Conversations overheard
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this topic has move from mac vs pc, to rich vs poor, to mac vs pc, to belgium vs belgium, to UK vs belgium, to UK vs US.
all that's left is republican vs democrat/liberal vs conservative and we can win at derailment bingo!
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You liberal, commie, pinko! Down with Roe v. Wade!
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Bingo?
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That's what the activist judges would have you believe.
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since I'm using a MacBook with Windows on it... meaning that I don't have an Alt-Gr key that functions as expecte
It's been a while but does Option + Control not behave like Alt Gr?
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It's been a while but does Option + Control not behave like Alt Gr?
No, it doesn't. Boot Camp interferes with certain keystrokes. For example, one of the ones that comes up is Alt-0153, except on this keyboard, shift-3 is £ and alt-3 is # (option is listed as alt on the current keyboards)
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Did you bollocks. If it's invented in America why the fuck isn't it called American?
Ummmm ... 'cause we like to
makelet you Brits feel important? ;)
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When it comes to language, we're like BASF. We didn't make English. We made it better.
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We took the great language and left the bland, shitty food on the island.
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Arantor:
Accents are a barrier to something.to proper pronunciation?
Poms seem to pronounce "café" like "caff". At least the accented é provides the hint to put the "ay" on the end.
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Poms seem to pronounce "café" like "caff". At least the accented é provides the hint to put the "ay" on the end.
Some poms pronounce it caffy
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Some poms
In a country where you can identify the street someone lived on by their accent I don't presume the handful that I know are necessarily typical. Hence my "seem".
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Some poms pronounce it caffy
I pronounce it reasonably correctly, I believe... caff-(long a sort of ay sound)
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Fun fact: the (probably) most common French loanword used in Portuguese is "soutien".
In French "soutien" means "support".
In Portuguese it means bra.
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I pronounce it reasonably correctly, I believe... caff-(long a sort of ay sound)
I believe the ay doesn't need to be long, and it's more of a "eh" sound, as popularized by the Canadians.
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I believe the ay doesn't need to be long, and it's more of a "eh" sound, as popularized by the Canadians.
If you're speaking English, it should be a long 'a' at the end. Accents tend to change the first 'a' however.
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If you're speaking English,
True. I was thinking of the French pronunciation.Accents tend to change the first 'a' however.
I'm having trouble imagining anything else than an open Ah.
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In French "soutien" means "support".
In Portuguese it means bra.
I would guess it's a shortening of the French "Soutien Gorge" (literally, "throat support").Any future king who denies to sign a law would have a fat chance of becoming the last one.
I suspect you mean "strong" or "good" chance. A fat chance is less likely than a slim one.Yes, folks. Pendantry in two languages.
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@Intercourse said:
We took the great language and left the bland, shitty food on the island.
… replacing it with something even the scots would find too fat-soaked.
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At least we are not Canadian?
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Are you confused about your nationality?
No, he's just confused argument with
abuse@tufty.
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In a country where you can identify the street someone lived on by their accent I don't presume the handful that I know are necessarily typical. Hence my "seem".
QFT
Filed under: I hate those poncey fuckers from two streets over
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Days Since Last Bug: 1
False report. Never takes a full day to find a bug. This should be FLAGGED.
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It didn't take a full day to find one. It only took a full day for someone to actually bother reporting one.
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I always tell my users that if it doesn't get entered with a ticket then the bug doesn't exist.
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But, that wording has caused problems for me. In bug reports, my users tend to try to prove a bug exists rather than help me fix it. I get a lot of screenshots of obviously incorrect things. When I asked how they did it, they say "I don't know, it just happened".
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Yes, users will always submit stupid things. That's still better than not submitting anything.
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CNR CLOSED WONT_FIX
Body is invalid; try to be a little more descriptive
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Then you get into a pissing match because you're both saying different things. They're all like "I showed them that there is a bug, I have proof, they can't close my ticket". And we're "I never doubted that a bug exists, I just don't know what the bug is until someone describes it to me".
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When it comes to language, we're like BASF. We didn't make English. We made it better.
+1000 internets for the old-school BASF commercial reference
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It didn't take a full day to find one. It only took a full day for someone to actually bother reporting one.
Pedantry alert:
It says: "Days Since Last Bug: 1" not "Days Since Last Reported Bug: 1"
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+1000 internets for the old-school BASF commercial reference
Do you have a link to a video for this? I only know BASF from the C-90 blank cassette tapes I used to ahem backup other tapes.
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Do you have a link to a video for this? I only know BASF from the C-90 blank cassette tapes I used to ahem backup other tapes.
One example:
There were lots of these.
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From the train this morning (and paraphrased a bit; it's been a long day):
These programmer people even have this thing they call “Technical Debt”! Can you imagine anything like that?
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Well, to business people it only becomes debt when everything falls down and they have to borrow money for repairs.
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We should rename it Technical Amorti[s|z]ation.
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Or, to be more truth in advertising: Ongoing Costs Of Doing Things Quickly (or the Boss's Way? :P)
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- Richer, technically more literate user base. They are less likely to chase torrents, iffy links. More likely to get their software from App Store (there's no equivalent for Windows).
Riiiiiiiight.
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Not actually sure how the situation is in Bеlgium
How come he gets to spell Bеlgium with an e while I have to use an е?
Filed under: discorimination
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Belgium was not yet censored at the time? Would probably censor on rebake. If I try to block censoring on it I use ­ like this: Belgium.
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Ducksauce is going to a lot of trouble to avoid censorship happening retrospectively, then. The ASCII sequence 42 65 6c 67 69 75 6d appears in the raw text for both the comment of yours I quoted and the one immediately above this that I'm replying to, but only in the latter is it blacked out.
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AFAIK, baking is one-off immediately after post/edit, unless retriggered by a mod or admin.
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"It's about time you sucked on a fisherman's friend"
Your reply will bump the topic to the top of its list
That's the point of replying, Discourse
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Overheard at work this morning:
Manager 1 to manager 2: "I'd appreciate it if you could sit on that bombshell from this morning's meeting. I want to keep it quiet while manager 3 and I figure out how to handle it."
I have no idea what the big news is. Since I'm on my way out the door anyway, it probably doesn't affect me significantly. However, there is some speculation that more of my coworkers could soon be looking for new jobs.
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"It's about time you sucked on a fisherman's friend"
The googling of that was...disappointing.
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I thought it would be more fun to let you USOfAians find out for yourselves rather than spoiling the surprise