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Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:

Lastpostamorph wrote:

Blue Eyes wrote:

Mistletooth wrote:People who take trollies to busy basket only self checkouts.

Yep. Also, banana splits who take their trollies right to the very exit of the shop car parks so that the wheels lock just so they can have 30 seconds of not carrying their shopping. Lazy, selfish, disgusting banana splits.

I've seen some people just take the trolleys all the way home.

I don’t blame them, they only cost £1 and are useful if you are walking home.

...and the flap on the back of the small ones makes a great BBQ grill.

that is absolutely brilliant

One of the xmas presents I bought my dad (Dave Gilmour live in Pompeii on Bluray) has completely vanished, I gave it to my mum to put under the tree on christmas eve and that was the last anyone saw of it.

I guarantee it'll turn up if I order another copy.

Yulehide wrote:One of the xmas presents I bought my dad (Dave Gilmour live in Pompeii on Bluray) has completely vanished, I gave it to my mum to put under the tree on christmas eve and that was the last anyone saw of it.

I guarantee it'll turn up if I order another copy.

I guess that will cost you some Money to replace

There's this tramp who roams around near my office and he's the most persistent beggar ever. He'll ask you for change, you say you're sorry but you don't have any, then he will follow you begging and begging until you pretty much get back to your office. I hate him. I feel for the homeless and donate to Shelter every month but this guy can get strawberry floated.

Blue Eyes wrote:There's this tramp who roams around near my office and he's the most persistent beggar ever. He'll ask you for change, you say you're sorry but you don't have any, then he will follow you begging and begging until you pretty much get back to your office. I hate him. I feel for the homeless and donate to Shelter every month but this guy can get strawberry floated.

You should confront him and tell him to go home.

Don't make a big issue out of it.

My mate is convinced there's some kind of eastern european begging racquet in Belfast.

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Squinty wrote:My mate is convinced there's some kind of eastern european begging racquet in Belfast.

Bloody eastern Europeans coming over here taking our change! Roll on Brexit, a proper British copper and silver brexit!

*<]:^D wrote: ?

I had the feeling that I had misused that word

Blue Eyes wrote:There's this tramp who roams around near my office and he's the most persistent beggar ever. He'll ask you for change, you say you're sorry but you don't have any, then he will follow you begging and begging until you pretty much get back to your office. I hate him. I feel for the homeless and donate to Shelter every month but this guy can get strawberry floated.

Feed the homeless to the hungry - world’s problems solved.

The iPad advert with that strawberry floating "What's a computer" kid. The kid just comes across as a strawberry floating idiot. Not only does he claim to not know what a computer is, in the year 2017, but he thinks it's a good idea to collapse his iPad case by just picking up the iPad and slamming it down onto a hard surface.

Productivity of future children = 0

Also when stuff goes wrong at least once per day, instead of giving you useful diagnostic information whereby you might actually learn something it will just crash to homescreen repeatedly or die completely. Eat that "computer".

Apple's entirely marketing strategy seems to orbit around not calling it what it is: a strawberry floating PC/computer.

The days of kids generally being "good at computers" is over, I can see there ebig a decline in skills going into the it world as tech has gone very consumer, kids can install an app and stuff but not actually fix a thing.

I think this whole "learn code" thing is good but too late, we have vast numbers of consumers that neither understand or care how anything works.

It's potentially good for this with actual ability as salaries may go up as the market is less flossed by thousands of people that think they can do IT but in reality are strawberry floating idiots.

Green Gecko wrote:Productivity of future children = 0

Also when stuff goes wrong at least once per day, instead of giving you useful diagnostic information whereby you might actually learn something it will just crash to homescreen repeatedly or die completely. Eat that "computer".

Apple's entirely marketing strategy seems to orbit around not calling it what it is: a strawberry floating PC/computer.

It will be in their head their next conquest and one they have to manage or they will start to fail.

They won the "tablet" thing by getting to think iPad not tablet for any tablet device. However the fad has drifted and laptops and pcs are making a come back as people realise that realistically you can't as a "home user" do it all on a tablet.

Apple need people now to think iPad for all computer needs or people will buy windows again and Apple will go into decline again, especially as they make mistake after mistake around software bugs as it just doesn't feel like the focus and attention to detail they had under Jobs is there any more.

Apple's rise to power has, if anything, been a little under-stated. Go back twenty years and your average mass-market tech purchaser would never have considered an Apple product; firstly because they wouldn't have heard of the brand and secondly due to cost.

The translucent coloured iMacs were a turning point; still expensive but with amazing design and marketability. The iPod then became the flag-bearer for the digital music revolution, being the iconic product that raised the profile of Apple and growing to become a mass-market product... even at a relatively high pricing point. The iPhone rose to power as the most desirable branding for a "must have" product; people familiar with the quality of the iPod wanted to have that same experience with a phone. Then the iPad caught the eye by being an excellent example of a new product that arrived at just the right time; from a consumer perspective it was the ultimate option in a new field And, blimey, by this point people were even buying Mac computers, watches and the odd TV box at these high prices!

I can understand the more hardcore tech fan not liking the "walled environments" that Apple build for their products and, yes, pricing can be extortionate. Windows PCs remain the dominant market leader but that is perhaps more due to cost than desirability. It will be hard for Apple to continue turning out successes in a more cost-conscious market but, even with a couple of slips in standards, to me it still feels like their brand is more highly regarded than most in the tech field.

Tl;dr I am not too annoyed by Apple. Bar pricing.

Lastpostamorph wrote:The iPad advert with that strawberry floating "What's a computer" kid. The kid just comes across as a strawberry floating idiot. Not only does he claim to not know what a computer is, in the year 2017, but he thinks it's a good idea to collapse his iPad case by just picking up the iPad and slamming it down onto a hard surface.

I thought it was a girl in that advert.

Lastpostamorph wrote:The iPad advert with that strawberry floating "What's a computer" kid. The kid just comes across as a strawberry floating idiot. Not only does he claim to not know what a computer is, in the year 2017, but he thinks it's a good idea to collapse his iPad case by just picking up the iPad and slamming it down onto a hard surface.

That’s a girl, Laga.

Ah whatever, still an annoying little bastard.