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We love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.

(, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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"Could do better" isn't an observation, it's a patronising judgement.
As for the middle-managementspeak of "I challenge you to be better and think smarter" - I can only think of a few examples of less justifiably pompous, patronising nonsense, and one of them is "there are no problems, only solution opportunities".
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 15:00, 1 reply)
Ooh, have a I touched a raw nerve?
Managementspeak ruined your day before has it?

It's only an internet, relax.

I give less than a fuck for Managementspeak, but I do give a fuck that people should try to improve what they do and to be able to justify their actions and decisions and challenge me if they think I've made a bad choice, just as you are doing here. Challenge is just a word, there are others but this is a good one to use in this environment.
Why do I care? It's our business and our livelihood in a competitive world and no amount of whining about being patronising will get you your job back when it falls apart.

Now then, back to books and kittens and nice things. Tea or coffee?
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 15:14, closed)
I'm being intolerant of your intolerance, yes.
But it is not equal intolerance. I am merely pointing out that your intolerance is unjustifiably judgemental, as you are not superior in any way to me or anyone else except whatever spawn you have.

Passing judgemental comment on what people choose to read, however, indicates that you think you ARE superior to people, and I'm merely telling you: you're not.
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 15:25, closed)
So your intolerance is better than mine?
because you choose to take issue with something that rankles you for reasons I'm not interested in. This has nothing to do with superiority or whatever else you choose to paint it as, but smacks of something deeper. If I was also to play amateur psychologist then I'd have a stab but it's not my game, or yours either it would seem.
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 15:38, closed)
So now you're passively trying to pass aggressive comment on my character, based on my one of my opinions.
Pffft.
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 15:47, closed)
What am I, your bathroom mirror?
Pffft indeed.
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 16:47, closed)

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