Interesting reading, thank you. However* it's this paragraph from the article you link to that catches my eye:
[quote]<strong>Liebeck placed the [Styrofoam] cup between her knees and attempted to remove the plastic lid from the [Styrofoam] cup. As she removed the lid, the entire contents of the [Styrofoam] cup spilled into her lap.</strong><hr></blockquote>
This only confirms my assertion in another thread that stupidity should be a crime, and McDonald's should have been allowed to counter-sue.
* I seem to use the word "however" way too often in my posts...
This only confirms my assertion in another thread that stupidity should be a crime, and McDonald's should have been allowed to counter-sue. </strong><hr></blockquote>
One could argue that she was more than just 20% at fault and shouldn't have recovered much (if anything). As for being sued for stupidity, why do you think I don't use my real name here?
Amorph-
As for birch shells , my bro likes maple, while I am partial to maple, alder, or mahogany guitars. I hate swamp ash. Too nasal sounding.
Companies that think replacing all of their macs with PCs will give them a volume pricing discount from Microsoft.
Just happened at the company I work for. I really fail to see why they think that buying 5 more PCs will give them a better negotiating position with M$.
I'm female and plenty of women do stuff that ticks me off. SPECIAL IS NOT EQUAL. Equal means you get treated the same. Special means you get treated better than everyone. Well, let me clue you in sisters. No one owes you a damned thing because you decided to squeeze out some kids. No one ones you anything because you have a coochie. No one owes you anything period. If you want it, work for it. Otherwise, STFU because you make the rest of us look bad.
1) Women who trade on their sexuality - batting their eyes, swishing their ass, etc. when they have precisely no other job skills. This is especially annoying when the job requires skills.
2) Women who leave promptly at 5 minutes to quitting time every day, even when the rest of the team is staying to pull over time to get a project out. Then they have the nerve to say that they were passed over for promotion because they're female.
3) Women who apply make up while the car is in motion and they're driving. I hope you stab yourself in the eye with your mascara brush.
4) Women who use their kids as an excuse to get out of work when ever possible - routinely coming in late, leaving early, and taking days off every time little johnny or suzie has the slightest and mostly like totally fabricated sniffle. You know them, their kid is never sick except on Fridays. Again, they have the nerve to complain that they were passed over for promotions and blame it on being female.
5) Women who sleep with married men. If women would quit sleeping with them, they wouldn't be able to cheat. Stick together, sisters. It could be your man next.
6) Women who gang up on other women at work. I call it the "Biddy Ring" because they team up to drive someone off who is a) smarter than them, b) better at the job then them, c) prettier than them.
7) Candyasses - the ones who take on some hard job because "if the guys can do it they can to" and then whine constantly about how hard it is and try to con the guys they work with into doing their job for them.
Ok, guys I've had my go at my fellow females and in the interests of gender equality, it's now your turn.
1) The patronizing guy. You've seen him a million times. "Don't worry your pretty little head about it." or "Here, sugar britches, I'll get that for you."
2) The catcaller, You've seen him a million times too. "Fries come with that shake?"
3) The pantydropper. Guys who think that because they're rich or they're good looking that panties are just supposed to drop in there mere presence.
4) Mr Right - This has nothing to do with weddings. It has everything to do with the guys who think that because they're male they must therefore be correct in all things.
5) Mr. Not Quite So Equal - This sneaky bastard will tell you how great you are, how wonderful you are, and then hand the promotion to some guy because "he's got a family to support...you're just a second income."
6) You pee anywhere. We have two bathrooms in our house and because I'm in one toilet my husband decides to pee in the sink.
7) Your inability to locate any item in our domicile unless it is stapled to the ceiling and falls on your head on your way to the phone to call us to ask us where it is.
8) You are FRAGILE. If we're sick, we still get up and cook breakfast. You get the flu and no one on earth could ever have been more ill. If you are injured, it is the worst injury ever sustained by anyone in the entire course of human history. You practically need your own nanny. I guess you call them a manny to wait on you hand and foot until you recover.
9) The psychic umbilical cord you have to your remotes. I wonder if anyone has ever beaten their husband o death with one.
Ads are stupid because the people who create them are, for the most part, really stupid.
1) Viva Viagra - a bunch of guys singing about WM - weenie malfunction. Just what I wanted to see over dinner and pretty hard to top on the "scale of gayness"
2) Woolite Pods - a whole stepford family with a rug cleaning device - pretty creepy actually
3) Anything with Billy Mays. I'd pay $50 if I got to take a swing at him with my cast iron skillet.
4) Korea - Sparkling ads. I swear that he says Sparkiring
5) E-Harmony ads - Am I the only one that thinks they should be E-Homely ads? They always show some kinda ugly couple.
6) Hoover Floormate - the guy with the fake aussie accent and the bad use of aussie lingo. One does not call a female "mate".
7) Philidelphia Cream Cheese - chubby retard angels who can be distracted by a bagel and some cream cheese. No wonder life down ehre sucks...they're all in dairy aisle at the grocery store instead of being the steadfast champions of good and protectors of the innocent and smiting most advertising agencies.
8) McNegro - McDonald's has decided to actively court the black consumer dollar to the exclusion of all else. While it remains an american icon, i hate their food and the hip-hop commericals do nothing for me. I do not identify with the scumbag criminal, gun toting, drug dealing "gangsta" or his "fly ass ho" which are the two icons of hip hop.
9) Staples Easy Button - A couple of these have been funny but the cheerleading parents is not funny. What a way to find out that your dad is a transvestite and has been wearing your underwear. This one kinda pegs the old ick-o-meter,
10) Ditech - People are Smart - No, no they are not. Not if they do business with your overpriced rip off company. No one that has reasonable rates and terms has to advertise like that.
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<strong>Oh. I found a link with the actual facts (somewhat different than the ones we discussed in law school).
<a href="http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm"; target="_blank">http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm</a>;
Thoth</strong><hr></blockquote>
Interesting reading, thank you. However* it's this paragraph from the article you link to that catches my eye:
[quote]<strong>Liebeck placed the [Styrofoam] cup between her knees and attempted to remove the plastic lid from the [Styrofoam] cup. As she removed the lid, the entire contents of the [Styrofoam] cup spilled into her lap.</strong><hr></blockquote>
This only confirms my assertion in another thread that stupidity should be a crime, and McDonald's should have been allowed to counter-sue.
* I seem to use the word "however" way too often in my posts...
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This only confirms my assertion in another thread that stupidity should be a crime, and McDonald's should have been allowed to counter-sue.
One could argue that she was more than just 20% at fault and shouldn't have recovered much (if anything). As for being sued for stupidity, why do you think I don't use my real name here?
Amorph-
As for birch shells , my bro likes maple, while I am partial to maple, alder, or mahogany guitars. I hate swamp ash. Too nasal sounding.
Thoth
Just happened at the company I work for. I really fail to see why they think that buying 5 more PCs will give them a better negotiating position with M$.
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1) Women who trade on their sexuality - batting their eyes, swishing their ass, etc. when they have precisely no other job skills. This is especially annoying when the job requires skills.
2) Women who leave promptly at 5 minutes to quitting time every day, even when the rest of the team is staying to pull over time to get a project out. Then they have the nerve to say that they were passed over for promotion because they're female.
3) Women who apply make up while the car is in motion and they're driving. I hope you stab yourself in the eye with your mascara brush.
4) Women who use their kids as an excuse to get out of work when ever possible - routinely coming in late, leaving early, and taking days off every time little johnny or suzie has the slightest and mostly like totally fabricated sniffle. You know them, their kid is never sick except on Fridays. Again, they have the nerve to complain that they were passed over for promotions and blame it on being female.
5) Women who sleep with married men. If women would quit sleeping with them, they wouldn't be able to cheat. Stick together, sisters. It could be your man next.
6) Women who gang up on other women at work. I call it the "Biddy Ring" because they team up to drive someone off who is a) smarter than them, b) better at the job then them, c) prettier than them.
7) Candyasses - the ones who take on some hard job because "if the guys can do it they can to" and then whine constantly about how hard it is and try to con the guys they work with into doing their job for them.
1) The patronizing guy. You've seen him a million times. "Don't worry your pretty little head about it." or "Here, sugar britches, I'll get that for you."
2) The catcaller, You've seen him a million times too. "Fries come with that shake?"
3) The pantydropper. Guys who think that because they're rich or they're good looking that panties are just supposed to drop in there mere presence.
4) Mr Right - This has nothing to do with weddings. It has everything to do with the guys who think that because they're male they must therefore be correct in all things.
5) Mr. Not Quite So Equal - This sneaky bastard will tell you how great you are, how wonderful you are, and then hand the promotion to some guy because "he's got a family to support...you're just a second income."
6) You pee anywhere. We have two bathrooms in our house and because I'm in one toilet my husband decides to pee in the sink.
7) Your inability to locate any item in our domicile unless it is stapled to the ceiling and falls on your head on your way to the phone to call us to ask us where it is.
8) You are FRAGILE. If we're sick, we still get up and cook breakfast. You get the flu and no one on earth could ever have been more ill. If you are injured, it is the worst injury ever sustained by anyone in the entire course of human history. You practically need your own nanny. I guess you call them a manny to wait on you hand and foot until you recover.
9) The psychic umbilical cord you have to your remotes. I wonder if anyone has ever beaten their husband o death with one.
The only good thing about this thread bump is seeing all the old timers names...
1) Viva Viagra - a bunch of guys singing about WM - weenie malfunction. Just what I wanted to see over dinner and pretty hard to top on the "scale of gayness"
2) Woolite Pods - a whole stepford family with a rug cleaning device - pretty creepy actually
3) Anything with Billy Mays. I'd pay $50 if I got to take a swing at him with my cast iron skillet.
4) Korea - Sparkling ads. I swear that he says Sparkiring
5) E-Harmony ads - Am I the only one that thinks they should be E-Homely ads? They always show some kinda ugly couple.
6) Hoover Floormate - the guy with the fake aussie accent and the bad use of aussie lingo. One does not call a female "mate".
7) Philidelphia Cream Cheese - chubby retard angels who can be distracted by a bagel and some cream cheese. No wonder life down ehre sucks...they're all in dairy aisle at the grocery store instead of being the steadfast champions of good and protectors of the innocent and smiting most advertising agencies.
8) McNegro - McDonald's has decided to actively court the black consumer dollar to the exclusion of all else. While it remains an american icon, i hate their food and the hip-hop commericals do nothing for me. I do not identify with the scumbag criminal, gun toting, drug dealing "gangsta" or his "fly ass ho" which are the two icons of hip hop.
9) Staples Easy Button - A couple of these have been funny but the cheerleading parents is not funny. What a way to find out that your dad is a transvestite and has been wearing your underwear. This one kinda pegs the old ick-o-meter,
10) Ditech - People are Smart - No, no they are not. Not if they do business with your overpriced rip off company. No one that has reasonable rates and terms has to advertise like that.