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Rich Leyshon wrote: I thought Ball Boys would be two words!
Yep, and ball boys are also adults in many countries. 
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Rich Leyshon wrote: Oh well, suppose I'll have to have a go ...
That's all anyone can ask!
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Rich Leyshon wrote: Oh crap! That was meant as a joke as I thought Ball Boys would be two words!
I would have thought so too, but looks like the dictionaries suggest both are valid.
Maybe you should do "ball boys" tomorrow! 
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Thanks for that.
Re the "doing well enough" bit, I should explain that my hospital visit was "having a look at" rather than "Oh my God, quick, cut some bits off!"
I appear to be in no imminent danger of shuffling off this mortal coil but need to keep an eye on something that could become an issue.
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Tis not very cryptic...
I guess we should at least be thankful you posted one without being prompted!
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Now now  I did leave it a bit later but obviously OG wasn't biting today
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I've got this weird CD with what I thought was very weird scratches, but I just read it's probably some kind of fungus which could've been caused by the carton digi-pack it's in.
It look kind of neat, but it's quite annoying as it wrecks your CDs...[^]
It's just this CD and none of the CDs that were directly next to it.
So, I tried washing it off, in which I was somewhat successful.
The CD could not be read and now it can be read and even played.
Ripping is another story, however.
So I thought I was smart and tried to create an ISO from it, but my PC froze, stuff got black (WhatsApp somehow kept working through it all) and the CD just went "vrrroooOOOM... vrrroooOOOM... vrrroooOOOM..." and the CD player wouldn't open.
This went on for about ten minutes until I decided to pull the plug, grabbed the (external) disc drive AND ALL OF A SUDDEN EVERYTHING WENT BACK TO NORMAL 
It's even ripping, although at a veeeeeeeery slow pace...
I think it sort of works, but keeps hanging in between.
I might get this CD ripped in 2021, but at this pace, who knows?
I'll probably just buy a new one.
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Looks like a Damascus knife.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
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Damascus CD, unfortunately not as strong as the knife
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David Crow wrote: Damascus knife.
"Forged in Firefox"?
Don't give 'em any ideas!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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That looks like what happens to aluminium when you boil it in water.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I usually boil my enemies in oil.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Are you saying I shouldn't boil my CDs?
Doesn't everyone do that? 
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Nah, it wasn't quite like that.
The pattern looked more beautiful.
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At first look, it seemed like deliberate decoration (to the back of the CD). I learned some time back (the hard way) that scratching the back coat off a CD causes as much harm, or more, than the front.
Now I do have a lot of CD's with funky playing characteristics - they had been exposed to salt during the Superstorm Sandy flooding - but those are somewhat grayed spots. Those that play will occasionally have gaps of silence. That after a good rinsing at that time (salt water is pretty quick on the time scale of picking-through-ruins). (A lot of disk as my mind's eye mourns a bit)
A bit late, now, but would alcohol (rubbing or drinking) have worked better for this? Next time, try it and update the post.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: A bit late, now, but would alcohol (rubbing or drinking) have worked better for this?
Probably, but I didn't have any and it's too late now
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: salt water is pretty quick on the time scale of picking-through-ruins
We've had "De Ramp" here in The Netherlands (which literally translates to "The Disaster" and that's literally how we call it as we've only had like one natural disaster, ever, and it's short for "watersnoodramp" or flood in English) in 1953.
Houses that were around at the time, which is more than you'd think (complete streets and villages), still show.
A lot of houses were completely under water, but some were only half, and you can still see where the water stopped, although after all this time you'd have to look pretty closely.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Houses that were around at the time, which is more than you'd think (complete streets and villages), still show.
A lot of houses were completely under water, but some were only half, and you can still see where the water stopped,
My entire city was effectively under (ocean) water. Living on some of the highest ground on this barrier island, we only had about 60cm outside and, except for a small room at ground level, about 40cm inside. Others, particular in the western part of the city, had 1m-2m of sand left behind when the ocean receded. The boardwalk was shredded and throws hundreds of meters inland. This story was the same up and down the entire East Coast of the US. The water supply plant literally blew up. Flooding much of the NYC subway, down the coastline - the number of people effected was quite staggering. That was near the end of 2012. It was amazing seeing the contents of homes - every one of them, piled up for disposal. By contents, I mean furniture, appliances, and the floors and walls. Many homes have since paid to be raised about 3m. City code now demands new construction be raised.
Yet - very very little of the damage remains to be seen. The government (despite political opposition for quite a while from the southern and western states who get disaster help frequently) opposed it. A few, however, had no work done. Some, because given FEMA money, they used it to pay down their mortgage instead of repairing the house and then cried they have no place to live. Only a fraction of a percent aren't redone and re-inhabited. A 500 year flood they called it - but as the climate evolves I worry if they're off by an order-of-magnitude.
Anyway - it Sandy did not make it into the form of an idiom as yours did. Probably, because the country's too large. Also, particularly in the South, they've been getting floods and storms like crazy these last few years. And the fires. And droughts. So far, the sheer size of the country makes them more expensive economic events (if we ignore the local misery). I never want to experience something that becomes and idiom.
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How could I tell? I checked the "About" box on my password storage app - the first "real app" I wrote when when I was confident enough to try something "complicated" in C#. I still use it today, and it still works fine, with no changes or bug fixes since 2009*.
The depressing bit is that since 2010 I've been trying to find the time to rewrite it from scratch, because it's really badly written compared to how I'd do it now ... 
* Which is really amazing considering one app I wrote last year is up to version 2.36 already!
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The frightening thing for me, I've been using it for 21 years this year.
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But ... but ... I only wrote it in 2009!
Show how good a language design it was, though - yes it's been extended, but it's still recognisable as the original language and still one of the most used (if not the most used if you ignore JS which doesn't really count as a computer language - more of a virus IMHO).
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Aye. I'm somewhere in this neighborhood, too. I think 20.
Jon Sagara
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If it ain't broke fix it till it is 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I don't dare break it - I only know one password, and it's the one to get into that app ...
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