Thank you 
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On my momās birthday or day of her passing, we always bought her favourite food: Peking Duck. I also make her a cup of her usual latte and foam it up the way she used to like it (with her usual instant coffee brand). Hope that you find something similar.
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Have a tipple of her fave drinkā¦and a plate of her fave snacksā¦
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Just been out walking the dog and collecting conkers, they keep spiders at bay according to my missus, and I was literally sweating my arse off.
Sit down & turn the golf on and Iām seeing golfers not even a mile from me wearing wind cheaters and wooly hats.
Fannies
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āSoft Cocksā where I come from
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āWankersā here.
(I think this little lot might belong in the Susie Dent thread.)
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Iāve bought myself a new keyboard as some of the keys had worn out on my old one, particularly EILOPRV. Iām not sure what I keep typing.
Anyway, I went for this. Illuminated with HUGE letters for the blind and elderly. Itās bloody glorious:
Unfortunately, this probably means that I am old and decrepit.
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Looks like the āoā is fucked already. 
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Provile - itās a viagra substitute apparently.
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Linguists, explain to me how this is technically correct language. āCancer Survivorā, I understand. You can die from that. How can you die, apart from suicide, from being the relatives of a fallen soldier ?
Seems silly and exceptionally pretentious use of language to me, to call oneself a āGold Star Survivorā just because your brother, son or daughter (whatever) died in combat abroad.
Is anyone who lives longer than a son, daughter, wife, husband, brother etc., considered a āSurvivorā in the United States ? What are they surviving exactly ?
I am a survivor too then, and so are most people I know. So extremely pretentious this, and such unworthy use of language where it no longer has any real meaning. Itās as if someone is using this proudly as a ātitleā. Bizarre.
(That was my random, unrelated to anything, post of the day)
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There is a turn of phrase in obituaries, when someone dies, to say that they were āsurvived by their wife and 3 childrenā etc.
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Yes, that phrase I have heard (and certainly often read) used in that particular way.
Itās just that this seems more like a title. And a title you generally give to someone who has survived a catastrophe ? And surely, the Gold Star, a physical object, did not kill anyone. But as usual I am overthinking unimportant trivial matters, but such are my hobbies 
I suppose I just find the title a bit distasteful when they have not been in a war zone. It is as if you call yourself a Genocide Survivor, but have never ever been in a country where a genocide actually takes place. Seems out of place and borderline vulgar.
But the truth is, my friend. I just like to argue Sometimes you learn something by being obstinate and argumentative due to being confronted by arguments of others like yourself.
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Can you post a link to the site you bought it from, to see if they do an English version?
Posting the payment page would be super helpful
I honour you as a Sight-Loss Survivor and wish you countless years to come with your Handicap-Keyboard 
Seriously though, like Dane alludes to, this looks helpful. Thankfully, I donāt need it myself, but I know some that actually do (my keyboards tends to lose the ASDW, due to my pressing those keys too often if I am playing a game). I actually recently bought a new one, due to A and D not working properly, which made writing a paper very frustrating indeed.
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This should be the QWERTY equivalent on Amazon:
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Thanks 
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Being American? 
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God bless Mrs ROTW. We just arrived in Missouri to visit our son at college. They have a game tomorrow so it should be a nice little weekend, away from the norm. If it was just me Iād stay in a boring hotel. Mrs ROTW gets on Airbnb and finds interesting places.
The place we are staying at is a train carriage in the countryside and we have the whole thing to ourselves. At one end is a little kitchen. At the other end is a bathroom. The large space in the middle is an open bedroom / lounge / dining room.
I hear my daughter saying the word āwhimsicalā a lot - it might be a generational thing as I hear that group say it a lot. Anyhow, itās probably a good word to describe this. Smart TV, WiFi and a/c, but at the same time pretty quaint.
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We just had a new program launch with our work health insurance and it comes with free blood tests. I havent done labs in a while so decided to take up the offer and was supposed to go in this morning butā¦
The service I booked through has put my appointment in some weird cyber netherworld. If I log into my account with them directly the appointment doesnt exist. If I link to my account from the confirmation email then the appointment is there. I have worked with this company before and they are notorious at results going missing so Iām not going to go if there is a risk of my results never showing up. I have been messaging them to try to resolve the issue with the missing appointment for days and every time they just tell me where I can find my upcoming appointments when I log into my account. Yes I know where the appointment SHOULD be. The point is it isnt there you stupid bastards.
Secondly, this is supposed to be a free service with no out of pocket expenses, but there are repeated references in the confirmation docs about costs. I have contacted both the service provided and my insurance to get clarification and over the course of 7 different responses not one of them has responded to the question that was asked.
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