Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Edit.......how could I forget Harry Webb?

Or Reginald Dwight

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Or Reginald Dwight

Or David Jones. (Not the Monkee!)

Or Robert Zimmerman

Or Stevland Morris

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

That letter sequence is a really good method for shelving multiple books by author. Take a four shelfctrolley, subdivide into the four groups then put in order properly. Much quicker than putting things straight into alphabetical order.

What I struggle with, with books, is reading titles.

If you're in a shop/library looking for a specific book or author it's probably fine and you can find what you're after.... if you're in a charity shop though it's entirely random - and you have to bend over at a 90 degree angle and shuffle along to read every spine.... then you look daft, get in the way and end up feeling giddy when you straighten.

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

Nosmo King.

Many years ago I had a bf whose grandfather was in the Hospital. Some lung problem from WW1 and/or mines or something...

We were with his gran I think and parked the car, got out, and I saw a sign. It was in Sheffield, and that's "all furren" to me. The sign said PEDES RIANS

I asked what they were... thinking it was some "oop North" term.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

Alexa is a work in progress. Very limited in what it does well. I use it to listen to music and as a timer. Apparently, you can link it up to the lights at great expense. It's not a patch on Siri or Ok Google for getting things done.

It will read the weather forecast and the news headlines.

You can link it to your calendar, if you use the right one, which I don't.

I turned on Siri for the first time a couple of weeks ago. :rotfl:

Some of his answers are hilarious, although like a lot of guys, he's not too good on discussing emotional matters! :rotfl:
However, I reckon he could be my bestest friend!

I'd still like a Synth, though!
(One of the empathic ones, I mean; not a murderous one! )

PasturesNew wrote: »

Many years ago I had a bf whose grandfather was in the Hospital. Some lung problem from WW1 and/or mines or something...

We were with his gran I think and parked the car, got out, and I saw a sign. It was in Sheffield, and that's "all furren" to me. The sign said PEDES RIANS

I asked what they were... thinking it was some "oop North" term.

Looks like Latin to me. Something to do with feet?
A branch of chiropody, perhaps?
Laughing feet?

Cafe in the chiropodist department called The Laughing Feet?

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Looks like Latin to me. Something to do with feet?
A branch of chiropody, perhaps?
Laughing feet?

Cafe in the chiropodist department?

I probably thought it was Spanish/Mexican to be honest
When I was given an odd look and told "pedestrians", I felt SOOO stupid.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I probably thought it was Spanish/Mexican to be honest
When I was given an odd look and told "pedestrians", I felt SOOO stupid.

Yes, but it's understandable when you look at some web addresses. My mind seems to default to a strange interpretation of what the rolled-together words are saying.

Even some usernames have a completely different 'look' to me than what they should be! Sometimes it's ages before it dawns on me what they're supposed to be! :rotfl:





Cont'd........
David Cook



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chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

What I struggle with, with books, is reading titles.
If you're in a shop/library looking for a specific book or author it's probably fine and you can find what you're after.... if you're in a charity shop though it's entirely random - and you have to bend over at a 90 degree angle and shuffle along to read every spine.... then you look daft, get in the way and end up feeling giddy when you straighten.

It's even worse if some rotten so-and-so has put some of them in upside down.


cont.
David White
Paul Martin

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

It's even worse if some rotten so-and-so has put some of them in upside down.


Paul Martin

Who's he?
(Apart from the Flog It! guy).

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Paul Martin

Who's he?
(Apart from the Flog It! guy).

Paul Merton, the comedian.
Because his birth name had already been taken he took the name of the area in which he grew up.