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Rurik Jutting is accused of double murder in Hong Kong - and he left an out-of-office autoreply on his email when he quit his job:
"I am out of the office. Indefinitely. For urgent enquiries, or indeed any enquiries, please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath.
For escalation, please contact God, though suspect the devil will have custody."
O...K...
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Well Griffo, not sure I would like to have you in the jury in my trial for death row. Just because he's a dodgy psycho, that dont mean he's the only one.
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Well...they did find one naked dead lady in his flat, and another decaying in a suitcase on his balcony.
But perhaps if they had looked earlier, they could have saved the second one?
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Well, thanks for the tip. I will make sure to keep my flat tidy from such evidence!
I was almost under the impression that you saw his email as proof to hang him. But I guess I had missed the whole story.
: )
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Are you sure it wasn't an Aspidistra? He could then claim "It was a plant!"
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Coincidence, I'm sure.
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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Wasn't the character in American Psycho, a banker?
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I know how to stop this spam wave! Let close QA for good!!!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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We should not get overly obsessed with making spelling mistakes or typos, because they are not what makes our writing good or bad, says author and Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway.
*runs and hides*
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Well Nayg,. I tri hart to avoind speling misstakes as they tend to iritate the I,.
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eye din kno t ft gv job a 12yo
I didn't know the FT employed the under twelves.
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There is a big difference between SPELLING MISTAKE and that crap you wrote. 
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I agree.
But you can read the first version and it's considered valid by some. And if quality media start slipping standards (especially in a world where everything they submit is written on a computer, edited on a computer, and printed by a computer so there is no damn excuse for such mistakes to get through) then the first version is what you get very quickly - look at the kind of cr@p that gets posted on "yoof" sites, and that's pretty normal! 
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The Grammar Man[^] is not going to like that!
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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So lets see if @DalekDave sees this and gives us his valuable input 
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You mentioned his name! Now all hell will break loose...
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I started the countdown to DD Day (Double D...  )
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Agree wholeheartedly for most writing*
Mostly spelling/ grammar mistakes don't matter - the meaning is unchanged Generally it's possible to remove the vowels and still be understood - some writing systems actually work like this. Hell, English had unstandardised spelling until relatively recently, and when it was standardised the got it wrong. Worse in the UK (not the US) we decided to balls it up to make it look like a romance language - hence we now write "music" instead of "musick" or "musicke" and even more oddly have a "u" in words like "colour". Personally, I'd rationalise the whole spelling system
Worse spelling/grammar Nazis actually detract from from debate, switching the focus from what (rarely does a mistake change the meaning) is being said to how it is being written. Pedestrian minds feeling superior by criticising others with one of the few sticks at their disposal
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Really ducks and covers.
* Wouldn't be OK in books or articles etc.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Oh, you picked up the underlying point. I feel as long as the effort is there to write well, then the odd hiccup/hiccough can be ignored.
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I wish you Hell.
(You could guess that I meant "Well", right?)
It is NEVER ok.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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We know you! It wasn't a typo! You just meant it...S(h)ame on you...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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I think that is a great example though.
And, obviously, everyone who thinks the other way has never had an interaction with the MSDN (Microsoft documentation) where one word was wrong.
I assure you, it must be right.
Oh, wait, did I mean correct or on the right-hand side? 
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newton.saber wrote: has never had an interaction with the MSDN (Microsoft documentation) where one word was wrong right.
FTFY... 
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Point 1: If there's a chance of what you write being misunderstood, take special care that it does not contain errors.
Point 2: Murphy's Law.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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