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Peter_in_2780 wrote: Sorry it's a bit late, just got in from a meeting.
Nah, there are indeed double standards in the Lounge: Last week I was late only twice in a row and by only 5 hours each time, but *I* got two reminders. You fair-haired boy.  
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You mean to say that people buy an applicance for $100 that they are literally gonna use ONCE a year?
What's wrong with good old fashioned ovens? 
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
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Quote: you may prefer Beer Can Chicken[^]
I had that at a pre-wedding dinner in Dallas some years ago. Totally weird, it tasted just like chicken.
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Look - I will admit readily that we have our "types" over here in the US. Doing something like deep-frying an entire turkey is mucho-macho in some quarters.
But many of us - particularly the Northeast, especially coastal regions, and certain parts of the west coast, are quite rational.
I mean, be fair - can you look at a place like France and judge all of Europe by them, can you? Or perhaps consider 'the running of the bulls' and the marvelous sanity that reflects. The US is basically the size and population equal (close enough). So we have the full range of lunatics, cultural misfits, and even nice people.
No need to go on - as my late father used to say "you cannot smell your own". Oh so true!
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You are right, we should not make fun of American people, especially in these hard times.
Wish the American people the best and that things may return to normal soon!
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Really - it's part of a statistical inevitability (since people QC hasn't improved in scillions of years).
There's more crime. More bad drivers. There are more nuts. More crazy new 'customs'. More of everything that catches our attention.
Well - there's more people to do it/them. From each of our personal perspectives, things are "getting worse" - we cannot help but count events as we observe them (overtly count our just sense). The thing is, is it really worse on a percentage basis? Absolute numbers clearly on the rise. Relative - maybe. Also, current technology make it easy to report every incidence of everything pretty much as it happens.
Actually, even that doesn't cover the question. More wacko's cause more trigger events that possibly to propagate the incidences - this is only hypothetical as it may also be considered under the same considerations as the previous paragraph. I'm thinking of it in terms of "a bigger rock thrown into a bigger pond will have more observable ripples strong enough to interact with their surroundings"
Basically, and quite cynically, the growing depth of sewage in which we seem to be finding ourselves is a natural consequence of having more contributing to the waste-production process.
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Quote: the growing depth of sewage in which we seem to be finding ourselves
that makes me think of all the new web-oriented software projects at work 
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I think the idea is that it ruins the turkey so thoroughly that from that point on you can have something that tastes good instead. And doesn't try to set the whole house on fire[^] ... That's worth $100 to me, at least! 
It's a pretty dull meat, after all.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That is a really inspiring video!
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Cookery at it's finest!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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We tried once to make a log fire in the living room, I think the $100 appliance is still a better trade.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: If you're sitting in an office environment you might want to put on your headset
If I'm sitting in an office environment my speakers' audio is deactivated through any means necessary. 
GCS d--(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--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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When I'm at work, I'm in my home office, well separated from the rest of the house and on my own. It's when I'm not at work I need to be careful!
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NOTE: This is for each of the big browsers such as Firefox, Google & Opera.
I've been noticing with greater regularity this abusive behavior by Yahoo, and I want to get around it.
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Stop using Yahoo Mail?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Stop using Yahoo Mail?
Beat me to it! 
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Exactly. Yahoo Mail these days is everybody's throwaway account. You're not supposed to look at it so often that their ad blocker nag becomes an annoyance.
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I'm pretty sure Yahoo sees your ad blocker as abusive behaviour. 
Seriously, you can't complain on a free service.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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My feeling is that if you use a site regularly, then whitelist it. Unless it's one of those greedy buggers with 20+ ads on it, so you can't see the content for the ads. In which case, stop using it! Sites have to make money - it costs to host them - so it's only fair that we accept some ads for a "free service": remember that if you aren't paying for a product, then you are the product being sold! But my default is "no ads" as too many devs are just too greedy.
There are a couple of sites that I decided I wanted to use and whitelisted - then deleted the bookmark, reinstated the blacklist, and never went back after I saw the ads ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Pay for Yahoo pro? Works in every browser.
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All browsers come with a built in add-in for this. It is a little button with label x.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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This modal window doesn't have a close toolbutton.
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