Now go do something with your lives, damnit. I know days off rule.
Oh, and, you know, buy a war veteran a coffee or something...but you should do that everyday.
http://www.greenbeanscoffee.com/coj/ <---Buy a deployed US Soldier a cup of coffee.
We don't get a day off. We call it "Remembrance Day" and stand in silence for two minutes, to remember how much it sucks to serve in the British military.
Day off? :lulz:
Quote from: Subetai on November 11, 2010, 03:51:15 PM
We don't get a day off. We call it "Remembrance Day" and stand in silence for two minutes, to remember how much it sucks to serve in the British military.
Same here.
Ain't no days off for me, even if I don't have class today (but I don't have class any Thursday).
But I love my veterans, and I remember that there was a terrible war that had an armistice signed this day. Though, it wasn't much later when there was a worse war that we don't have a day for (at least not a federal holiday)...
If the stock market's open, I have to be at work.
MONEY DON'T STOP FOR NUTHIN'.
Quote from: Hoopla on November 11, 2010, 03:57:56 PM
Quote from: Subetai on November 11, 2010, 03:51:15 PM
We don't get a day off. We call it "Remembrance Day" and stand in silence for two minutes, to remember how much it sucks to serve in the British military.
Same here.
Although I assume in Canada it is more of a case of "how much it sucks to take orders from the British military, whose attitude to colonials is less than ideal".
Quote from: Subetai on November 11, 2010, 04:00:29 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on November 11, 2010, 03:57:56 PM
Quote from: Subetai on November 11, 2010, 03:51:15 PM
We don't get a day off. We call it "Remembrance Day" and stand in silence for two minutes, to remember how much it sucks to serve in the British military.
Same here.
Although I assume in Canada it is more of a case of "how much it sucks to take orders from the British military, whose attitude to colonials is less than ideal".
That would be a correct assumption. God save the Queen, or some such shit.
*state employee*
*points and laughs*
*got paid a day early too, suckers*
*also works in the only state to still observe Victory Day...not so proud about that one*
If I really had no respect, I'd put on my dress blues, go to the mall and walk around until people bought me stuff. Fortunately, the blues don't fit me anymore, and I actually don't even know where they are. I think my mom has them.
Quote from: Suu on November 11, 2010, 04:07:06 PM
*state employee*
*points and laughs*
*got paid a day early too, suckers*
*also works in the only state to still observe Victory Day...not so proud about that one*
If I really had no respect, I'd put on my dress blues, go to the mall and walk around until people bought me stuff. Fortunately, the blues don't fit me anymore, and I actually don't even know where they are. I think my mom has them.
*university employed researcher, in other words, still has to work to meet deadlines but does not get paid for office hours*
Quote from: Phox on November 11, 2010, 04:09:55 PM
Quote from: Suu on November 11, 2010, 04:07:06 PM
*state employee*
*points and laughs*
*got paid a day early too, suckers*
*also works in the only state to still observe Victory Day...not so proud about that one*
If I really had no respect, I'd put on my dress blues, go to the mall and walk around until people bought me stuff. Fortunately, the blues don't fit me anymore, and I actually don't even know where they are. I think my mom has them.
*university employed researcher, in other words, still has to work to meet deadlines but does not get paid for office hours*
I know that feeling...only they locked the doors to my University building downtown today. I suppose if I wanted to go to the library to work on my term papers I'd have to go to the main campus, since all the public libraries are closed. :rogpipe:
Remember, in Rhode Island, we take holidays VERY seriously.
Quote from: Suu on November 11, 2010, 04:11:32 PM
Quote from: Phox on November 11, 2010, 04:09:55 PM
Quote from: Suu on November 11, 2010, 04:07:06 PM
*state employee*
*points and laughs*
*got paid a day early too, suckers*
*also works in the only state to still observe Victory Day...not so proud about that one*
If I really had no respect, I'd put on my dress blues, go to the mall and walk around until people bought me stuff. Fortunately, the blues don't fit me anymore, and I actually don't even know where they are. I think my mom has them.
*university employed researcher, in other words, still has to work to meet deadlines but does not get paid for office hours*
I know that feeling...only they locked the doors to my University building downtown today. I suppose if I wanted to go to the library to work on my term papers I'd have to go to the main campus, since all the public libraries are closed. :rogpipe:
Remember, in Rhode Island, we take holidays VERY seriously.
Speaking of which, I probably need to get a move on since I left my shit in my office last night. I am, fortunately, not locked out of my building.
4 day weekend, AND it's free food day. :fap:
I'm a state employee, and I'm still here.
Goddamn "essential personel."
n Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
:sad: