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azurelunatic) wrote2006-07-03 12:14 am
azurelunatic) wrote2006-07-03 12:14 am
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Work-bitch: more fun with Leftover Leftovers Guy, and assorted other characters!
Quote of the day: "I'm seriously insane, but that guy is CRAZY!" This was said by the Matching Hair Matriarch of the Philosopher. The Philosopher is, erm, an "odd duck". He would be a wonderful doting/doddering grandfather if only he'd confine the doting more carefully to his grandchildren, and less to the rest of the workplace. He is trying to grandfather the lot of us, and I am not the only one who finds it creepy.
We'd probably find it more pleasing if only his work habits were not sucktastic. As it is, he has that air of "tries too hard" that means that he doesn't have friends and he's desperate to get some, and will cling to anyone who shows the least sign of friendliness. And because aforementioned OMG CREEPY ANCIENT MAN WHO IS OLD ENOUGH TO BE MY GRANDFATHER BUT HAS NO CONCEPTION OF PERSONAL SPACE thing is going on, this does not endear him to many people.
I probably should have walked out of the break room yesterday (was it yesterday?) when Leftover Leftovers Guy said that the takeout place had "jewed him" on his food.
There was a general expression of WTF from the people sitting closer to him; in response to this, he explained (ever so rationally, of course) that Jews were stingy with their food, and Chinese were just the same. (Evidently this was regarding the ratio of meat-and-sauce to rice in a $MEAT rice bowl dish.) Again, the WTF, but a kind of WTF that made it clear that no one was going to totally hang him out to dry over the issue, just a "whatever, dude" and the topic of conversation went into Hasidic Jews, featuring the recommendation that they ditch the trench coat in the summer and take a f***ing shower. (Paraphrased, but not by much.)
I should have probably walked out, but, still, I was sitting at a table somewhat further away from the center of conversation and mostly sitting and trying not to have my jaw drop off my face. Of all the things to say. I tell you, just try to let him make that same kind of inappropriate generalization/critique about black people around Stressy College Chick, and he will find himself flying in the general direction of the door so fast he won't have the time to grab his ass back from where she was beating it. And she won't bother to open it first before he goes flying through, either.
Today he went off on a mini-rant about how "foreigners are lucky to live in this country!" He wants to seal off the Mexican border. I don't think he has yet to get onto these topics in the presence of Homie G. or Ponytail Dave or Shocking Gum Super. I want to be a fly on that wall. ...Well, actually, I want to be a fly on a wall a safe distance away, not the wall that he gets thrown through.
His argument style mostly consists of repeating the same line of reasoning that he was off on before, except louder. I suspect he wins most of his arguments because people get tired of that and let him have his way. He never seems to believe he's lost an argument; he always seems to believe he's right. Even when he was wrong in the past, he makes a virtue out of the fact that OMG HE'S RIGHT NOW.
Today's Issue was KFC vs. PETA. He is boycotting KFC, and is telling Trendy Chick that she is a horrible monster for eating there because of what KFC does to its chickens. And he has Proof! Proof! (he did not shout it three times, because he was not drunk; he stopped drinking after his DUI.) This is the grody thing where a PETA operative went in to sting them and found that chickens were being treated disrespectfully aside from the fact that they were being, you know, slaughtered. (I don't have a link, but there's some website or other about this.) I got hauled in when Trendy Chick wanted me to say that anyone could make a website and say anything; them having a website didn't prove anything. He said that it wasn't just one people, it was more than one person, and besides, it was TRUTH!
...I did not ask to see if he believes in cold fushion just because you can light separated O2 and H gasses on fire and have them combine and make OMG WATER. But that sounds just about up his intellectual alley. And he refuses to use AVG because it is free. It's gotta be the Latest Norton. And there are all kinds of things wrong with hooking up to the net not firewalled, but you can be networked to your sister's spy/ad/malware-ridden POS with noooo problems! (I may give him a larnin' on that later, as he respects my geekdom. As well he should, the little kludgeface.)
We'd probably find it more pleasing if only his work habits were not sucktastic. As it is, he has that air of "tries too hard" that means that he doesn't have friends and he's desperate to get some, and will cling to anyone who shows the least sign of friendliness. And because aforementioned OMG CREEPY ANCIENT MAN WHO IS OLD ENOUGH TO BE MY GRANDFATHER BUT HAS NO CONCEPTION OF PERSONAL SPACE thing is going on, this does not endear him to many people.
I probably should have walked out of the break room yesterday (was it yesterday?) when Leftover Leftovers Guy said that the takeout place had "jewed him" on his food.
There was a general expression of WTF from the people sitting closer to him; in response to this, he explained (ever so rationally, of course) that Jews were stingy with their food, and Chinese were just the same. (Evidently this was regarding the ratio of meat-and-sauce to rice in a $MEAT rice bowl dish.) Again, the WTF, but a kind of WTF that made it clear that no one was going to totally hang him out to dry over the issue, just a "whatever, dude" and the topic of conversation went into Hasidic Jews, featuring the recommendation that they ditch the trench coat in the summer and take a f***ing shower. (Paraphrased, but not by much.)
I should have probably walked out, but, still, I was sitting at a table somewhat further away from the center of conversation and mostly sitting and trying not to have my jaw drop off my face. Of all the things to say. I tell you, just try to let him make that same kind of inappropriate generalization/critique about black people around Stressy College Chick, and he will find himself flying in the general direction of the door so fast he won't have the time to grab his ass back from where she was beating it. And she won't bother to open it first before he goes flying through, either.
Today he went off on a mini-rant about how "foreigners are lucky to live in this country!" He wants to seal off the Mexican border. I don't think he has yet to get onto these topics in the presence of Homie G. or Ponytail Dave or Shocking Gum Super. I want to be a fly on that wall. ...Well, actually, I want to be a fly on a wall a safe distance away, not the wall that he gets thrown through.
His argument style mostly consists of repeating the same line of reasoning that he was off on before, except louder. I suspect he wins most of his arguments because people get tired of that and let him have his way. He never seems to believe he's lost an argument; he always seems to believe he's right. Even when he was wrong in the past, he makes a virtue out of the fact that OMG HE'S RIGHT NOW.
Today's Issue was KFC vs. PETA. He is boycotting KFC, and is telling Trendy Chick that she is a horrible monster for eating there because of what KFC does to its chickens. And he has Proof! Proof! (he did not shout it three times, because he was not drunk; he stopped drinking after his DUI.) This is the grody thing where a PETA operative went in to sting them and found that chickens were being treated disrespectfully aside from the fact that they were being, you know, slaughtered. (I don't have a link, but there's some website or other about this.) I got hauled in when Trendy Chick wanted me to say that anyone could make a website and say anything; them having a website didn't prove anything. He said that it wasn't just one people, it was more than one person, and besides, it was TRUTH!
...I did not ask to see if he believes in cold fushion just because you can light separated O2 and H gasses on fire and have them combine and make OMG WATER. But that sounds just about up his intellectual alley. And he refuses to use AVG because it is free. It's gotta be the Latest Norton. And there are all kinds of things wrong with hooking up to the net not firewalled, but you can be networked to your sister's spy/ad/malware-ridden POS with noooo problems! (I may give him a larnin' on that later, as he respects my geekdom. As well he should, the little kludgeface.)