No-one's protected. Every person we meet has their own burden. I am reminded of the Robin William's quote that I have seen on so many memes: Every person you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind—always.
There may be a solution for this (although 'install an app that will bombard you with ads' isn't it), but in what universe did it make sense to the designer of the Android keyboard to place the apostrophe on the numbers menu rather than with the QWERTY menu? I'm considering no longer texting with people who use commas as apostrophes.
It's above the "k" on my Android device... (mind you, my Android device is a Blackberry with a physical keyboard)
Yes, and before the internet, telephone companies used to publish annual telephone books. Then along came web sites such as 411.com that allowed you to look up telephone numbers on-line, and physical telephone books became an historical anachronism. Having succeeded in eliminating the printed competition, the free on-line telephone look-up sites then ceased to be free, with the result that it may now take a half hour to find a working telephone number for the William Johnson family half a mile down the street from your home. And when I was young, Ma Bell (a.k.a. AT&T) actually had operators whom you could call and ask for a telephone number. IIRC, local directory assistance was free and we had to pay some nominal amount for long distance directory assistance. I'm pretty sure the telephone companies don't have directory assistance any more, and they probably don't even have operators.
Absolutely, but... I wonder what the percentage of households that even have landlines anymore is. I'm fifty and none of my friends back home do. My dad does, but my stepdad and my (late) mother each had their own cell phones. There may well not be a phone number associated with 742 Evergreen Terrace anymore.
I'm in my late 50's and have both a landline and a mobile phone. The reason that I have both is that in the area where I live, trying to get a signal for the mobile phone is nigh on impossible sometimes. As SapereAude mentioned, the last time I saw a printed telephone directory was years ago when I was still living in South Africa.
Thanks. That works. Whether I can get the people I text with to use it ... Probably a separate whine, but you'd think that the ten minutes I spent trying to find an answer would have found that. Seems like search is rapidly becoming unusable. ETA: Cross-thread - TMW you come back to a thread a day later and realize you never clicked on Post Reply.
The last time we had a landline, of the few calls we received half were from someone looking for someone other than us, and half from someone who didn’t speak English, which leads me to believe they too were looking for someone other than us.
This one's mostly for @SapereAude : "He trusts that given your deep experience, you will be able to propose something that is both very light and very heavy in your next submission."
Thanks, but I'll keep my ad blocker and tracker protection. It's highly unlikely there will ever be something I want or need to know on Twitter. If there is, I'm sure someone will tell me about it.
There are indeed folks who aren't interested in basing their practical and intellectual knowledge on information gleaned from social media. Count me in as one of them.
Yow. What I considered to be a thoughtful offering of a funny thread about the profession I thought/knew another member was a part of, turns into a full-out snarkfest. For the record, I don't have a Twitter account, and I'm pretty sure I don't base my practical and intellectual knowledge on anything but, you know, practice and intellect. I do link to other peoples' Tweets when the spirit moves. I also have linked to articles at The Huffington Post, and if there's a honest word on that site, I haven't seen it.
I had to look up "snark." "Snarky" is used to describe speech with a specific emotional tone, typically a form of sarcasm informed by cheekiness and a mild, playful irreverence or impudence. When the dominant intent of the communication is to express or convey direct or judgmental rudeness, the sense of mild cheekiness is lost and the overall communication crosses the line to become "snide." Okay. Now that I understand the term, I will admit to being snarky, but don't think I toppled into snide. The little blue winking emoticon was employed to indicate a mild, playful irreverence toward social media. I'll try to be clearer about my intent next time.
Someone stole close to 200 onions from my allotment today. I know it's only onions but months of hard work went into growing them. I hope they make the bastard cry, or preferably choke.
It's only onions at the end of the day but it has been reported to the local police. It is theft after all. Not that there's anything they can do really but they ask that all thefts be reported. There's nothing I can do about it either so, I came in here to have a whinge about it.
$34.85 red 25# $31.43 spanish yellow 50# $53.45 white jumbo 50# Think I spent about $900 total between 6 stores last week... it was a slow week.
Only what I could carry, which wouldn't get through a hour service. Onions are heavy. 200 onions? Red onions are about 8oz, yellow about 6oz, white jumbo 14oz... I'd need a truck for that.
Crikey! Over here they're about 50p a bag. If they were those prices I'd be a bit more miffed. And yes they would have been heavy. They had just finished drying but a good half were six inches in diameter. I had to lift them and put them out to dry, they were definitely more than one person could carry.
