so when I lived at home my mom would pop into my room, talk to me, leave, pop back in, be like "oh i forgot that..." and say something else, maybe doing this three or four times. it was annoying, but whatever, she's scatter-brained, it's fine.
when I started leaving the house to hang out with my friends or living with my dad or whatever the fuck, she started doing the same thing with calls. she would call me, we'd talk for ten minutes, she would call me back and be like "OH I FORGOT THAT..." It only took twenty or twenty-five times of her doing this for me to get pretty annoyed, and now if she calls back within ten minutes of us hanging up, whatever, she can leave a message, she just has information for me anyway.
now that I'm at college she e-mails me big long e-mails, then e-mails me three minutes later with the tagline "One more thing...", even doing this two or three times. Sometimes she e-mails me something that ends with "I'm going to look up bus prices and times" and e-mails back five minutes later saying "ok so the bus leaves now and now and costs this much." This doesn't happen once in a while. This happens ALWAYS.
This is THE MOST FUCKING ANNOYING THING to me. I come home to five or six e-mails. This isn't like leaving the room and realizing you forgot to bring something up - it's fucking TEXT, sent over the internet. You can consolidate your thoughts before you send me an e-mail. If once in a while you go "oh I left something out" that's fine, but I feel like my mom e-mails me every time she thinks of something instead of going "hey maybe I'll just e-mail him tonight with everything I think of between now and then" or "hey I need to remind my son of something why don't I write a reminder or start a list or something"
I dunno. It bugs me.
ONE MORE THING
Excellent response.
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My friend got this from her grandpa about a week ago and sent it to me because she thought I would appreciate it. (She knows how horrible it is and I wanted to see)
I will refuse this stamp for sure!!!!!!!
CHRISTMAS STAMPS
How ironic is this ??
They don't even believe in Christ and they're getting their own Christmas stamp, but don't dream of posting the ten commandments on federal property?
USPS New Stamp
This one is impossible to believe. Scroll down for the text.
If there is only one thing you forward today.....let it be this!
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of Pan Am Flight 103!
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993!
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon !
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the military Barracks in Saudi Arabia !
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa !
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE!
REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on 9/11/2001 !
REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks!
Now the United States Postal Service REMEMBERS and HONORS the EID MUSLIM holiday season with a commemorative first class
Holiday postage stamp.
REMEMBER to adamantly and vocally BOYCOTT this stamp
When purchasing your stamps at the post office. To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors.
REMEMBER to pass this along to every Christian and / or Patriotic AMERICAN that
you know !!!
I will let you figure out all of the things that are horribly, horribly wrong with that.
Shank or Kusu your mother sounds like a very sweet person. You should be happy that she's always thinking about you.
My mom sends me e-mails to see if I am eating well, it's always her biggest concern because she is not there to stuff me full of food.
She used to forward me junk mail with dumb jokes and inspirational messages, but then I told her to stop it, and she did.
Over the election season, my mom sent me jokes about Palin and gag pictures which I'd seen of the D&D politics thread weeks ago. I have yet to remind her of how hostile she was to me telling her the latest jokes about Clinton during the primaries (I supported Obama).
The US Census is also mandatory. I don't know what the penalty is for not returning it, maybe not much, but it is required.
Also:
A minor slap on the wrist. Refusal will net you a $100 fine, falsifying information will bing you for $500. This does not only apply to the decennial census, but also a few annual surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau (the American Community Survey, which is replacing the decennial census long form comes to mind)
However, to the best of my knowledge this has never been enforced.
The US Census is also mandatory. I don't know what the penalty is for not returning it, maybe not much, but it is required.
Also:
A minor slap on the wrist. Refusal will net you a $100 fine, falsifying information will bing you for $500. This does not only apply to the decennial census, but also a few annual surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau (the American Community Survey, which is replacing the decennial census long form comes to mind)
However, to the best of my knowledge this has never been enforced.
Seems kind of redundant, what with tax forms and all.
While not as fine grained as a census it seems like it'd be a fuckton easier and more cost effective to digitize tax records and process it that way.
Probably be just as accurate because people will almost always fill out their tax returns for the $$rebate. As opposed to the people who get the census form and are like "oops burned that by accident."
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not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
The US Census is also mandatory. I don't know what the penalty is for not returning it, maybe not much, but it is required.
Also:
A minor slap on the wrist. Refusal will net you a $100 fine, falsifying information will bing you for $500. This does not only apply to the decennial census, but also a few annual surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau (the American Community Survey, which is replacing the decennial census long form comes to mind)
However, to the best of my knowledge this has never been enforced.
Seems kind of redundant, what with tax forms and all.
While not as fine grained as a census it seems like it'd be a fuckton easier and more cost effective to digitize tax records and process it that way.
Probably be just as accurate because people will almost always fill out their tax returns for the $$rebate. As opposed to the people who get the census form and are like "oops burned that by accident."
Well, it is half-way there...sort of. Tax records are used in quite a few estimation processes.
All you can really gain from IRS records are Age, Sex, Income, dependents, address. This could provide a very rough proxy of the tax paying population by age/sex - perhaps enough to partially allocate governmental seats (which is the consitutional reason for the census) but in no way quite as representative of the entire U.S.
However, this is rather scant information for decisions based upon the whole breadth of information collected by the Census Bureau (of which, there are a lot). The overall story is that the census does a lot of good, much more than most percieve.
The US Census is also mandatory. I don't know what the penalty is for not returning it, maybe not much, but it is required.
Also:
A minor slap on the wrist. Refusal will net you a $100 fine, falsifying information will bing you for $500. This does not only apply to the decennial census, but also a few annual surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau (the American Community Survey, which is replacing the decennial census long form comes to mind)
However, to the best of my knowledge this has never been enforced.
Seems kind of redundant, what with tax forms and all.
While not as fine grained as a census it seems like it'd be a fuckton easier and more cost effective to digitize tax records and process it that way.
Probably be just as accurate because people will almost always fill out their tax returns for the $$rebate. As opposed to the people who get the census form and are like "oops burned that by accident."
Well, it is half-way there...sort of. Tax records are used in quite a few estimation processes.
All you can really gain from IRS records are Age, Sex, Income, dependents, address. This could provide a very rough proxy of the tax paying population by age/sex - perhaps enough to partially allocate governmental seats (which is the consitutional reason for the census) but in no way quite as representative of the entire U.S.
However, this is rather scant information for decisions based upon the whole breadth of information collected by the Census Bureau (of which, there are a lot). The overall story is that the census does a lot of good, much more than most percieve.
What does SS# provide record wise? Do they store anything with that? Meh.
bowen on
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
The US Census is also mandatory. I don't know what the penalty is for not returning it, maybe not much, but it is required.
Also:
A minor slap on the wrist. Refusal will net you a $100 fine, falsifying information will bing you for $500. This does not only apply to the decennial census, but also a few annual surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau (the American Community Survey, which is replacing the decennial census long form comes to mind)
However, to the best of my knowledge this has never been enforced.
Seems kind of redundant, what with tax forms and all.
While not as fine grained as a census it seems like it'd be a fuckton easier and more cost effective to digitize tax records and process it that way.
Probably be just as accurate because people will almost always fill out their tax returns for the $$rebate. As opposed to the people who get the census form and are like "oops burned that by accident."
Well, it is half-way there...sort of. Tax records are used in quite a few estimation processes.
All you can really gain from IRS records are Age, Sex, Income, dependents, address. This could provide a very rough proxy of the tax paying population by age/sex - perhaps enough to partially allocate governmental seats (which is the consitutional reason for the census) but in no way quite as representative of the entire U.S.
However, this is rather scant information for decisions based upon the whole breadth of information collected by the Census Bureau (of which, there are a lot). The overall story is that the census does a lot of good, much more than most percieve.
What does SS# provide record wise? Do they store anything with that? Meh.
Yep, that is used as well - particuarly for tracking elderly populations which are a bit more difficult to measure via traditional means.
It may not seem like it - but every single question the Census Bureau collects must have a reason germane to the operation of the government. Nothing is superflous. I could go on and on about just how technical, difficult, and important it is to collect all that information, but that would be one hell of a derail (moreso, anyway). I'll just say of all the government agencies out there, the Census Bureau is probably one of the most benign and operated with an eye for integrity and (gasp!) science. It is not quite a "big brother" situation that many fear.
I get an email asking me to call home every now and then. Also sometimes when I am facebook my mom will open a chat and talk about how things are going. These conversations usually end with her saying "... you spend too much time on the internet, dear."
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Excellent response.
CHRISTMAS STAMPS
How ironic is this ??
They don't even believe in Christ and they're getting their own Christmas stamp, but don't dream of posting the ten commandments on federal property?
USPS New Stamp
This one is impossible to believe. Scroll down for the text.
If there is only one thing you forward today.....let it be this!
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of Pan Am Flight 103!
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993!
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon !
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the military Barracks in Saudi Arabia !
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa !
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE!
REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on 9/11/2001 !
REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks!
Now the United States Postal Service REMEMBERS and HONORS the EID MUSLIM holiday season with a commemorative first class
Holiday postage stamp.
REMEMBER to adamantly and vocally BOYCOTT this stamp
When purchasing your stamps at the post office. To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors.
REMEMBER to pass this along to every Christian and / or Patriotic AMERICAN that
you know !!!
I will let you figure out all of the things that are horribly, horribly wrong with that.
I do get forwarded the weirdest text messages from my dad though
such as this gem from yesterday
"Up on the rooftop, click click click
Santa fell down and broke his dick!
Cracked his nuts on a 2x4
that's why Santa don't cum no more!
ho ho ho"
http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/history/biographies/louis_pasteur.htm
it exposes a milk industry conspiracy dating back 150 years
awesomeee
that is amazing
And he is entirely wrong about everything, ever.
bahaha
I like your dad
he is a pretty cool dude
Apparently, when I was a young child, I bullied Steve Jobs' son off a swing...according to one story on it.
well, that's true
it's called a retrovirus
read the page, a lot of it is retarded
My mom sends me e-mails to see if I am eating well, it's always her biggest concern because she is not there to stuff me full of food.
She used to forward me junk mail with dumb jokes and inspirational messages, but then I told her to stop it, and she did.
there's debate over whether viruses count as life
the question as you asked it doesn't make any sense
duhhhh
Skynet is getting desperate.
A minor slap on the wrist. Refusal will net you a $100 fine, falsifying information will bing you for $500. This does not only apply to the decennial census, but also a few annual surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau (the American Community Survey, which is replacing the decennial census long form comes to mind)
However, to the best of my knowledge this has never been enforced.
BNet: StandrdError#1826
Seems kind of redundant, what with tax forms and all.
While not as fine grained as a census it seems like it'd be a fuckton easier and more cost effective to digitize tax records and process it that way.
Probably be just as accurate because people will almost always fill out their tax returns for the $$rebate. As opposed to the people who get the census form and are like "oops burned that by accident."
my mom just figured out how to text, and she is adorable. I got one from her yesterday that read:
From: Mom
R u coming home before christmas mom
Just to be sure I knew who it was from.
Also I got one that was all one long run-on sentence, the last bit of it was "how do i do puntuation love mom"
Well, it is half-way there...sort of. Tax records are used in quite a few estimation processes.
All you can really gain from IRS records are Age, Sex, Income, dependents, address. This could provide a very rough proxy of the tax paying population by age/sex - perhaps enough to partially allocate governmental seats (which is the consitutional reason for the census) but in no way quite as representative of the entire U.S.
However, this is rather scant information for decisions based upon the whole breadth of information collected by the Census Bureau (of which, there are a lot). The overall story is that the census does a lot of good, much more than most percieve.
BNet: StandrdError#1826
What does SS# provide record wise? Do they store anything with that? Meh.
Yep, that is used as well - particuarly for tracking elderly populations which are a bit more difficult to measure via traditional means.
It may not seem like it - but every single question the Census Bureau collects must have a reason germane to the operation of the government. Nothing is superflous. I could go on and on about just how technical, difficult, and important it is to collect all that information, but that would be one hell of a derail (moreso, anyway). I'll just say of all the government agencies out there, the Census Bureau is probably one of the most benign and operated with an eye for integrity and (gasp!) science. It is not quite a "big brother" situation that many fear.
EDIT: Dur, spelling.
BNet: StandrdError#1826
Whooops wrong address, sent to a customer, a 65 year old woman who's sweet as apple pie.
He went OH NO OH NO OH NO OH NO for a couple minutes then called her to explain.
Maybe she thought he was talking about a kitten.
no, this is a retrovirus:
giving the world with saturday night fever, hell yeah
then she sent another one 20 seconds later that said "love, mom"
She's probably right, but eh.
ahhahah, that is amazing. The best part is the subject.