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Post by wings on Mar 23, 2008 9:23:00 GMT
lol i wondered what i had posted then! Yes that women gets the evil look.
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Post by wings on Mar 26, 2008 12:42:51 GMT
Comments are finally up! ;D Mines there woo.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2008 12:48:24 GMT
I've replied to ET.  |
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Post by wings on Mar 26, 2008 12:49:46 GMT
I've replied to ET. I hope you put ET in their place.  |
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Post by Wyvern on Mar 26, 2008 12:51:30 GMT
Yay! They let mine through even though I said Ms Moir's article was "gentlemans vegetables" ;D And I've replied to ET too "We don't need this" my arse. (that's not what I said, btw) |
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Post by fussycat on Mar 26, 2008 22:04:34 GMT
Wyvern just read your comment in the Telegraph. Well blooming said! Wish there was a clapping smilie now  |
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Post by Wyvern on Mar 26, 2008 22:10:34 GMT
*blush*
Thank you Fussy ;D
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Post by Mayfayre on Mar 26, 2008 23:07:39 GMT
Wyvern just read your comment in the Telegraph. Well blooming said! Wish there was a clapping smilie now  |
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Post by xjsarah on Mar 26, 2008 23:33:57 GMT
Seconded. Brilliant comment, Wyvern! ;D My comment hasn't been displayed this time...*sulks*  |
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Post by Wyvern on Mar 26, 2008 23:49:32 GMT
There's still time for more comments to go up though peeps! And maybe we should all tell ET where to go *veg*
I mean that in the "very evil grin" sense, by the way, not the "Jan Moir's article" sense ;D
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Post by xjsarah on Mar 27, 2008 1:23:27 GMT
True, but the most recent comment displayed was posted after I posted mine. Oh well, I live in hope. |
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Post by wings on Mar 28, 2008 1:22:58 GMT
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Post by lew on Mar 28, 2008 7:24:51 GMT
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Post by Eclair on Mar 28, 2008 8:47:22 GMT
Wha? New column up already?! What is the world coming to! ;D I like it, James has acquired himself a laptop and he mentions the Aussie outback...I'm easily pleased...  ;D |
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Post by beckstar on Mar 28, 2008 10:09:31 GMT
Oooh, someone's column is *cough*UP*cough* early this morning... ;D
*sorry for the coughing there, I've got a terrible cold...*
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Post by lymaze on Mar 28, 2008 19:52:19 GMT
I was taught to type on a typewriter (times were hard in 1995 at my school) and yet now I don't know how I managed it. Like he says, heavy keys, and more importantly to me, no ability to go back over your mistakes without the use of tippex paper. (I'm ageing myself badly here aren't I!!  ;D) |
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Post by inky on Mar 28, 2008 20:00:05 GMT
I was taught to type of a typewriter (times were hard in 1995 at my school) and yet now I don't know how I managed it. Like he says, heavy keys, and more importantly to me, no ability to go back over your mistakes without the use of tippex paper. (I'm ageing myself badly here aren't I!! ;D) That takes me back too. I passed my RSA Stage 1 with a credit but then never got the chance to put it to good use. That was back in 1975  so don't worry about ageing yourself ly As you say, using those old machines was very hard work especially working out tabulations to do tables. Bill Gates has had his uses ;D |
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Post by lew on Mar 28, 2008 20:27:57 GMT
I was taught to type of a typewriter (times were hard in 1995 at my school) and yet now I don't know how I managed it. Like he says, heavy keys, and more importantly to me, no ability to go back over your mistakes without the use of tippex paper. (I'm ageing myself badly here aren't I!! ;D) That takes me back too. I passed my RSA Stage 1 with a credit but then never got the chance to put it to good use. That was back in 1975 so don't worry about ageing yourself ly As you say, using those old machines was very hard work especially working out tabulations to do tables. Bill Gates has had his uses ;D And I ain't saying a word not..... I worked for a bank and well the clearing system was.....crap ;D.....shall we say 19....blah blah ....but I was young and stupid ;D ok I was a babe when England won the world cup.....sorry I class 4 as a babe |
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Post by Mayfayre on Mar 28, 2008 22:46:31 GMT
I made the mistake of passing my 11+ & getting sent to Grammar School. The attitude then was that we were going to be doing far too important jobs to need to type, we'd have secretaries for that sort of thing, so typing wasn't offered & it was frowned upon if we learned outside school. So I've never learned to type. I had a go about 10 years ago at evening classes but I was hopeless. Didn't help that the room was so cold my fingers wouldn't work properly! How times change I did type up my own thesis when I was at college though. With 2 fingers & several packets of tippex! |
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Post by lymaze on Mar 28, 2008 23:00:32 GMT
I went to a grammar school and it was part of our business studies course, along with accountancy and commerce. What a fun filled place that was!! I'm not sure what they thought we'd all end up doing - seeing as they changed the home economics classes to child care though, I have a pretty rough idea. ;D |
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Post by Wyvern on Mar 28, 2008 23:05:02 GMT
We had typing lessons at the school I went to in Bristol, but only from the 4th year and I left in the 3rd year to move to Devon. However, we used the typing room for some of our lessons and there were posters that showed things like where the home keys were and what you were supposed to hit with what finger, things like that. I used to have a much better memory than I do now and it all kind of went in. I can now touch-type, after a fashion, though I'm far from good at it When I moved, I went to a grammar school too and they had exactly the attitude MF mentions - we'd all be far too important to need to type What I regret more though is that the secretarial skills classes at my old school would have given me Shorthand and I have lost count of the number of times I could have used that over the years. Maybe one of these days I'll learn... |
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Post by lymaze on Mar 28, 2008 23:11:29 GMT
Have to say being able to type has served me very well work wise. No matter what I do, I know I can always get good work even if at times it's dull. It's a handy thing to have. |
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Post by Mayfayre on Mar 28, 2008 23:15:50 GMT
I can't touch type at all, it just commes it as cinoketer farbade, but if I look at what I'm doing I can get 30 - 40 wpm.
Never had a use for shorthand though.
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Post by lymaze on Mar 28, 2008 23:19:03 GMT
Er.....not boasting or anything but 85 wpm. No shorthand, never needed it. Never wanted it either. |
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Post by Mayfayre on Mar 28, 2008 23:28:25 GMT
I used to know someone who could do 120 wpm, but she also had RSI.
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Post by Wyvern on Mar 28, 2008 23:29:02 GMT
You wouldn't believe the number of times I've been at conventions and I've been listening to guest talks thinking, I wish I could write all this stuff down. Mind you, I'd probably "do a Jezza", get one letter wrong and end up getting sued.
But Mr May has managed to make me all nostalgic again this week. Like the "sport button on a R-R" column a few weeks ago, he's managed to remind me of my childhood and I can now remember the smell of my old typewriter as clearly as I can that of my granddad's car. Funny thing, I had completely forgotten about it until today.
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Post by lymaze on Mar 28, 2008 23:33:12 GMT
I know what you mean Wyvern. It all comes flooding back. |
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Post by Mayfayre on Mar 28, 2008 23:37:03 GMT
Funny how little comments can open up the floodgates, isn't it. The typewriter thing reminded me of typing up my thesis years back & I've been thinking about that year at college all day!
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Post by lew on Mar 28, 2008 23:39:00 GMT
I can do one word an hour ....sadly my class was filled with losers and the teacher had a nervous breakdown, not much hope for me |
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Post by blondeweezie on Mar 29, 2008 16:23:46 GMT
I felt like saying that I had gone through a similar situation, as I have just dusted off my 25 year old Atari 2600 for the first time in 20 years, but that would date me!! ( I'm 34.)
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