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Bosstone
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Well, now you're just being derivative.
Don't take it personal-like. She picks fights with everyone.
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Roderick Femm
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Well? And was he making a valid point? What medical solution were you hoping for?
Not to get all up in your face about your weight (whatever it is) but if the alternative is between, say, hip replacement surgery and weight loss, the latter might seem less extreme, less dangerous, and a larger overall improvement to your health. And if hip replacement surgery were called for, there are lots of people who can't be operated on until they lose weight, for safety reasons.
Sorry for this hijack, but I'm not clear why you apparently think someone telling you to lose weight (assuming you need to) is not good medical practice.
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niblet_head
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I'm at work. That is all.
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mhendo
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I love the small, independent supermarket right near my house. If it's seven in the evening, or 8 in the morning, and i need something that we don't have, i can run out the door in shorts and a t-shirt without having to worry about getting the car out, parking, etc.
I also like the people that work there. Not only are they friendly, but we have the same attitude to small amounts of change. If something is 72c, i'll give them three quarters and be done with it; if something is 52c, they'll take two quarters and not worry about the pennies. And their prices are good.
But..
I go to great trouble when i'm selecting my avocados, because they are one of my favorite things. So, for the love of God, when you're bagging my purchase, please DO NOT throw the avocados into the bottom of the bag, and then drop three cans on top of them. That's how they end up bruised and grey.
I also like the people that work there. Not only are they friendly, but we have the same attitude to small amounts of change. If something is 72c, i'll give them three quarters and be done with it; if something is 52c, they'll take two quarters and not worry about the pennies. And their prices are good.
But..
I go to great trouble when i'm selecting my avocados, because they are one of my favorite things. So, for the love of God, when you're bagging my purchase, please DO NOT throw the avocados into the bottom of the bag, and then drop three cans on top of them. That's how they end up bruised and grey.
I always bring my 'official' PetCoSmart bags when we go to PetCoSmart (I can never remember which one we go to, so it's PetCoSmart). The last time we were there, I put my canvas bags on the bag ledge. So what does the cashier do? Moves my bags to the side, starts putting my purchases into their supercrappy plastic bags, then putting those into the canvas bags.
Um, no? I admit I was paying more attention to the scanning to the bagging, but when she stopped to put the plastic bag into my canvas one, I asked what she was doing. She just looked at me blankly.
My gripe for today:
I am at a 4 way stop, going east to west. There is a bicyclist on the SW corner, pointed towards the SE corner. I proceed through the intersection the same time the bicyclist DECIDES TO CROSS DIAGONALLY THROUGH THE INTERSECTION. I hit my brakes, he goes around me, slaps the hood of my car and calls me an idiot. No, you fucking moron, you're lucky I didn't fucking hit your dumb ass. There is not a catty corner crosswalk. You were pointed SE. Yesterday I had to wait for another nimrod to slowly meander through the same fucking intersection diagonally, but with two toddlers walking alongside of her. No stroller. One kid kept breaking free and trying to run away. Gah.
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Cat Whisperer
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I think I need a hat like that - I garden and walk in the sun all the time, and I usually get a headache from it (even with my hat and sunglasses on).
I have to ask;
Why is it almost always women that pull that "I've been here longer" crap? The only time I've seen men do it is in positions where Seniority is a recognized and major part of the food chain.
When I worked at the small U, a woman I worked with pulled the "I've been here longer than you!" card so frequently and so hard that they finally did away with all references in our policies to seniority just because she was mis-using it so often. Even then, about six months later, right before she quit in a huff because her bullshit stopped being tolerated, she tried to claim that because she had been there two whole fucking weeks longer than one of the supervisors, that he had no power over her and she didn't have to do what he said. Obviously, that didn't work out for her.
Back in my IT days, I saw the same things from women who had been there longer, but were in lower positions. If you are a Programmer and the Project Manager assigns you work, you can't blow it off because "I've been here longer than him". Likewise trying to shout down the ideas of a Systems Analyst because he (in that case, me) has only been there a month is really not cool and isn't going to work out for you in the long run.
Again, I guess I've heard the occasional man do it, but by and large, it is women who do this most often.
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descamisado
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Were you looking at the guy when he said this? Maybe he meant that there was a mix-up in surgery and there's a duck walking around somewhere with lips.
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Kaio
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Yeah, me too.
Honestly, the worst part of this is that it brings out my "pointing and laughing" impulse. I sooooooo want to post his message up for the world to see so I can explain why this made me laugh AT him, not WITH him.
It would probably make me look mean and vindictive to do so, however. Oh well.
I'm still getting overtaken by giggles that he actually supposed his approach would work, even though it was clear that it wouldn't and he basically acknowledged that in his message. Uhhh... then why send it, dude?
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Kaio
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Someone needs a hobby, I guess.
For the record, I've never known any insurance company to provide a fully exhaustive document of everything that is and isn't covered. I get a 30 page booklet that lists the most common things, and speaks in vagueries to other things, but if I want to know if they cover (for example) Essure, specifically, I have to call them, because the docs don't mention Essure, specifically. I don't even think they mention sterilization in general.
I don't recall any specific mention of chiro in the booklet, either, although given how much info is missing I don't even bother to check if I need to know something specific.
For the record, I've never known any insurance company to provide a fully exhaustive document of everything that is and isn't covered. I get a 30 page booklet that lists the most common things, and speaks in vagueries to other things, but if I want to know if they cover (for example) Essure, specifically, I have to call them, because the docs don't mention Essure, specifically. I don't even think they mention sterilization in general.
I don't recall any specific mention of chiro in the booklet, either, although given how much info is missing I don't even bother to check if I need to know something specific.
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melodyharmonius
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I have no idea. I respect people who have more knowledge about how a certain event works, but I don't understand why, in a volunteer community situation, someone would want to point a finger to someone who is making worthwhile contributions of their time and energy and say, "they don't count because they aren't xyz."
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StarvingButStrong
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I think his point was not that it was bad medical advice, but that it didn't do him any good. As in, if he's overweight, he already knows it. And knows he should lose weight but can't/won't do it OR is already working on it.
I feel like an asshole for bitching about this, because I've been on vacation until this afternoon and everybody else has had to deal with it all week. And it just got fixed the moment I walked in the door.
But it is hot. It is amazingly fucking hot. It is South Carolina and it is July and this is a very large four story public building and the air conditioner has been out, to the point where it's been fixed for a few hours now and you can barely tell the difference. Some of the offices in this building have been ONE HUNDRED DEGREES this week. The windows do not open and it is not a building meant to function without air. It's kind of like a greenhouse, actually.
So why, fuckwads, are we open? My shirt has boob sweat on it.
But it is hot. It is amazingly fucking hot. It is South Carolina and it is July and this is a very large four story public building and the air conditioner has been out, to the point where it's been fixed for a few hours now and you can barely tell the difference. Some of the offices in this building have been ONE HUNDRED DEGREES this week. The windows do not open and it is not a building meant to function without air. It's kind of like a greenhouse, actually.
So why, fuckwads, are we open? My shirt has boob sweat on it.
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Nava
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That's what my last boss required us to do with the twice-a-day updates... we had to email her "What I did today, by Nava, Senior Consultant" before leaving the office, then we had to email "What I plan on doing today, by Nava, Senior Consultant", then she'd either come sit with each of us or call us on the phone to get the double report verbally... Excuse me, I have to go hide someplace until this twitch goes away...
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StarvingButStrong
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Oh, yeah. I bet I know what she was thinking: I haven't been able to find someone to rent the sixth unit, but if I get 20% more from each of the other five tenants it'll come to the same amount of money... Brilliant, no?
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Cat Whisperer
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I think I'm about to become an ex-co-leader of our local anxiety support group. My other co-leader is getting on my last nerve - she does one thing with the group; show up and lead the meetings. She delegates all other tasks. The problem with that is that she is sick half the time, and I have found out that she is going to miss a bunch of meetings for her vacations this summer (and just assumed that I'd be fine with covering all the meetings). We need a new location, too, and instead of her making any effort to find one, that has been assigned to me and anyone else who wants to look. I know a leader is supposed to delegate tasks, but aren't they also supposed to do *some* of them themselves?
I am well aware that people can only treat you like a doormat as much as you'll let them, so it's about time to have a clarification discussion - I'm not interested in being either a co-leader or a leader's assistant (whichever one I am this week). I never wanted it, and I want it less every day. I don't mind doing some internet work to keep our ads current and emailing members about time changes, but that's about it. I just want to be a regular member, and show up or not show up depending on how I feel on that day. In all fairness, I don't think she wants to be leader, either. She's just faster with, "Not it!"
I am well aware that people can only treat you like a doormat as much as you'll let them, so it's about time to have a clarification discussion - I'm not interested in being either a co-leader or a leader's assistant (whichever one I am this week). I never wanted it, and I want it less every day. I don't mind doing some internet work to keep our ads current and emailing members about time changes, but that's about it. I just want to be a regular member, and show up or not show up depending on how I feel on that day. In all fairness, I don't think she wants to be leader, either. She's just faster with, "Not it!"
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PoorYorick
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But think of the irony when you get pregnant between now and then.Well, I guess another seven months of waiting doesn't matter after two and a half years of trying.
And all you pendants, go ahead, talk about misuse of the word "irony." I double dog dare you.
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Carl Corey
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Oh go fuck yourself, Danielle, you stupid birdbrained moron. Those "strange chemicals" will help make sure your poor little baby doesn't have a one in a hundred chance of dropping dead from a horrible and contagious disease. If whooping cough goes into your daughter because you are too stupid to understand why you should vaccinate her you are not going to like the results.
Oh, it gets worse. She decided that there were too many sick kids at the pediatrician's office, so she stopped taking her kid there.
Now the kid sees a chiropractor instead. :smack:
Jolly Roger
New member
Do I have to mention the entire "rediculous" thing again? Its rIdiculous, you fucking idiot. Fuck, its not an uncommon word...how can any adult NOT know how to spell it? Same goes for the "Choose" vs "Chose" and "Loose" vs "Lose" stuff.