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[WWGD]

Are they " regular" cars for every day use ir just " hangout" cars?

 

[Ibix]

Are they " regular" cars for every day use ir just " hangout" cars?

In Kensington? Some of them have a work-a-day Rolls and a Sunday best Rolls, I suspect.

 

[WWGD]

In Kensington? Some of them have a work-a-day Rolls and a Sunday best Rolls, I suspect.

Me, I max at Cinnamon Rolls.
(Setup for a failed Python skit)

 

[Ibix]

The reason I hung around Kensington was that I did my PhD at Imperial College, which is there. Not a cheap area, but IC Student Union negotiated 10% discounts for ICSU card holders in a lot of local places. According to legend, this included the car showroom that sold Lamborghinis, Porschesn etc...

 

[WWGD]

I saw for the first time a Rolls Royce today, not in an exhibition, a tv show or an auto saloon. It was a regular car on the streets.

Did you ask or did they ask you for Grey Poupon?

 

[WWGD]

The reason I hung around Kensington was that I did my PhD at Imperial College, which is there. Not a cheap area, but IC Student Union negotiated 10% discounts for ICSU card holders in a lot of local places. According to legend, this included the car showroom that sold Lamborghinis, Porschesn etc...

Not many fish and chips places, I gather.

 

[hmmm27]

Big ass car, eh ? Like, huge. I've seen a couple (and Bentleys). Can't imagine owning one : even if you could pick up a used one cheap (which is definitely possible), maintenance and insurance would kill.

 

[Rive]

It's Friday.
It's 13th.
I have a black cat and I'm not afraid to ... make it purr

 

[fresh_42]

Her: "It is Friday, 13th, but due to Covid the bars are all closed, so nothing bad can happen."
Him; "See."

 

[WWGD]

It's Friday.
It's 13th.
I have a black cat and I'm not afraid to ... make it purr

Strangely, in other countries the dreaded date is Tuesday the 13th , not Fridays.

 

[fresh_42]

Strangely, in other countries the dreaded date is Tuesday the 13th , not Fridays.

Wimps! Fridays 13th are more often.

 

[hmmm27]

Wimps! Fridays 13th are more often.

Of course, that would be because of the extra leap-Friday added to make 52 weeks exactly in a year (and 2 during leap years).

 

[fresh_42]

Of course, that would be because of the extra leap-Friday added to make 52 weeks exactly in a year (and 2 during leap years).

No. It's because of the initial condition of the Gregorian calendar.

 

[WWGD]

No. It's because of the initial condition of the Gregorian calendar.

Which is? Did it leave its house at 10 mi/h?

 

[WWGD]

Wimps! Fridays 13th are more often.

Wonder if the chain of restaurants TGIF will add an asterisk to its name : TGIF*

* Except if it is the 13th.

 

[WWGD]

Wonder if there is a " Solar Bear" club , the Summer version of the Polar Bear club , of people who jump into ice-cold water. Then a " Solar Bear" would wear heavy coats and drink hot chocolate and eat salty potato chips in Summer.

 

[WWGD]

Google translator is great ( and free!) but for more than a line or two it makes every translation seem like a quatraine from Nostradamus.

 

[WWGD]

For category theorists: Is coconut equivalent to nut? Any functor between them?

 

[WWGD]

Isn't the name " Noelle" self-contradictory ( No-L). ? It contains two L's. Maybe it should be switched for something like " Wannel" ( One L).

 

[WWGD]

Misunderstanding?
I played Sugar Ray's song " I Just Wanna Fly", and now my house is full of flies. Coincidence?

 

[fresh_42]

In November? In NYC?

 

[etotheipi]

Hmmmm, I call it tea...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

My girlfriend wants a $500 hair straightener for Christmas.

$500?

I was thinking a George Foreman Grill would work just as well and it only cost a fraction of the price.

 

[Keith_McClary]

hair straightener

 

[Ivan Seeking]

View attachment 273827

I sent that to her and asked if this is the one she wants. :D

 

[Rive]

My first 'paid' work in electronics was to mount an https://cdn.cpu-world.com/CPUs/80386/S_AMD-NG80386DX-40.jpg chip onto a mainboard with damaged socket (some of those were with both socket and place for the flat chip).
Honestly, I was anything but well prepared. It took almost a day, with equipment I would not dare to use for soldering even a cable these days. But at the end it worked and I was always proud of my patience.

Then I've found this yesterday:


There is always a higher mountain...

 

[Ibix]

Looks like some kind of cyborg jellyfish.

Let me guess - this is the work of some over-clocker who's trying to cool the chip by airflow on both sides?

 

[fresh_42]

Honi soit qui mal y pense!

Arizona State University has removed its SIR calculator. At least the link doesn't work anymore.

 

[dlgoff]

MS Edge sucks.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

MS Edge sucks.

Why?

 

[dlgoff]

Why?

Everything I've ever tried using the browser failed. What do you think is good about it?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Everything I've ever tried using the browser failed. What do you think is good about it?

I'm not using it until people like you get it hashed out. :D

 

[dlgoff]

I'm not using it until people like you get it hashed out. :D

I'm not the only one. Here's a search for ya:
https://www.google.com/search?q=MS+edge+sucks&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

[Borg]

The Edge Chromium update was loads of fun - all of my bookmarks were wiped out as part of the update!
I uninstalled it after that and it re-installed itself.

 

[fresh_42]

If they advertise a fabric softener as vegan, w** was in there before?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

If they advertise a fabric softener as vegan, w** was in there before?

Skirt steak?

Recall that meat dresses were in ten years ago

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The Edge Chromium update was loads of fun - all of my bookmarks were wiped out as part of the update!
I unistalled it after that and it re-installed itself.

I've been working with Hexavalent Chromium. It's even worse because you can never uninstall it.

 

[Tom.G]

I've been working with Hexavalent Chromium. It's even worse because you can never uninstall it.

Somehow the last word in that sentence went missing; it should be "either."

Cheers,
Tom

 

[dlgoff]

I'm wondering what browser @Greg Bernhardt recommends now. Back in 2003,

I primarily use Firebird and occasionally use IE for specific things.

 

[fresh_42]

I'm wondering what browser @Greg Bernhardt recommends now. Back in 2003,

I'm still missing Netscape.

 

[dlgoff]

I'm still missing Netscape.

Dang. I had forgotten about that one.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I'm wondering what browser @Greg Bernhardt recommends now. Back in 2003,

I'm in SEO so I use all of them. Generally I use Chrome the most because of it's fast development, but understand it's the poorest in privacy. Firefox and Brave are great for privacy. I still use Opera a bit and the recent versions of MS Edge are pretty good.

 

[fresh_42]

... but understand it's the poorest in privacy.

Whatever we may say about Google, and it's presumably even understated, but their products work. It worked best and first as a search engine, and it works now as a browser. I used Firefox before, but it blasted my memory, since all tasks were within one job, whereas Chrome starts several jobs which avoids any bottleneck effects. What MS tried from the beginning, namely to get things going independently from the user, Google did it. And other than MS I am not left outside the doors when it comes to administration possibilities. MS might be nice for grandmas, but it is pure horror for (non MS) developers.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

People often say that they look just like a parent or grandparent. Sometimes people will go back even farther and see some family member who was nearly identical to someone alive today. And in turn, many of them were likely nearly identical to their grandparent or other ancestor.

This suggests that, for example, there might have been someone walking around 500 years ago who looked just like you!

 

[Keith_McClary]

years ago that looked just like you!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It makes me wonder which faces are the oldest. What faces have been around the longest.

 

[Frigus]

"if you believe only in logical things then you are going to miss many things which are beyond your logic"
And ironically i find this statement very logical.

 

[skyshrimp]

I set my alarm for midnight to take my chicken thighs out of the smoker. The alarm went off and I laid down for 5 minutes more. I ended up falling asleep again until 7am. I just checked the meat and it came out perfect. The charcoal had burnt out, but the oak blocks still had some small glowing embers, so I just got some extra smoke without heat.

That was lucky.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[nuuskur]

Ditto. Happy new year, everyone. May 21 be considerably less awful than 20.