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  • bbrap
    bbrap Posts: 610
    Pross wrote:
    Can't stand the way my iPad and iPhone keypads select random letters either side of the one I press. I used to think it was my clumsy fingers but there have been times I'm carefully looking and another letter comes up. I'll also add bizarre auto corrections such as changing 'I wasn't in work as I was ill' to 'I wasn't in work as I was I'll' or even changing logical words into something completely made up.

    I get this on an android tablet, but only if the power lead is plugged in. No power lead and its perfect.
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  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Pross wrote:
    Can't stand the way my iPad and iPhone keypads select random letters either side of the one I press. I used to think it was my clumsy fingers but there have been times I'm carefully looking and another letter comes up. I'll also add bizarre auto corrections such as changing 'I wasn't in work as I was ill' to 'I wasn't in work as I was I'll' or even changing logical words into something completely made up.

    I do like how it has now added words like 'dicklord' to the dictionary without needing to be told, it's only a problem when it uses them in predictive text...
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Ben6899 wrote:
    keef66 wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    You can only buy green chillies in bags of 5 at Sainsbury's. I only want one.

    Yebbut you can chuck the other 5 in the freezer, and come the time to use them just grate them while frozen. As long as you have a fine grater you get a marvellous chilli dust. (I have to admit I pinched that from Jamie Oliver, but it works surprisingly well)

    Do you sprinkle the chilli dust from height above the kitchen counter?

    No, and neither does he I suspect when the camera crew sod off...

    Same as Nigella's slobbing about in her pyjamas smoking a roll-up and eating pot noodle
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Pross wrote:
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Adverts for the magazine products by D'Agostini.

    The latest one for Build a Delorean being a good example. 130 issues at £8.99 each :shock: That comes to £1168 to build a sh1tty model that you probably buy straight off for a tenth of the price. I don't know what winds me up so much about this, perhaps it's the realisation that someone is stupid enough to do it.

    And about 80% of the way through they stop doing the magazine (if the person buying hasn't already got fed up). Even if it was cheap who would spend 2 years building a model?

    We still have a partially complete, occasionally animated ornament courtesy of Real Robots Magazine. I cannot bring myself to calculate how much it cost us for our eldest son to get it to this state, but I suspect it may have been more than he spent on his first car...
  • Frank Wilson
    Frank Wilson Posts: 930
    Jazz
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    Frank Wilson wrote:
    Jazz
    Mags?
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    When a cyclist sits on your wheel for 10+ minutes without so much as a "hello" - only realised he was there when I heard a cough.
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    When a cyclist sits on your wheel for 10+ minutes without so much as a "hello" - only realised he was there when I heard a cough.

    Maybe he just had a cold and couldn't get past?
  • bobmcstuff
    bobmcstuff Posts: 11,435
    Garry H wrote:
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    When a cyclist sits on your wheel for 10+ minutes without so much as a "hello" - only realised he was there when I heard a cough.

    Maybe he just had a cold and couldn't get past?

    He must have been going faster than me as he had to have caught up to me at some point - there weren't really any other options for him to get behind me on that road, I didn't overtake him first. It would have been very easy for him to overtake me as it is a wide, quiet road (and we in fact overtook another cyclist while he was on my wheel).

    Felt like he was just getting a free ride to be honest, I looked at Flybys afterwards and he did a dead flat right at a fairly high average speed.

    I think having someone on your wheel without knowing is a bit dangerous anyway, plus subjects him to unseen potholes etc. as I didn't know to point them out.

    Just a "hi" would have been fine!
  • Garry H
    Garry H Posts: 6,639
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    Garry H wrote:
    bobmcstuff wrote:
    When a cyclist sits on your wheel for 10+ minutes without so much as a "hello" - only realised he was there when I heard a cough.

    Maybe he just had a cold and couldn't get past?

    He must have been going faster than me as he had to have caught up to me at some point - there weren't really any other options for him to get behind me on that road, I didn't overtake him first. It would have been very easy for him to overtake me as it is a wide, quiet road (and we in fact overtook another cyclist while he was on my wheel).

    Felt like he was just getting a free ride to be honest, I looked at Flybys afterwards and he did a dead flat right at a fairly high average speed.

    I think having someone on your wheel without knowing is a bit dangerous anyway, plus subjects him to unseen potholes etc. as I didn't know to point them out.

    Just a "hi" would have been fine!

    Happens to me all the time on my commute home. I just ride really close to, or bunny hop over pot holes.
  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    People who call themselves unfeasible names such as that otherwise, heroic and worthwhile individual called THE WEEKND.

    I will follow his example and change my name to exemplify the environment where I am fulfilled - THE TOILTT. Then I'll play hard to get with Selena.
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    People who recommend a 'restaurant' on the basis that '...it DOES really good portions...'. You can tell that the people who concede quality to quantity as they are uneducated, uncivilised, have never been Officers (nor will be) and are overweight dribbling lumps of pus whose value to society is immeasurably negative.

    Anyway - enough about me...
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    people who take their dogs to pubs...why ? no one else takes their pets to the pub with them, and Im not talking about people trekking across the Yorkshire Dales gone for a walk with their dog and ending up in a country pub for a bit of refreshment, I mean people whove literally gone "right Im off down the Nags Head, Ill take my dog with me and then ignore it whilst Ill talk to my mates" so it sits there bored out its mind, or it will run around like a complete loon and leap up at everyone who walks past it.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,172
    I detest websites that constantly re-size frames as they load. Including Bike Radar.

    Hyperlink bingo is not what I'm after.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    awavey wrote:
    people who take their dogs to pubs...why ? no one else takes their pets to the pub with them, and Im not talking about people trekking across the Yorkshire Dales gone for a walk with their dog and ending up in a country pub for a bit of refreshment, I mean people whove literally gone "right Im off down the Nags Head, Ill take my dog with me and then ignore it whilst Ill talk to my mates" so it sits there bored out its mind, or it will run around like a complete loon and leap up at everyone who walks past it.

    I agree that if your dog can't behave in a pub you should try to leave it at home but in general I love taking my dog to the pub/'for a walk'. If he's not getting attention he falls asleep so he makes an excellent pub dog. Plus he's young so if I left him at home he'd probably be in the cage and he would whimper the whole time we are gone. A couple of pubs in the town where I live love my dog and give him lots of treats, it has the added benefit of him 'dragging' us in every time we walk past...

    Having said that, if I didn't do the job I do and live where I live (pretty much in the middle of nowhere) I probably wouldn't have a dog anyway

    To add to the list, people who go to dog friendly pubs but don't like dogs :wink:
  • Ber Nard
    Ber Nard Posts: 827
    awavey wrote:
    people who take their dogs to pubs...

    Nowhere near as bad as people who take their children to pubs.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Handy tip, if you ever want to lure feral pub children for whatever reason take a lovable golden Labrador with you.


    *Definitely not the reason take my dog to the pub.
  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,495
    Not against the dog in the pub, but for god sake don't let it wander around of it's own accord, especially if there is a designated "restaurant" area. I don't want your drooling hound begging whilst I 'm trying to enjoy my meal
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,154
    Tashman wrote:
    Not against the dog in the pub, but for god sake don't let it wander around of it's own accord, especially if there is a designated "restaurant" area. I don't want your drooling hound begging whilst I 'm trying to enjoy my meal

    I do. I love a dog wandering around when I'm eating.
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    A lot of places only let dogs into certain bits to avoid that, if I let him off the lead I'd probably have to carry him home after he breaks into the kitchen and eats his body weight in raw meat...
  • thistle_
    thistle_ Posts: 7,218
    awavey wrote:
    people who take their dogs to pubs...why ?
    Telling their other half they are "Taking the dog for a walk" but going to the pub instead? :mrgreen:
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,154
    HaydenM wrote:
    A lot of places only let dogs into certain bits to avoid that, if I let him off the lead I'd probably have to carry him home after he breaks into the kitchen and eats his body weight in raw meat...

    We had to rescue our dog from the kitchen in the pub once. We hadn't even gone to the pub, he just wandered in and went behind the bar.

    They weren't all that happy.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    It must be such hard work for you non-dog owners keeping the dining room floor clean...
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    bompington wrote:
    It must be such hard work for you non-dog owners keeping the dining room floor clean...

    Lots of dog skin rugs hide the dirt.
    Faster than a tent.......
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,821
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    We had to rescue our dog from the kitchen in the pub once. We hadn't even gone to the pub, he just wandered in and went behind the bar.

    They weren't all that happy.
    Went to the Wych Elm the other day and there was a great dane in that was looking over the bar without even lifting it's head. That got fed a few treats by the staff. The owner said she had to stop it putting it's head on the bar in case it drooled.

    I do mean the breed of dog, not a magnificent chap from Denmark.
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  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Veronese68 wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    We had to rescue our dog from the kitchen in the pub once. We hadn't even gone to the pub, he just wandered in and went behind the bar.

    They weren't all that happy.
    Went to the Wych Elm the other day and there was a great dane in that was looking over the bar without even lifting it's head. That got fed a few treats by the staff. The owner said she had to stop it putting it's head on the bar in case it drooled.

    I do mean the breed of dog, not a magnificent chap from Denmark.

    Youngest son used to go out with a girl who's family had a great dane as a pet. He said it was huge but I didn't believe him till I went round to pick him up one day. OK, I was standing on the doorstep so maybe 4 inches lower, but when the door opened I was eye to eye with the bloody thing. It was like having a pony in the house. And it smelled quite unpleasant and drooled everywhere. Just why?? Must've cost a bloody fortune in food and vets bills.
  • bbrap
    bbrap Posts: 610
    Friends of mine have two St Bernards, if you think Danes smell bad you do not want to catch wind of these two. And they slobber badly as well (and even the slobber stinks).
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  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    Couple a few doors down have a Newfoundland, it's like a bear. In fact it's head is bigger than our dog (miniature dachshund). We live in quite a small house too so no idea how they survive with a young kid too.

    Quite funny watching the lass walk him when he sees another dog pulling; she's nearly gone over a number of times.
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    This may seem unmanly but hey ho...Vaseline lip balm. Not the product itself but how easy it is for me to buy them and forget where they are and then buy another one. Every bloody winter I do this and end up with several as one will be left in the door pocket of the car, one in a pocket of every damn coat I own, cycling jersey pockets, a draw at work, girlfriends house etc. That company owes me £££'s
  • haydenm
    haydenm Posts: 2,997
    Dinyull wrote:
    Couple a few doors down have a Newfoundland, it's like a bear. In fact it's head is bigger than our dog (miniature dachshund). We live in quite a small house too so no idea how they survive with a young kid too.

    Quite funny watching the lass walk him when he sees another dog pulling; she's nearly gone over a number of times.

    A guy I occasionally work with has one which was a rescue. When we have site meetings you can tell when he is within a mile as you can hear it nonstop barking from the back of his pickup. Luckily he lives up in Oban so I can't quite hear it from here...

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