Imponderables: Half Of My Mistakes by nvghostrider

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To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
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It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:14 AM

We're falling off the front page. Target relationships...target society...target everything...somebody ponder!

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:32 AM

How far would you go to convince others of something???

If I am really into it I will argue, cajole and totally manipulate to get someone on board with my idea...

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:50 AM

It's been 7 years and I'm still actively spreading the Firefly love. Is that a good example? hehe

It depends on what I'm arguing but if I'm totally convinced I'm right and there can be no other opinion or situation where I'm wrong then I'll go pretty far to keep pushing the point. Even when I know I'm arguing with someone to stubborn to ever give in (someone like me perhaps?).

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:51 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by MsA:
How far would you go to convince others of something???

It depends what it is, and how important it is to me ..

but tbh, I wouldn't push my views on anyone. As long as they've come to the conclusion themselves, I have no problem with their beliefs. I just don't like people who only agree with things because that's all they know.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:28 AM

See it always depends on how passionate you are .. I don't mean force someone, but to what lengths would you go to convince someone you were right??

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:32 AM

Ok, say it wasn't a view on something, but an actual full on argument, and I was definitely right ... I get frustrated and scream in people's faces sometimes :P and then I prove it. If it can't be proved, I get others to back up my point. I always win. xD

~WuS
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:36 AM

LOL you sounds like me

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:45 AM

Can never get too much of a good thing :P

~WuS
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:03 AM

DANCINGNEKO

Ponderable: Ever wake up one morning to find out that you and your co-workers had done such a good job doing what you were hired to do, that you as of the end of the day would no longer have that job?
(No, not fired, just "You guys were so efficent, that there's nothing left so we're going to have to let you go.")

What would you do if that happened to you? (Besides start looking for a new job?)

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:29 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Dancingneko:
Ponderable: Ever wake up one morning to find out that you and your co-workers had done such a good job doing what you were hired to do, that you as of the end of the day would no longer have that job?
(No, not fired, just "You guys were so efficent, that there's nothing left so we're going to have to let you go.")

What would you do if that happened to you? (Besides start looking for a new job?)

I'd tell them to put me in charge of more employees so I can reduce costs even more.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:40 AM

I'd talk to the supervisor and make the case that I should be hired permanently to assist since I did such a good job. Also I'd bring my resume and all my skill list with me and ask if any of my other skills would be suitable to assist... ( like data collation and tabulation since you've done such a bang up job collecting it)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:50 AM

That is an effective employee, one that can work themselves out of a job. Those are the folk management should be mandated to move up, but don't.

I was thinking this afternoon (smelling smoke), I hardly see myself as "the boss" with my suboordinates. There has got to be something wrong with that.

Oh yeah, MSA always wins. I can have concrete evidence, eyewitnesses, and a signed note from Jesus Christos himself and she still wins.

Mostly she is just much smarter and convinces me otherwise.

(Giggles because of her mothers tendancy to do the same)

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:58 AM

NAVYSEILS

Quote:
Originally posted by Dancingneko:
What would you do if that happened to you? (Besides start looking for a new job?)

I'd make a vow to never work to my full potential ever again. A little slacking off time would be maintained in all future employment.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:26 AM

I do not always win... I only win like half the time and besides it's not like we argue or something.... and that was cold and mean... just like my mother

NV
Yes I think you should start flogging those.. um ok I really can't think of a nice way to say semi compentent, overly verbose, idiots.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:34 AM

Kinda wierd, we don't argue, but you still win.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:50 AM

DANCINGNEKO

*giggles*
Thanks..
Bit of background info: This was a temporary job...everyone knew it, but we were told that we'd be working until the end of next month.

Unfortunately, that means (as a low-level peon) that there's really no one to go up to and persuade to keep us all there. (Even my supervisors are losing their jobs.) While we're all probably on a list somewhere for picking up/hiring for the next iteration of job hires, there's nothing right now for us to do nor reason to keep us.

Oh well, I got paid for going to class for a week, and doing a little over 2 weeks of work. Not a bad job (and a great little update to my resume for the next great hunt...)

As for persuading others -- I show them why I think the way I do (at least for the goodness that is Joss)....*heh* I've gotten an ex to watch "Dr. Horrible" and throw quotes back at me, I've gotten my current to watch "Dollhouse" and a few of my collegues to watch "Serenity" or "Firefly" -- Most of the other debates are open-ended (unless we're talking about why NCLB:No School Left Unpunished, No Teacher Left Without an Ulcer is a stupid idea...)

NVG: See, that's where you're missing the obvious -- you need the great divinity itself (not an offspring, nor an agent of the divinity) to show up and agree with you. 'Course then MsA would be all persuasive-like with logics and whatnots to get the divinity to agree with her at the same time...

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:25 PM

Well don't I just feel like an ogre...

NV

He keeps claiming I always win and yet he's persuaded me of many things... giggle

HUGS Neko... hmm well there's always temp agencies.... or I think you'd make a kickin research assistant to some lab.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:37 PM

Women sheesh. MsA has just shown exactly how evil you ladies can be. She's now got NVG completely stuck. If he says "OK you win. You don't always win" he'll still be asking for trouble cause he's just displaying how she always wins.

My recommendation is to drop to the floor and play dead. It probably won't work but at least you can't get in trouble for saying the wrong thing.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:54 PM

Meh, I tend to disagree for the sake of disagreeing. I like not knowing (and not having others assume I do) as I get it at work all the time.

So I like to be told what to do or what is right. Reassuring is MSA's decision making ability.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:19 PM

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey i had so many classes today i missed the new thread ><;;;

here's a ponder: what would you do if i sang out of tune?
would you stand up and walk out on me?

sorry, felt like being silly XD

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:20 PM

*walks away*

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-Loretta Lynn

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:26 PM

*squeaks at unexpected coldness*

*lip quivers*

*sniffle*

that*sob*was*sob*meEEEEEEEEEEAN! *runs to bar*

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:29 PM

ZEROKIRYU

Quote:
Originally posted by freelancertex:
here's a ponder: what would you do if i sang out of tune?
would you stand up and walk out on me?

Wonder Years is awesome.

/ponder

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by freelancertex:
here's a ponder: what would you do if i sang out of tune?
would you stand up and walk out on me?

Lend me your ears, and I'll sing you a song;
And I'll try not to sing out of key!

:P

Could not resist. xD

~WuS
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:36 PM

lolz, thanks WuS :P

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:52 PM

With broken sleep and the occasional knee to the back I've been highly suggestable lately.

Song

Stuck

In

Head!!!

AARRGGHHH!!!

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:01 PM

what song? the beatles song?

hey, at least you dont have Poker Face stuck in your head @_@ most gawd-awful song known to man, yet the pop stations the bus drivers always tune to play it CONSTANTLY. its fucking AWFUL ><;; and i had it stuck in my head for three days.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:06 PM

The poor man has to put up with whirlwind wife.. I can't get comfy sleeping on my side so I flip and flop a lot at night...

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:29 PM

aaaw *hugs NV*

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by freelancertex:
hey, at least you dont have Poker Face stuck in your head @_@ most gawd-awful song known to man, yet the pop stations the bus drivers always tune to play it CONSTANTLY. its fucking AWFUL ><;; and i had it stuck in my head for three days.

I can beat that ... I'm sequencing Tainted Love by Soft Cell in Music Tech.

For those who don't know, sequencing is copying a piece to almost perfection. I have to create near enough the exact synth sounds, plus work out most of the notes (I got a skeleton score of the main riffs, plus the whole vocal line) ... I have been listening to that damn song for at least 4 hours a week, every week, since October ... -.-

It came on in TopShop the other day and I nearly stormed out. Then I realised that would class as theft as I was trying on clothes at the time. Tehe.

EDIT: HUGS both MsA and NVG ... sounds like you could both use some extra sleep!

~WuS
This is not my signature, I have to write this every time I post.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:53 PM

*why* is your teacher so mean? why can't he give you like...Extreme Ways (Moby), or Ready Steady Go (Moby), or Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics)? or hey! even Final Countdown (Europe)!! Tainted Love just doesnt seem worth it :P

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 1:07 AM

NAVYSEILS

I think the women winning arguments thing is true. I'm a pretty smart guy, and I can argue my point fairly well, but there are certain womens who even if I am right and we both know it, they seem to come out of the argument on top. It's not fair I tell ye, some mystical forces work within them.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 1:11 AM

hey dont look at me. i suck at arguing :P

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:16 AM

Wednesday morning already. WTF?

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:31 AM

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Originally posted by nvghostrider:
Wednesday morning already. WTF?

Is this in a "the alarm is going off already" perspective or in a "this week is going by very quickly" perspective?

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:30 AM

i vote for the 'this week is going by very quickly' perspective, cuz when its over it means ive handed in my english essay, have a bbq waiting, and will be going to the bushnell for phantom of the opera at the end of the weekend ^_^

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:11 AM

Probably the why is teh alarm going off... it was waaay too hot to sleep last night and then someone ( it might have been me, but you never know) stole his blanket and threw it off the bed because it's presence made the someone overheated ... and then after it got cold might have given him another less warm blanket by accident in her... ahem or his... sleep deprived and befuddled state.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 9:40 AM

lolz. im sorry, the image of the someone wrenching his blanket away and tossing it flippantly across the room is not only charlie brownish in quality, its hilarious XD

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10:16 AM

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Originally posted by Zeek:
Quote:
Originally posted by nvghostrider:
Wednesday morning already. WTF?

Is this in a "the alarm is going off already" perspective or in a "this week is going by very quickly" perspective?

It's the, "Everyone is doing a good job at taking up my time until next weekend leaving me pissed because my brother is in town aND i GET LESS TIME TO SPEND WITH HIM BEFORE HE MOVES TO aLASKA ON HIS NEXT DUTY, I want more sleep but stupid body says no, my fricken phone is still ringing right to voicemail everytime someone calls and I have to take some PTO during luch so they can fix their fuck up, my woman is stressed because her card was jacked and fraudulated and Chrysler financial keeps stickin' it to her every five minutes, there is some wierd bind in my hip making twisty movements not so fun, my boss is whining because our techs whine and gossip and can use some common sense, my boss is whining, and the SOB I bought a barrel for my Shocker for just sent it out today, over two weeks after paying for the gorram thing. There is also my concern over my sisters kids who will suffer her shitty lifestyle because she can't stay in one place long enough for them to be comfortable and is more than likely with the piece of shit tweeked out beaner piece of shit ( I mentioned he's a piece of shit because he is an incredible piece of shit) that she got in trouble with a few years back which made it so my mom had the kids for quite a while..."

Not sure of the perspective, but I am sure that I need to chill the F out or bad things will follow.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10:56 AM

My question was multiple choice not essay. I'll award partial credit for fear of my life.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:04 AM

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Originally posted by freelancertex:
*why* is your teacher so mean? why can't he give you like...Extreme Ways (Moby), or Ready Steady Go (Moby), or Sweet Dreams (Eurythmics)? or hey! even Final Countdown (Europe)!! Tainted Love just doesnt seem worth it :P

Teacher didn't pick .. exam board did. Its coursework .. as for you song choices, lemme elaborate:

The Moby Stuff: Idk exactly what Moby songs they are (not listened to much, I'm afraid) but his pieces strikes me as hard to copy.

Sweet Dreams: Would, admittedly be fun, but thats a good song on its own, and listening to any song that much would kill it. At least I didn't love Tainted Love before I started!

Final Countdown: is already being studied on the silibus through the "80s Rock" topic. And definitely doesn't have any synth sounds to create.

Quote:
Originally posted by NVG:
*RANT* ... Not sure of the perspective, but I am sure that I need to chill the F out or bad things will follow.

Deep breaths, NV, deep breathes. And chocolate. And playing on the Wii (or another console) for a bit .. that always calms me down (Y)

~WuS
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Smile && Nod, it makes it seem like you know what's going on.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:20 AM

ok, then why is the exam board so mean?

it could be worsse. it could be Poker Face :P

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:25 AM

Lol! Coz that's what Exam Boards do! :P

&& wow, that *would* be torture.

~WuS
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:40 AM

yes, yes it would.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:57 AM

Um.. I pretty much solved my nutty problems if that helps..

NV

HUGS Zeek.. you are just too adorable

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 1:46 PM

DOne.

Partial credit is better than none.

Just had to get away from work for a smidge. My sis is on her way home, I might have a few players for Saturday afternoon, and my Easy Company jersey is in the shop being lettered with my handle.

Oh yeah, I was recruited by a good local team. For some reason people think I can play paintball well or some damn thing.

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:25 PM