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DH Diva

Wonderwoman
Jun 12, 2002
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Have you ever had one of those days when you wish 99% of the world population would spontaneously cease living? Discuss.

('cept most of the monkeys of course)
 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
54,626
20,442
Sleazattle
I like most people on a personal basis but as a society in general we are a bunch of ****wits and deserve horrible things.
 

DaveW

Space Monkey
Jul 2, 2001
11,260
2,796
The bunker at parliament
Since I left the newspaper business I haven't had to suppress the "Violence against co-worker" anywhere near as much..... Had to deal with unbelivable numbers of total morons back then.

*edit* I think in a 18month period I fired 8 people for stupidity (in an office of 15).
 

AngryMetalsmith

Business is good, thanks for asking
Jun 4, 2006
21,284
10,372
I have no idea where I am
Have you ever had one of those days when you wish 99% of the world population would spontaneously cease living? Discuss.
Eventually the stench of billions of rotting corpses would become overwhelming.

Ya gotta plan these things out a little better. Take the time to figure the lime to pound of flesh ratio.
 

DH Diva

Wonderwoman
Jun 12, 2002
1,808
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Would you rather get pissed off occasionally, or experiencing mind numbing, endless boredom?
Agreed. But man some people make it really hard to laugh it off. Like the idiot I watched run a stop sign, therefor pushing a little old lady head on into a telephone pole. He got out of his car, and instead of going straight to the other car, walks around the front of his car a stands there going, "Oh Man, not my jeep!" I wanted to smack him with said telephone pole.

Eventually the stench of billions of rotting corpses would become overwhelming.

Ya gotta plan these things out a little better. Take the time to figure the lime to pound of flesh ratio.
Good point. Note to self, Angrymetalsmith is in the 5% that should survive.

Don't worry, i still love you. even if you hate me
There is no hate for my favorite inked monkey.


Nope. I love everyone and do my best to make them feel good about themselves.
Hmm. :brow:

I like that "most" part
I thought you would.

Cool, then we could say things like:

Tonight the fires will burn bright with the fat of the unworthy.
Only if the world were that perfect.
 

DH Diva

Wonderwoman
Jun 12, 2002
1,808
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Oh my hell, if we render them down into bio fuel we could all get bumper stickers that say:

Powered by IdiotDiesel
 

HAB

Chelsea from Seattle
Apr 28, 2007
11,582
2,012
Seattle
Have you ever had one of those days when you wish 99% of the world population would spontaneously cease living? Discuss.

('cept most of the monkeys of course)
Occasionally. More frequently, we have a customer in the bike shop who I want to smack upside the head with a telephone pole. That happens quite a bit.



There's one guy in particular who's a real pain in the ass. He'll come in, buy a few small things, and then stay for several hours. Now, the shop I work in is physically much too small for the amount of business we do, so he is inevitably completly in the way for all of his extended visit. That wouldn't be so bad if he didn't view himself as an infinite fountain of bike knowledge. He'll interrupt me and my coworkers to answer a question for a customer, and he's often competly wrong. Then I have to correct him, which pisses him off, and he tries even harder to answer questions in an effort to redeem himself. :banghead::disgust1::banghead::disgust1: His wife is no better. She is a human tornado. She'll come in to try on clothes, try on every fvcking thing in her size in the shop, and not pick any of it up. She'll literally leave 20 items of clothing and their hangers lying on the fvcking floor, and expect us to deal with it all for her. Dumb b*tch.


A friend of mine is dating their daughter. I was skiing, and ran into the two of them. We rode up the lift once together, and the first thing she said to me was "You work at Swan's, right? I'm really sorry my dad is such a tool." :rofl: She instantly earned quite a bit of respect in my book.
 

loco-gringo

Crusading Clamp Monkey
Sep 27, 2006
8,887
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Deep in the heart of TEXAS
lots of bike shop stuff...[/i]
I had no idea we had a sister store in Central NY. :think:

My stories at the shop are just too many and too weird to try to type them all. Perhaps I'll write a book someday. I really should have a show for people to watch some of these guys. I'd tell most of the stories here, but people really won't believe it. Really...they are just too weird.

As far as hate for people, I have like 15 people that redeem the world for me on a regular basis. One is my wife, so I see her daily. I also have a couple of friends that must frequent the shop to keep me from killing other people.
 

DaveW

Space Monkey
Jul 2, 2001
11,260
2,796
The bunker at parliament
A friend of mine is dating their daughter. I was skiing, and ran into the two of them. We rode up the lift once together, and the first thing she said to me was "You work at Swan's, right? I'm really sorry my dad is such a tool." :rofl: She instantly earned quite a bit of respect in my book.
:rofl: Nice one :D:clapping:
 

HAB

Chelsea from Seattle
Apr 28, 2007
11,582
2,012
Seattle
I had no idea we had a sister store in Central NY. :think:

My stories at the shop are just too many and too weird to try to type them all. Perhaps I'll write a book someday. I really should have a show for people to watch some of these guys. I'd tell most of the stories here, but people really won't believe it. Really...they are just too weird.

As far as hate for people, I have like 15 people that redeem the world for me on a regular basis. One is my wife, so I see her daily. I also have a couple of friends that must frequent the shop to keep me from killing other people.
There are too many to possibly list. It's amazing how many whackjobs you meet working retail. This is probably my favorite:

A couple in their early 40's came in to buy a bike for the wife. I happened to be free at the moment, and came over to help them. After asking some questions about what type of bike she was interested in, what kind of riding she wanted to do, what price range she was looking at, etc, I started to show her some bikes. She was asking a lot of questions, just trying to be an informed buyer, and I answered them in a straightforward and honest manner. She then picked a bike that she wanted to test ride, but since we didn't have it in the shop in her size, I had to go to our storage barn out back to get it for her. During this time, the shop owner had become free, and she began to talk to him as I was heading out to get her the bike. When I got back, the owner was talking to someone else, and the couple were talking to each other, right in front of the door. I don't think they had noticed that I was back.
Him: "See, that kid (I'm 17, and this was a few years ago) gave you all the same answers as Glenn (my boss). He knows what he's talking about"
Her: "Lucky guess"
Him: "Lucky guess!?!? On about 20 questions? There's no way that was just a bunch of guesses!"
Her: "He's a fvcking kid. There's no way in hell he knows what he talking about"

At this point I caughed slightly to indicate that I was back, and they turned around, looking more than a little sheepish. The husband tried to be friendly, but his wife proceded to be a total b*tch, snapping at me and complaining that we didn't have a different bike in her size in stock as if it was my fault, giving me sh*t because she didn't like the color of a bike, etc. She bought the bike I first showed her and left, and her husband gave her an earful on the way out to their car. And do you know what the best part is? Right after she left, I found out that she's an elementary school teacher.
 

pigboy

in a galaxy far, far away
Have you ever had one of those days when you wish 99% of the world population would spontaneously cease living? Discuss.

('cept most of the monkeys of course)
yesterday was a clueless ****festival of wanting to dish out some hateful pain upon others. :banghead:

the high point had to be the moment when I pulled the trashcan out from under the kitchen cabinet and the entire cabinet came crashing down in a rain of coffee mugs, teacups and wine glasses.

Personally I would have taped a note to the cabinet and/or trashcan saying something helpful like, "It's a trap!" or "Caution cabinet structural integrity at 5% of nominal rated capacity!"

the next hippy that walks up to me and tries to get me to look on the bright side of something..... well they'd just better be wearing a football helmet and a protective gonad cup.