The Thread Of Randomness

[orudge]

It's always annoying when you send somebody a picture over iMessage, but they don't receive it (no signal or whatever) so your phone resends it as an MMS and costs you 40p or whatever. D:

I do remember MMS used to actually be quite good when roaming if you needed to write long messages, as you could send a long text-only MMS for 20p or something (I think this may have been on T-Mobile).

That also reminds me how it used to be cheaper, when I was on pay as you go, to send text messages in Europe anywhere but the UK - it was something like 8p for a text, due to the EU roaming cap, circa 2009, but 10p back in the UK!

These days it is quite rare that I send any standard SMS text messages at all. Almost all of my contacts that I message regularly have iPhones, so everything just goes over iMessage.

[Chrill]

Speaking of roaming, the roaming fees in the EU are removed entirely by mid-June this year. That means you will text, browse the web, and call for the same price you do at home!

Of course, courtesy of Brexit, this won't matter to you.

[ALEXbr]

Meanwhile in Romania

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It looks like they are against Brexit

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Back to Romania. I got to go to Bucharest yesterday. In the road I waited 3 trains and... some sheeps and goats...

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[ALEXbr]

Second part:
I found this on a toilet from a mall in Bucharest. It writes:
You make pee on the floor
I make pee on you

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It snowed on the road to Brăila (in Brăila and many other cities too) One car got lost down the road...

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Sorry for disturbing your day if I Disturbed your day...

[Kalen]

Bathroom wall writing is always an experience. Just the other day as I was leaving a stall in the mall, I noticed some writing on the door. Two pieces of it, in fact. The bottom one, a very confident "service advertisement" that looked sure not to disappoint any customers; above it, an anti-colonialist/imperialist message. Truly a harmonious combination of different literary styles.

[Pyoro]

Usually I'm just baffled people walk around with suitable pens in bars. Wasn't ever tempted to scribble on anything that wasn't mine, but even I were, I wouldn't have had anything to write with me ^^

[SkeedR]

I was in Galați just last week! Shame I've missed the snow.

[ALEXbr]

How was your journey? The people were friendly? The city was beautiful? Could you go again in Romania? Why?
One guy visited Brăila. He told:

This summer I was in Braila and could see the KT4D, E1 and GT8 running fine ithere. Also some buses from Vienna were to see. The driver, but also the women who controlled the tickets in the tram were extremely friendly, so friendly they are not in other cities - it was a wonderful trip.

[orudge]

Of course, courtesy of Brexit, this won't matter to you.

Hey, we've not left yet!

And my hope is that we'll manage to greatly increase the Lib Dem membership in Parliament and end up with less of a hard Brexit, although I fear that may be a fantasy. But in that case we (Scotland) will probably end up independent anyway...

[Redirect Left]

But in that case we (Scotland) will probably end up independent anyway...

If that happens, I plan on trying to do a quick abandon ship to Scotland myself

[Chrill]

But in that case we (Scotland) will probably end up independent anyway...

If that happens, I plan on trying to do a quick abandon ship to Scotland myself

According to an online test (and those are always entirely reliable) I mostly side with the SNP anyway so I might just go there myself!

[SkeedR]

How was your journey? The people were friendly? The city was beautiful? Could you go again in Romania? Why?
One guy visited Brăila. He told:

This summer I was in Braila and could see the KT4D, E1 and GT8 running fine ithere. Also some buses from Vienna were to see. The driver, but also the women who controlled the tickets in the tram were extremely friendly, so friendly they are not in other cities - it was a wonderful trip.

They journey to Galați was a little long, using an airport transfer bus from Bucharest... It was a most enjoyable trip though. I was out as part of a three man team doing some work with an organisation called Word Made Flesh. I am indeed looking to return next spring.

[Chrill]

Sweden is so Swedish that weeks after a terrorist attack, our main concern on a national scale in a recently published poll is "increased antibiotics resistance". This is tied with "changes in climate" for first place.

[Pilot]

Sweden is so Swedish that weeks after a terrorist attack, our main concern on a national scale in a recently published poll is "increased antibiotics resistance". This is tied with "changes in climate" for first place.

Out of interest, where did Terrorism place on this poll?

[Chrill]

Fourth, which is a slight increase to the same time last year (sixth). Third is "increased xenophobia". Fifth was, however, "increased number of refugees" so there are two sides to that coin...

[Redirect Left]

So here's something.

Why do we get IN cars, but ON trains? Why can't we also get on a car, or in a train?
When an alarm sets off. Why do we say the alarm is "going off" when its obviously going on and not off?

Words. Language. No logic.
Hurts my brain

[Chrill]

On a train, on a plane, on a boat. But also on a bike, on a skateboard...

Yeah, it does not add up.

[Redirect Left]

I can understnad 'on a bike' or 'on a skateboard'. As there is no physical thing to get 'in' to. A car is (usually) a fully enclosed thing, so you would get into it. Like you would a building.

[Pyoro]

Hum, put you climb up into a train, right? So you get on them. Like a horse. Same for buses. They traditionally have something to climb. Cars don't have that. Getting on a car would mean climbing on its roof.

And "going off" - well, that's just the meaning of the phrase, right? Doesn't have much to do with "on/off", just that it changes in state. When a bomb goes off, it explodes - before then it was doing nothing. When a man goes off, he shows his temper - before then he was being calm. And so.

Also confusing I find the use of the word "ride".

if something is a one-person mechanical conveyance you sit on, like a horse, you "ride" it.
if something looks more like a carriage than a horse, you "drive" it.
If something looks more like a carriage than a horse, and you are not controlling it, you "ride in" or "ride on" it (depending on whether you are inside or outside).

So do I ride or drive a skateboard? Oh, right, we take the cheap option and "skateboard". Let me just train home.

[GarryG]

What about "Catch a Bus" or "Catch a Train" ..

Often here the phrase .. "Time to go catch the bus" or "Here kids saying they going to catch the bus t school" ..

I haven't seen any one throwing and catching buses or trains yet.