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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2013 at 07:36
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I'd be more weary of the 'clean cut' looking folks that bash women and take crack............

Too true, they are the scary ones.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2013 at 07:52
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Originally posted by Finnforest 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. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2013 at 07:54
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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 Angry

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.  LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2013 at 08:06
Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by ExittheLemming 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 Angry

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.  LOL
 
 
I am much more likely (in fact almost always do) to give money to anyone collecting in the old fasioned way of rattling a bucket.  I will not have anything to do with anyone with a clip board collecting bank details.  If I want to set up a direct debit I will do my own research without someone hanging over me. 
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Thanks guys, I learned something new today....had never heard about aggressive, paid "charity muggers"LOL reading up on it apparently some are pretty good at guilting people into giving up personal info, which is then sold to other organizations....

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chugger


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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. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 07:49
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

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. 


Leeches being aggressive charity muggers or actual blood sucking leeches..??
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 07:56
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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. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 08:08
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric 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.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 09:24
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric 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. Shocked Unhappy
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 09:28
Annoying Microsoft Outlook habits - part one
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1) Booking recurring meetings Monday to Sunday with no end date, thus filling your calendar with a meeting that recurs until the end of time
2) Forwarding a note to someone by copying in everyone on the original email and adding a name, so you get another copy of the email you already have.
3) Booking a meeting without checking your calendar to see if you are free.
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Annoying Microsoft Outlook habits - part animal, part fruit
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1 - ∞ ) It's made by Microsoft.
 
 
Ermm I think that covers everything.
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 12:25
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Annoying Microsoft Outlook habits - part animal, part fruit
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1 - ∞ ) It's made by Microsoft.
 
 
Ermm 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.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 13:03
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

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Annoying Microsoft Outlook habits - part animal, part fruit
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1 - ∞ ) It's made by Microsoft.
 
 
Ermm 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.
 
 
Our IT "manager" (I use that term only because that's whats on his business card) uses Microsoft defaults for everything because he saves him having to think for himself and he's too much of a "microsoft engineer" to question their logic or validity - we have a 10Mb limit on file attachments because that is the default limit and it's what Microsoft "recommend" - and that's a ludicrous generalised application of an arbitary number that has no validity outside the head of the guy dozing in some Microsoft basement who dreamt it up.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 14:10
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Annoying Microsoft Outlook habits - part animal, part fruit
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1 - ∞ ) It's made by Microsoft.
 
 
Ermm 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.
 
 
Our IT "manager" (I use that term only because that's whats on his business card) uses Microsoft defaults for everything because he saves him having to think for himself and he's too much of a "microsoft engineer" to question their logic or validity - we have a 10Mb limit on file attachments because that is the default limit and it's what Microsoft "recommend" - and that's a ludicrous generalised application of an arbitary number that has no validity outside the head of the guy dozing in some Microsoft basement who dreamt it up.
 

I agree, to a point. It only takes a bit of thinking to book a work meeting from Monday to Friday and stick an end date on. Also, isn't the Forward button pretty much next to the Reply All button? Without wishing to appear racist, I have to say that all the things I've mentioned are habitually done by colleagues in a certain IT-outsourcing country who shall remain nameless. They all book meetings without checking calendars.

I do agree with you on the attachment limit. The same thing applies to our profile size limit - it's some ridicolously small figure set in the days when 10Mb of space was a lot.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 16:22
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Finnforest 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. 
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Thanks, I'm gonna see if this is available from our office supply account
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 19:27
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric 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. Shocked Unhappy
Chopper, only Australia and Asia have land leeches (as well as aquatic) - the rest of the world have only aquatic leeches !!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2013 at 06:49
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric 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. Shocked Unhappy
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.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 16 2013 at 06:12
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.
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