roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Absolute red flag, this comment
How do you communicate?
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Absolute red flag, this comment
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
A teacher called my writing that of a drunken spider. That was back in the 70s. Not sure it’s improved but since my writing is on,y for myself these days, it’s not important.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
I bounce frikken lasers off the moon
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I'm one of rhe few remaining Scotsmen that can speak in grunts.
For a lot of teachers in the seventies that's the best compliment you'll get.
Brilliant,you are not Uncle Albert from Fools and Horses are you.One scene they have a German girl in a pub.He says he spoke German through the War.So over he goes and loudly and slowly says Vot iz your name.Brilliant.
spen666
Legendary Member
I thought it was compulsory in Scotland
One of the challenges with modern communications is reliability. Talk on the phone to a real person and you know they have received what you say. Message with delivery confirmation and at best that says it's been delivered (not to who or what nor if read ...). Signal message system is good in that regard as it has both delivery confirmation and read confirmation.
Emails tend to go to people but can be incorrectly delivered to an ignored junk folder. (Bouncing back is rare these days)
For me the worst is a web form. My experience is they are least reliable.
These days I wont online order through any web shop that doesn't give a real phone number so, should there be problems I know I can contact somebody. Web shops that don't provide phone numbers probably lose out as I can't believe I'm the only person requiring a phone number.
Ian
Emails tend to go to people but can be incorrectly delivered to an ignored junk folder. (Bouncing back is rare these days)
For me the worst is a web form. My experience is they are least reliable.
These days I wont online order through any web shop that doesn't give a real phone number so, should there be problems I know I can contact somebody. Web shops that don't provide phone numbers probably lose out as I can't believe I'm the only person requiring a phone number.
Ian
IanSmithCSE
Guru
- Location
- Worcester, Worcestershire
Good evening,
There has been a little bit of a revival of the fountain pen and I still use one to jot down notes during the working day.
Along with this revival a portion of the fountain pen enthusiasts are getting very worked up about cheap imports being sold as luxury items. To my mind they read a bit like the rants against £10K Pinarello riders or Dura Ace is overpriced rubbish and everyone shoud ride Claris.
You may find the text here https://www.ellingtonpens.com/pages/our-story to be somewhat amusing and this is one of the brands that some love to hate.
If you have nothing better to do it may be intesting to see people getting worked up about what to me is just a commodity product, just like the bike may be to them.
Bye
Ian
There has been a little bit of a revival of the fountain pen and I still use one to jot down notes during the working day.
Along with this revival a portion of the fountain pen enthusiasts are getting very worked up about cheap imports being sold as luxury items. To my mind they read a bit like the rants against £10K Pinarello riders or Dura Ace is overpriced rubbish and everyone shoud ride Claris.
You may find the text here https://www.ellingtonpens.com/pages/our-story to be somewhat amusing and this is one of the brands that some love to hate.
If you have nothing better to do it may be intesting to see people getting worked up about what to me is just a commodity product, just like the bike may be to them.
Bye
Ian
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Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Fountain pen? We don't use that new fangled rubbish here.
A quill and vellum, or a stone tablet for really important communications. And don't get me started on those posh sorts thet mortgage themselves to the hilt for cave paintings.
A quill and vellum, or a stone tablet for really important communications. And don't get me started on those posh sorts thet mortgage themselves to the hilt for cave paintings.
fountain pen,a bloody FOUNTAIN PEN,who do you think you are.Lord Snooty,A set of roller ball pens three red,black and blue £1 yes a £1 from one of them discount high street shops poundthingy places,going to see me out,and they write lovely.They write other words also.
Once or twice a year I fill one of mine, use it for a bit but as my main handwriting use is brief temporary notes fountain pen not ideal.
Wonder if used more in the days when we'd post letters meaning more handwriting. But cost of posting a letter that is often delayed ... email cheaper, faster and more reliable.
Ian
