The Rant Rave thread

Mougar wrote: [quote=jeffrey][quote=Mougar]Rant: Arguing with clients about getting paid

Rant: the following makes me both laugh and cry

- "So basically, you want me to work for free."
- "Show us how you made it, so we can do it in house, our own from now on."


Yesss I love this. "Please spend 40 hours training our people how to do this without you, and then we will contest your invoice saying that you didn't perform up to par which is why we needed to bring it in house." Basically, spend an unpaid manweek teaching your how to replace us.

NTHX

OpossumQueen wrote:
Rant: trying to deal with NYM hospital. I tried to make an appointment with them for the MRI and it was ridiculous. Extension A says to call ext B. Ext B says nope, call ext C. Ext. C says call Ext B. And so on and so forth. Nobody would let me make an appointment. Idiot fest.

don't go to NYM. they will only make you cry and cry.

i know you want to stay local, but if your insurance will cover Faculty Practice Radiology at NYU hospital, i'd say go there. they were great for my MRI (which was fairly extensive).

Rave: She called me!!

I will have no rants forevermore!

MeredithB wrote: Rave: She called me!!

I will have no rants forevermore!

the girl from the concert?!

MeredithB wrote: Rave: She called me!!

I will have no rants forevermore!

Oh dear Lord. Something new for you to obsess about!

Carmen wrote: [quote=MeredithB]Rave: She called me!!

I will have no rants forevermore!

the girl from the concert?!

YES!

Wow. I have to say I'm surprised! What an awesome turn of events after everything seemed so bleak. Congrats, Mer

Thank you Carmen, I am surprised as well. Almost fell off my couch. Couldn't sleep last night. The world shines all around me this morning!

MeredithB wrote: Thank you Carmen, I am surprised as well. Almost fell off my couch. Couldn't sleep last night. The world shines all around me this morning!

It's proof that David Byrne loves us.

Did she know about your postings here and on Craigslist, or was it spontaneously from when you gave her your number?

Carnivore wrote: Did she know about your postings here and on Craigslist, or was it spontaneously from when you gave her your number?

Spontaneous after a week of making me suffer.

MeredithB wrote: [quote=Carnivore]Did she know about your postings here and on Craigslist, or was it spontaneously from when you gave her your number?

Spontaneous after a week of making me suffer.

I like her already

Flexichick wrote: [quote=meredithb]Spontaneous after a week of making me suffer.

I like her already

She must be thinking I'm the Mac Daddy.

...don't tell her about the Craigslist postings and your thread here.

Ever.

Seriously.

I know.

whynot_31 wrote: ...don't tell her about the Craigslist postings and your thread here.

Ever.

Seriously.

lol i was just thinking this. How long is it going to take before mer takes her to a bk event and someone drunkenly informs her of his obsessive efforts to find her?

I give it...1 week.

Yeah, Brooklynian is the kiss of death when it comes to relationships. I'm never bringing anyone around you guys again!!

Carmen wrote: I give it...1 week.

Nah, give it until July 19, if it lasts that long, if anything happens in the first place, unless she is already here....?

Anastasia Beaverhausen wrote: Yeah, Brooklynian is the kiss of death when it comes to relationships. I'm never bringing anyone around you guys again!!

Ahahahaha, TRUTH.

Carmen wrote:
Ahahahaha, TRUTH.

Ain't it, though???

WHAT? Haven't there been any love connections made through Brooklynian? Ones that lasted more than a night that is.

there have been several

No, it's when you introduce your outsider-significant-other to the members of this board, that shit slides down hill right quick.

ah, because we're all here because we're not all there.

MeredithB wrote: WHAT? Haven't there been any love connections made through Brooklynian? Ones that lasted more than a night that is.

There's two brooklynian members that met thru here and are getting married this year. So. yeeeeeeeeeah babay!!

About your missed connection. I think you should tell her later on. Be like , "Baby , when I lost your number I was so upset that I'd never get the chance to get to know you so I.. (say what you did here.)" She'll say "awww , how romantic."

BAD! Never mention Brooklynian. EVER!!

whatever I say, I'll be sure to add, "...in bed" to the end of it. Baby.

Mougar wrote: Rant: On the Iranian election

[quote=Obama]"My understanding is, is that the Iranian government says that they are going to look into irregularities that have taken place. We weren't on the ground, we did not have observers there, we did not have international observers on hand, so I can't state definitively one way or another what happened with respect to the election."

Seriously?

It's complicated and there's definitely more than one side to the story. An interesting article:
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090615_western_misconceptions_meet_iranian_reality


An excerpt:

Last Friday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected with about two-thirds of the vote. Supporters of his opponent, both inside and outside Iran, were stunned. A poll revealed that former Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi was beating Ahmadinejad. It is, of course, interesting to meditate on how you could conduct a poll in a country where phones are not universal, and making a call once you have found a phone can be a trial. A poll therefore would probably reach people who had phones and lived in Tehran and other urban areas. Among those, Mousavi probably did win. But outside Tehran, and beyond persons easy to poll, the numbers turned out quite different.

Some still charge that Ahmadinejad cheated. That is certainly a possibility, but it is difficult to see how he could have stolen the election by such a large margin. Doing so would have required the involvement of an incredible number of people, and would have risked creating numbers that quite plainly did not jibe with sentiment in each precinct. Widespread fraud would mean that Ahmadinejad manufactured numbers in Tehran without any regard for the vote. But he has many powerful enemies who would quickly have spotted this and would have called him on it. Mousavi still insists he was robbed, and we must remain open to the possibility that he was, although it is hard to see the mechanics of this.

That article convinced me that Iran needs to change itself so that we don't have to change our conceptions.

And glibness aside, yes it is a very interesting article.

...I'm afraid we are being given another country to hate.