The Official Fist Shaking Thread

Post by **peter** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:51 am

Damn the supermarket for having a special offer on both Plymouth Gin (41.5%) and Schwepps tonic water on the same day!

Post by **TheFallen** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:19 pm

Damn technical snafu weirdness in this thread that has...

a) deleted one of my posts

and instead

b) shown me as author of a post I never wrote. AS IF I'd ever praise Starbucks for coffee-making... they haven't got a clue.

Post by **aliantha** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:50 pm

TheFallen: Seriously? The admins ought to know about this...

Post by **dANdeLION** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:55 pm

It sounds like one of the mods edited your post, Fallen. Maybe you upset one of them with your anti-US coffee & cheese diatribe.....

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:57 pm

A mod has hit Edit instead of Quote, and turned your post into their reply to it.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:08 pm

Yeah, that makes sense, given the parts of it you can see quoted in the other posts. Nice work, Murrin! But, looking at who responded to the coffee comments, I think maybe an Admin made the mistake, not a mod.

Post by **Orlion** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:33 pm

Avatar wrote:
Orlion wrote:I've got an electric kettle. It has a wire strainer that I can use to brew tea within it
No man, that's just wrong. You need to pour the boiling water over your tea. Not boil the water with the tea already in it.

--A

Nah, you boil the water first, than you put the tea in the strainer into the kettle.

I mostly pour over my tea, since I don't have enough people at my tea parties to justify using the strainer.

Post by **Orlion** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:37 pm

Murrin wrote:A mod has hit Edit instead of Quote, and turned your post into their reply to it.

Good news, though, looks like most of the original is still in Owlie's response.

At least the gaffe answered my curiosity as to what The Fallen thought about Starbucks

Post by **aliantha** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:09 pm

It was me.

Sorry, TheFallen.

Damn the phpBB designers who put the "quote" button next to the "edit" button!

Post by **dANdeLION** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:59 pm

Thanks for that excuse; it'll come in handy next time null or LZ bitch about my 'editing' their posts.....

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:31 am

Uh, it's not next to the edit button.

It's next to the "Good Post" button.

--A

Post by **aliantha** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 12:27 pm

And damn you people for letting me near the controls!

And damn Av for ruining my excuse!

Wow, that felt good. I think I can face the day now...

Post by **dANdeLION** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:02 pm

Avatar wrote:Uh, it's not next to the edit button. It's next to the "Good Post" button.

--A

Good post, Av.

Wait, didn't I hit the 'Good Post" button?

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:40 am

--A

Post by **Linna Heartbooger** » Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:33 pm

Darn cold and flu germs...

Post by **peter** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:59 am

Lina Heartlistener wrote:Darn cold and flu germs...

Ditto that LH! I've been trying to shake a really bad Mother for weeks now. Everybody at my work is off sick or sloping around like 'the Mummy' with rags pressed to thier face.

Is it just me or are cold/flu bugs changing in nature over the years. Up until seven or eight years ago (and I'm in my 50's) all the colds of my life (about 2 or 3 a year) followed the same pattern. Sore throat leading to blocked up nose finishing with cough/chest. This process would take about a week or so and then the cold was over for a good few months. Now I get a cold almost on a monthly basis, the sore throats or blocked nose can grumble on for weeks rising and falling in severity. I get digestive tract problems (let's not dwell on these!) and all manner of other aches and pains that were never previously part of a cold for me. Now - either I am just getting worse at dealing with colds as I get older (possible, but not backed up by the fact that all the same things I'm getting are also being seen in the wide variety of individuals I come into contact with on a daily basis) or the bugs themselves are changing ie more of them and of higher pathogenicity.

Just wondered if any of you guys had noticed anything similar.

Post by **aliantha** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:37 pm

Colds do linger longer when I get them (and I'm about the same age as you, peter), but I've been chalking that up to being old and out of shape. Hmm.

Post by **Auleliel** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:08 pm

My colds are the same as they were 10 years ago, except slightly less frequent and slightly less severe, and they last about half as long. But I've always been mildly congested, even when I'm not sick--I think this is why I have almost no sense of smell... And I have seasonal allergies now, which I didn't have then.

Post by **aliantha** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 2:38 pm

Oh man, allergies are a whole 'nother rant. And it's spring now. Damn those budding maple trees anyhow!

Post by **Orlion** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:27 pm

aliantha wrote:Oh man, allergies are a whole 'nother rant. And it's spring now. Damn those budding maple trees anyhow!

And while we're at it, damn those sycamores! Why can't foreign beetles destroy those?

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