I recently had to translate a whole report on archeological studies in the Yonne valley for one of my friend and I'm quite shocked to learn all this work was for nothing... please, get real. Yeah, French scientists (or archeologists in that specific case) are required to write their papers in French. But nobody's actually preventing them from doing translations and presenting them to whatever international committee they please.
and for the whole courriel thing, how about you get your fact straight. Yes, it was suggested by the Academie and the Ministère de la Culture to use french versions of the popular Internet words. It was an attempt to at least provide French words that could be used, not impose them. Courriel, for what it's worth, has been in use rather exclusively in Quebec and almost not at all in France. In my 5 years of consulting jobs in Paris, I've never heard nor read the word 'courriel' in any publication. How this post was modded up as Insightful is beyond me..
why bother start a conversation with an asshole in the first place? If you want to speak with him (as he's your colleague after all...), just call him on his cell phone. Works like a charm.
I was on a bus saturday and some guy, probably your cousin or something, was yelling over his cellphone. For my part, I wasnt that concerned or "annoyed" because I wasnt really sitting next to him and I had my mp3s playing in my ears. Hey, sometimes I just dont care..I'm not in a crusade against cellphones after all (and yeah, I do have one..). And if I expect people to show some respect to others, I also understand that a busride is quite short, noisy and far different from a flight. So anyway, back to your cousin.
As he was going through another "hello, hello! do you hear me?" attack, suddenly, some lady snapped and began to tell him that if he wanted to keep yelling like that, he could just get the fuck out of the bus on the next stop and continue his converstaion someplace else. If only I could have taken a picture of the cellphone guy's face at that time. At first he tried to ignore the lady but as she was getting louder and some other guy jumped in the fray to support her, our poor cellguy found himself quite isolated in this hostile bus. I didnt get most of the discussion, but the end of it was that the poor schmuck moved to the front of the bus (where I was...) and kept his voice low, like any decent individual would do. I dont think he saw the big smile on my face but well, right or wrong, I guess the majority always win..
well anyway, who cares. Rude people will always exist, with or without cellphones. Let's hope there will always be a grumpy old lady around..
so your will is enough to provide you with all the justification you need for your actions? nice going, with that, you can go far in life.
Strangely, your next door neighbor decided to listen to his gangsta rap at top volume tonight, and some guy in his car parked in front of your home is honking madly because his girlfriend is late and he's fed up with waiting. And while I'm sitting next to you in the bus, I'll let you know that I can sing the whole Pavarotti CD.
Welcome to society, wait your turn, dont start shitting on other's people grass.
Nobody's saying that you cannot phone/fax/email/kiss anybody you damn please. But face it, a lot of cellphones users dont give a shit about the people around. The same can be said with other folks like drivers, music lovers, etc. But if they cant behave like good, decent people, then let's have some rules in place. In some trains in Europe, you have to move to the intercar area to use your cellphone. That's a good start. Cellphone users are not worst than anybody else, it's just that sometimes, they dont realise how easy it is for their voice to get very loud when the phones start losing the signal. It's a normal reaction, but you've got to control it.
And to the question as to who I am to restrict your rights, I'd say that I'm the one who'll shove your phone up your ear if you wake me from my precious sleep during a transpacific flight..
Somehow it seems like it is a God-given right to use a cellphone everywhere, may it annoy everybody else around or not. Just try shouting words at random without a cellphone in your hand while riding a bus or sitting in a plane. It wont be long before you get on somebody's else nerves and something bad happens (read : get your ass kicked). So why would it be different with a cellphone?
Face it, you dont need to place that call. And nobody around you wants to hear you brag to your buddy that you sold your worldcom stocks before it went down the drain, specially when you have to yell like a freakin' madman.
Cellphones are evil (as in "Axis of Evil" for you americans out there).
You wrote : "What I've noticed is that when it comes to alcohol, caffiene, and other intoxicants/stimulants, I need a much higher dosage to feel the effects. I have a higher alcohol tolerance than antyone I know, matched only by a binge drinker who weighs 60 lbs more than I do."
Hey buddy, there's your liver on line 2 saying he's calling in sick today.
"How much do you want to bet the poster came from a country that we pulled out of the fire in WWII? All of my friends parents died to save these whiny bastards, that bite the hands of the generation before who paid in full for their fredoms."
are we supposed to suck your dicks forever because some boys from arkansas died on a normandy beach?
hey wake up buddy, you got well paid for that as it allowed the US to become leader of the world while most countries were rebuilding what they could salvage. Win-Win for you, I think it's a good deal.
And if you're such a history buff, just go back a few centuries and see if, for example, you were not somewhat pulled out from your own shit by europeans (mainly frenchs) when you still were the England's king whores..
Next year I wont put any of those damn blinking lights up on the tree, way too risky.
And I dont want to accidently insult the leader of an alien race or something..
And by the way, I guess the same goes for HDD? Can you reconstruct the data pattern based on the terrible noise a HDD is making while it defragments (yet again..) my NTFS partition?
|Why not thing some kind of system that enables |the consumer to download what he wants and that |he pays what HE thinks what worth!
i didnt realize Xmas was upon us so soon this year... I didnt even hear the bells ringing...
i must have been drinkin or something
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I recently had to translate a whole report on archeological studies in the Yonne valley for one of my friend and I'm quite shocked to learn all this work was for nothing... please, get real. Yeah, French scientists (or archeologists in that specific case) are required to write their papers in French. But nobody's actually preventing them from doing translations and presenting them to whatever international committee they please.
and for the whole courriel thing, how about you get your fact straight. Yes, it was suggested by the Academie and the Ministère de la Culture to use french versions of the popular Internet words. It was an attempt to at least provide French words that could be used, not impose them. Courriel, for what it's worth, has been in use rather exclusively in Quebec and almost not at all in France. In my 5 years of consulting jobs in Paris, I've never heard nor read the word 'courriel' in any publication. How this post was modded up as Insightful is beyond me..
And no, I'm not French..
question is :
why bother start a conversation with an asshole in the first place? If you want to speak with him (as he's your colleague after all...), just call him on his cell phone. Works like a charm.
cheers,
-Lr-
except of course if the signal went through a space anomaly that we havent encountered before..
Read your Star Fleet manual ensign!
in the good old days, geeks were hoping for a girlfriend as a Xmas present..
now they're hoping for a job. I told you having a girlfriend was expensive..
funny how coincidence can happen sometimes...
I was on a bus saturday and some guy, probably your cousin or something, was yelling over his cellphone. For my part, I wasnt that concerned or "annoyed" because I wasnt really sitting next to him and I had my mp3s playing in my ears. Hey, sometimes I just dont care..I'm not in a crusade against cellphones after all (and yeah, I do have one..). And if I expect people to show some respect to others, I also understand that a busride is quite short, noisy and far different from a flight. So anyway, back to your cousin.
As he was going through another "hello, hello! do you hear me?" attack, suddenly, some lady snapped and began to tell him that if he wanted to keep yelling like that, he could just get the fuck out of the bus on the next stop and continue his converstaion someplace else. If only I could have taken a picture of the cellphone guy's face at that time. At first he tried to ignore the lady but as she was getting louder and some other guy jumped in the fray to support her, our poor cellguy found himself quite isolated in this hostile bus. I didnt get most of the discussion, but the end of it was that the poor schmuck moved to the front of the bus (where I was...) and kept his voice low, like any decent individual would do. I dont think he saw the big smile on my face but well, right or wrong, I guess the majority always win..
well anyway, who cares. Rude people will always exist, with or without cellphones. Let's hope there will always be a grumpy old lady around..
that has to be the worst argument ever.
so your will is enough to provide you with all the justification you need for your actions? nice going, with that, you can go far in life.
Strangely, your next door neighbor decided to listen to his gangsta rap at top volume tonight, and some guy in his car parked in front of your home is honking madly because his girlfriend is late and he's fed up with waiting. And while I'm sitting next to you in the bus, I'll let you know that I can sing the whole Pavarotti CD.
Welcome to society, wait your turn, dont start shitting on other's people grass.
Nobody's saying that you cannot phone/fax/email/kiss anybody you damn please. But face it, a lot of cellphones users dont give a shit about the people around. The same can be said with other folks like drivers, music lovers, etc. But if they cant behave like good, decent people, then let's have some rules in place. In some trains in Europe, you have to move to the intercar area to use your cellphone. That's a good start. Cellphone users are not worst than anybody else, it's just that sometimes, they dont realise how easy it is for their voice to get very loud when the phones start losing the signal. It's a normal reaction, but you've got to control it.
And to the question as to who I am to restrict your rights, I'd say that I'm the one who'll shove your phone up your ear if you wake me from my precious sleep during a transpacific flight..
Somehow it seems like it is a God-given right to use a cellphone everywhere, may it annoy everybody else around or not. Just try shouting words at random without a cellphone in your hand while riding a bus or sitting in a plane. It wont be long before you get on somebody's else nerves and something bad happens (read : get your ass kicked). So why would it be different with a cellphone? Face it, you dont need to place that call. And nobody around you wants to hear you brag to your buddy that you sold your worldcom stocks before it went down the drain, specially when you have to yell like a freakin' madman. Cellphones are evil (as in "Axis of Evil" for you americans out there).
You wrote : "What I've noticed is that when it comes to alcohol, caffiene, and other intoxicants/stimulants, I need a much higher dosage to feel the effects. I have a higher alcohol tolerance than antyone I know, matched only by a binge drinker who weighs 60 lbs more than I do."
Hey buddy, there's your liver on line 2 saying he's calling in sick today.
maybe the russians won the cold war after all...
ah well, so be it, go for communism. I'd rather live with some communist quinquennial plan than with my Nortel stock...
How about a tax on everything pr0n related to help the fight against AIDS?
"How much do you want to bet the poster came from a country that we pulled out of the fire in WWII? All of my friends parents died to save these whiny bastards, that bite the hands of the generation before who paid in full for their fredoms." are we supposed to suck your dicks forever because some boys from arkansas died on a normandy beach? hey wake up buddy, you got well paid for that as it allowed the US to become leader of the world while most countries were rebuilding what they could salvage. Win-Win for you, I think it's a good deal. And if you're such a history buff, just go back a few centuries and see if, for example, you were not somewhat pulled out from your own shit by europeans (mainly frenchs) when you still were the England's king whores..
Next year I wont put any of those damn blinking lights up on the tree, way too risky. And I dont want to accidently insult the leader of an alien race or something.. And by the way, I guess the same goes for HDD? Can you reconstruct the data pattern based on the terrible noise a HDD is making while it defragments (yet again..) my NTFS partition?
|Why not thing some kind of system that enables |the consumer to download what he wants and that |he pays what HE thinks what worth! i didnt realize Xmas was upon us so soon this year... I didnt even hear the bells ringing... i must have been drinkin or something