Re: Impact

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"I don't believe in having CEOs"?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 8:48 AM
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It's like somebody went out of their way to marry Lloyd Dobler and then make him work in corporate sales.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 9:46 AM
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I liked the article too. Like Moby, I smiled at the CEO comment-- I can imagine many of my younger friends talking like that away from the job, and a few who would try lines like that at their jobs. I'm glad that it was a simple presentation of four stories--the experiences as written felt authentic, but would have been unruly pruned into a thesis and supporting evidence.


Posted by: Mooseking | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 9:46 AM
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Not a fucking verb.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:14 AM
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"Impact"?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:26 AM
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I've been calling it "the COVID Reassessment" and I know so many people (especially women) going through it right now.


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:28 AM
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6 was me.


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:29 AM
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One thing that drives me fucking nuts is english compound verbs. "put up with" is different from "put up" which is not the opposite of either sense of "put down". "go on" "go down" "go down on". "get up to" "get up" "get down".


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:30 AM
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Would "COVID check up on" work as something to check out?


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:31 AM
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Oh wait maybe this should be in the check in thread.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:32 AM
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Going to a likely COVID-inspired wedding next weekend, and know of another one in my friend circle.


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:37 AM
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"In the back of my mind, I thought I'd see him in a new light if he was where he grew up."

I didn't realize people's brains worked like this outside of novels.


Posted by: Zedsville | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:40 AM
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:41 AM
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One thing I realized is that of all the people I could be trapped with for a year, my wife is one of the less annoying possibilities.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:41 AM
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That's not quite what we are looking for.


Posted by: Opinionated Hallmark | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:50 AM
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14: Walt! That's the most romantic thing you've ever said to me!


Posted by: Mrs. Someguy | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:50 AM
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Haha.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:51 AM
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"Well, dear, I was starting to feel sorry for myself being trapped with you for a whole year, and then I thought to myself it could be worse. I could be trapped with Mitch McConnell."


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:52 AM
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17 was because I pwned someone.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 10:57 AM
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Wait, I'm not stuck all up in here with you, you're stuck here with me.
https://despair.com/products/dysfunction


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 11:12 AM
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One thing that drives me fucking nuts is english compound verbs. "put up with" is different from "put up" which is not the opposite of either sense of "put down". "go on" "go down" "go down on". "get up to" "get up" "get down".

911 is a joke in your town.


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 12:11 PM
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I kinda knew people complain about "to impact" when I was writing this. But I am a provocateur.


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 12:20 PM
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"Impact" has been used as a verb for something like four centuries.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 12:28 PM
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I'M PACT.


Posted by: lourdes kayak | Link to this comment | 07-26-21 3:40 PM
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I'm packed.


Posted by: One of the Story's Divorcees | Link to this comment | 07-27-21 1:21 AM
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I was hoping at least one story involved someone falling in love with a stranger who was swabbing their nose.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-27-21 5:32 AM
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