The Vent and Rant Thread

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by Mindy

From the gent who commented on toilette overshare elsewhere? How wude!

oi!
'twas a perfectly legitimate question,
them wings of yours are rather ...

[nekokami]

Back on topic! I want to vent and rant about my Grumpy Teenager!

Actually, I don't. I get a stomachache just thinking about it.

Please, continue your prior conversation.

[slayda]

Originally Posted by nekokami

Back on topic! I want to vent and rant about my Grumpy Teenager!

Actually, I don't. I get a stomachache just thinking about it.

Please, continue your prior conversation.

Your revenge is that one day, they too will have grumpy teanagers.

Or put another way. Insanity is inherited. We get it from our children.

[RWood]

Originally Posted by slayda

... Insanity is inherited. We get it from our children.

Wrong, we get it from our children.

[GeoffC]

My once very grumpy teen lad is now a very well-mannered, polite, hard working young man. Our only problem, now, is his choice of girl-friend..(ouch)...

[LazyScot]

Originally Posted by RWood

Wrong, we get it from our children.

Strange; I thought we got it from our neighbour's children.....

[nekokami]

Thanks for the sympathy, everyone.

I was typing a longer note, but due to a bandage on my left pinky, I keep hitting some key or combination on that side that executes a "back" on my browser and loses my messages. Bleah.

(I nicked my finger while chopping veggies the other night. Nothing too serious, it was a sharp knife and should heal quickly.)

[LazyScot]

Originally Posted by Mindy

How random, someone on the bus was talking about Ibiza Foam Parties just yesterday. I always quite enjoyed them, and it always added to the conversation on the 3am bus home: on the one hand you didn't have to worry about getting your make-up off at the end of the night as it was long gone, but on the other you pretty much had to shower before you went to bed because the alternative is just, well..... sticky.
Still, 3am was one of the few times you could be guaranteed not to have queue for the showers.
Ah, 1st year Uni and student Halls of Res.....

Pollock's?

(sorry -- bad Edinburgh "joke").

At my Uni (down south) they had a habit of turing off the hot water overnight. Cold shower at 3am.... No thanks.

I'd developed the ability, as near as I can tell, to get up without waking up (I'm pretty certain I cycled to class whilst asleep one day). On more than one occasion when I had to get up painfully early my first conscious thought of the day was a very naught word whilst exiting the shower with extreme rapidity.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by LazyScot

Strange; I thought we got it from our neighbour's children.....

that might just be me.


neko, sorry you nicked your finger. i hope it doesn't hurt too much, that can be quite annoying to have a cut on your finger. since your finger is possibly a bit disable i'll cross my own that your family life will return to smoother waters soon.

(i hit that "back" button often too, even without a bandage. if you figure out which button it is, please tell me, so i can try to avoid it. it's really annoying.)

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by LazyScot

At my Uni (down south) they had a habit of turing off the hot water overnight. Cold shower at 3am.... No thanks.

I'd developed the ability, as near as I can tell, to get up without waking up (I'm pretty certain I cycled to class whilst asleep one day). On more than one occasion when I had to get up painfully early my first conscious thought of the day was a very naught word whilst exiting the shower with extreme rapidity.

my first thought of the day is always a very naughty word when i am obliged to get up early, even without a cold shower. my retroactive sympathies to you (brought to you by montsnmags chrono-arrangers, ltd.).

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

(i hit that "back" button often too, even without a bandage. if you figure out which button it is, please tell me, so i can try to avoid it. it's really annoying.)

the backspace key

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Nate the great

the backspace key

that would make sense, but is there by any chance *another* back key on the left side of the keyboard ? i'm pretty sure i hit it with my left fingers. it doesn't make sense that it could be the tabulation key but that one certainly causes havoc as well when you hit it by accident in a frenzy of speed-typing, as does the alt key...

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by nekokami

Thanks for the sympathy, everyone.

I was typing a longer note, but due to a bandage on my left pinky, I keep hitting some key or combination on that side that executes a "back" on my browser and loses my messages. Bleah.

Which browser?

I've had that happen here, but it's not a problem: the message I was creating is still in the browser's cache. Going forward again returns to the errant page.

I'm running Firefox 3.0 under win XP Pro SP3. I've even had a breaker blow and lose power in the middle of creating a reply. When I reset the breaker and reboot, Firefox comes up telling me it terminated unexpectedly, and offers to restore the tabs that were open when it crashed. I say yes, and everything is restored, including my reply in progress. The only thing that doesn't get restored is a tab with an open GMail session. I have to log back in.
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Dennis

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

Which browser?

I've had that happen here, but it's not a problem: the message I was creating is still in the browser's cache. Going forward again returns to the errant page.

I'm running Firefox 3.0 under win XP Pro SP3. I've even had a breaker blow and lose power in the middle of creating a reply. When I reset the breaker and reboot, Firefox comes up telling me it terminated unexpectedly, and offers to restore the tabs that were open when it crashed. I say yes, and everything is restored, including my reply in progress. The only thing that doesn't get restored is a tab with an open GMail session. I have to log back in.
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Dennis

i've noticed that usually works too but i have occasionally lost a message i was writing (one of the great things about gmail ; it saves my drafts automatically for just such circumstances). also sometimes i accidently hit "post" or "send" before i'm ready, which is annoying, and i have also managed to close tabs or windows completely (god knows how, because the chances of hitting alt+F4 by accident seem frankly slim to none).

my gmail session is restored too though ; i'm always logged in at home. seems weird that it should shut you out of that, unless you programmed it not to remember you.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

that would make sense, but is there by any chance *another* back key on the left side of the keyboard ? i'm pretty sure i hit it with my left fingers. it doesn't make sense that it could be the tabulation key but that one certainly causes havoc as well when you hit it by accident in a frenzy of speed-typing, as does the alt key...

People fail to realize how important a keyboard can be. Your fingers get trained to a particular layout and feel, and switching to a different one causes all manner of errors.

I just switched to a Logitech USB keyboard from an older Compaq PS2 model, because the Compaq was in bad need of cleaning. The Dell has different placements for things, and I am forever hitting the Caps Lock unintentionally,
and not noticing UNTIL HALF THE LINE IS ALL CAPS. () It also rearranges Home, End, Page Up and Page Down, with equally annoying affects.

Time to switch back again...
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Dennis