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Disgusting people with no social skills

People can be so nasty. In this library are at least fifteen computers.  This smelly man sits beside me.  There are several unoccupied computers .  There is no need for him to sit beside anyone unless he wants too. He smells.  Ewww. Finally he left.  Thank goodness he did not stay for the full hour [...]

Kids know when their parents are stupid

I have decided that children know when they have an incompetent parent in a Casablanca kind of way. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life. I have heard it said that children love their parents because they are their parents, not because they are good parents. This [...]

Senior Housing and the Little Greek Man

The little Greek man who is courting Grandma is moving into the former apartment of the resident who most recently died. That is generally how it works in senior housing. You visit the places that you might like to live. Then you put your name on the waiting list of the ones you like. Then [...]

Desperate Behaviour

NOT attractive.

The French and Their Insults

The insult is a very serious thing, n’est pas? French face prosecution for ‘insulting’ civil servants – Times Online First, Mr Reboux called the police officer a canard (a duck). Then he lost his cool and called him a connard, which translates roughly as stupid bastard. The term landed the Parisian publisher in court and [...]