@Kaiser-Machead: For the Japanese, though, that's just part of their work code. Only they can pull something like that off.
Then again, they could've required all Tokyo subway workers - male or female - to wear item number 4 if it had existed in 1995. #bestandworstinventionsof2009
@Kaiser-Machead: Also, wouldn't it be a little creepy to ride the rail surrounded by fake looking smiles, knowing they're all just thin veneers over a train wreck of anger and frustration? #bestandworstinventionsof2009
@Kyonko: I suppose it isn't much different from the venomous saccharine mannequins that work at TGI Friday's, forced to be unrealistically chipper, which I may have to explain to management one day gives me awful indigestion. #bestandworstinventionsof2009
@Gann: I can only assume it's because upper management don't have to do this kind of shit (anymore) and don't stop to think that maybe people respond better to quality professional service and courtesy than they do to big stupid grins. #bestandworstinventionsof2009
@Kaiser-Machead: "I suppose it isn't much different from the venomous saccharine mannequins that work at TGI Friday's, forced to be unrealistically chipper"
@tande04: Eh... a list by Time Magazine journalists? Probably just a bunch of pissed off English majors who feel like their world is being raped by popular culture. #bestandworstinventionsof2009
One of the original uses for Radium was as a health tonic. It emitted a "healthy green glow". No foolin'. (Just don't ask me to site a source, 'cause I'm lazy).
Linux is great. It's a free, open-source operating system (OS) based on work done by Linus Torvalds in the early '90s. Again, it's free, powerful and easy to ...
Oh wait, it's a pain to use. Let's get this straight: Linux is very good, and leads the charge in an ongoing revolution in free software. However, a lot of Linux users out there give the whole thing a poor name. They forget that most people don't know as much as they do about computers. Some people garden, write poetry, fall in love or ... er, bloviate about gadgetry.
Please don't confuse your fanaticism with superiority and, for the love of Jobs, stop telling us we're sheep under the sway of Microsoft. No one likes Comcast either, but until it's convenient to string our own fiber optic cable we're sticking with it. (Msnbc.com is a Microsoft-NBC Universal joint venture.)
Cool if: You're not heaping disdain on the rest of us, or maybe if you're in charge of a server farm.
Not cool if: You feel your mastery of computers excuses your inability to control a neck-beard."
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Then again, they could've required all Tokyo subway workers - male or female - to wear item number 4 if it had existed in 1995. #bestandworstinventionsof2009
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And they're forced to wear those stupid pieces of flair. #bestandworstinventionsof2009
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How is a book an invention for that matter? #bestandworstinventionsof2009
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I stared at the diamond traffic thing for a good 10 minutes... still cant figure it out. Update: Found the video... it makes sense now.
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The cornholer on the other hand has left plenty of damage in it's wake...
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Well...a steady intake of radioactive chemicals would have the benefit of killing most of the parasitic organisms in your body.
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Nothing gory, but weird that it was filmed, edited and survives today on Youtube.
.I suppose that times really don't change when it comes to media consumption.
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Beavis was on Arrested Development maybe?
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But Heroes is in 25 minutes...
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'Pushes sleep button and walks away from the computer'
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Linux is great. It's a free, open-source operating system (OS) based on work done by Linus Torvalds in the early '90s. Again, it's free, powerful and easy to ...
Oh wait, it's a pain to use. Let's get this straight: Linux is very good, and leads the charge in an ongoing revolution in free software. However, a lot of Linux users out there give the whole thing a poor name. They forget that most people don't know as much as they do about computers. Some people garden, write poetry, fall in love or ... er, bloviate about gadgetry.
Please don't confuse your fanaticism with superiority and, for the love of Jobs, stop telling us we're sheep under the sway of Microsoft. No one likes Comcast either, but until it's convenient to string our own fiber optic cable we're sticking with it. (Msnbc.com is a Microsoft-NBC Universal joint venture.)
Cool if: You're not heaping disdain on the rest of us, or maybe if you're in charge of a server farm.
Not cool if: You feel your mastery of computers excuses your inability to control a neck-beard."
Sounds like someone slipped of his meds..