@scottalanmiller said:
If anyone wants an awesome introduction to Cricket and to some Indian history, check out the very long but awesome movie Lagan: Once Upon a Time in India which talks about the British occupation, cricket and taxation of the people. Great historical movie.
Great movie. Highly recommend.
I think it was pretty obviously meant as a joke, albeit one in questionable taste, and if the only audience was people who actually knew Sacco, there would have been no problem. The issue is that she tweeted it, complete strangers chose to take offense, and because she was disconnected for 11 hours, things escalated beyond the point of her being able to control the damage. Without realizing it, she threw a match over her shoulder and set her life on fire, and by the time she realized what had happened, it was far too late to salvage anything. You can make off-color or satirical jokes to people that know you, but it's certainly risky to do so in a public forum, where there is no context, and strangers won't bother, or won't be able to determine what you meant, but instead take everything at face value.
@nadnerB I call those icy pops or freezer pops.
I am loving Windows 10. I was having trouble getting the Pro version of 8.1 to install on my Lenovo laptop, but the tech preview of 10 worked without issue.
I'm giggling picturing @Minion-Queen presenting with her tiara on. It's like a ball player wearing their lucky socks.
@nadnerB said:
Happy Birthday!
I ate a mango icy pole and thought of the community here.
I totally had to look up what the heck an icy pole is. Thanks for the link. I think I prefer popsicle, though. Less chance to misconstrue meaning, lol.
@Reid-Cooper said:
That picture is so large those devices seem like they might be..... life-sized?
snort I read that in Dave Collier's Woody the Woodchuck voice.
In ref to the OP, I did find describing Windows 10 as "finished" in June to be fairly ominous. Like "sleeping with the fishes" ominous. Perhaps we have the same sense of humor?
And, because I always like to weigh in on t-shirt swag in terms of wearability, not just design, I'd like to say for the record that this isn't just a cute shirt, it is soft and comfy, and it's going into my short pile of shirts I can't wait to wear as soon as they come out of the laundry.
OMG, and the playing cards! They are so cool! They have cartoon beavers as the face cards. Our girls are going to flip over those cards. We haven't shown them yet, because I know they will demand to open them, and we are still traveling. The messenger bag is super awesome too.
When I saw the tshirt I actually whisper-chanted "please be my size, please be my size, YAY!" lol
Check him out! So cute!
@tonyshowoff Exactly! The public that demands that these unfortunate people be fired and shunned by society are bullies, plain and simple. Sure stupid, insensitive things were said, but is one out of context and misunderstood joke really a reason to ruin someone's life? When I think about all the stupid things I've said in my life, I shudder to think that they could follow me around forever.
I think in a lot of ways this was a good thing for this kid, depending on how she handles it from here. If she learned her lesson about social media, and how what you put up on the internet is there to haunt you forever more, this is a fairly mild way to learn that lesson. If she was smart, she would put together an assembly for her peers about the consequences of tweeting or Facebooking before you think. She could easily become a role model and public speaker, if she went the mature direction here.
@scottalanmiller said:
Roche (where @dominica and @katie used to work) is on Google Apps. They are a 90,000 seat global pharmaceutical. Pretty big there.
Oh, I wonder how switching to Google Apps has changed the helpdesk support requests. I bet that all the remote users are so much happier with this change. You've made me all nostalgic thinking about my old users.
This one really made me think. It's easy to immediately condemn someone for a moment of thoughtlessness, but public internet shaming has far greater consequences to other people's lives than I had ever considered.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html?_r=0
@thanksaj How did you manage to arrange your move so quickly? Amazing! Drive safely.
Social Media accounts - separate! My gosh, my eyeballs might fall right out of my head from how hard I roll them when I see combined accounts. We all know those people have trust issues, and if you're considering it because you don't trust the other person not to have shady communications, or innocent communications that you decide are shady, then there's a bigger issue. Maybe couples therapy would help. (Not directed specifically at you, but "you" in the broader sense of "lots of people")
Apple ID's - we use one to save money on apps that we all use across multiple devices. As long as you fix the settings so that you're not automatically downloading everything and sharing every phone number, etc., it's great.
Online shopping - we share an Amazon Prime account because it would be silly not to. That's really the only site from which we both make purchases, so we don't share accounts on say Oldnavy.com, but then again, it's not like Scott ever orders his own clothes or anything, and if he did, we'd probably just share it.
ETA: bank accounts - we had separate accounts at the same bank, so we just added the other to our accounts. Now we mainly use Scott's for everything, and if we have a specific designation for funds, we might move them to my account. It's just easier this way. I really like @Nic's idea of designating subaccounts for spontaneous expenses. Good idea.
@thanksaj The adoption of a second language by a colonized population is bound to result in slight differences in dialect. Indians speak British English, including many British turns of phrase. At one point, the colonists of the Original 13 also spoke British English.
