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I am posting this here because HOLY SHIT does this guy end up able to do some crazy things.
Just wait until minute 12 or so.
Seriously, it's worth the watch if you have any inclination toward guitar at all. This guys shows how much progress you can make with diligent practice, and OMG he can just do -- beautiful, terrible things.
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For all y'all single ladies out there.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@arkandel
'Learn to paint. Set up easel outside engineering school.'
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From the article:
- Make a lot of money.
Whoa whoa WHOA there! A woman going out to make her own money? That's a bit too progressive for this magazine! Whatever editor let this through really needs talking to from the men in charge!
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@thenomain said in Random links:
From the article:
- Make a lot of money.
Whoa whoa WHOA there! A woman going out to make her own money? That's a bit too progressive for this magazine! Whatever editor let this through really needs talking to from the men in charge!
- Don't take a job in a company run largely by women.
Still good advice.
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@tyche Can you leave your gross sexism to the Politics or Hog Pit sections?
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@sincerely said in Random links:
@arkandel
'Learn to paint. Set up easel outside engineering school.'
This is brilliant.I can attest that this one has worked:
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@tyche Please stop trolling.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@roz said in Random links:
@tyche Can you leave your gross sexism to the Politics or Hog Pit sections?
That's not on the list!
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“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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@thenomain said in Random links:
No.
The "it was the article, not me!" is beneath you. You have a brain. Use it.
That's not what I meant at all.
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@tyche said in Random links:
I'm tempted to start a thread called '129 ways to get a husband' and see if the readers of the soapbox can do any better.
They already have, if only by not starting a thread called '129 ways to get a husband.'
While it's possible that you would approach it with sensibility, so far your track record puts these odds somewhere about Cleveland Browns level.
(Watch, I say this and the Browns start their best winning streak of all time. I would take the hit to my ego for that!)
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Yep, I was willing to listen to you until this.
I have a waggish sense of humor.
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We Just Got Lab-Made Evidence of Stephen Hawking's Greatest Prediction About Black Holes
Hawking Radiation wooooOOOOOO!
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@arkandel said in Random links:
I feel like, however, you can switch those things around sometimes.
What if the person thanks everyone first?
"I'm so sorry but my friend is joining us last minute"
becomes
"Thank you for letting me bring my friend." and yet all before anyone had even heard of this addition to the party."Thanks for taking this seat, Haley." as the initiation to that interaction would be controlling, expecting. Demanding.
I think it's less that it was used in that scenario as referenced and more that the person over-used it.
This sounds more like a matter of: show people you appreciate what they've done rather than make the situation about you.
Not: say thank you instead of sorry. Because the simple syntax switch can make you sound like a maniac.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@auspice said in Random links:
"I'm so sorry but my friend is joining us last minute"
becomes
"Thank you for letting me bring my friend." and yet all before anyone had even heard of this addition to the party.I don't think that was the idea. The idea is that you ask first instead of put yourself on others. The conversation I think she was alluding to was:
"I know it's last minute, but do you mind if I invite my friend?"
Then the group has a choice, instead of none. Then you thank them for their consideration, no matter how it turns out.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
