Originally posted by FMFFeel better now?
You're a strange chap, Grampy Bobby. You, from time to time, berate people - only those you don't respect, mind you - for talking about themselves in their posts. You've done it to me numerous times.
A few weeks ago you lampooned me for being self-centred when I related a two sentence personal anecdote about myself - you even counted how many times I used t ...[text shortened]... ecdote. You should take your own advice, Grampy Bobby, and have a look at what you have become🙂
Originally posted by FMFIn Robert Townsend’s "Up the Organization" [an autobiographical book about his top executive career in Corporate America], he says: “To increase our share of the market a few years ago, I was on the verge of approving the start-up of a new subsidiary—which would compete with our bread-and-butter business—at discount prices. To verify my own brilliance I tried the idea out on a tall, rangy regional vice-president named Stepnowski. After hearing the plans described in some detail, he sank the whole project with one sentence: “I don’t know what you call it, but we Polacks call that ‘pissing in the soup’ “ We're done here. //.
No, not really. I'd rather it hadn't been necessary. But some things just need to be said.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyIf you want to treat this place like your personal blog and talk about yourself ad nauseam, Grampy Bobby, fine, but don't then pounce on others - who you happen to disrespect - for talking about themselves from time to time ~ with all that sneering drivel you come out with about the incidences of the vertical pronoun and whatnot. Like I said, why don't you take your own advice, and have a think about what you've become. 🙂
In Robert Townsend’s "Up the Organization" [an autobiographical book about his top executive career in Corporate America], he says: “To increase our share of the market a few years ago, I was on the verge of approving the start-up of a new subsidiary—which would compete with our bread-and-butter business—at discount prices. To verify my own brilliance I ...[text shortened]... ’t know what you call it, but we Polacks call that ‘pissing in the soup’ “ We're done here. //.
Originally posted by FMFBack of the net FMF.
If you want to treat this place like your personal blog and talk about yourself ad nauseam, Grampy Bobby, fine, but don't then pounce on others - who you happen to disrespect - for talking about themselves from time to time ~ with all that sneering drivel you come out with about the incidences of the vertical pronoun and whatnot. Like I said, why don't you take your own advice, and have a think about what you've become. 🙂
Unfortunately Self awareness is not one of Gramps strong points.