Survey

As ever - AS seems to pay lip-service to anyone outside the USA. As if they are going to text me on my mobile (did you know that cell-phones are called handies in Germany?) here in the UK?

You're right Lexie - where's the comment/reason boxes on the survey.

I wonder if AS will publish the results?

Here's the link: [_ Take the Survey _] - you'll need to click on Click here to begin as it's tailored to each user...

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So please take this opportunity to let us know what you think of our ideas, before it's too late!

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- aaaargh, what will happen if you don't fill out the survey. I'm frightened (as opposed to scared which I still insist is the past tense of what you do to crows!).

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11. How often would you use a watch list feature if it were added?

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- no idea - what is it?

Oh Dear, after reading this, I followed the link and gave them a totally negative survey!

Everything I buy is a one off, I have never used bidding groups and as for phoning me (even if it were available as I don't wear my mobile like my kids do) if I have bid my max, why would I want to increase it?

If their dreams of huge increases in fees come to naught because nobody wants these extra services, will we all be stuffed with extra fees?

I would *ass-ume* it would be a pay-per-use for all these extra services.

Oh R2 - a handie is a very different thing down under.

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Originally posted by Bartelby:
Oh R2 - a _handie_ is a very different thing down under.

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And would it refer to something 'down under'?

My My BJ - your mind is very close to the gutter these days

They´re called "Handys" not "Handies".

And,
to our forum!!

Well then - a HandY is a very different thing down here.

Whatever it means, it isn't nice enough to list in the Aussie Slang dictionary!

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Originally posted by Bartelby:
Well then - a HandY is a very different thing down here.

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In the UK we say "Hand shandy" for the thing you´re referring to. Although from my experience you aussies wouldn´t know what shandy is, eh?

Shandy down here is a Diluted Beer drink for those that cant handle the full strength stuff.

My Grandma drinks them

Now I can see why AS or Infopop is not using a spell checker - the Multilanguage-slag version
might cost a dollar.. While A line recording you have edited a post is worthless beyond comment.

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Originally posted by Bartelby:
My My BJ - your mind is very close to the gutter these days

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Close isn't good enough! My mind is in the gutter at the moment ... I have a wonderful head cold Time for a trip to the store for some of that wonderful nyquil

BJ..

Ha! That's just what I've been doing ... lying on the couch sniffling, sneezing and catching up on my tivo'd shows Haven't found the energy to make it to the store yet for the nyquil, but it's gonna have to happen soon

Do you work while having such a cold? Looks like that would not be a good thing, considering.

BJSorry to hear your under the weather.

I really enjoy reading your witty posts

Seriously, you need some concentrated Cinnamon (sold in the UK as Langdale's Essence of Cinnamon).

Before you all shout, "pull the other one" "Quack, Quack, Quack" I don't really believe in most herbal potions either. However, I make an exception in this case as it seems to work. No, I'm not trying to get rid of you BJ!

When I lived in Ceylon (SRi Lanka) as a child, most of the villagers used to chew on Cinnamon bark to give them relief from the symptoms. If you look at most cold reliefs such as Beechams powders, they also contain Cinnamon.

So what have you got to lose - only the heady feeling! Report back afterwards and call me stupid, but try it first. (No R2, I don't get a commission from the makers!)

Camera, at least by the time he got some essence of cinnamon in the US, he would surely be cured! LOL! (just kidding)

Camera, when I llived in Germany, I was introduced to a pretty good "cure for the common cold."

BJ, sorry to hear that you are sick. Game to try this?

Get a cheap bottle of red wine and pour into a pot. Add 3 or 4 cinnamon sticks and about a half dozen or so of WHOLE cloves. Bring to a slow boil.

While this concoction is seeping, take a ho shower and put on the warmest clothes you have.
Drink the wine mix - you might want to add a KLOT of sugar or honey - this stuff tastes nasty plain. Then go to bed and cover up in your warmest blankets. Go to sleep.

This stuff causes some severe sweating, but it has always worked for me. The wine makes you sleepy, the cinnamon helps to clear the sinuses, and the cloves help to clean the blood of impurities - or so I've been told.

If I'm still sick tomorrow I'll give it a shot! Right now I'm doing the nyquil + 222's (222's are like tylenol 3's ... codeine). It's easier than getting a prescription for codeine cough syrup

Bj, you must really have a bad cold to take all that!! Hope you are better this AM!

Get back to bed Mrs M!!

It's from working around the public again All those nasty germs just waiting to hop into my head!

Lol, Lexie! Got a lot to do today so I thought I'd get an early start!

Know what you mean, BJ! My daughter got sent home from the hospital she works in yesterday with some kind of a highly contagious eye infection! Yuck!