WCMUT....what cheered me up today

sphexx said:
Being the inter webs, I have to say Here! Here! I think you could (somebody probably has ) build a whole dictionary of words/phrases regularly mispelled on the internet because people have only heard and not read them! The aforementioned “Here!” and peek/peak for pique are very common and there are lots of others that I can’t think of at present but no doubt shall as soon as I lay down this pen. :(

Mute point for moot, which makes a kind of sense,
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My personal favourite is fair do's
 
My least favourite computing term misuse is the wrong case in mb etc.. Not sure a bit can be split into 1,000 parts!
 
Marc said:
Fair dos, is that a computer term? :LOL:
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Of course, but don’t some people think it should be unfair dos if referring to ms-dos due to its origins?
 
Of course, "fair does" might be the correct spelling for the colloquial demand for equality or equally the plural of female deer with light coloured fur.

'Tis a puzzlement...

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sphexx said:
Being the inter webs, I have to say Here! Here! I think you could (somebody probably has ) build a whole dictionary of words/phrases regularly mispelled on the internet because people have only heard and not read them! The aforementioned “Here!” and peek/peak for pique are very common and there are lots of others that I can’t think of at present but no doubt shall as soon as I lay down this pen. :(

Mute point for moot, which makes a kind of sense,
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I no (know?) what you mean ... :)

Declining standards of spelling and written English aside, I'm not a particularly good typist and I often spot errors after I've posted something. There is the option to edit of course, but I sometimes think that will just draw attention to the mistake! Some websites/forums do have spellchecks but that creates other issues because you have to undersand what it's going on about, and I occasionally use US spelling and expressions. Can't win ...
 
I'll use fair do's to acknowledge a comment by a person, that I actually don't wholeheartedly agree with.

Its quicker than typing, I hear what you are saying but I don't necessarily agree with what you said.
 
MartynK said:
I no (know?) what you mean ... :)

Declining standards of spelling and written English aside, I'm not a particularly good typist and I often spot errors after I've posted something. There is the option to edit of course, but I sometimes think that will just draw attention to the mistake! Some websites/forums do have spellchecks but that creates other issues because you have to undersand what it's going on about, and I occasionally use US spelling and expressions. Can't win ...
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Bad typist here too. I have the autocorrect turned on which alerts me to a lot of errors but is also quite often replaces it with inscrutable (but correctly spelled) words :(.
 
MartynK said:
I no (know?) what you mean ... :)

Declining standards of spelling and written English aside, I'm not a particularly good typist and I often spot errors after I've posted something. There is the option to edit of course, but I sometimes think that will just draw attention to the mistake! Some websites/forums do have spellchecks but that creates other issues because you have to undersand what it's going on about, and I occasionally use US spelling and expressions. Can't win ...
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If you're quick enough, the forum software doesn't add the "last edited" tag ;).

Everyone makes mistakes - all mine are deliberate!!!!!!!!!!! :headbang:
 
MartynK said:
I no (know?) what you mean ... :)

Declining standards of spelling and written English aside, I'm not a particularly good typist and I often spot errors after I've posted something. There is the option to edit of course, but I sometimes think that will just draw attention to the mistake! Some websites/forums do have spellchecks but that creates other issues because you have to undersand what it's going on about, and I occasionally use US spelling and expressions. Can't win ...
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It's a mystery to me that after reading over a post, sometimes twice, looking for errors prior to posting , they are overlooked and only come to light if you see them yourself, as you say,after posting or worse, someone spots it and highlights it..or worse still..'them'.

PS edit. I've just read an excellent post with a glaring spelling error but wouldn't dream of drawing attention to it. There are two types of spelling error. One in which the letters aren't in order ..typos ..and the other in which the wrong spelling has been used...as mentioned already. Here,here instead of 'hear hear' or a common one..'affect' when it should 'effect' Sometimes I've seen someone bring that to the attention..attenshun..lol..of the person posting.
 
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Nod said:
If you're quick enough, the forum software doesn't add the "last edited" tag ;).

Everyone makes mistakes - all mine are deliberate!!!!!!!!!!! :headbang:
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Looks like I was 'quick enough'..lol. No need to have written PS edit....:)
 
JohnC6 said:
and the other in which the wrong spelling has been used...as mentioned already. Here,here instead of 'hear hear' or a common one..'affect' when it should 'effect' Sometimes I've seen someone bring that to the attention..attenshun..lol..of the person posting.
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Sometimes the autocorrect guesses what one has has mistyped and if, say you typed wffect (intending effect) it may ‘correct’ (wrongly) to affect.*

* I usually find a wrong first letter throws the spill nicker (that’s what it ‘corrected’ spillchucker to :LOL: ) but in the case of wffect, above, it offers both affect and effect and leaves it up to me to choose.
 
sphexx said:
Sometimes the autocorrect guesses what one has has mistyped and if, say you typed wffect (intending effect) it may ‘correct’ (wrongly) to affect.*

* I usually find a wrong first letter throws the spill nicker (that’s what it ‘corrected’ spillchucker to :LOL: ) but in the case of wffect, above, it offers both affect and effect and leaves it up to me to choose.
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I've tried to cancel or de-activate the spell -checker but it doesn't allow me to do that. I seem to get tired..eye strain,really. typing, especially a long post and make errors that way. The subconcious tells me there's an error but I plod on....:)
 
WCMUT was that I finally got around to trying out my super cheap Tamron SP 500mm on my Olympus E-PL5 and was very agreeably surprised how well they work together...

Olympus E-PL5 with Tamron SP 500mm Ixus 70 IMG_4317.JPG

Thanks to the Olympus multi axis stabilisation the combination works well hand held...
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...and even better on a tripod...
Venetian blind and lace curtain SP500_E-PL50006.jpg
 
Nod said:
If you're quick enough, the forum software doesn't add the "last edited" tag ;).
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If you are site staff we can edit silently, so nothing shows.
Plus as I've said before, we can read the edits,
But what does it really matter? we all make typo's occasionally.
 
My biggest problem is "thinking ahead" of what I'm typing and leaving a word out before I get there. I know what I want to type, and usually type it correctly, just miss the odd word out here and there (their, they're....)
 
Sky said:
Or even swap a plural for a possessive. :ROFLMAO:

Deliberate on this occasion I'm sure. ;)
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Actually thought "someone else" would have picked that up :lol:
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
I am not and never have been a member of the grammer polizei... :naughty:
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Although I never say anything, many Facebook posts contain bad grandma's [sic] and atrocious spellings.
Yes people can and do blame predictive text, but some truly are illegible.
Is it laziness or they just don't know?
Sadly I think the latter.
 
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Cobra said:
Although I never say anything,
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I try to hold my fingers off the keyboard but sometimes, that old devil of a primary school teacher just takes over! :naughty:
 
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I yam shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
 
Actually WCMYesterday

My FTTC BB contract expires the end of June and I got the 'end of contract email notification' I arranged for them to phone me to discuss it. NB the current expiring contract was a two year fixed price deal when we switched from ADSL to FTTC.

I discussed it with the CS guy and he offered without pushing from me (I have been with the same ISP since July 2000............yes, that long as I have never found them wanting) he matched the current deal with one, none too surprising, change he could not make it a fixed price again i.e. every March it is subject to the CPI + 3.9% price increase. So as there are two March events in the new 2 year contract................I will see some modest(?) increase(s) before the next time I need to have the same conversation :) :thinking:

Oh, I have also separately shifted a mobile to them from current PAYG.
At £6 per month gets me 6GB data & Unlimited Calls & Unlimited Texts and free Roaming in a large list of countries including the Channel Islands. NB this too is subject to the CPI + 3.9% yearly increases but the mobile is a rolling 30 day contract.
 
WCMUT?
A very interesting afternoon, after engaging with the local informant,
that is, Mow, the grass.
It became apparent that 4 more ants nests had appeared.

As I'm always ready to help out the local wildlife, I scratched the surface of the nests and sprinkled sugar
on top for them to take back to the queen.

Oh yes I nearly forgot, I added a neurotoxin to it as well.
They'll think that they are at a rave albeit briefly.
Well everyone else ( allegedly) is partying, so why not them?
 
They'll be back!!!
 
Well, maybe not the current afternoon "trippers" but a new family will almost certainly be along.

As long as they stay in the garden, I leave them alone for the green woodpeckers and others that seem to like them and just brush the piles of dusty earth off at lawn mowing time.
 
Cobra said:
WCMUT?
A very interesting afternoon, after engaging with the local informant,
that is, Mow, the grass.
It became apparent that 4 more ants nests had appeared.

As I'm always ready to help out the local wildlife, I scratched the surface of the nests and sprinkled sugar
on top for them to take back to the queen.

Oh yes I nearly forgot, I added a neurotoxin to it as well.
They'll think that they are at a rave albeit briefly.
Well everyone else ( allegedly) is partying, so why not them?
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Who eats the dead ants?
 
The Pink Panther? (Deadant, deadant, deadantdeadantdeadant, deadantdeadaaaaaant...)

:coat:
 
sphexx said:
Who eats the dead ants?
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They die underground, taking the spoils back to the queen, death its pretty instant.
Yes I know you have a downer on pest control, but I don't care, but I would prefer that you stopped
following me around, and questioning things you have no knowledge of, because quite frankly you are beginning to get on my tits,
And its only ever going to end one way... Ask previous stalkers


However one last time ...
I'm sure even you would call in the professionals, if you had squirrels eating the wiring in the roof space
or you were being bitten by fleas, bedbugs etc or a wasp colony in the porch, preventing you from entering or leaving your house.
Or you were the one that found a dead mouse in your toaster, that was looking for crumbs, and either got trapped or fried.
These are just minor things that I used to deal with on a daily basis.

All the professional products used are designed NOT to cause any secondary poisoning.
They break down in the target species body.
 
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Cobra said:
They die underground, taking the spoils back to the queen, death its pretty instant.
Yes I know you have a downer on pest control, but I don't care, but I would prefer that you stopped
following me around, and questioning things you have no knowledge of, because quite frankly you are beginning to get on my tits,
And its only ever going to end one way... Ask previous stalkers


However one last time ...
I'm sure even you would call in the professionals, if you had squirrels eating the wiring in the roof space
or you were being bitten by fleas, bedbugs etc or a wasp colony in the porch, preventing you from entering or leaving your house.
Or you were the one that found a dead mouse in your toaster, that was looking for crumbs, and either got trapped or fried.
These are just minor things that I used to deal with on a daily basis.

All the professional products used are designed NOT to cause any secondary poisoning.
They break down in the target species body.
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That’s a really weird reply. I am definitely not against pest controllers or pest control. Some of my best friends are pest controllers of one sort or another ;).

On squirrels. Until recently my roof was cedar shingles on a single storey house surrounded be by chestnut trees etc so I take steps to encourage squirrels not to trespass there and usually shoot them if they get numerous.

Ditto mice in the house which I have from time to time.

And you know I’ve had a constant war against rats when I had poultry, though nowadays I wouldn’t bother if I just saw evidence of a visitor — I don’t have any resident as the dog would tell me.

I am curious why you worry about ants in your lawn, since you’ve mentioned it more than once, as you don’t strike me as someone who has aims for a bowls green type lawn where ants (and worms!) might spoil the appearance. But I’m just interested and not trying to get at you! They can be a nuisance in the house and some can be serious pests there, like the fire ants — though I don’t think we have them here … yet — but I haven’t come across any that are a problem in gardens unless one is the kind of gardener that aims for everything “pristine”.

As for “following you around, it’s in WCMUT which I read from time to time.
 
sphexx said:
As for “following you around, it’s in WCMUT which I read from time to time.
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And various other places when you never used to leave HT!
 
sphexx said:
That’s a really weird reply. I am definitely not against pest controllers or pest control. Some of my best friends are pest controllers of one sort or another ;).

On squirrels. Until recently my roof was cedar shingles on a single storey house surrounded be by chestnut trees etc so I take steps to encourage squirrels not to trespass there and usually shoot them if they get numerous.

Ditto mice in the house which I have from time to time.

And you know I’ve had a constant war against rats when I had poultry, though nowadays I wouldn’t bother if I just saw evidence of a visitor — I don’t have any resident as the dog would tell me.

I am curious why you worry about ants in your lawn, since you’ve mentioned it more than once, as you don’t strike me as someone who has aims for a bowls green type lawn where ants (and worms!) might spoil the appearance. But I’m just interested and not trying to get at you! They can be a nuisance in the house and some can be serious pests there, like the fire ants — though I don’t think we have them here … yet — but I haven’t come across any that are a problem in gardens unless one is the kind of gardener that aims for everything “pristine”.

As for “following you around, it’s in WCMUT which I read from time to time.
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I hope that's grey's your on about and not red's as they are protected under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981.

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tarric said:
I hope that's grey's your on about and not red's as they are protected under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981.

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There are alleged to be some reds in Yorkshire but I haven’t seen them. Rarer than hen’s teeth in England generally correctly placed apostrophes on t’internet ;).
 
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