Amusing Items

[Black Hole]

Batch is used elsewhere – around here it is a small loaf rather than a roll.

 

[EEPhil]

Batch was how I had to run computer jobs back in the eighties.

 

[Trev]

It's not AI its AS (Artificial stupidity).

 

[EEPhil]

It's not AI its AS (Artificial stupidity).

I think that belongs in the subtitling thread.

 

[Trev]

Yes it did. I seem to be suffering AS.

 

[Black Hole]

It's still amusing

 

[EEPhil]

It's not that amusing that some of us are suffering from increasingly senior moments.

 

[Trev]

I suspect that is because we are becoming increasingly senior.

 

[BMAX]

This e mail, received today, says it all.

 

[prpr]

It's "on board" not "onboard" as well...

 

[gomezz]

In some contexts it should be "on-board" such as "Some components are on-board and some are off-board".

 

[EEPhil]

That's like the instore discussion on AvP. And the sods at the local Co-Op have a notice up referring to instore. Argh!

 

[Trev]

Why the hell the hyphen in on-board and off-board. Surely you don't normally separate a preposition and a noun to which it refers with a hyphen do you?
Or did you really mean "That's like the in-store discussion on-AvP. And the sods at-the local Co-Op have a notice-up referring to in-store. Argh!"
Or is the hyphen used as a place holder for the word 'the' in the case of 'on-board' et.al.?

 

[af123]

local Co-Op

Coöperative, shirley?

 

[EEPhil]

Coöperative, shirley?

Shirley? I thought we were going for Samantha.
According to https://www.coop.co.uk/ it is Co-op or Co-operative. So I got it wrong.
If you want to get in a mess with hyphens and the Co-op, try this from a conference visit to Zurich back in 1985.

I don't know about the grammar consideration in Swiss-German but something looks wrong with the sign.

 

[Black Hole]

Err, not if that's a retailer specialising in coops.

 

[EEPhil]

I did a search and, although there is a new building on the site, it is still a coop (34 years later). It appears to be similar to Co-ops in the UK. It sells mainly foodstuff, not bird houses.

 

[EEPhil]

Seen on my New Year's Day walk:

John Wyndham was correct. Triffids!

 

[MikeSh]

Triffids!

Strangely, those and the Kraken (as portrayed by JW) are two of very few sci-fi monsters that (the thought of) have ever really scared me, and they still give me the creeps.
Possibly an age related thing.

 

[MikeSh]

SWMBO was slumped on the settee trying to find a programme in her (overfull) FOX tonight.
"Mike, help, my remote's gone wrong. I'm pressing down and it's going up!"
So I lean over to check she is actually pressing the right button, take the remote out of her hand, look at it briefly, turn it round and hand it back.

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