Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com ([syndicated profile] notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-09-18 01:00 pm

Quick, Coworker! Become Selfless And Find True Love!

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Me: "Thank you for calling Bob's Electronics on Market and 5th! We're open until 10 PM, and we have the latest iPhone in stock in all colors! How may I help you?"
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Coworker: "We're located on Market and 5th, sir."
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Coworker: "…until 10 PM, sir.

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Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com ([syndicated profile] notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-09-18 12:45 pm

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This might be one of the strangest cold call I every received. [Silence for 5 seconds] Me: Hello? Caller: Hello. [Another 10 seconds of silence] Me: Who’s calling? Caller: I’m calling from [company name that is spoken really softly & quickly so I didn’t catch] services. I was thinking of how to politely hang up, […]

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Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com ([syndicated profile] notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-09-18 12:30 pm

Ignorance Of Explosive Proportions

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Student #1: "USA should be the only country that's allowed to have nukes! That way all the other countries will have to stay in line."
Student #2: "And why would any other country agree to that? And how would it be enforced?"
Student #1: "It'd be enforced WITH the nukes, idiot!"

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Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com ([syndicated profile] notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-09-18 12:00 pm

Scratching The Surface Of Memory

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Vet: *Having noticed itchy red spots, on the phone with his mom.* "Hey Mom, did I ever have chickenpox?"
Vet's Mom: "Yes, your brother brought it home from his kindergarten class, and you kids all got it then."
Vet: "Kindergarten?"

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Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com ([syndicated profile] notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-09-18 11:45 am

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(Since my uncle lives with us, we have since learned a few of his sayings. Now the rest of us has picked them up. Here are a few he usually says.) Me: Uncle (name), music is off. Uncle: Well Some-beach! *another* Uncle: Hey did you check the mail? Me: Huh? Uncle: Aw hell pay attention! […]

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Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com ([syndicated profile] notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-09-18 11:00 am

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I’m a tax accountant. There’s a form called the Schedule A which contains your Itemized Deductions. If they are higher than your Standard Deduction it is a good idea to claim them. If they are lower than your Standard Deduction, then it is a bad idea to claim them because claiming them reduces your deduction. […]

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Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com ([syndicated profile] notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-09-18 11:00 am

Rage, Refund, Redemption

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As I was finishing, he looked at the root beer he’d just bought.
Customer: "Diet? I didn’t want diet. You know what, forget it. I don’t want any of this s*** anymore. Just take it all back."
I was struggling to figure out why this was 1.) my fault, and 2.) why he couldn’t just swap the soda for the regular one.

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it only hurts when i breathe ([personal profile] spikedluv) wrote2025-09-18 07:03 am

The Day in Spikedluv (Wednesday, Sept 17)

I had a chiropractic appointment this morning. I hit Price Chopper and the Pharmacy while I was downtown and got in a walk around the park.

I did two loads of laundry (both washed, dried AND folded!), hand-washed dishes, went for several walks with Pip and the dogs, cut up chicken for the dogs' meals, scooped kitty litter, and shaved. I grilled Italian sausage for Pip’s supper.

I read more in Duncan Kincaid.

Temps started out at 46.0(F) and reached 74.3. I did not wear shorts this morning because the temps were only supposed to be about 70, but tomorrow it will be high 70s, so I anticipate shorts again!


Mom Update:

Mom was tired today, but she still went out to sit on the porch. more back here )
Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com ([syndicated profile] notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-09-18 10:00 am

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With so much news happening right now, thought I’d share something hopeful. I work at a nonprofit of about 250 people. Our team director has been problematic from the start – she was in way over her head and constantly used slights and subtle insults to assert her authority. She would find your weakness and […]

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Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com ([syndicated profile] notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-09-18 09:00 am

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(My family and I are on our way to see the Monster Trucks in another town. On our way to, and back, I managed to come out with some good ones, enough to make my family laugh. These are the ones I managed to come up with from the top of my head. Just a […]

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Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com ([syndicated profile] notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-09-18 09:00 am

We Are George Washing-done With That Argument

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Customer: "I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to not take cash on these things."
Me: "It’s actually not, sir."
Customer: "Says right on the dollar bill: 'This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.'"
Me: "Correct! Note the word debt. That means if you already owe someone money, they must accept it. But here, you’re doing a transaction. No debt involved."

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(At the time, I had been working in the lab for nearly 5 years, but am being promoted to another department so some of the other technicians are being trained on my tasks. My boss is with one of the technicians, explaining how to read some agar plates. I’m nearby working on something else.) Boss: […]

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Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com ([syndicated profile] notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-09-18 07:00 am

A Disarming Laugh

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Robber: "This is a stick-up. Give me the money."
My coworker's eyes go wide. Her hands freeze mid-scan. Then… she lets out this awkward, shaky laugh.
Coworker: "H-heh… what?"
Robber: *Looking annoyed.* "You heard me. This is a stick-up."

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flowing_river ([personal profile] flowing_river) wrote in [community profile] aspecex2025-09-17 11:27 pm
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Vriddy ([personal profile] vriddy) wrote2025-09-18 07:16 am

Community Thursday

Community Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.


Over the last week...

Commented on [community profile] booknook.

Signal boosts:

  • [community profile] fan_writers continues to see a lot of active discussions around meta about writing, if that is of interest to you! :)
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snickfic ([personal profile] snickfic) wrote2025-09-17 10:26 pm

hola méxico

Today I need to share with you the two best bits from the Mexico gigs, both on the second night, Sept 13.

ITEM ONE:
Here is a video of Noel directing the crowd to do the poznan, which is the Manchester City football club's special celebration dance. Liam's been having the crowd do it the whole tour, but this time he talked Noel into doing the explanation for the first time.

So much to observe here:
- Liam: "I've seen you do it," probably referring to this memorable occasion when Noel definitely did not do it.

- Noel greeting them in Spanish.

- Noel: "Not asking you to do the okey-cokey." 😅

- Noel explaining the correct process very clearly and efficiently, which is not something one would ever say about Liam's approach.

- But best of all: Noel saying "The big man doesn't ask for much," and then pausing to laugh at the utter and profound absurdity of this remark.

ITEM TWO
And here is Noel miming that Liam should throw his sombrero to the crowd (having already thrown his maracas and tambourine), and Liam handing it to him so HE can throw it. This is also the first time Noel's thrown anything on the tour AFAIK.

They're just having so much fun together and being so charming about it. Incredible. Not in our WILDEST DREAMS did any of us in the fandom dream anything like this was possible.
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Silver Adept ([personal profile] silveradept) wrote2025-09-17 09:47 pm

Sex and Violence, Tech and Violence, and some genuinely neat stuff - Early September 02025

Let's begin here with celebrating fifty years of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and fifty years of what might be the most unique theatrical experience someone goes to when they go to see Rocky. (And the fact that while the thing on the screen stays the same when you go to see Rocky, everything else changes depending on where you are and what time it is.)

Organizations that fail to consider intersectionality in their diversity, equity, and inclusion will create things like employee resource groups that only capture a part of someone's experience and that elide the places where the intersectionality is unique and important. Which should make you unsurprised, but also horrified, that the Institute for Museum and Library Services budget is being given directly to propagandists for a project that will present a white man-centric view of history and demand that we all believe it as the sole and only truthful narrative of the United States.

James Dobson, creator of such abominations unto his God as Focus on the Family and the Family Policy Alliance, has gone to receive judgment at 89 years of age. Our world is far better off without him, and the damage that he has done to the world would take generations to heal if he were the only one doing his kind of damage. But like so many others, he has disciples and followers, and they will continue to perpetuate his damage into the world for generations to come.

A man who believed that violence was an answer, and who aggressively sowed the wind wherever he went, has reaped the whirlwind, killed by the violence he promoted, by a gun that he believed should have more rights than the people killed by it. He is no longer able to use his organization to promote and encourage harm to others.

The fallout from such, and plenty of other things, inside )

Last out, Bohemian Rhapsody translated and performed in Zulu and with the visual and singing styles of several other African traditions. It's worth a watch and a listen, absolutely.

The concept of Queer Time, where the signifiers of "adulthood" like marriage, children, and houses are not achieved on any kind of regular time, if at all, and therefore queer adults have to find their own ways of demonstrating to the community that they are full grown-ass adults.

And the iconic Atari CX-10 joystick as a decanter for drinking, along with a couple of Atari-logo glasses.

(Materials via [personal profile] adrian_turtle, [personal profile] azurelunatic, [personal profile] boxofdelights, [personal profile] cmcmck, [personal profile] conuly, [personal profile] cosmolinguist, [personal profile] elf, [personal profile] finch, [personal profile] firecat, [personal profile] jadelennox, [personal profile] jenett, [personal profile] jjhunter, [personal profile] kaberett, [personal profile] lilysea, [personal profile] oursin, [personal profile] rydra_wong, [personal profile] snowynight, [personal profile] sonia, [personal profile] the_future_modernes, [personal profile] thewayne, [personal profile] umadoshi, [personal profile] vass, the [community profile] meta_warehouse community, [community profile] little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
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Lynn | Settiai ([personal profile] settiai) wrote2025-09-18 12:28 am
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Aurendor D&D: Summary for 9/17 Game

In tonight's game, the rest under a cut for those who don't care. )

And that's where we left off.