Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So

sick

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Well, if everyone's calling it a day, I guess I'll just take a nap, then.

[LMNO]

Company Holiday Party is tonight.  4:30 - 7:00.  In a confrence room.


Party anuimals, i tell you.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Company Holiday Party is tonight.  4:30 - 7:00.  In a confrence room.


Party anuimals, i tell you.

What the actual fuck?  I didn't know you worked for a software startup.   

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Company Holiday Party is tonight.  4:30 - 7:00.  In a confrence room.


Party anuimals, i tell you.

Wow. That's... something.

Will they have fizzy water? Or is that too hardcore?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Y'know, with the notable exceptions of Cain and Bear, I think just about everyone ITT has sounded like a cassowary receiving a steam-pipe enema for the last 4 or 5 pages days.

Gee, yeah, thanks. Because obviously it makes perfect sense that if somebody's mad at me for something I didn't do, I am equally at fault.

Where did I say anything about fault?

Basically what I got out of it is that if someone unfoundedly accuses another person of being a jerk, and that person protests, they're BOTH being equally unreasonable.

[LMNO]

Company Holiday Party is tonight.  4:30 - 7:00.  In a confrence room.


Party anuimals, i tell you.

Wow. That's... something.

Will they have fizzy water? Or is that too hardcore?

There is a rumor of wine.  This could be appealing.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Company Holiday Party is tonight.  4:30 - 7:00.  In a confrence room.


Party anuimals, i tell you.

Wow. That's... something.

Will they have fizzy water? Or is that too hardcore?

There is a rumor of wine.  This could be appealing.

Wine is nice.

[LMNO]

A friend of mine works at a company that has this: http://www.genuineinteractive.com/genuineideers/

You tweet something with the hashtag #GenuineiDeers and the animatronic deerhead says it.


My friend is sitting right next to it.  Have fun!

[East Coast Hustle]

And I'm not excluding myself from that. I have been a little...touchy lately. But I do try to have the good grace to not bring it here. but you fuckers are making it tough.

Yeah, I know.  When Coyote does it, he's a "solid dude".  When Nigel or I respond, we're making it really tough on you.

But that's because we're chopped liver.

No, actually his shitty little interjection made me rethink my opinion. But there's not much point in responding to someone who only seems interested in popping in to tell everyone what an asshole they are so I didn't bother.

I gotta say though, this thing where people say dumb/insulting/unfortunate shit and you make it all about you for the next 3 days gets a little old. People do the same shit to me every day of my life but I just chalk it up to the unfortunate course of daily events and get on with things. I mean, we've now spent how much time examining the particulars of some stupid little spat on the internet?

Fine, I'll break it down so everyone can stop whinging (love that word, Brits) about it.

ROGER: You're a dick. You're the right KIND of dick, and for the right reasons, but primates being what they are not everybody appreciates it especially when they find themselves in the crosshairs. To them I say: C'est la vie, assholes. To you I say: It's a noble calling but you gotta be able to shrug off the fallout.

COYOTE: Dude, seriously, what is your fucking problem? You are NOT acting like a biped about this. Worse, you seem intent on being unwilling to even consider acting like a biped, as though it ennobles you to screech and dig your heels in when you clearly misunderstood the very thing you decided to get so pissed off about.

NIGEL: You're a dick. You're the right KIND of dick, and for the right reasons....wait, I think we've already covered this elsewhere. I am absolutely NOT defending anybody's abusive behavior but that doesn't preclude me from pointing out that if you frequently use "aggressively inflammatory" as a rhetorical tactic it makes it difficult for most people to see past their emotional response to the meat of your message.

TWID: Dude, I can't even begin to pretend there would ever be a good reason to text/PM/whatever one person to tell them that another person was talking about them on a message board. That's some serious 5th grade shit there, and you're better than that. Knock that shit off. It's nonya anyway.

STELLA: I really don't see where you had any business sticking your nose in any of it either. And wow, that shit you said to Alty was pretty fucked-up.

ALTY: Y'know, I've spent a fair amount of my life in an isolated mostly-frozen wilderness full of drunks and fuck-ups and I had to get the fuck out and I'm pretty sure my frozen drunken wilderness was a goddamn utopian metropolis compared to yours. Offering a man advice on a situation that involves family ties is a dumb thing to do, but I'm a dumb man and I offer it with the best of intentions: Get the fuck OUT of there, man. If you're constantly miserable your kid will pick up on that and you won't be doing him any favors in the long run.

ECH: It's 1pm on your day off. Get off the goddamn internet and go outside you lazy fuck.

[LMNO]

Ok, I can see where you're coming from.

You right kind of dick, you.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I have it on reliable authority that I am the wrong kind of dick, and my chromosomes are all fucking squishy.

[East Coast Hustle]

Y'know, with the notable exceptions of Cain and Bear, I think just about everyone ITT has sounded like a cassowary receiving a steam-pipe enema for the last 4 or 5 pages days.

Gee, yeah, thanks. Because obviously it makes perfect sense that if somebody's mad at me for something I didn't do, I am equally at fault.

Where did I say anything about fault?

Basically what I got out of it is that if someone unfoundedly accuses another person of being a jerk, and that person protests, they're BOTH being equally unreasonable.

Well I don't know how you got that, but it doesn't resemble anything I said.

[East Coast Hustle]

I have it on reliable authority that I am the wrong kind of dick, and my chromosomes are all fucking squishy.

That's good, it allows them to fit into spaces other chromosomes can't reach.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I have it on reliable authority that I am the wrong kind of dick, and my chromosomes are all fucking squishy.

That's good, it allows them to fit into spaces other chromosomes can't reach.

This explains so much.  So much.

Mostly about those missing 2 weeks I spent in the desert in 2005.