Sentences with phrase «other as a joke»

And I'm very appreciative of having done that because it was something that my mother and I had with each other as a joke because she would tease me and ask me to let her know when I had made enough money for her to sue me for using her name.

We literally have taken some of the words of our hate comments and we have said them to each other as a joke, just because that's all you can do.

Not exact matches

As a manager I get to encourage my team to laugh and joke with each other.

«We've always described our manufacturing and R&D facility in San Diego as our Ocean's Eleven vault, where we build it once and others can replicate it,» jokes Hargovan.

The moral of this story is, if you're going to tell others — even as an April Fool's joke — what you think the future of your industry might look like, you had better be sure that your company has a plan already in place, or the joke will be on you.

What constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace varies, but as theAAUW notes, it includes behaviors like «unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, direct or indirect threats or bribes for sexual activity, sexual innuendos and comments, sexually suggestive jokes, unwelcome touching or brushing against a person,» among others.

It disappeared faster than a bad Fall sitcom, leaving me to wonder why the only place I ever saw a pair were on my doctor as he conducted my appointments, complete with a note - taker on the other side of the connection (so many... jokes... can't pick... just one).

As H.G. Wells (the writer who gave us War of the Worlds, among many other works) put it, «The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.»

My last sentence was intended as a joke and should have indicated as such, along the lines of «other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?»

But I will say this, the best ideas are solving interesting problems and needs for other people, whether it's a Chris Rock joke or Amazon product, so you need to be able to figure out those needs and problems as quickly and strategically as possible, and there are methods for accomplishing this — whether it's being able to identify needs as an anthropologist might, smallify big problems, or utilize constraints.

The techniques include claiming outrageous statements were jokes or misunderstandings; saying and doing things and then denying it; blaming others for misunderstanding their intent; disparaging others» concerns as over-sensitivity; and other forms of twilighting the truth.

Unlike other available cryptocurrencies like Basic Attention Token, Augur, Bitconnect, Binance, Cardano, Dent, this crypto currency started as a crypto joke, but has successfully emerged as one of the hottest investment commodities.

Taylor remembers one white student joking that they were «as free as Rosa Parks» grandchildren,» prompting laughter from others.

According to the survey's standards, many Jews, too, should be classified as anti-Semitic, since they tell jokes about other Jews — jokes that, if told by Gentiles, would be anti-Semitic according to the survey's standards.

To the other... rest easy in knowing that I think being spiritual is a joke as well; but that is because I am an Atheist so I find Religious people even more amusing I don't need fear of an invisible angry old man to scare me into being a good person; I do good things because I am a good person and don't need an instruction manual.

He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

Someone once told me they think of Rachel as the logical and rational teacher Jesus feminist, and I'm the soft squishy mama - heart Jesus Feminist — and so together we complement each other nicely (< insert joke about how we make wonderful complementarians >) in these discussions.

This joke has more critical bite; one imagines it being told (by an alienated conservative, say) as a way of poking fun at others, not oneself.

He is not playing a cruel joke but «educating them in otherness,» as Sacks puts it, so that «they will understand what evil feels like from the other side, not as perpetrator but as victim.»

Raison's Filter Fiber © (joking about the copyright)-- bad letter combinations / words to avoid if you want to post that wonderful argument: Many, if not most are buried within other words, but I am not shooting for the perfect list, so use your imagination and add any words I have missed as a comment (no one has done this yet)-- I found some but forgot to write them down.

Mitt's BIRTHER comments / «jokes» or whatever other terms that bigots would like to justify them as MOST LIKELY caused a lot of DISENFRANCHISED, DISGRUNTLED and DISILLUSIONED minority Mormons IMHO.

As they watch Malvolio, the clowns perform a slapstick ballet, popping out regularly from behind the long black tapestries that stand in for scenery, cracking jokes, bickering, threatening, and bundling each other into hiding when they get hotheaded enough to become conspicuous.

Professional jesters amused the audience with their jokes, sometimes appearing disguised as foreigners, whose dialect and peculiarities they imitated, and at other times mimicking old women, or well - known and eccentric individuals.

The other joke is that there's no such thing as Langhorne Creek.

As for Giroud I hope what I'm hearing is not true.You get the feeling that once Lacazette starts scoring he just won't like it.He's also another overrated player who's also hear because of Wenger's kindness.Apart from the fact that he's good with his head I don't see the positives of keeping here and even Welbeck.We need players who can push Lacazette to perform and these are just not the players.They are more of rotation players.Do you think if Welbeck and Giroud were at top form they can challenge Laca at his best?I always laugh at our strikers though.On one hand, one doesn't fit our style of play but at least he can finish.On the other hand, the one who fits our style of play can't even score a goal.I can't believe we are joking with such a crucial role.I'm sick and tired of seeing average strikers in the club.It's been painful watching the likes of Bendtner and Chamakh already.Now I have to cope with this.

thanks for the sensible comment fatboy yep i know i do get that they do nt really mean it, but i just cant come to terms with that, i do nt really expect civilised culture in a sport but generally from the people in the world, yep you are right about the real world, maybe thats the reason it annoys me extremely, i mean look our world is rotten to the core, the human mindset is terrible when it faces danger or problems for himself, and maybe thats the reason i just want football to stay as just as an entertainment industry but when i see that people even here let the words flow in any kind of way just because the are frustrated, i really cant come to terms with it, i really love black humor and some akbs react angrily when some fans tell some wheelchair jokes or for example on the post from admin where one could write jokes about wenger, some were really awesome, but when people cant control their emotion after a game and abuse other people it just irritates me as hell cause i really think that thats one of the big problems in the world..

And the Sun quotes a Burnley insider as saying many of his teammates thought it was all just an elaborate joke at first: «Ashley got a bit of stick from the other players when he first turned up driving the Smart car.

that's a joke you know right... apart from the Barca rumour years ago, which other top club have come with serious bid for the guy... it's only in Arsenal average performers are seen as giving their all... you want to be among the heavyweights in Europe, then sign the best players or bring in a coach who can shape the young minds into champions... you don't do the same thing year after year and expect a different result

If we think that we can we the league without proper additions in area of deficiency, we are joking as others are adding, even the champions are in the market.

As others have said, this state is a bad joke and the media and institutional powers can not be trusted when it comes to UnC - Ch or NC State.

For one, there's definitely a chip on the shoulder of a team that spent the entire Obama presidency as a doormat and a joke for other teams.

If he spent half as much time trying to put our joke defence right as he does pontificating about other clubs business we might not be in the defensive plight we are in.

gmv8.dithering.exactly.prob.penny pinching as well.but more of a joke is that «the ditherer» himself is prob to all intents on hols.i kid u not.while all other major clubs getting their business done.sums up the mess our club has been & currently will be for foreseeable future or hopefully till xmas because by then the disaster will be plain for all to see.yes.even his disciples.

Just when the world had finally moved on from the Mariah Carey New Year's fail, mascots from other sports might find making a joke of it slightly taboo, however, The Coyote used it as an advantage during the half time show in the San Antonio Spurs and Toronto Raptors game.

Giroud must compete for that position with Lord Bendtner as he is abit hungrier for goals than Giroud who loves playing as an attacking midfielder.He is just not good enough.Scoring one goal for the sake of discharging you duty is a joke which i thought Wenger shouldn't condone at all.He has seen great strikers and am sure in his hearts of hearts he knows Giroud is not good enough.Had he not been French he wouldn't have been guaranteed a place at the Emirates and neither of the other top 4 teams would entertain his mediocrity.

The second penalty, as has been pointed out by countless others was a joke.

You said: My comment above on FB was prompted by friends whose kid is SO entirely dependent on his parents to sleep at night, that he is depriving them of their couple time and their desperately needed sleep, and as a result, they are constantly frustrated, at odds with each other, and left feeling helpless and misunderstood and «joke» about divorce.

We had an ongoing joke with the other young families as to who would get to the dining room first.

Others, well... they see their marriage as a joke.

As a joke with some truth in it I would answer the question to other men with, «They want it all and they want it now.»

Some people won't get the joke, others will act as though they don't, and your target and his supporters can try to score a few points at your expense.

As they said goodnight to each other, they joked about seeing each other in the morning on the gallows.

Bartley kicked off with a joke at Labour's expense: «We stand here, more united as party with two leaders than others are with one.»

But here's a good example of one for Sarah Palin and another on which on Jeff's search she's listed as an Activity... talk about fodder for jokes), and others no doubt exist for other candidates.

Jamie, before I add «disingenuous» to all the other descriptions of Paladino, I have to ask: did he send an URGENT email to you immediately after submitting his questionnaire demanding you delete it, and insisting it was a mistake and meant as a joke, and that he simply meant to forward it to a couple of buddies but his «reply» by accident?

Cuomo said he was joking the other day when he said he was like Gumby when it came to his flexibility (color us shocked and green), but the governor continues to suggest he is open to altering Tier Six, such as maybe jettisoning or amending the voluntary defined - contribution component.

[106] Hoon said that this was just a joke between friends but others, such as Conservative leader David Cameron and Shadow Home Secretary David Davis viewed this letter as proof that deals were indeed done behind the scenes and that Brown lied on the record when he said there had been none.

In a previous series I watched the final episode when the winner was the only one not in the joke as others watched on and laughed.

Others such as Atta Mortuary Man, created around a famous joke by former president Jerry Rawlings, Ama Benyiwaa and Akua Donkor have also made headlines.

Mayor Byron Brown joked that Buffalo should be renamed «Ribbon - cutting City» as he joined others to dedicate a newly - completed affordable housing project inside a former school building.