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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
My Grandma just avoided a phone scam by verifying with me
Grandma wins!
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@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
for example - I really dislike small answers like - fine.
In my experience, many people don't. I live by Strunk and White's rule of "omit needless words" whenever possible. Sometimes I forgot to add
-vto my interactions with others.-v?
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@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
for example - I really dislike small answers like - fine.
In my experience, many people don't. I live by Strunk and White's rule of "omit needless words" whenever possible. Sometimes I forgot to add
-vto my interactions with others.-v?
Verbose?
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@dashrender yes. Verbose.
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-v or --verbose would be the opposite of omitting needless words. . . it would actually add a bunch of words. . .
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@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dashrender yes. Verbose.
I kinda figured after asking - lol
not that most would even know what that meant if you wrote
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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
My Grandma just avoided a phone scam by verifying with me
But the Nigerian Prince who emailed her asking for $5,000 with the promise of $5 Million got through. . .
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@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
My Grandma just avoided a phone scam by verifying with me
But the Nigerian Prince who emailed her asking for $5,000 with the promise of $5 Million got through. . .
Wish everyone could say that
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@dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@eddiejennings said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dashrender yes. Verbose.
I kinda figured after asking - lol
not that most would even know what that meant if you wrote
-verboseSee, if I had just wrote "yes" I likely would've earned the "don't be curt" E-mail. "yes. Verbose" is my compromise
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Solution for today:
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Even if everyone in this building fought to the death using nothing but keyboards and optical mice, today would still be boring af.
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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Even if everyone in this building fought to the death using nothing but keyboards and optical mice, today would still be boring af.
IDK, that sounds pretty epic...
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@quixoticjeremy said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Even if everyone in this building fought to the death using nothing but keyboards and optical mice, today would still be boring af.
IDK, that sounds pretty epic...
Right?! choking a dude out with a wired mouse would be pretty awesome, to only see him smash a keyboard into a million pieces across some guys face.
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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Even if everyone in this building fought to the death using nothing but keyboards and optical mice, today would still be boring af.
Yeah... old school roller ball mice would be needed for extra excitement.
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Trying to figure out where a customer 60GB mailbox is taking hostage in what folder, then I see this gem as an inbox sub folder.
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@texkonc said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Trying to figure out where a customer 60GB mailbox is taking hostage in what folder, then I see this gem as an inbox sub folder.
Don't get me started on ridiculous mailbox sizes
