Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

Auto correct is shirt. A waist of tome.

I get annoyed at its very limited vocabulary and tendency towards Americanism. For example, mine changes etc to Tec. I use etc routinely, but have never attended a US institute with Tec at the end and tend to use the British abbreviation of tech for technology. It doesn't matter how many times I change it back, it doesn't learn. GRRRRR

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

The whole idea of her recipes is that they are cheap as she tries to feed her and her son for £10 per week. The idea is that you take the basic and adapt it to something that works for you. I love chillies but the aren't something I'd buy fresh due to waste, so instead I buy the frozen stock cube ones, a bit more expensive.

I thought her recipe for replicating flavoured porridge sachets by using cheap oats, sultanas and powdered milk was brilliant, cheap, and something I'd take to work on a cold winter's morning to warm up after walking in the cold. I also like how others have adapted, such as adding cheap drinking chocolate.

Bloody auto correct changed sultanas to dioramas! Why? Who on earth uses the word diorama more frequently than sultana?

People on old style rave about her site, which to some degree puts me off.

Like gen, I buy fresh chillies and freeze what we don't use.

DH used to hate chilli and only when I convinced him to try again did he say. 'That is chilli?' Its delicious......' When I read people turning a bolognaise into chilli I am afraid I sort of see what he must have felt, My chilli starts different and is built different from the beginning up from a ragu.

The other difference is I don't used mince in chilli. I would but DH still hasn't bought that.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I get annoyed at its very limited vocabulary and tendency towards Americanism. For example, mine changes etc to Tec. I use etc routinely, but have never attended a US institute with Tec at the end and tend to use the British abbreviation of tech for technology. It doesn't matter how many times I change it back, it doesn't learn. GRRRRR

That's what annoys me, the refusal to learn.


Soon you'll just start drinking of sentences with the word diorama in them

CKhalvashi

michaels wrote: »

ahh but it is not only Barclaycard holders, anyone with a debit or credit card can do it :eek:

Looks like it may be the latter of my suggestions, then :eek:

We're on 12th on Saturday. Not what I wanted :mad:

Generali

My old Nokia had predictive text which used 'riot' in place of 'pint'.

I'm pretty sure my iPhone learns over time.

CKhalvashi

Generali wrote: »

I'm pretty sure my iPhone learns over time.

Mine now seems able to speak Georgian in English mode without any problems, so I think it looks at what you type, and goes from there!

SingleSue

michaels wrote: »

ahh but it is not only Barclaycard holders, anyone with a debit or credit card can do it :eek:

Sold out apparently....

GDB2222

Generali wrote: »

My old Nokia had predictive text which used 'riot' in place of 'pint'.

That's a textonym! There was a whole sub-culture amongst schoolkids based on those. Ah, found a reference. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1577676/Predictive-text-creating-secret-teen-language.html

'So if you hear your teenager describing something as “book”, then it means it is “cool” - because book is the word that first comes up when you type cool into your phone using predictive text. '

'If they exclaim “zonino!” then it means “woohoo!” and when they refer to someone’s “nun” they mean their mum.'

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

That's a textonym! There was a whole sub-culture amongst schoolkids based on those. Ah, found a reference. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1577676/Predictive-text-creating-secret-teen-language.html

'So if you hear your teenager describing something as “book”, then it means it is “cool” - because book is the word that first comes up when you type cool into your phone using predictive text. '

'If they exclaim “zonino!” then it means “woohoo!” and when they refer to someone’s “nun” they mean their mum.'

Brilliant. Great word too.

Presumably with Otto correct that's now pretty much dead....?

I remember reading a thing a few years ago about how criminals could find the auto correct memory on their phone being used against them in court as the police could dig out references to 'Uncle Quentin' and 'nuclear submarine' (link - probably NSFW). No idea if it's actually true or one of those 'stories' that comes up on a quiet news day. Thinking about it, it stinks like a week old cod.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

The whole idea of her recipes is that they are cheap as she tries to feed her and her son for £10 per week. The idea is that you take the basic and adapt it to something that works for you. I love chillies but the aren't something I'd buy fresh due to waste, so instead I buy the frozen stock cube ones, a bit more expensive.

I thought her recipe for replicating flavoured porridge sachets by using cheap oats, sultanas and powdered milk was brilliant, cheap, and something I'd take to work on a cold winter's morning to warm up after walking in the cold. I also like how others have adapted, such as adding cheap drinking chocolate.

I guess her starting point isn't my lifestyle. There's just something that is very annoying about her.

I've never had porridge so never needed to make the sachets, but to me her solution is obvious. So I guess I just don't "get her" as her recipes are "obvious" - if I'd eaten porridge sachets I'd have worked that out years ago because they're (probably) expensive and I'd have begrudged paying through the nose from the start.