The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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"I'm sorry, but your policies on <insert topic here> prevent me from conducting further business with you." Is there anything inherently rude about that statement?
Yeah; the fact that you're making it at all. If you're not going to do X, just don't do it. You don't have to tell people about it unless they ask.
If I went to your house and you had a sign, as I said repeatedly, I wouldn't take a gun in. What more do you want? Spell it out again.
So you only use your detailed legal knowledge to be a dick to businesses. I guess that's... good?
To the business owner? I wouldn't do that, but some people do.
YOU JUST SAID YOU DID!
If I were feeling like a dick I might go in sans gun and let them know they won't get my business because of their attitude--this actually happens quite a bit.
YOU SAID IT ACTUALLY HAPPENS QUITE A BIT!
You don't even read your own words! Jesus Christ.
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Yeah; the fact that you're making it at all. If you're not going to do X, just don't do it. You don't have to tell people about it unless they ask.
I'd say that abruptly walking out of a business relationship without notifying the other party can be just as rude, or worse if there are contracts involved, as then you wind up with possible grounds for a breach of contract suit. Of course, if this is initial contact, the rules are different -- simply not going there is the better option, but businesses do change their policies on a regular basis...
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I'd say that abruptly walking out of a business relationship without notifying the other party can be just as rude, or worse if there are contracts involved, as then you wind up with possible grounds for a breach of contract suit.
How is that a reply to what I said?
Look, if they ask why you're terminating the relationship, then answer. If they don't, then don't. It's pretty fucking simple.
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simply not going there is the better option, but businesses do change their policies on a regular basis.
ISTM that a business is unlikely to change its policies on topic X unless they know that their policies are costing them business (or if the law forces them to, but that's not what we're talking about here). If you don't do business with someone because of their policies but would if they changed their policies, they're far more likely to change their policies if they know this than if they don't even know you exist.
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How is that a reply to what I said?
Look, if they ask why you're terminating the relationship, then answer. If they don't, then don't. It's pretty fucking simple.
Your words portrayed it as a "do not notify the (potential) counter party at all":
If you're not going to do X, just don't do it.
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That's because I was responding to FrostCat's assertion that he would just storm right into a bank and say, "hey I'm not doing business with you" out of nowhere.
You're the one who added the additional context "well I'm already their customer". Then you apparently retroactively applied that additional context to my post and replied as if I was wrong in some way.
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So you only use your detailed legal knowledge to be a dick to businesses.
No, Captain Diarrhea-mouth, it's not being a dick. I can't help it if you refuse to acknowledge that.
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YOU JUST SAID YOU DID!
I didn't say that, you idiot. I never bothered to send in the paperwork so I never got the form, so I have never carried a gun concealed.
But, if I had my permit in South Carolina and I saw a bank that had a non-compliant sign, I might carry in there. I almost certainly wouldn't at almost any other place because I have a state-police approved assertion it's within my rights.
I was going to ask if you were incapable of understanding that banks that don't want CWP can spend $15 on a sign, but I know you're not that stupid and are just ignoring it.
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YOU SAID IT ACTUALLY HAPPENS QUITE A BIT!
You don't even read your own words! Jesus Christ.
You are a liar. It happens. I haven't done it.
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I am eating smokey gouda.
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Look, if they ask why you're terminating the relationship, then answer.
If you close a bank account, they will assuredly ask you why.
I know you're going to blindly disagree with me and claim that it doesn't happen, but you're wrong.
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That's because I was responding to FrostCat's assertion that he would just storm right into a bank and say, "hey I'm not doing business with you" out of nowhere.
I never said I'd do that, you liar.
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I am eating smokey gouda.
Good for you. I hope you enjoy it. I'd assume that's an assertion you're not going to pretend to engage me further, except we all know you can't do that without acting like you've got Tourette's.
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The question arises, though, what does the property owner really want when they put up a sign that they reasonably must know isn't binding, and know that the people affected by it must also know isn't binding?
But realistically, while your business may be your private property, you don't have unlimited power to make people do what you want there.
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Hey! How about... not being a dick?
Is it better to be a live dick or a dead non-dick?
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You know who made a bunch of dead non-dicks? Hitler!
Now Godwin's been invoked does this boring argument end?
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If a guy who has to have his speech approved by the law tells you "no bank puts up a legally binding sign" you may safely assume no bank officially wants you not to carry your legally-approved concealed weapon.
The banks definitely know. I've worked in 3 banks. All had at least one lawyer on the staff if not a full legal department.
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I'll see your toilet seat and raise you a pair of urinals:
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http://imgur.com/gallery/Ad7a4mL
Hopefully now it works...
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Sigh is there even the point trying to post from the phone?
Whoevers interested, just look at the fucking source, im going to sleep....
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http://i.imgur.com/Ad7a4mL.png
i fixed it.
your URL had an odd ?fb at the end that made it not display gud
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@Weng said:
OH GOD WHY ISN'T THERE A LIKE BUTTON ON PM'S?
Wait. There is? WHY!?
even without the context from the PM this is still; funny enough to share!
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So a gun debate turned into everyone talking about dicks.
I'm not surprised.
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i'm surprised it hasn't morphed into something else yet.
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What passes for news these days is funny.
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"Born at just the right minute." Translation: someone had their hand on the baby's head, holding it in place until the "right" moment.
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An extra month being added to the year is pretty big news.
Sounds like another evil metric plot. Got a link?
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Whoosh?
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"Born at just the right minute." Translation: someone had their hand on the baby's head, holding it in place until the "right" moment.
How many babies born in the average hour? Hmm, Googling says around 4 million births per year in the US, so that's around 456 per hour, or 7–8 per minute. (On average, assuming uniform distribution. So the number is definitely BS; we know there are wide variations.)
I'd guess a bored press office in the hospital and a slow news day in some local TV channel.
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I'd guess a bored press office in the hospital and a slow news day in some local TV channel.
Sure. That's why every year the news is full of babies who were born on 12:01 AM 1/1.
I'm just saying it seems like people might try to force the issue; it wouldn't be hard to, ah, tweak the time by a minute or two.
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On average, assuming uniform distribution. So the number is definitely BS; we know there are wide variations
For the interested:
http://web.stanford.edu/~dgleich/notebook/2009/04/birthday_distribution.html
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For the interested:
http://web.stanford.edu/~dgleich/notebook/2009/04/birthday_distribution.html
Well, yeah. People get bored in the winter cause they don't want to go outside, so they look for other things to "do". There's your fall spike. The increase in Nov to early Jan is probably due to people trying to get a New Year's baby. The gradual slopes are probably due to two factors:
- Premature births.
- A spread of when winter weather starts across the US.
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what is so special about 02014.12.13T22.11.00?
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Oh, no onebox? Probably for the best. Let's see if Cheezburger prohibits hotlinking:
Oh, bother.
Oh well, I'd probably just have to explain the joke anyway. Except to @blakeyrat.
Fun fact: I don't remember for sure but I think I started watching MLP:FiM because of Blakey posting the song from Winter Wrap Up.
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Fun fact: I don't remember for sure but I think I started watching MLP:FiM because of Blakey posting the song from Winter Wrap Up.
It's the long con.
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Sounds like another evil metric plot. Got a link?
Too easy, but others thought not...
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I'm just saying it seems like people might try to force the issue; it wouldn't be hard to, ah, tweak the time by a minute or two.
Guessing nobody doubts this, but I know it for a fact...
I had to call the ER to see if my wife was OK and they said she and the baby were fine - yes, I should come down ASAP.
Birth Certificate listed his time as five minutes after that call.
No, even I'm not that big of a belgium, this was 3 and half months before the due date, there was no reason to think anything was especially wrong, and I needed to feed and get the other two ready for bed in case she was going to be there for a while. (Then I would get a sitter).
Yes, he's fine. Thanks. ;)
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Yikes. I bet that gave you a few nervous moments.
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Guessing nobody doubts this, but I know it for a fact...
I had to call the ER to see if my wife was OK and they said she and the baby were fine - yes, I should come down ASAP.
Birth Certificate listed his time as five minutes after that call.
<small> No, even I'm not that big of a belgium, this was 3 and half months before the due date, there was no reason to think anything was especially wrong, and I needed to feed and get the other two ready for bed in case she was going to be there for a while. (Then I would get a sitter).
Yes, he's fine. Thanks. ;) </small>
The baby was fine. He was just still stuck in your wife... If you didn't bother calling the ER, he might have come out a minute or two earlier ;)
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Yikes. I bet that gave you a few nervous moments.
If you define a "moment" as "three months"...
Actually, not as bad as it could have been, because nobody let on about all the crazy s**t that could have happened.
I had coach who was an Airborne Medic in the Viet Nam war.
He offered one piece of career advice:
He said going Airborne and jumping out of planes was a fine choice.
He said being a Medic was a fine choice.
But, jumping out planes knowing all the things that could go wrong - not a good choice.
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It's early... what?