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The use of 'du jour' in thread titles!
The use of 'du jour' in thread titles!
Hmmm. Doesn't bother me. But when some oaf puts the word "Current " in front of it then......
Under achievers......may be stop blaming everyone and everything else and take a look in the mirror.
The after taste from a free bag of beef hula hoops that serves as a reminder that just because someone offers you a free bag of beef hula hoops you shouldn't accept them. Because you don't particularly like beef hula hoops.
It's not him apologising FFS, it's the bbc apologising for not subsequently bleeping or removing it.
That's as may be, but what's being reported is how "offended" everyone is.
Personally I'm offended that I have to share oxygen with these ****ing idiots.
The use of 'du jour' in thread titles!
Heh. One time I was in a restaurant and they had "Soup Du Jour" on the menu. Once I'd wiped it off I asked the waitress what the soup du jour was. She leaned over and in a conspiratorial whisper replied "it's 'soup of the day,' sir."
The misery of my first proper "core class" in the gym this morning. I am cross that as a rufty-tufty mountain biker who rides a lot an goes to the gym 2 or 3 times a week, my entire core has the strength and mobility of a poorly set jelly. This is despite the fact that there is barely any core exercises in the other stuff I do in the gym. Like that should matter 😉
Also everyone in the class was way better than me. Lightly perspiring while I was left a sweaty mess face down on the mat, wondering how I was going to get back up without adult help or a hoist.
Can't decide what's going to make me more DC later- the DOMS that are going to be epic or the fact that tonights circuits will surely have some blooming planks thrown in for the first time ever.
I just read a complaint about corporate buzzword bollocks catchphrases including "reach out" and "touch base" and now I have a Depeche Mode earworm.
When I press the Windows and M keys together on my laptop everything minimises except my Outlook. It's rather irksome.
When I press the Windows and M keys together on my laptop everything minimises except my Outlook. It's rather irksome.
Try Windows + D instead. That's the shortcut for "show desktop" so minimises everything.
Likewise the toaster
Oh man. Had that this morning. Ours is a vintage Dualit, manual plunger and the timer is a clicker dial. Most modern ones you at least tend not to be able to plunge it if it's off at the wall.
Set it running while I made my artisan coffee, came to do my toast in a well timed procedure honed through years of repetition, and pulled out cold bread!
I was mortified. The other half had obviously been in there with an implement to remove a generous slice from the silly narrow slots.
I'll forgive her. Some day.
Edit: I wonder how many people have just tried the Windows D. I know I have 🤣
Bananas . No problem with actual bananas, I like bananas . When I go to the shop to buy a banana, every single one is green not a ripe banana in sight.
Ok so I will buy some and ripen them at home and it seems to go like this
Day 1 - still green
Day 2 - still green
Day 3 - still green
Day 4 - still green
Day 5 - totally brown
When did the ripe and ready to eat window of a banana become 10 minutes
Trying to peel ginger. 😡
*Buys jar of lazy ginger
From the start of 2026, my plan was not to work Fridays, I am my own boss so this should not be a difficult plan to implement. So far I've worked every Friday. And tomorrow I want to ride my new bike that's been sat in the big shed for six weeks as it's really started to dry out this week. Except today it's trouted it down the whole day, so probably another day on the HT.
Actually I'm not DC, I'm just desperately in need of a beer.
Peel ginger with a teaspoon - it's dead easy otherwise I couldn't do it.
Even easier still - don't bother peeling the ginger, just use it with the peel on
Peel ginger with a teaspoon - it's dead easy otherwise I couldn't do it.
How do you peel it with a spoon out of interest?
Can't post links but YouTube has several vids
Had a refund for a faulty item, they paid by cheque. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Paid in the cheque, you can't go to a branch any more, you have to use the app. If you do go to a branch they talk to you like you're simple and use the app for you.
I've just had notification that they couldn't process the cheque. By letter. In the post. I should probably be grateful that they didn't try to fax me.
The 6 things I ordered that I have no rush for all arrived early and the one thing I ordered that I wanted in a hurry that was to arrive today has fallen into the void.
There was another thing I wanted to add to the thread but I've forgotten it and that's making me disproportionately cross.
People noises. Wife and kids all clean their teeth while they're wandering round doing other 5hit. I bloody hate the waaa waaaa sound of a electric toothbrush being used. I do suffer with misophonia. It's like ick to the power of 100.
Noisy eaters too. Argh. Take that apple and walk FAR AWAY from me!
Once a girl at work was eating popcorn with her mouth open. I think at one point she looked at me and did it on purpose (everyone knows I'm a bit weird). I swear she did it on purpose. Many times I've walked out of the office and done a couple of laps.
Oh, also laminators. And people who love to laminate everything, every 5hite document or flyer that gets emailed round "ooh I'll laminate that!". No. Don't. Please.
Oh, also laminators. And people who love to laminate everything, every 5hite document or flyer that gets emailed round "ooh I'll laminate that!". No. Don't. Please.
Laminates in escape rooms.
Yes yes, durability, I know. But finding a laminate in an ancient Mayan tomb isn't exactly immersive.
Hmm, I quite like my plywood laminated if I'm honest.
But finding a laminate in an ancient Mayan tomb isn't exactly immersive.
I mean, the ancient Mayan tomb is in a unit on an industrial estate in Chorley and is owned by a fella called Kevin, but I can see why laminated instructions would kill the illusion.
People noises. Wife and kids all clean their teeth while they're wandering round doing other 5hit. I bloody hate the waaa waaaa sound of a electric toothbrush being used. I do suffer with misophonia. It's like ick to the power of 100.
Noisy eaters too. Argh. Take that apple and walk FAR AWAY from me!
Once a girl at work was eating popcorn with her mouth open. I think at one point she looked at me and did it on purpose (everyone knows I'm a bit weird). I swear she did it on purpose. Many times I've walked out of the office and done a couple of laps.
Oh, also laminators. And people who love to laminate everything, every 5hite document or flyer that gets emailed round "ooh I'll laminate that!". No. Don't. Please.
That would rule me up! Do your bathroom stuff in the bloody bathroom... That's what it's there for!
All the motorcycles I saw on the road today.
Where you all been for the last 4 months huh?
Part timers 🙄
The power on/off status indicator light for my laptop is built into the power button. I cannot see the light when I'm pressing the button which makes it difficult to judge how long I have to hold the button when restarting, taking it out of sleep mode etc
Control panel / settings / power. Or something like that. The power button behaviour is software.
My shutdown sequence is Win-X, U, S (shutdown) or Win-X, U, R (restart). If I have to hold the power button then it's because it's crashed beyond simple recovery.
My Pure Evoke Spot kitchen radio.
Pressing the volume button turns it on. When it's on, quick pressing the volume button puts it into 'standby' mode. Long pressing the volume button turns it off.
The amount of times I walk into the kitchen, press the button, start going off to live my kitchen life, and instead of turning on, the radio has gone into standby where you have no sound but the volume button led light pulses on and off.
Firstly, what is the point in a standby mode? Going from it being off to on when it's proper off and when it's in standby is no different as far as I can tell.
Why would I want an off radio to go into a not on mode when I tap the button?
Why on earth can I not for the life of me figure out the correct way to press the button so that it's on/on, not off/on?
Why in the name of god can't you disable this pointless feature? 😔
I'm with you on this. I'm all for the progress of technology but man alive I miss power switches. We've reached a point in evolution where I sometimes need to reboot my car, and can't.
Remember when PC power buttons actually severed the live and neutral mains feed? Halcyon days. And almost no-one died, probably.
I tend to leave the office at 4pm to catch the "once an hour" train home.
3.50 is not the time to ring me to get me to remember what I did on a case back in January. Especially when you come out with " Oh yes, I can see you left a detailed note..." a couple of minutes in.
On the subject of which, I'm adding when the 16.17 train is still in the station at 16.27
@MCTD
Just tell them its all in EF and disappear while they check...
Teabags that are in pairs when you buy them, but don't separate easily, so you have to carefully pull each pair apart and still risk ripping one of the bags.
FFS.
The fact that some idiot in an office can disable features inthe Microsoft environment we are forced to try to make coexist with iPads.
If I go bottom left find the power icon and click on it, nothing, as the power function has been disabled, cntrl-alt-delete to get the blue screen click on lock so I can close the laptop to move to another room because we are short of rooms and everything shuts down because, this function has been disabled, accidentally delete a folder go to undelete it and ....
Want to transcribe a meeting on Teams or even have subtitles for the deaf member of staff nope.
The list goes on and on.
My first DAB was a pure evoke and then bought an evoke 3 as the sound was really good , however why does a John Lewis one or a £30 Sony one find so many stations the Pure ones say station off air ?
The Honda dealership who won't MOT my Royal Enfield.
#everydayprejudice
Working from home when there's tradesmen in the house. With radios.
Now I understand why MrsMC has been so ****ing grumpy all week.
people calling LLMs AI. tbey are not intelligent. they have no ability to extrapolate or intuit. they are not intelligent and would fail the Turing test
people calling LLMs AI. tbey are not intelligent. they have no ability to extrapolate or intuit. they are not intelligent and would fail the Turing test
people calling LLMs AI. tbey are not intelligent. they have no ability to extrapolate or intuit. they are not intelligent and would fail the Turing test
I'd argue that taking the tired "stochastic parrot" approach to LLMs is an equally shallow view. How do you think your brain works other than by probabilistically picking the next most likely word as it comes along?
They don't have human-like intuition but are already more than capable of extrapolating. A big problem is that even the world experts in the field are still guessing when it comes to building them.
An interesting book which provides a bit more background, though arguably already getting out of date: