The First World Whinging Thread

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  1. The Dapper Hooligan

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    Accidentally summon a Norman Invasion? It happens to the best of us from time to time.
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    Also helpful against Trojans.
     
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  2. EstherMayRose

    EstherMayRose Gay Souffle Contributor

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    Very nice. I mean, I know some people who could do you a Norman invasion...

    The other day, our cat walked across my Dad's laptop and turned the screen upside-down. It was pretty entertaining.
     
  3. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    D'oh...
    Ctrl key combinations.

    Whatever.
     
  4. Catrin Lewis

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    It's done nothing but rain here in western Pennsylvania. I was still using the electric fire in my bedroom last week. So I can sympathize.
     
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    So some stuff I've been wasting my time on YouTube has reminded me of a weird incident that happened when I was travelling in Scotland a few years ago. I transcribed my journal for that trip (names changed to protect the guilty, etc.) and posted it on my personal blog, and tonight I entered the blog title in Google to have a look at it.

    The page starts to load, then goes to a site titled http://www1.widgetserver.com/? etc., etc. What the---??

    Told myself not to panic. Yeah, I haven't posted anything in it for awhile, but it's Blogspot, for goodness sakes, not some bought-and-not-renewed domain name. And the other blogs I've also neglected for years are still up.

    Well, Google is my friend. Sort of. Turns out I have to go into the Layout and delete or change some widget or other. But I'm too ground up in useless adrenaline to have the brain to take care of it tonight.

    I have enough to do in my life. Why do I have to add this?
     
  6. NigeTheHat

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    What is this bullshit? I don't live in London to deal with crap like this.

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  7. Cave Troll

    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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  8. Iain Aschendale

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    But it's a dry heat?
     
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    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    "A bonfire is a dry heat. You don't see me sticking my ass in one of those." -Walter- :D
     
  10. flawed personality

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    We can swap. You can live in Ireland where there's permacloud 98% of the year, even in summertime. You can even be lucky enough to have to have extra heating on in mid June! :p
     
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  11. flawed personality

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    Trying to create an account on a new site, and it is insisting that I use my google account. But I don't want to! :mad: *insert temper tantrum here*
     
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    Heaven. I'm pretty the reason I hate hot weather is because my skin cells are screaming at me.
     
  13. flawed personality

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    The Arizona I went to looked like this :p:

    Snow in AZ Dec 2018.JPG
     
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  14. Iain Aschendale

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    I think CT is a generally honest guy, but are you sure he led you to Arizona?
     
  15. flawed personality

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    Unless he got the airport moved, but that would mean the whole government were in on it too... :superthink:

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    Wouldn't be surprised. Have you seen the thing's they've been pulling, trying to convince everyone the earth is round?
     
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    Round? Are they kidding?

    Haven't they read Terry Pratchett at all?
     
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    I know, everyone knows the word's a set of rectangular planes that fit into the inverse icosehedron that is our heavenly firmament.
     
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  19. Link the Writer

    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    I don't have a First World Problem issue and this bothers me.
     
  20. flawed personality

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    It's bedtime for me, but I'm not tired. Maybe that nap I had earlier was a bad idea... :p
     
  21. EstherMayRose

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  22. Iain Aschendale

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    I got a new phone, a Galaxy S10. The screen goes right up to the edges, which means that it's almost impossible to one-hand it on the bus because the edges of your hand bump the active area of the phone....
     
  23. Some Guy

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    My Note 8 does that, too. There's a setting to turn 'edge' off. I didn't mind doing without whatever 'feature' is lost. :D

    Edit: you can also get a cover that shelters the edge. It also covers that damned Bixby button, which I would have sliced right off the phone!
     
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    I've spent more than a few minutes looking speculatively at a tube of superglue and the Bixby button. It now seems to be programmable, but I haven't had time to mess with it.
     
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    Today I paid the customs charge on a parcel I'm waiting for, from the States. I haven't received the grey slip yet; he had the parcel in front of him but procedure dictates he has it delivered to me tomorrow. FFS.
     

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