I ZimbraWorst song, played on ugliest guitarRegistered Userregular
Holy shit, I just saw the most amazing ethering in an email. Nothing was said that was angry or could be construed as less than professional, but you could also feel the contempt dripping off every word.
I will organize the rest of my career around never getting on this guy's bad side.
I am currently an hour from home, halfway between it and my interview site. To reach my interview site now will take 1.5 hours. To reach my home from the interview site now would take 1.5 hours.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Christopher Lambert's accent is so weird in that film. I always think of it as the "Man from Europe" accent.
Huh, and apparently the BBC classifies this instance as a "film crime against the Scottish accent", so there you go.
The BBC are dumb little toilet babies. That isn't an attempt at a Scottish accent, it's an attempt at a completely neutral, vaguely foreign accent that one might have if say, they had traveled extensively for hundreds of years. It was a real reach for Christopher Lambert (who barely spoke English) and he largely pulled it off. His actual Scottish accent isn't great, but I've heard worse.
So he was doing Man from Europe, and he nailed it.
But his accent in the beginning, before he learns he's a Highlander and when he was actually supposed to be Scottish should be Scottish, right?
Christopher Lambert's accent is so weird in that film. I always think of it as the "Man from Europe" accent.
Huh, and apparently the BBC classifies this instance as a "film crime against the Scottish accent", so there you go.
The BBC are dumb little toilet babies. That isn't an attempt at a Scottish accent, it's an attempt at a completely neutral, vaguely foreign accent that one might have if say, they had traveled extensively for hundreds of years. It was a real reach for Christopher Lambert (who barely spoke English) and he largely pulled it off. His actual Scottish accent isn't great, but I've heard worse.
yeah in the flashback bits set before he started travelling he has a way more pronounced Scottish thing going
Christopher Lambert's accent is so weird in that film. I always think of it as the "Man from Europe" accent.
Huh, and apparently the BBC classifies this instance as a "film crime against the Scottish accent", so there you go.
The BBC are dumb little toilet babies. That isn't an attempt at a Scottish accent, it's an attempt at a completely neutral, vaguely foreign accent that one might have if say, they had traveled extensively for hundreds of years. It was a real reach for Christopher Lambert (who barely spoke English) and he largely pulled it off. His actual Scottish accent isn't great, but I've heard worse.
So he was doing Man from Europe, and he nailed it.
But his accent in the beginning, before he learns he's a Highlander and when he was actually supposed to be Scottish should be Scottish, right?
That is supposed to be Scottish. It's not perfect, I don't know if I'd call it good, but it's fine. I've heard many, many worse attempts at a Scottish accent from native English speakers who therefore have less of an excuse.
I'm so appreciating my statistics professor last semester. He taught the material in such a clear way, and his notes are so useful, that I feel like I understand the material much clearer than my current professor (nonparametric stats but we're going over linear regression) is explaining.
When my analyst proofreads my documents, she always thinks I should add commas where I don't think I need any. Her husband has been a high school English teacher for decades and she thinks she's an authority. In many ways she is! Just not in the area of dependent / independent clauses.
I'm only thinking about it now because I've just spent all day drafting a 2,000+ word document and I know she's going to add a bunch of commas to it. Even that wouldn't be so bad - I'm the one who ultimately finalizes the document and I'll do it the way I want to, but after she proofreads she brings the marked-up paper copy to my office and reviews every modification with me one at a time. I don't want to tell her to forget about punctuation because she does catch other stuff that I want corrected. We also have a pretty good partnership that I prefer not to test.
This is not a plea for advice. It's me whining about having an old high school English teacher proofread my documents by proxy.
As the son of a former highschool English teacher I can relate.
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I'm back at work now. It's accentuated that my home network is garbage and I'm replacing my modem/wifi combo with some new shit. I may also get a better plan from Comcast. Not sure if I can get reimbursed on it. I just ordered it without asking for approval first. Eh, whatever.
When my analyst proofreads my documents, she always thinks I should add commas where I don't think I need any. Her husband has been a high school English teacher for decades and she thinks she's an authority. In many ways she is! Just not in the area of dependent / independent clauses.
I'm only thinking about it now because I've just spent all day drafting a 2,000+ word document and I know she's going to add a bunch of commas to it. Even that wouldn't be so bad - I'm the one who ultimately finalizes the document and I'll do it the way I want to, but after she proofreads she brings the marked-up paper copy to my office and reviews every modification with me one at a time. I don't want to tell her to forget about punctuation because she does catch other stuff that I want corrected. We also have a pretty good partnership that I prefer not to test.
This is not a plea for advice. It's me whining about having an old high school English teacher proofread my documents by proxy.
As the son of a former highschool English teacher I can relate.
As it turns out she didn't even come in to the office today. She called this morning and asked if I needed her to, and I said no, thinking of this very thing that I actually do need her to do but am happy to put off.
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Drake ChambersLay out my formal shorts.Registered Userregular
I eat at Taco Bell occasionally, I'm perfectly capable of liking something because it's garbage.
Somehow Taco Bell has become my default for an emergency fast-food drive through when I'm stuck in the field. I think it's a combination of multiple factors. Low price, fast service, easy driver's seat eating, acceptable taste.
Oh, and that they're everywhere. So when I'm two hours past when I should have had lunch and thinking fuck I have to eat something, there's the Bell.
Whenever I try to write anything long-form I abuse the shit out of commas, semicolons, and dashes. I remember seeing a joke about how programmers are way more prone to using parentheticals (which I do a lot in short-form text, like this very aside) which nailed me, and those are basically the way to cheat parentheticals into actual text.
I also do parentheticals all the time and just reread an email I sent this morning where I realized not only did I do a nested parenthetical, I didn't close one of them and it's too late to retract.
Whenever I try to write anything long-form I abuse the shit out of commas, semicolons, and dashes. I remember seeing a joke about how programmers are way more prone to using parentheticals (which I do a lot in short-form text, like this very aside) which nailed me, and those are basically the way to cheat parentheticals into actual text.
I also do parentheticals all the time and just reread an email I sent this morning where I realized not only did I do a nested parenthetical, I didn't close one of them and it's too late to retract.
Oh dear. If they don't notice before trying to interpret the email who knows what they'll do.
See, that's a common mistake, so you're forgiven, but there was actually just the one movie, Highlander.
2 and 3 are my SUPER guilty pleasures
they're so bad... but I enjoy them so much and I hate myself every minute of it
In high school a friend and I bought tickets and went into a movie theater that had a Highlander II poster outside, but it was a mistake - the movie they actually showed was something I can only assume must have been titled Attack of the Dumbshit Bird Men.
I still think it's time for a highlander reboot where the plot revolves around trying to keep the immortals and decapitations secret in our self imposed surveillance society.
I still think it's time for a highlander reboot where the plot revolves around trying to keep the immortals and decapitations secret in our self imposed surveillance society.
I read a thing with a writer from the show where someone asked why there were no police investigations into all these kidnappings and the response was "we realised that if we addressed that we'd essentially never do anything else, you just have to sort of go with it". I think that's fair enough tbh.
My office put out urns of hot cider today because they felt we needed a cold weather treat.
It's 55°F out right now. 4 years ago I'd probably have worn shorts outside if it were 55° in February, but today I'm like "Yeah, it is definitely chilly enough to warrant hot cider."
It's very windy here but I dread going into work as I have to ask WTF is my job and deal with the fallout from the other support being an idiot I keep trying to get back into the plan {I feel I will have to make notes and post them on the notice board and on the garage doors to make him do it
Got an email to our department about a sketchy email she got. We use to to that years ago but now theirs IT and soon cybersec (who will hopefully be me). I forwarded it to IT and they said "Yeah this is a total scam!". It was an email from TurboTax about a possible issue and wit ha 1-866 number. Employee thought this was a good looking scam and IT agreed. I googled it, and hey thats actually the email address TurboTax uses and hey thats their Security team's email address and hey heres like 4 posts from their community forums and FAQs with TurboTax reps saying those emails are legit and please call ASAP. So I replied to the employee to tell her this just as the Infosec Chief, who is interviewing me next week, came in to talk to my boss, I told him what was up and he was like "Huh interesting what you find when you look" so...I think thats good?
My office put out urns of hot cider today because they felt we needed a cold weather treat.
It's 55°F out right now. 4 years ago I'd probably have worn shorts outside if it were 55° in February, but today I'm like "Yeah, it is definitely chilly enough to warrant hot cider."
Truly I have been softened by SoCal.
I am curled up with a blanket on my couch. Three years here and I have grown weak.
Who knew that my work experience from an old job at a drug detox ward would get me ready for some of the customers I get at the bank. First time someone said they were with the mob and would cut off my finger though.
2 days in a row of complete assholes. I'm going to see about getting this person's accounts closed.
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I will organize the rest of my career around never getting on this guy's bad side.
Adrian Paul as a Scottish guy was hilarious to me even as a kid.
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So he was doing Man from Europe, and he nailed it.
But his accent in the beginning, before he learns he's a Highlander and when he was actually supposed to be Scottish should be Scottish, right?
So that was unpleasant
yeah in the flashback bits set before he started travelling he has a way more pronounced Scottish thing going
or at least it sounds like it to me?
That is supposed to be Scottish. It's not perfect, I don't know if I'd call it good, but it's fine. I've heard many, many worse attempts at a Scottish accent from native English speakers who therefore have less of an excuse.
As the son of a former highschool English teacher I can relate.
As it turns out she didn't even come in to the office today. She called this morning and asked if I needed her to, and I said no, thinking of this very thing that I actually do need her to do but am happy to put off.
See, that's a common mistake, so you're forgiven, but there was actually just the one movie, Highlander.
every single entry into the franchise is a pile of hot garbage
This is the day huh
This is the last day you want to post here
Who wants to post forever?
[Liam Gallagher singing voice]
I wanna post forevah~
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Somehow Taco Bell has become my default for an emergency fast-food drive through when I'm stuck in the field. I think it's a combination of multiple factors. Low price, fast service, easy driver's seat eating, acceptable taste.
Oh, and that they're everywhere. So when I'm two hours past when I should have had lunch and thinking fuck I have to eat something, there's the Bell.
This was the other day and it's weird as usually it's bone dry desert here
Oh dear. If they don't notice before trying to interpret the email who knows what they'll do.
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2 and 3 are my SUPER guilty pleasures
they're so bad... but I enjoy them so much and I hate myself every minute of it
In high school a friend and I bought tickets and went into a movie theater that had a Highlander II poster outside, but it was a mistake - the movie they actually showed was something I can only assume must have been titled Attack of the Dumbshit Bird Men.
We were so mad at the theater.
I still think it's time for a highlander reboot where the plot revolves around trying to keep the immortals and decapitations secret in our self imposed surveillance society.
I read a thing with a writer from the show where someone asked why there were no police investigations into all these kidnappings and the response was "we realised that if we addressed that we'd essentially never do anything else, you just have to sort of go with it". I think that's fair enough tbh.
Sorry you had to deal with that. Did you alert your boss? You doin' alright?
"LMAO no dude there's a post on Reddit"
It's 55°F out right now. 4 years ago I'd probably have worn shorts outside if it were 55° in February, but today I'm like "Yeah, it is definitely chilly enough to warrant hot cider."
Truly I have been softened by SoCal.
I am curled up with a blanket on my couch. Three years here and I have grown weak.
2 days in a row of complete assholes. I'm going to see about getting this person's accounts closed.