Off Topic for Sep 19

Hi Folks

Hope I've not jumped the gun, but it's 10:30 Saturday evening here, and I don't see an off topic thread for this weekend.

Well here's hoping this one is OK.

Things that get up your nose.

I'll post a couple about some of the posters here, but I don't intend this to be 'Knock the regular posters' thread. It for anything which gets up your nose. With hopefully, where appropriate, some constructive content.

Things that get up my nose.

Posters who reply to new, or very recently new posters, without any form of greeting, or gentle approach.

The poor posters come here looking for some help, most posters do the right thing but there are a few who give a terse comment about searching for the topic, posting on wrong boards or the grand-daddy of them all, a one line link to another thread or worse, a google search.

The later two are just as bad, IMO, for replys to any members.

Phew, got that off my chest, feel much better now. :p

The constructive bit I would hope is obvious in this case. :D BF

sup bigfred,

I agree with you completely. Although I would like to stress one point. I am the type of person that doesnt normally greet on respose to post. But I normally feel it is not needed as these ppl are awaiting a respose and could care less if someone says hi!! :)

Hi Fred

I agree with what you are saying but sometimes even to help others you have to do a bit of research yourself and that's when good old google comes into play.

It's nice to greet people with a Hi, Hello or something similar.

Nothing really gets up my nose.

I just wish people would respond to their posts because I would like to know the outcome, especially when the problem has been solved.

And

I don't like blunt, rude or sarcastic comments but I do love the subtle humour you find her on Vdr.

I'm proud to be associated with such a happy and helpful community.


Got that off my chest and it didn't hurt one bit.

PS Can't work out what IMO is, my mind is a blank, what is it?

IMO, short for in my opinion, morning TJ & BF, yup it's still morning in the good old US. BJ ;)

If I am in a hurry, getting to work for example , a link maybe all I have time for. Been known to scramble a post or 4 for that reason. ;)

8:24 Am PDT, yep Saturday morning. :D

Good Morning BJ

Yep it's morning here now also, Sunday morning. :cool: Hi to you also TJ, How's life in the old country? Would love to be back there and taking a trip down the road from Cheshire and through the Cotswolds and all that, could even drop into a pub for a drop of scrumpie or a pork pie or something, could even make it to Bristol for the night.

I agree that most of the time this site is very friendly, some lovely humor. It does make it a pleasure when posters come back and advise if something works, or what other things they found.

I guess those you never hear from could also fit into the "gets up my nose theme" but not really, it's just a bonus when they do come back.

Hi to you too Tang, never been to Florida, one day perhaps.

I guess another one for the "up my nose" could be posters who give no indication where they are. I supose if they wish to remain anonomous thats OK too. But for me, having travelled extensivly it's nice to think of the place while posting the reply.

Well off to bed. CU ;) BF

Well dang bigjohn, no hey tangz morning how are ya? heh jk

My biggest peeve are people taking over other people's threads. :mad: It can get really confusing! Recently I was trying to help a relatively new poster and another person took over the thread posting question after question to the point that the poor slob I was trying to help in the first place was feeling ignored! :mad: In the end the mess was straightened out by our great admin but by that point niether person looking for help got any they simply gave up posting back.

Great topic BTW BigFred! Could be a nice launch pad to retool ettiquette for this board. :D

Hi to one and all from the glorious Heart of Cheshire :D

I know what you mean Calpitor it can be extremely irritating when people hijack threads and lead them completely off topic.:rolleyes: :D


BTW Have you seen this Accused AOL phisher spammed the FBI seems she tried it on the wrong guy.

Well,

In the UK it's now what we call 'Tea time' (Saturday) and therefore good evening to all from the uk.

Nice topic Fred and I agree with Calpitor about the ettiquette theme.

Got to go now, wife nagging, off to a wedding reception in the heart of Cheshire.

Hey Fred I bet you miss all of the British ales, I'll be sampling a few tonight.

'Cheers' as they say.

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Originally posted by BigFred
Good Morning BJ

Yep it's morning here now also, Sunday morning. :cool: Hi to you also TJ, How's life in the old country? Would love to be back there and taking a trip down the road from Cheshire and through the Cotswolds and all that, could even drop into a pub for a drop of scrumpie or a pork pie or something, could even make it to Bristol for the night.
BF

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Have one for me TJ I`ll be slaving away at work on 12 hour nights in a couple of hours so mine will have to stay in the pumps.
;)

my "up the nose" same as most here. Ok, I admit I don't always say hi to the person, but I have no excuse. :(

Most posters aren't interested in carrying on a freindly conversation, all they want are answers. But what does erk me is someone coming in and posting a way out in space bit of humor where we are trying to help someone in need. A little uncouth of them to say the least.

And the other problem of someone hijacking a thread. Posting their question in the others post. err....:D

One last one. Slammers. If you have something to say not related to the thread, post a PM. Never reply in anger to anyone in a thread. It's just not kosher.

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Originally posted by TangZ
Well dang bigjohn, no hey tangz morning how are ya? heh jk

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Sorry TangZ, morning will be over here in AZ in fifteen minutes, I came in to wish you & all the fine family members here at VDR a great afternoon, see that way I dont miss anyone. BTW I revamped the tips for all member announcement at the top of each forum page. Helpful words if everyone would just read it. Thanks to all of you, you make VDR the great place it is today. :D BJ

I don't see NO HARM in asking another question in somone elses post! as long as the post are related!!!
It's called Hijacking your post, and it is Legal too! :D

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Originally posted by OilPatch197
I don't see NO HARM in asking another question in somone elses post! as long as the post are related!!!
It's called Hijacking your post, and it is Legal too! :D

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OilPatch197, whether it's legal or not, it is something that we do not appreciate around here, generally it means that someone is too lazy to start thier own post & when it occurs it takes away from what the original poster is trying to fix & causes confusion. BJ

PS: I did notice the smiley face, hoping that you weren't serious.

Hi,to everone and especially to BF hope those Townsville OConnors took good care of you. Well I have reacted and included my location for the first time , now if the Man comes looking for me I will blame you.:)
My only concern is with thread starters who do not respond, sometimes it takes quite a bit of research to come up with answers only to discover no response.
One other is to do with the nature of the www I can answer a thread here in the morning and then have to go to work and be unable to respond for some hours, bothers me that people may think we have abandoned them. Good to see others stepping in, I appreciate it and try to do likewise.

OK My pet peeve. When a poster asks a question, the first reply is to go in and edit the registry. Even if there are other solutions. Not all people have enough expertise with computers to go near the registry. The users level of knowledge should be determined first, or explore other avenues to fix the problem.

Just my 2 cents worth. :)

:D Carefull Oilpatch you could be "way out there in space" and might incur a nasty PM. :D

OOPS! Did i just slam someone? ;)

Hmmm, about the registry thing. If everyone understood that....unless they do something other then what we tell them to do in the registry....they will be fine. I think Microsoft just wants everyone to BELIEVE they will mess there system up if the jack with it. its all a conspiricy man...im tellin ya. I have done PLENTY to my registry and nothing has happend to my pc....(other then what i wanted to happen)

Sooo, anyone Eat Pizza Tonight? :D :D :D

Just Kidding! :o

Yeah, I dislike the first thing folks tell you is...

Update your Virus scanner(and RUN the freaking thing)
Update your Patches! :mad:
Reinstall Windows!!!! :mad:

I've also don't like answering the SAME question in 2 forums! talk about confusion! :confused:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...2/fb082520.jpg


OK ZIS TRED HAS BEEN HIJACKED BY ZE LIBERATION UNDER DEMOCRACY IN TOMAHACHI ENDOVIA SOCIETY [LUDITES].
STEP AWAY FROM YER KEYBOARDS AND MOVE TO ZE BACK OF DE FORUM,DONT ANYBODY DO NUTHIN STUPID.
YOU MODERATORS KEEP YER HANDS IN YER POCKETS IVE GOTAN ITCHY TRIGGER FINGER JUST WAITIN TO SCRATCH.


Dont you just hate it when somebody types in Caps lock :rolleyes: :D

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Originally posted by 104456
Dont you just hate it when somebody types in Caps lock :rolleyes: :D

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Dude you beat me to it.

I had a very interesting couple of back and forths with Lance1 the other day in regards to this and he told me I was being thin skinned.

In fact he claimed anyone who had a problem with caps wass being thing skinned.

So... get on over to that thread and back me up.....here

Just kidding.

BTW Good substitute time of day to everyone out there in VDr land.


Oh and sometimes as Train says, posting the link to the results of a google search is the best that can be done in the short term.

http://www.lifestyle-movement.org.uk...ics/google.gif

Its all down to etiquette its nothing to do with dermatology its just plain rude sometimes and a gentle reminder that this is an English text based medium with all its quaint foibles that we use does not go amiss [neither would a spull checker sometimes :D].

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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ad%22+shouting

NOW THIS REALLY IS THE LIMIT,I have long believed that Douglas Adams gave us the answer 42 (as so too does BF) now some new Guru (104456) mentions this fellow Google who tells ALL in three seconds. NOW THAT IS SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT:D

At the insistent request of NIX :rolleyes: :D

The many meanings of life according to google

And flattery will get you everywhere jenae :cool:

Disagreeable though they are, I'd rather put up with all caps any day rather than posts which are all lower case with no punctuation of any kind - that's what I call difficult to read.

My other pet hate is when text message abbreviations are used in posts, it's not as if typing on a proper keyboard is that difficult, or that there's a limit of 160 characters per post! U no who u r m8s :D

who me, spks? I don no wha u tlkin bout. cuz im 4eva typin corect puncutation. an b-leve me. i doe no ho tospeel!

:D

Very eloquently put TangZ :D :D :D

capsaresuposedtomeanyouryellingreallyloudandshoutingwhereeveryonecanhearyousoiknowofafewpeopleonothersitesthatjustusecapsanditrytotellthemnottousecapsBUTITDOESNTTURNOUTTHATWAYDOESITTHOIDRATHERUSECAPSCAUSEYOUCANSEETHEMBETTER

:rolleyes:

As for spelling.

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waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is
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biran fguiers it out aynawy.

Thanks Mawil! I'll pass this nugget of wisdom along to my son's teacher in an argument over how unfair it is to dock marks on his essays! Something tells me it won't get me very far. :) To be honest mispelled words and poor grammar in posts doesn't bother me too much. I just tell myself that not everyone who uses this board has English as a first language. Again that should be obvious to most. After all the great majority here are American. :D

Plus whose english are we using British, American, Australian - other ?

Colour - Color - same word different spelling in different countries.

Precisely my point Nix but as you were quick to point out British and Australian as differing factions I have been lead to believe both were one in the same. Perhaps it is our close proximatey to the U.S. but it is generally accepted as fact that with the exception of the Americans and genreal colloquialisms eg. spanner (wrench), lift (elevator), lorrie (truck) the rest of the world uses the Queen's English. Am I wrong? If I am I would be very intested to know how Kiwi English is so different from Canuckspeak.

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Originally posted by Calpitor
If I am I would be very intested to know how Kiwi English is so different from Canuckspeak.

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Well for a start Kiwi English is New Zealand not Australia.

I think we do use the Queen's english - so to speak - but I know that if you look in most spell checkers there is an option to pick english Australian vs english British or something else.

Maybe MS just think we talk in a different language because of our weird accents.

Although having said that some examples I can think of between Britain and Australia:

Ice Lolly (Ice Block), Push Chair (Pram), Sweets (Lollies), Wendy House (Cubby \ Play House).

I was born in England and moved to Australia when I was 11, every now and again I'll come out with something - English - and my wife will just laugh and say "you pom's" and your funny expressions.

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capsaresuposedtomeanyouryellingreallyloudandshouti
ngwhereeveryonecanhearyousoiknowofafewpeopleonothe
rsitesthatjustusecapsanditrytotellthemnottousecaps
BUTITDOESNTTURNOUTTHATWAYDOESITTHOIDRATHERUSECAPSC
AUSEYOUCANSEETHEMBETTER

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Now this post by OilPatch197 is hands-down the most irritating post I have ever had the pleasure of reading!!

Thank you OilPatch197, you win first prize... :cool:

Swimming Trunks / Bathers (Cossies, Speedos, Sluggos)

Woods, Forests, Countryside (The Bush)

Koala Bears (Koalas)

Friend (Mate)

Hello (G'day)

Good Morning (G'Day)

Golly Gee (Strewth) - pronounced strooth

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:confused: :rolleyes: :eek:

Now we're just getting silly

Hi,
How about posts that waste bandwidth .
Someone replies to a question and then a second person just criticizes the reply but does not offer anything more than the first.