The Oxford University Press English Dictionary.
Why did I want this dictionary in the first place?
This is a good question.
The first reason:
My vocabulary is rather extensive, and I am so sick of the ONLINE spelling programs, telling me that the words I use, are WRONG, because their range of words might be say 3,000 words, but my range might go to 10,000 words - and simply because the words I use are not in their list, they have to be wrong.....
It drives me nuts and it seriously fucks with my head.
And it comes from lazy manager and lazy programmers who produce this grubby shit-ware (I invented that word too) and the stupids in the companies who tack this ubiquitious garbage onto their systems.
"Adaptive programming? A new word? Look it up? Cross Reference? Incorporate?
Noooooooo we are too stupid and lazy to do things like that.
Just mark it wrong."
So after many years of fighting with fuckwits and their crap software, it's done my head in and I can't think straight about spelling correctly any more.
This is the main reason I chose to reclaim my excellence in spelling correctly and KNOWING how to do it, by getting the resources to ENABLE me to do it.
The second reason which spins off the first one is that I am really tired of "AmericaniZed" spellings - with that "Z" being stuck in to so many words, that should have "S" in them.
So it's worth a combination of judicious shopping and appropriate purchasing.
What I would really like - the full 22 volume set.....
But it's BIG, it's HEAVY, it takes up a huge amount of space, and as I am somewhat lazy, I'd rather have ONE really good volume on the desk, than having to go fetch volumes from the book shelves, on or near the desk.....
And while I could afford them - it's a lot of money for what will be for the larger part, almost never used - on a word for word, page by page, book by book basis.
Plus it's hard to carry them around.
But what is really practical:
And it has something like 200,000 entries in it.....
This is sufficient. It's a good mix of size, content and space etc...
I like the dictionary as a nightly read of about 2 or 3 pages per night as it's a thoughtful read of substance and discipline.
Every character, abbreviation, word and phrase or grouping of terms etc., has to be "thought through" in detail - which is completely different to "reading a novel".
And it has to be read and understood correctly.
So it's a chewey sort of read - a document of substance.
People talk about taking drugs, like alcohol and prescribed and self prescribed, for all sorts of mood and mind altering effects.
I for one, don't like intoxicating substances.
But I do like the TRUE mind expanding effects of thinking - about useful and interesting things.
An old friend of mine many years ago, was the co-grower of LSD movement in the 60's, along with Professor Timothy Leary.
And when it all came down to it, while I do recommend the use of LSD and everything else, simply for the experience, and to have a broad range of experiences, the whole drug culture, is filled with people who have opinions about everything and solutions to nothing.
Much like people who have no connection with themselves and others and they cluster together in groups "doing a scene" that for the most part, seems to waste a lot of time and get nothing particularly useful done.
But for a TRUE clear "stone" - reading the dictionary, taking computer chess lessons, learning how to read and write music and to play the piano - are pretty ways to do some full on consciousness expanding.
Things like growing gardens and similar are good too.
So a new book like this needs a dedicated stand to make for an ease of reading and to preserve it's structural integrity, and all shall be well.
No lay flats on the desk or the bed....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back to the all in brawling.
I think fighting with the management of Australia Post over the last few days, merely serves to reinforce the point or the value in keeping your packages out of their hands.
It's the write up on the "Back of the pub, car boot sale" article....
http://you-shit-me.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/australia-post-back-of-pub-car-boot.html
Sure, the desire to not have any dealings with the local post office is a growing phenomenon, and people just either don't want to ever have to go there, or they are quite irate at all the bullshit that comes with the half arsed deliveries, the carding and what a nightmare the rates of theft and price increases have become.
And they are fed up with stupid shit like 3/4 of the staff in the post office, going on their lunch breaks, when all the people coming in to pick up parcels during their lunch breaks, come in.
They are fed up with the long cues out the doors, the idiotic 9-5 opening hours etc., etc., etc.....
The Australia Post website and all the online services are always fucking up...
The people running Amazon - the book seller, and I-Parcel the delivery agent, are both negligent for NOT telling me and others UP FRONT - and at the very beginning of the transaction, that they had engaged Australia Post for delivering our packages on the last leg into Australia, and that they require a signature on delivery.
If I had of known this, that I would have immediately asked for the last stage of delivery be done by courier.
If they had of refused to do this, I would have just dumped the sale and bought else where.
I would not have rehired Australia Post for any reason.
While the people running Amazon and I-Parccel are not to know the relationship I have with the local postal agent - which is - "Stay the fuck out of my life", their failure to investigate Australia Post's management and practices - in regards to theft, opening hours, the endemic carding problem, and customer satisfaction - could only be described as criminally negligent.
Their failure to inform people of their delivery practices and their failure to OFFER a range of choices of delivery companies - from many of the couriers available is just a corporate 3 piece suit circle jerk.
"Yes we will give you some bullshit bulk rate on large amounts of deliveries... - and we are grateful that your too stupid to examine our blatantly open and obvious theft issues, and a whole heap of other problems that come with using our services. Big smiles all around, lots of mutual masturbation - here sign on the dotted line."
The people running Amazon UK and USA - and I-Parcel, despite all the "customer centric focus", when it comes to making people accept deliveries by Australia Post and ONLY Australia Post, with no other choices, as your final leg of delivery transport services, are just plain stupid.
It's like hiring the village drunk to deliver the truck of whiskey.
An examination of the tracking issues just on this ONE delivery alone - is enough to make one cringe.
Added to this is, AFTER I had discovered that my dictionary had been lobbed into the hands of Australia Post - the notoriously bright Geoff Williams - with the backing of the Board of Directors - who actually did send me a letter about this, declared that;
"Since the local agent is such a liability that you refuse to deal with him, therefore you can't sign for it, so
Rather than deliver it by courier instead - we will return it to sender - back to the UK on the other side of the planet" -
Could only be described as meritorious in the ultimate fuckwits guide to customer service..
The "robot with a flat battery up it's arse" response to circumventing the local post office operator, by the management of Australia Post, is pathetic.
But this is how all of them operate...
The tracking is utterly worthless. The security is worthless. The processing of claims for theft is bullshit.
The management of Australia Post are criminally negligent.
When looking at the BIG PICTURE of how badly Australia Post is run, I recommend that entire management of Australia Post be summarialy dismissed.
I also recommend that their useless bored of directors be dismissed along with them.
Kick them all out on the street where they belong.
I only hope that the people running Amazon and I-Parcel take my advice and offer delivery by courier.
There are many who want delivery by courier because of the better service
There are so many people saying, "We only buy off sellers who do ship by courier."
I joined the Australia Post free consumers group a long time ago......
This is a good question.
The first reason:
My vocabulary is rather extensive, and I am so sick of the ONLINE spelling programs, telling me that the words I use, are WRONG, because their range of words might be say 3,000 words, but my range might go to 10,000 words - and simply because the words I use are not in their list, they have to be wrong.....
It drives me nuts and it seriously fucks with my head.
And it comes from lazy manager and lazy programmers who produce this grubby shit-ware (I invented that word too) and the stupids in the companies who tack this ubiquitious garbage onto their systems.
"Adaptive programming? A new word? Look it up? Cross Reference? Incorporate?
Noooooooo we are too stupid and lazy to do things like that.
Just mark it wrong."
So after many years of fighting with fuckwits and their crap software, it's done my head in and I can't think straight about spelling correctly any more.
This is the main reason I chose to reclaim my excellence in spelling correctly and KNOWING how to do it, by getting the resources to ENABLE me to do it.
The second reason which spins off the first one is that I am really tired of "AmericaniZed" spellings - with that "Z" being stuck in to so many words, that should have "S" in them.
So it's worth a combination of judicious shopping and appropriate purchasing.
What I would really like - the full 22 volume set.....
But it's BIG, it's HEAVY, it takes up a huge amount of space, and as I am somewhat lazy, I'd rather have ONE really good volume on the desk, than having to go fetch volumes from the book shelves, on or near the desk.....
And while I could afford them - it's a lot of money for what will be for the larger part, almost never used - on a word for word, page by page, book by book basis.
Plus it's hard to carry them around.
But what is really practical:
- Hardcover: 2112 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; 3rd edition (19 Aug 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0199571120
- ISBN-13: 978-0199571123
- Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 22.3 x 28.2 cm
And it has something like 200,000 entries in it.....
This is sufficient. It's a good mix of size, content and space etc...
I like the dictionary as a nightly read of about 2 or 3 pages per night as it's a thoughtful read of substance and discipline.
Every character, abbreviation, word and phrase or grouping of terms etc., has to be "thought through" in detail - which is completely different to "reading a novel".
And it has to be read and understood correctly.
So it's a chewey sort of read - a document of substance.
People talk about taking drugs, like alcohol and prescribed and self prescribed, for all sorts of mood and mind altering effects.
I for one, don't like intoxicating substances.
But I do like the TRUE mind expanding effects of thinking - about useful and interesting things.
An old friend of mine many years ago, was the co-grower of LSD movement in the 60's, along with Professor Timothy Leary.
And when it all came down to it, while I do recommend the use of LSD and everything else, simply for the experience, and to have a broad range of experiences, the whole drug culture, is filled with people who have opinions about everything and solutions to nothing.
Much like people who have no connection with themselves and others and they cluster together in groups "doing a scene" that for the most part, seems to waste a lot of time and get nothing particularly useful done.
But for a TRUE clear "stone" - reading the dictionary, taking computer chess lessons, learning how to read and write music and to play the piano - are pretty ways to do some full on consciousness expanding.
Things like growing gardens and similar are good too.
So a new book like this needs a dedicated stand to make for an ease of reading and to preserve it's structural integrity, and all shall be well.
No lay flats on the desk or the bed....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Back to the all in brawling.
I think fighting with the management of Australia Post over the last few days, merely serves to reinforce the point or the value in keeping your packages out of their hands.
It's the write up on the "Back of the pub, car boot sale" article....
http://you-shit-me.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/australia-post-back-of-pub-car-boot.html
Sure, the desire to not have any dealings with the local post office is a growing phenomenon, and people just either don't want to ever have to go there, or they are quite irate at all the bullshit that comes with the half arsed deliveries, the carding and what a nightmare the rates of theft and price increases have become.
And they are fed up with stupid shit like 3/4 of the staff in the post office, going on their lunch breaks, when all the people coming in to pick up parcels during their lunch breaks, come in.
They are fed up with the long cues out the doors, the idiotic 9-5 opening hours etc., etc., etc.....
The Australia Post website and all the online services are always fucking up...
The people running Amazon - the book seller, and I-Parcel the delivery agent, are both negligent for NOT telling me and others UP FRONT - and at the very beginning of the transaction, that they had engaged Australia Post for delivering our packages on the last leg into Australia, and that they require a signature on delivery.
If I had of known this, that I would have immediately asked for the last stage of delivery be done by courier.
If they had of refused to do this, I would have just dumped the sale and bought else where.
I would not have rehired Australia Post for any reason.
While the people running Amazon and I-Parccel are not to know the relationship I have with the local postal agent - which is - "Stay the fuck out of my life", their failure to investigate Australia Post's management and practices - in regards to theft, opening hours, the endemic carding problem, and customer satisfaction - could only be described as criminally negligent.
Their failure to inform people of their delivery practices and their failure to OFFER a range of choices of delivery companies - from many of the couriers available is just a corporate 3 piece suit circle jerk.
"Yes we will give you some bullshit bulk rate on large amounts of deliveries... - and we are grateful that your too stupid to examine our blatantly open and obvious theft issues, and a whole heap of other problems that come with using our services. Big smiles all around, lots of mutual masturbation - here sign on the dotted line."
The people running Amazon UK and USA - and I-Parcel, despite all the "customer centric focus", when it comes to making people accept deliveries by Australia Post and ONLY Australia Post, with no other choices, as your final leg of delivery transport services, are just plain stupid.
It's like hiring the village drunk to deliver the truck of whiskey.
An examination of the tracking issues just on this ONE delivery alone - is enough to make one cringe.
Added to this is, AFTER I had discovered that my dictionary had been lobbed into the hands of Australia Post - the notoriously bright Geoff Williams - with the backing of the Board of Directors - who actually did send me a letter about this, declared that;
"Since the local agent is such a liability that you refuse to deal with him, therefore you can't sign for it, so
Rather than deliver it by courier instead - we will return it to sender - back to the UK on the other side of the planet" -
Could only be described as meritorious in the ultimate fuckwits guide to customer service..
The "robot with a flat battery up it's arse" response to circumventing the local post office operator, by the management of Australia Post, is pathetic.
But this is how all of them operate...
The tracking is utterly worthless. The security is worthless. The processing of claims for theft is bullshit.
The management of Australia Post are criminally negligent.
When looking at the BIG PICTURE of how badly Australia Post is run, I recommend that entire management of Australia Post be summarialy dismissed.
I also recommend that their useless bored of directors be dismissed along with them.
Kick them all out on the street where they belong.
I only hope that the people running Amazon and I-Parcel take my advice and offer delivery by courier.
There are many who want delivery by courier because of the better service
There are so many people saying, "We only buy off sellers who do ship by courier."
I joined the Australia Post free consumers group a long time ago......
THE END
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