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    'Holy Shit' Indeed: Analyst Curse-Out Like a Bracing Cold Shower for Garmin

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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    11/09/09

    In reply to 'Holy Shit' Indeed: Analyst Curse-Out Like a Bracing Cold Shower for Garmin
    Well, "Shitty Margins" usually equates to a more affordable product!
    Way to go Garmin! Socialislamofascists.

    FWIW, having a GPS (Garmin, in my case) at the ready has made my driving life a lot less anxiety prone. #modernandawkward
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    11/09/09

    In reply to 'Holy Shit' Indeed: Analyst Curse-Out Like a Bracing Cold Shower for Garmin
    Do we know he's an analyst or could he be a short? #modernandawkward
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Arrest Over Facebook 'Poke' Makes Meaningless Gesture Risque
    I would just like to say thank you for making me remember "fingering" (!!!) which caused endless hilarity at the Seven Sisters women's college I attended. Facebook arrived while I was still there, but our girls kept the internal system going much longer than necessary, simply for the sheer joy of being able to "finger" the hot upperclasswoman dyke you were crushing on.
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    BadUncle promoted this comment Titania was starred Titania was unstarred
    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    10/14/09

    @Titania: I miss Finger. That was when Pinging wasn't MBA-speak for picking up the phone.
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    10/14/09

    In reply to Arrest Over Facebook 'Poke' Makes Meaningless Gesture Risque
    The victim is so lucky she only got poked. Someone THREW A SHEEP at me.

    I'm still in therapy about it.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/14/09

    In reply to Arrest Over Facebook 'Poke' Makes Meaningless Gesture Risque
    Why would you get a restraining order against someone and still be Facebook Friends? ARE THERE NO STANDARDS ANYMORE???
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    Image of lolgreg lolgreg
    10/14/09

    @raincoaster: Facebook friend counts are pretty damn important.
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    Image of alexandraklittle alexandraklittle
    10/14/09

    In reply to Arrest Over Facebook 'Poke' Makes Meaningless Gesture Risque
    There was a judge's order of no communication. A poke is communication. If I there was a protection order keeping someone from communicating with me and they poked me on facebook, I'd run to the judge and have her arrested. Facebook might be fun, but a protection order is deadly serious. I'd really like to know why there was an order against Jackson.
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    10/14/09

    @alexandraklittle: If it got to the point that I had to get a protection order against someone, I would "un-friend" them and block them.
    Hell, I have done at least that for people that have posted that dancing baby video!
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    10/14/09

    In reply to Arrest Over Facebook 'Poke' Makes Meaningless Gesture Risque
    "What Ridiculous Internet-Generated Crime Are You?"
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    raincoaster promoted this comment A Message To Rudy was starred A Message To Rudy was unstarred
    Image of drewB drewB
    10/14/09

    In reply to Arrest Over Facebook 'Poke' Makes Meaningless Gesture Risque
    Can you retweet someone who has a restraining order against you?
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    10/14/09

    @drewB: hahahahaha
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    MissNormaDesmond promoted this comment stew was starred stew was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    10/14/09

    In reply to Arrest Over Facebook 'Poke' Makes Meaningless Gesture Risque
    Not to get all boring, but...

    A court order isn't an agreement between the two women, like a contract or a stipulation. It's an order from the judge to the accused. What the other woman (pokee, here) does or doesn't do is largely irrelevant (unless it rises to the level of harassment.)

    You see it all the time when the accused says: "But she called me and said she wanted to come over." And the Judge says: "But I'm the one that told you not to see her."
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    10/14/09

    In reply to Arrest Over Facebook 'Poke' Makes Meaningless Gesture Risque
    I was once arrested for a Facebook* poke just because it was the middle of the night.

    *minus "book"
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    10/15/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: Facebook, face, whatever. People are so touchy.
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    Image of Our Lady of the Massacre Our Lady of the Massacre
    10/14/09

    In reply to Arrest Over Facebook 'Poke' Makes Meaningless Gesture Risque
    Can't stalking victims just learn to, you know, not attract their stalker's attention in any way, shape or form?
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    Image of greengrey greengrey
    10/14/09

    @Our Lady of the Massacre: I know, right? They need to delete all online accounts and stay inside all day with their windows blacked out. Problem solved, jerks!
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    MissNormaDesmond promoted this comment greengrey was starred greengrey was unstarred
    Image of SanjivaniChrysippus SanjivaniChrysippus
    10/14/09

    In reply to Arrest Over Facebook 'Poke' Makes Meaningless Gesture Risque
    Perfectly reasonable. All forms of communication are forbidden under such rulings. It is not the responsibility of the pokee to take steps to prevent the poker from contacting said pokee.
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    Image of pattycakes pattycakes
    10/14/09

    @SanjivaniChrysippus: lest you be sent off to the pokie.
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    Image of greengrey greengrey
    10/14/09

    @pattycakes: Can you be poked in the pokie?
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    Image of nozer nozer
    10/14/09

    @greengrey: That's what it's all about. Hokey, I know.
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    MissNormaDesmond promoted this comment nozer was starred nozer was unstarred
    Image of Recently Newly Redundant Recently Newly Redundant
    10/14/09

    @greengrey: I believe that's how it got it's name.
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    Image of A Message To Rudy A Message To Rudy
    10/14/09

    @greengrey: "Can you be poked in the pokie?"

    Apparently, you've never watched "Oz".
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    MissNormaDesmond promoted this comment A Message To Rudy was starred A Message To Rudy was unstarred
    Image of pureblarney pureblarney
    09/22/09

    In reply to Facebook Gaydar Emerges From Breakthrough MIT Project
    What about confused people? I lived with a homophobe who avoided gheys socially even though he loved to hook up with them. "My only love sprung from my only hate," wut wut.
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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    09/21/09

    In reply to Facebook Gaydar Emerges From Breakthrough MIT Project
    In other news, unfriendly black hotties are sitting together in cafeterias across the country.
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    Image of JacobMarx JacobMarx
    09/21/09

    In reply to Facebook Gaydar Emerges From Breakthrough MIT Project
    "You simply need access to his friends list, which is made public by default on Facebook."

    and if you change the settings to private?
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    CaptainFantastic promoted this comment JacobMarx was starred JacobMarx was unstarred
    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    09/21/09

    @JacobMarx: Then it won't be able to access your friends list.
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    Image of jacobestes jacobestes
    09/21/09

    @CaptainFantastic: THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!
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