Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

rjsterry

First.Aspect said:

pangolin said:

First.Aspect said:

Jesus you lot need a lot of convincing. It's a bug. You probably can't see all the formatting in Word even when you press the backwards P thingy. Trust me I do this a LOT because I'm quoting from OCRd documents where all the physical units have been unformatted. It happens often, not always, and it's annoying.

Not half as annoying as people trying something blindingly obvious and assuming someone who does it every day for 20 years doesn't know this simple trick.

I hate you all.

Why TF is someone on your salary and with your qualifications doing basic proof reading/sub editor work?

monkimark

"trying to do"

First.Aspect

rjsterry said:

First.Aspect said:

pangolin said:

First.Aspect said:

Jesus you lot need a lot of convincing. It's a bug. You probably can't see all the formatting in Word even when you press the backwards P thingy. Trust me I do this a LOT because I'm quoting from OCRd documents where all the physical units have been unformatted. It happens often, not always, and it's annoying.

Not half as annoying as people trying something blindingly obvious and assuming someone who does it every day for 20 years doesn't know this simple trick.

I hate you all.

Why TF is someone on your salary and with your qualifications doing basic proof reading/sub editor work?

We do our own typing these days.

Gone is the time where Peggy would do it while my feet were on the desk.

First.Aspect

Ooh err.

First.Aspect

monkimark said:

"trying to do"

Right then. I've just about had enough.

rjsterry

First.Aspect said:

rjsterry said:

First.Aspect said:

pangolin said:

First.Aspect said:

Jesus you lot need a lot of convincing. It's a bug. You probably can't see all the formatting in Word even when you press the backwards P thingy. Trust me I do this a LOT because I'm quoting from OCRd documents where all the physical units have been unformatted. It happens often, not always, and it's annoying.

Not half as annoying as people trying something blindingly obvious and assuming someone who does it every day for 20 years doesn't know this simple trick.

I hate you all.

Why TF is someone on your salary and with your qualifications doing basic proof reading/sub editor work?

We do our own typing these days.

Gone is the time where Peggy would do it while my feet were on the desk.

Yeah, I don't mean why are you operating a keyboard rather than lounging in a recliner, dictating to a minion. I mean why are they getting someone with a PhD to correct OCR errors?

First.Aspect

rjsterry said:

First.Aspect said:

rjsterry said:

First.Aspect said:

pangolin said:

First.Aspect said:

Jesus you lot need a lot of convincing. It's a bug. You probably can't see all the formatting in Word even when you press the backwards P thingy. Trust me I do this a LOT because I'm quoting from OCRd documents where all the physical units have been unformatted. It happens often, not always, and it's annoying.

Not half as annoying as people trying something blindingly obvious and assuming someone who does it every day for 20 years doesn't know this simple trick.

I hate you all.

Why TF is someone on your salary and with your qualifications doing basic proof reading/sub editor work?

We do our own typing these days.

Gone is the time where Peggy would do it while my feet were on the desk.

Yeah, I don't mean why are you operating a keyboard rather than lounging in a recliner, dictating to a minion. I mean why are they getting someone with a PhD to correct OCR errors?

Fastest way I suppose. We sometimes get cases where we don't have the original patent application to edit, and we only need to mess around with a page or two, so rather than waste time getting a word doc and then trying to figure out if it's actually the right one, it's easiest to get the text off of a patent search database or OCR a document off an official register. One way or another we need to check it's right anyway.

Seems like a waste of time, but getting pagination wrong or filing something incorrectly is worse.

pinno

First.Aspect said:

My head has just exploded in frustration.

Perhaps you should rinse the wound with copious quantities of H ₂O.

Wheelspinner

I thought we’d sorted all that out with the H³ thing back when @beansnikpoh was still @hopkinb ?

pinno

Wheelspinner said:

I thought we’d sorted all that out with the H³ thing back when @beansnikpoh was still @hopkinb ?

That's a keyboard shortcut but there's no keyboard shortcut for a smaller letter/number, which I think is what FA is trying to say.
I guess these tiny details is what is required in patenting law.

First.Aspect

I said I'm not playing any more.

pinno

First.Aspect said:

I said I'm not playing any more.

Oh come on - it was fun.

Do you want to play cowboy's and Indians instead?

Stevo_666

pinno said:

First.Aspect said:

I said I'm not playing any more.

Oh come on - it was fun.

Do you want to play cowboy's and Indians instead?

Reminds me that a while back, there were two brothers in the building trade, originally from India and operating in the Dulwich/Herne Hill area. The slogan on the side of their van read "You've tried the Cowboys, now try the Indians".

Wheelspinner

Stevo_666 said:

pinno said:

First.Aspect said:

I said I'm not playing any more.

Oh come on - it was fun.

Do you want to play cowboy's and Indians instead?

Reminds me that a while back, there were two brothers in the building trade, originally from India and operating in the Dulwich/Herne Hill area. The slogan on the side of their van read "You've tried the Cowboys, now try the Indians".

But like the portrait photographer in Sydney years ago. His ad was “Husbands shot. Wives framed.”

pinno

...and a local carpet business: 'We're easily laid'

TheBigBean

Modern tech. I received some free noise cancelling headphones which is good (except I don't like the noise cancelling bit), but they don't have any buttons. Instead, I'm supposed to swipe in various directions on one ear. Obviously I can't remember the swipes.

briantrumpet

TheBigBean said:

Modern tech. I received some free noise cancelling headphones which is good (except I don't like the noise cancelling bit), but they don't have any buttons. Instead, I'm supposed to swipe in various directions on one ear. Obviously I can't remember the swipes.

That's like me with two, three and four-finger swipes and wotnot on laptop touchpads. No chance of me 1) remembering them and 2) executing them properly even if I did remember them.

Pross

TheBigBean said:

Modern tech. I received some free noise cancelling headphones which is good (except I don't like the noise cancelling bit), but they don't have any buttons. Instead, I'm supposed to swipe in various directions on one ear. Obviously I can't remember the swipes.

You ought to return them and ask for your money back

de_sisti

When you're on a bike ride, or on holiday and someone asks you where you're from.
You tell them, and they never, ever, automatically, without hesitation or prompting
tell you where they are from.

So now, when someone asks me where I'm from, I throw the question straight back to them and ask them one of the following :

* Introduce yourself to me
* Tell me about yourself
* Tell me everything about yourself

Judging from the body language I observe, the person whom I have just posed the
question to, is not amused.

kingstongraham

This sodding cough that won't go away.

Munsford0

^ I normally get over illnesses very quickly, whereas my wife will hang on to the same thing for ages. This most recent respiratory nastiness however seemed to take me a lot longer to finally shake it off completely.

veronese68

TheBigBean said:

Here's how to do it using the forum's excellent software _subscript^superscript

Anyway, glad that at least three people enjoyed learning a new short cut.

I've already forgotten

rick_chasey

Advert by a vegan organisation on how much land is needed by different types of food.

So it's beef, chicken, fish, tomatoes, beans etc.

All fine. Vegans being vegans. No problem with that.

Only in their chart they refer to beef as beef, but pork as "pig meat".

Grrr

First.Aspect

How odd, that's a Ry Cooder song.

laurentian

rick_chasey said:

Advert by a vegan organisation on how much land is needed by different types of food.

So it's beef, chicken, fish, tomatoes, beans etc.

All fine. Vegans being vegans. No problem with that.

Only in their chart they refer to beef as beef, but pork as "pig meat".

Grrr

Is this to capture the cured pork products such as bacon, sausage meat, ham etc. not usually referred to as "pork"?

rick_chasey

Presumably. They're all pork though, in my book.

I mean, there are plenty of beef sausages etc. Go ask muslims.

laurentian

rick_chasey said:

Presumably. They're all pork though, in my book.

I mean, there are plenty of beef sausages etc. Go ask muslims.

I used to make them

laurentian

rick_chasey said:

Presumably. They're all pork though, in my book.

I mean, there are plenty of beef sausages etc. Go ask muslims.

I used to make them

Stevo_666

TheBigBean said:

Modern tech. I received some free noise cancelling headphones which is good (except I don't like the noise cancelling bit), but they don't have any buttons. Instead, I'm supposed to swipe in various directions on one ear. Obviously I can't remember the swipes.

Is this you shopping for tech stuff BB?
https://youtu.be/dSINO6MKtco

briantrumpet

Car hire price for summer half term in France more than doubling from last year's price. If it weren't that I'm going with two friends, it would have priced me out of the market.