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Thankfully I've repressed all Rush from my memory.
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"We're having a snow day tomorrow!"
"I doubt it."
"No, we are."
"We're expecting maybe three inches, and it's Kansas. We're most likely not-"
"I'm so excited for senior sk-snow day!"
These kids, I swear...
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We can't expect a Canadian rock band to be masters of American literature.
They're Canadian. I don't know any Mexican literature just because I'm north of them.
But nobody would question an American rock song about the day of the dead or chupacabra.
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That said, I still do, because they call your previous job. But it is so not f&&~ing fair that we have to.
You know, that is some one-sided sh!t come to think of it. Yet another little cultural hazard that favors business over people.
I tried to talk Mrs Sunrise out of giving her two-weeks', at least until she told me that her next employer works with her previous one and they asked her to 'be professional.' She made the right call for her situation, but in a general sense, professionalism deserves professionalism. Treat your employees or boss professionally and expect notice of termination/departure. Treat your employees or boss like cr@p, and you deserve nothing.
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I think it really depends on the sector.
We're in tech, and so bosses who are firing people want them out the door that day. We've even seen security just walk up to someone's desk and escort them out.
But if they don't get two weeks' severance, the company will have trouble hiring ANY tech workers. We may not get two weeks' notice, but we get two weeks pay, no matter what.
EDIT: The guy who got escorted out by security had physically assaulted a co-worker. He still got two weeks' pay. Because "it's what's done".
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"I feel like if Tom Sawyer was real today, he'd be Logan Paul."
The Greatsword is longer then I am tall? How do you wield something like that?Something like this and this (Please correct me if I'm wrong here Limey…I'm clearly not a practitioner ^^' ).
That's it, yes. We're working out of Figueyredo (sp?) too.
We can't expect a Canadian rock band to be masters of American literature.
They're Canadian. I don't know any Mexican literature just because I'm north of them.
But nobody would question an American rock song about the day of the dead or chupacabra.
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Impus Major is on a roll.
"British food is pretty much the low point of food in the world."
"The difference between British food and Indian food is that Indian food tastes good."
What British food has Impus Major eaten?
Did he buy it from Walmart?
Was it labelled up as 'Lord Toffy Toffington Esquire's Jolly Good Instant Chocolate Creamed Corn with Pork Scratchings'? (made in Iowa)
Oh, he's just being him.
I don't think he's actually *had* any British food other than LisaMarlene's shepherd's pie, which he loves.
EDIT: On the other hand, when every single person here can only name ONE good British dish, that's a bad sign...
How glad I am that you asked.
Cottage pie
Pork pies, with minted mushy peas and mashed potatoes
Pork & Stilton pies
Beef & Ale pies
Lancashire hotpot
Giant Yorkshire puddings filled with something savoury
Fish & chips, with or without mushy peas (again) / curry sauce / gravy
Black pudding, as part of the Legendary Full English Breakfast (also includes some combination of sausages, fried bread, mushrooms, tinned tomatoes, bacon, eggs)
Cornish pasties
Roly poly pudding
Christmas pudding
Haggis
Cheesy chips (fries)
Lamb and new potatoes
Cheddar cheese, on its own, with a nice bit of crusty bread, or as a part of a
Welsh Rarebit (see also: Stilton, Wensleydale, Lancashire, Double Gloucester, Cornish Yarg, Dorset Blue Vinney, etc., Blacksticks Blue, etc.)
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Impus Major is on a roll.
"British food is pretty much the low point of food in the world."
"The difference between British food and Indian food is that Indian food tastes good."
What British food has Impus Major eaten?
Did he buy it from Walmart?
Was it labelled up as 'Lord Toffy Toffington Esquire's Jolly Good Instant Chocolate Creamed Corn with Pork Scratchings'? (made in Iowa)
Oh, he's just being him.
I don't think he's actually *had* any British food other than LisaMarlene's shepherd's pie, which he loves.
EDIT: On the other hand, when every single person here can only name ONE good British dish, that's a bad sign...
How glad I am that you asked.
Cottage pie
Pork pies, with minted mushy peas and mashed potatoes
Pork & Stilton pies
Beef & Ale pies
Lancashire hotpot
Giant Yorkshire puddings filled with something savoury
Fish & chips, with or without mushy peas (again) / curry sauce / gravy
Black pudding, as part of the Legendary Full English Breakfast (also includes some combination of sausages, fried bread, mushrooms, tinned tomatoes, bacon, eggs)
Cornish pasties
Roly poly pudding
Christmas pudding
Haggis
Cheesy chips (fries)
Lamb and new potatoes
Cheddar cheese, on its own, with a nice bit of crusty bread, or as a part of a
Welsh Rarebit (see also: Stilton, Wensleydale, Lancashire, Double Gloucester, Cornish Yarg, Dorset Blue Vinney, etc., Blacksticks Blue, etc.)
Ah, I see you have been to a Midwestern potluck, my mistake.
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MRS SUNRISE JUST QUIT HER AWFUL JOB!!!
After months of laziness, ineptitude, and apathy from her bosses, after one of them failed pathetically to gaslight her (lied to her face about her own work ethic, blamed her for the boss' incompetence), after being blamed yet again for her boss' mismanagement after tending her two-week resignation, she WALKED OUT today!!!
It means a pay downgrade, but she has a job lined right up for next week. :)
Good for Mrs Sunrise (and the rest of the Sunrise house-hold)!
She must have had the patience of a saint when dealing with such a cretin of a boss. Seriously from the sound of it he needed a swift stomping on his nut-sack for the s&+! he pulled on her!Hi, everyone. Had a busy day, Yesterday, and was away from home all day. Missed you all.
Hello John! (missed you too :p)
This week there's a quote about "incentives making people work harder". From Nikita Khrushchev...
Errr….
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The more I read about NH's company, the more I'm convinced he lives in some parallel universe where workers still have power, unions weren't crushed by Reagan in the big airline workers' strike, monopolies were still actually illegal instead of just on paper, and the sky is a pinkish gold color with flying monkies, because that last part seems as realistic as the rest to me.
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Yup, definitely getting measurable snow tonight.
Boss has already warned me we might have to go out tonight.
Yup, definitely getting measurable snow tonight.
Boss has already warned me we might have to go out tonight.
no need to thank me.
And then we get to install gates on a split rail fence, you couldn't vomit out a more Rockwellian scene if you tried.
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In a couple days I'm going to see snow for the first time in over 25 years, since I visited my uncle in Massachusetts when I was 10.
Most of my clothes are black. It is more "I dislike advertising and trying to decorate myself for others' amusement" than a fashion thing. For example I have like 15 v neck plain black shirts. I tried to do all grey to avoid the usual associations of black, but that's harder to find. Anyway, so now that I have winter gear, including a beanie and a cloth face mask from my scooter riding days, covered head to toe with only my eyes showing, I feel like an out of shape ninja with glasses.
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In a couple days I'm going to see snow for the first time in over 25 years, since I visited my uncle in Massachusetts when I was 10.
Most of my clothes are black. It is more "I dislike advertising and trying to decorate myself for others' amusement" than a fashion thing. For example I have like 15 v neck plain black shirts. I tried to do all grey to avoid the usual associations of black, but that's harder to find. Anyway, so now that I have winter gear, including a beanie and a cloth face mask from my scooter riding days, covered head to toe with only my eyes showing, I feel like an out of shape ninja with glasses.
GLORIOUS
I feel glorious. As glorious as one can on Mac dodge of klonopin. I kind loopy atm.
I am mildly high.
I can't find any weed, still, and even if I did I refuse to spend money no irresponsible drugs when I'm asking for help. I do have standards. I have an RX for klonopin that has been collecting dust for months, and is about to expire, because I try not to use it, because it's potentially addictive rather than weed. But I have anxiety issues that are pretty bad. Rather than toss expired pills, I took my max dosage for the entire day all at once.
Feels good. Not gonna lie.
This abuse of the pharhmaceutical companies brought to you by "why the f~!# can't I go to the grocery store and buy weed like a bottle of booze or cigarettes?"
I'm not baked. I'm just relaxed AF. Feels like I had a 2 hour massage with calm music and some slow head after.
It's nice, but it does invoke a nostalgia for the real thing.
Possible hobbies between snow falls to keep me from going something something during the winter.
Making shoebox apartments for the action figures.
Looks like we're meeting at the shop at 4 tomorrow morning.
So, I'm part of the overnight shift on FaWtL.
What do you guys do around here at night?
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Sit in a virtually empty office doing more or less sod all, since it's 25 to 9.
Contemplate macaroni cheese.
Wonder how Jimmy Buffet would interpret The Jam's 'Going Underground', and get as far as 'Glowing Underpants, Glowing Underpants, hairy arse paints slay Andy Sirkis' clown'
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Yay! First salt run.
I f$!#ing hate salt, but there's something magical about the snow at 4 in the morning.
I'm still waiting for the boss.
Hmm, boss still isn't at the shop, not much snow on the ground.
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Well Vidmaster7 and I talk about foods and we roll our eyes at Grans jokes. Occasionally Gran and Vidmaster7 will complain about their hotel guests.
Unfortunately I've been silly busy today still trying to work our the company safety poster competition. The roll out is next week, and 15-16 our company is going to have a retreat.
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Not to mention I've been busy helping my players in Strange Aeons work out their backstories, since I'll have to Co-write some of it.
Oh the poster isn't still looking right, when it prints out it comes in two shades, I've checked that it wasn't a printer error(tried printing from two different printers), I think it's a slides background issue since it was done in PowerPoint.
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*bounces up and down on her tail*
The wonderful thing about tiggers
Is tiggers are wonderful things!
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs!
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
But the most wonderful thing about tiggers is
I'm the only one
Tiggers are cuddly fellas
Tiggers are awfully sweet
Ev'ryone el-us is jealous
That's why I repeat... and repeat
The wonderful thing about tiggers
Is tiggers are marvelous claps!
They're loaded with vim and vigor
They love to leap in your laps!
They're jumpy, bumpy, clumpy, thumpy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
But the most wonderful thing about tiggers is
I'm the only one
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The snow glows white on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint to be seen
A kingdom of isolation
And it looks like I'm the queen
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside
Couldn't keep it in, heaven knows I've tried
Don't let them in, don't let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know
Well, now they know
Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
I don't care what they're going to say
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway
Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
Let it go (go, go, go go, go go, go go, go, go, go go)
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
It's funny how some distance makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at all
It's time to see what I can do
To test the limits and break through
No right, no wrong, no rules for me
I'm free
Let it go, let it go
I am one with the wind and sky
Let it go, let it go
You'll never see me cry
Here I stand and here I stay
Let the storm rage on
My power flurries through the air into the ground
My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
I'm never going back, the past is in the past
Let it go
The cold never bothered me anyway
Let it go, let it go
And I'll rise like the break of dawn
Let it go, let it go
That perfect girl is gone
Here I stand in the light of day
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway.
Well just a snow celebration song, the cold bothers me a lot.
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True fact, snow glows at night, especially if the moon is out.
Freehold should move to Madison and shovel snow with me in the dead of night. Or as it's called in winter, any time after 6 PM.
The best places for snow in the US, in no preferential order.
The cascade mountains
Colorado Rockies
New York
Madison, Wisconsin, the absolute best place for winter living.
There's also Maine and Boston but they're overrun by douchebags.
*bounces up and down on captain yesterday*
Well Vidmaster7 and I talk about foods and we roll our eyes at Grans jokes. Occasionally Gran and Vidmaster7 will complain about their hotel guests.
Unfortunately I've been silly busy today still trying to work our the company safety poster competition. The roll out is next week, and 15-16 our company is going to have a retreat.
O.O
Not fair...
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True fact, snow glows at night, especially if the moon is out.
Freehold should move to Madison and shovel snow with me in the dead of night. Or as it's called in winter, any time after 6 PM.
throw in milkmaids and the general(or at least her cooking) and you have a deal.
*bounces up and down on her tail*
The wonderful thing about tiggers
Is tiggers are wonderful things!
Their tops are made out of rubber
Their bottoms are made out of springs!
They're bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
But the most wonderful thing about tiggers is
I'm the only one
Tiggers are cuddly fellas
Tiggers are awfully sweet
Ev'ryone el-us is jealous
That's why I repeat... and repeatThe wonderful thing about tiggers
Is tiggers are marvelous claps!
They're loaded with vim and vigor
They love to leap in your laps!
They're jumpy, bumpy, clumpy, thumpy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
But the most wonderful thing about tiggers is
I'm the only one
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*extrudes pseudopod to offer "fistbump"*
We can't expect a Canadian rock band to be masters of American literature.
They're Canadian. I don't know any Mexican literature just because I'm north of them.
But nobody would question an American rock song about the day of the dead or chupacabra.
I think you mean "chalupacobra".
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So we got into a big stupid fight last night because WW decided, behind my back, to ask his mother for money to buy a used car. He's leasing a Lyft car to drive Lyft, which means that almost all the money he makes, goes to paying for the car. He comes home with about 100/week net from it. But, at least he has a car to commute to his new job and 100/week.
His mom set him up with her mechanic, who wants to sell him a 20-year-old Accord he has rebuilt with over 200k miles on it for 2 grand.
I told him he had a piss-poor track record with used vehicles and this wasn't an area where I was prepared to trust his judgement. (Yes, his stupid broken truck is still somewhere in Arizona, after we poured thousands of dollars we didn't have into trying to keep it running.) And furthermore, that I wasn't going to consent to have him harangue me and browbeat me into agreeing with him, just so when things go wrong, he could say, "This isn't just me; you AGREED to this!"
So I refused to fight any more and walked away and slept on the couch.
This morning, he apologized profusely for being a rude jacka**, and then talked at me incessantly about the car before I'd had my coffee until I agreed not to put my foot down.
I think I just lost.
The snow glows white on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint to be seen
A kingdom of isolation
And it looks like I'm the queenThe wind is howling like this swirling storm inside
Couldn't keep it in, heaven knows I've tried
Don't let them in, don't let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know
Well, now they knowLet it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
I don't care what they're going to say
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anywayLet it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the doorLet it go (go, go, go go, go go, go go, go, go, go go)
Let it go
Let it go
Let it goIt's funny how some distance makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at allIt's time to see what I can do
To test the limits and break through
No right, no wrong, no rules for me
I'm freeLet it go, let it go
I am one with the wind and sky
Let it go, let it go
You'll never see me cry
Here I stand and here I stay
Let the storm rage onMy power flurries through the air into the ground
My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
I'm never going back, the past is in the pastLet it go
The cold never bothered me anyway
Let it go, let it go
And I'll rise like the break of dawn
Let it go, let it go
That perfect girl is gone
Here I stand in the light of day
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway.Well just a snow celebration song, the cold bothers me a lot.
The snow glows white on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint to be seen
A kingdom of isolation
And it looks like I'm the queenThe wind is howling like this swirling storm inside
Couldn't keep it in, heaven knows I've tried
Don't let them in, don't let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know
Well, now they knowLet it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
I don't care what they're going to say
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anywayLet it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the doorLet it go (go, go, go go, go go, go go, go, go, go go)
Let it go
Let it go
Let it goIt's funny how some distance makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me can't get to me at allIt's time to see what I can do
To test the limits and break through
No right, no wrong, no rules for me
I'm freeLet it go, let it go
I am one with the wind and sky
Let it go, let it go
You'll never see me cry
Here I stand and here I stay
Let the storm rage onMy power flurries through the air into the ground
My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
I'm never going back, the past is in the pastLet it go
The cold never bothered me anyway
Let it go, let it go
And I'll rise like the break of dawn
Let it go, let it go
That perfect girl is gone
Here I stand in the light of day
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway.Well just a snow celebration song, the cold bothers me a lot.
hello...
*extrudes pseudopod to offer "fistbump"*
*extrudes pseudopod to offer "fistbump"*
*splacoorches off to find some eyebrows to waggle*
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MRS SUNRISE JUST QUIT HER AWFUL JOB!!!
After months of laziness, ineptitude, and apathy from her bosses, after one of them failed pathetically to gaslight her (lied to her face about her own work ethic, blamed her for the boss' incompetence), after being blamed yet again for her boss' mismanagement after tending her two-week resignation, she WALKED OUT today!!!
It means a pay downgrade, but she has a job lined right up for next week. :)
Yay glad to hear that she already has her job lined up and she's moving to a happier environment =)
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So we got into a big stupid fight last night because WW decided, behind my back, to ask his mother for money to buy a used car. He's leasing a Lyft car to drive Lyft, which means that almost all the money he makes, goes to paying for the car. He comes home with about 100/week net from it. But, at least he has a car to commute to his new job and 100/week.
His mom set him up with her mechanic, who wants to sell him a 20-year-old Accord he has rebuilt with over 200k miles on it for 2 grand.
I told him he had a piss-poor track record with used vehicles and this wasn't an area where I was prepared to trust his judgement. (Yes, his stupid broken truck is still somewhere in Arizona, after we poured thousands of dollars we didn't have into trying to keep it running.) And furthermore, that I wasn't going to consent to have him harangue me and browbeat me into agreeing with him, just so when things go wrong, he could say, "This isn't just me; you AGREED to this!"
So I refused to fight any more and walked away and slept on the couch.
This morning, he apologized profusely for being a rude jacka**, and then talked at me incessantly about the car before I'd had my coffee until I agreed not to put my foot down.
I think I just lost.
Geez. I feel your pain.
Even worse, the Celica only has 140k miles on it and a fully-rebuilt engine, and it's KBB value is only $1400. $2000 for a '98 Accord isn't a "favor", it's a "mildly high price so the car better be in good shape".
And yeah, borrowing money from naggy parents never ends well.
EDIT: Huh. The KBB value on a 1998 Accord in Dallas is $1139-$2698, with a median of $1919. I guess $2000 isn't all that unreasonable. But it's sure not a "bargain" or a "favor".