Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

vivatifosi

Pyx... are you using google.co.uk rather than google.com?

A couple of other things you could try, if you aren't doing already...

When you get your results, you should get a grey google bar at the top. You can then click on tools. That allows you to focus on UK results. Using the same drop down, you can also filter by time, if say, it is a recent article you are looking for.

If you are looking for specific information, eg a specific site, this is quite good article, albeit American (same principles apply here).
https://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-find-anything-online-with-advanced-search-techniques--cms-21154
I use boolean quite a lot, as well as the search: function.

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

I find that sticking "uk" in the search criteria usually helps to get Brit sites first.

Yes, true, but I usually forget!
I've noticed that most of the word forums (for discussing grammar, etc.) seem to be American, and pronunciations of foreign words tend to be with U.S. accents! Hahahahahaha!

silvercar wrote: »

Passports add unused time on the old one to extend the life of the new one. So renew a passport with 6 months to expiry and the new one has 10 yrs and 6 months validity.

I never knew that!
I take it all back, then!

vivatifosi wrote: »

Pyx... are you using google.co.uk rather than google.com?

A couple of other things you could try, if you aren't doing already...

When you get your results, you should get a grey google bar at the top. You can then click on tools. That allows you to focus on UK results. Using the same drop down, you can also filter by time, if say, it is a recent article you are looking for.

If you are looking for specific information, eg a specific site, this is quite good article, albeit American (same principles apply here).
https://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-find-anything-online-with-advanced-search-techniques--cms-21154
I use boolean quite a lot, as well as the search: function.

I don't know which google I'm using! Nothing indicates it.

However, I had never noticed that grey Google bar before! :rotfl: that could be very useful!

In my defence, when going up and down supermarket aisles, I never notice what's in the end displays. That's the complete opposite to what their marketing ergonomics tell them to do! Ie. put stuff you want to shift in the end displays!

I just don't notice them! Probably the same with that google address bar!

I think I must be a marketing nightmare!
Especially as I will stand there working out whether the reduced multipack loorolls really are better value than the smaller packs. They aren't always! And comparing and contrasting ingredients, etc.

On the other hand, I did once notice that all the packs of a certain cheese had been priced up as £0.00! so I told a manager and he was horrified! He did let me have my two packs for free though, as a thank you. So my weird noticing things can come in useful, even if my weird not-noticing things don't!

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Yes, true, but I usually forget!
I've noticed that most of the word forums (for discussing grammar, etc.) seem to be American, and pronunciations of foreign words tend to be with U.S. accents! Hahahahahaha!

I wouldn't know about the pronunciations but I do find that the spelling on US sites is often atrocious - or do they, following their trend of skipping letter "u"s, spell that "atrocios" :rotfl:

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

I wouldn't know about the pronunciations but I do find that the spelling on US sites is often atrocious - or do they, following their trend of skipping letter "u"s, spell that "atrocios" :rotfl:

That's vicios, heinos and monstros.

chris_m

I know what they do with all those missing "u"s - for some reason they insist on pronouncing "nuclear" as "nuc-u-lar", inserting the "u" that they leave out of other things and managing to make a 2 syllable word into a 3 syllable one

vivatifosi

alooooooooooooooooooominum.

LydiaJ

I was once the only British poster on a US website with a smallish community like the NP, so that the regulars all go to know each other. They referred to my spelling as my "British accent".

Pyxis

LydiaJ wrote: »

I was once the only British poster on a US website with a smallish community like the NP, so that the regulars all go to know each other. They referred to my spelling as my "British accent".

I like that!

Virtual synaesthesia! :rotfl:


Talking of which, they don't like 'a' much, either!

As in the diphthong ae.


(So, why don't they spell aeroplane as eroplane?)

Edit.....I might have known! It's from a different Greek root!

And apparently, they use airplane more than aeroplane.

ivyleaf

Pyxis wrote: »

In my defence, when going up and down supermarket aisles, I never notice what's in the end displays. That's the complete opposite to what their marketing ergonomics tell them to do! Ie. put stuff you want to shift in the end displays!

I just don't notice them! Probably the same with that google address bar!

I think I must be a marketing nightmare!
Especially as I will stand there working out whether the reduced multipack loorolls really are better value than the smaller packs. They aren't always! And comparing and contrasting ingredients, etc.

On the other hand, I did once notice that all the packs of a certain cheese had been priced up as £0.00! so I told a manager and he was horrified! He did let me have my two packs for free though, as a thank you. So my weird noticing things can come in useful, even if my weird not-noticing things don't!

When we go to Sainsbury's we tend to try to save a bit of energy (i.e. walking energy) by walking along the centre and only diverting into the aisles which contain stuff we want to buy that day. So we notice the "offers" on the ends facing the centre, but not the others. Probably not what they had in mind

ivyleaf

vivatifosi wrote: »

alooooooooooooooooooominum.

Aw, I was going to say that

ETA On the Old-Style board there is, or was, a lovely lady living in Suffolk and she posted the way she presumably spoke. So I always think of her as "posting in a Suffolk accent"!