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Gattopardo

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #275 on: 12 August, 2014, 11:50:23 pm »
Doing a Google image search for Pompino is not a good idea. I'd forgotten the Italian meaning. :facepalm:

That is why i had one :-*

Guy

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #276 on: 15 August, 2014, 11:43:50 am »
While re-reading "Moving Pictures" I learned (or, rather, re-learned cos I must have learned it before but gorfotten it) that the Trollish equivalent of having "other fish to fry" translates as having "other maddened Grizzly Bears to stun"

I like dat so much I've started using it in conversation
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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #277 on: 15 August, 2014, 07:18:02 pm »
The BEAR is now well and truly Maddened...
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Basil

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #278 on: 17 August, 2014, 07:50:51 pm »
That Mae West was born 121 years ago.  Blimey.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #279 on: 17 August, 2014, 08:20:15 pm »
That the plastic from which the 2007 PBP bidons are made smells pretty 'orrible before cleaning with dilute bleach and stink-the-kitchen-out rank when rinsed with boiling water :sick:
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Basil

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #280 on: 17 August, 2014, 10:36:11 pm »
That " Of course I don't want ice.  Are you fucking mad?" is not seen as an acceptable response to a query re my request for a large lafroaig.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

Kim

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #281 on: 17 August, 2014, 10:40:02 pm »
That " Of course I don't want ice.  Are you fucking mad?" is not seen as an acceptable response to a query re my request for a large lafroaig.

Related:  "That depends on whether you keep your lemonade in a lukewarm bottle under the bar." tends to result in mildly offended confusion when given in answer to the same question.

TheLurker

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #282 on: 21 August, 2014, 07:12:17 pm »
My rucksack,  two laptops, 2 power bricks, sandwiches and the other niff, naff and trivia required for a day in the office weigh one eighth of what I do; or, if you prefer, about the same as a v. light top end road bike. 

That is my current excuse for my lack of speed.  It has absolutely _nothing_ to do with advancing years and a hefty reduction in mileage of late.  Oh dear me no.
Τα πιο όμορφα ταξίδια γίνονται με τις δικές μας δυνάμεις - Φίλοι του Ποδήλατου

David Martin

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #283 on: 24 August, 2014, 09:35:49 pm »
In 1923 my grandmother forged her father's signature on the application forms for grammar school (to which he didn't want her to go). When she won a bursary he was not really able to keep his social status and deny her the place so she went.

When she wanted to do science for her matriculation she was told that was only available for boys. She didn't take no for an answer and persuaded them to let her do it. She then worked in a dairy where she helped develop the TT test for milk quality.
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Pedaldog.

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #284 on: 24 August, 2014, 10:00:04 pm »
That my mirror makes me look Fat.
You touch my Coffee and I'll slap you so hard, even Google won't be able to find you!

tiermat

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #285 on: 26 August, 2014, 03:01:06 pm »
Windows 2008 search can be used a bit like google, in that you can type contents:<search term> and it will look through text files in the folder you are in.

Pretty neat, but not as much use as grep/awk/sed and regex.
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Andrij

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;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #287 on: 31 August, 2014, 12:57:18 am »
How to run my iPod from the Mudstang's steering wheel controls :thumbsup:
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Clare

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #288 on: 31 August, 2014, 04:58:47 pm »
These trousers are useless as a defence against nettles.


Tim Hall

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #289 on: 31 August, 2014, 09:03:03 pm »
How to run my iPod from the Mudstang's steering wheel controls :thumbsup:

More impressive would be the other way around.
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"overhaul" it, or you can ride it.  (Jerome K Jerome)

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #290 on: 01 September, 2014, 07:33:53 pm »
My employer takes you to the doctor when you get grey shiny and make whimpering noises at work.

Mrs Pingu

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #291 on: 01 September, 2014, 07:45:31 pm »
My employer takes you to the doctor when you get grey shiny and make whimpering noises at work.
Oh dear, hope you're OK?
Do not clench. It only makes it worse.

barakta

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #292 on: 01 September, 2014, 08:39:04 pm »
Erk, Hope you're OK now and they worked out what it was which made you go nasty colours.

clarion

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #293 on: 02 September, 2014, 02:19:50 pm »
GWS whatever it is, boab.
Getting there...

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #294 on: 02 September, 2014, 02:59:32 pm »
Hope all is ok and GWS.
Get a bicycle. You will never regret it, if you live- Mark Twain

red marley

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #295 on: 03 September, 2014, 05:50:43 pm »
The little yellow circles on £5, £10 and £20 notes (and possibly a £50, but I don't have access to any) have some little yellow circles on them grouped into cross shapes.

The mere presence of these circles prevents colour photocopiers from reproducing the image that contains them.

Trufax.

Really.

Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #296 on: 04 September, 2014, 01:46:43 am »
I have learned of the existence of the Springville Flume.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #297 on: 05 September, 2014, 06:31:44 am »
I have learned that if you "accidentally" spill shower gel into a jacuzzi the resultant foam can be sculpted into an accurate scale model of Canyonlands National Park :thumbsup:
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Pingu

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Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #298 on: 07 September, 2014, 11:14:47 am »
You are Richard Dreyfuss AICMFP.

Re: what I have learned today.
« Reply #299 on: 07 September, 2014, 04:36:10 pm »
Why I've been finding so many dead wasps in my bedroom over the last few months.