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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 07-31-2003 01:06 PM

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I need to pee. Yeah... I think I'll pee now."

Joe, you're TOO MUCH! I'm rolling!! [Big Grin]

Bobby, I hear ya, bro! My first wife tried to give me that "I need my freedom" crap. So I told her to go be with him.

Evans, I knew a guy in Louisville who was in the exact same predicament you are. I know's it's easy to say, but you will eventually find someone -- there's at least one match for everyone.

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Ian Price
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1714
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99

posted 07-31-2003 01:29 PM

Evans,

I wouldn't get too worked up about #7. I'd get worried when the sluty girls stop hitting on you.

So, how you doing? [i]From the sluty looking girl to the left of this message. [Big Grin]

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Rachel Craven
Madam Moderator

Posts: 2190
From: Pensacola, FL
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 07-31-2003 07:53 PM

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8. Underage people that hit on me. Ugh.

9. Guys that hit on me, show interest, and never talk to me again once they find out I don't want sex.

Damn, just getting hit on is a compliment...and you get angry by it! I wish I had that problem... [Big Grin]

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 07-31-2003 08:54 PM

Things that make me angry at work:
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1. I'm working on a tough graphics project with a bitch of a deadline and someone keeps walking up behind looking over my shoulder to see how its going.

2. Thunderstorms. Unplug everything. Stop work. Get bored. [sleep]

3. Sometimes mice invade our factory in the wintertime. We set out rat poison. The little bastards climb into the walls before they die. And then their decomposing bodies stink up the office! Dammit! [puke]

4. Zip discs that get corrupt.

5. Telemarketers that lie to people answering the front office phone. They claim to be a personal friend of mine to get through.

6. When people wait until I'm damned near finished with a design project to put in their creative two cents. It makes me want to scream, "I'm not throwing away hours of work and starting all over just to include your brain dead idea you sick, twisted f**k!!!" But I just keep it to myself, simmer and burn an ulcer through my stomach.

7. Customers that request changes which force me to start a design all over again from scratch. And then they want to see TWO versions of the new ideas. AAARRRRGGGGH!

8. Competing sign companies and unethical customers that plagiarize my design work. Cheap-ass scumbags will come to my company first, have us do the survey work, visual problem solving and design development to prepare an accurate, fair bid. And then they'll try to get a cheaper sign company to work from my COPYRIGHTED sketch! [Mad]

9. Competitors who think they're as good a graphic artist as I because they use the same applications. This is in spite of most having no talent, no formal training, certainly no degree and little (if any) honestly bought and registered software. Hobbyists and amateurs can download off KaZaa to their heart's content. But hacks that underbid me on sign work and freelance work shouldn't be doing it.

10. Idiots at competing sign companies who routinely commit "font murder." They all have thousands of fonts at their fingertips yet use the same weight of Arial for everything. [Roll Eyes]

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 07-31-2003 10:38 PM

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Bobby henderson said:
Thunderstorms. Unplug everything. Stop work. Get bored.

Thunderstorms? You should have decent surge protectors on all of your equipment. Also if your building has a water ground that goes out into the street or something you shouldn't be worried. Just unplug all phone and Cat 5 connections. That's it. If you have an internal network there'd be no need to uplug that. Thunderstorms are fun, especially when they are excessively violent and loud. Better than boring-ass sunshine.

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 07-31-2003 11:10 PM

Contrary to popular opinion, most surge protectors and UPS units (uninterruptable power supplies) do not have clamping systems fast enough to stop a direct hit to the building by lightning. One also has to consider CAT-5 network connection lines in the building are great at building up a static charge from a lighting hit. All of the storm related computer damage we have suffered in the last ten years has come through network connections rather than the power cable.

One of my neighbors recently lost 3 televisions, a stereo system, a couple phones and a computer from a lightning strike to his roof. The bolt strike was powerful enough to blast bricks out of his chimney stack. His computer was fried in spite of the power and phone lines being plugged into a UPS unit. And the company that makes the item is giving him the runaround on that "insurance policy."

I guess that is another thing I hate: companies not living up to the terms in their insurance policies or maintenance agreements.

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 07-31-2003 11:48 PM

Yeah, that's what I mean. The majority of damage comes through phone and/or network lines. You can still leave the computer powered up to create sinage.

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Barry Floyd
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1079
From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 08-01-2003 09:59 AM

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The "I need my space" line of bullshit

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Bobby, I hear ya, bro! My first wife tried to give me that "I need my freedom" crap.

My first wife left on September 14, 1993.. to "go find herself".
Since I never saw her again since then, I'd assume she's out somewhere wandering aimlessly... "still searching".

THINGS THAT MAKE ME ANGRY

Potty Training (my son... not me)

Contractors who can't read a set of plans!!

Interest Payments.

Trucks that get 11 miles a gallon.

Windows 2003 Server operating system

Interviewing High School kids to work in the concession stand at the drive-in who think minimum wage is $8.00 an hour!! [fu]

Throwing a block party for all of our new neighbors, and two of the 8 families show up. The others who didn't attend were found in their front yards sitting in lawn chairs!!! [fu]

Thunderstorms... lost another computer, modem, and fax/copier/scanner/printer last week. Same thing happened last year.

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The majority of damage comes through phone and/or network lines.

Yep!!

People who damage your car... say they'll fix it, and 4 months later your still waiting for them to fix it.

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 08-01-2003 06:47 PM

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2. People that are so stuck up in themselves that they won't make eye contact with you when you walk by.

Evans, I've thought about the beef you have over this one and I have to say I feel a good bit different about it, particularly from living in New York for 5 years. Many people grow up being taught by our culture not to make eye-contact. In another time, making eye contact with someone might have been a courteous thing to do. But now it seems more confrontational. People take it as you're looking for trouble or inviting trouble by doing it.

And then a lot of people are also shy. A shy, introverted person can be confused for being stuck up (particularly if they are attractive at all).

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3. People that turn their head slightly and quickly when you make eye contact with them to let you know they're better than you.

I'm not sure if I am reading this one correctly. Do you mean people that are looking at you and then when you look at them they quickly turn away like they weren't looking at you at all?

If so, I have to say I am guilty of that one, but from an angle of shyness or embarrasment. I might see an attractive lady and kind of check her over. But I don't want her to meet my gaze in a way where it comes off like I am some wierdo that is just outright staring at her.

It's nice if you can make some sort of informal eye-contact that only seems incidental and then just naturally come up to her and start talking. But that only seems to work in a perfect world and if you have chisled good looks.

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Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 08-01-2003 08:23 PM

Well, Bobby, your comments help me understand these phenomena a bit better. I guess since Huntsville has a lot of different people from a lot of different places, then if people came from another area where making eye contact is taboo, then they'll continue. I'm amazed at how different young people are now than when I was in high school. Most people used to make eye contact and even SPEAK, even if they didn't know you. Even back in the early 1990s (1990-1993 or so), if you were in the mall here and you looked at someone and waved or smiled or nodded at them, there was about an 80 percent chance that they'd wave, smile, or nod back. Now, the probability is more like 20 or 30 percent. People in schools now must be being taught to be more antisocial. I noticed the biggest change in this phenomenon back around 1997.

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I'm not sure if I am reading this one correctly. Do you mean people that are looking at you and then when you look at them they quickly turn away like they weren't looking at you at all?

Pretty much. Let's say there's someone I want to wave at or speak to. They see me and I start to make a friendly gesture but the instant they make eye contact, they turn their head a slight bit. They seem to do it as if to say "I reject you and I don't want you to think I saw you," but it could simply be a cultural difference in where they grew up and here.

I'd sure hate to go to a place where everyone acted that way. It's comforting to see people giving friendly gestures in return for friendly gestures.

I was raised to be "naturally friendly" to people. Some have personalities that are so friendly that they "never meet a stranger". I don't go that far, but I do attempt to speak and be friendly to people that seem cool, since I do occasionally do make a friend that way, especially if it is someone I encounter often.

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 08-01-2003 10:55 PM

Yeah, if you're trying to get someone's attention and they see you waving or something but still turn away I would say that is rude. They're just basically ignoring you.

The thing I'm talking about is just seeing a stranger at a distance, such as driving in traffic and seeing a pretty girl in another vehicle. I might look over there and see that she is attractive, but if she suddenly turns and looks right at me I am going to have the urge to jolt my head a different direction while muttering, "oh shit, she saw me!" The gregarious thing to do would be to smile back and mouth "hi" but that's the negative don't-make-eye-contact habit screwing up everything. And then you don't want to come off as some lurker dude. It's bad enough that I am a single white male in my mid 30's with no kids or any previous marriages. Basically I fit the profile of a serial killer! [Eek!]

So I'm trying pretty hard not to act too wierd.

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-01-2003 11:34 PM

Speaking of lightning...

Another thing that pisses me off is people who are stupid enough to think that the rubber tires on their car is what protects them from lightning strikes if they get inside their car.

Think, people! That lightning bolt just jumped how far? A MILE? Maybe more? It came from all the way up in the sky and stretched all the way down to the ground!
(Okay, okay! Lightning bolts really start on the ground and go up. I know. Work with me, here! OK?! [Wink]

)

So, what makes you think that a HALF INCH of rubber is going to stop a lightning bolt?! Umm... and it will probably be WET rubber too!
(Don't get me into arguing about whether water conducts electricity, now! That's a whole other rant! Throw me a frickin' bone! Will ya'?! [Wink]

)

When I say, "Your car is like a Faraday Cage.", people give you blank looks and then say something stupid like, "No! It's because your car is GROUNDED!" Hello!! McFly!! <knock-knock> Can you say, "Skin Effect?!" No! It's not something that happens in porno movies, you dolt! Look it up! No! On second thought, DON'T look it up! Your head will probably explode if you do! [Roll Eyes]

BTW: Having said that... What makes you think that a fraction of an inch of silicon (I said, "siliCON!) is going to protect your computer from THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of volts and/or amps of electricity? It just travelled all the way down from the sky, blasted through your roof or some other part of your house and found the nice, conductive wires leading to your computer! I don't give a rats ass HOW fast that varistor (or whatever it's called) reacts to changes in electricity. It's going to blow right on by like a runaway semi-truck through a toll booth! (Yes, I've seen one of those!... Another story!)

To sum it up, people who make stupid assertions and won't listen to a reasonable explanation are what piss me off!

Okay... If, in my ranting, I have misconstrewed a scientific fact point it out to me! I want to know. I'll probably look it up and decide that you are right. (If you are, indeed, right.) Some people actually think that the World Book encyclopedia comes on a (couple of) CD?! Way back when, in the days of Foo-Bye, my parents bought us kids a REAL encyclopedia! I spent hours and hours and hours reading it!

Why do people have to be so bone-head stupid?!

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Phil Hill
I love my cootie bug

Posts: 7595
From: Hollywood, CA USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 08-02-2003 12:57 AM

Holy Sh!t Randy! How do you REALLY feel about that? [evil]

Right or wrong, I wouldn't DARE disagree with ANYTHING in that post! [beer]

>>> Phil

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 08-02-2003 01:23 AM

No, Phil, it's not about the lightning bolt. Lightning was just the "seed" to the rant.

There are people who think that things like Star Trek phaser guns could really exist. Umm... Yeah!... Take all the power of a couple-three nuclear power reactors (Say, "Nuke-lee-er"!) then shrink them down to fit in the palm of your hand!

When told that, in order to even APPROACH the speed of light, you would have to take all the power of the sun and burn it up all at once. Then you would only be able to reach, say 90%.

Don't even think about the fact that, upon acceleration that great, your body would become a smooth, red layer of gelatinous goo on the rear bulkhead of the ship.

I have ACTUALLY had people tell me things like, "The government has 'secret laboratories' where they invent things". It was the very same person who told me that on whom I pulled the old "Cut the Kings" card trick on, only I made HIM (think he was) cutting the kings. {Cough, cough!... double lift & false shuffle... Cough} This kid actually though I was psychic or something even after I plainly showed him!

Sometimes I wish I had been born without scruples! [Wink]

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Darryl Spicer
Film God

Posts: 3250
From: Lexington, KY, USA
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 08-02-2003 01:32 AM

Remember a lightning strike can be equivalent to an electro magnetic pulse. Your shit could be unplugged and still get f**cked.

I believe a good home owners insurance has a clause that covers natural disaster like incidents like lightning strikes tornados and the like.

I believe there is one speed of light theory for travel that exists that if one were to be able to go that fast all matter would become two dementional. I guess that would be pretty much red goo on the wall.

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