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Gwai
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You know perfectly well that I’m not on your boss’s team anymore. I have happened to drop that information into conversation twice. After the second time, I rather felt a pushy jerk, but ye gods, apparently I wasn’t pushy enough. Or did you not realize that now that as the sole editor in my group, I might have, I don’t know, work to do?
Yes, I am helping out and doing some of my old work, because I wanted to be helpful and could currently afford to. However, C knows bloody well that unless she tells me something is a major priority, her work comes second now, since you know it’s not even my job anymore. Do you really think you will impress her by CCing her on emails after not even a day to ask if I’ve scanned some papers in? Doll, you can bloody well scan your own papers in, if you’re in a hurry. We’re sending off manuscript today, and guess what, that’s rather more important than whether you want to trouble your dear idiot self figuring out how to use a simple scanner. I was planning on processing the papers today—not even 24 hours after I got them—as I suspect the break will be pleasant, but I’m rather tempted to delay now.
P.S. You may think you are grandmotherly, and you do have the cluelessness and querulousness of certain TV grandmothers, but really you more seem incompetent than wise and honestly you don’t hold a candle to any of my grandmothers
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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TICTH people believing, after all these years, anything they read in the Daily Heil
Honestly, if that bigoted little rag ran a story that grass was green I'd stick my head out of the window to make sure.
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Antisocial Alto
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TICTH ridiculous church database software that automatically lists married people as Mr. and Mrs. Husbandsfirstname Lastname. Seriously? This isn't the 1950s. And it makes it hard for me to figure out who the hell everybody is, especially women whose husbands aren't members so I don't know them.
Plus, shock and horror, we actually have women who kept their names and... dun-dun-DUNNNN! gay couples. How about not shoehorning everyone into an obsolete etiquette that died out before you, moronic database, were a gleam in some programmer's eye?
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Anglican't
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Originally posted by Antisocial Alto:
TICTH ridiculous church database software that automatically lists married people as Mr. and Mrs. Husbandsfirstname Lastname. Seriously? This isn't the 1950s. And it makes it hard for me to figure out who the hell everybody is, especially women whose husbands aren't members so I don't know them.
They're presumably Mrs Lastname?
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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TICTH the asshole who called me a "New York Jew" for daring to want to share the lap lane in a public swimming pool with him and one other swimmer. We were spaced about as far apart as jumbo jets are that share a runway and were in no danger of bumping into one another.
(1) I am a Christian, but even if I was Jewish, why would that disqualify me from using the pool? Rules such as those disappeared long ago in this country.
(2) I am indeed from New York, but this is Arizona, where almost everybody is from somewhere else.
(3) How stupidly ignorant of me not to realize that you possessed the title deed to the lap lane. If this were Monopoly, you could have put a hotel on it and charged me four times the rent. But, being an asshole, that probably didn't occur to you.
You elected to get out of the pool rather than share a lap lane with a "New York Jew". I hope you had a perfectly miserable rest of your afternoon. Me, I enjoyed my swim all the more for want of you as a poolmate.
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Sarkycow
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(I've googled and apparently that either means you're liberal or you're tightfisted - I don't understand how either link in with swimming laps??? ![[Confused]](confused.gif) )
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by Sarkycow:
(I've googled and apparently that either means you're liberal or you're tightfisted - I don't understand how either link in with swimming laps??? )
Clearly someone who wasn't tightfisted would go out and buy his own lap lane, rather than insisting on sharing someone else's.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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At the risk of perpetuating the stereotype (and prolonging the discussion -- forbidden on this thread, I know), "New York Jew" is generally regarded as meaning "pushy", "selfish". It just occurred to me today -- I should have told him I'd rather be a New York Jew than an Arizona Asshole.
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Plique-à-jour
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People who will argue the fucking toss up the devil's arsehole.
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lilBuddha
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Welcome to SOF. Not to be mean spirited in any fashion, but if you wish to sail here, I suggest you resign to this.
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Plique-à-jour
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Debate is not what I'm talking about.
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RooK
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TICTH people who think "sail" means "debate", and use that as an excuse to piss on perfectly reasonable advice. May the butt-hairs from a thousand tarantulas torment their urethra.
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orfeo
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Lovely image, RooK.
Today I'd like to condemn cyclists who are in the road traffic but decide that road traffic signs don't apply them. Like, say, the red stop light that was facing you so that a bunch of pedestrians could cross the road safely with a walk signal. The bunch of pedestrians that you accelerated towards and dived through the middle of, as the two groups of pedestrians headed towards each other from opposite sides of the road.
I hung back slightly, but it would have been quite interesting in a way to move forward at the pace I would have used if I'd ignored your presence the way you ignored all of ours. Maybe there still would have been enough of a gap. Between me and the woman holding a baby for you to squeeze through, but I'm not convinced. I trust you would have collided with me rather than her given the choice. I would at least have been confident everyone would have survived the impact. You might not have survived what I was dreaming of doing to you afterwards, and I sure as hell would have done everything in my power to ensure you faced the full force of the law.
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TICTH drugs that sedate you way too much and leave you in a drooling heap unable to function effectively.
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TICTH people who have absolutely no sense of time and decide to cook a really smelly dinner at 11 pm in your shared space, which, because of construction, is also the same room where you SLEEP. but hey, go ahead, turn on the light, deep fry something and smoke up the entire building while chatting, then leave all the dishes behind. because, you know, 11 pm is when everyone wants to be interrupted by lights and stinky smoke and chatter. especially those of us who have to get up at Oh-God-Thirty in the morning. YEAH. GREAT. And no, I bloody well can't give you a ride to work.
I also C myself to H just a little for being too tired to have the battle scene that would have sucked but would have put an end to this bullshit for good. I know I need to just suck it up and go to war. but fuck, I've been up since 5 am, didn't get more than 5 hours sleep last night (similar interference) and I simply don't want to have to work up the gumption to have the battle. so I sit here and stew like some sort of passive cow.
PLEASE let this fucked-up living situation get better soon.
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RuthW
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TICTH my co-worker's inability to follow simple instructions while I am on vacation. The most important of these was to call at the first sign of something going wrong rather than wait until she was too frustrated and irritated for me to be able to walk her through something on the phone.
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Antisocial Alto
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Originally posted by Antisocial Alto:
TICTH ridiculous church database software that automatically lists married people as Mr. and Mrs. Husbandsfirstname Lastname. Seriously? This isn't the 1950s. And it makes it hard for me to figure out who the hell everybody is, especially women whose husbands aren't members so I don't know them.
They're presumably Mrs Lastname?
Well... the problem is that we have several unrelated clans of Smiths and also at least six or eight families where multiple generations are all members. So Mrs. Lastname often doesn't narrow it down further than three or four possibilities.
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Amorya
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TICTH the housing market. Apparently my house is worth £20k less than I paid for it six years ago. At least, that's the case according to the valuer sent round by a mortgage company. He said that since it's next to an electricity substation, that's enough to make it go for quite a bit less than other houses on the street — despite my house having an extension and therefore having a lot more space than the other houses.
I'm so tired of all this financial jumping through hoops. I know that I'm luckier than many people throughout the world (having food to eat, a roof over my head, a job I like, etc), but if I slip up and do my financial plans wrong, there's nobody to bail me out. With this new valuation, I'm in debt even if I were to sell the house. It's hard to see my good fortune when it's keeping me awake at night.
It's times like this that make me want to run away and join a convent.
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Welease Woderwick
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TICTH the bastards who were trying to hack one of my internet IDs for the second time in the last couple of months - BASTARDS! BASTARDS! BASTARDS!
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Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
TICTH the bastards who were trying to hack one of my internet IDs for the second time in the last couple of months - BASTARDS! BASTARDS! BASTARDS!
Perhaps the American government agency, the NSA. They will go after all data in general, and maybe your error was that you want to keep it secret? They really get excited if it's encrypted, the bastards.
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Ethne Alba
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TICTH...our bank who while being perfectly happy to accept money from both of us into our Joint Account, will not deign to speak with me. Apparently it's Himself that must be spoken with.
No words. Just how ignorant.
So the official feedback has still not been given. Such a shame.
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churchgeek
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TICTH diva brides. Especially when they turn up late to their own wedding while 150 guests sit around wondering... People should not be allowed to do something as important as get married unless they demonstrate that they possess common courtesy and can follow basic directions. Can we slip something in the canon law to that effect, please?
And this goes out to many brides and grooms: Why do you come to seek the blessing of the Church if you display no respect at all for the institution? You really can get married by a Justice of the Peace, or, in this state, anyone who applies for a license to do it. There are many pretty venues that haven't been consecrated for sacred use. Perhaps you could have your fairy princess wedding in one of those places instead.
And wedding photographers: It's a Sacrament, not a photo op.
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orfeo
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Condemning New York City to itself.
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TICTH the foul distorted caricatures that live in the heads of some people, who label them Christians, and feed their images to others so that they live in their heads too.
![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif) I vomit them into hell, and feel better already.
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Ticth bus eireann you bastards
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Plique-à-jour
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TICTH loss of time, loss of energy. Slowness of progress. Less ability to care, less ability to mind what happens to other sinners. Less charity. Less left to hold back rage. Less compunction. Health going. Pain somewhere, always. Mind under attack. Less inclination to bracket one's condition with that of others. Less empathy. The seemingly unpreventable return – world-mandated, against all my better judgement, and what I know to pray for – of who I was before.
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TICTH NPR for canceling the wonderful "Talk of the Nation" show that I enjoy daily, and evidently forcing out the host, Neal Conan.
Maybe we need another round of top-brass resignations? They've been making such stupid decisions over the last several years.
I'm seriously wondering if there's an anti-NPR mole at work. There are people who want to cut the remaining gov't funding...
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Ethne Alba
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TITCH, damn fool teachers who shout at small children....................
Just don't. It's sodding well stupid and not at all pretty.
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Not sure who needs to be consigned to hell more, or maybe both, the racist idiot who used racial epithets against some of the kids at my library, or the older brother of two of the kids who showed up and punched the guy out in the library.
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orfeo
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I'm not sure whether I want to condemn the pastor on American television who argues allowing more people to marry will cause the marginalization of marriage, or just laugh at him derisively.
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Palimpsest
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The old saying is that Australia got the convicts and North America got the religious fanatics. Orfeo, you might wonder who got the better deal, I don't.
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churchgeek
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TICTH, as I do most days in fact, my HMO. My doctor (an internist - my general doc, not a specialist) won't approve a refill on my asthma inhaler because I still have one at home. I explained I like to keep a spare (hey, you're allowed to keep a spare birth control pack ready to go), and she basically says if I need to have a spare, it means my asthma isn't controlled. She wants me to come in for a visit, to determine whether my asthma is well-controlled.
How, precisely? What diagnostic equipment do you have in your office, doctor? Can you do a methacholine challenge or spirometry in your office? If you're concerned about my asthma, send me to a specialist.
But why is it so unreasonable to have a spare inhaler around? I often forget to take it with me when I go places, so I prefer to keep one at bedside and one in my carry-along bag (or with my keys). Why is that so unreasonable? I promise I'm not selling them on the black market or anything.
I've never, ever had an insurance company or doctor ever object to this before or even find it one bit strange.
In fact, it's possible I know more about asthma than my general doctor does. I certainly know more about mine.
This is a huge pattern with this HMO. They harass you in the name of "preventative care" (like when they made me get a totally unnecessary biopsy) but when you actually have a condition, they give you the run-around (like when it took over 6 months for me to convince them my elbow wasn't healing right after a fracture - that one's still unsettled).
I know, all of this goes with an HMO.
I'm nervous about going to see my non-specialist doctor about my asthma because I've actually had two doctors in the past claim I don't have it (one didn't know how to diagnose it properly, and the other was being paid by my employer to check out my ADA-related complaint, which meant he was motivated to give them the result they wanted so they'd shoot more business his way. ETA: And he didn't know how to diagnose it; he took an x-ray of my chest). In an HMO that has total control of my healthcare, what happens if this non-specialist decides I don't really need medication? That probably won't happen, but she does hold a lot of power.
All over an inhaler. You can't get high off them, and they don't even cost that much. It's one thing to contact me with a concern that I might need to be reassessed, but quite another to argue with my explanation like that.
To say my asthma's not under control if I want to have a spare - which I want to have to ensure I always have an inhaler on me - is basically to say I don't need an inhaler at all. How so? Because under her scenerio, when I forget to take my inhaler with me somewhere, that's OK. If I needed to use it while out, clearly my asthma's not well-controlled. So I shouldn't worry that I don't have it, because I shouldn't need it. Then what's the point of the damn thing in the first place?!?
I can't wait till I have my PhD - I'll let everyone call me by my first name except idiot MDs like this. They'll have to call me Dr.
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TICTH PCOS, the condition I have. and FUCK YOU ovarian cyst that burst on me today, rendering me a waffling idiot on many calls, noted by someone in authority. It hurts, but I am okay in case anybody checks. Going for a walk then to bed, picturing missiles firing on this thing.
[eta: Because so many of you care and I get PM's to check, let me assure you I am under a doctor's care. I just needed TO VENT TODAY. Thanks. Appreciate it.]
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orfeo
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churchgeek, that is most definitely fucked up.
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Palimpsest
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Church Geek, that sucks. Insurance plans aren't any better. I ended up paying for a spare bottle of insulin because I worked in a building whose earthquake plans might keep me in the office for 2 days.
But your scenario skipped the usual HMO hellish nonsense that it takes two or three visits to actually get to a doctor and not a nurse-practitioner, busy-body or paper pusher.
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Huia
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TICTH Underwire bras (I have bruises after a fall and the wires are painfully placed).
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TICTH people who delberately mistreat employees because they know that by doing so, they can save the company a few bucks and make themselves look good in the eyes of their superiors.
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Originally posted by Huia:
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TICTH Underwire bras (I have bruises after a fall and the wires are painfully placed).
Huia
There is no whinge too trivial for TICTH. All sour apples are welcome at this table.
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orfeo
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TICTH the whole shitty experience of going to a bar for a drink if you're on your own. It's either too loud to strike up conversation, too dark to make eye contact or too sleazy for either of those notions to be appealing in the first place.
And yes it's still NYC that I'm hating in context, thanks for asking. Greatest city in the world my arse. This place sucks. There I'VE SAID IT. On the Internet where it can be preserved for posterity and embarrass me when I'm famous. I dislike New York City, you bunch of assholes!
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TICTH my idiot business partner who seems to think that throwing a temper tantrum over a $20 card game is somehow funny or even remotely appropriate. If folks wanted to play cards with a fucking child, they'd stay home and play Go Fish with their kids. I realize he doesn't really give a rat's furry backside about the business, but I've put my heart and soul into it. I've reached the breaking point with him and know that I'm a)going to have to ban him from playing cards in the bar he partially owns and b)most likely going to have to find (and pay) someone else to work his shifts. I'm so mad about this that I'm shaking as I type. Today is NOT going to be pretty...
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Sine Nomine
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Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH the whole shitty experience of going to a bar for a drink if you're on your own. It's either too loud to strike up conversation, too dark to make eye contact or too sleazy for either of those notions to be appealing in the first place.
Going to a bar for a drink or going to a bar to get laid? 'Eye contact' would suggest the latter.
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Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
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Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH the whole shitty experience of going to a bar for a drink if you're on your own. It's either too loud to strike up conversation, too dark to make eye contact or too sleazy for either of those notions to be appealing in the first place.
Going to a bar for a drink or going to a bar to get laid? 'Eye contact' would suggest the latter.
What a hopeless romantic you are.
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orfeo
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Originally posted by orfeo:
TICTH the whole shitty experience of going to a bar for a drink if you're on your own. It's either too loud to strike up conversation, too dark to make eye contact or too sleazy for either of those notions to be appealing in the first place.
Going to a bar for a drink or going to a bar to get laid? 'Eye contact' would suggest the latter.
Oh lord. Listen you smartarse, no one goes to a bar just 'for a drink'. If I just want a drink I can buy a bottle of the alcohol of my choice and take it somewhere nice and comfortable where I can control the music and the volume and put an interesting tv show on and whatever.
That does NOT mean that the only possible form of social interaction one might look for in a bar is getting laid. There are other alternatives between your sad dichotomy.
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listen, gentlemen, let's discuss orfeo's sad little sex life elsewhere, yes?
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TICTH hayfever. No matter which combination of drugs I take, I'm still sniffing and sneezing and my eye looks like it's melting and I'm snoozy as anything. Listen, immune system, you've had 30 yrs to get used to pollen. It's not that big a deal. Get used to it!
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TICTH the whole shitty experience of going to a bar for a drink if you're on your own. It's either too loud to strike up conversation, too dark to make eye contact or too sleazy for either of those notions to be appealing in the first place.
The bars in any city tend to be horrible during the gay pride weekend. I've always found San Francisco bars friendly than New York even before my friends bought bars there. It's the core of social alcoholics that make it possible to socialize as a visitor.
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