Useless Conversation

[MisterNoisy]

I baked cookies (brown butter oatmeal with bittersweet chocolate and pistachios) for the whole apartment building today.  It's amazing how much something simple like a wax-paper wrapped package of freshly-baked cookies can make people that once called the cops on you for a noise complaint (that's another story, but suffice it to say that the cop laughed about the whole thing with me) into your new best friends.

[TheWalrus]

I really hope that story is the reason for your username, and we get to hear it one day.

[MisterNoisy]

Sadly, its not.  The neighbor in question is a fairly recent situation.

[Signe]

We have the Mr. Men books in the US, don't we?  Mr. Messy was my fav.

[Soln]

Mr.Bump fo life

[Ironwood]

Tru Dat ;  Double Tru.

[Yegolev]

My son put this on the Amazon list.  But, read the top customer Q&A:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GA1298S/

[HaemishM]

BRILLIANT!

[HaemishM]

Why no, Mr. Client, I do not think it would be a good idea to try to launch a new site at 6 pm on the Friday night of a Holiday Weekend. And no, I will not be available for said launch if you tell me about it the day before a holiday.

... the fuck is wrong with some people?

[Merusk]

I work 16-18 hours a day 7 days a week and so should you, you lazy fuck. No, I don't care that I make money all those hours and you're actually costing yourself money when you do it. This is why you aren't a success. You aren't willing to sacrifice to get ahead and get a leg up. The work you put in now will pay off if you were only willing to do it and then you too would be making money all those hours. If only you weren't so lazy and self-interested.

That's the internal monologue of the Type A business achiever. That's what's wrong with some people.

[schild]

Broad strokes there. I work as little as possible and wish everyone else could do the same (and I'm pretty sure I'm as Type A as they come). But I'm also the absolute least demanding guy on the planet. I tried to get my partner to stop working fridays for the first two years we were in business. He finally did in year 3 and his life is better for it.

[Abagadro]

My wife's family is having Thanksgiving dinner at 6:45 at night. Am I the only one that thinks Thanksgiving dinner should be at 3:00 p.m., 4 tops?

[Chimpy]

That is pretty late. We always do it early afternoon.

[Rendakor]

We're doing it at 2pm and it's always been between 1pm and 3pm around here, but it's sort of bizarre given that dinner is typically a 5pm-6pm affair.

[Abagadro]

Need enough time to take a nap after and then eat more when you wake up.

[Chimpy]

Need enough time to take a nap after and then eat more when you wake up.

This.

[Samwise]

sort of bizarre given that dinner is typically a 5pm-6pm affair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner#History

In Europe, the fashionable hour for dinner began to be incrementally postponed during the 18th century, to two and three in the afternoon, until at the time of the First French Empire an English traveler to Paris remarked upon the "abominable habit of dining as late as seven in the evening".

[Abagadro]

The double whammy is they are never on time so it will more likely be 8:00. Bleh.

[Sky]

We're 'compromising' by having it at 4:30 this year. Her mother wants it at 5, my family always does it 1-2 in the afternoon. Our rule is the oldest person makes the rules.

Of course, this means everyone else counts the years until the oldest person dies and we can go back to the normal time.

[Abagadro]

Need to figure out which MST3K's to break out for Turkey Day this year.

[Merusk]

Need to figure out which MST3K's to break out for Turkey Day this year.

There's a whole marathon going on. Let Joel pick them for you:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-st-mystery-science-theatre-3000-returns-20161123-story.html
Marathon Here:
http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/

[Abagadro]

Ha, my son picked Manos. A true prodigy.

[WayAbvPar]

Every frame of that movie looks like someone's last known photo.

[Tale]

I'm employed full-time to do . My boss says do . He sits next to me and only talks about .

I enjoy and it's kind of awesome, but is critical to the organisation. I point this out, and he says spend more time on . So for a year, I do a "lite" version of while mostly doing . Until the shit hits the fan, and Sales says "you're doing a shit job of and income is down".

Ignore Sales, says my boss. They must understand you have to do . So I tell Sales about . That in fact I've got to do eight times by Christmas, but I will do what I can about .

Sales forwards this to the CEO. "Here is the email from Tale. And what the fuck is ."

The CEO forwards this to my boss, my boss's boss, and everyone's bosses. Tale must do . Yes, replies my boss. Tale should do .

On Monday he will ask for .

[Ironwood]

Strangely, this IS your fault.

 

[Teleku]

Can you meet them both half way, and just simply do  from now on?

[apocrypha]

Tell sales to until they the CEO then carefully do and hope nobody makes you do

[HaemishM]

I'm thinking someone in that chain needs to be told to get fucked but we don't have an emoji for that.

[apocrypha]

 

?

[Paelos]

I work 16-18 hours a day 7 days a week and so should you, you lazy fuck. No, I don't care that I make money all those hours and you're actually costing yourself money when you do it. This is why you aren't a success. You aren't willing to sacrifice to get ahead and get a leg up. The work you put in now will pay off if you were only willing to do it and then you too would be making money all those hours. If only you weren't so lazy and self-interested.

That's the internal monologue of the Type A business achiever. That's what's wrong with some people.

Eh, I'm type A as fuck and I run an accounting department of a successful contracting company. My motto is, "Get the job done, and I won't have to get involved. And you don't want me involved."

The older people (see: over 50) in our office wonder why my group doesn't work 8 hour days consistently. I tell them because they are salaried to get a job done, and if they don't like that, give our group more to do or better yet mind their own fucking business about their end of the business.

[apocrypha]

Had to add a note onto my shopping list this morning. The woman on the supermarket checkout thought it was funny, we laughed, I dribbled blood down my chin. Good times.

[rattran]

Had to do that for the last bout of laryngitis, my voice was down to a hoarse squeak. No one seemed to think it was funny.

[Signe]

Aww, poor Rattran.  If it makes you feel better, I would have definitely laughed at you! 

[Yegolev]

My wife's family is having Thanksgiving dinner at 6:45 at night. Am I the only one that thinks Thanksgiving dinner should be at 3:00 p.m., 4 tops?

Does this not interfere with football?  Sorry, dude.

[Yegolev]

Ignore Sales, says my boss.

... and he was never heard from again.