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ex hibitionist Hastings 15 Oct 18 6.53pm
Originally posted by chateauferret My finals German prose contained the words "his carious teeth". In the exam. room I banged my head on the desk trying to find a suitable translation into German and my brain couldn't wring out anything that wasn't feeble in the extreme. One day a quarter of a century later it struck me out of the blue and without even trying that the correct answer was to use an encapsulated phrase along the lines of "seine durch Karies beschädigten Zähne". That this was a schoolboy error is demonstrated by the memory of another prose we were set in the sixth form which contained a footnote to the effect that "the marble-topped table" should be rendered as "the with-a-marble-top-provided table". I got a Third in the paper concerned :-( Sorry, were these supposed to involve girls? There weren't any of those in my day. chateau, what you lack in wit, charisma, entertainment value and charm you more than make up for with sheer boredom
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Originally posted by chateauferret

My finals German prose contained the words "his carious teeth". In the exam. room I banged my head on the desk trying to find a suitable translation into German and my brain couldn't wring out anything that wasn't feeble in the extreme.

One day a quarter of a century later it struck me out of the blue and without even trying that the correct answer was to use an encapsulated phrase along the lines of "seine durch Karies beschädigten Zähne".

That this was a schoolboy error is demonstrated by the memory of another prose we were set in the sixth form which contained a footnote to the effect that "the marble-topped table" should be rendered as "the with-a-marble-top-provided table".

I got a Third in the paper concerned :-(

Sorry, were these supposed to involve girls? There weren't any of those in my day.

chateau, what you lack in wit, charisma, entertainment value and charm you more than make up for with sheer boredom

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chateauferret 18 Oct 18 9.04am
Originally posted by ex hibitionist chateau, what you lack in wit, charisma, entertainment value and charm you more than make up for with sheer boredom Yep. Even yesterday I wasted two hours trying to debug some C++ when all I had done was try to delete a QGraphicsItem pointer to an object that was already assigned a parent whose destructor was deleting it automatically anyway. I'm putting that one down to a senior moment (couldn't remember key points of the Qt API). ============ The Ferret ============
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18 Oct 18 9.04am

Originally posted by ex hibitionist

chateau, what you lack in wit, charisma, entertainment value and charm you more than make up for with sheer boredom

Yep. Even yesterday I wasted two hours trying to debug some C++ when all I had done was try to delete a QGraphicsItem pointer to an object that was already assigned a parent whose destructor was deleting it automatically anyway.

I'm putting that one down to a senior moment (couldn't remember key points of the Qt API).

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cryrst The garden of England 18 Oct 18 10.52am
Originally posted by chateauferret Yep. Even yesterday I wasted two hours trying to debug some C++ when all I had done was try to delete a QGraphicsItem pointer to an object that was already assigned a parent whose destructor was deleting it automatically anyway. I'm putting that one down to a senior moment (couldn't remember key points of the Qt API). Oh that old chestnut WHAT! Is that similar to control delete alt Thats my way of a debug.
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The garden of England 18 Oct 18 10.52am

Originally posted by chateauferret

I'm putting that one down to a senior moment (couldn't remember key points of the Qt API).

Oh that old chestnut
WHAT!
Is that similar to control delete alt
Thats my way of a debug.

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chateauferret 19 Oct 18 10.03am
Originally posted by cryrst Oh that old chestnut WHAT! Is that similar to control delete alt Thats my way of a debug. Control-Alt-Delete is something WIndoze users have to do when it all goes Pete Tong yet again, isn't it? The only thing that crashes my computer is code I've written myself (with errors of the kind described). ============ The Ferret ============
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19 Oct 18 10.03am

Originally posted by cryrst

Oh that old chestnut
WHAT!
Is that similar to control delete alt
Thats my way of a debug.

Control-Alt-Delete is something WIndoze users have to do when it all goes Pete Tong yet again, isn't it? The only thing that crashes my computer is code I've written myself (with errors of the kind described).

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Vaibow vancouver/croydon 21 Oct 18 3.48am
When i was younger i had a lovely Mini Rover from 1977 - anyways, got it, showed it off to the missus at the time and whatever, anyways after summer left us i was bored with my current 6th former girlfriend and started having a bit on the side, usually in the car - one time i was with the missus and ofcourse the car got foggy pretty quick as we drove down to purley way (being an old car) for the cinema and what appeared all over the inside of the windshield, my crappy reebok classic prints, some tarts bare feet and a lot of smeers... i tried to make the wipers go faster and spray more water... but condensation doesn't work like that... school boy error. This was once a quality forum....
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vancouver/croydon 21 Oct 18 3.48am

When i was younger i had a lovely Mini Rover from 1977 - anyways, got it, showed it off to the missus at the time and whatever, anyways after summer left us i was bored with my current 6th former girlfriend and started having a bit on the side, usually in the car - one time i was with the missus and ofcourse the car got foggy pretty quick as we drove down to purley way (being an old car) for the cinema and what appeared all over the inside of the windshield, my crappy reebok classic prints, some tarts bare feet and a lot of smeers... i tried to make the wipers go faster and spray more water... but condensation doesn't work like that... school boy error.

This was once a quality forum....

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kingdowieonthewall Sussex, ex-Cronx. 21 Oct 18 9.19am
running out of dishwasher tablets and thinking good old washing up fairy liquid would suffice. ended up like something out of confessions of a window cleaner with suds all over floor. letting mrs kd give me a soapy w*** in shower. never get soap down your japs eye. I had hours of what felt like pissing razor blades had a large bottle of water in coat pocket when out for a 6 mile plus walk. after a few miles out my laces came undone so bending down i crushed the plastic bottle and copped a litre of water in coat pocket and down leg. 2 miles walk back looking like id pissed meself and uncomfotable. the list goes on.. Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents? Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.
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running out of dishwasher tablets and thinking good old washing up fairy liquid would suffice.
ended up like something out of confessions of a window cleaner with suds all over floor.

letting mrs kd give me a soapy w*** in shower.
never get soap down your japs eye.
I had hours of what felt like pissing razor blades

had a large bottle of water in coat pocket when out for a 6 mile plus walk.
after a few miles out my laces came undone so bending down i crushed the plastic bottle and copped a litre of water in coat pocket and down leg.
2 miles walk back looking like id pissed meself and uncomfotable.

the list goes on..

Kids,tired of being bothered by your pesky parents?
Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

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