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OriginalGriff wrote: Anyone know where I can get some water?
Because it will be boiled you can pick it up outdoor as long as it is not wasted much (avoid fertiliser and dung washed in from farm land). Suitable are small rivers that have not passed villages or extensively used farm land, not too small lakes, or even the water butt in your backyard (the water in there should be fresh enough in Wales).
BTDT
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I've drank the water running off mountains and hilltops in Wales, but I wouldn't drink it from further down - most of the land is farmed in some way and I've seen plenty of dead sheep in streams 
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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If I could build one of those, I wouldn't need the coffee... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The best cup of coffee is the one you don't need.
Cheers,
Mick
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A programmer is a person who always checks both ways when crossing a one-way street.
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That's the kind of attitude that we don't need.
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No ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) in the fridge then?
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Many years ago, I had a house fire - saved the outside walls - and it took 6 months to rebuild. During that time, I had limited power (service pole for the builders that provided two outlets) and no water - well and septic system.
I do have a guest house that I stayed in, but, again.. no water for flushing.
There is a small creek running through the property, so, daily I would fill a large pail for flushing purposes.
I would take a 5-gallon jug to the neighbors and fill it for bathing water and coffee.
The water was heated on a portable camp stove and poured in the bathroom sink. Use a wash clothe and soap, get cleaned up.. get creative with washing your hair.
Having said that, you can survive... just get creative.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Anyone know where I can get some water?
Squeeze it out of the wasps, maybe?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Anyone know where I can get some water?
Ask in the QA forum? You will then be directed to Google, where you will then search for water. Now, here in upstate New York, the first Google result is a link to the local water department site. Do they have those in Wales - water departments? 
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Slacker007 wrote: in Wales - water departments
They call it clouds, and on duty 24/7
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OriginalGriff wrote: wasps nest attached to the curtain in the spare room
Sound like a job for Dalek Dave!
(exterminate!)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Shouldn't that be: URGNTZ NEEDZ WATER.
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Perform acrobatic manouevre season after season, we're told (10)
Slogans aren't solutions.
modified 20-Apr-17 4:36am.
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Somersault
Summer
Salt
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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That was quick! I was worried that it was going to be a sticky one.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Oh, very good! 
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I remember a long, long time ago writing programs out, longhand, on paper just for the fun of it - this was 2 or 3 years before I even had access to a computer, taught myself basic, fortran and cobol by reading books at the library (books! Remember them?). As an apprentice I remember an old SBC from a machine tool at work, state of the art it was at the time (68000 I think), I programmed it hex byte by hex byte on the bench to sequence a row of LEDs in a flashy pattern, how amazing was that at the time! Best of all when the company had it's first network with UNIX workstations and figuring out I could send a page full of CTRL-G's to my buddy in the next office and the look on his face as he hammered on the keyboard to try and stop it beeping, with the boss howling at him to shut it...
Anyone else remember the good old days?
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I remember the excitement.
Nowadays, almost every new "great advance" is just the same old stuff with flashier (or stupider) graphics.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The first time I programmed a computer was at university - an ICL running George 3 - and we programmed on punched cards. Unfortunately, there were about 6 punch machines (a huge box with a keyboard that made physical holes in the card, and printed the character at the top so you could read it) and several hundred students to use them. They broke - a lot - the ran out of printing tape all the time, and the queues were immense! You could use coding sheets and submit them to "the punch ladies" who would do them for you, but the turnround time was in days, not hours, and they typed what they saw, not what you wrote (which is why I "bar" my zeros and sevens to this day:
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So I soon learnt to read holes myself, and to use a hand punch where you pushed the pins through the card to make the letter columns.
Then you put a rubber band round your cards, and submitted them to the Computer Operators for computer processing - which took about 8 hours on average to get a printout of your compiler errors. And the operators hated students - heck they hated everybody! They would drop the cards, shuffle them, add a few from the next pack, add a little lettuce and mayo (no, seriously - one of my desk can back with half a sandwich in the middle). So the whole process began again.
Things have moved on: next time you complain about a VS compilation taking too long, remember that a edit-compile-run session when I started was probably a whole day...to get told you missed a double quote and it couldn't run!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So, I wasn't the only one. 
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Back when you relied on yourself for syntax errors and not Intellisense or the compiler.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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In High School, we were introduced to a language called HYPO - it was a hypothetical language that talk programming principles. We used mark-sense cards to write our programs, shipped them off to the local college, and then waited for the printed reply.
All 'keywords' were numbers, including mathematical functions. So, 5 may mean subtraction, etc.
Fast forward two years - in college now. One of the professors asked us to write a program in HYPO to read in a deck of cards (number unknown) and print them in reverse order.
When he asked if anyone (100 students in the room) had completed the assignment, I put my hand up... and looked around to see I was the only one. He asked me to write the solution on the chalkboard, so I did.. a stream of numbers.
The only way to accomplish the request was to have the program modify itself - change the card count indexer function from addition to subtraction.
After that, I got along well with the professor...
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SNAP! BTDTGTTS
The good old days 8)
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