LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2018

I've been reading through a few posts today AND would request that GC introduce an "ENGLISH" dictionary/spell check reference area?

My spelling isn't that good but my late sister was an English teacher, she would have been appalled if I had spelled Centre as Center or Litre as Liter (spell check now trying to correct me).

Forgive if I'm wrong but isn't this a UK based website?

I know I'm being pedantic and this is said very much tongue in cheek. :rasp:

 

I've finally resolved the situation with my "compo" from John Lewis, over the duff Miele fridge/freezer.
Having settled for a new fridge/freezer and £75, I was then told that this would be in the form of a credit to my John Lewis account. I replied by e-mail that it wasn't acceptable, I wanted the cash. This was last Wednesday week. As there was no response I followed it up last Wednesday. Still nothing today. So I rang. I was told, "the complaint has been closed." I said "by eck it is! No cash and I'll lay it all by registered post at the managing director's door, with copies of all e-mails enclosed."
There's always a jobsworth who tries to be clever, isn't there?


The cash has now been credited to my bank account.

 

You can't trust many these days.

With tradesmen who are coming to a job, a frequent ploy is that they turn up on a Monday and start the job and then don't come on Tuesday because they've gone back to the previous job they should have finished Friday. They hope that because they've started, you won't get anyone else in.

On the occasions that I've engaged some to do a job, i.e. decorating, or building work. I've always told them before they start, if they say they will start on a Monday, or any day and don't turn up on the Tuesday, or the day after they start, then don't bother coming back again, I'll get someone else to do the job and they won't get paid for for the day they worked.
Some accept these conditions, others bale out and refuse the job.

 

Most spell checkers are American. If you manually change a word that's been corrected in error,next time it shouldn't make the same mistake. In theory at least. I agree it can be frustrating. It also doesn't recognise words like composter (at least it didn't until just now) or breakfasting.

G.

 

The written instructions we use to get from our office were terrible. I once asked if they had a spell checker. They replied in the affirmative. I wanted to ask why they didn't bother using it but I'm not that cheeky.



G.