The Ranting Room

Dean wrote: Finnforest wrote: I can't remember the last time I've encountered a stapler that works consistently well. I have. After years of fighting with staplers that jam or fold the staples in on themselves (you know, when they end up looking like a squished letter "w") and generally fail to staple together more than 4 sheets of paper without mangling the staple and the corner of the page, or worse still, just puncture vampyre tooth-marks in the corner of half the pages while the remainder are untouched (and thus unattached), I have finally found one that works - and even works on documents that are more than 10 pages.   Unfortunately it's the weekend so I can't tell you the make and model number.

Mmm, I would appreciate hearing about that yes.  Keep in mind I don't need a heavy duty one, we have one of those that works great.  I need a regular lightweight one for 2-4 sheets of office paper.  Those are the ones that never function for me.  Same problems you mention in your post. 

Finnforest wrote: Dean wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: I live in Brisbane which is now a city threatening to sink towards the earth's core under the weight of tattooed and pierced charity muggers in their 20's queuing impatiently at every street corner to harangue passers by with their habitually glib, presumptuous and downright invasive how's your day been so far? do you like animals/trees/baby seals/whales/the red cross/human rights/dolphins/polar bear cubs? (the list goes on) Even if you tell them to go f*ck themselves, they just radiate smug serenity and say awesome/cool/catch ya later mate.  To paraphrase Malcolm Tucker, I'd like to punch them into paralysis....Of course some of the causes are worthy I admit, but this is NOT the way to garner either attention or reduce apathy Most of these self righteous little oinks are currently in tertiary education and will graduate overnight into future captains of industry who will attempt to recycle dead kittens into catfood and bring in the death penalty for pedestrianism. In London I believe these apparently selfless creatures are called chuggers, and many of them (ie some made-up statistic I can't be bothered to search for) are paid by the number of people they sign-up. Altruism it is not. My daughter is regularly accosted by them even when sporting her best face-like-thunder-don't-even-think-about-it--does-it-look-like-I'm-having-a-good-effin-day-so-gfy countenance. Wow, I guess Mpls St Paul isn't so bad then.  Here you just get people shaking you down for money.

I went took a 4 km walk by a waterfall not too far from home today and during that course, 5 damn leeches attached themselves to me.  I hate the bloody things. 

Finnforest wrote: Mmm, I would appreciate hearing about that yes.  Keep in mind I don't need a heavy duty one, we have one of those that works great.  I need a regular lightweight one for 2-4 sheets of office paper.  Those are the ones that never function for me.  Same problems you mention in your post.

Tom Ozric wrote: Blacksword wrote: Tom Ozric wrote: I took a 4 km walk by a waterfall not too far from home today and during that course, 5 damn leeches attached themselves to me.  I hate the bloody things.  Leeches being aggressive charity muggers or actual blood sucking leeches..?? Well, actual blood sucking leeches are aggressive charity muggers in some ways, aren't they ??  Yes, the relatives of the segmented worm order.  Damn things, couldn't even feel them.  They are in the trees and on the ground here (as well as in the water).  Never encountered them before.  I won't be going back to that place (Kondalilla Falls) unless in a full body suit.

Yikes, I never realised leeches could leap out of trees and attach themselves to you.  

Annoying Microsoft Outlook habits - part animal, part fruit ============================================

chopper wrote: Dean wrote: Annoying Microsoft Outlook habits - part animal, part fruit ============================================   1 - ∞ ) It's made by Microsoft.      I think that covers everything.     That's true but as much as I hate to defend Microsoft, all the things I've quoted are the fault of the people using it.

Nah, it's all Gates and his mates fault. Most of these "habits" are the result of default settings, and programmers use default settings to encourage people to use software in a particular way or because it's simply the way they use it. When faced with a series of options people will go for the defaults because it's easy, requires no thinking and (because time is everything) doesn't take any time to do. M@X uses default settings on our Search routine here to reduce server overheads - most people search using the defaults, find nothing and give up, those in the know change the defaults and generally find what they're looking for. Microsoft could have set the default options for re-occuring meeting to "week-day" and to stop after 10 occurances or 3 months, but they didn't. They could have used the concept of work-day rather than week-day, but they didn't. They could have used the scheduler to check when you are on holiday or out of the office and not sent you alarms for the meetings you obviously can't attend, but they don't. They could have set the default state to automatically check the scheduler and not allowed booking of meetings that have clashes (Lotus Notes used to do this), but they didn't. They could have made it easier to use "Forward" than "Reply All" (which is how I expect you get copies of forwarded mail), but they didn't.

Dean wrote: Finnforest wrote: Mmm, I would appreciate hearing about that yes.  Keep in mind I don't need a heavy duty one, we have one of those that works great.  I need a regular lightweight one for 2-4 sheets of office paper.  Those are the ones that never function for me.  Same problems you mention in your post.  Rapesco Luna 727

Thanks, I'm gonna see if this is available from our office supply account

Tom Ozric wrote: chopper wrote: Tom Ozric wrote: Blacksword wrote: Tom Ozric wrote: I took a 4 km walk by a waterfall not too far from home today and during that course, 5 damn leeches attached themselves to me.  I hate the bloody things.  Leeches being aggressive charity muggers or actual blood sucking leeches..?? Well, actual blood sucking leeches are aggressive charity muggers in some ways, aren't they ??  Yes, the relatives of the segmented worm order.  Damn things, couldn't even feel them.  They are in the trees and on the ground here (as well as in the water).  Never encountered them before.  I won't be going back to that place (Kondalilla Falls) unless in a full body suit. Yikes, I never realised leeches could leap out of trees and attach themselves to you.   Chopper, only Australia and Asia have land leeches (as well as aquatic) - the rest of the world have only aquatic leeches !!

Land leeches? I'm not going to Australia then, I have enough problems with snakes.

This happens to me sometimes, a lot in the past couple of weeks. Some nights I can't fall asleep for hours, sometimes not at all. I'll be trying for two or three hours but I just can't, so then I just get up. I'll be tired all day, and sometimes I take a nap, but when I do, I usually feel all disoriented afterwords, and then when it's time to fall asleep again, I feel nice and awake, for some reason, and then I can't f**king get to sleep! It makes me so god damned mad! It makes me feel terrible and sick.