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The Good Reverend Roger

#285
October 10, 2013, 05:47:59 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 10, 2013, 05:46:39 PM
At least it kind of makes sense when it's related to food, because it refers to a specific process of using all-carbon-based nutrient sources and no antibiotics or hormones to grow the food, which in turn forces farmers to grow in more sanitary conditions. In Oregon it's illegal to label a food product "organic" unless it meets specific guidelines. It makes NO SENSE AT ALL related to lube, I'm like, :? what is it? Where does it come from? What does it mean? I went to some websites and found no answers there.

My food is grown in dirt.

I'm going to die.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#286
October 10, 2013, 05:48:22 PM
JTTP.

I know what you mean.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#287
October 10, 2013, 05:51:20 PM
I really want to know what "organic" lube is. Is it basically aloe vera gel? Or vegetable oil? Why won't they tell me?
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

AFK

#288
October 10, 2013, 05:56:50 PM
"conversation" or "discussion"


In my line of work, I'll hear these words used in very mind-numbing ways.  Like when we are in a meeting and someone says, "We need to have the conversation about how to do X".  Or you bring up an issue and someone says "Let's have that discussion". Or when it gets downright stupid and someone actually says, "Let's have a discussion about how to have that conversation".  more often than not it is just verbal punting.


No, we are talking NOW!


I also hate when my ex-wife wants to have a "discussion" about something for which she has already made up her mind and there is nothing really to discuss except how much of an immovable object she is.   :lol:
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

The Good Reverend Roger

#289
October 10, 2013, 06:01:35 PM
Or when "discussion" is used to describe an event where one person is talking.  For an example, an article with one author and no comments section is not a discussion.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#290
October 10, 2013, 06:05:00 PM
The word that pisses me off the most?

"Whatever".

Specifically, when the message wants to convey "After mulling it over, I have no opinion positive or negative, so I abstain," but what the message means is "I don't really want to think about this, but be sure I'll have an opinion about it when someone else makes a choice."

The Good Reverend Roger

#291
October 10, 2013, 06:06:28 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 10, 2013, 06:05:00 PM
The word that pisses me off the most?

"Whatever".

Specifically, when the message wants to convey "After mulling it over, I have no opinion positive or negative, so I abstain," but what the message means is "I don't really want to think about this, but be sure I'll have an opinion about it when someone else makes a choice."

My personal peeve with it is when it is used as a conversation-stopper.

"I disagree, but I am not going to respond."
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#292
October 10, 2013, 06:24:32 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 10, 2013, 06:05:00 PM
The word that pisses me off the most?

"Whatever".

Specifically, when the message wants to convey "After mulling it over, I have no opinion positive or negative, so I abstain," but what the message means is "I don't really want to think about this, but be sure I'll have an opinion about it when someone else makes a choice."

Oh hell yes. It's used as a shutdown, and it's insulting as hell. I use it in two ways; one; directed at myself, as a way of reminding myself to let something go, and two, as a way to piss someone off, to convey that I think they're trivial.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

LMNO

#293
October 10, 2013, 06:26:38 PM
Yeah, the dismissive nature of it is infuriating.

Pope Pixie Pickle

#294
October 10, 2013, 07:16:10 PM
Quote from: Not Your Nigel on October 10, 2013, 05:51:20 PM
I really want to know what "organic" lube is. Is it basically aloe vera gel? Or vegetable oil? Why won't they tell me?

there are 2 main brands, being Sliquid and Yes lube. They are both aloe based...

Cain

#295
October 15, 2013, 07:09:18 AM Last Edit: October 25, 2013, 10:28:46 AM by -
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Cain

#296
October 15, 2013, 07:14:35 AM Last Edit: October 25, 2013, 10:28:38 AM by -
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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#297
October 15, 2013, 07:27:29 AM
Quote from: Cain on October 15, 2013, 07:09:18 AM
Quote from: Waffleman on October 09, 2013, 02:04:39 PM
'Solidarity' still gives me spasms after having it misused so much in high school.

That is because you refuse to show solidarity with the X people, and refuse to condemn the fascist aggression of Y people against X, which is an assault on civilization itself.  This makes you complicit in Y people's departure from universal principles of democracy and constitutes a form of appeasement.  The good intentions of X people in their intervention against Y, under the moderate leadership of Mr X, cannot be held hostage to liberal guilt, nor the conspiracy theorizing of the academic/media complex, and its false moral equivalences.  The mainstream liberal culture must understand that objectively speaking, military targets chosen in good faith still constitutes self defence and that no-one could have predicted that a school would be on top of a secret military compound.  That X people were willing to countenance a surgical strike shows the will to victory, which will deter future act of terrorism.

Any other position is simply unserious.

:lulz:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

PopeSlag

#298
November 12, 2013, 02:24:47 AM
Nam-Shub.

It never fucking works.
First, when people are having fun, time is said to go by faster. Second, with objects sharing a common gravity, time is slower for the object closest to the center of gravity. Therefore, it's more fun in space.

The Good Reverend Roger

#299
November 12, 2013, 03:59:04 PM
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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