Today I Consign To Hell -the All Saints version

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  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Although there's no problem with "hills", "bridges", "chimneys", "bicycles" or "traffic lights". My main problem is that the pictures are so small and murky.

    Absolutely. I got one on my new mobile the other day, and gave up in disgust - the pictures were microscopic. :rage:
  • Huia wrote: »
    Strokes are part of my family's medical heritage - and my hope is that the first one I have will be massive and cause death.
    In the meantime, if you have a TIA and they offer you an endarterectomy, I recommend taking advantage of it. There are risks, but no reputable surgeon is going to try it unless the chances of a good recovery are high.

  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Golden Key wrote: »
    Rossweisse--

    recaptcha does have an audio option. On my setup, it shows up just to the right of the recaptcha controls for getting a new recaptcha.
    True. I should try. Thank you!


  • The verification bots that I really hate are the numbers and letters, all on a squiggle, all somewhat distorted and so you can't tell if it is a capital or lowercase, or indeed what letter it might be.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    They are indeed a right pain in the fundament.
  • The corner of the pull-out shelf for the keyboard (well, it's permanently pulled out because it won't return!) that hit my forehead sharply as I bent down to pick up a hearing aid. Bit of lump there now!
    And secondly, me, for not having the sense to remember that I can't see anything to the left!

    But happily, tap dancing started again today!
  • Ouch, @SusanDoris! Take care and hope it’s not too painful.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited September 2020
    Enquiring minds need to know - did the tap-dancing recommence immediately after the head-bumping?

  • Susan--

    Sorry re the bump, but happy re tap dancing! :)
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    What Golden Key said! :)
  • And what sort of taps were they? I hope - in this pandemic situation - that they weren't mixer taps but kept well-distanced at either side of the sink.
  • Penny SPenny S Shipmate
    edited September 2020
    Single person supplements.
    I had promised myself a Hurtigruten cruise when things calmed down, and yesterday's paper fell to a page advertising one leaving from Dover. I was not at first interested in going round the British Isles, but it turned out to be an educational sciencey thing and just my style. The price looked pretty good, too. I got all excited.
    Went on the web site, checked out more, and then found the prices page. As soon as I changed the number of adults to 1, everything doubled. By several thousand. That is not a supplement. That is a penalty. Funding couple's access to free stuff, while not costing as much because of only one person eating, drinking the free tea and coffee and using the bedlinen. And running off with the free expedition jacket and water bottle.
    I am now downcast.
  • {{{{{{Penny}}}}}}}

    A thought: Sometimes, trips like that have an option` for you to share a room with another single traveler, at a cheaper rate. You might not have any choice in who they pick, other than maybe binary gender. I don't know if that would work for you, but you might check.

    OTOH: Having never heard of Hurtigruten, I looked it up. And...
    "Norwegian Cruise Line Hurtigruten Apologizes, Suspends Travel After New Coronavirus Outbreak" (Forbes).
    That's as of 8/3/20.

    FWIW.
  • No sign of such an option. And I snore.
  • Darn. :( FWIW: given the pandemic, it might be a while before a cruise can be done safely. Some of the earliest non-China cases were horrendous situations on cruise ships--and, per my link, they're still happening.
  • Date I was intending was next August. They have always been scrupulous about hygiene, as well. I think the Norwegian trips on their regular runs, with people using them as public transport might have been iffy.
  • Penny S wrote: »
    I don't like having to translate US names for street furniture before I can even start, and then work out whether they apply to said furniture which is not what we have over here.
    I did have to laugh, as this USian had to think through how to translate “street furniture.” (Chairs sofas and tables on the street?)

    But yes, I take your point.


  • It's not a phrase I hear often, but I definitely didn't invent it. It amused me when I heard it.
  • It's rather coy, isn't it? One thinks of litter-bins, and pillar-boxes, with nice knitted covers...

    I'll get me coat...
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited September 2020
    Optical-fibre junction-boxes with antimacassars ...

    And here is where to buy furniture in Street ... https://www.livinghomes.co.uk
  • Optical-fibre junction-boxes with antimacassars ...

    And here is where to buy furniture in Street ... https://www.livinghomes.co.uk

    You buy furniture and not shoes in Street!!!
  • Golden Key, I love the thinking behind yarn bombing. We have a sculpture of three miner’s heads in our town, and I would have loved to arrange for them to have had wooden mufflers. I mentioned this to a local councillor who was absolutely scandalised by the idea, so it never happened ☹️
  • Oops, meant WOOLEN mufflers.
  • I once arrived in Oban to find it had been yarn bombed. It was random and wonderful!
  • Optical-fibre junction-boxes with antimacassars ...

    And here is where to buy furniture in Street [...]
    Can we have streets with anti-massacres, please? Kthxbai.

  • Golden KeyGolden Key Shipmate
    edited September 2020
    Priscilla--

    Sorry it didn't work for you to do it!

    I have mixed feelings about yarn bombing. I love the wild creativity, especially if it's done to humanize and brighten up a dreary or out-of-the-way place. But the yarn can get wet, dirty, or otherwise damaged, and then it's a problem. Yarners aren't necessarily going to keep a close eye on their work. So you could wind up with a stinky mess. Plus the legalities, if any, and whether they're enforced.

    PS Wooden mufflers would indeed be interesting! ;)

    ETA: Some similar issues with guerrilla gardening, too.
  • Priscilla wrote: »
    Whistlers. May they boil in oil while being pierced with long sharp needles.
    👍 Can I add hummers too?

    May I add obnoxious gum chewers who chew with their mouths open AND insist on snapping bubbles constantly. So very, very, very annoying. And rude.
  • Strangely enough, I haven't seen anyone doing that for years!
  • Me, neither.
  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    edited September 2020
    Strangely enough, I haven't seen anyone doing that for years!
    I don’t think gum chewing has ever really been as much of a thing in the UK as the US. When I was a kid in 70s it was a bit popular but I can’t remember the last time I saw anyone, adult or child, blow bubble gum.
    I have consulted with 16 year old son. A couple of people had chewing gum at secondary school but it was rare. Nobody blew bubbles.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    Husband en rouge says the middle school kids he teaches have been merrily chewing gum in class recently because they think the teacher can't see it behind the mask. Er, no, the mask doesn't hide your mouth going up and down.

    (Masks must be worn at all times in schools here.)
  • O dear. Sounds as though husband en rouge's kids aren't very bright - surely they must know that teachers have all-round vision, and X-ray eyes?
    :wink:

    I think the French MP who parked his car on a level-crossing, blocked a train, and had to be politely asked to move the offending vehicle, must have been at the same school. In all fairness, he fessed up rather well, to his credit...
  • la vie en rouge, I do hope they don't try to blow bubbles while wearing masks!
    :wink:
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited September 2020
    O what interesting internal effects that might have...especially if the masks are close-fitting...
    :flushed:
  • :) :) for the tap dancing comments - thank you! Also have caught up on other posts.
    An this is just the place to consign to All saints hell Microsoft who decided to download a massive lot of stuff yesterday and mess up the engine for the magnification on SuperNova. Fortunately. I remembered a couple of key strokes which are some of the things which enable those completely without sight to navigate web sites, so I can, just about!, wait until tomorrow for the tech Support team to organise a remote control and put it right. so annoying though!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    All in the name of "improvement", no doubt, Susan Doris!

  • Indeed. Why the blazes do they never ask you if you want their bloody updates, or whatever shiny (and probably useless) new toy they're trying to peddle?

    The golden rule of engineering (and other disciplines) has clearly passed them by:

    IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!
    :rage:
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Too right, BF!
  • Fortunately, this afternoon Dolphin Tech Support have done a remote control and put my SuperNova back in order including the magnification engine.
  • O dear. Sounds as though husband en rouge's kids aren't very bright - surely they must know that teachers have all-round vision, and X-ray eyes?
    :wink:
    My wife had Eyes in the Back of her Head, but they've filled up now she's retired.

  • My husband had a strategically placed glass fronted cupboard in his classroom which enhanced his rear vision.
  • People who do home repairs, or work on the house who do not know what they are doing. The garage lights and washer went out. Tried the main breaker, Nothing tripped all in good order. Gave up called a repair man. Back behind a cabinet was a badly wired plug with wires hanging out that I had no idea was even there. Could have burned the house down. This is not the first failure we have found in our home. Please people do not mess with electric, and plumbing if you do not know what you are doing.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    Graven Image - it seems to me the problem isn't those who don't know what they're doing, but those who think they do.

    I'm quite safe because I know I don't and wouldn't attempt even simple repairs.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    O dear. Sounds as though husband en rouge's kids aren't very bright - surely they must know that teachers have all-round vision, and X-ray eyes?
    :wink:
    My wife had Eyes in the Back of her Head, but they've filled up now she's retired.

    The irony here is that husband en rouge is visually impaired. But the eyes in the back of his head work fine.
  • Priscilla wrote: »
    Oops, meant WOOLEN mufflers.

    That's still not a helpful explanation in north America, where the silencer in your car's exhaust system is called a muffler. Wooden or woollen (woolen in the USA) ones are quite unknown here.
  • Well, IME in America, winter scarves are sometimes called mufflers.
  • TICTH the IT expert who supposedly sets me up on a new bit of tech which nobody else is using then goes on holiday.
    As a consequence ( avoiding starting a sentence with So,) I still can’t start to do my voluntary work from home.
  • Puzzler wrote: »
    As a consequence ( avoiding starting a sentence with So)

    You're a good person! I find that SO (pun intended) annoying!

    BTW you could have used "therefore" or even "hence" ...
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