Someone: "girls ah, they only want to do breast stroke, cos it's relaxing. doens't even get your heart rate up"
Someone else: it's freaking difficult to put on the rubbery [swim] cab (sic)
worse than condom
Me: you put on for people ah
kinky right
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One thing you learn as you go along is that no matter what you do or how you behave, there will always be somebody who will oppose it or be against you.
Hell, in JC there was this girl who was probably the epitome of niceness and sweetness. Yet, some people disliked her *precisely* because she was nice and sweet.
The only sure way to accommodate everybody and avoid criticism is to follow the path of least resistance and lapse into apathy and inaction (or to keep "a low profile", as some would term it), but then nothing would ever get done.
Actually, scrap that. If nothing was done, people would still be slamming you for doing nothing, so there's really no way to get out of this Catch-22.
(This is written about the Idledays Fund controversy, but can be profitably applied to any situation.)
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I transferred my Yahoo Groups memberships back to my old account with the help of this nifty "Find My Groups" option:
"If some of the groups you belong to are not showing up, we can help you locate them. Search for these groups using the following email addresses:
***@hotmail.com
***@yahoo.com
Before you click "Continue", review your email addresses. You may need to add a different email address, or verify an existing one. "
What it does is look for subscriptions to Yahoo Groups not matched to the current Yahoo ID, but registered to the verified email accounts listed under the current Yahoo ID. For example, if foo@bar.com is subscribed to the "xxx" Yahoo Group under the Yahoo ID "foo", but you want it under the Yahoo ID "bar", you can login with your "bar" Yahoo ID and use this tool, provided that foo@bar.com is also verified under the "bar" Yahoo ID.
So migrating Yahoo Groups between IDs is a relatively painless task, excepting the character recognition, which I swear daily becomes harder and harder - if spammers' OCR technology is so advanced that the images they serve up have to be garbled so, I'm sure it can recognise even my handwriting.