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Jacquers wrote: ... remote controlled water cannon
For when the neighbours turn their karaoke player up too high? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Yes I wondered about that the other night when I watched the ad on TV. The image of the smiling girl/lady holding her phone face up in the palm of her hand ...
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I am glad I was not the only who thought it was weird.
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It's an extension to the phone controlled brain 
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Goes nicely next to my bidet app.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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From what they described, it sounded like the phone app was for advice on how to use the washer and cleaning schedules. So for people who look up on Youtube how to use it. I might just be missing something but I didn't see anything about actually controlling the washer from your phone.
It still seems pointless to have your phone connect via bluetooth when you could just select the particular washer from the app or maybe even scan some barcode on it, but it gives another bullet point for marketing I suppose
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H.L. Mencken wrote: No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Apparently this is true for the whole human race.
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OriginalGriff wrote: So, the thing it's most likely to get very, very wet is the most expensive toy you own,
Your car?
Which, most likely, is what you're trying to use the pressure washer with. So I don't see the problem.
[This must be the thought process used at whichever company came up with the idea]
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I've been noticing that when my articles are edited by the wonderful folks at CP, they are removing my double-space after a period.
So I did some research[^], and well, yup, I'm over 40, lol.
I doubt I can give up the habit of tapping the spacebar. Twice. After a period. Period. ;)
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Only on space, after you had yours.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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I'm old enough to need a telescope to see 40, but I have never used double space after a period on a computer. As best I can recall, that was for typewriters only, mimicking the style used by traditional lead type printing.
Of which I did a fair amount at school, after they found out my mother was a printer (offset litho for her, hand set lead type for me).
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I think you got your N-Quads and M-Quads mixed up. I won't get into ligatures (KSS and all that).
QWERTY is as QWERTY does.
This isn't just big-endians and little-endians - this is serious!
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40 is definitely a distant dream, but we were never taught about double spacing after periods. Maybe a US thing... But I'll put a double space here just for you Marc 
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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And ... the browser will automatically remove it, as it does with all multiple whitespace ... it's part of the HTML specification ... 
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It's space space the space space thought space space that space space counts.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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This is for those who love history!
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My dad does it too.
I never even knew this was a thing until recently[^].
To me, double spaces is just wrong, grammatically incorrect.
And age no be excuse to are grammatically not correct 
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Remember that grammar correctness changes over time: when I was at school "Joe and I" was the only acceptable form - now it's incorrect, and "Joe and me" or "me and Joe" are grammatically correct (and flagged as such by Word!)
Back in Ye Olde Days, paragraphs and all nouns were initially majuscule, now it's sentence starters and Proper Nouns only. (Mind you, that wasn't a "Y" back then either!)
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And as an old fart, you know all of this, proving my point 
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I know many, many things.
Most of them are completely useless, but that's not age, just the effects of education and an enquiring mind for you ... 
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But age helps, hoarding knowledge takes time.
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If only we could find where we put it.
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I'm more of the type, "Why did I enter the kitchen?"
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Just because Word doesn't complain, doesn't make it right. I cringe (inwardly when I remember, sometimes it's obvious) when people say "Fred and me did..." etc. I was always taught (both at home and at school) that if you were unsure whether to use "me" or "I" then just take out other person (no, not hire a hit-man) and if it sounds wrong, then it is.
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