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Eynsham Red Sep 2020 10:24am, 30 Sep 2020 6,454 posts	Quote Pin Eynsham Red Google maps now seems to assume that I’m walking everywhere when I use route finder. I’m sorry, but no matter how nice the route is, I don’t intend to spend two days and five hours walking to visit my daughter!
Dr PhFleecyD Sep 2020 10:49am, 30 Sep 2020 50,977 posts	Quote Pin Dr PhFleecyD Google thinks I’m driving the half mile to go running with my friend, despite me running to her house most weeks!
Diogenes Sep 2020 11:11am, 30 Sep 2020 53,446 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Google has decided my Mum’s house has moved to a different road.
Velociraptor Sep 2020 4:06pm, 30 Sep 2020 48,877 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor Not being allowed to syringe ears. It was one of the few miracles I used to be able to offer on the NHS. When they stop me from paring corns and lancing prolapsed haemorrhoids, I'm outta this business.
Fitz Sep 2020 4:21pm, 30 Sep 2020 2,283 posts	Quote Pin Fitz Hear, hear Vrap. Meanwhile my local optician, or the hearing aid centre, or some other "clinic" can carry out an ear suction process for about £60.
Wine Legs Sep 2020 9:44pm, 30 Sep 2020 5,472 posts	Quote Pin Wine Legs Auto carrot "fixing" words that I want to use, but ignoring obvious fuck ups & typos. Also some update recently on my phone now assumes I always get the first character correct. I don't. And it keeps assuming I want to write Don instead of don't. I don't even know anyone with that name.
LazyDaisy Oct 2020 8:19am, 1 Oct 2020 31,234 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy I've had that update too, and very annoyingly it hasn't fixed the bug whereby my touch of the comma is turned into a full stop and the next word is therefore capitalized. I have to press exrra hard to get a comma. Is it because these updates are done by people whose first language is not English? I'm sure Samsung or Android could, if they looked hard enough, find someone with the software skills and an understanding of how English works.
Wine Legs Oct 2020 8:34am, 1 Oct 2020 5,473 posts	Quote Pin Wine Legs Ah, LD... you also have a Samsung eh? That update felt like a MASSIVE leap backwards. It forgot all my standard stuff. So frustrating.
Little Nemo Oct 2020 9:04am, 1 Oct 2020 11,187 posts	Quote Pin Little Nemo Ah, that explains why I get Don instead of don't all the time! LD, I do a long hold on n to get a comma on my phone.
Velociraptor Oct 2020 9:19am, 1 Oct 2020 48,889 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor The oft-heard allegations that doctors "just pump people full of ... " (antibiotics, antidepressants, painkillers, whatever). I wish to record that I have never "pumped" anything into anyone, ever. And now I'm not even allowed to squirt warm water gently into people's earholes even with their consent.