Stupid Work Annoyances

CoworkerLurker · Post by **CoworkerLurker** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:33 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:
Rian Jackson wrote:btw, the coworker from yesterday is acting uncomfortable and distant.
see what you get?
Should I sidle over to him and say--if she'd gone out with you, you'd feel really uncomforable?

I know, not helpful. Sometimes I think you shouldn't ask questions if you can't take no for an answer.

And hence the annoying, awkward guy who doesn't know what to say (or whether to say it).

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:35 pm

samtzu wrote:
theCryptofishist wrote:
CoworkerLurker wrote:Again, I'm confused- I would know anything about such an explicable experience...
...how?
...why?
I mean, I also find the idea that it can be explained very interesting, but...

completely beyond my ken, I'm afraid.
Um what I was trying to get to in that post is that (especially when you're a child and believe that the world makes sence or will one day when you grow up) sometimes freaks believe that if they could find the key they could "fix" themselves, and that my original post could perhaps be best attributed to the idea that this time maybe I'd get some useful information. Your "how" and "why" were in fact legit to the first questions and in some sence implicitly awknowledged by me in my 2nd post. You don't have the answer, there is no magic knowledge. My attempt to pry the forbidden answer out of you was wrong-headed and ridiculous.

Still not being very clear. . .
Murky waters there, Fishy...

As a former (and current) freak, let me say that there is no difference between freakiness and normality. The freak is often made to feel 'freakish' instead of 'acceptibly different'... especially by childhood peers. It is only at the point where the 'freakisness' is accepted and embraced is there true liberation for the freak. At that point they become one with the 'normal' world and are able to interact with it without too much trouble. It is also at this point that the 'normal' becomes a freak if they are unable to accept the freak as 'acceptably different', and they, then, become the freak.

At least, that's what most of my imaginary friends tell me.... except for that one that demands that I attack Neil Diamond with five pounds of butter, slatering it over his head, and shaping it into a pyramid...

Yeah, but that's the imaginary friend that Rob the Wop set you up with.

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:39 pm

That's where that voice came from!! Thanks, it didn't sound familiar...

.... unlike Ludwig II of Bavaria, who's almost like an old family friend...

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:39 pm

i want to meet this imaginary friend. i think together, we could take over the world. or maybe he could be my henchman?

newsflash: coworker in question is back to making me entertain him. looks like things are going to go along as always.

CoworkerLurker · Post by **CoworkerLurker** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:40 pm

samtzu wrote:
theCryptofishist wrote:
CoworkerLurker wrote:Again, I'm confused- I would know anything about such an explicable experience...
...how?
...why?
I mean, I also find the idea that it can be explained very interesting, but...

completely beyond my ken, I'm afraid.
Um what I was trying to get to in that post is that (especially when you're a child and believe that the world makes sence or will one day when you grow up) sometimes freaks believe that if they could find the key they could "fix" themselves, and that my original post could perhaps be best attributed to the idea that this time maybe I'd get some useful information. Your "how" and "why" were in fact legit to the first questions and in some sence implicitly awknowledged by me in my 2nd post. You don't have the answer, there is no magic knowledge. My attempt to pry the forbidden answer out of you was wrong-headed and ridiculous.

Still not being very clear. . .
Murky waters there, Fishy...

As a former (and current) freak, let me say that there is no difference between freakiness and normality. The freak is often made to feel 'freakish' instead of 'acceptibly different'... especially by childhood peers. It is only at the point where the 'freakisness' is accepted and embraced is there true liberation for the freak. At that point they become one with the 'normal' world and are able to interact with it without too much trouble. It is also at this point that the 'normal' becomes a freak if they are unable to accept the freak as 'acceptably different', and they, then, become the freak.

At least, that's what most of my imaginary friends tell me.... except for that one that demands that I attack Neil Diamond with five pounds of butter, slatering it over his head, and shaping it into a pyramid...

Thanks for clearing that up, Sam.

And Fishie?- sorry I couldn't help, but I don't think I've ever seen the transformation, if that's what you're getting at. I'm betting Rian's always been a freak. And I was always neither freak nor non-freak.

Interesting concept, though.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:40 pm

samtzu wrote:That's where that voice came from!! Thanks, it didn't sound familiar...

.... unlike Ludwig II of Bavaria, who's almost like an old family friend...

Does Ludwig talk in a gurgly drowned voice? Will he build a castle on the playa this year?

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:41 pm

i think i was more of a weirdo, or was a freak and didn't know they existed. my young world wasn't well populated with freaks.

i'm still learning to allow my inner freak full(er) reign.

as for what i've been, and for how long, i dunno.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:41 pm

Rian Jackson wrote:newsflash: coworker in question is back to making me entertain him. looks like things are going to go along as always.

Two words:

Puppet show.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:42 pm

CWL
No apologies nessesary. As I processed through that I realized that I was asking for the impossible.

bullD · Post by **bullD** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:45 pm

Rian Jackson wrote:i want to meet this imaginary friend. i think together, we could take over the world. or maybe he could be my henchman?

newsflash: coworker in question is back to making me entertain him. looks like things are going to go along as always.

coworker now not only sounds incredibly insecure, boring as well.

did somebody say they were getting their freak on?

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:46 pm

crypto, i need you here with me at work. you can entertain them all (and me, too).

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:47 pm

I speculated that that might be the case, from a somewhat different perspective.

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:49 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:
samtzu wrote:That's where that voice came from!! Thanks, it didn't sound familiar...

.... unlike Ludwig II of Bavaria, who's almost like an old family friend...
Does Ludwig talk in a gurgly drowned voice? Will he build a castle on the playa this year?

Fishy... I don't think anyone else on the Eplaya would have gotten that reference and then come up with that response! Thank you, you brilliant little Fishy, you!!

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:50 pm

there are no freaks, there is only zuul

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:52 pm

stuart wrote:there are no freaks, there is only zuul

oh. my. god. i was thinking about zuul this morning - what i was going to type here, and forgot, was that 'i can't leave because i am the gatekeeper. are you the keymaster?' and then i thought that i should have been zuul on the login.

holy fuck, StuRat!

bullD · Post by **bullD** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:01 pm

fucking flash fucking my shit up...

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:15 pm

so, bull...what's a longshoreman doing having computer problems...?

bullD · Post by **bullD** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:21 pm

taking photos for my portfolio.

don't beleive all that you may have heard about longshore people, ie, they are not all criminally motivated and dumb as bricks.

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:24 pm

i actually have a stereotype of longshoreman in my head that consists of incredibly strong, hardworking, funlovin', hottie guys who aren't afraid to sweat.

Rian Jackson · Post by **Rian Jackson** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:26 pm

tisha2 wrote:i actually have a stereotype of longshoreman in my head that consists of incredibly strong, hardworking, funlovin', hottie guys who aren't afraid to sweat.

maybe when i come down in March we should stalk him and find out?

bullD · Post by **bullD** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:28 pm

well uhh,,,

yes you got it. he he he

actually, the good ones, yes. and when I say the good ones that includes women as well.

did somebody say stalk?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:29 pm

In my experience, a lot of people in the trades are superiour in certain ways to many people in the professions. Of course both can cheat.

bullD · Post by **bullD** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:31 pm

hey, whats going on in march? Tisha and Rian coming to stalk me,,, hmmm.
sweaty half naked hugs for everybody...

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:32 pm

i was thinking about zuul this morning

careful, your pop culture acuity is showing

bullD · Post by **bullD** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:32 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:In my experience, a lot of people in the trades are superiour in certain ways to many people in the professions. Of course both can cheat.

Fishist, you are wise in so many ways.

samtzu · Post by **samtzu** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:33 pm

Eric Hoffer springs to mind as a typical longshoreman... well, to my mind, anyway...

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:34 pm

Ta. I have a soft spot for guys who work with their hand/bodies and artists. I think there's a whole lot of overlap.

Woodrow · Post by **Woodrow** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:38 pm

....Yeah, I like ladies that work with their hands and their bodies... WHOOOO EEEEEEEEE!!!.........

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:40 pm

Woodrow wrote:....Yeah, I like ladies that work with their hands and their bodies... WHOOOO EEEEEEEEE!!!.........

i think i saw Isotopia around here somewhere.... i hear she's got great hands....

bullD · Post by **bullD** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 2:42 pm

oh yes, there are a few isotopias on the waterfront.

woodrow, I'm afraid you would be crushed on site.