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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,178
    edited January 2020

    Turrets?

    Thank you! I thought they were called turrets, but then I was like "aren't those for artillery?"

     

    Hmm..., artillery, like a tank's turret?  Or perhaps explosive outbursts from people with tourettes syndrome?devil

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,043

    Turrets?

    Thank you! I thought they were called turrets, but then I was like "aren't those for artillery?"

     

    ...used to live in a place that had two: It was nicknamed by the locals as "The Castle".  I lived on the first floor in a 2-BR apartment.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,043
    Mystarra said:

    could this office life actuallty be purgatory?

    what if i've been dead this whole time? 

     

    ...I felt the job I mentioned in my post was at least that.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    a turret (from Italian: torretta, little tower; Latin: turris, tower) is a small tower

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,366
    edited January 2020

    I finally returned a watch that does not work to Belk.  I was going to return it a couple months ago but forgot about it for some reason.  I got it back on a gift card.  I found two Sweaters in clearance for about ten something each.  So the watch was about thirty and now I have 9.84 left on the gift card.  One sweater is football related and the other is gray with white polka dots.  I needed sweaters more than a watch.

    oh that was not a complaint.  The complaint was my ride was late but I rushed picking out the shirts.  I tried to get a third shirt but was a few dollars short.

    so confusing are sales for real clothes.  Not just Daz clothe.  For example the football fan shirt was 44.50.  The clothes in that section had various discounts which was not clear to me.  The football shirt was 75% off.  I tried to access the belk website but my wireless was not working fast enough on my phone and the cashier did not mention free WiFi.  She did get the 10% off coupon for me.

    overall I am glad I got a savings of 63.69.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    heart phil 

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Chohole said:

    a turret (from Italian: torretta, little tower; Latin: turris, tower) is a small tower

    they do seem to like sticking a vowel on the end of wordssmiley

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:
    Mystarra said:

    could this office life actuallty be purgatory?

    what if i've been dead this whole time? 

     

    ...I felt the job I mentioned in my post was at least that.

    mebbe is the matrix.  took the wrong color pill

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,366

    Does using cellular data use more battery than WiFi?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,043
    Mystarra said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Mystarra said:

    could this office life actuallty be purgatory?

    what if i've been dead this whole time? 

     

    ...I felt the job I mentioned in my post was at least that.

    mebbe is the matrix.  took the wrong color pill

    ...been wondering about that.  I keep expecting to see that slight "glitch" occur.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,178
    edited January 2020
    Mystarra said:
    Chohole said:

    a turret (from Italian: torretta, little tower; Latin: turris, tower) is a small tower

    they do seem to like sticking a vowel on the end of wordssmiley

    Even when speaking English. frown  I just finished watching a YouTube about the raising of the Costa Concordia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwtcoxQGHmc  I heard an awful lot of extra "a"s at the end of words during interviews with the Italian recovery personnel.  Must be an ingrained syntax thing of Italian that's hard to get rid of.

    Germans speaking English will flip subject & verb a lot.

    Russians leave out English articles (a, an, the) because they don't have them or identify generality and specificity of nouns in other ways.

    I would not want to try to learn English as a second language.  I respect those who do.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited January 2020

    throw an eh? at the end of every sentencesmiley

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  • Mystarra said:

    the other big scifi decision, transporter beams, yay or nay.  sga does it.  harry potter apparates.  the tomorrow people jaunts.

    pern dragons go between

    I love the idea of transporters, except I wonder if they can rematerialize you with your soul still inside your body.

    kyoto kid said:

    ..I'd go with shuttles or for smaller ships, atmospheric streamlining. 

    Physical transference across space and time is so "pre-schroedinger's"; it might as well be Victorian!

    kyoto kid said:

    i'm bitter.

    ...I usually am myself but try to be sweet as best I can. 

    nah. this is where the line is drawn. It stops here and goes no further. 

    Actually, I'm not that bitter. I'm angry. And demanding a refund. This shall not stand. angry

    Meat Loaf has a song, "I want my money back!"

    Mystarra said:

    NOOOO!  put calibration documents in the scanner feeder.  it jammed.  now pages are out of order.  the lovely engibneers didn't put page numbers.   arghhhh

    Maybe get the engibneers to recalibrate the scanner feeder for the calibration documents!  I say call them on a Saturday morning when they're all sleeping in.

    Mystarra said:

    NOOOO!  put calibration documents in the scanner feeder.  it jammed.  now pages are out of order.  the lovely engibneers didn't put page numbers.   arghhhh

    1st tip:  Old punch card trick.  When you have a thick bunch of unnumbered punch cards, align them carefully and place a relatively long straight line with a felt-tip marker diagonally across the top edge of the stack.  That way, when the deck got dropped and shuffled, it helped to have the line across the top to guide you in putting cards in at least nearly the right order.enlightened  Saved me at least once.

    2nd tip:  Make sure your document handlers are not hungry before placing things in their mouth.enlightened

     

    Better yet, run yer damned cards through an interpreter and print the contents on them!

    Funny story:  In the days of punched cards, we had a card punch machine bork on a deck once.  Turned out there was a fly in the deck.  he was dead already, probably from being sandwiched in the deck and being boxed, strapped, palletted, and shipled across the country.  But his li'l carcas still jammed up the works.

    Funny story #2:  IBM trainer has a half-dozen trainees in the computer room on a Saturday for their final exam.  This was long before the 24/7 operations really became a thing for small companies.  Before they arrive to the computer room, he walks to the back of the CPU box (which back then was as big as a bank of refrigerators), opens one of the big sheet-metal doors, slides a module out of the rack, then slides a a component card (not unlike one of today's graphics cards) out of the module.  He puts the card into his shirt pocket, then slides the module back into the machine, closes the doors, wipes off his fingerprints, and waits for his charges to arrive. 

    Trainees arrive, and he starts to present the problem:

    "For your hardware diagnosis final exam today, we have an IBM 370/158." 

    Patting his shirt pocket with a couple inches of the card showing, he continues, "This machine has experienced a case of "card fallout".  Your job is to determine, programatically of course, which card is missing and where it should be located in this box.  Of course, you may access the diagnostic ports, but in order to pass this exam, you must not unnecessarily open any doors."

    "Card fallout".  I love it!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    my body cant handle the bus trip no mores

    ADA busses in Wales has better shock absorbers?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    train fans might enjoy thissmiley

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    28F

    if only had a clump of shredded cheddar to throw ont top of soup.  very good low sodium sweet potato soup.
    so yummi cant believe is campbells.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,353
    kyoto kid said:

    Turrets?

    Thank you! I thought they were called turrets, but then I was like "aren't those for artillery?"

     

    ...used to live in a place that had two: It was nicknamed by the locals as "The Castle".  I lived on the first floor in a 2-BR apartment.

    Looks like two watchtowers!

     

    Dana

  • Mystarra said:

    throw an eh? at the end of every sentencesmiley

    That's the Canadians.

    Italians slide an 'ah" at the end of words or between words.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,178
    edited January 2020
    DanaTA said:
    kyoto kid said:

    Turrets?

    Thank you! I thought they were called turrets, but then I was like "aren't those for artillery?"

     

    ...used to live in a place that had two: It was nicknamed by the locals as "The Castle".  I lived on the first floor in a 2-BR apartment.

    Looks like two watchtowers!

     

    Dana

    Handy for pouring the boiling oil down on unwanted guests.  Or shooting arrows, but the arrow slots are too wide to be protective.  but you have to be quick and get them before they get under the porch roof.  Bad castle design, fire the architect.

    But notice the fenced area at the very top, perfect for stranding a pair of gray wizards.

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  • Mystarra said:

    throw an eh? at the end of every sentencesmiley

    That's the Canadians.

    Italians slide an 'ah" at the end of words or between words.

    I've heard several Chicagoans do that at the beginning of sentences, and it's twice as long and twice as loud.

  • WinterMoonWinterMoon Posts: 2,016

    When I was in secondary school (aged 16), we had a young dude who was an exchange student from Northern England working at our school as part of his exchange experience. He was studying to become a teacher, just for the record. This kid had a thing about adding an "s" to the end of random words. He'd be talking about life in "Englands" for example. My classmates and myself assumed that it was a quirk of his northern dialect, but I've watched a lot of British TV stuff since then, and never heard anyone else speak like that. Is it a very local phenomenon in a part of Yorkshire, or does it sound like he must have had a verbal tick of his own?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,043

    ..."softwares".

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,043
    DanaTA said:
    kyoto kid said:

    Turrets?

    Thank you! I thought they were called turrets, but then I was like "aren't those for artillery?"

     

    ...used to live in a place that had two: It was nicknamed by the locals as "The Castle".  I lived on the first floor in a 2-BR apartment.

    Looks like two watchtowers!

     

    Dana

    Handy for pouring the boiling oil down on unwanted guests.  Or shooting arrows, but the arrow slots are too wide to be protective.  but you have to be quick and get them before they get under the porch roof.  Bad castle design, fire the architect.

    But notice the fenced area at the very top, perfect for stranding a pair of gray wizards.

    ...one Halloween I dressed up as a vampire and a friend of mine *(who lived in the room between the turrets) put red coloured bulbs in the room lights, scary organ music on the stereo, and placed a floodlight on the balcony (aimed upwards of course) where I stood posing menacingly and speaking with a cinematic Transylvanian accent. Was a lot of fun.

    The house is in a small college town and still standing. 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,178
    edited January 2020
    Mystarra said:

    throw an eh? at the end of every sentencesmiley

    That's the Canadians.

    Italians slide an 'ah" at the end of words or between words.

    I've heard several Chicagoans do that at the beginning of sentences, and it's twice as long and twice as loud.

    Yeah, well, Chicago is awfully close to Canada and who knows what nasty habits they've picked up.  But the native Buffalonians are worse than them for picking up the "eh?" at the end of sentences, whether they be questions or notindecision.  I could be considered a Buffalonian because I was born in western NY State and lived here for 17 years before going to college in Florida but never noticed that particular irritation until I returned to this area after I moved away to Florida for decades and started beginning sentences with "y'all". frown

    And I don't know what the excuse is for all the seemingly unintelligible accents and language quirks in that small island called England.devil

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    whats the protocol for addressing an emperor?
    Your majesty
    your excellency
    your imperial majesty
    your highness
    sire is for kings?

    i guess if you got it wrong it was beheading time.

    someone who rules an empire is automatically an emperor? or empress?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i forgot Olive and Popeye had a sweet pea

  • Mystarra said:

    whats the protocol for addressing an emperor?
    Your majesty
    your excellency
    your imperial majesty
    your highness
    sire is for kings?

    i guess if you got it wrong it was beheading time.

    someone who rules an empire is automatically an emperor? or empress?

    But at least if you're going to be beheaded, choose to do it in Amsterdam in the execution chamber in the old palace.  Ooh, weaping statues, and court witnesses leaning over the marble balustrade on the floor above.  Go out in style.indecision (I'd point to photos but I can't find any.frown)

  • WinterMoonWinterMoon Posts: 2,016
    edited January 2020

    Tudor beheading compilation! (In better quality than the video I removed.)

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    feelin a really bad attitude coming on  at my dayjob.

    what's the world record for suffing paper into ringbinder page protectors?
    cuz if the paper isn't curled just right halfway in it pops back out of the sleeve no
    stupid no page numbers paper fallin on the floor, and i don't care

    I'm not the droid for this job.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,043

    Tudor beheading compilation! (In better quality than the video I removed.)

    ...yes

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