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Post by dit on Oct 20, 2011 9:52:38 GMT
Aw, poor jacqui! Looking at the time you posted, I'm guessing this is a work thing? Just hang on to the vision that is the end of the working day.
I'm glad that one of the screencaps is making you feel at least a little bit better. Wonder which one?
(Hope you've stopped rocking now. You'll know when you're feeling better when you can take your thumb out of your mouth as well!)
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Post by pie on Oct 20, 2011 10:41:09 GMT
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH  Why are some people so thick!!!!!!!!!!! I know!! That is EXACTLY what I was saying to myself all day at work today! I need to make use of this thread...thanks for alerting me to its existence!  |
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Post by grizabella on Oct 20, 2011 11:01:00 GMT
I join the club. Some people... Unfortunately I have to share a flat with one of these thickheads (replace the word "thick" with a more appropriate word). If I had enough money I'd get the new iPhone, apparently it can help you with hiding dead bodies, so perhaps it might have an answer for this "thickness" question as well. And no, I'm not suggesting that we should kill them and then get rid of the body (though sometimes.... ). |
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Post by Vivienne on Oct 24, 2011 15:08:38 GMT
I'm going to rant about Amazing Race. I love the show but sometimes there are contestants with bad attitudes about the culture of a country they may be in. Last night they were in Thailand and had to put up a spirit house, this is also common in Laos. The two guys that are snow boarders were talking about how their God was the only one etc. How very insensitive. The couple with the Chinese American woman were totally different. She mentioned how she needed to be careful but she needed to respect their religion even if it wasn't hers. They had to take buses to Bangkok and several didn't have any baht so they asked them to take US$ No one wanted the dollars. We've gone from countries loving them to begging them to take them.
Note to future contestants of Amazing race learn a little geography and respect the country you go to.
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Post by pie on Nov 8, 2011 2:15:19 GMT
I'm going to follow jacqui's lead. AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!! (would make that a lot longer but it isn't that easy on a phone :  My work colleagues are like two-year-olds. Right now, they're arguing outside my office about the stupidest little things. I've had enough!!! |
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Post by meimichan on Nov 8, 2011 10:01:05 GMT
AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh for god's sake why can't my manager just make something, anything, computer-related just farking WORK?! Trying to log onto my work account so I can fiddle with my schedule availability and set up my paychecks to be direct deposited. So naturally my login ID and/or password are invalid. Thanks a bunch. This after having to pull teeth to even get a freaking login code at all. Now it's invalid. Terrific. |
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Post by aeromanda on Nov 12, 2011 23:19:21 GMT
I'm so angry right now I could spit fire! A friend of ours got married recently and I haven't liked his wife since the day I met her. But, I have always made nice and been smiley around her, painful as it was. This afternoon we got a call from them asking if we wanted to meet them for dinner. They had the wife's child with them who is about 6. We met them and had dinner and conversation. Everything went fine until just before we were ready to leave I was talking to our friend and I mouthed a curse word. She got loud and yelled at me "Excuse me but I do not want you talking like that in front of my daughter." She didn't say it politely she said it in a very nasty condescending way. I told her that I didn't actually say anything. She just talked over me saying that I had cursed before and she let it go but that she wasn't going to put up with it and that if it didn't stop this (meaning us getting together again) wouldn't happen. To which I responded "Oh! Weep Weep!" Then she started cursing at me! She said "Amanda do you actually think I give a sh*t about you?" (May I add right in front of her child who she didn't want people cursing in front of.) Then she looked at our friend and said let's go. She then looked at my husband and told him that she thought that he was a very nice person, at which point I told her to bite my ass. They left. Through the entire argument the guys mumbled stuff like "please" and "let's not argue". What really upset me was that my husband is angry with me. I told him that I thought I was in the right because I hadn't actually cursed and that I wasn't going to allow anybody to tell me what I could and couldn't say, child present or not. Don't get me wrong, had she been polite and asked me to not curse in front of her kid I would have pointed out that I didn't actually curse but I would have said OK. But she was incredibly rude; telling me she would not tolerate my behavior and things like that and that she was a mother - as if that categorizes her for sainthood or something. No offense to any parents out there But I really hate it when parents act like being a parent gives them some sort of special authority and their kids are the center of the universe. It drives me crazy! Anyway, so now my husband is mad at me. He said that even if I am in the right, I didn't have to escalate the situation and what harm would it have done to just apologize. I told him that I am not going to apologize when I didn't do anything wrong and that I will not have anyone telling me what I can and can not say. So now he is off sulking and blaming me for what he sees as the inevitable loss of our friend. I told him that he can still go out with them; if she doesn't want to be around me I don't have to go. I see it as her problem not mine...even though I can't stand the wench! Errg! I'm just so mad! |
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Post by jmsquared on Nov 13, 2011 0:19:22 GMT
What an awful thing to happen Aeromanda. And what a flippin' hypocrite she is!! Like you say, it's HOW people request these things of others that matters. Sounds like you're better off without her. If your OH wants to continue the friendship, then that's up to him, but he shouldn't expect you to tolerate her again. Sheesh!!
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Post by liverbird on Nov 13, 2011 1:09:22 GMT
You need my voodoo doll to stick pins in. I would be mad too. If she had something to say, why did she not do it out of earshot of her kid? For her to fly at you the way she did I would guess that bad language is probably used in the home in front of the kid. Obviously this person has double standards. Glad you stuck to your guns.
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Post by eolise on Nov 13, 2011 10:22:14 GMT
Aeromanda, you did good that you didnt apologize to her for something you didnt do. I think that lady just wanted to find something that would allow her to be mad at you, for one reason or another. I mean, it's obvious that she doesnt care you cursing around her kid, because she used the word sh*t herself..! How... unfair towards you  |
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Post by aeromanda on Nov 13, 2011 21:15:30 GMT
Thanks guys! It feels good to know that there are people who see my side and agree with me. (Even if you are only getting my side of the story; it is the true side. ) I think that she never really liked me because I'm a strong person and I think she felt challenged by that and I think she was just looking for the opportunity to pick a fight. I told my husband that there is no reason that he can't still hang out with our friend or even our friend and his wife. I just don't have to be there. I don't have to put up with her BS and I'm not going to. Thanks again! |
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Post by pie on Nov 16, 2011 6:37:53 GMT
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(That is all...)
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Post by jmsquared on Nov 16, 2011 7:41:53 GMT
*passes Pie something soothing* Pinot Grigot?
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Post by pie on Nov 16, 2011 8:03:18 GMT
Thanks for that *gulp* Hadn't planned on being at work at this hour...and one of my colleagues is an absolute PEST (I'm being nice). But he's gone home so I feel slightly less edgy!  |
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Post by meimichan on Nov 16, 2011 12:21:49 GMT
Thanks for that *gulp* Hadn't planned on being at work at this hour...and one of my colleagues is an absolute PEST (I'm being nice). But he's gone home so I feel slightly less edgy! I've got a coworker I'd like to run over with something. A U-boat perhaps, or maybe a lorry. I'm not feeling picky. |
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Post by meimichan on Nov 17, 2011 20:03:53 GMT
I am going on a murderous rampage if that stupid fire alarm doesn't stop going off in my hallway. I've got seven hours to sleep before I have to be at job #2 and the stupid beeping's keeping me awake! Why, why in the hell can't management just freaking FIX IT ALREADY?! I call to report it beeping once every couple of weeks! How is this so freaking difficult?! ARGH! |
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Post by Vivienne on Dec 16, 2011 0:34:34 GMT
I don't like Graham Norton. That new show is ridiculous, would you rather watch your parents have sex for a year or join in once to stop it. That is more obnoxious and sleazy than anything Jeremy has said that I can remember. Or would you rather your daughter had no friends or became a slut. Being devil's advocate I could say he's approving of incest. I'm not saying that so no out of context stuff please. Other people may like the show.
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Post by jacqui on Dec 19, 2011 13:08:54 GMT
I am sick to my back teeth of moaning, whinging, people who sigh heavily in your face when you are trying to help them; especially those who think I have no work to do and think I am sitting doing my nails or something waiting for them to call me; well hello i have a back log of work to!! They really do pi@@ me off Thanks for listening reading ;D I feel much better now! |
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Post by pie on Dec 19, 2011 13:15:46 GMT
Jacqui, I had the most boring day at work today and guess what the most productive thing was that I did. My toenails. I'm not kidding. ;D  ;D |
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Post by jacqui on Dec 19, 2011 13:41:03 GMT
What is it like being bored at work? Somedays i would kill to be bored at work  then i could do my nail and my interweb shopping!!!! |
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Post by flatin5th - Knight of the NC on Dec 19, 2011 13:51:02 GMT
 Just the one? Any one in particular?
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Post by meimichan on Dec 19, 2011 13:54:49 GMT
Just the one? Any one in particular? I vote the middle one. No reason. |
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Post by dit on Dec 19, 2011 14:29:25 GMT
The one she uses to beckon James.
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Post by flatin5th - Knight of the NC on Dec 19, 2011 16:18:46 GMT
I vote for the middle one too - a much more balanced hand decoration!
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Post by pie on Dec 19, 2011 22:39:54 GMT
Haha! As long as she doesn't beckon James with the middle one (although it would probably get his attention). ;D Being bored has its benefits but I always get the little voice in the back of my head asking, "Will I have a job next week?" But when I'm busy, I'm FLAT OUT and my job is very secure! |
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Post by adrianmay on Dec 20, 2011 1:47:09 GMT
First of all, I'd like to rant about the fact I can't find the Sin Bin because I'd like to place several people in it mostly the following.....
My greedy, nasty relatives! There is a special place in hell for the whole lot. I am sick to my stomach that I'm related to this foul collection of scheming pirates. I've spent my entire life having no contact with my extended family. There weren't any big family reunions, Christmases with cousins or trips to stay with the relatives. And now I know why. Here I thought my parents were too busy or maybe anti-social. Nope they were distancing themselves.
I just got an email from a cousin of my generation of the family that I've never met. He just lost his mother to cancer a month ago. I lost mine to cancer 4 months ago. Apparently, at the funeral for his mother, that bunch of turds had nothing better to do than sit around plotting how much to offer me for a piece of property that is my father's (part of his argument is that it's family property). His email was a lengthy narrative about who he is, what he plans to do with the property and I think I even got his CV. The cappers: first, he wants to use a family friend as the lawyer and second, he low balled the price by HALF the value.
Hell will freeze over before I let that land go. If I have to pitch a tent in the middle of a field and shoot every bastard relative that just happens to turn up uninvited, I WILL. I'm calling for a cull of all predatory, sly, and odious relations! It's for the good of the species.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, my father's STILL ALIVE but recently became an invalid. They know this because they just recently visited him without me knowing. The nurse called me to find out who they were.
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Post by jmsquared on Dec 20, 2011 1:58:40 GMT
Simply....unbelievable. I wouldn't even bother to reply.
Edit: SIN BIN six threads down. Watch your step!
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Post by devil-may-care on Dec 20, 2011 4:52:48 GMT
Ah the joys of family! I'm sorry that they are pestering you about something that they apparently have no right to in the first place. I agree with jm 2. I wouldn't even reply to that email! They sound a bit like my family. When my grandmother was out of the house having her hair done before her husband's funeral, two of her children were back at the house pulling things from his closet and asking who wanted what. They didn't even have the decency to let her go through it first. Excuse: "We're helping Mom out." More likely helping themselves out. * passes shot gun ammo* Go get 'em!! |
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Post by dit on Dec 20, 2011 11:21:35 GMT
As I think I've said before, thank God you can choose your friends, as it's such a shame you can't choose your family. Yours do seem a particularly odious bunch, adrianmay, and yours not much better, DMC. As they say, 'Where there's a will, there's a queue of relatives'. I am sick to my back teeth of moaning, whinging, people who sigh heavily in your face when you are trying to help them; especially those who think I have no work to do and think I am sitting doing my nails or something waiting for them to call me; well hello i have a back log of work to!! They really do pi@@ me off Thanks for listening reading ;D I feel much better now! I hope today is going much better for you than yesterday, jacqui! |
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Post by Vivienne on Dec 20, 2011 14:52:04 GMT
Our family had/has objects from all our travels but didn't have anything as far as land or life insurance so when my parents died it was up to me to empty a 2100 sf house and condense it down to 500 sf. My brother and I didn't argue about anything, I ended up having him take 8 trunks of stuff to his house, plenty of storage. After all these years he never said anything about family pictures, etc. I was up there the other day and gave him some so I think I'll give me some more at Christmas. My mother had one each of our baby shoes bronzed for the boys and silver for me.Does anyone know if they put a special mark on who may have done the work? I'm trying to figure out which shoe is which brother. I think mom had this done about 35 or 40 years ago.
I have decided to pull on my travels and teachings and have that zen feeling. It is working, however I think it may be internalizing instead. We are only healthy if we take many deep breaths and try to let it slide. That's really hard with family, but it is possible. That's my "lesson" of the day but I have three happy horses.
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I love a man who can handle a gun 
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