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

Enough of Christmas decorations! It's only November. I know that some people put their decorations up on 1st December, but even that's a bit early IMO. To me, Christmas means Christmas, not the whole of December.

I might actually put our up tonight. It's a rare night where I'm about to head home from the brewery before 8pm. So will possibly have time to do them, and I don't know when I next will.

I was talking about advent dex. They come down on Christmas Eve when the Christmas decorations go up.

Fair enough. I haven't seen advent decorations since I lived with my parents. We had an advent ring that came out every year and a candle was lit on each of the four Sundays before Christmas. I haven't thought about it for years. Thanks for reawakening those memories.

Mega hate from yesterday, although it's more annoyance with myself. I realised that I was increasing stitches too often on the sleeve I was knitting and had to unravel more than 40 rows. Considering that I want the cardigan to be finished by Christmas, this is quite a setback.

I'm another one who votes for bananas being - I can't stand the smell either, and even a whiff of it is unpleasant. I once tried to try a strawberry smoothie, but as soon as I went to sip it, I knew it had banana in it as well as strawberry, so that was that...

"PH Update: They had the cask upside down."

Weirdly, the last page of this thread didn't appear until after I posted so I missed the last few postings, again, but never mind...

Ah, sorry to hear about the knitting troubles - I hope things go more smoothly for you from now on I need to do more knitting, as I'm int he middle of a cardigan too. Somehow I created two extra stitches somewhere, so that has put me off a bit. It would be quite straightforward to k2tog somewhere discreet, so I must get back to it...

Hubby insisted that I start work on the top I want to wear at Christmas, so that gives me some more petty hates. One is the hassle of correcting mistakes made on a fancy pattern. It's a lacey top, lots of holes, day to miss creating one, hard to pick up a dropped stitch if it's not one of the 'bonds'. The second PH is working to a deadline, especially one that's as close as Christmas. Knitting is a hobby, something I do for pleasure. Deadlines make it feel like work.

That should have read 'hard to miss creating one '. I must turn off predictive text and/or check what I've typed before I hit Post.

It should also have been 'if it's not one of the holes '. Preview, preview, preview. Or just read before posting.

I really don't understand why people use predictive text and spelling correctors. They seem to do nothing but cause trouble. Would anyone care to try and enlighten me?

When typing with thumbs on a small device which can be a challenge for people with fingers and thumbs (i.e., most of us), it's useful for long words. I leave it switched on on phone and tablet, but I make sure I pick the suggestion I want. I rarely get one wrong.

PH: The concept of "networking" and the constant insistence of people that you "network".

When I get a new mobile device, the first thing I try to find is how to turn off the Auto Correct and Predictive Text. I do like the suggestions and I'll use those occasionally, and that's as "helpful" as I want text entry to ever be.

When people told me to "network" I went to the pub.

Bizarrely now that actually is my networking

I didn't realise that Predictive text and suggestions were different things.

When I said, 'predictive text' I guess I may have meant 'auto complete'.

The part I like is when I'm offered a list of suggestions, not when it finishes the word for me.

Me too - but I want to optionally choose to select, not have to deselect if I don't want any.
It's taken me a while to work out how to use foreign script with the keyboard, which offers me lots of options.

Ah yes - I've seen that but it's not active on any of my devices, that thing where it completes the word for you.

When I start to write a word I get a row of suggestions and if I'm fed up with typing, I can just tap the one that's right. If one of them is right. As I text in more than one language, it sometimes takes a while to work out which language to suggest a word in.

PH: bicycle gloves.
They're either too thick to wear and be able to operate gears and brakes, or so thin your thumbs freeze when you're cycling to work and it is, say, -5 or so.

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My cycle gloves do have full thumb coverage and aren't too thick, but I must admit they aren't as warming as they have been in the past, as they have extra ventilation holes in them now thanks to the friction of pushing the wheelchair wearing them out...