Why is it...
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Sheesh, not only at home but in the office as well. I have all lights turned off in my office, illuminiated only by glowing monitor. When a male cow-orker comes into the office he does not mess with the light switch, but when women cow-orkers come into the office they turn on the lights blinding me, never understood that.
MrPlankton
At more than one job I've climbed on my desk and twisted the tubes off. If I can see, WTF must a highly artificial, pulsating, poisonous, light source be imposed on me? If you can't see, see a freaking doctor!
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... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!
Ahoy! Martin Hughes
You don't have children living at home, do you? Be glad it's just the lights that are left on, and not every single TV, ceiling fan, computer, windows/patio doors left open with AC running etc...
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... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!
Ahoy! Martin Hughes
My wife is the opposite: constantly dimming lights that can be dimmed, turning off the rest. Me, i like having light when i'm working, eye strain makes me feel tired. But then, so do energy-efficient bulbs... maybe you'd be less irritated if you bought a few good ol' fashioned incandescents...
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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.
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My wife is the opposite: constantly dimming lights that can be dimmed, turning off the rest. Me, i like having light when i'm working, eye strain makes me feel tired. But then, so do energy-efficient bulbs... maybe you'd be less irritated if you bought a few good ol' fashioned incandescents...
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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.
Shog9 wrote:
maybe you'd be less irritated if you bought a few good ol' fashioned incandescents...
Nope, coming from a very long line of Welsh miners I have very, very, good, in fact exceptionally exceptional, vision in the dark.
Ahoy! Martin Hughes
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Shog9 wrote:
maybe you'd be less irritated if you bought a few good ol' fashioned incandescents...
Nope, coming from a very long line of Welsh miners I have very, very, good, in fact exceptionally exceptional, vision in the dark.
Ahoy! Martin Hughes
Where do you keep your canary?
------------------------------------ Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. - Charles Dickens
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Where do you keep your canary?
------------------------------------ Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. - Charles Dickens
Close at all times.
Ahoy! Martin Hughes
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... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!
Ahoy! Martin Hughes
All my home lighting is wired to a central controller. After the crew is off to school in the morning one button sets the house on cave mode.
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... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!
Ahoy! Martin Hughes
Along the same lines, what's up with the scented stuff? When I walk into my house, I'm berated with 10,241 different smells that instantly give me a headache.
- S 50 cups of coffee and you know it's on! A post a day, keeps the white coats away!
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... that women insist on lighting up one's abode like the bloody Blackpool Illuminations? You return home from a hard day's loafing and doing nothing particularly useful to find every lamp, light, up-lighter, down-lighter, special bendy light for reading, dressing table light, display cabinet light, oven hood light and candle in the entire house lit and burning currency! Bloody good job I had energy efficient bulbs fitted just about everywhere; but given the provocation I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed!
Ahoy! Martin Hughes
martin_hughes wrote:
I'm seriously considering having some sort of motion detection lighting system installed
Saving electricity in the bathroom too, eh?
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And then they yell at you for leaving a light on. Go figure.
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After a lot of hard work I have determined the perfect fight for that argument. Suggest she leave the lid closed when she is done and you will do the same. That way everyone has a relatively equal amount of effort. (Secret of course is men will probably then go in the sink but that is best left for T.V. sitcom's)
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It's a Scott Adam's Dilbertism. Scott Adams publishes a news letter quarterly, in the news letter Dogbert answers questions "from stupid people" that write Scott Adams. Dogbert calls coworkers cow-orkers... I thought it funny and have adopted to describe my fellow comrads were I work...
MrPlankton
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It's a Scott Adam's Dilbertism. Scott Adams publishes a news letter quarterly, in the news letter Dogbert answers questions "from stupid people" that write Scott Adams. Dogbert calls coworkers cow-orkers... I thought it funny and have adopted to describe my fellow comrads were I work...
MrPlankton
The term predates Dilbert's popularization of it by years. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/cow-orker.html[^]
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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The term predates Dilbert's popularization of it by years. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/cow-orker.html[^]
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
funny, I like the referance to "scary devil monastery" as a referance to alt.sysadmin.recovery... have to remeber that.
MrPlankton
