Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Maybe Kai's tolerance has reached a new low point.

"This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals"

This pretty much pushes away everyone in America.

To all people who have higher education(s) than me here. I'm 90% complete in my A.A.S in Mechanical Engineering. Can a engineer call themselves a scientist, or is that reserved when I pick up another scientific field, or until I get a BS?

No, you're one of those technician people.  Building things and other grubby stuff.

[Suu]

Speaking of grumbly, I have someone asking for a full Landsknecht set. I can do this, I have access to patterns for it so I don't have to cross my eyes figuring out the hosen. Now I just need to find a source for wool flannel that isn't going to kill me and the client when I slash it to bits.

[Salty]

Huh. I hav never had a BSOD before, thanks Brother!

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Meanwhile on Facebook, my friend seems to be arguing that selective breeding is fundamentally the same as GMO.

I actually loathe BOTH sides of the argument. They are all ignorant absolutists who don't know what they're talking about and should shut the fuck up.

And then this happened:

This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

Broad brush techniques are maybe a requirement in MS programs?

Or maybe Kai has just become a ridiculous elitist stuffed shirt.  Fuck him.

DOUR,
Food down my shirt, knuckles dragging.

He's been increasingly douchey, and decreasingly able to communicate with others without being condescending or throwing a tantrum when his sweeping statements are challenged for a while now. I've lost interest in talking to him.

Yeah, thing is that I keep trying to pretend he'll stop, and go back to being the guy I used to love having around.

But that isn't going to happen.   

Yeah, I don't think so.

If the friend is me, I was talking about irresponsible selective breeding, going for extremes like those chicken that can't walk because they have too much breast meat, or bulldogs that have breathing problems their entire life. That cow or steer or whatever it was had a shaved inflated ass that looked like a 600 lb. pumpkin. The caption had some shit about it being GMO, but FACEBOOK.

I think Kai was just frustrated at that point. Yeah, he was a jerk about it but those people couldn't even argue with him, they were like "YUO TROLLIN".

I let the damn thread die. Fuck it.

[Cain]

Today...today is a good day.

Firstly, the geopolitical forecasting group I applied to like my sample articles enough that they're already asking about publishing rights and throwing around named sums of money on the initial, speculative email. 

And the Turkish people...well, the owner of the company who are doing the recruiting has sent me an email asking for a picture, and wants to talk to me on the phone.

Yes, I like today.  Even if the weather is miserable as shit.

[Reginald Ret]

Today...today is a good day.

Firstly, the geopolitical forecasting group I applied to like my sample articles enough that they're already asking about publishing rights and throwing around named sums of money on the initial, speculative email. 

And the Turkish people...well, the owner of the company who are doing the recruiting has sent me an email asking for a picture, and wants to talk to me on the phone.

Yes, I like today.  Even if the weather is miserable as shit.

WOOOOOOOOO!

[Cain]

Maybe Kai's tolerance has reached a new low point.

"This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals"

This pretty much pushes away everyone in America.

To all people who have higher education(s) than me here. I'm 90% complete in my A.A.S in Mechanical Engineering. Can a engineer call themselves a scientist, or is that reserved when I pick up another scientific field, or until I get a BS?

No, you're one of those technician people.  Building things and other grubby stuff.

Yeah, engineers just track mud through the hallowed and clean halls of science.

[Junkenstein]

Today...today is a good day.

Firstly, the geopolitical forecasting group I applied to like my sample articles enough that they're already asking about publishing rights and throwing around named sums of money on the initial, speculative email. 

And the Turkish people...well, the owner of the company who are doing the recruiting has sent me an email asking for a picture, and wants to talk to me on the phone.

Yes, I like today.  Even if the weather is miserable as shit.

....

Just what kind of employment are these people offering you?

You don't want to end up like Manny.

[Cain]

Oh, babysitting again.  But it's a one-on-one thing, the kid is only 10 and it's temporary.  How temporary determines my interest, of course.

[hooplala]

This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

That's an interesting qualifier.  So he will mix with non-scientist conservatives?  Or non-scientist tea-baggers?  Ooook.

[LMNO]

Maybe Kai's tolerance has reached a new low point.

"This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals"

This pretty much pushes away everyone in America.

To all people who have higher education(s) than me here. I'm 90% complete in my A.A.S in Mechanical Engineering. Can a engineer call themselves a scientist, or is that reserved when I pick up another scientific field, or until I get a BS?

No, you're one of those technician people.  Building things and other grubby stuff.

If the theory holds that fewer characters = dumber statements, then that should hold true, even for smart people who know better.  Even post-grad Biology majors.

And not to sound like a broken record, but this is why I have and will always appreciate E-Prime, regardless of what ALL'YALL (yeah, even YOU.  And YOU) have to say about it.

[Suu]

Holy shit, I'm actually getting WORK. In JANUARY.

Hot damn, I'll be able to make my student loan payments this semester after all!

[Left]

I have to go to the county ER for rabies shot # 4 today, since I didn't yesterday.

...There is no other way to get a course of rabies shots, other than to sit in the waiting-room of the damned.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Holy shit, I'm actually getting WORK. In JANUARY.

Hot damn, I'll be able to make my student loan payments this semester after all!

i'll toast to that!

[LMNO]