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Originally Posted by Sparrow
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But we don't win many medals and are consequently bitter about our lack of success; one of our commentators dismissed the Winter Olympics as a festival of sliding  . |
Like most sports commentary is a Festival of Inane Chatter?
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i never heard of hurling until now, so i looked on the wikipedia page. it looks not only insane but frankly terrifying. 
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Absolutely magnificently insane, yes? Try finding an exerpt from a game - it's like insanity multiplied by crazy multipled by infinity multiplied by sport.
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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
now curling and Oz just are not two things one would normally put together
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To be a bit more transparent, I'll mention that him and I think the rest of the team were ex-Canadian (and perhaps a token Kiwi).
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Originally Posted by kazbates
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High heels are supposed to make our derrieres look better and, as you probably already know, how our derrieres look is pretty important to women.  |
To me, high heels make women look disfigured and bizarrely self-handicapped, and I've no notice of their backsides, but I doubt most women give a fig what I think (and rightly so too).
Personally, I'm a barefoot guy, attracted to barefoot people.
A minor... vent. Staff who work at Big W self-service should probably restrain themselves from rolling their eyes at me when their self-service machinery farks up. Both myself and The Loved One are somewhat familiar with both UI and systems development and support, what with about 40 years between us, and when we say that the system farked up (three times, in two different areas of self-checkout), it probably does not do the service staff or customer relations anything constructive to respond with "You must have done something wrong", and then to roll your eyes at my explicit-but-calm contrary advice. That is why I turn to you, look you in the eyes, and state very clearly, without rancour or emotive emphasis, "Do not roll your eyes at me". That's right. That's what I thought. My "unless you wish this to escalate"
is implicit. Now fix it, and while you're at it, fix your miserable, arrogant, halfwit, feeble-minded attitude of "the customer is always wrong" and consider whether the words "customer" and "service" are keywords that you should perhaps place in the "Exclude" section when looking for a job.
Cheers,
Marc