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CharlesM posted:Yeah, the origins are basically phrenology type stuff justifying certain "races" being superior. Down syndrome was called Mongolian idiocy. 0_0 Daaaaamn no wonder I havent heard that used for 30 years. That's some hosed up stupidity.
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Nov 23, 2016 11:05
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My dome is shorting out if u know what I mean
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Nov 23, 2016 11:09
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Enourmo posted:Yall have the most respectful political discourse I think I've seen anywhere, way to reinforce my view that AI is good people. Politics chat this month ITT has been well done and appreciated, given the lovely political things that have happened this year.
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Nov 23, 2016 11:13
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:0_0 I'm not sure the guy was trying to be racist when he called it "Mongolian idiocy" because he thought people with Downs looked like "Mongoloids", and the scientific thinking of the time was still pretty hosed up. He was against people using that kind of thinking to justify slavery. Anyways I'm not a historian or anything so no doubt I'm oversimplifying stuff a bunch. Anyways it's one of those things like "gypped" where you don't even realize the origin is kind of hosed up.
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Nov 23, 2016 12:02
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funny Star Wars parody posted:My dome is shorting out if u know what I mean She got a mouthful?
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Nov 23, 2016 13:33
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Goober Peas posted:She got a mouthful? ew gross dude i was talking about my brain
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Nov 23, 2016 16:11
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About to speak in front of 700 people. Don't want to say I'm nervous, but it's in the 50s and I'm pouring sweat.
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Nov 23, 2016 16:27
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Picture everyone naked. Also don't let that thought arouse you as having a tent pole in your trousers is probably far more stressful than speaking to people.
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Nov 23, 2016 16:36
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Combining the two is where the legal grey area starts, though.
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Nov 23, 2016 18:01
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make a really awkward joke so everyone is as nervous as you are
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Nov 23, 2016 18:35
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Picture everyone naked. Also don't let that thought arouse you as having a tent pole in your trousers is probably far more stressful than speaking to people. Counterpoint, get horrifyingly energetically aroused. No-over will be listening to what you're saying if you repeatedly bang your boner against the lectern.
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Nov 23, 2016 18:44
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iwentdoodie posted:About to speak in front of 700 people. Pretend you're the new presenter on Top Gear! 
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Nov 23, 2016 18:45
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:And here it wasnt used to refer to a race but as an insult that someone had Down's Syndrome aka incredibly stupid. I learned the same thing from an old book written in the early 1900s about a family surviving WW1, and after using it that way for several years was loving horrified to find out that not only was it apparently a racist thing now, no one who heard me say it had called me on my (honestly ignorant) racist poo poo. Which means either they were OK with it, or are now disgusted with my behavior and didn't tell me. Hindsight is great isn't it?
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Nov 23, 2016 18:50
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Lil Dicky is great holy poo poo White Dude and Save Dat Money omg
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Nov 23, 2016 19:03
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kastein posted:I learned the same thing from an old book written in the early 1900s about a family surviving WW1, and after using it that way for several years was loving horrified to find out that not only was it apparently a racist thing now, no one who heard me say it had called me on my (honestly ignorant) racist poo poo. Which means either they were OK with it, or are now disgusted with my behavior and didn't tell me. I had to take my girlfriend to the side and break it to her that saying "nig-nog" isn't exactly okay. She had just said it in front of a diverse crowd of friends. To her, it was just the word her grandpa used to call someone a dope or idiot.
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Nov 23, 2016 19:11
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Rotten Cookies posted:I had to take my girlfriend to the side and break it to her that saying "nig-nog" isn't exactly okay. She had just said it in front of a diverse crowd of friends. To her, it was just the word her grandpa used to call someone a dope or idiot. That's one I've never heard before.
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Nov 23, 2016 19:15
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I've only ever heard it used to call someone an idiot, but the internet tells me it's also just a slur for a black person. It's short for friend of the family noggin. So..... not okay.
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Nov 23, 2016 19:33
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Adiabatic posted:Lil Dicky is great holy poo poo The music videos for Save Dat Money is pretty genius.
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Nov 23, 2016 19:51
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Adiabatic posted:Lil Dicky is great holy poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvHYWD29ZNY
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Nov 23, 2016 20:48
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Rotten Cookies posted:I've only ever heard it used to call someone an idiot, but the internet tells me it's also just a slur for a black person. It's short for friend of the family noggin. So..... not okay. This is like...beyond amazing to me. From the time I was a small child I knew that was racist as poo poo.
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Nov 23, 2016 21:47
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fetty wap is a literal rap god
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Nov 23, 2016 21:49
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The Locator posted:That's one I've never heard before. This is the first I heard it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm3TjRxntQk
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Nov 23, 2016 21:52
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I've been looking for NA miata seats in tan leather, and found a pair for $200 in an ad from a local wrecker, so I called to confirm their availability. Totally torn up, apparently. The pictures shows them in fairly good condition, so I don't know what the hell happened between photography and now, but whatever You'd think that since NA Miatas are so popular to mod, that OEM seats would be super easy to find, and black cloth is, but oddly no other ones. Are bucket seats easy to reupholster? Because at this point, it's looking like less of a headache to just buy cloth and reskin them since I have to pull most of the upholstery off to wire the speakers anyways
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Nov 23, 2016 21:54
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kastein posted:I learned the same thing from an old book written in the early 1900s about a family surviving WW1, and after using it that way for several years was loving horrified to find out that not only was it apparently a racist thing now, no one who heard me say it had called me on my (honestly ignorant) racist poo poo. Which means either they were OK with it, or are now disgusted with my behavior and didn't tell me. Just watch Blazing Saddles again and drink every time you hear dialogue that wouldn't ever make it onto the screen of a major studio picture in 2016. Oh poo poo, here comes Mongo, and alcohol poisoning
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Nov 23, 2016 21:59
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Though the American thing with hating the word "oriental" is still weird. I'm used to people understanding that the word "Orient" just means "East". But then, I don't live in a country that rounded up people and put them in camps for looking too  .
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Nov 23, 2016 22:14
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kastein posted:oh jesus that was a lot of words and I didn't read most of them. That being said, there are a few ways this went wrong. A good friend claimed this was his reason for voting Trump, but he's been spouting right wing crap all over FB, so... I mean, he really hates Hillary. I don't think I could ever hate someone I've never met so much. I have to actually know a person to REALLY hate them, and even then it's more like a really intense dislike. People I've not met? Best I can do is "I really think they're saying stupid poo poo on the internet/TV/radio." quote:on that note, how are you all doing? I am about to disable my daily driver by swapping the exhaust manifold on it 70 miles from home the day before I have to drive it 200 miles to fly to the other side of the country for thanksgiving! Physically? Fine, mostly. About done with this IT poo poo, and especially this outsourcing poo poo. I just thought I was marginalized before. These new pukes in charge of IT at the host company can't seem to understand why I don't think doing desktop hardware support, testing and *deployment* out of a cubical shared with a Messaging (Lotus Note) guy would work. "Well, just go to the lab to image machines." Uh, yeah. How about you let me stay in the room *that you told me I could use to store my inventory and work out of*? They wandered in here yesterday and just casually dropped that I would need to move out, because it had to be a *~lab~* not a workspace, after I asked repeatedly, met no objection, then spent the last month moving my crap down here and organizing on my own time. Christ, I'm 47 years old, treat me like an adult, you shits, not a disposable tissue. God, this is the problem with outsourcing - they don't want to work *with* you, they want to treat you like a push-button bitch that they can point at anything and not care about how the sausage gets made or who does it. I was literally shaking with rage yesterday. Ive got to get out of IT, or at least *corporate* IT, but I have no idea what a sperg like myself could do, and I need to eat/pay mortgage/provide major medical for my wife. I am so very tired, and still 18 years to retirement, IF I can actually retire. It should be an interesting year for the host company, given that they are a major luxury goods retailer, and already hurting. They also seem to think IT is a red-headed stepchild. Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Better. Still freaking out about how I'm going to pay rent for December (there's going to be a lot of begging and pleading from family, since I don't have anything of real value to pawn or sell, and my bank closed my bank account), but moral is way up now that I start a new job tomorrow. Ouch. Maybe I should stop complaining about having a job. Just found out from a former co-worker that he's still sick from ~something~ and back in the hospital. He lost a shitload of weight just as the outsourcing change was happening, got diagnoses with heavy-duty diabetes all of a sudden. He could barely eat. Looked to be getting better, but when I texted him yesterday, he was back in the hospital. At least he was still employed by my old outsourcing company, with half-decent insurance. He's met his max, so now he can go with full-bore whatever-it-takes. Guess I should also be happy that I'm reasonably healthy. Just fat. Enourmo posted:Yall have the most respectful political discourse I think I've seen anywhere, way to reinforce my view that AI is good people. Going to have to echo this. You guys are amazingly civil.
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Nov 23, 2016 22:15
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The Door Frame posted:Just watch Blazing Saddles again and drink every time you hear dialogue that wouldn't ever make it onto the screen of a major studio picture in 2016. Well, yeah, but in Blazing Saddles, that was the *point* - to highlight what racist motherfuckers people were in the 1800s. e: but you're right. No one could get away with that now, parody, hyperbole, or whatever.
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Darchangel posted:Well, yeah, but in Blazing Saddles, that was the *point* - to highlight what racist motherfuckers people were in the 1800s. Oh, it's an amazing film that is one of Mel Brooks' greatest in a career of greats, but most of my favorite lines can't be said in public, so yeah... IIRC, back in the day, the studio tried very hard to keep it from being released, due to how offensive it was back in the 70's
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Nov 23, 2016 22:33
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Darchangel posted:Going to have to echo this. You guys are amazingly civil. Because we're all old and have been bullshitting for years, and (for the most part) agree on how people should be treated. Everything after that is just details.
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Nov 23, 2016 22:39
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The Door Frame posted:Oh, it's an amazing film that is one of Mel Brooks' greatest in a career of greats, but most of my favorite lines can't be said in public, so yeah... There's a concept that boggles the modern mind: something was offensive in the '70s...
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The Door Frame posted:but most of my favorite lines can't be said in public, so yeah...
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Darchangel posted:There's a concept that boggles the modern mind: something was offensive in the '70s... Kinda interesting to think that racial slurs could be said in the 70'sat the drop of a hat but swear? OMG YOU EVIL PERSON!!!!!! Its kinda jarring that esp the USA has a lot of people that will avoid swearing or using the Lord's name in vain at all costs when speaking and yet in Australia? Yeah that poo poo is dropped all the time.
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scuz posted:My current echo chamber (read: Facebook feed) is full of people saying that voting for Trump is inexcusable because such a vote de facto advocated for racism and xenophobia and empowered neo-nazis to crawl out from under their rocks and hold meetings in DC. Honestly? They're not wrong. Most of the Rust Belt bit on Trump deliberately and openly lying to them by saying that the manufacturing and production jobs would come back. That isn't going to happen, and the voters' willingness to ignore the open racism, religious intolerance, and misogyny of the rest of the campaign because of a desire to believe that lie doesn't make it any less true. That isn't how you approach it with them, but it's also pretty factual, and frankly as the fascists come out of the woodwork it does need to be ground into the entire populace that this is what happens when you vote for their rhetoric. But the people who voted for Trump are, for the most part, just people. I can fully understand having reservations about Clinton, god knows I caucused for Sanders because she was too centrist for my taste, but a hell of a lot better than the guy who is currently recruiting white power leaders and already engaging in corruption involving his hotel in DC before even taking office. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Nov 23, 2016 |
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Kinda interesting to think that racial slurs could be said in the 70'sat the drop of a hat but swear? OMG YOU EVIL PERSON!!!!!! Yeah it's a very different curse culture over there
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Darchangel posted:About done with this IT poo poo, and especially this outsourcing poo poo. I just thought I was marginalized before. These new pukes in charge of IT at the host company can't seem to understand why I don't think doing desktop hardware support, testing and *deployment* out of a cubical shared with a Messaging (Lotus Note) guy would work. "Well, just go to the lab to image machines." Uh, yeah. How about you let me stay in the room *that you told me I could use to store my inventory and work out of*? They wandered in here yesterday and just casually dropped that I would need to move out, because it had to be a *~lab~* not a workspace, after I asked repeatedly, met no objection, then spent the last month moving my crap down here and organizing on my own time. Christ, I'm 47 years old, treat me like an adult, you shits, not a disposable tissue. God, this is the problem with outsourcing - they don't want to work *with* you, they want to treat you like a push-button bitch that they can point at anything and not care about how the sausage gets made or who does it. I was literally shaking with rage yesterday. Ive got to get out of IT, or at least *corporate* IT, but I have no idea what a sperg like myself could do, and I need to eat/pay mortgage/provide major medical for my wife. I am so very tired, and still 18 years to retirement, IF I can actually retire. Going to say that it isn't IT so much as the company you are working for. I was in IT in my youth and ended up getting out after the dot-com bubble burst and I got laid off. Worked other fields for years until almost 6 years ago I got back into IT again. I love my job, and I love the company I work for and they treat their people very good. So I think you should start throwing out resumes and just try to find a company that's actually good to work for, rather than changing careers, unless of course you also hate the work, in which case, more power to you, and best of luck! If you happen to live in the Phoenix/Tempe, Denver, or Columbus GA area, feel free to shoot me a PM and I'll give you the info for the careers page for my company and give you a reference if you see something you are interested in.
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I MAY have forgotten to check the oil in my Crown Vic for a, uh, while, which MAY be a bad thing because the oil cooler hoses leak a  Had the wife drop of a jug of oil, since she's out early today, and headed to her stepmother's to help cook for tomorrow. The 5 qt jug now has 1 qt in it.   It seems to be fine, now. I definitely need to get a real oil pressure gauge in there. The factory gauge is actually just an idiot light that will point at half-way if there's any oil pressure at all. It only moves when there's *no* oil pressure. That said, it didn't move, so there was some pressure, at least at the sender. Ugh. Wonder how many miles I shaved off the engine's life. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Kinda interesting to think that racial slurs could be said in the 70'sat the drop of a hat but swear? OMG YOU EVIL PERSON!!!!!! Tell me about it. It's hilarious how uptight we are about cussing sometime. That, and tits. The Locator posted:Going to say that it isn't IT so much as the company you are working for. I was in IT in my youth and ended up getting out after the dot-com bubble burst and I got laid off. Worked other fields for years until almost 6 years ago I got back into IT again. I love my job, and I love the company I work for and they treat their people very good. So I think you should start throwing out resumes and just try to find a company that's actually good to work for, rather than changing careers, unless of course you also hate the work, in which case, more power to you, and best of luck! More the company I'm working "with", since: outsourcing, but probably so. That just adds a layer of impersonality. I think I could do well in a much smaller company, or at least one that actually recognizes the value of IT and is willing to spend the $$ on it. This company sort of grew IT organically over 109 years, and is just now realizing that they are a big company and need to put on their big company pants. That's part of the reason for all the shakeups - there's, at the same time, an anathema for the "way it's always been done", mostly from the new management folks, AND a huge amount of inertia. Lots of fiefdoms being disassembled, with much butthurt along the way. I'm in Texas, but thanks for the offer. I appreciate you guys' willingness to help, if nothing else, as a safety valve vent.
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Can you tell it's the day before a holiday, all the corporate people have left, but us contractors/outsourcers still have to hang around?
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I work in IT, but I'm on the escalations support side for some enterprise/large business type stuff and it's pretty good. I like the majority of the people I work with and I can tee off on sales when they're really drat stupid. I also have enough title that usually the customer will shut up and listen when I tell them what broke, why, and how it needs to be fixed.
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Darchangel posted:Can you tell it's the day before a holiday, all the corporate people have left, but us contractors/outsourcers still have to hang around? I hear you buddy. Going to be me and my crew of reprobate vendors in here for the next 48 hours while all the corp employees and our management enjoy their paid holidays at home.
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