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RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:44 pm
by stuman
ORIGINAL: LST Express
My wife told me I'll be working until they throw me in the box. So I find plenty of time to play too![8D]
Our wives must know each other. And my mother. My dad worked full time until he was 75 ( he is now 80 ). And, with my mother's prompting , part of his retire package contains a clause that he keeps an office with them as long as he wants. So he still goes into to the office most days from around 8:30 untill noon or so. Talks to a few of his old customers, talks to a few of the senior execs, and reads the Wall Street Journal. My mom says that if he wasn't out of the house for 4 hours a day she might kill him. As they have been married for 55 years I THINK she is joking.
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:45 pm
by stuman
ORIGINAL: Graycompany
Im not quite sure what you mean by that.
ORIGINAL: ool
A handsome picture of America's finest to be sure![;)]
I believe he was referring to the picture of Charlie Chaplin.
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:48 pm
by Shark7
ORIGINAL: stuman
ORIGINAL: LST Express
My wife told me I'll be working until they throw me in the box. So I find plenty of time to play too![8D]
Our wives must know each other. And my mother. My dad worked full time until he was 75 ( he is now 80 ). And, with my mother's prompting , part of his retire package contains a clause that he keeps an office with them as long as he wants. So he still goes into to the office most days from around 8:30 untill noon or so. Talks to a few of his old customers, talks to a few of the senior execs, and reads the Wall Street Journal. My mom says that if he wasn't out of the house for 4 hours a day she might kill him. As they have been married for 55 years I THINK she is joking.
My dad worked till the day he died, literally. I'm really hoping to not do the same.
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:23 pm
by ool
The precursor to Al Bundy in Married With Children. Al Bundy rules! Big Uns forever!!!!!!![:D][:D][:D]
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:33 pm
by RevRick
I got off work today at about half past noon, and then I ran over quite a bit. So, I don't work the rest of today, unless I get a bad telephone call. But, I begin again tomorrow to get ready for the next work day, which just about takes all week.
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:37 pm
by dorjun driver
What part of this operation
doesn't look like work?
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:46 pm
by AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: dorjun driver
What part of this operation
doesn't look like work?
Looks more like a hobby to me. (Can't be work if you do it in bare feet!). Port Townsend...would that be the one in Washington state? [&:]
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:49 pm
by Terminus
And people call my toe ugly...
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 3:58 pm
by Sardaukar
Started 2 weeks of vacation 2h30mins ago. [:D]
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:05 pm
by AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: Terminus
And people call my toe ugly...
There are few beautiful big toes in the world Kristian....Yours is not one of them.[:D]
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:05 pm
by ool
Do you realise how STUPID we are in North America???
For all the negativity that the American press et al pour onto Europe they have a STANDARD SIX WEEK vacation package as a yearly right for their workers!
Boy have we been hosed in North America!
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:08 pm
by rogueusmc
ORIGINAL: Terminus
And people call my toe ugly...
you only subject us to one...[:D]
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:19 pm
by Barb
ORIGINAL: ool
Do you realise how STUPID we are in North America???
For all the negativity that the American press et al pour onto Europe they have a STANDARD SIX WEEK vacation package as a yearly right for their workers!
Boy have we been hosed in North America!
What are you talking about? I had only something like 20-25 days per year off work (it goes a little upwards with age to some 25 days + what employer grants you a bonus). Where can I ask for my additional two weeks? [:D]
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:30 pm
by pasternakski
ORIGINAL: dorjun driver
Well?
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:31 pm
by Terminus
Comes from people in North America ignorantly persisting in thinking of all Europeans as somehow being members of one giant nation.
For the 7,943rd time, the EU does not decide everything!
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:36 pm
by pasternakski
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Comes from people in North America ignorantly persisting in thinking of all Europeans as somehow being members of one giant nation.
For the 7,943rd time, the EU does not decide everything!
...so nearly 30 percent of your posts have to do with what the EU controls? No wonder they are so terse...
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 5:43 pm
by Terminus
No.
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:14 pm
by AW1Steve
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Comes from people in North America ignorantly persisting in thinking of all Europeans as somehow being members of one giant nation.
For the 7,943rd time, the EU does not decide everything!
No , we don't think of the EU as a nation. People tell their country where to go every day. We think of it as an international labor union. And everybody is TERRIFIED of labor unions. Any debate can immediately and totally be shut down by saying the simple but terrifying words , "can't do that , unions rules forbid it". More dangerous and frightening than a governement, organization or even a wife having "her time of the month"! [:D]
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:25 pm
by Terminus
It's also not that. The EU is a squabbling debate society, which Germany and France each wish they could dominate.
RE: Does no one in this forum work?
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 6:30 pm
by OldCoot
ORIGINAL: Terminus
It's also not that. The EU is a squabbling debate society, which Germany and France each wish they could dominate.
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My money is on the Germans