On 11/06/2021 16:21, Fredxx wrote:
On 11/06/2021 17:02, T i m wrote:
Fredxx wrote:
On 11/06/2021 15:48, T i m wrote:
Spike wrote:

Then there's the odd character about that writes a statement in
sentences that end with a question mark?

Sometimes several in one short posting?

[You see what I did there?]

Yes, you made a **** of yourself, *again*.

You're too up yourself to see that Spike did it on purpose.

Or, how about the idea that I 'got it' perfectly well and just
explained *why* I do what I do (and you snipped of course) but he (and
you) are both too thick / left brained to see it!

From T i m ' s link at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question

"Depending on the context, a rhetorical question may be punctuated by a
question mark (?), full stop (.), or exclamation mark (!),[5] but some
sources argue that it is required to use a question mark for any
question, rhetorical or not.[6]"

So, the jury is out on whether question marks at the end of a rhetorical
question are necessary, or even desirable.

For example. how is this a rhetorical question:

T i m : "In my mates shop you had to move a PC table and remove some
paneling
and no one ever complained?"

And then there's this, again from the link:

"The effectiveness of rhetorical questions in argument comes from their
dramatic quality. They suggest dialogue, especially when the speaker
both asks and answers them himself, as if he were playing two parts on
the stage. They are not always impassioned; they may be mildly ironical
or merely argumentative: but they are always to some extent dramatic,
and, if used to excess, they tend to give ones style a theatrical air."[8]

"Rhetorical questioning is€¦a fairly conscious technique adopted by a
speaker for deliberate ends, and it is used infrequently, proportional
to the length of the dialogue, oration, or conversation."[9] "

So according to that, T i m is a windbag theatrical drama-queen.

--
Spike

On 12/06/2021 09:19, Spike wrote:
So according to that, T i m is a windbag theatrical drama-queen.

What took you so long?

--
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's
too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

On 12/06/2021 08:25, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 12/06/2021 09:19, Spike wrote:

So according to that, T i m is a windbag theatrical drama-queen.

What took you so long?

I was waiting for T i m to condemn himself out of his own mouth, which
he's now done!


--
Spike

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 23:00:09 -0400, micky mouse, the notorious,
troll-feeding, senile ASSHOLE, blathered again:


I don't like it when people say, My name is Dr. John Smith.

Well, too bad for you, micky mouse, you notorious troll-feeding senile
asshole!

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 11/06/2021 19:59, ARW wrote:
On 11/06/2021 15:16, T i m wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 14:13:54 +0100, "tim..."
wrote:



"T i m" wrote in message
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On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:36:53 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
wrote:

People who pronounce 'aitch' as 'Haich'.
People who say 'anythink'.
People who say things like '3am in the morning'.
People who call the car the 'Robin Reliant'.

why this bias against owners of Robin Reliants?


It's the same bias as I have against owners of Escort Fords.

Cheers, T i m



Are they the same as Ford Escorts?

Do they still exist?

In much the same way that Reliant Robins still exist

"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
...
Back in the day, Moron, Imbecile and Idiot had specific IQ ranges to be
classified as such...

I didn't know about the name to IQ mapping.

And I worked with all of them over the years.

Yes, they usually get promoted very quickly to management roles.

micky wrote
Rod Speed wrote

You get the same problem with disabled, the worst of the fools
don't like to admit that they are disabled and use other silly terms.

Disabled has a meaning, but it's not the one they
think it is and it's not the one they usually want.

That's just one of the meanings of disabled.

When you disable the starter motor, or the
AC, or anything, it doesn't work anymore.

With people its actually the reverse of the much older term abled,
in the sense of an able bodied person or servant or seaman etc.

All of the "advocates for the disabled" try to
make the point that most of them are useful.

Yes but disabled doesn't rule that out with people.

They can overcome their problems, either with technical help or
just by taking more time, etc. They are still able to do things.

Yes.

They are not disabled.

Yes they are in the sense that they arent abled.

Sometimes they even call them "differntly abled",

Yeah, that's one of the more silly terms I was referring to.

But even that isnt accurate because they are hardly ever
more abled than people generally are, in a particular area.

There are some exceptions like say the blind can have a
much better memory than a not disabled person etc.

a terrible construction but it still makes
the point that they are not disabled.

They are actually disabled in the sense that the word abled is used with
people.

The word they wanted they already had, handicapped.

They don't like that word either. Or crippled
even tho some of them are crippled.

Handicapped means you can do it but it takes
longer or maybe you don't do it quite as well.

Just as true of disabled.

So golfers are given a handicap, but it's really
an anti-handicap to be able to compare their
scores on a given day with par.

That's different again.

IIUC jockey's who don't weigh as much as the other
jockey's get weights put on their horse to make the
race fair, unrelated to the weight of the jockey. The
weight is a handicap, but the horse still finishes the race.

All this started by a misunderstanding, thinking that
handicap was related to some kind of begging with
a cap in one's hand, but that would be capihand.
The origin of handicap is different. It's an entirely
different word.

Strangely, afaict they still have handicap parking.

Not here, its called disabled here.

I guess the disabled are not allowed to park there, but
then again, if they're disabled, they can't drive anyhow.

Yes they can. If they were disabled like with a starter motor
they would be dead, not able to do anything at all.

On 6/12/21 2:06 AM, micky wrote:
Just this past week I heard someone say on the news, "This was obviously
the hardest decision of my life". We don't know what other decisions
he's had to make, or how hard that one was. There are other examples
that are even worse.


You obviously need to pick a better news channel.

"micky" wrote in message
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In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 11 Jun 2021 19:58:01 -0400, Ed Pawlowski
wrote:

On 6/11/2021 6:24 PM, Wade Garrett wrote:
On 6/11/21 4:50 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

Those terms are useful. What other term would you use that is better
?

I also get annoyed with a gradual change to the names of
organisations
for blind people calling themselves. Vision Australia, or London
Vision, or Vision foundation etc, Vision loss is fine, but these
organisations sound like some kind of hippy think tank, not a
charity
to help blind people, what is wrong with blind, or vision loss or
partially sighted??

Too long.

You get the same problem with disabled, the worst of the fools don?t
like
to admit that they are disabled and use other silly terms.

It's not the disabled who wantb other terms. It's those who "feel"
for them.


Yes, the world is a better place since we no longer have retarded or

Of course retarded was a gentle word when it was first used. It meant
that it took them longer to do something, as in the first meaning of the
word retard at dictionary.com, "to make slow; delay the development or
progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede." But as with
handicapped, it implied that they would finish, just later than others.
Unfortunately, maybe, this choice of words didn't fool onlookers when it
came to those who were so retarded that they never learned certain
things. Plus there are the nasty people who used it as insult. So the
word fell out of favor.

It reminds me of some of the words for prison. Reformatory, a place
where the person will be reformed. Penitentiary, a place where he will
do penitence (and maybe penance). Correctional Institute, a place where
he will be corrected. The similarity with retarded is that people
forget the original meaning of the word, and it just sounds like another
word for prison.


crippled people.

I think I agree that cripple is usually obsolete now because for so many
people there are prostheses and motorized things, so that most are not
as crippled as they once would have been, maybe not at all. But otoh,
when someone can't do something, saying he's crippled shouldn't be
offensive. Changing the words used doesn't make his health any better.

Have you ever seen the original version of The Best years of our Lives,
where the soldier who has lost both his forearms and hands returns home
from the war. Played by a man who was in just that situation.

Back in the day, Moron, Imbecile and Idiot had specific IQ ranges to be
classified as such...

I sort of knew that, but I wonder what they do now.

Intellectually disabled mostly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_disability

Just use IQ numbers?

Nope.

And I worked with all of them over the years.

I've met many of your co-workers at one bar or another.

On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 20:14:11 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


That's just one of the meanings of disabled.

A clearly disabled senile troll now lecturing about "disabled"! LMAO

--
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"You have mentioned Alexa in a couple of threads recently, it is not a real
woman you know even if it is the only thing with a female name that stays
around around while you talk it to it.
Poor sad git who has to resort to Usenet and electronic devices for any
interaction as all real people run a mile to get away from you boring them
to death."
MID:

"Buck Fiden" wrote in message
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On 6/12/21 2:06 AM, micky wrote:
Just this past week I heard someone say on the news, "This was obviously
the hardest decision of my life". We don't know what other decisions
he's had to make, or how hard that one was. There are other examples
that are even worse.

"This was obviously the hardest decision of my life" may be hyperbole, but
it could be taken at face value: the speaker knows what decisions he's had
to make up to now in his life, and judges the one he's talking about to be
the hardest of those (without enumerating all the decisions). Obviously
no-one can compare it with decisions in the future which they have not yet
faced, but I'd take "of my life" to mean "of my life *so far*".

"Rod Speed" wrote in message
...
Back in the day, Moron, Imbecile and Idiot had specific IQ ranges to be
classified as such...

I sort of knew that, but I wonder what they do now.

Intellectually disabled mostly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_disability

I've not heard that term. The usual euphemism is "learning difficulties"
which tends to refer to people who are unkindly and humorously referred to
as "the hard of thinking" as an extension of the similar derivation "the
hard of hearing".

On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 10:06:25 +0100, "tim..."
wrote:

why this bias against owners of Robin Reliants?

In much the same way that Reliant Robins still exist


Which of course 'Reliant Robins' still do exist as much as they ever
did, it's the existence of 'Robin Reliants' I was questioning and you
seemed to know about?

Cheers, T i m

On 12/06/2021 10:38, NY wrote:
"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message
...
Back in the day, Moron, Imbecile and Idiot had specific IQ ranges to
be classified as such...

I didn't know about the name to IQ mapping.

And I worked with all of them over the years.

Yes, they usually get promoted very quickly to management roles.

There's a very good mathematical explanation for this:
https://twitter.com/Cramtirolf/statu...847233/photo/1

On 6/11/21 3:48 PM, Kelly Phillips wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 15:49:41 +0100, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)"
wrote:

I don't tap or click my computer I operate it with the keyboard. I get
annoyed by sites that say for more info tap here, then hide it way down the
tab order in a page so you loose the will to live trying to focus it to
operate it.

loose versus lose

One of the most common errors around here. Also mixing up breath (as in
take a breath) and breathe (as in breathe freely).

--
"I don't believe in god because I don't believe in Mother Goose." --
Clarence Darrow

On 06/12/2021 04:25 AM, NY wrote:
"Rod Speed" wrote in message
...
Back in the day, Moron, Imbecile and Idiot had specific IQ ranges
to be
classified as such...

I sort of knew that, but I wonder what they do now.

Intellectually disabled mostly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_disability

I've not heard that term. The usual euphemism is "learning difficulties"
which tends to refer to people who are unkindly and humorously referred
to as "the hard of thinking" as an extension of the similar derivation
"the hard of hearing".

In this group the euphemism is '****ing moron'.

On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:40:28 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:

Commander Kinsey wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Draw instead of drawer with a chest of draws on facebook.
Not annoy so much as just ****ed.

Commander Kinsey wrote

Tap instead of click.

You don't click anything with a smartphone.

You might as well call it a click.

But then everyone will ask how you click with a smartphone.

So if I told you to drive to Melbourne and you didn't drive, you wouldn't have the sense to take a bus?

It's precisely the same action.

But the anals like you will howl about that.

No I wouldn't. It's always been click. Touchscreens are a new thing.

App instead of program.

Works better than prog.

They both sound stupid.

Only to the pathetically anal.

But as an Aussie you're more used to excessive
shortening of everything, like "arvo" would
never be acceptable in the UK.

Your problem, as always.

Even you dregs use bob, bill, joe etc etc etc.

Words have to be longer to be unique.

Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent).

Not that pathetically anal.

The pathetic are the ones that insist on using the "correct" one.

You are just as pathetic.

********. I detest the pathetic ones. You can't say someone is pathetic for hating what pathetic people do.

Slowed up instead of slowed down
(slow is less speed, so must be down).

Not that pathetically anal.

It's a blatant contradiction!

Only for the pathetically anal.

No, it's just wrong. What if I told you to heat down your food, or cool it up in the fridge?

People who write computer programs
that say "hello world" and nothing else

Doesn't happen enough to matter anymore.

I only need to see it once to want to kill.

Because you are that pathetically anal.

You can look a geek in the eyes and not feel that desire?

On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:54:19 +0100, gareth evans wrote:

On 10/06/2021 17:36, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Tap instead of click.
App instead of program.
Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent).
Slowed up instead of slowed down (slow is less speed, so must be down).
People who write computer programs that say "hello world" and nothing
else - clearly that program doesn't have the intelligence to say hello.
Bothering to distinguish between burned and burnt.
Forward instead of forwards.

Listen up and park up instead of listen and park

Heads up.

On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 19:01:14 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:

gareth evans wrote
Commander Kinsey wrote

Tap instead of click.
App instead of program.
Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent).
Slowed up instead of slowed down (slow is less speed, so must be down).
People who write computer programs that say "hello world" and nothing
else - clearly that program doesn't have the intelligence to say hello.
Bothering to distinguish between burned and burnt.
Forward instead of forwards.

Listen up and park up instead of listen and park

Visitation instead of visit.

That damned yankee phrase I cant think of for the moment.

Commentator instead of commenter.

On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:01:07 +0100, FromTheRafters wrote:

Rod Speed explained on 6/10/2021 :
gareth evans wrote
Commander Kinsey wrote

Tap instead of click.
App instead of program.
Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent).
Slowed up instead of slowed down (slow is less speed, so must be down).
People who write computer programs that say "hello world" and nothing
else - clearly that program doesn't have the intelligence to say hello.
Bothering to distinguish between burned and burnt.
Forward instead of forwards.

Listen up and park up instead of listen and park

Visitation instead of visit.

That damned yankee phrase I cant think of for the moment.

Cayn't get theyah from heeyah.

Do some actually believe that can be true?

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 02:45:39 +0100, micky wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:08:12 -0700 (PDT),
" wrote:

On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 3:01:13 PM UTC-4, FromTheRafters wrote:
Rod Speed explained on 6/10/2021 :

That damned yankee phrase I cant think of for the moment.
Cayn't get theyah from heeyah.

I don't think he means "Yankee" the way we mean "Yankee".

He'll probably think of it at some point and enlighten us.

Cindy Hamilton

To the rest of the world, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a northerner.
To a Northerner, a Yankee is someone from New England.
To a New Englander, a Yankee is someone from Maine.
To someone from Maine, a Yankee is someone who eats apple pie for
breakfast.

Better to say Merkin for unambiguity.

On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 21:41:02 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:



"FromTheRafters" wrote in message
...
Rod Speed explained on 6/10/2021 :
gareth evans wrote
Commander Kinsey wrote

Tap instead of click.
App instead of program.
Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent).
Slowed up instead of slowed down (slow is less speed, so must be down).
People who write computer programs that say "hello world" and nothing
else - clearly that program doesn't have the intelligence to say hello.
Bothering to distinguish between burned and burnt.
Forward instead of forwards.

Listen up and park up instead of listen and park

Visitation instead of visit.

That damned yankee phrase I cant think of for the moment.

Cayn't get theyah from heeyah.

Nar, not that one. Said when telling someone to do something
immediately. Still cant think of it but that's just my dyslexia.

I always thought there was something wrong with you.

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 05:29:31 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:



"Rod Speed" wrote in message
...


"Dean Hoffman" wrote in message
...
On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 3:41:11 PM UTC-5, Rod Speed wrote:
"FromTheRafters" wrote in message
...
Rod Speed explained on 6/10/2021 :
gareth evans wrote
Commander Kinsey wrote

Tap instead of click.
App instead of program.
Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent).
Slowed up instead of slowed down (slow is less speed, so must be
down).
People who write computer programs that say "hello world" and
nothing
else - clearly that program doesn't have the intelligence to say
hello.
Bothering to distinguish between burned and burnt.
Forward instead of forwards.

Listen up and park up instead of listen and park

Visitation instead of visit.

That damned yankee phrase I cant think of for the moment.

Cayn't get theyah from heeyah.
Nar, not that one. Said when telling someone to do something
immediately. Still cant think of it but that's just my dyslexia.

"on the qt". ??????
as in on the quicktime

Nope, just two words instead of just one. Very common with yanks.

Finally...

Using "go ahead" instead of leaving both words out when
saying something like "go ahead and order the new car" etc

"Now what you're gonna want to do is press this button" instead of "press this button".

On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 21:41:02 +0100, Rod Speed wrote:



"FromTheRafters" wrote in message
...
Rod Speed explained on 6/10/2021 :
gareth evans wrote
Commander Kinsey wrote

Tap instead of click.
App instead of program.
Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent).
Slowed up instead of slowed down (slow is less speed, so must be down).
People who write computer programs that say "hello world" and nothing
else - clearly that program doesn't have the intelligence to say hello.
Bothering to distinguish between burned and burnt.
Forward instead of forwards.

Listen up and park up instead of listen and park

Visitation instead of visit.

That damned yankee phrase I cant think of for the moment.

Cayn't get theyah from heeyah.

Nar, not that one. Said when telling someone to do something
immediately. Still cant think of it but that's just my dyslexia.

ASAP, but pronounced as a word, "aysapp"

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 14:19:50 +0100, wrote:

On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 4:53:14 PM UTC-4, charles wrote:
In article ,
Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 6/10/2021 3:53 PM, charles wrote:
In article ,
Rod Speed wrote:
gareth evans wrote
Commander Kinsey wrote

Tap instead of click.
App instead of program.
Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent).
Slowed up instead of slowed down (slow is less speed, so must be down).
People who write computer programs that say "hello world" and nothing
else - clearly that program doesn't have the intelligence to say hello.
Bothering to distinguish between burned and burnt.
Forward instead of forwards.

Listen up and park up instead of listen and park

Visitation instead of visit.

That damned yankee phrase I cant think of for the moment.

'expiration date' or 'expiry date'


OK, I'll bite. What is wrong with that commonly used phrase?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expiration_date
why not use expiry? It's shorter.

It doesn't fit the pattern of similar words.

Does it really matter? Both are understandable.

What matters is it's never accurate. I was pleased to see (and surprised it's legal) a yogurt pot which encouraged you to ignore the date and smell it.

"NY" wrote in message
...
"Rod Speed" wrote in message
...
Back in the day, Moron, Imbecile and Idiot had specific IQ ranges to
be
classified as such...

I sort of knew that, but I wonder what they do now.

Intellectually disabled mostly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_disability

I've not heard that term. The usual euphemism is "learning difficulties"

That's more for kids rather than adults.

which tends to refer to people who are unkindly and humorously referred to
as "the hard of thinking"

That's more of an insult.

as an extension of the similar derivation "the hard of hearing".

On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 10:40:04 -0600, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:



In this group the euphemism is '****ing moron'.

What's the euphemism for "****ing stupid troll-feeding senile asshole" like
you, gossip girl?

On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 03:52:14 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


I've not heard that term. The usual euphemism is "learning difficulties"

That's more for kids rather than adults.

HOW much more, senile know-it-all?

which tends to refer to people who are unkindly and humorously referred to
as "the hard of thinking"

That's more of an insult.

HOW much more of an insult, you senile auto-contradicting sociopath?

--
Kerr-Mudd,John addressing the auto-contradicting senile cretin:
"Auto-contradictor Rod is back! (in the KF)"
MID:

"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
news
On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:40:28 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:

Commander Kinsey wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Draw instead of drawer with a chest of draws on facebook.
Not annoy so much as just ****ed.

Commander Kinsey wrote

Tap instead of click.

You don't click anything with a smartphone.

You might as well call it a click.

But then everyone will ask how you click with a smartphone.

So if I told you to drive to Melbourne and you didn't drive, you wouldn't
have the sense to take a bus?

Its different with stuff you arent familiar with.

It's precisely the same action.

But the anals like you will howl about that.

No I wouldn't. It's always been click. Touchscreens are a new thing.

And so someone being told how to do things
on one will ask how you click with a smartphone.

App instead of program.

Works better than prog.

They both sound stupid.

Only to the pathetically anal.

But as an Aussie you're more used to excessive
shortening of everything, like "arvo" would
never be acceptable in the UK.

Your problem, as always.

Even you dregs use bob, bill, joe etc etc etc.

Words have to be longer to be unique.

Arvo is much more unique than afternoon and twice as long.

Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent).

Not that pathetically anal.

The pathetic are the ones that insist on using the "correct" one.

You are just as pathetic.

********. I detest the pathetic ones. You can't say someone is pathetic
for hating what pathetic people do.

I can and so say that you are pathetically anal about word usage.

Slowed up instead of slowed down
(slow is less speed, so must be down).

Not that pathetically anal.

It's a blatant contradiction!

Only for the pathetically anal.

No, it's just wrong. What if I told you to heat down your food, or cool
it up in the fridge?

Only the pathetically anal obsess about stuff like that.

People who write computer programs
that say "hello world" and nothing else

Doesn't happen enough to matter anymore.

I only need to see it once to want to kill.

Because you are that pathetically anal.

You can look a geek in the eyes and not feel that desire?

Nope, but then I'm not a psychopath.

"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
news
On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:54:19 +0100, gareth evans
wrote:

On 10/06/2021 17:36, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Tap instead of click.
App instead of program.
Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent).
Slowed up instead of slowed down (slow is less speed, so must be down).
People who write computer programs that say "hello world" and nothing
else - clearly that program doesn't have the intelligence to say hello.
Bothering to distinguish between burned and burnt.
Forward instead of forwards.

Listen up and park up instead of listen and park

Heads up.

Heads doesn't work.

"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
news
On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 19:01:14 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:

gareth evans wrote
Commander Kinsey wrote

Tap instead of click.
App instead of program.
Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent).
Slowed up instead of slowed down (slow is less speed, so must be down).
People who write computer programs that say "hello world" and nothing
else - clearly that program doesn't have the intelligence to say hello.
Bothering to distinguish between burned and burnt.
Forward instead of forwards.

Listen up and park up instead of listen and park

Visitation instead of visit.

That damned yankee phrase I cant think of for the moment.

Commentator instead of commenter.

Never heard anyone say commenter.

"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
news
On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:01:07 +0100, FromTheRafters
wrote:

Rod Speed explained on 6/10/2021 :
gareth evans wrote
Commander Kinsey wrote

Tap instead of click.
App instead of program.
Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent).
Slowed up instead of slowed down (slow is less speed, so must be
down).
People who write computer programs that say "hello world" and nothing
else - clearly that program doesn't have the intelligence to say
hello.
Bothering to distinguish between burned and burnt.
Forward instead of forwards.

Listen up and park up instead of listen and park

Visitation instead of visit.

That damned yankee phrase I cant think of for the moment.

Cayn't get theyah from heeyah.

Do some actually believe that can be true?

Some have been known to say that, not clear why.

On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 04:27:04 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the two sociopathic cretins' endless absolutely idiotic blather

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Another typical retarded "conversation" between the two resident idiots:

Birdbrain: "But imagine how cool it was to own slaves."

Senile Rodent: "Yeah, right. Feed them, clothe them, and fix them when
they're broken.
After all, you paid good money for them. Then you've got to keep an eye
on them all the time."

Birdbrain: "Better than having to give them wages on top of that."

Senile Rodent: "Specially when they make more slaves for you
and produce their own food and clothes."

MID:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 04:28:48 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the two sociopathic cretins' endless absolutely idiotic blather


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Another typical retarded "conversation" between Birdbrain and senile Rodent:

Senile Rodent: " Did you ever dig a hole to bury your own ****?"

Birdbrain: "I do if there's no flush toilet around."

Senile Rodent: "Yeah, I prefer camping like that, off by myself with
no dunnys around and have always buried the ****."

MID:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 04:27:56 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the two sociopathic cretins' endless absolutely idiotic blather

--
Typical retarded "conversation" between the Scottish ****** and the senile
Ozzietard:

Birdbrain: "Horse **** doesn't stink."

Senile Rodent: "It does if you roll in it."

Birdbrain: "I've never worked out why, I assumed it was maybe meateaters
that made stinky ****, but then why does vegetarian human **** stink? Is it
just the fact that we're capable of digesting meat?"

Senile Rodent: "Nope, some cow **** stinks too."

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On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 04:29:45 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the two subnormal sociopathic cretins' endless absolutely idiotic
blather

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Another typical retarded conversation between our two village idiots,
Birdbrain and Rodent Speed:

Birdbrain: "You beat me to it. Plain sex is boring."

Senile Rodent: "Then **** the cats. That wont be boring."

Birdbrain: "Sell me a de-clawing tool first."

Senile Rodent: "Wont help with the teeth."

Birdbrain: "They've never gone for me with their mouths."

Rodent Speed: "They will if you are stupid enough to try ****ing them."

Birdbrain: "No, they always use claws."

Rodent Speed: "They wont if you try ****ing them. Try it and see."

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On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 15:48:27 -0500, Kelly Phillips posted for all of us to
digest...


On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 15:49:41 +0100, "Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)"
wrote:

I don't tap or click my computer I operate it with the keyboard. I get
annoyed by sites that say for more info tap here, then hide it way down the
tab order in a page so you loose the will to live trying to focus it to
operate it.

loose versus lose

+1

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Tekkie

In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 12 Jun 2021 11:21:58 +0100, "NY"
wrote:

"Buck Fiden" wrote in message
...
On 6/12/21 2:06 AM, micky wrote:
Just this past week I heard someone say on the news, "This was obviously
the hardest decision of my life". We don't know what other decisions
he's had to make, or how hard that one was. There are other examples
that are even worse.

"This was obviously the hardest decision of my life" may be hyperbole, but
it could be taken at face value: the speaker knows what decisions he's had
to make up to now in his life, and judges the one he's talking about to be
the hardest of those (without enumerating all the decisions).

For sure. He can decide it was the hardest, and I'm not challenging
that. But no way is that obvious to the people he's talking to.

He didn't mean that it was obvious to himself.


Obviously
no-one can compare it with decisions in the future which they have not yet
faced, but I'd take "of my life" to mean "of my life *so far*".

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 19:58:01 -0400, Ed Pawlowski posted for all of us to
digest...


On 6/11/2021 6:24 PM, Wade Garrett wrote:
On 6/11/21 4:50 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

Those terms are useful. What other term would you use that is better ?

I also get annoyed with a gradual change to the names of organisations
for blind people calling themselves. Vision Australia, or London
Vision, or Vision foundation etc,* Vision loss is fine, but these
organisations sound like some kind of hippy think tank, not a charity
to help blind people, what is wrong with blind, or vision loss or
partially sighted??

Too long.

You get the same problem with disabled, the worst of the fools don?t
like
to admit that they are disabled and use other silly terms.

It's not the disabled who wantb other terms. It's those who "feel"
for them.


Yes, the world is a better place since we no longer have retarded or
crippled people.

Back in the day, Moron, Imbecile and Idiot had specific IQ ranges to be
classified as such...


And I worked with all of them over the years.

I had a collection too. I have found that when one leaves it is quickly
replaced by another of lesser ability. I compare it to a staircase - it only
goes down.

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Tekkie

On 06/12/2021 11:39 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:01:07 +0100, FromTheRafters
wrote:

Rod Speed explained on 6/10/2021 :
gareth evans wrote
Commander Kinsey wrote

Tap instead of click.
App instead of program.
Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent).
Slowed up instead of slowed down (slow is less speed, so must be
down).
People who write computer programs that say "hello world" and nothing
else - clearly that program doesn't have the intelligence to say
hello.
Bothering to distinguish between burned and burnt.
Forward instead of forwards.

Listen up and park up instead of listen and park

Visitation instead of visit.

That damned yankee phrase I cant think of for the moment.

Cayn't get theyah from heeyah.

Do some actually believe that can be true?

For practical purposes...