New England Off Topic and Banter as Most Brilliantly Proposed by Cape Cod MINI

[GBMINI]

Quote: Originally Posted by MetalMiniMayhem

ooffff!.. you couldn't get any more liberal at a lesbian hippie PETA convention...

Isn't PETA some sort of plastic?

[MetalMiniMayhem]

ohhhhhhh.... wait a minute, I get crap from MINI USA all the time on a different e-mail (usually junk) and I may have seen this one and just thought it was yet another ad for a car that I've already bought two of... ... woopsie!

possibly, possibly not... now I have to go rummage through my other e-mail and see if that's what it was... was the subject line of that e-mail something like "Let's Play Hooky" or "Let's go for a drive" or one of those annoying ads?..

wait, MoP has my work e-mail thought (I think)... crap, now I'm all flustered... thanks alot, Ian.. (BTW.. I'll be at MoP tomorrow AM, getting AutoBahnd fixed if anyone wants to stop by and say " 'ello, mate! " )

[MetalMiniMayhem]

Quote: Originally Posted by GBMINI

Isn't PETA some sort of plastic?

nah, it's People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals... check their site, they are just a bit over the top (makes for a good read though.. )

http://www.peta.org/

or you could always read the comic book they put out.. LMAO!



god I wish I had that as a shirt! That is too freakin funny! :biggirin:

[GBMINI]

Oh yeah - remember reading about them on This Is True earlier this year (http://www.thisistrue.com/peta.html)

The MoP email (to me anyway) was simply titled "Mini of Peabody Event"

[MetalMiniMayhem]

yeah, no I went back and checked, it was definately junk mail from Mini USA..

[MetalMiniMayhem]

Quote: Originally Posted by GBMINI

Oh yeah - remember reading about them on This Is True earlier this year (http://www.thisistrue.com/peta.html)

The MoP email (to me anyway) was simply titled "Mini of Peabody Event"

there's a whole website dedicated to how hypocritical they are...

http://petakillsanimals.com/

they'll throw buckets of blood at you when you walk out of a KFC for eating animals or spray paint you if you wear fur, but then they go around the country and adopt pets and euthanize them rather than find homes for them because they think it's more humane, etc.

Left-wing freaks.. or is it right wing?... I dunno, it's hard to tell which side is which when you're sitting in the back of the plane.. .. I think I'm pretty much dead-center..

someone asked me one time if I was a liberal and I said (and to this day this is what I consider myself) "I'm the most liberal conservative you'll ever meet, I'm also the most conservative liberal you'll ever meet"..

[snid]

Quote: Originally Posted by MetalMiniMayhem

turned down a job with Google for Verizon

Not really. I only got as far as the first phonecall from Google. Of course, that's a lot further than most people get with them. I was stupid and stopped the process there. I've heard the Google interview process is one of the most grueling ones in existence.

Of course, I submitted my resume to Google again later on, and got the "we're sorry" form letter response. Perhaps I missed my chance at fame and fortune.

[GadgetGav]

Quote: Originally Posted by snid

Perhaps I missed my chance at fame and fortune.

I think we all did that... that's why we hang out in here.

[GBMINI]

Quote: Originally Posted by snid

Not really. I only got as far as the first phonecall from Google. Of course, that's a lot further than most people get with them. I was stupid and stopped the process there

I went through a similar experience with MARS in England (they don't only make chocolate ) ...
I had just interviewed & accepted a new job, then got contacted by MARS. Turned out the job I accepted was pooh (they still used teletype machines, in 1990!) ... had great interviews with MARS, but they were put off by my taking a new job and planning to quit immediately ...

As Gavin says, so now I hang out here instead - it's getting hard to do now though, with work ramping up. Do all you guys have bugger all to do at work? How do you cope otherwise?

[pezboy]

Ian, I'm pretty busy when I'm at work but I worked 7 days straight so I had Wed/Thurs off this week. We get massively busy when the holidays come around...the schedule for the Sunday after Thanksgiving has *everyone* in my department coming in that day! But...I'm actually off on Thanksgiving this year!!

I may also be lined up for Fri/Sat off very shortly, since we hired some new people!

I don't know about the rest of these tools though...

[chs4]

Quote:

nah, it's People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals... check their site, they are just a bit over the top

Hey, if God didn't want us to eat animals he wouldn't have made them out of meat...

[GadgetGav]

Yes, I've got almost bugger all to do except look for a new job
I interviewed with Mars way back when too... It was for a job working on coin sorters for vending machines. I also interviewed with Simon Snorkel - the turntable ladder fire engine people. Now that would have been a fun job...!

[pezboy]

I can't stop laughing about "bugger all to do".

[MGB Boy]

Quote: Originally Posted by MetalMiniMayhem

(btw... you don't have "intellectual property rights" for the stuff you did for IBM?.. That's kind of surprising, actually..)

Not really. I think you'll find that just about any large company (especially one for which IP rights are a significant source of revenue, such as IBM), any IP you develop while on the job there belongs to the company, not to you. Actually, most smaller companies and just about any university with a research angle have similar policies as well. They typically build language into the terms of employment/business conduct guidelines stating that for any IP/patents you develop in the course of your work, the institution has the right to name themselves as the assignee. Example: My father has a patent for an integrated heat exchanger for memory modules. He's listed in the "Inventor" field but the "Assignee" is International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, NY)...

-Ricardo

[MGB Boy]

Quote: Originally Posted by NoNo

Ricardo, if that surprises you, then you haven't been hanging around enough Italians. Every other word of out my dad's mouth is "F this and F that". And then when he's really mad, he'll swear in Italian. I know all kinds of Italian, but I just don't know what it actually means. Judging by the context, though, I can take a guess. Family functions are always a good time, especially once the alcohol gets flowing. If the cops get involved, it's an extra bonus. Memories........

Surprising from enraged family members? No. Hell, I've heard things on the ice and in the locker room that would make a longshoreman blush. But surprising in the hallways of an office building at IBM, where corporate jargon rules the verbal roost and where suit and tie were still the norm not all too long ago? Yes...

-Ricardo

PS My brother's girlfriend is Sicilian. Does that count?