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Yeah, we don't tend to put as much emphasis on the "r" as the 'merkins and Canadians do.
- American: /ɑɹs/
- Proper English: /ɑːs/
"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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maths is short for mathematics, and is ubiquitous everywhere English is spoken.
grammar isn't short for anything.
Apparently some less well educated people overseas mistakenly use the word 'math' instead of 'maths'
They are wrong.
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Good call - stick to smileys as your grammar is obviously 2nd rate.
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It's not a smiley you silly.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Either
It's not a smiley, you silly!
or
It's not a smiley. You are silly!
And it is a smiley.
"a digital icon, a sequence of keyboard symbols, or a handwritten or printed equivalent, that serves to represent a facial expression"
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Don't be so cranky. "Let it go!"
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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There's only actually 14 members. The rest are bots that have been programmed to ask silly questions in Q&A or post mundane musings in the Lounge.
Don't tell me you really believed that there is an accountant who would choose to live in Luton did you? Or that Wales has the internet?
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Blue Waffle wrote: Or that Wales has the internet?
We certainly do![^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I refuse to talk to a bot....oh bollocks.
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CarelessPoster?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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People keep teasing me about my alias name.
Anyway, I assumed that people would know what I meant from context! 
As in, we celebrated ten million members a while ago, and we are halfway to reaching the next milestone... but that's more words than necessary.
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CarefulCoder wrote: we are halfway to reaching the next milestone
If we are half way then the next milestone must be 21 million.
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In 39 minutes CP gained 27,126 members, it's apopular site!
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I'm pretty sure fat_boy counts for 200 of those. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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No. 5.5 million was halfway to a11 million. You don't appear to be a very careful coder after all...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Adolf resents the end of Win XP support [^]. The Bunker never felt so... cold.
- Edit: clipboard micro-trolls played a good one on me, corrected the link to what it should be. Just like a Microsoft patch!
modified 10-Apr-14 9:41am.
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Your link goes to "Top 10 KISS songs". Either you've got the wrong link, or this is a new version of Rick-rolling.
"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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Richard Deeming wrote: or this is a new version of Rick-rolling
Top 10 KISS songs? I could live with that.
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 - fixed it.
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Such 19th Century Technology has no place in a 21st Century office!
I have to get off my arse and wander down a corridor to pick up a piece of paper that could easily have been scanned and emailed.
B@stards!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: I have to get off my lazy arse and wander down a corridor to pick up a piece of paper that could easily have been scanned and emailed.
FTFY 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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That is terrible. They should send an Ethiopian Celebrity over here to make a video which they could then show back home to raise money for you.
"Everyday Dave has to walk down the corridor of his office to receive a fax, if you donate just £5 we can buy him a Skateboard"
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Get yourself an online fax service! I get my faxes mailed as pdf's
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