Useless Conversation

[bhodi]

Oh, nice. And I bet it's got a lot better co-workers, too.

[Johny Cee]

Oh, nice. And I bet it's got a lot better co-workers, too.

Mostly women and gay men, so I'm like the belle of the ball.

[Sheepherder]

TORONTO - Some TV viewers who tuned in for CHCH's morning news broadcast got more than they bargained for on Friday.

The Hamilton-based broadcaster has issued an apology after its "News Now" show was briefly overrun by a graphic sex scene.

...

CHCH's vice-president of news Mike Katrycz said he believes the station ultimately aired around a minute of "hardcore pornography."

[Paelos]

One woman, who said she was angry, tweeted that it was lucky no small children were in the room when the pornography came on.

Medium-sized children, however, got to learn what A2M was.

[Ingmar]

My 6 month Google Apps migration adventure is almost over - go-live is on Monday. SO READY for this to be over.

[Ozzu]

I've been somewhat obsessed with watching Queen music videos and live shows on Youtube.

Jeez, those guys rocked. I mean, I knew their major hits, but I had no idea how great Freddie Mercury was.

[Tale]

She wanted me to bring back a Peanut Lion Bar from my UK trip. They were her favourite chocolate. Apparently they had a layer of peanut butter.

Couldn't find any in the shops. Did some googling. They ended production in 2007. There are none.

So I buy four of the regular Lion Bars. I carefully carry them to Australia in my hand luggage on a 23-hour flight. At home, in a precision operation, I cut the bars open with a thin knife, insert a layer of peanut butter, then reseal them as best I can. One falls apart in the production process, but now I have the only three Peanut Lion Bars in the world. I obtain a jpeg of the old wrapper and make correct-sized colour prints, cut them out with scissors and wrap the wrapped bars, making them look official. Next day, I put them in a British shopping bag and deliver the gift.

"You opened them?" She won't touch them. Is disgusted.

Fail. FAIL!

[Ironwood]

Women.  Can't live with them and there's laws against stringing them up by their necks.

[Arthur_Parker]

I always seem to fall into the trap of looking for a solution when I'm told about a problem, which annoys the Mrs.

Edit to add, can't help myself.

[IainC]

I always seem to fall into the trap of looking for a solution when I'm told about a problem, which annoys the Mrs.

Oh man yes.

Mrs IainC: I hate when X happens.
IainC: That sucks, why don't we do Y to stop X from happening?
Mrs IainC: Why can't you just be sympathetic?

[Abagadro]

I always seem to fall into the trap of looking for a solution when I'm told about a problem, which annoys the Mrs.

Oh man yes.

Mrs IainC: I hate when X happens.
IainC: That sucks, why don't we do Y to stop X from happening?
Mrs IainC: Why can't you just be sympathetic?

That pretty much encapsulates my 15 years of marriage.

[Lantyssa]

Hehehe.  We just want to kvetch.  It's usually not about needing a solution.

[Sky]

Yeah, that's an age-old one. Drives me crazy.

[Morat20]

Hehehe.  We just want to kvetch.  It's usually not about needing a solution.

That took my five years to learn, and I'm still trying to stop myself from offering solutions on the spot.

Of course, she's learned not to let me know her laptop has malware at 8:00 PM, because I apparently cannot let an infected computer just sit there. I have to fix it.

[Bzalthek]

I always seem to fall into the trap of looking for a solution when I'm told about a problem, which annoys the Mrs.

Oh man yes.

Mrs IainC: I hate when X happens.
IainC: That sucks, why don't we do Y to stop X from happening?
Mrs IainC: Why can't you just be sympathetic?

Because being sympathetic about something that looks like it can be avoided but nothing is done to avoid it is retarded

[ghost]

I always seem to fall into the trap of looking for a solution when I'm told about a problem, which annoys the Mrs.

Oh man yes.

Mrs IainC: I hate when X happens.
IainC: That sucks, why don't we do Y to stop X from happening?
Mrs IainC: Why can't you just be sympathetic?

That pretty much encapsulates my 15 years of marriage.

I thought that was actually the definition of marriage. 

[Tale]

Edit to add, can't help myself.

yeah knew about that - they're actually sold out, it just doesn't say so. A Facebook group devoted to the return of that bar has tried ordering.

[Samwise]

"You opened them?" She won't touch them. Is disgusted.

[Xanthippe]

I always seem to fall into the trap of looking for a solution when I'm told about a problem, which annoys the Mrs.

Oh man yes.

Mrs IainC: I hate when X happens.
IainC: That sucks, why don't we do Y to stop X from happening?
Mrs IainC: Why can't you just be sympathetic?

That pretty much encapsulates my 15 years of marriage.

That was our first 20 years. Now it is:

Xanthippe: I hate it when X happens.
Mr. Xanthippe: What?
Xanthippe: Nevermind.

[Bzalthek]

Well that's what you get when you drive a man to stab his own eardrums out.

[Yegolev]

The next phase in the cycle is centered around how you are insensitive and don't listen.

[Xanthippe]

The next phase in the cycle is centered around how you are insensitive and don't listen.

So many of our conversations go that way.  "What?" "Nevermind." For the best, I think.

He doesn't not hear me because he's insensitive. He doesn't hear me because he is incapable of multitasking. He thinks he can read and listen, or watch tv and listen, or think about something else and listen. He can't. He can, however, look exactly like someone who is listening when he isn't. This is what causes trouble, when he says, "you never said blah blah blah" when I did, and he mimicked a listener so well that I fell for it. That is what causes the arguments, his insistence that I never told him blah blah blah.

I'm sure I'd hone that mimicking listening skill if I lived with me too. But I don't think I could live with me.

[ghost]

He can, however, look exactly like someone who is listening when he isn't. This is what causes trouble, when he says, "you never said blah blah blah" when I did, and he mimicked a listener so well that I fell for it.

That's the one superpower that testicles give you.   

[Ironwood]

Oh Fuck, that IMAP thing just duplicated all the mail.

Shite, shite, shite.

[Murgos]

He doesn't not hear me because he's insensitive. He doesn't hear me because he is incapable of multitasking. He thinks he can read and listen, or watch tv and listen, or think about something else and listen. He can't. He can, however, look exactly like someone who is listening when he isn't. This is what causes trouble, when he says, "you never said blah blah blah" when I did, and he mimicked a listener so well that I fell for it. That is what causes the arguments, his insistence that I never told him blah blah blah.

I'm sure I'd hone that mimicking listening skill if I lived with me too. But I don't think I could live with me.

Eh, my wife speaks very softly and starts sentences as though I was privy to the internal conversation that lead up to it.

There is a lot of "What?" on my end of our conversations.

[Engels]

Oh Fuck, that IMAP thing just duplicated all the mail.

Shite, shite, shite.

better that than the reverse?

[Yegolev]

I'm not sure.

[Ironwood]

No, neither am I.

If it had deleted everything, there's the backup.  But now I have two choices - manual review or delete everything and go to the backup.

[Yegolev]

I thought you said you had two choices?

[Ingmar]

My Google migration is going *awesome*.

Except for the BES part. Fuck RIM, fuck them so hard. And also fuck the guy who left our company assuring us that the (untestable before go live because fuck RIM) new BES with GBES was good to go.

[Ironwood]

BES on Office365 is fucking awesome.

Sarcasm free.  It's really, really well done.

[Lantyssa]

Except for the BES part. Fuck RIM, fuck them so hard. And also fuck the guy who left our company assuring us that the (untestable before go live because fuck RIM) new BES with GBES was good to go.

Now you know why he left before going live.

[Salamok]

He can, however, look exactly like someone who is listening when he isn't. This is what causes trouble, when he says, "you never said blah blah blah" when I did, and he mimicked a listener so well that I fell for it.

That's the one superpower that testicles give you.  

This and the power to zone out and think about absolutely nothing.

My Google migration is going *awesome*.

Except for the BES part. Fuck RIM, fuck them so hard. And also fuck the guy who left our company assuring us that the (untestable before go live because fuck RIM) new BES with GBES was good to go.

It has been 5 years for me but the one single thing RIM ever did well was support.  It is sort of like the top tier MS support where you call in and some poor fuck on the other end is physically chained to the phone and not allowed to hang up until your problem is solved.  Even if they need to refer you to another person they conference call them in and stay on the line to make sure the resolution happens.

[Polysorbate80]

My wife will think out loud about things I don't need to know, and won't say things she later swears she's told me.  I think something's wired backwards somewhere...

[RhyssaFireheart]

Somewhere, somehow, my department manager was removed from the shopping cart approval chain for his own department.  The help desk asked me if I was sure he needed to be part of the approval chain.