The Saddest Man

[Foxglove8778]

Lastly, they will be put on a bus to Chicago and dropped off randomly somewhere on the south side with instructions that this area is full of people who will appreciate their “talented performances” and a note that says we’ll pick them up after dark.

NOoooooooo.... do NOT want.

[Mnemjian]

I make myself do homework before I get to read a GK post. It's a special bonus reward!

[Jester]

... the only fleeting moments of mercy you have are when the train stops and the doors open for a blissful handful of seconds of fresh air.

Am I the only one that found it amusing that the smell was so bad, air from INSIDE A TRAIN STATION is being described as "fresh"?

But he kept his chin up, and quickly sauntered back outside. I assume to go find a nice quiet corner somewhere to cry for 10-15 minutes before resuming the hunt for someone, anyone, that even looks female to come to his party.

Personally I doubt he even felt a twinge of sadness or depression. Guys this lame are used to getting shot down, so it's probably all too familiar for him. Hell, he's probably playing the numbers game....ask enough women to the party, and some of them will actually show up!

But seriously though, how incredibly pathetic must you be to be wandering around at 7am into random businesses trying to solicit female company from complete strangers for your party?

Not nearly as pathetic as that party likely would be!

Even though this contractor does not work for the manufacturer or for the store and charged you more than the product itself. Clearly he must be a professional with high standards and integrity.

I am going to defend the guy on this count only: it may well be that he is mechanically inept, and knows it, and thus hired someone else to install said item for him. And nobody, contractor or otherwise, is going to install said door for free, so they are going to charge him more than just the price of the door itself. Labor costs, ya know.

Also, some people, myself included, will pay for convenience. For example, if I have a shit-ton of laundry to do, I could do it very slowly (i.e., days) in my mini-washer/dryer combo. Or I could bring it to a laundromat and spend several hours doing it. Or I could do what I usually do, which is drop it off at a laundromat that offers laundering services, and pay more than what it would cost me to do it myself, just so I don't have to bother with that crap.

Of course, if the store and/or manufacturer offer free installation, or reasonably priced installation, then the caller is pretty much dumber than a box of pet rocks.

No one has the heart or the extensive years of therapist training required to break the bad news to them without completely crushing them as a human being.

Oh, I guarantee you that there is someone, probably many someones, who has told these folks that they suck. It's human nature....someone's gonna express their dissatisfaction with this "rapping." I am sure that the "rappers" merely brush this off as being worthless opinions from people who don't appreciate the artistic talent inherent in these performers. Or, in the parlance of the rappers, "Those foo's just don't know, yo."

The other office misery of this week is not customer oriented.

And yet we still want to hear it!

And this is coming from the same person who spells his "color" with a "u"?

To be fair, "colour" has been around far longer than "color," and GK lives in a country that still spells such words the older way.

Considering the time frame of the origin of "color", my point ironically still stands~ ;p

Silly yanks. Losing letters all the time.

And there I was, defending the Canadians. Look, English is an evolving language. All languages evolve, but English more than most. It always has been, and always will be. Which is why "color" is just as valid as "colour, "check" as "cheque," etc. To say that British English is more correct than American English is to ignore the history of the language, because what the Brits are speaking now is NOT the same English that earlier Brits were speaking. After all, English is a Germanic-based language that has borrowed (stolen) heavily from Latin and Greek, among others.

So we're not losing letters, and we're not being silly. We're evolving.

IMO, as long as we call the language English, then the English people get to have the definitive say on how things are spelled. We Americans can spell it differently if we choose, but we can't claim to be right

Sure we can. But us being right doesn't make the Brits or Canadians wrong. Both are right. See my above commentary on the continuing evolution of the language. So yes, we are right. And they are right. The only ones who are wrong are the French. Because, ya know, they're French.

When my ex-fiance The Brit and I used to play Scrabble, we agreed that BOTH British and American spellings of words would be acceptable. Since both appear in Scrabble dictionaries, it's hard to argue otherwise. (And hell, I needed the advantage, since she did happen to be the single best Scrabble player I have ever seen!)

And if you'd dropped him off in LA today, he'd likely have expired of head exhaustion.

Hottest day ever recorded in the city! 113°f!

Amusingly, in Phoenix that's about the temp when people start actually noticing that it's a tad hot.

Also the exact temp of my last Summer Initiation Bike Ride.....when I lived in Phoenix, I had a tradition that the first day each summer that it was 110 or more, I would go bicycling. Last time I did this, I set out at 2:00 in the afternoon, it was 113 in the shade--and we don't have any shade in Phoenix--and I did a nice 40 miles.

Yes, I like the heat! (But I am such a wuss when it comes to cold.)

[Ironclad Alibi]

So we're not losing letters, and we're not being silly. We're evolving.

There is another way to view the situation. Just like some words have silent letters, we now have words with invisible letters.