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[toddjcoley]

Nice work mega. Just ordered the whole 30 book today.

[Megatron1505]

Thanks guys 

[joesaintjohn]

To all you Euros, Happy Walpurgisnacht. Building a camp fire in my back yard to celebrate. Listening to some Black Sabbath. Feeling kinda "metal."

[Seul]

Labour Day = cheap laundry day (weekend rate). Finally getting to wash my IHS-18… Missed that bastard. Have a feeling it'll be my go-to gear between 5 and 20 C... Maybe I need a back-up IH sweat... Hmmm...

[zwer]

It's my 15 Year Anniversary today.

[Giles]

Congrats…

[summ3rhays]

Congrats on the anniversary!

[FurattoHeddo]

Loving the new 21oz patch:

[Giles]

Da Boss….

[zwer]

Thanks, @Giles and @summ3rhays!

[natehate]

go zwer

and no insult to the uk and euro lots
but the only royal i give a fuck about is count chocula

[tatmantall]

^

[EastWest]

@Seul:

Time for me to start packing G?..

It's late but I.love.this. Comedy Genius.

Hope alls well Giles.

[Arabit]

My dad who has seen / felt my IH's: "What the fuck! $150 for Dockers pants" 

[Finn666]

@zwer:

It's my 15 Year Anniversary today.

congrats buddy!…

[Megatron1505]

Just had a mild panic as SuFu asked me to login for the first time in 2 years, and I could not remember my password…. That could have been awkward.

[Megatron1505]

MONKEY TRAINING

Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it.
Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water.

After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result - all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.

Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth.

Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.

After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water.
Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that's the way it's always been done around here.

And that, my friends, is how company policy begins.

[Snowy]

^And our job as humans in companies it to as best as possible not follow process but to ask why. It's CRAZY hard to remember to ask why as everyone 'just does it'. As above often there's no good reason for things.

(and I love that )

[tatmantall]

^snowman you took the words outta my mouth

[zwer]

So tempted to paste that to my Facebook wall - had an argument about policy with my co-director yesterday. She claims she's not a 'policy Nazi', and all I could think was, 'then why are you acting like one?'