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Out of dosh - ruined chic water (9)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Insolvent - but can't justify the v
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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You are up tomorrow! 
Why "justify the V"? What solution did you get?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I got In = chic
Solent = water
I don't think water is a solvent but I may be wrong 
Edit
Ignore that I just checked and water is known as the universal solvent ( how wrong can you be )
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I was just about to mention that!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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What's ruined doing in there? It's an anagram indicator, but nothing has to be anagrammed.
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It's an red herring anagram indicator, there to persuade you to waste time looking for an anagram, when in fact "ruined" is a synonym for "insolvent", just like the other two parts of the clue!
I see it worked on someone ... if not everyone.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Since the most recent update (12.1.20.21 if anyone's interested), I've been bemused by the sorting of Samsung's Contacts.
I have a fire service colleague by the name of Col B****. His position, (along with several others) got renamed by the service.
I keep my contacts sorted by first name, so he used to appear in the C's, as Col B**** oldtitle.
I edited the entry to Col B**** newtitle, whereupon he got shuffled into the B's. 
Eventually, by poking into the .vcf file, I figured that Samsung, in their infinite wisdom, has now decided to parse the name as
Title: Col, First: B****, Last: newtitle.
If I rename him to Colin (a handle nobody uses), sanity is restored. Well, almost. My other contact Col Ch**** is sorted on the Ch****, as though he has a title but no last name.
Makes you wonder how they'd handle Major Major Major Major....
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Not to mention Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS ...
KCMG - "Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St MichAel and St George"
FRGS - "Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society"
(He normally truncated the rest to "Etc.")
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Obviously, doh! 
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When I moved to work in Germany I found that they were very keen on titles, etc. When I first got there they called me "Herr ..." but once they found out I had been a professor and had a doctorate they always called me "Herr Doctor Professor ..." which was fun to start with but they persistently called me that and it got really tiresome after a while. Thank goodness they didn't find out I had once been a Colonel or had an inherited knighthood! "Das Ritter Herr Doctor Professor Oberst ..."? 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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LOL well in Italy we havce an elite paratroop force called "9th Regiment Col Moschin". The number of "journalists" referring to the famous Col. Moschin is jarring.
"Col Moschin" is the name of a hill, by the way, as "col" is just a regional variation of "colle", literally "hill".
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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It used to be that if you had an unusual name you would be bullied in school.
Nowadays you can get bullied in the comfort of your own home, by your phone.
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: Makes you wonder how they'd handle Major Major Major Major....
A colonel is a major^4.
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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So give him a title of Mr and this problem goes away.
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Do we have a group on here dedicated to clone building ?
i.e., assembling your own desktop computer.
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Yes it's called the Lounge.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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We just clone around...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Just built one not long ago
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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It depends what the question is. I built one a few years ago from a basic small form factor box with motherboard. I just had to add processor, memory, HDD, video and network card. All in all quite a simple process.
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The one detail I did learn was simple: work out how much power all the bits are going to take and add 25%. Then buy the next size up PSU ...
It's surprising how much power a good CPU and GPU can take: a top end GPU can be around 400W peak - which means you will probably need a 800W PSU or more once you figure in the processor, ram, drives, and USB peripherals.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Personally unless he really needs the PC I'd wait until GPU prices come down. Although you can get them now they are grossly over priced.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I had to try the drops for several weeks, but I got my Radeon 6900 xt at AMD shop prices (around 990€).
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?
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