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A minor gripe

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It's the 21st century, and PC keyboards still do not have dedicated keys for common BBCode tags like bold on, bold off, italics on, italics off.

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So invent it and we can be rich!

50 - 50 split 🤗

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i want a new sable brush, and i shall have it

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@kevin-eleven said
It's the 21st century, and PC keyboards still do not have dedicated keys for common BBCode tags like bold on, bold off, italics on, italics off.
That's because it's entirely up to the website whether BB codes are used or not, rather than the device.

More importantly, PC keyboards are increasingly becoming a thing of the past. Unless you're a programmer, gamer or do work involving networking, no one uses PC keyboards except older people who haven't adapted to phone use.

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@rookie54 said
i want a new sable brush, and i shall have it
Yer gonna need a bigger brush. 😉

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@vivify said
That's because it's entirely up to the website whether BB codes are used or not, rather than the device.

More importantly, PC keyboards are increasingly becoming a thing of the past. Unless you're a programmer, gamer or do work involving networking, no one uses PC keyboards except older people who haven't adapted to phone use.
Hmm, fair points. However, I prefer not to become adapted to phone use. I have a smart phone, but I don't use it for banking and I leave it at home on my desk when I am in town, as if it's a land-line.

Someday soon smartphones might contain explosive devices (j/k -- it would be biofield scramblers) in case the user strays too far from the "socially" acceptable bounds of the global panopticon.

Plus, one of my uncles recommended Ira Levin's "This Perfect Day" to me when I was a teenager. 😉

P.S. -- To be fair, I do have a gamer keyboard with six macro keys on the side, which I am too lazy to program even though it's really not that hard. I never was very physical to begin with, even before all these tech conveniences came along.

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@kevin-eleven said
Hmm, fair points. However, I prefer not to become adapted to phone use. I have a smart phone, but I don't use it for banking and I leave it at home on my desk when I am in town, as if it's a land-line.

Someday soon smartphones might contain explosive devices (j/k -- it would be biofield scramblers) in case the user strays too far from the "socially" acceptable bounds ...[text shortened]... t hard. I never was very physical to begin with, even before all these tech conveniences came along.
So why do you have a mobile phone and then leave it at home?

Its best feature is, yes, that it is mobile.

I use mine while I'm out to find places I wanna go, places to eat, where's the nearest store selling what I'm looking for, any sales, and I hook it into my car radio to play the music I wanna hear instead of random radio station crap.

Why leave a tool like that at home?

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@suzianne said
So why do you have a mobile phone and then leave it at home?

Its best feature is, yes, that it is mobile.

I use mine while I'm out to find places I wanna go, places to eat, where's the nearest store selling what I'm looking for, any sales, and I hook it into my car radio to play the music I wanna hear instead of random radio station crap.

Why leave a tool like that at home?
Exactly.

And for emergencies.
I can't imagine life without my phone and I'm old enough to know what it was like looking for a payphone 😔

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@suzianne said
So why do you have a mobile phone and then leave it at home?

Its best feature is, yes, that it is mobile.

I use mine while I'm out to find places I wanna go, places to eat, where's the nearest store selling what I'm looking for, any sales, and I hook it into my car radio to play the music I wanna hear instead of random radio station crap.

Why leave a tool like that at home?
You say tool, I say tracker.

Strange that none of the Star Trek series had bicycles (perhaps I am wrong about that).

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@suzianne said

Why leave a tool like that at home?
Sometimes it's nice not to be contactable, to ask someone for directions, walk around the shops looking at the various deals, to turn off the radio and enjoy the silence.

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@very-musty said
Exactly.

And for emergencies.
I can't imagine life without my phone and I'm old enough to know what it was like looking for a payphone 😔
How many emergencies have you ever had?

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@Kevin-Eleven

Yes it does track you and record everything but if you have nothing to hide then why worry?

I did get scared the other day when I made my "Good food, Wrong time" thread.

After I talked about chocolate on this website I went to text my girlfriend and it recommended some funny chocolate pics and little videos to send her.

Call me crazy but it happened.
Google be watching everyone 😳

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@trev33 said
How many emergencies have you ever had?
None but I would rather have my phone and not need it than need it and not have it.

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@very-musty said
@Kevin-Eleven

Yes it does track you and record everything but if you have nothing to hide then why worry? 😳
Who has nothing to hide?

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@suzianne said
So why do you have a mobile phone and then leave it at home?

Its best feature is, yes, that it is mobile.

I use mine while I'm out to find places I wanna go, places to eat, where's the nearest store selling what I'm looking for, any sales, and I hook it into my car radio to play the music I wanna hear instead of random radio station crap.

Why leave a tool like that at home?
Maybe just because I'm a little older and sprouted in different cultural soil?

I do get that smartphones are like Star Trek communicators on steroids.