The All New Gripes Thread

[Archive4]

Agreed, SP: They are trying to sound knowledgeable but failing miserably.

But I havn´t posted here yet!

 

[battenfan]

That's a misconception of how fractional reserve banking works. They're lending ~85% of your deposit and keeping a fraction at hand as not all customers wants to withdraw their money at the same time.

 

[hairybadger]

That's a misconception of how fractional reserve banking works. They're lending ~85% of your deposit and keeping a fraction at hand as not all customers wants to withdraw their money at the same time.

OK - but the "fractional reserve" refers to the original deposit and doesn't prevent the bank lending out the 85% multiple times.

 

[Lazarus]

Biscuits.

Why do shelf-stackers take great delight in hurling boxes of biscuits around wth g a y abandon?

I can guarantee that virtually every packet I buy, however carefully chosen, has at least ten per cent of the contents broken.

 

[Archive4]

What do you expect, when you buy h o b n o b s, l i t t l e g e m s and c u s t a r d c r e a m s ?

 

[Lazarus]

Try typing the stammered word .... Forum software i n t e r v e n es

 

[Lazarus]

Actually, that is a gripe of itself.

Why the hell should I be prevented from using, in context, a word that has long standing meaning other than one of a s e x u a l nature?

Technology should serve us, not rule us!

 

[Archive4]

It never has allowed the double space, unless of course you interrupt the sequence by using an alternative keyboard or accent marks!

T h e s t a m m e r e d w o r d , w i t h o u t i n t e r v e n t i o n

 

[Archive4]

Go on, use the word with gäy abandon, should not be a problem!

Spell it with an e!

Gaye abandon will work ok!

 

[Lazarus]

And another thing.

Apropos of not a lot, I noticed the acronym LBGTQ a couple of days ago and wondered what the Q meant.

Check it out with your Search Engine of choice.

What comes around goes around.

 

[Archive4]

Well I for one have always loved binary, it drives the whole electronic world!
Also stops the use of some words, such as gäy, lesbiän, bisexuäl, tränsgender and of course, binäry!

 

[Archive4]

Alternatively, we could make all posts in Boolean!

 

[Lazarus]

Alternatively, we could make all posts in Boolean!

I thought yours already were?

 

[Lazarus]

Or Not.

It's all a little fuzzy.

 

[Archive4]

I also speak Barbary and Marmoset, if that helps

 

[sonnetpete]

I also speak Barbary and Marmoset, if that helps

Right little monkey, aren't you?

 

[PaulR]

Alternatively, we could make all posts in Boolean!

Some years ago I read about a new college/university which had put appropriate labels to doors of the various departments. Underneath that was a sliding window showing whether the room was empty or occupied.

In the mathematics department there was a door with a nameplate "Boolean Mathematics - Occupied" and underneath that a rotatable arrow which could be turned from "True" to "False" as required.

Well, it tickled my sense of humour.

 

[hairybadger]

In the mathematics department there was a door with a nameplate "Boolean Mathematics - Occupied" and underneath that a rotatable arrow which could be turned from "True" to "False" as required.

In Java the class "Boolean" (but not the primitive "boolean") has three states - true, false and null (not defined)

 

[PaulR]

I've always preferred the primitive version of everything...

 

[Channel Hopper]

Apropos of not a lot, I noticed the acronym LBGTQ a couple of days ago and wondered what the Q meant
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covert hobnobbers ?