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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #6650 on: May 26, 2017, 12:54:21 AM »
I'd love 5am sunrises right about now. We're heading into winter so now we get 7:30 sunrises. :(

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« Reply #6651 on: May 26, 2017, 01:07:58 AM »
That would be sweet
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #6652 on: May 26, 2017, 03:47:30 AM »
Does Australia get Winter? Isn't it more like Light Summer?
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #6653 on: May 26, 2017, 07:44:32 AM »
Depends where you are. The far north is in the tropics so gets wet/dry season. Down here in the south we get a winter, no snow (except in the mountains), but still winter.

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #6654 on: May 28, 2017, 11:52:31 PM »
In other pet peeve news, Minneapolis in many park or main bike path areas has divided bike vs. walking paths. Yet inevitably there are walkers on the bike path. I mean, the walking paths are the more scenic yet here they are clogging the road like entitled cholesterol.

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #6655 on: June 06, 2017, 03:19:12 AM »
I usually love my husband, but he cooks this dish with lots of cloves in it and I hate him for it. 
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #6656 on: June 06, 2017, 03:26:22 AM »
When a character in a movie or tv show asks a subordinate how long they need to get something done. And the subordinate says, "Two days, at the least." And the boss/captain/colonel says, "I want it done in four hours." And the subordinate says yessir right away sir. And the subordinate gets it done in three hours fifty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds.

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #6657 on: June 06, 2017, 05:29:55 AM »
Not gonna lie, I've been the subordinate in that situation before.

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« Reply #6658 on: June 06, 2017, 06:45:11 AM »
I am just wondering why the boss bothers to ask how long it will take if he/she needs it back in 4 hours.  Shouldn't the request be given with the deadline? At least if it is a military officer. Having been a boss as well as employee, I have been in that situation many times.  As a boss, I usually have a pretty good idea how long it really will take but I know there are activities that have to be done according to a schedule that can not be disrupted.  I more times than not, probably just do it myself unless there is a reason I can't 
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #6659 on: June 06, 2017, 09:13:20 AM »
When a character in a movie or tv show asks a subordinate how long they need to get something done. And the subordinate says, "Two days, at the least." And the boss/captain/colonel says, "I want it done in four hours." And the subordinate says yessir right away sir. And the subordinate gets it done in three hours fifty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds.

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