sternly

Torvalds swears in kernel chat, unrelated devs frown sternly, sun rises in the east, tides happen twice a day...

Try getting sternly lectured for 10 minutes because because you held the door open for a stranger to be polite.

I was stopped by the Polizei once and he sternly informed me that I needed a rearview mirror - I told him I did: it was in the back seat.

When I ignore their instructions and start signing the area that requests a consultation they sternly tell me I'm signing in the wrong place.

Their first step is to send you a sternly worded email, explaining that for this usage level you need plan X, and if you don't upgrade within... let's say 5, maybe 7 days?

I was going to sternly object, and then I remembered how a friend deleted me on facebook because I liked a certain politician.

We have this for microwaves today, and even though popcorn bags sternly warn "Do not use the popcorn button", the popcorn button works just about every time.

I can't help but be reminded of this:A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.

I think it's kind of amusing that right after sternly warning the reader to avoid monad tutorials, he then proceeds to write a monad tutorial.

If you intentionally overbill a man so that he must work an extra year worst case scenario you... send a sternly written letter and pay them the original amount?

He'll send them a sternly written letter, which is going to say a variant of "You can make this go away cheaply or you can fight it in court if you have a lot of confidence in how airtight your paper is.

Soon enough I got called into a meeting with the company president and an HR person and was sternly told that if I didn't start showing up at 9am straight that I would be let go. I tried to argue that the hours don't really matter for creative work and was told "Don't try to make this company into something it's not".Some places are completely fucked up and beyond toxic.

I still think of this one whenever some lab apparatus starts working after an expert walks in and fiddles with some wires or power-cycles it -- A novice was trying to fix a broken lisp machine by turning the power off and on. \n Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly - \n "You can not fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding \n of what is going wrong.

This one is my favourite: A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.\n Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.