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Originally posted by: JediSage
I hate...birthday celebrations at work. It's kind of like the scene in Office Space when there's 20 people standing there and only two of them are singing. Man, it's like a funeral. I was just forced into mine when I've got 9 million other things to do.


Yes! Exactly! Isn't it an akward, weird thing? All those people who are supposed to be professional role models, all in their suits and all ready to work and stuff, and they are all singing "happy birthday to you" in a timid way like 8 year old children, with this lousy cake someone bought on a cantina or a deli close to the office... And then either there's not enough cake for everyone, or there's plenty of cake and everyone just gets one piece and there's, like, half a cake left and no one wants it... And you have to give it to people from other sectors or other places... And when it's the boss or something like it, they all want 5 bucks to buy something to him he'll hate, like a tie or an leather cover agenda. And they always do this when you're busy, but when I have nothing to do it never happens... this one day there was half a cake left, and I took home because no one wanted it, and I didn't want to eat it, so it stayed in the fridge for like, a week or something...

LOL we should have a thread for this office insanities...
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Originally posted by: JediSage
I hate...birthday celebrations at work. It's kind of like the scene in Office Space when there's 20 people standing there and only two of them are singing. Man, it's like a funeral. I was just forced into mine when I've got 9 million other things to do.


Yes! Exactly! Isn't it an akward, weird thing? All those people who are supposed to be professional role models, all in their suits and all ready to work and stuff, and they are all singing "happy birthday to you" in a timid way like 8 year old children, with this lousy cake someone bought on a cantina or a deli close to the office... And then either there's not enough cake for everyone, or there's plenty of cake and everyone just gets one piece and there's, like, half a cake left and no one wants it... And you have to give it to people from other sectors or other places... And when it's the boss or something like it, they all want 5 bucks to buy something to him he'll hate, like a tie or an leather cover agenda. And they always do this when you're busy, but when I have nothing to do it never happens... this one day there was half a cake left, and I took home because no one wanted it, and I didn't want to eat it, so it stayed in the fridge for like, a week or something...

LOL we should have a thread for this office insanities...


WOW...Ric, you're scaring me! Actually, I will say that the cake was outstanding. They get them from a bakery in the city that you need to setup an appointment just buy a standard birthday cake from. Really great stuff, and big so there was plenty. However, the entire thing was embarassing for me.
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Originally posted by: JediSage
Thank God they haven't given Mo Rocca his own show...

mo rocca DOES have his own show! sort of.

http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/whoasunday/whoasunday.html

he's just on a channel that hardly anyone watches.

oh yeah. i hate the fact that discovery and A&E keep launching new channels that are supposedly devoted to serious academic-like topics, then eventually run out of quality BBC stuff to recycle and start filling the schedules with "pimp my house," "monster casino" & "hitler's forensic cowboy shark tech" shows.
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
I HATE IT WHEN MY inlaws DROP THEIR kid OVER AT MY HOUSE. ALL she DOES IS EAT ALL (YES, I SAID ALL) OF OUR FOOD AND TRASH THE ENTIRE HOUSE.


I have a cousin about 30 colledge educated a still lives with his parents he is so lazy will never pay for anything and he dosen't have a job.
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Too bad that sci-fi nerds often fall into that category. Or maybe it's the other way around. 30 year old parent moochers fall into the sci-fi nerd category.

There is no lingerie in space…

C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.

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This is a stupid steriotype, I know two cases of mid 30s living with their parents and both are not sci fi fans or geeks or otakus or anything of the sort. All the geeks and nerds and otakus and sci fi fans I know live alone, or married, or in college somewhere, or still in high school.

Things I hate: this past week. Everything went wrong, just everything. I lost my driving license due to a speed limit radar in a place I was not awareof the speed limit and cannot appeal to the decision and will face up to $1000 in fines; at work everything that could possibly have gone wrong did; there was a energy problem where I live exactly the moment I needed to get an email - and it didnt go back until the following morning; every SINGLE time I steped out of work, my apartment, or the car, it started to rain over me, all week... Not to mention some other f**ed up personal problems I'd rather not speak here. Sometimes I wish I lived on an island like Gilligan or Tom Hanks in Cast Away and didn't have to face all those problems anymore, nor face anyone else anymore...
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
This is a stupid steriotype, I know two cases of mid 30s living with their parents and both are not sci fi fans or geeks or otakus or anything of the sort. All the geeks and nerds and otakus and sci fi fans I know live alone, or married, or in college somewhere, or still in high school.

Things I hate: this past week. Everything went wrong, just everything. I lost my driving license due to a speed limit radar in a place I was not awareof the speed limit and cannot appeal to the decision and will face up to $1000 in fines; at work everything that could possibly have gone wrong did; there was a energy problem where I live exactly the moment I needed to get an email - and it didnt go back until the following morning; every SINGLE time I steped out of work, my apartment, or the car, it started to rain over me, all week... Not to mention some other f**ed up personal problems I'd rather not speak here. Sometimes I wish I lived on an island like Gilligan or Tom Hanks in Cast Away and didn't have to face all those problems anymore, nor face anyone else anymore...


Ric:

I feel your pain, more than you will know. The death vigil in my family is over, and the funeral was today. We got about 14" of rain here in one week about 8 days ago, and we probably got another 3 today. My wife is terribly sad over this death.

My job is a dead end, I currently have no other prospects. Parts of my family have been at war for about a decade now, and my health problems continue to worsen with no explanation in site. I try to be thankful for the things that ARE right in my life. I have two great kids, my wife is the best thing to ever happen to me, my parents are both still in good health and live only a few miles away, and I have some good friends in my life. I'm also thankful for this board. A lot of people would take it for granted, but it's a place where we can all just vent, or rage, or joke, or drool over pictures of Natalie Portman, Morgan Webb, Evangeline Lilly, etc, etc, etc. Try not to be too upset...as the saying goes "This too, shall pass". Although if I could be anywhere on the planet, it'd be with the castaways of Gilligan's Island!
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Sorry for your loss JediSage.

Also sorry to hear of your bad week Ric.
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Sean, that was in bad taste.


I hate the fact that I now know that the Eagles will not be returning to the Superbowl this year.
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The Khan yell is one of those pop culture Icon's that I've never really understood. But it's funny as [insert witty metaphor here] when some character on some show somewhere randomly shouts "KHAAN!" and everyone knows what it means.

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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Whats so bad about the Khan yell?


nothing, but don't you think its a bit out of place to post it right after we were trying to express sympathy to someone for the loss of a family member?

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It's ok, I may have overreacted.
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Originally posted by: Warbler
I hate the fact that I now know that the Eagles will not be returning to the Superbowl this year.


Warb, don't you think that liking the Eagles is bad taste?

"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings."
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I hate movies/tv that show 85 1/2 pound women easily defeating 250lb raging male homicidal maniacs in hand-to-hand combat...Pretty much the reason why I never watched SG1. After I saw Amanda Tapping beating up barbarian soldiers by herself that was it for me.
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Originally posted by: Warbler














That is over reacting warbbie.
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Originally posted by: sean wookie


That is over reacting warbbie.



Sessler ought to be glad I didn't use the Warbsp™ on him.
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I didn't use the Warbsp™ on him, I was just saying he ought to be glad I didn't. And lets see you get the Manglers to stop.