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Old May 21st 2017 | 5:46 am
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
Sea lion drags girl into water off Steveston dock in Richmond, B.C. - British Columbia - CBC News

"Sea lion drags girl into water off Steveston dock in Richmond, B.C."

She wasn't hurt, but the video shows how quick a sea lion can pull a child into the water.
I don't like sea lions, they're cads.
 
Old May 21st 2017 | 6:37 am
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I don't like sea lions, they're cads.
They're not called "lions" without good reason
 
Old May 21st 2017 | 9:50 am
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I can't imagine the entire generation is this way, however the millennials I have worked with and work with, difficult at times, they act like anyone older doesn't know anything and they know everything.

Hard being the old man sometimes in the workplace.
 
Old May 21st 2017 | 9:59 am
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
Hard being the old man sometimes in the workplace.
Wait for it.
 
Old May 21st 2017 | 11:52 am
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I am the oldest one there currently and only one over 27 I believe.



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Wait for it.
 
Old May 21st 2017 | 12:03 pm
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
I am the oldest one there currently and only one over 27 I believe.
Don't worry JS, I'm 99% sure I'm the oldest where I work too - and I believe there's about 400 staff and employees.

 
Old May 21st 2017 | 1:03 pm
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
I can't imagine the entire generation is this way, however the millennials I have worked with and work with, difficult at times, they act like anyone older doesn't know anything and they know everything.

Hard being the old man sometimes in the workplace.
It's a feature of being old. All young people whatever generation think that they know it all and that old people are stupid. Old women are assumed to know even less than old men. Part time, old, female workers know the least, allegedly.
 
Old May 21st 2017 | 1:11 pm
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You should always hire teenagers while they still know everything.
 
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Originally Posted by bats
It's a feature of being old. All young people whatever generation think that they know it all and that old people are stupid. Old women are assumed to know even less than old men. Part time, old, female workers know the least, allegedly.
You have a good point. One person in particular who is 20 is always trying to explain things to me as if I have no clue, sometimes I feel like saying, I was doing this job before you were born.

When I started on the ramp at 19, I was more nervous about working with 40 somethings that I kept quiet...lol. Back then it was still a career job, so youngsters like myself at the time were not common on the ramp.
 
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Big soccer football match this week.

Ottawa Fury v Toronto FC

North American team names are often a bit...well North American I suppose. But the idea of anything Canadian being Fury is quite funny. Some might even say especially Ottawa.

I wonder if it was meant to be Furry?
 
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
Big soccer football match this week.

Ottawa Fury v Toronto FC

North American team names are often a bit...well North American I suppose. But the idea of anything Canadian being Fury is quite funny. Some might even say especially Ottawa.

I wonder if it was meant to be Furry?
Quite. Nothing about Ottawa is furious.

Toronto FC, conversely, are in serious danger of being a proper football club. Currently at the top of the MLS standings, playing some really rather elegant football at times against some half-decent opposition. And a handful of locally-grown talent, too. Doubtless it'll all come unstuck before the end of the season, as is the nature of Toronto sporting endeavour, but I'll happily jump on the bandwagon until the inevitable happens.
 
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
Big soccer football match this week.

Ottawa Fury v Toronto FC

North American team names are often a bit...well North American I suppose. But the idea of anything Canadian being Fury is quite funny. Some might even say especially Ottawa.

I wonder if it was meant to be Furry?
You've obviously never encountered a Grizzly or Polar Bear out in the wild.
 
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You've obviously never encountered a Grizzly or Polar Bear out in the wild.
And they are also Furry
 
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Cocktail of the day; the Old Fashioned. Because I haven't made an Old Fashioned in awhile, it takes a couple before getting it perfect, but well worth the effort!
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Cocktail of the day; the Old Fashioned.
I guess you were lying down, perhaps in a stupor, when you took that.
 


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