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Originally posted by dhamsaic
I definitely hope to see some cool shit here from you, seeing as I can't get to Tripod from work (wahoo! Nice filter, guys!). That, incidentally, is why I've never went to your web page  I always forget when I'm at home. Anyway...
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Rho's company just put in a new system this past week. She can only surf online before 8am, between 12:30 and 1:30, and after 5pm. And the sites that are permanently banned include web-building sites (like Tripod), web mail (like yahoo or hotmail), and job resource sites (like Headhunter).
Of course, I can only access our company's intranet, UPS, the Postal Service, and FedEx. What a crock of shit...
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I know you know this, but I'll reinforce it: you should definitely be quitting if you don't enjoy your job. And since you won't be employed, you should definitely be driving down here and bringing me a cheesesteak. Man, that would rule. I know a really good Thai place right near my building, too. We could hit some pad gai, which must be the most perfect food in the entire world. Then hit the Silver Diner across the way for some tasty strawberry malts.
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Okay, so maybe you didn't read that right. I will not have a job as of Thursday. Which means, instilling conservative monetary policies.
If I am able to get my car fixed in the next week or so, I might take you up on that. My poor car needs a tune-up, a tranny fluid change, and I need to have the exhaust system checked. Things I haven't been able to do b/c of my work schedule. And besides, the plates on our car are due for renewal next month, so I'll have to head south in the next few weeks anyway (b/c we still have Maryland plates on our car...long story).
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As for Australians being that way... I've personally found more Britons to be snotty than anyone else.
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That actually started as a joke, but in my experiences...
The French are the worst. It could be my self-fulfilling prophecy, but the ones I have met are not very nice.
Canadians are generally cool.
Most South Americans are decent...I know a handful from Argentina and Brazil.
Scandanavians, Finns, and Italians are great. Some of my best online buddies are from Sweden or Finland. I have a friend from Milan who is always wanting to know more about life in America.
I used to have a few friends over in the UK, and they were generally alright. They seem a bit more "refined" than us, but that's just them...I don't find them to be unusually snotty.
The Irish are great.
The Australians I know are cool as well. When it comes to talking to them on the phone though, that's another story. $10 says that if I ever talked to jag, I wouldn't understand a damned word he says.
A friend of mine in Brisbane called me once...I had to keep asking her to repeat everything. I think part of it had to do with a bad phone connection, but my hearing is not the best, and I just could NOT understand what she was saying.
You may have a point as a whole on the issue of envy. I think a lot of foreigners don't like America b/c we have plenty, and we flaunt it. As an example (and strictly as an example), you (Dham) talking about how you can afford an Xbox. I wish I had extra money to buy a PS2 or a new car or whatever, but I'm not jealous. A European might find that to be a "typical American" attitude. Or that episode of South Park where the kids go to China to play dodgeball. The Chinese commentators kept poking fun at Americans. One of their shots was--"I'll put that on my credit card." Heh...
In my travels online, I've firmly tried to stress that the majority of Americans are NOT assholes. I don't think we are. It's just like the assumption that all blacks are on welfare. A small sample that is ridiculously blown out of proportion.
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Anyway. I hope you do some cool things with the forum. Like maybe making a Sycamore's Pic O' The Day. Or whatever. But I'll definitely be reading it regularly (like I do everything else on the Cellar).
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Once I am done with the job, my typical day will go like this:
10a--Get up, watch TV
10a-12p--While watching TV, searching all the jobsites I have online, and posting to the Cellar.
12p-4p--More TV, maybe a walk or a quick jaunt up to the strip mall up the street from my house.
4p-7p--News...gotta watch the news.
7p or 8p--Dinner
8p--more TV...I'm an NBC whore. More surfing...
1 or 2a--bed
This is how it has worked the last 2 times I was out of work. I will enjoy this for all of a week, then I will desperately want to go back to work.
I'll probably do some little things here on the forum, and probably do some site updating. Incidentally, I've been working on a Philadelphia page off and on for the past few months.