Britain - The Official Thread

[TexRex]

A wry chuckle then? :~)

 

[Shaun]

When I opened the page I could only see that from her chin up............quite disturbing.

 

[TexRex]

When I opened the page I could only see that from her chin up............quite disturbing.

There's a version of it with a fish that she appears to be swallowing whole in a manner not unlike that of water fowl. I was so wanting to post that one but the original was more appropriate.

Edit:

I've got one word regarding that seventh one:

Spoiler

floccinaucinihilipilification

 

[Liquid]

Textbook distraction technique from Rees-Mogg; 'leak' something irritating but banal to the media so everyone focuses on that instead of the omnishambles that is the Government of the United Kingdom.

That said, only paedoes and war criminals use two spaces after a full stop.

 

[PzR Slim]

That said, only paedoes and war criminals use two spaces after a full stop.

Or people stuck in an age where typewriters are still used.

 

[baldgye]

Do we (British people) deserve all of this?


Priti Patel: Tory home secretary blocks Police Federation on Twitter 'because officers warned about cuts'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ked-police-twitter-warning-cuts-a9023121.html

 

[Lizard]

Or people stuck in an age where typewriters are still used.

Typewriters? Oh no sir. The most honourable gentleman has a scribe who uses only the finest parchment.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Typewriters? Oh no sir. The most honourable gentleman has a scribe who uses only the finest parchment.

Vellum, I think.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Typesetting. Always double spaces after a full stop. Internet. One space after a full stop, if you are lucky to have grammar to use a full stop.

 

[PzR Slim]

Typesetting. Always double spaces after a full stop. Internet. One space after a full stop, if you are lucky to have grammar to use a full stop.

Given that we know live in the modern world all typesetting is done for us by the magical silicon boxes. So no need for a double space after a full stop. If you still think it's the 1800's it's an easy mistake to make.

 

[MatskiMonk]

I always do double spaces after a full stop. It's what we were taught at school, I don't suppose they bother teaching people how to type anymore though.

 

[Tired Tyres]

Given that we now live in the modern world all typesetting is done for us by the magical silicon boxes. So no need for a double space after a full stop. If you still think it's the 1800's it's an easy mistake to make.

I worked for a printer for a while mate so I know. I take it you did that on purpose?

 

[TenEightyOne]

I always do double spaces after a full stop. It's what we were taught at school, I don't suppose they bother teaching people how to type anymore though.

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[MaxAttack]

I always do double spaces after a full stop. It's what we were taught at school, I don't suppose they bother teaching people how to type anymore though.

Can confirm - had my first ICT lesson in year 4, taught myself to touch type some time in middle school. We were taught more about Microsoft Publisher than I could ever possibly hope to retain.

Taught myself photoshop + final cut at 17/18. Far more use than anything I learned in nearly a decade or ICT/IT lessons.

 

[PzR Slim]

I worked for a printer for a while mate so I know. I take it you did that on purpose?

And I've used modern forms of text input for years so I know. People were taught to use double spaces after a full stop when using a typewriter because the space between all letters, numbers and punctuation was the same. Modern tech takes care of that for us.

So unless Mogg is forcing staff to use monofaced typesetting there is no need for a double space.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Ha... I might have been taught to double space, but I wasn't taught to proof read! I took out a sentence explaining how auto-correct on my phone used to do it automatically after a full stop, which was actually really annoying - guess that messed up the spacing!

Can confirm - had my first ICT lesson in year 4, taught myself to touch type some time in middle school. We were taught more about Microsoft Publisher than I could ever possibly hope to retain.

Taught myself photoshop + final cut at 17/18. Far more use than anything I learned in nearly a decade or ICT/IT lessons.

Not sure of your age, or what year 4 is these days! But, 22 years ago, in college we were taught how to use Word Perfect for DOS. Which isn't a WYSIWYG editor, it was more akin to using HTML to be honest. It was a total waste of everyone's time, god knows what the qualification I got at the end of it was, but since I was already working in an office using Microsoft Word, and Using Microsoft Works at home, it wasn't so much of a problem. I was probably about 15 (1993/4) when we were being taught two spaces after a full-stop, one after a comma. For me it stuck, just wish how to use apostrophes properly had also'

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edit 2:

Hmmm, it seems the forum displays with one space whatever.. which is odd, because when I've clicked to edit the post it still shows two spaces where I've used them!

Bloody outrage!

What's next Color, Favorite, Aluminum???!??!

edit 3:

So the forum clearly doesn't parse out the spaces before putting the text into database, it must do it on retrieval.

 

[MaxAttack]

Ha... I might have been taught to double space, but I wasn't taught to proof read! I took out a sentence explaining how auto-correct on my phone used to do it automatically after a full stop, which was actually really annoying - guess that messed up the spacing!



Not sure of your age, or what year 4 is these days! But, 22 years ago, in college we were taught how to use Word Perfect for DOS. Which isn't a WYSIWYG editor, it was more akin to using HTML to be honest. It was a total waste of everyone's time, god knows what the qualification I got at the end of it was, but since I was already working in an office using Microsoft Word, and Using Microsoft Works at home, it wasn't so much of a problem. I was probably about 15 (1993/4) when we were being taught two spaces after a full-stop, one after a comma. For me it stuck, just wish how to use apostrophes properly had also'

I was 8/9 in year 4, born 1994, so it was 2002/3ish by rough maths. I have a deep nostalgia for windows 98 and XP. Everything went downhill from there, with a brief spot during 7...

 

[MatskiMonk]

I was 8/9 in year 4, born 1994, so it was 2002/3ish by rough maths. I have a deep nostalgia for windows 98 and XP. Everything went downhill from there, with a brief spot during 7...

We all remember our first OS's. To me, it was all downhill after 3.11 WFWG

 

[Tired Tyres]

Word Star, Word Perfect and Word. All with different keyboard shortcuts , then Pagemaker 6.5 at work which I could do interesting things with text formatting. Mac OS8, I think. Windows 3.1. Very downhill after that.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Word Star, Word Perfect and Word. All with different keyboard shortcuts , then Pagemaker 6.5 at work which I could do interesting things with text formatting. OS8. Windows 3.1. Very downhill after that.

How far we've come. I used to help my father with work stuff... we had to use Amipro as specified by his employer. Christ, think I'd rather beat myself to death with 36.6k modem than do that again.

 

[Outspacer]

We all remember our first OS's.

Heh, mine was PRIMOS back in the mid-eighties Didn't have much in the way of word processing apps! I wrote a chat program on it, mostly just using a system call to message but also had bits for finding which terminal people were on. Looked it up just now and found this:

The source code to PRIMOS was available to customers and, thanks to FORTRAN and PL/P, customers could reasonably modify PRIMOS as needed. For example, around 1990, the University of Salford in the UK, modified the PRIMOS running on its five 9955 systems so that undergraduates could no longer use the MESSAGE command, that wrapped the PRIMOS SMSG$() call, to send messages to other undergraduates, because online "chatting" using that command was becoming rife, tying up terminals from the limited pool available. Messaging using that command was akin to SMS text messaging today, except a maximum of 80 characters could be sent per message.

Some things don't change!

 

[UKMikey]

I always double space after a full stop as well despite the forum editing it out.

My first OS was the BBC Micro Disc Filing System/MOS.

 

[zzz_pt]

Maybe this deserves its own discussion thread. Had no idea one could go into such detail about typesetting.

On the other hand this is the British thread, so it kinda makes sense (?).

 

[TenEightyOne]

Maybe this deserves its own discussion thread. Had no idea one could go into such detail about typesetting.

On the other hand this is the British thread, so it kinda makes sense (?).

We might be anarchic and anti-establishment but we follow the rules as we go!

 

[TexRex]

We might be anarchic and anti-establishment but we follow the rules as we go!

But you also change them as you go. Isn't that the British way?

 

[TenEightyOne]

But you also change them as you go. Isn't that the British way?

Yes. No. But yes. But we're still right, and we still convince ourselves that we probably always did it like that.

 

[Dotini]

If it were determined by all the best and brightest that climate change (or Brexit for that matter) was on course to seriously harm the health and economy of the realm, would it be justified to set aside democratic rule and establish authoritarian rule as expediently necessary for the greater good?

 

[MatskiMonk]

If it were determined by all the best and brightest that climate change (or Brexit for that matter) was on course to seriously harm the health and economy of the realm, would it be justified to set aside democratic rule and establish authoritarian rule as expediently necessary for the greater good?

So long as they were consistent with their uses of spaces after full-stops, I think that would be okay.

 

[Dotini]

I'll take that as a "No."

 

[TenEightyOne]

If it were determined by all the best and brightest that climate change (or Brexit for that matter) was on course to seriously harm the health and economy of the realm, would it be justified to set aside democratic rule and establish authoritarian rule as expediently necessary for the greater good?

Most actual democracies elect authorities, so I don't see quite what your question is getting at? In the case of Brexit it's the elected authorities that are pushing us to the brink. The Conservative party were elected to a position where they could form a coalition with the Northern Irish Swivel-Eyed Loon party, that's democracy for you.