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I believe that a chap who knew a chap got him a terribly interesting job in the FO.
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FCO if you please, we have a Commonwealthdontchaknow.
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What! Where did the Empire go? 
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Dontchaknow that a chap never calls it that unless he's a bit, well, suspect? The type of chap who thinks it's acceptable to tamper with the seam of the ball.
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I remember once at a St Patrick's Day reception at the Irish Embassy in Budapest, a British diplomat was asked why we call it the Foreign & Commonwealth Office rather than just the Foreign Office, he replied "Because we can!" 
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Is he related to Bobby Tables?
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"You're an idiot for not being able to read English"
"RTFM"
"LMGTFY"
A meaningless and sarcastic reply
Two abuse votes so far
Let's wait and see what other replies this one nets.
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In your rush to defend the OP and rubbish the responses, did you check his profile? This is not a new joiner and he has managed to post 13 requests on QA so far. To me that says he should have an idea of how this site goes.
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Plus...how did he know there are two abuse votes?
I couldn't find out without actually voting "abuse" myself (which I haven't) so either he did and then tried to defend the person he just voted against, or he is the OP with a sock puppet account...
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Exactly what I was asking myself...that's a bit strange.
And after all, the responses weren't that harsh anyway, I think.
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If you look at OP's stats, the message has Score: 1.80 (2 votes), which doesn't tally to 2 abuse votes but more likely one abuse from a low rep and a counter from a high rep...
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Ah, I see. I didn't know where to look for that (and just for the record, I didn't vote it as abusive, too)
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Other way round: High down vote, and low up. The high rep vote puts more "weight" into the result, and since the vote is (presumably) Abuse: 1, UpVote: 5 the combined result of 1.8 implies a much lower impact "5".
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What did you expect?
A question that is trivial to solve without asking actual humans, posted in the wrong place because he couldn't be bothered to read - but had to go past "quick answers" and "discussions" to get to?
OK, "abuse" is probably taking it a little too far - I didn't hit that button - but I can understand it.
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Of course you can understand abuse, you're in QA enough.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Of course you can understand abuse, you're in sheep enough.
FTFY
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So, you joined yesterday and are already an expert on how these forums work.
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Ξ∥__∥∟> (7)
A moderately easy one to celebrate Friday 
modified 22-Jan-16 5:52am.
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I couldn't work it out...more caffeine, that's what I need...
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Correct! You have the honour- nay, privilege, of posting the FOSW on Monday
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This was the first one I managed to work out. I can see what my weekend will consist of.
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Procrastinate? Me?
So far this morning I have cleaned the coffee machine and started making some puff pastry. I am also waiting for the eggs to warm to room temperature so I can make some pasta.
I am suffering from very bad IBS - Irritating Boss Syndrome 
veni bibi saltavi
modified 22-Jan-16 4:26am.
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Do you work from home?
GCS 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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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In the loosest possible sense. I occasionally do a bit of consultancy but seem to spend more time looking for work than actually working.
Right now I have some work, through my own stoopidity I have managed to use the obfuscation pattern and I am now trying to remember why I did it this way last summer and what the Maria I can do to fix it. 
That said, I am finding lots of 'other' things to do at the moment...
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