| Author | Message | ||
     Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Can we have the Start New Thread link at the top of the page instead of having to scroll all the way to the bottom of the list? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Just hit the Control and End keys simultaneously. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
That's still 2 keystrokes more than just having the link on the top of the page. You have to understand how lazy I can be. this is a serious issue...  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Remember the days when you had to get out a pen and a pad of paper to contact anyone? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
My wrist still aches from those days | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
I took some notes in pen during a meeting recently. The skin on my middle finger has gone as tough as old meat. And when I'm writing by hand I keep expecting a red line to underscore any word I'm not certain how to spell. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.145.36.225 |
I never get red lines for spelling. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Is that because you switch off the spell check? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.145.36.225 |
I get them for typos but never for a genuine spelling misake. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
wot yoo torking abowt, dess/ | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
hee thinnkz heez betta dan uz | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.145.36.225 |
nobody noticed 'misake'! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
That's the right spelling isn't it - Misake - a rare breed of albanian mammal with distinctive plumage round it's rear end. Admittedly, I didn't think it made much sense... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.230 |
"it's"? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.6.125 |
"albanian"? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
bugger off | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
Weber Gregston? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
>>>bugger off The language of playwrights have seriously lapsed since the days of Shaw and Wilde. No longer the witty riposte, the cutting and imperious aphorism. Now it's just a blunt, almost monosyllabic dismissal followed by a quick exit to the offy for lager and fags. Alas the day... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
I thought I was almost swiftian in my rapierlike wit and subtlety. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
Yeah, OK: "have". | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.6.125 |
"swiftian"?... "rapierlike"?... "OK"?... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Good thing you're not attempting to be a successful writer with grammar that good innit. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
there's only one thing worse than being told to bugger off, my dear, and that's being told to f-... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
"?..." ? | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
What on earth? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.6.125 |
"?"?... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.6.125 |
"earth"?... Surely you don't mean "earth" as in mere soil, Frank, because that would not represent much shock; you meant, "What an amazing thing to witness on this entire planet?!"; which is clearly, "Earth." And you should have emphasized it with a "?!" which has become representative of aghast dismay in this internet-choked text-laden emoticon-rich world of ours. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.6.125 |
Btw, interesting old-world/slang British terms there, above. So Gary - you smoke fags, do you? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
On the subject of published writing, I once had a story published in a fanzine with a readership of between 2 and 3 million. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
The beauty of the English language, you can make 4 sound like a big number. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Craig - as it is an expression used to denote severe weariness with Americans, a captialised E is superfluous.  |