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WCDT (HA!) 12-16 July 2010 (1706-1710)
IanClark:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 14 Jul 2010, 08:35 ---O_o
o_O
OK, this might work out. Hiring a person with genuine OCD can be a real problem (unless you need repetitive tasks done*), and we know that the germophobia will force her into keeping the place clean, but I'm worried about the dynamic between Dora and Hanners. It is a bit more of the mother/mentor thing than boss/employee. That could work, but it's gona be a delicate line for Dora to tread, and she's not the most stable person out there, either.
As my favorite computer voice once said, "It'll all end in tears, I know it!"
*that was meant to be a joke. My apologies to the hand washers, door lock checkers and item touchers out there.
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Dammit Gordon Sharp is not a computer voice!
Anyway, I agree with your interpretation. Not only does there run the risk that they'll experience troubles between them, but it leaves a huge risk for Hannelore to become psychologically dependent on Dora. I mean, before she was sort of the mother figure she never had (that is to say, one who never ran people through wood chippers), but in a small enough dose that it wasn't dangerous. Now that she's gone from that capacity to also taking on the role of her boss, Dora basically runs her life and doesn't realize it. Which is dangerous for both of them.
Unrelated side note, but hiring Hanners is going to be the biggest test so far of CoD's anti-bachelorette power.
nothing:
when I read the one of 13/07/10 (frenemy employment) I immediately thought the sign should say "Bulgarian Yoghurt in everything"
Delirium:
oh HELL yes. the return of Hannelore-That-Was makes me so happy. I hope this means she's getting over her flanderization.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: HiFranc on 14 Jul 2010, 02:11 ---The limit of human hearing is about 20kHz if you're a teenager or younger, and it's approximately 15kHz in later life (the loss of sensitivity to the upper frequencies is a gradual process).
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Don't kid yourself. My limit was down to 17kHz when I joined the BBC at age 22, which I was told was average, and is about 11kHz now. Not to mention the gentle tinnitus; I'm used to it now, but went to see an audiologist about it (useless) about 25 years ago - I have no recollection of when it started or first became noticeable.
Carl-E:
I actually had an odd hearng "dropout", which I found out when I worked at a public radio station. We broadcast the Met operas, and they would send a full spectrum of tones, from 20 Hz (you don't hear that, you feel it) to 24 kHz. The idea was to tweak the soundboard so that the full spectrum was being broadcast.
I could hear everything except the 15 - 17 kHz range, and above 21 kHz. It faded then returned, and the only way I knew they were sending those tones was the announcement and the VU meter pegging. But those high tones - they were killers. The older engineers just looked at me covering my ears, ad laughed.
That was over 20 years ago, but I can still hear up to 14 kHz (anything higher is gone, and so I can't hear the 15 kHz mosquito ring).
Check it out yourself!
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