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#3059397 5-Apr-2023 15:50

It’s tax return time.

It’s only a couple of hours work but annoying all the same. I’ll probably procrastinate until the 6th of July and then panic.

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#3059614 6-Apr-2023 07:52

Thugs who call themselves football (soccer) fans.

I'm happily watching a game that's now, justifiably, suspended because some cockwomble decides to throw something to deliberately injure one of the players.

Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not ****ing blue!

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#3059819 6-Apr-2023 15:34

Customers.

I work for a bank. I regularly send paperwork to customers (corporate customers at that) with grey sections marked "Bank Use Only".

There's a reason that's for Bank Use Only. It's not where you randomly write a nice note to said bank, or scribble reminders or phone numbers.

Handsome Dan Has Spoken.
Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale

*Gladly accepting donations...

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#3059820 6-Apr-2023 15:45

Handsomedan:

Customers.

I work for a bank. I regularly send paperwork to customers (corporate customers at that) with grey sections marked "Bank Use Only".

There's a reason that's for Bank Use Only. It's not where you randomly write a nice note to said bank, or scribble reminders or phone numbers.

Do you reject it and send them a new form to complete delaying whatever they were wanting to do out of spite?

Richard rich.ms

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#3059822 6-Apr-2023 16:03

Brand-new consumer electronics with no DST toggle. In fact, this particular one requires you to press a reset button with a paperclip just to change the time.

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#3059824 6-Apr-2023 16:19

floydbloke:
... some cockwomble ...

I must say I've never heard of that one before, was he in some late-night adults-only version of the show?

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#3059829 6-Apr-2023 16:56

That none of the usual suspects (Bunnings, M10, etc) seem to sell bog-standard 10mm x 200mm hot glue sticks any more, just a bunch of wierdo sizes like 7.2mm and 11.2mm and others.

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#3059882 6-Apr-2023 17:45

Sparsely-seeded peer-to-peer downloads.

"18 hours remaining"
"10 hours"
"2 months"
"2 months, 5 weeks" (???)

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#3059884 6-Apr-2023 18:06

neb:
Geektastic:
For example, the current trend to replace the perfectly functional and specific "merchandise" with the word "merch" which could also be an abbreviation of, say, merchant.

Depends on how it's used. If it's at a con then merch specifically refers to swag, not general merchandise.

Let me add ‘collab’ to the list. Because it’s so hard to type collaboration instead…

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#3059885 6-Apr-2023 18:09

Geektastic: Let me add ‘collab’ to the list. Because it’s so hard to type collaboration instead…

You see that a lot on, err, "Insta"(gram). People want to "collab" on "merch" "promos". In this era of autocomplete you'd think that people would allow autocomplete to autocomplete.

It took me a long time to figure out what in the world "i18n" was supposed to be (internationalisation, aka "i, 18 other letters, n").

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#3059889 6-Apr-2023 18:22

richms:

Handsomedan:

Customers.

I work for a bank. I regularly send paperwork to customers (corporate customers at that) with grey sections marked "Bank Use Only".

There's a reason that's for Bank Use Only. It's not where you randomly write a nice note to said bank, or scribble reminders or phone numbers.

Do you reject it and send them a new form to complete delaying whatever they were wanting to do out of spite?

I had a form rejected because when I printed it there was a lot piece of green paper left there by the previous user, so it got printed on green paper.

The information on it was there, but they said it had to be either on blue or white paper.

FFS

I went to their photocopier and copied it onto a white piece of paper that they had to staple my piece of green paper to because the photocopy was harder to read.

"Its on white paper" I said as I walked out of the door.

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#3059904 6-Apr-2023 19:32

Behodar:

You see that a lot on, err, "Insta"(gram). People want to "collab" on "merch" "promos". In this era of autocomplete you'd think that people would allow autocomplete to autocomplete.

It took me a long time to figure out what in the world "i18n" was supposed to be (internationalisation, aka "i, 18 other letters, n").

Fun fact, and I only recently discovered this, Kubernetes is k8s because eight letters were truncated in the middle.

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#3060074 7-Apr-2023 10:52

One of the systems I use has a notes function with very limited space for each line of data entry. You learn to get creative with shortening words down and everyone picks up on each other's language so we all end up using the same abbreviations. 'With' becomes 'w/', for example.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3060113 7-Apr-2023 13:06

curtation n. The enforced compression of a string in the fixed-length field environment.

The problem of fitting extremely variable-length strings such as names, addresses, and item descriptions into fixed-length records is no trivial matter. Neglect of the subtle art of curtation has probably alienated more people than any other aspect of data processing. You order Mozart's "Don Giovanni" from your record club, and they invoice you $24.95 for MOZ DONG. The witless mapping of the sublime onto the ridiculous! Equally puzzling is the curtation that produces the same eight characters, THE BEST, whether you order "The Best of Wagner", "The Best of Schubert", or "The Best of the Turds". Similarly, wine lovers buying from computerized wineries twirl their glasses, check their delivery notes, and inform their friends, "A rather innocent, possibly overtruncated CAB SAUV 69 TAL." The squeezing of fruit into 10 columns has yielded such memorable obscenities as COX OR PIP. The examples cited are real, and the curtational methodology which produced them is still with us.

-- Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary"

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#3060152 7-Apr-2023 16:24

neb: That none of the usual suspects (Bunnings, M10, etc) seem to sell bog-standard 10mm x 200mm hot glue sticks any more, just a bunch of wierdo sizes like 7.2mm and 11.2mm and others.

I don't know how much the exporting Brexiteers dislike the metric system, but I wouldn't put it past them to make everything imperial again. That's a problem that you can't solve with a rolling fork spanner. BTW, we affectionately call this tool "Engländer“ (Englishman) here. 😉

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