The Off Topic Topic

[Eddie Teach]

Snobs.

[11B4V]

Snobs.

We're not savages here.

[Admiral Yi]

Everything else being equal, I'd much rather shop in a place that has attractive staff and customers than one that doesn't.

[Josquius]

Just because you're poor doesn't mean you have to be a barbarian.

[Admiral Yi]

Hey Squeeze old boy, when's the last time you were in Chavistan, and did you find that your attitudes towards local behavior had changed at all?

[CountDeMoney]

Today the CEO of a company said I was looking trendy.

You're a gay minority.  How can you not be trendy.

[Tamas]

Hey Squeeze old boy, when's the last time you were in Chavistan, and did you find that your attitudes towards local behavior had changed at all?

He is holding off until Corbyn reopens the coal mines and he can grab his dream job.

[Malthus]

Today the CEO of a company said I was looking trendy. When I looked at him a bit incredulously from underneath my plaid Primark* coat, he said, "Well Canadian."

*American equivalent is probably Old Navy.

Canadian is trendy now?   

[garbon]

Oops not "of a company", "of my company".

[The Minsky Moment]

Hilariously awful letter from Roy Moore's attorney:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/11/14/roy_moore_s_lawyer_sent_a_apocalypse_of_a_letter_threatening_local_media.html

[grumbler]

Hilariously awful letter from Roy Moore's attorney:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/11/14/roy_moore_s_lawyer_sent_a_apocalypse_of_a_letter_threatening_local_media.html

Why do people love to use the phrase "Please be aware that..."?  It adds nothing, and sounds like you don't really know what you are talking about.

Bad:  Please be aware that I think the phrase "please be aware that" sucks.

Better: I think the phrase "please be aware that" sucks.

Best:  I suck.

[The Minsky Moment]

I don't know grumbler.  I'm too busy laughing over the fact that this guy represents "Chief Justice Roy Moore" and "also" represents "Roy S. Moore . . . individually".

Later on he mentions "Roy Moore," "Judge Roy S. Moore," "Roy S. Moore" and "Judge Moore" - are these all additional clients? 

[CountDeMoney]

That's as bad as the letter Marc Kasowitz wrote on behalf of Trump's legal team, and definitely worse than the physician's letter Trump had dictated for himself.

[grumbler]

That's as bad as the letter Marc Kasowitz wrote on behalf of Trump's legal team, and definitely worse than the physician's letter Trump had dictated for himself.

Nope.  The letter Trump wrote about his amazing health, where all his tests for disease and disability came back positive, will never be topped.  It cannot be topped, for it is the acme of ignorance piled on top of arrogance.  Not even Time cube Guy competes.

[Admiral Yi]

I'm trying to think what sequence of events could have led to a letter like this coming out of a law firm concerning such a high profile client.

Or maybe it's not that unusual.  Cease and desist are cut and paste boilerplate scutwork, no?  Maybe they all read like they were written by Simple Jack, the only difference being this one is sent in the middle of a media storm.