I know, but it would be an incentive to shop at what’s really a pretty expensive grocery store.
Will do.
And shame on your union! That shit is bad enough in a non-union job, but I can’t imagine that people who feel entitled to part of your salary won’t bother fighting even the simplest infractions.
It depends on his state and occupation. Sometimes, in some states, in some jobs, dudes can be expected to work during lunch as long as they are paid and are able to eat.
I had a security job where I did not get a lunch break but they had to pay me for all 8 hours and I got 30 minutes to eat my lunch. But I had to “be aware” during that time and answer my phone- which rang maybe once a day. That was a couple decades ago.
Some union labor contracts specify that asking people to be on-call during their lunch breaks is not kosher. But like you said, that depends on the occupation.
Well, we have two breaks, which we have to clock out for. We are in theory able to eat then, but it’s difficult to have a meal in fifteen minutes.
Kiera Knightly’s teeth.
Yes, her teeth.
All of the characters in Pirates I, II, and III have varying degrees of sludge on their teeth, except Ms. Knightly. Her smile practically blinded me out of the theater.
I feel like I write this mini-rant every time class registration rolls around.
Friday, I finally, *finally *polished off the last of my BS survey classes I need for my major (besides my senior seminar). I thought when I hit pure UD, I’d be in scheduling heaven. So the schedule comes up, I fire up the course planner, and lo and behold! 4 classes on Tuesday/Thursday all fitting in neatly together. I was in Scheduling Heaven. I’d only have to sit in traffic for 2 days a week and could spend the other 3 reading and actually keeping the house together.
But no. It couldn’t be this easy, could it? Apparently not - that blockhead department planner boffed it up AGAIN and moved one of the classes to MW. Sonofabitch. Just FTR, there are only 8 classes in my major offered; 2 are graduate courses and 1 I’ve taken already. Those sweet magic four were, well, magic. Fuck.
I’m going to have to suck it up and go on Wednesdays too - since my seminar is offered I may as well get it out of the way now instead of waiting until spring. I don’t want to but I may have to, considering traffic problems. I wanted to take the one in spring since it’s my department head doing it and he rocks. Dammit 
I need new shoes. I just want a pair of Vans Old Skools, size men’s 8.5, in navy blue. These are not uncommon shoes, in my previous experience. However, the entire world seems to have dried up with regard to them at the moment. What the fuck is up with that? Yeah, I can go to he company website and pay an extra $6 over retail to get them delivered in 9-11 business days. Assuming they have them in my size, which is doubtful due to the fact that apparently someone has raided everywhere I could go to compile the world’s largest collection of size 8.5 navy blue Vans Old Skools. That bastard must have over 500 pairs of them.
Sorry?
Go fuck yourself.
Try Zappo’s.
Oh, this wasn’t that kind of panic attack. This one was the tv commercial’s fault (unless she was being overdramatic and blaming the wrong person). I suppose I should have said that “panic attack” is often code for “sudden realization that nobody is paying attention to me.” No offense intended to anyone with an actual medical condition.
If nobody is present and you don’t regale anyone with your dramatic near-death story, you probably aren’t doing it for attention.
Oh, I was thinking they would specify which color had to be a pair, so six draws would be enough to probably insure that match.
Or, I’m as dumb as a houseplant.
Still won’t work. This might not be your type of question. 
Every goddam day
A play in one act.
The scene: an office building corridor
The actors: Me, Oblivious moron 1, Oblivious moron 2
As the action begins, I am attempting to make my way from one end of the corridor to the other. I am thwarted in this attempt by Oblivious moron 1 & 2.
Me: “Excuse me.”
Oblivious moron 1, to Oblivious moron 2: “And then he tried to bunt, can you believe it?”
Me: “Excuse me, I’m trying to get through.”
Oblivious moron 2, to Oblivious moron 1: “It’s no wonder they lost.”
Me: “Cmon, I need to get past.”
Oblivious moron 1, to Oblivious moron 2: “Yeah, buncha bums. I don’t know why I bother paying money to go to those games.”
Me: “Right.”
I disappear off scene, and return lugging a concert speaker rig. I set up the rig several feet from Oblivious moron 1 & 2. I plug in a microphone, and tap it a couple of times to make sure the rig is working. I dial all the output feeds to maximum, causing a palpable vibrational hum to pulse from the speakers.
Oblivious moron 1 & 2 stop in mid sentence and slowly turn toward rig, noticing it for the first time.
I clear my throat.
Hey Assholes! Move it!
Oblivious moron 1 & 2, along with paint chips from the walls and fallen ceiling tiles, are knocked to the ground and sent sprawling by the sound. As the shockwave subsides, Oblivious moron 1 & 2 are seen to start crawling away from the scene, possibly a little bit wiser, and quite deaf.
I make my way to the end of the corridor.
Fin.
Those are obviously the same people who go shopping at the same time I do, and have no concept of how much space their body and cart are taking up (here’s a hint - the entire aisle, all the time). I politely said excuse me to a pair of women blocking the aisle, and they got out of the way, and guess who was blocking the aisle again five minutes later? It doesn’t take that much brainpower to figure out when you park your cart sideways and then stand beside it, and people are backing up in the aisle tapping their feet, that maybe you should not do that, does it? I guess it isn’t about brainpower so much as having the slightest clue that there are other people in the world, though.
Probably not. I sucked at these in stats class. :smack: But if the chance I would pick red is 1/3 and I pick six times, aren’t the chances I would get two reds then 100%?
Why am I digging this hole deeper?
I’d have done the buckets differently-fill each one halfway-an easy to estimate with fair accuracy amount-thereby having 1 1/2G in the 3G bucket, and 2 1/2G in the 5G bucket, which combined yield 4G. Presto!
No, because assuming a large random pile – equal numbers of each color and enough of each color that choosing one bean of that color doesn’t significantly change the odds – every time you pick a bean, you are picking anew. IOW, what you chose the first time you picked doesn’t materially change the odds, and so you have the same odds of picking, say, a red bean, on your second pick, as you did on your first pick.
So: First pick: You have a one-third chance of picking red, green, or blue. Second pick: You STILL have a one-third chance of picking red, green, or blue. Every pick is a new pick.
So even if they said, “how many beans would you have to pick to get a RED pair?” you still can’t say “SIX.” Because maybe you pick six greens. Or maybe you pick three greens, two blues, and one red. Or maybe you pick another of the many compinations of six beans that would NOT include two reds. The point at which you MUST get a specific colored pair (red) out of the pile depends on the number of total beans and the number of red beans – but that result (the certain result, not a random result) would require a very high number of picks.
BUT if we don’t specific which color the pair has to be . . . then we know that if we only have three colors, then the fourth bean must be a pair to one of them. But which one (red, green, blue) is random.
I think that in order to ENSURE a match of one specific color, you have to have enough picks to be sure the other two colors have all been picked. So, if you have 10 red, 10 blue, and 10 green, you would have to have 22 picks total. This assumes that there is a small chance that the first 20 would all be blue and green. This would leave only red ones, so the next two would have to be red.
I think.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, smart dopers.
Can we have math spoilers so I can skip right over them easier than I am doing right now? 