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06-10-2005, 04:29 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
i thought this sock was going to just paste old slave posts. live and learn.

If you were Old Skool, which clealry you are not, you would know that the original Hank was Bumpkin-At-Law.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 06-10-2005, 04:31 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Oh, I don't think anyone suggests you have an obligation to trade an aisle seat for a middle or window seat because a family wants to be together. Its assumed that the seat to be traded is comparable. To suggest an obligation to swap for a lesser seat is offensive.

Shit man. It's a fucking seat. A place your ass rests for a couple of hours of total or near-total unproductiveness. Time that you have already agreed to surrender never to recover again.

I put this in the category of giving your seat to someone who is pregnant or elderly. It's courtesy. It's nice required, but decent people do it.

robustpuppy · 06-10-2005, 04:31 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
But I give no slack to parents of brats. Keep your fucking kid from kicking the chair, talking to loudly, turning around in their seat (which is cute to the person behind you for all of 15 seconds), whining, singing, whistling, running in the aisles (parents of these children, should be shot in the face) and lots of other shit I don't have time to mention.

TM

I give no slack to moronic parents of even nice kids. Like the parents who bring noisy electronic toys on the plane to occupy their kids. Toys that make electronic noises that pierce the veil of pleasant sound that I try to create with my iPod. Dimwits.

Or the ones who talk in a high, sing songy, repetive voice for the whole fucking flight. Does Taylor want a piece of cheese? Honey, can you get me some cheese for Taylor? Oh, how about an apple, Taylor? Do you want Mommy to give you an apple? Mommy just has to find the apple. Mommy's looking for the apple!. Here's the apple! Yay, apple! Oh, Taylor doesn't want the apple? Okay, then, how about some goldfish? Does Taylor want goldfish? Look at the goldfish, Taylor!!! Honey, look, Taylor's eating goldfish!

sebastian_dangerfield · 06-10-2005, 04:34 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I said nothing about travelling with children, which is difficult and should be made easier by everyone around you, including the idiots who check you in, see you have a small child and don't do some seat rearranging on their own.

I like the grouch (not me this time) who glares at parents who are flying with a very small child who is crying (probably because they're suffering due to the pressure in their ears, since they don't yet know how to release that pressure). These assholes think their glare is going to somehow convey the necessity of shutting the kid up such that the parents will then magically be able to keep their kid from crying from the pain or whatever. They can suck it.

But I give no slack to parents of brats. Keep your fucking kid from kicking the chair, talking to loudly, turning around in their seat (which is cute to the person behind you for all of 15 seconds), whining, singing, whistling, running in the aisles (parents of these children, should be shot in the face) and lots of other shit I don't have time to mention.

TM

Why is it that people can take time/days off by pleading "children" issues, yet I can't waltz in on Monday at 11 and say "Well, I was feeling rather toxic after the weekend and figured I'd sleep in late and hit the gym before coming in." If we're both missing the same time, why is one excuse A OK but the other not? Shouldn't the childless get equal "personal time" to put them on even footing with the free time parents get?*

* And don't say its not "free time" when you're dealing with kid issues. Any time for personal issues outside of work is "free time." You choose how to spend it.

06-10-2005, 04:35 PM

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Originally posted by ironweed
Speaking of being independently wealthy, it may not be such a prudent idea to post stuff about your attempted stock market manipulations to an internet chatroom all day long.

How is Mt. Laurel, NJ this time of year? Say hi to prima for me!

greatwhitenorthchick · 06-10-2005, 04:36 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Why is it that people can take time/days off by pleading "children" issues, yet I can't waltz in on Monday at 11 and say "Well, I was feeling rather toxic after the weekend and figured I'd sleep in late and hit the gym before coming in." If we're both missing the same time, why is one excuse A OK but the other not? Shouldn't the childless get equal "personal time" to put them on even footing with the free time parents get?*

* And don't say its not "free time" when you're dealing with kid issues. Any time for personal issues outside of work is "free time." You choose how to spend it.

Because it is public policy in this country to encourage reproduction (there is a war going on, you know*). So child-rearing is on an elevated plane. Sucks to be us.

*oh, and a social security crisis.

robustpuppy · 06-10-2005, 04:36 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Why is it that people can take time/days off by pleading "children" issues, yet I can't waltz in on Monday at 11 and say "Well, I was feeling rather toxic after the weekend and figured I'd sleep in late and hit the gym before coming in." If we're both missing the same time, why is one excuse A OK but the other not? Shouldn't the childless get equal "personal time" to put them on even footing with the free time parents get?*

* And don't say its not "free time" when you're dealing with kid issues. Any time for personal issues outside of work is "free time." You choose how to spend it.

Ooh ooh ooh parent vs. nonparent fairness wars!!!! Yay!!!!!

Sidd Finch · 06-10-2005, 04:37 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
He's not the only one.

My son plays basketball, and I've been taking him to travel tournaments. Watching my kids do sports has been one of the best things over the past few years. anyway, I had to put together a team of 6 or 7 boys. Several don't have dads around, but a few do, and these dads miss all of it. They never can make the games.

I really don't get having kids if you don't want to be there for the things they do.

I understand the odd conflict, but this is pretty constant.

2. I went to my kid's preschool show yesterday. Lots of silly songs and costumes, and they were all so cute. And a bunch of parents didn't show, and consistently don't show for this kind of stuff.

My son was thrilled that I was there, and while hearing their rendition of "the Lion Sleeps Tonight" won't change my musical world, it beat the hell out of reviewing documents or talking to you people all day.

One reason I took the job at my firm was the number of partners I met who went to every one of their kids' games and events.

robustpuppy · 06-10-2005, 04:38 PM

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
One reason I took the job at my firm was the number of partners I met who went to every one of their kids' games and events.

That is so unfair to the partners who don't have kids.

sebastian_dangerfield · 06-10-2005, 04:38 PM

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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Shit man. It's a fucking seat. A place your ass rests for a couple of hours of total or near-total unproductiveness. Time that you have already agreed to surrender never to recover again.

I put this in the category of giving your seat to someone who is pregnant or elderly. It's courtesy. It's nice required, but decent people do it.

I'm 6'2. I make sure whenever I fly I get an aisle because its comfortable. If I fly from Phila to LA, its not "a couple hours." Like I said, I'll trade an aisle for an aisle, but its offensive for anyone to even ask me to trade an aisle for a middle or wondow seat. I'm being forced to sacrifice my comfort that I worked to ensure so some guy who didn't work to ensure his own comfort can relax in an aisle seat? WTF? Thats fucking offensive.

BloatedSlave · 06-10-2005, 04:38 PM

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[i]Originally posted by Hank Chinaski[i]
i thought this sock was going to just paste old slave posts. live and learn.

Originally posted by Gr8testHitS(lave)
http://www.infirmation.com/bboard/cl...?msg_id=000g3B

Nice sock, Penske.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 06-10-2005, 04:39 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Why is it that people can take time/days off by pleading "children" issues, yet I can't waltz in on Monday at 11 and say "Well, I was feeling rather toxic after the weekend and figured I'd sleep in late and hit the gym before coming in." If we're both missing the same time, why is one excuse A OK but the other not? Shouldn't the childless get equal "personal time" to put them on even footing with the free time parents get?*

* And don't say its not "free time" when you're dealing with kid issues. Any time for personal issues outside of work is "free time." You choose how to spend it.

Because God likes kids, not drunkards.

NotFromHere · 06-10-2005, 04:39 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Why is it that people can take time/days off by pleading "children" issues, yet I can't waltz in on Monday at 11 and say "Well, I was feeling rather toxic after the weekend and figured I'd sleep in late and hit the gym before coming in." If we're both missing the same time, why is one excuse A OK but the other not? Shouldn't the childless get equal "personal time" to put them on even footing with the free time parents get?*

* And don't say its not "free time" when you're dealing with kid issues. Any time for personal issues outside of work is "free time." You choose how to spend it.

I've said this same thing about maternity leave (or the family medical leave - whatever). Why can't I get time off paid? Everyone else has to cover for the person taking the time off (men and women) - why can't you cover for me while I flit off to Europe?

ThurgreedMarshall · 06-10-2005, 04:39 PM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Take the fucking bus.

You can suck it too.

TM

ThurgreedMarshall · 06-10-2005, 04:40 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
If you were Old Skool, which clealry you are not, you would know that the original Hank was Bumpkin-At-Law.

Wrong.

TM