I just imagined a couple having some snuggly time and a South Park like Saddam just poking his head out in between. Thanks.
Dicska
joined 2 years ago
Flashbacks to the genophage mission. Still brings tears to my eyes.
You underestimate the power of us, print debuggers.
Oh, wait, do we get to pick? excited noises
Or, now that they could identify the ship, "peng-peng-peng".
Thanks for the detective work! I know TTS software is a thing now, but he even has a gmail account... How (un)likely is it that it's just a publicity stunt (money grab)?
Nah, thanks for your insights - since there's nobody from Royal Fail actually chiming in, people who had done some poking around before are the best I could have, so thanks for the info.
So this morning, as a night owl, I decided to make a sacrifice and took an early train to the delivery office (which is open between 8AM and 10AM, but I get it, otherwise the parcels are en route during the day). I asked the guy at the window about it, being fully aware that he might or might not be part of the actual delivery process; not blaming, not interrogating, just simply asking if he knows what the heck is going on.
Yupp, he confirmed what everyone has been commenting about, lol. He didn't have anything other in mind, apart from the afternoon delivery guy cutting corners. I can still imagine it's because they are loaded with work (it happens to be the case at my job) and it's literally impossible to make everyone happy, but management refuses to pay more people. Or he's just lazy. I don't know, but the bottom line is, it wasn't because of some technical nuance, bureaucracy, barometric pressure change in the stratosphere or God knows what. Most likely, he had the parcel but decided to bring the red slip only.
My trust in humanity is in the negatives.
I honestly asked this question from an "I would actually like to understand" point of view. My goal was not to get as many "because they are lazy fucks" kind of answers as possible, but I'm sure every single profession has its own lazy workers.
However, in almost every single profession there are things you can't help, and outsiders will look at your work and blame you for it. You need to send a report but the IT guy couldn't get there to fix your laptop? Others will think you can't be arsed. You're an IT guy and need to fix a laptop but you're stuck in traffic? Others will think you can't be arsed. You're a chef and the table that ordered a starter in the lunchtime rush still didn't get their order (because of the other 43274 orders)? Others will think you can't be arsed. "iT's JuSt a StArTeR, wHaT tAkEs So LoNg?".
I was wondering if there was something similar in the delivery process that prevents them from actually taking the parcel to the recipient. I'm past the 'anger' phase and I'm trying to make my way to 'acceptance'.
It comes in handy when you want the multiple of a number.
Adding to slaacaa's fantastic summary, "unites behind" might be a bit of a stretch; there are a miriad of ways to be in the opposition, and it's not like the US where you essentially pick from two options (maybe three, but the rest is quite insignificant), but there's like half a dozen parties opposing Fidesz, the governing party. Unfortunately, due to having vastly different approaches and opinions, these parties could never unite properly and there have always been some infighting between them, especially during elections, which doesn't really give the best impression to voters. They have tried to unite twice already and both attempts led to another 2/3 majority for Fidesz.
Now that finally there is another competitor who seems to have more support (while having about the same amount of ideas and plans for the future), these opposition parties are not all 100% supportive, further diluting votes against the current regime.
It's still slightly more hopeful than the previous times, because finally Tisza, the new party seems to have more supporters than the largest opposition party that still runs a previous, horribly failing prime minister's wife.
But saying that the opposition finally unites... Is a bit of a stretch in my opinion.
Quite mind boggling that it took them THIS long to find him.