My dad used to use something called Swarfega when he’d been working on anything oily, it was amazing stuff.

Tried Google’s fancy tools on it - not bad:

That’s really cool, I love stuff like this. Movie making in the time before CGI, fabulous.

Ugh.

Can you tap outside the popup to make it go away? Or maybe swipe it down? Agree that Back should be enough, how annoying!

I guess you could ask the question of someone (line manager most likely) - "Hey I saw that all these appointments are in working hours - does that mean I’m meant to take them during work time? How does it work?” - ie just play innocent and at least get clarity from them on what they understand it to mean.

In writing, ideally!

I should probably watch it again to be fair, I’ve not seen it in quite a while. Maybe I’d like it more this time.

I’m a big fan of the books who didn’t really like the movie. But that’s partly because I’m also a huge fan of the BBC TV show so, to me, that’s what HHGG should look and sound like. Particularly Peter Jones as the voice of the Book (nothing against Stephen Fry in general).

The movie had some good moments, but having Zaphod’s second head beneath his first instead of beside it was a horrible idea. And the joke at the end about going in the wrong direction to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe seemed to suggest the makers thought that ‘End’ refers to a physical location in the universe as opposed to its chronological end point. Which annoyed me quite a bit.

It’s fine though, I’m not one of these “They completely ruined it” people - there are so many different versions of HHGG what with the radio show, the books, the audio books, the TV show, and the text adventure game, that there really isn’t a single definitive version. I happen to not like the film, but the rest still exist, so it’s all hoopy.

I was at George W.'s inauguration

Washington? Wow.

Loudermilk reference?

Motorcycles are deaf?

Nice pic! 👍

Reminds me of Anton Corbijn’s shots for R.E.M.'s Automatic for the People.

Fingers crossed you don’t get burned!

Isn’t there a risk that the number you reply to might be a premium rate number, and replying at all might land you a big charge?

I don’t get many of these types of messages, but I always just block them.

Yeah, that was a particularly egregious one! Triumph? Triumph?!? Ok then…

That’s really interesting, I didn’t realise the problem was that bad. I did the quiz at the bottom, tried to answer honestly and only got 5 out of 14 correct.

The purpose of this community is not to get things fixed, it’s to have a place to complain about things that are mildly irritating. For all you know, OP did raise a ticket. That doesn’t mean they can’t also complain about the issue here.

No, not at all, I’m not sure where you got that idea from.

What I’m talking about is when developers (or anyone else designing a public interface) utilise something which produces unintuitive results - in this case it’s the idea that when a user clicks in a box in the middle of the screen, the next thing that happens is that typed text appears somewhere other than where they clicked.

That’s not a bug, that’s just bad design.

I was sympathising with the OP who encountered this particular example, but also making fun of a general trend for this sort of thing, where companies and designers sometimes seem to think that regardless of what the user did, they should be railroaded into doing what the designer wants them to do.

It’s the wrong approach IMO, and leads to frustrating interactions with software. Or at least mildly irritating ones.

But don’t you know? The software developers know better than you do what you want. Resistance is futile. Comply citizen. Comply.

They don’t mind, as long as they can call you Betty.