Things You Just Don't Get

Fwiffo said:
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.



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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She says she is single
 
Last night I was at a party and went around introducing myself to all the men and women. Some chap moves back from me and says, "I'm sick. I don't want to spread my germs." Okay whatever. Then an hour later I see him dipping his hand into a bowl of nibbles.
 
Fwiffo said:
Last night I was at a party and went around introducing myself to all the men and women. Some chap moves back from me and says, "I'm sick. I don't want to spread my germs." Okay whatever. Then an hour later I see him dipping his hand into a bowl of nibbles.
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Sorry mate I think he just thought you were sick or looked unhygienic.
 
I forgot to say I was shaking everyone's hand - the customary western greeting.

Anyway, today I booked lunch for the vendor at Trump Tower. I mentioned this yesterday to the other bloke who was taking me out but he said he wouldn't put a foot in Trump Tower. After the lunch I was talking with my direct report and an AVP about my lunch and she was appalled I would spend any money (I didn't, the vendor did) on a Trump property. Then she went on about boycotting Ivanka's clothing line and picketing in front of Trump Hotels.

Are people going to hide under a rock for four years?

I feel like I just went to the Hitler Restaurant and Co.
 
Fwiffo said:
I forgot to say I was shaking everyone's hand - the customary western greeting.

Anyway, today I booked lunch for the vendor at Trump Tower. I mentioned this yesterday to the other bloke who was taking me out but he said he wouldn't put a foot in Trump Tower. After the lunch I was talking with my direct report and an AVP about my lunch and she was appalled I would spend any money (I didn't, the vendor did) on a Trump property. Then she went on about boycotting Ivanka's clothing line and picketing in front of Trump Hotels.

Are people going to hide under a rock for four years?

I feel like I just went to the Hitler Restaurant and Co.
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Sounds butthurt.
 
Today the radio was saying it was going to be the biggest shopping day for Christmas in Canada. The radio reporter was going around interviewing last minute shoppers and found a man who was working at a chain bookstore. You can tell from his voice he's of the rainbow district and he screamed in his higher pitched squeaky voice, "You people shopping today should be ashamed! You had weeks to do it and you have no respect for the people working..." - presumably the long hours and overtime.

Would he rather we not partake in capitalism so he can shill himself for food? Should a retail worker not be thankful of the extra business?
 
Fwiffo said:
Today the radio was saying it was going to be the biggest shopping day for Christmas in Canada. The radio reporter was going around interviewing last minute shoppers and found a man who was working at a chain bookstore. You can tell from his voice he's of the rainbow district and he screamed in his higher pitched squeaky voice, "You people shopping today should be ashamed! You had weeks to do it and you have no respect for the people working..." - presumably the long hours and overtime.

Would he rather we not partake in capitalism so he can shill himself for food? Should a retail worker not be thankful of the extra business?
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Extra business does not always equal higher pay. I'm at work today as well, but I'm not getting paid more because of it, so I'd rather just take the day off.
 
Rambo said:
Can any of you canadians explain what Boxing day actually is?
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Well, my mother taught me that it was the actual day you open your Christmas gifts but we never obeyed that.

It's not just a Canadian holiday. They have it in the UK and the former dominions less South Africa. Banks are closed. Stores used to be but now it's like the equivalent of Black Friday - post Christmas sales deals.

Also a good time to watch Premiership footy and other sporting events that coincide with the Christmas "break" or lack thereof.
 
Thruth said:
Historically (UK 1700's) it is when you gave the hired help, valued tradespeople, et al a Christmas gift (box). Also when you gave Christmas shit to the poors
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Yes - the unwanted gifts you got on Christmas you put back in their boxes and pass off to the servants. And there's cricket.
 
That's when I cross the border and buy a carful of Barbour and wear it all on the way back.
 
Why does Starbucks let homeless people in? Honestly, the bathrooms smell enough on their own we don't need to have a four table radius around the bloke also smelling foul.
 
Fwiffo said:
Why does Starbucks let homeless people in? Honestly, the bathrooms smell enough on their own we don't need to have a four table radius around the bloke also smelling foul.
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You have no better place to get coffee?
 
Fwiffo said:
Why does Starbucks let homeless people in? Honestly, the bathrooms smell enough on their own we don't need to have a four table radius around the bloke also smelling foul.
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And then they make lactation jokes at the counter girls' expense which just makes everyone uncomfortable.
 
We use to have death square: he who kicked the ball out of the square had to run the gauntlet of two rows of savagely kicking underclass boys and those who fell ended up getting a good stomping and possibly a hospital trip. Happy days!
 
I remember the game from my elementary school years. Am I dating myself?
 
Hopefully not, but what a cost effective way to get your kicks. Other than balloon fetishism its a winner.
 
I'm sure that Millenials and iGents (and especially Millenial- iGents™) will be all over this.
But is it really necessary?

 
A pocket sized drone is real James Bond kinda stuff. Too bad taking selfies is all people will use it for
 
Monkeyface said:
A pocket sized drone is real James Bond kinda stuff. Too bad taking selfies is all people will use it for
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The problem is that those drones aren't quiet enough (yet) to allow perv-boy-, perv-girl (or any other perv-y gender) to sneak up on people.
Unless those have headphones on or are behind double-glazed windows.
They could, however, transport poisonous substances to places a human person couldn't. Or maybe explosives, like the big ones?
Wonderful new world.
Just imagine all the iGents in Florence using one for Pitti images. Luckily the flight time is pretty short and the batteries need recharged every 5 to 10 minutes.
 
Fwiffo said:
Bryan Tanaka falls for Mariah

How does she keep scoring younger men?
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That dude is fed up with Liverano...
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People who go to Best Buy and spend inordinate amounts of time salivating over techno baubles. How much of this stuff does one need to buy when it's passe within three months of walking out the door?
 
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