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- Wed Nov 20, 2019 4:50 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Security certificate expired?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 33936
Re: Security certificate expired?
The only list containing my C&F password will be the one maintained by this board. If that had been hacked I think you would have had more comments. I suspect a hacked WiFi router at a pub or cafe somewhere, or their third-party WiFi provider - the logo for which got attached to a link to this ...
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 10:35 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: My embarrassing reading comprehension fail
- Replies: 38
- Views: 27324
Re: My embarrassing reading comprehension fail
My session group also jokes consistently about “My darling’s a sheep”. So it is nice to know that seems like a wide spread joke.
- Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:23 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: British-Irish dialect Quiz
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12472
Re: British-Irish dialect Quiz
"Definitely not from around here are you?" They nailed that, all right. :) I've picked up an amazing amount of British and Irish English since I joined up here, and I see from the survey that I've barely scratched the surface. But I played fair and only used such words as I grew up with a...
- Wed Feb 06, 2019 7:44 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: I thought this amusing...
- Replies: 25
- Views: 20409
Re: I thought this amusing...
I am also very curious: Tor, what do you do with so many windows and desktops? In my imagination, you work in some kind of NSA Security Operations Center with several dozen monitors: watching realtime-data of what is going on all around the globe, but you also use the same equipment to check C&F...
- Wed Feb 06, 2019 7:34 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: And this is why I'm not on the Internet of Things:
- Replies: 60
- Views: 43648
Re: And this is why I'm not on the Internet of Things:
Have any been tagged with graffiti yet? That's a lot of blank space just ripe for the taking. Hey: admin should consider having the art department glorify the little tykes. Yes we are all waiting for the inevitable student pranks Any idea what the weight bearing capacity is? If Charles Darwin could...
- Sun Feb 03, 2019 2:10 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: And this is why I'm not on the Internet of Things:
- Replies: 60
- Views: 43648
Re: And this is why I'm not on the Internet of Things:
DrPhill wrote:Like this?Mr.Gumby wrote:Something like this? try have that talk to the interwebs..Iron Age heating
- Sun Feb 03, 2019 2:09 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: And this is why I'm not on the Internet of Things:
- Replies: 60
- Views: 43648
Re: And this is why I'm not on the Internet of Things:
Those are some pretty high expectations.Nanohedron wrote:Do so quickly and save us from ourselves. Please.AaronFW wrote:(I myself am trying to get into Cybersecurity so if I don't notice responses back I'm probably studying some more. )
- Sun Feb 03, 2019 12:08 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: And this is why I'm not on the Internet of Things:
- Replies: 60
- Views: 43648
- Sun Feb 03, 2019 8:35 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: And this is why I'm not on the Internet of Things:
- Replies: 60
- Views: 43648
Re: And this is why I'm not on the Internet of Things:
Right. Must go and fill the stove with logs. Robotics, Ben; robotics. Dust and spiders and splinters and burns are icky and not the way forward. You cannot be fulfilled until you have gadgetry up to your armpits and seeing to your every sanitized need; only then will Iron Age heating be brought int...
- Sun Feb 03, 2019 8:32 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: And this is why I'm not on the Internet of Things:
- Replies: 60
- Views: 43648
Re: And this is why I'm not on the Internet of Things:
I'm not into connected things either. One of the major issues right now is that they aren't secure and some of the security (such as updates) rely on the consumer to update them, and really, who is going to make sure to update their lightbulbs? I was reading a publication about this issue recently: ...
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:58 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: More "divided by a common language" stuff
- Replies: 414
- Views: 209786
Re: More "divided by a common language" stuff
...I had not heard the "peeing on roses" or "farting dust" before. Interesting. Did you have an immediate understanding of their meaning, even so? The reason I ask is that I never had to have them explained to me, but apparently this may not be the case elsewhere. I find it fran...
- Sat Jan 19, 2019 10:02 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: More "divided by a common language" stuff
- Replies: 414
- Views: 209786
Re: More "divided by a common language" stuff
For my two cents, I had not heard the "peeing on roses" or "farting dust" before. However, it could be that I am young (~30) and haven't had a history of hanging around pubs until last year. The phrases could be from Minnesota or perhaps they have Scandinavian heritage? Who knows...
- Sun Dec 16, 2018 3:22 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: The history of Irish flute making
- Replies: 74
- Views: 18812
Re: The history of Irish flute making
I've seen many other examples and references, too. As I understand it (this is probably way oversimplified), the transverse flute as a force arrived first in Britain via a German route, or at least was thought to, so the name stuck for a time as a way to distinguish this innovation, previously cult...
- Sun Dec 16, 2018 8:47 am
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: The history of Irish flute making
- Replies: 74
- Views: 18812
Re: The history of Irish flute making
Or did older players use it? Yes. Older players commonly used it, well before Paul Davies. This might seem like a pedantic question, but I mean it in sincerity: Do you happen to know why they called it a concert flute? The reason I ask is because I would expect people to simply call it a "flut...
- Fri Dec 14, 2018 5:35 pm
- Forum: Flute Forum
- Topic: The history of Irish flute making
- Replies: 74
- Views: 18812
Re: The history of Irish flute making
Woah, an early setback to my plans for world domination! Thanks for including us in the world domination. I'm attracted to Conical Bore's suggestion to use the expression, but start the introductory article with a definition, and take the opportunity to point out the term's inadequacies. But maybe ...