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#2990957 2-Nov-2022 11:34

floydbloke:

... pliers - more than one pair, how the hell do you pluralise a plural🤪? ...

Easy. We have some Irish friends and they always refer to 'a scissor' - never fails to amuse me.

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

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#2990979 2-Nov-2022 13:01

eracode:

floydbloke:

... pliers - more than one pair, how the hell do you pluralise a plural🤪? ...

Easy. We have some Irish friends and they always refer to 'a scissor' - never fails to amuse me.

OTOH Gollum always refers to ‘Hobbitses’.

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

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#2990980 2-Nov-2022 13:08

eracode:

OTOH Gollum always refers to ‘Hobbitses’.

But the hobbitses only have crumbs (not crumbses) on their jacketses!

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#2990982 2-Nov-2022 13:20

GV27:
We are at the 'Daddy' and 'Mama' stage of toddler speech development.

It's probably all downhill from here but it's particularly sweet to hear it first thing in the morning when he wakes up.

👶 Daddy?
🥺 Yes mate?
👶 Daddy can I …
🥺 Yes mate.

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#2990995 2-Nov-2022 14:01

frankv:
floydbloke:

I bought some Chanellock pliers ... They don't get much use now but they're still as good as the day I bought them.

Do they still smell good?

Any tools can smell good if you spray them with this.

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#2991179 2-Nov-2022 16:42

eracode:
floydbloke:

... pliers - more than one pair, how the hell do you pluralise a plural🤪? ...

Easy. We have some Irish friends and they always refer to 'a scissor' - never fails to amuse me.

A friend of mine’s father was Irish. My friend will ask you if you’d like “a toast” If you stay for breakfast!

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#2991185 2-Nov-2022 17:02

GV27:
We are at the 'Daddy' and 'Mama' stage of toddler speech development.

It's probably all downhill from here but it's particularly sweet to hear it first thing in the morning when he wakes up.

It only gets better. For me the first year or two as a dad was about being there to support my wife. Once they start talking and running around it’s (mostly) much more fun and rewarding.

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#2991379 3-Nov-2022 09:05

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Geektastic: Apple shipping. My MBP was handed to DHL in Sydney at 1705 yesterday. It cleared customs in Auckland at 0420 today.

The downside is that now it’s in the hands of the bumbling amateurs that are the NZ courier system and will apparently take until Tuesday to get to me!

The only courier I have issues with is Aramax and they are terrible and they haven't improved since the Fastway days.

Courier Post/DHL are awesome and I never have any issues. My post earlier is an example of that.

My issue is that it’s more the fact that it’s scheduled to take 6 days to travel from Auckland to Christchurch when it took less than 12 hours to travel from Sydney and get cleared through NZ customs.

Of course the tracking supplied by Apple now seems broken because it doesn’t hand over to whoever takes DHL parcels from the airport.

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#2991395 3-Nov-2022 09:44

Geektastic:

A friend of mine’s father was Irish. My friend will ask you if you’d like “a toast” If you stay for breakfast!

That's a crime. No one ever has just one slice of toast.

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#2991555 3-Nov-2022 16:33

This thread on a popular review site makes me giggle every time:

https://nz.trustpilot.com/review/aramex.co.nz

Some absolute gems in here:

Why the hell does Aramex offer a service that is grossly substandard

God Awful company.

If I could rate it zero starts I would.

Please take this company away from this planet.

I cannot get it that a company can have such poor customer service

Actually a Parcel Disposal Service.

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#2991561 3-Nov-2022 16:44

Geektastic: A friend of mine’s father was Irish. My friend will ask you if you’d like “a toast” If you stay for breakfast!

So he raises his pint of Guinness and says Slàinte while you're tucking into your heart-attack breakfast?

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#2991920 4-Nov-2022 14:52

When a drive fails, a hot spare takes over, a replacement arrives and the failed disk is swapped without stopping the system. Geekzone didn't stop.

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#2991939 4-Nov-2022 16:40

freitasm:

When a drive fails, a hot spare takes over, a replacement arrives and the failed disk is swapped without stopping the system. Geekzone didn't stop.

And here I was thinking Geekzone just hung around on some server farm in Antarctica, being powered by solar flares and brainwaves.

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#2991945 4-Nov-2022 17:08

freitasm:

When a drive fails, a hot spare takes over, a replacement arrives and the failed disk is swapped without stopping the system. Geekzone didn't stop.

Very professional. And saves us lot from having to re-up our cat photos.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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