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grepballsoffire

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    Comment #21268728

    As per someone else's comment, everyone can have a bad day. I try not to judge people I don't know (unless there are repeat stories, then it's hard not to). Oh, and never read abou…

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    Comment #21024685

    I eventually took pity and signed up. Kidding, I signed up because it's a very simple, no fuss, useful service, and I'm getting a lot of use out of it, so thanks.

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    Comment #20814633

    There was one windows update around two years ago that broke it, but I just reinstalled it and haven't had any problems since.

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    Comment #20807704

    I kept on wondering why I hadn't seen any of this, and then remembered that I'd installed Classic Shell start menu, which provides a Windows 7 style menu. It doesn't disable the Wi…

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    Comment #20792097

    I got this too.

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    Comment #20723172

    Australian here. I studied it in school and so have my kids. They were equally amazed at how much meaning they could bestow on the words.

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    Comment #20603241

    Stolen goods can be confiscated by police without any compensation for the pawn shop. Therefore it is in their interest to know where the customer got the item from, unless the sho…

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    Comment #20017822

    Perhaps the actual "artwork" is the auction itself, and we are all unwitting participants. Or it's just someone hoping to make some easy money.

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    Comment #19518176

    Actually they're getting much better. I bought some off-brand Lego from aliexpress a couple of years ago, and apart from the lack of branding I can't tell the difference, even afte…

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    Comment #19366048

    I'm mainly a dinosaur for wanting audio jacks as i still use my old Sennheiser headphones that I bought in 2006, and still work perfectly. I did switch to Bluetooth headphones for …

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    Comment #18621905

    Ha! It does, but it actually just means the opposition party's counterpart to the attorney-general.

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    Comment #17894459

    My favorite part is at 19:35, where Turturro assures us that credit card details are safe to use because "It's private. I've done it before and it's not a problem." https://youtu.b…