The First Church of the Wrath of Baby Jesus and Open Bar™

[EK WAFFLR]

Alright, who came by to beat the shit out of me while sleeping?
I feel like a tenderizing van has repeatedly run over me.

[Suu]

I skipped school today to get utilities on, because National Grid didn't show up yesterday. So we call them today, and 3 supervisors later they still absolutely refused to come out today, so we have to wait until Monday to get hot water and cooking gas. However, they were more than happy to keep my service on across the hall after I called them back after they hung up on the boyfriend (who took the phone away from me because I was about to pop.) So I went after them on Facebook, and they RESPONDED TO MY FRIEND instead of me.

https://www.facebook.com/NationalGridRI/posts/539308606137524?comment_id=4336696&reply_comment_id=4336872&offset=0&total_comments=3&notif_t=feed_comment

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Haha.  Two days after being informed of "goings on", we managed to catch students ordering in kebabs.

Like, 100 francs worth of kebabs (thats about $100 worth, more or less).

So....I think I know what's for lunch tomorrow.

Want.

Me too.  They've been stored in my bathroom overnight, so that's pretty much the only thing I can smell right now.

NOM NOM NOM! That sounds so good right now.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I was initially stressed out by the math thing and how rusty I am, but now I am playing around on Khan Academy just doing basic algebra exercises and I am remembering how perfect and lovely and soothing math is.

That is not how I remember maths. Note that in the UK they hit us with them in plural. Maybe that's why I found they had a tendency to scamper around the inside of my head rattling pots and pans and flipping me the bird when I tried to catch them. Maybe the american method of tackling them one at a time might have been easier?

Quite possibly.

I just like it because it  has order, and form, and consistency, and if you understand the logic everything makes sense, and there are no exceptions; math is ALWAYS logical, and it ALWAYS follows the same system. If I have a wrong answer, it is because I made a mistake, and all I need to do is go back and figure out where that mistake is.

That's exactly why I DON'T like it. It doesn't leave me any wiggle room.

I'm with Nigel.
With math you always know who to blame if bad things happen. With everything else there is plausible deniability. The clarity math gives allows for absolute responses, no wishy-washy "let's give only 1/10th of a punishment because i might be wrong" bullshit, just "wrong? ok. KILL ALL EVERYTHING!"

But if you show all your work and got the steps right and just messed up with signing or an exponent or something, you still get credit. Everybody wins!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

"When is a good time to call you?"

"WHEN IS A GOOD TIME TO CALL YOU?"

YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST TELL ME YOU'RE DYING, YOU BASTARD. YOU BASICALLY JUST DID. There is absolutely no reason my telephone-loathing uncle would want to TALK TO ME ON THE PHONE if he isn't dying.

This sucks. He's only in his mid-50's. I need to figure out a time to go up there and visit him.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

That sucks nigel. Sorry to hear it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That sucks nigel. Sorry to hear it.

Thank you. It does suck. I have accepted that I have entered the age range when my friends and family will start dying regularly (I lost several few to the AIDS epidemic when I was young, but that leveled off) but it still sucks, and is extra lame because I am close to almost no one on my mom's side of the family.

[LMNO]

I agree.  This sucks.  I hope the news is not as grim as the context implies.

[EK WAFFLR]

Sorry to hear that, Nigel. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

 I just talked to him and he is doing OK, his left side is paralyzed right now because they just removed one of the tumors in his brain but he's regaining sensation already. He found out day before yesterday, and had surgery yesterday. They also found cancer in his lymph node and lung, which means it's metastasized, which pretty much means it's a matter of how long, not if. My only hope right now is that he recovers enough to spend some time with his grandnieces and nephews, and to take some more of the beautiful photographs he loves so much. He's young, not even 60 yet. He is my most cantankerous, opinionated, and at times abrasive uncle. Also my only surviving uncle. He's kind of like if I had been a guy born in the 1950's.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I just talked to him and he is doing OK, his left side is paralyzed right now because they just removed one of the tumors in his brain but he's regaining sensation already. He found out day before yesterday, and had surgery yesterday. They also found cancer in his lymph node and lung, which means it's metastasized, which pretty much means it's a matter of how long, not if. My only hope right now is that he recovers enough to spend some time with his grandnieces and nephews, and to take some more of the beautiful photographs he loves so much. He's young, not even 60 yet. He is my most cantankerous, opinionated, and at times abrasive uncle. Also my only surviving uncle. He's kind of like if I had been a guy born in the 1950's.

I'm so sorry Nigel. But at least he still has some time left, whatever the amount may be.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I just talked to him and he is doing OK, his left side is paralyzed right now because they just removed one of the tumors in his brain but he's regaining sensation already. He found out day before yesterday, and had surgery yesterday. They also found cancer in his lymph node and lung, which means it's metastasized, which pretty much means it's a matter of how long, not if. My only hope right now is that he recovers enough to spend some time with his grandnieces and nephews, and to take some more of the beautiful photographs he loves so much. He's young, not even 60 yet. He is my most cantankerous, opinionated, and at times abrasive uncle. Also my only surviving uncle. He's kind of like if I had been a guy born in the 1950's.

I'm so sorry Nigel. But at least he still has some time left, whatever the amount may be.

Yeah. Crossing my fingers.

[Ben Shapiro]

PIGGING OUT ON DRAGONFRUIT IT WAS ON SALE FOR $2.99/LB NOMNOMNOMNOM It's a superfood for your heart!

[Nephew Twiddleton]

PIGGING OUT ON DRAGONFRUIT IT WAS ON SALE FOR $2.99/LB NOMNOMNOMNOM It's a superfood for your heart!

YOU KNOW WHY THEY CALL IT NATURE'S CANDY? IT METABOLIZES INTO SUGAR!!!!


I'm more of a savory-bitter guy, myself. Tend to avoid fruit. Sucker for dark chocolate though.

[Ben Shapiro]

It's like the perfect berry. It's taste like a cactus apple. I can't stop eating them!