Society & Culture Things that s**t me part X- The Tenth edition!

[Off The Couch]

Oh no u didnt!!!

That sucks. I have to schedule meetings with parents every term. While my coordinator is available Friday afternoons, I point blank refuse to even offer that time, they come in some other day.

How long should the meeting go?

Normally an hour and a half - it's offsite and the organisation calling the meeting is one of our funders. Govt of course so not attending is not an option.

 

[The Speaker]

I suppose it would be OK to call them a ******* stupid cow too then? After all, you've made a commitment to them....

Do you disagree with SG's notion that marriage has become basically meaningless in today's society, and that there is no excuse for cheating on someone you have made a commitment to?

 

[Catfish Alley]

Do you disagree with SG's notion that marriage has become basically meaningless in today's society, and that there is no excuse for cheating on someone you have made a commitment to?

Completely disagree marriage is meaningless. It's perhaps even more meaningful in today's society because if people are together, it is mostly because they want to be together - unlike past generations.

 

[The Speaker]

Completely disagree marriage is meaningless. It's perhaps even more meaningful in today's society because if people are together, it is mostly because they want to be together - unlike past generations.

If it's so meaningful, then why does the website in question exist?

 

[Quivorir]

What terrible logic.

 

[Catfish Alley]

If it's so meaningful, then why does the website in question exist?

Because cheating has always existed and they are capitalizing on that market.

 

[The Speaker]

I note that both of you are happily married, and may be rather defensive of the idea that it is no longer held in the same esteem it once was.

I'm not questioning your own marriages, I'm questioning the way the concept is perceived in wider society.

 

[Catfish Alley]

I note that both of you are happily married, and may be rather defensive of the idea that it is no longer held in the same esteem it once was.

I'm not questioning your own marriages, I'm questioning the way the concept is perceived in wider society.

I get it. Not defensive. I just know of much more happier marriages now than generations before. It does depend on your circle of family/friends etc. As for perceptions of marriage, well, how somebody outside perceives it doesn't really matter.

 

[Quivorir]

Hey, I never said I was happy.

 

[Cruyff14]

Do you disagree with SG's notion that marriage has become basically meaningless in today's society, and that there is no excuse for cheating on someone you have made a commitment to?

I don't believe I ever questioned that.

 

[Off The Couch]

If there is a market - I suppose it's no big deal. Personally I find it quite tacky but then I think the clientele using it would be much the same, so a perfect fit.

 

[The Speaker]

I don't believe I ever questioned that.

Then why take another opportunity to lay the boots into him? It's pretty tiring to see it come up every other day. Is it so hard to say "yes, SG, on this I believe you are right"?

 

[Catfish Alley]

I find it very meaningful at tax time. I'd find it even more meaningful if we broke up and I lost half my stuff!

 

[Registered User]

She books appointments with doctors/physios at the slightest hint of a sniffle or sore throat. She's been having a bit of back pain lately, nothing too major as she can still walk, run and play netball quite easily, but she organised to have all these tests and X-rays done, and kept saying 'oh I'm too young to be in pain all the time'. Makes me frustrated because these tests cost money, a lot of it, and then I'll have to hear her complain about not having much.
Her whole family is like it. You just sneezed? Off to the hospital with you! Here take 22 tablets while we drive there.

It obviously sounds like it was bred into to her, rather than she went loopy, like I did

Maybe having x-rays and ultrasound will satisfy her for a while. That's what a doc did to me several years ago when I was stressing about some mild and intermittent stomach pains. He was sure it was nothing, but he sent me to get ultrasounds and torso x-rays, mostly to shut me up, I suspect.

The irony is that stressing about symptoms can cause a whole host of anxiety-realted symptoms of their own, such as pains all over the torso, etc, etc, etc.

That said, as the other poster mentioned, there are plenty of stories of people going to the doc with a pain, then dying 6 weeks later from cancer, although this is obviously very uncommon. That's what happened to Bernie Quinlan's daughter: she was treated for ages by physios for a sore back, and it turned out she had a larger tumour which killed her.

Here's a tip you give her and her whole family for preventing colds and flu: gargling and nasal rinsing may reduce upper respiratory infections, because it kills germs where they begin to propagate. I don't care if it's a placebo or not, but it works for me. I used to get a few colds a year, but I haven't had one for nearly 2 years since I started doing it.

 

[Cruyff14]

Then why take another opportunity to lay the boots into him? It's pretty tiring to see it come up every other day. Is it so hard to say "yes, SG, on this I believe you are right"?

Is it so hard not to call women bishes?

 

[Gough]

I had to Google to find out what the hell AM is. The way I see it, make profile, swoon rich married ladies, profit.

 

[kfc1]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-...fter-crashing-into-carlton-north-cafe/6268432
this campaigner

Did lol at this tho

The court heard Hassan had also held up a convenience store with a large can of dog food for a weapon, several days before the crash.

 

[Registered User]

It shits me when I buy new scales and find out that I'm 2kg heavier than I thought I was.
I checked them by weighing a bunch of small weights individually on some decent kitchen scales, then dumping all the weights on the new bathroom scales (about 40kg worth), and they seem accurate. boo.

 

[RU_]

Finishing my 3 month trial at a job, 6 weeks early to find there's no position for what I wanted to do.

Them unemployment feels.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Finishing my 3 month trial at a job, 6 weeks early to find there's no position for what I wanted to do.

Them unemployment feels.

That sucks, did they give you notice beforehand that may be the case?

 

[RU_]

That sucks, did they give you notice beforehand that may be the case?

Got called in for a meeting with the supervisors a few days ago and told there was a position for something which I didn't want to do, and tht the one I wanted didn't have any spots.

Guess I get that for being picky, haha.

 

[Quivorir]

Can't do it until you find one you want? Its not easy to find a job, id be taking what I get offered.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Can't do it until you find one you want? Its not easy to find a job, id be taking what I get offered.

Any job is better than no job.

 

[The Passenger]

Any job is better than no job.

That is definitely not the advice I would be giving to school leavers. ever.

 

[Off The Couch]

Any job is better than no job.

My father, bless him, told us from the very beginning of our working careers that if we weren't happy then quit and go find something that does - we spend more time working than anything else in our life and if you aren't happy there, then that starts to impact on every aspect of your life