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ChocolateSqueezyyogurts · 2026-07-02T12:05:43+00:00

She types like shes playing a piano! Its so irritating but I dont know why. Its the most random way of typing Ive ever seen.

Ohthisheat · 02/07/2026 19:53

Ethelspagetti · 02/07/2026 19:36

Yes a large raw unbaked baking potato. It would start sprouting roots then slowly mould over months. She’d throw it away then buy another one! Did it for the right years I was there for. Someone called it her emotional support potato! 🥔 I think they’re right! 😂

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Extraordinary! Thanks for the update.

Ohpleeeease · 02/07/2026 19:51

thenightsky · 02/07/2026 19:14

Oh yes, me too, in the mid 80s. Medical Secretary's diploma. Teeline shorthand to 130 wpm and typing around 60 wpm.

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I did Pitman in the 70s, I really wish I’d kept it up, but I wasn’t disciplined enough to practice. I bluffed through my shorthand exams by memorising the dictation which I suppose was a different kind of skill!

Ethelspagetti · 02/07/2026 19:36

Ohthisheat · 02/07/2026 18:11

A potato??? Don't go quiet, I need to know more . What sort of potato? Raw? Muddy? Wrapped?

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Yes a large raw unbaked baking potato. It would start sprouting roots then slowly mould over months. She’d throw it away then buy another one! Did it for the right years I was there for. Someone called it her emotional support potato! 🥔 I think they’re right! 😂

EBearhug · 02/07/2026 19:24

I once upset my manager, because he came up to me and started speaking, and I carried on typing while I looked at him. He then looked at my screen and saw I was typing proper, coherent words, not just gobbledegook. (I did stop when I got to the end of the sentence, but I was going to finish the sentence before concentrating on him.) This was apparently some sort of unreasonable behaviour (rather than impressively competent and skilled.) It seemed that touch typing was an alien concept to him, despite us all using keyboards most of every day.

taught on a manual keyboard - no hint of a new-fangled electric one until you could do at least 30wpm with 95% accuracy.

thenightsky · 02/07/2026 19:14

Ohpleeeease · 02/07/2026 18:04

I touch type. And I learned on proper upright manual typewriters where you needed to keep your wrist level with your fingers and the keys because of the effort needed to depress them. Is that what you mean, OP? It’ll blow your mind but I also learned shorthand.

Oh yes, me too, in the mid 80s. Medical Secretary's diploma. Teeline shorthand to 130 wpm and typing around 60 wpm.

Rondayvu · 02/07/2026 19:13

Have not heard the term touch type in years, I just thought we all typed now. I don't even have letters on my work keyboard from overuse but I only look at the screen anyway. I am seriously dying to see video footage of your piano concertist colleague typing now!

Also here giggling away at the emotional support potato. That is a truly random thing to do.

Wigwambam65 · 02/07/2026 19:03

Ohpleeeease · 02/07/2026 18:04

I touch type. And I learned on proper upright manual typewriters where you needed to keep your wrist level with your fingers and the keys because of the effort needed to depress them. Is that what you mean, OP? It’ll blow your mind but I also learned shorthand.

Me too 😱

godmum56 · 02/07/2026 18:55

AWeeCupOfTeaAndAnIndividualFruitTrifle · 02/07/2026 17:47

Did they not understand the basics of how a telephone works - or were they more familiar with the old non-amplified two-yoghurt-pots-on-a-long-string variety?!

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or his name was Dom

Ohpleeeease · 02/07/2026 18:53

Altogether now A.S.D.F., A.S.D.F.,…

Didimum · 02/07/2026 18:36

That’s funny, because I play piano like I type.

catslovehairties · 02/07/2026 18:30

southofscotland · 02/07/2026 18:28

Does anyone look at the keys when they’re typing?

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Yes, lots of people!

southofscotland · 02/07/2026 18:28

Winefride · 02/07/2026 17:04

Do you mean touch typing? As in, she doesn't have to look at the keys and types fluidly?

Does anyone look at the keys when they’re typing?

LyndaSnellsSniff · 02/07/2026 18:27

Like so?

Classical Music Piano GIF by GREAT PERFORMANCES | PBS

GingerdeadMan · 02/07/2026 18:26

ChocolateSqueezyyogurts · 02/07/2026 17:03

Its really hard to describe too, but its almost like her wrists are slightly raised and her fingers tap the keys very gently and dramatically. If you saw it you'd understand 🤣

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Dies she also use the imaginary pedals?

Or try to do chords?

I can't imagine what this looks like!

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ChocolateSqueezyyogurts · 02/07/2026 18:26

HelpMeGetThrough · 02/07/2026 17:59

So she’s the “Laptop Liberace”.

🤣🤣🤣 yes! Very similar

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GingerdeadMan · 02/07/2026 18:25

PuppyMonkey · 02/07/2026 17:22

I still have flashbacks to a colleague at a former workplace who SHOUTED SO LOUDLY ON THE PHONE PEOPLE RIGHT AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MASSIVE OPEN PLAN OFFICE USED TO LOOK UP AND GO .

Shudder.

I once had a colleague who did this.

Another colleague would sometimes comment 'were you phoning Australia? 🤣

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ChocolateSqueezyyogurts · 02/07/2026 18:22

Beenwhereyouareagain · 02/07/2026 18:14

@ChocolateSqueezyyogurts

So if I understand this correctly, you're having a rant because you don't like the way her typing LOOKS?

Are you SERIOUS??

Please put in a request for a desk change so you can no longer see her. 🙄🙄

I did suggest this but apparently there was nowhere else for her to sit!

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oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 02/07/2026 18:22

Does she turn & give a big smile to her audience - like Liberace (giving my age away).

HoppityBun · 02/07/2026 18:18

Fitbodyproblem · 02/07/2026 17:58

Another vote for her being a touch typist. A dying art, but pretty efficient. 😀

Surely most of us type whilst looking at the screen, rather than the keyboard? I thought the term arose when typists had a document to type that the looked at whilst typing and didn’t look at the keys- no screen in those days. Or they listened to a dictated tape and looked at the document they were typing. Even my two finger typing colleagues don’t look at the keyboard

InterestedDad37 · 02/07/2026 18:14

Depends how good a pianist she'd be 🤔 🎹 ⌨️
If she's sight-reading Schubert, you could applaud her - if she's biting her lip and torturing "chopsticks", you may have a point.

Beenwhereyouareagain · 02/07/2026 18:14

@ChocolateSqueezyyogurts

So if I understand this correctly, you're having a rant because you don't like the way her typing LOOKS?

Are you SERIOUS??

Please put in a request for a desk change so you can no longer see her. 🙄🙄

Ohthisheat · 02/07/2026 18:12

Fitbodyproblem · 02/07/2026 17:58

Another vote for her being a touch typist. A dying art, but pretty efficient. 😀

Touch typing is wonderful. Best thing I ever learned.

Ohthisheat · 02/07/2026 18:11

Ethelspagetti · 02/07/2026 13:28

I had a colleague who kept fruit and a potato on her in tray. She’d leave it to rot, throw it away and replace with fresh fruit and a potato! Never ever saw her eat any of it! Such a vicious circle continued for years!

A potato??? Don't go quiet, I need to know more . What sort of potato? Raw? Muddy? Wrapped?

Siriusmuggle · 02/07/2026 18:08

I work with a one finger basher. Rapid fire and incredibly hard. It’s so loud.

catslovehairties · 02/07/2026 18:05

Agree it sounds like touch typing (which is what I do) - nobody is taught it now so it probably does look a bit weird.