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Last night, first Eldest and then Ickle started to womit; this is the same as vomitting but Ickle still pronounces it with a 'w'. They emptied their guts and carried on retching all night. I've just heard one, Eldest I believe, having another go.
Obviously, they are both off school today. A day when I am supposed to be cramming. I have a telephone interview this evening, but I am already pooped with the entire day ahead. I need [another] ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) .
speramus in juniperus
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What did you feed the poor ickle darlin's? You big cruel person you! 
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They have eaten exactly the same as Mrs Wife and I so it's not that. We did go to our club yesterday and I suspect they took in a fair amount of water from the pool. Maybe this will teach them to keep their mouths shut when swimming.
speramus in juniperus
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The only good bit of that is that it shouldn't have an effect at both ends... 
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Maybe you disinfected yourself drinking vast amounts of gin . A possible advantage your children don't have (hopefully )
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You should give them instead of Barack Pálinka[^]...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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good luck with both issues - Womiting Ickles and Phone Interview
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One of them Daddy I want... days.
Poor ickles, I hate when kids are sick, hope they get better.
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My neighbouring cow-orker has just gone home due to extreme womitting so I'm now scrubbing my hands before lunch and hoping against hope that he's taken it all with him. 
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Hope it's not this[^], otherwise you could be next.
Unfortunately, it does say "drink plenty of water", not "fluids", so you can't use vitamin G as a handy replacement.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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OMG, I would run away if I saw that in someone's living room.  Still, pretty clever. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I'd give an arm and a leg for something like that at times. 
While very cute, our kitty sometimes forgets just how soft we are and how and easily we bleed!
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Yes, ours has a habit of diving under the duvet and slashing the heck out of my toes...wakes you up... 
Trouble is he moves faster than I do, so catching him to remonstrate doesn't work too well - and by the time you have done that you are awake anyway. I'm not sure if he's "really, really, clever", or just "thick as a brick and very vicious" but I'll go for the thick version given some of his other demonstrations.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Trouble is he moves faster than I do
So did Lonesome George!
speramus in juniperus
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OriginalGriff wrote: duvet and slashing the heck out of my toes...wakes you up...
One of my cats has the bad habit of scratching his teeth with my fingers... while i am still sleeping. Normally i have to hide under the duvet so i can get some sleep. Then he lays on my head. And all this is happening before the alarm clock and on weekends  And if i have the stupid idea of moving my legs ... well you can guess what happens.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Eouch!
Fortunately, the closest ours comes when we're in bed is the pillow. Every now and again we wake up to find him asleep on the pillow next to/resting against either of our heads.  He even seems considerate enough to share the love, almost always alternating separate visits between the two of us.
Yet at other times he'll perform a vicious sneak attack on the back of bare legs as we walk past. Crafty little mischief maker.
Wouldn't have it any other way!
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enhzflep wrote: he'll perform a vicious sneak attack on the back of bare legs
Dij does that. He goes out when it's raining, gets soaked, and comes in moaning about it. I have to dry him off, and he then has a quick wash and goes back out to get soaked again.
But...if I don't dry him to his satisfaction then as soon as I turn away (to get another set of cat drying gloves, say) he attacks my feet to let me know he isn't finished yet.
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So my HDD has had enough and decided to take a perma vacation now and unfortunately it happened as my warranty just got over. It was about 2 years and it was from Seagate.
I'm looking at a 1 TB Toshiba HDD. Can anyone tell me if they are good in quality?
Any furious flashbacks or personal opinions?
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Tai'shar Manetheren! Tai'shar Malkier!
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It still works after a year so this is not helpful to you.
HDDs fail and this is a norm.
So far I had few failures over the years with WD (those were suppose to be "industrial strength" etc. but failed).
I do not remember if Seagate failed on me but I was once warned about those two.
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Well it's a pity that HDDs which I got in 2006 are working without any problem. I got the one which stopped around 2010 or 2011.
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Tai'shar Manetheren! Tai'shar Malkier!
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I wouldn't touch a Seagate, or a Toshiba with your most carefully tended appendage. I know of no happy tales to tell about either brand after more than 30 years of designing, building, programming, integrating, debugging, and generally spending far too much time in the company of computers. Both are bottom of the barrel, best used as boat anchors or starting masses for coral colonies.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Yeah, but you can't even drive WindowsUpdate in a straight line.
Bought and used dozens of Seagates and have had one die on me and that includes the Maxtor's I bought before they were swallowed by Seagate.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I have had a mixture of Seagate, WD, Hitachi and a Toshiba amongst my more than 32TB of storage at the moment. Up until now I have had two failures, both of them with WD drives so I now only get Seagate 2TB drives. I have had some of them since they first appeared and they have so far been rock solid and are still going. Both of the WDs that failed were 1TB drives.
Your experience may vary.
EDIT: I forgot I also have 5 Fantom 2TB drives in my collection; they also seem to be working fine.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Well to start with it's useless to ask about the quality of a HDD brand, they're all having an annual failure rate between 1-4%.
It varies wildly between the different models within a brand. Have a look at this[^] statistics for example. WD is at both the top and the bottom, and the only thing differing between the models is one character.
The next problem is that you won't know how good a drive is until they're already outdated.
So I'll stick out my neck here and tell you that you shouldn't bother about the brand at all.
Buy the drive that has the properties you want, with the best warranties and return policies for the price.
And if I should generalize, the better the warranties the better the quality.
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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