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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:51 am
by peter
Damn the supermarket for having a special offer on both Plymouth Gin (41.5%) and Schwepps tonic water on the same day!
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:19 pm
by TheFallen
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.
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:50 pm
by aliantha
TheFallen: Seriously? The admins ought to know about this...
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:55 pm
by dANdeLION
It sounds like one of the mods edited your post, Fallen. Maybe you upset one of them with your anti-US coffee & cheese diatribe.....
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:57 pm
by I'm Murrin
A mod has hit Edit instead of Quote, and turned your post into their reply to it.
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:08 pm
by dANdeLION
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.
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:33 pm
by Orlion
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.
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:37 pm
by Orlion
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
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:09 pm
by aliantha
It was me.
Sorry, TheFallen.
Damn the phpBB designers who put the "quote" button next to the "edit" button!
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:59 pm
by dANdeLION
Thanks for that excuse; it'll come in handy next time null or LZ bitch about my 'editing' their posts.....
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:31 am
by Avatar
Uh, it's not next to the edit button.
It's next to the "Good Post" button.
--A
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 12:27 pm
by aliantha
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...
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:02 pm
by dANdeLION
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?
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:40 am
by Avatar
--A
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:33 pm
by Linna Heartbooger
Darn cold and flu germs...
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:59 am
by peter
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:37 pm
by aliantha
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:08 pm
by Auleliel
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.
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 2:38 pm
by aliantha
Oh man, allergies are a whole 'nother rant. And it's spring now. Damn those budding maple trees anyhow!
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:27 pm
by Orlion
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?
