It’s full of desperate pretentious BS
When stuff catches on fire.
It didn’t reallydamage anything, but damn.
At least it wasn’t me this time!
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That’s my favorite part!
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I like LinkedIn. It’s a great way to build a personal brand for yourself (to state “I’m better than you”) or to seek new job opportunities.
Some people can be very weird about who they “connect” with.
In my opinion, if someone isn’t building a personal brand for themselves on social media or in real life, they’re doing a disservice to themselves for entrepreneurship or career opportunities.
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I fully agree with that. It’s the teasing what’s behind the paywall that irritates me.
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I agree.
What bothers me is how linkedin encourages posturing and overconfident coporate posturing.
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That’s what work is. You become known for your work. Good, bad, or ugly.
Nothing wrong with telling people you’re good, but your work is the proof. What others say is way better than what one may say about themself.
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Phorid flies.
I opened my trash can yesterday it was crawling with maggots.
The vinegar I was working on was also crawling with maggots. Ruined.
. Sorry to hear that.
Text message just now: “We still scheduled for today??”
Uhhhhhh, no? I last saw you on June 26th and you no-showed an appointment on July 24?
In response to which: “I’m sorry, it’s been crazy.”
Has it? Has it really?
I scheduled her, though, because I’m like a saint.
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I mean, aren’t crazy people your bread and butter?
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People in my neighborhood who don’t leash their dogs.
When we have clear leash laws.
Because I’m walking mine ON a leash, and suddenly a dog runs up to it with the owner impotently mewing “stop stop”.
I used to move frequently, and this scenario wasn’t too much of an issue: I’d just swear at the owner and tell them that if they don’t stop their dog soon, I was going to stomp it out like a forest fire and come after them next.
But now that I’m a bit more permanent of a fixture in my neighborhood, I know I’m going to run into these people on the regular, so all I can do is put myself between my dog and this one while the owner spends more time trying to apologize and explain how their dog is really sweet and won’t hurt my dog rather than actually GET THEIR DAMN DOG.
The only solace I take is I’ve stopped forgiving people who apologize. It’s empowering when someone repeatedly tells you that they are sorry and you repeatedly don’t tell them it’s ok.
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Me & my brother had a run in with two pretty large unleashed dogs when we were out picking mushrooms.
Lady was about 50 feet or so behind them on a pretty busy walking/horse trail, and we were off the path about 30 feet when the dogs charged us.
My hand goes straight to my knife, and we’re standing shoulder to shoulder as they charge us. Just then, I see a little stream of clear liquid shoot between the dogs. They turn and run. I ask brother- “What the fuck was that???” He shows me a little bottle of pepper spray he keeps on him. We laugh and continue harvesting the bounty.
He has always been a lot more clever than me. I’m pretty bold and quick to act, but he’s a thinker.
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No! People who need excellent advices they won’t follow are my bread and butter. Although I just got this like five minutes ago, from a pretty severely panic disordered patient, re: taking a credentialing course:
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That’s a great idea. I should do the same when I walk Louie.
Speaking of Louie, we don’t leash him when we’re hiking, and he’s mostly deaf, so when we see him running toward someone (goofy happy face, tail wagging) we just shout “he’s friendly!”
Do you guys (@T3hPwnisher) think that’s rude/inappropriate? We always leashed Buttons when we saw people on the trail, but she didn’t generally take the lead. Louie is always in the lead, bounding along joyously.
No one has ever expressed irritation, but I guess they’re feeling it?
For me, it would depend on if you have leash laws/if they apply at that location.
If it’s yes for both, I’d be upset, yeah. Even if your dog is friendly, it doesn’t necessarily mean mine is. My dalmatian I had growing up was very anti-social, primarily because she had been attacked on 2 separate occasions by pitbulls (off leash) when we walked her on a leash. So any time a dog approached her, she’d go right for the throat. It was a liability nightmare.
But if I were to take that dog somewhere where there is no leash law, it’s on me if an unleashed dog approaches.
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When my last dog got old and deaf we got him a vest that said friendly. I don’t have it anymore, but it looked kind of like this.
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I love bouncy happy dogs. My old puppy wuppy did not though. She was raised and fought before we got her and had some serious agression toward dogs her size or bigger. One time on a trail, with the owner a couple hundred yards away she grabbed a golden retriever by the lip and held it to the ground, submitting it and piercing its lip pretty good. I’m glad that was as much as she did cuz it was such a beautiful and happy dog. It had no idea what it had just come upon.
I think it really depends on area and prevailing attitude. On your own land- do as you like. It’s trespassers that need to worry.
The trails around here though? It’s funny- people see a few acres of trees and think they’re in the woods, but there are hundreds, in some parts thousands per day that use the trails. People get mad about it, but everybody continues to do it. 
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Don’t even get me started on crazy gun lady. Holy shit! She’s definitely an outlier.
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I just looked, and here is what I found about our local section of the Appalachian Trail:
vary by location and conditions, with dogs required to be leashed in alpine zones, near water sources, overnight sites, and roads, and at the request of other hikers.
National Forest guidelines require that dogs be on a six-foot leash at all times when in developed recreation areas (means an area which has been improved for recreation) and on interpretive trails. There are no leash requirements for most of the forest. There are some trails and areas requiring your dog to be leashed.
So it looks like we’re okay in terms of allowed. We don’t do developed rec areas.
But yeah, I guess we should consider that others may not be friendly, and as hearty as Louie seems, he’s old and deaf and could really get hurt by a young, aggressive dog. Or maybe there’s aggression in him we haven’t seen yet.
It’s funny, I don’t think we’ve encountered another dog on the trails with him, though we see them all the time when he and I are walking on the road, and he’s leashed. With Buttons everyone just leashed up when we noticed each other on the trail, NBD. But we don’t encounter a ton of people, even.
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