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Re: Quote of the week!

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Cody wrote: Wed Oct 19, 2022 1:49 pm
It's just one damn thing after another!
Anyone taking bets on when (not if) BoJo jumps back into the cess pit for a buoyancy check?
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I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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One must hand it to the Tories - they are really working flat out to keep us (and the rest of the planet) entertained. Ever since the dour Cameroonians and poor old Teresa, they have massively increased their amusement value (presuming one doesn't rely on such vulgarities as money to maintain any sort of lifestyle).

Edited to add: Alas, I'm not convinced that dear old Rishi can meet the standards of his immediate predecessors.
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Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
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And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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Cody wrote: Sun Oct 23, 2022 5:07 pm
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you
"Song of the Speaker"?
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Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter says the decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was a "mistake".
You don't say! Too many brown envelopes, methinks!
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RockDoctor wrote: Sun Aug 14, 2022 4:14 pm
You had to learn to reject spurious data - which was a valuable lesson.
This reminded me of a counterexample. I heard that at one point a certain search engine decided to try a new design and initially it seemed to be performing terribly. Upon closer examination however, they discovered that it was performing so much better that their bot detection algorithm was being triggered and erroneously rejecting the data showing the improvement as spurious. So one must learn to distrust data of all kinds...
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Temperatures in Elk Park, Montana, dropped to -50F (-45C), while the town of Hell, Michigan, has frozen over.
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I learnt a new word the other day: resistentialism - the belief that inanimate objects are out to get you.
I have long suspected this to be the case - now I know there's a word for it.
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If there's a word for it, it must be true!
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Resistentialism is a jocular theory to describe "seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects",
I knew it.. nice definition too... ha ha ha
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Cory Doctorow wrote:
The really remarkable thing isn’t just that Microsoft has decided that the future of search isn’t links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar - even more remarkable is that Google agrees.
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Microslurp and Gaggle - they'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes (after Zuckface)! Wake up, sheeple!
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UK_Eliter wrote: Sat Feb 18, 2023 1:05 am
If you want something in Oolite, then (up to a point . .) one can make it happen!
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Recently, the party announced that, once in government, it would give atheism charitable status because it is a "non-prophet organisation".
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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