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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #2310 on: January 24, 2020, 05:18:44 PM »
I tell them exactly how I feel.  I made some lady cry once.  Too bad.
Well I've got to like that. And concur. +1  Big One.

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #2311 on: January 24, 2020, 05:22:35 PM »
Well I've got to like that. And concur. +1  Big One.

Packed in tight, standing room only, she turned and coughed right in my face.

I bet she still remembers it.

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #2312 on: January 24, 2020, 05:55:09 PM »
Thank you city of Phoenix for sending my wife home with the worst cold, sore throat and fever she's had in five years! My entire weekend is ruined. Tonight's plans AND Second Christmas scheduled for Sunday has now been postponed until..  next weekend? Who knows because this demon desert virus has made itself right at home. In My Home!  My weekend is completely ruined!  Thanks hun!

Did she eat Chinese?
Are we having fun yet?

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #2313 on: January 24, 2020, 06:03:58 PM »
I was supposed to go in for surgery in early November. I still have a cough after having to cancel the procedure because I had come down with this heavy cold. Now, they won't even consider giving me anesthesia until March.

Bitch of a cold.

That is awful. I'd planned on getting that real ID thing the first week in Jan, then I thought about my surgery booked for Jan 10 and decided I would be better served to avoid a crowded DMV that close to surgery. I did NOT want it cancelled.

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #2314 on: January 24, 2020, 06:24:24 PM »
Did she eat Chinese?

During my months long trip to Asia, China was relatively clean, although I didn't go to the poorest areas (off limits).  The far West where the Uiger Muslims are was fithly, as was Tibet.  My understanding is the flus come from the South part of the country where it's historically poorer and typically more humid.  As dirty as Tibet was, apparently it's too cold much of the year for viruses to get much of a foothold.

Nepal was a cleaner version of India, still had cows walking around, but it's also colder there, and smaller.  Easier to contain.  And I only went to the capital, I think the rest of the country is very poor and lacks sanitation.

India was the worst.  Unbelievable really.  Children in the middle of the street picking seeds out of cow shit to take home for dinner, everything in the country - every post, fence, building, telephone pole, everything - was yellow from the waist down. 

Thailand was the cleanest.  Very clean.  The only place I'd eat the street food (although I did eat the street food in Xingjiang - that's all there was much of the time, and I stayed with uncut fruit and lamb shish-kabob cooked over the fire while I watched).

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #2315 on: January 24, 2020, 06:34:00 PM »
I read a little about the early explorers.  Europe was filthy a rat infested mess at the time too, but at least they were used to the diseases at home - how they didn't all immediately die when they went to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East I'll never know.

And of course they brought smallpox, etc, to the Americas and killed probably 90% of the indigenous population here.

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #2316 on: January 24, 2020, 06:37:53 PM »
Thank you city of Phoenix for sending my wife home with the worst cold, sore throat and fever she's had in five years! My entire weekend is ruined. Tonight's plans AND Second Christmas scheduled for Sunday has now been postponed until..  next weekend? Who knows because this demon desert virus has made itself right at home. In My Home!  My weekend is completely ruined!  Thanks hun!
That explains it.
There was a little girl,
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Right in the middle of her forehead.
            When she was good,
            She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #2317 on: January 24, 2020, 06:56:39 PM »
That explains it.
@PolkaDot Explains what exactly, being an ass or being a grouchy ass? or is there something else on your "not so right" according to Bart, mind?

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #2318 on: January 24, 2020, 06:59:57 PM »
@PolkaDot Explains what exactly, being an ass or being a grouchy ass?
Nailed it!
There was a little girl,
            Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
            When she was good,
            She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #2319 on: January 24, 2020, 07:09:13 PM »

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #2320 on: January 24, 2020, 07:42:01 PM »
That is awful. I'd planned on getting that real ID thing the first week in Jan, then I thought about my surgery booked for Jan 10 and decided I would be better served to avoid a crowded DMV that close to surgery. I did NOT want it cancelled.

Miss Smarty Pants...
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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #2321 on: January 27, 2020, 09:58:45 AM »

Waking up between a stranger's feet. I hate when that happens

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #2322 on: January 27, 2020, 07:44:36 PM »
Waking up between a stranger's feet. I hate when that happens


I think that may have been kind of adorable.   just a bit?  yeah

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #2323 on: January 29, 2020, 01:07:40 PM »
I went out to lunch today and paid in cash- I know weird!! The register chick couldn't make change without using the calculator app on her phone.  :-[ :o
Seriously, would you let anyone on the register that couldn't count/make change? I'm betting that drawer never balances at shift close.
There was a little girl,
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Right in the middle of her forehead.
            When she was good,
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But when she was bad she was horrid.

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Re: Whatever: The Open Lines Thread
« Reply #2324 on: January 29, 2020, 01:27:38 PM »
I went out to lunch today and paid in cash- I know weird!! The register chick couldn't make change without using the calculator app on her phone.  :-[ :o
Seriously, would you let anyone on the register that couldn't count/make change? I'm betting that drawer never balances at shift close.
Yeah it's an epidemic. Rampant.  How about when you round UP the loose change to get an even dollar amount back and watch their puny heads spin. Oh good God it's so fucking funny. Completely fucks them up.