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I wholeheartedly agree, as you know. Especially for some superficial areas of business, it's about 65% peripheral stuff and 35% know-how. I seriously doubt if people pick their dentist based on his/her golf game.

My parents always grew things. I made damn sure that they kept their planting (lemons, figs, squash, swiss chard, tomatoes, parsley) to a neatly defined area of the backyard (behind the 2-car garage), reminding them that it was Los Angeles and not an episode on the Beverly Hillbillies (just kidding, but I told them their stuff could not overtake the yard, which I mowed). I will do minor things on the car when I can, but with a sideways turned V-6, I can't get to some of the plugs. On the RWD cars, I could. I will also fix things on or under the dash. I clean the engine with that engine degreaser and use toothbrushes to get to the most difficult parts of the engine bay. When I lived in Seattle, I remodeled many parts of my T.H. by myself - texturing the ceiling, painting, and mitering/installing baseboard with the appropriate gap to receive new carpeting. I hardly doubt someone who sees me in a coat and tie during the work day would think I do this type of stuff, but as long as I can clean up right afterwards, I will.

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No, it's actually the uptight WASPY pay-lip-service-to-liberalism UofO/OSU/UW/WSU fraternity/sorority crowd 20+ years later that you'll see at the nice brunches within viewing distance of a golf course...next to the waterfall or babbling brook. Since I'm only up there 4 to 6 times a year and it's for Easter or Thanksgiving, I notice this demographic. In Portland, for example, the granola crowd will do brunch in-town on a street such as Hawthorne (the Hawthorne District in S.E.), where you will see Subarus, antique shops, used book stores, vegan restaurants, trendy eateries and more Subarus. That's where they go. The other places are too manicured for their hemp-ish tastes. I already have enough trouble with the Biff/Buffy crowd, so I couldn't imagine having the granolas thrown into the mix. That would be toxic. Edit: here's a link, making it sound so cool, when it isn't, and NOT telling you the REAL demographics http://www.portlandguide.com/neighborhoods...ne-district.php

Never had it that heated. Generally, I've had these marginally intense raised voice arguments in an office setting that seem to shake themselves out over time. You won't be the person's lunch buddy, but you'll be able to carry on with your work. But you're right, I think women must process their cat fights in a whole different way, it seems......hhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Austin, Texas

Come forth, Lazarus, come forth... ...who exactly are we calling anyway?

MWAHAHAHA Yes, and in the PNW, it's usually adjacency to a waterfall or, at the minimum, a babbling brook.

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Exactly!

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Yeah, reg, I hear you. I'm harshly realistic and some people don't want to hear the unfiltered view. A lady who works across the hall from me has started opening up, telling me about how she'd like to move back to where she's from and her past life/work experiences. She told me she's only had problems with catty women in the workforce and NEVER with men. I asked NEVER? She said NEVER. I was taken aback, never thinking I'd hear something like this from her since she's assertive, an athlete (cyclist) and highly educated. Here's what I've seen in the work force, especially when it's a pyramid-shaped professional services firm when there are frequent written evaluations: (a) Men NEVER treat women poorly * (b) Men treat mean in an all-over the checkerboard manner (often depends on whether they share common interests, unfortunately) (c ) Women treat women better than they would treat men (they seem to be threatened by professional childless women who have better credentials when they worked their way up and have less interesting credentials because they had kids earlier on) (d) Women OFTEN treat men poorly (the most likely combo of these 4 for poor treatment) ** * we have to play the daddy role and "hold their hand" professionally - you can't believe to extent to which a few women who worked for me looked to me for mentorship, go figure ** I have seen it get to the point that senior management has commented that certain women caused certain men to cycle out of the firm/company who would have otherwise stayed Even though the OP is about "date rape," to me, the whole head trip seems to align with these 4 scenarios.

Right on...that's exactly right about the Riv/Toro relationship...they were also a price notch below the Eldorado. With respect to the Cutlass Supreme, it put an elegant, well-constructed, reasonably priced mid-sized coupe into middle-class America's driveway. (In fact, some more affluent people drove them because they were such a good all-around car). The Cutlass Supreme outsold the Monte Carlo because the styling was so clean, lacking the overly sculpted fenders of the Chevrolet. Another funny tidbit: I was once looking at a Buick brochure where the Regal was described as something of a "pocket Riviera." I thought that was so damn funny. I wish I remember which model year that brochure applied to. Using the same logic, the Cutlass Supreme would then be a "pocket Toronado." I eagerly await the return of a GM personal luxury coupe at a reasonable price point.

But if a person will never get within 100 yards of that nice ass (as in a one-night stand), why increase the tip? When I'm being toyed with along these lines (happens every now and then), I automatically drop the tip into the 10% to 15% zone, assuming the food was good and the service (prompt/correct components) was acceptable. It's to send out the message that the manipulation doesn't work and the tip is based on the "professionalism" and the GENUINE courtesy that is being extended. In defense of people who wait on tables, some obviously really enjoy their jobs and working with the public, so they get at least 15% for how REAL they are, regardless of age, gender, nationality, etc.

Yes. Now that this has been mentioned, sure. Riviera has always "fit" as a convertible. Still, if I was to buy a Riv, it would be the hardtop coupe. I've come to miss the Riviera, thinking it would always be with us.

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Amazing...it looks like it must have cleared a marketing research hurdle...or they figured out that the Quebecois have a great "joie de vivre"/sense of humor.

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Yes, the dust needs to settle. Depending on the timing a Riv coupe could come onto the scene, I could see myself in the market for one. A Riviera coupe needs to make jaws drop. North America needs a personal luxury coupe that will, like the first Riviera and the Cutlass Supreme, win the car-buying public's heart.