TheBile

Good on ya. I guess we'll have to change your name to Ladyselfcontainedunderwaterbreathingaparatusdiver. Or Maybe just Ladyscubadiver or Coral (see what I did there ) Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

"A man who was formerly married is not a bachelor but rather is a divorcé or a widower (except in cases where the marriage was legally annulled, in which case there was legally no marriage - especially if it was never consummated)." Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

"Bachelors, in the sense of unmarried men, have in many countries been subjected to penal laws. At Sparta, citizens who remained unmarried after a certain age suffered various penalties. They were not allowed to witness the gymnastic exercises of the maidens; and during winter they were compelled to march naked round the market-place, singing a song composed against themselves and expressing the justice of their punishment. The usual respect of the young to the old was not paid to bachelors. In some cultures, the "punishment" of bachelors is no more than a teasing game. In small towns in Germany, for example, men who were still unmarried on their 30th birthday were made to sweep the stairs of the town hall until kissed by a virgin. This "punishment" is still practiced today in parts of Northern Germany." Based on this I'd guess 30 would be the statistical age of no return. (Extracts taken from Wikipedia) Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

I hope it's somewhere in the late thirties or else I'm screwed ........or not depending on how you look at it. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

= $0.00 LOL = $0.00 LMAO = $0.00 PIMPLMAO = $0.00 TOTAL BILL = $0.00 ----------------------- I went to the DIY store last year to get some light-bulbs. I was rushed so I just put some trousers on and didn't bother with boxers. Only after walking through the store and the subsequent checkout did I realised that my fly was undone and the gap it produced was open wide enough to see my man-bits. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

Oooh, that reminds me. I can recite the entire script from Transformers : The Movie. ......or should that be Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

Pick up a pebble off the beach and, with all the energy and might you can muster, throw it as far into the sea as you can. You'll then find that you've lost a stone already. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

Take the class but stop calling it a class. It'll be too much fun to call it a class. Think of it as a diversion from all your other classes. Seems to me that skydivers with class usually have an alternative activity to skydiving. One is rock climbing, the other is SCUBA diving. you should definately take up the latter, if only to thrill the world of the sight of you in a tight fitting, curve hugging wetsuit. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

With physical violence or a false promise ?

Excel & associated Visual Basic Macros Powerpoint Paint Shop Pro Kick butt in any FPS whether it be with a Sniper Rifle or BFG Produce a Turkey in Ten-Pin Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

No Yes No (they'd have to spot me first) If you do get called any of those then hopefully it's by someone whose opinion means as much to you as Vienna meant to Ultravox. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

I'm sure there's a mass of expertise on tap here with our varying skills and talents. What expertise and skills do you all have outside the realm of sex and skydiving ? Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

Fugg about on my computer all day making it look like I'm working. It's a difficult skill. Get you facts straight Rat-Man. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

My Sister is afraid of Buttons. When they are on shirts or blouses she's fine, but as soon as you take one off and hold it in the palm of your hand she freaks the same way as if she sees a spider. I have a phobia of babies. If someone brings a baby into the room I have to leave. After my sister gave birth to her son, I wasn't able to visit their house for 4 years. (It seems that that's the age where the phobia distinguishes "baby" from "kid" and dissipates). My mother has a fear of Banks. She's never been the victim of a bank robbery or anything like that though, it's just one of those irrational things. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

Are farts funny is like asking if comedians are funny. It depends on the comedian. Most are but some just try too hard and end up being shit. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

We got flexi-time, but to stay in the green we need to do 7h24m per day. Some people work way in excess of that to take aditional days off. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

Gerb found laughing his ass off after reading something extremely funny that wasn't work related during working hours. 1973 : Boss finds out, enquires as to the nature of the laughing, looks at the documentation in question, laughs his head off and passes it around the rest of his staff to lighten up theri day. 2006 : Boss finds out, enquires as to the nature of the laughing, doesn't bother looking at the documentation. Nothing work related could be that funny. Summarily fires Gerb's ass for wasting department time. Finance dept sends Gerb a bill for the electricity used to read such non-work related material. IT dept trawl through Gerb's computer records, find other posts to DZ.com made on company time. Finance dept issue a second bill for the estimated electricity used in conjunction with such posts, based on an average keyboard user typing 40 words per minute. Boss get's a promotion for stamping out such time-wasting in the workplace. Gerb, with self confidence shattered and no means to fund his car, mortgage and dream of a home cinema commits suicide, but not before going back to the workplace and stabbing his boss in the heart with a spoon. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

First off I totally agree with you. In my 20 years of toiling I too have encountered people like you describe. I would make an observation about using the 'Self Esteem' term though. People with a low level of self esteem wouldn't necessarily stand up, especially in a room full of other people, to offer an opinion. They would think that their opinion isn't important enough to offer simply because it's their opinion. Personally I would prefer to use the term 'Self Importance'. I think that fits in better with the type of persons I've met which match the one in your original comment. Apologies if I've mis-interpreted. Anyway, there was a guy I used to work with. A bit of a religeous nut, good soccer player and at the age of 22 seriously believed (until we laughed our heads off and told him otherwise) that trains where actually steered on the tracks by the train driver. He was a nice enough guy but didn't half lie a lot to tell us what he'd done and where he'd been. If someone had done something, he'd done it too, or something similar. After several years of me and my mates listening to him you just knew that he was exaggerating or lieing just to be a part of, or even the central theme, of the conversation. Slightly off topic, we actually worked for a boss who not only wanted us to sign this big, whiteboard in the middle of the department as to when we went to another department, meeting or site (time of departure, estimated time of return), but she also wanted us to sign out when we went to the toilet !! "Oh yes, I'm off for a dump. How long will I take ? Well if I had chicken last night then it would probably be 4 minutes-30 seconds, but seeing as I had a curry I think I'll put down 8 minutes just to be on the safe side.". Fortunately a couple of us said no-way, we'll get the union involved etc and it was scrapped. She was a self important bitch who made life hell for us all. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

Thanks to everyone who contributed their stories to this thread. Enjoyed reading all of them. Certainly helped pass the time in my workplace. Fingers crossed that fate will take pity on me and say "Oh alright, here she is, now piss off and leave me alone." Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

If only so you can practice your vetenary skills by sticking your arm up an elephant's butt-hole. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

"Overnight shipping is free if winning bid is $1,000 +" Gee, that's generous of them. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

A dance never seems too long when you have the right partner Marriage and eggs are best when they are fresh Marriage is friendship set to music Some people make the world more special just by being in it. To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with We are so fond of one another because our ailments are the same Through the eyes of love & marriage, all things will take on new meaning All marriages are happy, it's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble Keep your eyes open before marriage and half-closed afterwards Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter Marriage is an institution but not every man wants to live in an institution Love is the silent picture; and marriage is the talking version of it No secrets is the secret of a happy marriage A man may forget where he went on honeymoon but he'll never forget why Being the best man is like having sex with Barbara Bush. It's an honor, but you don't really want to do it. Married men live longer than single men do, but married men are a lot more willing to die. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

ah yes, but what kind of rock ? Is it soft and limp like Def Leppard, or is it hard and energetic like Disturbed ? Is it weak-ass chalk which erodes away too quickly and easily at the slightest sign of attrition, or is it the hardy Limestone which is tough enough to last for life ? Is it a pebble which sits on a beach like a dumb shit all day, lost amongst all the other pebbles, or is it a comet streaking through the heavens with the energy and vibrancy of 100 suns saying "Nothing's gonna get in my way" ? Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

Geez. I'd have difficulty reading that stuff, let alone understanding it or learning it. Nothing but admiration for ya ! I think I'll stick to Spiderman comics and the Marvel Universe that doesn't go into detail about what chemicals go into making spider-webbing. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !

I agree. the Japanese Horror genre is brilliant at that kind of spookiness, even when it's copied by Hollywood. The kid looking through the elevator window on each floor as it goes up and the weird walking motion by the girl breaking through the boundaries of the TV in The Ring are two other scenes which creeped me out for some time. Visuals like that are much better than excessive blood and gore. Anyway, so as not to hijack the thread, White Noise had a good initial idea, but the explanation behind the events of the movie at the end sucked. As for life after death, I believe that when we die that's it, game over, we go back to that nothingness we 'knew' before we were conceived. Anything associated with ghosts, past lives, communication from the dead and other such things are all part of the human brain doing things we don't understand yet (like dreaming) and our individual personalities converting those unknowns into something tangible and explainable we can mentally grasp. A Volcano is erupting ? Oh it must be an angry god doing that. I can't see beyond the straight line that forms the horizon. That must mean the world is flat. History is replete with instances where our understanding of the time has been superseded by more logical explanations. As a result my belief isn't an arrogant one. If such voices and apparitions come from the dead, the mind or another dimension then I'll be happy when it's proved to be so. Gerb I stir feelings in others they themselves don't understand. KA'CHOW !