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It's inspired by four of the finest books ever written (Down With Skool, How to be Topp, Whizz for Atoms! and Back in the Jug Agane by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle).
They're a brilliant satire on British school life in the '50s (and every bit as applicable to the British school I went to in the '80s, to be honest).
Not sure whether they're terribly well known outside the UK but they're much loved here.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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It looks like something you'd see on modern social media sites...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John scores for the win! 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Wait a sec. Molesworth? I've been tempted to apply for a job there....I think it's still being advertised.
I just wasn't looking forward to having to learn a new language.
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Those books were such a part of my life and though processes when I was at skool.
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i stopped reading because of the 'k's
I can't handle it.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Indeed... Like Krab with a K at the local grocer... It must be fake!!! 
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First thought: Do you write this way on purpose, or do you need a new keyboard?
Edit:
I should have read the answers first
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I click on the link and first thing I see is an ad that promises me tons of loot. Bad idea. I take such things literally.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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It's a YouTube link. Youtube periodically shows you ads, unless you have Premium. Nothing I can do about that, maybe you should watch less Youtube... 
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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AdBlock for Youtube does the trick.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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And where is my loot?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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To activate the transtemporal fugue of neurons that will enable time-travel, and reveal your future language ... so you can miss it in the present ... i.e., to correct the temporal anomaly in the hallucinated present that pixelates the actual future into low-fi static ... I suggest you listen to this several times at a playback rate of .25: [^].
Caution: do not worry if the song played at so-called normal speed reminds you of a certain Witch's epic self-psychoanalysis, now in progress on the Lounge: this reaction is not unusual.
And, now that you have seen your future language, rising like a phoenix from what you now see as the toy-languages of the past, and present ... please share what a typical code fragment will be like.
Here's a sample of what I saw up then:
Application: WebSite: Photo Gallery, E-Commerce, Social Media Shyte, Porn Filter: MyPhotos
=> Gimme
Maybe it's my failing eyes, or just age, or hardened cynicism, but, dang me if I can see anything that looks like what we call today: "code."
Hopefully, what you see will be more detailed !
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I miss many thing from the future...
I don't want to live in the past! 
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That was not something I ever expected to hear - but I'm glad I did!
Excellent - Thanks Bill!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Ancient programmer: a string is a series of characters ending in a null terminator.
Modern programmer: a string is an object the size of Wales.
Future programmer: maybe the ancients weren't so stupid.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: Future programmer: maybe the ancients weren't so stupid.
They will do what they all have done: Commit every old sin a totally new ways and pat themselves on the back for being much smarter than those before them. How else could you explain something like JavaScript? Or BASIC? Or (longer list)...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: Commit every old sin a totally new ways
because g.o.d. needs to forgive you ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I see 0s and 1s, neatly arranged, and sometimes represented as hexadecimal for convenience. Poor luxury. Looks like my future has been set in stones for 40 years.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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40 octal, decimal, or hex?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Why is there a guy in the video whose only job appears to be to drink beer and eat his lunch? 
(Think I might have found my new career!)
"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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Powered on my computer this morning.
I have a bit of a weird setup, two big monitors with the laptop behind those facing in the opposite direction.
Since I can't fit the laptop and the two monitors next to each other the laptop is always closed.
So this morning the monitors stayed black.
Opened my laptop to see my login screen there, but once I'm logged in everything becomes unresponsive.
Hard reset.
Try again, and again I have to login on my laptop, but now my screen is duplicated on the first monitor.
So I close my laptop and it goes to sleep.
Open it up again and the screen comes back.
Set the monitor as my main monitor and set it to extend, my laptop becomes the main screen.
Switch it, figure out that the second monitor was disconnected completely.
About thirty minutes later I'm all set up again.
Did Windows install an update or something? 
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Win10 seems to have difficulty with multiple resolution monitors...
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Mine doesn't - it copes with 1080x1920, 1680 x 1050, and 1280 x 1024 at the same time perfectly.
The only thing I do get is the HDMI connected one (HDMI, VGA, and DVI in that order) occasionally goes blank for a split second when I plug the hoover in ... maybe a loose cable or a poor fit connector.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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