h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Kaz, true, I found though if you *can* engage them in a little interaction beyond verbal request, it can help... "Yes I'd like nine of those thingi's." *Point to object.* As if by magic them having to think about what they are looking and listening about is enough to wake them from *shop-keep-coma* snooze mode.

A combination of senses. This reminds me of old computers that had a 'beep' you could enable, to signal keystroke. Maybe with modern computers, the could 'speak' the keystroke as we go?

All black coffee drinkers? Interesting. "No please, with 'black' I mean 'black'." Though, according to the dictionary: black coffee: çoffee without milk, usu strong'.
No mention of sugar.

Yes, some* people apparently have sugar in coffee or tea, weather the coffee or tea is black and how that affects the likely hood of someone having sugar I do not know, but I could propose it as a resurch PhD, see if I got any funding.... So I have to specifiy two specific things, the no milk factor, and the no sugar factor, and of course even when it does work it doesn't always work.
I got a cup of black coffee, about three or four years ago, in the end of August, at a service station ona road somewhere in East Anglia.
I drank a bit.... then gave it back to them and asked for them to put some coffee in with the hot water.... apparently it did have coffee in it... I asked for a refund... got one... but I'd have loved a cup of coffee instead.
I think I digress.
Did I mention I heard a duck a few moments ago outside my window? I think that was quite an unusal thing to hear from outside, makes a change from drunken louts, explosions, gun fire, shouting, car crashes car alarms, mobile phones, kids screaming and badgers.
I just had a cup of black tea; which I guess is a good point to end on before I begin whittering and have to hit the 'back' key to check again which conversation thread this is, but I do seem to remember whatever thread it is that it had something for whatever reason to do with coffee, which brings me to tea.

I sympathise. The treath, 'cuse me, tread, treat, threat? I'll check the dictionary. One sec.

*nods sagly

Re: Coffee and or tea study...

I think the answer is to ask for "NO!"

NO milk! NO cream! NO white powder pretending to emulate such! NO sugar! No sweetener! NO cold water! NO water that has not been near the beverage constituent to be named! NO 212 degC water! NO dirty cup! NO dregs from yesterday!
NO, no, no, just coffee fit for human consumtion! Cup or Mug *surprise* me!

Are you sure you did not forget the usual preambularies like, good day to you, please one, I repeat just one tea, put your index-finger in the air to stress the number one, smile, with milk, boooh cow, milk, sugar, yes I do know our whole modern society is build on the use of sugar, remember industrial revolution, low wages, childlabour, under nourishment sugar being exported from the west-indies, slaves, cheapest labour available, guilt, I really do apologise but we're over and done with that now, or are we not, besides there are good substitutes nowadays even synthetic, saccharine, saccharose, did I forget one, one clump of sugar, please. Thank, thank your kind support in this matter, please did you not forget to put the teabag into the cup. O tea, that really is another cup of tea. Do not get me started on the different types, ordinary english melange will do, no no do not mention different flavours, strawberry, melon, pumpkin, gooseberry, vannillaah, sinamon, krapefruut.

I almost exclusivly drink Darjeeling tea, its the flavour, the knowledge of it is tea of one kind, from a specific region, and I like it. Though, having said which, due to unforseen things or something an ocasion arrose a few weeks back where, with my grocerys, when they was dilivered, I recieved a large* and I mean large, box of fairtrade tea, of Indian nature, which is obviously blended, but rather palatable.
The tea, needless to say, like my coffee is drank with no milk, no cream, no sugar, no sweetner, no milk powder, or such like.

I only drink coffee from one shop, where they source it all directly, therefore fair trade. They sell between 10-20 different varieties all at different roasts, they know their coffee, they know it is better on its own. But they do humour very sweetly people who adultarate their coffee. (apologies for spelling, could someone enlighten me how to spell that word?)

I couldn't sea a single speling eror in your poste. I vary in what coffee I get, I like teh Talors of Harrogate Lazy morning coffee, which is already ground, I have two packets of it at the moment, as it was on offer, I've some Dowe egbarts, as well, though I can't spel that... and French coffee beans to use in my grinder, and a large jar of instant supermarket own (which I find better than most of teh branded mainstream instant coffees...)

I think I got adultarate wrong, it doesn't look right.

Adulterated, Kaz. Ooh, that sound's interesting!

I used to find things interesting that no one in their right mind would find interesting, I used to spend a lot of time in my left mind, thats for sure, well as sure as an apricot, if you read me alrighty ok like cuel as it was it is which isn't that it wasonly that I think 'bannanas' sometimes when it isn't convientiant.
Adultarated?

I certainly could not, nor would i pretend to agree more. It seems there are meny here among us who feel that proper usage of our fair language is but a joke. Sadly, it is those poor souls trapped in a world of anarchistic sentence structure and abhorrant grammar abuse will one day realise the counterproductiveness of such ill chosen demonstrations. But for now it is up to us, here in France, to subtly enlighten them of this birden.

(beer the poor mans champagne)

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PS Just kiddin' France, J'aieme in Les Etas Unis. I like French, but have never been there, (don't know much either). Bonjour, ouvre le livre. (Hello, open the book.) Yup, that's about it. Oh yeah, and 'Vous le vous avec moi, ce soir'. Sorry, y'all must be sick of that one by now.

Humbug. EXcse my french. It just asn't fher.
According to the dictionary 'thread'3) chain or line (connecting) parts of a story, etc): lose the > of one's discourse/argument. Y chtd, prfssr! y splld t rght!
Does that mean ww've got to read everything backward now in order to find the thrd?
?drht eht dnif ot redro ni won drawkcab gnihtyreve daer ot tog ev'I naem thatt seoD
For mispelling and mistyping: I trie uncredeeble haard. Itsss juust noot eesiie whin youurraah juuust uuu aah typpinggg wiithhh tan fingers for years and years on end.I have been programmed in a certain way, quel ennui, and i fighting hard aginst tttth prgrmmmng.
Phw.
Haw do yeah drink your caffey, pseudo-french person in the USE? Nooir?

*sips freshly ground/made strong black coffee, and nods vigerously

So do I. I cannot be bothered with milk and suguar. I agree, its just being lazy. Well you see, as I explained before, I type with ten fingers. Blind. So every word I misspell is an honest mistake: I do not know how to spell it. (Apart from sugar, of course.)
What I can do in order to enhance the effect of mistyping is playing the keyboard like a pianist plays the piano, crosshanded. So instead of the pink of the left hand on the a and the indexfinger on the f, I can put the pink on the j and the thumb on the :. My right hand will than move to the lefthand side of the keyboard, are you still with me, and will cover the a and f area.
Right, here it comes.

Now, whicch word do you read here, archangelarm.

Back to traditional position, which, I now know from experience, is the most practical for typing; the thumbs are getting in the way once one plays the keyboard crosshanded. It becomes difficult for them to reach the spacebar. Try it. I promise, there are no dangerous side effects, neither on the left nor the right part of your brain. There will be no meltdown. Well, not that I noticed.

Your 'avin me on.

Certainly not. I can even type Bach on the keyboaard, crosshanded.