Removing the feeding tube from our aging hipster plaid pants

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

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 don't talk shop with anyone, and I tell people who want to talk shop that I don't talk shop with anyone.

It's b/c most lawyers rarely have anything else to talk about, besides their new Beemer.

And for anyone who thinks he's (it's mostly males) a hotshot lawyer, I usually remind him that, no matter how important he thinks he is, he's just another empty suit, and that his bigshot client won't be able to pick him out of a crowd in a month.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I take it he wasn't very attractive.

Not everyone lets the hand down their pants in the bar.

But, yeah, RT, some lawyers are like that. So are some non-lawyers. Most lawyers are socially mal-adjusted (present company excluded, of course), so don't realize that they're boring someone to tears. Obviously this one was so maladjusted he didn't realize people don't want to hear it in a bar.

BTW, it does call to mind the one socially redeeming thing Coors has every produced:

This chick's rockin' your bro on the dance floor.
But she's towing an anchor.
A junior investment banker.
Who's talkin' about herself and not
much more.
Oh

So buy her a beer,
its the reason you're here:
Mighty Wingman
You're taking one for the team,
so your buddy can live the dream:
Wingmaaaaaaaaaaaan

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by NotFromHere


"We will marry before the birth of our child," Seal, 42, told Wednesday's edition.

What traditionalists!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan


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.

Everyone gets it, like my dad was a plumbing inspector. We're in a bar togther in Augusta for the Masters, and we meet this guy who also is an inspector, he goes:

"whoa- you're an inspector, let me tell you bout my week- you ain't gonna believe it!-
got a call that "yellow gushy stuff" poured from some faucets in the Town of Woodsboro. Town personnel notified the County Health Department and the State Water Supply Division. The State dispatched me to take water samples for analysis and placed a ban on drinking the Town's water. Firefighters warned residents not to use the water for drinking, cooking, bathing, or any other purpose except flushing toilets. The Town began flushing its water system. An investigation revealed that the powerful agricultural herbicide Paraquat had backflowed into the Town's water system.
Someone left open a gate valve between an agricultural herbicide holding tank and the Town's water system and, thus, created a cross-connection. Coincidentally, water pressure in the Town temporarily decreased due to failure of a pump in the Town's water system. The herbicide Paraquat was backsiphoned into the Town's water system. Upon restoration of pressure in the Town's water system, Paraquat flowed throughout much of the Town's water system.
Fortunately, this incident did not cause any serious illness or death. The incident did, however, create an expensive burden on the Town. Tanker trucks were used temporarily to provide potable water, and the Town flushed and sampled its water system extensively.
Then the next day, the Water Department received complaints about air in the water and dispatched me to the scene to flush the water mains. Upon investigation, I discovered that a compressor at a soft drink bottling plant had injected air into the public water system.
Personnel at the bottling plant said that a potable water line into a shop area froze often during winter and that they used compressed air to clear the line. Workers normally closed isolating valves before attempting to clear the line, but they forgot to close the valves this time. Consequently, a large amount of air was injected into the public water system surrounding the bottling plant.
I required the installation of a reduced-pressure principle backflow-prevention assembly at the bottling plant to prevent recurrence of the problem.
Then, residents in the Greenwood District, began complaining about "grey-green and slippery," "muddy," or "soapy" water. One resident brought a water sample to the Water Quality Laboratory. Preliminary analysis of this sample showed that the water was contaminated with a detergent solution. The Water Department dispatched me and an emergency field crew to initiate flushing of hydrants in the affected area. Investigation revealed that recycled wash/rinse water at a large car wash facility had backflowed into the public water system.
A few days earlier, a high-pressure pump at the car wash facility broke down. This pump was used to pump recycled wash/rinse water to the initial/scrubber cycle of the car wash, which was not normally connected to the potable water system at the car wash. After the pump broke down, workers kept the car wash operating by connecting a two-inch-diameter hose between piping in the rinse cycle of the car wash, which was directly supplied with water by the car wash's potable water system, and piping in the scrubber cycle.
Next day, the owner of the car wash facility repaired the high-pressure pump and turned it on. However, nobody removed the hose connection between the rinse-cycle piping and the scrubber-cycle piping. Unbeknown to car wash personnel, the high-pressure pump forced a large quantity of recycled wash/rinse water through the hose connection, the rinse-cycle piping, and the car wash's potable water system into the public water system. This recycled wash/rinse water was, in turn, distributed to the potable water systems of homes and commercial establishments in the surrounding area. Sometime later, a car wash employee flushed the toilet in the car wash's rest room and noticed brown soapy water in the toilet bowl. Car wash personnel quickly realized that they had created a cross-connection and removed the hose between the rinse-cycle piping and the scrubber-cycle piping.
After finding the source of the soapy water problem, the City Water Department conducted water main flushing to intercept and limit the scope of the contamination. Because of its prompt response, the City Water Department confined the contamination to an eight-block area. Nevertheless, the City Water Department delivered a public notification statement to six radio and television stations. Two people in the contaminated area reported illness after drinking the water, but investigations by the County Health Department epidemiologist were unable to authenticate either report.
The City Water Department ordered the owner of the car wash facility to install a reduced-pressure principle backflow-prevention assembly in the potable water service connection to the car wash. The owner complied within 24 hours.
So, like i need a fucking drink."

My dad, who couldn't get a word in edgewise the whole story, now goes-
"Don't know what the fuck you're talking about- I'm in home permiting, not compliance."

Meanwhile, when the guy turned his back I hocked up some gushy yellow stuff into his beer.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
bunch of stuff in italics copied from elsewhere

did anyone read that?

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski


bunch of crap cut and pasted by Hank


Meanwhile, when the guy turned his back I hocked up some gushy yellow stuff into his beer.

Whatever time or effort you put into that was not worth it.

RT, is that any worse than telling a "layperson" you're a lawyer and then they go into the schpeil about their neighbor's fence that's encroaching on their yard and damaging their prize tomatoes and what should they do, could you sue them? Or about their sister's wife whose husband is trying to get custody of their kid but he's the one having the affair and that she's really a drug using tramp who shouldn't be allowed near the kid and she passes out every night and he's paying for her rent and blah blah blah?

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
did anyone read that?

in my best Keanu voice Whoa. Dude. We had like the same thought or something.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Whatever time or effort you put into that was not worth it.

RT, is that any worse than telling a "layperson" you're a lawyer and then they go into the schpeil about their neighbor's fence that's encroaching on their yard and damaging their prize tomatoes and what should they do, could you sue them? Or about their sister's wife whose husband is trying to get custody of their kid but he's the one having the affair and that she's really a drug using tramp who shouldn't be allowed near the kid and she passes out every night and he's paying for her rent and blah blah blah?

My cut and paste was more responsive to RT's post than your "tailored response." My point was the mundane comes from all professions- and anyone with 3 digits in their IQ's got that.

Meanwhile, unless you're some "ironic sock" on, like a galactic level, you have no business EVER challenging someone about cut and pastes- those sewer mishaps are way more interesting than your periodic missives about proposed reality shows, or how low Brtiney's tits are hanging or some shit.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
in my best Keanu voice Whoa. Dude. We had like the same thought or something.

that's on you Burger-

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
did anyone read that?

The bit in the middle about ice wine was kinda interesting.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
My cut and paste was more responsive to RT's post than your "tailored response." My point was the mundane comes from all professions- and anyone with 3 digits in their IQ's got that.

Meanwhile, unless you're some "ironic sock" on, like a galactic level, you have no business EVER challenging someone about cut and pastes- those sewer mishaps are way more interesting than your periodic missives about proposed reality shows, or how low Brtiney's tits are hanging or some shit.

Yeah, but, like, the italics hurt my eyes.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Yeah, but, like, the italics hurt my eyes.

And it needed at least indentations on the first line of each paragraph, or, better, white space in between.

Plus, his follow-up post (the one you quoted) was not nicer, and it's still the new year -- will be until the end of december, by my calendar.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Yeah, but, like, the italics hurt my eyes.

On my mental list of 100 Things I Love About RP, this post is now #56.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
And it needed at least indentations on the first line of each paragraph, or, better, white space in between.

RT. Your lawyers "story,"was there "indentations and white space," or was it steady noise?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

take it to the PB