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So... I just got offered a position as the CIO of a smallish entity I turned it down - since I got offered a project for corporation which will rock my socks off, also a pay rise and reduction in hours... I am such a whore! Edit: to clarify, I would have to take a pay decrease to take the job... Synpe: 
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Elaborate on sock knocking please.
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Feb 9, 2013 00:44
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Steakandchips posted:Elaborate on sock knocking please. Well, when you live on a tour bus you don't have much privacy or free time so when you are in your bunk and the urge strikes you tend to look for something to use that is handy and already needs to be washed.
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Feb 9, 2013 01:56
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Wouldn't it be easier to find a roadie?
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Feb 9, 2013 02:43
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Wouldn't it be easier to find a roadie? I was the roadie and the dancers were on a different bus. I did have the costume girl for a while but it was hard to find the time. She was a big help keeping me in fresh socks though.
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Feb 9, 2013 03:03
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Happy Hat posted:So... wait what are you saying you kept your old job/company? please happyhat no
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Feb 9, 2013 05:10
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I think he was literally offered the position of CEO of Greenland.
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Feb 9, 2013 05:12
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It's 5:45 and blasted child has been awake since 4:30. Trying to get him asleep again. Yesterday it was 4:10. Wife can't help as she has mild pneumonia, the lazy woman. HH, can I come and work for you in Greenland? I'll do anything for 8 hours of unbroken sleep a night. Thank goodness for blue pave d'affinois (yes, you heard me right, friend: blue pave d'affinois). Bonus point for anyone who knows which film quote has been reversioned in the bracketed clause). therattle fucked around with this message at 08:35 on Feb 9, 2013 |
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Feb 9, 2013 06:49
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I am in Jacksonville and I am yet to be shot! Huzzah! Once I've actually unpacked, I am going to invite all my neighbours round for afternoon tea.
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Feb 9, 2013 15:28
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Scientastic posted:I am in Jacksonville and I am yet to be shot! Huzzah! You totally should. Make scones. Try to not get bit by a snake or gator.
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Feb 9, 2013 16:30
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Scientastic posted:I am going to invite all my neighbours round for afternoon tea. This'll get you shot for sure. 
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Feb 9, 2013 16:41
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Scientastic posted:I am in Jacksonville and I am yet to be shot! Huzzah! What could possibly go wrong?
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Feb 9, 2013 18:40
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Happy Hat posted:So... Nooooooooo! Get out while you can, before your bigboss implodes completely! (I hope you haven't been getting paid partly in stock ...)
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Feb 9, 2013 20:33
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 My beloved taco truck is back! As near as I could understand, they tried a new location and didn't like it so they moved back. The lady then told me I should have called the number on the truck to see where they were. Immediately she started laughing, realizing that we can only really understand each other through hand gestures and pointing. I have the number anyway, so I can get someone to call for me if they move again. In any event I had an Al Pastor torta and it was better then my memory of it. I also checked out a new mexican market near there and fould they had a decent butcher shop with all sort of meats I cannot get elsewhere. I bought some chorizo verde, which I have never heard of but have high hopes for and some chicharros, the kind with a huge chunk of meat and fat still attached. The lady at the checkout said that on Sunday they sell the "special pork" but it is all gone by noon. No idea what she is talking about but I want in. Maybe I should learn Spanish I think is the lesson of today.
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Feb 9, 2013 22:38
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bunnielab posted:
she was probably talking about "long pork"?
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mindphlux posted:she was probably talking about "long pork"? Them's good eatin'. Specially if you've hunted and killed it yourself.
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mindphlux posted:she was probably talking about "long pork"? So I should show up armed and ready? Also my dog will not calm down ever sense I opened the chicharros.
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bunnielab posted:
I bet it's morcilla. There's a thing about morcilla disappearing by noon.
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Mr. Wiggles posted:I bet it's morcilla. There's a thing about morcilla disappearing by noon. Nope, that had that in the case already. It looked like it was only being sold can into chunks and mixed with cut up onions and peppers which seemed weird. I also bought what appears to be a lemon, lime, and Mellon slice somehow preserved in sugar, turning it into this weird gummie candy consistency. Needless to say it is amazing and I could have eaten them all in a sitting if I had let myself.
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Wroughtirony posted:What could possibly go wrong? My new neighbours are all very nice! They've been helping me carry all the cardboard boxes to recycling, and the man next door keeps offering to lend me his car. So far, everyone seems totally confused by the fact we don't have one, and are cycling and getting the bus everywhere. The reactions seems roughly equally divided between thinking we're just crazy European types, and thinking we're communists.
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Scientastic posted:My new neighbours are all very nice! They've been helping me carry all the cardboard boxes to recycling, and the man next door keeps offering to lend me his car. So far, everyone seems totally confused by the fact we don't have one, and are cycling and getting the bus everywhere. The reactions seems roughly equally divided between thinking we're just crazy European types, and thinking we're communists. In Florida, most people think that's the same thing. I hope the no car thing does work out for you bums.
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Feb 12, 2013 05:40
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Welcome to America! If I recall, most of this thread was saying that you would be nuts not to have a car in Florida too.
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Feb 12, 2013 05:44
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Last time I went to Florida, I was twelve. But holy hell, do I still remember the humidity. Get a car!
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Feb 12, 2013 11:47
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Get a car with a dehumidifier.
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Vlex posted:Last time I went to Florida, I was twelve. But holy hell, do I still remember the humidity. Get a car! Sometimes it feels like the air is attacking your lungs! Scientcy, I appreciate your rugged individualism, but the bike is gonna get OLD come the hot months of summer. 90 degrees at 50% humidity is drat nice, at 95%+, not so nice.
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Squashy Nipples posted:Sometimes it feels like the air is attacking your lungs! Going to have to agree here, I live in SC on the SC/GA border, and even being pretty much right on the river. 80% humidity @ 95+ is sucky. It will definitely not leave you in any condition to work, unless your job is a gym jock, and even then you'll need to take a shower when you get there. Ugh. Public transit might be okay if you don't have to walk more than 2-3 blocks to and from bus stops.
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Squashy Nipples posted:Sometimes it feels like the air is attacking your lungs! Get a car; the humidity is worse than Southeast Asia and I swore I'd never step foot in such a place again. Until I visited Florida in August. 
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Scientastic posted:My new neighbours are all very nice! They've been helping me carry all the cardboard boxes to recycling, and the man next door keeps offering to lend me his car. So far, everyone seems totally confused by the fact we don't have one, and are cycling and getting the bus everywhere. The reactions seems roughly equally divided between thinking we're just crazy European types, and thinking we're communists. Floridian lurker chiming in to agree with everyone else. The weather is rough in the summer time and the public transportation is even worse. You should get a car, and make it a Mini Cooper or a Fiat just to troll your neighbors more.
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Not only should you get a car, you should get a unique car. Like a Dauphine. Anyway I think I've finished booking my honeymoon trip through the UK, and I've got a nice mix of cool B&Bs and old castles/manor houses to stay in. Except for London, which doesn't seem to have the option really. I've got to say, the UK really does have a lot better options for neat and cozy places to stay than the US does.
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Wiggles let me know when you will be in London - we can go eat a food.
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Steakandchips posted:Wiggles let me know when you will be in London - we can go eat a food. I second this.
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I can't even bike to work in the summer months and I only live like 2 miles from my work and in NC. I get drenched in sweat in no time. fake edit: something something I'm a fatass.
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Are you coming to Edinburgh Wiggles?
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Yep, going there too. Where to eat in Edinburgh, btw?
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Yep, going there too. Ondine. The Cambridge bar.
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Made my first attempt at kimchi on Monday. I just tasted some, and checked that it was actually fermenting, which I wasn't sure about. I can easily hear it fizzing away, so no doubts now on that front! Flavour was not very strong. It tasted a bit watery. On Tuesday morning I saw that there was very little liquid in the jars so I topped them up with brine. That probably accounts for it. Hopefully as it ferments the flavours will meld and strengthen. I'm rather pleased it isn't a total disaster though! It's pretty easy, so I can make another batch at some point and hopefully rectify my errors.
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Goddamn - Mrs. Hat is ruining my amazon account.. I keep getting recommendations based on big titted babes with beaus in heat.... gently caress!
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Some of this is positively pornographic in nature! ....and not in a good way! Edit: amazon are refusing to split my account.... I am now telling them that my recommendation list is cruel and unusual through its pornographic nature... Basically that they're in deep violation of my human rights... Goddamn - we spend more than 1k a year on this poo poo Edit2 : Now I am claiming divorce and split of assets. Due to psychological mistreatment due to exposing me to pornographic content on amazon... Edit3: They understand - but we are not married in the eyes of Amazon, and are unable to split accounts due to mere trifles like divorces or deaths or anything like that! Happy Hat fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Feb 13, 2013 |
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Feb 13, 2013 23:23
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Happy Hat posted:Some of this is positively pornographic in nature! Titles please! What's Fifty Shades of Grey in Danish?
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We do not read books in Danish on the kindles - we only use them for English, Italian and French reading. I will _not_ look into what the gently caress it is she is reading, but from her squeals of joy I know it cannot be good! How the gently caress are electronic assets not to be handled like immaterial assets? I mean - we can now goddamn trade named accounts freely, why the hell can't I swap a book from my account to my wifes? The good thing about this is that when I burn my wifes kindle, the kids will never know what was on it!
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