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Can we talk about me now? (Open bar thread #3,494)

Started by Juana, October 04, 2012, 04:31:11 PM

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Mangrove

Quote from: Cain on October 08, 2012, 02:53:15 PM
I've only slept 14 hours a couple of times in my life, I think.  One of those times would most likely be influenza induced - although strictly speaking I dont think hallucinations count as "sleep".

And the other time was when I spent four days without sleep writing my magnus opus on Al-Qaeda at University.  I'd lived on black coffee, red bull and pro-plus for all of those four days, but by the end I was running out of money, stamina and willpower, so I handed in what I had, then collapsed into bed at...I'm not even sure what time it was, and woke up about 14 hours later, very confused, dehydrated and aching all over.  I think it took me another two days to get back to normal.

I think the hallucinations 'the trailer' that precedes going nuts and dying.
What makes it so? Making it so is what makes it so.

The Good Reverend Roger

BORED BORED BORED.

I just wrote a whole bunch of scripture in the doo bee doo bee doo thread, mostly having to do with ECH's foul emissions.

For this, I will probably be killed, and it's YOUR FAULT for letting me get THAT BORED.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

Right, then, I guess I'll just go make Mike the Engineer lose his shit for a while.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Anna Mae Bollocks

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 06, 2012, 07:04:13 PM
Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on October 06, 2012, 05:11:26 AM
I had to make so many phone calls tonight. The irony of it is that in between phone calls I was frantically texting my kids, where the fuck are you is everything ok, yeah, your mom is busy NOT TAKING CARE OF YOU while she files incident reports on a suicidal pre-teen whose mom was inexplicably unable to care for him.

Meanwhile, the doctors on the hill say they have this new cream that could cut my healing in half, while I leak blood and serum out of a 4 cm open wound with another 6 cm behind it

Something is wrong with EVERYTHING.

I feel a horror story building.  Whether I like it or not.

I hope things shape up.

TGRR,
Off to get the bullet hole in his car fixed.

THAT guy? Is his ass in jail yet?
Scantily-Clad Inspector of Gigantic and Unnecessary Cashews, Texas Division

Anna Mae Bollocks

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on October 06, 2012, 03:51:33 PM
I guess I should also confess that, other than the one ill-fated (don't ask) semester in Junior High on the island, I didn't have any schooling after 3rd grade and took my first math class in college, so I wasn't exposed to any of the boring whatever it is that kids get.

Frankly, I think kids should learn to count and do basic math in kindergarten, and then math should be an elective until senior year. The fact that I was raised in the woods by wild badgers and nonetheless was able to learn the entirely of high school math in three terms really drives home how absurd it is that we for some reason spend years teaching children things that they could learn in weeks, and probably far more easily than my aging and occasionally damaged brain did.

HERESY! AND UTTER TRUTH.

Any aversion to math I have is due to years of excruciating boredom and being switched for getting caught not paying attention.
Scantily-Clad Inspector of Gigantic and Unnecessary Cashews, Texas Division

LMNO

My dad (physicist) used to say, "I love math, but I hate arithmetic."  He then compared the equations he worked with as pieces of music, and arithmetic as scales.  Scales suck.  No one likes playing scales (except for Yingwie Malmsteen).  But if you don't have the rudiments down, you can't play the music.

So if you fall in love with what math can do when you're older, it's a lot easier to get into it if you know your scales.

Cain

I was always "meh" about maths at school.  I was good enough - but it didn't really interest me.

However, teaching maths made me appreciate the way the rules of mathematics, the symmetry and patterns involved in calculations, much more than I did otherwise. 

The Good Reverend Roger

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Juana

Math is the only subject I ever, ever struggled with. I understand it fine, I just can't do it.


Y'know, if this foreign service thing doesn't pan out, I'm half tempted to get into text book writing. God, American text books are /appalling/.
"I dispose of obsolete meat machines.  Not because I hate them (I do) and not because they deserve it (they do), but because they are in the way and those older ones don't meet emissions codes.  They emit too much.  You don't like them and I don't like them, so spare me the hysteria."

The Good Reverend Roger

It occurs to me that I'm wasting an awful lot of time here, talking to a brick fucking wall.

See you guys whenever.  Have fun hitting refresh, you lurking bastards.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

Of course, if I didn't have time to waste, I wouldn't be here in the first place.

But still.  I'm just going to have my computer refresh every 10 minutes, like everyone else, while I go over to a place with some traffic in another tab.  Like Capitol Grilling maybe.  CAPITOL GRILLING GETS MORE POSTS THAN PD.

Oh, the shame!
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

I'd just as soon grab you by the ears and fling you into a goddamned thresher as LOOK at ya.  Fucking  election-squawking, pseudo-intellectual posturing flame-throwing, just-add-laudnum-makes-its-own-spooge Eris-blathering, earwax-flicking, chicken-choking top-posting/bottom-feeding hypocritical mouth-breathing nipple-fixated, shit-generation shit-GENERATING call-it-a-joke-until-its-about-YOU-&-then-shit-a-boat-motor, sanity-straining toe-jam-bottling mite-collecting bandwidth-wasting facsimiles of pornographic dog toys, the whole LOT o' ya. Why, I wouldn't waste the energy it'd take to slap you upside the head with a poodle and I HATE poodles.

Okay, I MIGHT do the poodle thing, that sounds like fun, actually.


" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Elder Iptuous

Quote from: A Very Hairy Monkey In An Ill-Fitting Tunic on October 08, 2012, 04:46:17 AM
Quote from: Elder Iptuous on October 08, 2012, 12:55:41 AM
Have to take my parrot Jake to the vet tomorrow.
Seizures.  :sad:
after doing my homework, it appears to be a common issue with congo greys and can be remedied fairly handily.
very disconcerting to see your parrot have a seizure, though...

That sucks! :(

Well, Jake went to the vet to get his checkup, which quasi-confirmed the initial suspicion.
checkup, blood test, and a calcium injection, and hopefully, all's well.
i got a lamp that provides UVB for him, because, it turns out that they need the UVB to turn the the secretions from their preen glands that get spread out on their feathers into vitamin D, which they then ingest on the next preening.  without sufficient vitamin D, they can't absorb the calcium. then bam-o. seizure town.  i figured he had plenty of light because he is in a well lit room with windows on three sides, but the glass filters out the UVB, so....
an interesting side note there is that, since he can see that part of the spectrum, and since it gets filtered out by glass, and since he spends all his time inside, he hasn't really seen what he's supposed to see for the first 14 years of his life!  when i put the new lamp in, it was obvious that things were different for him all of a sudden.  and he was basking quite contentedly.
i love that little guy.  :)

LMNO

Well, I'm at the studio again, and I've got the wireless.  What now, bitches?

Luna

Training sucks.

BEING trained sucks...  I know how to run a fucking payroll...  And the system this girl has set up is retarded.  The system is familiar enough that, if she dropped off the face of the earth tomorrow, people would still get paid for the next payroll, with a fair amount of bitching and overtime, probably more accurately than she's doing it, now.

However, it means she's over my shoulder ALL FUCKING DAY.  The internet withdrawl is killing me.  I can hop onto Facebook a little, usually on my way to and from the john, and skim shit here at lunchtime (or during a longer stay in the john), but, other than that, I'm netblocked.  :(

I am considering devouring an entire can of chili tonight, just to get a little space tomorrow.
Death-dealing hormone freak of deliciousness
Pagan-Stomping Valkyrie of the Interbutts™
Rampaging Slayer of Shit-Fountain Habitues

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake, and they live in a state of constant, total amazement."

Quote from: The Payne on November 16, 2011, 07:08:55 PM
If Luna was a furry, she'd sex humans and scream "BEASTIALITY!" at the top of her lungs at inopportune times.

Quote from: Nigel on March 24, 2011, 01:54:48 AM
I like the Luna one. She is a good one.

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