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I filled my car up with petrol this morning, Shell have had a brilliant idea, they've fitted each pump with a large colour screen complete with a woman's voice that starts to nag you as soon as you pull up.
Cos what everyman wants to hear as he tries to insert a nozzle and pump is a a woman going on and on and on and...
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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This could quickly become SoapBox material... 
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Only if you've got a dirty mind. OK, I see your point.
I do not like disembodied female voices shouting at me from machines, it conjures up the Telescreen Announcer from 1984, with its reproaches for nonconformity and thought crime.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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But you will thank her/it if you do accidentally try to put petrol in a diesel car, see women ARE always right.
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I'm married, I don't actually hear what women say to me.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Me too, so it isn't just me then. 
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I was actually smart enough to do that before ever getting married.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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chriselst wrote: I do not like disembodied female voices shouting at me from machines
Didn't the Austin Maestro have this built in to nag people about seatbelts? Luckily being 1980's British build quality, it probably broke after the car was 3 days old
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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My dad had an Austin Maestro when I learnt to drive, but I don't remember it talking to me.
I do remember him swearing, shouting, squirming, stamping on imaginary peddles, and once punching me because someone overtook me, but I don't remember the car having a go as well.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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wasn't it only on the posh models, I do remember them having them it may have been the MG (should have shot them for sticking that badge on BL bucket)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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chriselst wrote: I don't remember the car having a go as well
Like I said, yours was probably more than 3 days old I found a video of it, looks like it was a "high end" (seriously?) feature..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH8orI8jdCA[^]
And now we wonder whatever happened to the British motor industry 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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one word - Unions
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: one word - Unions
First time I read that I thought it said Unicorns.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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No, not unions; @rseholes.
Unions are a good thing; @rseholes, who are ubiquitous, not just in unions, and who would be @rseholes whether or not they were union members, are just @rseholes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Unions and the Maestro
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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The Maestro was an improvement over the Marina let alone that wonderful machine the Ital, the rot started with the Allegro - which bright spark thought a square steering wheel was a good idea? you would think the wheel in the name would have been a hint
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: which bright spark thought a square steering wheel was a good idea?
Like we haven't worked on projects with similar architectural decisions..
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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aye, probably the same Project Manager
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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They have conducted a survey in France and asked people about whether they speak to such "talking" machine, and what they say : about everybody answered "Shut the f*** up".
Edit: Funny thing about it is that they confronted one designer with the results, and he tried to mention that it is made to help disabled people. Like yeah, let's give blind people vocal instructions to help them fill up their car at the gas station.
Personally, I HATE talking machines.
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"Yes I know, shut the f*** up" was what I mostly replied to it this morning.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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The real problem with talking machines in France is whether to use the formal or informal personal pronoun (tu or vous) when dealing with them.
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We have the same 'problem' here. I usually go by a racist joke, which I can't tell here. Anyway, it's a witless machine. No need to get formal since you can't possibly hurt its feelings.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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That's also what I say to the little TVs in hardware stores, when they start prattling on about their great, new, useless cr@p tools that will be used once, to try out, and then never see the light of day again.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I guess "Casse toi pauvre con" has two meanings in this sort of situation.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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This has kept coming back into my head, today, because (and I know you've translated it) my response is always precisely "Shut the f*** up!", out loud, no matter how may bus-loads of infant-school children are standing within earshot.
Maybe there's hope for anglo-franckicle relationships yet, as we appear to have a shared hatred for marketing morons.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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