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Old 05-12-2008, 01:29 PM   #16
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Normally I don't participate in pity parties, but....

I'm still blind in the left eye and it tires the right eye to read too long at a time. Bah! But, the surgery is next Tues on the 20th, and hopefully I'll be back to blissfully reading!
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Old 05-12-2008, 01:50 PM   #17
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Dude... I am so the same way with banannas. You buy them a bit green, and the next day they are black. Gotta get some of those special green bags that absorb that gas... whatever that gas is.

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Have you been eating a lot of beans recently?
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Old 05-12-2008, 01:53 PM   #18
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Have you been eating a lot of beans recently?
Not that kind of gas. I'm talking about the ethelyene gas that fruits give off... it causes them to ripen/spoil... they have these green bags that absorb that gas so the ruit lasts longer. I think I'm gonna order some.

https://www.greenbags.com

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Old 05-12-2008, 08:32 PM   #19
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Normally I don't participate in pity parties, but....

I'm still blind in the left eye and it tires the right eye to read too long at a time. Bah! But, the surgery is next Tues on the 20th, and hopefully I'll be back to blissfully reading!
Practice being one-eyed. It's not philosophically satisfying, but it's momentarily entertaining and better than being slapped in the goolies with a dead platypus.

My best wishes for the speediest of recoveries.

Cheers,
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Old 05-14-2008, 12:15 AM   #20
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My best wishes for the speediest of recoveries.
Yeah, what he said.
Prayers too.
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Old 05-15-2008, 12:28 AM   #21
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I'm recovered but I'm not sure from what. It must be a seasonal thing.
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Old 05-15-2008, 01:55 PM   #22
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Ahh, well, see, to really get full benefit from a rant, ...........


......................harder than Paris Hilton in a post-game football locker room.



See, that's a rant. I feel somewhat better now.

Cheers,
Marc

Sorry , couldn't help it - your original was longer than War & Peace , so I've shortened it a little without losing any of the love / hate plot that you had interwoven in there ...
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Old 05-15-2008, 02:19 PM   #23
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I second Marc about Dymocks.
When they started selling ebooks I bought 2. They cost more than other stores. They took my money. They sent me emails with links to download my books. I tried. One link told me I couldn't prove I owned the book, the other said my computer was a security danger and I couldn't have the book. I haven't ever been able to logon to get to my bookshelf so I ended up getting the books free from Fictionwise with my micropay rebates.
No way am I going to risk $899 for an Iliad from them.
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Old 05-15-2008, 03:35 PM   #24
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Human Resources.
How I loathe Human Resources departments. There was once a time when these people called themselves 'Personnel' and weren't so uppity. Occasionally they would give impartial advice. They were mostly truthful. How things change. Today the *******s will say anything that they hope they can get away with. Fortunately, I do not believe something merely because a person in a polyester suit says that it is so.

When they aren't practicing mendacity, or engaging in 'creative writing', these people organise courses in, among other things 'Managing Stress in the Workplace' (!!!!!) I am almost tempted to go along and heckle. Or perhaps I should try a conflict management course.

And the term is just plain wrong, anyway. I am not a resource. I am a person, not a photocopier. 'Human resources' sound like Cthulu's lunch, or the contents of Marc's unspeakable pockets.

(--Marc, remember the days when you would rhapsodise about pies. I like pies. Especially that memorable tarte aux poires.)

I hope this will be cathartic. But I doubt it. These people are worse than squirrels.
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Old 05-15-2008, 03:52 PM   #25
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Now Patricia, just because the director of HR was offered honorary membership in a lawyers association does not make them a bad person. They were a bad person before then. Many people, myself included, feel that if an HR person started to sell used cars they would give the used car profession a bad name. To call them pond scum is to insult pond scum.
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Old 05-15-2008, 03:55 PM   #26
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I hope this will be cathartic. But I doubt it. These people are worse than squirrels.
wow, strong words coming from patricia. you may remember that squirrels rocketed to fame as being previously the only creature known to elicit a shouted "f*ck off !"

i hope that was cathartic, patricia. that's what this thread is for. if you want, you can write "human ressources" on a pillow and give it a good kicking as well. alternately, ask Marc to send them (anonymously) the contents of his unspeakable pockets. that ought to do it.
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Old 05-15-2008, 03:56 PM   #27
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Yes, even Cthulu would spit them out because they do not have souls for him to eat.
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Old 05-15-2008, 05:33 PM   #28
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Yes, even Cthulu would spit them out because they do not have souls for him to eat.
I would rather think that Cthulu (got it right this time by copy\pasting your spelling) would love the term "Human resources". After all a resource is a commodity to be consumed.
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Old 05-16-2008, 01:38 AM   #29
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We could send him a few of the HR beings themselves to see how they taste.....
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Human Resources.
How I loathe Human Resources departments.

These people are worse than squirrels.
What type?

Red, grey or black?
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