Cocodile Posted May 24, 2023 Share Posted May 24, 2023 On 5/19/2023 at 11:28 AM, NotHereToPlayGames said: W o r k s f o r m e . . . Jaclaz puts spaces before a comma, or even before a slash. So, I guess, I might be Italian, not only Dutch, French, Portuguese. "connected with audio cards , I only pointed out the meaning of the acronym HID that - in itself - is not strictly". https://msfn.org/board/topic/184782-what-is-multimedia-input-service-win98/?do=findComment&comment=1245826 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Draker Posted May 24, 2023 Share Posted May 24, 2023 On 5/23/2023 at 10:24 PM, NotHereToPlayGames said: I once dreamt that I was go-cart racing on the rings of Saturn. The next day, a lady turned out in front of me, I swirved to miss her, then swerved again to not get hit by an oncoming truck. The two quick swerves caused my car to fishtail. I rolled down a 30-degree embankment roughly 14-feet deep. The insurance estimates were that I rolled three times bumper over bumper and four times door over door. Luckiest day of my entire life! A police officer WITNESSED the entire thing and had the lady that pulled out in front of me already pulled over and escorted back to the scene. I swerved to MISS HER and she was thinking she could just KEEP ON DRIVING and NEVER STOP. Walked away with nothing but a BROKEN NOSE. Two witnesses saw the whole thing, one of them was a police officer or the "female driver" would have never so much as looked back! LUCKIEST day of my ENTIRE LIFE. A cool dream! Sell the plot to film makers, maybe ? So mine is yet another warning then, not PTSD? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Draker Posted May 24, 2023 Share Posted May 24, 2023 On 5/23/2023 at 12:07 PM, D.Draker said: "dry" English Just in case some foreigners don't know. What does dry mean in British slang? Uninteresting. Dry is used in general speech to mean that a person or situation is uninspiring or uninteresting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vistapocalypse Posted May 25, 2023 Author Share Posted May 25, 2023 Nine pages already, and Mental Health Awareness Month still has a week remaining!? I actually quit reading this topic about a week ago myself, but by all means keep those replies coming. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 (edited) 14 hours ago, Cocodile said: Jaclaz puts spaces before a comma, or even before a slash. So, I guess, I might be Italian, not only Dutch, French, Portuguese. "connected with audio cards , I only pointed out the meaning of the acronym HID that - in itself - is not strictly". https://msfn.org/board/topic/184782-what-is-multimedia-input-service-win98/?do=findComment&comment=1245826 jaclaz sometimes makes typos, particularly on forum posts which are not exactly literature, I am correcting the original post, so that anyone else doesn't make conclusions on Italian grammar rules from a single post. Your quoted statement should be read as "I noticed how ONCE jaclaz put a space before a comma"[1]. No space is required, nor intended in Italian grammar, the French are the only ones with that rule, I believe, Portuguese used to have "half spaces" until the 1920's or so, then they removed them. jaclaz [1] BTW that whole sentence has a second comma, and there was no space before that second comma, you could conclude that jaclaz is not very good at punctuation Edited May 25, 2023 by jaclaz 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 8 hours ago, Vistapocalypse said: Nine pages already If I counted correctly, we need 15 more to make it to 10 pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 3 hours ago, jaclaz said: jaclaz sometimes makes typos, particularly on forum posts which are not exactly literature Mee two. Wee're nott riting boooks hear. Eye four won willl nott loose iny sleeep overseaing typohs ear hat MSFN. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCyborg Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 Saw a recently recorded local talk show that would be called Non-violence in English. Can't say I heard anything I didn't know already. It was focused on the violence among the young ones still in school, how schools don't have authority anymore, how the violence spreads through social media, about those patterns being picked up from the family etc. But what will change for the better? What will they do? Not much I suppose. What has changed throughout the history? We're just apes with smartphones. Someone there referred to the smartphone as a weapon kids haven't been taught to handle properly. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mina7601 Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 (edited) 8 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said: If I counted correctly, we need 15 more to make it to 10 pages. Currently, page 9 of this topic is at 8 replies (9 if you count this reply), so it would need 7 more (6 more after this reply) for this topic to get to page 10. Edited May 25, 2023 by mina7601 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotHereToPlayGames Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 1 hour ago, UCyborg said: Someone there referred to the smartphone as a weapon kids haven't been taught to handle properly. I haven't had a phone since 2001 !!! No land line !!! No mobile !!! I've been using Google Voice ever since, my "phone" needs are free (okay, I obviously have to have internet access). It's also why I cannot use anything but Chromium Forks. Google Voice used to work in BNav and Mypal - it hasn't for over two or three years and I don't see functionality EVER returning to BNav, Mypal, NM27, NM28, St52, or St55. EVER. Around here, you can't so much as get your hair cut without the salon asking for a phone number. I tell them that my phone number is "zero". They pause and wait for me to ramble off more numbers, I tell them "I don't own a phone, that makes my phone number ZERO." I've had auto parts stores claim they cannot sell me auto parts or accept used oil recycling without a phone number, I ask to speak with the manager to show me that policy IN WRITING. The manager some how miraculously finds a way to get the cash register system to "work" without entering a PHONE NUMBER. If you think telemetry in a web browser is something to be concerned about, just think of all the DATA linked to your PHONE NUMBER, which in turn is linked to YOU. Don't get me wrong, I don't NOT (double negative, lol) own a phone on account of "privacy rights" and that telemetry/data, I just have ZERO use for the d#mn thing to be "tied to my hip" all day. Mobile phones are an ADDICTION, plane and simple. Those of you ADDICTED to your phone, I bet you hear it ringing in your sleep, don't you, lol. Or can't so much as go 10 minutes without reaching for it. People often CONFUSE my reasons for NOT owning a phone. They ASSUME that I cannot afford one - I can. They make all sorts of ASSUMPTIONS - sure, I guess some are sort of correct. But the biggest reason I don't own a phone? Because I find them to be the RUDEST invention ever made! And I guarantee you that you just made an ASSUMPTION when reading that! Sure, mobile phone users standing in the checkout lane while talking on their phone is RUDE BEHAVIOR - but that is not what I am referring to. When people call you, if you don't answer within three rings, they accuse you of "screening your calls" - RUDE on the part of the caller making that ASSUMPTION, a real LIFE is not glued to a phone. If you don't respond to a text within "minutes", the ONE-SIDED conversation escalates into ASSUMING you are "mad at them and ignoring their texts" - RUDE on the part of the person sending the text for making that ASSUMPTION. When a phone rings, the caller expects the callee to drop EVERYTHING, that NOTHING the callee is doing is EVER more "important" than the MEANINGLESS conversation about to take place! I could go on. Phones are RUDE. And more often than not, it's the person doing the calling that is being RUDE, not the person LIVING A LIFE and delaying a response until a time that is CONVENIENT for them. I haven't had a phone since 2001 !!! It's the singlemost important decision I have ever made as far as IMPROVING the Quality of Life that I live. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Draker Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 3 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said: I haven't had a phone since 2001 !!! No land line !!! No mobile !!! I've been using Google Voice ever since, my "phone" needs are free (okay, I obviously have to have internet access). It's also why I cannot use anything but Chromium Forks. Google Voice used to work in BNav and Mypal - it hasn't for over two or three years and I don't see functionality EVER returning to BNav, Mypal, NM27, NM28, St52, or St55. EVER. Around here, you can't so much as get your hair cut without the salon asking for a phone number. I tell them that my phone number is "zero". They pause and wait for me to ramble off more numbers, I tell them "I don't own a phone, that makes my phone number ZERO." I've had auto parts stores claim they cannot sell me auto parts or accept used oil recycling without a phone number, I ask to speak with the manager to show me that policy IN WRITING. The manager some how miraculously finds a way to get the cash register system to "work" without entering a PHONE NUMBER. If you think telemetry in a web browser is something to be concerned about, just think of all the DATA linked to your PHONE NUMBER, which in turn is linked to YOU. Don't get me wrong, I don't NOT (double negative, lol) own a phone on account of "privacy rights" and that telemetry/data, I just have ZERO use for the d#mn thing to be "tied to my hip" all day. Mobile phones are an ADDICTION, plane and simple. Those of you ADDICTED to your phone, I bet you hear it ringing in your sleep, don't you, lol. Or can't so much as go 10 minutes without reaching for it. People often CONFUSE my reasons for NOT owning a phone. They ASSUME that I cannot afford one - I can. They make all sorts of ASSUMPTIONS - sure, I guess some are sort of correct. But the biggest reason I don't own a phone? Because I find them to be the RUDEST invention ever made! And I guarantee you that you just made an ASSUMPTION when reading that! Sure, mobile phone users standing in the checkout lane while talking on their phone is RUDE BEHAVIOR - but that is not what I am referring to. When people call you, if you don't answer within three rings, they accuse you of "screening your calls" - RUDE on the part of the caller making that ASSUMPTION, a real LIFE is not glued to a phone. If you don't respond to a text within "minutes", the ONE-SIDED conversation escalates into ASSUMING you are "mad at them and ignoring their texts" - RUDE on the part of the person sending the text for making that ASSUMPTION. When a phone rings, the caller expects the callee to drop EVERYTHING, that NOTHING the callee is doing is EVER more "important" than the MEANINGLESS conversation about to take place! I could go on. Phones are RUDE. And more often than not, it's the person doing the calling that is being RUDE, not the person LIVING A LIFE and delaying a response until a time that is CONVENIENT for them. I haven't had a phone since 2001 !!! It's the singlemost important decision I have ever made as far as IMPROVING the Quality of Life that I live. I knew we had something in common, and this time I agree with you! Not only they are rude, they can lead to terrible consequences, even mental breakdowns, esp. when someone has troubles with anger management. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legacyfan Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 (edited) thanks you to mina and everyone that wanted me to stay (and plan to) Edited May 26, 2023 by legacyfan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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legacyfan Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 (edited) and remember everyone that there is light out there in the darkness you just need to find it and chase it forward -legacyfan (poet) Edited May 26, 2023 by legacyfan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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