Got it. No sense of humour.

Dalek Dave wrote:

I was not born in England and have lived in several countries in my time.

Oh god, your a foreigner too. An Immigrant Lutonian Accountant. It doesn't get much worse. (In case you've totally lost your sense of humour - this post is meant to be ironic)

It's almost like I guessed you were going to do that - that pretty much defines an ad-hominem attack. And if you care to look outside of the Lounge, you'll see I contribute programming, on a programming-related website. Where's your contribution outside of this forum? Oh yeah, there isn't any because your an Accountant. I did find all the Human being, shared with your brother, masturbation stuff funny though. Made me chuckle.

Great, looks like Dave will have 1 reader of his Blog. That's one more than most people, so he's all set. However, please, if you're going to read blogs to find out about other cultures and nationalities I really wish you wouldn't use an Accountant from Luton :|

Thats non-programming related section of a site dedicated to programmers. Lets extend that out to "things that may be of interest regarding the workplace". Now lets do a quick straw poll of the last half a dozen threads Don't be stupid, be a smarty... - A thread about the "fun" of over zealous Health & Safety in the workplace - Relevant to the workplace... check - relevant to programmers ... meh. How full is your Inbox? - A thread about, well, full inboxes - Relevant to the workplace... check - relevant to programmers ... I suppose cross-company collaboration... - A thread about the difficulties and challenges of collaboration - Relevant to the workplace... check - relevant to programmers ... check Are you a Brogrammer? - A thread with one of those humourous tests - Relevant to the workplace... meh - relevant to programmers ... check I wish they'd tell me these things - User having trouble with browser/CP - Relevant to the workplace... meh - relevant to programmers ... check The last 2 things you've contributed "Oh look at how smarty I am, I can avoid tax because I'm such a super-accountant" "Oh look at how smarty I am, I translated something from German to English" And lets not forget the daily "Oh look how smarty I am, I can pull a cryptic crossword clue from the Torygraph" *Yawn* Edit: Tidied up some typos - otherwise you'll only use an ad-hominem to attack my "poor grammar"

Have you ever considered writing a blog? You could write down all your legal-but-morally-questionable business shennanigans, as well as all the fascinating other things that happen to you in one place, where joe programmer wouldn't have to read it.

Dalek Dave wrote:

Still, it is refreshing to think that I can still engender this kind of roiling spite and deep loathing, it means I haven't mellowed with age.

No, it just means you're still a twat!

orly? look 2 messages up. "haha, he cant even spell his name". Sheesh, talk about pot/kettle.

Get your head out of the accountant's arse will you.

Whats wrong Dave, did I hit a bit close to the bone? Didn't realise the Torygraph also ran a daily Cryptic crossword. I'll give you that one - ok, so you pull these out of there instead. The chance that you're actually intelligent enough to make these up is somewhere between zero and nil.

Tom Lawton wrote:

Can't help keep visualizing DD in furs loaded with bling, driving an enormous yank-tank, pimping pseudo-intellectual thrills to the masses!

That's funny, because I picture him in a clapped-out Ford Cortina pulling these out of the Times which, like everybody else, he reads to make him look/feel like an intellectual.

If that's T-SQL in anything resembling modern SQL Server, there are much, much better constructs for error handling now.

Wonder what he's having for breakfast this morning? Ex-Benedict perhaps?

I wont steal the answer, as I know this one. I would however like to appropriate any points for this one. If I don't get the points I will abduct your loved ones. Have I clinched it?

Bold, or stupid.

Does it mention the first half is Die Hard 4.0 done badly, and the second half is Home Alone, done badly? Worst fucking movie ever!

I can almost see myself in that picture. I can certainly see the window I sit beside.

Let me reword that for you so it sounds like you've held off the crack "Why, in the windows services applet in windows, is there not the facility for me to search for a service name by part of its description" And the answer is, because if you're using that window then you know what you're looking for so there's no point. They're in alphabetical order!

Has he finally got bored with is pseudo-intellectual snore-inducing word game? Can't say I'd personally miss it.

But they did a good job of getting to the moon, right?