OT to all you haters

On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:33:56 +0000 (UTC), Nad R
wrote:


I believe that when you're dead, you're dead - but I'm not a
proselytizing atheist.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
Dave Smith wrote in
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I think I watched 5 minutes of Maury once by accident, the
episode where "Your boyfriend cheated on you with your best
friend and now she's pregnant and carrying his baby! You go,
girlfrien'!" I almost had an aneurysm.

On the pile to watch right now:

Half a dozen French movies including some by Godard and others
with dialogue by Audiard. I am a fan of nouvelle vague and Dogme
films.

"Admiral" and "Mongol". Modern Russian cinema, stunning
photography.

Sapphire and Steel, a British SF series (1979) starring Joanna
Lumley and David McCallum

Berlin Alexanderplatz, the complete series.

And quite a few others.

By Friday, I have to have cleared out my bedroom so workmen can
come in and finish putting down a new floor upstairs. I will
take advantage of this opportunity to go through my DVD
collection and cull out the chaff to bring in for trade at a
local used music and DVD store.

--

The Bible! Because all the works of science cannot equal the
wisdom of cattle-sacrificing primitives who thought every
animal species in the world lived within walking distance of
Noah's house.
 
"Stu" wrote in message
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Actually I frequent a variety of online sites and am a moderator for a chat.
Little to no stress there. Once in a while I get a troublemaker in the chat
but since I am the mod. I can ban the people. Thankfully I have only had to
do that twice in all the years I was a mod. there.
 
On 4/14/2011 11:11 AM, Dave Smith wrote:

The colors get less vibrant and the lines gets fuzzy and defused. That's
a shame. My guess is that the problem is that people live longer than
they use to.

I wouldn't get one but I like looking at 'em. People have been doing
this for thousands of years and and the reasons it's practiced is buried
deep in our history and psyche.

Someone should formulate inks with a limited lifetime so that the tats
disappear in a couple of years. I think there would be a market for
this. It could create a tattoo boom.
 
On Apr 11, 12:02?pm, "Paul M. Cook" wrote:

We had a pack of wild dogs attack our chickens one night. All they
did was murder and suck some blood. The carcasses were mostly left
intact minus a head or so. They are fuckers.
 
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What you are describing, an agency deposit on a package deal,
invariably has to be fully paid for in advance of guest arrival. But even
then, if the accommodation offers a pay bar, room bar, room service, pay
per film TV, phone, even guests who have paid in full in advance for their
board, should expect to be asked on arrival to show a credit card, whose
details will be recorded. That's how the host ensures that any extra
expenses incurred by the guest will be met.

I live in Europe and know the tourist trade very well indeed both from
working in it and my own private travel. Until just a few years ago, it
was possible and common for travellers booking their own accommodation, to
reserve it in advance with a deposit (by cheque or cash). That has
changed. Today, almost every kind of accommodation provider will ask for
credit card details to confirm the booking. Not as paymemt in advance,
not as a deposit, and even if the guest intends to pay in cash.
It's a security issue.


Janet.
 
On Apr 11, 5:41?pm, "Julie Bove" wrote:

What you share with the world paints a picture of a very unhappy,
negative, whiney, miserable person. If that's not you, then you need
to present yourself differently. Remember, someone's perception of a
situation is their reality.
 
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:39:09 -0700, "Paul M. Cook"
wrote:


It doesn't as it appears to me. I've killfiled almost all of the
assholes.

The remaining people all post things I want to read. It's quite
enjoyable.

When someone posts something that I wouldn't put up with in my "real"
life, I just take the 5 seconds to killfile them.

It works great!

Then the decent people can have a conversation without having to read
the nonsense like the asshole squirts posts. He's just one of many.

Usenet is open to ANYONE. A 5 year old could figure out how to post on
it. The only way to limit the jerks is to make their posts invisible
to you.
 
Lou Decruss wrote:

That had nothing to do with my leaving. But it also wasn't very nice and
not the sort of behavior I would think should come from an adult.
 
"Catmandy (Sheryl)" wrote in message
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On Apr 11, 5:41 pm, "Julie Bove" wrote:

What you share with the world paints a picture of a very unhappy,
negative, whiney, miserable person. If that's not you, then you need
to present yourself differently. Remember, someone's perception of a
situation is their reality.


In that case, Sheryl, her accuser is the one who is miserable.

Paul
 
sf wrote:

On something like the Blackberry the keyboard
is about the size of a stick of gum and is
worked with the thumbs. No touch typing here.
Typing is going the way of cursive writing,
long division, and print media. GROK IT?
 
we travel all the time and sometimes use cash sometimes the debit card,
sometimes we give the debit card and then pay cash on the way out, people
who have told you that just haven't stayed in the right hotels... and
honestly most people don't travel as much as we do so the hotel chains and
independents expeierencs might not be what ours is...

I don't use travel agents for regular site seeing weekends, just when its a
special deal, like when it was DH's grandfathers 100 th birthday... he
wanted to go to vegas, fine... all of the arrangements for the family were
made through one agent, from several states, different flight bookings, a
couple of train tickets, the party room catering, blablabla,... all
arranged, all went smoothly, and we all got discounts and rooms close
together to boot, man was that a fun trip... and the bill was itemised so
everyone knew what they were asked to pay was the right amount... and we all
got copies of the bill.

Lee
"Julie Bove" wrote in message
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Dan Abel wrote in news:dabel-D6CFB3.21373915042011@c-61-68-
245-199.per.connect.net.au:




Oh well, I can but ask :-)



--
Peter Lucas
Hobart
Tasmania

Nothing ever truely dies
the Universe wastes nothing
everything is simply... transformed
 
Krypsis wrote:



I didn't mean to jump on Janet when she pointed out that a debit
card could be used to reserve hotel rooms/cars, if it came across
like that. I only meant to say that I would feel far more comfortable
having a card just to use in those situations.

I would have a little account just for debit card use if I went that
route. It's easier just for me to charge and not worry about it.

nancy
 
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sf wrote:


Excuse me! My wife won't let me. I did it once. My session wasn't
elegant. My wife is right. I don't think and type fast enough and would
regret it in the morning. I'm not taking potshots or getting shot at for
not being there. I did IRC in the mid nineties in the Macintosh channels
and folded for the same reason.
I suspect that some current animosities here actually started there.

[ObFood]: pork loin chops, Rice-A-Roni and canned corn with a container
of apple sauce because I'm an Escoffier kind of guy.

leo
 
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