Speedy's Cafe - General Chat about anything you like!

[Carol the Dabbler]

I had the same experience with a pack of cigarettes. Probably just as well in both cases! :D

[Pseudonym]

Reminds me of the bottle of Baileys I drank in freshers week. I was so violently ill I woke up with sick behind my ears. 

[Arcadia]

On the whole, I think I was the smart one here. :p

[Pseudonym]

Certainly looks that way. In which case God help us all! :P

[Arcadia]

[Pseudonym]

  indeed. 

[Pseudonym]

For the first time in what feels like months, *ahem* the sun is out, the sky is blue, there's not a cloud, to spoil the viiieewww! And its a bank holiday weekend so tomorrow is another day off. :D

[Carol the Dabbler]

Prob'ly be lots of small aircraft flying around, then.

 

Just sayin'.

[Pseudonym]

And you are entirely correct in doing so. 

[Van Buren Supernova]

Sick from food?

I got sick from eating oeysters couple of years back.

My thing is, I like seafood. Not excessive as I love greenies more but seafood is probably something that is hard for me to give up. Well, I can count my experiences eating oeyster only with one hand maybe, because they are bloody expensive and not something you want to eat from questionable source.

 

They look disgusting, but taste great and fresh. So that time we had this great buffet to celebrate something in great mood. The foods were excellent and very fresh, and I had quite a lot of oeysters. I didn't feel weird, they didn't taste funny, in fact, the best I've had, and I still had great night out after that. It was until we got home for a while I got sick. (Lucky!) I blew both eyes with subconjunctival hemorrhage and had reddish speckles around them for almost two weeks from violent vomiting.

 

Well, I thought I ate too many oeysters (which I probably did, although I'm not sure how many is too many since I'm confident I could take many more if I didn't stop myself) and oeyster is one of the risky food anyway although I didn't have bad history with it. As far as I remember, that was the last time, the incident didn't scare me, it's just I only ate them for special occasion or place.

 

It was only very recently that I found out something that stops me completely from ever entertaining another oeyster meal or feast. Apparently oeysters are eaten when they are still alive, because once they are dead, it's not safe to eat them. The point of the death are still debatable among experts, some say it's when they are ripped from the shell (so technically they are not alive at the point of eating), some say it's when they are crushed by your teeth and some say when they are digested by your stomach acid.

 

Whatever it is, nope.

I want my food dead, can't even bring myself to eat organic veggies that technically still alive. Hypocrite, anything, I don't know, just not my thing. Cringe.

Irony? At least I know maybe I was sick because of dead oeyster.

[Carol the Dabbler]

You could eat cooked oysters.  No way they'd still be alive.

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

On the whole, I think I was the smart one here. :p

How 'bout this for the smart one? Never that insane to over eat a particular sweet, allergic to tobacco and alcohol so nothing there. With that said, 1 of my brothers-in-law ate a whole of of twinkies as a kid and had to have his stomach pumped as the cream filling clumped together in his stomach.

[Van Buren Supernova]

I could. It's not the same though, it sort of lost the special taste.

 

Actually not a fan of raw foods, only like oeyster and salmon. I don't think I miss the oeyster anyway, and knowing that definitely doesn't make me want anymore of it.

[Arcadia]

Yikes, no, not oysters. Or clams, or mussels. Will eat lobster or crab til I pop, though. Had a couple Maine lobsters this summer, yummy yummy.

[Pseudonym]

Oh God, no to all. Shellfish are a big no, oysters are a hell no, and I couldn't eat lobsters knowing they are cooked alive is too upsetting. I mainly stick to veggies.

[Arcadia]

I know, I can't bring myself to actually put them in the pot, someone else has to do that. But I'll happily eat one. Or many. And deal with the guilt later. :p

[Van Buren Supernova]

Dad's friend once thought it's a good idea to give us three live lobsters. I couldn't bear to cook them myself, but have to admit it was one of the best meals I've had.

 

 

 

Things are crappy here.

 

I am and will have crappy days at work and to be honest, I'm not sure if I'd survive well or if they'd survive me.

 

Apparently my colleagues are under investigations of suspected foul play and they are suspended, most probably never to return.

And here I am, suprised because I trust one of them and it never occured to me that he could be capable of doing or putting himself in situation where he is a suspect as well, eventhough passively. However, I haven't heard his side of story and will maintain the benefit of doubt, but the company seems prepared to take steps to cut four of them, which is basically everyone but me. I'm in unique situation where I'm more involved in earlier and later part of project, book end, this is the frigging middle, and I have other unrelated projects as well.

 

And no price for guessing who have to shoulder the works now. All the while I felt grateful that they were the ones dealing with most bureaucracy and tedious human, and every single time I always think I would not survive to handle that much BS they had to deal everyday, which is the nature of their work but not my scope or expertise. And now, I am thrown into it, and the amount of works are unimaginable, beside the ones I am directly responsible with that I barely have enough time. And I hardly have patience for wishy washy and prolonged-more-than-necessary process that those people got used to with my collegues, so I wouldn't be rosy replacement until the company gets new ones (which will take some time).

So we'll see who will survive who.

 

So, I feel weird.

It sucks thinking that they are in serious trouble, it sucks thinking that they could sink that low if it's true. Does money really that appealing, why would... sigh.. why?

 

I don't know. Somehow I had never been approached before for shady dealings. Never! And I could be good channel actually, for my jobs the last ten years, I could open so many doors because I stand in the way for many of them. But they are right to assume that I wouldn't be interested. That is why I'm waddling in shallower shit now and I'll never be rich. And I have known many, so many people who fall into those and probably have confidence in less than ten people who are clean, and now it's less than that.

 

That brings me to think, are those crooks who get my colleagues on the first place (it's some kind of insider trade and bribery) really that good in reading characters and know which one is more likely to fall, to follow, to turn blind eyes, or not to try at all?

I guess that's how they score?

[Carol the Dabbler]

Oh dear, that's quite a situation.

 

I'm thinking you may be correct, that at least the one fellow is honest. But he may have been sucked in so slowly that he didn't realize what was going on till he was too involved to quit. Or something like that. In any case, I suspect you were right to trust him.

[Arcadia]

Owwwwww, that is an awful situation. Hope you have a decent boss. Seems to me like someone from another department should be assigned to help you.

[Pseudonym]

Is he... undercover as an old man? Seriously those are clothes my grandad used to wear. 

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

That style is en vogue again as happens sometimes.

[J.P.]

But the boots are giving him away. :P

[Pseudonym]

Interesting.

 

[Arcadia]

Is he... undercover as an old man? Seriously those are clothes my grandad used to wear. 

 

Seriously, he looks like he's raided my dad's closet. Although I must say, it's not a bad look. Even if it does look like he just came out from working in the wheat field.

 

That style is en vogue again as happens sometimes.

 

That's a style? I thought it was just the kind of thing people threw on when they wanted to be comfortable and didn't care how they looked.....

 

But the boots are giving him away. :P

 

?????

 

Interesting.

 

Indeed. I'm assuming Watson earned some percentage of that as well......

[Carol the Dabbler]

The figure given for Scandal must have been what he was *offered* -- unless I'm mistaken, the only "payment" he accepted was the photo of Irene.