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May 21, 2016 at 8:18 am

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tryptameanie

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https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidfuller/how-scientists-are-trialling-psychedelic-drugs-to-treat-depr?utm_term=.mavPxk294#.jsxNY21ob
May 21, 2016 at 11:12 am

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thsi contians the link to the mushrooms article again (and it isn’t even mushroom season) – did you mean this old boy who lives near you?

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May 21, 2016 at 11:37 am

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How the hell did I manage that lol.
May 21, 2016 at 1:57 pm

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@tryptameanie 983910 wrote:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidfuller/how-scientists-are-trialling-psychedelic-drugs-to-treat-depr?utm_term=.mavPxk294#.jsxNY21ob

Claude played a part in World War 2 code breaking ????????? I READ PSYLOCIBIN TESTS
May 21, 2016 at 1:58 pm

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@General Lighting 983913 wrote:

thsi contians the link to the mushrooms article again (and it isn’t even mushroom season) – did you mean this old boy who lives near you?

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I THOUGHT A TIME I WAS REALLY CRAZY AND READY TO GO TO AN HOSPITAL FOR OLD PEOPLE, BUT U JUST RECONFORT ME
May 21, 2016 at 2:01 pm

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as the chap is called Claude the first thing that came to mind was folk like iliesses grandparents who may have been in the Resistance who also worked for SOE and helped Bletchley park; during the war one of them said when an Enignma code had been successfully cracked

“nous avons le QWERTZU – nous marchons ensemble”

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May 21, 2016 at 2:21 pm

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Exactly what I expected GL.
May 21, 2016 at 8:27 pm

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@General Lighting 983936 wrote:

as the chap is called Claude the first thing that came to mind was folk like iliesses grandparents who may have been in the Resistance who also worked for SOE and helped Bletchley park; during the war one of them said when an Enignma code had been successfully cracked

“nous avons le QWERTZU – nous marchons ensemble”

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my mom was german living in Köln or cologna in english, witch means the side of hitler => my grand father would have say (I dont know but maybe ZIEG Heil

my father is english, but born in india and my grand father was russich which went with my grand-grand father to india cuz he was by the side of the tzar nicolai2 while the revolutiom in 1917, and saved his head by escaping in the…(how u called tryp, english empire-lol) , so what would the ENGLISH FOLK SAYING WHEN THEY CRACKED A CODE????Maybe TIME FOR A CUP OF TEA or 50 teaspoon in english metrics lol
May 21, 2016 at 8:29 pm

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and we say qwertz not qwertz u
May 21, 2016 at 8:35 pm

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tryptameanie

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Milk and sugar????

The Polish had begun working on the commercial enigma machine before the British and the Polish before being invaded gave all their stuff to the French who helped get it to England for the British to do properly ;lol.
May 21, 2016 at 9:18 pm

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@iliesse 983972 wrote:

and we say qwertz not qwertz u

The agent at Bletchley park was French (I forgot that CH was neutral in WW II although often bombed by the Allies by mistake). Britain’s GCHQ invented the term QWERTZU but bizzarely the only info about this on Wikipedia is in German!

Der Codeknacker Peter Twinn, der ebenfalls in B.P. arbeitete, berichtet, dass Dilly Knox, nachdem er vom Pyry-Treffen gemeinsam mit dem Franzosen Gustave Bertrand ins Hotel Bristol nach Warschau zurückfuhr, wo er zusammen mit seinem Chef „Alastair“ Denniston während ihres Polen-Aufenthaltes wohnte, im Taxi begeistert auf Französisch gesungen hat: „Nous avons le QWERTZU, nous marchons ensemble“

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTZU
May 21, 2016 at 9:22 pm

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tryptameanie

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TBH I had no idea what iliesse was on about lol. Thought maybe quartz, or maybe he was on about the keyboard layout…..
May 21, 2016 at 11:30 pm

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@tryptameanie 983976 wrote:

TBH I had no idea what iliesse was on about lol. Thought maybe quartz, or maybe he was on about the keyboard layout…..

it is indeed the keyboard layout – in the late 90s I worked as a project engineer supporting this complex embedded system then widely used in TV and radio studios.

It had a master password used to reset the entire device and wipe/upload the configuration database when the usual one was forgotten (happened quite often as the broadcast industry was getting disrupted by the Internet causing many engineers to be laid off or retire, often taking their knowledge and skills with them). The “magic” password was full of characters such as []{}#~ etc; which are often in completely different places on keyboards outside UK, USA and Asia.

Not all broadcast engineers were/are familiar with computer programming where these extra characters are more commonly encountered; at one point I had printouts of various countries keyboard layouts fixed to a wall by my desk in order to explain to the folk at the other end how to type in this password.

Modern version of QWERTZ keyboard used in AT/DE:

But in CH (where French and Italian are also official languages) it looks like this:
May 21, 2016 at 11:39 pm

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tryptameanie

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Yeah have come across the different layouts with windows XP when installing it. For some reason it always defaulted to a US keyboard which I know at the very least has ” and @ in different places.
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