SudsyFist

...so I can be your cowgirl? Am I the only one who got that one??? Good one, missg8tordivr. Sudsy loves 80's references.

Touché! Good one!

Do dogs where you're from have nice asses?

I'm in just fine, but I'm hitting US servers.

A little too much partisanship in your Corn Flakes this morning?

You wouldn't happen to be related to Ted Kaczynski, now would ya?

much better then attempted dry humps while packing *raises hand* GUILTY AS CHARGED!

OMFG, I hate that song. Thanks a lot. Thanks for nuthin'.

Keith is right. I've been promised to him for a long time. What he don't know won't hurt him. Besides, it's what he don't know that I know, and that should be convincing enough!

Did I just click into a bizarro world or sumphin'?

She can do me in the morning She can do me in the night She can do me when she wanna do me

To heck with that stuff! Skymama, I think you're HOT!!!

I'm sure Keith doesn't mind either. Ashtanga, you're pretty cute when your legs are wrapped around me and you're screaming...

So you can watch while... um... nevermind.

And I have often taken that very same approach. But if you waltz in and say, "I want creative solutions, not a rehash, so the solution has to be X. Now, discuss!" that might be a bit different, now wouldn't it? How would you, as an obviously intelligent and analytical performer, receive such an ultimatum? Out of what kind of draconian leadership book do you operate? FORCE PEOPLE? How about guide, coach, stimulate, etc.? Leadership? Force people? There are plenty of great folks out there whose earnest desire to effect change is directly affected by their leadership's approaches to, well, leadership. That's why Blanchard and Deming (et al) sell so many books. And I don't recall much reference to confrontation as being a successful leadership method, in any of the related literature I've read, anyway, not to mention in practical application. Principled Negotiation. Perhaps you should try Getting To Yes by Fisher and Ury. Here's a quickie. And you're casting things in a binary fashion ("with us or against us" sound familiar?), which doesn't represent things very accurately. There's a broad spectrum of people and their motivations and their responses. As a leader, you should know that. Finally, your analogy would at least be somewhat applicable if we were discussing an issue in which the leader was administering a discussion with individuals who report to him. In this case, if the President was addressing his cabinet with an ultimatum, then your analogy at least holds water there. But it doesn't: legislators don't have to respond to the President the way employees do to their chain of command. Again, I remain unconvinced that ultimatums are a good way to stimulate healthy debate and negotiation, but I'm willing to entertain arguments to the contrary.

So if the only responses to which you're giving credence are those from people with legal experience, why on Earth are you bringing this up in a skydiving forum?

I thought I had been nice to you, too. Now I just feel ignored.

Sure it is. Is this just because you cheer for that team, or would you feel the same of a Democrat in power kicked off discussion with an ultimatum? I don't know people or negotiation all that well, but I figure most folks don't tend to react very cooperatively when ultimatums are brought to the table.

Which ones?

A little too much troll in your Corn Flakes this morning?

Do you feel the same way about Brown v Board of Education? Laissez faire, leave it up to the states? Do you feel that the Supreme Court "created new rights" in that case?

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Exactly. My. Freakin'. Point.

The slappin usually goes on just PRIOR to exit...not AFTER... I tend to slap whoever's ass is in front of me whilst boarding the plane. After all, it's pretty much in my face at the time.

so you can blow yourself too? Autofellatio is another dark art. Why do you think I rarely leave the condo?