Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social)

Software engineer. Attempted quiz enthusiast. Sentence fragments in bio. He/him.

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@Halfords_uk Yes, you've explained that the reason you need that information is that "we would need to contact the store and have them get back to us". That's a bit of a non sequitur - no part of that process requires my contact details.

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@Halfords_uk Hi, you've got this sign up at your Winnersh store. Is it true? If so, why do you do this? Leaving aside the obvious fact that "4 equals 0" isn't what anyone would expect, why have 1-4 at all? You might as well offer only 0 and 5, or even just 0 and 1.

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@Halfords_uk Yes, I noticed - you've sent me a DM asking for my full name, email address and phone number, none of which you need to answer this straightforward question. Do you count a feedback score of 4 as zero or don't you? If so, why?

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@Halfords_uk Fair enough, I'll send you a DM, because I'm intrigued about what extra details about this you need me to provide confidentially.

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@Halfords_uk That's great but it answers literally none of the question at all. Is the sign accurate or not?

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@LydiaMizon FWIW, I don't think that bit is anywhere near as bad as you remember it. I didn't even notice it during the recording, and on broadcast it seemed like a very rapid nonevent.

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@snathe All my recent Linux machines use the AltGr key for this, but not with a control code.
AltGr+2 puts an umlaut on the next letter
AltGr+6 puts a circumflex on the next letter
AltGr+' puts an acute accent on the next letter

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

Posting here to announce that I can now be found on bsky as graemecole. This feels like the social network equivalent of using Edge to download Chrome.

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@David_Strathdee And they say the Millennium Bug never happened.

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@snathe Pretty sure it's the same place. I remember it as the pie shop because we had some excellent pies there.

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@snathe Is that the pie shop? I ate there a couple of months ago.

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@UndeniablyAlex https://t.co/pBhBzzC62V

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

I like both the Dave and Channel 4 incarnations of #Taskmaster, but you can't beat the original BBC version.

[Dave Gorman @DaveGorman]

Scrolling through Twitter & I see this on my timeline.
I think, ‘that’s odd there’s no way I’d choose to follow this sort of crypto BS’
So I look at the acct. It’s also followed by dozens of comics. That’s even odder.

So I scroll back &find old conversations it was in. And…
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[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@VictoriaCoren Congratulations!

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@Hayleystevens I just wish they would put as much research effort into questions like "what was in that corner of the room, were there any ordinary but vaguely man-shaped objects" as they do into their standard "who died in or near this building" every week.

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@nebagram Perhaps it's a very subtle advert placed by Apple.

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@DavidJBodycombe I'm going with "who" all day long. Madison may be the object of the bit before the comma, but I don't think that's also true for the bit after. In "X was not pleased", X is a he/she/they (who), not a him/her/them (whom). And "...whom was not pleased" just sounds wrong anyway.

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@MrBButterfield Bonkbonkbonkbonks.

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@AdamLatchford Unless you have some additional context which I don't, this seems harsh. To me it just looks like a contestant who got beaten on every round by a strong opponent and tried to make the best of it. SEALED was a perfectly respectable spot from AIEDJSELD, and he declared first.

[Graeme Cole (@graemecole.bsky.social) @elocemearg]

@nebagram Have you had one of your dreams again?