Sure. But usually I have my hand on the mouse when I use that little pop up menu, so to underline, I either have to take my hand off the mouse, or go to the home ribbon thingy, and do a couple of more clicks.

Ohh, I just use my left hand and leave my right on the mouse.

<that could be misread> Haggis!

me. I am mildly irritating you all today.

I'm in a pissy mood and its really pissing me off.
Wait do we have a thread for that?

We need one. I;'m pretty sure we have a slew of them actually

Isn't this one?

Whoa, what? That's screwed up. It's still the publishing standard for manuscripts that authors only use underline when the final printed product will actually contain italics. On the other hand, I think the whole new MS Word tabbed layout is retarded, and I am stubbornly clinging to Office 2002 in defiance.

My new telephone service went live today. In the welcome pack they gave me all kinds of details about my phone service, including a list of all the extras I ordered. call-package I am on etc etc. No mention of the broadband I also ordered. Now...I realise the broadband will take longer, but I am a little concerned that it isn;t mentioned at all. So, I decided to ring the customer help line.

Fucking stupid of me to ring on a friday evening I know, but I gave it a shot. I went through the menu options and then was placed in a queue. I got a message: "We apologise for the delay in answering your call. Your call is in a queue and will be answered shortly" then a click then a brief refrain of pop music. Then a click then " We apologise for the delay in answering your call. Your call is in a queue and will be answered shortly" then a repeat of the same pop refrain.

After half an hour that exact same four second burst of pop was really starting to grate. But by now, with the click-message-pop every minute or so, making it seem like I am somehow moving up a queue, it wuold have been a waste of the 30 mins I had already spent waiting if I gave up.

After 45 minutes it really would have been a waste of a significant amount of time and by now I really wanted to express to the advisor my dismay; and offer two suggestions: first - have a message that gives an estimate of how long it will take for my call to be answered, or advises me to call back later if it's going to be longer than 30 minutes (it can be done: BT does exactly that), second - if the action of clicking through the message resets the pop burst it'd be less annoying to have no music, or live radio (again it can be done, I know it can I've heard it done).

60 minutes I am seriously thinking fuck this, i am giving up. But then I would have wasted an hour.....and having been queued for an hour, surely I must be near the end of the queue...I could be seconds away from being answered. Every so often there's a slight delay and silence between clicks and messages, just enough that you think you might actually be about to hear a real voice.

I finally gave up after 70 minutes.

I did try, whilst holding listening to the same three or four second snatch of music opver and over and fucking over again, to access the online account option: but when I tried to register, it told me my details didn;t match the details they had on file. "please check your details are correct"

YES THEY FUCKING ARE CORRECT! THEY@RE ON THE FRIGGING PACK YOU JUST SENT ME> IT'S MY NAME< POSTCODE AND EMAIL> I KNOW ITS FUCKING CORRECT.

*Goes very red in the face and steam starts shooting from ears*

I just wasted half my fucking Friday night. If they'd said "We estimate your call will be answered in One hour" or "We are experiencing high volumes of calls, and recommend that you try again later" I would have waited and done it later or tomorrow.

ARRRRGGGH!

I just got pulled for driving expired registration (as of Aug. 31). The officer said he couldn't give me a warning because they were on some kind of state grant to increase enforcement of traffic fines, but he'd be happy to withdraw the citation if I do the renewal quickly and bring it to court. Bleah.

do it online.

https://www.dot3.state.pa.us/vehicle...90904234126899


someone remind me to check jinx's inspection in the morning......i have a bad feeling that it might be up ......

check dat

You are still required safety inspection in your state?

Yes, safety and emissions... two windshield stickers.

Damn... we haven't had those since 1996.

But the cops have a right to write citations if they deem your vehicle "unsafe".

Emissions isn't state-wide though.

The in-laws.

I stacked down the stairs at work (totally ungracefully and noisily!!) and broke the heel on my new $100 heels...mother fucker was what I said.

Added to that, I tried to make a super quick recovery and make out that I had only stumbled a little...so I have been masking a swollen ankle, bruised arch and busted heel all day....

yeah, Im irritated!!

Oh and I had to clean up the cup of tea I threw over the handrail in the process of said stack.

Then I spilled my pasta lunch down my front and somehow didnt notice, so there are 3 new customers thinking Im a slop (which I am).

Soooo, Im a slop and a klutz apparently.

It's a holiday and I'm "off" work.

But I still have to go to my work place and feed the goddam cats.

Pics or it didn't happen! :angel:

I'd feed the cats if I could have them at my workplace!

And DucksNuts -- what's "stack" mean in that context? Fall? Stumble?

my roof has sprung a leak! (mad)

This is actually from yesterday, but I was too exhausted to post ...

Directly across the parking lot is a public park. It is a lovely public park, with walking trails, a baseball field, a lot of green space, and a party pavillion.

The party pavillion is available for rental.

I thought that the park rules required your event to end at sundown.

I must have been wrong about that.

Were I right, the police from the station that is also my neighbor would have done sometime about the freaking mariachi music that was blasting from the loudspeakers at 10pm.

That's eight hours of party.

Enough people!!

Stack = crash.

This is why we need CCTV everywhere. Ducks, do it again! I wanna see!

Stack in this context was a 5 step stumble, followed by a grab of the handrail which prevented a pile of arms and legs on the floor :)

I have lower heels on today.

First we have a drought for two months... and now it's been raining for 4 freaking days straight. My back porch is an inch and a half deep, with no end in sight, and they're talking about flash flooding in other parts of the city. Goddamnit.

People that bought a fuel efficient vehicle too small for their needs and generally depend on mine being available, and now want to borrow it for a week to vacation in.

Ha !!!
Did you Laugh in their face or wew you Nice and just say NO !!

Enterprise will rent SUVs. Like $300 for the week. And they'll pick you up!

Yep, we rented a suv for our NC jaunt two years ago. Worked out very well.

I assume they know that.... but they've asked for mine. So I gotta be the dick...

Blame LJ. :haha:

Who the fuck borrows a car for a week?

Annoying Irish Festival today bad music, bad drunks, good times... gah.

I learned a long time ago (the hard way) to never loan a vehicle. EVER.
I can't stand borrowers anyway. I took after my Grandfather in that sense. He used to say of his neighbor, "He ain't got nuffin to do nuffin wiff and it bovers me".
A so called friend asked me once to use my computer, and I reluctantly agreed. Then I found out he wanted to design and print a goddam gazillion yard sale fliers. What a shmeezle.

Anyway, the second band was good and I talked myself into a good time.:)

Not being a dick that I can see. Asking to borrow someone's car for a week (especially for vacation) seems way over the top.

so they're family or you owe them something?

Blame me Jinx, apparently I'm good at being the dick. Just ask my ex ...

Ya, family... can't let her down. I told them they could but listed reasons why they shouldn't and gave alternative ideas. Makes more sense to rent a mini van.... hopefully they'll go for that.

our tv shit the bed last night. and we just sold two working tvs at the yard sale this spring. I'm asking the guys at work if they have an extra laying around. I've only ever paid money for one tv in my life. You can't even buy a tube tv anymore, already. wtf?

we have one hanging around doing nothing -beest just replaced it with a flat-screen thingy that drives me nuts. I'm guessing the shipping'd be a killer, though

Offer to trade one week's rental of your vehicle for their best television set. Maybe, in this way, they can put two and two together.

People who do not use the series comma.

After my most resent lightning strike, I priced a flat screen 26" at $400.00. Bought a tube type 27" for $188.00. Digital. Stereo.
Thanks, Wally.

I let them have it. Family is more important than stuff and all that other karma hippie shit... ah, fuck it.

I hope if we get a new tv it fits in the little piece of crap sitting in my driveway.

I can't find my popcorn.

Never mind, I found it. :corn:

I hate that, too.

,

I hate it thoroughly, truly, and irrevocably.

Frequently insomnia. Although I would never have taken the time to watch Exodus (1960) with Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint.

How was it?

At my last job, my boss and I had a long-running friendly feud over this. I would add commas to her docs whenever I had the chance and she'd take them off.

When I was getting ready to leave for my next job and I was writing up all the stuff I was leaving behind, it made sense to do HTML pages. I made every comma available a hyperlink to an article about the controversy.

That is awesome! :thumbsup:

:)

The original purpose for punctuation was to indicate the rhythm and flow of the written word. When relating a series of items one doesn't say "item one (pause) item twoanditemthree." They say "item one (pause) item two (pause = COMMA) and item three." To not indicate as such in the written word is inexcusable. It is a discourtesy to the reader.

^grammarnazi^

All the grammar authorities I've checked say to put them in. So why do people leave them out? Are they teaching that in schools?

I don't care what those "experts" think. "Authors, Editors and Printers" makes "editors and printers" a single entity, like ham and eggs. It looks stupid, it reads worse. I think someone just got tired of having to make a little comma. If they recommend to use it to "ensure clarity" then whose clarity do we speak of? You either use it, as a rule, or you don't, as a rule. If it's ever needed to ensure clarity then it must be used consistently...not at the whim of some editors, or printers, or editors and printers, or authors and editors...;)