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Saw this headline in today's NPR feed:
"Meanwhile In Australia, Part Of A Highway Is Literally Melting"
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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stoneyowl2 wrote: Meanwhile In Australia, Part Of A Highway Is Literally Melting
I guess it's warm down under? 
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Well it's 45 Celsius where I am today (you can convert that to fernheit ya weirdos. Done it in my headvbut not telling you) and the entire street and surrounding streets are blacked out.
So no air conditioning, only beer to keep me going.
Also the say after my Daughters 18th birthday piss up. I all good, she isn't.
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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Well, wish her a happy birthday from Bullhead City, AZ, where 45C is a cool spring afternoon! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Turned out we peaked at 47.3 Celsius.
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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A friend in Sydney said that was the temp there. YOW!
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What do the mean by Literally? Either it is melting or it is not.
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Probably means they arent looking at the highway through wonky glass that distorts it and makes it look runny. 
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Consider someone gesturing that a fish they caught was "this big".
Now, consider the same gesture with the words it was "literally this big"
The first would be understood to more likely be an exaggeration than the second. We're jovial and informal by nature. Even our free-to-air tv ads shown at 4:30pm have words considered inappropriate in some parts of the world.
A Toyota ad had people saying bugger. A word which, depending on context may mean damn, (as in this example) or go away - bugger off mate! Other examples of its use would be: bugger that for a joke!
Or something's buggered - it's no good and doesn't work any more. It pretty much well never references any kind of sex-act. Calling someone a sod is a simple slight, telling 'em to sod off is merely way of telling someone to go away. In Aus and NZ it's a reference to dirt - again, not to a sex-act.
A WorkSafe ad from the government had a girl cutting herself on a bread-slicing machine. She exclaimed: sh1t!
So, getting back to the original question - it wouldn't be uncommon nor misunderstood if someone said the road was melting that it's bloody hot. If they said the road was literally melting, you know that well, the road is actually coming apart.
A funny saying goes something like this:
Australians - calls mates sunshine and calls sunshines mate. (sunshine rhymes with front doesn't it?)
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enhzflep wrote: sunshine rhymes with front doesn't it?
Certainly does on this forum. 
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BTW how do you pronounce your name?
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Simon. 
Oh.. my username :smirk:
Basically, with a silent aitch. Enz-flep. It was my password to the unix computers at uni. So hard to remember, that once done I just couldn't forget it. It was unique then and remains so. I used to pronounce it E.N.Aitch.Zed - F.L.Ee.Pee - but my missus turned it into something far less tortuous and that's how it's remained.
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enhzflep wrote: Simon
Same as my eldest son (who may well be older than you  ).
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Elvis checked out 8 days after I checked in.
Ate Ate Seven Seven
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We had justcome back from two years living in Ankara. Simon checked in a month before Neil Armstrong (allegedly) stepped down onto the moon's surface.
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Hello everybody, As the subject line points out I am new here. My main goal from joining here is to meet people who program and start building a network of people who I can actually discuss programming with and learn from on a more personal level than a google search as well as help people when I can. To start I am 19 years old, from Canada. I am finishing upgrading my high school courses this winter and am entering into university for computer science in the fall. I already have a functional understanding of Java, as well I understand HTML to a usable extent(who doesn't), although my CSS is terrible. Most of what I do is play video-games, though I am joining this community to try and weave that out of my life. Does anybody have any tips on effectively contributing to this community?
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Welcome to CP. How's the weather up there my northern neighbor?
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Daniel Andersonfl wrote: Does anybody have any tips on effectively contributing to this community?
Don't feed the animals.
Properly research before asking any technical questions (in the proper forum).
Decide what you want to do "programming-wise" and have fun investigating code related to that field/domain.
Shutdown your computer from time to time and go out to do something else.
I'd rather be phishing!
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And don't post with a subject of "Thought of the day". That is a reserved subject line for someone else.
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Daniel Andersonfl wrote: Does anybody have any tips on effectively contributing to this community?
1. Think of something that you'd really like to have (web page, web app, java app, etc).
2. Build it
3. While you're building it, think about :
a) why it might be interesting to someone else
b) how you would explain what you are doing to someone else.
4. Write up all those best parts and all the parts you had difficulty with.
Seriously, if you do that. You'll find out that people respond because you'll be writing interesting stuff in a way that people start learning.
This place is about learning so it will be a huge success.
Go for it!!! And welcome to the community.
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Welcome to the Lounge. My advice: Follow the good suggestions above, but also take time to read forums like the Lounge and Soapbox, so that you can develop a feel for what is appropriate in which forum.
Read the guidelines for the forums written by Chris Maunder at the top and try to stick to his guidance. You will go far!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Daniel Andersonfl wrote: Does anybody have any tips on effectively contributing to this community?
Participate. To start with, the lounge is full of interesting discussions and people get to know you that way. You could start by responding to people who responded to you. 
And welcome!
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Daniel Andersonfl wrote: Most of what I do is play video-games, though I am joining this community to try and weave that out of my life.
To each their own but it's still nice to have something to do when you aren't developing or learning. Sometimes I'll hop in a game for a short time to clear my mind, come back to my code-base, and have a fresher/clearer view of what I need to do. Kinda like the toilet phenomenon but more fun
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Daniel Andersonfl wrote: Does anybody have any tips on effectively contributing to this community?
Depends on what you mean exactly by that word but certainly one definition would suggest that you should stay out of the Lounge and Soapbox forums. Nothing effective there. The specific programming forums are fine.
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Welcome Daniel!
You get out of CP, what you put into CP, imo. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
The first article is always the worst one so get it over with.
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