Robert Poste's Child

Presumably Google Glass makes you and your behaviour more trackable as it's (in theory anyway) the big step forward from Google knowing what you're thinking about, as it does already if you use it to search online, to knowing what you're looking at and influencing how you construct meaning based on that, with all the enhanced advertising potential that offers. We're all going to hell in a handcart, frankly.

They say that anything invented before you were born is normal, from birth to 35 is exciting, and after that it's the end of civilisation as we know it. Right now I'm going with the last one, but realistically if it's anything like the internet the vast majority of what you see will be advertising or based on incorrect, unverified data. Wonder if the 'nudges and reminders' will be anything like that Office Assistant dog/paperclip thing. Presumably when the wearer is checking data they lose eye contact with the person they're talking to and get a slightly glazed expression, not unlike a baby filling a nappy. Should make work meetings fun.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Fair play ZT, it was me that mentioned the > skaeboard thing so thought you meant me. > > I dunno, people have teased a bit but not sure > anything was intended as unkind. But then I guess > if you don't know the poster's "style" you might > not get that they're just ribbing you. I don't know for sure, but my guess would be it may have had more to do with the post that preceded her own account of the accident she had been involved in, the one where someone gave an account that criticised her part in it. Being knocked off her scooter must have been a big shock. If you're already feeling shaken and vulnerable, that post and some of the more insensitive 'banter' that followed may have landed in ways that the posters didn't anticipate. Not that that's an excuse - anyone with a bit of empathy might guess she could be upset by what had happened.

Thanks.

Still don't know what about though as you didn't deign to explain, so I guess it will have to remain your private joke. Thanks for the concern about the eye injury, though.

I couldn't find an existing thread for thank-yous so sorry if I'm duplicating. I'd like to thank Moorfields for checking out the eye I injured. Although the waiting time in A&E was quoted as 3-4 hours to see a doctor, I went through registration, triage, basic eye test, examination by (very lovely) practice nurse, doctor and pharmacy in around 50 minutes. I'm grateful to live in a place where you can walk in off the street and receive that quality of health service.

Quite possibly. Unfortunately it may have been too oblique for me, though, hence the Q...

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Stepping a bit above your station there, RPC. Gosh. Meaning?

In the last few years I've really come to respect Vanessa Feltz. She's highly intelligent and articulate, and her radio show on BBC London is an impressively high standard. She's also funny, able to laugh at herself and gets a lot out of life. I think a lot of the criticism tends to be driven by covert sexism. Roll on the day when a woman isn't automatically put down for being overweight and over 40, or for (heaven forbid) speaking her mind.

Earlier a sudden shower of rain hit the windows, with a deep golden sunset behind and above it the rest of the sky grey-purple. Had to stop what I was doing to enjoy it. Very lovely.

I think if she was planning to do that she wouldn't have approached it in this way. Personally I sympathise with her and I find it understandable that someone could want to remove their presence completely. Most of the threads are pretty ephemeral anyway so I don't see that it would ruin things for other users. Who knows, might even encourage better manners in some. I know that some of the longtime users don't like people to use the word bullying, but if you ridicule, criticise or attack someone repeatedly, especially when you carry it on after the original disagreement or into another thread, that's what it is by normal standards.

I defy you to feel the same way after ten minutes of listening to Richard Madeley on R2.

Some of the posts in this thread illustrate the kind of attitude that has made plenty of people leave the forum in the past. It doesn't seem an outrageous request to be able either to 'delete my account' or ask Admin to do it.

Have you tried the website Borrowmydoggy.com? There are quite a few members in this area.

Doesn't trick or treat come from a Celtic tradition? Wonder if Scotland could copyright it retroactively come independence. That would be a nice revenue stream.

I go out for lunch occasionally with colleagues, most of whom, like me, are self-employed. One does the above and then grabs the receipt to claim the entire lunch as expenses. Rest of us too polite to say anything.

Salsaboy, if it's not your usual route, there's less at stake if it goes wrong. If it were me I'd be tempted to have a 'dentist appointment' early next week and give it a try. Or if you don't want to live in a Richard Curtis movie, you could put a message in that section in the Metro.

Another possibility is that Salsaboy has now spoken to her and got her phone number (or the spark of love went out the instant she opened her mouth - been there myself, goodness knows) but either way doesn't fancy sharing it with an audience. If this is the case, I apologise for my own helpful advice, which clearly never worked for me either.

Any update on romantic progress?

Cous cous. It gets everywhere.

The thing about jargon is that using a little of it tends to give people the comfort that you know what you're doing (as opposed to a lot, which makes people think you don't know how to turn the theory into action). I use 'to scope' as shorthand for 'to understand and plan the potential scope of' and I think it's OK. Work context only, though, otherwise you sound like a prat.

Salsaboy, it's time to become Salsaman. Smiling back isn't enough; you might just be being polite. You need to give her confidence that you want to talk. Say hi. Say 'lovely day again'. Say 'do you use the EDF by any chance' (because let's face it, that would do the job for you now).

One down... Pretentious marketing nonsense. ('Art Hub', FFS.)

Mind you, after three days she's thinking, well, I smiled at him three mornings running and he hasn't responded, so I guess he's not interested. It's a psychic gift I have.

Pretext indeed. Just smile back and say hi.