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I find myself in the odd position of agreeing with Boris. The bloke is a scientist, not a media w**ker.
If we chose our space scientists on the basis of sartorial elegance, we'd not have made orbit yet, let alone landed on the moon or any other heavenly body.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Keith Barrow wrote: I find myself in the odd position of agreeing with Boris.
Me too, which was my point. It's only the PC idiots (largely media wonks) who find anything offensive, largely because they want there to be. Rather than give an apology, he would have been better off giving a rendition of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39YUXIKrOFk[^], or his impression of Father Jack.
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Yeah, his girlfriend makes him a shirt and he wears it in public. Evil man. Clearly has no respoect for women.
Well, except for his girlfriend who made him the farking shirt.
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No Movie Quotes Of The Day, this week... sorry.
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It's the Lounge Movie!
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I give up! I don't think I've seen that movie... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Oh please don't tell me you ran out of movie-quotes and planning to watch as many movies as possible this week to fill up the void.. 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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I don't like it when regulars to the lounge change their behavior!
Also, did you know[^]?
Try Hovercraft for Android, voted "a game" by players.
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"The Silence of the Nerds"
(yes|no|maybe)*
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Debbie does Dallas 
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One Night in Paris
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Just spent a week doing a prototype of a nasty little tool to import/export/edit 1000s of rates, they spent a week breaking it and discussing and modifying the requirements, I'll spend another week coding it up, they will spend 3 weeks on testing and UAT. We will then wait for a green zone for deployment to production.
All to save 2 DAYS A YEAR, elephant, I forgot to ask how often they need to do this process. Just one question and I could have assigned it to the bottom of a very deep pile, bugger!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Sounds like you work at the same place as me. 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Yeah the BA exclaimed in exasperation at the end of an hour long meeting with the users "but you only do this once a year", my reaction is decidedly not lounge material.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Is feeling like a right idiot better than feeling like a left behind ?
While we think about that ... you're lucky to have a job ?
cheers, Bill
«The greater the social and cultural distances between people, the more magical the light can spring from their contact» Milan Kundera, "Testaments Trahis"
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I feel it is more right vs wrong. Being an idiot is bad enough, but imagine being wrong as well?
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Anyone of you guys playing this game? 
Been a month playing this game.. and it is great!
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I don't do drugs.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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The keg doesn't have to go back for another 3 days. I may manage to finish it after all.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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If, like moi, you have, for years, been baffled/misled/hornswoggled by the bizarre dys-organization and dys-content of MSDN technical documentation for C#, WinForms, etc. ... I mean haven't you ever wondered why, on the support forums, each message is repeated twice ?
Well, you may (or, may not) be chuffed to learn that an ex-employee, Elle P. Hant, has revealed that what has appeared to many as the scatter-shot chaos of an explosion in a compost pit is a deliberate educational strategy based on (hush-hush) research into disfluency in the cognitive psychology of learning: [^].
Elle, hiding incognito, living on take-out never ordered from the same restautrant twice, in fear her MS stock options will be confiscated, in the Consulate of a small South American country in Seattle, Washington, is rumored to be planning even more revelations about MSDN's subliminal conspiracies.
But, will we ever know why they don't present all the documentation in Comic Sans [1][2] ?
[1] At this time it is not clear if the July 4, 2012 announcement-graphic by CERN of evidence for the Higgs Boson, which used Comic Sans, has any connection with Microsoft's failure to use it on MSDN. The official story was: "Gianotti, the coordinator of the CERN program to find the Higgs boson, provided a compelling rationale for why she had used Comic Sans. When asked, she said, 'Because I like it.' "
[2] The quote from Gianotti, and the story of the fascinating research by David Dunning into the effect of fonts on "believability" and reader bias are in an excellent essay here: [^].
«The greater the social and cultural distances between people, the more magical the light can spring from their contact» Milan Kundera, "Testaments Trahis"
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There are new idiots coming out with ridiculous ideas every year, usually only because they need to publish something if they want to gain or keep tenure.
It's best to just ignore them. The genuinely good ideas shine out like beacons projecting the words "Jeeze! Why the Hell didn't I think of that?"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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