But anyway, back to the subject....if I think I'm being lied to, rather than immediately correct the liar, I like to let them spin themselves a web of deception and get snared up in it. That way they end up making themselves look like an idiot rather than me having to do it for them. Will I tolerate liars? Yes, in th
Reply #3 By: uh... yeah. (Anonymous) - 7/22/2004 2:32:40 PM LONG LIVE CALVIN AND HOBBS Heh, agreed.
a person who earns their first paycheck knows what it's like to be independent. Only if that paycheck is sufficient to provide independence.
Floozie is right, sometimes we lie to ease a difficult circumstance, and sometimes I would have to say that it;s almost necessary to lie. That is one of my biggest problems in inter-personal relationships. Because I never want to be lied to, I have a hard time figuring out when others do want to be lied to.
I have this same characeristic to a degree, and part of that stems from my refusal to take my work home with me. I rarely think about work after hours, and so I tend to act somewhat differently during that time. Of course, I'm always a sarcastic ass, so there is some commonality.
sometimes they have a need to make themselves seem better or bigger than they are I'm not sure I can get any better And I sure don't want to get any bigger!
But if I ask you if my butt looks big in these trousers, please do me the courtesy of saying yes. I think a lot of people would have a different request there, and that is exactly why I consider the "Golden Rule" to be BS. I have found that most people do not wan
I agree wholeheartedly. I hate lies. Hate them, hate them, hate them. I hate when people lie to me to "spare" my feelings, or to hide "bad" news. To hell with that! How am I going to grow past the bad news or the bad feelings if you withhold the knowledge I need? The sooner I get the bad news then the sooner I can get on with my life. That's not even getting into the more diabolical lies that are not for my "beneift" but rather for the l
If "numerous complaints" were received, obviously there was a large reader base. Yes, but if a large portion of your consumers say, "We don't like this part of your product!" The smart response is not to give them more of it.
Recently I’ve been working on resource allocation estimates for our next phase of work. This is basically an estimate of how many people are needed for each task for a three-month development cycle. For example, Task A may need 1.5 heads, while Task B might need 0.5. So I finish the estimate, and my boss shows it to his boss. We get a response alon
it is OK to judge a snail by choosing not to eat it. But if you choose to judge the snail so much that you go on a campaign to kill all snails, it's not OK. That's a bad analogy. He isn't talking about people going on a killing spree because of some cross-culture
There are a lot of houses out there! It's also where my boyfriend's mom lives. Yea, it has really exploded the past few years. Tons of new developments; skyrocketing real estate prices. I was lucky to get my townhouse when I did... the same model, without the view of the RM front range that I have, wa
French arrogance surfaces again. The following notice was found on the front door of the French Consulate in New York City. "Visas for France are not a right. Persons applying for visas are requested to show due respect for Consular personnel. Failure to do so will result in the denial of the application and denied entry into any of the EU countries."<
My ex inlaws use to live in the Briargate area. that's pretty much where I live.
It is not OK to go to someone's blog and call the one they are dissecting, pathological, for instance, without knowing them. If you are basing that opinion on evidence, even percieved evidence, then that is not prejudgement. You have certainly offered many judgements on Bush, so are you saying that
Talking about prejudging in the way I am is not OK Then you should qualify your statements. Just saying that prejudgement is never OK does not leave any room for interpretation.
Kingdom Come – simply one of the best Superman stories ever told. I can read this one anytime. Watchmen – Another trade that I can read any time. Opened the door to the idea that
Scrappleface has an early analysis of the 9/11 Commission report: 9/11 Report Calls for Hiring Imaginative Evil People (2004-07-22) -- The 9/11 commission report released today blames the 2001 terror attacks on a "failure of imagination" among government officials, and urges intelligence agencies to "hire more evil people who could e
I have my computer set up to play "I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman " for exclamations (try to close a document without saving, that sort of thing). A few months back we were trying to get a CD of sounds procured for a system we were building. The process for g
Don't entertainers have just as much right to voice an opinion as you or as a politician? Yes, but not necessarily at a time and place that I have paid them to entertain.
Absolutely, Jill. And when entertainers break the social contract by inflicting their political views on us when they are supposed to be entertaining us there may be some backlash from the consumers. These entertainers need to realize that this is not a censorship of their voice, but an expression of the consumers' voice.
Prejudging is never OK Hmm... I have a tendency to trust people and think the best of them. That is a prejudgement. That is not OK? I have never eaten snails, and I'm thinking I don't want to. That is a prejudgement. I've never taken cocaine. I don't think I would like what it would do to me, but I do
Your blog name looked familiar to mine. So I checked yours. New strategy this That's an interesting point. How many people are drawing to a new blog (or even to an article) based on the title?
“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.” George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Continental Features, a Sunday-comics consortium, has decided to drop “Doonesbury” after a poll of the 38 papers that run the Continental-produced Sunday comics section. 21 papers voted to drop it, 15 to keep it, and 2 had no opinion. Van Wilkerson, P
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