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Post by slowcoach on Jan 29, 2023 15:53:26 GMT 2
They are ideal for high altitude writing particularly in wartime, so much less likely to leak.
László knew a good thing when he saw one fly by several Miles up in the air bearing testament to the effectiveness of his vision.
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 29, 2023 19:26:44 GMT 2
They didn’t use pen, they used birds. So very different from y old school. didn't the little claws make holes in the paper? and I should think one flap of the wing would have ink all over you as well as the paper ! That should have read, “They didn’t use pen, they used biros. So very different from my old school”. Although, what I actually wrote sounds more interesting.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 30, 2023 9:30:25 GMT 2
youve used a luggage carrier w bungee cords
you carried 8 ounces of lotion onto a flight
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Post by slowcoach on Jan 30, 2023 11:25:24 GMT 2
I once playfully queried whether it was okay to take some baseball sized objects containing a fluid onto a flight.
The answer was NO!
So I peeled and ate all but one of them , segmented the final one and popped the bits into a clear plastic bag.
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 30, 2023 11:53:14 GMT 2
I once playfully queried whether it was okay to take some baseball sized objects containing a fluid onto a flight. The answer was NO! So I peeled and ate all but one of them , segmented the final one and popped the bits into a clear plastic bag. Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Post by Voy on Jan 30, 2023 15:30:11 GMT 2
Netskie -- it's good that I lived in Oz at one point, or "biros" would have been as meaningless as "birds" ! -- we USanians call all of the ballpoints, regardless of brand.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 30, 2023 21:11:05 GMT 2
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 31, 2023 0:34:06 GMT 2
Netskie -- it's good that I lived in Oz at one point, or "biros" would have been as meaningless as "birds" ! -- we USanians call all of the ballpoints, regardless of brand. Voy - I might have trouble with the local lingo if I visited the USofA. You call biscuits cookies, jam jelly and nappies diapers, don’t have Vegemite and have orange cheese. And your scones aren’t scones and you fry with white solid fat called Crisco. Do you have googies? And do you have soldiers? If I asked for a pav, would they understand?
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Post by tzarine on Jan 31, 2023 2:51:08 GMT 2
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 31, 2023 5:37:21 GMT 2
In Britain vacuum cleaners are referred to as hoovers, no matter what the brand is. Mrs Faz has a Dyson hoover.
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Post by Voy on Jan 31, 2023 15:50:08 GMT 2
Nets -- what tzarine said ( tho me, being haff and haave, would understand soldiers as strips of toast to dip into a medium boiled egg - sitting in an egg cup. Pav would leave them totally blank , because we don't have them here - even called by their full name. the closest thing we have to goobies is the big greeny globs that come out of your nose if you have a cold... goobers.
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Post by slowcoach on Jan 31, 2023 18:00:08 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Jan 31, 2023 18:48:26 GMT 2
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 1, 2023 1:26:02 GMT 2
Not goobies, googies. A googy is an egg googies is the plural of googy. Dad would ask if we’d like a googy for brekkie. Note: Stuff coming from the nose was never called boogers or goobers, it was called snot. My mother did not like seeing snotty children - children with snot from their noses to their lips made her feel like vomiting.
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Post by Voy on Feb 1, 2023 2:10:50 GMT 2
and googly happen in cricket...
( and, slow , you're right.. boogers)
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 1, 2023 5:17:55 GMT 2
Annd then there are goober peas (aka peanuts). This is from a Civil War (aka the war between the states):
Peas, peas, peas, peas
Eating goober peas
Goodness, how delicious,
Eating goober peas.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 1, 2023 6:38:28 GMT 2
i miss the feel of a phone
i hate the rectangular phones i even miss my little nokia flip phone
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 1, 2023 7:32:35 GMT 2
A few weeks ago I tried, based on no direct experience of either, to explain QR codes and the smart phones role in processing them. My wife was neither impressed nor interested. I added that it might not be long before the ubiquitous ownership of smart phones will simply be assumed. Even less impressed. Not more than a week later a missive from her bank arrived with a "for more details" QR code. I hope those details weren't of any importance.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 1, 2023 21:24:31 GMT 2
i remember in the early days of QR codes & the lego store had one so you could see the latest toys, tzarevich loved it
when mcdonalds fried their fries in beef tallow
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Post by rikita on Feb 9, 2023 2:47:20 GMT 2
some people at work seem to think qr codes make everything modern and are the best thing to have, so they want us to include them even when it makes no sense at all (like on our website, when they want to link to a different website, so it would make much more sense to just post a link people can click).
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 9, 2023 9:35:00 GMT 2
they want us to include [qr codes] even when it makes no sense at all ( like on our website ...)Thanks riki, I do need to laugh out loud at least once a day.
Still snorting and giggling!
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Post by tzarine on Feb 10, 2023 23:18:03 GMT 2
missing the feeling of hanging up a phone the number of independent book stores
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Post by tzarine on Feb 26, 2023 20:09:51 GMT 2
remember the joy of going to the der weinerschnitzel for one of their chili cheese dogs after school the helms bakery field trip all so cali kids took
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 27, 2023 9:38:26 GMT 2
When the dogs take you for a walk.
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 28, 2023 19:08:08 GMT 2
When you go to Ian's to buy some fruit and he says, "I haven't seen you for some time. I thought you were dead."
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Post by kuskiwi on Mar 2, 2023 10:16:25 GMT 2
When you go to Ian's to buy some fruit and he says, "I haven't seen you for some time. I thought you were dead." Pleased you aren't
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Post by Baz Faz on Mar 2, 2023 11:31:56 GMT 2
When you go to Ian's to buy some fruit and he says, "I haven't seen you for some time. I thought you were dead." Pleased you aren't Maybe I am dead. This is just a ghost carrying on.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 2, 2023 19:03:00 GMT 2
baz maybe this is another of your reincarnations?
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Post by tzarine on Mar 2, 2023 23:15:23 GMT 2
i hate the new usages of gentle & gently used all this gentle squishy language
also manic depressive is still more descriptive that bipolar this comes from someone i spoke to bout being manic
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Post by slowcoach on Mar 3, 2023 9:09:27 GMT 2
Prior to learning of it at you prompting I knew nothing of squishy language but it seems to offer lucrative possibilities:
Who knew that I harboured an inner squid?
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