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Hey guys, I'm now working for a UK concern, Marval, so we don't take local public holidays, but we do take your [bank] holidays.
Please confirm you next is next Monday, 31 August. And what the hell is a "Summer Bank Holiday"? Isn't being warmer enough, but you have to go and laze about on a random Monday?
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Monday is a Bank Holiday.
The standard set are here[^] and it is Late Summer Bank Holiday as it is at the end of the summer.
veni bibi saltavi
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Yay, so I get a long weekend to make love to Cordova, Ionic, and PhoneGap. This weekend all the installs too so long, I only had time for forplay. But, hell, that trio of frameworks is the hottest thing out for writing mobile apps. On VS2015 of course, no living in the past here.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: ...as it is at the end of the summer.
I think you will find that you have 3 weeks more Summer than you think.
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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Well, it's the end of the summer holidays.
veni bibi saltavi
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I think you'll find that we don't have a summer at all any more!
It's raining again
Oh no, will it never end!
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Member 9082365 wrote: It's raining again
Yes but the rain is warmer in the summer.
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Member 9082365 wrote: I think you'll find that we don't have a summer at all any more!
It's raining again
Oh no, will it never end!
Could have rained a bit more. Like at Edgbaston and Trent Bridge a few weeks ago for a start.
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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We got back from Hunagriaorszag yesterday and I am pooped*.
Saturday we drove from Baltonfured to Gistel in Belgian Belgium where we found a really nice B&B; I was given TWO free beers when we arrived as I looked a little pooped**. Yesterday we crossed over, only a 1 hour Migrant Delay, before getting home and unpacking the car.
Now I really need a holiday after the non-stop holidaying of the last 5 weeks. 
* can we say "pooped" in the Lounge or will the Kid Sisters' Big Brothers vote the word "pooped" as abusive even if I use "pooped" to mean tired?
** See comment above about using "pooped" in the Lounge.
veni bibi saltavi
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I am really pooped about.
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Welcome home. And please, no pooping in the Lounge  . That may be what foreigners do, but we British use proper places (shed, neighbour's garden, bus shelter etc.).
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You missed out Lidl and 'Spoons
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Never been in Lidl, and only 'spoons in Falmouth, so my son can get in with his wheelchair.
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Take this to facebook please....
modified 24-Aug-15 4:31am.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: can we say "pooped" in the Lounge
In the USA it's very common and acceptable to use that to mean tired. Not sure about other "English" speaking countries/cultures though.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Be careful to wipe your feet before entering. I think there might be some poop on your shoe. 
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Win 95 was dreadful. I skipped it.
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Windows 95 OSR/2 was pretty good though, I totally loved it and I still sigh when I see it on some ancient workstation.
Geek code v 3.12 {
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Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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I was at a self-serve checkout at the supermarket[^] the other week. It was near closing time and one of the terminals was having a fit. In the middle of scanning my stuff and sharing smirks with a mate, we noticed that it had what appeared to be Windows98 running on the terminal. 
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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Not really strange as my company, which sells fully automated quality inspection machine for food products, still has and supports Windows 2000 control units. We still develop the UI in VB6.
Don't change what is not broken - we changed to winXP in late 2010 and now we are approaching Win7 with several leading projects due to pressing requests from customer so big you can't say no (think of the food industry and names will come to you. There are VERY little firms out of our reach).
Geek code v 3.12 {
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Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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No, of course not. If it still did what I wanted, I'd be using DR-Dos 6 along with Superstor, ViewMax and WordPerfect 
The joker in me couldn't resist a giggle at the fact the only malfunctioning machine betrayed its aging OS and the cynic in me couldn't help but wonder if the cost of licensing really was entirely irrelevant to the process.
While incredibly foolish for an organization of their size, I've seen similar practises in a company that paid many millions of dollars a year to the parent company simply for the right to be associated with the name of said parent - in practise, often amounting to little more than an extra logo on the letter-head.
The thing I find interesting about truth and fiction is that fiction must conform to what seems reasonably possible. Truth on the other hand, suffers no such impediment!
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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enhzflep wrote: The thing I find interesting about truth and fiction is that fiction must conform to what seems reasonably possible. Truth on the other hand, suffers no such impediment!
You would be a fine Dungeon Master indeed 
Geek code v 3.12 {
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Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Aside, 2015 also marks twenty years since some of us started programming in Java.
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There are some black days in the history as well.
Ravi Khoda
Humanity is the best religion and smile is the best medicine.
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