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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby Andrew on Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:46 am

Glad to hear your boss relented and showed a little more understanding. Hope you and your family are doing OK.
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby [Q] on Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:17 am

Pdub wrote:Thanks, everybody. Talked to my boss again and got the week off and a couple grievance days to start the next week.

he probably just showed his boss the last couple posts and the dude probably felt bad and gave the days off
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby Patr1ck on Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:49 pm

No, it's just some policy crap where he needed to know how much time and I was vague, but the initial conversion had him comparing what happened when his mother died, saying that what helped him was going back to work to take his mind off of it, and taking my mind off of it was not something I wanted.
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby Bulls#1 on Thu Apr 26, 2012 3:36 pm

I agree with you man I just don't want to forget about it when it happens to me.
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby rise on Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:27 pm

Sorry to hear that P. :(
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby koberulz on Wed May 02, 2012 2:40 am

Is it just me, or has the average IQ around here gone through the floor in the past couple of weeks? I'm not sure I can stomach reading the NBA section anymore...
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby Patr1ck on Wed May 02, 2012 8:48 am

I guess it depends on how low you set your floor.
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby koberulz on Wed May 02, 2012 4:42 pm

Ordered some DVDs (because nowhere here sells Verbatim DL Inkjet Printable discs anymore for some stupid reason) and DVD cases online. Order included two 5-disc cases, and I only received one. On top of that, they left it at my neighbour's front door despite the fact that a) I don't live there and b) as far as I know, they should've needed it to be signed for. That said, I'd rather they leave it there, allowing him to bring it over upon arriving home, than leave a 'we missed you, you're going to have to come in and pick it up' card despite the fact that I was home when they delivered it. So there is that.

After the fiasco with the Tigers jersey and having my card declined (because I'd had to have it replaced, and the bank needed to see photo ID before activating my new card but didn't bother to actually tell me this), I'm really not seeing what's so great about the whole online shopping thing. It's also apparently very easy to accidentally order 10x15 photo paper, instead of A4 photo paper. Or so I hear.
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby Andrew on Thu May 03, 2012 10:11 am

Lower prices (in some cases) and the ability to buy stuff that isn't ready available in your local stores are the biggest benefits that spring immediately to mind. Having said that, if I'd had the bad luck that you've had with it, I'd be turned off the idea as well.
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby NovU on Thu May 03, 2012 12:59 pm

koberulz wrote:Is it just me, or has the average IQ around here gone through the floor in the past couple of weeks? I'm not sure I can stomach reading the NBA section anymore...

Lol. It's the playoffs time that lures lots of bandwagoners and casual fans. I don't think it's a bad thing for the forum regardless. But I'd like to see some of them stay around even after. I mean the forum has gone quieter each year(maybe revived EA live series will help). The regulars in NBA section are pretty much me, grin, drew, and benji these days and that's not much of fun. xP
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby koberulz on Thu May 03, 2012 7:31 pm

Andrew wrote:Lower prices (in some cases) and the ability to buy stuff that isn't ready available in your local stores are the biggest benefits that spring immediately to mind. Having said that, if I'd had the bad luck that you've had with it, I'd be turned off the idea as well.

Well yeah. I didn't actually mean that, I was just expressing frustration with my recent issues.

NovU wrote:The regulars in NBA section are pretty much me, grin, drew, and benji these days and that's not much of fun. xP

Picspam, lack-of-understanding-of-probability tables, assertions that Durant always hits game-winning shots and therefore his doing so is in no way remarkable, and assertions that a woman pressing charges on Hill for assaulting her is only doing it for the money is no fun either.
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby JaoSming on Sat May 05, 2012 2:00 pm

I am FUCKING DONE with my semester :)


Had a lot of issues with open office and Google Documents and converting to .doc files with some of my finals, very frustrating stuff when a single APA or spelling mistake automatically reduces the grade to a B at best.

A little stressed, so lets sleep for 5 hours, wake up, work for 12 hours, come home, sleep, wake up, work for another 8, and then finally celebrate.
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby Andrew on Sun May 06, 2012 1:23 pm

Nice, congrats! (Y)
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby benji on Sun May 06, 2012 1:32 pm

JaoSming wrote:Had a lot of issues with open office and Google Documents and converting to .doc files with some of my finals, very frustrating stuff when a single APA or spelling mistake automatically reduces the grade to a B at best.

LibreOffice has made strides, but when you need things in Word's exact format due to archaic standards then there really isn't a proper replacement available.
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby el badman on Mon May 07, 2012 4:29 am

Well, I have a new French president who has about as much charisma as a damp rag and who's going to turn my country into an even more shameful socialist mess than it already is. I guess I can't really feel too concerned since I live 6000 miles away anyway, but it's still pretty depressing...
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby benji on Mon May 07, 2012 4:33 am

At least he isn't the accused rapist. Or the guy who wants 100% taxes on successful people. Or the racist Nazi-lite. Or...

I wish our electoral system had such diversity.

Also,
who's going to turn my country into an even more shameful socialist mess than it already is

Treading dangerous ground my friend. Next you'll be trapped in benji's orbit.

Meanwhile,
I guess I can't really feel too concerned since I live 6000 miles away anyway, but it's still pretty depressing...

And then there's the local Presidential race!
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby el badman on Mon May 07, 2012 4:55 am

benji wrote:At least he isn't the accused rapist. Or the guy who wants 100% taxes on successful people. Or the racist Nazi-lite. Or...

I wish our electoral system had such diversity.

It's true that we do get quite a wide array of candidates to choose from, from the straight up fascist to the kolkhoz-supporting commie...
benji wrote:Also,
who's going to turn my country into an even more shameful socialist mess than it already is

Treading dangerous ground my friend. Next you'll be trapped in benji's orbit.

I know, I was realizing it after I posted this! I feel strange...
France and the US are so radically different when it comes to polictics, the left/right spectrum here really can't compare to the left/right spectrum over there, especially when you remove from the equation such elements as religion, homeland security, weapon control, and so on.
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby benji on Mon May 07, 2012 6:10 am

el badman wrote:I know, I was realizing it after I posted this! I feel strange...

Mwah ha ha ha ha ha
France and the US are so radically different when it comes to polictics, the left/right spectrum here really can't compare to the left/right spectrum over there, especially when you remove from the equation such elements as religion, homeland security, weapon control, and so on.

I'm not sure it is. It's because we only have two parties (and the laws are written to only allow those two parties), France has a chance for the other parties. Consider say Ron Paul, he could run and get maybe 15-20% to try for the run-off. Here, all he would do is doom the GOP.

So both Dems and GOP fight over the increasingly statist "moderates" who hate people who don't do what they say and need to be punished for wanting to do what they want.

Though France isn't drastically different when you do the run-off. The National Front, Left Front, Democratic Movement are protest votes and then you pick from the two "official" parties.
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby benji on Tue May 08, 2012 10:13 am

MSNBC with some accidentally accurate reporting?
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby el badman on Tue May 08, 2012 10:55 am

That was awfully clairvoyant of them.
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby Lean on Fri May 25, 2012 2:40 pm

Local media should stop this thing about Jessica Sanchez and American Idol. It's getting annoying already.
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby shadowgrin on Fri May 25, 2012 5:48 pm

Despite being Mexican SHE'S A NATIONAL TREASURE OF THE PHILIPPINES!!!
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby Lean on Fri May 25, 2012 6:43 pm

OUR MAYOR HAS DECLARED MAY 24 AS JESSICA SANCHEZ DAY! AND SHE'S NOT EVEN FROM OUR TOWN!
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby Andrew on Fri May 25, 2012 7:30 pm

Hey, if the Dallas Mavericks can be honourary Ohioans...
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Re: Dear LiveJournal,

Postby Lean on Fri May 25, 2012 11:20 pm

:lol: Oh I remember that.

But she doesn't speak in Filipino.
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