Removing the feeding tube from our aging hipster plaid pants - Page 59

Hank Chinaski · 04-06-2005, 02:17 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Don't know about exchanging links, but I'd be interested in their "Competition of compositive knowledge."

eta: Can Hank come too? He could benefit from the "Special course after class."

It always cracks me up when rednecks make fun of the English used by people who are using English as a second language. Shoot, why don't you try and write your post in Mandarin Shapey?

Shape Shifter · 04-06-2005, 02:20 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
It always cracks me up when rednecks make fun of the English used by people who are using English as a second language. Shoot, why don't you try and write your post in Mandarin Shapey?

What do you want me to say?

Hank Chinaski · 04-06-2005, 02:22 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Quit it. It brings to mind an arrogant little shit 21-y-o frat boy.

Umm, you realize that was Coltrane circa 2000.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 04-06-2005, 02:24 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
It always cracks me up when rednecks make fun of the English used by people who are using English as a second language. Shoot, why don't you try and write your post in Mandarin Shapey?

ÊÂ½²»°Îª±¾Éí (hey, can we get support for Chinese characters here? - That was QED in Mandarin.)

Tyrone Slothrop · 04-06-2005, 02:27 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'll need to know words we should we not call Chinese people.

Don't call them Bob unless you know that's their name -- it usually isn't.

Hank Chinaski · 04-06-2005, 02:30 PM

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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
ÊÂ½²»°Îª±¾Éí (hey, can we get support for Chinese characters here? - That was QED in Mandarin.)

See RT, G(taxes are free!)GG wants to increase our overhead already. Better pass on the "sister site."

ltl/fb · 04-06-2005, 02:32 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Umm, you realize that was Coltrane circa 2000.

ummmmm, my point.

Oliver_Wendell_Ramone · 04-06-2005, 02:32 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Don't call them Bob unless you know that's their name -- it usually isn't.

So we can safely call them NotBob?

ltl/fb · 04-06-2005, 02:33 PM

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Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
So we can safely call them NotBob?

*sniff* I miss him.

NotFromHere · 04-06-2005, 02:34 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'll need to know words we should we not call Chinese people.

It's a sad sad man who needs to label.

NotFromHere · 04-06-2005, 02:35 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
*sniff* I miss him.

Are he and Thurgreed together?

Replaced_Texan · 04-06-2005, 02:35 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
It's supposed to bring to mind the dorky guy in your office who thinks he's funny, but isn't. He may also sometimes refer to hot women in a bar as "talent".

Speaking of women in bars...

I was in a bar last night with some (non-lawyer) friends, and a guy came up to talk to one of them. They went to high school or something. Anyhow, she makes introductions and says "oh, RT's a lawyer too." I smile and go back to a more interesting conversation about music venues. My music loving companion takes off to answer a call, and I'm suddenly talking to the lawyer. He asks me what I do, I murmer something about health care, and he launches into a 30 minute monologue, pausing only to buy me a beer so I didn't bolt, about the case he's working on.

Does this happen to regular people? Is it just to other lawyers? I'm not a litigator, have no interest in litigation, and any health care lawyer will tell you that we have little to nothing to do with medical malpractice. I don't care about the details of your case! I can kinda, sorta understand being excited to talk about what you do with someone who may understand it, but when the eyes glaze over (for me that's usually when I say, "Do you know anything about HIPAA?") I quickly move on to other topics.

greatwhitenorthchick · 04-06-2005, 02:37 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Speaking of women in bars...

I was in a bar last night with some (non-lawyer) friends, and a guy came up to talk to one of them. They went to high school or something. Anyhow, she makes introductions and says "oh, RT's a lawyer too." I smile and go back to a more interesting conversation about music venues. My music loving companion takes off to answer a call, and I'm suddenly talking to the lawyer. He asks me what I do, I murmer something about health care, and he launches into a 30 minute monologue, pausing only to buy me a beer so I didn't bolt, about the case he's working on.

Does this happen to regular people? Is it just to other lawyers? I'm not a litigator, have no interest in litigation, and any health care lawyer will tell you that we have little to nothing to do with medical malpractice. I don't care about the details of your case! I can kinda, sorta understand being excited to talk about what you do with someone who may understand it, but when the eyes glaze over (for me that's usually when I say, "Do you know anything about HIPAA?") I quickly move on to other topics.

I take it he wasn't very attractive.

NotFromHere · 04-06-2005, 02:38 PM

BERLIN (AFP) - German supermodel Heidi Klum and British-born singer Seal are set to marry this summer, he told German newspaper Bild.

"We will marry before the birth of our child," Seal, 42, told Wednesday's edition.
Klum, 31, is five months pregnant with her second child.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 04-06-2005, 02:38 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Does this happen to regular people?

[And then she goes on and on about her complaints about some poor schmuck who bought her a drink like we could care less about him when she obviously didn't.]

Only on the politics board.