To follow on from Goatās post
https://mobile.twitter.com/alexhern/status/1141264946132639745
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Iāve had a few* work for me thatāll be over the moon at that news.
* One cunt still owes me hundreds, but on a plus side his dealer can add a nought to my grumbles.
Edit: Bletch, Bob, pap, I know iāve been told, but why does this * change again, what do i have to do to rectify the situation and more importantly, why hasnāt one of you lazy twats simplified it for the simple
You have to put a slash in front of the star.
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Like that.
There is a really geeky reason for this, but as you probably donāt need help sleeping, Iāll just say that the slash means treat what comes next as literal.
i.e slash followed by a star means just display a star.
A star on its own means create a bullet.
Thanks Bob.
And Bletch(as i write), that simple explanation weirdly does help.
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Well, why the fuck didnāt you tell us that in the first place. Do you think weāre all idiots? oh, waitā¦
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\this \is \a \fucking \shit \way \to \run \a \website
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Wonder if anyone else self-identifies as a woman to get a cheap half pint 
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Youāve just revealed Bletchās real name to whole world.
Impressed with the Dr title Bletch, but surprised you had to state the identity 
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Iām pretty sure everyone knows Bletchās real name - Isnāt that right Dave?
Sure is Ethel
I told you not to let that outā¦
Just wait until I see you next!
Will i even recognise you?
You donāt normally.
I just look for the bloke with the rum filled hip-flask being refused entry to the ground
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Fuck sake, bletch.
Itās a backslash character, and in this context, it is an āescapeā character.
@Cobham-Saint - as bletch points out, certain characters carry special significance. * is one, + is another.
If you want to escape that special use and just have a regular old asterix or plus sign, you put the escape character ( a backslash , @saintbletch ) in front of it.
If you want to escape the escape character, same rule applies. Put a backslash in front of it.
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ā¦and there is the geeky definition I referred to yesterday.
Anyone still awake at this point should note that @pap is correct, it is a backslash.
For his next trick pap will walk you through the dash family of Unicode characters followed by a 300 slide slideshow of his holiday in Cyprus in 1983.
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Itās Linux now grandad !
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Dynix/PTX FTW
I am not a grandad, thank you very much.
Iām a great uncle, which is almost as bad, except other peopleās kids make me feel old instead.
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