PassedOut Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 By the way, I have found the following useful in these traffic situations: Suppose I am arriving at a four way stop, and I see another guy arriving on the crossing street a little ahead of me. Of course he can move on through first but he might be one of these "Oh no, please, you go first" types. I stop a tad, maybe 4 feet, short of the usual stopping place. This seems to communicate. He goes through, I go through.I do this too, for the same reason, and it speeds things up here too. :) Similarly, drivers here are often reluctant to pull onto a highway near my home when an approaching driver is signaling a right turn (I suppose the driver might really be planning to barrel right on through). If I move a bit closer to the right when approaching the intersection, though, it seems to reinforce the right-turn message and traffic moves more smoothly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lalldonn Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Interesting, I have a different strategy in those situations. If we are getting there at nearly the same time and I intend to let him through, I slow down a little early but keep rolling forward about a second after he stops. That seems to make it obvious that he has stopped first so he will go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOut Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Interesting, I have a different strategy in those situations. If we are getting there at nearly the same time and I intend to let him through, I slow down a little early but keep rolling forward about a second after he stops. That seems to make it obvious that he has stopped first so he will go.Good idea. I'm going to try it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgoetze Posted April 20, 2012 Report Share Posted April 20, 2012 Can't find blackshoe's post; anyway there are about two dozen countries in North America.Is it so hard to click on the grey arrow next to blackshoe's name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted April 22, 2012 Report Share Posted April 22, 2012 Is it so hard to click on the grey arrow next to blackshoe's name? I guess it must be. I do not know of a grey arrow. I saw a quote, couldn't find the quoted post. I managed, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onoway Posted May 8, 2012 Report Share Posted May 8, 2012 Outfits like Stumbleupon which email with a message, " it's been so long since you've visited us, please come back we'd love to see you again"; then when you click on the link you get an insistent message, "who are you? log in." I leave, but it's irritating, as clearly they already know exactly who I am and when I am on the site. Also sites which demand you log into Facebook to make a comment. Don't do that either. Why is so much on the internet now under the direction of control freaks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted May 8, 2012 Report Share Posted May 8, 2012 These things about Facebook have gotten completely out of hand. Recently my younger daughter posted a picture someone took of a small pond near where she grew up. She somehow (I don't know the techniques or the lingo) tagged the picture to me. Now when someone I don't know makes a comment about a picture taken by someone I don't know I get a message informing me of this. Let me state for the record: Mostly I totally ignore any message arriving from either Facebook or LinkedIn about anything. My daughter, the one mentioned above, has taken down her Facebook page because she was spending too much time on it. My older daughter largely dropped it sometime back. I sense a rebellion brewing. I don't feel the need to have 437,603 close friends and I gather quite a few others are coming to the same conclusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyman Posted May 8, 2012 Report Share Posted May 8, 2012 These things about Facebook have gotten completely out of hand. Recently my younger daughter posted a picture someone took of a small pond near where she grew up. She somehow (I don't know the techniques or the lingo) tagged the picture to me. Now when someone I don't know makes a comment about a picture taken by someone I don't know I get a message informing me of this. Let me state for the record: Mostly I totally ignore any message arriving from either Facebook or LinkedIn about anything. My daughter, the one mentioned above, has taken down her Facebook page because she was spending too much time on it. My older daughter largely dropped it sometime back. I sense a rebellion brewing. I don't feel the need to have 437,603 close friends and I gather quite a few others are coming to the same conclusion. Changing your notification settings is hard? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted May 8, 2012 Report Share Posted May 8, 2012 Changing your notification settings is hard?Probably not, but I don't know how to do it. I don't even know just what a notification is. I got these things saying I have a notification and I should click on something. I did it for a while, usually it was nothing of even peripheral interest if I could find it at all, now I usually ignore it. I have never missed anything of importance as far as I know (and I suppose that if it were important, I would by now know). We all have to choose what we want to look into. I get friending requests from people whom I have never heard of. I have no idea why. I know from experience that it is possible (on LinkedIn anyway) to inadvertently send such a request. I once made some sort of error, I never discovered what, that sent requests to everyone in my address book. I had meant no such thing. It had happened as I was trying to deal with a friending request from someone on bbo who, it turned out, also had not meant to send the request to me. You don't, they tell me, have to be alive to vote in Chicago and I am thinking the same is true of friending on Facebook. Anyway, for now, I just let it float by. I may deal with it someday but I can't see that I am under any obligation to do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgoetze Posted May 8, 2012 Report Share Posted May 8, 2012 People interchanging "affect" and "effect" at random e.g. I am certain that this effects people in a less dramatic manner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOut Posted May 8, 2012 Report Share Posted May 8, 2012 People interchanging "affect" and "effect" at random e.g.In the same vein, people interchanging "insure" and "ensure." I find split infinitives grating also, but am getting more tolerant with age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted May 9, 2012 Report Share Posted May 9, 2012 These things rarely have any affect on me, I insure you. Actually, I find I make many more mistakes of this sort when typing than I do when I am writing by hand. I rarely typed anything until the computer revolution, and it rattles my brain. I am getting better, much better, my wife just proofread something for me and some pages had no mistakes at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted May 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2012 In the same vein, people interchanging "insure" and "ensure." I find split infinitives grating also, but am getting more tolerant with age.And assure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted May 9, 2012 Report Share Posted May 9, 2012 In the same vein, people interchanging "insure" and "ensure."If it can be a question on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me"'s "What's the Difference?" round, I don't bemoan most people getting it wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyr Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 I have been getting a lot of spam texts lately, and this has me peeved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggwhiz Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 I have been getting a lot of spam texts lately, and this has me peeved. I just got hacked for the 2nd time in a year and spammed my whole contact list. That should be a capital crime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 In the same vein, people interchanging "insure" and "ensure." I find split infinitives grating also, but am getting more tolerant with age.I can assure you that I always try to ensure that my house will not burn down, but I insure it in case it does. I try to play bridge well, not good. Good is what I like to try to do: well, is how I try to do it. As for split infinitives, I try to completely ignore the issue, but, when the question is one of a dangling participle, that is something up with which I will not put. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgoetze Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 I just got hacked for the 2nd time in a year and spammed my whole contact list. That should be a capital crime.I agree that this is quite serious but I think you are being just a little bit too harsh on yourself, I hope you will reconsider. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 I just got hacked for the 2nd time in a year and spammed my whole contact list. That should be a capital crime. This happened to me a number of years ago. I was using hotmail with a weak password. Very embarrassing to have all your friends get spammed for eternity. I switched to gmail and a strong password and have not had this problem since. Edit: knock wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 This happened to me a number of years ago. I was using hotmail with a weak password. Very embarrassing to have all your friends get spammed for eternity. I switched to gmail and a strong password and have not had this problem since. Edit: knock wood. yes stronger password seems to help alot here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarabin Posted May 11, 2012 Report Share Posted May 11, 2012 How about intellectual dishonesty as a pet peeve? When we make quotations surely we should credit the source? Or if we think the source is obvious, at least enclose the quote in inverted commas to show we are not plagiarising? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxx Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 "Sign Up or Log in to see what your friends are doing." I don't get it. If they're really your friends, why can't you just ask them? Isn't that what a friend is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antrax Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 You can ask them, but then you'll hear what they're doing, not see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycroft Posted May 16, 2012 Report Share Posted May 16, 2012 "sign up or log in to see what your friends are doing." In other words: "sign up or log in to broadcast your ideas to the world at large, especially our advertisers that are buying your activity from us." Legitimately, log in to let your friends see what you're doing makes sense. But usually, when someone tells this introvert that they care about "my friends", who they really care about is "their friends." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 The damned misstranslation of "remove" makes me crazy. In Spannish "remover" means to move repeatedly, used mainly on context where "stir" is used in english. It has nothing to do with "remove", yet I see it misstranslated everywhere. Device's manuals, tv programs, even on newspapers. How does it sound to you? remove the mixture until it gets homogeneous stir the safety band form the top Another one comes from "actually", misstranslated to "actualmente" wich means right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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