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[linnea]

Not familiar with that one.

BTW, I don't feel the need to start a new topic for this:  I met Jough weekend before last in Chicago.  He has the photographic evidence.  The tale of my Chicago weekend is on ye olden FoolBlog of olde.

Oh god that pizza looks fuck*ng magical. Glad that you guys had a fun visit!

[theinevitable]

Working at the radio station constantly teaches me that fucked up spoiled 19 year olds have really weird ideas about how to get what they want.
My previous favorite was implying "you aren't going to give me this position because you only give jobs to people who fuck you."
Which, like, yes, someone ended up getting that job who was also someone's girlfriend. But she also like... put in hard work and wasn't a bitch.
Also, what is the thought process that goes into "I just gave this really mediocre interview where I essentially said that I'm too lazy to do this job, now I'm going to accuse the GM of only giving jobs to people who suck his dick. That'll make him think i'm a good candidate who works well with people."

my new one though, is today.
"DB told me I was doing something wrong, so I went through his playlists from over a year ago and found a mistake he made, and reported it to the General Manager. Now everyone will know that I am awesome and he sucks."
also: this person is theoretically my subordinate. I don't really interact with her, but like... on the chart of the station management, I am directly above her.

also a couple of weeks ago she did something that was arguably... i don't even know the word for this.
using her limited power in her volunteer position to get money by tricking DJs into reading an announcement on the air for the company she works for.

[Doc]

Today I'm going to kick my head until I remember not to argue with people about abortion.
It wasn't about whether abortion is desirable etc (I know enough not to try changing people's minds about that) but rather on how we are taught about it. We had a seminar where we had talks from teen mothers, people from the adoption department of the state government, a counsellor who specialises in teen pregnancy and a lady who runs an abortion clinic.
A girl in my study group was annoyed that the lady who runs the clinic acted like an abortion is no big deal and the women just go in and out and are fine. The girl's argument was basically that the abortionist should have brought up the mental trauma and the morality of it and so on. Except that the counsellors had already covered that stuff and the abortionist was there to specifically speak about the process an abortion which is, physically, fairly straight forward.
She finally said that she was annoyed because no one was there to speak about why abortion was wrong. Except no one was there to speak about why it's right either, because as professionals the judgement call is not ours to make, it's the patient's. Anyway, the whole conversation triggered my 'trying to impose your values on a patient' anger button and... I got a bit yelly. Which annoys me because I'm normally better than that with my emotions.
Anyway, study time.

[theinevitable]

the other day we saw an ad for the new Michael Moore movie, and we agreed that I would be the one guy who would be so upset by his shenanigans that I would go along with it.

"You're.... you're right Mr. Moore. I'm history's greatest monster. I surrender, take me to jail. Take me to jail... here, here are my hands, cuff me. I'm... I'm so sorry for stealing all of this money from the starving children. *sob*"

in other news, things are getting to a point where...
well, even McGuyver had to fail sometimes, right? Eventually they took the show off the air and stuff. Sometimes the odds are so stacked against him that he can't do his McGuyver thing.

[littlefallsmets]

Sounds like that Kids in the Hall skit where the one fella apologizes for causing cancer, somehow.

[Victoria Waterfield]

Sounds like that Kids in the Hall skit where the one fella apologizes for causing cancer, somehow.

Well not quite, because the premise of that sketch was that Bruce McCulloch actually did cause all that cancer. He just didn't realize what a horrible disease it was.

[JorgeFabregas]

Inevs had sex, guys.

[AugustWest]

in other news, things are getting to a point where...
well, even McGuyver had to fail sometimes, right? Eventually they took the show off the air and stuff. Sometimes the odds are so stacked against him that he can't do his McGuyver thing.

Inevs had sex, guys.

Hmmmm...  you may have something there.

[Doc]

Nah, it'll be one of those two part episodes where it looks like he's going down but he'll pull it out in the first five minutes of part two.
McGuyver I mean.

[smick]

Today I'm going to kick my head until I remember not to argue with people about abortion.
It wasn't about whether abortion is desirable etc (I know enough not to try changing people's minds about that) but rather on how we are taught about it. We had a seminar where we had talks from teen mothers, people from the adoption department of the state government, a counsellor who specialises in teen pregnancy and a lady who runs an abortion clinic.

The only right way to have a conversation about abortion is to light the thought building on fire, and sit outside with a "no" gun, and shoot to kill any pieces of conversation trying to escape their fiery death.

[wombat]

Inevs had sex, guys.

Oh come on I wasn't born yesterday.

[Mr Trout]

...hang out in downtown Annapolis all day today and film sailboats. Then eat some friggin' amazing lamb gyros. Better than all the sex TheInevitable isn't having.

[Doc]

The only right way to have a conversation about abortion is to light the thought building on fire, and sit outside with a "no" gun, and shoot to kill any pieces of conversation trying to escape their fiery death.

You see I know this and usually act to this dictum but on this occasion reason abandoned me.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Well Mr. Letterman, that was terribly awkward. It took the audience entirely too long to realize he was not telling a joke.

Edit: I'm not entirely sure how I would react if I found package full of embarrassing things I've done, in my car, at 6 AM.

[jaydub]

Hmm.  Awkward.