When auto correct goes bad!!!

I find much of today’s humour to be about as funny as terminal cancer.

I’m with you Kev. But then I do find Miranda usually provides two or three ‘laugh out loud’ moments in each episode. So not all is lost

(Helped by the three female co-stars – each of whom are seriously good at comedy acting. Different from ‘stand-up, I know)

Moggy

Android phones do precisely the same. At least, mine does.

Yes they do – I have had both. But I don’t use auto-correct. Then you don’t have the problem!:diablo:

Hello Neil, happy new year, been a while!

and a happy new year to the forum goat fondler!

yep ive been in lurk mode for a while, but still pop in for a look now and then.. hope all is well in your world.. 😎

Having recently got an iPhone, I can relate.

But, on the whole, I find it incredibly smart. If you make a mistake, it changes it to a word whose letter’s are in a similar position on the keyboard.
I could write something completely nonsensical like “Jsoot Virtgsau” and it would correctly change it to “Happy Birthday”.

I think some of those auto-correct errors were deliberately placed.

Android phones do precisely the same. At least, mine does.

Hello Neil, happy new year, been a while!

1. Regretfully, although I am an ageing old b***ger, I did not have to look it up!!

)

me too, but i had to ask google! :eek::D

1. Don’t look pegging up if you don’t need to know what it is because you will probably then not want to know what it is

2. A drunk I am not, they led me astray. Alcohol is not my thing.

1. Regretfully, although I am an ageing old b***ger, I did not have to look it up!!

2. That’s your story- many will believe you…….;)

…and an offer to which you gave due consideration, I have no doubt!:diablo:

Not in this instance when all i could think of was whether my stubble reminded her of george michael…but i did have a very drunken and amusing but highly inappropriate conversation between pubs with a work colleague who mentioned doing something to me with something of hers which resulted in neither attraction nor repulsion but instead saw me adopt the lecturing tone of a drunk and inform her that the correct term is pegging.

addendum

1. Don’t look pegging up if you don’t need to know what it is because you will probably then not want to know what it is

2. A drunk I am not, they led me astray. Alcohol is not my thing.

I read the first 2 & gave up …. I thought –hell I talk enough crap , I dont need to read it !!

Having recently got an iPhone, I can relate.

But, on the whole, I find it incredibly smart. If you make a mistake, it changes it to a word whose letter’s are in a similar position on the keyboard.
I could write something completely nonsensical like “Jsoot Virtgsau” and it would correctly change it to “Happy Birthday”.

I think some of those auto-correct errors were deliberately placed.

…and an offer to which you gave due consideration, I have no doubt!:diablo:

I gave up at chicken vaginas. However, a genuine one I received from a girl with predictive text on her i-phone (which is the cleverest invention in the world I believe) just before christmas was “anus plans for the weekend?” which DID make me smile but that was contextual, of little humour to anyone else.

When a stand up tells you a humorous story and you laugh, do you believe the story, or do you just accept it for the humorous anecdote it’s supposed to be? :rolleyes:

Whilst tending to agree with Kev’s general comments above I don’t think it has ever occurred to me that a stand-up’s joke was ever a true story. They are gags, aren’t they?

That’s the difference with these sad texts, which are posted on the internet as real exchanges. And they are not even humourous.

Are there any stand up comedians today? Most of the ones I see on tv wouldn’t know a joke if it came up and bit them on the bum. They see their time on screen and stage as an invitation to bully and berate and for some comedians (I use the term loosely) if they cut out the expletives their act would be very short indeed.

I find much of today’s humour to be about as funny as terminal cancer.

Regards,

kev35

Nothing to do with age, Alan but gullibility. No one actually believes these are mistakes, do they??:eek:

When a stand up tells you a humorous story and you laugh, do you believe the story, or do you just accept it for the humorous anecdote it’s supposed to be? :rolleyes:

Al, I can certainly relate to that statement,;) How did your Hogmany go?.

Jim.
Lincoln .7

The trouble with being older means that you can remember when standards were much higher…

I don’t know if it’s just me ?, but I fail to see anything remotely amusing.

Maybe it’s an age thing ?

I’m glad you said that, because I gave up half way through the list. Then again, I always just assumed that I’m a miserable, misanthropic, misogynistic old c**t.

I actually don’t even know what those devices are.
Are they some sort of mobile telephones..?

Andy

Nothing to do with age, Alan but gullibility. No one actually believes these are mistakes, do they??:eek:

I don’t know if it’s just me ?, but I fail to see anything remotely amusing.

Maybe it’s an age thing ?