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That sucks 
I remember when Siepie died, the house wasn't the same after that.
When I came home at night I never went straight to bed, I always went into the living room to pet her.
After she died I kept going into the living room only to find it empty.
Broke my heart every time, but it was such a habit after all those years.
My condolences.
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When I was walking my first dog, a man approached, begging me to let him pet my dog: He had just lost his own, his best friend of many years, and was dying to get a new puppy, but the breeder couldn't provide one for another few weeks. So, please, let me pet your dog a little, won't you?
So, when my first dog was getting old, to avoid such a period of emptiness, we got a new puppy while he was still alive. And boy, did he get alive! He fell in love with the little one at first sight, and lived for another three and a half years ... The two were "best buddies" throughout, like you never saw before (even though both were males).
During those years, our family broke up, and I was left alone with the dogs. At age almost 12 years (that is a lot for a large St.Bernhard!) the old one said goodbye. And the following day, the young one simply refused to walk past the place where the old had been laying when he closed his eyes; I had to use strong force to drag the young one by. We had our 45 min walk, and when we got home, the young one laid down. Wouldn't raise up. He never did. So I lost both my dogs within 24 hours.
Then I sat down thinking: I can't possibly spend more than four hours per day giving a dog active attention, like walking or petting him. Twenty hours a day, he will be left to himself, all alone. Those hours, the two had been together, having each other to interact with. The young one understood that now he would be completely left to himself twenty hours a day.
If I get myself a new dog, can I defend any such thing? No. Certainly not as long as I am living alone. During the first years with the old one, he probably didn't get much more than four hours a day of active attention, but there was family life around him: People talking, singing, making food, moving in and out, ... Whenever we had a meal, he would come to lie down by the table (even though he knew well that he would get nothing). He was present in family life sixteen hours a day.
So, unless I get a new family (which is not likely to happen), I cannot take the responsibility for giving a dog 20+ hours a day of loneliness.
I sort of understand the young one. His social life would be like sitting in a prison cell, only being let out for short breath of air at long intervals. I do not have a dog now. I miss it, but I can't make myself doing this to a dog.
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I'm glad your aunt is recovering. My condolences on Benjamin. It doesn't take long to form an attachment to those little critters.
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That almost tossed up into a total confusion. My Chinese friends call it "A-P-P" & Not "App".
And on the call I thought they are talking about "A.P.I" but realized it's App! when they started talking about UI on the "API" hehe. 
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Nand32 wrote: My Chinese friends call it "A-P-P"
Makes perfect sense really, we all know it's just short for A-p-p-lication 
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You need A.P.P?
sure, go ahead, bathrooms over there.
wash your hands after.
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That's bad?
Wait until you listen to my client, calling "A.P.I", and "API" (aa-pee). I was worried about the project details for a while. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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I once got a customer who called Crystal Reports Crystal Clear[^]
And then there was the client who said "baarcode" instead of barcode.
Or the guy who "bould" his software instead of build.
And I have a friend who calls a database a databoss (or databaas in Dutch).
My Canadian uncle pronounces app as aap, but that might just be a Canadian accent
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Like "Whose blood is this?" and "Where did you get it?"...
Ba-tish!
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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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Fred bled to death. The ambulance crew could have saved him if only they'd known what blood type he was. But he was optimistic and thinking of others to the end; he just kept repeating "Be positive! Be positive!" ...
IGMC. 
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Tip: At a bar down near the docks, some guys bragging that 'semen well paid these days.'
So if you got nothing on then it's something to else to try.
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lopatir wrote: At a bar down near the docks, some guys bragging that 'semen well paid these days.'
So if you got nothing on then it's something to else to try.
Whatever he does with other guys in the back of a seedy bar is his own business, and I don't wanna know how much he gets paid for it.
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I'm the spokesperson!
Ba-tish! Common, push me over 200k. I thought that my latest article[^], published a couple of months ago, would have done that long ago, but people are so stingy with their votes. 462 downloads and only 15 votes... 
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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modified 6-Nov-19 5:16am.
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There is my humble contribution.
They can be a little stingy, can't they?
If it's any consolation, I have one tip which is:
Views: 101,990 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.70
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL) Bookmarked: 38 Downloaded: 8,343 23 votes ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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And it was a good tip as well. Now it's 24! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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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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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Thank you - I wasn't actually touting for votes, just that by comparison you're doing pretty well ... 
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I know. But it was still a good tip!
Besides, you need the points, otherwise you'll never get to 3 million...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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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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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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It would help if you had linked to it. Or am I that blind?
With 84 tips (alone) posted, how am I supposed to upvote it? 
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I didn't link to it because I wasn't touting for votes!
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Well...? Are you going to miss the opportunity?
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Probably, yes. 
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Voted 5 here, and upvoted your article. I personally will probably never have a need for it, but I can certainly recognize a neat control when I see one.
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