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Anyone going to an Adam Sandler movie.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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reading the thread below on scams, I wondered if any of you chaps (and chapesses) have ever been the recipient (or cipient) of a random Act of Kindness?
My 'philosophy' is that I don't give to any cause (charitable, begging, etc.) that asks for it (so please stop phoning me, Guide Dogs for the Blind!) but I do support various charities, ad try once in a while to perform RAKs.
Usually little things - like paying for someone's coffee, or (when I'm flush!) petrol. Sometimes buying a coffee for a homeless person (less so now, as I live in a posh place where there are far fewer visible homeless chaps)
There used to be a mum & 2 small kids that begged in a tube station near where I worked - who got picked up by Dad on his way past in his Mercedes each day. They earned more than I did.
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Maxxx wrote: have ever been the recipient (or cipient) of a random Act of Kindness?
Yes, every day the ex doesn't call me is a RAK.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Yes, every day the ex doesn't call me is a RAK.
She's too good for this world 
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Marc, we already told you that you cannot provoke kindness by changing your phone number every other day and camouflaging your house.
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ROFL! Only if she acted a bit more kindly and just stopped by your house instead of calling... 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Not sure if this counts but once I was walking down a street in our capital city of Ljubljana and this random guy starts talking to me. He just joined me and asked me where the court was and I thought, ok he just wants directions.
But he just started talking to me as to why he has to go to court. And I saw he needed to vent - he was pretty pissed off, at first I was a bit scared, but then I listened to him and you know try to be neutral as I only heard his side, but not discourage him either.
So we ended up talking for about 20 - 30 minutes. He seemed a bit better, even if still rather pissed about his situation.
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I have done them, but I'm not going to list them. They were done to help the recipient, not to make me feel good about myself, or to show how "kind" I am.
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That, and we also have a bad reputation to lose. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Like that time you helped a young Jedi get his X-Wing fighter out of the swamp? 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I think you should be very proud of your humility!
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But **doesn't** it make you feel good about yourself? it does me!
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Actually no. It depresses me that I didn't do more.
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I don't give money, but I give of my time by being involved, which is - to my eyes - highly valuable, especially since lots of time is involved.
Of course, money is needed, so if everybody would reason that way, it could not work either.
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Quote: My 'philosophy' is that I don't give to any cause (charitable, begging, etc.) that asks for it (so please stop phoning me, Guide Dogs for the Blind!) but I do support various charities, ad try once in a while to perform RAKs.
I basically do the same.
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I always let people pull out when I am driving.
Not only is this a nice thing to do for those people, but it really enrages Audi drivers if you are lucky enough to have one behind you.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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A pair of RAKs, a random act of kindness and a random act of karma in a single act, now that's efficient!
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Quote: who got picked up by Dad on his way past in his Mercedes each day. They earned more than I did.
That made me think of the incident that made stop giving to people in the street, in Spain on Holiday one year there was a 'single' Mum sitting near a cash point looking pathetic, so most people walking past would give a few euros (me inclued). This was fine until later in the day I was in said bank and got a tap on the shoulder from a friend there was 'single mum' paying in to the bank the money we had all given! 
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from the Phaedrus (circa 370 BCE): 'additions' in italics
I heard, then, that at Naucratis, in Egypt, was one of the ancient gods of that country, the one whose sacred bird is called the ibis, and the name of the god himself was Theuth. He it was who invented numbers and arithmetic and geometry and astronomy, also draughts and dice, and, most important of all, letters the internet.
Now the king of all Egypt at that time was the god Thamus, who lived in a great city of the upper region, which the Greeks call the Egyptian Thebes, and they call the god himself Ammon. To him came Theuth to show his inventions, saying that they ought to be imparted to the other Egyptians.
But Thamus asked what use there was in each, and as Theuth enumerated their uses, expressed praise or blame of the various arts which it would take too long to repeat; but when they came to letters the internet:
'This invention, O king,' said Theuth, 'will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memories; for it is an elixir of memory and wisdom that I have discovered.'
But Thamus replied, 'Most ingenious Theuth, one man has the ability to beget arts, but the ability to judge of their use fulness or harmfulness to their users belongs to another; and now you, who are the father of letters, the internet have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess.
For this invention will produce forgctfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practise their memory.
Their trust in writing search engines, produced by external characters rapacious companies who do not give an obol for privacy which are not part of themselves they have no control over will discourage the use of their own memory within them.
You have invented an elixir not of memory but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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There is a stunning and irrefutable proof of the fallacy of this conclusion ... if I could only remember what it is!
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I know the proof, but the margin is to small...
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Ask in QA!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Where's the nearest mens room?
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Google says it's just over there.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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