Oh, Pacey! You blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?

Spike ,'Help'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

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.


Connie Neil - May 01, 2009 8:28:48 am PDT #17643 of 30000
brillig

I have a micro-manager for a supervisor. I took PTO this past Wednesday and left a message for him, wherein I said, "I'll see you tomorrow." A few hours later, he calls to find out if I'm going to be in the next day. Asshat, I told you so in my message! I know you're just giving me the passive-aggressive "I know you're taking time off and I'm watching you" thing! He's such a local Utah boy, with no clue how to use authority like a grown-up and utterly unable to cope with an older female who doesn't subscribe to the patriarchal world view.

He actually asked me why I have to take a bathroom break in the middle of the morning every day (OK, I'll take a long bathroom break, because that's the only break I get in the morning), and why can't I go before I start work. The first few times I told him that I had to go--which I did. The last time I gave him a five-minute lecture on the middle-aged female bladder and offering to go with him to the head of our HR department, who is a woman a little older than I am, to find out if my middle-aged female bladder was an anomoly. I tacked on a brief mention of the menstrual cycle and how all gastric bets are off at that time, and if he wants to explain why I need a new chair and am going home to change clothes, he's more than welcome to insist that I don't take a bathroom break when I need it.

None of which advanced the cause of women in the workplace, but god, the colors his face turned.


Gudanov - May 01, 2009 8:40:44 am PDT #17644 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

Listening to Flight of the Valkyries, O Fortuna, and Ode to Joy in sequence has failed to make things more exciting. Now I just want to go home and do something dramatic.


lisah - May 01, 2009 8:46:36 am PDT #17645 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate

hey, natterers, do you think of a "cracker" being used to as a perjorative to describe a poor, white person or a rich, land-owning white person?


msbelle - May 01, 2009 8:48:35 am PDT #17646 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

poor


tommyrot - May 01, 2009 8:48:54 am PDT #17647 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I've always thought "poor".

Mmmm... crackers. I must get some. And herring. And brie. (But not herring and brie at the same time. That would be wrong.)


Dana - May 01, 2009 8:49:04 am PDT #17648 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Poor.


Jesse - May 01, 2009 8:52:07 am PDT #17649 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Poor.

I just got all excited for a minute, because Ellen (on yesterday's show) is giving money to a Stephanie in Cincinnati, but it not Our Steph. The "anie" should have been my first clue.


Lee - May 01, 2009 8:52:13 am PDT #17650 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Poor


amych - May 01, 2009 8:52:26 am PDT #17651 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Poor. Traditionally, crackers are to the lowland south (South Georgia, Northern Florida, etc.) as hillbillies are to Appalachia.


Sparky1 - May 01, 2009 8:53:10 am PDT #17652 of 30000
Librarian Warlord

Poor.