What made you smile recently (2025)?

Barriehie said:
Linux wins again!
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I'm pretty sure that even with a Linux distribution, this would still have happened back then. It was a dual boot system and he deleted the other, non-booted windows version and at the time had local administrator access to his own device. Linux would not have stopped that either in my experience, 25 years ago. It's the fact it was dual boot that allowed it to happen to the inactive/non-working windows directory. You couldn't delete active versions of the Windows working directory even back then. (Ubuntu didn't even exist back in 1999, and red hat was version 6, debian was version 2, just for the timeline).
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I'm pretty sure that even with a Linux distribution, this would still have happened back then. It was a dual boot system and he deleted the other, non-booted windows version and at the time had local administrator access to his own device. Linux would not have stopped that either in my experience, 25 years ago. It's the fact it was dual boot that allowed it to happen to the inactive/non-working windows directory. You couldn't delete active versions of the Windows working directory even back then. (Ubuntu didn't even exist back in 1999, and red hat was version 6, debian was version 2, just for the timeline).
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I dl'ed Debian when it was at 3.4. Forever ago...
 
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A Texan walked into a pub in Dublin on St Patrick's day. He watched all the locals for about 10 minutes, and then shouted out:
" HEY! You Irish - don't know how to drink. We Texans could drink you under the table in no time at all! Bunch of losers! "
There was some grumbling in the bar, and then the Texan shouted out again:
" Tell you what. I'm a betting man. I'll put $1,000 on the bar for the man who can drink 10 pints of Guinness in 30 minutes. $1,000 ! I bet there's no-one here who can do it. Come on!"
The locals started muttering amongst themselves, but one bloke walked straight out the door.
After about 20 minutes, the Texan shouted out again:
"Told you! You guys don't have a clue how to drink! We Texans are the best in the world!"
On cue, the door opened and in came the bloke who'd walked out.
" I'll do your challenge, mister, and I'll win".
Barman lined up 10 pints of guinness on the bar, and ready, steady, go.
15 minutes later, the Irishman had downed all 10 pints.
Astounded, the Texan said:
"Hey, I gotta give it to you; you are a champion. Here's your thousand bucks. You really do some serious drinking. But I have to ask you a question. Why did you leave this pub and then come back?"
The Irishman said:
"Oh, I always thought I could, but I just went down to the other pub on the corner to practise"
 
Reminds me of the time many years ago - a friend came to my flat and was insistent that I come to the pub with her.
When I pressed her on why she was so set on that pub and that night she told me - she had told this guy he was a lightweight and her friend could drink him under the table.
Er yeah, mis-spent youth :peekaboo:
 
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