OPEN BAR: 50 Shades of Chronic Liver Disease

[LMNO]

Oh, dear.

You really must go into work.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Oh, dear.

You really must go into work.

Can't drive 40 minutes.

Besides, everyone has it.  The management team today consists of 2 people.  My crew consists of 4 people.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So I wanna buy a tablet, but I don't need some high-end galaxy tab or ipad or some shit like that, so does anyone have any recommendations for a decent mid-market tablet? 7 or 10 inch, I could go with either as long as the specs are decent.

I have a Nexus, and I like it.

And that's about all I can say about that.

WhatWhatWHAT??? I'm over here right now. Also, I'm housesitting on Alberta this week. Was wondering if EOT is still doing that DJ thing over there. It's walking distance and all.

Naw, he moved, and then he got stupid sick, and now I don't think he's DJing but our friend opened a new place on Dekum and MLK that has some sweet kareoke.

The High Water Mark? That's someone you know? That's rad, because the owner's awesome and he ordered me Vanilla Stoli when I asked for it and he didn't have it.

Yeah, that's Eric. Total sweetheart. And the super fantastically hot guy bartender is E.O.T.'s housemate.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

SICK

Oh no!

I have found that about 80% of the time, if I have the barfy or the cholera sprayhose, fresh kim chi will kill it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Nigel, that rocks.  You rock.

Thanks, man!

[P3nT4gR4m]

Doctor Nigel has a delightfully ominous ring to it 

[Luna]

SICK

 

[Luna]

Doctor Nigel has a delightfully ominous ring to it 

All the way down the spine, that.  Congrats, Nigel!

[Suu]

I'm about to watch a trainwreck of a family totally derail. I'm confused as to if I should just get popcorn at this point or continue to try to talk her out of things.

Back story: They meet on the internet, he's 20 years older than she is. He leaves his wife for her, and knocks her up. They get married, and she gives birth to a little ADHD monster they can't control. He's Aspergers (supposedly, it took her 3 doctors to get a "diagnosis.") and she fights for him to go on disability because he simply "shuts down" when he tries to work. Somehow, after a year of fighting the courts, they win, they take all the disability money, and move to Florida and immediately get annual passes to all the parks. She gets an internship at Disney, and blows it, in 2 days, because she falls and "hurts herself" at work, and they let her go. They rent a house they can barely afford because she HAD to have a house near Orlando, despite working for about $10 an hour as a receptionist while she gets her MBA from a diploma mill online. She graduates school, after using all her loans to pay for the rent, and they have to move in with her father into one bedroom with bunk beds to "save money" to buy a house, while really just stockpiling her husband's disability money to go to London on a vacation they really cannot afford. Apparently they just found a house they can afford...somehow, despite her husband having no credit, and all this money she's put away for going to London for a week. She always complains that she hates her job and wonders why she can't get a good job with her MBA (derrr, diploma mill. Businesses aren't fucking stupid.) And that her husband cannot control their little monster. So here she is, stockpiling disability checks to go on vacation and pad the bank account to buy a house, while she makes $10/hr. She lives 30 minutes from Universal and STILL got a hotel room for just her and her son for his 5th birthday.......during which he got lost in the park and the police had to help. Oh, and she put her student loans into financial hardship forebearance. Of course.

I cannot wait to see what happens next. 

[hooplala]

I would make a whole shitload of jiffy-pop and laugh.

[Suu]

I would make a whole shitload of jiffy-pop and laugh.

Their kid is going to run off in London and drown in the Thames River. The husband is going to make an ass of himself when it  comes to not wanting to eat anything British and being a total rude fuck (he thinks he's being funny...even Rhode Islanders never found him funny) and she's going to be completely in financial dire straits for the rest of her existence. She's already been quoted that she's only still with her husband until she can replace his disability income, but right now the "tax benefits" are nice.

Oh golddigger, you're doing it wrong.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Yup - definitely popcorn and yucks. Pull up a ringside seat and warm up them mandibles

[EK WAFFLR]

We bought an apartment. Moving in three weeks. Wohooo.

[P3nT4gR4m]

You entering into some kind of settling down period, viking?

[EK WAFFLR]

You entering into some kind of settling down period, viking?

Nah. Just good to have a place for all the loot when I come back from summer raids.