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Solari
post Oct 15 2009, 02:11 PM
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Are you pregnant? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)


I've not started munching on bits of coal yet, so no, I don't think that by some biological miracle, I am pregnant like that American "fellow" was a while ago! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

EDIT: If I am, that could be painful in 9 months' time... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)
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post Oct 15 2009, 02:20 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) I get cravings for beetroot occassionally too..less pungent than pickled onions, but leaves a nice beetroot coloured moustache by the time the jar is empty! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Yes it could... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

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Solari
post Oct 15 2009, 02:25 PM
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On another topic - am I the only one that feels completely ridiculous talking to one of those automated voice recognition things? I was just paying gas and electricity bills and felt like a right idiot (and was getting frustrated with it interpreting "nine" as "one") (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

Why don't they just let you use your keypad?
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post Oct 15 2009, 02:38 PM
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QUOTE(fsharpminor @ Oct 15 2009, 03:07 PM) *

QUOTE(Solari @ Oct 15 2009, 02:53 PM) *

I've got a sudden craving for pickled onions. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)


Then go and get some and some corned beef , and make a sandwich with them !

I still want the corned beef pasty I asked for at lunchtime. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

*wishes she had gone back to complain* (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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post Oct 15 2009, 03:36 PM
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QUOTE(Solari @ Oct 15 2009, 03:25 PM) *

On another topic - am I the only one that feels completely ridiculous talking to one of those automated voice recognition things? I was just paying gas and electricity bills and felt like a right idiot (and was getting frustrated with it interpreting "nine" as "one") (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

Why don't they just let you use your keypad?


Ha Ha - positive proof that Sol has a cockney accent!
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post Oct 15 2009, 03:37 PM
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Ha Ha - positive proof that Sol has a cockney accent!


I say "nine" as "nyne", not "noine" (which still doesn't sound remotely like "one"!) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

It's their carp systems (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)
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post Oct 15 2009, 03:42 PM
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My mother can't read.

I sent her an email saying "please can you find 'the very short introduction to music' on my shelf and send it to me."

Two days later, i get a parcel containinga pair of socks and 'the very short introduction to mathematics'. Wonderful! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)
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Solari
post Oct 15 2009, 03:46 PM
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Two days later, i get a parcel containinga pair of socks and 'the very short introduction to mathematics'. Wonderful! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)


She's probably guilty of doing what I do sometimes... I read the first bit of the sentence and skim over the end of it, not really taking it in. It's cost me marks in exams before where I haven't read the question properly. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)
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post Oct 15 2009, 04:03 PM
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QUOTE(Solari @ Oct 15 2009, 04:46 PM) *

QUOTE(sarah123 @ Oct 15 2009, 04:42 PM) *

Two days later, i get a parcel containinga pair of socks and 'the very short introduction to mathematics'. Wonderful! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)


She's probably guilty of doing what I do sometimes... I read the first bit of the sentence and skim over the end of it, not really taking it in. It's cost me marks in exams before where I haven't read the question properly. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)


She's just emailed me - apparently she knew which book I wanted, just didn't bother to read the title on the one she picked off the shelf. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)
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Solari
post Oct 15 2009, 04:20 PM
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She's just emailed me - apparently she knew which book I wanted, just didn't bother to read the title on the one she picked off the shelf. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)


I think if you really needed "The very short introduction to mathematics" now, you'd probably be in trouble! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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post Oct 15 2009, 04:26 PM
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Does anyone know what a tick with a cross through it means? I'm redrafting a couple of essays, and my tutor's provided plenty of notes, and help and stuff... In bits that he hasn't specifically discussed with me, there are these occasional hybrid tick/cross things and I don't know what they mean. Occasionally they crop up by points that I really do think are right/fully developed, so I assumed it was just a weird sort of tick... Now I've just seen one by a point which was total rubbish and waffle though... So I'm confused!

Do I maybe have more rewriting to do than I bargained for?
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post Oct 15 2009, 04:31 PM
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QUOTE(lucky045 @ Oct 15 2009, 05:26 PM) *

Does anyone know what a tick with a cross through it means? I'm redrafting a couple of essays, and my tutor's provided plenty of notes, and help and stuff... In bits that he hasn't specifically discussed with me, there are these occasional hybrid tick/cross things and I don't know what they mean. Occasionally they crop up by points that I really do think are right/fully developed, so I assumed it was just a weird sort of tick... Now I've just seen one by a point which was total rubbish and waffle though... So I'm confused!

Do I maybe have more rewriting to do than I bargained for?


I'd have thought they were things that he liked, then decided weren't quite so good afterall. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)
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post Oct 15 2009, 04:34 PM
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QUOTE(sarah123 @ Oct 15 2009, 05:31 PM) *

QUOTE(lucky045 @ Oct 15 2009, 05:26 PM) *

Does anyone know what a tick with a cross through it means? I'm redrafting a couple of essays, and my tutor's provided plenty of notes, and help and stuff... In bits that he hasn't specifically discussed with me, there are these occasional hybrid tick/cross things and I don't know what they mean. Occasionally they crop up by points that I really do think are right/fully developed, so I assumed it was just a weird sort of tick... Now I've just seen one by a point which was total rubbish and waffle though... So I'm confused!

Do I maybe have more rewriting to do than I bargained for?


I'd have thought they were things that he liked, then decided weren't quite so good afterall. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)


That's what I thought at first! But they're next to some of the points he told me were good. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) They're kind of not tick crosses, but like... ticks with a bracket through them...
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post Oct 15 2009, 05:35 PM
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Maybe he ticks all the points he thinks are good, and then crosses them all out as he counts up the ticks in order to give you a mark?
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post Oct 15 2009, 05:42 PM
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I'd have thought they were things that he liked, then decided weren't quite so good afterall. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)


Not seen them, but I think my maths teacher at school fancied me, because my exercise book was always full of kisses whenever I got it back from her! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)
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