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We have way too much "creative reading" already.

Did it often over the years. Very common in our industry in the summer. We did give extra breaks on the really nasty days.

Recently I wrote a program (for Arduino) that translated into Morse. It was fun to get the translation table into 96 bytes.

although some of those (trolls) on Usenet act like little kids.

I never learned touch typing, I just got used to it as i went. I can type on a keyboard with no markings left on the keys. This confuses others. Do you look at your gearstick (if you drive a stick shift) when you change gear?

It's not necessary for 100% of people to be clever. Only a few jobs require great skill. So just let people fall into the category they were destined for.

We can blame Aaron Sorkin for that one. Before West Wing it was pretty much just a term used around the Pentagon in DC. It is shorter than "President" or just about any other term you could use. We like it simple. Obama was the first guy with more than 2 syllables in his name since Kennedy.

That is why the Mexicans are so successful in construction here in Florida. They are used to the heat. We get those snowflakes from up north coming down here and they just melt.

There's less people, which means it's quieter, more places to go on holiday, and the housing is cheaper.

But it has worse weather, less jobs, worse paid jobs, and people can't speak properly.

I've been on holiday in anything from 15% to 95%.

Who cares who made it?

I just write Britain.

Surely he has a lot of input. And I thought the UK had a complicated government....

In Britain, they actually fine (!) the parents if their child doesn't attend school. If I had kids I'd home school them, way too many regulations for my liking, they're like army camps. Pus they indoctrinate them with bullshit they don't need to hear, like religion.

They liked it when I once finished a 2 hour assault course and managed to lose the only skimpy thing I was wearing on a waterslide. It was the middle of winter so it would have been minimum size. There were electric fences above it and one caught my arm, making me jump and spin round, going the rest of the way down head first on my back with no control whatsoever. I landed in a muddy pool at the bottom, then clambered out and climbed up a slope with a rope, not realising I was exposing myself to the spectators. There was much screaming.

I've never heard "loused up" before. Where does that come from?

What was the temperature? 20? 25?

The government here is based on the constitution. If they didn't think it should be a federal issue in 1789, it still isn't now. Most of the day to day is left to local government where your voice might actually make a difference. The federal governments contribution (in money) to our local school board is 0.3%. I doubt anyone in DC is going to make them do too much they don't want to do.

WWI, It refers to being full of lice (Plural, louse), common in the trenches. That is also where "cooties" came from. Now it is just anything that seems screwed up.