OT: Chinglish instructions for a floodlight

Oct 20, 2020 Last reply: 5 years ago 151 Replies

Don't expect the product to work either. The light is great, but the detector is not. To begin with it detected me moving around a lot at 8m (it was advertised as 12). Walking normally towards it, 4m! Later in the day, it started detecting non-existant things and was on 95% of the time. Then it decided to do the opposite and now requires my hand waving literally 1 foot in front of it. I shall attempt to get a partial refund, keep the lamp, and get a seperate detector.

Re - pair - it (Said with a Scottish accent!)

ROFL! I was expecting one of those she-wees. Have you played that game, is it any good?

On Oct 21, 2020 at 2:46:53 PM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0suxgfnswdg98l@glass>:

Say it out loud to a few people. :)

I'm not sure to what game you are referring.

I ended up here:-

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Quite amusing! :-D

On Oct 21, 2020 at 12:06:43 PM MST, "David_B" wrote <7F%jH.278147$ snipped-for-privacy@fx09.ams:

And we did the same thing to our parents... maybe not as much because things did not spread pre-Internet as fast as they do now.

On Oct 21, 2020 at 11:55:39 AM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0supi1kuwdg98l@glass>:

Pretty much any American. There are some where the accent can be a bit of an issue, but not much.

On Oct 21, 2020 at 11:51:30 AM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0supb4flwdg98l@glass>:

Not really a choice!

On Oct 21, 2020 at 11:47:16 AM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0suo47ttwdg98l@glass>:

That is like saying we do not need road laws. Of course we do. If some drive on the left and others the right and everyone makes up their own rules for intersection we have chaos and harm. Same with not having a plan to deal with a pandemic.

Absolutely, especially when it is still unknown what the long term impacts are. And we do not know the real death count... but this gives an idea (for the US):

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Over 300K more "extra" deaths this year.

Which is very different from immune.

So not immune... and nobody knows the long term impacts. But still good news to know the direct short term impacts are not as bad as they could be.

What part escapes you? It doesn't matter if ALL apps are free to use, they require a physical presence to do the job and that part isn't free. That means translating from one source and writing it to another source. Get it?

On Oct 21, 2020 at 1:01:57 AM MST, "David_B" wrote <WVRjH.793994$ snipped-for-privacy@fx03.ams:

It was sorta for the birds. :)

On Oct 21, 2020 at 1:07:12 AM MST, "David_B" wrote <Q_RjH.793995$ snipped-for-privacy@fx03.ams:

This one does. It was not Sofa King hard.

Never saw a car that can squeeze into a 6 foot gap.

I turned the subtitles on for Trainspotting and The Navigators. I saw Sexy Beast in a theater but it could have used them too. I did understand Kingsley's clearly enunciated 'f*ck' though.

Och, I dinnae speak aw that s**te!

I once had to ask in a newsgroup what "NB" meant in a text message. Do you know? And it's isn't Nota Bene, not in Scotland.

Doesn't work unless I speak funny.

Broken Sword 3 obviously, the one the clip was taken from that you posted - it's the title of the clip.

My god she actually filmed it in use! Ugh!

Odd, as to me the American accents differ widely. As much as they do across the UK. And strong Glaswegian accents baffle me.

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