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mkrupar
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WFL? Opinions - Unpop or Not, Irritations - Irrational or Not
Me? I'm having chicken salad with a wrap and cucumbers. Then I have popcorn for a snack later this afternoon.
Irritation - I hate when a client acts like I'm making something up. We have to tax certain things at my job and tax laws are set by VA. It should be enough for me to explain to the client what the taxes are and why they are assessed. No, this client wants the actual law/rule from the VA Department of Taxation because she doesn't believe what I'm telling her.
Opinion - I think for our country's worst offenders someone should create sensory deprivation chambers. Suspend them in a substance that doesn't allow them to feel, smell, touch, taste, see. Keep them alive, but I think being deprived of senses, and essentially beling left in the dark, could be a fate worse than death.
Irritation - I hate when a client acts like I'm making something up. We have to tax certain things at my job and tax laws are set by VA. It should be enough for me to explain to the client what the taxes are and why they are assessed. No, this client wants the actual law/rule from the VA Department of Taxation because she doesn't believe what I'm telling her.
Opinion - I think for our country's worst offenders someone should create sensory deprivation chambers. Suspend them in a substance that doesn't allow them to feel, smell, touch, taste, see. Keep them alive, but I think being deprived of senses, and essentially beling left in the dark, could be a fate worse than death.
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Re: WFL? Opinions - Unpop or Not, Irritations - Irrational or Not
My textbooks are irritating me this semester. The requirement was for the stupid "bundled" package, so I'm not entirely sure the textbooks I rented are the right ones. Hell if I'm buying brand new textbooks just to get the stupid online access code. I'll buy that separate, thankyouverymuch.
Being deprived of all senses sounds absolutely terrifying.
"Halloween may have loose women scantily clad...
But Christmas has a pregnant virgin.
Way cooler." - anna.oskar
[QUOTE]I read a book (Dean Koontz I think) and the "bad guy" used sensory deprivation in order to force out of body experiences. Creeped me the fluck out. <strong> Please don't do that to our scariest criminals, just in case</strong>.
Posted by Girlie1030[/QUOTE]
I don't understand. Don't do it because you don't want them to have out of body experiences? Just want to clarify.
Irritation - We're having trouble finding a new place to live, and with only 6 day until we have to give our apartment notice of leaving, I'm getting panicky. We're looking to move out August 31, and nobody wants to wait the month of August. Jerks.
Opinion - I think this has been somewhat unpopular, but I still don't understand why people bring their little kids to midnight premieres of movies. They're kids, and don't care about being the first to see it, (not to mention that they don't do midnight premieres of kid-movies). If you want to go to the midnight premiere, get a sitter or, you know, don't go.
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That sensory deprivation thing sounds like overkill. FI said after he heard about the Colorado shooting that he wished we would torture regular criminals because that might deter them from committing crime, and I don't know that I agree. Criminals will commit crime, usually regardless of consequence. That dude is obviously very ill, and even though his crime was planned, threat of torture may not have changed his mind to commit it.
My irritation is that our office phones don't work. That means I have to use my cell if I need to make a call, or our president needs to call my cell. I had to change a flight yesterday and spent over an hour on the phone with jetblue, on my cell phone, which is harder to cradle between my shoulder and head than a regular handset.
Still early here, but I will be having a hummus and veggie wrap for lunch.
Unpop Op/ I judge- people who do not know how to hold a fork and knife properly when cutting a piece of meat.
Mkrup - it's because during these OOB experiences, they were able to kill others.
[QUOTE]LTB, yep - IIRC it was his own daughter. <strong>Mkrup - it's because during these OOB experiences, they were able to kill others.
</strong>Posted by Girlie1030[/QUOTE]
Oh, well in that case. Maybe not such a good idea. :-)
Irritation: a wedding I'm going to in September. The bride just sent out invitations to her jack and jill party and is selling tickets. I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, until she announced that this was a chance for them to celebrate with all of their friends, even the ones who weren't invited to the wedding. Ugh. She's not the type of person who will take criticism well, either, so I'm just not saying anything. I did tell her that asking people to dress 80's for her wedding was against etiquette, but she got upset and most of our friends were okay with it, so I ended up looking like a jerk.
Opinion: MK, you just described my worst sort of hell.
Books read in 2012: 21/50
irritation- I had to give a 1/2 hour presentation this morning for a class I am taking through work. They could have told us they would be video taping the presentation. The camera was 10 feet in front of my face, and directly in front of those I was presenting to.
unpopular opinion - I also judge those who take their children to midnight premiers, bars, etc in the late hours. Once you have a child, it isn't about what you want anymore, it is about what is best for the total upbringing of the child.
[QUOTE]I'm eating waffles with peanut butter for lunch. My co-worker thinks I'm strange, but I feel sick and it sounded good. Unpop opinion - I think the guy in the CO shooting is going to try for an insanity plea, but I don't care if he is insane, he should still spend the rest of his life in jail. If it's insanity, that type I don't think can be cured by medicine and therapy, and he's proven himself to be capable of doing great harm to others. Also, I think he might be trying to play up the "I might be crazy" appearance in hopes of getting off.
Posted by djhar[/QUOTE]
I hope the guy fries.
Maybe this is unpop? I have been thinking a lot about the shooter's family. My heart is shattered for them. I was really thinking about it quite heavily last night.
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: WFL? Opinions - Unpop or Not, Irritations - Irrational or Not : I hope the guy fries. Maybe this is unpop? I have been thinking a lot about the shooter's family. My heart is shattered for them. I was really thinking about it quite heavily last night.
Posted by AllAboutTheBenjamin[/QUOTE]
<div>I was thinking about his mom this morning. I would be heartbroken if I were her and would probably feel like I'd done something wrong as a mother to raise someone who could snap like that. I don't think she did do anything wrong at all, but that's how I'd feel. </div>
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: WFL? Opinions - Unpop or Not, Irritations - Irrational or Not : I hope the guy fries. Maybe this is unpop? <strong>I have been thinking a lot about the shooter's family. My heart is shattered for them. I was really thinking about it quite heavily last night. </strong>
Posted by AllAboutTheBenjamin[/QUOTE]
I don't know if this even made national news, but right near where I work, at Weslyan University, a girl was shot to death a few years ago. One of my coworkers went into the chapel a few days after the killer was apprehended, and he found the killer's father in the chapel on his knees. He was just completely wrecked. People were shunning him, saying that it must have been a bad family life that caused his son to do what he did. He felt so lost and alone and horrible.
Books read in 2012: 21/50
[QUOTE]I am having a chipotle chicken salad quesidilla. Yummy irritation- I had to give a 1/2 hour presentation this morning for a class I am taking through work. They could have told us they would be video taping the presentation. The camera was 10 feet in front of my face, and directly in front of those I was presenting to. <strong>unpopular opinion - I also judge those who take their children to midnight premiers, bars, etc in the late hours. Once you have a child, it isn't about what you want anymore, it is about what is best for the total upbringing of the child. </strong>
Posted by ski2play[/QUOTE]
<div>I'm with you on this, especially the bars part. We would have people bring their infants...in their car carriers...in to the bar at Bdubs. It was also the smoking section as well. I can't imagine exposing your child to all that second hand smoke, especially an infant who can't express how much they don't like it.</div>
I don't really know why someone would bring a baby or infant or whatever to a midnight movie, but I don't really have problems with kids being there. Maybe those kids are BIG fans of Batman, Spiderman, whatever - they would remember forever how special it was that mom and dad took them to see a MIDNIGHT showing of a movie you had been waiting for for a long time, and to see it before lots of your friends? I dunno. I just don't mind it.
Wedding stuff.
Irritation: My grandmother called me to say happy birthday and then spent 10 minutes telling me all about my cousin and how he is going to be such a great dancer someday. I like my cousin and I like hearing about him, but for one day out of the entire year it would be nice if my family paid a little bit more attention to me and what I am doing.
Opinion: As bad as I feel for the shooter's family, a little part of me blames them for not seeing the warning signs that their son was losing it.
Ski, your sig is beautiful!
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: WFL? Opinions - Unpop or Not, Irritations - Irrational or Not : I don't know if this even made national news, but right near where I work, at Weslyan University, a girl was shot to death a few years ago. One of my coworkers went into the chapel a few days after the killer was apprehended, and he found the killer's father in the chapel on his knees. He was just completely wrecked. People were shunning him, saying that it must have been a bad family life that caused his son to do what he did. He felt so lost and alone and horrible.
Posted by baystateapple[/QUOTE]
Um, I am legit crying at my desk right now after reading this.
So to me, looking to the parents to see what they did wrong, is just, well, wrong.
Lunch? Hm, probably a couple chips or whatever I can throw into my mouth quickly!
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