⏱ You know you've been spending too much time on TDWTF when...
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He does allow anonymisation now.
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I didn't use the forum before discourse....
I don't want to imply that means it has been successful, other than being successful for me.
Why.... cause of the popup post edit box. And that it pushes posts to me.... and it notifies me....
I'm that lazy.
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He does allow anonymisation now.
oh. so you did update finally?
or was that part of the bot before you stopped updating?
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Never actually had a swimming class in school.
I think I did in high school. But these were swimming lessons at the local park during Summer.
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@boomzilla Is Doing It Wrong™
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And, you never actually close the one remaining w.tdwtf tab.
It stays open.... on your work pc and home pc.... indefinitely.... which gives it a higher survival rate than your facebook tabs.... which finally close when you hit political comment overload.
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Really? I believe we had a good portion of our PE classes as swimming classes. Those became more fun as the girls in our school began to "mature".
Most of the pools in the town I grew up in were private community pools and required memberships. None were particularly close to my middle school or high school. The City pool was on the other side of town next to the _other_ high school, so they got swimming classes as part of their PE, when the weather was warm enough.
Secondly, I have had chronic migraines since I was 10. As a result, I got exempted from classes which had attendance as a large part of the grade, so I didn't really have PE in middle school or high school.
That all said, my family did have a membership to the community pool that was just on the other side of the neighbor's house. I had swimming lessons as a kid, trained to be a lifeguard when I was 15 (as the only guy in a class of 10), and spent three summers lifeguarding and training a bunch of girls to be lifeguards. I may have missed what you enjoyed from your swimming classes, but I got perks of my own.
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Most of the pools in the town I grew up in were private community pools and required memberships. None were particularly close to my middle school or high school. The City pool was on the other side of town next to the other high school, so they got swimming classes as part of their PE, when the weather was warm enough.
Hmmmmm, I guess I never considered that. Our junior and high schools both had indoor swimming pools, and I went to public school in a town of 15K people. I made the error in assuming that all schools had that.
spent three summers lifeguarding and training a bunch of girls to be lifeguards. I may have missed what you enjoyed from your swimming classes, but I got perks of my own.
...and better perks at that. ;)
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This reminds me of "survival day" at swimming lessons
In the UK (in the 1970's at least) we did this thing where you had to rescue a brick from the bottom of the pool in your pyjamas. No, it doesn't make any sense but yes, it really was a thing.
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You know you've been spending too little time on TDWTF when you go to the end of this topic and expect to see the latest you've-been-spending-too-much-time lines.
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In the UK (in the 1970's at least) we did this thing where you had to rescue a brick from the bottom of the pool in your pyjamas.
I vaguely remember doing that, which would imply it was still a thing in the 80's as well...
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You get frustrated about not being able to find or in your favorite IM.
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When you see blurred text on a image and instinctively click it to see what they're spoilering.
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It takes you hours to catch up on unread topics at the beginning of each day. Or maybe that just means I follow too many topics ...
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It takes you hours to catch up on unread topics at the beginning of each day.
hmm... yeah. but then i read all topics.
a few (like the religion one) i've handed over to my bots to read, but the rest i read myself....
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I start skimming whenever vidjuh games become the topic.
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(like the religion one)
Are people still on that? It was over a week ago! Let it go already!
INB4 obligatory Frozen video.
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hmm... yeah. but then i read all topics.
a few (like the religion one) i've handed over to my bots to read, but the rest i read myself....
Which religion one?
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yes.
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Which religion one?
Oh, I guess there's been some talk on the @SCOTUSBlog thread, but it's more about policies toward religion than religion itself.
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Oh, I guess there's been some talk on the @SCOTUSBlog thread, but it's more about policies toward religion than religion itself.
Got it, that's on my ignore list, too.
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So when discussing a certain issue in a meeting, I nearly used the term "disconsistency"
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Second for me.
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First one isn't bad either, for definition purposes:
Ok, granted, you have to scroll a bit to get to it, but the beginning of the thread conveys the spirit of TDWTF well I'd say.
Unfortunately, come next weekend that link will likely be obsolete...
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I've done this too, then realised that nobody had any idea what I was talking about. Well apart from the other two people I work with who visit the TDWTF forums.
First Google hit:
As of now, if they CBA to look it up, their problem. (Can be fun to watch when they respond in a fashion that they think they know what it means but clearly don't. Then you can call them TRWTF and confuse them even more!)
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Wow, I any expecting to get a reply from something so long ago...
Filed under: Red Wizard eh? You're clearly a necromancer.
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He was Discosearching™ for something recent.
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Filed under: Red Wizard eh? You're clearly a necromancer.
You're not the first to accuse me of that.
Every once in a while, a cosmic ray strikes and flips a bit.
Filed under: Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
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From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
—Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1997 reprint, pp. xv–xvi
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I grew up studying Astronomy and Sagan's works. Even referenced them in a few reports I did in high school. Talk about a person who can really see "the big picture."
R.I.P. Carl.
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When you see blurred text on a image and instinctively click it to see what they're spoilering.
I just tried to select a smudge on my screen so I could click "quote reply" and be able to read the small text.
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I selected a line in an email and hit reply, before wondering why the entire email was there in the reply.
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I selected a line in an email and hit reply, before wondering why the entire email was there in the reply.
Mine would do what you wanted.
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Source please?
KMail. I've accidentally had something selected when I clicked reply that and wondered WTF happened to the rest of the mail.
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KMail
I somehow figured that...
Well, I have Qt libs installed, and this system is due for a reinstall after all the crap I installed on it and am too lazy to clean up by hand, screw it, testing time.
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Did it pass?
Nope. Importer shat itself during address book stage, and now it's... well, the progress bar is bouncing, I don't know if it's downloading my emails or just stuck.
Edit: Oh, it's downloading, apparently, just taking it's sweet time.
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supervisor: So, tharpa, it looks like 99% of your browser history is this The Daily WTF thing...we're going to have a chat with your manager about this.
tharpa: I only visited it over my lunch hour!
supervisor: You must not do any real work then. Only 1% of your browser history is job-related.
In a work environment like that, this is why I really like this feature of Chrome:
Maybe one day they'll allow you to selectively delete domains for those who abuse infiniscroll.
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Holy necro-response.
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Maybe one day they'll allow you to selectively delete domains for those who abuse infiniscroll.
Maybe one day you'll be able to turn that off?
Oh...
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Holy necro-response.
Doing It Wrong™ is a badge of honor in this forum. You should know better. :P
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It takes you
hoursdays to catch up on unread topics at the beginning of each day. Or maybe that just means I follow too many topics ...FTFY
I can never keep up.