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Quoth Jester View Post"CSI: Miami" had a great take on that in their latest episode.
PAIN IN THE ASS WOMAN BEING ARRESTED: "I pay your salary!"
C.S.I. CALLEIGH DUQUESNE: "Then I need a raise."
Somebody important was being stonewalled by the captain and said, "I can have the Mayor on the phone in under a minute."
The captain responded with, "Tell him I said hi, and I could use a raise."
^-.-^Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden
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I don't watch Castle, but I have to say I like the way they did it on CSI: Miami because:
--The woman was just a total bitch.
--Calleigh is normally very calm and restrained, and to see her get so annoyed with someone that she said something like that was hilarious.
--The woman actually used that exact phrase we've been discussing and that you hear so often, "I pay your salary!" And she said it to Calleigh AS she was getting cuffed by a uniformed officer...as if that would make any difference in her situation, or somehow convince these officers of the law to uncuff or unarrest her.
--Let's face it....Calleigh is HOT. Which makes anything she does that much better than if someone else did it.
"The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is Still A Customer."
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Quoth Jester View Post--Let's face it....Calleigh is HOT. Which makes anything she does that much better than if someone else did it.
Unfortunately, you also happen to be damn right...You gotta polish a memory like a stone. Chip off the parts that remind you it was just a game. Work it until it's indistinguishable from any other memory.
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Quoth Canarr View PostYou, sir, are an incredibly superficial and shallow man!
Seriously, when I am just looking at a woman, yes, I want her to be hot. Since my entire interaction with Calleigh Duquesne is just that, me looking at her, I can be as superficial as I want.
When it comes to dating, however, I am not nearly as superficial. I require intelligence, humor, wit, and a sense of fun in my paramours.
It helps, though, if they also happen to be major hotties.
"The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is Still A Customer."
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Quoth Canarr View PostYou, sir, are an incredibly superficial and shallow man!
Unfortunately, you also happen to be damn right...
And you didn't know this about Jester already? Shame!
Most figured it out after hearing him wax poetical in his Jester-ish way about Anna Paquin...(I did at least.)
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Quoth lupo pazzesco View PostMost figured it out after hearing him wax poetical obnoxiously and repeatedly about Anna Paquin...
Also, I would think a lot of people here would have figured this out back when I was going on about Kirsten Dunst, which was pre-Anna Paquin.
Both of whom are still major hotties, by the way.
"The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is Still A Customer."
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You don't have to use euphemisms for me. I am blunt and brutally honest....you can speak about me the same way, ya know.
Okay, enough on that tangent. Now, back to idiots who assume that public officials and similar people should be at their beck and call at any time.....
"The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is Still A Customer."
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Quoth Jester View PostAnd your point is......?
Seriously, when I am just looking at a woman, yes, I want her to be hot. Since my entire interaction with Calleigh Duquesne is just that, me looking at her, I can be as superficial as I want.Just satisfying my urge to state the obvious.
But, back to topic: actually just had a conversation with a coworker a few days ago, where she expressed her disbelief about the lack of public service that our most public servants, the police, offer.
She'd been driving at night sometime last week, but had forgotten her purse - containing both her driver's license and her ID. Now, in Germany, you are required to carry ID at any time. If police picks you up without, it's within the officer's discretion to let you go with a warning - or to take you to the nearest station until they can get a proof of identity.
Apparently, the officer was bored - or, knowing her, she probably mouthed off a bit - and decided to take her to the station. Her car was left where they'd stopped her, she spent two hours in a waiting room until her sister could get her ID out to her. Everything cleared up, she was free to go - and then the outrage happened: the police refused to drive her back to her car.
Yes, apparently they have better things to do than play taxi for random chicks at night.
"So what?" I asked her, "Didn't your sister have her car with her?"
"That's not the point!" she sniffed back, "They took me away from the car, so it's their responsibility to bring me back!"
I gave up at that point.You gotta polish a memory like a stone. Chip off the parts that remind you it was just a game. Work it until it's indistinguishable from any other memory.
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Quoth Canarr View Post"That's not the point!" she sniffed back, "They took me away from the car, so it's their responsibility to bring me back!"
I gave up at that point.
Eeeesh.
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Not sure if I ever posted this here, but I gots me a public servant story from my very first job after college. It was general office work in a government office, and part way through my stint there I got to replace the department receptionist for a six-week medical leave.
OMG. Talk about a trial by fire, and I was fresh off three years at Wal-Mart.
I do NOT know how she put up with the utter bullshit that spewed out of the phone on a daily basis. Now I have to give a little explanation as to why this was so insane. See, the department I was working for handled only one thing: provincial sales tax collection. The problem was, people looking in the phone book under `Tax`saw our number first and called it. 90% of them were actually looking for Revenue Canada - Income tax. And they were impossible to convince that they`d called the wrong number, you guys know how that goes.
The only one I remember clearly, though, was one guy who was calling from a payphone. The minute he found out he`d called the wrong department, he demanded a direct number to RC that would immediately get a live person. Problem was, I had the same number he could find in the phone book. Not a directory of every internal number at Revenue Canada. Government departments in Canada do NOT share that information with each other. So I really couldn`t help him, and he...did not like that, to put it mildly. The torrent of vulgarity that spewed out of him was stunning, and I hang out with a bunch of guys who are not terribly acquainted with Miss Manners.I couldn`t get a word in edgewise, and it was rather upsetting. Finally he just hung up, and if he hadn`t been calling from a payphone, I`d have called him back and given him a taste of his own ass, so to speak, I was that pissed off.
It wouldn`t bother me today, I can say that. I`m a much better gatekeeper than I was then. Assholes don`t stand a chance.What colour is the sky in your world and how high of a dosage do you need before it turns back to blue? --Gravekeeper
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Quoth mharbourgirl View PostSee, the department I was working for handled only one thing: provincial sales tax collection. The problem was, people looking in the phone book under `Tax`saw our number first and called it. 90% of them were actually looking for Revenue Canada - Income tax.
Of course if you really can transfer them, so much the better.
(Yes, I did look it up, and yes, that is their direct number.)
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