Confess something that might surprise others or damage your reputation on JUB - 2014

[borg69unimatrix]

I sent a modestly lengthy e-mail to a person this week about a business thing. He wrote back:

"I stopped reading your e-mail after the third sentence, as this was all I could bear to read. Please, go back and educate yourself on the most fundamental rules of writing, and I'll consider reading anything further you choose to send me."

My crime? Double-spacing after periods.

This isn't the first time I've had this pointed out to me. One or two have understood it's a product of my age. I learned to type on manual typewriters, and we manual typists were taught to double-space after each sentence. But of course, that was then and this is now. There's no reason to double-space after periods. Of course, there's no real reason NOT to double-space after periods, either, except that all typographers have doth declared that single-spacing after periods is the proper method.

When this was first pointed out to me a couple of years ago, I sort of shrugged it off. I figured OK, I'm doing it "wrong", but big deal, right? A few might view it as something of a quirk, and that's all. But over the past several months, I've seen more and more complaints about double-spacing...until double-spacing is threatening to become the new "Comic Sans". "Every time I see somebody double-spacing, I want to gouge my eyes out." "Is there any easier way to tell the world you're functionally retarded?"

I apparently need to adapt or perish, else nobody will ever read anything I type ever again.

Lex

Are you f'ing serious? He threw a hissy fit over THAT???

 

[Anders123]

Are you f'ing serious? He threw a hissy fit over THAT???

You underestimate the pedantic pettiness of my fellow pseudo-intellectuals.




Confession: I discovered not long ago that I have a 'fetish' for guys wearing shirts and nothing else. Bonus points if it's a polo shirt. I have no idea why, but I'm significantly more turned on by that state of undress than any other (excluding nudity during sex, of course).

 

[G-Lexington]

I haven't noticed it here. Though there's a JUBber who generally omits a space after a comma— that bugs me

Dirty little secret - JUB (and many websites) automatically correct double spaces after periods to single spaces.

Are you f'ing serious? He threw a hissy fit over THAT???

As I said, I thought at first it was just one person who seemed to freak out about it. And I thought of it like hearing from somebody freaking out about not resetting the office microwave back to the time when finishing - like this person had some semi-OCD issue with it. Then I heard another, and another, and another. And it grew from "I don't like seeing two spaces after periods" to "why do people double-space after periods" to "seriously - if you're going to double-space after periods, you may as well not write". Similar to the complaints I saw about Comic Sans font.

Lex

 

[pat grimshaw]

...I discovered not long ago that I have a 'fetish' for guys wearing shirts and nothing else...

Oh Anders! I can tell my current avatar has set you off

 

[Anders123]

Oh Anders! I can tell my current avatar has set you off

It's actually a 2 for 1, as I also have a fetish for brass play.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Dirty little secret - JUB (and many websites) automatically correct double spaces after periods to single spaces.



As I said, I thought at first it was just one person who seemed to freak out about it. And I thought of it like hearing from somebody freaking out about not resetting the office microwave back to the time when finishing - like this person had some semi-OCD issue with it. Then I heard another, and another, and another. And it grew from "I don't like seeing two spaces after periods" to "why do people double-space after periods" to "seriously - if you're going to double-space after periods, you may as well not write". Similar to the complaints I saw about Comic Sans font.

Lex

I double space after periods. I'm sure I do worse than that too. I've had people (here) correct my grammar and spelling/typos (only a select few of the most ocd). I've never had a complaint about double spacing. EVER.

 

[belamyi]

I double space after periods.

That's weird, but in you it may be a borg thing... like and infection from the gargoyles

 

[belamyi]

Are you f'ing serious? He threw a hissy fit over THAT???

People like to get big saying they are persons with feelings, a sentient mind blahblahblah, but people are fundamentally machines with a very definite programming, coupled to a set of guts full of shit and anger that goes off every time something upsets their programmed rules.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

That's weird, but in you it may be a borg thing... like and infection from the gargoyles

I think it's more an age thing. I learned to type on big chunky IBM typewriters around the same era as Lex. I still need a certain button feel to a keyboard, and hate the flat, textureless feel of a laptop keyboard.

 

[belamyi]

I think it's more an age thing. I learned to type on big chunky IBM typewriters around the same era as Lex. I still need a certain button feel to a keyboard, and hate the flat, textureless feel of a laptop keyboard.

OMGOMGOMG you're fuckinnnnnnnnng ooooooooold: how old are you... my age..?

In my case it's all the contrary: I so love the feeling of the Mac keyboards, or even this crappy notebook, and I hated so much the old computer ones with those deep little stones... go figure how I felt about those stupid gun machine typewriters

 

[Kyanimal]

I learned to type on a manual Royal that needed at least 3lb of pressure on each key! And, yet, my typing speed still managed to jamb it up!

Then came Electric typewriters. And, I'd still jamb those up, too!

Then came the IBM "Selectric" (ball) typewriters. And, I was Finally able to type "at Speed", with NO problems!

The current Keyboards are FAR above those Old IBMs! PLUS ... With a computer, I can also do SMILIES!!

Though, the FEEL is something a bit "less" than Actual typing.

Yet ... I shall Forever "Double Space" after periods! It's just an automatic, engrained, thing. For those who don't like it? Blow Me!

Of course ... No Matter What ...

Keep Smilin'!!
Chaz

P.S.
I do see the JUB does "correct" that "Double Spacing".

 

[frankfrank]

Double-spacing after periods? **OH, THE HUMANITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**

I think it's more an age thing. I learned to type on big chunky IBM typewriters around the same era as Lex. I still need a certain button feel to a keyboard, and hate the flat, textureless feel of a laptop keyboard.

I learned to type on a Royal manual typewriter which I think was from the 1920's - it was certainly quite old already when I first started playing with it around 1963 or 1964. I REALLY miss the very steep "elevation" of the old manual keyboards - that separated the keys so much that adjacent-rows typos (nowadays EXTREMELY common for me) were pretty much unknown.

I learned to type on a manual Royal that needed at least 3lb of pressure on each key! And, yet, my typing speed still managed to jamb it up!

Then came the IBM "Selectric" (ball) typewriters. And, I was Finally able to type "at Speed", with NO problems!

The current Keyboards are FAR above those Old IBMs!

Yet ... I shall Forever "Double Space" after periods! It's just an automatic, engrained, thing. For those who don't like it? Blow Me!

Actually, I liked the IBM Selectric enough that I was very happy to pay a premium price (about $160) for a very old [1990s maybe 1980s] IBM computer keyboard, not at all unlike the old Selectric ones, and I use it on my desktop. Instead of the "membrane" keyboards which are so common now, the IBM keyboard actually has metal springs inside every key, and when you type it makes the spring touch the side of the "keywell" (well, that's what I call it) which completes an electrical circuit and types the letter. The mechanical principle - I just LOVE the name of it - is called "catastrophic buckling" in the industry. Wow...sounds like a huge bridge collapsing or something, LOL.

My fastest typing speed, ever, in my lifetime, was on old manual typewriters. Probably because I learned typing on those, my tendency has always been to "pound" more on a keyboard than normal; the "pounding" is enough that phantom characters adjacent to the typed key often appear, or I'm brushing against adjacent keys. "trhan" for "than" is one of my extremely common typos; "ordfer" for "order" is another one that happens wioth me a LOT. (And "wioth" for "with" is common, too...) In general, a lot of "th" combinations become "trh" when I'm typing.

When I was using manual typewriters, I seldom jammed the keys. For me, typos on old manuals were perhaps 500 times as rare as they are for me on computer keyboards. Of course, a typo on a manual typewriter was much harder to correct, and of course it was pretty much impossible to *insert* forgotten words or such things.

I'm still not sure whether I'm brushing adjacents, or whether I'm striking the key hard enough that it "pulls down" the keyboard membrane resulting in the extra letter. If it was actually possible to have an old manual typewriter which could type data into a computer, and which could easily/always be repaired, I would spend a ton of $$ for it. Electric typewriters eventually ran into the same repair problems, as well, by 2005 or so.

Breakdowns, and the resulting impossibility of getting anything repaired, made manual typewriters nonviable before the end of our previous Century. Of course, if a computer keyboard breaks down, it's the easiest thing in the world to just go out and get another keyboard, and plug-'er-in, just like that, and it's good to go.

I shall forever double space after periods, too - in the same way, I was taught that way. It emphasizes the "full stop" after the period, and to my eyes a single space kind of "runs together" more trhan I like. (trhan - there's that typo I mentioned above...)

So, I really DO NOT have an issue with you double spacing after periods, KY. Does that mean that I can't blow you? Darn.

 

[frankfrank]

If there was such a thing as being able to buy a "loaf" of bread which, instead of one continuous loaf (sliced or not), was a collection of "heels" (ends) all packaged together, I would probably be very happy to pay $10 or more for that "loaf" of bread. End ends are, by far, my favorite part of the bread. I remember a thread in here three or four years ago and the nearly unanimous consensus seemed to be that people hate this part of the loaf.

I can't be the only one who likes these, though...

Has anybody ever tried marketing bread this way, as a "loaf" of loose bread heels? I've never seen it done, and it would also mean that the other loaves of bread could be sold without heels, and a lot of people would probably be happy for that.

I like the heels so much that, no matter how much I like the bread itself, I will *never* buy a loaf which provides the "heel" on only one of its ends (which is a fairly common practice for some of the more-premium breads).

 

[maxpowr9]

My mom emailed me a pic of my dad shirtless, in cutoff jeans and wearing a cowboy hat that was taken about 35 years ago.

I cringed.

 

[belamyi]

My mom emailed me a pic of my dad shirtless, in cutoff jeans and wearing a cowboy hat that was taken about 35 years ago.

I cringed.

Because of him or because of you?

 

[justanothershyguy]

I don't know if I'm just not educated enough about HIV...

But I read something somewhere (Sorry, don't remember where) that said "HIV poz and proud".

I do not believe this is something to be proud of. I sure hope he meant that he was proud for fighting/surviving with it. If not, I just don't get it.

 

[dereperez]

I don't know if I'm just not educated enough about HIV...

But I read something somewhere (Sorry, don't remember where) that said "HIV poz and proud".

I do not believe this is something to be proud of. I sure hope he meant that he was proud for fighting/surviving with it. If not, I just don't get it.

It could mean a few different things.

1) The way you mentioned it: proud of fighting and surviving with it.
2) Not ashamed for living his life, and now that he has HIV, he has no regrets.

...or...

3) the bugchasing subculture, where one actively pursues to be infected by HIV.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugchasing

There was a thread here in HT that was on bugchasers. Was interesting reading the many different thoughts on it.

 

[justanothershyguy]

It could mean a few different things.

1) The way you mentioned it: proud of fighting and surviving with it.
2) Not ashamed for living his life, and now that he has HIV, he has no regrets.

...or...

3) the bugchasing subculture, where one actively pursues to be infected by HIV.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugchasing

There was a thread here in HT that was on bugchasers. Was interesting reading the many different thoughts on it.

Hm! I learned something new!

But I still think it's not something to be proud of, especially when it can be fairly easily prevented.

Still though. Bugchasing. Very interesting

 

[borg69unimatrix]

I don't know if I'm just not educated enough about HIV...

But I read something somewhere (Sorry, don't remember where) that said "HIV poz and proud".

I do not believe this is something to be proud of. I sure hope he meant that he was proud for fighting/surviving with it. If not, I just don't get it.

In fighting any disease, your psychological well being is key. People need hope when facing the worst. If some doctor told you you were terminally ill and wasn't going to live forever and your days were finite, what would your outlook on life be? Live it to the fullest and as happy as possible, or just give up and sulk?

 

[maxpowr9]

More online shopping at work.

Bought a hockey jersey and a um....wristlet. Shame they don't make cardholders for men.

Also, this exists which is awesome...

Boston Bruins 7'' Plush Domo