The Rant Thread (v 1.2)

[DanieMarie]

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Oh I didn't know I could turn that off! Good to know.

Yeah, you can deactivate requests to translate languages. I didn't know that for ages and it always annoyed me.

[B. de Corbin]

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What a pisser.

Yesterday, my six cherry trees were loaded with cherries, ripe for picking.

Today, I went out to harvest, but the storm we had totally destroyed every cherry on every tree.

The absolute definition of "a pisser."

[Näre]

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Google won't let me use each sub-level domain for what it is. I google things in both English and German. I want to use google.de for German and google.com, google.co.uk, or google.ca for English. But it saves your settings now, including your language settings. So when I load google.de, it's in English and shows a preference for English search results. That's not what I want. I only use google.de for German things. But if I change my language settings to German, it will switch all of my search result preferences in English speaking countries to German.

You can pick more than one preferred language on Google! (Somewhere in the settings, I can't remember where but I had the same problem.)

[DanieMarie]

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You can pick more than one preferred language on Google! (Somewhere in the settings, I can't remember where but I had the same problem.)

Ooo thanks! I'll look for that!

[anunitu]

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What a pisser.

Yesterday, my six cherry trees were loaded with cherries, ripe for picking.

Today, I went out to harvest, but the storm we had totally destroyed every cherry on every tree.

The absolute definition of "a pisser."

I am guessing you were going to eat cherries until you dropped,OR be making cherry jam or jelly,or cherry pies..or bottling cherry juice to make a certain kind of wine...sweet cherry wine..?


Well,there is sweet cherry wine.

But there was also this..I knew I had heard of sweet cherry wine somewhere.

[Hawkfeathers]

Re: The Rant Thread (v 1.2)

What a pisser.

Yesterday, my six cherry trees were loaded with cherries, ripe for picking.

Today, I went out to harvest, but the storm we had totally destroyed every cherry on every tree.

The absolute definition of "a pisser."

Awww that's a shame. I love fresh fruit - been getting lots of peaches, cherries, blueberries, etc. at the farmers market lately.

[B. de Corbin]

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I am guessing you were going to eat cherries until you dropped,OR be making cherry jam or jelly,or cherry pies..or bottling cherry juice to make a certain kind of wine...sweet cherry wine..?

They were sour cherries. I was lusting for pie and jam .

[anunitu]

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Yeh,real home made jam in the middle of winter..ummmmmmmmmm

[DragonsFriend]

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We still have grape and strawberry jam from last year and we have canned apricot jam already this year. The grapes and peaches will be ripe a a little more than a month and we are getting a lot of strawberries already this year. Potatoes are doing well but the sweet potatoes and tomatoes are going slow. We have onions, garlic, and cantaloupe growing nicely too. Half of the Amaranth crop didn't do much of anything but the other half is flowering so we will have some Amaranth this year too.

[B. de Corbin]

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I've got peaches to can (can't grow them well here - too cold), and the grapes (Concord) won't be ripe till September/October. Looking forward to pears, also.

I oughtta do something with the gobs of rhubarb, other than make the occassional pie...

[DragonsFriend]

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Rhubarb makes a great jam!

[anunitu]

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I love Rhubarb pie,did not know it could make Jam as well.

[monsno_leedra]

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Have to admit I get irritated when I open a page for an article or item I am interested in reading about but have to wait forever it seems due to all the adds and crap on the page. Seems like more and more sites have a small section of the screen dedicated to the actual article and the other 90 percent is add or other pup-ups that take forever to load. The each following page its the same again as you wait for all the stuff to load. Even to the point of freezing the page because of the speed of the various servers and such that host the various adds or add links.

Don't know how many times i've given up reading simply because all the pop-ups and add's on the darn page.

[MaskedOne]

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Have to admit I get irritated when I open a page for an article or item I am interested in reading about but have to wait forever it seems due to all the adds and crap on the page. Seems like more and more sites have a small section of the screen dedicated to the actual article and the other 90 percent is add or other pup-ups that take forever to load. The each following page its the same again as you wait for all the stuff to load. Even to the point of freezing the page because of the speed of the various servers and such that host the various adds or add links.

Don't know how many times i've given up reading simply because all the pop-ups and add's on the darn page.

Ad blockers are your friend. I use one built for firefox but others exist. Given that ads are a convenient source of malware, finding a decent free one to lock your browser down with is a good idea on a number of levels.

[anunitu]

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Then you run into the argument from Advertisers that ad blockers stifle things because "Revenue" covers sites..and it does make sense when they don't over do things. There should be a balance for ads..and then the advertisers would not catch so much venom..But greed slips in,and so ad blocker to the rescue.