Karma Karma Karma
.
Probably, like most of you, I'm a chameleon. I can change my appearance, demeanor and even my outward character to fit in with my surroundings. Take today. Early this morning I gave a presentation to about 20 surgeons and wannabe surgeons about a new database system I've written (along with another B3tard). 5 minutes after I'd finished I was having a fag and cracking jokes with one of the PAs.

I can fit in almost anywhere. From the board-rooms of the great and the good right down to the sleaziest back-street pub where anyone with more than one ear is a sissy.

I read a long time ago that the Japanese believe that everyone has three faces.

The first, the one they show to the outside world.

The second, the one they show to their family and loved ones.

And the third, their secret face, their true face, the one they don't show to anyone....

Japs have a lot of sense.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 11:07, 16 replies)

Jap wisdom?
It's called lying, Legless. Simple as that.
(frankspencer, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 11:09, closed)

True
But put yourself in my shoes. I couldn't exactly stand up in front of all those doctors, dressed in a t-shirt and shorts and say:

"Look you technically illiterate cunts. Here's the new database. Like it or lump it. I'm going for a pint."

So I had to lie. I had to smooch. I had to stroke egos and pander to preconceptions.

The reality was that I hated every second of that presentation - mainly because I have a deep-seated fear of public speaking. I was shitting it inside that I would be either too technical, not technical enough or, the big one, dry up and give my famed dear-in-the-headlights impression.

But I'm a chameleon. Just like you.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 11:19, closed)

clickety click
for the Jap reference
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 11:12, closed)

.
How I would love to see the world through a Jap's eye.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 11:14, closed)

chameleon schmameleon
I'm a professional liar. In fact, I'm not sure I even belive in truth anymore.
(frankspencer, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 11:26, closed)

And which
is the sweat-clad red gurning face one makes during a substantial deposit at the sperm bank?
( monkeybananaraffle, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 11:28, closed)

Ah Yes.
Make that four faces then.

The cum-face or, as it's sometimes known, the Goofy-Face. Lips drawn back over the gums,and expression of intense pain on the face and shouting:

"Shearer shoots! Shearer scores! GOOOOAAAAALLLL!"

Or is that just me?

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 11:31, closed)

Lobs
Seaman.
( monkeybananaraffle, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 11:42, closed)

He Scores
Shearer shoots, Jesus saves......


But Beardsley scores on the rebound.


Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 11:53, closed)

Ah, there are four faces
The three Japanese faces mentioned above, and a transitional face.

i.e. Turning Japanese.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 11:46, closed)

I Really Think So
.
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 11:51, closed)

do do dooo do d do

( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 12:33, closed)

Ayup. I get to do the same.
And apparently next week I get to go to Ohio to inspect a job, which means that I get to go to a fabrication shop and pretend that I know what the fuck I'm looking at. I've never seen a packaged gravity filter before in my life, and I'm supposed to check one over? And act like I know what I'm doing?

Fuck...

...and yes, I'll do it and I'll be convincing.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 16 Jan 2009, 14:51, closed)

Agreed
and I highly recommend the book "Armadillo" by William Boyd where the main theme is as you have said, i.e. one man and his many faces to the world. It's a really good read.
( I_Was_Mordred, Fri 16 Jan 2009, 19:59, closed)

Japs have a lot of sense. are still living with the effects of nuclear fallout
(madsporkmurderer, Sun 18 Jan 2009, 13:39, closed)

Japs
I didn't know that Legless.
Makes a lot of sense though
Cheers for that.
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Wed 21 Jan 2009, 15:18, closed)