Yeah I demand research data! Is it peer reviewed? Can the study be replicated?!?!
I'm usually polite with people until there not polite with me. so they typically just get a no thanks and smiles and shake of the head then ignored when they try to sell me stuff.
Gah Flashbacks to how much I hated Walmart they made me attempt to sell there darned credit card to people. I am not a salesman.
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I wouldn't shop at a store with a pushy salesperson. The few times, maybe 3 or 4, I've had to deal with that I've looked them in the eye, said "You are the reason I'm leaving", and then left without buying anything. I am by no means extroverted, but if you annoy me enough I will let you know. As for people on the street, I just say "No" and keep walking. That's generally all it takes for me. Then again, I am a fairly large man (~6' tall and way more pounds than I care to admit) so I suppose they may not want to annoy me.You see, the whole thing plays out like this:
On the street:
Me: *Tries not to look at anyone that might bother me*
Random insurance dude: Hey, do you have a minute to fill in this short survey?
Me: No sorry, I'm busy.
Random insurance dude: But this will only take a short while! Can't you spare me a minute?
Me: *walks away*
Random donation dude: Hey, do I have a minute of your time? Everyday XXX people are suffering from leukemia and could use a bone donor match...
Me: No sorry, I'm not interested.
Me: *walks away*
In the shop:
Random sales person: Hello miss.
Me: Hi (awkwardly)
Random sales person: You know, miss, we just got this dead sea salt from Jordan going at a 30% discount. It's very good for your skin and will leave your skin as smooth as silk.
Me: Uh no thank you.
Random sales person: But this is our latest product and has been scientifically proven to have very good results! Do you want to try some?
Well you sort of see what it feels like on an introvert to have to deal with that...that's why I rather ignore people sometimes.
I'm small, and I've got this round, approachable face, so everyone bugs me. Including asking me for directions for places I haven't heard off.
I could see mort being easily approachable. maybe scowl more.
I hate giving directions too i'm so bad at it I should get a shirt that says: Fair warning: I will get you lost.
That sad thing is the companies push there employees into doing that. They reward that over zealous behavior and encourage it. The reality is everyone is different, but these ridiculous policies set up by businesses just assume everyone is the same. like here they had a little mini campaign where they wanted all of us to say "My pleasure" instead of your welcome. It sounds odd for this area. no one talks like that. Every time we used it we got a look and it sounded so forced and rehearsed. It makes you sound disingenuous.
Marketing departments need lobotomized.
So funny thing about GPS for some reason Google has us at the wrong location. It takes people about 5 miles out of the way of us. I don't know how they mess up honestly we are the first place off the exit with a big sign you can see from the highway but somehow they trust there GPS more then there own eyes I guess. Then they will call and complain that they are in the middle of nowhere. Fortunately it happens so often I know how to get them back here now.
Lol That's awesome. Its like a modern version of that one twilight zone episode.
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Me is helpful kitty! I'll give directions if I know the place, occasionally (if during lunch break) and if it's not too far off, actually show people to the place. Else I'll just say sorry, nope, don't know the place.
Also finished ironclad on acension 5. I think I'm not too bad at ironclad actually. And you can play a bodyslam deck without entrench and barricade. I used demon form though. Was lucky to land it. Also had reaper for heals. Block decks can run demon form.
Well My feelings on Black are the same as the rolling stones.
It was actually kind of a Vietnam war protest song in a way. It was about mourning yes, But you read way more into it then I meant... Maybe I should of said johnny cash.. or AC/DC or Metallica
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Ironclad block/body slam deck:
Relics:
Burning blood, red skull, orichalcum, mark of pain, blood vial, Pen Nib, mummified hand, red mask, Orrery, war paint
Cards:
Demon Form+
Reaper
Battle trance
Battle Trance+
Evolve+
Shockwave+
Uppercut+
Armaments+
3x Body Slam
Flex+
3x Iron Wave
2x Shrug it Off
2x Defend
2x Defend
2x Strike
Mayhem+
Dramatic entrance
Impatience+
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Also just did a dark defect run. Rather unstable, I chose not to fight elites.
Relics: Cracked Core, ancient tea set, velvet choker, blood vial, oddly smooth stone, inverter, bottled flame, red mask
Cards:
Buffer+
Echo Form+
Boot sequence
Boot sequence+
2x darkness+
Loop
Loop+
Self Repair
Self Repair+
Barrage+
2xCold Snap
Go for the eyes+
Hologram+
Recursion+
Steam Barrier
Steam Barrier+
3x defend
Strike
Zap+
Parasite
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This guy once pulled up to us in some s~&$ty little town in a Lexus and asks co-worker "What's the best way to get to Madison from here?" Co-worker yells back "In a car!" Dude peeled off swearing at us.
This guy once pulled up to us in some s&@!ty little town in a Lexus and asks co-worker "What's the best way to get to Madison from here?" Co-worker yells back "In a car!" Dude peeled off swearing at us.
That is a great story.
I have yet to read that series. Having said that, I am rereading David Eddings' The Riftwar Saga.Uh, Eddings or Riftwar Saga?
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D'oh!!! Raymond E. Feist is who I meant, but Eddings work is also worth reading.
The riftwar saga is by Raymond E. Feist, not David Eddings. I read pretty much all of David Eddings Fantasy series - The Belgraid, Malloreon, Dreamers... So getting author names wrong is a pet peeve of mine.
I am sorry! I am sorry! I have been busy dealing with my Mom and other things and I had a brain fart.
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Yeah eddings is good. I enjoyed the belgaraid I have a Cavalier based on Manderallen. (who doesn't!)
This guy once pulled up to us in some s##+ty little town in a Lexus and asks co-worker "What's the best way to get to Madison from here?" Co-worker yells back "In a car!" Dude peeled off swearing at us.
bad co-worker! Bad!
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When I was living in Italy, I once had a Fiat-full of drunk young Italian boys pull up next to me as I was walking home from the market. They asked me the way to the one dance club in town. I smiled and said, "sempre dritto, sempre dritto, due, tre chilometri" and they thanked me and went on.
Except two or three kilometers straight ahead, the road dead-ended at the town cemetery.
To get to the club, they would have had to make the same right turn I was about to make.
Yeah eddings is good. I enjoyed the belgaraid I have a Cavalier based on Manderallen. (who doesn't!)
We had one of those in one of our groups too.
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Well My feelings on Black are the same as the rolling stones.
Black is an over-the-hill color that should have retired years ago, and you marvel that it's still alive?
I'm an all color sort of dresser.
My go-to wardrobe for the last thirty years or so consists of cargo shorts and a t-shirt, that absolutely has to have something on it, I don't do plain t-shirts.
So Captain Yesterday wants more kids? Three more?
Well My feelings on Black are the same as the rolling stones.Black is an over-the-hill color that should have retired years ago, and you marvel that it's still alive?
It's boring and you'd rather wear something else but no one seems bothered by it much so you own at least one black thing?
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It's boring and you'd rather wear something else but no one seems bothered by it much so you own at least one black thing?Well My feelings on Black are the same as the rolling stones.Black is an over-the-hill color that should have retired years ago, and you marvel that it's still alive?
I'm really colorblind. Really. Colorblind. Blacks and greys are a staple of my clothing simply so I don't have to worry as much about matching.
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"I don't know how Crookshanks broke a chair, but I know how I broke a chair! But, we both broke a chair" - Tiny T-Rex, letting us know we're going to need new furniture this winter.
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I'm really colorblind. Really. Colorblind. Blacks and greys are a staple of my clothing simply so I don't have to worry as much about matching.It's boring and you'd rather wear something else but no one seems bothered by it much so you own at least one black thing?Well My feelings on Black are the same as the rolling stones.Black is an over-the-hill color that should have retired years ago, and you marvel that it's still alive?
I have almost no sense of smell.
We should have a show on public access show (or Amazon Prime) where I blind taste test and you can paint crafts thematic to the season.
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I'm really colorblind. Really. Colorblind. Blacks and greys are a staple of my clothing simply so I don't have to worry as much about matching.It's boring and you'd rather wear something else but no one seems bothered by it much so you own at least one black thing?Well My feelings on Black are the same as the rolling stones.Black is an over-the-hill color that should have retired years ago, and you marvel that it's still alive?I have almost no sense of smell.
We should have a show on public access show (or Amazon Prime) where I blind taste test and you can paint crafts thematic to the season.
Aiymi approves. Running it by Zelda shortly.
So Captain Yesterday wants more kids? Three more?
Special delivery for Sharoth! Special delivery for Sharoth!?!
It says "compliments of Captain Yesterday, you'll know what to do!".
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Aiymi approves. Running it by Zelda shortly.I'm really colorblind. Really. Colorblind. Blacks and greys are a staple of my clothing simply so I don't have to worry as much about matching.It's boring and you'd rather wear something else but no one seems bothered by it much so you own at least one black thing?Well My feelings on Black are the same as the rolling stones.Black is an over-the-hill color that should have retired years ago, and you marvel that it's still alive?I have almost no sense of smell.
We should have a show on public access show (or Amazon Prime) where I blind taste test and you can paint crafts thematic to the season.
I'm also somewhat tone deaf (or whatever it is people use as an excuse for being bad at singing) so we can end every episode (or begin, if you prefer) singing along to songs I'm unfamiliar with.
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Captain and Vany Do Stuff.
"Hmm, tastes like... Chicken"
"It's a pickle"
"This one... Grapes?"
"Bunny turds"
"Umm, carrots!"
"Still bunny turds"
"And now we're going to paint this little number red!"
"That's green"
"Then you paint the f#&+ing egg!!"
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And we can have a Knitting thongs with Freehold segment.
Edit: That might actually be it's own show.
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"He's such a hooker!" - Tiny T-Rex, yelling at his spinjitzu Lego figure.
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Isn't deregulation wonderful?
The state deregulated PG&E in 1996. They proceeded to go bankrupt in 2001, either outsourced or ceased line maintenance as it was obviously an unnecessary expense, and gee... all of a sudden a little under 20 years later we're looking at multiple fires, hundreds of billions in damage, dozens (if not hundreds) of deaths, all due to... unmaintained lines.
It's FaWtL, so I'll shut up now.
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Speaking of beyond aggravating, we have our third straight day of dangerously-polluted air today.
I had to go to Costco anyway, and there, in the parking lot, as I was loading the car, was a guy who started his car, then idled for precisely 5 minutes, before driving off. In 65-degree weather on a sunny day.
Can we kill off stupid useless old habits, already?
The *last* thing I needed was to be breathing his exhaust because his brain is stuck in the 1970s.
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Speaking of beyond aggravating, we have our third straight day of dangerously-polluted air today.
I had to go to Costco anyway, and there, in the parking lot, as I was loading the car, was a guy who started his car, then idled for precisely 5 minutes, before driving off. In 65-degree weather on a sunny day.
Can we kill off stupid useless old habits, already?
The *last* thing I needed was to be breathing his exhaust because his brain is stuck in the 1970s.
I get into serious arguments with my mom about this. She refuses to put the car into drive unless she had idled for about 2 full minutes, and gets irate when I start the car and pull off.
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I get into serious arguments with my mom about this. She refuses to put the car into drive unless she had idled for about 2 full minutes, and gets irate when I start the car and pull off.Speaking of beyond aggravating, we have our third straight day of dangerously-polluted air today.
I had to go to Costco anyway, and there, in the parking lot, as I was loading the car, was a guy who started his car, then idled for precisely 5 minutes, before driving off. In 65-degree weather on a sunny day.
Can we kill off stupid useless old habits, already?
The *last* thing I needed was to be breathing his exhaust because his brain is stuck in the 1970s.
Yes, modern engines do not need to idle. But I know people who still insist on it.