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Updates and Announcements / Re: Hello? Hello?
« on: March 07, 2020, 10:48:01 pm »
I've started a time management tips thread in the General area, if anybody would like to contribute. And maybe we could share more recipes? I'm always game to try new recipes.

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General Discussion / Re: parking lot worries
« on: February 18, 2020, 01:16:01 am »
Quote from: DragonKitty on February 16, 2020, 11:46:38 am
Wow! Yes, 6 inches would have prevented me from getting to work also.

I remember the one winter when we lived in an apartment house, I hated having to climb down the stairs from our third-floor apartment, because they were outside stairs.

Were you ever snowed in, i.e. the stairs were impassable?

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General Discussion / Time management tips-what is yours?
« on: February 05, 2020, 09:05:58 am »
I don't generally have a problem being on time for things, but I am the original absent-minded professor, getting lost in my own thoughts when I should be getting ready to leave the house. What I've done is put a dual-alarm clock on my living room coffee table and set the first alarm for "get ready get set" and the second one for "go now!" When the first alarm goes off I must drop whatever I'm doing and get completely ready to leave. When the second one beeps I must pick up my things and leave the house right away, no stopping for "just a minute" but leaving immediately. I was wondering if anyone had a special thing that they do in order to be on time-?

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Books / A Very Short Introduction books
« on: January 24, 2020, 12:53:06 pm »
I am currently hooked on the A Very Short Introduction book series. They cover a huge range of topics, and are a compact and interesting summary of each subject. However, the writing itself is widely variable as far as quality. Logical enough, I guess, seeing that so many different experts are writing about their own fields. I check them out of the library first to examine them and see if I want to buy it, and that way I don't waste any money on the ones I don't feel are written very well or which aren't what I expected them to be. I have 13 so far on my bookshelf, two I received as gifts this Christmas.

Has anyone else here read one or more of these books? What's your opinion of the series?

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General Discussion / Re: parking lot worries
« on: January 24, 2020, 12:47:16 pm »
I've looked into it, and the ordinances don't require landlords to clear their parking lots, just the public sidewalks.

Update: Since I posted my rant, I have heard through the grapevine that the man my landlord had contracted with to clear our parking lot this winter couldn't find enough drivers for his plows and so had to cancel his contracts, among them ours. It never occurred to me that the landlord himself was having a problem, I was just thinking about my own problem. Oops! Well, I really hope that next winter turns out better. In the meantime I'm watching the weather like a hawk and trying to salt pre-emptively whenever possible. This morning I did that, and I also salted around my neighbor's truck (he was kind enough to clear off my car after the last storm).

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General Discussion / parking lot worries
« on: January 20, 2020, 08:25:23 am »
Feeling very frustrated because my landlord has decided to stop hiring professionals to clear our apartment parking lot of snow. We had six inches Friday and I was unable to get out of the lot and so had to call in to work. I lost a morning's pay because of his pennypinching. MUCH later in the day an old man with a snow blower showed up and cleared out most of the snow, very badly. And another old man with a shovel was clearing around our cars, which I much appreciated. But, too little too late.

The trouble is, I know why he's being stingy. He used to see to it that our lot was cleared by a competent professional service in a timely manner. However, his wife has fallen ill and she's in a nursing home now. But I still need to get out of my parking space to get to work! I'm going to call him today and just quietly tell him that because the lot wasn't cleared out Saturday morning, it caused me to lose a morning's pay. If this is going to be an ongoing problem I'll have to think about moving. Grrrrr!

Modified to add that I have a disability and me clearing out snow myself isn't an option.

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Updates and Announcements / Re: Hello? Hello?
« on: January 11, 2020, 07:25:19 pm »
Hey!

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Updates and Announcements / Re: Hello? Hello?
« on: January 09, 2020, 06:25:02 pm »
Hello back. I hope not.

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Romantic Relationships and Sex / Re: When something's missing...how to explain it?
« on: September 26, 2019, 08:25:21 am »
I don't have any suggestions, but I think the left and right brain thing is very interesting. I wonder if most if not all of use choose our life partners unconsciously based on something like that. Opposites can compliment each other.

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General Discussion / Re: The "Unpopular Opinions" Thread
« on: June 20, 2019, 11:03:39 pm »
Thank you for the article! I have to point out that it still isn't considered standard formal English for "they" to be accepted as a singular antecedent. In maybe thirty years it will, but it's not strictly correct English and many teachers still object to the usage. I think the usage is fine, I just object to the label "singular antecedent," which I guess is kind of silly for me to object to.

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General Discussion / Re: The "Unpopular Opinions" Thread
« on: June 20, 2019, 05:41:41 am »
Quote from: yourdadjustcallsmekatya on June 20, 2019, 02:13:29 am
Quote from: cayenne on June 19, 2019, 10:11:25 pm
Quote from: yourdadjustcallsmekatya on June 19, 2019, 08:46:26 pm
Quote from: whiterose on June 19, 2019, 11:41:30 am
Warning- controversial.

I dislike the singular "they". I wish English had gender-neutral singular pronouns for people.

I will still respect and use "they/them/they/theirs" for people who prefer them.

But how I wish there were a gender neutral one. I mean, if English is progressive enough for inanimate objects to be gender neutral, it should also have a singular one for human beings.

They is a singular pronoun in English. What does being ‘progressive’ have to do with having gender neutral pronouns for inanimate objects?

"They" is a plural pronoun, but English uses it informally in lieu of a gender neutral singular pronoun. It solves the linguistic problem neatly, and I don't quite understand the objection to the usage.

It can be singular as well depending on the antecedent.

Would you mind giving me an example? I'm not calling you out, I'm just trying to think of an example and I can't.

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General Discussion / Re: The "Unpopular Opinions" Thread
« on: June 19, 2019, 10:11:25 pm »
Quote from: yourdadjustcallsmekatya on June 19, 2019, 08:46:26 pm
Quote from: whiterose on June 19, 2019, 11:41:30 am
Warning- controversial.

I dislike the singular "they". I wish English had gender-neutral singular pronouns for people.

I will still respect and use "they/them/they/theirs" for people who prefer them.

But how I wish there were a gender neutral one. I mean, if English is progressive enough for inanimate objects to be gender neutral, it should also have a singular one for human beings.

They is a singular pronoun in English. What does being ‘progressive’ have to do with having gender neutral pronouns for inanimate objects?

"They" is a plural pronoun, but English uses it informally in lieu of a gender neutral singular pronoun. It solves the linguistic problem neatly, and I don't quite understand the objection to the usage.

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Work Issues / Re: What was the worst/best/weirdest thing that happened to you at work????
« on: June 14, 2019, 10:34:01 pm »
Quote from: Fluffy on June 14, 2019, 10:28:03 am
Quote from: cayenne on June 13, 2019, 10:23:19 pm
If you wouldn't mind, would you like to tell about it? (Not if it's traumatic, of course.)

He did - the text is whited, you just need to drag your cursor over it to highlight it and then you can see it.

OK, thanks!

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Work Issues / Re: What was the worst/best/weirdest thing that happened to you at work????
« on: June 13, 2019, 10:23:19 pm »
If you wouldn't mind, would you like to tell about it? (Not if it's traumatic, of course.)

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Work Issues / Re: What was the worst/best/weirdest thing that happened to you at work????
« on: June 09, 2019, 06:03:14 pm »
Quote from: shadowfox79 on June 09, 2019, 05:31:40 am
While signing in at work one morning I noticed a marrow had been left next to the signing-in book.

I didn't comment on it at the time, but my manager did when he arrived. Nobody ever admitted to knowing where this random marrow came from.

Now if someone would just leave a nice Vidalia onion, we could make vegetable soup.

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