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[WWGD]

Have you tried going into your options and setting inbox rules?

Yes, will check it out. Still I forgot to mention I was also deleting old messages that did not matter. EDIT: I think that is available only for the Premium version, I only have the basic service.

 

[WWGD]

(Makes more sense when spoken) :Is (Lionel) Messi Messy?

 

[WWGD]

I have seen a lot of Europeans feeding this sense (which is somewhat accurate for most people in any country) that people in the U.S are completely ignorant of the rest of the world. I told this guy at Starbucks who was speaking some northern Euro language : " Hey, go back to Mexico!". Now he has another story to tell.

 

[fresh_42]

We have plenty of dialects in this country. And almost everybody has his favorites and those he cannot stand. Of course, this sets are different from person to person. This is, I think, a natural attitude. Now, how does it come, that I extended this to English dialects, and even worse, that I find it very painful to listen to English English? (Just watching a BBC documentary about our species which only has a voice-over translation instead of a substituted audible track.)

 

[WWGD]

We have plenty of dialects in this country. And almost everybody has his favorites and those he cannot stand. Of course, this sets are different from person to person. This is, I think, a natural attitude. Now, how does it come, that I extended this to English dialects, and even worse, that I find it very painful to listen to English English? (Just watching a BBC documentary about our species which only has a voice-over translation instead of a substituted audible track.)

Then just go back to Mexico! ;).

 

[fresh_42]

Then just go back to Mexico! ;).

My Portuguese is too bad ;).

 

[WWGD]

My Portuguese is too bad ;).

Then have a paella so you feel like you're in Mexico. Denial is not just a mountain in China, you know!

 

[WWGD]

Dedicated bike lanes may be on their way out. Many are blaming them for the increase in traffic. And the issue if bikers taking extreme right turns that could easily main pedestrians. Last issue could be taken care of if sidewalks were at right angles in intersections , forcing bikers to slow down before turning. But it seems the main, if not only consideration in designing roads is to optimize, maximize flow of cars.D o you have dedicated bike lanes ?

 

[skyshrimp]

Don't you just love dumplings?

There's always time for dumplings.

 

[WWGD]

Don't you just love dumplings?

There's always time for dumplings.

Is that a pet name for the woman you refer to here? Or you mean other dumplings?

 

[skyshrimp]

I mean the kind of dumplings you eat (don't get me started on her..).

I've never had a bad dumpling. English beef suet, Polish Kopytka, Chinese dumplings with dipping sauce? Hell yeah :)

 

[WWGD]

I feel that same way about bacon, fried chicken

 

[WWGD]

So it is raining pretty hard and there is nowhere I can find cover near me, except for this one coffee shop. So I walk in and get a cup of coffee. I tell the waitress: " Good idea for you to get this rain going, that way every one nearby must come into your coffee shop". She replies: " No, we did not do that on purpose". Did she really believe I was serious? I wanted to ask her if she had autism, but, given her previous comment she may have replied" No, I don't have an automobile, I use public transformation" ( autism ~ use automobile)

 

[skyshrimp]

Was English her native language?

 

[WWGD]

Was English her native language?

It seemed so. She also had blue hair. Maybe the dyeing process made some of her neurons dyie/die.

 

[BillTre]

Tomorrow a bar in town (Springfield actually) is having a Pirate Party:

I'll call it:
Drink Like A Pirate Day!

 

[Rive]

Did she really believe I was serious?

Well, you did believe she was serious
Of course she did it on purpose. I mean, the rain.

 

[fresh_42]

I had a Sprite today at McDonald's drive-in. No Coke, no Fanta. And now I get Sprite ads on the computer, no Coke, no Fanta - Sprite! This is eerie!

 

[WWGD]

Why does everyone--men and women-- turn their heads when someone shouts Lisa! in a crowded place?

 

[DrGreg]

I had a Sprite today at McDonald's drive-in. No Coke, no Fanta. And now I get Sprite ads on the computer, no Coke, no Fanta - Sprite! This is eerie!

Did you conduct the transaction completely anonymously using cash, or was some personal electronic device or payment card involved?

 

[fresh_42]

Did you conduct the transaction completely anonymously using cash, or was some personal electronic device or payment card involved?

Nope, cash. (I know it is by chance and not on purpose ... I hope.)

Edit; But theoretically you can automatically read the number plate, which is easy in this narrow queue, check the driver and so on and so on. Those days will come, I assume.

 

[Bystander]

anonymously

Nope, cash.

Camera(s) on the transaction? "Big Brother" really is watching everything these days.

 

[WWGD]

I had a Sprite today at McDonald's drive-in. No Coke, no Fanta. And now I get Sprite ads on the computer, no Coke, no Fanta - Sprite! This is eerie!

I once just put my card through the chip reader and somehow a receipt was sent to my phone. I had never given my phone number to anyone in that store. Pretty likely Google , FB or some otherr gathering data about you from different sources, forming a profile.

 

[nuuskur]

I had a Sprite today at McDonald's drive-in. No Coke, no Fanta. And now I get Sprite ads on the computer, no Coke, no Fanta - Sprite! This is eerie!

they are watching!

 

[WWGD]

they are watching!

Was this book "How to Disappear" which included a section on deleting one's electronic tracks . I had this idea at some point of agreeing with a friend to exchange use if credit cards (to be paid in full to the other person ultimately n) so that one person's expenses appear as the others .Even better if your friend lives far from you, even in another country. It would seriously throw off any pattern someone collecting your data could come up with. Or do something similar by buying each other gift cards for the same amount.

 

[fresh_42]

Was this book "How to Disappear" which included a section on deleting one's electronic tracks . I had this idea at some point of agreeing with a friend to exchange use if credit cards (to be paid in full to the other person ultimately n) so that one person's expenses appear as the others .Even better if your friend lives far from you, even in another country. It would seriously throw off any pattern someone collecting your data could come up with. Or do something similar by buying each other gift cards for the same amount.

I used this a couple of times in a homeworker store. They usually ask for your zip code, probably in order to know where to spread their print ads. Well, that was easy ... Although, those franchises operate country wide. I wonder if they exchanged those data. Sad thing is, I'm convinced they don't.

 

[nuuskur]

On the topic of soft drinks, I do like Fanta a bit since I used to drink that the most, but I'm not really a fan of them anymore. Orange juice is much more delicious, albeit more expensive, but it's worth it.

 

[WWGD]

On the topic of soft drinks, I do like Fanta a bit since I used to drink that the most, but I'm not really a fan of them anymore. Orange juice is much more delicious, albeit more expensive, but it's worth it.

I was almost addicted to fresh-squeezed juice at one point. I had to force myself to stop because it was becoming too expensive.

 

[dlgoff]

To my old friend and mentor, Lester (Andy) Anderson, WOAFQ, RIP.

 

[WWGD]

Summer officially over, at least in northern hemisphere, tomorrow.