Things You Just Don't Get

Colouring books for adults. Not adult-themed. Colouring books so adults can colour to relax. Seriously.
 
Why people keep booking conference rooms with more attendees than chairs? There's a bigger one on another floor. We're not crippled. Well, we definitely aren't when one of us needs to stand against a wall or hover just outside the doorway.
 
The infatuation of Canadians with Tim Horton's - especially the big massive coffee cups. Honestly some look like they're half a litre or more.
 
I used to work with this Marketing lady before I left for another firm. Shortly after she quit too and by way of another firm ended up across the hall from me in another subsidiary of the same company.

Her subsidiary gets IT support from the UK whilst the rest of the folks across the floor are in IT for my subsidiary. I offered to send my IT guys - they are crammed like sardines and some of them smell, but I told her they can come over to help with whatever. She insisted they must follow their process and ring UK. Globalisation par excellence.

One day I will have to ring Singapore to get the light replaced over top of my desk.
 
Fwiffo said:
Why people keep booking conference rooms with more attendees than chairs? There's a bigger one on another floor. We're not crippled. Well, we definitely aren't when one of us needs to stand against a wall or hover just outside the doorway.
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It is a prank/sabotage, depends. I find it hillarious once in a while.
 
eSports bars.

I walked into a bar that I thought was a sports bar and I ended up sitting amongst the dorkiest nerdiest group of white and Asian blokes in midtown. Service was downright horrible as one bartender was in training and could only be ordered by another staff to open bottles of Coors Light. The one bartender who did acknowledge me only served us three times in 2 hours (yes 2 hours!) and seemed to lack peripheral vision. She doubles as the waitress as well. Somehow she thinks she needs to put shots and pint on a tray and then hoist it up whilst talking to her coworkers so the drinks warm up a bit before she goes on an epic journey to a table. People keep going behind the bar - kitchen staff? Talks of tinder. Most people just walk up & corner the one working bartender for their cheque and more drinks.

All the while, I think some bloke down the bar was the owner. Spectacles. Trying to grow facial hair. Sucking on cider in stemless wine glasses.

Oh right, why is this weird - there are plenty of televisions around but they are all showing videos of people playing games including televisions in the booth. What kind of enjoyment do people get out of someone playing a card game? There are a few showing YouTube or some streaming session of someone playing a game and a picture in picture of what the player looks like. No sound on all accounts. In the back, there are some PCs or consoles with eSports chairs. Most of the chairs are used for dining room seats. I see a rate chart outside the toilet for Gear VR, Vive and some other VR (not Oculus). Then inexplicably the bad Sean Paul soundtrack breaks into endless loop of Japanese video game music; you're calm, you're in the main menu, you're getting ready for battle, you're about to shoot yourself in the head because these tunes make the Final Fantasy soundtrack as complex as Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6. Is this setting in any way attractive to anyone on a Thursday night?

Owner bloke at the end of the bar keeps complaining he can barely make rent with the alcohol sales. For brown you have Highland Park, Crown Royal, Jack Daniels, Johnnie Walker Red. Who stocked this bar?! Then he yells at the Asian bloke to get away from the back of the bar and go make chicken fingers (no one orders food here) and says during the day there are maybe a few pairs of men in suits & ties who come for a drink or maximum two. We'd come for more, mate, if you can actually serve drinks without drowning us out in electronic white noise.
 
I just saw a "well tanned" man with a beard emphatically say into his mobile whilst holding it with both of his hands Allah hamesha or something. Then he snapped his head back.

Am I doing racial profiling?
 
Fwiffo said:
I just saw a "well tanned" man with a beard emphatically say into his mobile whilst holding it with both of his hands Allah hamesha or something. Then he snapped his head back.

Am I doing racial profiling?
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Possessed black Muslim speaking in tongues?!! Allah hamesha, indeed.
 
viaattovannucci said:
Possessed black Muslim speaking in tongues?!! Allah hamesha, indeed.
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I thought he was talking to his virtual assistant and then it crossed my mind that maybe he was activating a bomb. Then again, that must be a really stupid bomb if you have to yell at it a few centimeters away from your mouth.
 
I trade food pictures with my cousin about once a week and yesterday when I sent something over she said she's too despondent and depressed to eat anymore. I reckon because of the election? Her being Canadian makes the behaviour even more baffling.
 
Fwiffo said:
I trade food pictures with my cousin about once a week and yesterday when I sent something over she said she's too despondent and depressed to eat anymore. I reckon because of the election? Her being Canadian makes the behaviour even more baffling.
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Canadians who are angst-filled because of the US election are hands down worse that those in the US. Did she cry when Brexit happened. Is she unable to get out of bed because of Syria.

An old woman colleague was grumbling about Trump at a meeting yesterday. I asked her what what was up. She prattled on about Trump, groping and such and how he could be President. I asked if she fell into the same foul mood about Bill Clinton's or Kennedy's dicking around with women. Of course she ended the conversation with "we probably shouldn't discuss this given the mood that I am in"
 
Thruth said:
Canadians who are angst-filled because of the US election are hands down worse that those in the US. Did she cry when Brexit happened. Is she unable to get out of bed because of Syria.

An old woman colleague was grumbling about Trump at a meeting yesterday. I asked her what what was up. She prattled on about Trump, groping and such and how he could be President. I asked if she fell into the same foul mood about Bill Clinton's or Kennedy's dicking around with women. Of course she ended the conversation with "we probably shouldn't discuss this given the mood that I am in"
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You wouldn't want to "trigger" anything, that's for sure!
 
I'm here at this lovely unheated Saint Chapelle to listen to the Four Seasons. There isn't a conductor and the lead violinist is in charge. He is playing at least a half beat too quickly. The whole concert ends in 45 minutes including two "amuse bouche" and a speech so I reckon we finished a little over 30 minutes.

Such a show boater he was he was plucking to the laughter of the audience. I thought the point of a symphony was for soloists to distinguish themselves and then blend back in to perform music as a unit.

The turning point came when the beginning of winter excluded the lead violinist and everyone played at a normal pace, but when he started playing everyone sped up again.

I thought people in Europe were more cultured but clapping between every movement in Four Seasons is excessive and against etiquette is it not?
 
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Why does Donald Trump keep the forward comb? It's not like he needs it as evident from this picture. In fact it looks cleaner if he combs it back.
 
Martell cognacs returns...but who drinks cognac these days

Uhh - I do.

"Instead, as with most beverages, the best way to enjoy Cognac is to ignore the bullshit related to its image and marketing and focus on what’s in your glass; which, in the case of Cognac, is inarguably French."

Uhh - the definition of Cognac is brandy produced in that specific part of France. It's not arguable or inarguable. If that place didn't exist, you wouldn't have cognac.

"Extremely strict regulations related to how and where it’s made dictate that Cognac must be produced in the aptly-named Cognac region of France with grapes from the sub-regions of Grande Champagne, Petit Champagne, Borderies, Fins Bois, Bons Bois, and Bois Ordinaires—sub regions which are each known for imparting their own flavours, much the same way the regions of Scotland do for Scotch."

Pretty sure the Scots don't go around calling their single malt whiskys Scotch.
 
There's this chap at work who is Portugese. On his wall are three school portraits of similar aged children - I would say all elementary school up to Grade 8. One is a blonde girl. One is a burnette girl with curly hair. The last is red and she's the smallest by size so I assume youngest and most unlikely to dye their hair.
 
When all but one of the doors in the subway won't close at the station, the operator comes to the centre of the train trying to prod it. Whilst he is making progress, people at the station continue to squeeze through the one slightly ajar door to get on to the subway. Why?
 
Fwiffo said:
When all but one of the doors in the subway won't close at the station, the operator comes to the centre of the train trying to prod it. Whilst he is making progress, people at the station continue to squeeze through the one slightly ajar door to get on to the subway. Why?
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Because Torontonians are fucktards?
 
Thruth said:
Because Torontonians are fucktards?
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Ahem - it's my home town.

I just don't understand running for a subway that is obviously disabled and not moving. I can understand running for trains that are about to depart and are functional.
 
Fwiffo said:
Ahem - it's my home town.

I just don't understand running for a subway that is obviously disabled and not moving. I can understand running for trains that are about to depart and are functional.
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I live saskatoon and can say people here are fucktards. I was born in Winnipeg and can say people there are fucktards. There are more people in Toronto than all of Manitoba and Saskatchewan combined. Notwithstanding your love for your home town, it must be filled with fucktards too.
 
People who keep asking bars and restaurants to charge their mobile. How disorganized are you that you keep going into evenings or days without power?
 
Why retirees, in this case one of my parents, want to chase for the latest and greatest Apple products? No there are never any sales. No it is never discounted unless a new model comes out. What are you doing carry a data plan on a tablet when you sit at home most of the time?!
 
Fwiffo said:
Why retirees, in this case one of my parents, want to chase for the latest and greatest Apple products? No there are never any sales. No it is never discounted unless a new model comes out. What are you doing carry a data plan on a tablet when you sit at home most of the time?!
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Why does anyone - anyone - buy Apple products
 
Earlier this year a married man asked me, a man who has never been married, for advice on whether to get a divorce or not.

Just yesterday another man with kids asked me, a childless man, for advice on using Uber and whether you need car seats if you're carrying a toddler.
 
Fwiffo said:
Earlier this year a married man asked me, a man who has never been married, for advice on whether to get a divorce or not.

Just yesterday another man with kids asked me, a childless man, for advice on using Uber and whether you need car seats if you're carrying a toddler.
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It's similar to Grand Potentate Grand Potentate giving clothing advice
 
Fwiffo said:
People who keep asking bars and restaurants to charge their mobile. How disorganized are you that you keep going into evenings or days without power?
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They are glued to the damn things all day? I only have to look to my friends who are helpless without a phone, can't hold a conversation for more than 2.5 minutes without retreating into the bloody device. I can put my phone away for the entire length of our time out or check it minimally.
 
My local MP sent me a Christmas card. I don't remember seeing one from him last year, but I did donate to the party last year and put a small percentage of the donation to his local campaign. He is dressed in a white short sleeved shirt. A Caucasian male without a tan. I vaguely recall he paired it with some pair of beige chinos with the shirt untucked. The wife is in knee length cocktail dress. He's somehow sitting or leaning awkwardly on the top of the sofa whilst her wife is sitting properly.

I'm not sure what message that is supposed to send? I've made it or I'm an elite and I'm spending Christmas in the Turks and Caicos in my warm weather attire so you suckers enjoy the snow?

I would have at least expected him to tuck in his shirt and wear a tie and/or jacket. Is that too much to ask when your day job is to serve the people? The studio background is too bright to be pulling off these colours too. What happened to a fireplace? A Christmas tree even?
 
Fwiffo said:
My local MP sent me a Christmas card. I don't remember seeing one from him last year, but I did donate to the party last year and put a small percentage of the donation to his local campaign. He is dressed in a white short sleeved shirt. A Caucasian male without a tan. I vaguely recall he paired it with some pair of beige chinos with the shirt untucked. The wife is in knee length cocktail dress. He's somehow sitting or leaning awkwardly on the top of the sofa whilst her wife is sitting properly.

I'm not sure what message that is supposed to send? I've made it or I'm an elite and I'm spending Christmas in the Turks and Caicos in my warm weather attire so you suckers enjoy the snow?

I would have at least expected him to tuck in his shirt and wear a tie and/or jacket. Is that too much to ask when your day job is to serve the people? The studio background is too bright to be pulling off these colours too. What happened to a fireplace? A Christmas tree even?
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Did it say "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays"?

You should have voted Green

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Thruth said:
Did it say "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays"?

You should have voted Green
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To be honest I was jolted seeing the card and I tossed it afterwards. That's why the details are eluding me a bit. However I believe it was holidays. Last year I got a nice one of the Prime Minister and his young family. I never received any since Ignatieff's folly deposed my local MP.

Is she single or she's lesbian? That's a strange photograph to have on your card.

Arnathor said:
They should have come to our studio, Fwiffo Fwiffo
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Aren't you against the governing party - or it's okay as long as he comes with a bag of money?
 
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