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I did that and got an email telling me not to be rude to people so I stopped answering questions
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Good for the OP - heck, sometimes I've been in enough of a sh*t-panic/clusterfvck that I'd really struggle to get out a decent question myself, so sometimes I get it
.. I also have to remind myself that CodeProject != 'SO'
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"Oh, interesting, cool."
"Do you have your computer nearby."
"yeah sure, just hold the line please." (Types code, time passes)
"Adam, are you there?"
"yeah sure, just a moment" (Keeps on coding, more time passes)
"Adam?"
"yes yeah sorry" (Keeps on coding, more time passes)
"Adam, can you hear me?"
"mmmmh yeah of course" (Keeps on coding, more time passes)
And repeat! I manage waste some 15 minutes of the elephanter's time. A new record!  At least one old lady saved.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
modified 18-Jan-21 8:13am.
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"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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... after ten minutes, applies airhorn to telephone: "Oh, sorry - IBS". Continue coding ...
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Tip of the hat to you sir! Best I have got is 10 Mins...
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I'm rethinking my hang-up without saying a word habit...
Your method seems far more enjoyable.
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megaadam wrote: At least one old lady saved.
Excellent!
I play Words with Friends, and it's sad how people (when I actually have a free slot) ask to play a game with me, make a couple lame moves and start chatting and trying to get me to invest in bitcoin or binary trading. It's fun telling the latter that binary trading is illegal in almost every country, and then reporting and blocking them.  Same with the bitcoin people, BTW.
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My phones (POI Land lines) have a spam-call blocker in running (works pretty well). Of those that get through, if I don't see a caller I know then I don't answer.
I didn't realize, until now, what I have been missing !
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Well done. I had a scammer tell me to f* off after I kept him on the line for about 20 minutes.
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I know one "old lady" (my mother-in-law) who at 90 years of age while immobile & bored due to a hip operation managed to keep a scammer (who wanted to help her remove viruses from her computer) on the line for an hour and a half. She told them her computer was upstairs & it would take her a while to get up there to turn it on. She put them on hold. Eventually, they hung up & called her back & she said "Oh yes, I forgot where I was going. I'll try again." Ditto with variations two more times. Finally, she said, "I'm upstairs now & I just remembered I don't have a computer." The language at the other end was not too pleasant but she dined out on that story for several weeks!
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Totally brilliant. And she, saved my day!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I act confused and after 30 min say, look, there's no start button on my Apple Mac.
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Never put a cross rating on the spot! (7)
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Whatever, I'll take the bait.
Never put a cross rating on the spot! (7)
Never put = definition
on = juxtaposition indicator
a cross rating = AB
the spot = STAIN ABSTAIN
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The answer is right, the solution is close:
Never put a cross
rating AB
on
the spot STAIN ABSTAIN
In paper-and-pencil based voting, you put "a cross in a box" to indicate your preference.
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You are up tomorrow!
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Rating = AB ? "Assez bien" ?
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Never heard of AB as a rating before, but that makes sense! "Blood (type)" might have worked.
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Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia[^]
Quote: "Sailor" for AB, abbreviation of able-bodied.
And a "Rating" is a "Sailor"
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Okaaaay..
I was on another semantic field : On that very same page, rated is "x", which was reinforced by the "cross" in the clue. And I thought "on the spot" was the definition, so my solutions were not really kid sister friendly 
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Well,
I thought it was a good clue, I recognized it immediately. 'Able Bodied' is well known but calling it a rating threw me off.
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OriginalGriff wrote: The answer is right, the solution is close
Yeah, that's what happens when you use Royal Navy terminologies on an international forum. The abbreviation AB has a completely different meaning outside of the Royal Navy. Across the pond it would be an aviation boatswain and could be 'cross rated' with a duty conversion.
Anyway, I saw the RN solution.
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But... but.. Ain't anybody in the world supposed to understand all royal abbreviations ? 
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Not sure it's Royal Navy specific; I've always understood AB as an abbreviation for any sailor, or more specifically, any junior-ranked sailor, military or otherwise.
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