Everyone needs to relax and lighten up a little.
LMAO
bgriffin
My jokes aren't as funny as bgriffin's are. I'm sorry. I said what both people "really" wanted to say.
I Fixed it for you in bold!
bgriffin Wrote:
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> dspeakes Wrote:
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> > bgriffin, I know it was a joke.
I just don't
> > have a sense of humor. And someone coming to this
> > thread who didn't happen to read my original
> post
> > would not know what it was that you "fixed."
> All
> > they'd see is that you quoted me calling the
> > people at Maritz old.
The fact that they are up there in years doesn't matter because I just want to argue.
>
> My post was directly under your post. First of
> all, nobody reads quoted material more that to see
> what the poster is responding to. Anybody who
> reads my post is first going to read the "fixed it
> for you," then read the quoted part, and then if
> they're confused about what was fixed they can
> look about 1" up the screen and see what the
> original quote was. As I said, anybody who can't
> understand what I did fails at the internet. If
> there is a single person in the world who actually
> read this thread and seriously thought you called
> the people at Maritz old they need both a brain
> and a life.
>
> > The point of my post was to
> > give the information that a phone call would
> yield
> > a conversation with a human being, not a
> machine,
> > and you turned it into an insult against the
> nice
> > people at Maritz. I think it's great that
> Maritz
> > hires people who have life experience and
> manners.
> > You turned it into an insult.
>
> It wasn't an insult. It was a joke.
Please remove the stick from your rear-end.
>
>
> > Don't play games with other people's words.
> > That's all I'm saying. If you had simply
> replied,
> > "Yeah, you'll talk to a real old person," I
> > wouldn't have had an issue with it. But you
> put
> > those words into MY mouth.
>
> That would have been maybe 1/10th as funny.
>
>
> > The appropriate response would have been for
> you
> > to apologize for doing it
and beg me for forgiveness because I think I'm a god.
> >
>
> We'll have to agree to disagree on that one.
>
>
> > My father is 89. He's an intelligent and
> > articulate person. So are the people at Maritz.
> I
> > don't appreciate people who think it's funny to
> > poke fun at the elderly. If you're lucky,
> you'll
> > get to be old someday. I wonder how you'll
> like
> > being mocked for it.
>
> I spent Super Bowl Sunday at an assisted living
> facility grilling chicken for the residents. I
> don't have a problem with the elderly and I wasn't
> poking fun at them. There is a higher percentage
> of retirement age employees at Maritz than there
> are most other MSC's. I made a joke about that.
> It wasn't a joke that was insulting. It was
> simply true. I think perhaps you are being just a
> tad bit sensitive, but it's ok, I won't ask you to
> apologize for that.
Arguing with fools is like playing chess with a pigeon...
...No matter how good you are, the pigeon will s@^t on the board and strut around like it won anyway.
Not scheduling for ANY company.