Yoo hoo Mr Dalai, how's it going in Moderator land? I notice you have been busy saying goodbye to newbies wanting to share with us lately. Are you going on a trip dearie?
If you do, Derek my M10 love advises that you be careful how it gets reported!
Perceptions.
A Melbourne boulderer on holidays is riding his pushbike by the zoo in Taronga Park, Sydney when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion's cage.
Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents.
He jumps off, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch.
Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents who thank him endlessly.
A reporter has watched the whole event. The reporter addressing the rider says, 'Sir, this was the most gallant and brave thing I've seen a man do in my whole life.'
The rider replies, 'Why, it was nothing, really, the lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger and acted as I felt right.'
The reporter says, 'Well, I'll make sure this won't go unnoticed. I'm a journalist, and tomorrow's paper will have this story on the front page...
So, what do you do for a living and what political affiliation do you have?'
The rider replies, 'I'm an SAS soldier just returned from Afghanistan and a conservative party supporter'
The journalist leaves.
The following morning the biker buys the paper to see news of his actions, and reads, on the front page:
SAS SOLDIER ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH
I really shouldn't make light of our hard working Moderators as they are the ones who have to read all the fine print on this lovely site while the rest of us simply enjoy the Chocky flavour.
Perhaps these newbies can read some fine print themselves and take a lesson from the management style that is so effective here?
A Management Lesson.
A Trad Climber wanted to screw a girl in his office..... but she belonged to someone else.....
One day Trad Climber got so frustrated that he went up to her and said:
"I'll give you a $500 dollars if you let me screw you". But the girl said NO.
Trad Climber said I'll be fast, I'll throw the money on the floor, you bend down, I'll be finished by the time you pick it up. She thought for a moment and said that she would have to consult her boyfriend. So she called her boulderer boyfriend and told him the story.
Her boyfriend says ask him for $1,000 dollars, pick up the money very fast, he won't even be able to get his pants down. So she agrees and accepts the proposal.
Half an hour goes by and the boyfriend is waiting for his girlfriend to call. Finally after an hour has elapsed the boyfriend calls and asks what happened......
She said "We have just finished, the bastard used coins".
Management lesson: Always consider a business proposal in it's entirety before agreeing to it and getting screwed.
(Derek my M10 love wants to know if this post has anything to do with Mr ajfclark's post about Rock Magazine management's facebook preferences!) |