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Lyda*Rose
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We suspected almost immediately and knew for a little while. We were just hoping he'd behave this time around.
That was really damned generous to the young goof.
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My ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) for whatever parish is dealing with him.
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Matt Black
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Originally posted by Think²:
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Originally posted by Matt Black:
As for Doc Tor's point, yes, we in small solicitors' firms in private practice are ripped off - the last few years by indemnity insurers. It is a requirement for us to practise that we have indemnity insurance. The cost of that indemnity insurance has trebled in the last three years which has in turn coincided with the property crash and general economic downturn. My earnings for 2008-9 were £8000 and in the last tax year picked up to £33000 but the indemnity insurance is now running at £43000pa. We've had to lay off most of our staff and the remainder have had to accept - with very good grace, bless them! - significant pay cuts.
OK I'm confusef you are a small business presumably your turnover is separate from your wage ? Or are you telling me your individual indeminity insurance is more than 17,000 over the national average income and you are expected to pay it out of your wages ?
I have professional indeminty insurance covering me for liabilities upto about 5 million pounds a year - it costs me 78 pounds a year but it covers just me. (Strictly speaking I don't have to have it as I am not in private practice but I chose to.)
What exactly are they expecting you to be liable for ?
Sioni got it right, pretty much. The insurance isn't to do with turnover (ours was around £200K in the last year) but to do with potential liability incurred as a result of the value of the transaction).I'll give you a recent real-life example:
Before the credit crunch we acted on a remortgage of a house in Gosport. There was a restrictive covenant on the title forbidding any alteration to the property without so-and-so's consent. Unbeknown to us, the owner - our client - had put up a conservatory. This was not communicated to us by our client nor by the new mortgage lender, not even in their valuation-survey, a copy of which we had with the mortgage offer. The transaction completed, then the downturn hit, the client defaulted and the lender repossessed, at which point the issue of the illicit conservatory reared its ugly head. The lender - of course, that being the way of things in those days - had lent over the odds and lost money on the repo sale, exacerbated by the issue of the conservatory. They are now trying to sue me for their loss, arguing that I knew about the conservatory since their valuation-survey had photos annexed to it (it didn't) clearly showing the conservatory (I've now seen these photos which have miraculously appeared and they don't, unless you already know the conservatory's there), and we should have obtained retrospective consent from the covenantee.
Needless to say, the above is a complete try-on by the lender but it is illustrative of what solicitors are typically up against, particularly in the wake of a recession: lenders lend over the odds in the boom times, it then all goes Pete Tong, lenders lose money and try to recoup that from someone. The borrowers are difficult targets since they either have no money (hence the default on the mortgage) or have disappeared or both. The conveyancing solicitor however is another matter: not only are we 'visible' but we also carry indemnity insurance which allows the lender - if they are able to claim successfully - to recoup their losses on the property. For every 'try-on' like the above, there are unfortunately perhaps several successful claims, which puts indemnity insuarnce costs up for the rest of us.
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PS Just read the rest of the thread - Oh, Max! ![[Frown]](frown.gif) ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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Marvin the Martian
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Originally posted by Doc Tor:
this: quote:
Why should innocent commuters have to suffer because of a few job losses in a couple of train stations? It's not as if we really need to have people in ticket offices anyway, we have oyster cards and ticket machines!
is actually far worse, far more offensive, than saying this:
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Shit piss bollocks
It's offensive to suggest that due to technological advances certain jobs may no longer be required?
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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
It's offensive to suggest that due to technological advances certain jobs may no longer be required?
Really?
No. It's the careless attitude behind the comment - quite literally. He couldn't care less about the real people who lose their jobs.
Since it comes from someone who purports to act as a 'chaplain', such a monstrous lack of compassion is more than a little worrying.
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I think I liked the old Max better. This one gives the impression of having aged about 40 years and turned into a sort of cut-price Norman St.John Stevas.
Now what were we talking about? Oh yes, strikes, unions, that sort of thing. My view is that it's a pity the unions are so run-down in this country. 'Cos right now they're just about all that stands between the British people and the full-scale dismantling of all the modern, civilised liberal values we enjoy by a government made up mainly of cash-greedy millionaires and their friends.
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Matt Black
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Yes, because they did such a great job of that in the 1970s...
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Adeodatus
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Originally posted by Matt Black:
Yes, because they did such a great job of that in the 1970s...
No they didn't. But it would be a very, very, very silly person indeed that suggested that the unions as they are now are the same as they were in the 70s.
Wouldn't it?
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Originally posted by Adeodatus:
I think I liked the old Max better. This one gives the impression of having aged about 40 years and turned into a sort of cut-price Norman St.John Stevas.
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
Now what were we talking about? Oh yes, strikes, unions, that sort of thing. My view is that it's a pity the unions are so run-down in this country. 'Cos right now they're just about all that stands between the British people and the full-scale dismantling of all the modern, civilised liberal values we enjoy by a government made up mainly of cash-greedy millionaires and their friends.
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Originally posted by Doc Tor:
Since it comes from someone who purports to act as a 'chaplain', such a monstrous lack of compassion is more than a little worrying.
Yup, that's our Max. Making us wonder what the hell is wrong with him since 200-something. Can't remember when his heyday was. Don't really care at the moment, actually.
I'd say this parole given to dear old Maxy is proof to those who complain the Admins are heavy-handed with the planking, but those conspiracy theorists are liable to just take it as one more straw on the camel's back (the hump is a naturally ocurring feature, not proof it's broken).
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Erin: quote:
We suspected almost immediately and knew for a little while. We were just hoping he'd behave this time around.
That was really damned generous to the young goof.
That was my thought too.
Maybe Erin's post could be archived somewhere, ready for the next "Why did the Admins pick on poor little Max?" thread ...
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Gurdur
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Originally posted by Matt Black:
Yes, because they did such a great job of that in the 1970s...
Weren't you saying how you weren't per se unhappy with unions? Sorta decrying any personal investment?
Would it be valid to compare your business with Enron? Just asking, because this little one-liner of yours doesn't make any sense at all, unless of course you were trying very hard to damn unions with one giant tar-brush. You wouldn't be trying to claim industrial action never works, would you?
Oh, that's right, you previously tried exactly that. With the silly little argument that industrial action would only lead to consumers abandoning the service and mass-bicycling to turn London into 1970's Peking, or something.
1) Industrial action often works. Get over it.
2) Reasonable pay and safety provisions were only won through industrial action and trade-union-influenced politicking. So I reckon they neither need nor particularly want your specific sympathy. Again, get over it.
2) Do you think you can come up with anything more .... discussable than inaccurate one-liners?
Seriously.
Good cases can be made for how to minimise industrial action, strikes, and so on, and still have a reasonably fair society, yet neither you nor Marvin are making those cases. Just emo and snideness.
Plus you really are making me feel like sending in a donation to the tube-workers' strike fund.
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Matt Black
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The TU movement virtually destroyed Britain in the 1970s. Yes, times have changed, as per Adeodatus' post, but I was putting the counter-argument to his "they're the saviours of civilisation" claim by pointing out they don't exactly come to the table with clean hands and an unblemished track record on that front.
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Albertus
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Originally posted by Matt Black:
The TU movement virtually destroyed Britain in the 1970s. Yes, times have changed, as per Adeodatus' post, but I was putting the counter-argument to his "they're the saviours of civilisation" claim by pointing out they don't exactly come to the table with clean hands and an unblemished track record on that front.
Ahem. Certain traditions and actions within the TU movement (specifically IMO a very active lack of interest in German-style participation in industrial strategy and management) plus a crap and lazy management culture
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Matt Black
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Granted.
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Jahlove
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My historical knowledge is probably shite and I'm sure the likes of ken can correct me and/or fill in details but my *feeling* is that from the start of the Chartist movement until the Thatcher Axe# - a period of some 125 years or so, the sentiments underlying the joining-together of those who, hitherto, could be just totally disregarded in society was An Extremely Good Thing - for one, it gave all of *you* (unless you were/are a member of the aristocracy) the universal vote as well as the instigation of decent health and safety provisions at work. I fear it is a great shame that this Century+ of Progress for the People is destined to be merely a blip on the chart.
# and yes, I remember the excesses of the so-called *Winter of Discontent* when the union bosses flexed their muscles - sometimes to excess - yet I also remember the brutality of the backlash
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Originally posted by Triple Tiara:
Why did that take so long? The clues were there from the start. I thought he had been granted some sort of amnesty and new ID.
Like what clues?
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Originally posted by Autenrieth Road:
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Originally posted by Triple Tiara:
Why did that take so long? The clues were there from the start. I thought he had been granted some sort of amnesty and new ID.
Like what clues?
'Well, I can't really go into detail on a website board because it would be easy for people to work out who I am and I am criticising the Church a bit. I wouldn't want to get into trouble with my superiors.' This, from the 'New Seminary' thread was the giveaway for me.
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Thurible
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It was the capital letters peppered about that made me suspect initially.
Thurible
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Triple Tiara
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Originally posted by Autenrieth Road:
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Originally posted by Triple Tiara:
Why did that take so long? The clues were there from the start. I thought he had been granted some sort of amnesty and new ID.
Like what clues?
oh, you know, just about everything he posted!
- The "I know more about liturgy than all priests put together" self-proclaiming attitude
- The "I do things at Mass that silly old stuck-in-the-mud Catholics wouldn't like" self-advertising
- the use of buttock-clenchingly awful vocabulary like "my gathered community"
- the hang-up with Anglicans
- the hang-up with Jesuits
- the "I know better than anyone else about everything there is to know" attitude
You get the picture?
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Well, I'm sure he'll be back, or has another puppet already registered that will get more active all of a sudden and want to be the center of attention . Because he hasn't changed.
I sort of tuned out after the early stages of the New Seminary thread so missed some of the clues.
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Jon in the Nati
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the use of buttock-clenchingly awful vocabulary like "my gathered community"
Strong.
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Spiffy
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Originally posted by Triple Tiara:
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Originally posted by Autenrieth Road:
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Originally posted by Triple Tiara:
Why did that take so long? The clues were there from the start. I thought he had been granted some sort of amnesty and new ID.
Like what clues?
oh, you know, just about everything he posted!
- The "I know more about liturgy than all priests put together" self-proclaiming attitude
- The "I do things at Mass that silly old stuck-in-the-mud Catholics wouldn't like" self-advertising
- the use of buttock-clenchingly awful vocabulary like "my gathered community"
- the hang-up with Anglicans
- the hang-up with Jesuits
- the "I know better than anyone else about everything there is to know" attitude
You get the picture?
Well, shit, more than half those things I'm guilty of. Especially the fact that I do know better than anyone else about everything there is to know, and the world would be a better place if y'all just did what I said.
I solemnly swear I'm not a Max. puppet.
I'd say that listing out his tells like this would teach him to hide better next time his feet are too warm and he takes off a sock, but that boy's proven time and time again that he just don't learn.
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Marvin the Martian
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We're going to stop talking about the banned now.
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Thurible
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Serious question: may we still attack the arguments 'TSC' advanced in this thread? (However pointless it might be, given that he's no longer here to consider defending them.)
Thurible
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As an old-timer, I suggest you start a new thread (in Purg or Hell as you like), if you really want to talk about it.
But word it carefully so it isn't about Max. He seems to have used up all nine of his lives.
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Marvin the Martian
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Originally posted by Thurible:
Serious question: may we still attack the arguments 'TSC' advanced in this thread?
Arguments yes. The person no.
If anyone wants to discuss those arguments then the thread will thrive, if not it will die. I note that there was a thriving argument about trade unions going on before the banned was outed as such - the continuation of this is perfectly OK.
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Originally posted by Albertus:
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Originally posted by RadicalWhig:
Maybe if the retail worker in question had stronger union rights they wouldn't get an hour's pay docked for being late through no fault of their own!
Yes, what a fuckwit. Shopworker is delayed through no fault of her own by tube strike- employer docks an hour's pay- what's the rule that needs changing? Not the one that allows this kind of bullying by employers, obviously, 'cos that might mean admitting that the rich aren't always in the right...
A bit of common sense is all that is needed here to allow this to be resolved without any financial penalties. The employer needs to let her off this time and allow her to receive the full pay without any further consequences if she has consistently shown she is serious about her job. The employee needs to meet the employer in the middle and proactively offer to work enough overtime to regain the lost productivity, and also learn from this and own her responsibility for getting to work on time in the future.
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Originally posted by the giant cheeseburger:
own her responsibility for getting to work on time in the future.
You can own your sodding responsibility all you want, but if you can't drive and there is no public transport and the cost of a taxi would be more than you earn in a day - when are you allowed to say you made every reasonable effort but it wasn't enough?
Firenze (still smarting from being told she should 'have got up earlier' to cope with a public transport shortfall, while knowing she had been queuing on the winter streets while that fat bitch had been having a leisurely breakfast prior to getting in her car).
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When we've had these problems with Transport for London before employers who really need their employees in next morning make sure they can get there - often by providing somewhere to sleep overnight - access to washing, places to put down sleeping bag and bedding roll.
I live in one of the areas where people commute in. If the Tube isn't running it's 16 to 20 miles into Central London walking, cycling or whatever, and it's 8 miles to the nearest railway station that will get you in to one of the Central London Stations. What responsibility do you suggest the employee can take if the employer isn't providing somewhere to sleep in Town. Car sharing isn't really an option into London, cycling 20 miles isn't an option unless you can change and shower at the other end.
Also this particular strike - the tubes were beginning to be difficult from 6:30pm the night before.
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Call in your unavailability to get to your job on time before that day then if it's a strike known well in advance. Even if your boss will pay you for work you don't do, in a retail environment it's important to make sure things are covered during that time you are not working.
At my previous job in a computer store, if I was an hour late it would mean one technician would be tied up with work out front instead of doing service jobs. If I was really unlucky in my timing it could push a couple of warranty jobs back one day and lower the service excellence rating which Apple uses to determine labour costs paid to third-party service centres. We're looking at a minimum of $150 loss of income to a small business, which is why the policy of lateness being taken out of TOIL (time off in lieu of payment for overtime) at time and a half and/or working overtime to recover lost productivity was the policy.
I'm personally astonished that people think it's acceptable to get paid for productivity lost when they are late - unless of course the striking union/s provide compensation to affected businesses for lost productivity. That may be decent in a salaried position where you are paid for doing a job, but not for a position paid by the hour. The vast majority of small businesses don't have money growing on trees to pay for work that is not getting done outside of money set aside in annual budgets for each employee's 6 days of paid sick leave and 20 days of paid annual leave.
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This last strike wasn't well advertised. It was a very unfunny shock to try and go to a course on the Tuesday night by tube and find that the trains were already disrupted by 6:30pm for a 24 hour strike. That one I walked home from rather than fight the tubes home.
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Sorry, Curiosity Killed..., that doesn't wash with me, I thought the last strike was as well advertised as any other.
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I guess there's a difference between an occasional user of the Tubes and a regular user. If I'd been commuting I would have been far more aware, but I'm not and it wasn't that well advertised. There was very little coverage on the national news, unlike previous ones, and it was only going to the tube station that made me aware. The same was true for the students who come in by Tube - they weren't aware in advance either. We'd have been told that they weren't going to be in on the Monday if the advertising had been clearer, not on Wednesday morning.
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
I guess there's a difference between an occasional user of the Tubes and a regular user. If I'd been commuting I would have been far more aware, but I'm not and it wasn't that well advertised. There was very little coverage on the national news, unlike previous ones, and it was only going to the tube station that made me aware. The same was true for the students who come in by Tube - they weren't aware in advance either. We'd have been told that they weren't going to be in on the Monday if the advertising had been clearer, not on Wednesday morning.
It was all over the Transport for London website, the BBC News website, the TV news, I got an e-mail about it from TfL the day before, and it was mentioned in the evening Tube status update e-mails I subscribe to, along with the morning Tube status update texts I get. And I don't use the Tube as my normal method of commuting these days, I cycle.
Even my colleagues in Warsaw knew about it.
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So, the problem is you are too dumb to do math and figure out when a 24 hour strike begins?
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Nope, 6 hours later that damn strike was supposed to start. And because we've had so many recently, it wasn't big news. We've had a series of them.
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
mm - I did say that I was having problems early evening on Tuesday, not Wednesday, didn't I?
There are actually two strikes running on the same days, but at different times. Maintenance staff walked out from 5pm on Tuesday evening, drivers & station staff from 9pm. So you may have been caught up in a signal problem that had no-one to fix it.
But my point is that it was thoroughly advertised, and not by methods that required you to be a regular user of the Tube (although there were posters up at all the stations).
I got an e-mail about it on Monday, it was on the Transport for London website from at least the Monday morning, it was on the BBC news website from that time as well. Then when it actually started, it was mentioned in the Tuesday evening "service disruption" e-mails I get from TfL, and in the text alerts I got on the next morning.
The TfL travel alerts are free to use and you can sign up for them here.
Of course, because I have a slight touch of OCD, I also put the strike dates in my work calendar as soon as they were announced. The next one is at the end of November.
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If I seriously cared I wouldn't be posting in Hell about it. I got where I had to go, by the skin of my teeth and amused myself by walking home - through the Forest in the dark, without a torch - but who said I was sane?
But the point I was making was that particular strike was a little more unpredictable than people are making out.
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
whinge whinge whinge
I fixed your last post for you.
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Loquacious beachcomber
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I am a supremely annoying, cloying dumbass, who just can't STFU and quit behaving like a stewed turd on a buffet table.
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I fixed your most recent post for you, Spiffy.
[ 07. November 2010, 20:51: Message edited by: Silver Faux ]
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Silver Faux:
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Originally posted by Spiffy:
I am a supremely annoying, cloying dumbass, who just can't STFU and quit behaving like a stewed turd on a buffet table.
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I fixed your most recent post for you, Spiffy.
And you needed to edit that?
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mousethief
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Originally posted by Silver Faux:
I am a supremely annoying, cloying dumbass, who just can't STFU and quit behaving like a stewed turd on a buffet table.
We can play this game all day! Wheeee!
(But this does make me wonder about the kind of buffet luncheons SF gets invited to.)
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Loquacious beachcomber
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Learn to code, mousethief; it's a broken line for disengenuously changing the words within a quote.
There is a UBB practice thread in the Styx for beginners such as you.
Dumbass.
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mousethief
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I so love it when you pay attention to me, Fux.
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Loquacious beachcomber
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I wasn't speaking to you.
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It's most unkind of you to call other people by my name. Tsk.
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