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Erstwhile
Queen = ER (Elizabeth Regina)
Short saint = ST
Pass time leisurely - WHILE
ERSTWHILE = formerly
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Oooh, just pipped at the post. Still, you have the satisfaction of knowing you got it correct and that you don't have to do it tomorrow.
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@Pete-OHanlon
You won yesterday, remember?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Sorry, I've been busy shouting at an insurance company for the last hour. Will be posting shortly.
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That only ever got me more frustrated.
Solicitors are the only thing they understand other than "Give us your money", "it wasn't worth as much as that", and "not covered".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Indeed. I got one level up from the call centre to a "floor manager" who informed me she was the only manager available. Apparently their senior management trust them so much that only one person has to be around.
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You only had to spend one hour shouting at them? That almost sounds like a recommendation!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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It's the third time in two days. It's a saga I shall post later.
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There's a reason banks and insurance companies own the biggest buildings in the/any city,
for sure it ain't from giving money away[/back].
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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Does the fact that "The eye of the tiger" is the only Rocky theme most people can name indicate survivor bias?
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there were others?
wait, Eye of the Tiger was used in a Rocky movie?
there was music?
hmmm, learned another [useless] fact for the day.
must remember to forget, must remember to forget ....
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Remember to forget to remember!
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* 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
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Is that the future will keep clairvoyants in suspense.
jes' sayin'
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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Truly, I say onto thee, nothing is more certain than taxes, death and Microsoft's quality.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Is it just me - does Windows really just hate me - or is the issue of Windows (10) screwing up your icon placement on your desktop reasonably widespread.
I'm sitting here minding my own business and suddenly the background flickers and all my extremely OCDly organised icons are all, once again, stacked up on the left hand side of the screen.
Anyone else being plagued by this?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Wouldn't know. I keep mine bare. Like a normal person.
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Jeremy Falcon
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Oh hush! As he glances at his cluttered desktop even though he has Fences installed....
Doc told me years ago the secret for a long life: get an ailment and nurse it for as long as you can. I have a bad case of icon rot...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Wouldn't know. I keep mine bare. Like a normal person.
including setting your desktop background to a Bear?
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maze3 wrote: including setting your desktop background to a Bear?
Naw, he probably set it to Wonkavision of beer.
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Never seen that before. The only time my icons rearranged was when my laptop crashed with a BSOD due to a faulty driver.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Yeah, I just got hit by the same thing two days ago. I don't know what caused it. I had the 1703 update applied two weeks ago.
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Windows update seems to be working round the clock to undo all your carefully set preferences. I have almost given up trying.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Chris Maunder wrote: all my extremely OCDly organised icons
If you're that OCD, or just want to keep things organized, I really recommend Fences : Software from Stardock
And if @PIEBALDconsult drops by, just double-click on the desktop and all the icons are hidden.  (Double-click again and they re-appear.)
They used to have a "restore" option because Windows 7 would obliterate things once in a while, but on W10 with the latest fences, I don't see that option, so maybe they've figured out how to "fix" W10.
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