| veronikkamarrz
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You bother because you love us, and can't live without us!lol;) I would be very sad if you weren't here, and I know I'm one of 'millions' who feel that way.
Reply #1821. Nov 12 10, 5:19 PM
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satguru 
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Phew, glad you're in again. The problem was fixed minutes after I put it in feedback so whoever told me they'd been locked out are now back. It does feel so much better after you've been unable to get in though, I've had days with no cable and know just what it's like.
Reply #1822. Nov 12 10, 5:35 PM
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| lesley153
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VM, that may be true - but I exist in the world outside FT too. You know that!
Thanks, David. So a lot of FT regulars were locked out, and NOBODY realised till you told them? Is that why I was locked out for more than 40 hours, because the software didn't flag a whole load of banned IP addresses? It sort of explains why a two-minute job took nearly two days. *sigh* |
Reply #1823. Nov 12 10, 5:41 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Yes, I know that...But still.
Reply #1824. Nov 12 10, 5:44 PM
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| lesley153
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| But still... my request for an explanation, for both the incident and the delay, was deleted. Of course an apology must be out of the question - we should simply be grateful than we can get back in. Whoopee. |
Reply #1825. Nov 12 10, 5:58 PM
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| Lochalsh
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but I exist in the world outside FT too.
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Yes, you do, and I'm glad to see you're feeling healthy enough to be more active in that world. I enjoy you here, but I value more your participation in your daily, 3-D life!
Bet you need a hug? ((((((((((((Lesley)))))))))))
Reply #1826. Nov 12 10, 6:22 PM
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| lesley153
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Thank you, thank you!
For as long as I can remember, I've taken the lift up to the footbridge to cross to other platforms in Bedford railway station, and I've been walking more and more slowly, till I just gave up trying to walk. Yesterday I climbed the stairs to the footbridge in the railway station without stopping, and walked round with Jonathan at his pace, and it was a joy.
I did get a few hugs yesterday, which was nice. :) But never enough!
(((((()))))) |
Reply #1827. Nov 12 10, 7:19 PM
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satguru
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I only know three people officially locked out but two did contact me to ask the admin to fix it. I think the time it took was to discover what was actually causing it rather than getting round to fixing it, but as only Terry was able to tinker around it had to go to the top before it could be done. I posted in feedback to make sure the word got out in case other people had received messages as well and see it was being taken care of.
Whatever I used to do here is now part of me whatever the badge says...
Reply #1828. Nov 12 10, 8:33 PM
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| lesley153
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Oh dear - you're trapped!
Thank you for explaining why it took so long. (I hope admin are suitably grateful that you're doing their work for them.) |
Reply #1829. Nov 12 10, 9:40 PM
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garrysouders
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Good morning to everyone, my computer has been on the fritz and I have been out of pocket, good to hear all of your voices again.
Reply #1830. Nov 13 10, 8:33 AM
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honeybee4
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Good morning Garry. Nice to have you back.
Reply #1831. Nov 13 10, 8:37 AM
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| lesley153
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And lovely to hear yours too. I just assumed you hadn't been around much because you have a life.
I like that expression on the fritz. I hadn't heard it before, but suspected that it came from the same mind-set as Jerry Built, describing a rickety building made by second-rate workmen, with shoddy materials.
So I looked at a few online dictionaries, and they all agreed on one thing: that these two terms have no connection whatsoever with the colloquial words for the Germans. They are both defined, with origin unknown. |
Reply #1832. Nov 13 10, 9:45 AM
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| lesley153
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| David, I didn't realise that it was "only" three - I thought it was lots! |
Reply #1833. Nov 13 10, 9:46 AM
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| Lochalsh
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I'm not sure--and I don't have time for once to look it up--but I think there's a connection between "jury-rigged" and "Jerry-built," with an attendant discombobulation of vowel sounds. :)
Reply #1834. Nov 13 10, 9:51 AM
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| lesley153
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| Ooh I did see that in one of the thingies I looked at, but the writers said they'd have expected to see mixtures, like jerry-rigged and jury-built, but they didn't, so they cast doubt on that theory. |
Reply #1835. Nov 13 10, 9:55 AM
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garrysouders
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My dad used the term on the fritz often, he said he heard it while he was in the navy during WW11.
Reply #1836. Nov 13 10, 10:05 AM
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| Lochalsh
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Here's a discussion of the term, though I don't know how tenable the guy's theories are:
 http://tinyurl.com/d5cqzv
I have no way with language: I'm the one who wondered for the longest time what the "tin yurl" in a link meant. :(
Reply #1837. Nov 13 10, 10:34 AM
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satguru
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Only three I knew about, but if you go on the view two of them contacted me directly and one a specific admin with exactly the same problem it would have been likely we were the only two people to get messages. It may have been an incredible coincidence but then again...
Reply #1838. Nov 13 10, 11:07 AM
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| lesley153
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Lochalsh, the website is great fun, but he doesn't seem to be advancing any theories with any degree of enthusiasm. Tin yurl I like. :)
David, mad coincidences do happen! but the subject appears to be taboo, so we may never know. No, there's no censorship in FT...
Judy, thank you for the link. I defined it nicely, and added a new definition: intoxicated! It also led me to Jeremy Butterfield, a Cambridge man whose work on words led to Oxford University researchers compiling this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/debates/3394545/Oxford-compiles-list-of-top-ten-irritating-phrases.html
I'd be more likely to say on the blink and, by another stunning coincidence, my computer was on the blink too for about six hours today.
My email inbox went pink in the middle, and the movement of the cursor left a trail of pink across the page. Then the cursor stopped moving, and CTRL+F4 and CTRL+ALT+DEL didn't have any effect, so I switched off. Second attempt a few hours later also failed. I loaded the washing machine - twice, made a meal, watched some telly, tried again, and got back in an hour ago. Very odd.
So, if I disappear off the face of the earth again, it's unlikely that the microwave got its revenge on me at last, and very likely that my computer has died. :( |
Reply #1840. Nov 13 10, 7:38 PM
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