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  • C Christian Graus

    And so are baggy pants. That's the point, it's got nothing to do with the 21st century, or being 'backwards'. It's just the sort of thing teenagers do.

    Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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    jan lucas
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    Christian Graus wrote:

    And so are baggy pants. That's the point, it's got nothing to do with the 21st century, or being 'backwards'. It's just the sort of thing teenagers do.

    I walk around with a hat on sometimes - and I'm not even a teenager!

    Ah.

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      John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

      Isn't it ironic that the word "culture" starts with the word "cult"?

      No.

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      Single Step Debugger
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      It would have been yes, if this word correct spelling was “cuntture”.

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      • C Christian Graus

        And so are baggy pants. That's the point, it's got nothing to do with the 21st century, or being 'backwards'. It's just the sort of thing teenagers do.

        Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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        Christian Graus wrote:

        And so are baggy pants.

        Just snorted coffee through my nose

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        • A AspDotNetDev

          Christian Graus wrote:

          Thanks for taking my feelings in to account.

          Passive aggression AND talk of feelings. You aren't married, are you? :~

          Driven to the ARMs by x86.

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          AspDotNetDev wrote:

          Passive aggression AND talk of feelings. You aren't married, are you?

          ROFL!

          The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.

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          • R realJSOP

            SO in the end, the younger sister couldn't curry anybody's favor?

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            Ravi Bhavnani
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            I suspect everyone in the family must've been pretty stewed. /ravi

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            • N Nish Nishant

              wizardzz wrote:

              If a culture can't get marriage and dating remotely right, how can we expect them to develop without the use QA?

              Yeah, two very similar things. That was a very intelligent observation there. :)

              Regards, Nish


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              Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

              Yeah, two very similar things.

              Maybe we could set up a separate forum for it?

              The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.

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              • N Nish Nishant

                Boy dumps girl who tied rakhi to husband to reunite with him[^] For those who don't know, in certain states in India, girls tie rakhis (colored bands) on their brothers' wrists as a show of affection. Sometimes they tie rakhis to guys who are not their biological brothers after which they become symbolic brothers (personally, I never got it, maybe it's just a way girls used to get rid of guys who were after them). Anyway, here is what makes the story so weird.

                The bizarre wedding created newspaper headlines a fortnight ago. The strangest part was that Nitesh, a 21-year-old supervisor in an IT company, was earlier engaged to marry Aarti's elder sister. But when she eloped with a trainee police sub-inspector before the marriage, her father, asked Nitesh to marry her younger sister Aarti.

                So Nitesh (the poor husband) was engaged to be married to this girl. And she elopes with a trainee cop! Seriously, who does that? And then her father asks him to marry her younger sister! :wtf:

                Soon the boy's family learnt that Aarti had been forced into the alliance. "Aarti told my son that she had a lover — an engineering student in Rudrapur — whom she had met in college. They had also secretly married in a temple. Her family possibly drugged her on the night of the wedding," Nitesh's father Anil Tyagi had told TOI earlier this month.

                Well turns out the younger sister (Aarti) had another lover and she was drugged/forced into getting married. That's when Nitesh decides he'll make a sister out of her. :wtf:

                On learning this, Nitesh made Aarti tie him a rakhi so that she could continue to live in the house as his sister.

                That's when this happened:

                Now it turns out that the girl's lover — actually her first husband, since the two had allegedly earlier got married in a secret ceremony — has dumped her and is avoiding contact with her.

                So the girl's lover has no further interest in her (and apparently he's her first husband). The cops tried to reunite her with him but he refused to show up, so they tried to reunite her with her new husband (the

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                Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

                Wow! I understand feeling a little incredulous on reading the story but to go check the house out seems completely crazy. Why would anyone do that? And the article is written as if the entire thing is a common sort of thing that happens every day. :WTF:

                I heard on an IT Podcast there were programmers in india who secretly gathered outside the house of Nish hoping to catch a glimpse of their world famous hero. They whisper to each other that the Great Nishant will one day bless them with a preloved Zune and regale them with tips on correct object instantiation, c++/cli properties and correct memory management. Strange but true. Bryce

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                  Isn't it ironic that the word "culture" starts with the word "cult"?

                  ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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                  You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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                  "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

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                  John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                  Isn't it ironic that the word "culture" starts with the word "cult"?

                  Only a select few people in the world get irony. The rest think they do. And that's ironic. Possibly.[^]

                  The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots. R. A. H.

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                  • C Christian Graus

                    Dalek Dave wrote:

                    Tying rags round wrists?

                    I don't see what's wrong with that. Girls in the west are walking around with rubber bands on their wrists, how is that different ? How is putting on a wedding ring different ? It's just a custom to show a type of affection.

                    Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                    bryce
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                    Christian Graus wrote:

                    It's just a custom to show a type of affection.

                    are you going to make me one of those band thingies? B

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                    • D Dalek Dave

                      When will people move into the 21st century? Forced marriages? Tying rags round wrists? I am surprised there hasn't been an 'honour killing'. (Although nothing honourable about muder).

                      ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]

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                      Dalek Dave wrote:

                      Forced marriages

                      While forced marraiges are an abomination, arranged marraiges seem to work as well as any other sort. I have meet and talked to some people who had arranged marriages and if done properly they seem to work!

                      Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                      • B bryce

                        Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

                        Wow! I understand feeling a little incredulous on reading the story but to go check the house out seems completely crazy. Why would anyone do that? And the article is written as if the entire thing is a common sort of thing that happens every day. :WTF:

                        I heard on an IT Podcast there were programmers in india who secretly gathered outside the house of Nish hoping to catch a glimpse of their world famous hero. They whisper to each other that the Great Nishant will one day bless them with a preloved Zune and regale them with tips on correct object instantiation, c++/cli properties and correct memory management. Strange but true. Bryce

                        MCAD --- To paraphrase Fred Dagg - the views expressed in this post are bloody good ones. --
                        Publitor, making Pubmed easy. http://www.sohocode.com/publitor

                        Our kids books :The Snot Goblin, and Book 2 - the Snotgoblin and Fluff The Snotgoblin for the Ipad

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                        Christian Graus
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                        Funny, b.c he's lived in the US for a long time, now.

                        Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                        • C Christian Graus

                          Funny, b.c he's lived in the US for a long time, now.

                          Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                          bryce
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                          thats my point. He's long gone yet still they gather..... Bryce

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                          • L Lost User

                            Christian Graus wrote:

                            And so are baggy pants.

                            Just snorted coffee through my nose

                            MVVM# - See how I did MVVM my way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

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                            Christian Graus
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                            I live to serve....

                            Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                            • D Dalek Dave

                              When will people move into the 21st century? Forced marriages? Tying rags round wrists? I am surprised there hasn't been an 'honour killing'. (Although nothing honourable about muder).

                              ------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]

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                              Mark_Wallace
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                              Dalek Dave wrote:

                              Forced marriages?

                              How many of them aren't?

                              Dalek Dave wrote:

                              Tying rags round wrists?

                              Um, "friendship bands" were adopted by the West decades ago. Millions of Westerners wear them. All conventions seem silly and wasteful, until you learn the story/history behind them. I mean, what kind of idiotic government can't sit to decide on important things or make laws until someone has hit a door with a stick? Would you trust them with your taxes?

                              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                              • S Single Step Debugger

                                It would have been yes, if this word correct spelling was “cuntture”.

                                There is only one Ashley Judd and Salma Hayek is her prophet! Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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                                Lost User
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                                Deyan Georgiev wrote:

                                It would have been yes, if this word correct spelling was “cuntture”.

                                Ironic? Really? Have a 1.

                                ict558 - a Coward and a Fool. Dalek Dave & Hokum (Therefore it must be so, alas.)

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                                • B bryce

                                  Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

                                  Wow! I understand feeling a little incredulous on reading the story but to go check the house out seems completely crazy. Why would anyone do that? And the article is written as if the entire thing is a common sort of thing that happens every day. :WTF:

                                  I heard on an IT Podcast there were programmers in india who secretly gathered outside the house of Nish hoping to catch a glimpse of their world famous hero. They whisper to each other that the Great Nishant will one day bless them with a preloved Zune and regale them with tips on correct object instantiation, c++/cli properties and correct memory management. Strange but true. Bryce

                                  MCAD --- To paraphrase Fred Dagg - the views expressed in this post are bloody good ones. --
                                  Publitor, making Pubmed easy. http://www.sohocode.com/publitor

                                  Our kids books :The Snot Goblin, and Book 2 - the Snotgoblin and Fluff The Snotgoblin for the Ipad

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                                  Nish Nishant
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                                  :laugh:

                                  Regards, Nish


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