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I just made my boss cry. I accused her of being unprofessional.

Then I felt unprofessional for making her cry (though I'm damned if I was going to apologize). SO have you ever made someone cry, and how did you feel. Have you ever done it on purpose?

I'm waiting with bb for Ally's answer.

― Pete, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hang on, what's that supposed to mean?

― Ally, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ball bearing. kinky.

― Cryosmurf, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I remember Ally saying that she was actually not all that good at being really nasty.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(cue Hanle y)

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm really not a nasty person. I'm opinionated and will stand up for what I want and for what I believe, but that doesn't make me a nasty person. If I was a nasty person there'd be a few people around here that I know in real life as well without balls right now. I've never purposely made anyone cry, and the only times I have made someone cry was because I was standing up for what I thought was right and it just went down into a nasty fight, usually with a S.O.

I have a hard time telling guys I'm not interested in to piss off, for god's sake. I am honestly a very nice person, I give people the shirt off my back (shut up Mike), which gets me into more trouble than it's worth quite often. I need to work on being a nasty person, because it'd save me a lot of time and money and exhaustion.

― Ally, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Buy you never wash your jeans, ergo, nasty.

― Cryosmurf, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I made two girls cry once in college. The story is very long and convoluted, but they were being inconsiderate towards my girlfriend and had escalated things to the point where I found it necessary to write them a letter that started out, "Dear XXXX and XXXX, when I first met you, I thought you were both charming, intelligent Harvard women who were a lot of fun and had a lot to offer. As I've come to get to know you, however, I have been forced to conclude that you are in fact a couple of stank, nasty, self-hating bitches who deserve to be thrown into an old sack and drowned in the Charles River like a couple of unwanted, mangy puppies." From there it got abusive.

I'm not very proud of this (except for when I am).

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Women cry when they learn I am taken.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sob.

― Emma, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Did anyone see Darcus Howe make that dating agency woman cry on Wednesday night? I only read the review but it sounded absolutely monstrous.

― Nick, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think some people at some times are more susceptible to crying. One of my boyfriends used to make me cry every time I spoke to him on the phone and also quite often when we were together but I was having a weepy phase. I cannot imagine giving enough of a fuck about anyone at work for them to make me cry. I don't think I have made anyone cry. Except maybe from inflicting physical pain. I imagine my mum cried when giving birth to me for instance.

― Emma, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about your sex torture victims?

― Nick, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I take them to a point beyond mere tears.

― Emma, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1) The Darcus Howe programme the other day was marvellous and extraordinary. Darcus shapes up to undertake an overview of sexual attitudes in the UK today, and instead makes a show in which he can make a series of more-or-less unjustified assertions regarding the way 'we' think about sex and the individuals he was interviewing.

Darcus is currently the greatest programme maker working in British television.

He did make a woman cry, by asking her straightforward questions about why she had chosen to use a dating agency. Interviewed afterwards, she said that she would go out on another date with Darcus if asked.

DH also used the show to infuriate his first wife, who seemed like a very reasonable and long-suffering woman. I love Darcus. My only disappointment is that this series is only three shows long. It was brilliant television.

(By the way, Stevie T started to cry when I told him that Emma 'Slugger' Hamilton was going to be in the same pub as him this evening.)

― Tim, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Things I love
1. Lists with less than two items in them.

― mark s, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Luckily I am feeling uncharacteristically mild mannered today so he is safe.

― Emma, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There was more than one item in the list. The issue was that the format of the list changed without warning.

Also the "1)" was actually referring to Darcus Howe's position in the pantheon of present day worldwide brilliance. If he were here he would smite you for your pedantry.

2) Stevie says that it's when 'The Hammer' Hamilton is being mild- mannered that she's most dangerous.

― Tim, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am no longer mild mannered thanks to an idiot colleague mightily pissing me off. Look out.....

― Emma, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Look like I'll have to bring a spare shoe tonight then if Stevie's going to get another pasting.

― Martin, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Having already flirted dangerously closely with getting chucked out of that pub I fear that a full blown chick-on-boy fight with subsequent shoe-flinging might be the last straw. I promise to behave.

― Emma, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

crying at work = unprofessional...

― Geoff, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emma, do you try to bring flirting into everything you do?

― Nick, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"unprofessional"? what a highly subjective term.

― Nude spock, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Giggling flirtatiously) Why yes Nick.

― Emma, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emma, I know I've only met you once, but I don't think you have a giggle as such. Aren't you more of a guffawer? It's a geezer bird thing, I guess.

― Nick, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am now flouncing off in a girlie huff as I am still unable to decide whether being a geezer bird is a good thing.

― Emma, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"flounced off in a girlie huff"

Is there flirtier?

― Cryosmurf, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

flouncing. whatever. nobody's gonna see this anyway. i have to pack.

― Cryosmurf, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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