There was a poster on ML who was having a difficult time. She just got divorced and just found out she was pregnant with a new boyfriends baby. Most people were supportive but a couple people thought the timing was off. She then posted the doctor called and said it looked like she was going to have a m/c in two weeks. Cue more skepticism and infighting about questioning her during this (possible) difficult time. Yesterday a friend of hers who is also a Mler posted saying she stands by the poster. Then last night , right when I was sitting down to watch TV with H, ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE. Someone found the posters photo bucket account which contained old pictures of Mlers and their kids. After about an hour of us all going WTF the pictures in the account started disappearing and then the account was marked private. Next someone noticed the owners of the photo bucket account was an old Mler who had previously contacted someone’s place of employment and some other crazy stuff. Folks started their google skills and someone found her real name and address which was posted in the thread. The Mod’s deleted the thread and now there is just fallout from ML being catfished ( I think?) once again.
I have to wonder, again, why ML gets catfished all the time.
I have to wonder who on God's green earth has the time and energy to create and carry out such nonsense... Ain't nobody got time for that! LOL
I'm starting to feel like Col. Mustard walking under the chandelier at work. People, I need gift certificates to the spa, not any more of your urgent emergencies!!!!
Good thing Friday is a day off. Too bad the ML drama quota for the week will probably be met by then.
Post by cattledogkisses on Oct 1, 2014 12:24:21 GMT -5
I took medicine for my cough before bed last night, and it gave me bizzaro, disturbing dreams and has made me feel hungover all morning. I think I'd rather cough.
I took medicine for my cough before bed last night, and it gave me bizzaro, disturbing dreams and has made me feel hungover all morning. I think I'd rather cough.
And this is why I refuse almost all cold medicine.
Sometimes I just knock myself out with Benadryl when I'm coughing so much I can't settle. The tussien is not my friend.
My mom suggested on FB that I "like" God. Like...the page - God. She sent it to me as a suggested thing I should "like." She's mentioned before that she thinks it's hilarious and has shown me random updates on that page that she thought I would find amusing. so this makes sense.
But that'll throw you for a loop when you open FB and one of your notifications is that your generally agnostic and sorta vehemently anti-organized religion mother thinks you should like God.
Her misrepresenting the statistics without considering how that could affect other parents who have lost a child is kind of selfish, even if she trying to promote a good cause.
I'm sorry Mr. Pixy had to sit through that.
I agree. I would be tempted to contact her and give her the updated information. It might not even be intentional. Actually, I would contact her.
ETA: I forgot to add my random. I just went through several pages of my post history to remember what poster I am side eyeing. I am terrible at remembering who says what here. Got it now.
You are funny re having to go through your post to remember who to side-eye.
I'm the exact opposite, and rember too much stuff from here, but ask me to read or remember something of importance, it's like, huh.
Post by Scout'sHonor on Oct 1, 2014 13:15:23 GMT -5
pixy0stix, send me instead and when she says that crap, I'll stand up and yell "SOURCES BITCH!"
My friend finally got out of the hospital after 12 days! He had a 101-103 fever up until this weekend, along with a blood clot in his arm and his kidneys were starting to have issues. That's enough for anyone, but he has cystic fibrosis and diabetes on top, which is why I was so worried. But he's doing soooo much better than even a few days ago, I'm so happy!
My dad's youngest brother (the only person on that side of my family that I really talk to) is stopping by unexpectedly tonight. He'll be arriving around the same time I will be getting home. Which means of course that I can't do the emergency 'OH SHIT COMPANY!' clean up.
Of course after weeks of being really good about straightening up after dinner, last night we got lazy and there are dirty dishes all over the counter and the floor is in desperate need of a swiffering. And of course the rug and couch are covered in dog hair. And there is our bike stuff everywhere.
Have I mentioned that the entire family is super uptight and a bunch of neat freaks?
How much do you want to bet the dog chooses today to find some (clean) diapers to shred on the couch and empties the recycling bin all over the kitchen?
Post by laurenpetro on Oct 1, 2014 15:18:18 GMT -5
our receptionist's last day was yesterday. she was an awful receptionist. just awful. i will miss her terribly.
her replacement is super super nice. she also took my coffee mug. she's SO nice that i'd rather just take my coffee mug home and hide it forever than ask her to use another mug.
I talked to my therapist about the above. He agreed with me that it wasn't right, and that I should say something to her (constructively). He's going to look up the real statistics for me and give me the sources. He said the 70% thing was ridiculous.
"Not gonna lie; I kind of keep expecting you to post one day that you threw down on someone who clearly had no idea that today was NOT THEIR DAY." ~dontcallmeshirley
I just read the OP. I'm sorry, pix. I hope you can educate her on real statistics. Just on the face the numbers seem obscenely high. Like you said, I get the whole "scared straight" approach, but this seems pretty irresponsible.
"Not gonna lie; I kind of keep expecting you to post one day that you threw down on someone who clearly had no idea that today was NOT THEIR DAY." ~dontcallmeshirley
"Not gonna lie; I kind of keep expecting you to post one day that you threw down on someone who clearly had no idea that today was NOT THEIR DAY." ~dontcallmeshirley
Last week, one of the new copyeditors at work quit unexpectedly.
They brought in this elderly lady. She's driving everyone nuts.
The admin had to teach her how to use Outlook ("The ones that are bolded mean you haven't read them yet. When you open them, the bolding goes away.")
She can't seem to follow simple instructions. "Review this copy to make sure all changes were made." and she starts marking up style changes. They tell her that she doesn't need to do that *in this round* and she says back, "Well, that's what you brought me in to do [it's not ONLY what she was brought in to do], so I guess you don't need me!"
The woman also doesn't seem to understand that sometimes, a brand's standards will differ from AP or Chicago Manual of Style standards. Like, she's arguing that Chicago uses the serial comma. OK, great. This particular client doesn't. They're not going to change it because you don't like it.