Watching Ferrets wardance a vacuum cleaner is hilarious.
Wardancing Ferrets are the best.
We demand videos!
Edit: however you will not be receiving videos of this. sorry ladies.
** spoiler omitted **
Yes, I listed that data in my spoiler. My point was that many Eastern Asian countries lack data, China has rates comparable to USA, and Japan has even higher rates.
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I like to think of the world as a constant scale tipping one way or the other but always going back to center eventually. I think its true for all most every facet of human life. The stronger that something pulls us in one direction eventually something will come along and pull us back the other way.Then there's the paleo diet where you try to eat like your caveman ancestors, eating only those foods that humans ate when they first roamed the planet millions of years ago.
Which is mostly a bull-crap to sell books and videos, because it completely ignores actual versatility of food eaten by hunter-gatherers, adds things that weren't present, ignores thousands of years of adaptation, and the fact that paleo-humans didn't ate what was good for them, they ate what was available.
Which is mostly a bull-crap to sell books and videos, because it completely ignores actual versatility of food eaten by hunter-gatherers, adds things that weren't present, ignores thousands of years of adaptation, and the fact that paleo-humans didn't ate what was good for them, they ate what was available.I like to think of the world as a constant scale tipping one way or the other but always going back to center eventually. I think its true for all most every facet of human life. The stronger that something pulls us in one direction eventually something will come along and pull us back the other way.Then there's the paleo diet where you try to eat like your caveman ancestors, eating only those foods that humans ate when they first roamed the planet millions of years ago.
What the dragon said.
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Watching Ferrets wardance a vacuum cleaner is hilarious.
Wardancing Ferrets are the best.
We demand videos!
Edit: however you will not be receiving videos of this. sorry ladies.
Dammit! I am supposed to work, not watch wardancing ferrets!
I saw this advert when I was in the movie theater with my BF yesterday. Yes, it made me sniffle a bit inside. Basically how Singaporeans treat people with mental problems is they try to shove it in a corner and pretend it doesn't exist.
a short, powerful article. Thank you for sharing it. I will share it at work.
I'm not FLAT!
of course not! You are voluptuous!
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I'm not FLAT!of course not! You are voluptuous!
*Giggle/earthquake*
I hate being right on the line of a time zone shift. So many confused people every day.
The General is getting frustrated with work so if anyone has any stories of corporate incompetence that would be super helpful!
The General is getting frustrated with work so if anyone has any stories of corporate incompetence that would be super helpful!
Walmart gets robbed so often and does so little to combat it. they have a certain number that is acceptable loses for them. the number is around 10% of there overall profits. In fact if you try to stop a shop lifter you get fired. Most of them only have a single shift worth of security personnel as well.
I mean personal stories, from working in the private sector.
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The General is getting frustrated with work so if anyone has any stories of corporate incompetence that would be super helpful!
(Ask and you shall receive)
Personal story:So I was working returns at wally world and this lady is trying to return a Vacuum cleaner from 10 years ago without a receipt and inside the box is a compeltly different brand of vacuum then what the box says. I told her there is no way I could do it. She complains to my manager until he caves makes up a price and we take a lose of whatever amount the lady decided on.
That wasn't even that uncommon of an occurrence just the most lose of money I can think of from one single person.
*Giggle/earthquake*I'm not FLAT!of course not! You are voluptuous!
I like the way you move...
Lol In a circle within another larger circle within another even larger circle
I mean personal stories, from working in the private sector.
Sorry. My stories are more a!!!#!+ bosses and annoying customers than incompetence...unless you count incompetent "professional" gamblers from when I worked at the casino. Then it's mostly "and he hit on 14" or "he went all in with a high pair" and the like.
I mean personal stories, from working in the private sector.Sorry. My stories are more a+!!!&$ bosses and annoying customers than incompetence...unless you count incompetent "professional" gamblers from when I worked at the casino. Then it's mostly "and he hit on 14" or "he went all in with a high pair" and the like.
A#%+$#*s are encouraged.
I mean personal stories, from working in the private sector.Sorry. My stories are more a&~!*$# bosses and annoying customers than incompetence...unless you count incompetent "professional" gamblers from when I worked at the casino. Then it's mostly "and he hit on 14" or "he went all in with a high pair" and the like.
stay on 14? Cool.
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From the worker point of view, notalwaysrigh
From the customer point of view, notalwaysworking
Bonus if you do graphics related stuff: clients from hell
Loosing faith in humanity is free
Question: what is 'Old man's latte'?
stay on 14? Cool.I mean personal stories, from working in the private sector.Sorry. My stories are more a&~!*$# bosses and annoying customers than incompetence...unless you count incompetent "professional" gamblers from when I worked at the casino. Then it's mostly "and he hit on 14" or "he went all in with a high pair" and the like.
Surrender on 14. But I prefer Spanish 21, where that is an option.
Or split if it's two 7s. I forget.
I'm more of a poker guy. It's the only game where skill matters as much as luck, and there's no house advantage. Every other game if you play long enough you WILL lose, regardless of strategy.
Casinos know math, and if you stay long enough, the math takes your money. That's why there's no clocks, no windows, and they hand out food and booze; so you stay until you lose...and if you stay you WILL lose.
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My first week at the casino I was banking 3-card. Guy buys in with about 200 bucks. He hits a hot streak...straight after flush after straight after pair after flush etc. He's up over 600. He hits the straight flush, pays 50:1. He's now up over 2000.
That's where you run. You hit a big hand on a table game (which you shouldn't be playing in the first place, especially 3-card, as it has a double digit house edge) and you run.
This dumbass? "Alright, time to win that royal."
The royal flush pays 100:1 in 3-card. It's only one step higher than the hand he hit. It's a mythical creature. In 6 months working at a casino I saw a royal five times. Not at my table, not just at 3-card: ever in the building.
He gave it all back. He got up to the ATM until it maxed out. He took his debit to the cage with it's 20% surcharge. Twice. He lost over 4000 bucks trying to "hit the royal".
How's THAT for incompetence?
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Mort Fur-real finds Puns to be Purr-fect. She's really feline those Hiss-terical puns.
*Breaks into the thread, looking dirt, disheveled and wild eyed*
Comedy is Dead! Comedy remains dead and Puns have killed it!
18 How does that happen WTF? Yeah things lik that make me glad I'm night shift we are only over sold by 2 for this weekend and thats easy enough to fix.
Overselling is one of those things that incenses me because it's basically, "Punish the responsible people for the irresponsible people's behavior."
I know it's all about, "If we're not full we lose money, and if we don't offer a cancellation policy we lose money," but it seems like a relatively minor charge such as, "If you cancel and we are not fully booked that night we'll charge you $20" isn't enough to lose a TON of business, and avoids the whole, "Well, I know you booked 6 months ago, paid a deposit, and your whole vacation is dependent on you staying here tonight, but sorry, we overbooked and you're the one who got randomly selected to get the boot."
It's much more serious with airlines, but I'd much rather see the cancellation policy be just barely punitive enough to avoid overbooking.
I guess they don't mention the average life expectancy of a cave man with that one. (Its 30 btw. hey I'm old for a cave man.)I like to think of the world as a constant scale tipping one way or the other but always going back to center eventually. I think its true for all most every facet of human life. The stronger that something pulls us in one direction eventually something will come along and pull us back the other way.Then there's the paleo diet where you try to eat like your caveman ancestors, eating only those foods that humans ate when they first roamed the planet millions of years ago.
Don't forget the sheer number who died of malnutrition because they didn't know what to eat. Scurvy, anyone?
Oogah smash age barrier!
Question: what is 'Old man's latte'?
I call it black coffee.
But maybe that's just me.
Ha! I beat you by 3 seconds!
Non-political tirade, and I'm not going to spoiler it.
The vending machine said "Hot Tea".
You know what it did not say, at all, anywhere?
"Hot Cinnamon Chai Latte"
Do not respond to me that "chai" is a form of "tea". If you want to give me chai, you need to tell me it's chai before I push the buttons.
Vending machine can go to H***. Vending machine can die in a fire. Flaming vending machine can be launched by a catapult into a sturdy brick wall.
Doooon't buy tea from a vending machine.
Please, I beg of you. Even if you are American, surely that's a step too far?
Normally I would completely agree with you. The cold beverage vending machine was out of all items that didn't contain a metric s*&^-ton of sugar. I'm also on a medication that dehydrates me. I needed *something*, and that seemed like the best option left to me. I wasn't expecting anything good even by American standards of what passes for tea. But when the label says "Hot Tea" and doesn't mention chai anywhere on the machine...I have an expectation that this isn't chai. It's the way it works in the Midwest. Tea is tea (whether it's black, green, white, or really anything that isn't chai). Chai is marketed separately.
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I plan on starting my
political runin 2020 with a few simple rules:(1) I will refuse to mention any other candidates or answer questions about them. My entire focus will be on *my* vision, and answering questions about *it*.
(2) I will refuse ALL political donations, even from family, and rely entirely on "free" media to advocate my candidacy.
(3) I will not join a political party. Period.
My bet is that I don't even get past the citywide election, but it'll be fun to try to run as a principled, honest candidate. How could I possibly win?
EDIT: OK, there's also that I'm ludicrously conservative for Albany/Berkeley, and that might sink my chances right there, but compared to what passes for "conservative" these days I'm a flaming liberal.
I plan on starting my hostile takeover…errr…world conquest…hmm...'suckering people into voting for me' in 20?? though there will be a few thing I'm not too keen on compromising on:
(1): I'll not take the title of 'president', 'head of state' or the like. Anything less then 'God-Emperor of Mankind' would be an offence to the office.
(2): Working for my government means working part-time on my sprawling opulent estate. In other words, you might be on my council of ministers aiding in the usual running of my government, but you'll also be expected to do gardening, chauffeuring or warming my bed.
(3): Everyone shall be insured a basic 'universal income' and a basic level of insurance and health benefits, provided they accept their government mandated responsibilities, submit to universal conscription when needed (which will be frequently), and by the state mandated religious universalism (ie all religions are equal, and ultimately just an expression of the same thing).
Edit: Yes...
I kind of want to make a 40k-esque world with me at the top ruling with a mailed spiked fist!
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I plan on starting my
political runin 2020 with a few simple rules:(1) I will refuse to mention any other candidates or answer questions about them. My entire focus will be on *my* vision, and answering questions about *it*.
(2) I will refuse ALL political donations, even from family, and rely entirely on "free" media to advocate my candidacy.
(3) I will not join a political party. Period.
My bet is that I don't even get past the citywide election, but it'll be fun to try to run as a principled, honest candidate. How could I possibly win?
EDIT: OK, there's also that I'm ludicrously conservative for Albany/Berkeley, and that might sink my chances right there, but compared to what passes for "conservative" these days I'm a flaming liberal.
I plan on starting my
hostile takeover…errr…world conquest…hmm...'suckering people into voting for me' in 20?? though there will be a few thing I'm not too keen on compromising on:(1): I'll not take the title of 'president', 'head of state' or the like. Anything less then 'God-Emperor of Mankind' would be an offence to the office.
(2): Working for my government means working part-time on my sprawling opulent estate. In other words, you might be on my council of ministers aiding in the usual running of my government, but you'll also be expected to do gardening, chauffeuring or warming my bed.
(3): Everyone shall be insured a basic 'universal income' and a basic level of insurance and health benefits, provided they accept their government mandated responsibilities, submit to universal conscription when needed (which will be frequently), and by the state mandated religious universalism (ie all religions are equal, and ultimately just an expression of the same thing).
Edit: Yes...
I kind of want to make a 40k-esque world with me at the top ruling with a mailed spiked fist!
Read the evil overlord list yet?
18 How does that happen WTF? Yeah things lik that make me glad I'm night shift we are only over sold by 2 for this weekend and thats easy enough to fix.Overselling is one of those things that incenses me because it's basically, "Punish the responsible people for the irresponsible people's behavior."
I know it's all about, "If we're not full we lose money, and if we don't offer a cancellation policy we lose money," but it seems like a relatively minor charge such as, "If you cancel and we are not fully booked that night we'll charge you $20" isn't enough to lose a TON of business, and avoids the whole, "Well, I know you booked 6 months ago, paid a deposit, and your whole vacation is dependent on you staying here tonight, but sorry, we overbooked and you're the one who got randomly selected to get the boot."
It's much more serious with airlines, but I'd much rather see the cancellation policy be just barely punitive enough to avoid overbooking.
Our hotel is actually really good about not over booking us. If we have 1 or 2 over book we almost always have 2 people that don't show up anyways. Not the policy we have that is just stupid is if one of our High teir VIP members wants a room and gives us a 48 hour warning we have to give them a room. period. we have to figure it out which could mean even telling someone else that booked the room in advance that we are over booked. Fortunatly I have never actually seen this happen. most of our buisness is walk-ins anyways. we are right off the highway.
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Uhhh, I just finished the most challenging translation I had. For now it reached the redactor, but the real question that remains for now is: will this interview translation gain the necessary authorization?
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Coming in next...
9 pages of text about precision rifle replacement for Polish military written by academically competent but also academically stiff and dry writing chief editor.
And I need to send it tomorrow or early on Friday.
My head hurts.
Ok, that last one might be another weather change.
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From the worker point of view, notalwaysrigh
From the customer point of view, notalwaysworking
Bonus if you do graphics related stuff: clients from hell
Loosing faith in humanity is free
The one on the woman with the glasses makes me yet again grateful that my one experience in retail was with an owner who had no tolerance for idiocy. The conversation was always pretty much:
Customer: Let me see your manager!Owner: I'm the owner. Get the f*** out of my store right now or I'm calling the police and having you escorted out.
C: How dare you?!?!?!?!?!
O: I'm the owner. I dare. Get out. NOW.
C: I'm telling all my friends about how horrible you are!
O: Good! Because I'm sure anyone who would be friends with you is just as stupid as you are, and I don't want their business, either!
The scariest part: He'd never even ask what was going on. He's just say, "NobodysHome, you're the best employee I have, and I have never seen you be anything other than courteous and patient to our customers. In fact, I am annoyed that you are TOO patient and TOO courteous. So if they demand to speak to me about something you did or said, I already know they're wrong. It's easier to just throw them out and save myself the hassle of having to listen to their stupidity."
He was a good boss.
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…Seroquel is a hell of a drug, and I was tired of always being tired if I was going to be depressed anyway. When you sleep 10+ hours and still need 32oz of coffee to wake up, that sucks...and caffeine adds to anxiety so, yeah. I know I shouldn't have but until you spent a year on that stuff you have no idea how much...ugh…
I can more then attest to this.
I dropped out of Seroquel after around 4 months as not only was I tired all the time...I was actually having all the problems of extreme tiredness every. waking. moment.Drowsiness, lowered reaction-time, decreased motor skills and awareness, inability to concentrate, spacing out at times, actually falling asleep while "working"...
Now I think about it really wasn't that different from being buzz drunk.
I shifted to Venlafaxine after those 4 months, which in my case was a much better fit (different side effects but nowhere as crippling as the Seroquel).
Read the evil overlord list yet?
Far too extensive and feels overtly micro-manage-y.
Half the fun of being an evil overlord is actually having to put down the occasional hero, rebellion and the like.oh...
and you get to sit on a intimidating throne, with beautiful women laying seductively curled around the base of it ^^'
I saw this advert when I was in the movie theater with my BF yesterday. Yes, it made me sniffle a bit inside. Basically how Singaporeans treat people with mental problems is they try to shove it in a corner and pretend it doesn't exist.
Could talk a lot about this…
From both sides of the table.But...
In the end I don't actually like to share my opinion on stuff like this, unless some actually asks me to do so...
My opinions have gotten my in trouble more then once before, and I'm acutely aware that being neuro-atypical make my thought processes throw up rather different perspective on a lot of subjects. So simple saying my mind isn't really something I do anymore, with out various disclaimers, warnings and Windows-esque warnings of 'Do you want to proceed?'.
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From the worker point of view, notalwaysrigh
From the customer point of view, notalwaysworking
Bonus if you do graphics related stuff: clients from hell
Loosing faith in humanity is free
The one on the woman with the glasses makes me yet again grateful that my one experience in retail was with an owner who had no tolerance for idiocy. The conversation was always pretty much:
Customer: Let me see your manager!
Owner: I'm the owner. Get the f*** out of my store right now or I'm calling the police and having you escorted out.
C: How dare you?!?!?!?!?!
O: I'm the owner. I dare. Get out. NOW.
C: I'm telling all my friends about how horrible you are!
O: Good! Because I'm sure anyone who would be friends with you is just as stupid as you are, and I don't want their business, either!The scariest part: He'd never even ask what was going on. He's just say, "NobodysHome, you're the best employee I have, and I have never seen you be anything other than courteous and patient to our customers. In fact, I am annoyed that you are TOO patient and TOO courteous. So if they demand to speak to me about something you did or said, I already know they're wrong. It's easier to just throw them out and save myself the hassle of having to listen to their stupidity."
He was a good boss.
Good for both of you. IMHO it is much better to be too polite, courteous, and patient than not.* Yes, the customer may be an a!+%&@!, but they might also be having a rotten day, week, month, year, ect. The boss's job is to resolve what you can't, but in this case he sounds like he was doing the correct thing.
*sadly, I am not always this way.
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Yesterday: "Hey, kids. You should really take out that deliberately inflammatory politically charged image you put in your presentation just to get a reaction from the class. It's very distracting from the actual topic you're supposed to be presenting on, and you know it's in the rubric that I'll take off points for irrelevant and distracting images."
"Sure, we'll take care of it!"
Today: Picture is still there and is now accompanied by an equally irrelevant and even weirder picture.
"Why did we lose points on our presentation?"
ಠ_ಠ
I just had to give one of my techs a sarcastic reminder of what "case sensitive" means.
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Yesterday: "Hey, kids. You should really take out that deliberately inflammatory politically charged image you put in your presentation just to get a reaction from the class. It's very distracting from the actual topic you're supposed to be presenting on, and you know it's in the rubric that I'll take off points for irrelevant and distracting images."
"Sure, we'll take care of it!"Today: Picture is still there and is now accompanied by an equally irrelevant and even weirder picture.
"Why did we lose points on our presentation?"
ಠ_ಠ
be sure to yell at the kids more for making me take the teachers side over theirs.
I have a reputation to uphold, after all.
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FAVORITES HAVE NAMES BACK
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Avatars are also fixed.
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Have our resident Floridians checked in yet? I know we haven't seen TL in ages, but it'd be nice to have them all sound off and say, "We're OK!"
Diswhat now.
Diswhat now.
Discord...the word that means everyone is upset with each other and there's lots of yelling involved.
It's funny; we originally used Skype for our online games, but the moment Microsoft bought it and sent a new, "Bend over and drop trou, Microsoft is here" user agreement we chose to disagree and uninstall, moving to Teamspeak ("Install your OWN server, loser!").
We met some people online who tried to get us to switch to Discord. The massive technical problems in installing it (even on Windows 7 machines!!) made us hate it before it was even running. The low sound quality made any coordinated actions impossible. The people who asked us to join were hilarious in that they ALL claimed to have 'technical problems with their microphones', or 'I'm mute', or some other reason they couldn't actually talk to us; they just wanted to listen in on what WE were saying.
Then Discord committed the cardinal sin for me: It set itself to run on startup, and to refuse to quit even if you selected File > Close; you had to find a spectacularly hard-to-find menu option to get it to close completely.
It was SO bad, and so intrusive, and so out-and-out, "I am designed to wrap my tentacles throughout your system," that I uninstalled it and have never looked back.