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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14535 on: March 17, 2016, 04:29:31 PM »
Quote from: Rabbit on March 17, 2016, 03:04:05 PM
It's an IKEA, the Swede has an unfair home field advantage by default.

Ah, that would explain why he's such a rabid, mad kamicrazy dog so motivated for the race.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14536 on: March 17, 2016, 05:08:33 PM »
OH MY GOD WHAT. if the sports news were like this every time i would actually watch them

Quote from: Rabbit on March 17, 2016, 03:04:05 PM
It's an IKEA, the Swede has an unfair home field advantage by default.
but it's the IKEA in oslo.........................
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14537 on: March 17, 2016, 05:13:41 PM »
Quote from: Haiz on March 17, 2016, 05:08:33 PM
but it's the IKEA in oslo.........................

Perhaps all IKEAs are technically soverign Swedish territory.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14538 on: March 17, 2016, 05:23:24 PM »
Quote from: Haiz on March 17, 2016, 05:08:33 PM
but it's the IKEA in oslo.........................

IKEA is like a different dimension where Swedishness has a stranglehold. It's like how places can be strong in the light side/dark side of the force in Star Wars.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14539 on: March 17, 2016, 05:26:17 PM »
I'm ashamed to admit that it was only a few years ago when I realized that Ikea's colors were the Swedish flag colors.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14540 on: March 17, 2016, 05:36:51 PM »
Quote from: urbicande on March 17, 2016, 05:26:17 PM
I'm ashamed to admit that it was only a few years ago when I realized that Ikea's colors were the Swedish flag colors.

I'm unwilling to say how recently I had the same realisation :-[
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14541 on: March 17, 2016, 05:56:11 PM »
welp, you don't wanna know for how long I used to mix up sweden's and denmark's flags. that's pretty embarassing for a norwegian person, but...... yellow and blue just seemed so danish, y'know??
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14542 on: March 17, 2016, 05:56:58 PM »
Quote from: urbicande on March 17, 2016, 05:26:17 PM
I'm ashamed to admit that it was only a few years ago when I realized that Ikea's colors were the Swedish flag colors.
Aaaand for your next challenge ...
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14543 on: March 17, 2016, 05:58:30 PM »
Quote from: SectoBoss on March 17, 2016, 05:36:51 PM
I'm unwilling to say how recently I had the same realisation :-[

When you read Urbi's post? :D

Quote from: Haiz on March 17, 2016, 05:56:11 PM
welp, you don't wanna know for how long I used to mix up sweden's and denmark's flags. that's pretty embarassing for a norwegian person, but...... yellow and blue just seemed so danish, y'know??

I mixed up Norway and Iceland for the longest time as a kid >.<
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14544 on: March 17, 2016, 05:58:48 PM »
Quote from: JoB on March 17, 2016, 05:56:58 PM
Aaaand for your next challenge ...

Oh. My. God.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14545 on: March 17, 2016, 06:04:14 PM »
Quote from: Eriaror on March 17, 2016, 11:17:48 AM
Yepp, I remember always checking the scheduled updates thing so it doesn't turn off on me. [...] I had enough and finally installed Linux, after procrastinating for like half a year.
Truth be told, however, Windows is the only OS I know where users can veto a reboot in the first place. Try cancelling a shutdown -h now that you entered into the wrong terminal window ... been there, done that, driven the 50km to the remote site to press the durn power button.

(Of course that has to do with DOS/Win originating with Personal Computers, while Unices started out on mainframes with dozens, hundreds, or maybe even a thousand users simultaneously logged in.)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14546 on: March 17, 2016, 06:53:20 PM »
Quote from: JoB on March 17, 2016, 06:04:14 PM
Try cancelling a shutdown -h now that you entered into the wrong terminal window ...
Right now I'm still well in the novice status of "This command physically affects the computer? OKAY NOW let me read some manual pages and the wiki and some other stuff word by word start to finish three times to be sure I'm not wrecking anything...!"
So... I'm safe...(?) for now... :D
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14547 on: March 18, 2016, 06:53:16 AM »
The last day of lab work was a complete washout so my mates and I are now going to the pub at 11 am.
I suppose the day can only get better  ::)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14548 on: March 18, 2016, 07:33:35 AM »
Welp, what a day! I've been getting my exhibits ready for the local Agricultural Show all day, (in between checking back to see whether we still have a Sigrun), and have had one of those days when carefully prepared containers slide out of the hands and break just as they are being packed, decorated fancy labels smudge on the last carefully inked word, and somebody who was expected to arrive a couple of days ago and didn't, suddenly turned up today and was time-consuming in the middle of it all. Arrggh!

However, my exhibits are in, except for the fresh fruits, for which I just missed the deadline. Pity, I really thought I had a chance at a first for peaches and cooking apples this year. Ah, well, if that is the worst thing that happens all week we are well ahead of the game! So, this year I'm showing: quince and rose geranium jelly, quince paste, savoury apple paste, brandied cumquats, and my home-brewed cyser mead (cyser mead is like a regular mead, that is, based on honey, but with apple juice instead of water).

I'm not entering any liqueurs this year, because I've won the liqueurs section for the last three years running, including overall Grand Champion of brewing for one of those years, so it wouldn't be fair. However, I expect that the formidable ladies of the Country Women's Association will defeat me utterly at preserves. I'll let you all know tomorrow night how my cyser mead went.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14549 on: March 18, 2016, 09:21:48 AM »
That all sounds so delicious! What do you do with quince paste, or what do you eat it with? I'm always on the lookout for new things to do with our quinces, because we have been producing liquor for three years in a row and didn't like the sweet made from them  :-\
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