Silly Siri

So, I did my grandbaby minding and sitting (they went out one night and I stayed over to sit) and trailed up and down the A34 again and being the lovely chap he is, Barney sent me a text to say dinner was all organised and he was going out for a drink.

I got home, somewhat weary (though the gorgeous babe didn’t wake at 5am this time, the cat had a field night with my toes – much pouncing and scrabbling) and found an open recipe book and a piece of tuna in the fridge.  No sign of any other sorting.  Um.  (Or posssibly Aaaargh! Bwaaa! Er… Erm… Ew! Grrr! Hmm… Naagh! Pfft! Whaa?*)

Oh well.  When it was eventually cooked, after he’d returned from the pub and had a long phone call about the grandson’s football match, the dinner was delicious and ever so healthy.

Then I tackled some ‘issues’ between the new shiny iPhone and my email and set a number of gadgets to charge (It does rather gobble up battery).

Then I had an exasperating converstion with ‘Siri’, the ‘just ask and Siri will do whatever you want’ bit on the iPhone.  I’m afraid it doesn’t quite match up to its press. Not only does my version have a smug and pompous male voice, it doesn’t understand one in five words I say to it – so much for “just talk to Siri as you normally speak.”  One conversation went like this

“Drop a pin on the map at my present location” (see?  I even used garbage I mean jargon words from the iPhone’s own vocabulary.)

“I’m sorry I don’t understand you”

“Drop. a . pin. on . the. map. etc, etc….. “

“O. k. Calling Poppins on 01865 …..”

“No! (hastily pressing end call button) cancel!”

“There is nothing to cancel”

“Oh for heaven’s sake!  Mark my current location on the map please”

“I’m sorry, I don’t understand ‘please’.  I can only find businesses and companies or addresses in US English”

D’uh. No, actually Aaaargh! Bwaaa!  Grrr!  Pfft! Whaa?

So later I asked it to make a note that I wanted sausages.  It didn’t understand that either and did that thing about businesses and companies and American English.  Now I wonder if I pronounced sausages in a fake American accent, would it understand me?  However, if  I use simple words like paracetamol and Aldermaston it’s fine.

Oh well.  This evening was fine and pink and violet and warm and since I remembered the sausages by myself, I did a little detour on the way home.  Just waiting to find out what came of it.

Could be deer in the distance

Was deer

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*Courtesy of Timbobig.