The grumpy thread

[ashmicro]

^Nokia 1600. Tough little phone. It's modern equivalent, the 1208 is issued by a lot of firms these days as they don't have time-wasting apps for employees to fritter away firm time. And they're ten quid.

[retrogeezer]

nah, you defo need a camera on your phone so you can snap shite whenever you see it.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I like predictive text. Once you have grasped how it works, and the limitations of the phone dictionary, it is ace.

 

It amuses me no end when people complain "It doesn't know any words"... If you don't expect it to know everything it works well. For example, to type "Warrington" on my trusty old Sony K750i I just type "Warring" by pressing "9 2 7 7 4 6 4" click the little joypad to the right (new word) and then "ton" by pressing "8 6 6" and clicking the joypad down once to select "ton" instead of "too".

 

Sounds complicated. Until you realise that to type "warrington" without using predictive means pressing "9 2 7 7 7 7 7 7 4 4 4 6 6 4 8 6 6 6 6 6". So with predictive it's 11 clicks, without predictive it's 20. For just one word.

 

If you think guessing the wrong word and messing up every time you write a name are bad, wait until the one time that you have to write something in another language (even if you only speak one language, you may need to make a note of something in order to get it translated later). Now that's fun! The problem is not that it doesn't guess the right word. The problem is that very often (not on all software, but I think on most) it just completes the words for you instead of giving you the option to press a set button to confirm the autoword. Of course, the 10-key pad is not a keyboard and writing on that never fails to be a ballache.

 

Individual keys (ideally on a touchscreen keyboard- the Blackberry ones are prone to the Fat Finger Syndrome) FTW- although there are lazy gits everywhere which means that quite a few phones have predictive text on those, too. Thankfully it is usually easy to disable.

[Cavcraft]

Predictive text is wank. The iPhone sometimes tries it, especially when you type in random swear words when it changes them to something completely different.

 

Best 'phone ever made? Samsung D600. Tough as old boots, reliable and bloody well made.

[Rod/b]

Anyone who doesn't like predictive text must be some sort of AUNT.

[Richard]

Nokia predictive text was great once you worked out how to make it work for you. It was dead easy to teach it place names and swear words (e.g. key in 'bas tar ding' then delete the spaces, next time you want to use the word it will know it), which pretty much covered all my communication requirements.

[Cheggers]

Quickly going back to lazy speech & diction that winds you up, my Mrs and all her family use "ink" instead of "ing" at the end of "something", "anything" & "nothing"...not sure of it's a Humberside/ Grimsby thing, but it always makes me wince a bit.

[ashmicro]

Anyone who doesn't like predictive text must be some sort of AUNT.

 

 

 

For a while I thought one of my female friends was coming on to me as she kept calling me BODY. Turns out she was having trouble with predictive text too, and was just trying to type my name, which is ANDY.

[John F]

If you think guessing the wrong word and messing up every time you write a name are bad, wait until the one time that you have to write something in another language (even if you only speak one language, you may need to make a note of something in order to get it translated later). Now that's fun! The problem is not that it doesn't guess the right word. The problem is that very often (not on all software, but I think on most) it just completes the words for you instead of giving you the option to press a set button to confirm the autoword. Of course, the 10-key pad is not a keyboard and writing on that never fails to be a ballache.

 

Individual keys (ideally on a touchscreen keyboard- the Blackberry ones are prone to the Fat Finger Syndrome) FTW- although there are lazy gits everywhere which means that quite a few phones have predictive text on those, too. Thankfully it is usually easy to disable.

 

You can load different languages & keyboard layouts on the iPhone using the "world" symbol to the left of the space bar. It's not bad, but you have to rely on predictive text for accented characters.

[Pete-M]

I use the iPhone for texting in Czech, using the Czech keyboard.

 

Accents are easy. For example, to type Å koda it's just capital S then press the button that turns it into Å . Luckily, its a commonly used Czech word so it pops up in predictive anyway.

 

For those who don't know, Å koda translates as "pity, shame, damage, detriment, harm" and a load of other things you wouldnt name a car.

[eddyramrod]

Thanks Pete! I never knew that, wonderful what trivia you pick up.

[trigger]

Google streetview have updated their maps recently in Japan to highlight the after affects of the Tsunami eariler this year, I've only just started looking but it's a real opener, This link brings you straight into one of the worse hit areas, look at all the damaged cars that are sat in the holding area!.

 

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll= ... 31,,0,0.44

[John F]

I use the iPhone for texting in Czech, using the Czech keyboard.

 

Accents are easy. For example, to type Å koda it's just capital S then press the button that turns it into Å .

 

Ahhh, I didn't know about holding down the letter until the list of accented characters appears... nice!

[whitevanman]

/\ Same on the HTC android range

[binhoker668]

THIS.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1987-MAZDA-32 ... 1c21f2a281

Especially as the ex just fucking took ownership of the van.

I'd have FOUND A WAY, to buy the car back. And I DID say to him I reserved first dibs if he wanted to sell again.

Fucking stinks of quick money making scheme to me.

That car belongs firmly on here. As you know.

Fuming.

[binhoker668]

I allowed him to haggle cos I thought I was doing us both a favour.

[Cavcraft]

 

For those who don't know, Å koda translates as "pity, shame, damage, detriment, harm" and a load of other things you wouldnt name a car.

 

They got there a few years before 'Passat' then?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

THIS.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1987-MAZDA-32 ... 1c21f2a281

Especially as the ex just fucking took ownership of the van.

I'd have FOUND A WAY, to buy the car back. And I DID say to him I reserved first dibs if he wanted to sell again.

Fucking stinks of quick money making scheme to me.

That car belongs firmly on here. As you know.

Fuming.

 

Why don't you call him?

[tonedepear]

I've been done by a tosser

 

GRRRR.

[Guest]

I've been done by a tosser

 

GRRRR.

 

Sorry, I must be WELL FICK tonight, but what's gone on here? Can someone explain?

 

Other grumbles include:

 

1. Another day editing lost because my 'fixed' user profile STILL doesn't work on the Macs in the edit suite.

 

2. Doing overtime at work at more or less zero notice and having the manager speak to me like I was a piece of shit (won't be happening again).

 

3. Cyclists on Washway being arseholes. I AM NOT DRIVING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD TO GIVE YOU MORE ROOM WHEN I CANNOT MOVE OVER INTO THE OUTSIDE LANE BECAUSE OF TRAFFIC. IF I GET ANOTHER FILTHY LOOK FROM ONE OF YOU, YOU'RE GOING OVER THE KERB WHEN I BARGE YOU OFF YOUR BIKE.

 

4. Screw in rear tyre. I need the car and I haven't got time to piss around taking it to the one place that can balance the wheel right. WOBBLE WOBBLE WOBBLE I'M A TYRE FITTER IN MANCHESTER WHO CAN'T BALANCE A WHEEL FOR SHIT. Also, goodbye £95. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.

 

Sorry, there's quite a lot of caps in that post.

[pompei]

Pete, how do you get the accent on "Skoda" on a computer keyboard?

[ruffgeezer]

The guy sounds like a total cockwhisk, just fook him off. DOnt worry about your feedback, cos as you say he can't neg you and no-one reads feedback anymore anyway seeing as it can only ever be positive.

 

I relented in the end and gave him a fiver, glad I did, there are hundreds of them, they are ZAG/Stanley boxes, cost around a quid each to buy, every drawer in the house is getting reorganised using these yellow plastic beauties

[John F]

Pete, how do you get the accent on "Skoda" on a computer keyboard?

 

Alt + 0138 for capital Å , Alt + 0154 for lower-case Å¡

[Timewaster]

Fuggin Transit is still on the driveway after the Ebay "buyer" hasn't shown up AGAIN!

[Alexg]

Plans made to collect the Allegro I won on ebay this Friday. Train will arrive in Halifax at 11.00am before driving all the way back to Kent. Apparently its going to snow

[Negative Creep]

Chav dad to chav mum in the middle of Tesco, with a crying baby

 

"why don't you shut that fucking thing up?"

 

 

There really is no hope for this country

[Albert Ross]

Chav dad to chav mum in the middle of Tesco, with a crying baby

 

"why don't you shut that fucking thing up?"

 

 

There really is no hope for this country

 

 

Maybe if you had shut the fucking "Dad" up, there would be hope...... We all need to make a stand against this ignorant spiral the World is in. Pretty soon, just lke Leyland, we will be through the plughole. You would have felt SO much better afterwards.

[Angrydicky]

Plans made to collect the Allegro I won on ebay this Friday. Train will arrive in Halifax at 11.00am before driving all the way back to Kent. Apparently its going to snow

 

Wrong thread? How did the missus react?

[autofive]

Pete, how do you get the accent on "Skoda" on a computer keyboard?

 

Alt + 0138 for capital Å , Alt + 0154 for lower-case Å¡

 

Å Å¡

 

mmm, interesting

[Alexg]

Plans made to collect the Allegro I won on ebay this Friday. Train will arrive in Halifax at 11.00am before driving all the way back to Kent. Apparently its going to snow

 

Wrong thread? How did the missus react?

 

1: the grump is about the snow not about the orange clunge magnet

 

2: she does'nt know yet....