Random Thoughts....

"You now need to create a Yahoo account to continue using Flickr."

NOPE

Shame, it was a good site.
 
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AiR said:
"You now need to create a Yahoo account to continue using Flickr."

NOPE

Shame, it was a good site.
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Same applied to youtube 3 years ago: "You will no longer be able to sign in to YouTube without a Google Account."

Well, one youtube-uploader less didn't make much difference I guess...
 
Except Googles services are excellent while Yahoos are not. I spend maybe ten minutes a month on Flickr, hours on Youtube. The issue here is that Google Login (which is another great thing with Google) was working fine on Flickr for years. Until Yahoo discovered that they really don't have a userbase (even after recycling peoples mail) and in desperation disabled third party logins.
 
Shirahime said:
Getting incredibly irritated by the ex now. Fucker's got money to go buy a PS3 BUT still hasn't sent back the Watch_Dogs dedsec tshirt I imported that he took with him thinking it was one of his shirts, nor has he sent me the money he owes me.
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Depending on how much dealing with him annoys you (and how much money he owes you) it might be better to let it rest, just to have that sucker out of your life.
 
Dr_Grip said:
Depending on how much dealing with him annoys you (and how much money he owes you) it might be better to let it rest, just to have that sucker out of your life.
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That thought did occur. And yes he annoyed me to no end an' I'm glad he's gone now 'cause I'm back to me usual mad, peculiar self an' I'm so much happier. It cost a bit of money to get the shirt of mine over from Canada but there's something else in the same store that I want so I might just order another one. He owes me about 60 quid though. I wouldn't mind as much if it were a tenner or 20 quid, but 60 quid is just over half me standard weekly wage.

And you're being too kind with the word "sucker." I can think of much more stronger words that were practically made for him.
 
lol, I'm always captain awkward when I'm just walking about and some random person says something to me. Run into person from a coffee shop I sometimes go to, don't recognize her and I thought she was like going to ask me for directions or something? Uhh, no, just saying hi... >_> Hrmph, my brain hurts.

also somehow my youtube recommendations (and by somehow I mean because I've been watching a random collection of documentary-ish things) brought me to watching some bullshit show about dieting. Why peeps gotta be ignorant? Because of unscientific bullshit like that. Also stones are a fucking annoying measurement. Also why am I getting french (canadian) ads on youtube again?


edit: I was playing Hanabi today, it's kind of like coop solitaire with 5 (or 6) suits of 5 and you don't know what cards you're holding, you look at the back of your cards and you tell each other clues about what you're holding. Anyways, just for a larf after dealing cards I was like "So I have... this is a 5, this is a blue, this is a rainbow [we weren't playing with rainbow cards because they're dumb so I was just being silly], and this...... is a green 3." Everyone else was completely stunned. I was right except for the rainbow bit because that had 0 chance of being true. WHAT THE HELL. And not even that I got a number and a color right, but then I got an exact card right. If I did this right, there's a 4% chance of that happening. Completely random guesses. Then we reshuffled the deck, lol. I then proceeded to take dumb chances and get them all right except one when we played. My luck is outrageous. We won though, perfect game!
 
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You mean the only system that makes any sense? :p

I'm a huge Anglophile and a secret American, but even I realize the whole feet/thumbs/whatever thing is a clusterfuck :p
 
(deleted my last post, because apparently I'm so far removed from the imperial system that I forgot how it worked. :|)

Anyways, 14 is still an arbitrary number that bears no convenience whatsoever. :p
 
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Cobol74 said:
Stones are 14lbs, why dis the stone?

Simple calculation to convert to lbs now is it not?

Its them pesky Kilos I don't get. ...
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I do a lot of cooking an' baking an' I've always used lbs an' oz. I can't get me head round using kilos or kg in a recipe it really buggers up me train of thought. Besides I'm convinced a cake made using lbs an' oz tastes better.
 
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No she isn't. Many traditional cake recipes have been perfected over the years using imperial units. Piss about converting to Napoleonic nonsense buggers up the proportions. And being bilingual with weights and measures can be useful.
 
Exactly. You either stick with one or t'other especially in baking an' I was taught to bake using Imperial. Metric units to me are used when the utmost accuracy is needed. I'm baking cheese sables for my bosses later an' I'm dreading it, the recipe is all metric and none of it will look right when I'm making them.
 
Way to go polishing up your image, Ice... :rolleyes:

You still tell people how big the screen of your PC/notebook/smartphone is in inches and not in cm as the EU-law stipulates, do you? Why is that? Well, because you used inches for measuring the screen size all your life. Changing such an omnipresent measurement is very hard because you are used to count that way.

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Metric units to me are used when the utmost accuracy is needed.
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That's why every german uses metric units. :p
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Eye-Q said:
Way to go polishing up your image, Ice... :rolleyes:

You still tell people how big the screen of your PC/notebook/smartphone is in inches and not in cm as the EU-law stipulates, do you? Why is that? Well, because you used inches for measuring the screen size all your life. Changing such an omnipresent measurement is very hard because you are used to count that way.
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Agreed, when talking to an Imperial you might be using imperial units, but in your head you just WILL keep doing the math, even though an inch might be just as easily to visualize and think of as a cm, your brain gets hardwired that way in early life.

I'm old enough to have been working with money in pre-Euro times, mostly buying and selling dinosaurs, and until the end of my days I will be counting everything in Belgian Franks.....
 
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So I came home from my trip to Zandvoort and i look like a lobster
 
Cowboy said:
I'm old enough to have been working with money in pre-Euro times, mostly buying and selling dinosaurs, and until the end of my days I will be counting everything in Belgian Franks.....
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Ah, you're one of those sales reps who sold me that defective dinosaur and refused to take it back because I tinkered with it to make it going again! :shakefist:




:p Nah, just kidding, I tried to give back my defective one which I broke before I bought the working one from you...


But you're right, I still find myself converting Euros to DM. Today I bought a bouquet of flowers for my sister's birthday (not the only present, just additional ;) ) for 10 Euros and I was surprised how small a bouquet for 19,56 DM can be...
 
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