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#3389380 3-Jul-2025 09:14

Behodar:

Data loss at work (limited to my computer) due to the incompetence of the IT department.

They'll blame you for trusting them. You have to have everything backed up to paper notebooks 😉

I worked in a department that had tape backup but only 1 track was verified. Turned out other track faulty for months. Solution was to remove tape machine and make users do their own individual saves. The IT Crowd was a doco not a comedy.

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#3389383 3-Jul-2025 09:30

martyyn:

Never mind the 50's, we came over in 86 and knew we would likely never see anyone again.

A phone call from overseas only ever meant a death notification for a very long time after that.

I sometimes think about the first of my family who came from England to NZ (via Australia) on a ship in 1838. It would have been horrendous. Regrettably about one quarter of children (and several of the adults) on the voyage died of illness, including the two year old daughter of my great-great-great-grandparents. RIP.

My most recent family members to come to NZ were a recently married couple in 1922. I have a short diary from my great-grandfather, detailing the voyage, arrival in Wellington, journey to Waikato, and search for work in the mines there.

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#3389396 3-Jul-2025 10:34

I find myself increasingly annoyed by the modern (American?) usage of 'bring' and 'take'. I was brought up to "take something from here to there" and to "bring something from there to here". Modern usage seems to be to "bring" in both directions and the word "take" is almost never used.

e.g. If I was to planning to walk my dog, and it looked like rain, I would say to my wife, "I think I'll take my umbrella", never "bring".

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#3389399 3-Jul-2025 10:40

granada29:

I find myself increasingly annoyed by the modern (American?) usage of 'bring' and 'take'. I was brought up to "take something from here to there" and to "bring something from there to here". Modern usage seems to be to "bring" in both directions and the word "take" is almost never used.

e.g. If I was to planning to walk my dog, and it looked like rain, I would say to my wife, "I think I'll take my umbrella", never "bring".

There are so many cases of "ruining" perfectly usable language.

For some reason American language seems to have started to use "drug" in terms of "to drag" instead of the existing word "dragged".

So, "I dragged the body across the floor" becomes "I drug the body across the floor". And in that specific instance, could have a couple of very different meanings. :-p

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#3389436 3-Jul-2025 12:34

granada29:

I find myself increasingly annoyed by the modern (American?) usage of 'bring' and 'take'. I was brought up to "take something from here to there" and to "bring something from there to here". Modern usage seems to be to "bring" in both directions and the word "take" is almost never used.

e.g. If I was to planning to walk my dog, and it looked like rain, I would say to my wife, "I think I'll take my umbrella", never "bring".

Yep - and amongst many other examples, they say ‘dove’ rather than ‘dived’. And ‘fit’ rather than ‘fitted’ - as in “The jacket fit very well yesterday”.

Not to mention ‘seccint’ instead of ‘second’, ‘carmelize’ instead of ‘caramelise’ and ‘sodder’ instead of ‘solder’. These have all been discussed here before.

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#3389437 3-Jul-2025 12:37

Someone has also posted a whine on reddit about things being spelled US ways.

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#3389438 3-Jul-2025 12:37

granada29:

If I was to planning to walk my dog, and it looked like rain, I would say to my wife, "I think I'll take my umbrella", never "bring" ….

… unless she was going to join you - in which case it would make sense.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3389441 3-Jul-2025 12:54

richms:

Someone has also posted a whine on reddit about things being spelled US ways.

It can be never-ending.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3389443 3-Jul-2025 12:59

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richms:

Someone has also posted a whine on reddit about things being spelled US ways.

It can be never-ending.

Try not to get drug into the discussion...... ;-)

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#3389444 3-Jul-2025 13:00

Bought three bottles of extra virgin olive oil online. Bottles arrived but the labels look like they had been put on by a child lots of bubbles and not professional, thus suspect bottles have been filled here in NZ and possibly diluted with cheaper seed oil. Have now put a glass of it in the fridge to see if it coagulates as genuine olive oil does. If it doesn’t what should my next step be.

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#3389448 3-Jul-2025 13:23

eracode:

richms:

Someone has also posted a whine on reddit about things being spelled US ways.

It can be never-ending.

I think you mean nending.

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#3389450 3-Jul-2025 13:25

Eva888:

Bought three bottles of extra virgin olive oil online. Bottles arrived but the labels look like they had been put on by a child lots of bubbles and not professional, thus suspect bottles have been filled here in NZ and possibly diluted with cheaper seed oil. Have now put a glass of it in the fridge to see if it coagulates as genuine olive oil does. If it doesn’t what should my next step be.

I think the next step is dependent on the test results...

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#3389465 3-Jul-2025 14:57

eracode:

granada29:

I find myself increasingly annoyed by the modern (American?) usage of 'bring' and 'take'. I was brought up to "take something from here to there" and to "bring something from there to here". Modern usage seems to be to "bring" in both directions and the word "take" is almost never used.

e.g. If I was to planning to walk my dog, and it looked like rain, I would say to my wife, "I think I'll take my umbrella", never "bring".

Yep - and amongst many other examples, they say ‘dove’ rather than ‘dived’. And ‘fit’ rather than ‘fitted’ - as in “The jacket fit very well yesterday”.

Not to mention ‘seccint’ instead of ‘second’, ‘carmelize’ instead of ‘caramelise’ and ‘sodder’ instead of ‘solder’. These have all been discussed here before.

And then there's those people who say "refute" when they mean "deny"
A refutation requires some degree of supporting evidence. Saying "No I didn't!" is a denial not a refutation

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#3389467 3-Jul-2025 14:59

eracode:

granada29:

I find myself increasingly annoyed by the modern (American?) usage of 'bring' and 'take'. I was brought up to "take something from here to there" and to "bring something from there to here". Modern usage seems to be to "bring" in both directions and the word "take" is almost never used.

e.g. If I was to planning to walk my dog, and it looked like rain, I would say to my wife, "I think I'll take my umbrella", never "bring".

Yep - and amongst many other examples, they say ‘dove’ rather than ‘dived’. And ‘fit’ rather than ‘fitted’ - as in “The jacket fit very well yesterday”.

Not to mention ‘seccint’ instead of ‘second’, ‘carmelize’ instead of ‘caramelise’ and ‘sodder’ instead of ‘solder’. These have all been discussed here before.

I hate to think what you feel about how New Zealanders mangle the English language.

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#3389477 3-Jul-2025 16:45

Handle9:

eracode:

granada29:

I find myself increasingly annoyed by the modern (American?) usage of 'bring' and 'take'. I was brought up to "take something from here to there" and to "bring something from there to here". Modern usage seems to be to "bring" in both directions and the word "take" is almost never used.

e.g. If I was to planning to walk my dog, and it looked like rain, I would say to my wife, "I think I'll take my umbrella", never "bring".

Yep - and amongst many other examples, they say ‘dove’ rather than ‘dived’. And ‘fit’ rather than ‘fitted’ - as in “The jacket fit very well yesterday”.

Not to mention ‘seccint’ instead of ‘second’, ‘carmelize’ instead of ‘caramelise’ and ‘sodder’ instead of ‘solder’. These have all been discussed here before.

I hate to think what you feel about how New Zealanders mangle the English language.

We don't then try and force it on the world by being the default keyboard and dictionaries in software.

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