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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

I used to be a sketch below 5'11"... now, I'm around 5'10" - ish.

The joys of back surgeries, being over 50 years old, and hard living when you were over 30, and lifting 150 lb. PA cabinets while anesthetized on your poison of choice.

This is the week I've been dreading - I'll be spending several hours with Dr. Backdoor. I hope that they find nothing. Nervous? Yes.

I ran out of my easy-to-use, easy-maintanence insulin. Now, I'm back to the old days - syringes, and constant testing strip usage.

The old Ohio Players song "Roller Coaster" applies here.

I forgot to remind my lady about taking the smartphone with her to her meeting. She's going to be upset. However, I have done some good things between yesterday and today.

A synthetic oil change for the car, yesterday. With a K&N filter.

I just vacuumed the house. Chronic pain won't stop my life - though, my future doctor visit Wednesday gives me a grade-A case
of the creeps. Was that a rant? I suppose it was. May everyone's week be fruitful, and happy - LW
 
EarlyMon said:
An O is heavier because the blank in the center is just that - blank, not empty.

K on the other hand is free to leak any excess mass.

I type the way I speak, especially when using speech to text.

Just remember - without the abbreviation down to K, we'd never have mmm'k, mmm'k?
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As always, EarlyMon, you're in the role of arbiter. A good soul.

Yet, MLSS's rant earlier does carry a necessary message:

If our communications are taken down to just letters and abbreviations - like a tweet - the generations after us will miss out on the richness of prose - whether, American or British. Like the British English version of the word 'endeavor', endeavour - it carries a dynamic that the American version simply can't match.

I know, I know - "...you say 'tomayto', I say 'tomahto'..." - like MLSS, I love the written word; though, in the last two centuries, the word 'incorporated' became 'Inc.' - so, like you, PearlyOne - I'll just go with the flow.

Still, the written, unabbreviated word - to me, at least - carries a richness; indeed, an intensity. Ah, the love of prose... LW
 
Meh, I don't think the sky is falling. The English language isn't going to collapse because people shorten words in text messages and forum posts. I doubt the youngsters are writing their college essays and resume cover letters like that. Plenty of good books are still being written, full size words and all. ;)
 
Gmash said:
Meh, I don't think the sky is falling. The English language isn't going to collapse because people shorten words in text messages and forum posts. I doubt the youngsters are writing their college essays and resume cover letters like that. Plenty of good books are still being written, full size words and all. ;)
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You're right, Gmash. Orson Scott Card, and many of the newer authors still write prose as we remember it.

I just have memories of my eldest son, whom, was an editor of his middle school newspaper.

By the time he got into high school, he fell in with the wrong crowd - and, his natural writing talent went to @#*!.

Homework he turned in looked like he was posting on Facebook - internet abbreviations, and all.

I blame myself, as I could've done more to encourage him. My marriage was ending, and the bitterness and acrimony was at an all-time high - Dad was getting psychological help, and moving away from my drug and alcohol lifestyle... my soon-to-be ex was a functional alcoholic, and all of my kids'
friends had parents that used anything from marijuana to meth and crack.

Along with alcohol.

Even when I used, I never brought it home. So, that's where my prose rant came from - seeing the internet reduce the writing skills of many young people.

I intend no offense, but the curricula in many schools today are geared toward getting the schools themselves to pass federal and state mandates. The kids spend so much time being tested that they are stressed, and turned off to their educational experience. As a former substitute teacher, I saw this first-hand.

As you wrote, Gmash, there's still some great stuff coming, and - the sky isn't falling. :)
LW
 
I don't care for hashtag, but what are you supposed to call it in that context? It's a shorthand for number - #5 needle
Pound key on the phone - I keep looking for the Brit pound sign.
Slanted tic tac toe?
 
Allow me to usertag you @zuben el genub - and yet the @ sign is not called the usertag out of context. I could've called it an attag, and when not tagging, @ is simply at.

Calling the # character hash is popular in the UK where the hashtag was first coined. Had a Yank started it we'd have likely named it poundtagging.

# is to denote a comment in Unix shell scripts and I'm already having to correct beginners that they didn't comment a line by hashtagging it - they commented a line with the octothorp.

Unless something is scanning for a prefix to indicate an indexed value, no tagging occurs, and # is only a hashtag when embedded in print-based social media.
 
EarlyMon said:
An O is heavier because the blank in the center is just that - blank, not empty.

K on the other hand is free to leak any excess mass.

I type the way I speak, especially when using speech to text.

Just remember - without the abbreviation down to K, we'd never have mmm'k, mmm'k?
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EarlyMon said:
Clever. :p

Can you hashtag that for me?
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Learned that from my grandma
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#Cookies... that ought to be popular to the 'tweet set'.

I use Twitter, so, I've got nothing to say about shell code. However, when someone screams "Hashtag _________," it is truly annoying - you know that the person in question has seen too many fast food commercials...

My appointment today was postponed until July 7 - so, here I remain in apprehension. The doctor had to go out of town. Lucky me.

Rant of the day: if I see one more FarmersOnly.com commercial, something metallic may be thrown at our LED television screen. The song that they use in the commercial gets embedded into your memory, driving you into apoplectic madness.

Like some songs do, when they are overplayed on the car radio.

All I can say for farmers, and country folk: if you're single, over forty and dateless - this social website is made just for you. Make it popular, so that the ad company will change the tune's hook...
LW
 
EarlyMon said:

Actually, you just made me realize that I could go for some really tasty #cake - specifically some really good cream cheese #cake -

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For those unfamiliar, 1 # = 454 grams.
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EarlyMon. It's people like you that make Type 1 diabetics like myself make sure they have the backup supply of the old-style U-100 insulin to eat the forbidden cream cheese cake, and take the BCG roller coaster ride... thanks for 454 grams of torture (chuckle) LW
 
Went to my primary care doctor's office early this morning. I received sample Humalog 75/25 insulin to hold me over until my shipment comes in from the drug company.

I'm very poor financially, so I qualify for drug assistance. The coordinator mishandled my paperwork - so, my three month supply is running late.

I also found out that my nurse practioner who had been my doctor no longer works there. My next appointment is on July 2. If you can't keep medical personnel at your practice, appointments will take awhile. Damn it.

Today, like the last two days, went over 100° F. With high humidity, it is really awful out there. My lady and I went to the county pharmacy to pick up the medicines that keep me relatively sane (chuckle). It was ready when we arrived.

That's a first.

Aside from the savage outdoor temperatures, there's not much to rant about - except for being cut off by a reefer (refrigerated) delivery driver on I-40 twice.

Humans. What are ya gonna do?

We're home, air-conditioned and safe. Yet another day in the life of a transplant living in the Southeastern United States. I'm a damned Yankee - even though I've been here for years.

(Sigh). Keep on smiling, everyone - LW
 
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