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MarkyMarkMark (3M) Aug 2021 12:27pm, 10 Aug 2021 15,877 posts	Quote Pin MarkyMarkMark (3M) Great Run Local (I think). "Are you Local?" spring to mind when I use that word.
Velociraptor Aug 2021 12:30pm, 10 Aug 2021 53,749 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor Is GRL still going? I thought it had folded.
MarkyMarkMark (3M) Aug 2021 12:49pm, 10 Aug 2021 15,880 posts	Quote Pin MarkyMarkMark (3M) [That is very discriminatory of them! What about all the people who might have wanted to use their services one day? ]
Dvorak Aug 2021 12:56pm, 10 Aug 2021 23,082 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak [Yes, Great Run announced several months ago it would not return. I'd like to see a follow-up interview with Brendan Foster asking why it never got 10 000 runners a week, never mind the million he forecast. Iirc]
Nicholls595 Aug 2021 12:59pm, 10 Aug 2021 25,463 posts	Quote Pin Nicholls595 (I have never heard of GRL)
Diogenes Aug 2021 2:12pm, 10 Aug 2021 61,971 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Touchpads on laptops. Bloody annoying. You're typing away and a slight brush of the pad makes everything go haywire. I set it to disabled when mouse is connected but it seems to default to always on when restarting.
ChrisHB Aug 2021 3:21pm, 10 Aug 2021 21,108 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB Windows 10 saying it cannot find any camera, code 0X12345678 or something instead of: there's a switch 2" from the rh end of the rh side of your laptop that turns the camera off - you need to turn it on. Here's a helpful diagram.
Diogenes Aug 2021 3:30pm, 10 Aug 2021 61,978 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes That sounds like when my TomTom app on my phone is searching for my watch... It's right next to you, you bloody idiot! You were half way through synching with it when you decided to stop and now you reckon you can't bloody find it. It hasn't moved! The only thing more annoying with that is when it decides it's not paired with anything and I have to unpair it in order to pair it anew.
Metro_Nome Aug 2021 3:48pm, 11 Aug 2021 6,230 posts	Quote Pin Metro_Nome the use of "lol" as punctuation
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Aug 2021 8:25pm, 11 Aug 2021 32,172 posts	Quote Pin Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Rudeness.