Pointless Announcements

Make & model?

 

Do midgets watch midget porn?

 

So i had narrowed my new job choices down to two. Passed on the other offers and decided to either go with "Company A" because of a perk that I could definitely take advantage of. Although the benefits totally sucked in comparison to my current job's. OR...stay with my current company in which I recently earned a promotion. I've been there for about 3 years now. I'm happy. But, I felt like with my new acheivements, it was time to test the waters and see what's out there.

I took a month to look around and see who's offering what. Today I went to the final round of interviews for Company A where I met the VP of Technology and a couple of Directors. After talking shop, and hearing what they had to offer, I declined. Hearing what they were offering and what shape their staff and infrastructure was in made me really appreciate where I am and how far I've come. Even though they low balled the hell out of me and flat out lied about the position and salary until today....(dicks) I appreciate the time. Because now I'm more appreciative of where I am. For the first time in a long time. I like my job.

For the first 3 years, I was surrounded by assholes who made my job so difficult. People who made me think the career I chose was a mistake. Not surprising, after all of them moved on, and I'm in a new role, I'm happier.....I can only complain about not being able to sleep right now when I have to wake up and go to the effing DMV in the morning........ but that's for another thread.

 

NYC is starting to go foam free as of today.
No more Styrofoam cups, bowls, plates, takeout containers, tray, packing peanuts...

#FoamBanNYC

I like it!

 

Never safe from @Plan9. That's part of his charm and the fun!

 

I thought you had Stanley pulling guard duty on that door.

 

Why are Police Called Cops?
Dr. Orville Boyd Jenkins


Answer:
Some have proposed that the reason police officers are called "cops" is because of the New York force's copper badges. The source of this word is much earlier. Several sources say the usages originated in Northern England.

The word "cop" is an old Anglo-Saxon verb for catch, grab or capture, deriving from a noun "cop" dating back at least to the 1100s. Some sources say this word related to the Dutch word kapen, with a similar meaning. The earliest written documentation of the form "cop" as a verb in English dates to 1704.

A new noun form developed form this verb, giving us "copper." This form "copper" thus was the noun for "one who cops." Some sources document the use of the verb "cop" used with the meaning "arrest" in 1844, and suggests this was the source of the specific use of "cop" to refer to a law officer.

The term "copper" was originally used in England as a slang word for a police officer. This term was used, however, as a term of abuse by criminals, especially petty street criminals. It was considered highly derogatory by the police themselves. It was made illegal in England to use this term for a police officer, because it was so derogatory.

The term became associated with the metal copper after that law was passed, when those hoods who wanted to abuse an officer would carry a small piece of copper metal in the palm of their hand, then flash it at the policeman. This usage of "copper" got shortened to "cop." The first documented use of the term copper for a police officer is in 1846. The Oxford English Dictionary documents this usage. Most sources report that the first documented use of the short form cop as applied to a police officer is in 1859. Snopes finds that the term "copper" was used in London for police by 1846.

Even when I was a child in the US in the 1950s, though not illegal, it was still considered impolite to call a policeman a cop. We were taught it was only the bad boys who feared being caught by the police that called policemen cops. (It is only in comparatively recent history that police themselves have accepted and used the word for themselves.)

 

Need to correct this. The Latin word for capture or catch is capere. Copper is a bastardization of that.
One other thing. Polis is Greek for city-state, or the citizen body. So a policeman is man of the city, or man of the people. I am a citizen, a civilian.

 

Fireworks mortars are NOT meant to go off on the ground. Just sayin'.

Happy 4th, everybody.

 

I am making food. Having theneighbours over on a whim.

It's been a while.

 

Celebrating this 4th of July "weekend" by working a normal 16 hours . Gotta love 'Murica (aside from the politicians, improper spelling, recent decisions made on a national level, oh wait I was keeping this positive). Might even stay up this afternoon and go to a barbecue despite the fact tonight is only Tuesday; a roughly 4:30 balance for sleep/awake hours seems to work way too effectively for me in short bursts.