A little humour

moshe

When I was still working, one of my friends was the maintenance person for the same store I worked in.
A woman in one of the departments was never comfortable with the temperature. It was either too hot or too cold. She constantly demanded, pleaded with my friend to do something about it......every day. At least.
One day, he decided to surprise her and showed her that he had installed her own thermostat, right there on the column near her work area. See, he said, turn it this way and it will get warmer, and this way, to the left, it will get cooler, just like that!
She never, ever, complained again.
End of story.
Not so fast, there. He, my friend, never wired it to anything...and when she retired, he gave her the thermostat in a box with a bow on it. Here. Now you can be comfortable wherever you go, he said.

I love that story !!!!!!!

I wonder if it also explains how those little pills do so much for men...

Morris / moshe

SSmith1226

Meet Your Second Wife SNL Style

Hi BigDub,
Women call me ugly until they find out how much money I make.
Once they find out, they call me ugly and poor!

Newell Post

@SSmith1226

LOL. That's pretty sick, even for SNL. Funny, but sick.

Newell Post

@BigDub LOL, in my day job as an architect, we need to specify stuff like that. In one of my past jobs, we needed to call for sensors in the space that would sense the temperature and send that information back to the DDC computer temperature controls. We always specified digital thermostats on the wall that could both sense and control the temperature, but we only hooked up the sensor function, not the control function. The "placebo" thermostat is more common in large buildings than most people know.

@Niner
I like the Peanuts cartoon. The last time I saw a company truly share its prosperity (verses increasing stockholder wealth) was....well.....never.

SSmith1226

@Newell-Post said in A little humour:

@SSmith1226

LOL. That's pretty sick, even for SNL. Funny, but sick.

It puts things into a new perspective. I have seen the opposite perspective many times of this type of relationship when it is in its later years. It often is not pretty as the wife in her 40’s to 50’s takes care of, or for that matter doesn't take care of, the 80+ year old husband with his near end of life disabilities and illnesses. I’ve never considered the opposite perspective. The SNL video put’s this perspective in a rather humorous, and theater of the absurd, “sick”, presentation.

Dr GO

@Dr-Mark said in A little humour:

@BigDub said in A little humour:

It’s the sudden stop at the end that seems to be the problem.

This seems to be the problem with a lot of things. It's not the act but the sudden stop of that act that seems to be the problem. Just ask an alcoholic who tried to go cold turkey from alcohol...
Yep, its the sudden stop that's killer.

Dr. Mark, you are so right with sharing this. The mortality rate of an alcoholic stopping cold turkey is 30%! That is why we admit them to the hospital for detoxification.

It is also interesting as to how acutely life threatening narcotic abuse is; however, when an opoid dependent individual stops cold turkey, while going through a horrible period of withdrawal, they will rarely die from this choice,

It is of interest in reviewing the harm of both alcoholic and narcotics, that while alcohol is the most deadly, it is legal... while narcotics are illegal. Our society really always keeps me guessing as to our rules. But in my profession, I don't make the rules, I just treat the consequences. And my heart goes out to individuals that suffer though these and any other dependencies.

BigDub

The blonde was talking on the phone with the home improvement store, and here is her end of the conversation:
Yes. Of course. Sure. Absolutely, very happy with the windows. Wait, what? You have to be kidding!
Absolutely not. Go ahead, take me to court, I'm not paying a cent! You said these windows would pay for themselves in five years, so in a little more than four years we should be all squared away.
Good bye.

BigDub

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

Meet Your Second Wife SNL Style

This.
Is why it’s best to be in the dark about the future! We have enough to handle with the present, and of course, the past, too.

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

I don't make the rules, I just treat the consequences.
Hi Dr-GO,
Thank God for Narcan.
Speaking of deadly, don't forget tobacco. It's the king when it comes to substance abuse and kill rate. Tobacco kills more Americans in a year than Americans killed in the entire Viet Nam War. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 300,000 to 500,000 a year and, it's legal. Chances are, everyone on this forum has either suffers/suffered from cancer, COPD, or heart disease or knows someone who has. Now THAT sucks. How much does it suck? No conversation will have more impact than the one a person has with their oncologist. I think it safe to say that there's something out there worse than the current administration.

Dr GO

Kehaulani

Two blondes meet on opposite sides of a street.
The first blonde yells over, "Say, how do you get to the other side?"
"Well, duuuuh" the other one said. " You're already on it!"

Dr GO

Branch Manager AND Assistant Branch Manager:

Hi Dr-GO,
I don't know if you know this but a Cardinal was walking around St Peter's Square and all of a sudden, God appeared. Needless to say, this scared the chocolate out of the Cardinal so he ran inside the Vatican and found the Pope and said; He's here! He's here! The Pope said "Who's here?" The Cardinal said, "God! He's here!" The Pope looked around and said to the Cardinal, "look busy."

BigDub

A US Marine retires after a long and successful career and takes on a new career as an inner city high school teacher.
He had ended his Marine service with a serious back injury and started his new job with a full torso plaster cast. It fit under his dress shirt and couldn’t even be detected.
The first day, he had been given a class that was notorious for giving every previous teacher terrible time.
Our Marine starts out his first day with this challenging class by opening the window for some fresh air. The wind came in so strong it blew his tie sideways so he grabbed the stapler, opened it up and stapled his tie to his chest.
No one in the class ever gave him any trouble at all the whole year.

barliman2001

@Dr-Mark Pope John Paul II was notorious for his sudden decisions and irregular outings (at least, at the beginning of his pontificate). So, one day, he decided to swap places with his chauffeur one day and drive through Rome a bit - the pontiff at the wheel, the chauffeur in the screened back. Pope John Paul II had a hankering for speed so, inevitably, he runs into a speed check by Rome City Police. Obediently, he stops and rolls down the window. The policeman sees him and staggers back, at once caling HQ: "HQ, we've caught someone very high up speeding... what shall I do?" - "Arrest and enforce a fine!" - "But he's someone really very high up..." - "What do you mean, very high up. The Mayor?" - "Nnnno, no, much higher..." - "Well, then, the Prime Minister?" - "No, even much higher." - "What in the devi's name do you mean, much higher? Who is he?" - "I don't know exactly, but the Pope is His driver..."

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@FranklinD Why don't you just not look at the thread if it bothers you?