Here you go, SusanDoris. Have fun. Do be aware that this is an ad for the product, so will offer nothing about its knots, glitches, and worm-holes.
Er, thank you!!
I wonder if the first instruction to the web designers was: Use all the jargon words and make sure you get as many into one sentence as possible!!
My sympathy for your dilemma increases!
I see there were links to further details but that's probably enough for one day!!
People who publish crank books about health. A friend who's a militant vegan and someone who doesn't think much of conventional western medicine (even though it probably saved his life a couple of years ago) is reading up on cancer, and assured me in an email yesterday, "It is a fact that less than 5% of cancer patients are cured with so-called orthodox medicine, 95% with alternative therapies, reduced to about 50% when both are combined." I would just roll my eyes if it wasn't that his daughter, in her thirties and with a small son, has breast cancer which has spread. She's had radiotherapy, but now he says she's seeing a healer in the Midlands and a homoeopathic doctor nearer home. Which is fine - as long as her father doesn't persuade her to give up her hospital treatment.
TiCtH the 43 staff members who have replied ALL to a possible spam email with variations of "I don't think this is for me."
I feel your pain. I could CtH anyone who does not use intelligence about when to use or avoid "reply to all" and all those who do not blind copy when sending a hulk email, but list all the addresses.
@Margaret - I can't believe there are still people who don't agree with current medical cancer treatments. Hope very much that your vegan friend's daughter doesn't follow his advice...
@Cathscats - With you on the 'Grrrrr!' for not using the blind copy option for group mail outs.
[tangent]
I'm actually rescinding a TICTH here: the New Brunswick transport department, in its wisdom, has not only decided to scrap front number plates, but decreed that they may be replaced by "vanity" plates instead.
BS 2852, which was on several successive cars belonging to my late father*, will be affixed to the Pigletmobile forthwith.
* and which was refused as an official number plate because it had "negative connotations". Not to an Orcadian it doesn't.
TITCH a lack of money. Having not long bought a ticket to the 2019 World Science Conference held in Dublin this weekend, the Great Arachnid Financial Crash of 2017 and it's long lasting effects mean that I am at home watching events unfold on twitter rather than at the venue watching it live. There's been a miniscule upturn in my bank account recently, but not in time to pay for a hotel and transport. I'm gutted beyond description
(This is not a knock on the at-least-one shipmate who is attending, nor anyone else. I'm just venting).
TiCtH the 43 staff members who have replied ALL to a possible spam email with variations of "I don't think this is for me."
Remember the great nhs email crash a few years ago, where a number of people replied “I don’t think this is for me” to every single person on the entire nhs email list? The whole of nhs email fell over for about a day and a half. In hindsight, it’s quite funny.
Thanks for the explanation. I had been wondering why anyone would have a particular fondness for the British Standard pertaining to the Testing for Rating of room air-conditioners
O come on, now, peeps - BS is a common acronym for BullShit, as enny fule kno...hence New Brunswick's coyness...
...as well as being the former registration mark for Orkney.
Proper regional registration marks, RIP. I can recall the days when Kent had quite a few - D (a very early one) KE, KJ, KK, KL, KM, KN, KO, KP, KR, and KT. The other Ks were, I think, allocated to such backwaters as Bradford, and Liverpool.
O come on, now, peeps - BS is a common acronym for BullShit, as enny fule kno...hence New Brunswick's coyness...
It was the 2852 that I thought must mean something that I could not figure out.
Early British number plates started with two letters (the county identifiers in @BroJames' explanation) followed by up to 4 numerals - theoretically up to 9999. These ended in 1963 when the format changed to three letters (the last two being county identifiers), three numbers up to 999 and a suffix letter denoting the year of registration.
In the early 1970s, "cherished" numbers became popular, and as long as a number had at one time existed, you could buy it and for a fee register your car with it. My dad bought BS 2852 (which had originally been registered to a tractor in the 1940s) and had it on, successively, a Volvo, two Citroens and a Vauxhall. The lower the number, the better: numbers in one, two or three digits are particularly valuable. When I was home on holiday a few years ago I saw BS 1, which used to belong to Billy Smart (of circus fame) but now I believe belongs to a rich local, and is probably worth a fortune.
I heartily condemn Tony Blair to Hell for messing about with the county identifiers: when they ran out of numbers his government completely revamped the system, and Orkney no longer has an identifier of its own. There was neither need nor logic for the change - there's still a two-letter regional identifier, but they've been re-assigned - and D. used to joke that I would vote for any party that included bringing back Proper Number Plates™ in its manifesto.
@Margaret - I can't believe there are still people who don't agree with current medical cancer treatments. Hope very much that your vegan friend's daughter doesn't follow his advice...
Oh, I believe it. I get all sorts of off-the-wall recommendations, most of them from people who have the very best of intentions. (I thank them, and then move along.)
I have one dear friend who is deeply into alternative medicine and hugely suspicious of regular medicine. I have to put my knuckle in my mouth when she talks about reoccurring problems which might so easily be dealt with by visiting a doctor. I don't for one minute think that regular medicine can solve everything - of course it can't - but sometimes liquorish, sage and warm marbles just don't hack it.
Apologies for the long link. I haven't mastered the neat ones yet.
Aaugh! Now that will probably keep popping up in my "recently viewed items." Then they'll probably show me other related items -- "If you liked that, you might also like this."
Apologies for the long link. I haven't mastered the neat ones yet.
Aaugh! Now that will probably keep popping up in my "recently viewed items." Then they'll probably show me other related items -- "If you liked that, you might also like this."
I knew I shouldn't have asked...now I, too, await the inevitable adverts...
Mind you, it mightn't be so bad, judging from the relaxed position, and happy smile, of the cartoon lady in the linky...
Apologies for the long link. I haven't mastered the neat ones yet.
A couple of hints, Caroline. First is for the long link. If you go to https://tinyurl.com, you can paste in your long link and be given a short link which you can test goes where you want it to go. Copy and paste into your text.
Second, the format. I will put spaces into my example so you can see it. Remove them.
TICT the deepest, darkest regions of H- Scammers taking advantage of the elderly. Specifically my very own personal elderly folks.
My sister stayed here when I went away for a short trip in order to take care of our parents. She was fooled into giving scammers my parents' home address. (She's feeling pretty bad about that.) Anyway, those same scammers sent a bill to my parents, which arrived just after I returned home. To say I was really ticked off would be an understatement. Therefore, I decided to return scam the scumbags.
I used a billing template to send a response to those turd blossoms. In it, I billed them for 100 times the amount they billed my parents using some of the language they used in the bill to my folks. In the comments section I wrote: "Seriously, though, if you ever contact (my parents) again, we will be forced to take legal action against you and charge you with elder abuse.
If you have any questions, contact your local law enforcement agency.
Most sincerely,
The Extremely Pissed Off Daughters"
There's more. I even designed a logo for the bill. I know it doesn't do any good, but it felt good to put my anger to use and was worth the price of a stamp to send it to the address they indicated.
@Lothlorien Thank you so much for your help! Given my tiny brain I think I will stick with the straightforward Tiny Url option - which was very helpful.
@jedijudy Well done you, bravo, bravo! How wonderful that you got home just before the bill arrived - and you were able to respond with gusto.
Thanks I intended to return to that this morning . I was writing in the middle of the night and post went awry. Am just awake and was checking. It is now 6:20 am
Facebook. I do not do Facebook and won't. But I just heard from another source who had seen it on Facebook that a friend had died, and that was considered sufficient notice for everyone. That's the second time that has happened. Is it really so difficult to let people know directly?
Even if all the relevant people are on FB, one simply cannot assume that they'll see the Important Post. That's up to the algorithms, and they do not operate logically, unless your aim is to spread advertising.
I have king size flat sheets on a regular double bed. This leaves a LOT of spare sheeting. By the time I tuck in the sheets, nothing budges. Okay, so top and bottom are still a bit mean (which I think is a miserly economy on the part of the manufacturers), but the sides do a great job of anchoring the sheet.
And who is to say, or to know, that what is broadcast on Facebook is, in fact, The Truth™?
Too right.
Apparently my own demise was reported as "fact" on the book-of-face by someone none of us had ever heard of - only alerted to it by friends of the sons getting in touch to offer condolences
My bed is queen size but I have always bought king size bedding. When I was first married, my grandmother and my husband’s grandmother gave me sheets because they were too big. A normal double size bed, same size sheets but they hung over the side. They liked them just to the edge.
Fitted sheets that don't. Only finding 2 bottom fitted sheets, no top ones
I am only buying flat sheets from now on.
Sorry Mum, you were right
So Huia, what you do is get ALL your bed linen out and sort it into sets - double duvet cover/double fitted sheet/however many pillow cases you need. Fold and place into one pillow case.
Do the same for the single sets and lo! no such problem ever again. I wish I had known this back when we had both doubles and singles!
Mrs. S, vying for the post of domestic goddess of the linen cupboard
Finding these comments on sheets quite odd. I've never owned a set of sheets that didn't fit the bed they went on. The fitted sheets just, well, fit. And the top sheets hang over the side to be tucked in at the bottom and side edges. I have used a larger quilt as a bedspread. But otherwise, the sheets just fit fine. Maybe I should go into business selling them to you?
Crikey! Who was it that said, "reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated "?
Mark Twain.
Himself, indeed.
Seriously, though, I wonder if the report of TheOrganist's demise was actually about someone else with exactly the same name... - and, therefore, no malice intended, IYSWIM.
I have a 3ft 6in bed and have to buy double sheets - except that to tuck them in on a standard 6ft 3in length, I need king size. I have a lot to tuck in at the sides! (My new mattress is deeper - research is needed.)
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Gah. Where ARE you -- latitudinally and longitudinally, as opposed to metaphysically and heat-indexically?
I wonder if the first instruction to the web designers was: Use all the jargon words and make sure you get as many into one sentence as possible!!
My sympathy for your dilemma increases!
I see there were links to further details but that's probably enough for one day!!
TiCtH the 43 staff members who have replied ALL to a possible spam email with variations of "I don't think this is for me."
I feel your pain. I could CtH anyone who does not use intelligence about when to use or avoid "reply to all" and all those who do not blind copy when sending a hulk email, but list all the addresses.
@Cathscats - With you on the 'Grrrrr!' for not using the blind copy option for group mail outs.
I'm actually rescinding a TICTH here: the New Brunswick transport department, in its wisdom, has not only decided to scrap front number plates, but decreed that they may be replaced by "vanity" plates instead.
BS 2852, which was on several successive cars belonging to my late father*, will be affixed to the Pigletmobile forthwith.
* and which was refused as an official number plate because it had "negative connotations". Not to an Orcadian it doesn't.
[/tangent]
(This is not a knock on the at-least-one shipmate who is attending, nor anyone else. I'm just venting).
Remember the great nhs email crash a few years ago, where a number of people replied “I don’t think this is for me” to every single person on the entire nhs email list? The whole of nhs email fell over for about a day and a half. In hindsight, it’s quite funny.
Please explain. Google didn't seem any more knowledgeable than me on this.
...as well as being the former registration mark for Orkney.
Proper regional registration marks, RIP. I can recall the days when Kent had quite a few - D (a very early one) KE, KJ, KK, KL, KM, KN, KO, KP, KR, and KT. The other Ks were, I think, allocated to such backwaters as Bradford, and Liverpool.
Oops...
Sorry...
In the early 1970s, "cherished" numbers became popular, and as long as a number had at one time existed, you could buy it and for a fee register your car with it. My dad bought BS 2852 (which had originally been registered to a tractor in the 1940s) and had it on, successively, a Volvo, two Citroens and a Vauxhall. The lower the number, the better: numbers in one, two or three digits are particularly valuable. When I was home on holiday a few years ago I saw BS 1, which used to belong to Billy Smart (of circus fame) but now I believe belongs to a rich local, and is probably worth a fortune.
I heartily condemn Tony Blair to Hell for messing about with the county identifiers: when they ran out of numbers his government completely revamped the system, and Orkney no longer has an identifier of its own. There was neither need nor logic for the change - there's still a two-letter regional identifier, but they've been re-assigned - and D. used to joke that I would vote for any party that included bringing back Proper Number Plates™ in its manifesto.
I have one dear friend who is deeply into alternative medicine and hugely suspicious of regular medicine. I have to put my knuckle in my mouth when she talks about reoccurring problems which might so easily be dealt with by visiting a doctor. I don't for one minute think that regular medicine can solve everything - of course it can't - but sometimes liquorish, sage and warm marbles just don't hack it.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reusable-Careshine-Cleansing-Replacement-Insertion/dp/B07LG3QS98/ref=asc_df_B07LG3QS98/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309940318982&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15465749317229553617&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006707&hvtargid=pla-698782356190&psc=1
Apologies for the long link. I haven't mastered the neat ones yet.
Aaugh! Now that will probably keep popping up in my "recently viewed items." Then they'll probably show me other related items -- "If you liked that, you might also like this."
Scammers.
'Nuff said, except I didn't get caught out, though it was a near thing.
I knew I shouldn't have asked...now I, too, await the inevitable adverts...
Mind you, it mightn't be so bad, judging from the relaxed position, and happy smile, of the cartoon lady in the linky...
@Bishops Finger Yes, I noticed that too. The mind boggles.
A couple of hints, Caroline. First is for the long link. If you go to https://tinyurl.com, you can paste in your long link and be given a short link which you can test goes where you want it to go. Copy and paste into your text.
Second, the format. I will put spaces into my example so you can see it. Remove them.
URL= https://tinyurl.com]Tiny Url[/URL]
Take out spaces and link will work
Tiny Url
As always, preview is your friend
My sister stayed here when I went away for a short trip in order to take care of our parents. She was fooled into giving scammers my parents' home address. (She's feeling pretty bad about that.) Anyway, those same scammers sent a bill to my parents, which arrived just after I returned home. To say I was really ticked off would be an understatement. Therefore, I decided to return scam the scumbags.
I used a billing template to send a response to those turd blossoms. In it, I billed them for 100 times the amount they billed my parents using some of the language they used in the bill to my folks. In the comments section I wrote:
"Seriously, though, if you ever contact (my parents) again, we will be forced to take legal action against you and charge you with elder abuse.
If you have any questions, contact your local law enforcement agency.
Most sincerely,
The Extremely Pissed Off Daughters"
There's more. I even designed a logo for the bill. I know it doesn't do any good, but it felt good to put my anger to use and was worth the price of a stamp to send it to the address they indicated.
@jedijudy Well done you, bravo, bravo! How wonderful that you got home just before the bill arrived - and you were able to respond with gusto.
[ URL= https://tinyurl.com ]Tiny Url[/URL]
@jedijudy, brava!
I am only buying flat sheets from now on.
Sorry Mum, you were right
Too right.
Apparently my own demise was reported as "fact" on the book-of-face by someone none of us had ever heard of - only alerted to it by friends of the sons getting in touch to offer condolences
So Huia, what you do is get ALL your bed linen out and sort it into sets - double duvet cover/double fitted sheet/however many pillow cases you need. Fold and place into one pillow case.
Do the same for the single sets and lo! no such problem ever again. I wish I had known this back when we had both doubles and singles!
Mrs. S, vying for the post of domestic goddess of the linen cupboard
Mark Twain.
Himself, indeed.
Seriously, though, I wonder if the report of TheOrganist's demise was actually about someone else with exactly the same name... - and, therefore, no malice intended, IYSWIM.
Either that, or sheet designers hate people.