What the fucking shit? :crankey:
Bloody hell. Nothing fucking works. Going to bed.
Bed's broke (don't ask). So here's ten things I hate about you fucking primates.
1. People who point at their wrist while asking for the time...I know where my watch is pal, where the fuck is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?
2. People who are willing to get off their butt to search the entire room for the tv remote because they refuse to walk to the tv and change the channel manually.
3. When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". What damned good is a fucking cake if you can't eat it? Idiot.
4. When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it?
5. When people say while watching a film "Did you see that?" No, loser, I pay good money to go to the cinema and stare at the damn floor.
6. People who ask "Can I ask you a question?" You gave me no choice, did you, sunshine?
7. When something is "new and improved!" Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.
8. When people say "life is short". Life is the longest thing anyone ever experiences. What can you do that's longer?
9. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus had come, would I be standing there?
10. People who PM me and ask me why I fucking hate people. Fuck off. Shut up.
Teamspag?
Quote from: Billy the Twid on January 27, 2012, 03:10:26 AM
Teamspag?
Team speak 3 Discordian channel. I still have the maddshark connection, so I might be out of date.
Very useful for talking to people in Europe without opening a vein.
Also, in my near-fatal boredom, I will now pontificate to an empty forum on the subject of global politics...And all you need to know about world politics is this:
EVERY government is a criminal conspiracy to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few, and to suppress dissent among the rest.
Big thieves hang little thieves.
Rich people get richer by getting poor people to kill each other in the name of a phony ideal.
Kill a hundred people and you spend your life in jail. Kill a million people and you ride to the opera in a limousine.
And, to swipe from Lords of War, the biggest 5 arms dealers in the world are also the 5 permanent members of the UN security council.
There. You are now an expert on politics. You may pay homage at my feet beginning now.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 03:18:37 AM
Also, in my near-fatal boredom, I will now pontificate to an empty forum on the subject of global politics...And all you need to know about world politics is this:
EVERY government is a criminal conspiracy to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few, and to suppress dissent among the rest.
Big thieves hang little thieves.
Rich people get richer by getting poor people to kill each other in the name of a phony ideal.
Kill a hundred people and you spend your life in jail. Kill a million people and you ride to the opera in a limousine.
And, to swipe from Lords of War, the biggest 5 arms dealers in the world are also the 5 permanent members of the UN security council.
There. You are now an expert on politics. You may pay homage at my feet beginning now.
Must I? How much homage?
AND, while I'm at it, I feel ever so motivated to give you all a right thrashing, I am so very incensed, yet my carpet whisk is bent from the last time and I am not prepared to step up to a baseball bat just yet, as I still harbor some minute hope that you will snap to and allow a gentleman to read his old copies of SPANKING LESBIANS in peace again. Please give my proposal serious consideration and forestall my alternate plan of pouring thumbtacks into your codpieces. Thanks ever so.
This offer void in Ohio, Baptist churches, Texas ice houses, Texas, and Cram's house.
Quote from: Billy the Twid on January 27, 2012, 03:21:02 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 03:18:37 AM
Also, in my near-fatal boredom, I will now pontificate to an empty forum on the subject of global politics...And all you need to know about world politics is this:
EVERY government is a criminal conspiracy to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few, and to suppress dissent among the rest.
Big thieves hang little thieves.
Rich people get richer by getting poor people to kill each other in the name of a phony ideal.
Kill a hundred people and you spend your life in jail. Kill a million people and you ride to the opera in a limousine.
And, to swipe from Lords of War, the biggest 5 arms dealers in the world are also the 5 permanent members of the UN security council.
There. You are now an expert on politics. You may pay homage at my feet beginning now.
Must I? How much homage?
I said "MAY", I'm not into the whole authoritarian trip. You can just demonstrate your eternal gratitude by mailing LMNO something squishy, so that he may be reminded that all is, in the end, used tuck-tape.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 03:48:25 AM
Quote from: Billy the Twid on January 27, 2012, 03:21:02 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 03:18:37 AM
Also, in my near-fatal boredom, I will now pontificate to an empty forum on the subject of global politics...And all you need to know about world politics is this:
EVERY government is a criminal conspiracy to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few, and to suppress dissent among the rest.
Big thieves hang little thieves.
Rich people get richer by getting poor people to kill each other in the name of a phony ideal.
Kill a hundred people and you spend your life in jail. Kill a million people and you ride to the opera in a limousine.
And, to swipe from Lords of War, the biggest 5 arms dealers in the world are also the 5 permanent members of the UN security council.
There. You are now an expert on politics. You may pay homage at my feet beginning now.
Must I? How much homage?
I said "MAY", I'm not into the whole authoritarian trip. You can just demonstrate your eternal gratitude by mailing LMNO something squishy, so that he may be reminded that all is, in the end, used tuck-tape.
Hmm. I'll have to see if I still have his return address.
BORED.
BORED BORED BORED.
EXPLAIN TO ME WHY I SHOULD NOT DESTROY YOU, EARTHLINGS.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 04:01:22 AM
BORED.
BORED BORED BORED.
EXPLAIN TO ME WHY I SHOULD NOT DESTROY YOU, EARTHLINGS.
Robot lesbians are in the near future?
That's a good reason, I think.
Quote from: Don Coyote on January 27, 2012, 04:02:17 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 04:01:22 AM
BORED.
BORED BORED BORED.
EXPLAIN TO ME WHY I SHOULD NOT DESTROY YOU, EARTHLINGS.
Robot lesbians are in the near future?
I've been hearing that since 1985. I still don't have one. Or two. Yeah, you need two, or you sort of lose the effect.
Try again, human.
Because only robots from the future like Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, and Badbeast will survive the blasts.
Quote from: Don Coyote on January 27, 2012, 04:02:17 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 04:01:22 AM
BORED.
BORED BORED BORED.
EXPLAIN TO ME WHY I SHOULD NOT DESTROY YOU, EARTHLINGS.
Robot lesbians are in the near future?
Ooh I should introduce you to some reasons why that might not be as desirable as you'd think.
Quote from: Alty on January 27, 2012, 04:04:45 AM
Because only robots from the future like Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, and Badbeast will be the only things to survive the blasts.
But not in YOUR shelter. Only a deity that
really hated you would do a thing like that.
They should put a warning on these cheap scanners: DO NOT PUT MIRRORS IN SCANNER.
Because my printer turned inside out and the wireless mouse is humping my leg and quoting scripture.
Roger this state just OK'd me to drive, my car to function, and by proxy, me to purchase rifles, shotguns, or black powder arms.
How do I get this grin off my face?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 04:14:24 AM
They should put a warning on these cheap scanners: DO NOT PUT MIRRORS IN SCANNER.
Because my printer turned inside out and the wireless mouse is humping my leg and quoting scripture.
Why do I feel the need to do this?
Quote from: Richter on January 27, 2012, 04:20:16 AM
Roger this state just OK'd me to drive, my car to function, and by proxy, me to purchase rifles, shotguns, or black powder arms.
How do I get this grin off my face?
Imagine co-starring in
The Crying Game with Susan Brownmiller.
Then just do what comes naturally. NOTE: This may cause the state to revoke said privileges, at the very least. But you'll never grin again.
Quote from: Don Coyote on January 27, 2012, 04:20:51 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 04:14:24 AM
They should put a warning on these cheap scanners: DO NOT PUT MIRRORS IN SCANNER.
Because my printer turned inside out and the wireless mouse is humping my leg and quoting scripture.
Why do I feel the need to do this?
Because you're
not well. My cursor is just jumping up and down, up and down...
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 04:14:24 AM
They should put a warning on these cheap scanners: DO NOT PUT MIRRORS IN SCANNER.
Because my printer turned inside out and the wireless mouse is humping my leg and quoting scripture.
Give it a picture of Newt Gingrich next.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 04:22:23 AM
Quote from: Richter on January 27, 2012, 04:20:16 AM
Roger this state just OK'd me to drive, my car to function, and by proxy, me to purchase rifles, shotguns, or black powder arms.
How do I get this grin off my face?
Imagine co-starring in The Crying Game with Susan Brownmiller.
Then just do what comes naturally. NOTE: This may cause the state to revoke said privileges, at the very least. But you'll never grin again.
:horrormirth:
There we go.
Quote from: Richter on January 27, 2012, 04:27:01 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 04:14:24 AM
They should put a warning on these cheap scanners: DO NOT PUT MIRRORS IN SCANNER.
Because my printer turned inside out and the wireless mouse is humping my leg and quoting scripture.
Give it a picture of Newt Gingrich next.
Too late. It's demanding that I build it a mate.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 04:23:06 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on January 27, 2012, 04:20:51 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 04:14:24 AM
They should put a warning on these cheap scanners: DO NOT PUT MIRRORS IN SCANNER.
Because my printer turned inside out and the wireless mouse is humping my leg and quoting scripture.
Why do I feel the need to do this?
Because you're not well. My cursor is just jumping up and down, up and down...
Just so you know, I am blaming you for the small hole in the fabric of Spaes/tiem on yuo. Luck for the locals I have a tomahawk and the horrors crawling out of my moniter don't like steel.
Quote from: Don Coyote on January 27, 2012, 04:28:33 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 04:23:06 AM
Quote from: Don Coyote on January 27, 2012, 04:20:51 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 04:14:24 AM
They should put a warning on these cheap scanners: DO NOT PUT MIRRORS IN SCANNER.
Because my printer turned inside out and the wireless mouse is humping my leg and quoting scripture.
Why do I feel the need to do this?
Because you're not well. My cursor is just jumping up and down, up and down...
Just so you know, I am blaming you for the small hole in the fabric of Spaes/tiem on yuo. Luck for the locals I have a tomahawk and the horrors crawling out of my moniter don't like steel.
It was Freeky what done it, Boss Coyote! I wouldn't cross ya like that!
Bored again.
Going to gobble pills and annoy Enabler. G'night.
Fuck, not team Spag!
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Thread delivers.
And I apologize for not being around what with the school stuff and this experimental "social life".
We need to start throwing more meat into Roger's cage again.
Whoa
and to think I didn't click on this thread immediately because I assumed it wasn't going to be that interesting!
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Played some Civ V tonight. Anyone who plays that, here?
And if so, did you know you can nuke your own cities?
TGRR,
Ran out of enemies before he ran out of ICBMs. Vote for me.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2012, 06:44:58 AM
Played some Civ V tonight. Anyone who plays that, here?
And if so, did you know you can nuke your own cities?
TGRR,
Ran out of enemies before he ran out of ICBMs. Vote for me.
Hot damn! Ya got my vote. :lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2012, 06:32:31 AM
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WHAT THE HELL? :lulz:
:lulz:
She has a stomach-butt!
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2012, 07:13:56 PM
:lulz:
She has a stomach-butt!
I believe it's called a "gunt"
I just cut my ear shaving.
I don't know what's worse: Managing to cut yourself shaving despite 31 years of experience shaving, and the best razor money can buy...or the fact that I in fact must shave my ears.
What happens if you don't shave your ears?
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2012, 10:00:05 PM
What happens if you don't shave your ears?
They get hairy. Inside & out. I feel that I am obligated by common decency to protect the world from that sight.
Wow...yeah. That's my chosen profession! I get to transport that person with all the ethics, caring and proffessionalism I can muster up!
And believe it or not, that guy's the least of my concerns. It's always the "normal" looking ones. Sneak-attack feces parties. 15-year-old little anorexic girls who suddenly pick up the gun...and who take four grown men to restrain. The nice, 80-year-old, frail grandma with altered mental status who spews forth a barrage of expletive insults for you, the cops and anyone within earshot.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2012, 09:49:57 PM
I just cut my ear shaving.
I don't know what's worse: Managing to cut yourself shaving despite 31 years of experience shaving, and the best razor money can buy...or the fact that I in fact must shave my ears.
:lulz:
People are nuts. I'm sitting here at 11:45 on Saturday night, half asleep listing to some local radio show, here are two grown men talking about arks, pyramid aliens, and gods. These are grown, educated men, with high paying jobs that have become completely insane and they get paid and accepted for it. People line up to call in and tell THEIR stories about what they thought happened to them after eating a large garbage pizza and reading Whitley Strieber right before bed, and these ASSHOLES egg them on in their psychosis.
Now here I am, more or less a rational everyday middle class wage slob, and I used to actually respect what PhDs thought about the world and the way things are...Now I think they're all a bunch of whackjob bozos. Thats not to say I'm better then them...Well yes I am saying that, PEOPLE ARE MORONS, no matter WHAT letters they have after their names.
Don't these people have kids or families or something? People that might be EMBARRASSED that the ONE GUY in the family who got his doctorate is on the radio babbling about alien love messiahs?
It also occurs to me that it's only a few weeks until I have to endure Saint Patrick's Day again.
Yeah, a big ol' Erin go bugger to all you contentious, alcoholic, bipolar, swaggering, staggering, badgering, blustering, brain-damaged, half-inbred, half-dicked, hair-trigger-brawling, loud-mouthed bags of monkey meat. I hope you get ebola from a toilet seat and it works its way outwards from your privates.
Same to the goddamned Irish as well, they're nuts.
One last thing for tonight, as if anyone's actually here to read it...It IS really important to keep up with the news, etc.
I mean, I know it's too much data, and it's confusing and bad for your mental health and you can't really DO anything about them anyway so it fills you with a sense of disempowerment and helplessness....
But it's important to know what's going on.
That way when the bombs start going off and everything collapses, and you're turned into powder, you'll know WHY.
Or at least, your own little version of WHY.
And that's important.
I am supposed to bring something in to class on Tuesday that reflects the current state of U.S. military imperialism.
I know I won't have any problems finding something, I'm just afraid to go look.
Quote from: Nigel on January 29, 2012, 07:05:13 AM
I am supposed to bring something in to class on Tuesday that reflects the current state of U.S. military imperialism.
I know I won't have any problems finding something, I'm just afraid to go look.
Tell Cain you wanna see it ALL, NO FILTERS.
Then, without reading, cut & paste it into word and turn it in. It will be a race between the prof being hauled to the nut-hatch and you being hauled to some nameless navy brig as a "person of interest".
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2012, 07:01:12 AM
It also occurs to me that it's only a few weeks until I have to endure Saint Patrick's Day again.
Yeah, a big ol' Erin go bugger to all you contentious, alcoholic, bipolar, swaggering, staggering, badgering, blustering, brain-damaged, half-inbred, half-dicked, hair-trigger-brawling, loud-mouthed bags of monkey meat. I hope you get ebola from a toilet seat and it works its way outwards from your privates.
Same to the goddamned Irish as well, they're nuts.
I when I first started reading this post, I noticed nearly half of the qualities on your list applied to me. And then I saw i was adequately covered when you mentioned the Irish. :lulz:
Back to work.
Everything is an utter shambles. Boredom = over.
Quote from: Doktor M. Phox0 on January 29, 2012, 08:29:16 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2012, 07:01:12 AM
It also occurs to me that it's only a few weeks until I have to endure Saint Patrick's Day again.
Yeah, a big ol' Erin go bugger to all you contentious, alcoholic, bipolar, swaggering, staggering, badgering, blustering, brain-damaged, half-inbred, half-dicked, hair-trigger-brawling, loud-mouthed bags of monkey meat. I hope you get ebola from a toilet seat and it works its way outwards from your privates.
Same to the goddamned Irish as well, they're nuts.
I when I first started reading this post, I noticed nearly half of the qualities on your list applied to me. And then I saw i was adequately covered when you mentioned the Irish. :lulz:
I have been invited to spend the day at the home of a friend who is half Irish and half Portugese. His corned beef and cabbage (a dish which which I have never been able to smell without gagging) is awesome. There will be massive amounts of beer, and likely a trip to the local Irish pub, where God Himself will not be able to save the live band if they do not come prepared with the RIGHT music, or flub a verse.
As my divorce will be filed by that date (finally), I will be SERIOUS about having a good time.
So, last year, Filthy Assistant wanted to test a 26,000 RPM gearbox that has a ceramic head on the bench, and I told him no, because if the ceramic broke, it would machine gun everyone in the shop to death.
While I was gone, the gearbox acted up again. Filthy Assistant told Richard to set it up for a bench test, and Richard - despite my orders that nobody was to follow FA's instructions, did so.
The contractor's test equipment had a problem, and the test got delayed til today. Well, it would have been, if I wasn't here. I threw a wobbler unlike any ever seen here, unlike any I have thrown since I left the military. Filthy Assistant got so rattled the boss made him take the rest of the day off, and Richard is now scrubbing out the oil storage area while he contemplates his sins. I am, however, having the new apprentice bring him coffee (though I have forbidden the apprentice - and anyone else - from helping him).
What the fuck gets into these peoples' heads? They've been in the business 20-30 years longer than I have, and they still decide they're clever and do horribly dangerous things.
Well, The Good Reverend Howl has the cure for THAT.
HEY, ASSHOLE!
Just in case you didn't notice, YOU SUCK. Your posts are STUPID AND BORING and I don't even read people's responses to them because it's just one dumbass trying to out-dumbass another dumbass.
Dumb jerks.
YEAH I MEAN YOU, ASSHOLE! Everything you say is just stupid and dumb and any response you get which isn't some kind of outright admiration of your NONEXISTENT brilliance is met with you by enraged indignance over people's failure to recognise how cool hip hep now wow groovy gear rockin' and whatever else the hell you think you are and are wrong about.
We are all supposed to take you as some kind of unquestionable holy idol just because you think you don't stink like crappy crap and turds, BUT YOU DO, and vomit too. You can't even get basic facts straight, you DON'T MAKE ANY SENSE, and everything you say about anything is so embarrassingly naive, foolish, idiotic and dopey it makes me ashamed of not being able to beat you bloodily into a twenty year coma, strap you into a hospital bed and yank your feeding tube out of your nose.
Ignoramus doesn't even come close to expressing the all encompassing cluelessness and lack of simple basic knowledge about ANYTHING that characterizes you, your stupid posts, your lamebrained ideas, your feeble weak attempts at wit, humor and sarcasm, your EVERYTHING and ANYTHING you empty cat food can of a person substitute.
If I pooped a turd out of my butt that was as stinky and stupid looking and gross and dumb and moronic as you I would start to really worry about something, because my VERY DUNG is to you as Sir Isaac J. Einstien is to some retarded mongoloid brain-damaged freak cripple monkeyfaced hydrocephalic paralytic colostomy bag wearing shrivelled hook handed twitching zombie poopie-head bedridden I DON'T KNOW WHAT.
GOT IT? So SHUT UP.
Or Kill Me.
My stress levels popped back to normal within 20 minutes of returning to work. So that's something.
Fuckers. All fuckers.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 05:33:21 PM
So, last year, Filthy Assistant wanted to test a 26,000 RPM gearbox that has a ceramic head on the bench, and I told him no, because if the ceramic broke, it would machine gun everyone in the shop to death.
While I was gone, the gearbox acted up again. Filthy Assistant told Richard to set it up for a bench test, and Richard - despite my orders that nobody was to follow FA's instructions, did so.
The contractor's test equipment had a problem, and the test got delayed til today. Well, it would have been, if I wasn't here. I threw a wobbler unlike any ever seen here, unlike any I have thrown since I left the military. Filthy Assistant got so rattled the boss made him take the rest of the day off, and Richard is now scrubbing out the oil storage area while he contemplates his sins. I am, however, having the new apprentice bring him coffee (though I have forbidden the apprentice - and anyone else - from helping him).
What the fuck gets into these peoples' heads? They've been in the business 20-30 years longer than I have, and they still decide they're clever and do horribly dangerous things.
Well, The Good Reverend Howl has the cure for THAT.
Holy shit. I know enough about machines to know not to fuck with them and to listen to people more mechanically inclined... and this scared the hell out of me. Even I understand the concept of shrapnel...
Any hope some idiot(s) will be fired over this?
Quote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 06:38:21 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 05:33:21 PM
So, last year, Filthy Assistant wanted to test a 26,000 RPM gearbox that has a ceramic head on the bench, and I told him no, because if the ceramic broke, it would machine gun everyone in the shop to death.
While I was gone, the gearbox acted up again. Filthy Assistant told Richard to set it up for a bench test, and Richard - despite my orders that nobody was to follow FA's instructions, did so.
The contractor's test equipment had a problem, and the test got delayed til today. Well, it would have been, if I wasn't here. I threw a wobbler unlike any ever seen here, unlike any I have thrown since I left the military. Filthy Assistant got so rattled the boss made him take the rest of the day off, and Richard is now scrubbing out the oil storage area while he contemplates his sins. I am, however, having the new apprentice bring him coffee (though I have forbidden the apprentice - and anyone else - from helping him).
What the fuck gets into these peoples' heads? They've been in the business 20-30 years longer than I have, and they still decide they're clever and do horribly dangerous things.
Well, The Good Reverend Howl has the cure for THAT.
Holy shit. I know enough about machines to know not to fuck with them and to listen to people more mechanically inclined... and this scared the hell out of me. Even I understand the concept of shrapnel...
Any hope some idiot(s) will be fired over this?
That's too kind.
And it would deprive me of my horrible, horrible revenge.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 06:39:16 PM
Quote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 06:38:21 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 05:33:21 PM
So, last year, Filthy Assistant wanted to test a 26,000 RPM gearbox that has a ceramic head on the bench, and I told him no, because if the ceramic broke, it would machine gun everyone in the shop to death.
While I was gone, the gearbox acted up again. Filthy Assistant told Richard to set it up for a bench test, and Richard - despite my orders that nobody was to follow FA's instructions, did so.
The contractor's test equipment had a problem, and the test got delayed til today. Well, it would have been, if I wasn't here. I threw a wobbler unlike any ever seen here, unlike any I have thrown since I left the military. Filthy Assistant got so rattled the boss made him take the rest of the day off, and Richard is now scrubbing out the oil storage area while he contemplates his sins. I am, however, having the new apprentice bring him coffee (though I have forbidden the apprentice - and anyone else - from helping him).
What the fuck gets into these peoples' heads? They've been in the business 20-30 years longer than I have, and they still decide they're clever and do horribly dangerous things.
Well, The Good Reverend Howl has the cure for THAT.
Holy shit. I know enough about machines to know not to fuck with them and to listen to people more mechanically inclined... and this scared the hell out of me. Even I understand the concept of shrapnel...
Any hope some idiot(s) will be fired over this?
That's too kind.
And it would deprive me of my horrible, horrible revenge.
I do not know what said oil storage area looks like, but scrubbing it sounds hideous, and like an appropriate warmup.
Seems like Filthy Assistant will need something more creative. I hope you'll be able to share.
I was thinking firings not for revenge, but for the not-getting-Roger-killed-by-stupid factor.
Quote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 06:43:44 PM
Seems like Filthy Assistant will need something more creative. I hope you'll be able to share.
I was thinking firings not for revenge, but for the not-getting-Roger-killed-by-stupid factor.
These things don't happen when I'm around.
Not because I'd object to someone killing me (God knows you bastards won't), but because I have
standards.
so ronery, I'm so ronery...
Okay, I guess I better just go piss off Mike the engineer.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 07:01:09 PM
Quote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 06:43:44 PM
Seems like Filthy Assistant will need something more creative. I hope you'll be able to share.
I was thinking firings not for revenge, but for the not-getting-Roger-killed-by-stupid factor.
These things don't happen when I'm around.
Not because I'd object to someone killing me (God knows you bastards won't), but because I have standards.
I AM glad you caught it. While I believe stupid should hurt, and should, in extreme cases, be fatal, I expect there were people in the room who didn't deserve to get shredded.
Quote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 07:23:57 PM
I expect there were people in the room who didn't deserve to get shredded.
I rather doubt that.
In any case, I'm glad you responded. I was beginning to feel like I was watching PD TV, where everyone views all the time, and nobody says a word. I have never before associated being bored and lonely with an internet forum, but I am being conditioned that way by PD recently.
I am also developing a deep-seated hatred of lurkers. Seriously.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 07:26:31 PM
Quote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 07:23:57 PM
I expect there were people in the room who didn't deserve to get shredded.
I rather doubt that.
In any case, I'm glad you responded. I was beginning to feel like I was watching PD TV, where everyone views all the time, and nobody says a word. I have never before associated being bored and lonely with an internet forum, but I am being conditioned that way by PD recently.
I am also developing a deep-seated hatred of lurkers. Seriously.
I do when I can, sadly limited by being at work, training a moron as my replacement, and posting on my phone since the nannywall here is locked tighter than a hummingbird's twat. (What I go through to fix typos is insane.)
It has occurred to me that, if I am reading and put the phone down to go back to the elephant dump sized pile of work I have here, it probably looks like I am lurking. Possibly for days.
Quote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 07:32:15 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 07:26:31 PM
Quote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 07:23:57 PM
I expect there were people in the room who didn't deserve to get shredded.
I rather doubt that.
In any case, I'm glad you responded. I was beginning to feel like I was watching PD TV, where everyone views all the time, and nobody says a word. I have never before associated being bored and lonely with an internet forum, but I am being conditioned that way by PD recently.
I am also developing a deep-seated hatred of lurkers. Seriously.
I do when I can, sadly limited by being at work, training a moron as my replacement, and posting on my phone since the nannywall here is locked tighter than a hummingbird's twat. (What I go through to fix typos is insane.)
It has occurred to me that, if I am reading and put the phone down to go back to the elephant dump sized pile of work I have here, it probably looks like I am lurking. Possibly for days.
It ain't you, Luna. You have the good grace to occasionally speak to people.
But it's like this place has turned into television for wierdos.
Everyone wants to look at what everyone posted, but nobody wants to post. Or even say hello. Figures, you wouldn't say hello to the plastic people on daytime TV, would you? And that's what we're becoming.
If you post, you're not jabbering with the community, you're jabbering AT it, because IT'S "viewing". You're television. Or a fucking nook or something. Or just a trained monkey. Hey, check out the funny little monkey! I wish they had little cyber hats we could throw change into. Or a button I could click to LIKE the monkey.
But interact with the monkey? Don't be stupid. That would be like WORK. I might have to THINK. Fuck that, I'm not getting PAID for it, right? So to hell with that, I'm gonna VIEW. All fucking day.
Annnnnnd my rant gland has shriveled up.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 07:33:11 PM
Quote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 07:32:15 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 07:26:31 PM
Quote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 07:23:57 PM
I expect there were people in the room who didn't deserve to get shredded.
I rather doubt that.
In any case, I'm glad you responded. I was beginning to feel like I was watching PD TV, where everyone views all the time, and nobody says a word. I have never before associated being bored and lonely with an internet forum, but I am being conditioned that way by PD recently.
I am also developing a deep-seated hatred of lurkers. Seriously.
I do when I can, sadly limited by being at work, training a moron as my replacement, and posting on my phone since the nannywall here is locked tighter than a hummingbird's twat. (What I go through to fix typos is insane.)
It has occurred to me that, if I am reading and put the phone down to go back to the elephant dump sized pile of work I have here, it probably looks like I am lurking. Possibly for days.
It ain't you, Luna. You have the good grace to occasionally speak to people.
I try. Mom did her best with me, anyway.
I wish I could post like I used to, but often, I read from home, and any conversations are effectively over. Hoping the next job makes things easier.
And, I have some personal shit going down.
Let me be clear, here: I am not referring to people who check in from work, and don't have time to do much. I am referring to the habitual lurkers who are here every day, but can't be arsed to take part in a conversation or even say "hello".
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
Lurkers can be quite annoying, because if everyone is lurking then there is nothing going on.
I'm trying to get myself out of this (I have been posting more, at least it seems like it to me) but everyone here is so much better at conveying thoughts than I that it is quite intimidating.
I will admit that there have been plenty of times that I wished this forum had some equivalent of a 'like' button. But that is because it's the easy way, the safe way. Clicking a button doesn't leave a chance of being ignored or yelled at or whatever.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:02:57 PM
Let me be clear, here: I am not referring to people who check in from work, and don't have time to do much. I am referring to the habitual lurkers who are here every day, but can't be arsed to take part in a conversation or even say "hello".
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
So where would the best place be to say hello? I thought that was pretty much what open bar was for, but no one wants that thread back.
Quote from: Sita on January 30, 2012, 08:11:16 PM
Lurkers can be quite annoying, because if everyone is lurking then there is nothing going on.
Precisely. Also, rants don't thrive in a vacuum. They feed off of each other. When not enough people are participating, it comes to an end.
Quote from: Sita on January 30, 2012, 08:11:16 PM
I'm trying to get myself out of this (I have been posting more, at least it seems like it to me) but everyone here is so much better at conveying thoughts than I that it is quite intimidating.
Lots of people won't go to the gym for the same reason. They're all flabby and the people there are all muscled and they'll feel intimidated. What they don't know is that - much like here - most gym rats will try to encourage people to participate. We do not demand Faulkner or Fitzgerald; we ask only participation. The technical quality will come with time, just as the physical condition will come with time to a person who sucks it up and actually goes to the gym.
Quote from: Sita on January 30, 2012, 08:11:16 PM
So where would the best place be to say hello? I thought that was pretty much what open bar was for, no one wants that thread back.
I'd say the best place would be in a thread that's caught your interest. There's nothing more disheartening than to post a rant or an article and then see 200 views and no responses.
The change I made was to post replies to high quality work expressing the equivalent to 'good' even if I felt it wasn't an adequate response. I had nothing worth saying to Nigels dad thread but at least ny putting it out there that I found it was great I got some ideas rolling, loosened up my own thoughts and turned a one off post into something that felt like a discussion.
Quote from: Sita on January 30, 2012, 08:11:16 PM
Lurkers can be quite annoying, because if everyone is lurking then there is nothing going on.
I'm trying to get myself out of this (I have been posting more, at least it seems like it to me) but everyone here is so much better at conveying thoughts than I that it is quite intimidating.
I will admit that there have been plenty of times that I wished this forum had some equivalent of a 'like' button. But that is because it's the easy way, the safe way. Clicking a button doesn't leave a chance of being ignored or yelled at or whatever.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:02:57 PM
Let me be clear, here: I am not referring to people who check in from work, and don't have time to do much. I am referring to the habitual lurkers who are here every day, but can't be arsed to take part in a conversation or even say "hello".
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
So where would the best place be to say hello? I thought that was pretty much what open bar was for, but no one wants that thread back.
Anywhere, Sita. Like this.
Find an opening, and fill it.
Yeah, some of these guys are intimidating as hell... but, I swear, almost NONE of them can actually reach through the inter.net to bite you. (I am not sure about GIGGLES.)
Will some of 'em do it verbally? Maybe. I have phrased things badly and gotten chewed for it... I'm learning to do it better.
Practice. :wink:
Quote from: Placid Dingo on January 30, 2012, 08:16:38 PM
The change I made was to post replies to high quality work expressing the equivalent to 'good' even if I felt it wasn't an adequate response. I had nothing worth saying to Nigels dad thread but at least ny putting it out there that I found it was great I got some ideas rolling, loosened up my own thoughts and turned a one off post into something that felt like a discussion.
EXACTLY. THIS ^^^
Nobody is expecting Shakespeare, here. The idea is to have conversations, not an E-Zine.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:19:19 PM
Quote from: Placid Dingo on January 30, 2012, 08:16:38 PM
The change I made was to post replies to high quality work expressing the equivalent to 'good' even if I felt it wasn't an adequate response. I had nothing worth saying to Nigels dad thread but at least ny putting it out there that I found it was great I got some ideas rolling, loosened up my own thoughts and turned a one off post into something that felt like a discussion.
EXACTLY. THIS ^^^
Nobody is expecting Shakespeare, here. The idea is to have conversations, not an E-Zine.
My response in that thread, if I recall, was nothing more brilliant than, "wow."
Lurking lets your brain idle. Run it through its paces once in awhile.
But lurking is how new people don't get their faces eaten!
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on January 30, 2012, 08:24:05 PM
But lurking is how new people don't get their faces eaten!
Nope. Not being asshats is how new people don't get their faces eaten.
New people learning the ropes isn't the issue, I suspect, it's the ones who have done little but lurk for a long time.
What's even worse than lurkers is people who won't acknowledge someone because they feel a rivalry, or because they're nursing some ancient stern damage.
I mean, this is the fucking internet, right? Even *I* get over my butthurt in fairly short order, and as far as rivalry goes, just exactly how much are we being PAID for this?
The FUNNY ones - to me, personally - are the ones who disapprove of my (or someone else's, same thing) attitude or beliefs. The person in question (me, usually), is the WRONG KIND OF DISCORDIAN, and any encouragement would RUIN IT ALL FOREVER.
And the very funniest part of THAT is that they think they're not being obvious about it.
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on January 30, 2012, 08:24:05 PM
But lurking is how new people don't get their faces eaten!
Actually, being civil is how people don't get their faces eaten.
Lurking is no different than sitting in front of the teevee.
Quote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 08:26:08 PM
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on January 30, 2012, 08:24:05 PM
But lurking is how new people don't get their faces eaten!
Nope. Not being asshats is how new people don't get their faces eaten.
New people learning the ropes isn't the issue, I suspect, it's the ones who have done little but lurk for a long time.
Yep. Backsliders. Indulgers in false slack. Mentally lazy.
Ready for NASCAR.
Quote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 08:23:58 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:19:19 PM
Quote from: Placid Dingo on January 30, 2012, 08:16:38 PM
The change I made was to post replies to high quality work expressing the equivalent to 'good' even if I felt it wasn't an adequate response. I had nothing worth saying to Nigels dad thread but at least ny putting it out there that I found it was great I got some ideas rolling, loosened up my own thoughts and turned a one off post into something that felt like a discussion.
EXACTLY. THIS ^^^
Nobody is expecting Shakespeare, here. The idea is to have conversations, not an E-Zine.
My response in that thread, if I recall, was nothing more brilliant than, "wow."
Lurking lets your brain idle. Run it through its paces once in awhile.
Gotcha. A single word post of acknowledgement is better than nothing. I think I can do that.
You can still get your face eaten while lurking.
Well, at least, I can and have.
I was going to post the below, but then I read the 14 replies that showed up after I found time to write it.
QuoteWell, I suppose one of the perception problems is that I log on in the morning and leave it in the background all day. So while I'm doing work, it looks like I'm just lurking.
And yeah, I have been reading more than I've been writing. My "fucking around" time has been constrained for the last few months, and will continue to do so for the next few.
So, I may as well not be perceived as part of the problem. Signing out now until I have more time to hang.
Saved for posterity.
Quote from: Iron Sulfide on January 30, 2012, 08:31:28 PM
You can still get your face eaten while lurking.
Well, at least, I can and have.
I've been doing exactly that for two pages.
:lulz:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 30, 2012, 08:31:43 PM
I was going to post the below, but then I read the 14 replies that showed up after I found time to write it.
QuoteWell, I suppose one of the perception problems is that I log on in the morning and leave it in the background all day. So while I'm doing work, it looks like I'm just lurking.
And yeah, I have been reading more than I've been writing. My "fucking around" time has been constrained for the last few months, and will continue to do so for the next few.
So, I may as well not be perceived as part of the problem. Signing out now until I have more time to hang.
Saved for posterity.
Again, LMNO, this ain't about people who have to actually work or run after a kid or something. You don't have TIME, that's fine. You are hardly a "lurker".
Also, I really regret even mentioning it, because now Coyote's changed his name to FUCKED OFF and buggered off again.
There is no way to do this sort of thing without hitting everyone EXCEPT your targets. :argh!:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:27:47 PM
What's even worse than lurkers is people who won't acknowledge someone because they feel a rivalry, or because they're nursing some ancient stern damage.
I mean, this is the fucking internet, right? Even *I* get over my butthurt in fairly short order, and as far as rivalry goes, just exactly how much are we being PAID for this?
The FUNNY ones - to me, personally - are the ones who disapprove of my (or someone else's, same thing) attitude or beliefs. The person in question (me, usually), is the WRONG KIND OF DISCORDIAN, and any encouragement would RUIN IT ALL FOREVER.
And the very funniest part of THAT is that they think they're not being obvious about it.
It boggles my poor little brain that there is, apparently, a WRONG way...
The only wrong way, IMHO, is NOT to do it.
There's a LOT of shit to read here. I have SO MUCH to catch up on.
I've been trying my damnedest not to be an utter douche lately, too.
Also, at least I'm not playing/talking about Skyrim.
I re-read that after posting and it sounded kind of douche-y. I'm working on it.
Quote from: Iron Sulfide on January 30, 2012, 08:35:13 PM
There's a LOT of shit to read here. I have SO MUCH to catch up on.
I've been trying my damnedest not to be an utter douche lately, too.
Also, at least I'm not playing/talking about Skyrim.
1. Cable TV has like 900 channels now, too. This obviously means you can't watch any new program unless you hit On Demand and watch everything from the beginning. At least according to the logic that says you have to read every thread on PD before you can respond to anything. Just saying.
2. The Skyrim thread makes me belch hatred uncontrollably. Coyote's take off on it was brilliant, though...Though I can't see the images unless I'm posting from home.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:38:18 PM
2. The Skyrim thread makes me belch hatred uncontrollably. Coyote's take off on it was brilliant, though...Though I can't see the images unless I'm posting from home.
You could move it to the RPG subforum, where no one would notice it and it would die a slow death.
Quote from: Iron Sulfide on January 30, 2012, 08:35:13 PM
There's a LOT of shit to read here. I have SO MUCH to catch up on.
I've been trying my damnedest not to be an utter douche lately, too.
Also, at least I'm not playing/talking about Skyrim.
Playing Skyrim is fine. Talking about it is fine. Hell, if I knew we have more SW:TOR players here, I might have a thread to discuss that, because it's something I enjoy. But, if that's all that's going on, it doesn't give those of us who don't play much to riff off of.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 30, 2012, 08:39:25 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:38:18 PM
2. The Skyrim thread makes me belch hatred uncontrollably. Coyote's take off on it was brilliant, though...Though I can't see the images unless I'm posting from home.
You could move it to the RPG subforum, where no one would notice it and it would die a slow death.
I'll leave that up to the OP and ECH. I mean, if I can rant in AT, then the video game freaks can jabber about Skyrim in AT, right?
Quote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 08:39:46 PM
Quote from: Iron Sulfide on January 30, 2012, 08:35:13 PM
There's a LOT of shit to read here. I have SO MUCH to catch up on.
I've been trying my damnedest not to be an utter douche lately, too.
Also, at least I'm not playing/talking about Skyrim.
Playing Skyrim is fine. Talking about it is fine. Hell, if I knew we have more SW:TOR players here, I might have a thread to discuss that, because it's something I enjoy. But, if that's all that's going on, it doesn't give those of us who don't play much to riff off of.
That's the killer, right there. If we only have 12-15 regular, every day posters left, and 8 of them are talking about nothing but video games, we may as well repurpose the board.
Not saying NOT to post in threads like that, but maybe they ought to post somewhere else, too.
I also think - just my opinion - that we have too many subforums for the current level of traffic on the board. We don't have a hundred regular users anymore. We have less than 30, at best.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:34:23 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 30, 2012, 08:31:43 PM
I was going to post the below, but then I read the 14 replies that showed up after I found time to write it.
QuoteWell, I suppose one of the perception problems is that I log on in the morning and leave it in the background all day. So while I'm doing work, it looks like I'm just lurking.
And yeah, I have been reading more than I've been writing. My "fucking around" time has been constrained for the last few months, and will continue to do so for the next few.
So, I may as well not be perceived as part of the problem. Signing out now until I have more time to hang.
Saved for posterity.
Again, LMNO, this ain't about people who have to actually work or run after a kid or something. You don't have TIME, that's fine. You are hardly a "lurker".
Also, I really regret even mentioning it, because now Coyote's changed his name to FUCKED OFF and buggered off again.
There is no way to do this sort of thing without hitting everyone EXCEPT your targets. :argh!:
Something that has been beat into my head lately, that I think more people need to think about, is that if you are not called out by name then it is quite probable that you are not the one being complained about.
And I'm amazed how something as simple as the term lurker can be taken so badly. I thought it was fairly obvious that a lurker would be someone that goes months logging in but saying nothing. Not someone that doesn't post every day, multiple times a day.
Quote from: Sita on January 30, 2012, 08:44:01 PM
Something that has been beat into my head lately, that I think more people need to think about, is that if you are not called out by name then it is quite probable that you are not the one being complained about.
And I'm amazed how something as simple as the term lurker can be taken so badly. I thought it was fairly obvious that a lurker would be someone that goes months logging in but saying nothing. Not someone that doesn't post every day, multiple times a day.
In this case, I was talking about the Skyrim thread, and he thought I was talking about his Skyrim WOMP thread. I think.
Also, if you're not sure if you're the target, ask. This is the internet...Nobody can punch you in the nose. Plus, it beats flouncing for a few months only to find out later that you weren't being talked about at all, which has happened here more than once.
Asking instead of just assuming and withdrawing into yourself.
These are new things to me. Will keep it in mind.
Quote from: Sita on January 30, 2012, 08:52:44 PM
Asking instead of just assuming and withdrawing into yourself.
These are new things to me. Will keep it in mind.
It works in real life, too. People are often startled by direct questions...And if they WERE fucking with you, 90% of the time they'll stop, because they equate you asking about it with you calling them on it, and they equate you calling them on it with "find someone else to fuck with".
ETA: Being the quite inoffensive one doesn't help you get along, it helps you get shit on.
11Unless you're Leln, who would kill a motherfucker just for spitting in the road. Cut you just for standing, shoot you if you try to run.
Quote from: Sita on January 30, 2012, 08:52:44 PM
Asking instead of just assuming and withdrawing into yourself.
These are new things to me. Will keep it in mind.
It's a bitch of a thing to learn, and it's hard.
Here's the advance lesson: If he (anybody) IS talking about you... so what? Examine what was said, determine if they're right, and decide if it matters. If they are wrong, fuck 'em. If it doesn't matter, fuck 'em. If it DOES... Well, examine yourself to see if changes are needed.
Have i missed a shit ton of Skyrim posts, or something?
'cause i only see 5 posts today in the thread that i know of.... (3 of which were mine. did i ruined the whole board for the day?)
Quote from: Iptuous on January 30, 2012, 09:03:40 PM
Have i missed a shit ton of Skyrim posts, or something?
'cause i only see 5 posts today in the thread that i know of.... (3 of which were mine. did i ruined the whole board for the day?)
Yes.
And your fucking penance is to read no less than 10 of THESE:
http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/zenindex.html
And deliver a review of the quality of said koans.
...o....
..ok...
:eek:
Quote from: Iptuous on January 30, 2012, 09:12:12 PM
...o....
..ok...
:eek:
Be respectful, though. That's Ashida Kim, there. He can kill you with his navel, right through the internet.
i will read and respond, (I like a good Koan or ten) but it won't help out the board today, i fear. i have to go home and deal with the ATF shortly. the downside of disappointing them are even more immediate and material than doing so to you. (not to disparage your anti-skyrim wrath in the least, Rev.)
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:02:57 PM
Let me be clear, here: I am not referring to people who check in from work, and don't have time to do much. I am referring to the habitual lurkers who are here every day, but can't be arsed to take part in a conversation or even say "hello".
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
Hm, I hardly ever even look at the "Who's online" screen, except to check if someone I care about may or may not be replying to me right now or not, mostly to decide if I can do something else or if I might want to wait a few minutes and read it :)
So there's lurkers. With accounts I assume because the guests could be any sort of bot or random passer-by (or do you check the IPs of guests too?), are they people who have posted before, or just zero-to-low post accounts? (just wondering)
Quote from: Iptuous on January 30, 2012, 09:19:47 PM
i will read and respond, (I like a good Koan or ten) but it won't help out the board today, i fear. i have to go home and deal with the ATF shortly. the downside of disappointing them are even more immediate and material than doing so to you. (not to disparage your anti-skyrim wrath in the least, Rev.)
The BATFuckers aren't dangerous.
PEOPLE are dangerous.
Factoid: 341 people were injured in 2004 when they attempted to iron clothes that they were wearing.
The BATFuckers are redundant.
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 30, 2012, 09:21:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:02:57 PM
Let me be clear, here: I am not referring to people who check in from work, and don't have time to do much. I am referring to the habitual lurkers who are here every day, but can't be arsed to take part in a conversation or even say "hello".
We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
Hm, I hardly ever even look at the "Who's online" screen, except to check if someone I care about may or may not be replying to me right now or not, mostly to decide if I can do something else or if I might want to wait a few minutes and read it :)
So there's lurkers. With accounts I assume because the guests could be any sort of bot or random passer-by (or do you check the IPs of guests too?), are they people who have posted before, or just zero-to-low post accounts? (just wondering)
Check the IP of guests? Nope. I don't even look at them, thanks to the shiny new software changes.
And I don't tell YOU how to be a better Belgian, sir. I do not tell you what kind of cheese to eat, or which nations to pick fights with twice a century. Therefore, I would appreciate it if you would get out of my hair when I am trying to be a better American, which is to say "police state monster".
No wonder you're always being invaded. Pushy bastards.
that's easy to say when you're not being audited. :p
and how do i know that the fellow that they are going to send to me isn't one of those very knuckle draggers with a self inflicted 2nd degree, now coming to my residence with the same iron in hand?!
Quote from: Iptuous on January 30, 2012, 09:26:59 PM
that's easy to say when you're not being audited. :p
and how do i know that the fellow that they are going to send to me isn't one of those very knuckle draggers with a self inflicted 2nd degree, now coming to my residence with the same iron in hand?!
Spray starch all over yourself before he arrives.
It's the only way to be safe.
That said, on the subject of participation, I'm really happy that I did that cartoon. It's more original content than the usual joke, explanation, question, challenge, constructive criticism or tech-support explanation I post most of the time. Although the latter two are probably valuable content, that I enjoy posting, that cartoon had the SHITS and GIGGLES of BAD WROGN FUN that PD ought to be saturated with in its best moments.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 09:26:29 PMCheck the IP of guests? Nope. I don't even look at them, thanks to the shiny new software changes.
Not sure, I can see them? And if I click on the IP it'll show me who posted under that IP? (though most of them are unknown)
I will CHECK!!
Mystictomato, Adenine, Coyote and Khara. LURRRRRRRRRRRKERRRRRRRRRRS
Why'd Coyote change his nick to "Fucked off"? Did I miss anything?
QuoteAnd I don't tell YOU how to be a better Belgian, sir. I do not tell you what kind of cheese to eat, or which nations to pick fights with twice a century. Therefore, I would appreciate it if you would get out of my hair when I am trying to be a better American, which is to say "police state monster".
No wonder you're always being invaded. Pushy bastards.
Huh? Just in case we're not having good fun here, I don't think you're a police state monster.
And I'll have you know, we have 234 words for "cheese", because of its many uses, to coat the roads with in winter, the tiny flavour blobs in Belgian toothpaste, insect repellant, insect lure, insect cheese, denture glue... must I go on?
NOW, I MUST PEE
brb.
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 30, 2012, 09:36:32 PM
Mystictomato, Adenine, Coyote and Khara. LURRRRRRRRRRRKERRRRRRRRRRS
Why'd Coyote change his nick to "Fucked off"? Did I miss anything?
I think he mistook my vitriol toward the Skyrim thread as vitriol towards his rather hilarious Skyrim WOMP thread.
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 30, 2012, 09:36:32 PM
Huh? Just in case we're not having good fun here, I don't think you're a police state monster.
And that's where you've gone dreadfully wrong. I am a 21st Century American™, and while you Eurofreaks may do all manner of perverse and degrading things in your bedrooms and cafes, WE are FREE, and we STAY THAT WAY by making sure nobody is being a degenerate or saying the wrong sorts of things. You know,
unpatriotic things. Freedom is for people who DESERVE it, who EARN it, who are willing to FIT IN. Not for bizarre people who can't settle down and act like all the Good Citizens.
I see ... ANYWAY back to the subject of cheese, how does Freedom factor into those yellow rubber squares you call "cheddar"?
Also, seeing that you can view pics hosted on PD but not much anywhere else, I was thinking, I might be able to cheese-whip up something for that, button that makes images proxy through PD, for those with corporate internet constipation. Course there's a bunch of other things here now that need fixing too, but I'm no one if not easily distracted :P
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 09:10:10 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on January 30, 2012, 09:03:40 PM
Have i missed a shit ton of Skyrim posts, or something?
'cause i only see 5 posts today in the thread that i know of.... (3 of which were mine. did i ruined the whole board for the day?)
Yes.
And your fucking penance is to read no less than 10 of THESE:
http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/zenindex.html
And deliver a review of the quality of said koans.
Cost: well over $200m. Disregarding the ethics of such expenditure on a film, this unprecedented extravagance has not resulted in sophisticated or even very satisfying storytelling (11 Oscars notwithstanding). The main problem concerns characterisation and structure. A framing device in which contemporary fortune hunters question a now ancient survivor, followed by a romance between upper-crust but frustrated Rose (Winslet) and a poor but plucky artist (DiCaprio), entails not only a needlessly protracted build-up to the collision, but primitive plotting and performances. Moreover, the sudden, skimpy, soggy love story leads to a conclusion that's perversely uplifting: if your love's strong, you never really lose each other. (Piffle!) That said, the effects mostly ensure pretty gripping spectacle once the boat begins breaking up.
Even then, however, most of the best scenes - excepting a memorably macabre floating necropolis - are so reminiscent of Rank's superior 1958 movie A Night to Remember that Eric Ambler's name would not look amiss on the new film's credits. (Bizarrely, however, Cameron neglects the poignant fact that a nearby ship failed to respond to the Titanic's SOS, thus upping the body count considerably.)
Unlike its namesake, this glossy, bombastic juggernaut will not sink. Everyone will see it anyway, and so they should, if only to ponder the future of mainstream cinema.
Quote from: Sita on January 30, 2012, 08:31:23 PMQuote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 08:23:58 PMMy response in that thread, if I recall, was nothing more brilliant than, "wow."
Lurking lets your brain idle. Run it through its paces once in awhile.
Gotcha. A single word post of acknowledgement is better than nothing. I think I can do that.
Yeah. And not to harp on Luna's "wow", one thing I've been trying lately is this. As been said, single-emoticon-replies aren't much more useful than a +1 Like button. Personally I took that to mean singular "awesome" or "that was great" remarks as well. So what I've been doing is to not just say that, but also include a few words on
why I liked it.
It's easy, whatever comes to mind, you know why you like it right? It'll sound real trite at first, you think, "but that's why everyone likes it, so why say it?" except that IS NOT SO! :) Maybe half the people like it for that reason, so why not be the voice for that half? If someone feels they should add to it, they will. The point is, maybe you're liking the writing for something the author hadn't even thought of. Or maybe it is EXACTLY what they intended it to be and they'll be all gleeful and shit. Or maybe someone else will think "oooohhh I hadn't considered that, now I like it that way as well!" et cetera etc
Again, not to dismiss a simple "wow" btw. Sometimes that's all you have time for, sometimes even all you can really say about it. But sometimes you will think to say "Wow. I especially liked the part about the cheese." and then it's even better. Especially in the case of cheese.
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 30, 2012, 09:50:45 PM
I see ... ANYWAY back to the subject of cheese, how does Freedom factor into those yellow rubber squares you call "cheddar"?
It's not the cheddar that makes America dark and ugly, Trip, it's the processed American cheese slices. If I could change ONE thing about America, I'd walk right past the horrible oligarchy and the banksters, and instead force Kraft to make REAL FUCKING CHEESE.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 10:43:15 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 30, 2012, 09:50:45 PM
I see ... ANYWAY back to the subject of cheese, how does Freedom factor into those yellow rubber squares you call "cheddar"?
It's not the cheddar that makes America dark and ugly, Trip, it's the processed American cheese slices. If I could change ONE thing about America, I'd walk right past the horrible oligarchy and the banksters, and instead force Kraft to make REAL FUCKING CHEESE.
To my shame, I must confess I have some of that not-cheese in my fridge, and I do humbly apologize if Trip accidentally mistook it for food while visiting and consumed some.
I don't know what my system would do with actual cheese, but I bet it would be horrible.
Quote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 10:54:11 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 10:43:15 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 30, 2012, 09:50:45 PM
I see ... ANYWAY back to the subject of cheese, how does Freedom factor into those yellow rubber squares you call "cheddar"?
It's not the cheddar that makes America dark and ugly, Trip, it's the processed American cheese slices. If I could change ONE thing about America, I'd walk right past the horrible oligarchy and the banksters, and instead force Kraft to make REAL FUCKING CHEESE.
To my shame, I must confess I have some of that not-cheese in my fridge, and I do humbly apologize if Trip accidentally mistook it for food while visiting and consumed some.
I don't know what my system would do with actual cheese, but I bet it would be horrible.
I actually used the stuff for a while. When I discovered "hey this is just like the stuff McDonalds puts on cheeseburgers!!" but then, this once time, I covered an entire pizza in it, and I was cured. Later on I found that proper Gouda is far superior on a burger anyway. Which you should know because we had that shit at the CT meetup :D
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 30, 2012, 11:32:48 PM
Quote from: Luna on January 30, 2012, 10:54:11 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 10:43:15 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 30, 2012, 09:50:45 PM
I see ... ANYWAY back to the subject of cheese, how does Freedom factor into those yellow rubber squares you call "cheddar"?
It's not the cheddar that makes America dark and ugly, Trip, it's the processed American cheese slices. If I could change ONE thing about America, I'd walk right past the horrible oligarchy and the banksters, and instead force Kraft to make REAL FUCKING CHEESE.
To my shame, I must confess I have some of that not-cheese in my fridge, and I do humbly apologize if Trip accidentally mistook it for food while visiting and consumed some.
I don't know what my system would do with actual cheese, but I bet it would be horrible.
I actually used the stuff for a while. When I discovered "hey this is just like the stuff McDonalds puts on cheeseburgers!!" but then, this once time, I covered an entire pizza in it, and I was cured. Later on I found that proper Gouda is far superior on a burger anyway. Which you should know because we had that shit at the CT meetup :D
Everything about that weekend was awesome, including the food. I occasionally had no idea what I was eating, but it was great.
If only this stupid Internet wouldn't have allowed me to make friends with people on the other side of the globe, we could have those burgers WAY more often!!
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 31, 2012, 12:02:56 AM
If only this stupid Internet wouldn't have allowed me to make friends with people on the other side of the globe, we could have those burgers WAY more often!!
Two word solution: come back!
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2012, 06:50:06 AM
People are nuts. I'm sitting here at 11:45 on Saturday night, half asleep listing to some local radio show, here are two grown men talking about arks, pyramid aliens, and gods. These are grown, educated men, with high paying jobs that have become completely insane and they get paid and accepted for it. People line up to call in and tell THEIR stories about what they thought happened to them after eating a large garbage pizza and reading Whitley Strieber right before bed, and these ASSHOLES egg them on in their psychosis.
Now here I am, more or less a rational everyday middle class wage slob, and I used to actually respect what PhDs thought about the world and the way things are...Now I think they're all a bunch of whackjob bozos. Thats not to say I'm better then them...Well yes I am saying that, PEOPLE ARE MORONS, no matter WHAT letters they have after their names.
Don't these people have kids or families or something? People that might be EMBARRASSED that the ONE GUY in the family who got his doctorate is on the radio babbling about alien love messiahs?
Not Coast2Coast?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2012, 07:01:12 AM
It also occurs to me that it's only a few weeks until I have to endure Saint Patrick's Day again.
Yeah, a big ol' Erin go bugger to all you contentious, alcoholic, bipolar, swaggering, staggering, badgering, blustering, brain-damaged, half-inbred, half-dicked, hair-trigger-brawling, loud-mouthed bags of monkey meat. I hope you get ebola from a toilet seat and it works its way outwards from your privates.
Same to the goddamned Irish as well, they're nuts.
Holllld up there, chucklehead. Mardi Gras is 21 Feb yet...and don't forget all the fuck-a-doodle-doos who celebrate Steak And A Blow Job day on the 14th.
What? What's that you say? That's not what it's called? Oh, and I suppose now you're gonna tell me Unlimited Anal Sex Day after lent is a lie too.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:43:16 PM
I also think - just my opinion - that we have too many subforums for the current level of traffic on the board. We don't have a hundred regular users anymore. We have less than 30, at best.
This is an interesting observation,. Catching up on this thread, but quoting it so it doesn't sink. This ties into Cramulus' idea that we need to curate our content a bit more.
Quote from: Telarus on January 31, 2012, 12:49:54 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:43:16 PM
I also think - just my opinion - that we have too many subforums for the current level of traffic on the board. We don't have a hundred regular users anymore. We have less than 30, at best.
This is an interesting observation,. Catching up on this thread, but quoting it so it doesn't sink. This ties into Cramulus' idea that we need to curate our content a bit more.
We need to what?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 12:56:44 PM
Quote from: Telarus on January 31, 2012, 12:49:54 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:43:16 PM
I also think - just my opinion - that we have too many subforums for the current level of traffic on the board. We don't have a hundred regular users anymore. We have less than 30, at best.
This is an interesting observation,. Catching up on this thread, but quoting it so it doesn't sink. This ties into Cramulus' idea that we need to curate our content a bit more.
We need to what?
Organize shit better and more efficiently. He's agreeing with you.
The only problem with fewer subforms I can see is, who grabs the shovel and moves stuff?
Quote from: Luna on January 31, 2012, 12:59:40 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 12:56:44 PM
Quote from: Telarus on January 31, 2012, 12:49:54 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:43:16 PM
I also think - just my opinion - that we have too many subforums for the current level of traffic on the board. We don't have a hundred regular users anymore. We have less than 30, at best.
This is an interesting observation,. Catching up on this thread, but quoting it so it doesn't sink. This ties into Cramulus' idea that we need to curate our content a bit more.
We need to what?
Organize shit better and more efficiently. He's agreeing with you.
The only problem with fewer subforms I can see is, who grabs the shovel and moves stuff?
I was just thinking of smashing a few together.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 01:00:45 PM
Quote from: Luna on January 31, 2012, 12:59:40 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 12:56:44 PM
Quote from: Telarus on January 31, 2012, 12:49:54 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:43:16 PM
I also think - just my opinion - that we have too many subforums for the current level of traffic on the board. We don't have a hundred regular users anymore. We have less than 30, at best.
This is an interesting observation,. Catching up on this thread, but quoting it so it doesn't sink. This ties into Cramulus' idea that we need to curate our content a bit more.
We need to what?
Organize shit better and more efficiently. He's agreeing with you.
The only problem with fewer subforms I can see is, who grabs the shovel and moves stuff?
I was just thinking of smashing a few together.
Logical, and leaves room to break out again when traffic picks back up.
Curate: to serve as curator for: to curate an art exhibition.
The forum spaces we've carved out are fairly good for generating and discussing our content, but then it just sits there. I guess it's an odd thing to think of, because threads are inherently the "property" of everyone involved in the thread.
But a process to present the content from some of the threads would help. I've been thinking about it, and a cyclical, iterative process sounds best.
I think the first thing to do would be to nominate threads for curation, and move them to a sub-forum for a while. Then whoever's interested has a space to collaborate with the others interested. Then the thread gets re-framed into a whatever (PDF, comic strip, etc, etc).
Then the final product gets put back into the subforum that the original thread came from, with a link to the original thread in the archive subforum.
[Edit] I'm in favor of smashing a few subforums together.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2012, 07:09:13 AM
Quote from: Nigel on January 29, 2012, 07:05:13 AM
I am supposed to bring something in to class on Tuesday that reflects the current state of U.S. military imperialism.
I know I won't have any problems finding something, I'm just afraid to go look.
Tell Cain you wanna see it ALL, NO FILTERS.
Then, without reading, cut & paste it into word and turn it in. It will be a race between the prof being hauled to the nut-hatch and you being hauled to some nameless navy brig as a "person of interest".
I'm not sure I can bring the shock, drugged up as I am, but if you want the basics:
Over 800 military installations spread over six continents.
More spending on military than the next 50 nations combined.
Over the past decade, has directly taken part in or supported wars and insurgencies/counterinsurgency in: Afghanistan, Iraq, Colombia, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Liberia, Uganda, Pakistan, Mexico, Kenya and Djibouti.
Has made it clear it will accept no constraints on its ability to act overseas (Obama and Bush).
Typically gets involved in conflcits which do not concern the "national security" of the USA but instead intervenes in conflict zones where control over vital resources and their transportation is a concern (if the US just wanted to secure oil, the cheapest way would be to buy it, but it's about oil ownership and transportation - especially preventing Russia or Iran exerting international influence via such measures). Wars which support the wealth of the ruling class are a typical feature of imperialism dating back to the Persians, at the very least.
The USA co ordinates action and deals with the world more through its military than via its diplomatic and intelligence agencies. The regional US commander is often deferred to as the ultimate arbiter of foreign policy in their region, above and beyond any state-level ambassador. The only place this is probably not true is Europe, where face-to-face communication among leaders is more important.
While dressing up its wars in humanitarian guises, it is nevertheless the case that America's wars are about putting their proxies into power first and foremost. Thus, in Afghanistan, the role of the warlords in plunging the country into civil war, a civil war that led directly to the rise of the Taliban, was overlooked in defeating the Taliban. In Iraq, the US cooperated to put an Iranian-linked political party in power, in order to break the Sunni resistance. It then sided with the Sunni resistance when it became clear that Shiite state power was growing too quickly, as was Iranian influence in the country. It also coordinated with official enemies, such as the Mahdi Army, where it proved useful (such as when al-Sadr was "cleaning shop" in 2007-8, ie getting rid of those commanders who threatened his own power base). In Libya, the torturing regime of Gadaffi was overthrown, but the new regime is now torturing former regime loyalists, as well as killing African migrant workers. Thus, the concern is not human rights, but whether a leader is able to be pressured effectively into acting in ways the US approves of, ie; control of a foreign nation, or imperialism.
That should do for now.
Put my son on an early flight back to the Marines this morning. :sad:
As of now, I get to see him 30 days a year for the next 5 years at least.
Ugh. Well, that's more that I was seeing my family when I moved out... Wow, I was really an ungrateful little shit, wasn't I?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 02:09:28 PM
Put my son on an early flight back to the Marines this morning. :sad:
As of now, I get to see him 30 days a year for the next 5 years at least.
Condolences. My mom's in the Army, creeping up not-quite-fast-enough on retirement. We get to see her a lot more than that, but I know the feeling.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 31, 2012, 02:17:18 PM
Ugh. Well, that's more that I was seeing my family when I moved out... Wow, I was really an ungrateful little shit, wasn't I?
He's a family type. Once he gets married and has kids, we'll probably hardly see him.
I was fairly surprised that while he was on leave, he spent about half his time with us. I was expecting more like 20% at best.
Quote from: Cainad on January 31, 2012, 02:18:19 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 02:09:28 PM
Put my son on an early flight back to the Marines this morning. :sad:
As of now, I get to see him 30 days a year for the next 5 years at least.
Condolences. My mom's in the Army, creeping up not-quite-fast-enough on retirement. We get to see her a lot more than that, but I know the feeling.
My dad was always on the research ship when I was a sprat. Thing is, it's different when it's your kid. I keep having to reminding myself that he knows what he's doing.
From the a column by Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen, in the
Chicago Tribune.
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The senior citizen who enjoys reasonably good health should stop talking about the miseries of old age, how no one loves him, and how much time he has on his hands. There is no easier way to lose respect and affection than to become garrulous, obstinate, grouchy and quarrelsome.
So what am I supposed to do, JUST SIT HERE? Don't you see this leaves me with NOTHING?
If the bastard hadn't died already, I'd have to punch him in his fat face.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 06:13:15 PM
From the a column by Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen, in the Chicago Tribune.
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The senior citizen who enjoys reasonably good health should stop talking about the miseries of old age, how no one loves him, and how much time he has on his hands. There is no easier way to lose respect and affection than to become garrulous, obstinate, grouchy and quarrelsome.
So what am I supposed to do, JUST SIT HERE? Don't you see this leaves me with NOTHING?
If the bastard hadn't died already, I'd have to punch him in his fat face.
Doesn't apply to those who are already grouchy and quarrelsome.
I'm SO bored, I'm not going to hate on anyone for a solid week.
For SCIENCE and shit.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 06:23:16 PM
I'm SO bored, I'm not going to hate on anyone for a solid week.
For SCIENCE and shit.
I am concerned that your head will explode.
Quote from: Luna on January 31, 2012, 06:24:30 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 06:23:16 PM
I'm SO bored, I'm not going to hate on anyone for a solid week.
For SCIENCE and shit.
I am concerned that your head will explode.
I'll be fine. What could go wrong? I am in charge of my emotions, not some horrible elder God thingie.
I can do this.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 06:27:20 PM
Quote from: Luna on January 31, 2012, 06:24:30 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 06:23:16 PM
I'm SO bored, I'm not going to hate on anyone for a solid week.
For SCIENCE and shit.
I am concerned that your head will explode.
I'll be fine. What could go wrong? I am in charge of my emotions, not some horrible elder God thingie.
I can do this.
Of course you can. Just mind the blood pressure, is all.
Quote from: Luna on January 31, 2012, 06:31:48 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 06:27:20 PM
Quote from: Luna on January 31, 2012, 06:24:30 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 06:23:16 PM
I'm SO bored, I'm not going to hate on anyone for a solid week.
For SCIENCE and shit.
I am concerned that your head will explode.
I'll be fine. What could go wrong? I am in charge of my emotions, not some horrible elder God thingie.
I can do this.
Of course you can. Just mind the blood pressure, is all.
You misunderstand. I am not only going to not EXPRESS hate, I'm not going to FEEL it.
what mighty PILLZ have you come into possession of to allow for this?!
You're going to record your head exploding for our entertainment, right?
Quote from: Iptuous on January 31, 2012, 06:54:36 PM
what mighty PILLZ have you come into possession of to allow for this?!
Holy ones. They're like the other ones, but God put twice as much of the good stuff in 'em.
No, really, I'm FINE.
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on January 31, 2012, 06:55:15 PM
You're going to record your head exploding for our entertainment, right?
Why would my head explode? Nothing in there but happy thoughts. Fluffy white clouds. Unicorns. Pink monkeys. Shit like that.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 06:56:12 PM
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on January 31, 2012, 06:55:15 PM
You're going to record your head exploding for our entertainment, right?
Why would my head explode? Nothing in there but happy thoughts. Fluffy white clouds. Unicorns. Pink monkeys. Shit like that.
Sir, I've only been here a little while but even I know that you run on hate and orphan tears.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 10:43:15 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on January 30, 2012, 09:50:45 PM
I see ... ANYWAY back to the subject of cheese, how does Freedom factor into those yellow rubber squares you call "cheddar"?
It's not the cheddar that makes America dark and ugly, Trip, it's the processed American cheese slices. If I could change ONE thing about America, I'd walk right past the horrible oligarchy and the banksters, and instead force Kraft to make REAL FUCKING CHEESE.
Believe it or not, it does actually contain cheddar cheese as the main ingredient, which is processed and other ingredients are added to it. Most of those other ingredients are milk components.
I mean, I've had this argument with my dad before, and he is in a position to know. In short, they make cheddar cheese, blend it up, mix in other ingredients, and mold it into slices. Thats why it's called a processed cheese product. I myself thought it was mostly vegetable oil, but that's not the case.
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on January 31, 2012, 06:57:21 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 06:56:12 PM
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on January 31, 2012, 06:55:15 PM
You're going to record your head exploding for our entertainment, right?
Why would my head explode? Nothing in there but happy thoughts. Fluffy white clouds. Unicorns. Pink monkeys. Shit like that.
Sir, I've only been here a little while but even I know that you run on hate and orphan tears.
This is what happens when you listen to base slander spread by Europeans. I am a Holy Man™, and thus am
incapable of evil in any of its many forms. While things I do may SEEM hateful, that is because you are only seeing part of the picture, much as a 2 dimensional creature would see you only as a big circle impeding its path.
Looked on from on high, my actions make Buddha look like a cheap thug. They make Albert Einstein look like JP Morgan. They in fact make Gandhi look like Martin Bormann.
The reality is, I am stuffed full of love & compassion for all of God's creatures. I love 'em to death. Sometimes even more than that. I can cure hypochondria from across the room. The only person I find mildly distasteful is Iason, but that's because he's the anti-Roger. He is a bad, bad man. I don't HATE him, though. I just want to make him better.
Our way.
The first real test approaches: Afternoon staff meeting.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 09:46:40 PM
The first real test approaches: Afternoon staff meeting.
How did it go?
Quote from: Luna on January 31, 2012, 10:47:09 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2012, 09:46:40 PM
The first real test approaches: Afternoon staff meeting.
How did it go?
Not sure if win or fail.
I was nice. This made them nervous, so I was nicer.
Expression of hatred? Dunno.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2012, 08:46:19 PM
Quote from: Sita on January 30, 2012, 08:44:01 PM
Something that has been beat into my head lately, that I think more people need to think about, is that if you are not called out by name then it is quite probable that you are not the one being complained about.
And I'm amazed how something as simple as the term lurker can be taken so badly. I thought it was fairly obvious that a lurker would be someone that goes months logging in but saying nothing. Not someone that doesn't post every day, multiple times a day.
In this case, I was talking about the Skyrim thread, and he thought I was talking about his Skyrim WOMP thread. I think.
Also, if you're not sure if you're the target, ask. This is the internet...Nobody can punch you in the nose. Plus, it beats flouncing for a few months only to find out later that you weren't being talked about at all, which has happened here more than once.
OH, I knew which thread you were talking about, but I figured that no one was really all that interesting in the random shit I'm doing in a video game. I only was putting my mod work in my thread because I can't exactly discuss it on any of the modding boards as I am currently using Blizzard's models and textures as is, and that gets smacked down. Evidently it's wrong to use models from one game in another.
I am so bored, I actually found myself talking to AINI on Facebook. I hold all of you responsible.
In a related note, Aini has rather generously stated for the record that we have progressed "a little" since he decided to leave us to our fates. Given that this is from a paragon of culture (listening to ICP and living in an alley on Coney Island counts as culture, right?), that stings.
:sad:
Anyway, I got him good & pissed off by making fun of ICP, then unfriended him.
:lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 02:18:59 AM
Anyway, I got him good & pissed off by making fun of ICP, then unfriended him.
:lulz:
Oh, beautiful! :lulz:
Quote from: Nigel on February 01, 2012, 02:45:46 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 02:18:59 AM
Anyway, I got him good & pissed off by making fun of ICP, then unfriended him.
:lulz:
Oh, beautiful! :lulz:
Oh, yeah. Also, he was trying to act superior while at the same time talking about his last two meals being a single bottle of hot sauce. For some reason he's hitching through Texas, which should be good for a laugh.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 02:47:06 AM
Quote from: Nigel on February 01, 2012, 02:45:46 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 02:18:59 AM
Anyway, I got him good & pissed off by making fun of ICP, then unfriended him.
:lulz:
Oh, beautiful! :lulz:
Oh, yeah. Also, he was trying to act superior while at the same time talking about his last two meals being a single bottle of hot sauce. For some reason he's hitching through Texas, which should be good for a laugh.
The fact that he's still alive astonishes me.
Of course, I could say the same of E.O.T., only for entirely different reasons.
Quote from: Nigel on February 01, 2012, 03:20:14 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 02:47:06 AM
Quote from: Nigel on February 01, 2012, 02:45:46 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 02:18:59 AM
Anyway, I got him good & pissed off by making fun of ICP, then unfriended him.
:lulz:
Oh, beautiful! :lulz:
Oh, yeah. Also, he was trying to act superior while at the same time talking about his last two meals being a single bottle of hot sauce. For some reason he's hitching through Texas, which should be good for a laugh.
The fact that he's still alive astonishes me.
Of course, I could say the same of E.O.T., only for entirely different reasons.
I lived in Texas for three years. The notion of a cat-tattooed, whisker-implanted freak getting picked up by the cops in, say, Bell County boggles the very imagination, and mercifully fades to black.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 03:22:02 AM
Quote from: Nigel on February 01, 2012, 03:20:14 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 02:47:06 AM
Quote from: Nigel on February 01, 2012, 02:45:46 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 02:18:59 AM
Anyway, I got him good & pissed off by making fun of ICP, then unfriended him.
:lulz:
Oh, beautiful! :lulz:
Oh, yeah. Also, he was trying to act superior while at the same time talking about his last two meals being a single bottle of hot sauce. For some reason he's hitching through Texas, which should be good for a laugh.
The fact that he's still alive astonishes me.
Of course, I could say the same of E.O.T., only for entirely different reasons.
I lived in Texas for three years. The notion of a cat-tattooed, whisker-implanted freak getting picked up by the cops in, say, Bell County boggles the very imagination, and mercifully fades to black.
Let me just say that I visited Texas in 1994 at the tender age of 23, and a combination of factors among which that I was a colored girl with a tattoo and a nose ring, made
me feel a little worried.
Quote from: Nigel on February 01, 2012, 03:29:50 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 03:22:02 AM
Quote from: Nigel on February 01, 2012, 03:20:14 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 02:47:06 AM
Quote from: Nigel on February 01, 2012, 02:45:46 AM
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Anyway, I got him good & pissed off by making fun of ICP, then unfriended him.
:lulz:
Oh, beautiful! :lulz:
Oh, yeah. Also, he was trying to act superior while at the same time talking about his last two meals being a single bottle of hot sauce. For some reason he's hitching through Texas, which should be good for a laugh.
The fact that he's still alive astonishes me.
Of course, I could say the same of E.O.T., only for entirely different reasons.
I lived in Texas for three years. The notion of a cat-tattooed, whisker-implanted freak getting picked up by the cops in, say, Bell County boggles the very imagination, and mercifully fades to black.
Let me just say that I visited Texas in 1994 at the tender age of 23, and a combination of factors among which that I was a colored girl with a tattoo and a nose ring, made me feel a little worried.
What kills me is that he's gotta be in his late 20s at least, and he still brags about starving half to death and sleeping in alleys.
Aini is a crustwave pioneer. :lol:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 03:32:56 AM
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 03:22:02 AM
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 02:47:06 AM
Quote from: Nigel on February 01, 2012, 02:45:46 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 02:18:59 AM
Anyway, I got him good & pissed off by making fun of ICP, then unfriended him.
:lulz:
Oh, beautiful! :lulz:
Oh, yeah. Also, he was trying to act superior while at the same time talking about his last two meals being a single bottle of hot sauce. For some reason he's hitching through Texas, which should be good for a laugh.
The fact that he's still alive astonishes me.
Of course, I could say the same of E.O.T., only for entirely different reasons.
I lived in Texas for three years. The notion of a cat-tattooed, whisker-implanted freak getting picked up by the cops in, say, Bell County boggles the very imagination, and mercifully fades to black.
Let me just say that I visited Texas in 1994 at the tender age of 23, and a combination of factors among which that I was a colored girl with a tattoo and a nose ring, made me feel a little worried.
What kills me is that he's gotta be in his late 20s at least, and he still brags about starving half to death and sleeping in alleys.
Aini is a crustwave pioneer. :lol:
Dear lord. :lol:
EXPERIMENT WAS A FAILURE. VOW BROKEN.
If they seem stupid, maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to see things from their point of view sufficiently. Maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to appreciate their socio-cultural point of view. Maybe it's NOT because they're having a bad day and I'm not seeing them at their best. Maybe it's NOT because I'm secretly threatened by them. Maybe it's NOT because I'm projecting my own insecurities on them.
Maybe it's just because they're FUCKING STUPID.
Quote from: Nigel on February 01, 2012, 03:29:50 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 03:22:02 AM
Quote from: Nigel on February 01, 2012, 03:20:14 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 02:47:06 AM
Quote from: Nigel on February 01, 2012, 02:45:46 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 02:18:59 AM
Anyway, I got him good & pissed off by making fun of ICP, then unfriended him.
:lulz:
Oh, beautiful! :lulz:
Oh, yeah. Also, he was trying to act superior while at the same time talking about his last two meals being a single bottle of hot sauce. For some reason he's hitching through Texas, which should be good for a laugh.
The fact that he's still alive astonishes me.
Of course, I could say the same of E.O.T., only for entirely different reasons.
I lived in Texas for three years. The notion of a cat-tattooed, whisker-implanted freak getting picked up by the cops in, say, Bell County boggles the very imagination, and mercifully fades to black.
Let me just say that I visited Texas in 1994 at the tender age of 23, and a combination of factors among which that I was a colored girl with a tattoo and a nose ring, made me feel a little worried.
Alright. i gotta address this...
Were you out in the country? 'Cause in the cities, we've got plenty of counterculture crazy to comfort your quirks.
just like any place. hell, there's plenty in the suburbs, too, which covers a decent percentage of the state...
i would say that if you were in the country in
any state, you ought to expect raised eyebrows if you're walkin' 'round with your freak flag high.
I know that many people in other parts of the world completely buy into the Texas™ Brand that we all ride horses to our work, pack a wheel gun on each hip, and that it is mandatory to have a belt buckle larger than your hubcaps. But here in the states? do you guys really buy it, or is it just a funny? :?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 04:30:03 PM
EXPERIMENT WAS A FAILURE. VOW BROKEN.
If they seem stupid, maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to see things from their point of view sufficiently. Maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to appreciate their socio-cultural point of view. Maybe it's NOT because they're having a bad day and I'm not seeing them at their best. Maybe it's NOT because I'm secretly threatened by them. Maybe it's NOT because I'm projecting my own insecurities on them.
Maybe it's just because they're FUCKING STUPID.
This is especially true in the case of parents.
I have been ranting via IRC, because I cannot make it amusing enough for the forum yet, but I may do just that, once I am finished penning this "apology" letter.
It's the lesson learned that just keeps on giving isn't it :)
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 04:30:03 PM
EXPERIMENT WAS A FAILURE. VOW BROKEN.
If they seem stupid, maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to see things from their point of view sufficiently. Maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to appreciate their socio-cultural point of view. Maybe it's NOT because they're having a bad day and I'm not seeing them at their best. Maybe it's NOT because I'm secretly threatened by them. Maybe it's NOT because I'm projecting my own insecurities on them.
Maybe it's just because they're FUCKING STUPID.
I have a rant coming about this nitwit they hired, here, when I can sit down in front of a real keyboard. The fucking stupid is getting painful.
Quote from: Luna on February 01, 2012, 06:03:29 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 04:30:03 PM
EXPERIMENT WAS A FAILURE. VOW BROKEN.
If they seem stupid, maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to see things from their point of view sufficiently. Maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to appreciate their socio-cultural point of view. Maybe it's NOT because they're having a bad day and I'm not seeing them at their best. Maybe it's NOT because I'm secretly threatened by them. Maybe it's NOT because I'm projecting my own insecurities on them.
Maybe it's just because they're FUCKING STUPID.
I have a rant coming about this nitwit they hired, here, when I can sit down in front of a real keyboard. The fucking stupid is getting painful.
Speaking of nitwits, more fun from Capitol Grilling.
http://www.capitolgrilling.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=556292&page=1&fpart=82
(I'm Doktor Howl, of course)
Quote from: Iptuous on February 01, 2012, 04:47:25 PM
Alright. i gotta address this...
Were you out in the country? 'Cause in the cities, we've got plenty of counterculture crazy to comfort your quirks.
just like any place. hell, there's plenty in the suburbs, too, which covers a decent percentage of the state...
i would say that if you were in the country in any state, you ought to expect raised eyebrows if you're walkin' 'round with your freak flag high.
Even the country has weirdos (see: Kinky Friedman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinky_Friedman), whom I'm hoping I can persuade my grandparents to introduce me to if I ever go visit them again because he sounds like a riot).
Quote from: Iptuous on February 01, 2012, 04:47:25 PM
I know that many people in other parts of the world completely buy into the Texas™ Brand that we all ride horses to our work, pack a wheel gun on each hip, and that it is mandatory to have a belt buckle larger than your hubcaps. But here in the states? do you guys really buy it, or is it just a funny? :?
Having lived there, I don't buy it. Mostly I think it's funny.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 06:21:08 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 01, 2012, 06:03:29 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 04:30:03 PM
EXPERIMENT WAS A FAILURE. VOW BROKEN.
If they seem stupid, maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to see things from their point of view sufficiently. Maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to appreciate their socio-cultural point of view. Maybe it's NOT because they're having a bad day and I'm not seeing them at their best. Maybe it's NOT because I'm secretly threatened by them. Maybe it's NOT because I'm projecting my own insecurities on them.
Maybe it's just because they're FUCKING STUPID.
I have a rant coming about this nitwit they hired, here, when I can sit down in front of a real keyboard. The fucking stupid is getting painful.
Speaking of nitwits, more fun from Capitol Grilling.
http://www.capitolgrilling.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=556292&page=1&fpart=82
(I'm Doktor Howl, of course)
Damn.
I wonder if those idiots realize that at least some of us didn't vote FOR Obama... We were voting AGAINST the GoP idiocy...
Quote from: Iptuous on February 01, 2012, 04:47:25 PM
I know that many people in other parts of the world completely buy into the Texas™ Brand that we all ride horses to our work, pack a wheel gun on each hip, and that it is mandatory to have a belt buckle larger than your hubcaps. But here in the states? do you guys really buy it, or is it just a funny? :?
I lived there, so no. I lived in Bell County, and got around a bit.
Most Texans I've met outside of Austin and the D/FW area are the brainsmashed products of inbreeding and fetal-alcohol syndrome, though there have been some exceptions. The only cowboy types I ever met (in Texas) were in Amarillo. I almost never saw the belt buckle, and most of the yahoos I met were too poor to afford cowboy boots.
They were basically the trailer-park grunts you usually meet in the Southeast. They spent all their money on booze and then blamed the Blacks for their resulting poverty. They hate anyone who isn't like them, and they're - for the most part - complete fucking pussies when anyone faces them down.
Austin, though, well it's like a piece of Canada broke off from one of the nicer provinces, and got stuck in the middle of Texas. Canada doesn't really want it back because it's got Texas stains on it, but it's a really nice city other than the fact that traffic signals are apparently optional for EVERYBODY and not just ME.
D/FW is one of the better American cities, IMO. It's got its problems, like all cities do, but there's no end of things to do, and they actually have something
resembling an adequate traffic infrastructure. Also, the people there frequently know how to read and write, like Austin.
Houston is hell for people that were too rotten for Tucson, but not evil enough for Phoenix.
I have some icky relatives in Houston, so I gotta agree there. :lol:
Quote from: Luna on February 01, 2012, 06:32:04 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 06:21:08 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 01, 2012, 06:03:29 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 04:30:03 PM
EXPERIMENT WAS A FAILURE. VOW BROKEN.
If they seem stupid, maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to see things from their point of view sufficiently. Maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to appreciate their socio-cultural point of view. Maybe it's NOT because they're having a bad day and I'm not seeing them at their best. Maybe it's NOT because I'm secretly threatened by them. Maybe it's NOT because I'm projecting my own insecurities on them.
Maybe it's just because they're FUCKING STUPID.
I have a rant coming about this nitwit they hired, here, when I can sit down in front of a real keyboard. The fucking stupid is getting painful.
Speaking of nitwits, more fun from Capitol Grilling.
http://www.capitolgrilling.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=556292&page=1&fpart=82
(I'm Doktor Howl, of course)
Damn.
I wonder if those idiots realize that at least some of us didn't vote FOR Obama... We were voting AGAINST the GoP idiocy...
Probably not. I know I've been saying that for years ("One of the main reasons I voted for him is that he wasn't McCain.") and it hasn't sunk in yet.
Also, god, these guys are an insult to rocks they're so dumb. :lulz:
Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on February 01, 2012, 06:36:51 PM
I have some icky relatives in Houston, so I gotta agree there. :lol:
Quote from: Luna on February 01, 2012, 06:32:04 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 06:21:08 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 01, 2012, 06:03:29 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 04:30:03 PM
EXPERIMENT WAS A FAILURE. VOW BROKEN.
If they seem stupid, maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to see things from their point of view sufficiently. Maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to appreciate their socio-cultural point of view. Maybe it's NOT because they're having a bad day and I'm not seeing them at their best. Maybe it's NOT because I'm secretly threatened by them. Maybe it's NOT because I'm projecting my own insecurities on them.
Maybe it's just because they're FUCKING STUPID.
I have a rant coming about this nitwit they hired, here, when I can sit down in front of a real keyboard. The fucking stupid is getting painful.
Speaking of nitwits, more fun from Capitol Grilling.
http://www.capitolgrilling.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=556292&page=1&fpart=82
(I'm Doktor Howl, of course)
Damn.
I wonder if those idiots realize that at least some of us didn't vote FOR Obama... We were voting AGAINST the GoP idiocy...
Probably not. I know I've been saying that for years ("One of the main reasons I voted for him is that he wasn't McCain.") and it hasn't sunk in yet.
Also, god, these guys are an insult to rocks they're so dumb. :lulz:
It's sad. Ten years ago, that was the best political forum on the internet.
Now the owner is bored with it (he STILL has the Thanksgiving logo up, at the top), and he's shut off new registration and stopped monitoring it.
The results are predictable.
Yeah, I noticed that. I went to try to reg and got that notice, lol.
Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on February 01, 2012, 06:36:51 PM
I have some icky relatives in Houston, so I gotta agree there. :lol:
Quote from: Luna on February 01, 2012, 06:32:04 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 06:21:08 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 01, 2012, 06:03:29 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 04:30:03 PM
EXPERIMENT WAS A FAILURE. VOW BROKEN.
If they seem stupid, maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to see things from their point of view sufficiently. Maybe it's NOT because I'm failing to appreciate their socio-cultural point of view. Maybe it's NOT because they're having a bad day and I'm not seeing them at their best. Maybe it's NOT because I'm secretly threatened by them. Maybe it's NOT because I'm projecting my own insecurities on them.
Maybe it's just because they're FUCKING STUPID.
I have a rant coming about this nitwit they hired, here, when I can sit down in front of a real keyboard. The fucking stupid is getting painful.
Speaking of nitwits, more fun from Capitol Grilling.
http://www.capitolgrilling.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=556292&page=1&fpart=82
(I'm Doktor Howl, of course)
Damn.
I wonder if those idiots realize that at least some of us didn't vote FOR Obama... We were voting AGAINST the GoP idiocy...
Probably not. I know I've been saying that for years ("One of the main reasons I voted for him is that he wasn't McCain.") and it hasn't sunk in yet.
Also, god, these guys are an insult to rocks they're so dumb. :lulz:
McCain might not have set off my fuckno radar if he'd picked a running mate with some semblance of sanity, and had a better staff that hid the stupid better.
It was Palin, in large part, who got me to the ballot box.
i'd pretty much agree with that assessment.
but even though Houston is a hellhole that i wouldn't ever want to live in, it's still metropolitan, and you can find plenty of counterculture and diversity. also don't forget SanAntonio, which is not bad.
So you take that triangle that fills the bulk of the state, and it's really not too hick.
stray from that, and you better have the ability to establish repoire with narrowly focused minds, but i see that in every state.
for instance, i have family in MN. those folks there are extremely... congenial? non-confrontational? hell, they can't even verbalize that they don't like something. you feed them some food made of offal, and they'll say, "that's different." But if you have a 'counter culture' look about you, then you can feel the palpable judgement oozing out of them, even as they smile. but, go to the city (Minneapolis) and you'll fit in somewhere.
So, where is this implied state where the population in the country is accepting of a waving freak flag? I've been to over half of them, and it isn't in any of those....
and what state has large cities where you can't let it fly without fitting in on one block or another? 'cause it sure ain't TX...
(austin is quite an Oasis, however :))
Oh, he pinged my FUCKNO radar before he picked Palin because of his anger problems and treatment of women.
Quote from: Iptuous on February 01, 2012, 06:51:02 PM
also don't forget SanAntonio, which is not bad.
I can't. I have to go there next month. :argh!:
Quote from: Iptuous on February 01, 2012, 06:51:02 PM
So, where is this implied state where the population in the country is accepting of a waving freak flag? I've been to over half of them, and it isn't in any of those....
Tucson.
But we can't help it. The flags are grafted to our foreheads.
infections don't count as a 'state'...
Quote from: Iptuous on February 01, 2012, 07:05:43 PM
infections don't count as a 'state'...
Balls. This here is the state of Gadsden. We are currently occupied by the Evil Northern Empire of Phoenix, but that doesn't make their jackbooting legitimate.
someday i'm going to have to tie a lifeline to sanity 'round my waist and visit your neck of the woods...
Quote from: Iptuous on February 01, 2012, 07:10:01 PM
someday i'm going to have to tie a lifeline to sanity 'round my waist and visit your neck of the woods...
Bring lawyers, guns, and money.
can i substitute and excess of one for the others?
:lol:
Quote from: Iptuous on February 01, 2012, 07:18:40 PM
can i substitute and excess of one for the others?
:lol:
It's your soul. But definitely guns. We'll go shooting in the Santa Ritas.
that would be the bee's knees. 8)
i'll bring the tannerite and NFA stuff, if you pitch in on ammo...
Meeting in 7 minutes.
I need something like a tampon, only for my ears.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2012, 07:53:55 PM
Meeting in 7 minutes.
I need something like a tampon, only for my ears.
Try O.B.
http://www.obtampons.com/
Quote from: Iptuous on February 01, 2012, 06:51:02 PM
So, where is this implied state where the population in the country is accepting of a waving freak flag? I've been to over half of them, and it isn't in any of those....
Massachusetts is pretty freak-friendly, although we do manage to have some dead mill towns that have problems.
Gogira is MA? Put another one on the list.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 01, 2012, 11:53:32 PM
Gogira is MA? Put another one on the list.
Fuck yes.
May is going to be amazing.
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on February 01, 2012, 11:01:00 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on February 01, 2012, 06:51:02 PM
So, where is this implied state where the population in the country is accepting of a waving freak flag? I've been to over half of them, and it isn't in any of those....
Massachusetts is pretty freak-friendly, although we do manage to have some dead mill towns that have problems.
HOLA FROM DEAD MASSACHUSETTS MILL TOWN # 12
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on February 02, 2012, 02:23:58 AM
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on February 01, 2012, 11:01:00 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on February 01, 2012, 06:51:02 PM
So, where is this implied state where the population in the country is accepting of a waving freak flag? I've been to over half of them, and it isn't in any of those....
Massachusetts is pretty freak-friendly, although we do manage to have some dead mill towns that have problems.
HOLA FROM DEAD MASSACHUSETTS MILL TOWN # 12
Athol?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 02:05:08 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 01, 2012, 11:53:32 PM
Gogira is MA? Put another one on the list.
Fuck yes.
May is going to be amazing.
Wait, May?
If you guys manage to be in town the weekend I'm getting married I'm inviting everyone.
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on February 02, 2012, 02:57:40 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on February 02, 2012, 02:23:58 AM
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on February 01, 2012, 11:01:00 PM
Quote from: Iptuous on February 01, 2012, 06:51:02 PM
So, where is this implied state where the population in the country is accepting of a waving freak flag? I've been to over half of them, and it isn't in any of those....
Massachusetts is pretty freak-friendly, although we do manage to have some dead mill towns that have problems.
HOLA FROM DEAD MASSACHUSETTS MILL TOWN # 12
Athol?
WHO ARE YOU CALLING AN ATHOL, FUCKFACE
I'm gonna be quiet for awhile, I think.
Found out tonight. That lying, cheating, whorefucking bastard knocked up his little fucktoy.
I am not okay. That's all I wanted, for the last decade.
He's now officially given her every god damn thing.
I hate life.
Let us know where we can send the pizza and whores :(
Quote from: Luna on February 02, 2012, 03:42:01 AM
I'm gonna be quiet for awhile, I think.
Found out tonight. That lying, cheating, whorefucking bastard knocked up his little fucktoy.
I am not okay. That's all I wanted, for the last decade.
He's now officially given her every god damn thing.
I hate life.
:sad:
Either the foundation under my office has cracked, or the Chinese are finally going for it.
Quote from: Luna on February 02, 2012, 03:42:01 AM
I'm gonna be quiet for awhile, I think.
Found out tonight. That lying, cheating, whorefucking bastard knocked up his little fucktoy.
I am not okay. That's all I wanted, for the last decade.
He's now officially given her every god damn thing.
I hate life.
Damn. I'm sorry, Luna.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 01:50:27 PM
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on February 02, 2012, 03:00:12 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 02:05:08 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 01, 2012, 11:53:32 PM
Gogira is MA? Put another one on the list.
Fuck yes.
May is going to be amazing.
Wait, May?
If you guys manage to be in town the weekend I'm getting married I'm inviting everyone.
Oh, dear. :lol:
Open or cash bar?
Thanks...
Not sure how to shake this one off. I'm okay for awhile, and then something sets me off again.
Quote from: Luna on February 02, 2012, 07:19:11 PM
Thanks...
Not sure how to shake this one off. I'm okay for awhile, and then something sets me off again.
On the other hand, you'd now be explaining to a 9 year old why daddy ran off with some young floozy.
And as far as the Other Woman goes, well, I think she'll soon find out that she got the worst end of this particular bargain. Your ex doesn't strike me as the 3AM-changing-shitty-diapers type.
Lastly, nothing says you have to have an SO to have a kid.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 07:44:24 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 02, 2012, 07:19:11 PM
Thanks...
Not sure how to shake this one off. I'm okay for awhile, and then something sets me off again.
On the other hand, you'd now be explaining to a 9 year old why daddy ran off with some young floozy.
And as far as the Other Woman goes, well, I think she'll soon find out that she got the worst end of this particular bargain. Your ex doesn't strike me as the 3AM-changing-shitty-diapers type.it
Lastly, nothing says you have to have an SO to have a kid.
I know all of this, in my head. It isn't my head that wants to scream/cry/break something/curl up and die.
UGH! Sorry to hear it Luna. You deserve better :(
Quote from: Cramulus on February 02, 2012, 08:17:37 PM
UGH! Sorry to hear it Luna. You deserve better :(
Thanks, Cram.
I know this, too, which is a good thing. Wouldn't have him back if he crawled over broken glass to beg, and have been okay with that for awhile, now.
It may not make sense for this to hurt like this, it just does.
It occurs to me that people from the Norway part of Belgium are intrinsically rotten.
I've been reading Hamlet (A history written by some guy named Bede), and the facts presented therein are indisputable.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 09:31:55 PM
It occurs to me that people from the Norway part of Belgium are intrinsically rotten.
I've been reading Hamlet (A history written by some guy named Bede), and the facts presented therein are indisputable.
Don't hate on the Fortinbras.
Quote from: Waffle Iron on February 02, 2012, 09:34:06 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 09:31:55 PM
It occurs to me that people from the Norway part of Belgium are intrinsically rotten.
I've been reading Hamlet (A history written by some guy named Bede), and the facts presented therein are indisputable.
Don't hate on the Fortinbras.
Haters gonna hate.
TGRR,
Hater
14 bras? Thats 28 boobs. Cant hate that at all.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 09:35:35 PM
Quote from: Waffle Iron on February 02, 2012, 09:34:06 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 09:31:55 PM
It occurs to me that people from the Norway part of Belgium are intrinsically rotten.
I've been reading Hamlet (A history written by some guy named Bede), and the facts presented therein are indisputable.
Don't hate on the Fortinbras.
Haters gonna hate.
TGRR,
Hater
The time is nigh, I think for part four of your Hate series. Why Dead Norwegians fill you with hate. I'd pay to read that.
Quote from: Billy the Twid on February 02, 2012, 09:37:59 PM
14 bras? Thats 28 boobs. Cant hate that at all.
Watch me.
They're not being shoved in my face, after all.
Quote from: Waffle Iron on February 02, 2012, 09:38:17 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 09:35:35 PM
Quote from: Waffle Iron on February 02, 2012, 09:34:06 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 09:31:55 PM
It occurs to me that people from the Norway part of Belgium are intrinsically rotten.
I've been reading Hamlet (A history written by some guy named Bede), and the facts presented therein are indisputable.
Don't hate on the Fortinbras.
Haters gonna hate.
TGRR,
Hater
The time is nigh, I think for part four of your Hate series. Why Dead Norwegians fill you with hate. I'd pay to read that.
Actually, I have to get back on "Drinking with Jesus" and "America: An explanation for ignorant Europeans".
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 03, 2012, 02:52:13 AM
Quote from: Luna on February 03, 2012, 12:05:07 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 09:38:40 PM
Quote from: Billy the Twid on February 02, 2012, 09:37:59 PM
14 bras? Thats 28 boobs. Cant hate that at all.
Watch me.
They're not being shoved in my face, after all.
Well, not all at ONCE...
That is entirely unacceptable.
Troof. If you're going to have 28 boobs put in your face in the course of a 24 hour period, it's gotta be all at once.
Unless it's a bachelor party. Then you take your time so your money doesn't run out all at once and then you're not exactly sure why you don't have enough for a beer.
Fucking bored died an hour and half before the work day is over. :argh!:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 07:44:24 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 02, 2012, 07:19:11 PM
Thanks...
Not sure how to shake this one off. I'm okay for awhile, and then something sets me off again.
On the other hand, you'd now be explaining to a 9 year old why daddy ran off with some young floozy.
And as far as the Other Woman goes, well, I think she'll soon find out that she got the worst end of this particular bargain. Your ex doesn't strike me as the 3AM-changing-shitty-diapers type.
Lastly, nothing says you have to have an SO to have a kid.
These are all fantastically good points.
Quote from: Luna on February 02, 2012, 08:02:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 07:44:24 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 02, 2012, 07:19:11 PM
Thanks...
Not sure how to shake this one off. I'm okay for awhile, and then something sets me off again.
On the other hand, you'd now be explaining to a 9 year old why daddy ran off with some young floozy.
And as far as the Other Woman goes, well, I think she'll soon find out that she got the worst end of this particular bargain. Your ex doesn't strike me as the 3AM-changing-shitty-diapers type.it
Lastly, nothing says you have to have an SO to have a kid.
I know all of this, in my head. It isn't my head that wants to scream/cry/break something/curl up and die.
I understand, completely.
Quote from: Nigel on February 04, 2012, 04:46:26 AM
Quote from: Luna on February 02, 2012, 08:02:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 07:44:24 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 02, 2012, 07:19:11 PM
Thanks...
Not sure how to shake this one off. I'm okay for awhile, and then something sets me off again.
On the other hand, you'd now be explaining to a 9 year old why daddy ran off with some young floozy.
And as far as the Other Woman goes, well, I think she'll soon find out that she got the worst end of this particular bargain. Your ex doesn't strike me as the 3AM-changing-shitty-diapers type.it
Lastly, nothing says you have to have an SO to have a kid.
I know all of this, in my head. It isn't my head that wants to scream/cry/break something/curl up and die.
I understand, completely.
Is it horrible that I find myself considering dragging my feet on the paperwork for an extra few months?
Quote from: Luna on February 04, 2012, 01:29:50 PM
Quote from: Nigel on February 04, 2012, 04:46:26 AM
Quote from: Luna on February 02, 2012, 08:02:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 07:44:24 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 02, 2012, 07:19:11 PM
Thanks...
Not sure how to shake this one off. I'm okay for awhile, and then something sets me off again.
On the other hand, you'd now be explaining to a 9 year old why daddy ran off with some young floozy.
And as far as the Other Woman goes, well, I think she'll soon find out that she got the worst end of this particular bargain. Your ex doesn't strike me as the 3AM-changing-shitty-diapers type.it
Lastly, nothing says you have to have an SO to have a kid.
I know all of this, in my head. It isn't my head that wants to scream/cry/break something/curl up and die.
I understand, completely.
Is it horrible that I find myself considering dragging my feet on the paperwork for an extra few months?
Horrible as in you as a person? No. Horrible as in drag your feet because you don't want it to be over? Well, sorta, but it's understandable, and everyone goes through that (I assume), and its not really a reflection on your character. Horrible as in you want to make him suffer abit? I dunno.
Quote from: Luna on February 04, 2012, 01:29:50 PM
Quote from: Nigel on February 04, 2012, 04:46:26 AM
Quote from: Luna on February 02, 2012, 08:02:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 07:44:24 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 02, 2012, 07:19:11 PM
Thanks...
Not sure how to shake this one off. I'm okay for awhile, and then something sets me off again.
On the other hand, you'd now be explaining to a 9 year old why daddy ran off with some young floozy.
And as far as the Other Woman goes, well, I think she'll soon find out that she got the worst end of this particular bargain. Your ex doesn't strike me as the 3AM-changing-shitty-diapers type.it
Lastly, nothing says you have to have an SO to have a kid.
I know all of this, in my head. It isn't my head that wants to scream/cry/break something/curl up and die.
I understand, completely.
Is it horrible that I find myself considering dragging my feet on the paperwork for an extra few months?
Not horrible, but not good for your health and psyche. The best thing you can do for yourself is get that paperwork filled out and filed as soon as possible. WITH the assistance of a lawyer.
Quote from: Nigel on February 04, 2012, 04:11:38 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 04, 2012, 01:29:50 PM
Quote from: Nigel on February 04, 2012, 04:46:26 AM
Quote from: Luna on February 02, 2012, 08:02:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 02, 2012, 07:44:24 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 02, 2012, 07:19:11 PM
Thanks...
Not sure how to shake this one off. I'm okay for awhile, and then something sets me off again.
On the other hand, you'd now be explaining to a 9 year old why daddy ran off with some young floozy.
And as far as the Other Woman goes, well, I think she'll soon find out that she got the worst end of this particular bargain. Your ex doesn't strike me as the 3AM-changing-shitty-diapers type.it
Lastly, nothing says you have to have an SO to have a kid.
I know all of this, in my head. It isn't my head that wants to scream/cry/break something/curl up and die.
I understand, completely.
Is it horrible that I find myself considering dragging my feet on the paperwork for an extra few months?
Not horrible, but not good for your health and psyche. The best thing you can do for yourself is get that paperwork filled out and filed as soon as possible. WITH the assistance of a lawyer.
Yeah, I know. I will, however, at least enjoy the thought of making him sweat over whether the kid will be born before he's divorced.
Him still being married won't be that big of a deal (beyond you getting to laugh at him on your court date).
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on February 05, 2012, 01:56:25 AM
Him still being married won't be that big of a deal (beyond you getting to laugh at him on your court date).
Yeah... Better over with fast.
I'm just wishing he'd vanish.
Quote from: Luna on February 05, 2012, 02:25:11 AM
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on February 05, 2012, 01:56:25 AM
Him still being married won't be that big of a deal (beyond you getting to laugh at him on your court date).
Yeah... Better over with fast.
I'm just wishing he'd vanish.
I hear a vat full of hydrochloric acid works for that :lulz:
Quote from: Luna on February 05, 2012, 02:25:11 AM
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on February 05, 2012, 01:56:25 AM
Him still being married won't be that big of a deal (beyond you getting to laugh at him on your court date).
Yeah... Better over with fast.
I'm just wishing he'd vanish.
The fastest way to make him vanish (from your life) is to get the divorce done with. Then you can move on and forget about his stupid ass.
Quote from: Nigel on February 05, 2012, 02:50:17 AM
Quote from: Luna on February 05, 2012, 02:25:11 AM
Quote from: Queen_Gogira on February 05, 2012, 01:56:25 AM
Him still being married won't be that big of a deal (beyond you getting to laugh at him on your court date).
Yeah... Better over with fast.
I'm just wishing he'd vanish.
The fastest way to make him vanish (from your life) is to get the divorce done with. Then you can move on and forget about his stupid ass.
Yep. I just have to sit down with the agreement and see what changed. The lawyer screwed it up, we have three different versions, now.
Bad night at the ER.
Rant to follow tomorrow.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 06, 2012, 06:36:05 AM
Bad night at the ER.
Rant to follow tomorrow.
Hope everything turned out iin the end. :sad:
:eek:
Wasn't me. Enabler had a tooth fragment, and there were no on-call dentists. So we go to the ER, where they stuff her full of painkillers and anti-biotics. Only thing is, we weren't the only people in the ER, of course. 30 seconds after we got there, they rushed a baby in that had seized up. The baby didn't make it, and then the whole staff is crying, etc...An hour later, some woman comes in with 5 day constipation because the warnings the doctor gave her about the need for drinking loads of water with Percecet didn't apparently apply to her. Then we hear the NEXT guy, in the room next to us, groaning while the nurse tries to ask him which ribs he got booted in.
This is up in Oro Valley, mind you. And of course there's the cops, because of the dead kid. The toxicology came back clean (the detective was a friend of mine, and we chatted over a smoke outside), so it was just one of those awful things.
What a horrible, sad day. :(
Bored.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 07, 2012, 06:38:41 PM
Bored.
Trade you.
I am "supervising" while my trainee runs payroll. Read: stopping her every five minutes to fix stupid mistakes."
For fuck's sake, I had to tell her how to move an Excel window out of the way.
Quote from: Luna on February 07, 2012, 06:44:26 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 07, 2012, 06:38:41 PM
Bored.
Trade you.
I am "supervising" while my trainee runs payroll. Read: stopping her every five minutes to fix stupid mistakes."
For fuck's sake, I had to tell her how to move an Excel window out of the way.
You need to explain tillage under the 3 field plan. You need to show her a horse collar. You need to force her to read Chaucer. Stirrups. Proper Chimneys for the first time.
In short, go medieval on her ass.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 07, 2012, 06:46:18 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 07, 2012, 06:44:26 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 07, 2012, 06:38:41 PM
Bored.
Trade you.
I am "supervising" while my trainee runs payroll. Read: stopping her every five minutes to fix stupid mistakes."
For fuck's sake, I had to tell her how to move an Excel window out of the way.
You need to explain tillage under the 3 field plan. You need to show her a horse collar. You need to force her to read Chaucer. Stirrups. Proper Chimneys for the first time.
In short, go medieval on her ass.
I swear, they gave her a cordless mouse JUST so I wouldn't throttle her with it.
She has this payroll, and one more, to get it, unless they fucking extend me again. Then, this and three more. My opinion is that I can, in that time, make a fair data entry monkey out of her... but the first curve ball she gets will brain her.
Quote from: Luna on February 07, 2012, 06:53:52 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 07, 2012, 06:46:18 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 07, 2012, 06:44:26 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 07, 2012, 06:38:41 PM
Bored.
Trade you.
I am "supervising" while my trainee runs payroll. Read: stopping her every five minutes to fix stupid mistakes."
For fuck's sake, I had to tell her how to move an Excel window out of the way.
You need to explain tillage under the 3 field plan. You need to show her a horse collar. You need to force her to read Chaucer. Stirrups. Proper Chimneys for the first time.
In short, go medieval on her ass.
I swear, they gave her a cordless mouse JUST so I wouldn't throttle her with it.
She has this payroll, and one more, to get it, unless they fucking extend me again. Then, this and three more. My opinion is that I can, in that time, make a fair data entry monkey out of her... but the first curve ball she gets will brain her.
Forward her this inspirational message.
Quote from: Your Spiritual Advice for Today from Uday SalizarAmong my people, you would be called a Sleep Talker, because you seem to be blind to the actual world. To have the boner is a man way to be. All the person have the poop, and it is good to have the poop. Do you not have the poop? I think maybe so not. It tell many about you, that you maybe so not have the good poop. The poop have the spirit and the power in it. You talk in child way, to have fears of the poop power spirit. Sing to the poop power spirit to have the good poop and not fear of that. I will sing for you to have the good poop. Then you can have the power and the life in a man way.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 07, 2012, 06:57:27 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 07, 2012, 06:53:52 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 07, 2012, 06:46:18 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 07, 2012, 06:44:26 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 07, 2012, 06:38:41 PM
Bored.
Trade you.
I am "supervising" while my trainee runs payroll. Read: stopping her every five minutes to fix stupid mistakes."
For fuck's sake, I had to tell her how to move an Excel window out of the way.
You need to explain tillage under the 3 field plan. You need to show her a horse collar. You need to force her to read Chaucer. Stirrups. Proper Chimneys for the first time.
In short, go medieval on her ass.
I swear, they gave her a cordless mouse JUST so I wouldn't throttle her with it.
She has this payroll, and one more, to get it, unless they fucking extend me again. Then, this and three more. My opinion is that I can, in that time, make a fair data entry monkey out of her... but the first curve ball she gets will brain her.
Forward her this inspirational message.
Quote from: Your Spiritual Advice for Today from Uday SalizarAmong my people, you would be called a Sleep Talker, because you seem to be blind to the actual world. To have the boner is a man way to be. All the person have the poop, and it is good to have the poop. Do you not have the poop? I think maybe so not. It tell many about you, that you maybe so not have the good poop. The poop have the spirit and the power in it. You talk in child way, to have fears of the poop power spirit. Sing to the poop power spirit to have the good poop and not fear of that. I will sing for you to have the good poop. Then you can have the power and the life in a man way.
Oh. My. God.
Quote from: Luna on February 07, 2012, 07:07:27 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 07, 2012, 06:57:27 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 07, 2012, 06:53:52 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 07, 2012, 06:46:18 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 07, 2012, 06:44:26 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 07, 2012, 06:38:41 PM
Bored.
Trade you.
I am "supervising" while my trainee runs payroll. Read: stopping her every five minutes to fix stupid mistakes."
For fuck's sake, I had to tell her how to move an Excel window out of the way.
You need to explain tillage under the 3 field plan. You need to show her a horse collar. You need to force her to read Chaucer. Stirrups. Proper Chimneys for the first time.
In short, go medieval on her ass.
I swear, they gave her a cordless mouse JUST so I wouldn't throttle her with it.
She has this payroll, and one more, to get it, unless they fucking extend me again. Then, this and three more. My opinion is that I can, in that time, make a fair data entry monkey out of her... but the first curve ball she gets will brain her.
Forward her this inspirational message.
Quote from: Your Spiritual Advice for Today from Uday SalizarAmong my people, you would be called a Sleep Talker, because you seem to be blind to the actual world. To have the boner is a man way to be. All the person have the poop, and it is good to have the poop. Do you not have the poop? I think maybe so not. It tell many about you, that you maybe so not have the good poop. The poop have the spirit and the power in it. You talk in child way, to have fears of the poop power spirit. Sing to the poop power spirit to have the good poop and not fear of that. I will sing for you to have the good poop. Then you can have the power and the life in a man way.
Oh. My. God.
What?
I read it, Roger. You gotta put warnings on that shit.
Now my brain is doing some kind of weird yoga, trying to either make sense out of it... or wring the memory of it out. I'm not sure which.
Quote from: Luna on February 07, 2012, 07:13:14 PM
I read it, Roger. You gotta put warnings on that shit.
Rants aren't covered by OSHA. Caveat Emptor and all that shit.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 07, 2012, 07:14:12 PM
Quote from: Luna on February 07, 2012, 07:13:14 PM
I read it, Roger. You gotta put warnings on that shit.
Rants aren't covered by OSHA. Caveat Emptor and all that shit.
I have decided not to kill her. Leaving her here to do a job for which she is not qualified, and the screwing up of which will result in HOURS of hilarious phone calls strikes me as more entertaining.
blarg.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 05:14:00 PM
blarg.
Spent the weekend going though our closet, which was starting to have a strong family resemblance to Fibber McGee (look it up, kids). Decided to take a critical eye to what we've kept around, due to laziness, nostalgia, or that relentless optimism that we really
are gonna lose that last ten pounds, or that someday I really
will have a size 32 waist again.
At the end of it all, we had three contractor bags filled with stuff to give to Goodwill. It felt good to get rid of some of it, but thinking about it now,
damn. I am one American Consumerist Bitch. No matter how I justify it (I need shirts for work, I like looking good, it's not as bad as it could be, etc), I went out and
bought a lot of shit.
When it's all in your face like that, it kind of makes me want to grab some sackcloth and a rope, and get all Franciscan. There wasn't even any "as seen on TV" bullshit in the pile. It was simply me saying, "Even though I already have more than a week's worth of clothes that are in good condition
I want that thing there."
Those Spiders are sneaky little shits.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 13, 2012, 05:27:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 05:14:00 PM
blarg.
Spent the weekend going though our closet, which was starting to have a strong family resemblance to Fibber McGee (look it up, kids). Decided to take a critical eye to what we've kept around, due to laziness, nostalgia, or that relentless optimism that we really are gonna lose that last ten pounds, or that someday I really will have a size 32 waist again.
At the end of it all, we had three contractor bags filled with stuff to give to Goodwill. It felt good to get rid of some of it, but thinking about it now, damn. I am one American Consumerist Bitch. No matter how I justify it (I need shirts for work, I like looking good, it's not as bad as it could be, etc), I went out and bought a lot of shit.
When it's all in your face like that, it kind of makes me want to grab some sackcloth and a rope, and get all Franciscan. There wasn't even any "as seen on TV" bullshit in the pile. It was simply me saying, "Even though I already have more than a week's worth of clothes that are in good condition I want that thing there."
Those Spiders are sneaky little shits.
On the other hand, if you stop buying stuff, the economy collapses.
If you DON'T keep buying stuff, we continue the unsustainable mishegoss.
WARNING: BIZARRE ECONOMIC METAPHOR AHEAD.
Sometimes The Spider buys you skis, and he shoves you down a slope of ice. You're okay...until you lose your nerve. Then BAM! You pull a Sonny Bono into a tree at 80 MPH, and you wake up under a bridge with a week's worth of clothing in shopping cart. The fast lane is full of wreckage, Jim, and that bothers some people a great deal. But not you and I, because we have nerves of steel and balls of pure tungsten, and the slope is never, ever steep enough.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 05:14:00 PM
blarg.
I spent my weekend regretting joining the reserves, how was yours?
Quote from: Pope Coyote of the Wolffnords on February 13, 2012, 05:34:38 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 05:14:00 PM
blarg.
I spent my weekend regretting joining the reserves, how was yours?
I slept through most of it. I have been a bad boy for several weeks now, and it all caught up to me at once.
unless one is putting themselves in debt buying things that aren't necessary, i don't see why one should feel guilt about 'consumerism'. (an epithet for an eternal and hardwired desire that is unjustified when applied to the individual imo)
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 05:35:57 PM
Quote from: Pope Coyote of the Wolffnords on February 13, 2012, 05:34:38 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 05:14:00 PM
blarg.
I spent my weekend regretting joining the reserves, how was yours?
I slept through most of it. I have been a bad boy for several weeks now, and it all caught up to me at once.
I'd like to hear more of what you remember, if you care to share with the class.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 13, 2012, 05:37:55 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 05:35:57 PM
Quote from: Pope Coyote of the Wolffnords on February 13, 2012, 05:34:38 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 05:14:00 PM
blarg.
I spent my weekend regretting joining the reserves, how was yours?
I slept through most of it. I have been a bad boy for several weeks now, and it all caught up to me at once.
I'd like to hear more of what you remember, if you care to share with the class.
I suppose. Most of it was driving around the outback all fucked up. This resulted in the death of the van, as I sucked enough dust into the engine to kill cylinders 2&3 out of 4. There was some downtown stuff that was kind of neat, and knuckles got hurt - the one thing that WASN'T my fault, and I somehow pissed off a whole bunch of Tohono Odham.
It needs time for the telling, though, so I'll write it in the evenings, probably starting sometime tomorrow (tonight I have to arrange the wrecker for the van).
Had a pretty damn awesome weekend, myself. Pathfinder game, dinner out at a place I don't usually get to hit, got a weaving project that's been taking forever finished, off the loom, and delivered, and got to spend time helping in a buddy's workshop making awesome stuff.
Other than the fact that I haven't caught more then 4 hours of sleep a night for a week or more making me loopy enough that my brain is starting to fuck with me, I'm doing okay.
My old army buddy Willison spontaneously mailed me a pair of jeans in the improbable and hard-to-locate Roger size, plus some blank CDs. Mrs TGRR asked, "He sent you WHAT?" Hey, don't look gift pants in the mouth. Well, something like that. Its that Canadia blood, I tell you. Everything's all out of proportion, but that's the luck of the genetic draw. Blank CDs I can fill with oddities and send off to "friends" from a bogus address, under an assumed name. Imagine their surprise! To each dog his bone.
I look forward to your telling of your badness.
My weekend, and in fact my last few weeks, was a blur of doing things that seem hopelessly like they must not be the right things, but somehow I think everything pretty much turns out OK in the end.
I have this ache I can't get away from, though.
Quote from: Nigel on February 13, 2012, 07:58:31 PM
I look forward to your telling of your badness.
My weekend, and in fact my last few weeks, was a blur of doing things that seem hopelessly like they must not be the right things, but somehow I think everything pretty much turns out OK in the end.
I have this ache I can't get away from, though.
I was just needing oxygen. We don't have enough, and sometimes it makes me crazy.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 08:20:21 PM
Quote from: Nigel on February 13, 2012, 07:58:31 PM
I look forward to your telling of your badness.
My weekend, and in fact my last few weeks, was a blur of doing things that seem hopelessly like they must not be the right things, but somehow I think everything pretty much turns out OK in the end.
I have this ache I can't get away from, though.
I was just needing oxygen. We don't have enough, and sometimes it makes me crazy.
It sounds a little like that restless feeling I get sometimes when I want to get in my car and drive to the end of the world. Sometimes I think that maybe I can outrun the ache if I just go far enough and fast enough.
Quote from: Nigel on February 13, 2012, 08:23:31 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 08:20:21 PM
Quote from: Nigel on February 13, 2012, 07:58:31 PM
I look forward to your telling of your badness.
My weekend, and in fact my last few weeks, was a blur of doing things that seem hopelessly like they must not be the right things, but somehow I think everything pretty much turns out OK in the end.
I have this ache I can't get away from, though.
I was just needing oxygen. We don't have enough, and sometimes it makes me crazy.
It sounds a little like that restless feeling I get sometimes when I want to get in my car and drive to the end of the world. Sometimes I think that maybe I can outrun the ache if I just go far enough and fast enough.
I tried that once, on the Ducati.
It doesn't actually work, and then you're pulling cactus spines out of your butt cheeks and wondering if the insurance will cover things.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 08:28:34 PM
Quote from: Nigel on February 13, 2012, 08:23:31 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 08:20:21 PM
Quote from: Nigel on February 13, 2012, 07:58:31 PM
I look forward to your telling of your badness.
My weekend, and in fact my last few weeks, was a blur of doing things that seem hopelessly like they must not be the right things, but somehow I think everything pretty much turns out OK in the end.
I have this ache I can't get away from, though.
I was just needing oxygen. We don't have enough, and sometimes it makes me crazy.
It sounds a little like that restless feeling I get sometimes when I want to get in my car and drive to the end of the world. Sometimes I think that maybe I can outrun the ache if I just go far enough and fast enough.
I tried that once, on the Ducati.
It doesn't actually work, and then you're pulling cactus spines out of your butt cheeks and wondering if the insurance will cover things.
:lol: Yeah, I don't know if that method is the best bet for me.
We're coming up on the anniversary of that trip to Spokane.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 06:59:53 PM
My old army buddy Willison spontaneously mailed me a pair of jeans in the improbable and hard-to-locate Roger size, plus some blank CDs. Mrs TGRR asked, "He sent you WHAT?" Hey, don't look gift pants in the mouth. Well, something like that. Its that Canadia blood, I tell you. Everything's all out of proportion, but that's the luck of the genetic draw. Blank CDs I can fill with oddities and send off to "friends" from a bogus address, under an assumed name. Imagine their surprise! To each dog his bone.
What's so improbable about your jeans size? From your pics you seem a pretty normal size?
What's impossible to locate here, are some decent "boot-cut" jeans, in
any size, that aren't made of "G Star RAW" from blue dyed paper napkin fabric that rips just from looking at it sharply. The only ones they have are "straight" which is fine and I'll probably get because I do need new jeans and the horrible inverted-boot-cut carrot-shaped "skinny jeans", that I'm only
slowly getting used to women wearing (you have to look at them, after all) but you'll never catch me wearing one myself.
And uh just checking if I got this right but the treat about the empty CDs is not the CDs themselves but the fact that you can mail them back and he'll send them where you want so they appear to come from his location?
Quote from: Triple Zero on February 13, 2012, 08:40:24 PM
What's so improbable about your jeans size? From your pics you seem a pretty normal size?
You can't see the back. My knees bend both ways, and my ego is stuffed in my right ass cheek, making it outlandishly huge and bulbous.
I liked it so much, I bought the company!
I then:
a) reduced payrolls
b) sold unprofitable divisions
c) moved the manufacturing offshore
d) floated a huge bond issue to buy back shares
e) cashed in my options and stepped down a wealthy man
f) wrote a book about what a great job I did.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 11:58:45 PM
I liked it so much, I bought the company!
I then:
a) reduced payrolls
b) sold unprofitable divisions
c) moved the manufacturing offshore
d) floated a huge bond issue to buy back shares
e) cashed in my options and stepped down a wealthy man
f) wrote a book about what a great job I did.
DON'T FORGET TO RUN FOR CONGRESS NEXT.
Quote from: Nigel on February 14, 2012, 12:04:35 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 11:58:45 PM
I liked it so much, I bought the company!
I then:
a) reduced payrolls
b) sold unprofitable divisions
c) moved the manufacturing offshore
d) floated a huge bond issue to buy back shares
e) cashed in my options and stepped down a wealthy man
f) wrote a book about what a great job I did.
DON'T FORGET TO RUN FOR CONGRESS NEXT.
AMERICA'S NEXT CEO PRESIDENT.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 06:59:53 PM
My old army buddy Willison spontaneously mailed me a pair of jeans in the improbable and hard-to-locate Roger size, plus some blank CDs. Mrs TGRR asked, "He sent you WHAT?" Hey, don't look gift pants in the mouth. Well, something like that. Its that Canadia blood, I tell you. Everything's all out of proportion, but that's the luck of the genetic draw. Blank CDs I can fill with oddities and send off to "friends" from a bogus address, under an assumed name. Imagine their surprise! To each dog his bone.
Did he send you Canada Jeans? Canada Jeans are the bestest!
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 14, 2012, 12:07:46 AM
Quote from: Nigel on February 14, 2012, 12:04:35 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 11:58:45 PM
I liked it so much, I bought the company!
I then:
a) reduced payrolls
b) sold unprofitable divisions
c) moved the manufacturing offshore
d) floated a huge bond issue to buy back shares
e) cashed in my options and stepped down a wealthy man
f) wrote a book about what a great job I did.
DON'T FORGET TO RUN FOR CONGRESS NEXT.
AMERICA'S NEXT CEO PRESIDENT.
AMERICA NEEDS A CEO TO RUN THIS COUNTRY, BECAUSE THE ECONOMY IS IN THE SHITTER AND IT WILL TAKE A CEO TO PULL IT OUT. WE KNOW THIS WILL WORK BECAUSE JUST LOOK AT HOW CEO'S HAVE BEEN RUNNING THE BIG CORPORATIONS AND HOW WELL THAT HAS WORKED OUT SO FAR.
Quote from: Nigel on February 14, 2012, 12:30:20 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 14, 2012, 12:07:46 AM
Quote from: Nigel on February 14, 2012, 12:04:35 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 11:58:45 PM
I liked it so much, I bought the company!
I then:
a) reduced payrolls
b) sold unprofitable divisions
c) moved the manufacturing offshore
d) floated a huge bond issue to buy back shares
e) cashed in my options and stepped down a wealthy man
f) wrote a book about what a great job I did.
DON'T FORGET TO RUN FOR CONGRESS NEXT.
AMERICA'S NEXT CEO PRESIDENT.
AMERICA NEEDS A CEO TO RUN THIS COUNTRY, BECAUSE THE ECONOMY IS IN THE SHITTER AND IT WILL TAKE A CEO TO PULL IT OUT. WE KNOW THIS WILL WORK BECAUSE JUST LOOK AT HOW CEO'S HAVE BEEN RUNNING THE BIG CORPORATIONS AND HOW WELL THAT HAS WORKED OUT SO FAR.
I HAVE EXPERIENCE. I HAVE RUINED MANY COMPANIES, SO I KNOW WHAT NOT TO DO.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 14, 2012, 12:31:41 AM
Quote from: Nigel on February 14, 2012, 12:30:20 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 14, 2012, 12:07:46 AM
Quote from: Nigel on February 14, 2012, 12:04:35 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 11:58:45 PM
I liked it so much, I bought the company!
I then:
a) reduced payrolls
b) sold unprofitable divisions
c) moved the manufacturing offshore
d) floated a huge bond issue to buy back shares
e) cashed in my options and stepped down a wealthy man
f) wrote a book about what a great job I did.
DON'T FORGET TO RUN FOR CONGRESS NEXT.
AMERICA'S NEXT CEO PRESIDENT.
AMERICA NEEDS A CEO TO RUN THIS COUNTRY, BECAUSE THE ECONOMY IS IN THE SHITTER AND IT WILL TAKE A CEO TO PULL IT OUT. WE KNOW THIS WILL WORK BECAUSE JUST LOOK AT HOW CEO'S HAVE BEEN RUNNING THE BIG CORPORATIONS AND HOW WELL THAT HAS WORKED OUT SO FAR.
I HAVE EXPERIENCE. I HAVE RUINED MANY COMPANIES, SO I KNOW WHAT NOT TO DO.
A CEO WOULD INCREASE PROFITS BY CLOSING DOWN OPERATIONS HERE AND OFFSHORING EVERYTHING WE POSSIBLY CAN TO COUNTRIES WHERE WE CAN PAY ALMOST NOTHING. CUTTING BENEFITS AND INCREASING TAX REVENUE. PRIVATIZE ALL INFRASTRUCTURE AND LET COMPETING COUNTRIES PUT BIDS IN FOR ROADS AND EDUCATION. IT WOULD BE CHEAPER TO OUTSOURCE K-12 TO CHINA, LET'S DO THAT.
Quote from: Pope Coyote of the Wolffnords on January 27, 2012, 04:02:17 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2012, 04:01:22 AM
BORED.
BORED BORED BORED.
EXPLAIN TO ME WHY I SHOULD NOT DESTROY YOU, EARTHLINGS.
Robot lesbians are in the near future?
once my brother and his friends made a parody of the Jerry Springer show
that featured gay robots.
there was one named LSBN 9000 or something
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 11:58:45 PM
I liked it so much, I bought the company!
I then:
a) reduced payrolls
b) sold unprofitable divisions
c) moved the manufacturing offshore
d) floated a huge bond issue to buy back shares
e) cashed in my options and stepped down a wealthy man
f) wrote a book about what a great job I did.
So one time I was joking with a totally straight face and then it's 2019 and I can't help feeling slightly responsible.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 11, 2019, 09:24:52 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 11:58:45 PM
I liked it so much, I bought the company!
I then:
a) reduced payrolls
b) sold unprofitable divisions
c) moved the manufacturing offshore
d) floated a huge bond issue to buy back shares
e) cashed in my options and stepped down a wealthy man
f) wrote a book about what a great job I did.
So one time I was joking with a totally straight face and then it's 2019 and I can't help feeling slightly responsible.
It's okay, we can't put all the blame on your Holy Prophecy. You're just the messenger.
Quote from: nullified on October 11, 2019, 10:50:40 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 11, 2019, 09:24:52 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 13, 2012, 11:58:45 PM
I liked it so much, I bought the company!
I then:
a) reduced payrolls
b) sold unprofitable divisions
c) moved the manufacturing offshore
d) floated a huge bond issue to buy back shares
e) cashed in my options and stepped down a wealthy man
f) wrote a book about what a great job I did.
So one time I was joking with a totally straight face and then it's 2019 and I can't help feeling slightly responsible.
It's okay, we can't put all the blame on your Holy Prophecy. You're just the messenger.
Also I ran a mirror through the scanner (page 2 of this thread, IIRC). Now Trump is president and the moon base vanished.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 11, 2019, 11:20:20 PM
Also I ran a mirror through the scanner (page 2 of this thread, IIRC). Now Trump is president and the moon base vanished.
...moon base? I could have have lived in a timeline with a
moon base? :cry:
Quote from: chaotic neutral observer on October 12, 2019, 01:34:22 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 11, 2019, 11:20:20 PM
Also I ran a mirror through the scanner (page 2 of this thread, IIRC). Now Trump is president and the moon base vanished.
...moon base? I could have have lived in a timeline with a moon base? :cry:
And Neil Sedaka is president and breaking up is hard to do.