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Tsk, tsk, my friend!
You have a life! You must...you live in a country with permanent sunshine (monsoon excepted) - I live in a country where it takes a monsoon to stop it raining!
You live in a country with some of the best food in the world - I live in a country where fried potatoes are considered the only element of your "five a day" fruit and vegetables!
You live in a country with some of the world's most beautiful ladies (OK, OK, and some boys who look like the worlds most beautiful ladies) - I live in country with this lot: Temperance[^] and these: Slightly overweight[^]
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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OriginalGriff wrote: Is it just me? Am I getting too old for this?
I am hopeful that as one gets older one does in fact manage to learn (and retain) more. For this to occur of course it does in fact mean that young people must in fact know less.
The specifics of what knowledge they lack of course is irrelevant to that.
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...I can't help thinking that the next generation as a rule are just not thinking, even when given a solution that needs a tiny bit of input.
FWIW I heard much the same thing from my predecessors, and looking at some of the things my elders learned in school, I can't confirm it but really can't refute it either (which maybe implicitly confirms it ).
I think what you are observing is that we are currently looking at the long tail.[^]
Never moon a werewolf.
- Harvey
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A penguin walks into a bar and asks the bartender "Got any fish?"
The bartender says no and the penguin leaves.
Next day the penguin walks back in and asks the bartender "Got any fish?"
The irritated bartender says no, again, and the penguin leaves.
Next day the penguin walks back in and asks the bartender "Got any fish?"
The bartender, angry now, says "Look, you've come in here three times asking if I've got any fish and I've told you no. If you come back in here one more time asking me, I'm going to nail your beak to the bar. Now get out! " The penguin leaves.
Next day the penguin walks back in and asks the bartender "Got a hammer?"
The bartender says no.
The penguin asks "Got any nails?"
The bartender says no.
The penguin asks "Got any fish?"
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I'm sure it was a duck[^] asking for bread the last time I heard it!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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3.5 years is a good enough time for a duck to transform into a penguin
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Thursday, my web hosting service was DDoS - first to go was email, followed by everything else. About an hour of nothing working, then mostly fine, with sporadic minor problems.
Today, my email stops working - I can't get into the website - and I just had a server alert that there are problems which may mean a reboot. Exactly the same pattern as Thursday. Oh Joy. Pity we can't find out who starts these things: I have a streetlamp and some strong rope...
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 – ∞)
modified 25-Jan-14 4:54am.
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Don't be so rough, just flood his mum's basement!
speramus in juniperus
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Only if I attach concrete overshoes to him first...
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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Don't worry, he won't come out of the basement without his precious [AKA pronstash] and the risk of mum seeing it means he'll stay down there.
speramus in juniperus
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Here's the solution to the encryptions of the past few days.
private string Encrypt(string input, string key)
{
List<uint> result = new List<uint>();
for (int c = 0; c < input.Length; c++)
result.Add(((uint)input[c] ^ (uint)key[c % key.Length]));
string output = "";
foreach (uint i in result)
output += i.ToString() + " ";
return output;
}
private string Decrypt(string input, string key)
{
char[] splitter = new char[] { ' ' };
string[] splits = input.Split(splitter, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
string comp = "";
foreach (string s in splits)
{
comp += (char)(uint.Parse(s));
}
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
for (int c = 0; c < comp.Length; c++)
result.Append((char)((uint)comp[c] ^ (uint)key[c % key.Length]));
return result.ToString();
}
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Well, speaking of Leonard D.C., who I regard, along with actors Nicolas Cage, Bruce Willis, Vin Diesel, Steven Seagal, Chuck Norris, Al Pacino, and Tom Cruise ... (edit) how could I leave out the abomination known as Richard Gere ..., as the rotting garbage of American actors, the thought occurred to me that the larval form of Leonard is ... Justin Bieber.
“But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
“How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice.
“You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll
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BillWoodruff wrote: Al Pacino, and Tom Cruse, as the rotting
You missed the "I" from Tom: and by all reports there is a heck of a lot of "I" in Tom Cruise!
Nicolas Cage is an actor? When does he start?
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 don't know why, but I get the feeling JB wants to go to prison...
speramus in juniperus
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You also forgot Keanu Reeves, the archetypal non-actor's non-actor.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary, Yes ! I can only attribute forgetting Keanu Reeves, and Harrison Ford, to brain damage.
“But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
“How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice.
“You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll
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Oh come on, they may not be the best of actors, but saying that they are brain damaged is a bit harch.
I'm actually going to publically admit that I liked "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure", I'll blame my immaturity.
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Now, you've got to admit that Ford wasn't bad in Regarding Henry[^].
Software Zen: delete this;
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No, I'm not talking about this[^]
This is[^]. I didn't see any of the movies from those lists.
The Lone Ranger - But cancelled due to negative reviews.
Escape Plan - Not much shows here at that time so didn't have a chance to see, reason for this movie is I liked The Last Stand which's low budget action movie starred Arnold.
Some one asked me for The Hangover Part III but refused because disliked the second one.
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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Always avoid movies that get awards and nominations.
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I don't mind a stereotype jab but I do want some kind of logic and believability. This[^] guy is just plain idiot. He is not funny and is totally illogical.
Moreover, his accent try for the Middle Eastern person was ridiculous. No wonder he did not make it.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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A couple of good lines ("I am the Batman" & "I'm the ugly chick"), but most of it wasn't worth the time he spent putting it together, let alone the time watching it.
Some of the others in the associated videos list were bloody good, though.
But why is it, when Indian comics talk about US movies, none of them come up with (a variant of) "Ramadanbo 7 -- This Time it's Fast!"? It's about the most obvious joke ever untold.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Ramadanbo 7 -- This Time it's Fast!"?
Making religious based jokes is a big taboo in the sub-continent. One might get away doing so from some other country but in this age, internet has made it quiet difficult.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Goat sex[^]. For instance, size doesn't always tell.
Will Rogers never met me.
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