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« Reply #1875 on: February 01, 2011, 10:42:14 pm » |
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People who use bullshit pseudo-science to justify their actions and behavior towards others.
Trying to do anything productive inside when it's so NICE outside!
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« Reply #1876 on: February 01, 2011, 10:46:07 pm » |
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The breaking of the year has helped me so many times.
And at the risk of sounding VERY soppy, the lovely Master Seabear of this very forum helps a great deal.
I was advised by college to tick the disability box on my uni apllications. I didnt because it is just part of me, makes me who I am.
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« Reply #1877 on: February 02, 2011, 04:58:21 am » |
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Paying $140 per week for a quad unit in the middle of a big bowl that fills up with water at the slightest hint of a storm. Like this: http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65002.shtmland not finding alternative accommodation anywhere in the city for under $200. |
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Orkses is never beaten in battle. If we wins we wins and if we dies we dies fightin' so it don't count as beat. Even if we runs away it means we can always come back for anuvver go, see!
QUEENSLAND RAIL NOT FOR SALE!!!!!!
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« Reply #1878 on: February 02, 2011, 12:20:00 pm » |
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The small minority of people who need to point out my hair is blue and I wear strange clothes.
Don't like it? Go keep failing at life and being an insult to evolution. GAH.
I dress strange. What I really love, not, is the morons who walk past and are thirty feet away before they start the abuse. Gives them a headstart if I was so ungentlemanly as to chase them. |
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There is nothing that cannot be made a little worse and sold a little cheaper
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« Reply #1879 on: February 02, 2011, 12:22:21 pm » |
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The small minority of people who need to point out my hair is blue and I wear strange clothes.
Don't like it? Go keep failing at life and being an insult to evolution. GAH.
I dress strange. What I really love, not, is the morons who walk past and are thirty feet away before they start the abuse. Gives them a headstart if I was so ungentlemanly as to chase them. I turn such people into a game. I like to think of them as being broken by the mere sight of awesomeness... |
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Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.
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« Reply #1880 on: February 02, 2011, 12:31:38 pm » |
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The small minority of people who need to point out my hair is blue and I wear strange clothes.
Don't like it? Go keep failing at life and being an insult to evolution. GAH.
I dress strange. What I really love, not, is the morons who walk past and are thirty feet away before they start the abuse. Gives them a headstart if I was so ungentlemanly as to chase them. I turn such people into a game. I like to think of them as being broken by the mere sight of awesomeness... I turn such people into a game. A head start is irrelivent and I don't have to chase them. #Loads waterpistol# |
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« Reply #1881 on: February 03, 2011, 12:37:38 am » |
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There are icy conditions expected tomorrow, and my university (across town) is staying open. Now, for quite a few of you, this is no big thing. I live in the deep South. We don't have a clue how to react to this weather!  We can't drive; everything shuts down. Except university. Normally, I would just take an absence and stay home, but I have an exam tomorrow. I'm totally screwed. To top it off, I'm sick - slightly disoriented, bad coughing spells, hurts to breathe, you get the idea. Super. GAH. |
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« Reply #1882 on: February 03, 2011, 01:29:48 pm » |
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When my mind knows what this dress pattern means, but my hands aren't willing to cooperate.  |
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Major Willoughby Chase
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« Reply #1883 on: February 03, 2011, 01:53:11 pm » |
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It's February? Already?!?
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« Reply #1884 on: February 03, 2011, 06:24:25 pm » |
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everything, today, it seems...  I try to blame it on being annoyed with unobservant people, but really, I think I'm just grumpy. Time for a hot bath with a book and my coffee. |
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« Reply #1885 on: February 03, 2011, 07:06:54 pm » |
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I found the most awesome adventurer's type vest at the Goodwill today, but there was no tag on it! Their policy is it can't be sold for 24 hours...gahhhhhh!
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« Reply #1886 on: February 03, 2011, 08:53:02 pm » |
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We have 52 weekends a year. Why, then, does everything seem to happen at the same time?
Feb 12th: RSC costume sale OR Worcester Wander OR doing a sale in Leicester (& see friends)
Feb 19th: New date for Worcester Wander OR niece's birthday OR Steampunk day out/Ghostfire gig in Ipswitch
Feb 27th: International Living History Fair OR "Greats of Steam" at Kew Bridge Museum (after the Clothes swap in Brum on Sat)
Mar 5/6th: "Carry on up the Khyber" parade in Wales OR Sister's 40th OR Antique Textile Auction
... and so it goes on.
I think, however, what REALLY bugs me is just not having the time/energy/resources to get to a fraction of events/see the people I'd like to.
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« Reply #1887 on: February 03, 2011, 09:05:16 pm » |
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The old Emporium of Mr. Edward Bay, esq. has gotten my goat up this evening.
For the better part of a week I've been watching an Edwardian Prince Edward jacket, with no bids placed on it. I waited until 5 minutes before the auction closed this evening, then put in a bid at £40. 30 seconds before it closed some.... absolute shower, franky.... came in with a £55 bid and gazumped it without giving the chance to up my own bid.
I know it happens alot on Ebay and is to be expected, but such a practice I frankly find deplorable.
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« Reply #1888 on: February 03, 2011, 11:00:35 pm » |
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So, I applied for a position working in an administration position up in the Northwest Territories.
Just got an email back saying that while I'm an excellent candidate according to my resume, and they have a position available, they would be unable to hire me because I'm not Aboriginal, and they need about 40% of their employees in this region of the company to be Aboriginal.
While I understand how many reserves there are up north, and the need for these people to be working, the position has been open for three months and no one has taken it.
Okay, so I'm being turned down from a job before the interview process because I'm not of Aboriginal descent. Isn't this just flipping discrimination from one side to the other?
Gaaaah.
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« Reply #1889 on: February 03, 2011, 11:11:47 pm » |
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Not being able to smoke my pipe inside the house. This means two things:
1) I don't smoke, which is obviously good, and I have no cravings for it since I smoke so little
2) I can't smoke, which means I can never enjoy it.
I honestly don't know where that leaves me. Probably for the better, but still...
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« Reply #1890 on: February 04, 2011, 01:48:09 am » |
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So, I applied for a position working in an administration position up in the Northwest Territories.
Just got an email back saying that while I'm an excellent candidate according to my resume, and they have a position available, they would be unable to hire me because I'm not Aboriginal, and they need about 40% of their employees in this region of the company to be Aboriginal.
While I understand how many reserves there are up north, and the need for these people to be working, the position has been open for three months and no one has taken it.
Okay, so I'm being turned down from a job before the interview process because I'm not of Aboriginal descent. Isn't this just flipping discrimination from one side to the other?
Gaaaah.
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« Reply #1891 on: February 04, 2011, 08:20:48 am » |
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So, I applied for a position working in an administration position up in the Northwest Territories.
Just got an email back saying that while I'm an excellent candidate according to my resume, and they have a position available, they would be unable to hire me because I'm not Aboriginal, and they need about 40% of their employees in this region of the company to be Aboriginal.
While I understand how many reserves there are up north, and the need for these people to be working, the position has been open for three months and no one has taken it.
Okay, so I'm being turned down from a job before the interview process because I'm not of Aboriginal descent. Isn't this just flipping discrimination from one side to the other?
Gaaaah.
Absolutely dead-on. Discrimination works all ways. But, it's probably legislated that they have to have a certain proportion of aboriginal employees, so what can you do? I'd say: sue them! I bet it´s a 100% win situation and the $$$ might be a nice extra. |
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« Reply #1892 on: February 04, 2011, 09:56:12 am » |
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So, I applied for a position working in an administration position up in the Northwest Territories.
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Gaaaah.
It may well be worth checking the legal status of what they just did. For instance until April 2011 when Positive Action will become allowable, Positive Discrimination is still unlawful. So just on the offchance, it may be worth checking if you have similar laws  |
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« Reply #1893 on: February 04, 2011, 01:39:15 pm » |
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Having asked a friend to pop in to my local multi roomed flea market while I'm off my feet, they have reported back that it has been turned into a tesco express... This is not good, my primary source of tatt is now gone Edit: It's worth noting that the nearest Tesco Extra (24 hour) is just over half a mile away.  |
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« Reply #1894 on: February 04, 2011, 01:58:15 pm » |
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Having an old friend send what basically amounted to a begging email, asking for help to pay his rent as he's out of work/newly single/has other issues; then said friend not even acknowledging the financial help with even a thank you.
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« Reply #1895 on: February 04, 2011, 07:06:25 pm » |
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Well yesterday's Gahhhh is today's woohoo....the vest was still at the goodwill today when I went back! Today's gaaahhhh- I have a migraine..
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« Reply #1896 on: February 04, 2011, 08:26:26 pm » |
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Argh. Called about my paystub. They said they didn't make a mistake. Asked politely if I could still access my clock data from when I was there so I could verify this information. They gave me some bullshit story that I'd been deleted from their system. I know this is bullshit because I had employees listed under my team that stopped working for the company six months prior when I worked there. Tried to log in, told me that I couldn't access my account. Not that it was deleted. Couldn't access it.
So I called the payroll company. They refused to give me my password, even though I was ready to verify all of the information they had on file, and said that they'd only deal with my employer.
So now I'm missing time from my paystub and can't prove that I worked the time, nor can I prove how much time I worked in December, meaning I can't even go to the labor board about this, because all I'm going to be told is 'Prove it'. I now have no proof whatsoever, so I can't do anything.
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« Reply #1897 on: February 04, 2011, 08:36:22 pm » |
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a simple gaaaah.
snow - freezing-ass cold - rain - ice - melt/mud ... repeat ad nauseam.
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Reality is for those who cannot properly commit to the absurd.
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« Reply #1898 on: February 05, 2011, 12:09:06 am » |
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this is more of a mwahahaha, (but it's a GAH to my neighbors) but they usually do laundry on Saturdays, and I just threw some sheets/blankets into the wash, and now they are stomping up and down the stairs and banging the basement door every 5 minutes to check if it's done. Not my fault you guys dirtied your clothes a day early...(and, of course, they could come talk to me...but that's unlikely to happen).
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« Reply #1899 on: February 05, 2011, 11:01:38 am » |
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Dear eBay seller with whom I have just opened a dispute,
If you didn't want your glengarry to sell for £5, maybe you should have started the price higher.
Yours Hatlessly
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