The totally off-topic thread

[TheRealTMA]

This one's for Johnk:

That's actually very good. Can't see JohnK in the picture though.

 

[Flashback]

That's actually very good. Can't see JohnK in the picture though.

He's the one on the right :mrgreen:

 

[TheRealTMA]

He's the one on the right :mrgreen:

Hmm. You are probably correct.

 

[Foreigner]

Long live the Queen

 

[OATEK]

Long live the Queen

The Queen has done very well!

 

[JohnK]

You are always a laugh JohnK. And very social too.

You are always quick to welcome new members and congratulate people on milestones (post count and airline status) but you dont consider you are social.

Apparently I am anti-social.

 

[rainbowgirl]

Last day of freedom....

Congratulations

 

[rogerkambah]

Congratulations

And to Mrs JohnK as well.

 

[Pushka]

And to Mrs JohnK as well.

He hasn't confirmed anything yet...

 

[Princess Fiona]

Apparently I am anti-social.

No way!! Having met you I thought the exact opposite. Different maybe but where would we be if everyone was the same ?

 

[rogerkambah]

He hasn't confirmed anything yet...

Umm - look at post #12064 on the EDR Targetted Bonus Points Promo thread.

 

[SeatBackForward]

Umm - look at post #12064 on the EDR Targetted Bonus Points Promo thread.

Hello Dave

You're my wife now

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Dirtiest places on planes and in airports, Travelmath.com study reveals

"On the plane, the dirtiest place by far was actually the tray table. Their tests found that the tray table had 2155 "colony forming units" - a measure of the number of bacteria or fungal cells that are able to multiply - per square inch. That compares to 285 on the overhead air vent, only 265 on the lavatory flush button, and 230 on the seat belt buckle."


NOTE TO SELF - take these with you

 

[medhead]

Whatever floats your boat! :shock: (ps do gliders fly? Are their wings 'mechanical'? Do Sugar Gliders fly? Are my flapping arms 'mechanical'?)

Seems to be another sarchasm. I will only pose a rhetorical question: How do gliders (not sugar gliders) get into the air?

Brewster's dictionary of phrase and fable?

dictionary.com?

Funk and Wagnells?

Webster's?

Oxford English?

Urban dictionary of design slang?

Samuel Johnson's?

Macquarie?


Point being that dictionaries aren't cast in stone - they differ in their definitions, pronunciations and meanings, and one nor the another is the absolute authority.


Its no biggie - I have in my mind what constitutes social media and having the entire Oxford English Dictionary shoved down my throat won't alter that.

There was a saying in the '80s: "Caxton - every man a writer. Xerox - everyone a publisher." Perhaps we can now add: Internet: "Every person an authority."

Sounds like you need to write a dictionary. So far you have new meanings for glide, fly, mechanical and social media. Every person an authority? Personally I'm happy to stick with the OED's authority

No way!! Having met you I thought the exact opposite. Different maybe but where would we be if everyone was the same ?

My oldest child corrected me when I said she was anti-social. Apparently it is asocial.

 

[medhead]

In other news I feel surprisingly awake for having 3 hours sleep on a chair in Louis' Tavern.

 

[RooFlyer]

Seems to be another sarchasm. I will only pose a rhetorical question: How do gliders (not sugar gliders) get into the air?

Sounds like you need to write a dictionary. So far you have new meanings for glide, fly, mechanical and social media. Every person an authority? Personally I'm happy to stick with the OED's authority

<snip>

No, not sarchastic, or sarcastic either . Just posing the genuine question as to whether gliding - like sugar glider, or a person with a glider suit could be considered 'mechanical' flying. If you step off a cliff ordinarily, you plummet. If you step off a cliff with a glider-suit thing, you glide (a bit). Is the gliding suit a 'mechanical' aid? I think it is.

I don't think you can read new definitions into glide, fly, or mechanical where I've simply asked a question. Social media - sure, I have my own definition, same as I do for public transport. A thin old dictionary, but then again, I am an award winning author (and you'll have to wait till we catch up again for that to be revealed!)

 

[Pushka]

Umm - look at post #12064 on the EDR Targetted Bonus Points Promo thread.

I gave up on that thread a lifetime ago. Surely a very OT post there?

 

[Bindibuys]

I gave up on that thread a lifetime ago. Surely a very OT post there?

This is what JohnK posted:


Mum - 750 bonus points for $160 spend
Dad - 500 bonus points for $120 spend
Wife - 750 bonus points for $160 spend

 

[Pushka]

This is what JohnK posted:


Mum - 750 bonus points for $160 spend
Dad - 500 bonus points for $120 spend
Wife - 750 bonus points for $160 spend

But it was just a day or so he said it was his last day of freedom. So now married. And checking his EDR points on a honeymoon? Priceless. And dedicated.

 

[TheEmu]

Dirtiest places on planes and in airports, Travelmath.com study reveals

"On the plane, the dirtiest place by far was actually the tray table. Their tests found that the tray table had 2155 "colony forming units" - a measure of the number of bacteria or fungal cells that are able to multiply - per square inch. That compares to 285 on the overhead air vent, only 265 on the lavatory flush button, and 230 on the seat belt buckle."


NOTE TO SELF - take these with you

The FA always lays a tablecloth on the tray-table before serving me…