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I really hate it when there is some serious business going on and people start hiding behind groups and organisations by saying things like 'we think this...' or 'we don't do that'. When the ice is thin enough or when things are serious enough, all you hear is 'we, we, we...'
My favorite response, tried first when I got the 'we' treatment from HR? 'Yes, your Majesty.'
'Are you trying to make fun of me?' (Absolutely, because I saw this appointment coming for almost a year.)
'No, but you used the pluralis majestatis, so I assumed you are some sort of nobility.'
So much for her trying to intimidate me. If that had not been enough, I would have carefully explained to her what it says about mental health when somebody constantly refers to himself in plural.
I just had a much less serious 'we,we,we' speech and His Majesty was even able to laugh after being called so. 
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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We enjoy reading your posts, and so say all of us 
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So say we all? Thats something totally different[^].
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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The correct question that she should have asked is ofc, "are you making fun of us?"
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Very true, but she was too confused to notice that because that was not the reaction she wanted to see from me. The key to winning an argument is to derail the other's strategy. Intimidation does not work with me, especially if you are about half my size and you have to look up even when I'm peacefully sitting on a chair. In this case it was useless, but good practice anyway.
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: Intimidation does not work with me, especially if you are about half my size
Might be a reason why a bouncer is usually "a little bit" bigger than the average person visiting the club.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Of course, with the added bonus of the bouncer usually not bluffing.
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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Eddy Vluggen wrote: "is one are you making fun of us?"
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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That reminds us, we still need to go see that movie 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Dilly Dilly! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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It is OK with me if the statement is made by a person who is really representing a group of people. If "we" could be replaces by "Microsoft" or "The xxx party" or "The soccer team", without changing the meaning significantly: "We" is correct.
I am fare more annoyed when a machine, such as my PC running MS-Word, tells me "We didn't find what you were searching for", as if MS had lined up a huge search-and-rescue team running all over the landscape with torches and heat cameras to find another occurence of the word "annoyed". An editor is not a "we"!
By old Norwegian tradition, royals (the king and such) refer to themself as "we" in all formal statements, even when he refers only to his own person (and not the Norwegain people he represents). This has lead to a common joke in Norwegian: "Only royals and people with tapeworms are entitled to refer to themselves as 'we'".
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a) yes, of course
b) indeed, the rhetorical 'we'
c) that's the pluralis majestatis, which has somewhat come out of fashion in the last 100 years and even real royals only use it on very official occasions anymore
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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Just wait until some snowflake insists you start using "ze" because it's more politically correct and gender-neutral.
Excerpt from this online-dictionary:
Quote: The genderqueer community are the primary proponents of ze. One refers to a person with ze and hir typically (a) when their gender is unknown, and one wishes to avoid assuming their gender, or (b) when they are neither male nor female in gender, making he and she (also either/or terms like s/he or (s)he) inappropriate and potentially hurtful.
From the Cambridge online dictionary:
Quote:
a pronoun sometimes used instead of "he" or "she" because it does not show a particular gender
Never mind any looming natural disaster, this is how civilization is going to hell in a handbasket.
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That's not going to happen. Speech control is mind control. You can't think what you are not allowed to say, just as Orwell predicted. I know that they have some weird laws of that sort in Canada now, but I have found sarcasm works best against the little snowflakes.
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: I have found sarcasm works best against the little snowflakes.
I'm not disagreeing at all. I'm the guy who will intentionally trigger the snowflakes just to get a rise out of them.
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It's their heart attack, after all. 
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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Real nobility does not use anything as vulgar as the first or second person.
It is the third person with which one refers to oneself.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Cafe alam di bandung wrote:
The latest version of Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system blocks JavaScript by default, because this is seen as a possible source of security breaches. Most users have no idea how to allow JavaScript to run on the web pages they view.
Your text is a little outdated 
In the meantime, JavaScript has proven to be a security-nightmare, as well as a maintenance-nightmare.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I could have told them that 15 years ago, but would they have listened?
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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Copy'n'paste spam tester is my guess.
Check his other stuff.
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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Ah, yes, it's amazing 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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He's been a user since... today.
Spammer.
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