Your first "sentence" isn't a complete sentence. I think you're missing something like "is unfounded,", placed between "...and a loud one, at that," and "given that...", although of course there are other ways the sentence could be completed.
Also? "The person whose team the others had one of those voices one associates with HR types, anything said by means of which comes off simultaneously condescending, conciliatory, insulting, and horrifically rage-inducing" is also missing something--I think you need "were on" after "The person whose team the others".
This is uncharacteristic. You're drunk, aren't you?
"The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin", Lichtenberg says, I was inspired not by the Devil but by God himself.
nosflow is preëmptively pardoned from any usage errors for having introduced me to "gormless".
It's hard for me to believe this could possibly be real. The last line of the third paragraph, in particular, seems like a giveaway that this must be a photoshopped. But, then again, I wouldn't have thought that anyone would seriously argue against environmentalism on the grounds that it might make the environment too healthy for our children, either, so perhaps my reality-detector is broken.
More topically: did you really attempt to quiet three guys in a cafe, because their business meeting was annoying you? Unless I'm misunderstanding something here, such as either the nature of the cafe or the nature of their meeting, that seems like an obnoxious thing to do. But I don't hang around in a lot of cafes, so I'm not really up to speed on cafe etiquette.
And no, I didn't attempt to quiet three guys in a cafe.
10: They were deer, and neb pumped 'em full of lead!
9: do you know this?
10: okay, persons. My question stands.
12.1: I guess I don't, but I suspect it. Snopes says "undetermined".
12.2: Yes, I really did that. Have your loud, super-annoying quasi-disciplinary business meeting focused on not disturbing others at your place of business, dammit. I wouldn't have bothered them (though I would still have been annoyed) if it had been any old conversation.
note to self: look up "gormed"
I had a similar experience; a dude shouting into his phone while I was waiting for my burger... http://jpv206.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/2309/
I think it's permissible to have meetings, talk shop, etc. in a cafe, but one can and should adjust volume in accordance with what prevails in that particular cafe. It seems these business types were instead breaking out their conference-room voices, so admonishment makes sense.
You didn't! You did! I'd have no regrets either. Disciplinary business meetings should be held in the office. Bad team leader, bad.
The link 15.2 is very good.
I am clearly procrastinating on work right now.
I am clearly procrastinating on work right now.
And you'd best keep it up, lest you make the rest of us look bad.
Kids these days don't know they're born. 300 years ago you'd have gone into a Starbucks coffee house and everybody would have been organising political factions, buying and selling insurance and securities, pitching new plays and magazines. You couldn't hear yourself think.
And the coffee was crap.
21: If you were in Leipzig, you might have been listening to J.S. Bach as well.
Well, OFE, I wouldn't have expected to be able to hear myself think, in that case—and I probably would have been prepared to tell organizers of a rival political faction kindly to take it elsewhere.
This post title makes me sing Love Is a Battlefield. WE ARE YOUNG!