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From: Bob Milutinovic on 10 Aug 2007 07:30 "bikerbetty" <bikerbetty(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:46bc1d9b$0$18464$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au... > betty (why do they always print > stuff the wrong size these days?) And here I was thinking it was merely a fallacy that women think "bigger is better." You've disillusioned me entirely, Betty :-( -- Bob Milutinovic Cognicom - "Australia's Web Presence Specialists" http://www.cognicom.net.au/ telephone (0417) 45-77-66 facsimile (02) 9824-2240
From: bikerbetty on 10 Aug 2007 07:45 "Bob Milutinovic" <cognicom(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:46bc4c4a$0$56211$c30e37c6(a)pit-reader.telstra.net... > "bikerbetty" <bikerbetty(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:46bc1d9b$0$18464$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au... > >> betty (why do they always print >> stuff the wrong size these days?) > > And here I was thinking it was merely a fallacy that women think "bigger > is better." > > You've disillusioned me entirely, Betty :-( > > -- > Bob Milutinovic > Cognicom - "Australia's Web Presence Specialists" > http://www.cognicom.net.au/ > telephone (0417) 45-77-66 > facsimile (02) 9824-2240 > sorry Bob, petal....<snigger> It's not that Bigger is Better (well, typographically speaking it IS... but I won't say a word beyond that!) but I'd just like to know who set the bloody text trends recently that made "weenily undoable" the default! Who the hell came up with the new text sizing regime? Bastards! betty
From: rockit on 10 Aug 2007 07:52 "Mad-Biker" <mad-biker(a)westnet(Panties).com.au> wrote in message news:13boco4g8vld879(a)corp.supernews.com... > what no zipties? > > > "Rheilly Phoull" <rheilly(a)bigpong.com.au> wrote in message > news:46bc2395$0$22610$5a62ac22(a)per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au... > > > > "Mad-Biker" <mad-biker(a)westnet(Panties).com.au> wrote in message > > news:13bnhf4kot7vs37(a)corp.supernews.com... > >> Ok, so whos done it? > >> > >> Got a big 45l rjays top box off the wifes scooter, and a spare ventura > >> rack top. > >> > >> obviously I will have to cut the hoop off, and weld it back on shorter or > >> something? > >> > >> Hopping-Mad Some people need to get their mind to work at a level above their navel. Think that I'm right on this one... Venturas are not welded with whatever variation of welding machine? They are bronzed. Very thin walled tube. Would need a good operator and I'm sure that there are experts out there who would know why; I've been told (often!) but can't remember. Rockit
From: Bob Milutinovic on 10 Aug 2007 08:06 "bikerbetty" <bikerbetty(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:46bc4fd7$0$6925$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au... > > I'd just like to know who set the bloody text trends recently > that made "weenily undoable" the default! Who the hell came up with the > new text sizing regime? Bastards! It's the damned youngsters, who else? I suspect (I won't go into detail on precisely why I do) that the present batch of marketing/press people out in force (those in their mid-20s) spent a lot of time at home as teenagers trying to get their computers to look 'n feel like impressive machines, and modified their default typeface sizes to such tiny proportions as to allow eight windows to be simultaneously visible on their screen. The proper thing to do of course would be to get a 23"+ monitor running at 1600x1200 (or higher) resolution, but then not all teenagers have parents who're both rich _and_ stupid. That trend though, the love of absolutely diminutive type sizes, has stayed with them into early adulthood, and now that they're in positions of control and influence, they're projecting those preferences onto the greater community. Ummm... What was the original topic again? :-/ -- Bob Milutinovic Cognicom - "Australia's Web Presence Specialists" http://www.cognicom.net.au/ telephone (0417) 45-77-66 facsimile (02) 9824-2240
From: bikerbetty on 10 Aug 2007 08:59
"Bob Milutinovic" <cognicom(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:46bc54b0$0$56231$c30e37c6(a)pit-reader.telstra.net... > "bikerbetty" <bikerbetty(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:46bc4fd7$0$6925$afc38c87(a)news.optusnet.com.au... >> >> I'd just like to know who set the bloody text trends recently >> that made "weenily undoable" the default! Who the hell came up with the >> new text sizing regime? Bastards! > > It's the damned youngsters, who else? > > I suspect (I won't go into detail on precisely why I do) that the present > batch of marketing/press people out in force (those in their mid-20s) > spent a lot of time at home as teenagers trying to get their computers to > look 'n feel like impressive machines, and modified their default typeface > sizes to such tiny proportions as to allow eight windows to be > simultaneously visible on their screen. > > The proper thing to do of course would be to get a 23"+ monitor running at > 1600x1200 (or higher) resolution, but then not all teenagers have parents > who're both rich _and_ stupid. > > That trend though, the love of absolutely diminutive type sizes, has > stayed with them into early adulthood, and now that they're in positions > of control and influence, they're projecting those preferences onto the > greater community. > > Ummm... What was the original topic again? :-/ > > -- > Bob Milutinovic > Cognicom - "Australia's Web Presence Specialists" > http://www.cognicom.net.au/ > telephone (0417) 45-77-66 > facsimile (02) 9824-2240 <Rex Harrison impersonation> "I think he's got it By George he's got it!" Oh Bob, I do think you are fabulous! You are probably as long/short-sighted as I am!!!!!! (but you have such brilliant explanations of the status quo! Those kids have such a lot to bloody answer for!) I can't remember what the hell it was that we started talking about, but gee you seemed to make such eloquent sense at the time...... betty, throwing short/long-sighted hugs somewhere in Bob's general direction |