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  • D DaveyM69

    In my experience, they seem to be somewhat more sensitive to environmental issues than us $ obsessed males. Point out the error of her ways in those terms, rather than currency, and your problem should may be solved.

    Dave
    BTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)
    Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)

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    martin_hughes
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    DaveyM69 wrote:

    In my experience

    DaveyM69 wrote:

    Point out the error of her ways

    Good one! :-D

    Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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    • M martin_hughes

      ... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!

      Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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      Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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      And then they yell at you for leaving a light on. Go figure.

      Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
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      • M martin_hughes

        ... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!

        Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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        MrPlankton
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        Sheesh, not only at home but in the office as well. I have all lights turned off in my office, illuminiated only by glowing monitor. When a male cow-orker comes into the office he does not mess with the light switch, but when women cow-orkers come into the office they turn on the lights blinding me, never understood that.

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        • M MrPlankton

          Sheesh, not only at home but in the office as well. I have all lights turned off in my office, illuminiated only by glowing monitor. When a male cow-orker comes into the office he does not mess with the light switch, but when women cow-orkers come into the office they turn on the lights blinding me, never understood that.

          MrPlankton

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          jeron1
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          MrPlankton wrote:

          cow-orker

          don't wanna know. :)

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          • M MrPlankton

            Sheesh, not only at home but in the office as well. I have all lights turned off in my office, illuminiated only by glowing monitor. When a male cow-orker comes into the office he does not mess with the light switch, but when women cow-orkers come into the office they turn on the lights blinding me, never understood that.

            MrPlankton

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            Brady Kelly
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            At more than one job I've climbed on my desk and twisted the tubes off. If I can see, WTF must a highly artificial, pulsating, poisonous, light source be imposed on me? If you can't see, see a freaking doctor!

            A SINGLE-PHOTON TURNSTILE, a device in which photons are emitted one at a time under controlled circumstances, has been created by a team of scientists from Stanford (US), Hamamatsu Photonics (Japan), and NTT (Japan). Essentially the researchers use the quantization of electrical conductance to produce a quantization of photon emission. They put together a quantum well (the frontier between two thin semiconductor layers) containing a single electron (other electrons are dissuaded from entering because of a "Coulomb blockade" effect) with a quantum well containing a lone (comparably Coulomb blockaded) hole, and then cycle the voltage across the whole stack of layers in such a way that the lone electron and lone hole meet, mate, and make a lone photon. The resulting device, which operates at mK temperatures, is typically a tiny post some 700 nm tall and with a diameter of 200-1000 nm. (J. Kim et al., Nature, 11 February 1999.)

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            • M martin_hughes

              ... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!

              Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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              Miszou
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              You don't have children living at home, do you? Be glad it's just the lights that are left on, and not every single TV, ceiling fan, computer, windows/patio doors left open with AC running etc...

              Sunrise Wallpaper Project | The StartPage Randomizer | The Windows Cheerleader

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              • M martin_hughes

                ... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!

                Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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                Shog9 0
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                My wife is the opposite: constantly dimming lights that can be dimmed, turning off the rest. Me, i like having light when i'm working, eye strain makes me feel tired. But then, so do energy-efficient bulbs... maybe you'd be less irritated if you bought a few good ol' fashioned incandescents...

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                You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.

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                  My wife is the opposite: constantly dimming lights that can be dimmed, turning off the rest. Me, i like having light when i'm working, eye strain makes me feel tired. But then, so do energy-efficient bulbs... maybe you'd be less irritated if you bought a few good ol' fashioned incandescents...

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                  You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.

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                  martin_hughes
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                  Shog9 wrote:

                  maybe you'd be less irritated if you bought a few good ol' fashioned incandescents...

                  Nope, coming from a very long line of Welsh miners I have very, very, good, in fact exceptionally exceptional, vision in the dark.

                  Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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                    Shog9 wrote:

                    maybe you'd be less irritated if you bought a few good ol' fashioned incandescents...

                    Nope, coming from a very long line of Welsh miners I have very, very, good, in fact exceptionally exceptional, vision in the dark.

                    Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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                    Dalek Dave
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                    Where do you keep your canary?

                    ------------------------------------ Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. - Charles Dickens

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                    • D Dalek Dave

                      Where do you keep your canary?

                      ------------------------------------ Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. - Charles Dickens

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                      martin_hughes
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                      Close at all times.

                      Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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                      • M martin_hughes

                        ... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!

                        Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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                        Robert Surtees
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                        All my home lighting is wired to a central controller. After the crew is off to school in the morning one button sets the house on cave mode.

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                        • M martin_hughes

                          ... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!

                          Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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                          Steve Echols
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                          Along the same lines, what's up with the scented stuff? When I walk into my house, I'm berated with 10,241 different smells that instantly give me a headache.


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                          • M martin_hughes

                            ... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!

                            Ahoy! Martin Hughes

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                            hairy_hats
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                            martin_hughes wrote:

                            I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed

                            Saving electricity in the bathroom too, eh?

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                            • E Ennis Ray Lynch Jr

                              And then they yell at you for leaving a light on. Go figure.

                              Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
                              Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway
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                              Thought that was the toilet seat?

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                                Thought that was the toilet seat?

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                                Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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                                After a lot of hard work I have determined the perfect fight for that argument. Suggest she leave the lid closed when she is done and you will do the same. That way everyone has a relatively equal amount of effort. (Secret of course is men will probably then go in the sink but that is best left for T.V. sitcom's)

                                Need software developed? Offering C# development all over the United States, ERL GLOBAL, Inc is the only call you will have to make.
                                Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway
                                Most of this sig is for Google, not ego.

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                                • J jeron1

                                  MrPlankton wrote:

                                  cow-orker

                                  don't wanna know. :)

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                                  MrPlankton
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                                  It's a Scott Adam's Dilbertism. Scott Adams publishes a news letter quarterly, in the news letter Dogbert answers questions "from stupid people" that write Scott Adams. Dogbert calls coworkers cow-orkers... I thought it funny and have adopted to describe my fellow comrads were I work...

                                  MrPlankton

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                                  • M MrPlankton

                                    It's a Scott Adam's Dilbertism. Scott Adams publishes a news letter quarterly, in the news letter Dogbert answers questions "from stupid people" that write Scott Adams. Dogbert calls coworkers cow-orkers... I thought it funny and have adopted to describe my fellow comrads were I work...

                                    MrPlankton

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                                    The term predates Dilbert's popularization of it by years. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/cow-orker.html[^]

                                    Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                                    • D Dan Neely

                                      The term predates Dilbert's popularization of it by years. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/cow-orker.html[^]

                                      Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                                      MrPlankton
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                                      funny, I like the referance to "scary devil monastery" as a referance to alt.sysadmin.recovery... have to remeber that.

                                      MrPlankton

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