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Post by marispiper on Aug 9, 2016 14:54:18 GMT
You have my sympathy. Problem is, once you are sensitive to it, or anything then it is a bit like Pavlov's bell, the effect on you is triggered by even a whiff of their BBQ even if you are upwind of it. Solution I have none, other than flippant ones, or those that might trigger an all out war with the neighbours! I assume you are pretty well cheek by jowl with them? Many years ago when I moved into my current house my neighbour liked playing heavy rock music in his garden. We were on quite friendly terms after about a month and I did not want any angst. One afternoon the music was on, loud. I was chatting to him over the fence and said 'How the hell do you put up with that?' what do you mean he said, and I said, the bloody music that kid next door to you is playing. He looked a bit sheepish and said 'no, it's not his, it's mine' I then pretended to be embarrassed and apologised, but the problem was solved with no blood being spilled. Creative solutions Jon 😁 |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2016 15:11:44 GMT
Well done! You are only the second person to recognise where the name came from in over 10 years. Frank or Lena? |
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Post by marispiper on Aug 9, 2016 15:13:05 GMT
You are a very nice neighbour whereorwhen. I think the award of the Cup definitely entitles you to be more grumpy 😁
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Post by marispiper on Aug 9, 2016 15:16:11 GMT
Well done! You are only the second person to recognise where the name came from in over 10 years. You've been in the wrong forum. I've been singing it in my head since I saw your first post 😁 |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2016 15:42:50 GMT
You have my sympathy. Problem is, once you are sensitive to it, or anything then it is a bit like Pavlov's bell, the effect on you is triggered by even a whiff of their BBQ even if you are upwind of it. Solution I have none, other than flippant ones, or those that might trigger an all out war with the neighbours! I assume you are pretty well cheek by jowl with them? Many years ago when I moved into my current house my neighbour liked playing heavy rock music in his garden. We were on quite friendly terms after about a month and I did not want any angst. One afternoon the music was on, loud. I was chatting to him over the fence and said 'How the hell do you put up with that?' what do you mean he said, and I said, the bloody music that kid next door to you is playing. He looked a bit sheepish and said 'no, it's not his, it's mine' I then pretended to be embarrassed and apologised, but the problem was solved with no blood being spilled. Creative solutions Jon 😁 I didn't want to fallout with him, but did want to resolve the problem. Otherwise the conversation could have been. You have got new neighbours, are they OK? Dunno, seem to be miserable sods and only spoken to them once. Really? Yep, asked them to turn the radio down.. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2016 15:49:59 GMT
Well done! You are only the second person to recognise where the name came from in over 10 years. Frank or Lena? I don't think it was either, it was rather earlier I feel. It was in Babes on Broadway but I cannot remember seeing it in a film. It was very popular in around the mid to late 40s when I was an art student. Lena Horne may have been around but I do not remember her singing this at the time. It was a man but not Sinatra.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2016 17:03:00 GMT
I don't think it was either, it was rather earlier I feel. It was in Babes on Broadway but I cannot remember seeing it in a film. It was very popular in around the mid to late 40s when I was an art student. Lena Horne may have been around but I do not remember her singing this at the time. It was a man but not Sinatra.
This one?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2016 18:50:08 GMT
I honestly don't know, I don't recognise the voice and it sounds earlier. The date given is 1937 which is about 10 years before I was listening to it. Thank you for taking the trouble to try and identify the particular performance, it was a kind thought.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2016 19:00:34 GMT
You are a very nice neighbour whereorwhen. I think the award of the Cup definitely entitles you to be more grumpy 😁 You are very kind Maris Piper. Somehow I missed replying to your post about my name. At first I thought You meant I had been posting on the wrong board here but now I think perhaps you meant I was posting among the wrong age group elsewhere and you are probably right. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2016 21:24:16 GMT
I honestly don't know, I don't recognise the voice and it sounds earlier. The date given is 1937 which is about 10 years before I was listening to it. Thank you for taking the trouble to try and identify the particular performance, it was a kind thought. You're welcome |
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Post by aubrey on Aug 10, 2016 11:07:07 GMT
Bloody ipads. I was given one a couple of years ago when my stepfather got a new one, and it is ok. I mainly use it for looking at emails and the internet when I am away from my computer for some reason, and it is good for that, as long as I don't have to save anything, and it is a good way of reading books with the light off. But the way it makes you load things onto it: not, as any rational device would, but opening as an extra drive that you can just copy stuff to and then open them in the programme you choose, but loading them into a programme, so that no other programme can use it.
And the faffing about you have to do with it once you have transferred stuff: I have just put a load of comics onto it. With a windows device the copying over would have taken 5 minutes, then they would have been ready to use; with the ipad, once they've been copied they then have to upload onto the programme (after being copied there in the first place), a process that has taken about an hour so far and is not finished yet; and even then you have to put them in order, so that you know where you finished reading last time.
Every time I want to put a new book on it I have to set aside a couple of hours of monitoring the thing - it's nothing like loading a few albums onto an mp3 player - 2 minutes and you're done.
Anyway, does anyone have any hints about how I should do this? I do have a file manager on there but that's even more faf, as far as I can see - first it tells you that you can't open the file on this device, so you have to ignore it and try anyway - and guess what? you can. Why the hell does it do that? Bloody Apple.
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Post by marispiper on Aug 10, 2016 12:18:12 GMT
Can you get to an Apple store?
My OH has an iPad for 3 years and as soon as something tricky has to be done, he goes to the store and some very nice nerd always offers to sort it! Done that about five times so far. That's my best advice 😁
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Post by aubrey on Aug 10, 2016 16:29:49 GMT
Thanks, but that would still take too long, as long as it does now, and it would also mean having to go into an Apple store and speak to those smug kids at the "Genius Counter".
I doubt they'd be able to do anything anyway: this sort of fault is written into Apple products, in order to be different.
This thing, as I'm downloading comics into a comic reading programme, keeps turning itself off, so I've had to do something in the settings to stop that (not sure if it will work yet). But it should not turn itself off when there are things going on with it. Windows knows better than that - why doesn't apple?
Apple's too bloody restrictive all round.
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Post by aubrey on Aug 11, 2016 7:11:44 GMT
Film posters like the one below, where the names of the actors do not match the illustration. This one is pretty obvious; but where you have (say) three men, the names across the top seem these days only to match the heads in the illustration by accident, so you really you have no idea who's who. I don't recognise a lot of modern actors because of this. It bugs me much more than it should really: agents insisting that their client's name goes first, regardless of how the thing will look.  |
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Post by marispiper on Aug 11, 2016 7:48:30 GMT
I know what you mean Aubrey, hence my buying a windows 10 laptop and sending this on an android windows tablet. OH likes Apple but like you, he has hassle with what it will/won't do. I have no such problem.
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