Just read it on-line... much better... interactive slide shows... easy access to past articles... FREE!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/
Printable View
Just read it on-line... much better... interactive slide shows... easy access to past articles... FREE!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/
I lost the game.
I knew I would so why does it feel so bad?
Maybe because I thought I wouldn't lose it so badly.
yeah, I know but there's just something I like about sunday morning and spreading the newspaper all over the living room floor.Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
COMMENT FOR CLASSIC CHARM
Oh dear…you really have a problem. If you are renting, I would suggest you move as I am afraid to say that people are who they are and you cant change them. If it it your own home, then maybe sound proofing would probably save your sanity.
It is a sad fact of life that respect for self and others is no longer evident in these so-called ‘modern times’ so maybe the only thing we can do is to practice it ourselves in the hope that it can be contagious.
Hope you find a solution to your woes.
I will place this here, as I am sounding off on yet another issue (and when am I not when my brain is actually focused on something literary?); it is actually quite commonplace, and I've done it myself, but one of my old college roommates contacted me, and I am not sure why, and I am not 100% positive whether she was the loose one who was a little off (though I think so) or the one who did crack before she moved out. I was not particularly easy to live with, for obvious reasons that the regulars do not need to keep reading :rolleyes:.
I wasn't going to post about it, but she is writing to me now, and I am just not sure what to do with it. Whichever one she is, I felt no particular attachment to her. I am sort of drawing blanks even though this came out of the blue and actually always happens to me. Everyone remembers me. Why I don't know, but those who mattered open old wounds, and those who occurred in passing, well.
The problem is, if I can place her I don't think I liked her, and there is over 20 years between that inconsequential sentiment and who we are as people today... (grrr) I suppose I sound unkind, but I mean I both get it and I don't. She was curious to see if she found me, and that is cool, but I'd sort of rather leave it there.
I found her on Facebook. Good God, and I'm posting about this in a community with over 60,000 account holders, but I guess the web still has the ability to throw me a few curves. Jeez.
I hate ****ing computer hackers!!!
Quit screwing around with people's computers! Is there seriously nothing else for you to do except sending out viruses?!!!?!?!!
The people here just sit and tap their legs to live rock music here. It pisses me off! What about the rock and the flailing of limbs, the wild sweat pouring drunken flail of not caring?
I miss him! I miss him so very, very much! I miss his hugs!
grrr...I'm so over the flying saucer shaped hot air balloon story. grrr grrrr grrrr
AAAARRRRRRGGGG..... I just need a big computer scream I am so sick of this research I'm doing I wish I could just quit this class and never think about it AGAIN!!!
:brickwall Buying a house isn't the only answer to financial security.:rolleyes:
hm... GRRR. UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH!!! ASDFGHJKL;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ABOUT LIKE THAT
I've been reading and writing for 40 years, AND I STILL CAN'T SPELL:flare:
Yea, well, I 'be been told, I can't never get no good grammar.:smash::smash:Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Man, The GCSE demon has me down, will I ever achieve anything with my life?
What will I do if my plans for the future are shattered?
Why should I care if they are?
You only get one life, but people have done worse things with theirs than you will ever do with yours.
Ambition and Doubt are battling in my head.
You're in Australia, you're in Manitoba, you're in your mom's basement and you're in Calgary (and also have no idea that I find you to be the funniest, most awesome person ever). Why can't anyone ever be where I am?
blech.
Why did my first English class last year have to be about the stolen generation?
We could have started on something less controversial.
Why did I leave getting both discerning stares and hi-5s for my bravery?
ARGH!!!
Just hurry up already!!!
Why won't my desk just clean itself?
And why is this song so tediously boring?
Why should I go into the water... I hate the beach, seaweed, stones, creepy crawlies, sand in everything. And I forgot "A thousand splendid Suns" in the car. No book, everyone forcing me to go into the water. Why didn't you all just leave me alone. Piff!!!
Really????
But Mummy loves me. So she must come in the water.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maryd.
My desk is clean.
BUT THEN WHY DOES MY ROOM STILL LOOK PATHETIC??
Is the floor clean? Something about a clean floor does wonders.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathcliff
Ahh... I don't think it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Only vaccuuming is the thing I won't do. I'll scrub toilet bowls but I won't vaccuum.
Age is not synonimous to superiority.
Welcome to my world.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
What is with all these books... And we still had to buy the boy a laptop as well.
I've been there.Quote:
Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
If there is one thing that bothers me, being a consumer whore in the modern world that so many of us are, its companies pricing products with no distinguishable reason or logic. Take for instance shoes. I am not an overly large man, size 9 shoes. I will never be a size 13 shoe wearer. I may stretch to a 10 in some cases, but I absolutely swim in anything above that, convenient though it is for others who are of a larger stature to have such a diverse selection.
But why does a pair of shoes cost, say a size 7, 120 dollars, and yet a size 12 or 13, pays that same 120 dollars. Put next to one another it is extremely evident that the former is using almost half the materials of the latter. Am I absorbing the costs of the materials for people with bigger shoes then me? You would think price is determined by the cost of the goods and the time to make the shoes, the equipment needed to do so etc. add on a tidy profit margin for myself and again for the retailer, and you would have your final sum. So it would make sense that a bigger shoe should be substantially more expensive (or my shoes cheaper preferably) seeing as they use inches more of leather, rubber, cotton, etc and as such would take longer to construct. If I am not absorbing the prices for my larger brethren, it means that the larger foot wearers are getting more at a discounted price.
Pants are the same way, if I am using a foot less material per leg, you would think I would be afforded some sort of financial compensation. I’m not asking to thrash into profit margins; I am not asking for special treatment, I am just asking that the price be reflective of the product actually received.
We buy groceries by weight, liquids by volume, external hard drives and USB’s by storage capacity, why is it that something like clothing, which absolutely everyone uses and has used for eons, is charged by some magical mean price decided without any thought for the “little guy”, this is Australia isn’t it? Land of the wee battler? Home to the most prized underdogs, lovers of the Cinderella story, the little guy fighting for his fair share? Well I say to you, I am a little guy, and I deserve to pay my fair share and nothing more.
Yeah, I think the overwhelming part of the cost is not the raw material but the labor and equipment to make it. The raw material difference between a large and a small size of anything is probably pennies, and there's probably no difference in time of labor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nax
I did find it funny where you wondered if you're paying for people with bigger feet. :lol:
Of course that's a sixteen year old saying that. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
And a thirteen year old.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
And another sixteen year old friend of mine today.
Quite often, talent isn't taken seriously.
When people are capable of the most amazing things, they should not only be recognised, they should be supported.
So we have to work hard.
Which still only means as much as Virgil meant it to mean...Quote:
Originally Posted by Heathcliff
I really really really hate Heathrow airport. Only thing i'm hating more than Heathrow airport right now is BMI for changing my flights so bloody often and now making me sit in this god forsaking place for seven hours! gah! Five more to go. Wish i was back in Canada! :bawling:
Of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
Urgh.
I've changed my mind. I've joined this thing at school and everyone in it is in VCE. Great, seeing as I'm in year nine.
Only thing that bothers me now is this mobile phone thing.
I HAD TWO AND A HALF HOURS OF FREE CALLS AND 70 FREE TEXTS AND IT DISAPPEARED FOR SOME UNFORESEEN REASON!!
Argh...
That's because you are a chatter-box.:lol::lol:
If it helps you'll grow out of that.:redface: (I know - I'll never win an award for my "cheering up" abilities)Quote:
Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
OATMEAL!!!!! That's what bugs me. No matter how careful I am I always overflow the bowl. Any secrets when microwaving???
Speaking as someone with size 13 shoes and a 44 inch inside leg, I'm damn glad I'm paying the same as someone smaller. That would be heightist descrimination, that would!:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nax
Actually though I noticed in safety supplies there is a bit of a price increase when you hit 3X and above.
Papaya, put in in the microwave at one minute to 30 secon intervels for the time length directed. each time it beeps stir it and then put it back on. that works for me.
That's what I usually do. I thought I was all good and put it on for an additional 25 sec. and that's when it blew. Maybe I could invent a bowl that stirs the whole time the oatmeal is microwaving...