What annoys you?

[bigmck]

OK all of you Topper fans, what was the ghost dogs name? He might have only been on TV, not sure.

 

[Dwarf]

The name of the ghost dog was Neil. He was a St. Bernard who belonged to the ghost couple George and Marian Kirby, the previous owners of the house that Cosmo Topper and his wife lived in.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Cosmo Topper

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Dwarf is right!
I grabbed the wrong name.
Never heard of anyone call the dog "Neil!"

 

[Britton30]

OK all of you Topper fans, what was the ghost dogs name? He might have only been on TV, not sure.

It's in the Wiki article. He loved matinis.

 

[bigmck]

That Dwarf is one smart cookie. Neil it is. He was an alcoholic........... not Dwarf, Neil.

 

[boohbah]

what annoys you?.....

making a coffee to discover your 3 yr old has put a couple of oxo cubes in the kettle previously

 

[SledgeDG]

What are oxo cubes? Anyways as a father I had to learn the hard way that kids are always good for a "surprise"

 

[Dwarf]

OXO cubes are basically gravy granules stuck together in the shape of a cube.

 

[SledgeDG]

Thank you Dwarf! So it's close to what we call Beef cubes here and
yes that sure makes for a tasty surprise

 

[Dwarf]

Sure does.

Gravy with your tea/coffee anyone?

 

[boohbah]

possibly known as a stock cube or bouillon

anyhow tastes shayt with coffee

 

[Hopalong X]

nurudeen

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Click here to go to your new thread.> http://www.sevenforums.com/network-sharing/212141-have-connection-but-no-internet-access.html

 

[gregrocker]

Interference in threads so that standard procedures which have helped in thousands of similar cases are confused or derailed entirely by competing suggestions. There's a rash of it right now, stretching one day solutions out to two weeks in one case.

The prob is not always with noobs. Other badged members' competing suggestions can give OP's pause even when they've not been working these same fixes for years or at all.

 

[JMH]

Mobile phones that are attached to people as per an appendage.

 

[boohbah]

report ,report ,report
greg, failing that, say so outright in the thread, that whomever is hindering the help being offered.

what annoys me ...

folks who take the hump when you have actually done them a favour :shock:

 

[Layback Bear]

Interference in threads so that standard procedures which have helped in thousands of similar cases are confused or derailed entirely by competing suggestions. There's a rash of it right now, stretching one day solutions out to two weeks in one case.

The prob is not always with noobs. Other badged members' competing suggestions can give OP's pause even when they've not been working these same fixes for years or at all.

I do read many if not most of your post trying to learn and I hope I'm not one of the bothersome ones.

 

[gregrocker]

Not at all. I shouldn't have said anything but sometimes it gets to where I need to vent and this seems to be the place. None of it is reportable since it's most always well-intended. I also make my share of mistakes which are caught faster this way.

 

[z3r010]

Vent all you want Greg, but if it gets too much then hit the report button and we will sort it out

 

[fseal]

I see that happen at times. I mean I've been guilty myself but usually only when I see that the initial suggestions are likely going WAY off base or are far to generic when a specific test may get to the heart of the matter right away.

Had one lately where a person was confused about the Documents and Settings folder (Everyone is at first) and almost immediately there was a suggestion to do a restore /repair then a reinstall. :/

You gotta get down to the actual meat of the problem, do a little triage, before suggesting such grand recovery options. In this case I was pretty sure the problem was a PEBKAK, perfectly solvable with a little education/explaination, and restoring/repairing and reinstalling were just enormous wastes of time and dangerous for the user (likely to lose a lot of data they wouldn't want to if not careful).