The First World Whinging Thread

I got one of these key puller tools, really need to clean both my desk and my keyboard.

 

Too bad you hate books so much

 

Good luck with the Tippex!

 

I've got a similar tool, but it's not quite that fancy. Just a thin, flat edge for prying.

 

I'm going to get one of those little mouse-shaped ones, with the little ears, that uses the dry stuff.

 

The keys should really be pulled straight up. If not, it could cause damage to the shaft of the switch, or the moulding on the cap, causing the switch to not work tight, or the cap to come loose to not fit right.

 

What he said.

 

Or better yet, that but coherent.

 

About half of the ones on the rack by the desk are there because I needed them for research.

 

First time I have heard it meant that to some, thank you.
I have had it tattooed on me for 30+ years and it has vastly different meanings.

 

I too remember what it used to mean, and it confused me for years until I found out that a new meaning had been registered with the International Meaningless Initial Group (IMIG)...

Ugg boots FTW!

Banana Smoothie FTW!

Taco Bell FTW!

Well, that last one makes a bit of sense....

ETA: (yeah, that fucked me up for a while too) I still see and say this: XD as "ecks dee" and have no fucking idea what it's supposed to be. Something happy I think.

 

What did it previously mean, for a clueless young person unaware of the world outside her phone?

 

"Fuck the World". Primarily a biker thing, I think.

 

Oh my God, the jacket. I can't imagine what a charming, lovely person must wear/have worn it.

"Speak English or get the fuck out!" Oh my God. Call me a snowflake all you want, but I'm offended. (By this guy, not by you.)

And I've just noticed that's the Confederate flag...

 

Yeah, doesn't seem like the kind of gent that would appreciate coming for tea to discuss Robert Frost.

Never know though, people can be surprising some times.

 

Lower right corner! LOL

 

The Confed flag was a biker sign of independent rebellion.
The English one was originally a protest against an amendment for languages, I think. All were bastardized by 'rebel' motorcycle clubs.
(referring to Rebel Without A Cause)

 

I'm actually very careful taking the keys off, and I've been doing it to the same keyboard for over 9 years now. The ordinary keys come up very easily, and I can carefully jimmy the toggle keys as well. My method seems to work, but I take your point.

 

Nowadays, at least in the UK, a big biker gang roaring up the road usually consists of harmless people in their 60s and 70s (revealed when they remove their scary helmets), who want to stop at a roadside café for a cup of tea. That's when they're not out presenting cookery shows and writing recipe books. Time marches on.

 

Those two aren't bikers - the two ex-BBC staffers given a cookery show. That could have been us,@J...no justice in the world of cookery shows.

...Skeletaur on a low-rider, with his banner Hells Angels, London, or Black Rats, Hastings is a very different creature suggesting a long history of gang membership and criminality...sexy - fighting with baseball bats. Lemmy on the decks, kilo of hashish in the rear leather pocket, acid bath for the snitches and nonces, bORN TO kILL.

 

Oh, aye....

 

Don't bully me @jannert, or @Jonnert as the best and @members/everybody knows. Those are not 'bikers.' They are men with motorbikes.

 

Real bikers:

Spoiler: Chode alert

 

There's always the dreaded bosozoku (literally: bad driving tribe) of Japan. Scooter gangs, basically a roving noise complaint that the police dealt with by running their sirens.



And apparently running them over from time to time. I approve.

 

Are they waving spears at them? In North America that'd probably get them shot.