I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's... depressing.

Tara ,'Get It Done'


Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter  

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.


Emily - Nov 13, 2007 6:32:54 am PST #2042 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Police charged pop singer Boy George with false imprisonment on Tuesday after he allegedly chained a man to a wall at his London home.

Sounds like actual imprisonment to me. False imprisonment would be if you said the door was locked, but it actually wasn't and they could really leave anytime.


shrift - Nov 13, 2007 6:35:19 am PST #2043 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Dear Former Supervisor,

Hi. I understand that you've moved on to bigger and better things, and that I have to take over some duties for you now that you're no longer a basement dweller.

It would be nice, though, if you'd actually DOCUMENT THE PROCESS that I'm trying to take over, rather than feeding me information piecemeal and then telling me I'm doing it wrong WHEN YOU SHOWED ME ONCE -- FREAKING ONE TIME -- how to do this really incredibly complicated god damn report.

You're a nice guy. Stop making me fantasize about choking you to death while shrieking about TPS reports, mmkay?

grrrar,
shrift


Dana - Nov 13, 2007 6:38:52 am PST #2044 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Thanks for the workers' comp help. This is what happens when they give me a Powerpoint presentation for source.


shrift - Nov 13, 2007 6:42:49 am PST #2045 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I am so jealous of your Powerpoint presentation, Dana. I am trying to recreate something I saw once two weeks ago and it's making me want to kill someone even more than usual.


Dana - Nov 13, 2007 6:45:14 am PST #2046 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

You wish you had a Powerpoint presentation!

I wish I had lunch. Stupid clock, move faster!


Wolfram - Nov 13, 2007 6:46:17 am PST #2047 of 10001
Visilurking

Sounds like actual imprisonment to me. False imprisonment would be if you said the door was locked, but it actually wasn't and they could really leave anytime.

No, false imprisonment is actual imprisonment without any right to do so under the law. The "false" part is not having the right to do so. Your example of lying to someone about whether or not they were imprisoned could constitute false imprisonment if it was reasonable that the "prisoner" would believe the door was locked.


lisah - Nov 13, 2007 6:46:37 am PST #2048 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

Thanks for the workers' comp help.

If you need any more help my brother is a worker's comp attorney in NC. I could pass on questions to him.


Steph L. - Nov 13, 2007 6:46:58 am PST #2049 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

(I just love his "Yeeeeah, bitches!" expression there. He's such a little punk.)

But also very, VERY cute!

Police charged pop singer Boy George with false imprisonment on Tuesday after he allegedly chained a man to a wall at his London home.

Sounds like actual imprisonment to me. False imprisonment would be if you said the door was locked, but it actually wasn't and they could really leave anytime.

That's what I was going to say. If you can't leave of your own volition, that sounds like real imprisonment.


shrift - Nov 13, 2007 6:57:05 am PST #2050 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

You wish you had a Powerpoint presentation!

No husband! No root! No idea what I want for lunch! My life, so hard!


Dana - Nov 13, 2007 6:59:51 am PST #2051 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

No husband! No root! No idea what I want for lunch! My life, so hard!

I bet Playboy would give you a root.