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#3483913 25-Apr-2026 17:51

As I already said, the world is getting crazier and crazier. This applies to all countries without exception.

The man with the schnitzel has a good case in court, since pounding a schnitzel in private is (still) considered as normal everyday life. The fact that courts have to deal with such things nowadays is crazy enough.

To me, it is clearly the stupidity of unsocialized, increasingly egomaniacal individuals. 🫣

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#3483919 25-Apr-2026 20:34

Tinkerisk did you intentionally make a better double entendre?

Sometimes I struggle with German humour.

Just a heads‑up. In English, the phrase "in private" can sound like you’re making a whole new joke.

If that wasn’t your intention, congratulations anyway: You accidentally upgraded the innuendo

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#3483934 26-Apr-2026 03:30

kingdragonfly: Tinkerisk did you intentionally make a better double entendre?

Sometimes I struggle with German humour.

Just a heads‑up. In English, the phrase "in private" can sound like you’re making a whole new joke.

If that wasn’t your intention, congratulations anyway: You accidentally upgraded the innuendo

In fact, it would be prohibited for commercial use at certain times. 😁😉

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I avoid Big Tech. They try hard to dictate technology and „culture“ across borders.
In effect we have everything to hide from someone, and no idea who „someone“ is.

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#3483953 26-Apr-2026 09:51

Only in Texas would a random drive‑thru "hero" see a robbery inside, wait till the robber starts to leave, whips out a gun like Yosemite Sam, shoots up the restaurant, and then flees.

Welcome to the daily reality in America of a “good guy with a gun”.

Fast food tables turned when robber sticking up restaurant shot by someone at drive-thru window

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#3484422 26-Apr-2026 15:17

Tinkerisk:

kingdragonfly: Tinkerisk did you intentionally make a better double entendre?

Sometimes I struggle with German humour.

Just a heads‑up. In English, the phrase "in private" can sound like you’re making a whole new joke.

If that wasn’t your intention, congratulations anyway: You accidentally upgraded the innuendo

In fact, it would be prohibited for commercial use at certain times. 😁😉

Wiener sausages happen to be popular there too. Use your imagination.

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#3484968 28-Apr-2026 11:30

Australia Just Made Age Verification Mandatory For Almost Everything

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#3485029 28-Apr-2026 13:09

kingdragonfly: Meanwhile no word on British bake-off contestant who was disappointed with his spotted dick, saying it was too rubbery.

Neighbor attacked for pounding schnitzel too loudly: DW

If I need my schnitzel pounded, I get my butcher to pound it for me. He has strong but soft hands. Coincidentally, his name is also Mike.

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#3485031 28-Apr-2026 13:16

kingdragonfly: Only in Texas would a random drive‑thru "hero" see a robbery inside, wait till the robber starts to leave, whips out a gun like Yosemite Sam, shoots up the restaurant, and then flees.

Welcome to the daily reality in America of a “good guy with a gun”.

Fast food tables turned when robber sticking up restaurant shot by someone at drive-thru window

This one was in California!

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#3485050 28-Apr-2026 14:46

johno1234:
kingdragonfly: Only in Texas ...

This one was in California!

You're right. I heard Santa Anna, and thought San Antonio.

I looked it up

Auckland has a higher violent‑crime rate per 1,000 residents than Santa Ana, but Santa Ana, California is more deadly.

(Auckland figures are best-effort, since there's no firearm incidents stats per city)

You are about 1.6 times more likely to experience violent crime in Auckland than in Santa Ana

...but....

you are around 9 times more likely to encounter a firearm‑related incident in Santa Ana than in Auckland

It should be no surprise, given the number of guns, you are about 5 times more likely to be murdered in Santa Ana than in Auckland.

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#3485347 29-Apr-2026 08:32

A bit of a W T F to find this on a secondhand goods website... https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/computers/desktops/no-monitor/listing/5906731415

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#3485430 29-Apr-2026 09:10

cddt:

A bit of a W T F to find this on a secondhand goods website... https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/computers/desktops/no-monitor/listing/5906731415

Same seller trying to flog a set of speakers for $599k, and a Mac for $50k... As old mate said in The Castle, "He's dreaming!"

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#3485432 29-Apr-2026 09:14

Using "Excel for the web", I have to create a Power Automate routine to convert a CSV to XLSX. 🤯 It just blows my brain 🤯

No 'export to XLSX' option available, no 'create XLSX copy' option available. I don't want to upload potentially confidential data to a random free online converter.

As per the opening sentence in the linked article: "Many services export data as comma-separated value (CSV) files. ..." Why does Microsoft make such a simple process so convoluted?

Convert CSV files to Excel workbooks

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#3485692 30-Apr-2026 07:45

ANglEAUT:
Using "Excel for the web", I have to create a Power Automate routine to convert a CSV to XLSX.

I'll assume you can't don't / can't do the following from Microsoft 365, Excel desktop:
Open the CSV in Excel desktop
File ... Save As ... .xlsx
No code, no Power Automate, no data leaving the machine.

Back to Power AUtomate your point is valid. That Microsoft code is terrible.

There are bugs in Microsoft's sample script

blind \r removal breaking embedded CR characters in quoted fields
mutliple problem with regex: bug with embedded newlines, escaped quotes, and complex field combinations

You may consider replacing the broken Office Script entirely with a Power Automate flow using the built-in Excel connector:

"Create table" and "Add rows" actions handle CSV parsing natively.

No custom script, no regex, no CRLF issues.

If you can avoid Power Automate, I prefer C# .NET with CsvHelperType. It's safe, robust RFC 4180 compliant parsing. TextFieldParser is purpose-built for CSV.

Radical overkill, but C#.Net supports ClosedXML to create/manipulate .xlsx files, directly via Microsoft's XML.

There's also Pandas with Python.

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("file.csv") # handles \n, \r\n, \r automatically
df.to_excel("file.xlsx", index=False)

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#3485797 30-Apr-2026 15:28

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/woman-who-nearly-lost-home-in-mistaken-identity-case-receives-1000-from-stranger-for-legal-fees/GU25PKBHWVFBFCFQRIFJQFSYD4/

The woman, 29-year-old army medic Kim Dwyer, was mixed-up with a male Auckland company director with the same name, The Herald reported yesterday.

Mr Dwyer was in debt to a company called DD4 Infrastructure Limited, which was being liquidated by Ben Francis from Blacklock Rose.

Francis initially believed Ms Dwyer’s Palmerston North home belonged to Mr Dwyer, which eventually led to a High Court ordering the property to be sold.

Now, the kicker. When she notified the liquidator of their mistake, here's the WTF response:

[She] sent [Ben] Francis multiple requests to reimburse her legal costs.

Francis refused to pay and told her “all appropriate steps were taken” before the case of mistaken identity was discovered.

By the account in the paper, it was Ben Francis's error, but this person refuses to refund legal costs?

What an insensitive, unfair person.

She should go to the Disputes Tribunal and get her money back.

And well done to the person who donated her the money to stop this non-sense.

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#3485838 30-Apr-2026 18:07

I know Food Bag refuses to proofread or test recipes, but calling for 4/25ths of a 6-pack of eggs?!

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