MrPumpernickel 1's Comments
Egg (not boiled but raw so it cooks in the oven) and bacon on a pizza is the best. Or french fries, also a winner. In fact, there are not many things that won't work on a pizza.
Except pineapple. Death to anyone putting pineapple on pizzas.
Speaking of Glasgow and deep frying, I'd love to test one of their delicacies: Deep fried Mars bar!
Except pineapple. Death to anyone putting pineapple on pizzas.
Speaking of Glasgow and deep frying, I'd love to test one of their delicacies: Deep fried Mars bar!
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10 out of 10, but yeah, just like Jodie I'm a huge fan, although I have managed not to see the movie yet.
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I wonder really how reliable that list is. I've heard other accounts of other people being the richest people in history, among them Alfred Nobel (of Nobel prize fame) which's inventions brought in some serious dough both to him and to his decendants over the years.
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The B version Gunmetal - BlueLED.
Whee!
Whee!
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Fingers HAS to be #1.
I can stick nails far up into my nose, it rocks having trained to be a blockhead! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_blockhead
I can stick nails far up into my nose, it rocks having trained to be a blockhead! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_blockhead
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"Just do it in a reasonably polite way! Seriously, it’s not that complicated."
He's a kid, do you really expect him to think in those ways?
It's easy to sit here as youths and adults and think that it would be obvious that the kid should take these things in concern, but frankly young children aren't developed enough to do so. He probably didn't think it was either rude or polite.
He's a kid, do you really expect him to think in those ways?
It's easy to sit here as youths and adults and think that it would be obvious that the kid should take these things in concern, but frankly young children aren't developed enough to do so. He probably didn't think it was either rude or polite.
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If you like that then you're going to love the movie Flakes :: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462295/
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"I don’t think anyone is saying the kid actually had to invite everyone."
Yes, the school policy was that if you're going to invite people to your birthday party (while you're on school grounds) you have to invite your entire class, or just the boys if it's a boys party and likewise for girls. Had he done it in private that would have been another matter.
In my mind the policy is idiotic, it's all part of this PC culture which's main concern is to protect the young. Hogwash, they need to learn at an early age what disappointment means otherwise they won't be able to tackle it in adult life.
Yes, the school policy was that if you're going to invite people to your birthday party (while you're on school grounds) you have to invite your entire class, or just the boys if it's a boys party and likewise for girls. Had he done it in private that would have been another matter.
In my mind the policy is idiotic, it's all part of this PC culture which's main concern is to protect the young. Hogwash, they need to learn at an early age what disappointment means otherwise they won't be able to tackle it in adult life.
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"No one is telling this kid he has to invite all of his classmates; the problem is that he was openly inconsiderate of the two kids he didn’t invite."
Yes, he was openly inconsiderate to one kid who previously hadn't invited him to his birthday party and another kid who had evidently bullied him for some time. Would you invite your antagonists to your own birthday party? I.e. what the kid did is not a big deal, in fact it isn't a deal at all.
That's of course regardless if it's against the school policy or not.
Yes, he was openly inconsiderate to one kid who previously hadn't invited him to his birthday party and another kid who had evidently bullied him for some time. Would you invite your antagonists to your own birthday party? I.e. what the kid did is not a big deal, in fact it isn't a deal at all.
That's of course regardless if it's against the school policy or not.
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"I can’t believe people in Sweden love being interrupted during dinner, ablutions, or coitus to be informed of exciting new opportunities for their cell phone plan."
Who said they do? No one. However many (notice how I don't generalize there like you do) do appreciate being contacted, especially so since we ask if they have time and can return at a better time. Heck, that method is much better in the long run both for us and the customer.
"Telemarketers are lower on the scale than pedophiles - just learn to accept it, MrPumpernickel. Only then can you be truly at peace with yourself."
Wow, I hope you never have children.
"I just realized, Mr. P, that you have roped us all into an online version of an endless, mind-numbing, unwelcome sell. Well played, sir."
Unwelcome? Whoa whoa whoa! Don't you pin that on me, it was (all) your own decision to come here, to read and to comment.
Either way, I'm done with this now, I've said pretty much all I wanted to say. Happy continuation of this discussion if you decide to do so. Ta ta!
Who said they do? No one. However many (notice how I don't generalize there like you do) do appreciate being contacted, especially so since we ask if they have time and can return at a better time. Heck, that method is much better in the long run both for us and the customer.
"Telemarketers are lower on the scale than pedophiles - just learn to accept it, MrPumpernickel. Only then can you be truly at peace with yourself."
Wow, I hope you never have children.
"I just realized, Mr. P, that you have roped us all into an online version of an endless, mind-numbing, unwelcome sell. Well played, sir."
Unwelcome? Whoa whoa whoa! Don't you pin that on me, it was (all) your own decision to come here, to read and to comment.
Either way, I'm done with this now, I've said pretty much all I wanted to say. Happy continuation of this discussion if you decide to do so. Ta ta!
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fsdoubleflip, it may have been the message I put out, but it was in comparison to telemarketing only. For record's sake there are many many things and professions that I find more annoying than being a grocery bagger. However, what you kind of missed was the argument that people yell at telemarketers and call them various kinds of names, I'd never do that to anyone for doing their profession, regardless if they're a bagger or not. It may be a courtesy thing, but just as often as a bagger asks me if I want my groceries bagged as often they don't and start tearing through my stuff. I have an issue with that, do you have a problem with that?
"You have made the mistaken assumption that I as a consumer welcome calls from people I don’t know who are interested in transacting business with me while I am in my own home. I do not."
Yes, YOU do not, you're one person though. I cannot go into a call assuming that the person either wants or do not want to "transact business" while at home. That's why you ask them if they have time and perhaps say quickly what it's about. Hence it's up to anyone to make the decision. If people who call you don't do that then yes, they are rude. To repeat, you CANNOT assume either or. But yes, I'd wager that you're correct that all telemarketers know quite well the stigma their profession entails and that they can be seen as rude regardless of how well they carry themselves.
Much of telemarketing in Sweden anyway is done to keep customers more than it is to get new ones. A customer which you can make happy and keep is worth 10 new customers, easily. Let's make a hypotethical situation: I call a customer and say that their current cellphone plan is old, outdated and expensive and that they can switch over to a new cheaper one. If we hadn't done that the customer might have found a cheaper deal at another company. Because of our call the customer is happy and stays with our company, it's a win win situation.
nobody, to you it's wasted to me it's well spent. I enjoy discussing these things. I'm sure to many people all the time spent doing anything that they don't agree with is a waste of time as well.
"And you will simply never win the argument about whether it’s okay to call people in their homes."
I don't think I will either, but that's not the point. The point is trying to get people to see that there are more than one side to the coin. They see, for the most case, only their own side and fail to see the other person as well. Hence why so many people with such ease can call telemarketers such horrible and insulting things.
"The fact is that telemarketers are, to the American mind, the absolute lowest form of human life."
Wow! I might've saved that comment for murderers, or rapists, but hey!
"It’s not a worthy mission, and it’s making you seem dense."
Respectfully, that's not for you to decide.
"You have made the mistaken assumption that I as a consumer welcome calls from people I don’t know who are interested in transacting business with me while I am in my own home. I do not."
Yes, YOU do not, you're one person though. I cannot go into a call assuming that the person either wants or do not want to "transact business" while at home. That's why you ask them if they have time and perhaps say quickly what it's about. Hence it's up to anyone to make the decision. If people who call you don't do that then yes, they are rude. To repeat, you CANNOT assume either or. But yes, I'd wager that you're correct that all telemarketers know quite well the stigma their profession entails and that they can be seen as rude regardless of how well they carry themselves.
Much of telemarketing in Sweden anyway is done to keep customers more than it is to get new ones. A customer which you can make happy and keep is worth 10 new customers, easily. Let's make a hypotethical situation: I call a customer and say that their current cellphone plan is old, outdated and expensive and that they can switch over to a new cheaper one. If we hadn't done that the customer might have found a cheaper deal at another company. Because of our call the customer is happy and stays with our company, it's a win win situation.
nobody, to you it's wasted to me it's well spent. I enjoy discussing these things. I'm sure to many people all the time spent doing anything that they don't agree with is a waste of time as well.
"And you will simply never win the argument about whether it’s okay to call people in their homes."
I don't think I will either, but that's not the point. The point is trying to get people to see that there are more than one side to the coin. They see, for the most case, only their own side and fail to see the other person as well. Hence why so many people with such ease can call telemarketers such horrible and insulting things.
"The fact is that telemarketers are, to the American mind, the absolute lowest form of human life."
Wow! I might've saved that comment for murderers, or rapists, but hey!
"It’s not a worthy mission, and it’s making you seem dense."
Respectfully, that's not for you to decide.
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"No one cares what you think or do."
Not trying to pick a fight here, but evidently you cared enough to sit down and make a reply. You sort of made my defense for me, thank you.
Not trying to pick a fight here, but evidently you cared enough to sit down and make a reply. You sort of made my defense for me, thank you.
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Craig, unless you have some medical reason why it's hard to get up, take a couple of steps, open your mouth and go back I don't really see the problem. I regularly get calls from telemarketers but I don't think it's bothersome. Maybe it's mentally bothersome, but it's hardly any great physical effort, nor mental effort either really.
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That depends on where you live. In Sweden we have a registry which you can sign up (free of charge) which removes the possibility of companies which you're not a customer at from calling you. Companies where you're a customer you have to tell one by one though.
If that possibility is not avaliable to you then unplugging the phone would be the next course of action. However, is it that bothersome to stand up, get the phone, answer, say "no thank you" hang up and go back to whatever you were doing? Sheesh, some people act like that's the end of the world.
I don't want your money though, keep your money, I want my own money. I don't get any personal gain if my call becomes an order or not.
If that possibility is not avaliable to you then unplugging the phone would be the next course of action. However, is it that bothersome to stand up, get the phone, answer, say "no thank you" hang up and go back to whatever you were doing? Sheesh, some people act like that's the end of the world.
I don't want your money though, keep your money, I want my own money. I don't get any personal gain if my call becomes an order or not.
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The actual tearing down phase may take longer than a quick kaboom, but there's so much more surrounding it, and I don't think you can beat this for safety anyway :)