On manual typewriters, didn't there use to be "Shift", and "Shift Lock" keys? -- or is memory playing me false?
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Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you
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On manual typewriters, didn't there use to be "Shift", and "Shift Lock" keys? -- or is memory playing me false?
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gg1
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Don't know about typewriters but the BBC micro definitely had one.
I'm an ex bus driver, don't get me started - it's supposed to be a light-hearted thread
If we are talking "on the buses", I would ban people from waiting until the bus is about to move off from a stop before they decide that they want to get off at that stop.
Usually happens because they have their head buried in their phone, and are not looking to see where they are.
birchesgreen
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If you are writing COBOL, especially if you are writing it angrily.
xotGD
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I would ban Excel, so that we had to go back to Lotus 123
What is so wrong with supercalc?
That reminds me that l've no key for the euro symbol on either of my keyboards, though it's one that I would use often. After years of using them regularly, I can still remember the ASCII codes for the peseta and guilder symbols, for example (ALT +158 and 159) even though I have hardly needed either for years. Does anyone know what the ASCII code for the euro symbol is? I still find it comes easier to do symbols this way, no doubt because I was a confirmed WordPerfect 5.1 user for decades.
birchesgreen
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There is, i in fact bought an old typewriter this week (Brother Deluxe 600) which has a dodgy shift lock.
Alt+0128, or Ctrl+Alt+E in Microsoft Word.
trainophile
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krus_aragon
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If they know you're leaving a station, yeah, that's doable.I am almost always standing at the exit of a station, facing forwards!
I'm more used to the old-fashioned interface of dropping a pin on a map: that gives a start location but no orientation.
More things I would ban:
- Barkie, yappee dogs left out in the garden, especially in the evening/at night. If you have a dog, you should train it properly.
- Extending dog-leads.
- Strimmers of any type. (Get a scythe.)
- Any sort of "music" being audible from outside a car or house to anyone 1 metre away (or more).
- Those stupid aftermarket exhaust pipes which make it sound like the exhaust is blowing.
- Fireworks
- Noisy parties
- AirBNB, holiday lets (unless on a farm and owned by the farmer) and second homes
- Leaf-hating neighbours who expect their driveway to be as spotless as the indoor carpets
- Removing hedges and trees so make a driveway with an impermeable surface (then moaning about the lack of bees)
- Leaf-blowers (I mean, why????)
- People who inflict their "music" on others
Alternatively, we could divide society up into "noisy" and "quiet" and the noisy ones can all live together in the noisy places and leave the quiet people in peace!
TPO.
- Barkie, yappee dogs left out in the garden, especially in the evening/at night. If you have a dog, you should train it properly.
- Extending dog-leads.
- Strimmers of any type. (Get a scythe.)
- Any sort of "music" being audible from outside a car or house to anyone 1 metre away (or more).
- Those stupid aftermarket exhaust pipes which make it sound like the exhaust is blowing.
- Fireworks
- Noisy parties
- AirBNB, holiday lets (unless on a farm and owned by the farmer) and second homes
- Leaf-hating neighbours who expect their driveway to be as spotless as the indoor carpets
- Removing hedges and trees so make a driveway with an impermeable surface (then moaning about the lack of bees)
- Leaf-blowers (I mean, why????)
- People who inflict their "music" on others
Alternatively, we could divide society up into "noisy" and "quiet" and the noisy ones can all live together in the noisy places and leave the quiet people in peace!
TPO.
On Windows with a UK keyboard the easiest way to get a € character is with Alt Gr 4 (where Alt Gr is the Alt key to the right of the space bar)
py_megapixel
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Just tried that and it works on Mint as well. Can't speak for other Linuxes but I can't imagine it being massively different
This would be very helpful if I used a UK-layout keyboard
It'd want to work, considering that that's been the standard position for the € symbol on UK-layout Windows keyboards for quite a while now!
Many thanks
61653 HTAFC
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I would ban radio stations from playing Christmas music until at least December 1st.
I have just heard an instrumental version of the extremely irritating Christmas Song (the one that starts with "..chestnuts roasting on an open fire..") on an internet radio station that I listen to.
It is only September 12th for ***** sake.
I have just heard an instrumental version of the extremely irritating Christmas Song (the one that starts with "..chestnuts roasting on an open fire..") on an internet radio station that I listen to.
It is only September 12th for ***** sake.
I would ban radio stations from playing Christmas music until at least December 1st.
I have just heard an instrumental version of the extremely irritating Christmas Song (the one that starts with "..chestnuts roasting on an open fire..") on an internet radio station that I listen to.
It is only September 12th for ***** sake.
That line of the song always makes me think of the tale of the chess convention, many participants in which are staying in the same hotel. One evening, a bunch of them are chatting in the hotel lobby, trying to one-up each other with tales of clever chess ploys which they've carried out. The hotel manager, plainly annoyed, breaks the gathering up and shoos them off to their rooms; explaining, "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer".
py_megapixel
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Computer manufacturers saying "[Company] recommends Windows 10", "[Company] recommends Norton", "[Company] recommends OneDrive" etc. - you don't recommend it, you're paid to force it onto people and it's a disgusting practice. Just let me install my own damn software!
That should be in the ForumBadJokes thread.
I posted it therein, a couple of years ago
. For me, it's in the category of "so corny as to be irresistible".adrock1976
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There is the Magic Roundabout in Swindon, Wiltshire where you can go the opposite way round if it is a shorter route to exit.
As far as I am aware, Swindon is only famous for three good things being 1) Headquarters of the Great Western Railway, 2) The aforementioned Magic Roundabout, and 3) the post punk rock band XTC, famous for their hits "Making Plans for Nigel" (1979) and "Senses Working Overtime" (1982).
HST274
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I do be agreeing with you...
Or should I say a-do-be agreeing with you.
(Not funny I know)I do be agreeing with you...
Or should I say a-do-be agreeing with you.
It's the way you tell em