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Post by nailer »

jcbe wrote: post #340
NoSalt wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a good way to shanked on the D.C. Metro.

Kind of a funny day to post this (WMATA just released data showing crime rates at a 25-year low)

I have do idea about DC but I don't trust crime rate stats - a lot might be unreported.

In NYC last year someone burnt someone else to death while they sat, relaxed and watched, and in a seperate incident a person died died and someone else had sex with them afterwards.

It could that be crime is lower or it could be that insane brutality has become normalized.

Re: STFU

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Post by fernandotakai »

anigbrowl wrote: post #269
delfinom wrote: post #256

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He was not beaten to death, liar. He shouldn't have been punched, but there is no need to just make stuff up.

sure. he wasn't beaten to death.

but:

1. do you really wanna get into a fight because of this? because dude, i have a family to take care, so i would rather just not say anything.

2. you can easily die from a single punch

Re: STFU

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Post by decimalenough »

sneak wrote: post #184
vondur wrote: post #47

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> Also what's up with the people hiking (by themselves) with a bluetooth speaker. Boy, that one really gets to me when I'm on the trail. Both hikers and mountain bikers are guilty of that. Also, the people with their AirPods in oblivious to anything going on around them...

So, people playing music around them is bad, and people playing music just to themselves is also bad?

Yes, but they're different kinds of bad. People playing music publicly are being obnoxious to everyone else, while people playing music privately are putting themselves at risk. (Not so much when hiking, but IMHO wearing headphones while cycling in traffic is suicidal.)

Re: STFU

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Post by prmoustache »

mystifyingpoi wrote: post #185
dekhn wrote: post #88

Here's one I don't know how to solve: at work some folks take meetings in the bathroom. They're on their phone, they walk to a stall, do their... business while doing their business, all the while talking and listening, while toilets flush in the background. I understand cultural differences but taking business meetings in the bathroom seems inappropriate under effectively all circumstances.

I regularly engage in meetings when taking a dump, but only when I'm working from home, and of course flushing only on mute. I don't have a problem with that, the other side has no idea where I am anyway.

Why don't you just excuse yourself for a few minutes like any normal human being would?

Re: STFU

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Post by moorederodeo »

knowitnone3 wrote: post #360
newsoftheday wrote: post #247

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Also, LBJ allegedly unzipped his fly and exposed himself to reporters demanding to know why the U.S. was in Vietnam, declaring, "This is why!".

his limp biscuit is why the US was in Vietnam? Was Vietnam hording the viagra? The US sure has a history of psychopathic presidents.

It seems he was well-endowed

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/50ej3a/how_d...

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Post by ipv6ipv4 »

MrGinkgo wrote: post #352
ipv6ipv4 wrote: post #347

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> Also what's up with the people hiking (by themselves) with a bluetooth speaker. You're by yourself, in nature. If you want to listen to music wear headphones!! I used to hold this same opinion. Unfortunately, times have changed and now everyone is constantly in their phones, isolated in their own universes, typically with earbuds or headphones. At least the obnoxious speaker dude is present; in a shared physical re…

This is why god invented bone conducting headphones

That’s still not a shared experience.

Re: STFU

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Post by boogieknite »

fuzzer371 wrote: post #357
boogieknite wrote: post #237

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definitely not cultural now, imagine showing up to a hike and the person youre meeting whips one of these out and proceeds to blast rap music. its happened to me and it feels like Seinfeld but 2020s

It is absolutely a cultural thing.

this guy is a white cop and our mothers are sisters

so is this white guy culture, cop culture or what culture?

in my experience its nearly always college bros with fanny pack speakers. college bro who will grow up to be a white cop culture maybe

Re: STFU

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Post by nailer »

knowitnone3 wrote: post #360
newsoftheday wrote: post #247

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Also, LBJ allegedly unzipped his fly and exposed himself to reporters demanding to know why the U.S. was in Vietnam, declaring, "This is why!".

his limp biscuit is why the US was in Vietnam? Was Vietnam hording the viagra? The US sure has a history of psychopathic presidents.

"limp biscuit" is an activity, not a euphemism for a penis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soggy_biscuit

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Post by tsoukase »

dekhn wrote: post #88

Here's one I don't know how to solve: at work some folks take meetings in the bathroom. They're on their phone, they walk to a stall, do their... business while doing their business, all the while talking and listening, while toilets flush in the background. I understand cultural differences but taking business meetings in the bathroom seems inappropriate under effectively all circumstances.

During toilet and all other breaks between my patients' visits I always call back the numbers had reached me. During the flush moment I increase my voice volume. I don't know how it's heard on the other side. There is no other way I return home on time.

Re: STFU

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Post by sublinear »

closewith wrote: post #356
sublinear wrote: post #342

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Yes, that old chestnut. It's such insanely toxic advice too. You're correct that HR is there to protect the company. The original post did not specify "heavy hitters", nor did I ever say to make an accusatory report. HR doesn't have to specifically know who is taking their calls this way. I'm sorry if you or others have had such bad experiences with the most basic of HR interactions, though if I assume you're taking…

> I'm sorry if you or others have had such bad experiences with the most basic of HR interactions, though if I assume you're taking your own advice I doubt you've ever tried I use HR to protect my company from people like you.

And there it is.

It's exactly as I suspected. The only people spreading the toxic advice about HR are the ones who benefit most from making the workplace suck for everyone else.

I can only hope you just think HR is there to insulate you this way and haven't had to test it, because it simply isn't. You really don't want to be on the losing end of a wrongful termination suit. It's only because people rarely bother that you may not have come across one of those. Then it then escalates to worse when all of HR spills their guts about the pressure they were under to protect higher ups.

There is no loyalty after all. It's just a job to everyone else.

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