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« Reply #7245 on: 19:35:09, 07-09-2008 » |
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I read: Stop!
Do not attach anything to the printer
or plug anything into the wall outlet.
Locate the installation software CD.
I said that they probably mean that the printer should not be attached to anything but has to some how work anyway.
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« Reply #7246 on: 20:17:25, 07-09-2008 » |
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One understands the instruction after several readings. Even I understood after a while that one has to look for some programs on CD that was somewhere in the box.
My friend understood it faster.
I am amazed how the new gadgets are difficult to use. I finally adjusted to the new mobile phone. Now this friend talked me into buying an iPod. I know how to do a few things, but I am not good at it yet.
At the moment I am trying very hard not to fall asleep. I am glad that people on the other thread make me laugh. Laughter is the best medicine.
Are you good with computers and other gadgets (like iPods and others)?
You must be very good. All young people are.
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« Reply #7247 on: 20:35:38, 07-09-2008 » |
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Even I understood after a while that one has to look for some programs on CD that was somewhere in the box.
My friend understood it faster.
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« Reply #7248 on: 20:38:04, 07-09-2008 » |
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Thank you Richard Barrett. Unfortunately I am only too much aware that I am the biggest idiot there is in this world. This is why I am writing this post to you instead of falling asleep here and now.
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« Reply #7249 on: 20:41:06, 07-09-2008 » |
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Thank you Richard Barrett. Unfortunately I am only too much aware that I am the biggest idiot there is in this world.
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #7250 on: 21:56:47, 07-09-2008 » |
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I am amazed how the new gadgets are difficult to use. I finally adjusted to the new mobile phone. Now this friend talked me into buying an iPod. I know how to do a few things, but I am not good at it yet.
I was meant to be helping a friend set up his ipod shuffle today, but he had his girlfriend over. |
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« Reply #7251 on: 00:27:55, 08-09-2008 » |
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Thank you Richard Barrett. Unfortunately I am only too much aware that I am the biggest idiot there is in this world.
Too true! I've never quite been able to understand the hierarchy. Are idiots more or less stupid than morons? and are cretins top of the pile, or bottom? Or do they all shuffle round periodically?  |
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« Reply #7252 on: 06:23:55, 08-09-2008 » |
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I think the ranking as like that:
In my limited understanding of the subject morons would be the top honour.
The second place goes to idiots and half wits after them.
The number three spot goes to stupid and fool is after. Fools and stupid have kind of endearing quality to them and can be almost flattering terms. You can almost substitute stupid to a dear (or is it too much?).
At least in my language if your teacher says to you "you are a fool" you can take it that he/she is very pleased. At least he/she didn't call you an idiot, moron or half wit.
May be relations between the teacher and a student have changes now and there is more dignity in addressing the student. In my time some teachers had no respect for students at all.
increpatio,
Consider yourself lucky that you did not have to set up your friends iPod. Our friend (who is a professional high class programmer) had difficult time doing it. There were so many problems with it. He came here several times and stay long time every time. This particular man is extremely bright. I would write his titles and accomplishments, but I better not.
I would try to postpond that business for as long as possible. (or may be his iPod is easier than mine).
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« Reply #7253 on: 09:08:06, 08-09-2008 » |
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Not quite sure how or why we got onto this but, since we have, it wasn't that long ago that these terms were used as medical terms with fairly specific meanings and were even enshrined in English law. I can't remember the name of the 18th/19th(?) century asylum/workhouse reformer who systematised the definitions but IIRC he was an an admirably troublesome and humane asylum director who was campaigning to improve conditions and provide appropriate care, help and protection for those he was responsible for.
As recently as 1913, in The Mental Deficiency Act of that year, four categories of Mental Deficiency were defined:
Idiot - unable to protect themselves from common dangers.
Imbecile - could protect themselves from common dangers, but unable to take care of themselves.
Feeble-Minded - required care to protect themselves.
Moral Defectives - criminal or vicious personalities who were likely to harm others. (This later came to include unmarried mothers, hence their often being put into asylums).
All four categories were defined in law as 'lunatics' and their care entrusted to a statutory body, the Lunatic Commissioners.
There's a very good book by Roy Porter on all of this (and much more) which I've got somewhere but can't now find, but one of its themes is tracing the language of mental illness/mental deficiency/special needs or whatever through history and the bumpy interaction between our beliefs about what these things are and the language used to describe them (the latter for ever being replaced to try and avoid the negative or outmoded connotations of the previous language).
A book recommendation rather than a grump.
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« Reply #7254 on: 09:28:28, 08-09-2008 » |
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Where does the dorf-nut come in? I was once called a dorf-nut.
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« Reply #7255 on: 09:29:59, 08-09-2008 » |
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Where does the dorf-nut come in? I was once called a dorf-nut.
It comes slightly above 'mad as a lorry' but below 'daft as a wet wombat'. One school of thought is that 'dorf-nut' stems from a mispronunciation of 'doughnut' as in "he was one dorf-nut short of a tea-party". Others think it derives from a belief that those born under the Sign of Torus are particularly prone to blunder about clumsily causing damage, for example in china shops and cake shops. It is now more commonly used to describe someone addicted to getting a high from jogging, a seeker after an endorphin rush or 'dorf-nut'. |
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« Reply #7256 on: 10:07:02, 08-09-2008 » |
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Grrr. The mention of 2009 diaries has brought on an attack of grumpiness. I've been looking for one for a couple months now. Only in the last week or two have I seen any that are not for the 08/09 academic year. And of those, have I seen a single one that provides equally sized spaces for all seven days of the week? No. Do diary makers really think we live in a world where no one does anything on Sundays? Or Saturdays for that matter... Strina, George, and anybody else who was actively or tacitly partaking in the above discussion here a couple of weeks ago with regard to 2009 diaries: I managed to get mine in WH Smith (at the Plaza shopping centre at the eastern end of Oxford Street) in the middle of last week. I always buy the Smith's ones because they have equal space for all seven days of the week, and are ruled within the space for each day. I suppose this doesn't really belong in the Grumpy room as it is a problem solved... |
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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« Reply #7257 on: 10:20:58, 08-09-2008 » |
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Grrr. The mention of 2009 diaries has brought on an attack of grumpiness. I've been looking for one for a couple months now. Only in the last week or two have I seen any that are not for the 08/09 academic year. And of those, have I seen a single one that provides equally sized spaces for all seven days of the week? No. Do diary makers really think we live in a world where no one does anything on Sundays? Or Saturdays for that matter... Strina, George, and anybody else who was actively or tacitly partaking in the above discussion here a couple of weeks ago with regard to 2009 diaries: I managed to get mine in WH Smith (at the Plaza shopping centre at the eastern end of Oxford Street) in the middle of last week. I always buy the Smith's ones because they have equal space for all seven days of the week, and are ruled within the space for each day. I suppose this doesn't really belong in the Grumpy room as it is a problem solved... I'll make it grumpy then - I settled for a moleskine one this year as I couldn't for the life of me get hold of a leather Ordning&Reda one like I bought the previous year from their shop on the King's Rd while I was in London. It's just not the same - it's too big and you can't poke a little Ikea pencil down the side to be held in by the elastic. I might write to them again. WHY don't Ordning&Reda do mail order?? Why not?? Why??  |
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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« Reply #7258 on: 10:23:08, 08-09-2008 » |
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I'm bogged down by necessary but stupid 'phone calls and listening to ridiculous muzak whilst the automated voice chips in to thank me for waiting |
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« Reply #7259 on: 10:26:20, 08-09-2008 » |
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I'm bogged down by necessary but stupid 'phone calls and listening to ridiculous muzak whilst the automated voice chips in to thank me for waiting I always find the voice more irritating than the music - it reepeatedly gives you false hope as you think someone has answered until you start to go into a coma and tune out the interruptions. By the time a real live person answers it takes a moment to realise, then you forget what it was you were calling about in the first place. |
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