The Night Mail

[Dave Hunt]

Ah, as I was typing my last post I received word that the cash side of Dad’s estate is now settled and all beneficiaries, including me, have been paid. It’s only taken seven months but at least I can go back to eating hot food again. Just the house to sell now......

 

Dave

[Happy Hippo]

5 hours ago, AndyID said:

I am happy to be able to report that I am now an Elite TNM member. (Elite membership requires a member achieve a significant self-inflicted wound.)

 

In my case it was financial rather than physical. While luxuriating in bed with my morning coffee I happened upon an email from the bank advising me that our checking (current) account had a balance of ZERO!

 

As there was several thousand bucks in it the last time I looked It didn't take me long to become fully awake. My initial reaction was that we'd been robbed but it didn't take me too long to realize that the enemy was me.

 

A few days ago I set a "bill pay" with the bank to pay the company the delivers our propane gas. Unfortunately I repeated one digit in the amount to be paid which had the effect of pretty much multiplying the not insubstantial amount by ten.

 

Panic calls to the bank and the propane supplier proved useless. There's no way to reverse or "short-circuit" the payment. It will have to go through then I'll have to request the supplier refunds the over-payment and it's going to take at least a week before we see it. We are fortunate that we have sufficient funds to handle this.

 

Next time it asks me to confirm the amount I'll be a bit more careful.

 

 

 

A case of too many fingers pushing the buttons. I can advise on that...

[newbryford]

20 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

A case of too many fingers pushing the buttons. I can advise on that...

 

Do you use one of these? (I'm sure could photoshop a hippo paw (hippaw?) onto it.

[Happy Hippo]

1 hour ago, newbryford said:

 

Do you use one of these? (I'm sure could photoshop a hippo paw (hippaw?) onto it.

I'd like the big buttons, but in a QWERTY format please.

[newbryford]

2 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I'd like the big buttons, but in a QWERTY format please.

 

Done.

[polybear]

16 minutes ago, newbryford said:

 

Done.

 

Add some keys to type in useful words with a single press and you can count this Bear in; let's see now......

LDC

Turdycurses

Piggin' Turdycurses

Tw@t

Cake

Pizza

Oven Chips

Puppers

Deltic......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Happy Hippo]

I woke up this morning with a bad case of dry eye.

 

Ironically, when this happens, the affected eye streams tears, so it it appears anything other than dry.

 

The problem is that when the eye starts to tear up it washes out the slightly oily lubricant I use to control the condition.

 

It was rather uncomfortable, so I retired back to bed having taken on some pain relief and  lot of the lubricating eye drops .

 

All seems better now, although vision is still a bit blurry.

 

The combo of blurry vision and the pain killers preclude me from attempting any work with power tools or driving the car.

 

I don't think that having a head cold and having blocked sinuses helped very much.

 

A  generous helping  of single malt Whisky will be need to be introduced into the repair scheme later on today. 

[Happy Hippo]

[Happy Hippo]

This appears to completely sum up life at the moment:

 

[Mike Bellamy]

2 hours ago, newbryford said:

 

Done.

 

Serious question to answer my curiosity - is there any significance in the different coloured keys ??

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[newbryford]

17 minutes ago, Mike Bellamy said:

 

Serious question to answer my curiosity - is there any significance in the different coloured keys ??

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I think it is related to impaired vision.

[AndyID]

1 hour ago, Mike Bellamy said:

 

Serious question to answer my curiosity - is there any significance in the different coloured keys ??

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The vowels are all yellow (Y can be a vowel too).

[New Haven Neil]

1 hour ago, AndyID said:

The vowels are all yellow (Y can be a vowel too).

 

I did wonder about that - is this one of those modern things?  A Y that identifies as a vowel?

Edited February 8, 2023 by New Haven Neil
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[Compound2632]

1 minute ago, New Haven Neil said:

A Y that identifies as a vowel?

 

Does he?

[Gwiwer]

4 hours ago, polybear said:

 

Add some keys to type in useful words with a single press and you can count this Bear in; let's see now......

LDC

Turdycurses

Piggin' Turdycurses

Tw@t

Cake

Pizza

Oven Chips

Puppers

Deltic......

 

Alt+B = Bumblec**t

Alt+C = C*ckwomble

Alt+D = D*ckhead

Ctrl+U = I have control of you 🤣

[Tony_S]

1 minute ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

I did wonder about that - is this one of those modern things?  A Y that identifies as a vowel?

Apparently some sources mention that y can be considered as a vowel in English  if there are no other vowels in the word., eg my or why.

[AndyID]

15 minutes ago, Tony_S said:

Apparently some sources mention that y can be considered as a vowel in English  if there are no other vowels in the word., eg my or why.

 

Another example is "gym" (not to be confused with "Jim")

[Northmoor]

32 minutes ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

I did wonder about that - is this one of those modern things?  A Y that identifies as a vowel?

Not modern, West of Offa's Dyke "Y" and "W" have identified as vowels for centuries.  I think Offa's Dyke would be given a different name now though.

[br2975]

Something I just found online, and which should be shared.

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"Beaver Lumber Co." by Robert Goeyvaert of Antwerp.

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[bbishop]

1 hour ago, AndyID said:

The vowels are all yellow (Y can be a vowel too).

So can W.  Obviously not a Welsh keyboard.

[bbishop]

On 06/02/2023 at 15:17, Dave Hunt said:

I once scored a try when we got a line out on the opposition’s ten yard line. I got the ball but for some reason the opposition had decided that the guy at the back of the line was the intended target and all turned round. I suddenly found myself with the ball and no-one between me and the try line and even as a No. 8 rather than one of the greyhounds I managed to get there unopposed.

 

Dave

My last try was achieved when the opposition over-tapped a lineout on their five metre line (Rugby had gone all metric by then).  I was already hunting down the scrum half so it was merely a wee diversion and a flop on the ball.  Our fly half suggested I should have picked up the ball and sprinted under the posts.  My response was that with my handling skills, a knock-on was a more likely outcome.   Bill

[Happy Hippo]

26 minutes ago, bbishop said:

 I should have picked up the ball and sprinted under the posts.  

The fly half was oblivious to Front row Rule No 3:

 

No picking up the ball

 

Or Rule No 4:

 

Running and sprinting is expressly prohibited.  Only lumbering is permitted

[SM42]

1 hour ago, Tony_S said:

Apparently some sources mention that y can be considered as a vowel in English  if there are no other vowels in the word., eg my or why.

 

Like system

 

One of those rules like i before e except after c. 

 

The latter rule has apparently been disproved by science 

 

Andy

[AndyID]

50 minutes ago, bbishop said:

So can W.  Obviously not a Welsh keyboard.

 

I refuse to return to Wales. The last time I was there I clonked my bonce three different times. The worst one was from a shop's sun awning that extended over the pavement. The support strut was no higher than five foot nine inches above the pavement. Got me right in the middle of my forehead.

Edited February 8, 2023 by AndyID

[AndyID]

6 minutes ago, SM42 said:

 

Like system

 

One of those rules like i before e except after c. 

 

The latter rule has apparently been disproved by science 

 

Andy

 

That's just weird.