You say that! We had a visitor at my office from the UK a few weeks back and someone asked him if he’d like any coffee or tea to drink. To which he answered “Tea? You still have tea in Boston?” I guess the folks across the Atlantic are still bitter about the whole Tea Party thing 
Oh I AM sorry! Of course I meant “Check under ya’ll’s hood for yer enjin!”
I sometimes forget to translate for the Transatlantically disadvantaged 
I can’t stand tea OR coffee, so I’m not really bitter about anything to do with Boston…
except for Cheers… Oh man I hated that show.
Ah, Britain and America: two nations separated by a vast ocean! 
Well, we got a snow day today and I’m spending it waiting for my car to be looked at while the girls are with gramma. I guess it could be worse.
Editing this out as after I’ve re-read it now I’m home, I think it could be misinterpreted as insulting rather than funny (as it was intended)
Not convinced my sense of humour circuits work so well when I’m in pain
My first B+M thread (and I’ll make sure to do a cool craaaap one too so that the universe remains balanced…)
I’m stuck in a cold office, waiting for a server rack to be delivered. Ordinarily this would be fine except there are “conditions”:
I’ve been here over 7 hours so far. There are no chairs, no heating, no Internet access (I’m connecting through a 3G data card right now), and it’s started snowing.
I have a 3+ hour drive to get home, before traffic and snow (I’m just a bit outside Manchester waves at TNM and have to drive back to my place in Reading when it’s finally here…).
Now the bad bit - my back is starting to really hurt, and I can’t do anything to make it stop as have no pain meds available, I can’t leave until the rack arrives, and I have nowhere I can sit comfortably as there’s no furniture yet… So I’m currently lying on the floor as it’s the least painful alternative.
Memo to self: stop procrastinating and get the back looked at. It shouldn’t hurt like this (fell down some stairs 5 years ago and everything was “fine” according to ER people, but it’s been getting progressively more painful since)
To add insult to injury, I’ve just been told it’s actually not going to be delivered until tomorrow due to a Frak-up at the suppliers, but I can’t leave until we have sorted out who/how it’ll be accepted here tomorrow. Ah well I should just be done to enjoy every bit of rush-hour traffic from here to home
Well, at around 3:30 today, my work computer got frakked up big time. I think it’s a virus wrapped in fake antivirus software. It wouldn’t even let me bring up task manager, saying that its executable was infected.
One of the IT guys is looking into it, but that basically stopped me from getting anything done the rest of the day. Hopefully it’s something simple, because I had a few tasks in progress that I didn’t have checked into source control. They’ll be fairly straightforward to recreate, but them combined with potentially having to get a bunch of stuff reinstalled will be way more time consuming than I want to deal with.
Dealing with selfish, difficult people today. That’s all I can say because if I said anymore I would blow up with the power of 1,000 suns.
American colonists did not protest the Tea Tax with the Boston Tea Party because it raised the price of tea.
The American colonists preferred Dutch tea to English tea. The English Parliament placed an embargo on Dutch tea in the colonies, so a huge smuggling profession developed. To combat this, the English government LOWERED the tax on tea so that the English tea would be price competitive with Dutch teas. The colonists (actually some colonists led by the chief smugglers) protested by dumping the tea into Boston Harbor.
Yeah, eat my history
Close. The objection in Boston was to the leftover Townshend tax that remained upon British tea, which was a Parlimentary tax on people unrepresented in Parliment (taxation without representation.) Any preference for Dutch tea was mostly because the previously high taxation (at the wholesale level in Britain) made even smuggled Dutch tea cheaper.
WikiP has a good article on the party.
If Parliment had killed the Townshend tax as well, there’d have been little objection to British tea over here.
I’ve always wondered how responsible that episode was to the American preference for coffee.
That was hipsters. There have always been hipsters, there will always be hipsters.
Let me first say that I am grateful to have a job. But said job is beginning to get more and more annoying. I type announcements, I lay out pages, I answer the phone and I proofread other publications. Despite the fact that I have a degree and over 10 years of experience in graphic design, not to mention being a special sections editor at this same paper prior to being laid off, I’m routinely dismissed when I offer to help my supervisor with any new layout or design work that comes down the pipe.
Our latest assignment is to help the online department with designing banner ads. I overheard my supervisor telling my coworker that she wanted her to meet with the head of the online department next week to find out the specs, and maybe once said coworker has designed some ads she can eventually teach me. Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence. I’m so tired of begging and pleading for the chance to prove myself at something I’ve been doing for years.
Home sick with an evil gastrointestinal bug. Little children at elementary schools are cesspools of contagious germs. 
I know the feeling well! :mad: Stupid work stuff!
I keep trying to quit my job, and they keep offering me stuff to entice me to stay, it’s like 4 times a year at this point, I’m not irreplaceble, but I am the only person that has the passwords for lots of things.
I can write them on a post-it… and they’re all “Buffy_Xander123” anyway!
I hope you feeling better. I understand I work with high school students. I am mildly sick with something that has knocked many into bed for several days. It may be all of those years of being around children that keeps me strong.
(The last time I bragged that I do not get sick I did so, pretend I said nothing.)
I’m ready for hell month to end and it’s only the first week. AUGH!
You know it’s bad when you’re looking forward to an a campus visit job interview because it means you’ll get some sleep. :eek:
Hell month means work to do right?
It’s the meth. It rots the teeth, and then there’s the picking at the bugs under the skin. It does not make for attractive people.
Also, I used to work at the Harry S (no period) Truman Birthplace
I’ve been driving with that light on for the last couple of months.
And now for my B&M: my dog Molly died a couple of weeks ago. We’ve had her since the summer before I started kindergarten.
Yes, but not necessarily the paid kind (at least not paid immediately). Although the potential for better paid work in the near future is very good.
On another note:
it’s snowing. Dear gods is it snowing! I’ve never seen anything like this, at least not in the mid-Atlantic. It’s like Hoth out there.