The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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GasBandit
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Pfft, you can e-mail ME if you want... just don't e-mail anybody ELSE in my organization
GasBandit
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We'll still be streaming it.
Well, you know, overseas shipping takes a while....
GasBandit
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And if what I heard in My Name is Earl is true, you get free shipping if she's over 30.
Well when did that show ever steer anyone wrong?
Yeah, but you saved a bunch by doing in-country pickup.They're right, you know
Ha. Jun must never join this forum.
GasBandit
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"Honey, do you want to come spend time talking with the people who made that show where the teacher flirts with you and then kills somebody? No? Ok."
Out of curiosity, what was the reasoning for the change? It seems like such a big jump to go from Rock to Sports.
Especially when you can just COMBINE the two and do all your sports talk in the form of rock operas.
GasBandit
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Because we weren't selling enough advertising on Rock, and becoming an ESPN sports affiliate means you don't have to hire actual staff, you just promote your IT/Production Director and throw the station's oversight on his pile of responsibilities as well. Your expenses go down, so even if you're still selling crap for advertising, you're making more money.
BRB rushing to patent that idea before anyone else.
So we're talking, what, Damn Yankees as performed by The Who?
I mean, it's basically giving you the right to print money.
And dammit @Ravenpoe, I better get at least some small residuals from the idea!
Worse. Damn Yankees performed by Damn Yankees.
Perhaps consider Vietnam?After Sunday dinner, my parents decided to stop being subtle about wanting grand-kids.
To quote: "You know, you could do a lot worse than one of those Chinese mail order brides. And in the long run, they're really not all that expensive."
GasBandit
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The silver lining of just having more responsibilities tossed on my pile is that if the sports station doesn't work out, I'm still IT/Production Director. Though, usually so far, they give a format 2 years to shake itself out before they flip. If I'm still at the same company in 2 years, it might be time to start looking elsewhere anyway, because I've gone about as far "up" in this organization as I can. So if I ever want more money, and I will, I'll probably have to look elsewhere - because our owner doesn't believe on giving raises except in the case of promotions.
I'm... morbidly curious: How DO they "deliver" them over, exactly? Do they get them a plane ticket? First class? Coach? Should I just go to the airport baggage claim and look for the refrigerator crate with air-holes?
Well, since this is an agency, I'd imagine they have Vietnamese girls sign up in Vietnam, and then they fly them over several at a time (like maybe five or six?). And then they're taken to the clients' homes over the course of a day or two.
So you'd just be chilling at home, when there's a knock on your door, and you open the door to find Tommy from the agency, accompanied by a very shy young woman. "Hi there, this is Thanh Kim Nguyen, she's nineteen years old. Please sign here, here, and here, and confirm whether your credit card details are correct. All right, everything seems to be in order, I'll leave you two to get acquainted! Bye now!"
And then you invite her in and she starts crying and you don't really know what to do because you don't speak Vietnamese and she doesn't speak your language and you forgot to specify with the agency that you want someone you can actually, y'know, talk to, and her crying's getting louder now and oh god the neighbors are going to call the police I just know it...
I have to respectfully disagree with you, THAT would be awesome!
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I need help. Someone posted a famous sermon on death here from some guy at Oxford I believe. Someone else, I think @GasBandit said they were more of a Dylan Thomas type. I cannot find that post. I've searched. I looked back through some users' post history. Cannot find it. Can someone tell me where that was?
GasBandit
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Check the blogs. "Apt."
Cajungal
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I don't have a lot of regrets regarding my job. I usually leave for the day feeling like I've done a pretty good job. However, I can't get one thing from May out of my head.
One of our teachers is this really old-fashioned, conservative guy who wasn't happy that a boy student wore his hair long (we don't have rules about boys' hair length). He told me, laughing about it, how he teased the boy in class about is "girl hair." He laughed about it on several occasions in the break room and talked about how it was wrong for his parents to let him wear it like that. The boy showed up to school a week later with a short haircut. He wore his hair long for 4 years and then suddenly changed. I don't know if it's because he was teasing the boy, but that is really inappropriate either way.
What I regret is that I wasn't assertive enough to say anything beyond, "Oh, you don't like his hair? I think it looks great! It's so shiny, and he always keeps it nice and neat. He takes a lot of pride in looking nice for school..."-blah blah, diplomatic work talk. I should have told him that it's not cool to taunt a student about their look-regardless of your personal hangups--and that outmoded views on gender aren't really part of our school's image or ideology.
Overthinking it, I guess... the kid seemed fine, and it might have all been a coincidence. But man do I need to get better at being assertive. I don't want to fight people. I just want to be able to give my opinion respectfully without feeling so uncomfortable about it.
One of our teachers is this really old-fashioned, conservative guy who wasn't happy that a boy student wore his hair long (we don't have rules about boys' hair length). He told me, laughing about it, how he teased the boy in class about is "girl hair." He laughed about it on several occasions in the break room and talked about how it was wrong for his parents to let him wear it like that. The boy showed up to school a week later with a short haircut. He wore his hair long for 4 years and then suddenly changed. I don't know if it's because he was teasing the boy, but that is really inappropriate either way.
What I regret is that I wasn't assertive enough to say anything beyond, "Oh, you don't like his hair? I think it looks great! It's so shiny, and he always keeps it nice and neat. He takes a lot of pride in looking nice for school..."-blah blah, diplomatic work talk. I should have told him that it's not cool to taunt a student about their look-regardless of your personal hangups--and that outmoded views on gender aren't really part of our school's image or ideology.
Overthinking it, I guess... the kid seemed fine, and it might have all been a coincidence. But man do I need to get better at being assertive. I don't want to fight people. I just want to be able to give my opinion respectfully without feeling so uncomfortable about it.
Roll damn tide?
It's okay, I'll forgive you.
I really enjoy the music of Tommy Shaw and Jack Blades.Going off what I've read about human trafficking, very often they load them in cargo containers several dozen at a time and ship them to a major port - Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, etc - where the survivors (usually around 75%) are distributed to the various organized crime syndicates that own them. The lucky ones that are "reserved", so to speak, are prepared for delivery, the client gets a call from the middleman and they arrange a meet and payoff. Otherwise they're put to work in salons, massage parlors, sweatshops, etc, to "pay off the debt" they accrued from crossing over. Of course, they also have to pay for their room and board in their new indentured servitude life as well, so they can't really escape without snaring someone with money to pay it off for them.