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Wait a minute....except maybe? Someone saying your rude and stupid...is maybe a fair reply? Right.
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OK - go back. Read what I actually said - namely about the first sentence being very badly phrased. Then please re-read the bit about not biting every time you misunderstand something.
Then check what PittsburghGirl actually said (agreed, very badly) - she said it was a rude and stupid question. She did NOT say that you were stupid and rude. Certainly not the best start to a post, but she clearly thought the question was a little dumb
It's always better to read what people actually say, than to misinterpret what you think they mean and then respond.
So let's get back to the topic at hand, please. - Sam, we want pics of you in your uniform, handing out keys and complimentary fruit baskets.....
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Sorry...but that question came out of my mouth (or keyboard)...so I don't see how it was not meant towards me.
Anyway....I think working in a hotel is a fun job-but it depends on the hotel too....I hope it all works out.
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quote:Originally posted by ISIS: Why can't you go get a driver's license?
He's been here for 5 years, yet you ask him this now? I still think it's rude. It's like walking up to someone who walks with a limp and saying "dude, what the heck is wrong with you?". Or, I had this happen to me- someone walking up to me and asking me what the hell did I do to my hair (I had chemo- my hair all fell out and was just starting to grow back in, I had on a scarf cuz the hair was just like stubble). And it was an old guy in his 60's or 70's not a little kid. If a little kid asked that, I would calmly explain. Not a cool question.
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hey sammy best of luck with the new job!!! glad you found it so fast also!! dee
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I never knew he didn't have a diver's license, but since HE made it a point to mention not having one, and if he had one-that might fix not having to worry about transportation. If someone has an apparent problem wrong, why is it rude to ask about it? If someone is walking with a limp, to ignore the fact that they have a limp -when that is part of who they are- and I am sure they have discussed it before- I don't think that's rude.
There's a lady in the Dollar Store that has no hair from chemo too- it is obvious what had happened, my mom started talking to her about it, asking her how she's doing, and they have become very friendly over it-sometimes when you ignore what someone is going through-I think that is even more rude- than maybe understanding the situation and being sympathetic to it..instead of ignoring it.
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Who cares....let it be...seems like Sam doesn't care......neither do alot of us.....this is what makes the Rewind no fun. Let it be........talk about fun stuff.......I'd prefer you both just PM eachother I don't want to read it.
Sam i'm happy for you. With the way the world is right now it's scary. I'm in a union but am still scared i'm going to get cut to 20 hours.....when i'm used to 40. I shouldn't have to take a second job when i've been there 10 years. But I have many friends that have lost their jobs this last year.
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Things are getting tough all over for way too many people who felt they had good job security until just recently.
Hopefully things will work out for you so you don't have to take a second job. But if worse comes to worse and you have to hopefully you can find one soon enough and make enough money where you can at least sustain the lifestyle you're used to financially.
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Plus a knock on of around 15000 more in other related companies. Dark times ahead.. Posts: 1069 | From: Dragon of the Black Pool Restaurant, Chinatown. | Registered: Mar 2006 | Site Updates: 0
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Yeah Sam. My outlook is just take it when it happens. Things work out the way they are supposed too. Hopefully for the better......I try! haha
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People are stressed too at my job with the economy. I'm ready for anything all though I'm not looking forward to it.
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gotta agree with that, riptide. i am in the construction business. you can imagine the dead water we are sitting in. i am ready for anything at this point. if something were to happen to me, being pregnant... i will have to roll with the punches.
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Sammy...hope this doesn't present as rude, but....since you have a new job and all...can ya lend me 5 bucks! Posts: 2148 | From: Nova Scotia, Canada | Registered: Aug 2007 | Site Updates: 0
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Well I would certainly give him a ride to work if I could, but since I do live far, far away, I'll just wish Sammy good luck.
If someone comes up to me again and asks me what the hell I did to my hair, I will still think it's rude. If I know someone personally, maybe just an acquaintance, then I may ask what happened to them.
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Originally posted by Pittsburghgirl: Well I would certainly give him a ride to work if I could, but since I do live far, far away, I'll just wish Sammy good luck.
If someone comes up to me again and asks me what the hell I did to my hair, I will still think it's rude. If I know someone personally, maybe just an acquaintance, then I may ask what happened to them.
And don't you forget it...
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Did I feel Isis' question was rude? No I didn't think it was rude. What I did think is that since she blurted out right away about the not having a license instead of first coming out that she felt bad for my situation or wishing me good luck to me it seemed as cold, uncaring and confrontational.
I don't have a license for some reason or another and I've never had one.
But since Isis feels it's OK to harp on something somebody says there's a question that's been bothering me for quite sometime about something she's said on numerous occasions.
You've said many times that kids today don't do anything outside anymore that all they do is spend time indoors playing video games. Yet all you ever seem to buy for your son is video games, CD's and DVD's. How do you rationalize that? Isn't that being very hypocritical on your part?
NOTE: This isn't taking a potshot at your son I'm just trying to get the logic behind how you can preach one thing but practice just the opposite.
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First of all....I do agree with Muffy about how stupid this whole topic has become...Sam brought up walking, and taking the bus, and taking a cab, and I thought-if you got a driver's license then you could keep the job, and then maybe the problem would be solved...I had no idea...that a driver's license could spark such controversy.
I didn't know that was such a RUDE thing to ask somebody.
I am so sick and tired of the bickering too, it makes it so horrible to be here, and I am tired of just saying my own opinion about anything- it doesn't even have to be anything major- and there's a group of people on here, that if I say one thing- they will go bananas, and yes I have deleted topics on here- because I am so sick of it, I can't stand to see someone comment on something...if they have never even seen it, or have no clue what I am even talking, they just babble on and on about ...oh it's not the 80s anymore...duh....life today is wonderful.
Sam-about my son....I do complain about kids not playing outside anymore....what am I doing about it....hmmm-I am organizing an Easter Egg Hunt for April 11th, the Chamber of Commerce and the local Radio Station are backing me on it, and it will be huge-last year there was over 500 people there. My whole purpose of it, is to get kids out of the house, and for it to be free-because the economy is so bad, and I know people are losing their jobs, and I want people to go win something awesome-and jump start them off for spring with something fun. It's going to be at the local airport. It's my whole project.
What am I doing for my own family...I am buying a cabin in the woods in a State Park that I can take my friends and my family outdoors, so that we can go hiking, and snowmobiling, and swimming and picnicing and be away from town. I work hard at trying to keep all of the violence I can ...away from my son.
The world does not make that job easy on me. My son does want to see movies like The Dark Knight- because he lives on this planet- he sees all the hype about it, he thinks oooh, a superhero movie- this has to be awesome, and then I think..ok he is almost 16 years old-I think can handle it. But, after I see what a bloody violent mess it was, I think...geez...was that all neccessary- did all the killing in that movie make it so wonderful? He couldn't have been a great guy without as much killing. Right? That movie had such horrendous undertones to it.
When my son was younger, we walked out of Pirates of the Caribbean and Xmen 2-because they were so horribly violent. I don't let my kid play games like Grand Theft Auto or those Vice games-or anything that promotes a crime-he's not allowed to play things like Resident Evil, or anything with GORE in it. He actually wants to be a video game designer...because he wants to develop games for kids that aren't violent, because he doesn't like those kind of games anyway.
He doesn't watch ANY TV. He's been watching Season 2 and 3 of SOAP every night with me. Then we are going to finish watching Barney Miller and then we are going to watch the rest of CHiPs. The ONLY music he listens to is from the 80s. Outside of that, the only other exposure to music for him that he likes is on Rock Band or Guitar Hero, and there actually have been songs on those things, that I said I thought were horrible, and I didn't want him listening to them.
It is not going to hurt him ever...to not listen to a bunch of garbage.
My son knows right from wrong...he doesn't have a mean bone in his body, I am extremely proud of him, he is very smart, he's very well spoken, he's very social with people, and I will never ever have to second guess choices that he is going to make in life, because I know what kind of person he is.
He won't be swayed in to drugs, alcohol or smoking...because he has his own ideas about all of it, and what he thinks about it all, so I know he's going to be a great member of society, and I don't have to worry about him getting ahold of a machine gun and going nuts- and everyone out there should be glad that I did my job as a parent...because that's what scares me to death- is the people who didn't do their job right.
So...I hope that explains my son's life. He got 2 video games for Christmas, and an AC/DC CD, and 1 movie. Most of what he got were clothes.
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Hi everyone... i am Lisa's son. my mom told me about what you guys said about me and video games and i wanted to respond also. But here is my point of view. i play games because i think it is fun. i do play call of duty but i dont ever think about running out and joining the military. i have explained to my mom before that i want to be a game designer because i want to make games anyone can enjoy. i get on my xbox and see downloadable games like Happy tree friends false alarm.. thinking they are for kids and then there is a big M for mature rating next to it saying " rated M for Intense Violence and Blood & gore". what is stopping a 8 year old from running to his mom and telling her the name of the game and she lets that kid buy it. the name is deceiving. i hate todays music. i think it sucks. i played guitar hero world tour and the 2nd to last song i had to play was called "Scream aim Fire" by bullet for my valentine. it was a horrible song. they were just screaming about killing and pull the trigger. but the game made me play it in order to play Hot for Teacher by Van Halen. and there was no way for me to know what that was about till i heard it. i also dont watch t.v. i cant stand the reality crap they put on tv where everything is over dramatized. even if the show is not reality then it is usually really cheesy and looks stupid. i probably sound like my mom talking on here. but i just wanted to tell you why i play games and i am limited on what i play but then again i have no desire to play GTAIV or Resident Evil 5. i am looking forward to the new ghostbusters game which is supposed to have all the original cast inculding Dan Akroyd,Harold Ramis, Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver. also there is this one cool game coming out which is a remake of a 1980's classic game :Matt Hazzard. which the game is a parody of all the video game cliches like wizards and karate dudes and stuff. So... Thats about it.
Van Halen Rules!!
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I couldn't read that above post because it all ran together phonetically. No CAPS?
My friend has a really good job in downtown Pittsburgh, but she rarely drives to work. She takes the bus which costs her $2 each way. If she parked there, the cheapest parking for her is like $12 per day. That is a lot of money when you add it up for the week. The only time she drives is if she may have to leave early to go to a Dr.'s appt. or pick up her daughter at school. We are luck y that we have a good public transportation system, even though they are operating in the red right now. But I blame that on the overpaid CEO's and the drivers too- some make $125,000 a year! If you divided that into 3, that would be two more people they could give a job to.
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My son wrote that post, and he's 15 years old. He types really fast, and doesn't care to capitalize in a post on a messageboard, if you can't read it...then it probably was meant to be that way-just for you.
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Isis, does he want to join Rewind? It would be cool to see his own username. Something Van Halenesque.
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I don't think so Riptide, after reading all this stuff, he thinks I am nuts for being here.
He said, wow...he'll go back and capitalize all his i's so that someone can understand his post.
He says there's way more serious issues going on here with people, than wether or not he capitalized all the right letters.
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Yeah, I could see that, but it's only two kind of powder keg topics on here right now. I like to think, there's a bunch of us still talking music, movies and pop culture. Anyways, getting some teenage perspective on things would be nice.
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Yeah- and I am glad I didn't start either one of them.
He loves alot of the stuff from the 80s...after all he is my kid...so how could he not, it's like he was raised in the 80s. I actually am looking forward to when I can actually let him see some of the Rated R stuff...that should really do a number on him. I want to know what he's going to think of Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
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Yeah...the fantasy pool scene in Fast Times should raise a few eyebrows, and stuff like Porkys, Screwballs and all those fratboy movies wiil make his head spin. Has he seen wittier stuff like Real Genius or Better off Dead?
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