Do you pay these people to get drunk?
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue - Jun 10, 2005 8:21:48 am PDT #1054 of 10001
hip deep in pie
tommyrot - Jun 10, 2005 8:22:19 am PDT #1055 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Soooo, Rick, where do you work again?
Beergoggles Inc?
(sorry)
Hil R. - Jun 10, 2005 8:23:23 am PDT #1056 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've used "If I were, people would start building altars pretty soon" when a doctor just would not believe me that there was no chance I could be pregnant. And this was after I'd already answered "no" to the "Are you sexually active?" question.
Scrappy - Jun 10, 2005 8:24:42 am PDT #1057 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Once again, the lying few make it uncomfortable for the honest rest of us. Dang it.
Rick - Jun 10, 2005 8:26:54 am PDT #1058 of 10001
Do you pay these people to get drunk?
Sure. $8 an hour. But they have to do lots of tedious stuff while getting drunk, and worse, lots of tedious stuff while sobering-up. It's one of those things that seems like a great idea until you have been through it once.
ChiKat - Jun 10, 2005 8:28:03 am PDT #1059 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
There's a test I have to do once per year that involves a small amount of radioactive iodine. They make me take a pregnancy test before I can take the pill. Even when I had been celibate for a very long time. They just don't trust patients to tell the truth and they don't want to be sued later.
lisah - Jun 10, 2005 8:28:07 am PDT #1060 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
but it turns out not everyone can be trusted to know these things
And people also can't be trusted not to lie.
So we just use the pregnancy tests on everyone.
This is what they do in the HIV vaccine study I'm participating in also. With they other 2 studies I've done they ALSO asked about your between visit sexual activity, and associated birth control. Which would often prompt me to ask the study nurses, "Well, do you know anybody nice you can introduce me to?"
Ginger - Jun 10, 2005 8:28:19 am PDT #1061 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
But they have to do lots of tedious stuff while getting drunk, and worse, lots of tedious stuff while sobering-up.
I've had evenings like that without getting paid.
bon bon - Jun 10, 2005 8:35:35 am PDT #1062 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I'm getting paid for doing tedious stuff RIGHT NOW!
And I'd prefer to be drunk while doing it.
§ ita § - Jun 10, 2005 8:36:56 am PDT #1063 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What are they drinking, Rick? That could be the deal maker or breaker.
The coolest thing happened in the class I taught Wednesday. It was going really crappily, and no one was getting it.
"Do any of you trust this technique?"
blank/worried looks and shaken heads
So I'm thinking I'm the worst teacher ever (well, except for that one guy -- he's pretty bad).
"Okay, look. Don't forget to ean forward and keep your shoulders square, and ... toss in some blind faith. Because it really does work."
And then they all got it right.
I have no idea how teaching works, but it's nice when it does.