Posts by Andrew Stevenson
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I for one am not joining until I get the five husbands I was promised.
I'll join if I can have the ten wives promised.
On second thoughts, cancel that application.
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Hence, if you see a crap manager hold onto his/her job for any length of time, the bet is their boss is even more crap.
Not sure if you'd win that bet 100% of the time.
Sometimes its the organisation that is crap
Sometimes its the boss
Sometimes its bothNow that is depressing
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Aw, thanks, that's sweet
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What I learned from this was to hone my sarcasm to such a razor-sharp edge it was barely noticeable.
By any chance?
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Careful Ian, I almost understood all that
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It boggles me how these people hold jobs
Keep telling the management what they want to hear to get brownie points
On the basis ofbrownie points spread influence within the organisation like a tumour
When the time eventually comes that management finds out the extent of the problem, and decides to actually deal with the problem (the longer of the two items), they will be (a) in another job or (b) inoperably linked so managment decides its too hard to get rid of them -
I think there was a point at which she spent more time thinking about my sex life than I did.
Given she wrote a 1500 word slew, that implies spending far too much time.
Perhaps thats one benefit of keeping this kind of stuff, you haul it out later and run it past some people whose judgement you trust (or at least know where their irrationalities are). The response of "What flavour of batfuck crazy were they?" is sooo deeply satisfying
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It's enough to know that should I ever decide to use my powers for evil, I would fucking rock at it.
Can we watch?
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When I talked to my daughter, it went something like this. You know Scooby Doo? He's a dog, right, and dogs are real. But real dogs don't wear clothes*, walk around on their back legs or say 'ruh-oh Raggy'. Likewise, fictional witches are green and warty and ride broomsticks and stuff, and real witches don't and aren't.
So this can work when you are in one on one conversation AND have the ability to reinforce what you mean repeatedly over time.
When you are dealing with other people (organisations) flooding their code words/labels/names with their meanings into the world things can get complicated, particually when there are multiple conversations/stories going on.Discerning the second should be no more difficult than discerning the first
Ahhh, getting people to think.
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Can you have a conversation with my girlfriend? Her dog wears this stupid red and blue t-shirt at night to keep it warm. I think all the other dogs laugh at it. I'm embarrassed.
It's not a real dog (see Emma's last post)
Therefore it is an fictional dog
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Basically, they said that parents/schools would never allow kids to explore witchcraft in such a way, that it was either green-faced, warted hags who cook you in a pot, or nothing.
So how do you change the name/label they have in their mind to prevent these knee jerk reactions? (or perhaps these are two seperate things?)
Then we'll move onto something slightly harder, the the name/label "God"
Meanwhile I will try to deal with the label of Emma's fanbase that giovanni just slapped on...