The Off Topic Topic

[jimmy olsen]

Stupidity?

Well yes, but I thought there was a technical marketing term for it.

[Liep]

Putin: "Trump has run Miss Universe for years, why would he need girls with low social status? Even if ours are the best in the word."

Apparently that's a real statement.

[HVC]

At least putin is patriotic. Our hookers are the best hookers.

[DGuller]

Putin: "Trump has run Miss Universe for years, why would he need girls with low social status? Even if ours are the best in the word."

Apparently that's a real statement.

I hope Putin's  smarminess is going to prove his downfall.  Right now it seems like nothing can go wrong for him, but that's also when you get overconfident.

[Maladict]

Rumors swirling about an impending Serbian Crimea-style annexation of northern Kosovo. After Friday, why wouldn't they?

[Liep]

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nigeria-military-jet-mistakenly-bombs-refugees-aid-workers-44830830

[Tonitrus]

Putin: "Trump has run Miss Universe for years, why would he need girls with low social status? Even if ours are the best in the word."

Apparently that's a real statement.

It kinda is (see the other Trump thread, where I posted the original), that is not an exact translation.  But, to be fair (from watching the video), he said the last part in obvious jest.

[MadBurgerMaker]

My sister is in the ER getting ready to have her appendix removed.   

[Josephus]

If I were Trump I would be angry that Russian whores are taking over the sex industry from hard-working American whores.

[alfred russel]

I'm an accountant and we are closing the books. The field submitted numbers and we are checking them and pulling them together for publication.

A lady in my old job has been working on figuring out an error all day. It is probably going to be too small to worry about fixing. She was getting super frustrated and asked me for help. Reflecting that it is too small to fix she said, "I just keep thinking, this is so small, what is the point of all this work?"

I said to her, "Don't start thinking that way, or you will realize nothing we do matters and in 60 years we will both be dead."

She was horrified and acted as though that was the most horrible thing she has ever heard. Probably not a good career move to talk like that, but it was a fun reaction.

[Zanza]

What's the phenomena where you see something really expensive on sale, and the huge saving makes you really want to buy it even though it's still out of your price range and you probably don't need it?

I thought there was a technical marketing term for this, but a quick look on google came up with nothing.

Not exactly what you describe, but Veblen effect describes when something is in higher demand because it is expensive and thus rare/prestigious.

[Josephus]

I'm an accountant and we are closing the books. The field submitted numbers and we are checking them and pulling them together for publication.

A lady in my old job has been working on figuring out an error all day. It is probably going to be too small to worry about fixing. She was getting super frustrated and asked me for help. Reflecting that it is too small to fix she said, "I just keep thinking, this is so small, what is the point of all this work?"

I said to her, "Don't start thinking that way, or you will realize nothing we do matters and in 60 years we will both be dead."

She was horrified and acted as though that was the most horrible thing she has ever heard. Probably not a good career move to talk like that, but it was a fun reaction.

I spend most of my day changing semi-colons to commas in stories that no one will ever read.

[Zanza]

I'm an accountant and we are closing the books. The field submitted numbers and we are checking them and pulling them together for publication.

A lady in my old job has been working on figuring out an error all day. It is probably going to be too small to worry about fixing. She was getting super frustrated and asked me for help. Reflecting that it is too small to fix she said, "I just keep thinking, this is so small, what is the point of all this work?"

I said to her, "Don't start thinking that way, or you will realize nothing we do matters and in 60 years we will both be dead."

She was horrified and acted as though that was the most horrible thing she has ever heard. Probably not a good career move to talk like that, but it was a fun reaction.

Don't you have IT tools to consolidate and reconcile the figures?

[Admiral Yi]

Just got some warts frozen off.  More painful than i was lead to believe.  On the flip side the doctor was a wonder.  "What do we have?  Where are they?  OK, lets go."  zap zap zap

[alfred russel]

Don't you have IT tools to consolidate and reconcile the figures?

Of course, but that doesn't mean they are right. You need smart people to challenge and interpret the results, even after they passed through IT controls.