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Non Footy Chat Thread II

phantom eel

phantom eel

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A few tips that might help Pou's hit rate? ;-)

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/we...ment-lessons-from-reddit-20160215-gmuwgw.html

How to win an online argument: lessons from Reddit
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An excerpt:
  1. Respond to the initial statement sooner rather than later.
  2. Respond in groups: You're more persuasive to the person you're arguing with if other people are arguing your side, too.
  3. Have a few back-and-forth exchanges with your opponent, but never go past three or four. Up to that point, your chance of persuading them is pretty good. But Tan says that "when the back-and-forth goes on for too long, your chances at persuasion become very low."
  4. Link to outside evidence.
  5. Don't quote the person you're arguing with. They'll usually interpret that as "nit-picking with their wording," Tan says, and thus what you say is unlikely to sway their opinion.
  6. Don't act too intense — that scares people off. Stick to calm, even-keeled language.
  7. Write a longer response if you're actually trying to change someone's opinion. A one-liner probably won't do it.
  8. Last but not least, try to base your arguments around points that your opponent didn't initially address: i.e. If your weird uncle in the US posts that he's voting Trump because Trump will improve the economy, you should argue that he shouldn't vote Trump because of his views on Muslims. The researchers found that arguments whose "content words" differed from those of the original poster were more likely to persuade them.
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I think you've got number 8 covered already - but maybe ignore number 7... :D
 
Gronk

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Pic from dodgy real estate ad.

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Pic from google street view. :lol:

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http://www.news.com.au/finance/real...r/news-story/51c76f364c8ad1cd34313ebba3bb7f05
 
Gary Gutful

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At what point in the night do you say goodnight? For me it was after a lovely dinner with colleagues where some restaurant merkin decided to play 'sweat'.

#A-La-La-Li-Long-A-La-La-La-Long-Long-Li-Long-Long-Long
 
phantom eel

phantom eel

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Gary Gutful said:
At what point in the night do you say goodnight? For me it was after a lovely dinner with colleagues where some restaurant merkin decided to play 'sweat'.

#A-La-La-Li-Long-A-La-La-La-Long-Long-Li-Long-Long-Long
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Ugh... now make it stop! :crazy:
 
Gronk

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He was working on the Penske file FFS !
Employee fails to show up to work for 6 years

A Spanish court has ruled that a civil servant who failed to show up to work for years must pay back nearly 27,000 euros ($A43,283) in wages.

The employee of a city-owned water utility in Cadiz didn't appear at the office for up to six years and 'did absolutely no work' from 2007 to 2010 prior to his retirement in 2011, said the ruling issued last month and provided to The Associated Press on Friday.

It didn't explain why the absence of the worker, who cannot be named under Spanish law, went undetected for so long.

Former Cadiz Deputy Mayor Jorge Blas told the El Mundo newspaper he initiated the investigation when city officials were about to give the worker a certificate honouring 20 years of service and realised he hadn't been seen at the water utility for a long time after transferring there from a city hall job.

The utility said it thought the worker had transferred back to city hall and the worker had no response when asked what tasks he had recently performed, Blas told the newspaper.

Cadiz city officials sought the penalty of one year of his net pay, the worker appealed and the latest court ruling marked the end of a legal fight that had lasted years.

Current Deputy Cadiz Mayor Martin Vila told reporters on Friday he was amazed that 'a person could be hired for years and collecting (pay) without doing anything whatsoever.'

The case has also taken on political undertones, with Vila citing allegations the worker had been a victim of workplace 'bullying' by members of the conservative Popular Party.

It ruled Cadiz from 1995 to 2015 before it was ousted by a far left coalition led by the Podemos party.
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- See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/culture/o...to-work-for-6-years.html#sthash.vSMAPkMZ.dpuf
 
Gronk

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She should have just done a piano version of TMWSTW and left it at that.

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Barry O'Speedwagon

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Gary Gutful said:
I work with a few people like that.
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Back in the 90s I worked in a private firm, alongside a bloke called Jonathon. Jonathon was concurrently employed as a full-time public servant and was doing his best to get sacked....but they sensed it and would fire him. So he collected 2 payslips for about a year. I think he got done for welfare fraud......
 
phantom eel

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If they wouldn't fire him, why didn't he just quit? If he wanted to get sacked, there wouldn't have been a payout coming his way.
 
phantom eel

phantom eel

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Ah... makes sense now.

I once worked with someone who similarly sought/was sacked, appealed, and ended up being offered a (smaller than package entitlement) settlement.

Sigh.
 
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