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I had a similar problem with the hire Ford Fester I had this summer.
I had to stop and read the manual to find out how to activate the rear window wiper...and don;t get me started on the two useless (but annoying) buttons on the cruise control.
It's not you: it's the manufacturers valuing style over function.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Meh, I once spent 15 minutes looking for the control and reading through the manual to see how to turn on the rear wiper of my Senator.
It was only then I discovered the awful truth.
It didn't have a read wiper.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: rear wiper
Rear Wiper[^]?
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Freudian Slope
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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Read Wiper[^]
It is about all it is good for.
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At least you haven't damaged the car yet. I did a really nice one:
My own little Ford was going for a checkup at the garage and I had booked a rental car while that was going on. A Volvo V70 just about twice the size of my own car. It was parked in the rental company's garage, which was VERY narrow - ALL the way back in the most faraway corner.
They just gave me the keys and told me to take the car, and I should have known better and asked them to take it outside for me. But NOOOOOO! Mr. Macho didn't want to appear like a sissy, so he had to take it out himself. And while I was easing the car from the parking spot trying to get it around a tight corner and out through the narrow gate, The left side of the car hit the corner of the gate. And a scratch the size of Grand Canyon was made all along the side of the car.
My name is Johnny J. and I am functionally stupid.
It IS the first and only time I've damaged a car that wasn't my own in such a manner, but the record of ripping out the side of a rental car BEFORE I EVEN GET IT OUT ON THE ROAD - that one will hopefully stand for many years to come. I don't plan on doing such a stupid thing ever again!
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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I was in a similar situation, the car was blocked in, had a metal post on one side but there was enough wriggle room.
Fortunately the bloke giving me the car said he would get it out, must have seen how I was eyeing it up.
I said thanks, my back and neck could do without all that right now.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Reminds me of when I discovered that I no longer liked business travel.
I was staying in some 5 star Hotel Pulmann in Madrid - after a busy day I was looking forwad to a shower and the wretched thing took me 15 minute to figure out how to get it going.
There were no taps, just a bunch of buttons and marble everywhere.
I then realised that I would rather be staying in some homely B&B than the cold alienating 5 star dead hotel I was in.
Sometimes things are just overcomplicated.
That said I don't think I will ever be able to buy a car that does not have a reversing camera from now on in.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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So what is the wish for next year?? 
you want something inspirational??
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More coding. More business ...
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Getting More and more New Technology Artical's...
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That I'm still breathing?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Happy Birthday to CP! Yeah!
The wish for next year is more of the same as this year - keep up the good work Chris, Hamsters and other CP members!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Vishy Anand Vs Magnus Carlsen
Who do you think?
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Terrorist Etiquette
If you cut off the wrong guy's head you should apologize.
See: Oppsie![^]
If you are a terrorist who is killed by another terrorist do you still get the standard 70 virgins you do you get 140 - you know, sort of a bonus amount for the extra trouble?
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MehGerbil wrote: et the standard 70 virgins
You wouldn't want virgins..you'd want right dirty whores.
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Member Removed But you've got balls, I'll give you that!
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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3 cheers to CP!
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...for that silly outburst in the Soapbox. I'm all better now, I've taken my medication (hick!) 
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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It's the SB you need to apologise to not advertising apologising here.
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Nah, it's just that I went a little crazy, and when I came back, I found myself here... 
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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I told you: The RITALIN pills, not the other ones
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The blue ones, you mean? 
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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I seem to think that someone has had a liquid lunch, hey it's Friday...
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