Room 101

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That they refer to them as 'typing instruments' says it all - like posh pen hawkers calling their wares 'writing instruments'. Makes you want to flip them your middle nose-picking instrument...

Even flash gaming keyboards, with all the bells, whistles and other things, usually top-out at around £250, then some customisable ones go a little higher. Beyond that we are into grossly overpriced (by normal standards!) ergonomic keyboards which go a little higher too.

I bought a Filco Majestouch 2 TKL, a good solid, high quality keyboard from a company with a very good reputation. After 7 years it is still as good as new with many years left in it. That one cost me £125, which still seemed a lot...

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Oh yeah we often whine about that at home "quick to take your money but reluctant to actually give it back"

It finally arrived today - wonders will never cease!

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

The parochialism of Wikipedia, or at least parts of it. American Football players feature so disproportionately in the 'recent deaths' section - of the six on their today, there are three. Obviously their lives matter every bit as much as anyone else's, but their international significance is, well, 'limited'.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

The Range Rover and its variants. When I was young it would always have been part of most people's 'dream five car garage', but now they are blingy and driven by the wrong sort - people who have number plates beginning BO55 and who drive like everyone else is inferior. Having seen the one today undertaking and barging from lane to lane, reminded me that I genuinely couldn't drive one.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

The Range Rover and its variants. When I was young it would always have been part of most people's 'dream five car garage', but now they are blingy and driven by the wrong sort - people who have number plates beginning BO55 and who drive like everyone else is inferior. Having seen the one today undertaking and barging from lane to lane, reminded me that I genuinely couldn't drive one.

It's the same with drivers of all the big and high-end SUVs. There's a lot of them in this part of the world. they need the extra ground clearance because, they might to drive through a big puddle...

 

[Dave_]

The parochialism of Wikipedia, or at least parts of it. American Football players feature so disproportionately in the 'recent deaths' section - of the six on their today, there are three. Obviously their lives matter every bit as much as anyone else's, but their international significance is, well, 'limited'.

Not really a surprise given it was founded and is based in America and something like 20% of it's editors* are American.

*I refuse to use their official term as it makes them sound like perpetrators of some kind of depraved act....

 

[jjbomber]

Having seen the one today undertaking

So somebody was breaking the law by being in the overtaking lane while not overtaking and blocking the Range Rover. Those drivers need to be in Room 101.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

So somebody was breaking the law by being in the overtaking lane while not overtaking and blocking the Range Rover. Those drivers need to be in Room 101.

In with both feet again I see. The road in question splits into two and tells you to get in lane, so people did. Apart from this guy who was far too important to be held up.

I do agree with you about people who don't keep left*, but you are making a habit of passing strongly-worded comments without knowing what actually happened.

*Reminds me of an unusually frank reply to a letter in Autocar years and years ago. The writer was suggesting that if he was doing 70 he shouldn't have to get out of the middle or right hand lane as no-one should be going faster than he was anyway. The terse reply was 'People like you shouldn't be allowed in any lane.'

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Pretty sure I've done dog owners who don't 'pick up' before, but I'll do them again. When we use a park in the village, I would guess that nearly half of the bags I use are for other people's dogs' muck. Overstretched the bag while picking up such leavings today and ended up with a touch of goldfinger.

A curse upon their houses!

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

I do try to be tolerant of the elderly - we're all headed there - but I don't find it easy when faced with an armada of them, such as in Sainsbury's today. Ambling about without looking where they're going, stopping abruptly in the middle of an aisle and changing direction like listing galleons. In the scheme of things it's not the end of the world, but in conjunction with the roads being full of not-exactly-the-spirit-of-Xmas psychopathy I found my patience well and truly tested.

 

[Jasonovich]

I do try to be tolerant of the elderly - we're all headed there - but I don't find it easy when faced with an armada of them, such as in Sainsbury's today. Ambling about without looking where they're going, stopping abruptly in the middle of an aisle and changing direction like listing galleons. In the scheme of things it's not the end of the world, but in conjunction with the roads being full of not-exactly-the-spirit-of-Xmas psychopathy I found my patience well and truly tested.

You actually hit a nerve, mine is the local Morrisons........all together now.

Wwweeeeeeeeeeee!!

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

You actually hit a nerve, mine is the local Morrisons........all together now.

Wwweeeeeeeeeeee!!

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Now that I could actually cope with!

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

I do try to be tolerant of the elderly

There's a good boy!

 

[Gray]

Use of the word 'addicting' to describe something that normal people would describe as addictive.

 

[Dave_]

Use of the word 'addicting' to describe something that normal people would describe as addictive.

A horrible Americanism, or at least it's only Americans I've heard using it.

Also flavorful. Just **** off. It's flavoursome....

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Use of the word 'addicting' to describe something that normal people would describe as addictive.

There’s a lot of that about like, gift instead of give, movie instead of film, season instead of series…

 

[jjbomber]

There’s a lot of that about like, gift instead of give, movie instead of film, season instead of series…

Shooting Gallery instead of school. Yep, all american!

 

[Jasonovich]

Yesterday at Morrisons, a young child shot in front of my shopping trolley, I had to make an abrupt stop.
I was saying to my wife, the child is out of control, the mother calling her from a distance, child just ignored, running up an down the aisle like a playground.

We cashed out from the till and headed towards the exit.
We passed by the mother who was talking to the security staff, it appears she lost the child! 🚸 😞

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Yesterday at Morrisons, a young child shot in front of my shopping trolley, I had to make an abrupt stop.
I was saying to my wife, the child is out of control, the mother calling her from a distance, child just ignored, running up an down the aisle like a playground.

We cashed out from the till and headed towards the exit.
We passed by the mother who was talking to the security staff, it appears she lost the child! 🚸 😞

When my wife’s second son was going through a defiant period, long before we met, she carried reins with her, he hated them. If he didn’t do as he was told, on went the reins, he soon learnt to do as he was told when out.

 

[Dave_]

I can't abide shopping, but I reserve a special level of contempt for supermarkets.

Before online delivery & click and collect was I thing, I can't tell you how many times I walked out mid shop coz of ignorant ****.

You have to be a masochist to voluntarily use one these days!

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Humanisation of animals in wildlife programmes, even David Attenborough is doing it now.

Also, there seems to be an increasing tendency, for programme makers to assume their audience are all simpletons.

 

[GSV Ethics Gradient]

Humanisation of animals in wildlife programmes, even David Attenborough is doing it now.

Also, there seems to be an increasing tendency, for programme makers to assume their audience are all simpletons.

Bear in mind that My Good Pal Sir Dave is just narrating these days - he doesn't write the series. I did wonder about the naming of characters in Kingdom (most of which are female), but have concluded that it does help keep tabs on the main players. The bit with the three-legged male wild dog in the one we streamed last night was deeply moving.

But it's the excess music that I'm most bothered by.

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

Bear in mind that My Good Pal Sir Dave is just narrating these days - he doesn't write the series. I did wonder about the naming of characters in Kingdom (most of which are female), but have concluded that it does help keep tabs on the main players. The bit with the three-legged male wild dog in the one we streamed last night was deeply moving.

But it's the excess music that I'm most bothered by.

It’s not just giving the animals names but, also about suggesting they have human emotions. Also, I agree about the music.

 

[Jasonovich]

It’s not just giving the animals names but, also about suggesting they have human emotions. Also, I agree about the music.

We have the Disney-fication but thank God, Sir Dave's voice is still his own and not AI generated headache inducing robotic North American accent!
Small mercies 🤣

 

[Angle Poise-Lamp]

There’s a lot of that about like, gift instead of give, movie instead of film, season instead of series…

Watching the news now and, reminded of another one I find very annoying: Having a surgery instead of an operation or op.