# These people make me sick.... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 26, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927 "2002-11-26T18:35:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/221 "2002-12-04T11:16:47Z")
Hmm. I am now finding this whole party thing **irreligious**. For Jesus Himself (Happy Birthday, JC!) liked wine. He liked it so much, that when wine ran out at a party, he made some more, from water. And it was better than the original stuff. He also likes us to drink wine, actually _inside church_. Now if **Mrs Boss** is going to magic the OJ into Champagne, then fabulous. Otherwise I fear she is turning the whole merry spirit of Christmas on its head, and this straightlaced “Christmas” un-party may as well be a Satanic Orgy-fest. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/222 "2002-12-04T11:53:25Z")
**istara** , I think you have the right idea about Christianity. **Gary** , if you want to distract me from this thread … send double-jointed supermodels. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/223 "2002-12-04T11:55:52Z")
Istara wrote: > [@](#): > > Given that the boss’s wife isn’t a peer, she could stay away. Well, hell’s bells. 😃 That’s exactly what Siemsi could do! She’s not a peer either. She doesn’t work there, you know. It’s her husband that does. ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/224 "2002-12-04T11:57:49Z")
Thanks **Steve**! By the way - if you were _ **that** _ Steve Wright - wouldn’t you have a bevy of Page 3 beauties and pop-starlets lining up at your door from dawn until dusk? Or did the flow of supermodels dry up when you moved to Radio 2? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/225 "2002-12-04T12:01:30Z")
Kabbes wrote: > [@](#): > > Whichever way you cut it, it comes back to a financial outlay with the aim of keeping the staff happy. And in Siemsi’s husbands case it clearly isn’t working. Well, for the sake of argument, let’s say you’re right, and that Siemsi’s husband can’t be happy unless he’s sucking up liquor like a Wet-Vac. So what? One of the first recommendations I gave her, back on page whatever-or-so, was that she have a party of her own where they can have a tub full of Purple Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/226 "2002-12-04T12:04:33Z")
Now I’m trying to visualize the sort of groupies you get on Radio 2 … women in slippers and sensible dressing gowns, offering an unending supply of cups of cocoa … no, I don’t think I envy my namesake that lot … ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/227 "2002-12-04T12:10:04Z")
You know, there’s got to be some sort of PHP script equivalent of a stake through a threads heart. ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/228 "2002-12-04T12:17:55Z")
But one more thi… _erk_ _thud_ ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/229 "2002-12-04T12:18:27Z")
Oh, the humanity! You’re trying to rob us of our choice to post in this thread! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siemsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Siemsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siemsi)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/230 "2002-12-04T13:12:23Z")
Please let this thread die. Please? Pretty please? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/231 "2002-12-04T14:32:39Z")
All you have to do is request that a moderator close it. ---
**Author:** ![Siemsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Siemsi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siemsi)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/232 "2002-12-04T14:34:31Z")
Moderator…Please close this thread. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/233 "2002-12-04T19:14:17Z")
Not until return a final jab to that thickhead drunkard Gary. Well, that’s it. I just wanted to call him a thickheaded drunkard. Though he’s probably proud of that. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/234 "2002-12-04T19:43:20Z")
[…notifying newbie that posting after a request for closure is bad form…] ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/235 "2002-12-04T22:47:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*That depends on how you look at it. What about people who would choose the company of more sober peers? \*\* It still boils down to giving a choice vs. taking a choice away. If you would choose the company of more sober peers that’s all well and good. You get that, at work. At a party however, where drinking is for the most part, expected (there are exceptions to the rule, yes, but in most cases when there’s a party being held at a public venue, drinking is usually present) then you choose not to drink and socialize with others who are not drinking (if there’s no one else who is not drinking then you are obviously in the vast minority and should not be saying anything at all) you don’t impose your preference on others by _taking away their choice_ to drink. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/236 "2002-12-04T22:52:09Z")
Go away. Did you not see the Opening Poster’s request? ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/237 "2002-12-04T22:56:05Z")
You asked me a question. I answered it. Last time I “went away” I was accused of “ducking out” of a discussion. You’d rather not discuss it anymore, fine. Don’t post back. Until a mod locks it, it’s still an open forum. Quit being a prick. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/238 "2002-12-05T01:08:56Z")
Geez **Lib** , you really have a big stick up your arse over this one don’t you?? You don’t just tell people to ‘go away’ because you don’t agree with their POV, and yours is NOT the only one around here. I’m seconding **lezlers** motion on this one…quit being a prick will ya? ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/239 "2002-12-05T02:43:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > \*\*[Renaissance man David Brent](http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/renaissance/index.shtml) 😃 \*\* 🆒 🆒 Almost as versatile as [Jack!](http://www.ziplink.net/~jlind/) ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927/240 "2002-12-05T02:48:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Siemsi \* > \*\*Moderator…Please close this thread. Thank you! \*\* uuuhhhhh, Seimsi. **email** the mod. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-people-make-me-sick/138927.md?page=13)