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"If the coasters were important to the 4-year-old, I think you should gently suggest to your wife that she get over herself, and make a big show of unwrapping this present for her daughter's sake...." [
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"Ok, this is gonna come out as very harsh, and it's not meant to, as your heart is obviously in the right place. But bear with me, because i know of what I speak.
Under the assumption of gaining a fourth partner, he/she would receive compensation,..." [
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"I made it about 2/3 of the way through that video before I had a full on panic attack. [...] I think that was my first ever actual case of future shock.
I imagine this is a shadow of how the Mayans felt when confronted with Cortes' horses...." [
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"A second person plural pronoun. Y'all, youse. They're available in dialect English, but really need to be folded back into standard English." [
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"Does anyone know why expertexchange hasn't been blackholed by google yet? It seems like such an obvious candidate for blackholing." [
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"Web-2.0-the-design (as opposed to Web-2.0-the-philosophy) grew, IMO, out of the frustrations of web-literate designers in the early part of the decade. They were stuck doing corporate table layouts with 9pt fonts and javascript rollover menus in..." [
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"Taking a slightly different approach, tidy your code fragments up into higher-level packages, and put them in a source code repository (eg SVN). Use SVN externals to import your "helper" code into each new project when you start it. That..." [
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"mr. strange: If I'm reading your comment correctly, that top-down "expert-knows-best" attitude is how (to take my own industry as an example) we end up with confusing, user-hostile software that makes people miserable. The opinions of the..." [
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"Animal's hurting. Report.
I'd do it for a cat. And I hate cats.
(Your writing is weird. I think I'm infected.)" [
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"Speaking of male rabbits (cabingirl's comment). I spoke to a breeder recently who kept a pair of male rabbits together for years quite happily, and woke up one morning to find that one had torn the testicles off the other. I'd be wary of keeping..." [
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"Warning: supposition below.
If you trawl through Amazon, you'll find old computer texts being sold for ridiculous money (random example).
I've always assumed they're there because if you really, really need an obsolete computer manual, then..." [
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"I think there's an old saying about wrestling with a pig...
However, two things that work for me:
Does he believe in a free market? A free market relies on three things: free movement of goods, money and labour. If you don't have the third, the..." [
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"The state of the homeless man's emotions are not your responsibility.
Ok, I've got to know. In what moral system is the dog's welfare your business, but the man's is not?
I'm trying hard, but I can't see any internally consistent worldview..." [
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