@The_Eyes_Of_A_Painter - Thank you. For a while, I was thinking of photoshopping the last NO to a yes.
LOL
Excellent!
Hahaha, cute!
LOL!!!
Creative thinking!
Some comic had a rant about the very presence of the labeling. Can’t do it justice, but essentially, if the light’s on you know it, and if not, you can’t read the ‘OFF’ Assuming this is an existing wall-mount, it does say something about English not being as universally understood as often claimed. Set ‘em all to ‘FFO’ , save electricity.
Hmmm… I believe your bangladesh sense of humor is new food for the table. Are you muslim? Have you met fabolousclown?
@whyzat - Accidental, actually. Charging my cellphone one day, I noticed the upside down multiplug looked like an upset face.
@jsolberg - Oh it’s a multiplug-thing. It just hit me one day that upside down, they look like upset faces, accompanied by NO. Although, speaking of FFO, it was something of an educational experience keeping track of how to turn off some of the privacy violating “features” that are enabled by default at Facebook.
If you want a lack of understanding of English, you have to see the Elevators, locally known as “Lifts” here. Some follow the British convention of calling the second story “First Floor” where as others follow the American convention of calling it “Second Floor”. Now a days, folks just say “Press 5 on the lift”, rather than go into a lengthy discussion about whether the fifth floor is really the fifth floor & whatnot.
@RulerofMasons - Thank you. I believe the answers are a “Yes” for the first question, and “I’ve read a few posts” for the second question.
@Lakakalo - I ran into the same, and worse yesterday, searching for a dentist in extremis. His sign in the lobby says ‘Kumah Aleph’ (floor ‘A’. The lift lists C-1-2-3-4. Gave up, did two flights of stairs. There’s the office, under a sign saying ‘Second Floor’. I still have no idea, forget to look out the window to gauge my chances with defenestration. The Israeli light switches I install have no arrow whatsoever to inform me as to on or off. I therefore have to power up the circuit with the switch dangling, check it in person, then dick with the also-maddening friction-fit screws. How can a technically cutting-edge country refuse to use proven, inexpensive, and durable accessories from, you know, a real country like the US? We pay 5X here, even before the 3X mounting time, for a single-outlet(!) and one out of three are broken before you open the baggie.
But…I don’t like to hear “No”. HUGS!
@jsolberg - Second floor is “Floor A”? Come to think of it, two flights would take you to what would, according to American standards, be the third floor. Unless there’s some differing standard for what constitutes a flight of stairs. And… if er… it’s any consolation around our apartment, we have to memorize which switches work, which ones don’t, which ones are set in reverse (the on position actually turns it off & vice versa)
@AdamsWomanFell - If it’s any consolation, er… Felix… you’re not hearing it. You’re reading it.
NO, means downtime- useful for organizing priorities for the next time “Yes” appears.
hey something’s broken here (or my browser?) I click ‘reply’ and get redirected to the home page/5 posts. Happened 3 times in a row. Wonder if you or anyone else noticed this.
@jsolberg - It might be the browser…? I’ve been replying to folks left & right. Including on this post, as of this reply. Seems to be working fine here.
@Lakakalo - Ok, it’s fixed now. (which implies that it was broken, which I haven’t proven. Anyway, happy ending, whew.
Just checked your source code here, since page-loads hang on {player.vimeo.com and b.scorecardresearch.com. The latter is a browser-history and key-stroke script, if I understand correctly, and maybe you don’t want it living here. Other than that, the usual meebo dreck, which I killed in my Hosts file, and Snap, in the background for now.
hahaha
@jsolberg - This page? I looked up the source code. Did a search for b.scorecardsearch.com & couldn’t find anything.
@Lakakalo - I’m a bit over my head, but I do see it hanging in the task-bar, and only here, no other sites. Supposedly called by a technorati script, which is in turn evoked by someone else. Maybe meebo. I do think it’s specific to your site, riding on an add-on. Must be tagged nonessential, cuz the page loads and works fine. I’ll keep learning. It’s not my area, fer shure.
NO! NO! NO!
I like how you followed a NO-NO-NO post with a “Si” post
haha…. well, if you really must look at it at that way.
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Good one !
@The_Eyes_Of_A_Painter - Thank you. For a while, I was thinking of photoshopping the last NO to a yes.
LOL
Excellent!
Hahaha, cute!
LOL!!!
Creative thinking!
Some comic had a rant about the very presence of the labeling. Can’t do it justice, but essentially, if the light’s on you know it, and if not, you can’t read the ‘OFF’
Assuming this is an existing wall-mount, it does say something about English not being as universally understood as often claimed.
Set ‘em all to ‘FFO’ , save electricity.
Hmmm… I believe your bangladesh sense of humor is new food for the table. Are you muslim? Have you met fabolousclown?
@whyzat - Accidental, actually. Charging my cellphone one day, I noticed the upside down multiplug looked like an upset face.
@jsolberg - Oh it’s a multiplug-thing. It just hit me one day that upside down, they look like upset faces, accompanied by NO. Although, speaking of FFO, it was something of an educational experience keeping track of how to turn off some of the privacy violating “features” that are enabled by default at Facebook.
If you want a lack of understanding of English, you have to see the Elevators, locally known as “Lifts” here. Some follow the British convention of calling the second story “First Floor” where as others follow the American convention of calling it “Second Floor”. Now a days, folks just say “Press 5 on the lift”, rather than go into a lengthy discussion about whether the fifth floor is really the fifth floor & whatnot.
@RulerofMasons - Thank you. I believe the answers are a “Yes” for the first question, and “I’ve read a few posts” for the second question.
@Lakakalo - I ran into the same, and worse yesterday, searching for a dentist in extremis. His sign in the lobby says ‘Kumah Aleph’ (floor ‘A’. The lift lists C-1-2-3-4. Gave up, did two flights of stairs. There’s the office, under a sign saying ‘Second Floor’. I still have no idea, forget to look out the window to gauge my chances with defenestration.
The Israeli light switches I install have no arrow whatsoever to inform me as to on or off. I therefore have to power up the circuit with the switch dangling, check it in person, then dick with the also-maddening friction-fit screws.
How can a technically cutting-edge country refuse to use proven, inexpensive, and durable accessories from, you know, a real country like the US? We pay 5X here, even before the 3X mounting time, for a single-outlet(!) and one out of three are broken before you open the baggie.
But…I don’t like to hear “No”.
HUGS!
@jsolberg - Second floor is “Floor A”? Come to think of it, two flights would take you to what would, according to American standards, be the third floor. Unless there’s some differing standard for what constitutes a flight of stairs.
And… if er… it’s any consolation around our apartment, we have to memorize which switches work, which ones don’t, which ones are set in reverse (the on position actually turns it off & vice versa)
@AdamsWomanFell - If it’s any consolation, er… Felix… you’re not hearing it. You’re reading it.
NO, means downtime- useful for organizing priorities for the next time “Yes” appears.
lol
@Lakakalo - Ha, true!
hey something’s broken here (or my browser?) I click ‘reply’ and get redirected to the home page/5 posts. Happened 3 times in a row. Wonder if you or anyone else noticed this.
@jsolberg - It might be the browser…? I’ve been replying to folks left & right. Including on this post, as of this reply. Seems to be working fine here.
@Lakakalo - Ok, it’s fixed now. (which implies that it was broken, which I haven’t proven. Anyway, happy ending, whew.
Just checked your source code here, since page-loads hang on {player.vimeo.com and b.scorecardresearch.com. The latter is a browser-history and key-stroke script, if I understand correctly, and maybe you don’t want it living here. Other than that, the usual meebo dreck, which I killed in my Hosts file, and Snap, in the background for now.
@jsolberg - This page? I looked up the source code. Did a search for b.scorecardsearch.com & couldn’t find anything.
@Lakakalo - I’m a bit over my head, but I do see it hanging in the task-bar, and only here, no other sites. Supposedly called by a technorati script, which is in turn evoked by someone else. Maybe meebo. I do think it’s specific to your site, riding on an add-on. Must be tagged nonessential, cuz the page loads and works fine. I’ll keep learning. It’s not my area, fer shure.
NO! NO! NO!
I like how you followed a NO-NO-NO post with a “Si” post
haha…. well, if you really must look at it at that way.
@McScarry - Yessir.
this is what i’d do with it….Hit delete!