When did....

[NickFitz]

Nice try. The leather patches on the elbows of your brown, corduroy jacket tell the real story.

You're just cross because I stole your jacket

[NickFitz]

That is the way they spell "wearing" in the Grauniad...

[DBA_bloke]

More like a real-time systems software engineer who then became a games programmer before getting into that whole new-fangled Intertube distributed applications thang; but I suppose you got close enough considering you're a semi-literate baboon

Nice try. The leather patches on the elbows of your brown, corduroy jacket tell the real story.

[oracleslave]

A Games programmer at one company I worked for drank himself to death...

There are worse ways to go

[NickFitz]

Guardian reader? Ah! An ex-teacher who ended up on the booze; progressed to antidepressants; went off "on the sick" for a year; went back to teach for a week; went off "on the sick" again; did a techie course; finally tip-toed quietly into IT.

More like a real-time systems software engineer who then became a games programmer before getting into that whole new-fangled Intertube distributed applications thang; but I suppose you got close enough considering you're a semi-literate baboon

[DBA_bloke]

wearing

However, as a Guardian reader, I wouldn't want you to feel unduly constrained by societal norms that may be at variance with your cultural heritage, personal sexual preferences, or innate intellectual incapacity.

So do feel free to spell like an illiterate peasant if it makes you feel better about yourself.

HTH

Guardian reader? Ah! An ex-teacher who ended up on the booze; progressed to antidepressants; went off "on the sick" for a year; went back to teach for a week; went off "on the sick" again; did a techie course; finally tip-toed quietly into IT.

[NickFitz]

Lentil munching cardigan wearging Guardian reading leftie tree hugging types you mean?

wearing

However, as a Guardian reader, I wouldn't want you to feel unduly constrained by societal norms that may be at variance with your cultural heritage, personal sexual preferences, or innate intellectual incapacity.

So do feel free to spell like an illiterate peasant if it makes you feel better about yourself.

HTH

[_V_]

Lentil munching cardigan wearging Guardian reading leftie tree hugging types you mean?

[sasguru]

Seems to be a term that selfish right-wingers apply to those with a social conscience.

[Spacecadet]

when did doing good become bad and "dogooders" become an insulting term?