I need to get out of my office and actually take a lunch break, or I am going to get in the elevator and choke to death a variety of coworkers on several different floors.
Mal: How drunk was I last night? Jayne: Well I dunno. I passed out.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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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.
shrift - Apr 03, 2008 9:57:47 am PDT #9300 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Frankenbuddha - Apr 03, 2008 9:59:24 am PDT #9301 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I need to get out of my office and actually take a lunch break, or I am going to get in the elevator and choke to death a variety of coworkers on several different floors.
Do they usually take lunch at their desks? Because you could combine the options for a win-win, plus free lunch(es).
tommyrot - Apr 03, 2008 10:00:54 am PDT #9302 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.
Also, I've heard human flesh tastes like chicken....
Gudanov - Apr 03, 2008 10:02:28 am PDT #9303 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I am going to get in the elevator and choke to death a variety of coworkers on several different floors.
That could be a great horror movie. "The Elevator Dings for Thee". It can be a great trailer counting floors numbers and showing carnage in the elevator lobbies with elevator music in the background. Then have the camera zooms in on the closed elevators doors with the sound of a heartbeat in the background. Finally have the light blink on and the ding sound right as the trailer fades out and ends.
§ ita § - Apr 03, 2008 10:09:09 am PDT #9304 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
if the dude had some issues
Has to have had. I mean, his male characters weren't all that great, but at least they were distinct. The female characters all blend together, and are where the mostly omniscient narrator fails entirely to have a clue. I don't need my unnamed narrator to have a gender. Either exist more, or exist less. Don't just sit there, having XX or XY.
I hate sitting where I can hear both sides of a phone conversation. Consider saving bills if you just walk three feet.
javachik - Apr 03, 2008 10:10:57 am PDT #9305 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Happy Birthday Mr. Tom Scola!!
Trudy Booth - Apr 03, 2008 10:12:20 am PDT #9306 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Someday I'm going to make t-shirts that say: NEW YORKERS AREN'T RUDE, TOURISTS ARE SLOW.
I may be able to sell them for fifty bucks apiece.
Our other rude thing that isn't necessarily rude is the little mental-personal-space-bubble that we adopt on public transportation. It's not that we're ignoring the pregnant or elderly or handicapped person eyeing our seat, its that we're ignoring EVERYBODY.
More than once I've given someone a "psst... someone needs your seat" nudge-nod and had four people jump up.
Jesse - Apr 03, 2008 10:13:51 am PDT #9307 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh yeah, there have been multiple times I didn't realize the person standing in front of me was old/pregnant/whatever until I went to get up, because I literally never looked up that far. Oops.
Kat - Apr 03, 2008 10:16:22 am PDT #9308 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Well, crap, ita. that utterly sucks.
I've got a question about the Stand Right/Walk Left rule. Is that true also in places where you drive on the opposite side of the street?
Emily - Apr 03, 2008 10:19:52 am PDT #9309 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Our other rude thing that isn't necessarily rude is the little mental-personal-space-bubble that we adopt on public transportation. It's not that we're ignoring the pregnant or elderly or handicapped person eyeing our seat, its that we're ignoring EVERYBODY.
Oh yeah. I'm always irritated by the "people are so rude, they don't talk to people on the bus!" thing. Thing is, when you run into a couple of people on your way someplace, it makes sense to talk to them. When you spend up to several hours each day surrounded by total strangers, you would never stop talking. Plus, some of them are assholes. So you pretend nobody else exists, and you get more reading done!