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The rant thread...

Discussion in 'The Water Cooler' started by buckeye, Feb 3, 2013.

  1. oldnotdead

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    Leave them be...they are hard at work for you.
     
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    There is a reason there is not a guest chair in my office.
     
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    camo75 Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Meetings: let’s talk about useless ideas for a half hour and then wrap it up with 15 minutes of what we will talk about next week.
     
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    I could not do that as they were nesting between the exterior wall and a decorative sign that my wife had by the front door. The sign has been removed now that the yellow jackets have been executed with poison.
     
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    cantexian Moderator

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    Death by meetings, it is a cultural problem for leadership on down; meetings to prep for the meeting that plans the meeting you want to have with everyone who spends more time in meetings than actually working.
     
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    I have walked out of meetings when the information that was pertinent was said, leaving the pointless part.
     
  7. Fix

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    Well I almost made it a year without it but this past weekend hanging a stand for someone else I got poison ivy... All three arms (right left and baby). Man I hate it. I thought I washed well enough but nope.

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    Set expectation in the first meeting; after that it's just 30 minute progress reports.
    Didn't grandpa tell ya not to pee in the woods?

    @Fix go buy a gallon of white vinegar and take a soak in warm water tub with it for a half hour. Pour it in the water don't drink it! :evilgrin:
     
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    John T. Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Yo have about 20 minutes to get it off. When I trout fished, I waded through poison ivy but wading rinsed all the bad oil off.
     
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    Check out the Tecnu line of poison ivy products
    They work pretty well .
     
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    I think ivyrest is a pretty good product, if you can find it.

    I’d also trade poison ivy for the chiggers I’ll enviably find this season…
     
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    Pissed- I went to a private lab to have my ferritin level checked. I got the levels down to normal back in May and didn't donate blood since. I thought that somehow my liver was back to normal nope I am going to go donate some double red of O-
     
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    I have a bit of a complaint I went to donate blood with the Red Cross had a 9:30 appointment. They were not ready when I got there not set up. I did not start to get processed till after 10:15. Come on, granted I am donating for self-serving reasons but still, I left work I do the double red takes almost 2 hours. Be considerate of donors time.
     
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    Beautiful fall weather the past week, but back to summer 80's starting the first day of my doe only season :mad:
     
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    Bald Faced Hornets, trying to act tough around the oriole feeders, I found their nest down in the woodshed. 2 cans of spray, the colony in this territory will be completely decimated and destroyed and burned no survivors. I will wait till dark though, not that I am afraid of getting stung I want every single bald faced bastard in the nest no lone survivor.
     
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    Full week of 90+ temps starting Thursday.

    AC got a nice break the past week, hoping this is the lead in to a cooler than normal late Oct. into Nov.
     
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    Contractors putting in a floor… started at 8 am… still here at 8:45pm…

    I appreciate the effort, but want them gone.


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    Ugh, I deal with them when archery hunting, there are tons of them where I hunt. Last weekend I stopped while walking to listen and let out a few cow calls, then I looked to my left and there was a giant hive on a bush about 5' away. Thankfully my being there didn't rile them up.
    They are so loud buzzing around that you can't hear answers to your calling sometimes. Swat at them and they get pissed and won't leave you alone, I've found it's best to just let them check you out and then wander off on their own.
     
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    My son stopped by after work, acting a bit off for his personality. He's s a bridge work supervisor.
    Today he saw a man burn up in his car :sad:
    Notthing I could say but sorry, knowng full well how that will haunt him. It will occationally pop to mind the rest of his life.
     
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    My father and uncle saw a guy burn to death as the result of an accident. They could hear him for just a few seconds then nothing. The fire was intense and no one was able to help.
     

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