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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: "Nothing you would like."
Are you sure he didn't say 'Nothing you would hear'? 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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... when an attractive young lady you come across, somewhere in the city center, stops by and addresses you as "Excuse me, Uncle" *.
* Happened to me about 6-7 years ago. By that count, I'm too old now.
modified 25-Feb-15 0:33am.
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That's nothing. About 6 years ago, I got on the bus and a woman soldier gave up her seat for me!*
* I was only 44 at the time, but I must have looked terrible that day.
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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Or you looked so fine that she tried to hit on you 
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My vanity would like to believe that, but honesty and integrity force me to say otherwise. 
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: but honesty and integrity force me to say otherwise
Wow, that proves you're old and you are over a decade younger than me. Didn't they stop teaching that about 20 years ago because it was old-fashioned?
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Which proves my point. I grew up so long ago that honesty was still considered the best policy.
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: honesty was still considered the best policy
With people going to jail for renewed Ponsi schemes, wholesale bank failures because of sketchy business policies, makes you wonder how that ever got out of style. Maybe the huge bonuses and kick-backs without consequences happening at the same time?
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KP Lee wrote: Maybe the huge bonuses and kick-backs without consequences happening at the same time?
Dishonesty and recklessness are hardly new inventions, but it is only recently that they have gone "mainstream".
It used to be that the worst possible disaster that could befall a banker was to go bankrupt. He was totally ruined, both in society and in business. Even if he did later recover financially, he always had that cloud hovering over him. This tended to limit bankers' risk-taking. Nowadays, on the other hand...
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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Nice application of your tag line. I get the feeling now that if anyone mentioned Churchill, half the world would say "Who?" They also wouldn't know the quote, "Anyone who doesn't know history is doomed to repeat it." (I don't remember who said it, so much for remembering history.)
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KP Lee wrote: "Anyone who doesn't know history is doomed to repeat it."
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
--George Santayana
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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I was also 43-44 then. Now, nearing 50.
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either that or her mother recognised you
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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No, she was alone 
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Nothing you would like
Is it so bad?
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Indeed.
I'm pissed that I won't be in Germany these coming months. I wanted to catch at least a few of the Crüxshadows shows.
No one in the band, at least, minds my age. :p
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A few shows even? Wow, you must really like the Crüxshadows...
I know their song Deception (and like it quite a bit) and that's where my Crüxshadows knowledge ends
But there's some good darkwave out there 
My blog[ ^]
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: "Nothing you would like."
Quick response, "You're that bad eh?".
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Quick response, "You're that bad eh?".
...and if he's playing outside on a sidewalk collecting money in a hat, the proper answer is "apparently neither does anybody else"
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Are you sure he was a musician? It could be:
- They can't play at all, so "nothing you'd like" would be accurate
- They play so badly that it should have been "nothing that anybody likes"
- Nobody actually likes what he plays, but it's clever so people pretend to like it; a sort of "Emperor's New Clothes" effect (and he's actually honest about it)
- He is mistaken and it's possible you would like it
- He plays something that's so weird that only an obvious visual minority would like it
Come to think of it, that last point does cover young trend followers.
In any case, he's a jerk!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Twice, now, I've been prevented from posting a message by "It appears that the garbage you wish to post has already been posted" messages (I can't remember the exact wording, but that was probably it).
It's reasonably unlikely that anyone else would post two somethings with exactly the phrasing I used, and I know that I hadn't posted the same things before, so kess ke say, moochatchoss?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: "It appears that the garbage you wish to post has already been posted
You must have been posting to other forums and not the Lounge. The Lounge clearly accepts all kinds of garbage. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It happens if you press the "Post Message" key twice, or sometimes if it appears that your message has not been posted. In the second case it's usually a timing issue, when the hamsters are having their post-prandial nap.
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The messages haven't appeared on the site, yet, so it's not the double-click thing.
I should insist -- nay, DEMAND -- on immediate escalation to third-line support! These were important messages!
(e.g. the one today was to the MQOTD thread.)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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