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So refute it. That's how it works. Someone makes a claim, someone else makes a counterclaim. Discuss, research, debate. Refute and verify. Kick the ball, not the shins. Try it.

Open the pod bay doors please Hal. Open the pod bay doors please Hal. Click click Open the pod bay doors please Hal. Twiddle Open the pod bay doors please Hal. I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid that I can't do that. What's the problem Hal? I'm installing updates 3 of 10, time remaining 35 minutes...

How the hell do you get angry and self-loathing from that? Try reading slowly; it in a laid back, feet up on the table Jack Hargreaves kinda way. And then maybe engage with what was posted. Cheerio. deedly dee, di dum di dee dee; deedly dee, di dum di dee dee...

'olds' needs an apostrophe Gareth. Just sayin' like.

(Zombie resurrection noted) Thanks all. Top advice all round. All noted. Job jobbed. (Nothing major - just some long fallen marginal willows and lots of deep soft silt: chest waders + least favourite chainsaw + long bar + good dry out afterwards. And lots of re-sharpening cos of silt.) The job is a good one! Happy days, Yourn

Half a dozen lines, between mouthfuls of tea; took two minutes before going out: sorry if that's too much for you. So why did you post it if you don't want to discuss it? And why did you put it in POTUS rather than start a new thread? What has it got to do with POTUS? If it has some meaning for you, then why not say so, tell us why. Was it not yourself that was crying out for open and honest discussion? Well here it is, here was your chance to be open and honest; but you show yourself, again, to be incapable of such things. At least engage properly, it was your post after all; or is drive-by shit-posting really all you are capable of?

Mind me where? Lacks narrative, lacks purpose, lacks merit: just a load of idioms & memes, platitudes & cliches hung out on the washing line of life. It says nothing: read it again: nothing. There is no point made, no argument discussed, no proposition introduced, expanded nor concluded. Is it meant to be comforting? What even is it? Just dozens of t-shirt slogans wrapped up in a bow. A child could do better after half an hour on a motivational poster website. Maybe someone gave the AI machine to many antidepressants. Shelly it ent. And no references nor citations as to source. Very poor, please don't try harder; your just being boring now.

"Don't tell 'im SPike!"

I was born in a crossfire hurricane and I howled at the morning drivin' rain; I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag, I was schooled with a strap right across my back. In later life I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead and I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled before I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread and was crowned with a spike right through my head. After that I took up gardening: it was quieter..

'Early adoption, mass use and standardisation' =/= 'invented'

'Bought the company' =/= 'invented'

Wiki says, "Gauge blocks were invented in 1896 by Swedish machinist Carl Edvard Johansson" Really. Promise. I just looked cos I thought it was an interesting question; I was wondering if it was Henry Maudsley who invented the screw gauge.

A thread for those needy obsessionals whom absolutely must must must know everything about other posters including their real identity and employment status. So if you absolutely can't live without knowing the finer details such as work travel arrangements, car choice, colour of front door, whether self employed etc; post your enquiries here to save endlessly clogging up other threads again and again and again with the same pointless tiresome old questions. There seems to be a need for this - a dedicated thread - to save having said questions scattered elsewhere and all over the forum. Well now it's here. Any continuing enquiries of this nature appearing on other threads can now be referred here. Respondants are advised that this is a stalkers paradise and that it is inadvisable to give away any personal information whatsoever on a public forum. Enquirants are advised to get out more. Over to you.

How so? Some analysis and alternative insight would help. At least highlight the points you disagree with.