The staff in our Tesco's when my son was little always used to perk up when he and I walked in the store. They loved him to bits because there really was no end to the innovative ways in which he diverted them from their day-to-day activities. Nor was there a trolley on the planet that could contain him.
The problem was gaps mostly. Any gap he thought he could fit his head into he'd try out for size, and if that fitted he would go the whole hog and if it didn't there was always the store janitor.
Part of his "this is the world you've been born into. I'm sorry but you're stuck with it" training involved dismantling their toilets so that he could see for himself, that yes, they did indeed work like the one at home did, before then reassembling them. We learned a lot about each other and the world in our local store, and they learned a lot too :))
There was a link here. I've removed it because something went wrong.
Thank you! I did :)
^this^ or ^that^ depending on your perspective, was aimed at Dr Bacon's bird clip, everyone, which is what I linked to or rather messed up linking to.
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That sounds more frightening than "Alien vs. Predator !"
Oh it is, believe me!! But going shopping with someone elses wife has certain merits to reccommend it as in
"Have you not tried that then? Er no, my husband is a bit Conservative. Well that's Ok we can't all vote Labour can we. Ever had alfresco on the patio? Well there was that time when we were first married........ Oh I see what you mean"
Can be most illuminating :-)
Hello Annie, So we have a budding sanitary engineer in the family then? No doubt you are feeling flushed with success?
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Well I can say that you are all NOT behaving yourselves. Excellent quality on the 26 question too. Plus we are more than a significant fraction of our way toward the goal number of posts for winning this thread. Here "significant fraction" is defined to be the least rational number formed by the ratio of two consecutive natural numbers ..... :-)
Apart from that, the lesson for the day is ( obtusely ) : there is a post office in Illinois, near Bensenville & south of Chicago, which has a parcel for me. That parcel contains a key part for the repair of our household vacuum cleaner ( Dyson 41C, pet hair variety ). No doubt they are waiting for me to come and pick it up in person. It has been ten days now. You see I work in Lilydale, Victoria, Australia. Even UPS recognises that as the delivery address.
Quick now : what is the name of the town near Bensenville, the post office of which has my package ?
Thank you UPS.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I really would like to know what that poor chap Bill Posters has done wrong. Everywhere I go I see signs saying that he will be prosecuted. Victimisation I call it!
A pal of mine at a recent Probus Lunch told me about a couple of weeks ago where he was in a queue for the till at his local supermarket, and the shopper in front had a selection of 1/2 a dozen flour packs, plain, self raising, cornflour, whole wheat etc. He tapped the woman on the shoulder and said "That's the best flour display I've seen for ages!". She didn't seem amused but everyone else was laughing :-)
Funny the things people do isn't it Einsteinians? You see a sign saying "Don't touch - wet paint" and what is the first thing people do - touch!! Why?
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Partner shipping is a dirty thing. For days the tracking is screwed up. Then again some shippers don't attach a US Customs form and things go into the black hole. Also there is no postal tracking on international shipments once they leave the country. Because they get assigned a different number when they get to the next country and its post office.
Of course it could be waiting for the container to be filled to the brim before it heads to Australia ... might take 26 days ...
Lilydale (I have just learned) is a neighborhood on the south side of Chicago where I have driven through a few times but would not want my car to break down. Bensenville is on the southwest border of O'Hare Airport, which is on the northwest side of Chicago (it actually sticks off the side of the city like a polyp, attached only by the Kennedy Expressway, aka I-90). Bing Maps says it's at least a 32 mile, 45 minute drive, although the crow's flight would be less.
(Actually, I didn't find the address of the Lilydale post office in Chicago. I learned about the neighborhood, but for the directions I had to go with a local business. Asking Bing Maps for the post office only found me the one in Queensland.)
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Right, so dear old UPS has mixed up Lilydale chicago USA, with Lilydale, Victoria, Australia. Either they didn't take any notice of the country, or maybe not the postcode either. Could it be that they use an eclectronic scanning and sorting system and it picked up Lilydale first as in the address being written something like
Mr HewsonLILYDALEVictoriaAB 123Australia
In the UK our automated sorting system is based on OCR and built around postcodes which are expected as the last line of an address. As an experiment I once addressed a letter to myself with just Mr S and the postcode. The correct postcode in a city or suburb will get you to the nearest 30 or so houses in a road or street, from there it is local knowledge by the postie, or being lucky with another letter for you with the full address. And yes it got here.
When sending abroad I always use a blue Par Avion label which rather sticks out that it's air mail, and therefore going overseas.
If I send something airmail to a friend in a major West Coast city from the UK, it can get there in 7 days. Post something to another friend just 70 miles inland from there and it takes another 3 days. Both are standard advertised times. We are spoilt in the UK, if we post a letter First Class before 5pm, it will be delivered to mainland Britain the next day. Excepting of course remote spots in Wales and the Sottish Highlands. But of course the whole UK could fit into some USA States 5 times over!
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
The staff in our Tesco's when
The staff in our Tesco's when my son was little always used to perk up when he and I walked in the store. They loved him to bits because there really was no end to the innovative ways in which he diverted them from their day-to-day activities. Nor was there a trolley on the planet that could contain him.
The problem was gaps mostly. Any gap he thought he could fit his head into he'd try out for size, and if that fitted he would go the whole hog and if it didn't there was always the store janitor.
Part of his "this is the world you've been born into. I'm sorry but you're stuck with it" training involved dismantling their toilets so that he could see for himself, that yes, they did indeed work like the one at home did, before then reassembling them. We learned a lot about each other and the world in our local store, and they learned a lot too :))
There was a link here. I've removed it because something went wrong.
Thank you! I did :)
^this^ or ^that^ depending on your perspective, was aimed at Dr Bacon's bird clip, everyone, which is what I linked to or rather messed up linking to.
This ---> Hello! <--- is aimed at everyone, everyone :)
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
That sounds more frightening
Oh it is, believe me!! But going shopping with someone elses wife has certain merits to reccommend it as in
"Have you not tried that then? Er no, my husband is a bit Conservative. Well that's Ok we can't all vote Labour can we. Ever had alfresco on the patio? Well there was that time when we were first married........ Oh I see what you mean"
Can be most illuminating :-)
Hello Annie, So we have a budding sanitary engineer in the family then? No doubt you are feeling flushed with success?
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Happy milestone David !
Happy milestone David ! :-)
Well I can say that you are all
NOTbehaving yourselves. Excellent quality on the 26 question too. Plus we are more than a significant fraction of our way toward the goal number of posts for winning this thread. Here "significant fraction" is defined to be the least rational number formed by the ratio of two consecutive natural numbers ..... :-)Apart from that, the lesson for the day is ( obtusely ) : there is a post office in Illinois, near Bensenville & south of Chicago, which has a parcel for me. That parcel contains a key part for the repair of our household vacuum cleaner ( Dyson 41C, pet hair variety ). No doubt they are waiting for me to come and pick it up in person. It has been ten days now. You see I work in Lilydale, Victoria, Australia. Even UPS recognises that as the delivery address.
Quick now : what is the name of the town near Bensenville, the post office of which has my package ?
Thank you UPS.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I really would like to know
I really would like to know what that poor chap Bill Posters has done wrong. Everywhere I go I see signs saying that he will be prosecuted. Victimisation I call it!
A pal of mine at a recent Probus Lunch told me about a couple of weeks ago where he was in a queue for the till at his local supermarket, and the shopper in front had a selection of 1/2 a dozen flour packs, plain, self raising, cornflour, whole wheat etc. He tapped the woman on the shoulder and said "That's the best flour display I've seen for ages!". She didn't seem amused but everyone else was laughing :-)
Funny the things people do isn't it Einsteinians? You see a sign saying "Don't touch - wet paint" and what is the first thing people do - touch!! Why?
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
UPS != USPS Partner shipping
UPS != USPS
Partner shipping is a dirty thing. For days the tracking is screwed up. Then again some shippers don't attach a US Customs form and things go into the black hole. Also there is no postal tracking on international shipments once they leave the country. Because they get assigned a different number when they get to the next country and its post office.
Of course it could be waiting for the container to be filled to the brim before it heads to Australia ... might take 26 days ...
Moral, next time pay for next day FedEx.
They probably had some
They probably had some difficulty reading your handwriting hehehehehe :)
Annie minion :)
Einstein@Home Verified Contributor (I think?)
Lilydale (I have just
Lilydale (I have just learned) is a neighborhood on the south side of Chicago where I have driven through a few times but would not want my car to break down. Bensenville is on the southwest border of O'Hare Airport, which is on the northwest side of Chicago (it actually sticks off the side of the city like a polyp, attached only by the Kennedy Expressway, aka I-90). Bing Maps says it's at least a 32 mile, 45 minute drive, although the crow's flight would be less.
(Actually, I didn't find the address of the Lilydale post office in Chicago. I learned about the neighborhood, but for the directions I had to go with a local business. Asking Bing Maps for the post office only found me the one in Queensland.)
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Going by the USPS PO locator
Going by the USPS PO locator site I don't think that Lilydale has a PO. The nearest is
1859 S ASHLAND AVE CHICAGO, IL 60608-9998
https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?address=60048&radius=60&locationType=po&locationTypeQ=po&locationID=1377506&locationName=PILSEN&address2=&address1=1859+S+ASHLAND+AVE&city=CHICAGO&state=IL&zip5=60608&zip4=9998&tollFree=800-ASK-USPS%26reg%3B%26nbsp%3B(800-275-8777)&latitude=41.8565035&longitude=-87.666046
Right, so dear old UPS has
Right, so dear old UPS has mixed up Lilydale chicago USA, with Lilydale, Victoria, Australia. Either they didn't take any notice of the country, or maybe not the postcode either. Could it be that they use an eclectronic scanning and sorting system and it picked up Lilydale first as in the address being written something like
Mr Hewson LILYDALE Victoria AB 123 AustraliaIn the UK our automated sorting system is based on OCR and built around postcodes which are expected as the last line of an address. As an experiment I once addressed a letter to myself with just Mr S and the postcode. The correct postcode in a city or suburb will get you to the nearest 30 or so houses in a road or street, from there it is local knowledge by the postie, or being lucky with another letter for you with the full address. And yes it got here.
When sending abroad I always use a blue Par Avion label which rather sticks out that it's air mail, and therefore going overseas.
If I send something airmail to a friend in a major West Coast city from the UK, it can get there in 7 days. Post something to another friend just 70 miles inland from there and it takes another 3 days. Both are standard advertised times. We are spoilt in the UK, if we post a letter First Class before 5pm, it will be delivered to mainland Britain the next day. Excepting of course remote spots in Wales and the Sottish Highlands. But of course the whole UK could fit into some USA States 5 times over!
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Chris, it might be a bit late
Chris, it might be a bit late to teach an old dog new tricks, but your knowledge of land area is sadly lacking,
Alaska is 7 times bigger than the UK. Texas over 3 times.
And just for future reference Australia is 11 times bigger than Texas.