Open Bar: We're going to build a bar, and make the drinks pay for it!

[Bruno]

In other academia related news, The head teacher of my department (Industrial Maintenance) confided in me tonight that he had not hired a teacher once because, among other more legitimate sounding reasons, he was "Queer". Adding "He never said that he was, but if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck..."

My initial reaction was a sinking feeling and a deep sense of ennui. Later, it occurred to me that if it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, and you think it might be gay, it's probably Gladstone Gander.

I gotta keep smiling, after all.

If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's probably Truman Capote.  So he wasn't totally off.

Thing is, this guy seems to be pretty knowledgeable about which companies will kill you with Industrial Strength slow, painful death. He was friends with the father of a friend of mine who died of cancer (the dad) in his 40's. He says it was exposure to Trichloroethylene at DeZurik that gave him cancer. Apparently he was working right in it with no protection for years.

He had a nephew who worked somewhere where he worked in close proximity to welding arcs all day with nothing but a pair of goggles to protect him. He says his face looks like hamburger now except for right around the eyes.

He does not paint a pretty picture of conditions in local industrial plants. I have a feeling I'll be putting OSHA on speed-dial when I get wherever I'm going. Not that it's likely to accomplish much other than to get me blacklisted.

[Meunster]

I am the gym leader of fort Lee.

Finally a game that combines my two strengths grinding for inhuman amounts of time, and running.

[Faust]

I tried it out, but wheres the battle system, whats the deal?

[POFP]

Congrats Suu!!

I tried it out, but wheres the battle system, whats the deal?

BUT... BUT... WHY FIGHT WHEN YOU CAN CATCH'EM ALLLLL?

Also, I believe there are plans to add in a pvp battle system a little later on. They're maximizing their income by releasing it in parts.

[Suu]

I had a horrible goddamn day yesterday, and today isn't shaping up to be better, other than I get to go teach a class at 10am. I'm working on a particularly expensive silk tunic for the husband, and one side of it is giving me hell. Something in the pattern is just off and not fitting into the puzzle as it should. The repeated removal of pattern pieces resulted in a silk shatter, and I damn near had a full nervous breakdown. Husband ended up dragging me down the stairs out of my studio to sit on the couch and stare at the TV. Didn't help, I woke up feeling like a depressed fucking failure.

On top of that, somebody I don't know messaged my pro page on Facebook to attempt to buy my Long Beach Comic Con table out from under me, which is rude as fuck. If you miss the deadline or the con fills up, you lose your chance. End of story. I do not share or sell to somebody I don't know.

[Cain]

So, my employers are once again desperate to assert their right to enter my flat without my permission.  It is rather disturbing, how insistent they are on trying to give themselves the right to enter my flat at any time.

In any case, I've told them "no."  Politely.  This time.  Next time it will be "because the first person who steps into my room and I don't know who they are, I'm picking up the nearest blunt object and hitting them as hard as I can with it".

[Suu]

So, my employers are once again desperate to assert their right to enter my flat without my permission.  It is rather disturbing, how insistent they are on trying to give themselves the right to enter my flat at any time.

In any case, I've told them "no."  Politely.  This time.  Next time it will be "because the first person who steps into my room and I don't know who they are, I'm picking up the nearest blunt object and hitting them as hard as I can with it".

This seems more than reasonable.

[Suu]

Home. At least teaching gets me out of the house in the mornings. Came back to a message on FB asking for one of my fabric suppliers, notably, where I purchase my elaborate historical reproductions from. The company is called Sartor, they're based in the Czech Republic, and they are not cheap. So, fancy fabrics are something that I scrimp and save for.

I then proceeded to get read the riot act by this woman because I was clearly made of money, and showing my wealth off, and that it's not fair to other people for Jeff and I to wear these super expensive brocades because not everybody can afford them.  Because it's my fault, somehow.

Good thing there wasn't wealth inequality in the real Middle Ages, or anything. 

[LMNO]

That's one weird worldview.

[Suu]

That's one weird worldview.

I've been a stupid magnet, lately. 

[Don Coyote]

Look it's real simple.

You're supposed to use only cotton or modern synthetics with Halloween costume patterns. You are only supposed to pretend.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So, my employers are once again desperate to assert their right to enter my flat without my permission.  It is rather disturbing, how insistent they are on trying to give themselves the right to enter my flat at any time.

In any case, I've told them "no."  Politely.  This time.  Next time it will be "because the first person who steps into my room and I don't know who they are, I'm picking up the nearest blunt object and hitting them as hard as I can with it".

WTF. Why are they even trying?

[The Wizard Joseph]

So, my employers are once again desperate to assert their right to enter my flat without my permission.  It is rather disturbing, how insistent they are on trying to give themselves the right to enter my flat at any time.

In any case, I've told them "no."  Politely.  This time.  Next time it will be "because the first person who steps into my room and I don't know who they are, I'm picking up the nearest blunt object and hitting them as hard as I can with it".

WTF. Why are they even trying?

My best speculation is that they need the pretext as a means to "discover" something that may be disapproved of already found by unlawful trespass.

That or they fear you enough to spoof policy for what you MIGHT know.

Neither is a good sign.
Hide your jewels Cain.
I'm sure you don't need
instructions on how.

Just don't keep the good stuff
out on the front counter for now..

knowwhatI'msay'n?

[Cain]

Home. At least teaching gets me out of the house in the mornings. Came back to a message on FB asking for one of my fabric suppliers, notably, where I purchase my elaborate historical reproductions from. The company is called Sartor, they're based in the Czech Republic, and they are not cheap. So, fancy fabrics are something that I scrimp and save for.

I then proceeded to get read the riot act by this woman because I was clearly made of money, and showing my wealth off, and that it's not fair to other people for Jeff and I to wear these super expensive brocades because not everybody can afford them.  Because it's my fault, somehow.

Good thing there wasn't wealth inequality in the real Middle Ages, or anything.

"Stop flaunting your wealth!"

*goes back to reading magazines about celebrities with more money than God and watching My Super Sweet 16*

WTF. Why are they even trying?

I don't understand it either.  I really don't.  If I lived here for free, I might consider it the cost of doing business.  But I don't. 

My best speculation is that they need the pretext as a means to "discover" something that may be disapproved of already found by unlawful trespass.

If they want to do that, they'll have to plant it themselves.

And that's going to be bloody difficult with a broken hand.

[Junkenstein]

don't understand it either.  I really don't.  If I lived here for free, I might consider it the cost of doing business.  But I don't. 

For fun, consider making this a matter for the police. "My employer keeps threatening to enter my home without permission, what can I do?"

Also, may be worth stating to your employers that you will employ "reasonable force".

English law permits one person to kill another in self-defence only if the person defending him or herself uses no more than "reasonable force"; it is the responsibility of the jury to determine whether or not an unreasonable amount of force was used