Fuck!

[gigglesnort]

fuck, tish. I'm in a similar boat babe! Oh, these affairs of hte heart.

[Rian Jackson]

fuck. i can't believe how badly i inserted foot into mouth this weekend. urgh. so bad i don't think i wanna post it here. so bad i was making apologetic phone calls before i got home from the family gethering. *hello, this is your relative, the space alien...*

oh, and fuck the insomnia. i had a dream that my throat was being slit on saturday night. woke up with the adrenaline. a little bit freaked out. it felt so... well, i don't know if 'real' is the best word, since I've never had my throat slit, but...
couldn't sleep last night.

[AntiM]

fuck. I'm worried about larry, he showed up on time for his current delivery after driving through a terrible snowstorm in MA, only to find no one at the fucking factory. Monday after a holiday and bad weather and they all took the fucking day off. There's no truckstop for him to go to nearby, so he's sitting in his truck in 30 degree weather. I know he has fuel, food, and a warm cab, but I'm still fucking worried. His dispatcher is on it, so everything will work out, but fuck!

Oh, he's delivering 12,500 pounds of "cheek meat" to a sausage factory. No fucking joke.

[gigglesnort]

well, fuck Auntie M. Thinking warm thoughts for Larry.

(incidentally, my dad, Larry, drove a truck, too(until health issues).)

[theCryptofishist]

i'm moving to AR.

AR? Another Region? Huh?

A pirate island, perhaps.

[theCryptofishist]

Fuck this just happened. The lady talking just said something about how great a job Gail FUCKING Norton is doing and started clapping as if we, the non-appointee people would agree with her. Not one single person followed her lead. We just stared at her. I think we took the wind right out of her fucking sails. Fuckin political hacks!

Great story. Govment service wierd.

[theCryptofishist]

Fuck!

A friend of mine works in child protection, and received this bit o' Christmas news:

Got word yesterday that a baby I had put in foster care last year (after her father had fractured her ribs, skull, and leg when she was two months old) and who had been kidnapped out of foster care by her parents during a visit this past October was found dead the day before yesterday. She was a year and a half old.

She's going to be doing some heavy thinking this Christmas.

This blows big time. NOthing more to say. Send my care and condolences to your friend--it's a hard job and I'm glad someone cares enough to do it.

[Ranger Genius]

it felt so... well, i don't know if 'real' is the best word, since I've never had my throat slit...

The word there would be convincing. It's an important lesson: not everything that is convincing is real.

[Ranger Genius]

The 68-year-old "Naturopath" Louise Lortie has won an appeal from a conviction for manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death. She was convicted of killing a diabetic girl by convincing her mother, massage therapist Sylvie Fortin, to replace the girl's critical insulin injections with a diet of unrefined cane sugar and homemade herbal potions. Lisanne Manseau, 12 years old, died in March 1994, three days after beginning the treatment. Lortie was convicted in 1999 and sentenced to three years in jail. She appealed the decision based on technicalities.

The frail naturopath, who now uses a wheelchair to get around, said she consulted the Archangel Michael — using a pendulum — to determine which herbal remedies would be best for the girl, whose condition kept getting worse and included severe headaches, kidney problems and depression. Lortie said that Michael told her to stop the administration of insulin in order to "detoxify" the girl's body. "Don't worry," Lortie said, "because Michael has never made a mistake." Fortin was also told that Lortie had treated three other diabetics without any problems. Lortie urged Fortin to continue the regimen even as the girl's health declined and she slipped into a coma.

There was "....some bleating at the National Center for Homeopathy site, http://www.homeopathic.org/news0599.htm, where an article on the same page asks "Why are doctors so against alternative medicine?" Hmm, yes, why could that be?"

I confess that stories like this make me quake with sadness and rage. They're just harmless cranks, right?

[Ranger Genius]

oops. wrong damn forum. Fuck!

[Donita]

Fuck. Why are some French people so rude?
Fuck. I work with an asshole.
Fuck. I lost my temper at the asshole this morning.
Fuck. Now Frenchy has been apologetically kissing my ass all day.
Fuck. I'm feeling pretty good right now for putting him in his place. Ha!

[Simply Joel]

Fuck. Why are some French people so rude?

fuck, that is easy... 'cause they are french.

[samtzu]

Don't get me going about the French...

[Simply Joel]

Don't get me going about the French...

you mean those folks (whores) that will sell anything to anyone for the correct price?

[samtzu]

Don't get me going about the French...

you mean those folks (whores) that will sell anything to anyone for the correct price?

cites?

[theCryptofishist]

What's your beef with the French?

Mine is the culture vultures who love anything french and automatically assume that this particular culture is in some way superiour. Thick on the ground when I was growing up. I don't have much emtional affinty for the culture, plus I had the handicap of a german-born father and relitives in Austria and Munich. And my father's sabatical year in Cambridge left me a jr. anglophile. But I never warmed up to the French (okay, I think of a piece from Gounad's Faust as the "perfect tenor aria" but in the grand scheme, there's not a whole lot of their culture that resonates with me.) Even my favorite surrealists are German, Spanish or American.

[Simply Joel]

Don't get me going about the French...

you mean those folks (whores) that will sell anything to anyone for the correct price?

cites?

sure, why not.

May 4, 1982
Argentine air attacks from Super Etendard fighter planes using Exocet air to surface missiles sink the British destroyer HMS Sheffield with twenty men on board. One British Harrier plane is shot down.

The French sell Exocet A2S missiles to the Argentinians.

or

PARIS (AFP)
Nov 10, 2004
http://www.spacewar.com/2004/041110142702.lnh5uufw.html

The French government will further privatise Areva in the first half of 2005, bringing the listed capital of the world's leading civilian nuclear energy group to 35-40 percent, Economy Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday.

The announcement came as Areva seeks to enlarge its international footprint, notably in energy-hungry China which is planning to add 32 new nuclear reactors over the next 15 years.

The massive Chinese expansion plan is estimated to represent 80 percent of all reactor construction for the next two decades.

The French economy ministry said Wednesday that wider privatization would better position Areva in the nuclear sector. The group's competitors, apart from Russian rivals, are publicly listed.

"Thanks to this expanded access to capital markets, Areva will be more flexible to exploit opportunities for its development, particularly from an international perspective," the economy ministry said in a statement.

"The state will continue in any case to retain, directly or indirectly, more than half of Areva's capital, due to the strategic nature of nuclear energy for France."

The sale of shares in Areva will be open to retail investors, with a "significant part" being reserved for employees.

The ministry added that funds obtained in the operation will be used to help with dismantling nuclear sites. Currently 4.5 percent of Areva's capital is quoted in the form of investment certificates. At their current market price, a 40 percent stake would be worth about four billion euros (5.2 billion dollars).

The group has a total market value of about 10 billion euros based on Tuesday's closing price of 288.80 euros for the non-voting Areva investment certificates.

Sarkozy, who has signaled presidential ambitions, made the announcement before his planned resignation by month's end. Thus he will not be directly in charge of the privatization in a sector sensitive to public opinion.

The French nuclear union federation immediately demanded further information on the ministry's decision, recalling "the intangible principles which should be respected" in the process.

The announcement confirmed newspaper reports Wednesday that the government was poised to further privatize the nuclear group.

Areva has annual sales of about 8.26 billion euros and a workforce of 48,000. It has activities in some 40 countries.

The government directly owns 5.19 percent of its capital. The atomic energy commission CEA holds a 78.96 percent stake, the quasi-public bank Caisse des depots et consignations has 3.59 percent, the state firm Erap has 3.21 percent and state electricity giant EDF has 2.42 percent. Employees hold 1.06 percent.

Since its creation in 2001 in the merger of Cogema, Framatome and CEA Industrie, the group has sought privatization.

Areva submitted its case to the state holdings agency several months ago, and its chairman Anne Lauvergeon has reiterated that the group was ready for flotation and was simply awaiting the government's decision to go ahead.

Areva already indicated last year that it wanted to list in the spring or autumn of 2004.

But the privatization was held up by Alstom, the struggling French engineering group. Areva had been mooted several times as a potential buyer of Alstom, which Lauvergeon had steadfastly refused.

With the acquisition of Alstom's power transmission and distribution unit this year, Areva made its case to the government that the time was right for further privatization.

[samtzu]

Areva has annual sales of about 8.26 billion euros and a workforce of 48,000. It has activities in some 40 countries.

Exocet missles and nuclear waste... still, the French have a long ways to go to catch up with the good ol' US of A... when it comes to waste and destruction, WE'RE STILL NUMBER ONE!!!

[Simply Joel]

Areva has annual sales of about 8.26 billion euros and a workforce of 48,000. It has activities in some 40 countries.

Exocet missles and nuclear waste... still, the French have a long ways to go to catch up with the good ol' US of A... when it comes to waste and destruction, WE'RE STILL NUMBER ONE!!!

only because they aren't capable of mucking up things as well as we do.

fuck, i am angry today...

no reason specifically, just an angry day.

[samtzu]

Areva has annual sales of about 8.26 billion euros and a workforce of 48,000. It has activities in some 40 countries.

Exocet missles and nuclear waste... still, the French have a long ways to go to catch up with the good ol' US of A... when it comes to waste and destruction, WE'RE STILL NUMBER ONE!!!

only because they aren't capable of mucking up things as well as we do.

fuck, i am angry today...

no reason specifically, just an angry day.

Don't cha' just hate male menopause?

...Have you had the hot flashes yet?...

[Simply Joel]

fuck no.

if i had those, i might deal with winter better.

i think i will buy a gross of baby chicks and stomp on the box to hear the crunching sound.

[samtzu]

fuck no.

if i had those, i might deal with winter better.

i think i will buy a gross of baby chicks and stomp on the box to hear the crunching sound.

Yeah, that's an angry mood, all right...

[theCryptofishist]

*plantive parakeet "chirp?"

[samtzu]

Fucking Dickweed at another corporation said to call him, it's very important, and it is very fucking important... and now the pinheaded, shit eating, goat fucking, rabbit raping, kitty licking, fucker of his own mater, won't answer the goddam phone!!!

FUCK!!

[III]

you obviously haven't taken "phone tag as an exhibition of testosterone superiority 101" yet, have you?

[theCryptofishist]

you obviously haven't taken "phone tag as an exhibition of testosterone superiority 101" yet, have you?

BALCO took him way past that.

[samtzu]

you obviously haven't taken "phone tag as an exhibition of testosterone superiority 101" yet, have you?

He finally answered, so I asked a series of questions where his answer was "Uh, not yet" "I don't think so" and "I don't know". I then proceeded to explain to him what he was going to do and why, and how happy that would make me feel. He complied and I went home...

It was worth the aggrevation...

[theCryptofishist]

Game, Set and Match--Samtzu.

I told you he was no amateur.

[GuinivereElise]

Fuck!

I just burned my fuck!ing pinkie finger on a fuck!ing pan while taking my fuck!ing tator tots out of the fuck!ing oven!

FUUUUUUUCK!!!!!

I haven't burned anything this fuck!ing bad since I burned my tits at the Burn!

[Rob the Wop]

Fuck!

I just burned my fuck!ing pinkie finger on a fuck!ing pan while taking my fuck!ing tator tots out of the fuck!ing oven!

FUUUUUUUCK!!!!!

I haven't burned anything this fuck!ing bad since I burned my tits at the Burn!

Why would you use your tits to take tator tots out of the oven?
Not really questioning the logic, just fishing for photographic evidence...