Pet peeves, niggles and minor annoyances

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Username Taken wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 4:12 pm
ItWasntMe wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 10:23 am
Bongmab69 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 24, 2023 8:51 am
ItWasntMe wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 9:00 pm
John Bingham wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 8:41 pm Kind of dumb. Most laptops are PCs anyway.
Personal computers? Which ones aren't?
Is my Commodore 64 a PC ???
Is it a laptop?
The 1964 Holden Commodore was well ahead of its time.
I digress. The PC is a machine intended to process tasks for an individual. But I was commenting on laptops specifically as was John B.
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I was actually thinking there were laptop devices that weren't changing PCs at all. Like some sort of machine the military use to launch missiles or that nuclear football that presidents carry around with them.
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John Bingham wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 8:33 pm I was actually thinking there were laptop devices that weren't changing PCs at all. Like some sort of machine the military use to launch missiles or that nuclear football that presidents carry around with them.
Very creative Sir!

But a laptop or a portable computer is really just short for a PC that's intended to move around.

There are portable platforms for launching missiles I'm sure but that's a different type of device as far as I know.
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ItWasntMe wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 8:54 pm

There are portable platforms for launching missiles I'm sure but that's a different type of device as far as I know.
Sure, but it could feasibly be called a laptop if it has a screen and buttons and a hinge? Especially if it can only blow things up and you can't play games on it or look at TikTok videos?
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John Bingham wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 9:44 pm
ItWasntMe wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 8:54 pm

There are portable platforms for launching missiles I'm sure but that's a different type of device as far as I know.
Sure, but it could feasibly be called a laptop if it has a screen and buttons and a hinge? Especially if it can only blow things up and you can't play games on it or look at TikTok videos?
Sure, it could be a laptop device :beer3:
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Username Taken wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 5:37 pm Definitely sick of Black Friday every year, and everyone jumping on the super sale band-wagon.

About time we gave Jeff Bozo a one way ticket to Mars.
Uh ... it's "Friday of Color" ... get with the program sir.

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Gutless young Western middle class snits on holiday... Women were A LOT cooler when I was a little bit younger...
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Too many people with pet dogs and cats... Burn them all. I'm allergic, lol ......
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orichá wrote: ↑Sun Nov 26, 2023 8:03 pm Gutless young Western middle class snits on holiday... Women were A LOT cooler when I was a little bit younger...
I've been in a couple of heavily touristed places recently and have noticed the same. Weird sideways looks from tourists. Luckily I just completely blank them out, much like the stares of peasants, as I move about.
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Yerg wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 5:34 pm
Freightdog wrote: ↑Thu Nov 23, 2023 5:23 pm Christmas. (Topical)
TV (UK) is increasingly focused on Christmas shite from sometime in September, along with supermarket aisles being reorganised for displays of stuff related. Christmas seems to end around spring time…

Where upon Easter takes over for several months…

And Black Friday.
(Black Fridays matter!)
Ads start sometime around Monday, and peter out around sometime near Saturday.
I have stopped going to my local hostelry since the beginning of November, because they are playing Christmas music. Hate it!!
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