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Previously on "Dunning"

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  • Zippy
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    Jeez, reading this thread is like watching one of those interminable infomercials so familiar to insomniacs.
    I have, therefore, decided it's wine o'clock. Anyone care to join me?

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  • MadDawg
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    The Dunning-Kruger effect

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  • sasguru
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    Originally posted by Safe Collections View Post
    Don't you still have that as your holiday home?
    No that will be called DunDunceDunningPissTaking

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    What about DunceDunning?
    The Dunning-Kruger effect

    The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes

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  • Safe Collections
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    What about DunceDunning?
    Don't you still have that as your holiday home?

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  • sasguru
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    What about DunceDunning?

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  • Safe Collections
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    Originally posted by stek View Post
    There's Dundrum here in Dublin..
    Please forward all queries to:

    Dundunnin
    Dunmanway
    Republic of Ireland



    We also thought about Dungannon, Dunkit and Dunmore...

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  • stek
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    Originally posted by Old Greg View Post
    Time for Safe Collections to retire to a little cottage called Dundunning.
    There's Dundrum here in Dublin..

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    Another fantastic CUK coincidence! Just turned on PC to search for name of place I got some curtains from and had a quick look at CUK first. My curtain place is Dunnings Mill. Who needs Google when we have CUK?

    PS Oh no it's Dunhelms Mill but close.
    Time for Safe Collections to retire to a little cottage called Dundunning.

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  • Old Greg
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    Here's the thing: if I ever wanted money collected, the last people I would go to are Safe Collections, whose poster is demonstrating a level of cretinism that is notable even by CUK standards.

    +1. Better off getting MF tanked up on cheap cider and sending him round.

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  • Safe Collections
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    For clarity - peculiar in the sense of "belonging exclusively to". Hence I'm referring to your (collective) ignorance over this specific word, not a general culture of ignorance, though that does seem to have become quite prevalent in the UK over the last few years.
    No clarification required, we had assumed you meant our collective ignorance as opposed to our "odd" ignorance.

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by Safe Collections View Post
    The peculiar ignorance?

    Noted.
    For clarity - peculiar in the sense of "belonging exclusively to". Hence I'm referring to your (collective) ignorance over this specific word, not a general culture of ignorance, though that does seem to have become quite prevalent in the UK over the last few years.

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  • xoggoth
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    Another fantastic CUK coincidence! Just turned on PC to search for name of place I got some curtains from and had a quick look at CUK first. My curtain place is Dunnings Mill. Who needs Google when we have CUK?

    PS Oh no it's Dunhelms Mill but close.

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  • TheFaQQer
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    Originally posted by Safe Collections View Post
    Please don't pretend wikipedia is a reputable source :P And if you look at that entry closely you'll see the only links refer to American entries Eg. "Consumer Credit Protection Act" &
    "FDCPA (the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act)"
    Originally posted by George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Ch. 18
    Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours.
    I don't think that Orwell was running Oracle or SAP in 1933, but I might be wrong.

    Originally posted by Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
    Of all he had received from Lady Bellaston, not above five guineas remained and that very morning he had been dunned by a tradesman for twice that sum.

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  • Safe Collections
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    sorry you are missing a bit of an in joke, SAP versus Oracle.

    Normally SAP has 20 varieties of the kitchen sink, with Oracle you are lucky if there is a water main.

    When a user on Oracle says 'I wish it could do X' a SAP expert says 'SAP can do that and A-Z and 0-9' annoyingly they are normally right.

    Therefore if Oracle can do it then it must be common.

    As I said its likely that SME do similar but don't call it Dunning.

    I would stop digging if I were you.
    But we are almost out!

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