tell them it's lupus. kids can be so cruel.

I thought he was visited by aliens in his sleep? That's what he used to tell people in interviews, the cheeky scamp.

So many theories. Who holds the key to this mystery?

The singer in Opeth?

coworker2 sounds like he or she is pretty close to the singer in opeth.
maybe they could ask the opeth singer which tribe seal belongs to.

Isn't Seal a Londoner?

Tell then to stop being so fuckin' racist!!!

Rekindling the flame required a radical return to Seal's roots. "I'd been living in Los Angeles for twelve years," he continues, "and the first thing I did was to move back to London where I got started." According to this Paddington born native of Nigerian and Brazilian ancestry, "there's a certain grit to that city, an energy and immediacy that had inspired me from the beginning. It wasn't as if I was trying to recapture anything. I just wanted to make the connection to a place that had always served me well." This included ongoing collaborations with songwriters including Alan Griffiths and Mark Batson, co-credited on Seal. But what really set the wheels in motion was Seal's reunion with long-time production partner Trevor Horn, the man behind the boards for such career highlights as the multi-platinum 1994 album with its Grammy winning smash hit "Kiss From A Rose."

Seal has distinctive scars under his eyes, left by a skin ailment called discoid lupus (which makes the immune system hyperactive and attacks normal tissue) when he was young.

Isn't Seal a Londoner?

Yes. His guitarist and drummer were regulars in the pub I worked at. His drummer said I was a good drummer when I was desk drumming to Elton John's 'I'm Still Standing'.

Poor Seal.

Hahahaha. Desk Drumming.

Do girls in cafes stop and listen and start dancing to your mad phat beats, Fya?

i wonder what the singer from opeth is saying in that photo.

You're a man of many talents, Peli.

I'm not too sure about the "poor Seal" call, LP. The man serves as an inspiration to Lupus inflicted kids all over the world. They too can grow up to be hugely successful buck naked oily pop-soul singers and marry super models....onya Sealman.

But the kids don't know about the Lupus...they think it's tribal scarring.

He isn't really doing anything to raise awareness about it. He could've appeared on an ad or two.

Opeth = Nerds...so he is probably saying something nerdy.

Do you reckon Lupus could go in the new kids names thread?

Sounds like some poor bogan kid's name.

I call a dude I work with Loopis.

He doesn't like it.

I call another bloke Prawn.

He really doesn't like that.

Opeth are nerds eh? Makes sense the girl in physics is into them then.

My mate tried to get me into their cover of Celtic Frosts...whatever the fuck it was.

But seriously. Don't you get over this shit past the age of twenty?

Opeth = Nerds...so he is probably saying something nerdy.

"Get ready to rock Bournemouth! The next opus is called Into The Mire Of Transgressed Crop Circles!!"

"Opeth = Nerds...so he is probably saying something nerdy."

i don't know what opeth sound like, but they look like a christian metal band.
only christian metal bands need to give the horns with both hands.
it's like they're secretly ashamed of jesus or something.

Bike rego is to cover vic roads insurance. Car rego is partially to cover costs related to motor accidents, so considering cyclists have a high accident rate they should in turn contribute to covering said costs.

Nothing to do with catching people running lights. I had to have this same argument with people at my old employer, who was an automotive company.

If this was covered earlier in the thread then I apologise. Couldn't be arsed opening the last 100 comments

so considering cyclists have a high accident rate they should in turn contribute to covering said costs

Er, what?

the fuckers keep cycling into opening doors for starters.

I'm feeling a little tired. Did my sentence not make sense or something? Afternoon nap has just made it worse.

Part of car rego means if you have an accident on a vic roads road you are covered and medical costs are covered. Not for car damage, for personal injury.

If cyclists pay rego then they have more of a right to demand more cycling routes (rego money goes to paying for road maintainence as well? I think?), they are assisting in covering costs of bike related accidents and they would have more equality on the road to cars, in a financial sense at least.

As a bike rider myself I'm not sure how far this argument extends as there are a bucketload of pedestrians who neither ride or drive who are constantly getting in car related accidents. It's stupid. May as well have rego for every pair or shoes you buy.

This belongs in the cycling thread. But I'm on my phone and can't be fucked.

sorry, no.

Registration is an administrative cost making sure motor vehicles are roadworthy.

The TAC fee is insurance. You are right about personal injury but it is almost always caused by motor vehicles. Road trauma is caused by the large, fast, metal vehicles. Insurance and licences for motor vehicles are reasonable and necessary because of the higher risk.

Anyway forget cyclist rego - State govts and Vicroads have said it is completely off the table. Too great a cost to implement - with little benefit if any.

Road maintenance is paid through general revenue. Paid by everyone.

Ah that sounds right. Figured it was something like that. The info I was saying was essentially the line of argument I was getting from former colleagues who WORK in the automotive industry. As one of the only people who'd cycled to work every day I'd be ambushed with this stuff every day. Considering I'm vague and not that argumentative at the best of times, it wasn't something I really wanted to get into

Pretty happy I'm not there anymore. I do miss hating on colleagues though, and these afternoon naps are killing me

Yeah, people talk a bit of crap, i've overheard all sorts of rubbish at work (on topic).

I'd like to put the bike rego idea to bed though, it's pointless, we should be out riding :)

'Idiot know it all coworker: stares at nice coworker with wide-eyed earnest gaze ''No NC. That's not how it works. You're only as nice as your natural personality allows you to be'''

So is this what you become when you go to self help seminars?

''I like to think of myself as a K-Aussie... a Kiwi-Aussie''

''I like to think of myself as a K-Aussie... a Kiwi-Aussie''

haha fuck off

This one from many years ago just popped into my head:

''Does anyone know anywhere good to eat in the city besides Crown and the Hard Rock Cafe?''

Co-worker: You should really listen to Green Day's new one.

Me: Ah, no I'm kind of in a sixties mood today.

Co-worker: Oh, you like the Beatles.

Me: (walks away)

''Hi, my name is (pampered artist), I just woke up this morning and realised I have a show at one of the flashiest wanker galleries in town - better come up with a half-arsed, rehashed idea like my last 20 shows and get you guys to make it for me! The gallery is throwing heaps of dosh at me so I want something fucking huge and fancy that gullible idiots from a museum will buy to help further reinforce what a farce the 'high art' scene is. Oh, and the show opens in two weeks so you'll need to work overtime and get every other business you deal with to do the same. That won't be a problem right? Your boss and my lack of connection with the real world tells me it won't be. I also plan to pester you constantly because I'm a complete fraud with no conviction and I need to be told what looks good. Then at the end, after I'm showered with money, praise, cocaine and expensive alcohol, I MIGHT thank you. Privately.''

New worker (young) ...first day: so am I going to be doing much of this sort of work?

Boss: What sort of work?

New Worker: Admin sort of work

Boss walks off. I was going to suggest to him that on his first day that it might be good timing to ask for a pay increase.

overREAD on our 'social' intranety thing, buzzword bingo top contender, double points for using 'paradigm' twice in the one sentence:

BPM does open up vast opportunities along all lines of business (LOB). The trick is to truly manage it at an enterprise level and ensure there is good governance leveraging the enterprise and LOB processes & services in a SOA based environment. From a business process perspective a paradigm shift from a vertical business silo to a process centric view and a paradigm of a process owner.

Chicks at work today- including some pretty senior ones- talking about the Milne charge blaming the victim. Probably should be in the feminism has not touched them thread.

''Hi, my name is (pampered artist), I just woke up this morning and realised I have a show at one of the flashiest wanker galleries in town - better come up with a half-arsed, rehashed idea like my last 20 shows and get you guys to make it for me! The gallery is throwing heaps of dosh at me so I want something fucking huge and fancy that gullible idiots from a museum will buy to help further reinforce what a farce the 'high art' scene is. Oh, and the show opens in two weeks so you'll need to work overtime and get every other business you deal with to do the same. That won't be a problem right? Your boss and my lack of connection with the real world tells me it won't be. I also plan to pester you constantly because I'm a complete fraud with no conviction and I need to be told what looks good. Then at the end, after I'm showered with money, praise, cocaine and expensive alcohol, I MIGHT thank you. Privately.''

that was beautiful.

''yeah so I'm in the lift and this guy gets on and he looks camp right and he's like ''going down?'' and I'm thinking to myself, I hope he means the lift. So I ask him whether he likes my scarf and he said it was nice so I'm thinking...maybe I won't wear it?''

''I need a written request in writing''.

i work with my wife. i overhear her saying nice things to the dog ALL DAY

fzchk said 4 hours ago:''yeah so I'm in the lift and this guy gets on and he looks camp right and he's like ''going down?'' and I'm thinking to myself, I hope he means the lift. So I ask him whether he likes my scarf and he said it was nice so I'm thinking...maybe I won't wear it?''

POTD! Also, the more I read it the less sense it makes..........