Hiro Protagonist

Strike Back is awesome. Season 5 will be the final season and hope it'll be as great as the previous seasons. The production values are excellent for a TV series. On the actual subject of the thread, I've been on a western movie kick at the moment and watching a few Clint Eastwood westerns. Watched Hang 'Em High (1968) and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) on the weekend. Unforgiven could nearly be a sequel to Josey Wales. Even though they're different characters and the movies are not related in any way, the story to both movies fit really well together. Still got a couple more Clint Eastwood westerns to go. Also, good to see a young Clint Eastwood in Hang 'Em High.

Poison Ivy & Two-Face have a baby. The result: http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2014/03/20/3967676.htm

You said she feels uncomfortable talking about it. She doesn't want to talk about it to you. Respect her decision and her privacy. It sounds like you're not doing it for her, but you're doing this for yourself.

To be honest, I really don't know why it's your concern and why you're pursuing it. She's given you a cue that she's not comfortable talking about it to you. I'd move on and let her come to you, not for you to continually go to her. Especially, making enquiries about her diet. I'd find that very rude.

I'm not having a go at you Bruce. The best thing you can do in an office environment is to listen and not talk about people with others which turns into gossip. This is especially true for supervisor or manager roles. Managers have to keep a lot of secrets. Employees come to managers with their concerns and expect a degree of confidentiality depending on what the concern is. If a manager comes across as someone who's approachable, listens and doesn't gossip, then employees will feel comfortable expressing their concerns. I'm reminded of a quote from the Tom Hanks character in Saving Private Ryan: This is basically what you should do in an office environment. If you have concerns, go up the chain of command. Never down. If a person above you knows, then generally that's where it ends for you. It's out of your hands. Move on. It's up to your superior to do something if they want to. If other people are gossiping, then try and nip it in the bud. If people are talking about someone, don't join in. Depending on the situation, probably best to walk away instead of starting an argument about gossiping. Because, then you get those people offside with you. Don't be the person who others think, 'oh better not tell him, he'll tell the whole office'. Be the person who listens and keeps it to themselves. A confidant. Employees will respect you more and come to you for advice on many issues if they have trust in you. They're confiding in you, not you and three other people that you tell and they don't know about. Let them come to you, to feel comfortable, not for you to pursue them. Otherwise they'll think you're being nosy or pushy.

Police send SMS to stop speeding to driver's mobile phone. police end high-speed chase on St Kilda Rd with text request Do you reckon she got fined for using a mobile phone while driving as well? I call entrapment, if so..

Nine Month Old Pakistani boy charged with attempted murder This has to be the stupidest thing to ever come out of Pakistan in the last few years. And when the baby and his father were in court, instead of having the charges dropped against the baby, he was given bail to appear in court later on. Just looking at the picture of the boy and he is a hardened criminal. You can see it in his baby brown eyes.

This is just normal office chit-chat. I wouldn't read anything in it if she tells you about her family or what she did on the weekend. It's just being civil and breaking the ice. She might like to talk about something in her social life, but it's not a cue that you're now best buddies and can talk about 'anything'. Her being evasive is a cue to mind your own business. She doesn't want to talk about it. Normal social by the office water cooler type discussions (See above about her family or did she have a good weekend)? Yes, she doesn't mind. Personal health related stuff? No. You're prying into her affairs and going behind her back, checking up on her with other staff is really bewildering to be honest. Checking with other staff to see what she eats? That's a new one for me. All that's going to do is get staff gossiping and judging her, what she does, what she eats, etc. You say you're trying to get her away from malicious people in the office but what you're doing is making things worse in the office with all this going behind her back and gossiping about her with other staff. While your intentions may have been good, they're actually going against you and her. How would you feel if someone was being nice and friendly to you and then going behind your back, checking up and talking to other staff, gossiping about what you eat and perhaps 'tsk tsk-ing' you? Some people may think, 'very two-faced' to put it mildly. Her evasiveness should tell you she doesn't want to talk about certain issues with you. As others said, just be a friend at work. Don't talk to other staff about her weight or what she eats. I would not be going behind her back and doing it with other staff and checking up on her, especially with what seems the office staff are now judging her on what she eats.

Wolf of Wall Street. Great movie. Really showed the excesses of the 80s and 90s. And Leo's performance was Oscar worthy. 47 Ronin. I had very low expectations going into this because they changed scenes and re-shot the movie. Surprisingly, both my partner and I liked it. Wouldn't mind seeing the original cut to see how much had been changed.

I would be leaving any advice for your friend to the professionals. She's been to the hospital, probably getting advice on her weight by her doctors. She most likely doesn't want to hear 'more advice' from work colleagues. I know I wouldn't want to hear advice or opinions from work colleagues about medical issues that I might have. Weight has become one of those taboo subjects in recent years where even the slightest mention of someone's weight can get you offside. Mention the problems of smoking to a smoker? Maybe. Do the same for someone who's overweight? I wouldn't go there. Overall, not for me to tell work colleagues how to live their lives.

I don't think the writers care about people pointing out inconsistencies. All they see is Finale is a ratings winner!!! So we must be great writers.

Finale was meh. Next season. I'll just gather up all the episodes and watch it in one hit. They already had met a town of people before in Woodbury with the Governor and know that looks can be deceiving. So why not stake out this place for a day or two? Search the perimeter? Reconnoitre and reconnaissance. See if their friends are there from a distance? Can see people but no friends? Hmm, sounds dodgy. Did they lock them up? Nope, they just waltz in the back entrance as if that's going to surprise them.

Snowpiercer. Really enjoyed it. Felt it went a bit too long. Maybe cut about 15 minutes from it.

Thanks. It's the last time I go into a boss fight alone on HC. I will never do that again solo. Co-op games for now. Safety in numbers. Also, doing HC gets you two achievements instead of one as you get the SC achievement as well. It's why I wanted to do HC first. HC Co-op is the best for achievement hunting.

Yeah, I was reading up on it before and it's two separates sources for both TV shows, even though both shows are very similar, almost identical. Also, it appears the French TV show is getting an American adaption titled They Come Back.

The comic is awesome. The show is getting to the point that I can't watch it every week now. I'll just get all the episodes and watch it in one go. I still can't get over how they turn an awesome comic book into a bad TV show. Even characters like Andrea who is still alive in the comic and is a great character, was awful in the show.

Noticed on the internet, people have been saying this is just a rip off of the French TV series Les Revenants (The Returned). So I decided to download this series and.. WOW, now I know why people are saying this is a rip off. The French version is a great show btw.

My partner and I must be one of the very few people that have never had any problems or dramas with flying, other passengers and airports over the last 20 years. Also the online booking, pick your seats, print your ticket is so much easier now for domestic flights. It's great to just walk through without having to do anything. Similar with overseas travel and when checking in, it's never been a problem for us.

I love flying. I can't get enough of it. Also, catch up on watching the movies or take a good book to read and before you know it, you're at your destination

Been watching some new TV shows. From Dusk Till Dawn. Not as good as the movie but it's similar. First episode was from the first 10 minutes or so from the movie but just extended as a TV episode. You can see the main actors are trying to mimic George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino. Even the actor who plays the ranger is trying to be the same as Michael Parks' Earl McGraw. They've changed QT's character with having an 'ability' (and not sure for the better) but I won't mention spoilers. Overall, it was ok and I'll stick with it. Believe. Interesting show with a little girl with powers. Too implausible to believe, not because of the powers but the situations that happen. Where are the police when all the things in the show are happening? Crazy woman wielding a gun in a hospital, the car chases, the car going through a door to a building. No police around. Where are the government agents wanting to take this little girl with powers? No where to be found. Will still watch to see where it goes.. Resurrection. People come back to life after many years, even decades and wake up in weird places. Sort of has a 4400 feel to it with people coming back. Seems to be the best out of these new series.

True Detective. I watched this over the last two nights and I'm glad I waited for all the episodes. Great series. And some great quotes from Rust with every episode.

First problem. Are they being assertive or are they being bossy? They may very well are being bossy and not assertive. Can you give real life examples of how a girl is being assertive and then being labelled bossy? No? The site doesn't either! The site doesn't even give a hypothetical example. It gives no examples at all. Just accept it, okay? Trust us! Second problem. Are they not applying for jobs in their adult years because they were labelled as bossy when they were kids? Or are there other reasons why they didn't have the confidence for not applying for that job? Is it because they might not get the job believing they don't have the necessary skills and nothing to do with labels from their childhood? Is there other reasons why they didn't apply for the job or other reasons why they didn't have the confidence to apply? It's a huge leap to say most/all adult women don't apply for jobs because of something that happened in their youth. I suspect it's probably other reasons than being called bossy when they were 10 years old. Not to say some girls aren't teased during their school years, given names like bossy and this carries over to adulthood. There are cases of people who haven't had a good time during their school years and this has affected their adult life. I suspect there are other reasons at play why a lot of women don't apply for jobs and not what happened during their school years.

I have no idea whether that's true or not. I don't know how you can measure 'confidence' and I don't think it's confidence that's the entire problem. There's more to it. What you've described is a stereotype and can equally apply to a lot of males in that example. For example, swap the gender around in your example and it can still apply. I think you may be confusing 'confidence' with applicants and 'prejudice' from employers which may be a reason why a female didn't get the job - but that is also a stereotype too.

Statistics? No need for that. Some people would have you believe that a thesis was done on this.

What does that even mean. Achieve their full potential? I imagine not many people get to achieve their full potential in life, regardless if they're male or female.