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My son is going to be baptised on the week-end, and in the preparation meeting the priest told us that at some point of time during the ceremony, and as a symbolic gesture, the baby has to put on some white stuff : jacket or socks or bonnet or handkerchief or anything white.
I proposed a white flag since we are all supposed to have one in our pockets anyway. 
[Edit: As French[^] - just for the sake of clarity ]
Nobody understood the joke and they gave me a weird look. So far for international clichés. 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Yet another advantage to being white...
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If you're still in Germany, as you profile suggests, you should know by now that the "surrender monkeys" to us are not the French, but rather the eye-talons.
F: "Italienische Kriegsflagge?"
A: "Weißer Adler auf weißem Grund!"
Q: "What does an Italian flag look like?"
A: "A white eagle on a white background!"
Cheers! 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I understood that Italian tanks were built with one forward gear and ten reverse so they could get out of trouble faster than they got into it - but I may have been misinformed.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I heard that one too, as thr italians say; its easier to drive out of trouble than to stay out of trouble, or something like that... 
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And the one forward gear is in case they get attacked from behind.
Andy B
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Honestly, never heard of, but then, I tend not to talk about war very often with the colleagues...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Black is Black[^]
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I think it's a mostly British and American thing.
I love go-o-o-o-ld!
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Precious little Auntie has this article[^] on Rio's statue. It's not the statue itself that impressed me but also the tricks the website uses to navigate it. In particular the bit where scrolling up and down reveals and hides the lightning and interior of the statue. I've never seen that effect before. I found it quite clever.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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It's called a "Parallax" effect. Simple to implement with jQuery, for instance.
Example of what you can do with that effect: Clickety[^]
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Nice effects and great story
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I've seen a similar effect where mousing left/right over an image swaps between two versions used for the last few years to show before/after images; typically when a disaster strikes somewhere.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Once again, easily implementable using jQuery: Clickety[^]
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That goes without saying. 
If someone wanted to repwhore on QA, they could answer 99% of webdev questions correctly (but uselessly) with a bot that posted "Use JQuery." as an answer.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I normally don't do that, but I've seen the "Parallax" and "before/after" jQuery plugins lately and it was mostly to give a concrete example of what you two were talking about.
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I was just snarking about how client side web development and jquery have became almost equivalent over the last few years.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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True story!
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I thought I was making some yoghurt but it went a bit far the other side. I now have a batch of házitúró that may or may not make it into a full fledged cheese.
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Blessed are the cheesemakers...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I do all my own stunts!
I've been making my own yoghurt for a while now, I have a bowl of an evening with either fruit or honey [from a neighbour in Hungaryorszag] This is the first time I've 'curdled' it and I was going to throw it out but at the last moment decided to try and salvage it.
I have a recipe for a home made cheese that I should be able to do in just a day or two - twenty minutes preparing and the rest of the time maturing.
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Just mix in some heavily flavored herbs (minced and mashed garlic, onion, chives, and the like), pour it all into some muslin, tie it off, and hang it up to drip/drain.
It will be a soft spreadable cheese like substance and taste nice on bread.
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And the cheese eaters. I popped home for lunch and made a very quick snack of blue cheese, thinly sliced Bramley apple, pine nuts, cherry tomatoes, drizzle of very thick balsamic. T'was rather nice. It filled one corner. Our support chap from Sicily brought over some delicious choccies and that will fill another corner. So far, all things are well balanced. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I had some pizza [left over] and coffee for my lunch. Might do some chocie bikies later. Why? Because I can.
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Needs something... But what?
Of course! Bacon!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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