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I have to cook a big pot of soup twice a week now...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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One of the few good things about winter is the acceptability by Herself of me making soup for lunch. 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I have seen terrible accidents happen to field cooks who wanted to serve soup for lunch. Rumor has it that some of them ended up on a stick, slowly rotating over a fire.
Ohne Mampf kein Kampf. (good luck translating that  )
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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"No fight without munch" or "Eine Armee marschiert auf dem Bauch" I think.
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Exactly. Most cooks don't have to deal with critics who are armed to the teeth.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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But soup is good: hot, tasty, filling, easy to eat (even quickly) and if served with good bread ... warm comfort food that'll keep you going.
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You are talking about your home-made soup. Army soup is hot water with color form the potato peals of yesterday...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Only if you are lucky. Maybe it's just left over from the last time the cook washed his feet.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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What?! 
I never met an army-cook who used to wash any part of his body...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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The Maître de Cuisine usually delegates serving his creation to some poor private, especially when complaints are expected. Just look into the pot and say something like this:
"What's that? Did he wash his feet in there? Again?"
It usually takes less than five seconds for the cook to pop up and receive your praise. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Don't know where you are, but it was 80 farenheit here yesterday.
There might be something to this global warming....
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Not Hawaii then!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Soup, like opening you mouth and letting the sun shine in. Bah!
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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It seems a slow cooker is ideal for such things, anyone has any experience with these?
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slow cooker is great. I did it once a while: I put all kinds of beans into it...
diligent hands rule....
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could you share your recipe? I would like to give it a try...
diligent hands rule....
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Hidden colour pretended (8)
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Well done YAUT
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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the article says this would be illegal in the UK. I know it would also be illegal in NZ, Aus, France, and I suspect most of the rest of the developed world.
American employment contracts are 'at will' contracts. They are at the will of the employer, and should the employer change their mind, you can be shown the door, with just your 2 weeks notice.
I lived and worked in the States for 3 years. The impact on employee behaviour is profound. It creates a cover your ass, finger pointing culture where no employee is willing to accept accountability, an will go to great lengths to apportion blame elsewhere.
Now, I only worked for one company (but it was a biggish publicly listed one), and I'm sure not all are like this.
I did very well, with two things I did differently than my American colleagues (not that I did them deliberately to be different, but it took me a while to realise I was an outlier).
I was prepared to say "I don't know" and I was prepare to say "I made a mistake and here's how we recover...". American employees would go out of their way to avoid these, for fear of being shown the front door.
It also contributes to the always available, never take leave attitude.
One of our competitors had a policy of ranking all developers and firing the lowest 5% each quarter - they were continually hiring as a result, I guess the aim being to end up with a greater developer pool.
It saddens me that so many American's are so proud of America and believe they are in the greatest country on earth. So many of them simply have no idea.
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Your competitor who laid off the bottom 5% every quarter.
That wouldn’t be the company that was selling CRM software, would it?
They used to have weekly status meetings at 5 pm on Fridays so that nobody could sneak off and get an early head start on the weekend!
A friend who worked a year for them and who now works at Farcebook said that, compared to Farcebook, the other company was like a cuddly teddy bear.
Talk about toxic work cultures,
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It was indeed a CRM company.
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NeverJustHere wrote: American employees would go out of their way to avoid these
Singapore was similar, I had huge issues with developers not owning their mistakes, they would hide them and then try and work around the problems the mistake caused.
Shocked the hell out of them the first time I accepted a mistake as soon as it was discovered.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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He did try to make them feel better by saying he "cried last time he did it". 
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