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FearlessF · « **Reply #238 on:** February 09, 2018, 10:09:18 AM »

Quote from: BrownCounty on February 09, 2018, 09:47:43 AM

You have a future in porn stories.

Of course at our age, whatever calling we may have missed is simply a missed calling.

hah, he also has a colorful past with porn stories!

FearlessF · « **Reply #239 on:** February 09, 2018, 10:11:16 AM »

Quote from: BrownCounty on February 09, 2018, 09:59:28 AM

Ah! Perfect for this thread too. Something I hate! YETI apparel.

I asked my son a few months ago - WTH is "Yeti"? We were at a ball game and I knew I had seen that logo on hats, shirts, truck decals, etc....

He says "it's a cooler, dad". I'm like, huh? I'm lost. A drink? Like a wine cooler or something?

No - like an Igloo cooler but "cooler". I'm like huh? A cooler you put ice and beer in and sheet? He says yes.

In the folklore of Nepal, the Yeti or Abominable Snowman is an ape-like entity, taller than an average human, that is said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. The names Yeti and Meh-Teh are commonly used by the people indigenous to the region, and are part of their history and mythology.

CharleyHorse46 · « **Reply #240 on:** February 09, 2018, 12:14:03 PM »

Sometimes... when I'm in Costco, milling around with the missus, I'll see they put out two tables of fleece jackets. The fleece jackets on the two tables are exactly alike except that one is four times the price of the other. The more expensive one is North Face.

I think. I think that's the name.

The most galling attribute of this North Face apparel is that their brand name is on the left shoulder instead of the right chest.

Sometimes when I'm up at the high school for some athletic booster event, I'll see mothers in this North Face apparel. We're not rich people in my neighborhood. We're middle class. Why people want to spend four times more on a fleece jacket troubles me. It always occurs to me they could buy the lesser expensive one and put the difference somewheres a tad more sensible or even noble.

But what the hey. It's their money. If they want to wipe their butts with it, it's their prerogative.

Just don't expect me to climb up on that bandwagon.

CharleyHorse46 · « **Reply #241 on:** February 09, 2018, 12:17:53 PM »

Quote from: FearlessF on February 09, 2018, 10:11:16 AM

In the folklore of Nepal, the Yeti or Abominable Snowman is an ape-like entity, taller than an average human...

I believe they're called Big Foot in the American Northwest and Sasquatch in Canada.
Down here we call 'em offensive tackles.

CharleyHorse46 · « **Reply #242 on:** February 09, 2018, 12:22:15 PM »

You know what I hate? Color-coded maps without legends.

I just looked at the wikipedia page for big foot and there's a map of sightings that shows North America in various shades of lavender and blue, but there's no identification of what each color means.

utee94 · « **Reply #243 on:** February 09, 2018, 12:23:17 PM »

Yeti has become a "lifestyle" brand. Early on, offshore fisher folk used the coolers to store their ice for icing down their catch, for many days on their offshore fishing excursions. They're very, VERY expensive coolers, so it became a sign of "prestige" amongst these fisher folk to own one of these expensive Yeti coolers, and wear clothing branded as such. Not unlike the "Salt Life" brand of apparel, or the "Costa" brand of sunglasses and apparel. It's basically for wealthy rednecks to show off to one another, or to show up less wealthy rednecks, or something.

Yeti is an Austin-based company, so the brand is also popular amongst those who like to push the "wear local" type of lifestyle.

I do not own any Yeti apparel or any Yeti coolers, but I do own a 20 oz Yeti vacuum-sealed steel cup, which does a nice job of keeping beer cold for FAR longer than I'd ever want or need it to stay cold.

UT-Erin03 · « **Reply #244 on:** February 09, 2018, 12:25:17 PM »

New hate-rant.

When people either steal your lunch at work or throw away your lunch without any warning.
If it ain't yours, don't fricken TOUCH it, AT ALL! Unless it's growing mold and has obviously been in there longer than 2 weeks.
Yet my perfectly fine container filled with delicious pulled pork got tossed this morning by some co-irker, even though it literally has been in the fridge for less than 48 hours. If that person wasn't also the ONLY HR Person for the entire company, I'd be damn sure to file a complaint.

utee94 · « **Reply #245 on:** February 09, 2018, 12:34:07 PM »

I'd never even heard of such a thing as stealing lunches out of a work fridge, until I read a lengthy and humorous post on Hornfans years ago, about the "BBQ Bandit" who was a repeat offender, and tended to like to steal BBQ above anything else.

Seems awfully weird to me-- I have no desire even to touch the outside of a well-sealed bag containing food items that someone else has prepared or already eaten a portion of. It bothers me just having to move someone's items out of the way to retrieve mine if it's been pushed to the back of the breakroom refrigerator. We have cleaning crews that clear out the fridge on Fridays every other week, and beyond that I've never had any personal experience with anyone at work touching another person's lunch. People are weird.

Anyway if you know who it is but can't take the complaint to HR (because it's HR), then I think you should start stealing that person's lunch and tossing it out. They'll get the message PDQ.

UT-Erin03 · « **Reply #246 on:** February 09, 2018, 12:37:22 PM »

Quote from: utee94 on February 09, 2018, 12:34:07 PM

I'd never even heard of such a thing as stealing lunches out of a work fridge, until I read a lengthy and humorous post on Hornfans years ago, about the "BBQ Bandit" who was a repeat offender, and tended to like to steal BBQ above anything else.

Seems awfully weird to me-- I have no desire even to touch the outside of a well-sealed bag containing food items that someone else has prepared or already eaten a portion of. It bothers me just having to move someone's items out of the way to retrieve mine if it's been pushed to the back of the breakroom refrigerator. We have cleaning crews that clear out the fridge on Fridays every other week, and beyond that I've never had any personal experience with anyone at work touching another person's lunch. People are weird.

Anyway if you know who it is but can't take the complaint to HR (because it's HR), then I think you should start stealing that person's lunch and tossing it out. They'll get the message PDQ.

Absolutely no way to that suggestion, this person is also very pregnant.
If I have learned ANYTHING about pregnant women, it's that you don't mess with their food.
However, if that were not the case, that would be a very worthy suggestion. I'm going to casually ask her if she will give me a heads up next time she is doing a clean out so I can be sure to grab my items beforehand. She must have done it at 9am this morning for some reason, this was the first time my food has gotten tossed like that.
Although someone DID take two of my frozen burritos from the freezer in December, but I doubt that was her. That was probably the people who stay later in the other dept and use our kitchen, but it makes me want to put a camera in there after all this happening in less than 2 months time frame. *sigh*

BrownCounty · « **Reply #247 on:** February 09, 2018, 12:54:54 PM »

Trashing my lunch? Woo I would have a hard time with that one...

Well it's a great day.... for me to whoop somebody's ass....

UT-Erin03 · « **Reply #248 on:** February 09, 2018, 12:56:30 PM »

Also, it hasn't even been just this place, but usually in the larger companies I have worked for, people keep mini fridges in their offices and I can totally see why since it happens at most places I've worked. I will say these events haven't happened often at this place, but I tend to get butthurt when people mess with my food like that. It's just not right at all.

CharleyHorse46 · « **Reply #249 on:** February 09, 2018, 12:57:13 PM »

Quote from: utee94 on February 09, 2018, 12:23:17 PM

Yeti has become a "lifestyle" brand. Early on, offshore fisher folk used the coolers to store their ice for icing down their catch, for many days on their offshore fishing excursions. They're very, VERY expensive coolers, so it became a sign of "prestige" amongst these fisher folk to own one of these expensive Yeti coolers, and wear clothing branded as such. Not unlike the "Salt Life" brand of apparel, or the "Costa" brand of sunglasses and apparel. It's basically for wealthy rednecks to show off to one another, or to show up less wealthy rednecks, or something.

You sound a bit like Droog there. In other words, kind of like Mr. Peabody lecturing Sherman. Not that there's anything wrong with that - except that it's not your job. It's Mr. Tulip's. Did he send you a text message saying he would be out town and you needed to explain things to people in his absence?

CharleyHorse46 · « **Reply #250 on:** February 09, 2018, 01:01:13 PM »

I bring a nice salad to work three or five days a week. I put it in the office fridge at 7:30 and get it out at 11:30. No problem, mon.

If I get a call and somebody says, "Hey I just got into town, come have lunch with me," I give up all claims to my lunch and I feel no remorse if it's disappeared by the next morning when it's time to put my next lunch in the fridge.

It's all about windows, IMO. Stay in your window and everything's cool. Deviate unexpectedly and stuff jumps sideways.

BrownCounty · « **Reply #251 on:** February 09, 2018, 02:27:38 PM »

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