WBMT.....What baffled me today

I've found that beginning a reply with "listen" is a common one. It's has a demeaning and patronising nature to it.

But I'm sure we can all agree that the all time favourite when it comes to annoying and quite frankly BS phrases is.....drum roll...."lessons will be learned". :rolleyes:
 
JohnC6 said:
Escalate ? I've never heard that one. To share " How is it used, then ?
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:p
In the context of FB posts, the first place I came across it and that was very recently.
"Feel free to escalate my post to all your friends".
 
gman said:
It's has a demeaning and patronising nature to it.
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Wherever you go on the net, there seem to be people whose sole purpose is, apparently, to demean and patronise.
I have to assume that they're having a really bad day. Perhaps they've lost the underpants they normally wear on their heads... :tumbleweed:
 
WBMT?

I have a slug trap at the end of a small rockery, a glass jar.
Its been filling up quite nicely.
Today it was tipped over and the contents gone.
They had been dead a few days, so they didn't slither off.

My best guess is that either the Hedgehog, or one of half a dozen magpies, tipped it over and ate the contents.
They are welcome (y)
 
Cobra said:
WBMT?

I have a slug trap at the end of a small rockery, a glass jar.
Its been filling up quite nicely.
Today it was tipped over and the contents gone.
They had been dead a few days, so they didn't slither off.

My best guess is that either the Hedgehog, or one of half a dozen magpies, tipped it over and ate the contents.
They are welcome (y)
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Saves you the bother of emptying it ...
 
Any bait (beer?) in the trap? Not sure how tasty days dead slugs are without it! (Or with it for that matter!!!)
 
Nod said:
Any bait (beer?) in the trap? Not sure how tasty days dead slugs are without it! (Or with it for that matter!!!)
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No beer my own special recipe.
I learned years ago, that slugs and snails are attracted to wet rat poison.
It smells like very strong yeast as it breaks down, but yet it doesn't contain any.
And of course once it breaks down, its no longer effective.
Sadly it doesn't kill them, they just drown in the water.
 
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Cobra said:
My best guess is that either the Hedgehog, or one of half a dozen magpies, tipped it over and ate the contents.
They are welcome (y)
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Mystery solved, its a magpie I was stood looking out the kitchen window, when it did it.
Then its mate appeared looking for "leftovers" It was disappointed :D
 
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An overhead exchange in the local doctors surgery.

A woman come out into the reception area after seeing a doctor or nurse and approached the admin desk and said "I need blood tests and an ECG but I'm going away on Sunday. I don't want to wait until I get back. I should get them done while I'm feeling like this. I've never felt like this."

It's Thursday afternoon and she wants these things before she goes away on Sunday. Maybe she should consider not going away if she feels "like this" and has never felt "like this."

She was with a younger woman who was possibly her daughter and she didn't look as if she was feeling "like this." They both looked and were acting as if they were high on something, giggling, smiling broadly, almost laughing as they skipped out of the building. A very strange episode.
 
WBMT?
Why on earth did I apologise, saying "Sorry" to the woman that walked into me in Tesco's earlier today.
She was the one with her head down looking at her phone.

I guess I am more polite than her, even though there was a little sarcasm in voice.
 
Cobra said:
WBMT?
Why on earth did I apologise, saying "Sorry" to the woman that walked into me in Tesco's earlier today.
She was the one with her head down looking at her phone.

I guess I am more polite than her, even though there was a little sarcasm in voice.
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I normally say "Sorry, were YOU in MY way?" when something like that happens, or shout "Look up!!" right in front of them....
 
You're too soft Chris. They're phone zombies and IMO are fair game - knock 'em over if you can or at least startle them enough to drop their phone . . . :argue:
 
Sky said:
You're too soft Chris. They're phone zombies and IMO are fair game -knock 'em over if you can
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Normally I'd say yes, but this was a young woman half my size, that wouldn't have ended well.

Sky said:
or at least startle them enough to drop their phone . . . :argue:
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That sounds like a plan, maybe I should start carrying my blank pistol, ( left over from my bird control days)
But then again that might not end well ( for me) either :D
 
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Mrs WW had a driving lesson today and she was upset because when the instructor said "pull up on the right" she pulled up on the left. She keeps doing this. She's a mature intelligent woman and she had a very high powered job with a coupe of hundred people under her. Left/right shouldn't be an issue. A former GF of mine had the exact same thing. She had a very responsible job too. I think this seems to be a woman thing, Why?
 
woof woof said:
Mrs WW had a driving lesson today and she was upset because when the instructor said "pull up on the right" she pulled up on the left. She keeps doing this. She's a mature intelligent woman and she had a very high powered job with a coupe of hundred people under her. Left/right shouldn't be an issue. A former GF of mine had the exact same thing. She had a very responsible job too. I think this seems to be a woman thing, Why?
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Was there a specific reason for "pulling up on the right" which is sort of contra indicated i.e. pulling off/out into the oncoming traffic?

Did she learn to drive abroad and as such now in the UK it would seem wrong to pull up on what is, for her now, the wrong side of the road :thinking:
 
Box Brownie said:
Was there a specific reason for "pulling up on the right" which is sort of contra indicated i.e. pulling off/out into the oncoming traffic?

Did she learn to drive abroad and as such now in the UK it would seem wrong to pull up on what is, for her now, the wrong side of the road :thinking:
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He told her to pull up on the right as they were going to perform some other manoeuvre. This is on a residential street so not too much traffic. She learned to drive in Thailand and they drive on the same side as us. She just seems to mix up left and right, she does it all the time but hopefully not on her test.
 
Pulling up on the right is a fairly new specific manoeuvre in the driving test, seemingly for parking in more congested town.

Explanation
 
woof woof said:
Mrs WW had a driving lesson today and she was upset because when the instructor said "pull up on the right" she pulled up on the left. She keeps doing this. She's a mature intelligent woman and she had a very high powered job with a coupe of hundred people under her. Left/right shouldn't be an issue. A former GF of mine had the exact same thing. She had a very responsible job too. I think this seems to be a woman thing, Why?
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Not just a woman thing I know my right from left but if someone tells me to go left or I'm giving someone directions the chance is I'll get it wrong and it's a 50/50.

P.S. I did it on my tests including the one I passed.
 
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Someone I know sent me some documents to look at. He's obviously a Mac user because they're .pages files and he didn't convert them to pdfs. My computers are Windows and my phone's Android. I have nothing that will open a pages document. So I emailed him back and asked him to send pdfs as I couldn't open them. The reply I got............. 'You should be able to open them on a mac'..............
Duh.......!!! I don't have a mac. That's why I can't open them. What bit of that do you not understand...........?
I've had this before with another mac user. They just don't seem to get that while you can open a basic MS office file on just about anything, it don't work the other way round
 
Jannyfox said:
WBMY
Someone I know sent me some documents to look at. He's obviously a Mac user because they're .pages files and he didn't convert them to pdfs. My computers are Windows and my phone's Android. I have nothing that will open a pages document. So I emailed him back and asked him to send pdfs as I couldn't open them. The reply I got............. 'You should be able to open them on a mac'..............
Duh.......!!! I don't have a mac. That's why I can't open them. What bit of that do you not understand...........?
I've had this before with another mac user. They just don't seem to get that while you can open a basic MS office file on just about anything, it don't work the other way round
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You can ask them to use Export To which will allow the to save it as a Word doc
 
Jannyfox said:
He did send the pdf in the end. He just didn't seem to understand why he needed to
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I save my Word & Excel files from my Mac to a shared drive and can open them on the Windows laptop we have, so I guess they may do the same? Not sure why you can't open them, unless of course one of you is using a version some way behind the other.
 
Jannyfox said:
I've had this before with another mac user.
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There are precisely 10 types of Mac users...

Those who don't want to know anything technical like file formats and those who love the built in Unix underpinning it. I leave you to decide which type I am. :naughty:
 
Jelster said:
I save my Word & Excel files from my Mac to a shared drive and can open them on the Windows laptop we have, so I guess they may do the same? Not sure why you can't open them, unless of course one of you is using a version some way behind the other.
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Jannyfox said:
He's obviously a Mac user because they're .pages files
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My bad, I didn't see you had said they .pages..... In which case he was a buffoon!! (And who uses pages anyway, it's awful!)
 
If the wikipedia page is accurate, nothing can read .pages files except Pages.
Even Mac users who don't have it can't read them.
 
We used to a customer do the same thing with Microsoft Works (or similar) for their monthly order and get confused we couldn’t open it as we didnt have a compatible software.

This went on every month for around three years…
 
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