Same here B3 and especially when it happened during the lockdowns. I've even checked my Amazon orders to make sure Prime hasn't been activated by them surreptitiously.
@Lyn I think the problem is that some people are used to being a big fish in a small pond …. then they just can’t bear anyone else knowing more than them. There’s one in most village pubs … it’s usually the one sitting on their own. 🙄
That reminds me of a situation a few years ago when the place we stayed in Crete had a barbecue and quiz once a week. At the first quiz there was a guy mouthing off about being on the quiz team who won everything and were county champions, blah, blah, blah. His team did win that night, by a single point but he droned on about it for several days, boring everybody at the bar. The people who owned the apartments, only a small complex of about 20 units, were determined he wouldn't win the next week so bunged in a few really obscure questions, and gave me the answers in advance :-) When they read his team out as coming second his face was a picture - I thought he was going to explode. The daft part is though that the team I was in would actually have beaten them anyway without the 'assistance' given. I would stress that other people on the team knew a couple of the obscure answers, not me.
@Songbird-1, yes I experience that small font phenomenon but it usually rectifies itself within seconds. Fortunately I can read the most minute of print so it does not trouble me.
The websites that really slow down my iPad are the ones that link to newspapers, especially regional ones. I expect it is connected to the uploading of video advertisements. Mostly I look at these sites for juicy sport gossip, seeing how close LCFC are to signing Messi or Salah.
@Songbird-1. Have you tried powering your iPad off and on again. Mine often does strange things, although not what you’ve mentioned above, but powering off always rectifies it.
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Is this still about curmudgeonly experiences? If so I'll ask a question. If you're at a station with stairs and walkways with central handrails on the stairs and signs everywhere about staying left. And there's a big guy carrying a bike up the stairs on his left with the other side completely empty and that side was the closest to you to go down the stairs.
Would you take your left or go right and try to squeeze past the guy with the bike?
Further conditions. You're a couple and you decide to stop a few steps from the top to have a discussion.
So straw poll here. Do you take the empty left side going down or go right to get in the way with a grumpy 2m tall guy who's not had enough coffee to be happy yet?
Need I say what the couple chose to do. If I wasn't a nice guy I'd block the whole side and make them go back. I reckon I could have but that's not socially responsible, neither is going right in a go left zone.
Sorry I'm a stickler for obeying train station go left signs. They're there for our benefit.
Think Id hang about and wait for the chap with the bike to get up the stairs safely … it’s all an accident waiting to happen and I don’t need to add to it. Life’s complicated enough as it is
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That reminds me of a situation a few years ago when the place we stayed in Crete had a barbecue and quiz once a week. At the first quiz there was a guy mouthing off about being on the quiz team who won everything and were county champions, blah, blah, blah. His team did win that night, by a single point but he droned on about it for several days, boring everybody at the bar. The people who owned the apartments, only a small complex of about 20 units, were determined he wouldn't win the next week so bunged in a few really obscure questions, and gave me the answers in advance :-) When they read his team out as coming second his face was a picture - I thought he was going to explode. The daft part is though that the team I was in would actually have beaten them anyway without the 'assistance' given. I would stress that other people on the team knew a couple of the obscure answers, not me.
The websites that really slow down my iPad are the ones that link to newspapers, especially regional ones. I expect it is connected to the uploading of video advertisements. Mostly I look at these sites for juicy sport gossip, seeing how close LCFC are to signing Messi or Salah.
Ive been awake for an hour, but had a good book to finish on my iPad.
Would you take your left or go right and try to squeeze past the guy with the bike?
Further conditions. You're a couple and you decide to stop a few steps from the top to have a discussion.
So straw poll here. Do you take the empty left side going down or go right to get in the way with a grumpy 2m tall guy who's not had enough coffee to be happy yet?
Need I say what the couple chose to do. If I wasn't a nice guy I'd block the whole side and make them go back. I reckon I could have but that's not socially responsible, neither is going right in a go left zone.
Sorry I'm a stickler for obeying train station go left signs. They're there for our benefit.
Is that being curmudgeonly enough!
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