First and foremost, make sure to check out my set tomorrow and show me some love!
Second, you asked for it! So here are my top 5 favorite responses for why people won't donate to help Japan:
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5) I already donated to them today
4) It's not about them, it's about me.
3) The rest of the world should start paying US for everything we do for them, not the other way around.
2) If they want money, they should sell us our land back! They got mad after they lost the war and came over here buying up all our land...
and the absolute best of the worst came from a man that was at least in his 80s, maybe older and my jaw just about hit the floor when he said this; I had no response at all because I was so shocked.
1) Oh, I helped them plenty in World War 2, couldn't help them enough and I'd do it again.
And now, for a few stories about stupid shit I have to put up with at work...
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So, a couple came in with 2 young girls. As the mom starts asking my boss a bunch of dumb questions the older of the girls starts running around like a crazy person. The first thing she does is grabs a sign display off the shelf, puts it on the ground and start climbing all over it. (it's about medium, shallow box sized) Boss is not thrilled and spends the next 5 minutes trying to get this girl to get off the display and give it to her, all the while dad is standing about 2 feet away ignoring the whole scene. After this, my boss starts talking to the dad about phones and the little girl comes around to the counter to try and grab the display again, she leaves after I glare at her. Then, to my horror, about 2 minutes later I see her trying to stab herself in the hand with a box cutter that she managed to open. I freak out and run over there grabbing it from her and dragging her over to her mom where I tell mom what happened and go back to the register to help my customers; I close the box cutter and put it under the counter. Not more than 2 minutes later the girl is back over at the other side of the counter with the box cutter doing THE SAME THING. This time I yell at her to put it down, drag her back to her mom and then I grabbed her mom by the wrist and MADE HER hold her daughters had and told her DO NOT LET HER GO UNTIL YOU LEAVE THE STORE. I guess during this time the younger one had found a bolt of something to chew on that my boss found right before they left... oh right, and they were pissy with us because our "customer service" wasn't very good.
That is just the most notable story, but I swear I have some stupid jackass bother me at least once a day and another asshole yelling at me for something that has nothing to do with me at least once every other day
And last, I lave you with a bit of my work entertainment. This comes from an OHSA Safety Paper we all had to read and sign-off on called "Beware the Tiger" that says "Safety rules were written with the splinters of human bones dipped in human blood" (No, not joking) Most is a ridiculous story about the "origins" of safety rules, but the last paragraph is priceless!
"In the event that an accident should befall you, it is conceivable that the person that the Company has to train
to take your job will be a better worker than you or that the person your widow marries will be a better person than you; or that your children's stepparent will be better for them than you. But-why put it to a test? The person who gains the most by following a safety rule is you!"
It took my a LONG time to stop laughing and making jokes about this with my manager...I was almost in tears. Hope you enjoy.
The nightmarish futuristic satire brazil effectively blurs all lines between illusion and reality. Jonathan pryce plays a
government statistician who chooses to blind himself to the decaying world around him
This is a very dark, very cynical look into the future from a couple of decades ago, which turned out to be relatively
accurate. All the issues addressed have come to fruition here in 2010
`Brazil' tells the complex story of a man named Sam Lowry who works for an intelligence agency working to fight terrorism.
When a mistake costs an innocent man his life, Lowry finds himself trapped in the center of government cover-up; something
that he seems almost nave to. When he falls in love (through his constant day-dreaming) with a belligerent woman seeking
justice, his life spirals out of control as he is forced to recognize the condition of his own country, something he has
feigned ignorance to for so long.
It combines future and retro elements with film noir - all of that is true, and describes it fairly well, but it is almost an anti-love story, because it ends sadly, and the protagonist ruins his life chasing his dream. it's funny, in a sad, twisted way
sorry i took so long to reply. bye beautiful...