come back at any point. Going also back to work on Monday.