Assume v. Presume

[trog]

I had that "To reassure you that this email is genuine, we have included the last three digits of your postcode here: " from the TV licence mob telling me my licence was due and when I got a second reminder still well before my current licence expired I mailed them and told them I would pay on the day of expiry and included "To reassure you that this email is genuine, I have included the single digit that expresses my opinion of you trying to get early payment here"

 

[EEPhil]

but I haven't read whatever article

Neither did I, I just found the article with "numerical digit" as the title and did a quick scan to see if there was anything worth a proper read.

Yes, it came from the bank. Maybe I'll send them one of those online message/feedback/complaint things and see what they say (and do, if anything).

More trouble than it's worth. Although anyone can find your postcode. The last four digits of your account are less easy to obtain. Neither is proof that the email is genuine.

 

[EEPhil]

I had that "To reassure you that this email is genuine, we have included the last three digits of your postcode here: " from the TV licence mob telling me my licence was due and when I got a second reminder still well before my current licence expired I mailed them and told them I would pay on the day of expiry and included "To reassure you that this email is genuine, I have included the single digit that expresses my opinion of you trying to get early payment here"

I pay mine by DD and got an early email - something about the licence being nearly due. I then got another email thanking me for paying and providing a link to the licence - ages before they took the DD (on the correct date). Arse and elbow seem to apply here.

 

[trog]

I pay mine by DD and got an early email - something about the licence being nearly due. I then got another email thanking me for paying and providing a link to the licence - ages before they took the DD (on the correct date). Arse and elbow seem to apply here.

I pay mine in full, does that mean you are making 12 payments in advance for your licence? My contempt for the licence fee and how the money is spent would never allow me to let them make more by paying early.

 

[EEPhil]

does that mean you are making 12 payments in advance for your licence?

No, just one yearly payment by DD.

 

[antipodean]

"To reassure you that this email is genuine, we have included the last three digits of your postcode here: 1AB"

When did letters become digits?

When they are hexadecimal ?

 

[prpr]

When they are hexadecimal ?

Postcodes aren't hexadecimal. YO1 1XY.

 

[EEPhil]

Postcodes aren't hexadecimal. YO1 1XY.

Well, that postcode isn't!

 

[Black Hole]

Yet another example of GenZ (or whatever) not caring about the distinction.

I was in Wetherspoons for a pit-stop last week, and the young girl clearing tables commented that I was doing a crossword, saying she can never manage them. She said she couldn't think of the right word at the right time. I explained that, being at least three times her age, I had much more experience with language and a wide vocabulary, and it would come in time if she was open to it, but I often couldn't think of the right word at the right time either.

A few minutes later she came by again and said "have you given up?". "No, I finished it. The only thing holding me up was realising I had spelt 'tryst" wrongly." ""What's 'tryst'? Never heard of it."

 

[Wildebeest]

A while back I was in an outdoor shop buying a pair of boots. I asked a question about the last a particular model was based on. The footwear assistant hadn't a clue what I was talking about.

 

[antipodean]

""What's 'tryst'? Never heard of it."

That is because they don't talk about it, they just do it ...

When I was a pre-teenager my grandfather told a story of how he went into a shop for a gross of clothes pegs. The empty headed girl behind the counter searched around for a while and eventually came back, "I'm sorry sir, we only have them packaged as 12 dozen". He was not impressed.

 

[Caldi]

From Clark and Pointon ("Words: a Guide"):

assume verb, means to suppose without evidence [..]. In another sense, assume means to take over resonsibility [..].

presume verb, means to draw a conclusion from some evidence [..]. In another sense, presume means to behave without showing respect [..].

(Examples omitted)

Slightly, but significantly, different from your definitions.

As my old boss used to tell me, don't assume, it makes an ass of u and me.

 

[Black Hole]

Welcome to AvP!

 

[antipodean]

As my old boss used to tell me, don't assume, it makes an ass of u and me.

You left off the other bit - where is the u - it is in front of me, so if you assume it is making an ass of u in front of me.

 

[gomezz]

That is because they don't talk about it, they just do it ...

Even if they never get round to plighting their troth.

 

[EEPhil]

ISIHAC

Now called Bristol Beacon by/for the wokerites, but not by me! This is a point of hilarity during the intro for Programme 4.

Looks like a possible change. Programme 3 (and therefore 4 if things proceed as normal) is from Warwick Arts Centre according to next week's Radio Times. Maybe RT is wrong.

 

[Black Hole]

Perhaps they're progs 5 & 6, I might have mis-remembered what was said (or what was said might have been inaccurate).

 

[EEPhil]

or what was said might have been inaccurate

Another investigation into the BBC required. Giving out inaccurate information - whatever next? They'll sack MasterChef and MotD hosts. Oh, they've already done that.

 

[trog]

Another investigation into the BBC required. Giving out inaccurate information - whatever next? They'll sack MasterChef and MotD hosts. Oh, they've already done that.

Do not worry even after the BBC investigation into Brendan O'Carroll's racist comment ..................................

Mrs Brown's Boys season 5 has BBC release date confirmed for all four new episodes

The troublemaking gran and her family are back for new misadventures.

www.radiotimes.com

The least funny most banal comedy series in the history of the BBC and my licence fee continues to keep it on life support when its switch should have been flipped years ago.

 

[EEPhil]

The least funny most banal comedy series in the history of the BBC

I find a lot of comedy unfunny - especially Mrs Brown. Obviously some people must like them otherwise they wouldn't be recommissioned.

Another investigation into the BBC required.

I was taking the p when making this comment!