Can't drink, smoke, diddle my willy. Doesn't leave much to do other than watch you blokes stumble around playing Agatha Christie.

Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'


Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People  

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.


Tom Scola - Nov 02, 2006 6:24:44 am PST #6931 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Why am I reading the Top Chef whitefont? I don't watch it.


tommyrot - Nov 02, 2006 6:25:28 am PST #6932 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.

Why am I reading the Top Chef whitefont? I don't watch it.

You're hungry?


Steph L. - Nov 02, 2006 6:27:36 am PST #6933 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I'd like to get through the rest of today without punching incompetent!boss.

See, even though his desk, etc., is in another fucking room, he has to come in *my* area to mark shit down on a tracking chart we use. t edit Tracking chart is kept in a binder with other tracking forms. He could take the binder back to his fucking desk.

In my area, there's a random chair, not even a desk chair -- it's not one of those dealies with wheels and such; it's just a random non-wheeled chair that might be at a table. Except it isn't at a table; it's randomly located in my area. No one uses it. So....

For ELEVEN YEARS I've been tossing my coat on this chair when I get to work in the morning.

Today, incompetent!boss decides that, because he wants to sit for the 3 minutes a day that he comes in here to mark shit down on the tracking form, I have to hang my coat up. (Apparently there's a coat rack somewhere; I wouldn't know, having put my coat on the same chair for ELEVEN YEARS.)

He actually picked my coat up off the chair and held it out to me. I said "What?" He said "You need to hang this up so I can sit down."

Keep in mind, this isn't his desk; this is over in my area, and it's something he does for literally 3 minutes a day.

I put my coat back on the chair. If he says anything else, I'm going to kneecap him, and then I'm going to bitch to Big!Boss's wife (who works for the company in a vague accounting-ish way, and it's generally understood that you don't give any lip to Big!Boss's wife). I'm not above being a tattle-tale.

Is that lame, or what? (You can say yes. I know that complaining about having to move my coat is lame, but it's such an annoying, niggling little thing that inconveniences the hell out of me so that incompetent!boss can sit for 3 minutes.)

Grr.

t starting stopwatch to see how long it takes Scola to post a link to an NYC job....


Fred Pete - Nov 02, 2006 6:28:31 am PST #6934 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.

I don't watch Top Chef, but I can accept the theory of avocado ice cream. There are enough fruits with similar texture that the idea doesn't automatically squick me out. Bacon ice cream, on the other hand, ranks with ketchup on a banana split -- two great tastes that don't taste great together.

ETA: And I'm reading the whitefont just because I find it hard to resist reading whitefont.


Tom Scola - Nov 02, 2006 6:30:06 am PST #6935 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

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Steph L. - Nov 02, 2006 6:36:15 am PST #6936 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Dude. Less than 1 minute!


Jessica - Nov 02, 2006 6:36:23 am PST #6937 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Since I don't like sugar, avocado ice cream sounds like a perfectly valid flavor to me -- for adults. Serving it to kids in a competition is clearly insane.


SuziQ - Nov 02, 2006 6:38:31 am PST #6938 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Scola rocks like a rocking thing that rocks. And his smile makes me melt.


aurelia - Nov 02, 2006 6:39:07 am PST #6939 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I just want to say hello to FredPete .


megan walker - Nov 02, 2006 6:39:19 am PST #6940 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Except, they didn't know where they were serving it beforehand, did they?

Also, Padma is better than Mrs. Joel, but still not a great host. I do like how she gets enthusiastic about the food though.