New open bar thread.
Yes, yes it is
edit for not enough yesses - is that even a word?
Quote from: Cain on August 09, 2014, 07:29:35 AM
New open bar thread.
:lulz:
Oh shit that is good.
Gamera Vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Discuss.
Quote from: Emo Howard on August 09, 2014, 09:56:59 PM
Gamera Vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Discuss.
:showus:
I saw Lucy last night. It was amazing. The whole thing, from start to finish was pure fever dream madness. At no point did anything resembling a plot, or even a character appear. The last 20 minutes of the film are Scarlet Johandjob sitting in an office chair in front of a green screen and flying through space. Then she turns into a flash drive. Morgan Freeman brings his trademark charm to the role of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Two Frogs humping features prominently in the film. When the movie isnt bad CGI action scenes its Scarlet ranting about the universe using complete nonsequiters. These were the best part of the movie because they managed to rise above mere bad screenwriting to the level of schizophrenic word salad. Her teeth fall out and then she explodes. She cries and tells her mother she remembers sucking on her tit. It is strangely erotic. Jackie Chan give the performance of his life as "Asian Mobster". She doesnt just explode she explodes into ice cream sprinkles. The moon, the moon comes crashing into earth. 2+2=/=1. Time sped up to infinity is nothing. We are nothing. How can mirrors be real if our eyes arent real? But is the world ready for Lucys life changing knowledge? As Neil Smokes Le Grass Tyson states, with great power comes great responsibility. Will the power of Lucy/Flash Drive be used by mankind for good or evil? These questions are left ambiguous. Scarlet Johansen smashes her way through patriarchy, racial stereotypes, the box office and, most importantly, our hearts in Resident Evil 7: Resident Evilerer.
Otakus otaku everywhere!
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on August 09, 2014, 11:35:16 PM
I saw Lucy last night. It was amazing. The whole thing, from start to finish was pure fever dream madness. At no point did anything resembling a plot, or even a character appear. The last 20 minutes of the film are Scarlet Johandjob sitting in an office chair in front of a green screen and flying through space. Then she turns into a flash drive. Morgan Freeman brings his trademark charm to the role of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Two Frogs humping features prominently in the film. When the movie isnt bad CGI action scenes its Scarlet ranting about the universe using complete nonsequiters. These were the best part of the movie because they managed to rise above mere bad screenwriting to the level of schizophrenic word salad. Her teeth fall out and then she explodes. She cries and tells her mother she remembers sucking on her tit. It is strangely erotic. Jackie Chan give the performance of his life as "Asian Mobster". She doesnt just explode she explodes into ice cream sprinkles. The moon, the moon comes crashing into earth. 2+2=/=1. Time sped up to infinity is nothing. We are nothing. How can mirrors be real if our eyes arent real? But is the world ready for Lucys life changing knowledge? As Neil Smokes Le Grass Tyson states, with great power comes great responsibility. Will the power of Lucy/Flash Drive be used by mankind for good or evil? These questions are left ambiguous. Scarlet Johansen smashes her way through patriarchy, racial stereotypes, the box office and, most importantly, our hearts in Resident Evil 7: Resident Evilerer.
:lulz: That sounds amazing.
An actual sentence from the actual class page of my Research Methods class:
QuoteThe point of this is to see that when we don't just have to guess at how many people will be enough for our experiments.
So basically I finally realized that this guy is high as fuck and doesn't want to deal with it, and I have been trying way too fucking hard. :lol:
So, these multiple Discordian group pages on FB I've been volunteered for.
I suppose I haven't been paying attention to youth culture recently, but when did "FGT" become an acceptable, no-harm-done substitute for "faggot", and why the fuck is everyone OK with it?
I am once again reconsidering my self-identification, if these are my peers.
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on August 09, 2014, 11:35:16 PM
I saw Lucy last night. It was amazing. The whole thing, from start to finish was pure fever dream madness. At no point did anything resembling a plot, or even a character appear. The last 20 minutes of the film are Scarlet Johandjob sitting in an office chair in front of a green screen and flying through space. Then she turns into a flash drive. Morgan Freeman brings his trademark charm to the role of Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Two Frogs humping features prominently in the film. When the movie isnt bad CGI action scenes its Scarlet ranting about the universe using complete nonsequiters. These were the best part of the movie because they managed to rise above mere bad screenwriting to the level of schizophrenic word salad. Her teeth fall out and then she explodes. She cries and tells her mother she remembers sucking on her tit. It is strangely erotic. Jackie Chan give the performance of his life as "Asian Mobster". She doesnt just explode she explodes into ice cream sprinkles. The moon, the moon comes crashing into earth. 2+2=/=1. Time sped up to infinity is nothing. We are nothing. How can mirrors be real if our eyes arent real? But is the world ready for Lucys life changing knowledge? As Neil Smokes Le Grass Tyson states, with great power comes great responsibility. Will the power of Lucy/Flash Drive be used by mankind for good or evil? These questions are left ambiguous. Scarlet Johansen smashes her way through patriarchy, racial stereotypes, the box office and, most importantly, our hearts in Resident Evil 7: Resident Evilerer.
The movie is worthwhile, if only for the glory you have wrought here. Stella!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 10, 2014, 03:38:44 AM
So, these multiple Discordian group pages on FB I've been volunteered for.
I suppose I haven't been paying attention to youth culture recently, but when did "FGT" become an acceptable, no-harm-done substitute for "faggot", and why the fuck is everyone OK with it?
I am once again reconsidering my self-identification, if these are my peers.
I stopped identifying with Discordianism sometime over the last 6 months. The geeks have beaten me.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 10, 2014, 03:38:44 AM
So, these multiple Discordian group pages on FB I've been volunteered for.
I suppose I haven't been paying attention to youth culture recently, but when did "FGT" become an acceptable, no-harm-done substitute for "faggot", and why the fuck is everyone OK with it?
I am once again reconsidering my self-identification, if these are my peers.
You cant let idiots ruin shit for you.
In other news, there's the "ice water challenge".
http://abcnews.go.com/US/reason-crazy-ice-water-challenge-trend/story?id=24886646
When challenged, you have 24 hours to pour a bucket of ice water on your head, or you have to donate $100 towards ALS research.
Besides the fact that the most useful thing you can do is not accept the challenge, doesn't pouring a bucket of ice water on your head seem a bit arbitrary?
I kind of want to start a "put out lit cigarettes on your arm for dyslexia" challenge.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 10, 2014, 05:00:26 PM
In other news, there's the "ice water challenge".
http://abcnews.go.com/US/reason-crazy-ice-water-challenge-trend/story?id=24886646
When challenged, you have 24 hours to pour a bucket of ice water on your head, or you have to donate $100 towards ALS research.
Besides the fact that the most useful thing you can do is not accept the challenge, doesn't pouring a bucket of ice water on your head seem a bit arbitrary?
I kind of want to start a "put out lit cigarettes on your arm for dyslexia" challenge.
Do it.
Seriously, do it.
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so this happened to my room today.
it used to be urban concrete grey/battleship grey and it was horrible and depressing.
Look at that turquoise. I dare you to feel shitty looking at that. CANT BE DONE!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 10, 2014, 05:00:26 PM
In other news, there's the "ice water challenge".
http://abcnews.go.com/US/reason-crazy-ice-water-challenge-trend/story?id=24886646
When challenged, you have 24 hours to pour a bucket of ice water on your head, or you have to donate $100 towards ALS research.
Besides the fact that the most useful thing you can do is not accept the challenge, doesn't pouring a bucket of ice water on your head seem a bit arbitrary?
I kind of want to start a "put out lit cigarettes on your arm for dyslexia" challenge.
Firstly, yes, do that or something similar.
Secondly, note that each participant is actively not giving towards cause X. You would think that the issuer of said challenge would be the one to donate cash instead but this doesn't seem to occur. That's got potential.
Thirdly, I'd pay serious money for a list of participants. That's a sucker list worth a fortune.
I need to make the slides and submit them. I really do.
Home from funerals and Pennsics and such. Had a generally okay time that was filled with too much misery for shit that's supposed to be fun.
What did I miss?
Writing process documentation at work. If at any stage of the process the user clicks "SUBMIT" instead of "SAVE" everything will break forever, so after every step of the process it says:
DO NOT SUBMIT.
Feels a little bit like brainwashing. I think I'm going to have to go through and flavour it up.
RESIST THE URGE TO SUBMIT.
YOU ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO NOT SUBMIT.
:lulz:
Husband made chief while we were away. This is all well and good, however, let's just say he's about to be fucked forever for the next 3 months until his pinning.
Oh, and if anyone asks, it's "initiation" not "hazing."
:|
Quote from: Pæs on August 10, 2014, 10:12:53 PM
Writing process documentation at work. If at any stage of the process the user clicks "SUBMIT" instead of "SAVE" everything will break forever, so after every step of the process it says:
DO NOT SUBMIT.
Feels a little bit like brainwashing. I think I'm going to have to go through and flavour it up.
RESIST THE URGE TO SUBMIT.
YOU ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO NOT SUBMIT.
:lulz:
Quote from: The Suu on August 11, 2014, 12:47:25 AM
Husband made chief while we were away. This is all well and good, however, let's just say he's about to be fucked forever for the next 3 months until his pinning.
Oh, and if anyone asks, it's "initiation" not "hazing."
:|
It's never hazing if it's "tradition", even if it's a tradition of hazing.
Congrats to your husband!
Quote from: Raz Tech on August 11, 2014, 01:34:02 AM
Quote from: The Suu on August 11, 2014, 12:47:25 AM
Husband made chief while we were away. This is all well and good, however, let's just say he's about to be fucked forever for the next 3 months until his pinning.
Oh, and if anyone asks, it's "initiation" not "hazing."
:|
It's never hazing if it's "tradition", even if it's a tradition of hazing.
Congrats to your husband!
Well, he appears to be shaving EVERYTHING, and his boots never looked so good. They gave him a bag of things I'm not allowed to look at including an "instructional manual" on the etiquettes and protocols he has to adhere to during his "training." :lulz:
He signed up for this shit, but at least he's in good spirits. Apparently his pinning is going to be in a month, not 3, so guess that means I gots a party to plan.
On Friday I published a blog detailing security issues with the website of NZ's most litigious politician which result could result in total compromise of the server it's on. This week I have a coffee dates with infosec recruitment directors and there has been mention of a first annual "COME AT ME, BRO" award at NZ's yearly hacker convention.
Car shopping time. If any New England spag knows someone who is getting rid of a Subaru Outback or Forester (you know, the official cars of New Hampshire) within reasonably manageable miles (150,000 ish) with a clean title and recent inspection, lemme know. We'll replace the head gasket ourselves if the price is right. As long as the engine is still ticking I can get another 200,000mi on those suckers and not slide off the cliff into the ocean come February. Unlike my husband's car, which is a FWD 4 banger manual Scion thingy that scares me when it ices over. Seriously, he's from upstate NY, so "Hey watch this!" is funny to him when we lose control going downhill in the winter. I'd rather not do that.
I'm exhausted. I never finished the statistical analysis for my research proposal yesterday. Boyfriend fidgeted all night and I have a hard enough time sleeping as it is, I basically was up all night.
It's finals week.
And the week after is midterms.
Quote from: Pæs on August 11, 2014, 02:32:25 AM
On Friday I published a blog detailing security issues with the website of NZ's most litigious politician which result could result in total compromise of the server it's on. This week I have a coffee dates with infosec recruitment directors and there has been mention of a first annual "COME AT ME, BRO" award at NZ's yearly hacker convention.
Saw that on FB. Nice stuff.
I'm currently trolling the seedy world of online freelance writing, looking for legit paying work among the timewasters and the fraudsters. We'll see how it goes.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 10, 2014, 05:00:26 PM
In other news, there's the "ice water challenge".
http://abcnews.go.com/US/reason-crazy-ice-water-challenge-trend/story?id=24886646
When challenged, you have 24 hours to pour a bucket of ice water on your head, or you have to donate $100 towards ALS research.
Besides the fact that the most useful thing you can do is not accept the challenge, doesn't pouring a bucket of ice water on your head seem a bit arbitrary?
I kind of want to start a "put out lit cigarettes on your arm for dyslexia" challenge.
Everyone I've seen doing it has donated at least something IN ADDITION to pouring ice water on themselves. They've raised $1.39 million since the start of the trend, compared with $22,000 over the same time period last year, so it's both fun and effective.
I'm starting to see the anti-ice water challenge posts crop up on my feed, which means only one thing to me: escalation. When I get home from work I'm going to put on facebook that I'll donate $5 for every person in my feed with a needlessly cynical ice water challenge status. It starts at $20, just from today.
I'm seeing people claim the idea is to donate $10 if you do the challenge, $100 if you don't. But because it's being passed around on Facebook, most of the time the point is lost and it's just "HEY <tag 5 friends> PUT ICE WATER ON YOSELF." One person has claimed it's to simulate the shock you feel when you find out that you have a life-threatening illness.
Most of the time it's "Ha, I did the ice thing, now this list of people need to do it also or pay $100" followed by weird shaming for people who don't freeze themselves or have a spare $100.
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on August 10, 2014, 08:03:59 PM
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so this happened to my room today.
it used to be urban concrete grey/battleship grey and it was horrible and depressing.
Look at that turquoise. I dare you to feel shitty looking at that. CANT BE DONE!
That's an awesome color, that is. :)
Quote from: Pæs on August 11, 2014, 09:40:23 PM
I'm seeing people claim the idea is to donate $10 if you do the challenge, $100 if you don't. But because it's being passed around on Facebook, most of the time the point is lost and it's just "HEY <tag 5 friends> PUT ICE WATER ON YOSELF." One person has claimed it's to simulate the shock you feel when you find out that you have a life-threatening illness.
Most of the time it's "Ha, I did the ice thing, now this list of people need to do it also or pay $100" followed by weird shaming for people who don't freeze themselves or have a spare $100.
The bold - Well that's some interesting bullshit. Bet that catches on nicely as a justification too.
I suppose the shaming part is somewhat expected. Being unable to afford spurious luxuries and bets and such is quite socially unacceptable. You might accidentally make people notice the employment/wealth disparities in our culture.
Also, nice work with the Interview. Good Luck that upside down person.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on August 11, 2014, 08:42:44 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 10, 2014, 05:00:26 PM
In other news, there's the "ice water challenge".
http://abcnews.go.com/US/reason-crazy-ice-water-challenge-trend/story?id=24886646
When challenged, you have 24 hours to pour a bucket of ice water on your head, or you have to donate $100 towards ALS research.
Besides the fact that the most useful thing you can do is not accept the challenge, doesn't pouring a bucket of ice water on your head seem a bit arbitrary?
I kind of want to start a "put out lit cigarettes on your arm for dyslexia" challenge.
Everyone I've seen doing it has donated at least something IN ADDITION to pouring ice water on themselves. They've raised $1.39 million since the start of the trend, compared with $22,000 over the same time period last year, so it's both fun and effective.
I'm starting to see the anti-ice water challenge posts crop up on my feed, which means only one thing to me: escalation. When I get home from work I'm going to put on facebook that I'll donate $5 for every person in my feed with a needlessly cynical ice water challenge status. It starts at $20, just from today.
Yeah, I was going to post a follow-up, since I heard on NPR today that donations to ALS have gone up 1000%. That's not a typo.
One can bloviate about short-term spikes vs long-term slopes, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that this thing actually worked. Nice going, internet!
Conversations I can't even believe I'm having #444553/J -
"If you see someone doing something which could kill them, do you have a moral obligation to say something?"
"Yes"
"But what if..."
"No. You stop shit until it's safe"
"But what if..."
"No"
"But..."
"No. Who is acting the fool?"
"Well I don't want to say..."
"Stop fucking about and tell me or I'll blame you for whatever it is that is about to go wrong"
I swear, at this rate the Crowbar of Truth and Justice is going to make an appearance.
Just got my test results. No cancer.
Or STD and my pap was clean.
But holy fuck, no cancer.
Off to happy dance down the street, bbl.
Excellent news that woman.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on August 12, 2014, 05:37:39 PM
Just got my test results. No cancer.
Or STD and my pap was clean.
But holy fuck, no cancer.
Off to happy dance down the street, bbl.
:hammer:
I've decided to make a dress for the husband's chief pinning, because I'm poor, and I can actually get something I want this way.
:hammer: :hammer:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 10, 2014, 03:38:44 AM
So, these multiple Discordian group pages on FB I've been volunteered for.
I suppose I haven't been paying attention to youth culture recently, but when did "FGT" become an acceptable, no-harm-done substitute for "faggot", and why the fuck is everyone OK with it?
I am once again reconsidering my self-identification, if these are my peers.
I've been bothered by it too. I'll read on, but I'm uncertain what to make of it.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 10, 2014, 05:00:26 PM
In other news, there's the "ice water challenge".
http://abcnews.go.com/US/reason-crazy-ice-water-challenge-trend/story?id=24886646
When challenged, you have 24 hours to pour a bucket of ice water on your head, or you have to donate $100 towards ALS research.
Besides the fact that the most useful thing you can do is not accept the challenge, doesn't pouring a bucket of ice water on your head seem a bit arbitrary?
I kind of want to start a "put out lit cigarettes on your arm for dyslexia" challenge.
You still have to donate. It's just a matter of if you aren't donating $100+, you should call attention to it by posting a silly video. $20 here, since I'm otherwise pretty poor and can't really spare $100.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 12, 2014, 11:33:54 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on August 11, 2014, 08:42:44 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 10, 2014, 05:00:26 PM
In other news, there's the "ice water challenge".
http://abcnews.go.com/US/reason-crazy-ice-water-challenge-trend/story?id=24886646
When challenged, you have 24 hours to pour a bucket of ice water on your head, or you have to donate $100 towards ALS research.
Besides the fact that the most useful thing you can do is not accept the challenge, doesn't pouring a bucket of ice water on your head seem a bit arbitrary?
I kind of want to start a "put out lit cigarettes on your arm for dyslexia" challenge.
Everyone I've seen doing it has donated at least something IN ADDITION to pouring ice water on themselves. They've raised $1.39 million since the start of the trend, compared with $22,000 over the same time period last year, so it's both fun and effective.
I'm starting to see the anti-ice water challenge posts crop up on my feed, which means only one thing to me: escalation. When I get home from work I'm going to put on facebook that I'll donate $5 for every person in my feed with a needlessly cynical ice water challenge status. It starts at $20, just from today.
Yeah, I was going to post a follow-up, since I heard on NPR today that donations to ALS have gone up 1000%. That's not a typo.
One can bloviate about short-term spikes vs long-term slopes, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that this thing actually worked. Nice going, internet!
Here's the video I did, where I actually went into some detail about the thing before bucketing, and pointing out that you pour the bucket if you're not donating a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHvnq9QYh5I&list=UUwVZ2fdI_WYBHuPhvlCRg0Q
Oh, uh, also, apparently, no one I challenged has accepted, so, I also nominate LMNO.
I have a write a paper on why Mr. Suu would make a good chief.
...Well, I don't know if they are looking for 5 pages of Chicago 16th with footnotes, but by golly, this is going to be HYSTERICAL.
Ed has apparently accepted, but technical difficulties got in the way.
The woman who married my husband and I died today. Heart attack.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on August 13, 2014, 03:37:32 AM
The woman who married my husband and I died today. Heart attack.
I'm not sure what that means, but I'm sorry for your loss, Gogira.
Oh, the officiator?
Shit, I'm sorry.
I go in tomorrow for a different job interview at 1.
Finals is Wednesday for everyone here.
So, working on the next short story.
Bad guy (girl, actually) needs a schtick.
Weaponized sex toys? Yes or no?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 13, 2014, 11:24:11 PM
So, working on the next short story.
Bad guy (girl, actually) needs a schtick.
Weaponized sex toys? Yes or no?
It depends on the selection and application of the core components.
Either way, yes.
yes please.
Do they talk?
So my place of work needs people to go on business related trips, so when one comes available they post it on a board in the front of the office. At one point it included all the details about where you would be going, so people could be selective about whether or not they wanted to travel. Then at some point, nobody wanted to travel to the shitty places anymore, so they stopped putting up the details and you just have to blindly accept it and then get told where you are going. The last five or so business trips, however, have been terrible, including one trip to New York where dude had to stay in a shoddy motel in the wrong part of town, and a trip to bumfuck nowhere, Nebraska. Because of this, no one volunteered for the latest one.
Since I've been kinda bored of the normal job lately, I decided it was time to go on an adventure, so I threw my name in there. Boss man talks to me about it today. Basically a full month expedition. First week: Washington D.C. Not bad, been there before, could've been far worse.
Three following weeks?
Motherfucking Key West. Florida. On a job that will take maybe 5 hours a day tops, no weekends, raking in the extra travel money. In Key West.
I'm a lucky bastard sometimes I guess.
Quote from: Trivial on August 14, 2014, 12:20:44 AM
Do they talk?
I'M AN EXPLODING DILDO!
I'M AN EXPLODING DILDO!
10...9...8...7...
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 13, 2014, 11:24:11 PM
So, working on the next short story.
Bad guy (girl, actually) needs a schtick.
Weaponized sex toys? Yes or no?
Well of course. Any reason is a good reason to break out the chainsaw of tongues
(http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y412/Ironmaiden6972/lick-a-chick_zpsb5b85795.jpg) (http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/Ironmaiden6972/media/lick-a-chick_zpsb5b85795.jpg.html)
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 14, 2014, 01:59:33 AM
Quote from: Trivial on August 14, 2014, 12:20:44 AM
Do they talk?
I'M AN EXPLODING DILDO!
I'M AN EXPLODING DILDO!
10...9...8...7...
You owe me a new pair of pants, you bastard.
Pretty much settled in Boulder. Getting into climbing again after a 7 year hiatus. Boulder had 5? climbing gyms so it was a great excuse to. Bought a full gear set and am extremely happy with my harness.
Currently at a 5.8 level. Need to get strength backk, so hooray to all that.
Quote from: Raz Tech on August 14, 2014, 01:59:58 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 13, 2014, 11:24:11 PM
So, working on the next short story.
Bad guy (girl, actually) needs a schtick.
Weaponized sex toys? Yes or no?
Well of course. Any reason is a good reason to break out the chainsaw of tongues
(http://i1273.photobucket.com/albums/y412/Ironmaiden6972/lick-a-chick_zpsb5b85795.jpg) (http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/Ironmaiden6972/media/lick-a-chick_zpsb5b85795.jpg.html)
DIESEL! :lulz:
There's an article that a friend posted on Facebook about how parents shouldn't be excited about their kids going back to school, and in fact, even joking about it is a bad thing, because that means you don't love your kids or some shit.
http://www.sistersraisingsisters.com/please-do-not-be-this-mother/
Whatever happened to having a fucking sense of humor? I mentioned this, and got chastised, because "I'm not a parent and I will never understand."
Oh fuck off and hit your funny bone.
Quote from: The Suu on August 14, 2014, 04:28:31 PM
There's an article that a friend posted on Facebook about how parents shouldn't be excited about their kids going back to school, and in fact, even joking about it is a bad thing, because that means you don't love your kids or some shit.
http://www.sistersraisingsisters.com/please-do-not-be-this-mother/
Whatever happened to having a fucking sense of humor? I mentioned this, and got chastised, because "I'm not a parent and I will never understand."
Oh fuck off and hit your funny bone.
Oh good grief.
Quote from: The Suu on August 14, 2014, 04:28:31 PM
There's an article that a friend posted on Facebook about how parents shouldn't be excited about their kids going back to school, and in fact, even joking about it is a bad thing, because that means you don't love your kids or some shit.
http://www.sistersraisingsisters.com/please-do-not-be-this-mother/
Whatever happened to having a fucking sense of humor? I mentioned this, and got chastised, because "I'm not a parent and I will never understand."
Oh fuck off and hit your funny bone.
God forbid children get a chance to spend some time away from mom and socialize with other people their own age, and learn how to function as an independent human being. You don't need to be a parent to realize that.
To be fair, those kinds of posts are super annoying.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on August 14, 2014, 05:31:35 PM
To be fair, those kinds of posts are super annoying.
The false celebratory ones? Or the parents deriding the parents making the false celebratory ones because god forbid anyone has a sense of humor and they aren't parenting right?
My mother cheerfully told us to get the fuck out about a week before school started every year. We knew she didn't hate us around, because we understood she was joking.
Quote from: The Suu on August 14, 2014, 06:21:26 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on August 14, 2014, 05:31:35 PM
To be fair, those kinds of posts are super annoying.
...
My mother cheerfully told us to get the fuck out about a week before school started every year. We knew she didn't hate us around, because we understood she was joking.
Yea, it was more an invitation or concession to have fun, followed, at the last possible moment with -
"Just don't die..."
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Unrelated, in spotlight, holding option key, "+" button turns into "..." :)
Quote from: The Suu on August 14, 2014, 04:28:31 PM
There's an article that a friend posted on Facebook about how parents shouldn't be excited about their kids going back to school, and in fact, even joking about it is a bad thing, because that means you don't love your kids or some shit.
http://www.sistersraisingsisters.com/please-do-not-be-this-mother/
Whatever happened to having a fucking sense of humor? I mentioned this, and got chastised, because "I'm not a parent and I will never understand."
Oh fuck off and hit your funny bone.
Link dead :(
It worked earlier, they must have gotten sick of the criticism.
Good red ants criterisms :lulz:
I'll readily admit that I'm glad the kid is going back to school next week.
Not only is it giving him more of a chance to be social (there is no kids his age at the complex) but it also gives me a bit of a breather.
Love him to death but having him around 24/7 starts getting a bit on my nerves after 2 1/2 months.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 13, 2014, 11:24:11 PM
So, working on the next short story.
Bad guy (girl, actually) needs a schtick.
Weaponized sex toys? Yes or no?
double dildo with ball bearings embedded in that shiz. also separates in the middle, add chains, nunchucks.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 14, 2014, 02:45:03 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 14, 2014, 01:59:33 AM
Quote from: Trivial on August 14, 2014, 12:20:44 AM
Do they talk?
I'M AN EXPLODING DILDO!
I'M AN EXPLODING DILDO!
10...9...8...7...
You owe me a new pair of pants, you bastard.
:lulz:
Come on up and collect 'em. I'll have some Belgian beer in the fridge.
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.627361,129.737528,3a,75y,289.49h,90.66t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s7J6uOaFkHJiJ1S_-BVlxww!2e0!3e5!6m1!1e1?hl=nl (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.627361,129.737528,3a,75y,289.49h,90.66t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s7J6uOaFkHJiJ1S_-BVlxww!2e0!3e5!6m1!1e1?hl=nl)
Google street view ruin porn.
Quote from: Trivial on August 15, 2014, 02:37:53 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.627361,129.737528,3a,75y,289.49h,90.66t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s7J6uOaFkHJiJ1S_-BVlxww!2e0!3e5!6m1!1e1?hl=nl (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.627361,129.737528,3a,75y,289.49h,90.66t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s7J6uOaFkHJiJ1S_-BVlxww!2e0!3e5!6m1!1e1?hl=nl)
Google street view ruin porn.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3665/9717842360_a713431fd1_z.jpg)
(http://i.nona.net/locmap_DOEL_4.0986667X51.1966667X4.4346667X51.4366667.png)
Quote from: Trivial on August 15, 2014, 02:37:53 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.627361,129.737528,3a,75y,289.49h,90.66t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s7J6uOaFkHJiJ1S_-BVlxww!2e0!3e5!6m1!1e1?hl=nl (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.627361,129.737528,3a,75y,289.49h,90.66t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s7J6uOaFkHJiJ1S_-BVlxww!2e0!3e5!6m1!1e1?hl=nl)
Google street view ruin porn.
That gave me the chills. Awesome.
Quote from: Sita on August 14, 2014, 08:22:49 PM
I'll readily admit that I'm glad the kid is going back to school next week.
Not only is it giving him more of a chance to be social (there is no kids his age at the complex) but it also gives me a bit of a breather.
Love him to death but having him around 24/7 starts getting a bit on my nerves after 2 1/2 months.
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on August 14, 2014, 09:57:52 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 13, 2014, 11:24:11 PM
So, working on the next short story.
Bad guy (girl, actually) needs a schtick.
Weaponized sex toys? Yes or no?
double dildo with ball bearings embedded in that shiz. also separates in the middle, add chains, nunchucks.
OK, I don't think of myself as a prude, but those two comments together don't sit well with me.
You're feeling uncomfortable about two unrelated posts next to each other?
Lo5?
Quote from: Regret on August 15, 2014, 06:51:30 PM
Quote from: Sita on August 14, 2014, 08:22:49 PM
I'll readily admit that I'm glad the kid is going back to school next week.
Not only is it giving him more of a chance to be social (there is no kids his age at the complex) but it also gives me a bit of a breather.
Love him to death but having him around 24/7 starts getting a bit on my nerves after 2 1/2 months.
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on August 14, 2014, 09:57:52 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 13, 2014, 11:24:11 PM
So, working on the next short story.
Bad guy (girl, actually) needs a schtick.
Weaponized sex toys? Yes or no?
double dildo with ball bearings embedded in that shiz. also separates in the middle, add chains, nunchucks.
OK, I don't think of myself as a prude, but those two comments together don't sit well with me.
That's hardly my problem.
Husband fell out today during PT. He went and got himself dehydrated enough to get a bag of fluid via IV. The stress has been killing him so much he's forgetting to fucking hydrate. He got teased a bit, but every has been calling and checking on him. Another guy fell out, but didn't tell anyone he was feeling sick, and, an hour later, had to get carried off to the doc for 2 bags of fluid, getting screamed at by all the chiefs for not saying anything. So, yeah. It could be worse.
However, he's suddenly in much better spirits and seems less stressed, so hopefully this does the trick and gets him back on the wagon. I've been passing him jugs of water all day.
And now I begin my 32nd revolution around the sun.
Quote from: The Suu on August 16, 2014, 04:02:00 AM
And now I begin my 32nd revolution around the sun.
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
something something whatever,
Happy birthdayThe Suu
Week two of chronic sleep deprivation:
- Being aware of having impaired judgment and motor skills doesn't help improve them as far as I can tell.
- Skin tone appears to be taking on an a difficult to pin down unhealthy look (tan but wan?).
- Eyes feel dilated, but other people say they look fine.
- Staring at the textures in the ceiling paint reveals a Batman portrait painted by Francis Bacon, a man with a grotesque face on his gigantic forehead looking plaintively away from me, a ninja with an eye instead of a head that is mid-blink while holding his dick to piss on something.
- Stopped going to work because it turns out I'm not to be paid for my time. You see, I keep forgetting I moved to Fresno. :lulz:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 15, 2014, 06:52:50 PM
You're feeling uncomfortable about two unrelated posts next to each other?
Lo5?
Yeah, I know. It is stupid.
It still gives me the heebiejeebies and I don't even know what those are!
I like it when my brain does something weird like this.
Quote from: The Suu on August 16, 2014, 04:02:00 AM
And now I begin my 32nd revolution around the sun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATyHIT5LV8g
Quote from: Trivial on August 15, 2014, 02:37:53 AM
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.627361,129.737528,3a,75y,289.49h,90.66t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s7J6uOaFkHJiJ1S_-BVlxww!2e0!3e5!6m1!1e1?hl=nl (https://www.google.com/maps/@32.627361,129.737528,3a,75y,289.49h,90.66t/data=!3m5!1e1!3m3!1s7J6uOaFkHJiJ1S_-BVlxww!2e0!3e5!6m1!1e1?hl=nl)
Google street view ruin porn.
:fap: :fap: :fap:
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on August 12, 2014, 05:37:39 PM
Just got my test results. No cancer.
Or STD and my pap was clean.
But holy fuck, no cancer.
Off to happy dance down the street, bbl.
YAY!!!
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on August 13, 2014, 12:39:30 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 10, 2014, 03:38:44 AM
So, these multiple Discordian group pages on FB I've been volunteered for.
I suppose I haven't been paying attention to youth culture recently, but when did "FGT" become an acceptable, no-harm-done substitute for "faggot", and why the fuck is everyone OK with it?
I am once again reconsidering my self-identification, if these are my peers.
I've been bothered by it too. I'll read on, but I'm uncertain what to make of it.
A lot of people have objected to it, including myself, but the two main people who are using it are gay so it's a little hard to take the stand that they have no right to use it as a general term of reference for other Discordians if they want to. I am uncomfortable with it but my argument is weak. "Hey gay people! Stop using fgt and ftg, it makes me, a straight person, uncomfortable!".
I've been pretending it means "fidget", which I find much more palatable.
Quote from: The Suu on August 14, 2014, 04:28:31 PM
There's an article that a friend posted on Facebook about how parents shouldn't be excited about their kids going back to school, and in fact, even joking about it is a bad thing, because that means you don't love your kids or some shit.
http://www.sistersraisingsisters.com/please-do-not-be-this-mother/
Whatever happened to having a fucking sense of humor? I mentioned this, and got chastised, because "I'm not a parent and I will never understand."
Oh fuck off and hit your funny bone.
Man, fuck those "every moment is precious" overprotective moms who are training their children that everyone on earth ought to be grateful for every moment of their precious presence. The kids they're raising are going to be hopelessly dysfunctional without therapy and hard work, and they're also being sent the message that time away from home is something to be sad about, and not a fun chance for adventure, exploration, and making friends. There's nothing that will make a kid feel more insecure and ambivalent about going to school like a clingy overprotective mom weeping about having to send them off to school.
Celebrating is A: funny as hell, and B: lets kids know that it's OK to be independent and go out into the world and learn stuff, and also to take time to be by yourself and be your own damn human being. Even when you're a parent.
Found this place by complete accident (or was it?) and for some reason I find this place rather interesting.
So I shall lurk (though it probably defeats the purpose by being announced).
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 16, 2014, 10:55:32 PM
Quote from: The Suu on August 14, 2014, 04:28:31 PM
There's an article that a friend posted on Facebook about how parents shouldn't be excited about their kids going back to school, and in fact, even joking about it is a bad thing, because that means you don't love your kids or some shit.
http://www.sistersraisingsisters.com/please-do-not-be-this-mother/
Whatever happened to having a fucking sense of humor? I mentioned this, and got chastised, because "I'm not a parent and I will never understand."
Oh fuck off and hit your funny bone.
Man, fuck those "every moment is precious" overprotective moms who are training their children that everyone on earth ought to be grateful for every moment of their precious presence. The kids they're raising are going to be hopelessly dysfunctional without therapy and hard work, and they're also being sent the message that time away from home is something to be sad about, and not a fun chance for adventure, exploration, and making friends. There's nothing that will make a kid feel more insecure and ambivalent about going to school like a clingy overprotective mom weeping about having to send them off to school.
Celebrating is A: funny as hell, and B: lets kids know that it's OK to be independent and go out into the world and learn stuff, and also to take time to be by yourself and be your own damn human being. Even when you're a parent.
The problem isn't just with parents anymore though. I've noticed an alarming trend of schools that are far too overprotective of these special snowflakes. Schools banning balls, cartwheels, books, water guns/pistols, triangle shaped pancakes, hugging/any form of touching, dodgeball and the list of bullshit items to ban from schools for bullshit reason(s) is long.
Then there's also the schools that called the police because a little boy kissed a little girl and they wanted to charge with him sexual asault, a boy made a gun gesture with his hand, some kid poked another kid with a pointy pancake, bans a little girl for shaving her head, bans a girl with red hair, bans a group of teens who saved a woman and her dog from a burning building, bans teachers from using red ink because it's too mean, bans a boy's backpack because MLP, bans sunscreen because a kid might drink it, a girl has distracting hair, a little boy folded a piece of paper into a gun shape and was expelled, expels a little girl because she didn't look feminine enough, a little girl is raped TWICE and she is not only expelled but also forced to write a letter of apology...
Christ, I could go on, the list is pretty long. I see something new about some school doing something completely ridiculous nearly every day on Fark.com. I mean, pardon my language here, but what in the actual fuck is going on? Did somebody pour some tainted kool-aid in the water supply?
As a spouse of a redhead, I can fully attest to them being absolutely up to no good at all times.
Quote from: The Suu on August 17, 2014, 03:34:11 AM
As a spouse of a redhead, I can fully attest to them being absolutely up to no good at all times.
Do they have more or less fun than blondes?
So as I mentioned before, my cousin is expecting twins in January. Now, I know nothing of babies or what sizes of things I should buy, but since we do not know the gender yet, I was thinking of starting to buy packs of white onesies as I see them in various sizes, and drawing on them with fabric markers. She has rich Long Island doctor friends who are going to buy her fancy schmancy shit. I'm crocheting the blankets, but I can't be one-uped by the rich folk when it comes to utilitarianism.
Babies are full of gross and make messes, they will be in onesies and diapers more than pretty clothes. What better than onesies covered in obnoxious artwork by yours truly? "My cousin is a poor grad student so all I got was this fucking onesie." And such things.
Quote from: The Suu on August 17, 2014, 03:45:29 AM
So as I mentioned before, my cousin is expecting twins in January. Now, I know nothing of babies or what sizes of things I should buy, but since we do not know the gender yet, I was thinking of starting to buy packs of white onesies as I see them in various sizes, and drawing on them with fabric markers. She has rich Long Island doctor friends who are going to buy her fancy schmancy shit. I'm crocheting the blankets, but I can't be one-uped by the rich folk when it comes to utilitarianism.
Babies are full of gross and make messes, they will be in onesies and diapers more than pretty clothes. What better than onesies covered in obnoxious artwork by yours truly? "My cousin is a poor grad student so all I got was this fucking onesie." And such things.
I knew someone who dyed a bunch of onesies to look like they'd already been puked on.
Quote from: Trivial on August 17, 2014, 04:00:50 AM
Quote from: The Suu on August 17, 2014, 03:45:29 AM
So as I mentioned before, my cousin is expecting twins in January. Now, I know nothing of babies or what sizes of things I should buy, but since we do not know the gender yet, I was thinking of starting to buy packs of white onesies as I see them in various sizes, and drawing on them with fabric markers. She has rich Long Island doctor friends who are going to buy her fancy schmancy shit. I'm crocheting the blankets, but I can't be one-uped by the rich folk when it comes to utilitarianism.
Babies are full of gross and make messes, they will be in onesies and diapers more than pretty clothes. What better than onesies covered in obnoxious artwork by yours truly? "My cousin is a poor grad student so all I got was this fucking onesie." And such things.
I knew someone who dyed a bunch of onesies to look like they'd already been puked on.
As much as that's my style, my cousin would murder me.
Quote from: The Suu on August 17, 2014, 04:10:58 AM
Quote from: Trivial on August 17, 2014, 04:00:50 AM
Quote from: The Suu on August 17, 2014, 03:45:29 AM
So as I mentioned before, my cousin is expecting twins in January. Now, I know nothing of babies or what sizes of things I should buy, but since we do not know the gender yet, I was thinking of starting to buy packs of white onesies as I see them in various sizes, and drawing on them with fabric markers. She has rich Long Island doctor friends who are going to buy her fancy schmancy shit. I'm crocheting the blankets, but I can't be one-uped by the rich folk when it comes to utilitarianism.
Babies are full of gross and make messes, they will be in onesies and diapers more than pretty clothes. What better than onesies covered in obnoxious artwork by yours truly? "My cousin is a poor grad student so all I got was this fucking onesie." And such things.
I knew someone who dyed a bunch of onesies to look like they'd already been puked on.
As much as that's my style, my cousin would murder me.
Markers can get tedious, and acrylic goes on thin. I'd git some stencils and oil-based (94) spray cans and have a blast :lulz:
Quote from: Sehra Farron on August 17, 2014, 02:06:23 AM
Found this place by complete accident (or was it?) and for some reason I find this place rather interesting.
So I shall lurk (though it probably defeats the purpose by being announced).
Too late. I've now added you on Facebook.
We are the harbinger of your perfection, Sehra Farron.
That which you know as PD.com is your salvation through destruction.
You fight against inevitability, thus struggling against cosmic winds. Your greatest civilizations are doomed to fall, and your civilization will beg to serve us. Know this as you struggle in vain - your time will come, and your people will fail. Take what is useful, destroy the rest. Progress cannot be halted.
Prepare yourself.
Quote from: Cain on August 17, 2014, 10:30:11 AM
Quote from: Sehra Farron on August 17, 2014, 02:06:23 AM
Found this place by complete accident (or was it?) and for some reason I find this place rather interesting.
So I shall lurk (though it probably defeats the purpose by being announced).
Too late. I've now added you on Facebook.
We are the harbinger of your perfection, Sehra Farron.
That which you know as PD.com is your salvation through destruction.
You fight against inevitability, thus struggling against cosmic winds. Your greatest civilizations are doomed to fall, and your civilization will beg to serve us. Know this as you struggle in vain - your time will come, and your people will fail. Take what is useful, destroy the rest. Progress cannot be halted.
Prepare yourself.
There's nothing really interesting on my Facebook but feel free. Also, all of my civilizations have already fallen, one after another, but that was mostly due to my shittastic skills at not being patient enough in SimCity/Civilization. So, basically, you're saying I should build slower and more deliberate, knowing that most of my Sims will fail regardless but I can minimize the impact by not losing huge blocks at a time but smaller sections that can be rebuilt faster. Only build what I need, discard the excess/unnecessary, and I should progress at a steadier pace.
Good tips.
The trick to Civilization has always been to maximise population growth and translate that into military/economic power/scientific research (in that order). It's a surefire winner, because no matter how complex they make the model, they never remove that basic essence of gameplay. Sure, you can play around with fancy diplomatic victories (just done one in Civ5), but it's easier when you have lots of money to bribe your vassal states with, and a big army to deter others and protect your trade routes.
Haven't played Sim City since 2, but from what I remember, a 2:1:2 ratio of accomodation, commercial and industrial does the trick pretty nicely.
And no. I'm saying PD.com is a vast alien, Lovecraftian entity which will destroy everything you cherish.
Quote from: Cain on August 17, 2014, 11:31:44 AM
The trick to Civilization has always been to maximise population growth and translate that into military/economic power/scientific research (in that order). It's a surefire winner, because no matter how complex they make the model, they never remove that basic essence of gameplay. Sure, you can play around with fancy diplomatic victories (just done one in Civ5), but it's easier when you have lots of money to bribe your vassal states with, and a big army to deter others and protect your trade routes.
Haven't played Sim City since 2, but from what I remember, a 2:1:2 ratio of accomodation, commercial and industrial does the trick pretty nicely.
And no. I'm saying PD.com is a vast alien, Lovecraftian entity which will destroy everything you cherish.
The new SimCity ain't bad, the only problem I have with it is the limitation on space. I'll try that ratio in a new save though.
And to be fair, Cthulhu doesn't look all that threatening.
(http://i.imgur.com/lYvS2tZ.jpg?1)
Kinda cute, actually. He can go ahead and destroy my cities all he wants. <3 I don't mind.
Quote from: Sehra Farron on August 17, 2014, 02:06:23 AM
Found this place by complete accident (or was it?) and for some reason I find this place rather interesting.
So I shall lurk (though it probably defeats the purpose by being announced).
Welcome to PD, new guy!
Quote from: Sehra Farron on August 17, 2014, 02:46:37 AM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 16, 2014, 10:55:32 PM
Quote from: The Suu on August 14, 2014, 04:28:31 PM
There's an article that a friend posted on Facebook about how parents shouldn't be excited about their kids going back to school, and in fact, even joking about it is a bad thing, because that means you don't love your kids or some shit.
http://www.sistersraisingsisters.com/please-do-not-be-this-mother/
Whatever happened to having a fucking sense of humor? I mentioned this, and got chastised, because "I'm not a parent and I will never understand."
Oh fuck off and hit your funny bone.
Man, fuck those "every moment is precious" overprotective moms who are training their children that everyone on earth ought to be grateful for every moment of their precious presence. The kids they're raising are going to be hopelessly dysfunctional without therapy and hard work, and they're also being sent the message that time away from home is something to be sad about, and not a fun chance for adventure, exploration, and making friends. There's nothing that will make a kid feel more insecure and ambivalent about going to school like a clingy overprotective mom weeping about having to send them off to school.
Celebrating is A: funny as hell, and B: lets kids know that it's OK to be independent and go out into the world and learn stuff, and also to take time to be by yourself and be your own damn human being. Even when you're a parent.
The problem isn't just with parents anymore though. I've noticed an alarming trend of schools that are far too overprotective of these special snowflakes. Schools banning balls, cartwheels, books, water guns/pistols, triangle shaped pancakes, hugging/any form of touching, dodgeball and the list of bullshit items to ban from schools for bullshit reason(s) is long.
Then there's also the schools that called the police because a little boy kissed a little girl and they wanted to charge with him sexual asault, a boy made a gun gesture with his hand, some kid poked another kid with a pointy pancake, bans a little girl for shaving her head, bans a girl with red hair, bans a group of teens who saved a woman and her dog from a burning building, bans teachers from using red ink because it's too mean, bans a boy's backpack because MLP, bans sunscreen because a kid might drink it, a girl has distracting hair, a little boy folded a piece of paper into a gun shape and was expelled, expels a little girl because she didn't look feminine enough, a little girl is raped TWICE and she is not only expelled but also forced to write a letter of apology...
Christ, I could go on, the list is pretty long. I see something new about some school doing something completely ridiculous nearly every day on Fark.com. I mean, pardon my language here, but what in the actual fuck is going on? Did somebody pour some tainted kool-aid in the water supply?
Those are two separate issues. One is overprotective parenting, the other is the criminalization of the schoolyard.
I think I need to hire a housekeeping service when I start school. I can't keep up with taking care of the husband getting the snot beat out of him daily, finish my last few orders, and do graduate work full time and still clean my damn house. I'm weeks behind on laundry as it is right now. Once he's done with his chief bullshit he can start actually helping me again, but right now it's too much. He's coming home and turning into a pile of comatose camouflage on my couch every night. He's still going to have 2 more weeks of this shit after I start classes on the 2nd, and after a semester off and starting graduate level work, I don't think I will have the brain capacity to do anything more than come home, cook something, and do homework without crying. I mean, we haven't even been able to unload our trailer from Pennsic yet. :sad: This is awful. I already cleaned the house once this week and it went kerplooey once we got the car unloaded.
He won't be here this week though, so maybe I can make some sort of progress. My head just feels like it's going to explode, and I'm supposed to be his "support."
What about my fucking support, damnit.
I have to say, DS2014 has been considerably retarded of late. I mean, even by its own low standards.
I was in a Little chef earlier today. There was a basket next to the till with "EVERYTHING HERE £1!"
The contents that I saw:
Road Map
Rubbers
"Enliven" or somesuch close to this, small red pills contents about 100 apparently some kind of "male supplement".
Junkenwife and I spent a while debating this and the best we answer we've got is that it's some kind of one stop shop for dogging supplies.
Food was good.
Just got home from being a YMCA counselor up in Big Bear for the past week. Had a lot of good experiences, had a number of bad experiences involving a shitneck Co-counselor and CIT, but overall happy that i survived the challenge
Pissed off this morning because the People of Color race discussion group at my church decided that the best use of the lions share of our time should be spent arguing whether or not "People of Color" is an okay term to identify ourselves by. When I tried to point out that there's better topics that could be brought up, i was sharply cut off by the reverend. If i wanted to spend my Sunday afternoon playing word games i could have gotten a Mad Libs book and had a better time of it. Still debating whether to wash my hands of the place or go back specifically just to troll them.
Quote from: The Suu on August 17, 2014, 03:45:29 AM
So as I mentioned before, my cousin is expecting twins in January. Now, I know nothing of babies or what sizes of things I should buy, but since we do not know the gender yet, I was thinking of starting to buy packs of white onesies as I see them in various sizes, and drawing on them with fabric markers. She has rich Long Island doctor friends who are going to buy her fancy schmancy shit. I'm crocheting the blankets, but I can't be one-uped by the rich folk when it comes to utilitarianism.
Babies are full of gross and make messes, they will be in onesies and diapers more than pretty clothes. What better than onesies covered in obnoxious artwork by yours truly? "My cousin is a poor grad student so all I got was this fucking onesie." And such things.
I just had a needle break on my husband's pants and go up my nose.
I'm done for the night, I think.
Quote from: The Suu on August 18, 2014, 03:23:58 AM
I just had a needle break on my husband's pants and go up my nose.
I'm done for the night, I think.
Pretty sure that needs to go on the Hard Pants Newsletter FB page.
:hosrie: :hosrie: :hosrie:
FRED!
ALPHABET SOUP MAN!
ARE YOU STILL YOUNGER THAN ME?
I BELIEVE SO. UNLESS YOU STOPPED AGING AN I DID NOT!
Ima be 27 on friday
Christ. Where does the time go?
How you keeping busy, these days?
I dick around on the internet. So basically the same thing as when I joined 10 years ago. But with more alcohol involved! :lol:
Quote from: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on August 18, 2014, 01:24:58 PM
I dick around on the internet. So basically the same thing as when I joined 10 years ago. But with more alcohol involved! :lol:
Hi Fred!
Quote from: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on August 18, 2014, 01:15:31 PM
I BELIEVE SO. UNLESS YOU STOPPED AGING AN I DID NOT!
Ima be 27 on friday
You are 16. :argh!:
Quote from: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on August 18, 2014, 02:19:07 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 02:16:09 PM
Quote from: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on August 18, 2014, 01:15:31 PM
I BELIEVE SO. UNLESS YOU STOPPED AGING AN I DID NOT!
Ima be 27 on friday
You are 16. :argh!:
:argh!: UR NOT MY REAL MOM
If you're 27, then I am damn near 46, and that is BULLSHIT and I am NOT HAVING IT. So you go back to high school, pls. kthxbye
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 02:20:15 PM
Quote from: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on August 18, 2014, 02:19:07 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 02:16:09 PM
Quote from: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on August 18, 2014, 01:15:31 PM
I BELIEVE SO. UNLESS YOU STOPPED AGING AN I DID NOT!
Ima be 27 on friday
You are 16. :argh!:
:argh!: UR NOT MY REAL MOM
If you're 27, then I am damn near 46, and that is BULLSHIT and I am NOT HAVING IT. So you go back to high school, pls. kthxbye
OH HELL NAW. The furthest back I am willing to go is 1 day before turning 26 before I got kicked off the good health insurance
Quote from: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on August 18, 2014, 02:23:00 PM
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Quote from: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on August 18, 2014, 01:15:31 PM
I BELIEVE SO. UNLESS YOU STOPPED AGING AN I DID NOT!
Ima be 27 on friday
You are 16. :argh!:
:argh!: UR NOT MY REAL MOM
If you're 27, then I am damn near 46, and that is BULLSHIT and I am NOT HAVING IT. So you go back to high school, pls. kthxbye
OH HELL NAW. The furthest back I am willing to go is 1 day before turning 26 before I got kicked off the good health insurance
:cramulus:
I'm really having a hard time with you being a college graduate and joining the rest of us humans in the real world.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 18, 2014, 02:25:50 PM
I'm really having a hard time with you being a college graduate and joining the rest of us humans in the real world.
I never graduated if that makes you feel any better :lol:
Well, that's a relief.
So, in what ways are you aquiring currency in order to provide for caloric intake and shelter?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 18, 2014, 02:28:00 PM
Well, that's a relief.
So, in what ways are you aquiring currency in order to provide for caloric intake and shelter?
I am currently living off my savings account until I get a new jerb. And I might move to Buffalo :horrormirth: I WANTED TO GO WARMER NOT COLDER
You need a job, so you might move to Buffalo.
DOES NOT COMPUTE.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 18, 2014, 02:31:35 PM
You need a job, so you might move to Buffalo.
DOES NOT COMPUTE.
My friend needs a roommate, I need to move, cheap rent. BAM PROBLEM SOLVED. Theres more jobs in Buffalo then where I live now at least. I CAN BE A PROFESSIONAL SNOWMAN BUILDER.
I will say this: People in Buffalo know how to party. Be sure to pack an extra liver.
So the fucking hard drive on my computer pooched out... again. I got the last one replaced less than two years ago... and I still don't have a job.
Fuck my life.
Welp. Husband is gone for week to go play 19th Century Navy on the Constitution. I'm off to get a mani-pedi, and then clean my house for the next 5 days.
Quote from: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on August 18, 2014, 01:15:31 PM
I BELIEVE SO. UNLESS YOU STOPPED AGING AN I DID NOT!
Ima be 27 on friday
I, too, am a product of '87. Happy early birthday.
Why, oh why did I bother posting in TDS(closed)? I gave some information regarding Muslim dress, one poster is legitimately thankful and wants to check out my source material, and not some shitneck wants to start a fight, calling the other person ignorant.
I give up.
Quote from: Cain on August 17, 2014, 07:15:47 PM
I have to say, DS2014 has been considerably retarded of late. I mean, even by its own low standards.
Ever since Facebook deleted the original TDS, all the stupid has been leaking all over the place. It was, at least, a containment hole for most of the morons.
The new TDS (the open group) was deleted yesterday. These idiots think it's the Wild West and that they can post porn, gore, whatever they want. It's fucking Facebook, idiots.
HELLO FERD!
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 18, 2014, 05:14:54 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 17, 2014, 07:15:47 PM
I have to say, DS2014 has been considerably retarded of late. I mean, even by its own low standards.
Ever since Facebook deleted the original TDS, all the stupid has been leaking all over the place. It was, at least, a containment hole for most of the morons.
The new TDS (the open group) was deleted yesterday. These idiots think it's the Wild West and that they can post porn, gore, whatever they want. It's fucking Facebook, idiots.
They so edgy!
I've taken to blocking any member that uses any variation on the word "faggot" in their posts. It really cuts down on the traffic. I do have a feeling that eventually I'll have manually blocked the entire page.
I'm on break. For six weeks. I still have "work" for the next two weeks, but seriously, break. For six weeks.
You know the last time I had six weeks of break, without work or school? That would be never.
Waiting for my final grades. I know I got As in two of my classes, but I'm not sure about the third one.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 18, 2014, 05:29:22 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 18, 2014, 05:14:54 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 17, 2014, 07:15:47 PM
I have to say, DS2014 has been considerably retarded of late. I mean, even by its own low standards.
Ever since Facebook deleted the original TDS, all the stupid has been leaking all over the place. It was, at least, a containment hole for most of the morons.
The new TDS (the open group) was deleted yesterday. These idiots think it's the Wild West and that they can post porn, gore, whatever they want. It's fucking Facebook, idiots.
They so edgy!
I've taken to blocking any member that uses any variation on the word "faggot" in their posts. It really cuts down on the traffic. I do have a feeling that eventually I'll have manually blocked the entire page.
That's actually a pretty great filter. Except for Smiggles and one other young man, I don't think I have much interest in talking to people who casually toss "faggot" around.
That third class that I'm not sure about has removed itself from the D2L page, before grades and feedback were even posted. I swear to god that instructor was high as fuck.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 18, 2014, 05:31:48 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 18, 2014, 05:29:22 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 18, 2014, 05:14:54 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 17, 2014, 07:15:47 PM
I have to say, DS2014 has been considerably retarded of late. I mean, even by its own low standards.
Ever since Facebook deleted the original TDS, all the stupid has been leaking all over the place. It was, at least, a containment hole for most of the morons.
The new TDS (the open group) was deleted yesterday. These idiots think it's the Wild West and that they can post porn, gore, whatever they want. It's fucking Facebook, idiots.
They so edgy!
I've taken to blocking any member that uses any variation on the word "faggot" in their posts. It really cuts down on the traffic. I do have a feeling that eventually I'll have manually blocked the entire page.
That's actually a pretty great filter. Except for Smiggles and one other young man, I don't think I have much interest in talking to people who casually toss "faggot" around.
Even if they're glorious??
I'm not sure I saw our Glorious Leader posting there, but if He did, I'm sure I'd give Him a pass.
Quote from: Hoopla on August 18, 2014, 05:34:19 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 18, 2014, 05:31:48 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 18, 2014, 05:29:22 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 18, 2014, 05:14:54 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 17, 2014, 07:15:47 PM
I have to say, DS2014 has been considerably retarded of late. I mean, even by its own low standards.
Ever since Facebook deleted the original TDS, all the stupid has been leaking all over the place. It was, at least, a containment hole for most of the morons.
The new TDS (the open group) was deleted yesterday. These idiots think it's the Wild West and that they can post porn, gore, whatever they want. It's fucking Facebook, idiots.
They so edgy!
I've taken to blocking any member that uses any variation on the word "faggot" in their posts. It really cuts down on the traffic. I do have a feeling that eventually I'll have manually blocked the entire page.
That's actually a pretty great filter. Except for Smiggles and one other young man, I don't think I have much interest in talking to people who casually toss "faggot" around.
Even if they're glorious??
Well, if it is a GLORIOUS faggot, I'll surely consider them worthy of a pass. :lol:
Day 6 of the stomach flu.
I should not have come to work today.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 08:13:19 PM
Day 6 of the stomach flu.
I should not have come to work today.
Day 6? How is your hydration? Seriously?
Quote from: The Suu on August 18, 2014, 09:21:14 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 08:13:19 PM
Day 6 of the stomach flu.
I should not have come to work today.
Day 6? How is your hydration? Seriously?
I'm getting myself stuck every other day, 2 bags per. I look like a fucking junkie.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 09:47:43 PM
Quote from: The Suu on August 18, 2014, 09:21:14 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 08:13:19 PM
Day 6 of the stomach flu.
I should not have come to work today.
Day 6? How is your hydration? Seriously?
I'm getting myself stuck every other day, 2 bags per. I look like a fucking junkie.
Damn.
Take care of yourself.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 09:47:43 PM
Quote from: The Suu on August 18, 2014, 09:21:14 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 08:13:19 PM
Day 6 of the stomach flu.
I should not have come to work today.
Day 6? How is your hydration? Seriously?
I'm getting myself stuck every other day, 2 bags per. I look like a fucking junkie.
Woah. Up it to three. Given your climate any less and you're likely to look fucking embalmed in short order.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 09:47:43 PM
Quote from: The Suu on August 18, 2014, 09:21:14 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 08:13:19 PM
Day 6 of the stomach flu.
I should not have come to work today.
Day 6? How is your hydration? Seriously?
I'm getting myself stuck every other day, 2 bags per. I look like a fucking junkie.
Are they giving you Zofran or anything as a anti-emetic? Jesus, usually these things don't last this long.
At the very least I would have thought Obamacare would cover a cork.
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 18, 2014, 10:21:53 PM
At the very least I would have thought Obamacare would cover a cork.
You think I want to keep all the horrible inside?
Quote from: The Suu on August 18, 2014, 10:20:05 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 09:47:43 PM
Quote from: The Suu on August 18, 2014, 09:21:14 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 08:13:19 PM
Day 6 of the stomach flu.
I should not have come to work today.
Day 6? How is your hydration? Seriously?
I'm getting myself stuck every other day, 2 bags per. I look like a fucking junkie.
Are they giving you Zofran or anything as a anti-emetic? Jesus, usually these things don't last this long.
Thing is, it's not constant. I think I'm better on day 5, then BAM! Day 6 is another nightmare.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 10:43:27 PM
Quote from: The Suu on August 18, 2014, 10:20:05 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 09:47:43 PM
Quote from: The Suu on August 18, 2014, 09:21:14 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 08:13:19 PM
Day 6 of the stomach flu.
I should not have come to work today.
Day 6? How is your hydration? Seriously?
I'm getting myself stuck every other day, 2 bags per. I look like a fucking junkie.
Are they giving you Zofran or anything as a anti-emetic? Jesus, usually these things don't last this long.
Thing is, it's not constant. I think I'm better on day 5, then BAM! Day 6 is another nightmare.
Could be pregnant.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 10:42:55 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 18, 2014, 10:21:53 PM
At the very least I would have thought Obamacare would cover a cork.
You think I want to keep all the horrible inside?
Rather than everywhere? Maybe.
There's really good ending, regardless of your choices.
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 18, 2014, 11:10:12 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 18, 2014, 10:42:55 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 18, 2014, 10:21:53 PM
At the very least I would have thought Obamacare would cover a cork.
You think I want to keep all the horrible inside?
Rather than everywhere? Maybe.
There's really good ending, regardless of your choices.
I want to share. With everyone.
I meant to say there's really no good ending. You seem to have different plans in mind. Those poor bastards.
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 18, 2014, 11:26:13 PM
I meant to say there's really no good ending. You seem to have different plans in mind. Those poor bastards.
I don't LIKE Oro Valley.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 16, 2014, 10:49:18 PM
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on August 13, 2014, 12:39:30 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 10, 2014, 03:38:44 AM
So, these multiple Discordian group pages on FB I've been volunteered for.
I suppose I haven't been paying attention to youth culture recently, but when did "FGT" become an acceptable, no-harm-done substitute for "faggot", and why the fuck is everyone OK with it?
I am once again reconsidering my self-identification, if these are my peers.
I've been bothered by it too. I'll read on, but I'm uncertain what to make of it.
A lot of people have objected to it, including myself, but the two main people who are using it are gay so it's a little hard to take the stand that they have no right to use it as a general term of reference for other Discordians if they want to. I am uncomfortable with it but my argument is weak. "Hey gay people! Stop using fgt and ftg, it makes me, a straight person, uncomfortable!".
I've been pretending it means "fidget", which I find much more palatable.
Ah, I didn't know that. It's hard to tell with FB Discordians.
Sorry to hear it, Roger. That sounds pretty miserable.
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on August 19, 2014, 12:28:10 AM
Sorry to hear it, Roger. That sounds pretty miserable.
I've had better weeks. :lulz:
Quote from: Hoopla on August 18, 2014, 05:34:19 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 18, 2014, 05:31:48 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 18, 2014, 05:29:22 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 18, 2014, 05:14:54 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 17, 2014, 07:15:47 PM
I have to say, DS2014 has been considerably retarded of late. I mean, even by its own low standards.
Ever since Facebook deleted the original TDS, all the stupid has been leaking all over the place. It was, at least, a containment hole for most of the morons.
The new TDS (the open group) was deleted yesterday. These idiots think it's the Wild West and that they can post porn, gore, whatever they want. It's fucking Facebook, idiots.
They so edgy!
I've taken to blocking any member that uses any variation on the word "faggot" in their posts. It really cuts down on the traffic. I do have a feeling that eventually I'll have manually blocked the entire page.
That's actually a pretty great filter. Except for Smiggles and one other young man, I don't think I have much interest in talking to people who casually toss "faggot" around.
Even if they're glorious??
Freddy Mercury is never coming back.
6 day summer flu sounds really nasty.
I'm meant to be writing an article about the world's most heavily armed drug dealers you've never heard of and are not the CIA (hint: they are based in Asia)....but the beta backer for Pillars of Eternity just got released.
So nope.
Left-right-left :lulz:
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 16, 2014, 10:49:18 PM
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on August 13, 2014, 12:39:30 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 10, 2014, 03:38:44 AM
So, these multiple Discordian group pages on FB I've been volunteered for.
I suppose I haven't been paying attention to youth culture recently, but when did "FGT" become an acceptable, no-harm-done substitute for "faggot", and why the fuck is everyone OK with it?
I am once again reconsidering my self-identification, if these are my peers.
I've been bothered by it too. I'll read on, but I'm uncertain what to make of it.
A lot of people have objected to it, including myself, but the two main people who are using it are gay so it's a little hard to take the stand that they have no right to use it as a general term of reference for other Discordians if they want to. I am uncomfortable with it but my argument is weak. "Hey gay people! Stop using fgt and ftg, it makes me, a straight person, uncomfortable!".
I've been pretending it means "fidget", which I find much more palatable.
I think I'm going to start using the same response that I do when black friends call me "Nigga".
"Umm...dude...I'm caucasian."
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on August 19, 2014, 03:24:25 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 16, 2014, 10:49:18 PM
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on August 13, 2014, 12:39:30 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 10, 2014, 03:38:44 AM
So, these multiple Discordian group pages on FB I've been volunteered for.
I suppose I haven't been paying attention to youth culture recently, but when did "FGT" become an acceptable, no-harm-done substitute for "faggot", and why the fuck is everyone OK with it?
I am once again reconsidering my self-identification, if these are my peers.
I've been bothered by it too. I'll read on, but I'm uncertain what to make of it.
A lot of people have objected to it, including myself, but the two main people who are using it are gay so it's a little hard to take the stand that they have no right to use it as a general term of reference for other Discordians if they want to. I am uncomfortable with it but my argument is weak. "Hey gay people! Stop using fgt and ftg, it makes me, a straight person, uncomfortable!".
I've been pretending it means "fidget", which I find much more palatable.
I think I'm going to start using the same response that I do when black friends call me "Nigga".
"Umm...dude...I'm caucasian."
:lulz:
Since I have six weeks (!) to contemplate the upcoming academic year, I'm thinking that my next steps are to find a lab and apply for the Biology honors program. That will get me hands-on lab experience and make my graduate school application a little more appealing.
Graduate orientation is next Monday.
Shit just got real, didn't it?
Remember, you both have midterms next week.
Not me. I'm just waiting for an email which says "sign away half of your savings", and then I'm back in the grind.
So, I saw the new Godzilla film the other day.
I'll say this much: unlike the trainwreck that was Godzilla in 1998, this was an actual Godzilla film. Which doesn't mean it is necessarily any good, of course. IMO the best performance in the whole film was by Bryan Cranston, who then went off and died (lol spoilers), and the special effects were nothing to write home about.
But it was, nevertheless, an actual Godzilla film. So there is that, at least.
Quote from: Cain on August 19, 2014, 06:36:08 PM
So, I saw the new Godzilla film the other day.
I'll say this much: unlike the trainwreck that was Godzilla in 1998, this was an actual Godzilla film. Which doesn't mean it is necessarily any good, of course. IMO the best performance in the whole film was by Bryan Cranston, who then went off and died (lol spoilers), and the special effects were nothing to write home about.
But it was, nevertheless, an actual Godzilla film. So there is that, at least.
Way too much of Cranston's son and his uninteresting wife, too many fights teased (on various tv screens showing news footage) and not enough Godzilla. Otherwise, I liked it.
Yeah, they did drag that backstory out for a bit. Like, a quarter of the film. Somewhat unnecessary, to put it mildly. And more Godzilla screentime would've been better.
I did like the start of movie credits though. That was a nice touch.
Quote from: Cain on August 19, 2014, 07:09:30 PM
Yeah, they did drag that backstory out for a bit. Like, a quarter of the film. Somewhat unnecessary, to put it mildly. And more Godzilla screentime would've been better.
I did like the start of movie credits though. That was a nice touch.
I almost levitated during the opening credits. It was a lot to live up to.
I saw Arizona got another Haboob.
Either Tucson does not get them, or God really hates Phoenix.
Bought a can of K cider ironically yesterday
Bought a can of K cider sincerely today
Might buy a can of K cider enthusiastically tomorrow.
Finally progressed to tramp drinks.
Quote from: Cain on August 19, 2014, 06:49:08 AM
6 day summer flu sounds really nasty.
.
I finally kicked the bastard today, after running three IV bags into my arm.
Which I had to do by myself, because my wife - love her to death - is the Mad Slasher of Tucson.
Quote from: The Suu on August 19, 2014, 11:05:27 PM
I saw Arizona got another Haboob.
Either Tucson does not get them, or God really hates Phoenix.
We got the tail end of it. This year, Phoenix is getting all the love, which is fine by me.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on August 11, 2014, 08:42:44 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 10, 2014, 05:00:26 PM
In other news, there's the "ice water challenge".
http://abcnews.go.com/US/reason-crazy-ice-water-challenge-trend/story?id=24886646
When challenged, you have 24 hours to pour a bucket of ice water on your head, or you have to donate $100 towards ALS research.
Besides the fact that the most useful thing you can do is not accept the challenge, doesn't pouring a bucket of ice water on your head seem a bit arbitrary?
I kind of want to start a "put out lit cigarettes on your arm for dyslexia" challenge.
Everyone I've seen doing it has donated at least something IN ADDITION to pouring ice water on themselves. They've raised $1.39 million since the start of the trend, compared with $22,000 over the same time period last year, so it's both fun and effective.
I'm starting to see the anti-ice water challenge posts crop up on my feed, which means only one thing to me: escalation. When I get home from work I'm going to put on facebook that I'll donate $5 for every person in my feed with a needlessly cynical ice water challenge status. It starts at $20, just from today.
I've been on this mini-resolution to troll with less venom for a while (venom-free is the stated goal, but let's be realistic), but shit like this:
QuoteSo with all that money coming in and all that awareness raised, why does the Ice Bucket Challenge make me skeptical? And a little queasy?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 20, 2014, 03:33:23 AM
Quote from: Cain on August 19, 2014, 06:49:08 AM
6 day summer flu sounds really nasty.
.
I finally kicked the bastard today, after running three IV bags into my arm.
Which I had to do by myself, because my wife - love her to death - is the Mad Slasher of Tucson.
Woohoo!
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on August 11, 2014, 08:42:44 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 10, 2014, 05:00:26 PM
In other news, there's the "ice water challenge".
http://abcnews.go.com/US/reason-crazy-ice-water-challenge-trend/story?id=24886646
When challenged, you have 24 hours to pour a bucket of ice water on your head, or you have to donate $100 towards ALS research.
Besides the fact that the most useful thing you can do is not accept the challenge, doesn't pouring a bucket of ice water on your head seem a bit arbitrary?
I kind of want to start a "put out lit cigarettes on your arm for dyslexia" challenge.
Everyone I've seen doing it has donated at least something IN ADDITION to pouring ice water on themselves. They've raised $1.39 million since the start of the trend, compared with $22,000 over the same time period last year, so it's both fun and effective.
I'm starting to see the anti-ice water challenge posts crop up on my feed, which means only one thing to me: escalation. When I get home from work I'm going to put on facebook that I'll donate $5 for every person in my feed with a needlessly cynical ice water challenge status. It starts at $20, just from today.
Charlie sheen just kicked this shit up a notch by throwing $10K around as suggesting others actually kick in the same amount. Your wallet is likely to take a bit of a kicking now.
Someone posted something to the effect of "How many buckets of ice do I have to pour on my head to raise awareness of Ferguson?"
But I feel that's a false equivalence -- I am perfectly capable of being aware of both ALS and Ferguson. It's not an "either pay attention to this, or pay attention to that" kind of thing. If you allow that kind of thinking, then you can always raise it to the next level... "Why are you paying attention to that, and not to the Ebola crisis/Syria/ISIS..."
In fact, someone has already calculated the amount of water being poured over people's heads, because don't you know there's a massive drought going on right now?
(http://cdn.meme.li/instances/500x/53587987.jpg)
Husband asks me to get in touch with other chief's wives and selectee wives to "vent" and to find "help."
Honestly, as stressful as this is, it could be worse. It could be A LOT WORSE. As in, he could be deployed worse. So for 6 weeks he goes through hell (although this week he's in Boston working on the Constitution and doing charity work. Yeah, okay. Hard.) and then he gets new pins and uniforms and it's all over. Seriously. I think my black belt test was harder than what he's gone through so far. And I told him. This really has just confirmed that my TKD instructor was an asshole, though.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 20, 2014, 12:37:11 PM
Someone posted something to the effect of "How many buckets of ice do I have to pour on my head to raise awareness of Ferguson?"
But I feel that's a false equivalence -- I am perfectly capable of being aware of both ALS and Ferguson. It's not an "either pay attention to this, or pay attention to that" kind of thing. If you allow that kind of thinking, then you can always raise it to the next level... "Why are you paying attention to that, and not to the Ebola crisis/Syria/ISIS..."
In fact, someone has already calculated the amount of water being poured over people's heads, because don't you know there's a massive drought going on right now?
Every time a celebrity dies, I get pages and pages of that same shit. "Oh, so I guess we're all so sad about Robin Williams that we're just forgetting about the millions perishing in refugee camps around the world."
I've been pretty proud of a fair number of my friends backlashing against that backlash. Everything from thoughtful responses about how acknowledging one thing does not diminish another, to "SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP, YOU SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTHS RIGHT NOW, SHUT UP!"
Me, as of last night sometime between reading how people in Detroit could really use those buckets of ice water and some post about reverse racism, something broke and I responded to a whole slew of messages with gibberish. It seemed to be the most appropriate response to any of it, and it felt really fucking good.
So, am I right that the original point was that we were supposed to donate money to ALS, and if you didn't, the punishment was a bucket of ice water over the head? Or am I misunderstanding?
And if that was the point, why are so many people dodging it?
Quote from: Hoopla on August 20, 2014, 05:31:26 PM
So, am I right that the original point was that we were supposed to donate money to ALS, and if you didn't, the punishment was a bucket of ice water over the head? Or am I misunderstanding?
And if that was the point, why are so many people dodging it?
The point is to donate regardless, and if donation<$100, then icebucket, to get other people to donate too.
Also, it's supposed to simulate how ALS feels, which is why ice water was chosen.
It changed over time. It originally started as "Ice Water, or donate $100."
Then, it changed to "Ice Water and donate $10, or donate $100."
Now, it's "Ice Water and donate whatever you want, or bitch about it on Facebook."
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 20, 2014, 05:35:57 PM
It changed over time. It originally started as "Ice Water, or donate $100."
Then, it changed to "Ice Water and donate $10, or donate $100."
Now, it's "Ice Water and donate whatever you want, or bitch about it on Facebook."
:lulz:
It sure does seem to be raising awareness of the people in the videos... I don't hear a lot about ALS.
It's making a ton of money for the research. http://time.com/3148314/als-ice-bucket-challenge-million/
Well that is good to know. It's a horrible disease.
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on August 20, 2014, 05:36:41 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 20, 2014, 05:35:57 PM
It changed over time. It originally started as "Ice Water, or donate $100."
Then, it changed to "Ice Water and donate $10, or donate $100."
Now, it's "Ice Water and donate whatever you want, or bitch about it on Facebook."
:lulz:
You may be laughing now, but where will you be when EOC is destitute and on the streets?
You'll be laughing at him from
inside. That's where you'll be.
Quote from: Hoopla on August 20, 2014, 06:01:55 PM
Well that is good to know. It's a horrible disease.
What's also good is that the ALSA is a pretty transparent charity that always gets high ratings on how it uses its funds. It's not shady like Komen. The amount of money they've already brought in is going to ensure that a lot more people get the care they need, and that breakthroughs are going to be made. At first I thought this was fucking dumb, but the numbers are speaking for themselves.
I still think it's sort of dumb, but it's the kind of dumb I can get behind.
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 20, 2014, 06:04:11 PM
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on August 20, 2014, 05:36:41 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 20, 2014, 05:35:57 PM
It changed over time. It originally started as "Ice Water, or donate $100."
Then, it changed to "Ice Water and donate $10, or donate $100."
Now, it's "Ice Water and donate whatever you want, or bitch about it on Facebook."
:lulz:
You may be laughing now, but where will you be when EOC is destitute and on the streets?
You'll be laughing at him from inside. That's where you'll be.
Well, it won't be on my account. I did the challenge.
What's interesting is that Mrs LMNO and I know several family members who have done it, and none of them nominated us. Maybe they know a thing or two about us.
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 20, 2014, 06:04:11 PM
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on August 20, 2014, 05:36:41 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 20, 2014, 05:35:57 PM
It changed over time. It originally started as "Ice Water, or donate $100."
Then, it changed to "Ice Water and donate $10, or donate $100."
Now, it's "Ice Water and donate whatever you want, or bitch about it on Facebook."
:lulz:
You may be laughing now, but where will you be when EOC is destitute and on the streets?
You'll be laughing at him from inside. That's where you'll be.
:lulz:
I haven't seen anything negative about it on my feed since I called people out on it.
:argh!:
I don't care what people do to raise money for their pet charities.
But if someone fucking "nominates" me, I'm going to publicly humiliate the shit out of them.
So all of my interns cancelled on me yesterday and rescheduled for today, so instead of getting to chill out at home today, as I planned, I have to go downtown.
I got carded when buying rubber cement. The heck?
Quote from: Trivial on August 21, 2014, 02:16:04 AM
I got carded when buying rubber cement. The heck?
Glue sniffer. :argh!:
Quote from: Trivial on August 21, 2014, 02:16:04 AM
I got carded when buying rubber cement. The heck?
In all fairness, how often do you see someone buying rubber cement? :lulz:
Well, this is tragic and ironic. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/friend-man-who-inspired-ice-bucket-challenge-dies-celebrating-success-n182531
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 21, 2014, 04:29:25 AM
Well, this is tragic and ironic. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/friend-man-who-inspired-ice-bucket-challenge-dies-celebrating-success-n182531
I have the horrible urge to laugh.
So, interesting disconnect this morning. One of my co-workers was bragging they did the ice bucket challenge already. I said, "Oh, that's cool. How much did you donate?" They replied, "At the time, I didn't realize you donated, too," and just let it at that. As if, it's completely impossible to donate to ALS after the fact. Like, "I already did the thing, and I'm done thinking about it."
Like there's a specific window of time when you can donate to a charity.
I think I may be an actually bad person.
I took way too much joy in abusing a recruiter just now:
QuoteDear Ms Nasal Voice Double-barrelled Name,
I had thought my lack of reply after your previous calls had indicated my lack of interest sufficiently.
Apparently, however, I was wrong. In which case, please allow me to be perfectly clear: I am not interested in this job offer.
Furthermore, if you had paid even a scant amount of attention to my profile, you would have noticed it had not been updated in three years and, as such, contained a number of out of date and irrelevant information about my preferences. I have rectified this, but really, I was offering to work below the current minimum wage and you didn't think that to be in any way odd?
Please do not contact me again in regards to this position.
Cain
Uh oh, I've upset her now.
My career in the temporary packing industry has been ruined. RUINED!
Oh noes! What will you ever do now?
I know, right? And she's ever so angry that I didn't do her job for her.
Did she for reals send a written response? Is it amusing enough to share?
Yes, and no. Not really. Basically she's trying to chide me for not updating my profile...except I did, because I deactivated it. Only I logged back in the other week to apply for a job, which apparently reactivated it, and she's been harassing me with calls and emails since.
Sounds like she's lonely, and wants a date.
Eh, I can do better than a recruitment consultant. I mean, there are many fine, tootheless, perpetually pregnant benefits cheats out there as well, let's not be too hasty.
Excellent point.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 21, 2014, 11:44:10 AM
So, interesting disconnect this morning. One of my co-workers was bragging they did the ice bucket challenge already. I said, "Oh, that's cool. How much did you donate?" They replied, "At the time, I didn't realize you donated, too," and just let it at that. As if, it's completely impossible to donate to ALS after the fact. Like, "I already did the thing, and I'm done thinking about it."
Like there's a specific window of time when you can donate to a charity.
That is exactly how most people think.
Grades are in. The shitty research methods professor gave me an A, which was not unexpected so much as kind of a wild card.
Nice!
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 21, 2014, 04:39:49 PM
Grades are in. The shitty research methods professor gave me an A, which was not unexpected so much as kind of a wild card.
Don't forget about midterms next week.
Also, it appears the pregnant is going around again. First it was my cousin with her twins, now two more of my friends are telling me all about how they're barfing their guts up for the sake of procreation, and then have the balls to ask me when I'm having babies.
The answer is no. No to all of it. And if all you're doing about your pregnancy is telling people about how MISERABLE you are, and how you can't even eat, and oh woe is you, get the ball of jelly sucked out, and call it quits.
-Suu
No, I haven't said that to them. I do have manners. Sometimes.
Congrats on the grade.
Today seems to be my day for upsetting all kinds of people. I made someone go ALL CAPSLOCK on me on the Requiem reddit for asking build advice and mentioning, in passing, that I was playing a Dunmer Nightblade (cuz that's totally not one of the most popular builds in the game or anything). I'm mostly leaving it though, because I like /r/Requiem and I'm not sure how far I can push the rules by being a douchebag in return.
And on another forum, for Mass Effect 3 multiplayer, I'm being told I'm a "straight noob" and "add me to your friends list and I will show you what a real boss can do", and " I can teach you the ropes. Saving some missiles for London wave 10 plat will be step 1. Step 2 will be show some respect to your betters." My heinous crime? Laughing at him for failing a Platinum match and whining that someone else used a missile that, in his opinion, was "scorewhoring". It now turns out he abuses glitches in the game and almost exclusively plays overpowered classes and kits, so I'm engaging in as much mockery as physically possible. He strangely seems to have vanished.... :sad:
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 21, 2014, 04:39:49 PM
Grades are in. The shitty research methods professor gave me an A, which was not unexpected so much as kind of a wild card.
Nice.
A guy tried to door me today. He turned and looked right at me through his window with a shitty grimace on his face and flung his door open so hard it bounced back and smacked him in the face.
I've had all manner of idiots just not pay attention to the road when they get out of their cars, but I've never had someone make eye contact and then proceed to try to injure me like that. Or have it backfire so gloriously.
The local Halloween party's theme this year is movie extras. Anyone by the leading stars, but you can still be recognizable.
I'm debating between the football players from Beetlejuice or Rex Manning and Jane from Empire Records.
Quote from: N E T on August 21, 2014, 08:20:52 PM
A guy tried to door me today. He turned and looked right at me through his window with a shitty grimace on his face and flung his door open so hard it bounced back and smacked him in the face.
I've had all manner of idiots just not pay attention to the road when they get out of their cars, but I've never had someone make eye contact and then proceed to try to injure me like that. Or have it backfire so gloriously.
I don't think I've ever seen someone try to door anyone else... is this a common practice?
Quote from: Hoopla on August 21, 2014, 09:34:02 PM
Quote from: N E T on August 21, 2014, 08:20:52 PM
A guy tried to door me today. He turned and looked right at me through his window with a shitty grimace on his face and flung his door open so hard it bounced back and smacked him in the face.
I've had all manner of idiots just not pay attention to the road when they get out of their cars, but I've never had someone make eye contact and then proceed to try to injure me like that. Or have it backfire so gloriously.
I don't think I've ever seen someone try to door anyone else... is this a common practice?
In the 10 years I've been commuting by bike I've never seen someone be so malicious.
This crazy world is getting crazier.
Tyre blowout at 50MPH in the pissing rain this evening. That was fun.
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Instant classic. :lulz:
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 21, 2014, 10:16:19 PM
Tyre blowout at 50MPH in the pissing rain this evening. That was fun.
Damn, I'm glad you're okay.
Quote from: N E T on August 21, 2014, 10:19:37 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 21, 2014, 10:16:19 PM
Tyre blowout at 50MPH in the pissing rain this evening. That was fun.
Damn, I'm glad you're okay.
I've been in worse. The fun part was changing said tyre.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 21, 2014, 10:17:34 PM
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It's amusing to contemplate what these bags of douche might consider "nice".
It's also amusing that these wonderful attributes appear to be only visible to themselves and possibly their mother. I always guessed these guys get to 50 and start to wonder if they've been lied to at all.
Quote from: Hoopla on August 21, 2014, 10:24:02 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 21, 2014, 10:17:34 PM
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It's amusing to contemplate what these bags of douche might consider "nice".
"Nice." = Passive aggressive pushover. "I may be a shithole, but at least Im not a shithole to peoples faces."
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 21, 2014, 10:29:56 PM
It's also amusing that these wonderful attributes appear to be only visible to themselves and possibly their mother. I always guessed these guys get to 50 and start to wonder if they've been lied to at all.
I figured most of them are shot down in a rain of bullets before they hit 30.
Quote from: Hoopla on August 21, 2014, 10:33:08 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 21, 2014, 10:29:56 PM
It's also amusing that these wonderful attributes appear to be only visible to themselves and possibly their mother. I always guessed these guys get to 50 and start to wonder if they've been lied to at all.
I figured most of them are shot down in a rain of bullets before they hit 30.
I admire your optimism. I suspect 30 is the age they start handing over cash to a variety of gurus to be told how to fix their various ailments. The trendy guru for such chaps at the moment is admittedly the PUA style. There's obviously no link between that and the above however.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 21, 2014, 10:17:34 PM
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And this is how MRAs are born. Like nebulas in the Twitter sky that suddenly take form of a star...
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 21, 2014, 10:21:25 PM
Quote from: N E T on August 21, 2014, 10:19:37 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 21, 2014, 10:16:19 PM
Tyre blowout at 50MPH in the pissing rain this evening. That was fun.
Damn, I'm glad you're okay.
I've been in worse. The fun part was changing said tyre.
I can't help but wonder, what of the colour of said tyre.
Summer semester ended 31 minutes ago. Now I wait.
I think I have about 2 weeks until Fall Semester.
Which means I should buy books.
Fucking books.
Quote from: The Suu on August 21, 2014, 05:26:00 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 21, 2014, 04:39:49 PM
Grades are in. The shitty research methods professor gave me an A, which was not unexpected so much as kind of a wild card.
Don't forget about midterms next week.
Also, it appears the pregnant is going around again. First it was my cousin with her twins, now two more of my friends are telling me all about how they're barfing their guts up for the sake of procreation, and then have the balls to ask me when I'm having babies.
The answer is no. No to all of it. And if all you're doing about your pregnancy is telling people about how MISERABLE you are, and how you can't even eat, and oh woe is you, get the ball of jelly sucked out, and call it quits.
-Suu
No, I haven't said that to them. I do have manners. Sometimes.
:lulz: Midterms.
Also, pregnancy is fucking miserable. Don't get sucked into that bitter midage bullshit where you pretend it's a miracle just because you can't do it. It fucking sucks. People who want it desperately make out like it doesn't suck just to make other women feel guilty for not loving every puking minute of the bullshit, but it fucking sucks. Pregnancy is horrible, its a wretched infestation that rips apart your fucking ligaments, how could it not suck? FFS women are such fucking cunts about this shit.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 21, 2014, 10:17:34 PM
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He should check out Heartiste (http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/20/ozys-anti-heartiste-faq/#rssowlmlink).
Have gone through and deleted my real name/URLs including my real name from the few posts I mentioned it in, which Google will hopefully pick up.
Not too worried about it, but our elections are going hilariously and I may have drawn attention to myself by a) finding vulnerabilities in the National Party (leader of our government)'s website while our Prime Minister was trashing the opposition by saying that they stupidly 'left the security' off their own website.
And b) there are currently a series of hacked emails being leaked anonymously implicating National in various smear campaigns against the left, involving abuse of privileged information to embarass political rivals... and the hacker was hosting things on pastebin well in advance of actually linking to them, so I linked to files on pastebin before the hacker did.
So our elections are being ridiculous and I have some people Googling me wondering if I'm behind any of this madness. WHAT ARE Y'ALL DOING?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 21, 2014, 11:44:10 AM
So, interesting disconnect this morning. One of my co-workers was bragging they did the ice bucket challenge already. I said, "Oh, that's cool. How much did you donate?" They replied, "At the time, I didn't realize you donated, too," and just let it at that. As if, it's completely impossible to donate to ALS after the fact. Like, "I already did the thing, and I'm done thinking about it."
Like there's a specific window of time when you can donate to a charity.
That's almost impressive.
Also:
http://nypost.com/2014/08/21/firefighters-shocked-by-power-lines-doing-ice-bucket-challenge/
Almost inevitably people forget about physics. I'd have expected better from a fire department though.
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 22, 2014, 12:13:34 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 21, 2014, 11:44:10 AM
So, interesting disconnect this morning. One of my co-workers was bragging they did the ice bucket challenge already. I said, "Oh, that's cool. How much did you donate?" They replied, "At the time, I didn't realize you donated, too," and just let it at that. As if, it's completely impossible to donate to ALS after the fact. Like, "I already did the thing, and I'm done thinking about it."
Like there's a specific window of time when you can donate to a charity.
That's almost impressive.
Also:
http://nypost.com/2014/08/21/firefighters-shocked-by-power-lines-doing-ice-bucket-challenge/
Almost inevitably people forget about physics. I'd have expected better from a fire department though.
While I don't have much belief in YHVH, these are the kinds of stories which lead me to believe Eris probably
does exist.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 22, 2014, 08:31:04 AM
Also, pregnancy is fucking miserable. Don't get sucked into that bitter midage bullshit where you pretend it's a miracle just because you can't do it. It fucking sucks. People who want it desperately make out like it doesn't suck just to make other women feel guilty for not loving every puking minute of the bullshit, but it fucking sucks. Pregnancy is horrible, its a wretched infestation that rips apart your fucking ligaments, how could it not suck? FFS women are such fucking cunts about this shit.
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/kids/kids.png)
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 22, 2014, 08:31:04 AM
Quote from: The Suu on August 21, 2014, 05:26:00 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 21, 2014, 04:39:49 PM
Grades are in. The shitty research methods professor gave me an A, which was not unexpected so much as kind of a wild card.
Don't forget about midterms next week.
Also, it appears the pregnant is going around again. First it was my cousin with her twins, now two more of my friends are telling me all about how they're barfing their guts up for the sake of procreation, and then have the balls to ask me when I'm having babies.
The answer is no. No to all of it. And if all you're doing about your pregnancy is telling people about how MISERABLE you are, and how you can't even eat, and oh woe is you, get the ball of jelly sucked out, and call it quits.
-Suu
No, I haven't said that to them. I do have manners. Sometimes.
:lulz: Midterms.
Also, pregnancy is fucking miserable. Don't get sucked into that bitter midage bullshit where you pretend it's a miracle just because you can't do it. It fucking sucks. People who want it desperately make out like it doesn't suck just to make other women feel guilty for not loving every puking minute of the bullshit, but it fucking sucks. Pregnancy is horrible, its a wretched infestation that rips apart your fucking ligaments, how could it not suck? FFS women are such fucking cunts about this shit.
You, madam, are a scholar and a gentlewoman, and I knew that I could rely on you for the TROOF. Mom said the same thing. Though my cousin is doing well considering you know, first pregnancy and TWINS. She has a low-lying placenta, but it can move back up from what she told me, but she can't exercise anymore. She was in great shape before she got pregnant, so hopefully things will normalize a bit and she can go back to being moderately active. Other than that she said she's cramping a lot and very tired and hungry all the time, but she hasn't been sick. But she doesn't update me hourly on how she's feeling, either. My friend Val, who I love dearly, really wanted a 2nd child 13 years after she popped out the last one, is having a miserable fucking time and can't even smell food. I got updates all day yesterday. :roll:
Also Boston spags. If you get a chance, head down to the Harbor around lunch time, as the Constitution will be underway and she's doing a 21 gun salute. Mr. Suu and the other CPO selectees that went down this week are going to be working the rigging and the guns. They're doing it again next Friday as well.
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on August 21, 2014, 10:32:20 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on August 21, 2014, 10:24:02 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 21, 2014, 10:17:34 PM
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It's amusing to contemplate what these bags of douche might consider "nice".
"Nice." = Passive aggressive pushover. "I may be a shithole, but at least Im not a shithole to peoples faces."
I've gone on dates with these guys. Not pushovers: creepy overly angry would-be date rapists. Consider the behavior of a guy with that level of entitlement to other people's bodies, who thinks women are bitches for not fucking them. It adds up to pushy and scary. Seriously, given a choice, I would rather date a suburban bro-type because at least suburban bro-types are capable of relating as people.
Quote from: Hoopla on August 21, 2014, 09:58:00 PM
This crazy world is getting crazier.
I actually don't think it is, but time will tell.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 22, 2014, 12:40:27 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 22, 2014, 08:31:04 AM
Also, pregnancy is fucking miserable. Don't get sucked into that bitter midage bullshit where you pretend it's a miracle just because you can't do it. It fucking sucks. People who want it desperately make out like it doesn't suck just to make other women feel guilty for not loving every puking minute of the bullshit, but it fucking sucks. Pregnancy is horrible, its a wretched infestation that rips apart your fucking ligaments, how could it not suck? FFS women are such fucking cunts about this shit.
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/kids/kids.png)
Yeah I don't like that, and I don't like the guy who writes the Oatmeal. There is no legitimate reason to denigrate people who have had kids or imply that procreating for women means giving up their dreams, goals, and aspirations as a means of justifying the choice not to have kids.
Also that guy is a fucking misogynistic POS.
Quote from: The Suu on August 22, 2014, 01:25:24 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 22, 2014, 08:31:04 AM
Quote from: The Suu on August 21, 2014, 05:26:00 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 21, 2014, 04:39:49 PM
Grades are in. The shitty research methods professor gave me an A, which was not unexpected so much as kind of a wild card.
Don't forget about midterms next week.
Also, it appears the pregnant is going around again. First it was my cousin with her twins, now two more of my friends are telling me all about how they're barfing their guts up for the sake of procreation, and then have the balls to ask me when I'm having babies.
The answer is no. No to all of it. And if all you're doing about your pregnancy is telling people about how MISERABLE you are, and how you can't even eat, and oh woe is you, get the ball of jelly sucked out, and call it quits.
-Suu
No, I haven't said that to them. I do have manners. Sometimes.
:lulz: Midterms.
Also, pregnancy is fucking miserable. Don't get sucked into that bitter midage bullshit where you pretend it's a miracle just because you can't do it. It fucking sucks. People who want it desperately make out like it doesn't suck just to make other women feel guilty for not loving every puking minute of the bullshit, but it fucking sucks. Pregnancy is horrible, its a wretched infestation that rips apart your fucking ligaments, how could it not suck? FFS women are such fucking cunts about this shit.
You, madam, are a scholar and a gentlewoman, and I knew that I could rely on you for the TROOF. Mom said the same thing. Though my cousin is doing well considering you know, first pregnancy and TWINS. She has a low-lying placenta, but it can move back up from what she told me, but she can't exercise anymore. She was in great shape before she got pregnant, so hopefully things will normalize a bit and she can go back to being moderately active. Other than that she said she's cramping a lot and very tired and hungry all the time, but she hasn't been sick. But she doesn't update me hourly on how she's feeling, either. My friend Val, who I love dearly, really wanted a 2nd child 13 years after she popped out the last one, is having a miserable fucking time and can't even smell food. I got updates all day yesterday. :roll:
Yeah it sucks ass pretty hard.
My office bathroom is absolutely crawling with hundreds (not exaggerating) of tiny spiders.
On every surface, and dangling from web strands from the ceiling. They weren't there yesterday.
I'm pretty sure that was an episode of the X-files.
You may want to consider copy writing "The T-Files". The shit that occurs to you is so much more bizzare, sooner or later someone's going to try and make money out of it. Possibly me.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 22, 2014, 05:30:46 PM
My office bathroom is absolutely crawling with hundreds (not exaggerating) of tiny spiders.
On every surface, and dangling from web strands from the ceiling. They weren't there yesterday.
Babbehs hatched.
Nuke it from orbit, just to be sure.
Quote from: The Suu on August 22, 2014, 05:38:07 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 22, 2014, 05:30:46 PM
My office bathroom is absolutely crawling with hundreds (not exaggerating) of tiny spiders.
On every surface, and dangling from web strands from the ceiling. They weren't there yesterday.
Babbehs hatched.
Nuke it from orbit, just to be sure.
No, they're remodelling the office building, and Lilly has to use my bathroom. :)
Lilly fears only one thing in this world.
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 22, 2014, 05:37:54 PM
I'm pretty sure that was an episode of the X-files.
You may want to consider copy writing "The T-Files". The shit that occurs to you is so much more bizzare, sooner or later someone's going to try and make money out of it. Possibly me.
Suspension of disbelief impossible.
Wait. Fox viewers.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 22, 2014, 05:43:48 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 22, 2014, 05:37:54 PM
I'm pretty sure that was an episode of the X-files.
You may want to consider copy writing "The T-Files". The shit that occurs to you is so much more bizzare, sooner or later someone's going to try and make money out of it. Possibly me.
Suspension of disbelief impossible.
Wait. Fox viewers.
Exactly. You could churn out a seasons worth of episodes in a week, then hire some staff writers and fuck off to the good life, courtesy of royalty payments. There's clearly no reason it wouldn't be a hit.
I approve of that shenanigans. :lulz:
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on August 22, 2014, 06:35:27 PM
I approve of that shenanigans. :lulz:
We could just set up webcams on Drachmann.
And have little blurbs of Tucson wisdom in between the horrible.
"I can't fix the roof during monsoon season, but when the sun comes out it stops leaking on its own."
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 22, 2014, 07:27:26 PM
And have little blurbs of Tucson wisdom in between the horrible.
"I can't fix the roof during monsoon season, but when the sun comes out it stops leaking on its own."
A week or two back, maybe three, one of the storms made a tornado-like occurence around my folks' neighborhood. They're still patching up houses, and after the storm five of the houses hit worst were unsafe to enter.
So I'm cooking a goose for this game review/leak podcast (https://www.youtube.com/user/TucsonDropsite) I'm on a lot. My question: is doing it on a grill a good idea? I have a big old roasting pan if it needs to be off the rack, and I can also get coals or wood fuel for it. Any ideas either way, you people who cook a lot?
Gooses are loaded with fat. If you grill it, it will most likely be either a fireball or a sooty mess. I would only grill it if you had a recipie that calls for it that you trust.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 22, 2014, 07:41:08 PM
Gooses are loaded with fat. If you grill it, it will most likely be either a fireball or a sooty mess. I would only grill it if you had a recipie that calls for it that you trust.
Would putting it in a roasting pan while it's on the grill help?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 22, 2014, 07:41:08 PM
Gooses are loaded with fat. If you grill it, it will most likely be either a fireball or a sooty mess. I would only grill it if you had a recipie that calls for it that you trust.
You need to keep it well above the flames, like on a spit. Because like you said, that grease drips off and has a pretty high flashpoint. But it is sooooo good if you can rig it.
Grills are really finicky. Is there a problem with the oven?
Husband's home from Boston and asleep on the couch in 15 minutes. He got an artillery shell for me. <3 True love.
I'm going to see Dave Foley do stand-up tonight for free. Going with a waitress at the club he's playing, so strong possibility I'll get to hang out and meet the dude. I don't get star-struck that easily, but...I mean...HE'S CANADIAN!
Gah. I have this problem in every technology oriented class where the teacher isn't fully up to speed.
Question on a quiz:
SaaS (Software as a Service) uses clouded storage and is not downloaded onto your computer or mobile device (T/F).
ummm...true...mostly...but also not when there's a client or some such.
This particular teacher was making some pretty egregious errors in lecture, but I just bit my lip because it seemed inconsequential. Now, I'm having to answer questions trying to fill in the gaps with what I think her lack of expertise might be thinking.
CANADIAN! It's like being a god.
Roasting goose is really only worth it for the fat and the carcass, IMO. Goose fat is one of the tastiest fats there is.
I gut stung by a mason bee today. It answered the age old question, am I really allergic to bees?
Yep. Turns out. Yep.
I am on a lot of drugs and will get an epi pen next time I go to the doctor.
whatever i don't need a left hand anyway.
That's horrible, sorry Nigel.
On my end, I'm feeling the blues. I'm going to try and take the week off from school that I have and channel it into music composition. I have rediscovered a thing though. I like a primordial feel. I might try to write a vaguely metal song about the worship of some sort of Near East deity.
Is getting stung basically the only way to know of that allergy? Insects are oddly nice to me. Never been stung. I've even run over a yellow jacket nest with a mower once. Those were pissed, but I ran away before they realized what the heck I was.
Quote from: Trivial on August 23, 2014, 03:58:19 AM
Is getting stung basically the only way to know of that allergy? Insects are oddly nice to me. Never been stung. I've even run over a yellow jacket nest with a mower once. Those were pissed, but I ran away before they realized what the heck I was.
Yeah. You have to be exposed once to develop the allergy, and I was, a lot. I was stung over 21 times by yellowjackets, and had to go to the hospital, many years ago. They told me that the exposure made it likely that I would be allergic the mext time, and I think that years later my current doctor confirmed it but i'v never had another exposure until now.
Shit, that sucks, Nigel.
I'm impressed you were previously stung 21 times. 21 TIMES! That had to have been terrifying.
Truly, everything is worse with bees.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 23, 2014, 05:11:50 AM
Quote from: Trivial on August 23, 2014, 03:58:19 AM
Is getting stung basically the only way to know of that allergy? Insects are oddly nice to me. Never been stung. I've even run over a yellow jacket nest with a mower once. Those were pissed, but I ran away before they realized what the heck I was.
Yeah. You have to be exposed once to develop the allergy, and I was, a lot. I was stung over 21 times by yellowjackets, and had to go to the hospital, many years ago. They told me that the exposure made it likely that I would be allergic the mext time, and I think that years later my current doctor confirmed it but i'v never had another exposure until now.
Getting stung by a whackload of yellow jackets can make you allergic to bees? Holy shit!
Yellowjackets are horrid. I was in the woods and I turned over a rock and under the rock there was a nest... oops! They swarmed me too fast for me to escape.
Apparently that much exposure to any bee venom can trigger an allergy, even across species. My hand is puffy and gross.
Had surgery yesterday. On my ass. There's now 6 inches worth of stitches. In my ass. Percocets galore but in tender/sore still.
Pilonidal cyst, or apparently "You're a 20s/30s white male that sits a lot for work? Congratulations, you've won a 3.5 week headache to treat this common affliction!". Apparently the lead affected demographic is truck drivers, with IT workers (me) being second.
Quote from: Da6s on August 23, 2014, 06:48:01 PM
Had surgery yesterday. On my ass. There's now 6 inches worth of stitches. In my ass. Percocets galore but in tender/sore still.
Pilonidal cyst, or apparently "You're a 20s/30s white male that sits a lot for work? Congratulations, you've won a 3.5 week headache to treat this common affliction!". Apparently the lead affected demographic is truck drivers, with IT workers (me) being second.
Awyeah. Had a friend with one of those once. He said it ruptured at work and the smell was ungodly.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 23, 2014, 07:12:00 PM
Quote from: Da6s on August 23, 2014, 06:48:01 PM
Had surgery yesterday. On my ass. There's now 6 inches worth of stitches. In my ass. Percocets galore but in tender/sore still.
Pilonidal cyst, or apparently "You're a 20s/30s white male that sits a lot for work? Congratulations, you've won a 3.5 week headache to treat this common affliction!". Apparently the lead affected demographic is truck drivers, with IT workers (me) being second.
Awyeah. Had a friend with one of those once. He said it ruptured at work and the smell was ungodly.
Never had a smell issue. i was actually misdiagnosed by a shitty doctor up in breck since November. He told me the recurring staph infections I was getting every 2 or so months was MRSA and I just had to deal with it until it went away. Came back last week, went to a new dr here and within 45 seconds she correctly diagnosed it. She also said Ishould never have waited this long for surgery and that this last time I was actually at a moderate risk of going septic from it.
So that's been my fun last week and a half.
Also, SwiftKey keyboard fucking hates this forum and keeps adding in duplicate letters on my posts for no reason at all.
I have this stuck in my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDMlk3kSYg
I am prepared for my death.
Also, today I ate clotted cream and lime curd for the first time on scones.
England, stop naming your food terribly. This shit was fucking delicious.
Quote from: The Suu on August 24, 2014, 01:37:22 AM
I have this stuck in my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDMlk3kSYg
I am prepared for my death.
I love that music video for three reasons:
1. The lady in the middle looks like she missed all the choreography rehearsals.
2. dude's fake beard.
3. dude's dance moves.
Quote from: Raz Tech on August 24, 2014, 02:29:21 AM
Quote from: The Suu on August 24, 2014, 01:37:22 AM
I have this stuck in my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvDMlk3kSYg
I am prepared for my death.
I love that music video for three reasons:
1. The lady in the middle looks like she missed all the choreography rehearsals.
2. dude's fake beard.
3. dude's dance moves.
It's a work of FINE. ART.
Spent today sorting cards,shipping stuff, and fucking with anarchists on the radical left group on facebook. Everyone wants me to get banned,but admin won't delete me on the fact he knows I'm not trolling and he's socialist. There's a few lingering HFT's in this group.
Our old man turns 56 today. Hopefully we have him around for another 14 more years.
(http://s3.postimg.org/edxvuc48z/10645010_1527053624192410_8197781762531162423_n.jpg) (http://postimage.org/)
Happy birthday to the old guy!
I'm still puffy. Spent the last couple of days ordering textbooks... I'm down to just the molecular bio one, an access code, and a model kit. Got about $1000 worth of books for roughly $300.
I bought a truck.
A diesel that smokes like a... uh... It smokes a lot.
I think I figured out why but I'm stuck at work and can't work on it and it's driving me crazy.
the funny thing is that, i'm pretty sure the reason that my truck is smoking is because it is retarded, literally
Grad school orientation tomorrow. Egads.
Quote from: rong on August 24, 2014, 10:47:40 PM
I bought a truck.
A diesel that smokes like a... uh... It smokes a lot.
I think I figured out why but I'm stuck at work and can't work on it and it's driving me crazy.
the funny thing is that, i'm pretty sure the reason that my truck is smoking is because it is retarded, literally
What kind of truck?
--Nigel, fapping.
Is there really no anonymous confessions sub here? Somehow I never realized. There should really be one.
New computer should be here by next weekend. Sadly, the monitor I wanted is out of stock, so no idea when I'll get that. Trying to find out from Customer Services, to see if it's worth waiting or just to order another one.
Got a week's holiday in two weeks time. Paid. Which I didn't ask for. I'm suspicious, but I'll go along with it, for now.
Also met a new girl, who is interesting. Unfortunately, she just moved to Paraguay for a year (no, nothing to do with meeting me), but I have her email at least.
And Uni should start in about 2-3 weeks.
So all in all, things are looking pretty good, aside from my shitty low paid job which while not as bad as the previous last job, is still less than ideal.
Quote from: Triggered word /b/ear on August 24, 2014, 09:33:01 PM
Our old man turns 56 today. Hopefully we have him around for another 14 more years.
(http://s3.postimg.org/edxvuc48z/10645010_1527053624192410_8197781762531162423_n.jpg) (http://postimage.org/)
Happy Birthday to him!
Gotta say, mushroom-based "meat" is better than the real thing.
And something like half the calories.
Inconceivable! What is this witchcraft of which you speak?
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on August 25, 2014, 04:56:34 PM
Inconceivable! What is this witchcraft of which you speak?
Fungus burgers. Don't question it.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 25, 2014, 03:12:42 PM
Gotta say, mushroom-based "meat" is better than the real thing.
And something like half the calories.
I find it works better for certain dishes than others. Obviously anything in a sauce, curry etc, or in stir fried meals. Also works well in pies, because of the aforementioned sauce thing.
They used to be terrible, years ago, but the quality has steadily improved since.
Quote from: Cain on August 25, 2014, 04:59:21 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 25, 2014, 03:12:42 PM
Gotta say, mushroom-based "meat" is better than the real thing.
And something like half the calories.
I find it works better for certain dishes than others. Obviously anything in a sauce, curry etc, or in stir fried meals. Also works well in pies, because of the aforementioned sauce thing.
They used to be terrible, years ago, but the quality has steadily improved since.
Yeah, I just tried them again for the first time in a year or so, and I was floored. They are AMAZING, even without any sauce.
HOLY HUMPING SHIT!!! I just realized I don't have to be poor anymore...JESUS IS HERE!
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on August 25, 2014, 05:10:21 PM
HOLY HUMPING SHIT!!! I just realized I don't have to be poor anymore...JESUS IS HERE!
Have we been listening to Lords of Acid again?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 25, 2014, 03:12:42 PM
Gotta say, mushroom-based "meat" is better than the real thing.
And something like half the calories.
Unless you're talking about a grilled portabella mushroom cap, I simply don't believe you.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 25, 2014, 05:20:08 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on August 25, 2014, 05:10:21 PM
HOLY HUMPING SHIT!!! I just realized I don't have to be poor anymore...JESUS IS HERE!
Have we been listening to Lords of Acid again?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 25, 2014, 03:12:42 PM
Gotta say, mushroom-based "meat" is better than the real thing.
And something like half the calories.
Unless you're talking about a grilled portabella mushroom cap, I simply don't believe you.
A year ago, I'd have agreed with you.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 25, 2014, 05:00:58 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 25, 2014, 04:59:21 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 25, 2014, 03:12:42 PM
Gotta say, mushroom-based "meat" is better than the real thing.
And something like half the calories.
I find it works better for certain dishes than others. Obviously anything in a sauce, curry etc, or in stir fried meals. Also works well in pies, because of the aforementioned sauce thing.
They used to be terrible, years ago, but the quality has steadily improved since.
Yeah, I just tried them again for the first time in a year or so, and I was floored. They are AMAZING, even without any sauce.
I think, upon reflection and a curry made with the stuff, that it's not so much the flavour that is the issue as the texture, which sauce tends to mitigate. I don't care hugely for texture myself, but it is noticeable, when eating, that something is not quite right.
Britain is blessed with really good pork sausages.
Quote from: Cain on August 25, 2014, 05:40:53 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 25, 2014, 05:00:58 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 25, 2014, 04:59:21 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 25, 2014, 03:12:42 PM
Gotta say, mushroom-based "meat" is better than the real thing.
And something like half the calories.
I find it works better for certain dishes than others. Obviously anything in a sauce, curry etc, or in stir fried meals. Also works well in pies, because of the aforementioned sauce thing.
They used to be terrible, years ago, but the quality has steadily improved since.
Yeah, I just tried them again for the first time in a year or so, and I was floored. They are AMAZING, even without any sauce.
I think, upon reflection and a curry made with the stuff, that it's not so much the flavour that is the issue as the texture, which sauce tends to mitigate. I don't care hugely for texture myself, but it is noticeable, when eating, that something is not quite right.
They seem to have that problem beaten. The latest stuff I've tried would fool most people, I think...The ersatz chicken more than the beef, but still.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 25, 2014, 05:20:08 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on August 25, 2014, 05:10:21 PM
HOLY HUMPING SHIT!!! I just realized I don't have to be poor anymore...JESUS IS HERE!
Have we been listening to Lords of Acid again?
Front 242...and LoA...I've been listening to both. And Shriekback, Bigod 20, Ministry...
I watched the VMAs at the bar last night. It was troubling. I hadn't heard of like 90% of the acts. They all looked like they were 12-years-old. Anyone who I had actually heard of looked ridiculous and out of place...and that guy who looks like Delcon was featured...A LOT.
I needed to throwback to when things MADE FUCKING SENSE!
To wit:
(http://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/454101044.jpg?w=814)
Personal conspiracy theory: Riff Raff is a deep cover Dadaist. Same with Michael Bay, of course, thats not a theory that is a fact. Go watch Transformers 4 and tell me Im wrong.
We have to do a confined space entry into a baghouse tomorrow. The baghouse is new equipment, and there is no real way to set a ladder or scaffold inside of it.
This requires some thinking. There is a hoist above it, but the hoist cannot be used to lower a person in, though it can (and will) be used as a fixed tie off point for the entrant, and can be used to extract the entrant if required (the laws governing this are weird).
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on August 25, 2014, 06:18:09 PM
Personal conspiracy theory: Riff Raff is a deep cover Dadaist. Same with Michael Bay, of course, thats not a theory that is a fact. Go watch Transformers 4 and tell me Im wrong.
There's something very goatse about this post.
Until last night, I seriously didn't even know that Delcon's picture was a real thing. I thought he just got it by image searching Florida or something.
Until 20 minutes ago, I didn't know what that person was.
Now I know who he is, and now I know what he does...and it's not okay. It will probably never be okay again.
I'm more surprised Katy Perry got away with wearing a denim dress.
You know the last person who wore denim to the VMAs, Katy? Yeah, that turned out so well, didn't it. Calling it now: five years time, Katy Perry will have a breakdown, shave all her hair off and start shrieking about Jesus while smashing up a car.
Quote from: Cain on August 25, 2014, 06:46:31 PM
I'm more surprised Katy Perry got away with wearing a denim dress.
You know the last person who wore denim to the VMAs, Katy? Yeah, that turned out so well, didn't it. Calling it now: five years time, Katy Perry will have a breakdown, shave all her hair off and start shrieking about Jesus while smashing up a car.
They said it was a homage to Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.
This is a thing I know. I read it. I know it now.
Shoot me!
Am I the only one who was dead, balls-on certain that that was Zooey deschanel in that pic for a second there?
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on August 25, 2014, 06:38:57 PM
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on August 25, 2014, 06:18:09 PM
Personal conspiracy theory: Riff Raff is a deep cover Dadaist. Same with Michael Bay, of course, thats not a theory that is a fact. Go watch Transformers 4 and tell me Im wrong.
Until last night, I seriously didn't even know that Delcon's picture was a real thing. I thought he just got it by image searching Florida or something.
:lulz:
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on August 25, 2014, 06:49:26 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 25, 2014, 06:46:31 PM
I'm more surprised Katy Perry got away with wearing a denim dress.
You know the last person who wore denim to the VMAs, Katy? Yeah, that turned out so well, didn't it. Calling it now: five years time, Katy Perry will have a breakdown, shave all her hair off and start shrieking about Jesus while smashing up a car.
They said it was a homage to Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.
This is a thing I know. I read it. I know it now.
Shoot me!
I don't even know why anyone would want to pay homage to Britney. Justin Timberlake, maybe, I mean he did bring sexy back.
But if he'd seen that dress before going out to retrieve sexy, I doubt he would have bothered.
1. Perry's dress was better made, and had some cool design elements, which elevated it above Spears'.
2. Zooey's tits aren't that big.
I am exhausted, but I am registered and good to go. They want me to take my first internship in the spring, no need to wait, that way I can take what I learn my first year and apply it to my 2nd year and my final project. Instead of a thesis, which I CAN do, I do a final project where I design and execute my own exhibit, start to finish, or at least engage in a large project at a museum that is entirely my own. So this degree is far more practical than academic. This seemed to ostracize us 3 in the cohort during the general orientation, but our advisor basically told us to let them bitch. Three classes per semester, so in 2 years I'm done. Party. Over.
Quote from: Slyph on August 25, 2014, 05:44:15 PM
Britain is blessed with really good pork sausages.
Indeed it is.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 25, 2014, 03:12:42 PM
Gotta say, mushroom-based "meat" is better than the real thing.
And something like half the calories.
I agree.
Well, depending on the animal and the preparation. But as Cain said, as well, meat substitute has improved in quality. Mushrooms are friggin great.
If you can make a purely vegetarian black pudding out of a mushroom, I'd eat it. I'd report you to the Pope, but I'd eat it.
Quote from: Slyph on August 25, 2014, 05:44:15 PM
Britain is blessed with really good pork sausages.
The good stuff is indeed good.
However, the bad stuff....well, only 40% of it needs to be pork, for it to be a pork sausage. That's all I'm saying. No speculation on what or who makes up the shortfall.
Quote from: Cain on August 26, 2014, 08:02:36 AM
Quote from: Slyph on August 25, 2014, 05:44:15 PM
Britain is blessed with really good pork sausages.
The good stuff is indeed good.
However, the bad stuff....well, only 40% of it needs to be pork, for it to be a pork sausage. That's all I'm saying. No speculation on what or who makes up the shortfall.
The irony is that there used to be more than a few "sausages" for sale that wouldn't even touch 10%. Stupid modern rules insisting meat products contains actual meat.
By the gods they were
good.
Lidl sausages certainly only taste like they're 10% meat. Or meat-flavoured sawdust, or something.
You food snobs won't believe me, but 5% "meat" sausages with the remainder made up from Newspaper, sawdust, cardboard chippings and gravel are far superior to any premium sausage you can lay your hands on.
For one thing, they're full of fibre. You don't get that in your fancy "real meat" foods.
I know you're joking, but a lot of gourmet sausages these days come with a considerable amount of onion in them. Like, probably 10-15%? I'm also noticing cheese is gaining in popularity a bit. Not sure about that myself, but I'd definitely give it a go.
Half joking. The only food that's ever made me see God seems to come from Vans with dubious adherence to hygiene standards.
There's just something about:
Bacon that's been burnt so long it's mainly carbon
Sausages with bone shards
Eggs that bounce
In a bun that was fresh last week
It let's you know you're alive. There is an art to cooking bad food well and it is known only to the surliest of food vans. Masters of the art can be spotted by their chain smoking which never interferes with the cooking process.
LMNO is likely to shit himself when he sees that. P3nt's likely to get hungry. Cultural differences, eh?
Anyway - 10-15% Onion? Cheese? What insanity is this? There will be some sort of third flavour of wine at this rate.
The traditional Toulouse Sausage is made with bacon, parsley,garlic and red wine.
How about oysters and thyme? Leeks? Mustard and honey?
It doesn't sound so much like Junkie's been eating sausages as it does he's been grazing in the rubble piles of his latest demolition.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on August 26, 2014, 11:19:16 AM
It doesn't sound so much like Junkie's been eating sausages as it does he's been grazing in the rubble piles of his latest demolition.
Quote from: Cain on August 26, 2014, 10:06:30 AM
The traditional Toulouse Sausage is made with bacon, parsley,garlic and red wine.
How about oysters and thyme? Leeks? Mustard and honey?
As the board is dead, let's have a little story shall we?
One day, Horrible Uncle Junkie had to get up so early it was pointless going to bed. He had to drive to the other side of the country to look at a power station that had the gall to go on fire. After several hours drive with no food or sleep and very carefully rationed cigarettes, HUJ managed to get to the idiot place with 20 golden minutes to spare.
Due to said fire, the place was quite active when it would normally have been dead. The local merchants were aware of the situation and were doing their best to capitalise on it. Several vans were open and busy with queues at each that you would normally associate with festivals.
Except one.
"Tonys" (Name forgotten to time, but I'm sure it was Tony's something or other) was my chosen van. The fact that I had to chose him because of the queues caused no small resentment. Surely the outcast van was being avoided for a reason? With a demanding stomach, I resigned myself to a bout of the shits at some point on the journey back.
The van itself was procured directly from the set of a horror film. Bad tyres, a paint job that made claims of white at some point in the past, dodgy fixings everywhere and anything metal had a nice sheen of rust. It's the kind of thing that makes you think you need a tetanus shot just because you've seen it.
Tony (presumably) is a charming fellow "what you want" he asks, in tones you would normally associate with a forthcoming concussion. It's less a question and more a way to let you know you're interrupting his smoking and reading of the paper. I saw reading, I mean staring at tits. The paper was the Daily Sport.
Order placed, I watch the magic occur in front of me. Disney couldn't touch this shit. The freshly lit cigarette is used to light the stove for the kettle and the couple of grills. Eggs are thrown on. I'm not saying that as some kind of colourful language,
he threw the fucking eggs at the grill. Shell and all. "Meats" are found and again flung on.
The roll it's all going in is found, ripped in half and again flung on the grill. A packet of cigarettes is lifted and while I did expect it to be a thrown on to the grill as well, it turns out that he's finished the smoke he began cooking with. While the magic occurs, I am treated to a lecture about how Gary Rhodes is "A cunt". Reasons for this are never explained, but seems to come from the heart.
With fresh nicotine stick in hand, Tony begins to shovel all this shit into a pile and the places the roll either side. With a quick clap, a surprising amount of crap is now in between the roll. This is shoved into a towel (Yes, a towel.) and placed in front of me.
Sweet Christ.
The bacon could have been used as a shiv. It
should have been used as a shiv. I could read yesterdays headlines in the sausages. The Ketchup had the consistency and texture of day old pigs blood. I had to
chew to bite through the egg, which caused bacon to shatter and cut my mouth. It was probably the bacon, anyway.
There was nothing right here. Nothing.
And to this day, it remains the tastiest sandwich I've ever fucking eaten.
There is an art to terrible food. On that day, I met the man that makes Picasso look like an idiot child with ADD.
Hey now, I've got nothing against questionable meat product, heavily salted, and loosely held together with grease and what is possibly cheese. Especially when it's 2:00am, and you've just left the bar. They're called "Tasty Burgers" (http://www.tastyburger.com/) and they stand on the right hand of God after the required number of pints.
HOLY FUCKING CRAP JUNKENSTEIN MET CMOT DIBBLER IRL
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on August 26, 2014, 12:36:23 PM
HOLY FUCKING CRAP JUNKENSTEIN MET CMOT DIBBLER IRL
The only reason I'm fairly sure it wasn't him is that there is no way it makes financial sense to hand out towels with food.
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on August 26, 2014, 07:20:35 AM
If you can make a purely vegetarian black pudding out of a mushroom, I'd eat it. I'd report you to the Pope, but I'd eat it.
:lulz:
Oh boy, TDS2014 is now wading into the shark-infested wars of the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
Just when I think it couldn't get any dumber, they find a way to prove me wrong.
Quote from: Cain on August 26, 2014, 02:47:42 PM
Oh boy, TDS2014 is now wading into the shark-infested wars of the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
Just when I think it couldn't get any dumber, they find a way to prove me wrong.
I think it's the perfect subject for them...It has the whole package.
In other news, meeting HELL today. All day.
Quote from: Cain on August 26, 2014, 02:47:42 PM
Oh boy, TDS2014 is now wading into the shark-infested wars of the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
Just when I think it couldn't get any dumber, they find a way to prove me wrong.
How quickly did Godwin kick in? 3rd post?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 03:07:22 PMI think it's the perfect subject for them...It has the whole package.
This is true.
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 26, 2014, 03:08:46 PM
How quickly did Godwin kick in? 3rd post?
It quickly got threadjacked by more sensible souls, however given there are more than a few people there who think pictures like this:
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and this
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are the height of wit, I think we got off lucky.
Gallagher could make so much money from these people it isn't even funny.
All I'm seeing on 2014 is a bunch of Chaos Mahdgjickque and "chaos Marxism" bullshit.
From what I understand of them, that sounds like them discussing Israel.
Oh. Shit. Someone re-added me to The Discordian Society. No wonder my feed has been so retarded of late. TDS2014, while still retarded, is no more so than normal or expected. My bad.
Right, whichever of you fuckers keeps on doing that, stop it.
Oh, and the word "fag" is in every single thread at one point or another.
Quote from: Cain on August 26, 2014, 03:47:00 PM
Oh. Shit. Someone re-added me to The Discordian Society. No wonder my feed has been so retarded of late. TDS2014, while still retarded, is no more so than normal or expected. My bad.
Right, whichever of you fuckers keeps on doing that, stop it.
Ditto. I'm just going to block the damn groups or something. They're driving me nuts.
It's always amusing to me just how badly people will defend use of the word fag or faggot. They can shorten it, they can say it doesn't mean gay people, they can blah blah blah. Even if they're not homophobes, they're still dumbasses. I can't understand the obsession.
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 06:29:59 PM
It's always amusing to me just how badly people will defend use of the word fag or faggot. They can shorten it, they can say it doesn't mean gay people, they can blah blah blah. Even if they're not homophobes, they're still dumbasses. I can't understand the obsession.
They're trying to be edgy. And then trying to explain it.
Which is kinda funny.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 06:46:52 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 06:29:59 PM
It's always amusing to me just how badly people will defend use of the word fag or faggot. They can shorten it, they can say it doesn't mean gay people, they can blah blah blah. Even if they're not homophobes, they're still dumbasses. I can't understand the obsession.
They're trying to be edgy. And then trying to explain it.
Which is kinda funny.
The explanations are what get me. They're so, so very terrible. Like most of the arguments over there. I would blame it on format, character limitations, except that's bullshit. It's just dumbassery.
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 06:53:41 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 06:46:52 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 06:29:59 PM
It's always amusing to me just how badly people will defend use of the word fag or faggot. They can shorten it, they can say it doesn't mean gay people, they can blah blah blah. Even if they're not homophobes, they're still dumbasses. I can't understand the obsession.
They're trying to be edgy. And then trying to explain it.
Which is kinda funny.
The explanations are what get me. They're so, so very terrible. Like most of the arguments over there. I would blame it on format, character limitations, except that's bullshit. It's just dumbassery.
This is why I haven't bothered with FB discordianism of any stripe in a while. TDS is racism, misogyny, and Gay bashing. TDS2014 has turned into woo since Cram stopped bothering with it. None of them have anything to
say. So they say it loud, over and over again.
I have a date with a gay conservative. These days I don't really mind provided he can A) talk about other things B) be willing to concede a valid point and C) not be a teabagger.
This should be interesting. Though, I tell you, I would rather spend time with a reasonable person with questionable politics than an idiot who agrees with liberal talking point but doesn't know fuck about shit.
That's a problem with hardcore leftists, IMO. They rest assured in the benevolence of their well worn views. They rest and rest and don't actually want to talk about the bad things and how their elected officials carry them out.
Buuhhhh, we're the good guys hurrrrr.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 06:57:06 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 06:53:41 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 06:46:52 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 06:29:59 PM
It's always amusing to me just how badly people will defend use of the word fag or faggot. They can shorten it, they can say it doesn't mean gay people, they can blah blah blah. Even if they're not homophobes, they're still dumbasses. I can't understand the obsession.
They're trying to be edgy. And then trying to explain it.
Which is kinda funny.
The explanations are what get me. They're so, so very terrible. Like most of the arguments over there. I would blame it on format, character limitations, except that's bullshit. It's just dumbassery.
This is why I haven't bothered with FB discordianism of any stripe in a while. TDS is racism, misogyny, and Gay bashing. TDS2014 has turned into woo since Cram stopped bothering with it. None of them have anything to say. So they say it loud, over and over again.
Do you suppose that's the formatting? Super easy so why bother thinking? I am glad these people find their way to Discordianism. It'll dissuade others from wanting in. Keep the riff raff in a very particular spot.
When my son is old enough to understand The Holy, these fuckers will be a good lesson in Doin' it Wrong.
So, we managed to grind our product so that every grain is within a tenth of a micron in size with every other micron. By which I mean, in 10 tons of powder, no two granules are more than a half micron apart in size.
I realize that this probably won't mean much to people who aren't in this business, but it's sort of like dropping a handful of quarters and having them all land on their edge and stay there...And then being able to do it whenever you want.
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:00:02 PM
I have a date with a gay conservative. These days I don't really mind provided he can A) talk about other things B) be willing to concede a valid point and C) not be a teabagger.
This should be interesting. Though, I tell you, I would rather spend time with a reasonable person with questionable politics than an idiot who agrees with liberal talking point but doesn't know fuck about shit.
That's a problem with hardcore leftists, IMO. They rest assured in the benevolence of their well worn views. They rest and rest and don't actually want to talk about the bad things and how their elected officials carry them out.
Buuhhhh, we're the good guys hurrrrr.
Hardcore ANYTHING = DERP.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:03:39 PM
So, we managed to grind our product so that every grain is within a tenth of a micron in size with every other micron. By which I mean, in 10 tons of powder, no two granules are more than a half micron apart in size.
I realize that this probably won't mean much to people who aren't in this business, but it's sort of like dropping a handful of quarters and having them all land on their edge and stay there...And then being able to do it whenever you want.
What is the purpose of this, beyond showing up GAWD.
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:01:49 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 06:57:06 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 06:53:41 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 06:46:52 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 06:29:59 PM
It's always amusing to me just how badly people will defend use of the word fag or faggot. They can shorten it, they can say it doesn't mean gay people, they can blah blah blah. Even if they're not homophobes, they're still dumbasses. I can't understand the obsession.
They're trying to be edgy. And then trying to explain it.
Which is kinda funny.
The explanations are what get me. They're so, so very terrible. Like most of the arguments over there. I would blame it on format, character limitations, except that's bullshit. It's just dumbassery.
This is why I haven't bothered with FB discordianism of any stripe in a while. TDS is racism, misogyny, and Gay bashing. TDS2014 has turned into woo since Cram stopped bothering with it. None of them have anything to say. So they say it loud, over and over again.
Do you suppose that's the formatting? Super easy so why bother thinking? I am glad these people find their way to Discordianism. It'll dissuade others from wanting in. Keep the riff raff in a very particular spot.
When my son is old enough to understand The Holy, these fuckers will be a good lesson in Doin' it Wrong.
Facebook is basically the new Usenet. Vast numbers of people, and they tend to form "taste tribes". TDS is an example of this. Like-minded people find each other and then crowd under the fart blanket.
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:04:58 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:03:39 PM
So, we managed to grind our product so that every grain is within a tenth of a micron in size with every other micron. By which I mean, in 10 tons of powder, no two granules are more than a half micron apart in size.
I realize that this probably won't mean much to people who aren't in this business, but it's sort of like dropping a handful of quarters and having them all land on their edge and stay there...And then being able to do it whenever you want.
What is the purpose of this, beyond showing up GAWD.
Depending on what you're doing with our product, you either want a bell curve of particle size (for high density applications) or uniform size (flowability). The first is good for sapphire, made economically, the second is good for processes prone to plugging up (ie, specialty stuff like flexible sapphire, etc).
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:05:46 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:01:49 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 06:57:06 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 06:53:41 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 06:46:52 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 06:29:59 PM
It's always amusing to me just how badly people will defend use of the word fag or faggot. They can shorten it, they can say it doesn't mean gay people, they can blah blah blah. Even if they're not homophobes, they're still dumbasses. I can't understand the obsession.
They're trying to be edgy. And then trying to explain it.
Which is kinda funny.
The explanations are what get me. They're so, so very terrible. Like most of the arguments over there. I would blame it on format, character limitations, except that's bullshit. It's just dumbassery.
This is why I haven't bothered with FB discordianism of any stripe in a while. TDS is racism, misogyny, and Gay bashing. TDS2014 has turned into woo since Cram stopped bothering with it. None of them have anything to say. So they say it loud, over and over again.
Do you suppose that's the formatting? Super easy so why bother thinking? I am glad these people find their way to Discordianism. It'll dissuade others from wanting in. Keep the riff raff in a very particular spot.
When my son is old enough to understand The Holy, these fuckers will be a good lesson in Doin' it Wrong.
Facebook is basically the new Usenet. Vast numbers of people, and they tend to form "taste tribes". TDS is an example of this. Like-minded people find each other and then crowd under the fart blanket.
Surely, there must be a way to leave a fart under that blanket that makes them all puke.
Metaphorically, or otherwise.
Man...just imagine how awesome it'll be when we can send smells through the internets.
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:08:26 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:05:46 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:01:49 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 06:57:06 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 06:53:41 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 06:46:52 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 06:29:59 PM
It's always amusing to me just how badly people will defend use of the word fag or faggot. They can shorten it, they can say it doesn't mean gay people, they can blah blah blah. Even if they're not homophobes, they're still dumbasses. I can't understand the obsession.
They're trying to be edgy. And then trying to explain it.
Which is kinda funny.
The explanations are what get me. They're so, so very terrible. Like most of the arguments over there. I would blame it on format, character limitations, except that's bullshit. It's just dumbassery.
This is why I haven't bothered with FB discordianism of any stripe in a while. TDS is racism, misogyny, and Gay bashing. TDS2014 has turned into woo since Cram stopped bothering with it. None of them have anything to say. So they say it loud, over and over again.
Do you suppose that's the formatting? Super easy so why bother thinking? I am glad these people find their way to Discordianism. It'll dissuade others from wanting in. Keep the riff raff in a very particular spot.
When my son is old enough to understand The Holy, these fuckers will be a good lesson in Doin' it Wrong.
Facebook is basically the new Usenet. Vast numbers of people, and they tend to form "taste tribes". TDS is an example of this. Like-minded people find each other and then crowd under the fart blanket.
Surely, there must be a way to leave a fart under that blanket that makes them all puke.
Metaphorically, or otherwise.
Man...just imagine how awesome it'll be when we can send smells through the internets.
On that day, I will switch to a 100% Indian diet.
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:00:02 PM
I have a date with a gay conservative. These days I don't really mind provided he can A) talk about other things B) be willing to concede a valid point and C) not be a teabagger.
This should be interesting. Though, I tell you, I would rather spend time with a reasonable person with questionable politics than an idiot who agrees with liberal talking point but doesn't know fuck about shit.
That's a problem with hardcore leftists, IMO. They rest assured in the benevolence of their well worn views. They rest and rest and don't actually want to talk about the bad things and how their elected officials carry them out.
Buuhhhh, we're the good guys hurrrrr.
Is he Andrew Sullivan? Are you going to retroactively abort Trig Palin on a death panel together?
Quote from: Cain on August 26, 2014, 07:09:27 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:00:02 PM
I have a date with a gay conservative. These days I don't really mind provided he can A) talk about other things B) be willing to concede a valid point and C) not be a teabagger.
This should be interesting. Though, I tell you, I would rather spend time with a reasonable person with questionable politics than an idiot who agrees with liberal talking point but doesn't know fuck about shit.
That's a problem with hardcore leftists, IMO. They rest assured in the benevolence of their well worn views. They rest and rest and don't actually want to talk about the bad things and how their elected officials carry them out.
Buuhhhh, we're the good guys hurrrrr.
Is he Andrew Sullivan? Are you going to retroactively abort Trig Palin on a death panel together?
That would be an amazing first date. And he does have a lovely beard...
But he's a Roman Catholic, which means he wouldn't have an abortion himself, which means I wouldn't not bang him.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:07:50 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:04:58 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:03:39 PM
So, we managed to grind our product so that every grain is within a tenth of a micron in size with every other micron. By which I mean, in 10 tons of powder, no two granules are more than a half micron apart in size.
I realize that this probably won't mean much to people who aren't in this business, but it's sort of like dropping a handful of quarters and having them all land on their edge and stay there...And then being able to do it whenever you want.
What is the purpose of this, beyond showing up GAWD.
Depending on what you're doing with our product, you either want a bell curve of particle size (for high density applications) or uniform size (flowability). The first is good for sapphire, made economically, the second is good for processes prone to plugging up (ie, specialty stuff like flexible sapphire, etc).
Hmmm, sounds hot!
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:12:24 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:07:50 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:04:58 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:03:39 PM
So, we managed to grind our product so that every grain is within a tenth of a micron in size with every other micron. By which I mean, in 10 tons of powder, no two granules are more than a half micron apart in size.
I realize that this probably won't mean much to people who aren't in this business, but it's sort of like dropping a handful of quarters and having them all land on their edge and stay there...And then being able to do it whenever you want.
What is the purpose of this, beyond showing up GAWD.
Depending on what you're doing with our product, you either want a bell curve of particle size (for high density applications) or uniform size (flowability). The first is good for sapphire, made economically, the second is good for processes prone to plugging up (ie, specialty stuff like flexible sapphire, etc).
Hmmm, sounds hot!
What's hot is how we do it. :lulz: Also, the new steam jet mill grinds the stuff in mid-air, suspended in a chamber and kept aloft by 1500 PSI of super-heated steam.
Which is totally The Future. The cool future.
What could go wrong? :whack:
Quote from: Cain on August 26, 2014, 07:09:27 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:00:02 PM
I have a date with a gay conservative. These days I don't really mind provided he can A) talk about other things B) be willing to concede a valid point and C) not be a teabagger.
This should be interesting. Though, I tell you, I would rather spend time with a reasonable person with questionable politics than an idiot who agrees with liberal talking point but doesn't know fuck about shit.
That's a problem with hardcore leftists, IMO. They rest assured in the benevolence of their well worn views. They rest and rest and don't actually want to talk about the bad things and how their elected officials carry them out.
Buuhhhh, we're the good guys hurrrrr.
Is he Andrew Sullivan? Are you going to retroactively abort Trig Palin on a death panel together?
Also, kinda funny as we have two people named Sullivan running for office this fine election season. Both of them are pigfuckers. Neither is gay...
...as far as we know.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:03:39 PM
So, we managed to grind our product so that every grain is within a tenth of a micron in size with every other micron. By which I mean, in 10 tons of powder, no two granules are more than a half micron apart in size.
I realize that this probably won't mean much to people who aren't in this business, but it's sort of like dropping a handful of quarters and having them all land on their edge and stay there...And then being able to do it whenever you want.
:magick:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 26, 2014, 07:22:56 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:03:39 PM
So, we managed to grind our product so that every grain is within a tenth of a micron in size with every other micron. By which I mean, in 10 tons of powder, no two granules are more than a half micron apart in size.
I realize that this probably won't mean much to people who aren't in this business, but it's sort of like dropping a handful of quarters and having them all land on their edge and stay there...And then being able to do it whenever you want.
:magick:
I always thought space travel was the coolest shit ever. I was wrong. This is the coolest shit ever.
Well, I've been working all today, writing.
Tomorrow, I get up at 4am to be in at work for 6am for an 8 hour shift. And the girl in Paraguay (maybe) has not had time to email me. Bleh. Good mood ruined.
Quote from: Cain on August 26, 2014, 07:32:05 PM
Well, I've been working all today, writing.
Tomorrow, I get up at 4am to be in at work for 6am for an 8 hour shift. And the girl in Paraguay (maybe) has not had time to email me. Bleh. Good mood ruined.
I feel ya. 5 AM every day, here.
Every day I could be OK with. But it's every second or third day, with a late shift thrown in randomly between the two somewhere. Consistent sleep schedule ruined.
Quote from: Cain on August 26, 2014, 07:53:29 PM
Every day I could be OK with. But it's every second or third day, with a late shift thrown in randomly between the two somewhere. Consistent sleep schedule ruined.
Yeah, I quit a job once because of that. I was on the 3-11:30 PM shift, and every Saturday the boss wanted all 3 shifts in at 6 AM to do preventative maintenance. 1st shift was on their regular schedule, 3rd shift just had to stay over, 2nd shift took it in the ass. It effectively ruined my weekend, every weekend.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:14:17 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:12:24 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:07:50 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:04:58 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:03:39 PM
So, we managed to grind our product so that every grain is within a tenth of a micron in size with every other micron. By which I mean, in 10 tons of powder, no two granules are more than a half micron apart in size.
I realize that this probably won't mean much to people who aren't in this business, but it's sort of like dropping a handful of quarters and having them all land on their edge and stay there...And then being able to do it whenever you want.
What is the purpose of this, beyond showing up GAWD.
Depending on what you're doing with our product, you either want a bell curve of particle size (for high density applications) or uniform size (flowability). The first is good for sapphire, made economically, the second is good for processes prone to plugging up (ie, specialty stuff like flexible sapphire, etc).
Hmmm, sounds hot!
What's hot is how we do it. :lulz: Also, the new steam jet mill grinds the stuff in mid-air, suspended in a chamber and kept aloft by 1500 PSI of super-heated steam.
Which is totally The Future. The cool future.
What could go wrong? :whack:
IT'S MY FIRST DAY!
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:07:50 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:04:58 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:03:39 PM
So, we managed to grind our product so that every grain is within a tenth of a micron in size with every other micron. By which I mean, in 10 tons of powder, no two granules are more than a half micron apart in size.
I realize that this probably won't mean much to people who aren't in this business, but it's sort of like dropping a handful of quarters and having them all land on their edge and stay there...And then being able to do it whenever you want.
What is the purpose of this, beyond showing up GAWD.
Depending on what you're doing with our product, you either want a bell curve of particle size (for high density applications) or uniform size (flowability). The first is good for sapphire, made economically, the second is good for processes prone to plugging up (ie, specialty stuff like flexible sapphire, etc).
Is it for optics, lenses and such? Superconductors? [I'm all OCD about trying to figure it out]
Quote from: LuciferX on August 26, 2014, 11:44:55 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:07:50 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:04:58 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:03:39 PM
So, we managed to grind our product so that every grain is within a tenth of a micron in size with every other micron. By which I mean, in 10 tons of powder, no two granules are more than a half micron apart in size.
I realize that this probably won't mean much to people who aren't in this business, but it's sort of like dropping a handful of quarters and having them all land on their edge and stay there...And then being able to do it whenever you want.
What is the purpose of this, beyond showing up GAWD.
Depending on what you're doing with our product, you either want a bell curve of particle size (for high density applications) or uniform size (flowability). The first is good for sapphire, made economically, the second is good for processes prone to plugging up (ie, specialty stuff like flexible sapphire, etc).
Is it for optics, lenses and such? Superconductors? [I'm all OCD about trying to figure it out]
Yeah, great. Piss off.
Quote from: Triggered word /b/ear on August 26, 2014, 09:58:18 PM
IT'S MY FIRST DAY!
Well, then...Won't YOU be surprised! No jet packs, I'm afraid, but getting shot by cops is HALF OFF.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 11:58:48 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on August 26, 2014, 11:44:55 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:07:50 PM
Quote from: Alty on August 26, 2014, 07:04:58 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:03:39 PM
So, we managed to grind our product so that every grain is within a tenth of a micron in size with every other micron. By which I mean, in 10 tons of powder, no two granules are more than a half micron apart in size.
I realize that this probably won't mean much to people who aren't in this business, but it's sort of like dropping a handful of quarters and having them all land on their edge and stay there...And then being able to do it whenever you want.
What is the purpose of this, beyond showing up GAWD.
Depending on what you're doing with our product, you either want a bell curve of particle size (for high density applications) or uniform size (flowability). The first is good for sapphire, made economically, the second is good for processes prone to plugging up (ie, specialty stuff like flexible sapphire, etc).
Is it for optics, lenses and such? Superconductors? [I'm all OCD about trying to figure it out]
Yeah, great. Piss off.
50K Psi right back at you.
I've been merrily rolling through TDS (new) and TDS (closed), pissing people off, making friends, and ultimately siphoning the membership off into Pussy Shots, which hit 10,000 members today.
Also, I strongly suspect that I am falling in love, which is a bit disquieting. But I finished off another term with a 4.0 and I'll be starting a new term again soon enough to hopefully head off having time for it to really go anywhere. Love is nothing but trouble.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 27, 2014, 03:13:13 AM
I've been merrily rolling through TDS (new) and TDS (closed), pissing people off, making friends, and ultimately siphoning the membership off into Pussy Shots, which hit 10,000 members today.
Also, I strongly suspect that I am falling in love, which is a bit disquieting. But I finished off another term with a 4.0 and I'll be starting a new term again soon enough to hopefully head off having time for it to really go anywhere. Love is nothing but trouble.
I must concur, but wish you the best in that.
Quote from: Alty on August 27, 2014, 04:04:04 AM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 27, 2014, 03:13:13 AM
I've been merrily rolling through TDS (new) and TDS (closed), pissing people off, making friends, and ultimately siphoning the membership off into Pussy Shots, which hit 10,000 members today.
Also, I strongly suspect that I am falling in love, which is a bit disquieting. But I finished off another term with a 4.0 and I'll be starting a new term again soon enough to hopefully head off having time for it to really go anywhere. Love is nothing but trouble.
I must concur, but wish you the best in that.
And only for the best is why I ride through trouble =)
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:56:06 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 26, 2014, 07:53:29 PM
Every day I could be OK with. But it's every second or third day, with a late shift thrown in randomly between the two somewhere. Consistent sleep schedule ruined.
Yeah, I quit a job once because of that. I was on the 3-11:30 PM shift, and every Saturday the boss wanted all 3 shifts in at 6 AM to do preventative maintenance. 1st shift was on their regular schedule, 3rd shift just had to stay over, 2nd shift took it in the ass. It effectively ruined my weekend, every weekend.
My last job was notorious for that. One guy I was working with cracked a joke at the expense of the nurse in charge of the rota, and he ended up doing Saturday overnight shifts for a month. He has kids and this was the start of the summer holidays, so it was pretty much entirely designed to screw over his life.
Quote from: Cain on August 27, 2014, 11:16:44 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 26, 2014, 07:56:06 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 26, 2014, 07:53:29 PM
Every day I could be OK with. But it's every second or third day, with a late shift thrown in randomly between the two somewhere. Consistent sleep schedule ruined.
Yeah, I quit a job once because of that. I was on the 3-11:30 PM shift, and every Saturday the boss wanted all 3 shifts in at 6 AM to do preventative maintenance. 1st shift was on their regular schedule, 3rd shift just had to stay over, 2nd shift took it in the ass. It effectively ruined my weekend, every weekend.
My last job was notorious for that. One guy I was working with cracked a joke at the expense of the nurse in charge of the rota, and he ended up doing Saturday overnight shifts for a month. He has kids and this was the start of the summer holidays, so it was pretty much entirely designed to screw over his life.
Classy. "We're not going to sack you, just make your life intolerable until you quit or do something I can call gross misconduct".
I think my worst working shift was at a place that wanted me to market their (remarkably inferior) product. To Australia. And the USA. On alternating days. Did I mention that they weren't able to sell a single unit in the UK? And that said product had long standing established competitors in these regions? Did I mention that said product was around twice the price with a fraction of the functionality?
I think I lasted about a week or so before realising just how fucked my body was and just how crappy the product was. Great place to quit. Boss was shocked to learn about how little potential and future they had.
They went bang about six weeks later. I decided to start vetting potential employers and their products/services a lot more closely.
Everyone learnt something, so that's a plus.
Weather took a pylon off the pier today. What chaos. Tsunami lookouts deployed. Central wants shifts stationed to check sea levels from the parking lot. Seeds of doom are blowing in the wind. It's all too late for this.
My old home tops the list of safest places to drive...Boston bottoms:
http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf (http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf)
Portland comes in the lower quarter (177 out of 200). I have contributed to that.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 25, 2014, 08:30:03 AM
Quote from: rong on August 24, 2014, 10:47:40 PM
I bought a truck.
A diesel that smokes like a... uh... It smokes a lot.
I think I figured out why but I'm stuck at work and can't work on it and it's driving me crazy.
the funny thing is that, i'm pretty sure the reason that my truck is smoking is because it is retarded, literally
What kind of truck?
--Nigel, fapping.
'93 F250 Super Cab Long Box 7.3L IDI Diesel 5 speed manual. Its seriously like 20 feet long.
I advanced the timing a bunch and now it only smokes like a diesel is supposed to.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 27, 2014, 03:13:13 AM
Also, I strongly suspect that I am falling in love, which is a bit disquieting. But I finished off another term with a 4.0 and I'll be starting a new term again soon enough to hopefully head off having time for it to really go anywhere. Love is nothing but trouble.
Well if you don't fall in love with him, I will, and then what? Do you really want to see the world where "The Triangle" becomes the new "9/11"? Where 30 years after the event, people are still trying to clean bits of food-cart burrito and matted hair from the scorched remains of their once great institutions?
I think you really just need to take one for the team here, Nigel.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on August 27, 2014, 02:25:12 PM
My old home tops the list of safest places to drive...Boston bottoms:
http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf (http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf)
Portland comes in the lower quarter (177 out of 200). I have contributed to that.
This isn't news for anyone who lives in New England. I take my life into my own hands every time I get behind the wheel.
Quote from: The Suu on August 27, 2014, 04:14:53 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on August 27, 2014, 02:25:12 PM
My old home tops the list of safest places to drive...Boston bottoms:
http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf (http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf)
Portland comes in the lower quarter (177 out of 200). I have contributed to that.
This isn't news for anyone who lives in New England. I take my life into my own hands every time I get behind the wheel.
That's because You People are all CRAZY. I have been there twice, and I wouldn't trust ANY of you bastards with anything more than one of those Shriner cars.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on August 27, 2014, 02:25:12 PM
My old home tops the list of safest places to drive...Boston bottoms:
http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf (http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf)
Portland comes in the lower quarter (177 out of 200). I have contributed to that.
I've driven all the fuck over the western United States between the West Coast and Texas, and select patches of New England, and the only place I have ever been terrified for my life on the road was Boston.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on August 27, 2014, 03:57:12 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 27, 2014, 03:13:13 AM
Also, I strongly suspect that I am falling in love, which is a bit disquieting. But I finished off another term with a 4.0 and I'll be starting a new term again soon enough to hopefully head off having time for it to really go anywhere. Love is nothing but trouble.
Well if you don't fall in love with him, I will, and then what? Do you really want to see the world where "The Triangle" becomes the new "9/11"? Where 30 years after the event, people are still trying to clean bits of food-cart burrito and matted hair from the scorched remains of their once great institutions?
I think you really just need to take one for the team here, Nigel.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Yeah but love is scary and I was drunk last night so my fear of commitment was rising to the surface.
Quote from: rong on August 27, 2014, 02:28:13 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 25, 2014, 08:30:03 AM
Quote from: rong on August 24, 2014, 10:47:40 PM
I bought a truck.
A diesel that smokes like a... uh... It smokes a lot.
I think I figured out why but I'm stuck at work and can't work on it and it's driving me crazy.
the funny thing is that, i'm pretty sure the reason that my truck is smoking is because it is retarded, literally
What kind of truck?
--Nigel, fapping.
'93 F250 Super Cab Long Box 7.3L IDI Diesel 5 speed manual. Its seriously like 20 feet long.
I advanced the timing a bunch and now it only smokes like a diesel is supposed to.
Niiice! I have a bit of a Ford truck fetish but it's generally localized to fifth and sixth generation.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 27, 2014, 04:52:25 PM
Quote from: The Suu on August 27, 2014, 04:14:53 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on August 27, 2014, 02:25:12 PM
My old home tops the list of safest places to drive...Boston bottoms:
http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf (http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf)
Portland comes in the lower quarter (177 out of 200). I have contributed to that.
This isn't news for anyone who lives in New England. I take my life into my own hands every time I get behind the wheel.
That's because You People are all CRAZY. I have been there twice, and I wouldn't trust ANY of you bastards with anything more than one of those Shriner cars.
You're just not SERIOUS about having a good time.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 27, 2014, 05:07:15 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 27, 2014, 04:52:25 PM
Quote from: The Suu on August 27, 2014, 04:14:53 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on August 27, 2014, 02:25:12 PM
My old home tops the list of safest places to drive...Boston bottoms:
http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf (http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf)
Portland comes in the lower quarter (177 out of 200). I have contributed to that.
This isn't news for anyone who lives in New England. I take my life into my own hands every time I get behind the wheel.
That's because You People are all CRAZY. I have been there twice, and I wouldn't trust ANY of you bastards with anything more than one of those Shriner cars.
You're just not SERIOUS about having a good time.
I almost got run over at the train station. Not in the street by the train station. I was at the train station, safely on the sidewalk (ha HAha hahahahaHAHAHAHA), and damn near got squished.
That's just Boston's way of saying "hello".
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 27, 2014, 05:12:52 PM
That's just Boston's way of saying "hello".
Tucson does the same thing, but it (usually) waits until you're in traffic. There are
rules.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on August 27, 2014, 02:25:12 PM
My old home tops the list of safest places to drive...Boston bottoms:
http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf (http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf)
Portland comes in the lower quarter (177 out of 200). I have contributed to that.
Worcester, MA at the very bottom. I FUCKING KNEW IT.
Massachusetts is the only place where I've experienced bad driving that could reasonably be described as "evil." Mostly in Worcester.
To be fair, the main reason Worcester is on the bottom can be immediatly attributed to Kelley Square.
It's even got a damn Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kelley-Square-Worcester-Massachusetts/191022054261181
Had a dream last night about browsing this thread. You were all arguing about something and the word "edgy" was thrown around a lot. I was in the middle of writing a very long post about the proper use of the word edgy and then I woke up. In other news: Semi-regular internet again. Just in time too. Was having an allergic reaction to the IRLS, broke out in a real nasty rash. Seems to be clearing up though.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 27, 2014, 04:58:25 PM
Quote from: rong on August 27, 2014, 02:28:13 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 25, 2014, 08:30:03 AM
Quote from: rong on August 24, 2014, 10:47:40 PM
I bought a truck.
A diesel that smokes like a... uh... It smokes a lot.
I think I figured out why but I'm stuck at work and can't work on it and it's driving me crazy.
the funny thing is that, i'm pretty sure the reason that my truck is smoking is because it is retarded, literally
What kind of truck?
--Nigel, fapping.
'93 F250 Super Cab Long Box 7.3L IDI Diesel 5 speed manual. Its seriously like 20 feet long.
I advanced the timing a bunch and now it only smokes like a diesel is supposed to.
Niiice! I have a bit of a Ford truck fetish but it's generally localized to fifth and sixth generation.
This is my first Ford, first Diesel and first manual transmission (other than bikes)
What I get a kick out of is the '93 is the last year they ran this engine and, I think the last year for this body style.
My '07 KLR650 is the last year for that style.
They will both run the same motor oil.
So, I think it belongs in the fleet.
Quote from: rong on August 27, 2014, 06:15:08 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 27, 2014, 04:58:25 PM
Quote from: rong on August 27, 2014, 02:28:13 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 25, 2014, 08:30:03 AM
Quote from: rong on August 24, 2014, 10:47:40 PM
I bought a truck.
A diesel that smokes like a... uh... It smokes a lot.
I think I figured out why but I'm stuck at work and can't work on it and it's driving me crazy.
the funny thing is that, i'm pretty sure the reason that my truck is smoking is because it is retarded, literally
What kind of truck?
--Nigel, fapping.
'93 F250 Super Cab Long Box 7.3L IDI Diesel 5 speed manual. Its seriously like 20 feet long.
I advanced the timing a bunch and now it only smokes like a diesel is supposed to.
Niiice! I have a bit of a Ford truck fetish but it's generally localized to fifth and sixth generation.
This is my first Ford, first Diesel and first manual transmission (other than bikes)
What I get a kick out of is the '93 is the last year they ran this engine and, I think the last year for this body style.
My '07 KLR650 is the last year for that style.
They will both run the same motor oil.
So, I think it belongs in the fleet.
I have an 86 f-150 Lariat. It's beat up, but I love it and you can't beat the parts availability of a Ford truck.
Congrats on the new truck!
Thanks.
I am finding out it's so old the local diesel shop doesn't want to touch it. Not enough computer for them to hook any diagnostics to.
Now to shop for a plow. . .
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on August 27, 2014, 06:02:56 PM
Had a dream last night about browsing this thread. You were all arguing about something and the word "edgy" was thrown around a lot. I was in the middle of writing a very long post about the proper use of the word edgy and then I woke up. In other news: Semi-regular internet again. Just in time too. Was having an allergic reaction to the IRLS, broke out in a real nasty rash. Seems to be clearing up though.
Now I want to know what your dream-post about proper use of the word "edgy" would have said.
Post on Discordian Selfies just got deleted:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/488268817942582/497208173715313/?comment_id=497473107022153¬if_t=like (https://www.facebook.com/groups/488268817942582/497208173715313/?comment_id=497473107022153¬if_t=like)
(at least I can't see it anymore)
This one guy (forgot the name, whoops) said he was messing with a Filipina girl who was "hilariously gullible" like she totally believed a raccoon was a type of cat after seeing a picture of one! Also she "talked in hilariously broken English" and probably wanted to marry a rich foreigner to emigrate!! !!!!
I called him a cunt, and asked him whether an "ulupong" was a frog, a lizard or a snake.
edit:(ugh, can't find his name... Apparently when pussies delete FB posts, they disappear from your activity log as well.)
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 27, 2014, 05:41:44 PM
To be fair, the main reason Worcester is on the bottom can be immediatly attributed to Kelley Square.
It's even got a damn Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kelley-Square-Worcester-Massachusetts/191022054261181
Richter and Leln can tell you all about Kelley Square. And their dad full on believes that the city actually changes regularly on its own. Roads move and shit overnight just to fuck with its citizens more.
Sounds legit. I swear Ralph's keeps changing it's location.
I'm a fan of how DC sort of breaks up the list of New England fail on the list:
Providence
Springfield
Washington
Boston
Worcester
4 out of 5 of the absolute bottom. That's impressive, everyone. Good job. Keep not using your blinkers, we have a reputation to uphold.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 27, 2014, 06:52:29 PM
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on August 27, 2014, 06:02:56 PM
Had a dream last night about browsing this thread. You were all arguing about something and the word "edgy" was thrown around a lot. I was in the middle of writing a very long post about the proper use of the word edgy and then I woke up. In other news: Semi-regular internet again. Just in time too. Was having an allergic reaction to the IRLS, broke out in a real nasty rash. Seems to be clearing up though.
Now I want to know what your dream-post about proper use of the word "edgy" would have said.
It was about three pages long, but the main points I hit on were that something being edgy or not shouldnt influence your opinions on things. That no viewpoint is inherently edgy, anything can be stated in an edgy fashion. Also it used the word motherfucker a lot. I dont remember it that well, I kept getting interrupted by these giant spiders at the grocery store.
And then that motherfucker calls me and I sic my Microsoft goons on them.
Another goddamn pregnant friend. :crankey:
Okay, not only did the fucker want my passwords, he threatened my daughter. That's after he called me a motherfucker for messing with his head because he impersonated working for a friend of mines company. Right, unlawful call center is right up their stinkin' chicken tamari asses. You know, it's when "enough" is just not gonna to cut it. Fucking cockroaches. [LuciferX venting at how people think they can color him red]
Quote from: LuciferX on August 28, 2014, 03:28:08 AM
Okay, not only did the fucker want my passwords, he threatened my daughter. That's after he called me a motherfucker for messing with his head because he impersonated working for a friend of mines company. Right, unlawful call center is right up their stinkin' chicken tamari asses. You know, it's when "enough" is just not gonna to cut it. Fucking cockroaches. [LuciferX venting at how people think they can color him red]
Ummm....
Quote from: The Suu on August 28, 2014, 03:35:39 AM
Quote from: LuciferX on August 28, 2014, 03:28:08 AM
Okay, not only did the fucker want my passwords, he threatened my daughter. That's after he called me a motherfucker for messing with his head because he impersonated working for a friend of mines company. Right, unlawful call center is right up their stinkin' chicken tamari asses. You know, it's when "enough" is just not gonna to cut it. Fucking cockroaches. [LuciferX venting at how people think they can color him red]
Ummm....
Yea, because I am not an orifice of the law, I have to wait till 6am to feed them to the fishes :horrormirth:
Gay conservative date stood me up.
This is all according to GAWD'S plan.
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on August 27, 2014, 09:36:46 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 27, 2014, 06:52:29 PM
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on August 27, 2014, 06:02:56 PM
Had a dream last night about browsing this thread. You were all arguing about something and the word "edgy" was thrown around a lot. I was in the middle of writing a very long post about the proper use of the word edgy and then I woke up. In other news: Semi-regular internet again. Just in time too. Was having an allergic reaction to the IRLS, broke out in a real nasty rash. Seems to be clearing up though.
Now I want to know what your dream-post about proper use of the word "edgy" would have said.
It was about three pages long, but the main points I hit on were that something being edgy or not shouldnt influence your opinions on things. That no viewpoint is inherently edgy, anything can be stated in an edgy fashion. Also it used the word motherfucker a lot. I dont remember it that well, I kept getting interrupted by these giant spiders at the grocery store.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: Slyph on August 27, 2014, 07:04:57 PM
Post on Discordian Selfies just got deleted:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/488268817942582/497208173715313/?comment_id=497473107022153¬if_t=like (https://www.facebook.com/groups/488268817942582/497208173715313/?comment_id=497473107022153¬if_t=like)
(at least I can't see it anymore)
This one guy (forgot the name, whoops) said he was messing with a Filipina girl who was "hilariously gullible" like she totally believed a raccoon was a type of cat after seeing a picture of one! Also she "talked in hilariously broken English" and probably wanted to marry a rich foreigner to emigrate!! !!!!
I called him a cunt, and asked him whether an "ulupong" was a frog, a lizard or a snake.
Huh, I missed that one entirely. Generally the people on DS are pretty nice folks.
Yeah, I saw that post too. I think I blocked them.
So, played a show last night with a new band, Whirlpools. Also on the bill was a guy playing under the name "ACLU Benefit". As it turns out, the ACLU actually sent him a cease and desist letter.
So, he wrote to the ACLU asking for help defending his case.
He's kind of my new short-term personal savior right now.
That is magnificent.
ACLU kinda deserved to be fucked with, given how they've been acting lately.
I'm thinking I need to take a picture of me at the bus stop next Tuesday. I'm feeling a little left out here with Timmy's first day at 2nd grade pictures all over the Facebook.
"Suu's first day of her Master's Degree!"
And I will stand there, with my backpack on, wearing something cute, and staring all pouty at the ground.
I just read a fascinating article about academic urban legends (courtesy SlateStar Codex), which involved a myth about spinach and iron, and that its mythlogy is itself a myth.
It has to be one of the more entertaining articles regarding citations that I've ever read.
http://sss.sagepub.com/content/44/4/638.long
Oh Jesus Fuck, it's finally happened.
After 12 years, I'm officially a Rhode Islander: Somebody I know made the news.
Maybe I shouldn't move back. Maybe we'll just deal with Connecticut after all.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 28, 2014, 01:18:58 PM
So, played a show last night with a new band, Whirlpools. Also on the bill was a guy playing under the name "ACLU Benefit". As it turns out, the ACLU actually sent him a cease and desist letter.
So, he wrote to the ACLU asking for help defending his case.
He's kind of my new short-term personal savior right now.
:lulz:
Quote from: Cain on August 28, 2014, 01:24:53 PM
ACLU kinda deserved to be fucked with, given how they've been acting lately.
I probably missed something, but I seem to remember the ACLU as always being a bit iffy, to put it kindly.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 28, 2014, 01:18:58 PM
So, played a show last night with a new band, Whirlpools. Also on the bill was a guy playing under the name "ACLU Benefit". As it turns out, the ACLU actually sent him a cease and desist letter.
So, he wrote to the ACLU asking for help defending his case.
He's kind of my new short-term personal savior right now.
:lulz: That's amazing.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 28, 2014, 12:10:04 PM
Yeah, I saw that post too. I think I blocked them.
I'm seriously mostly on there for more shirtless pics of Randall Teach.
That guy is seriously insanely hot.
Also, Wolf Weather. Holy shit.
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 28, 2014, 02:30:30 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 28, 2014, 01:24:53 PM
ACLU kinda deserved to be fucked with, given how they've been acting lately.
I probably missed something, but I seem to remember the ACLU as always being a bit iffy, to put it kindly.
That's how people are conditioned to think here, anyway.
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 28, 2014, 02:30:30 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 28, 2014, 01:24:53 PM
ACLU kinda deserved to be fucked with, given how they've been acting lately.
I probably missed something, but I seem to remember the ACLU as always being a bit iffy, to put it kindly.
If they're not pissing somebody off, they're not doing their job. I'm not aware of them doing anything overtly contrary to their mission recently. But I probably missed something.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on August 28, 2014, 03:44:41 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on August 28, 2014, 02:30:30 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 28, 2014, 01:24:53 PM
ACLU kinda deserved to be fucked with, given how they've been acting lately.
I probably missed something, but I seem to remember the ACLU as always being a bit iffy, to put it kindly.
If they're not pissing somebody off, they're not doing their job. I'm not aware of them doing anything overtly contrary to their mission recently. But I probably missed something.
People in the organisation (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wendy-kaminer/how-the-aclu-lost-its-bea_b_24857.html) have been saying it has lost its way for a while now.
QuoteRecently, the ACLU board again considered censoring its members, weighing new rules that would prohibit them from publicly criticizing the ACLU. This startling proposal was the culmination of a bitter internal battle over the organization's integrity and fidelity to principle that has spilled out into the press. According to ACLU leaders, some board members were abusing their right to speak.
Which is kinda funny, but the rest of it is significantly less so:
QuoteBut this embarrassing episode is part of a pattern. In the last two years, under the leadership of Executive Director Anthony Romero and President Nadine Strossen, the ACLU has repeatedly been caught practicing the opposite of what it preaches.
In July 2004, the board learned that Romero had quietly agreed to screen the organization's employees against terrorist "watch lists" -- the same lists the ACLU has condemned -- in order to qualify as an officially approved charity for federal employees. Strossen characterized Romero's action as "clever," but it was quickly rescinded when it was reported by the New York Times.
This report was followed by Romero's admission that early in his tenure at the ACLU, he had privately advised the Ford Foundation to "parrot" the Patriot Act in formulating controversial new restrictions on the speech of its grantees -- restrictions Romero then quietly accepted on the ACLU's behalf as well. (Strossen supported Romero's action, which was initially approved by the board but subsequently narrowly rejected.)
More recently, Romero was caught trying to impose a very broad confidentiality agreement and technology rules on ACLU employees, similar to workplace rules that the ACLU officially opposes. Like the proposal governing board members' rights to speak, the agreements nearly imposed on the staff (but withdrawn after they became public,) included a virtual gag rule; they also would have required the staff to acknowledge that all their communications on ACLU systems were subject to surveillance. Strossen defended these proposals, bizarrely noting her "presumption" that they "facilitate the ACLU's commitment to both privacy and free speech."
In other bullshit cease and desist news: Apparently a handful of Bostonian yuppies who decided to move out to the "country" (Fact: Portsmouth is NOT the country) are complaining about all the gosh darn "noise" downtown because Portsmouth is actually a city with festivals and movies in the park and such. So the arts festival actually listened to them and cancelled the movie double feature for tonight. They're even complaining about a musical being put on every night in the park downtown. THE SAME PEOPLE ARE CALLING EVERY FUCKING NIGHT to the point the cops are pissed. Because nothing is actually happening that is breaking the law, and all events end before 11pm. The locals are now in a total uproar and have started a counteroffensive called Keep Portsmouth Loud and selling obnoxious hot green and pink T-shirts with that saying on it. I need to give them my money, because I was looking forward to hitting a movie in the park night once the husband's training is over.
Seriously, you move to a seaside tourist destination city to get away from the big city in hopes of quiet? Morons.
Hey Portland, can we borrow your unicycle Darth Vader with the bag pipes?
Quote from: The Suu on August 28, 2014, 03:51:25 PM
Seriously, you move to a seaside tourist destination city to get away from the big city in hopes of quiet? Morons.
Hey Portland, can we borrow your unicycle Darth Vader with the bag pipes?
Most definitely. You can even have a marching band or two. We've got plenty to spare.
I hate that shit so much. Back home, college town, the neighborhoods surrounding the school are always filled with people raising hell about the students. Move into an area that's like 80% kids between the ages of 18-24 and then complain because of loud keggers. Fort Collins is a fairly spread out city. People move to the campus areas to be close to all the restaurants, bars, and such, and then bitch to high heaven that all those things don't close at 7.
Quote from: The Suu on August 28, 2014, 03:51:25 PM
In other bullshit cease and desist news: Apparently a handful of Bostonian yuppies who decided to move out to the "country" (Fact: Portsmouth is NOT the country) are complaining about all the gosh darn "noise" downtown because Portsmouth is actually a city with festivals and movies in the park and such. So the arts festival actually listened to them and cancelled the movie double feature for tonight. They're even complaining about a musical being put on every night in the park downtown. THE SAME PEOPLE ARE CALLING EVERY FUCKING NIGHT to the point the cops are pissed. Because nothing is actually happening that is breaking the law, and all events end before 11pm. The locals are now in a total uproar and have started a counteroffensive called Keep Portsmouth Loud and selling obnoxious hot green and pink T-shirts with that saying on it. I need to give them my money, because I was looking forward to hitting a movie in the park night once the husband's training is over.
Seriously, you move to a seaside tourist destination city to get away from the big city in hopes of quiet? Morons.
Hey Portland, can we borrow your unicycle Darth Vader with the bag pipes?
Yea, like a week ago or so, I'd seen the posts that they were throwing the Movie in the Park event and thought it was awesome. This week people are already complaining about it. What a crock of shit. An art-based tourist center and they're going to complain about the arts and tourists. People who always need to be complaining, especially to ruin a good time for everyone else, really are near the top of my list of People I Hate Most. And like my friends in the area said, they're probably the same people up at the crack of dawn mowing their fucking lawns while everyone else is trying to sleep.
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on August 28, 2014, 04:08:55 PM
Quote from: The Suu on August 28, 2014, 03:51:25 PM
In other bullshit cease and desist news: Apparently a handful of Bostonian yuppies who decided to move out to the "country" (Fact: Portsmouth is NOT the country) are complaining about all the gosh darn "noise" downtown because Portsmouth is actually a city with festivals and movies in the park and such. So the arts festival actually listened to them and cancelled the movie double feature for tonight. They're even complaining about a musical being put on every night in the park downtown. THE SAME PEOPLE ARE CALLING EVERY FUCKING NIGHT to the point the cops are pissed. Because nothing is actually happening that is breaking the law, and all events end before 11pm. The locals are now in a total uproar and have started a counteroffensive called Keep Portsmouth Loud and selling obnoxious hot green and pink T-shirts with that saying on it. I need to give them my money, because I was looking forward to hitting a movie in the park night once the husband's training is over.
Seriously, you move to a seaside tourist destination city to get away from the big city in hopes of quiet? Morons.
Hey Portland, can we borrow your unicycle Darth Vader with the bag pipes?
Yea, like a week ago or so, I'd seen the posts that they were throwing the Movie in the Park event and thought it was awesome. This week people are already complaining about it. What a crock of shit. An art-based tourist center and they're going to complain about the arts and tourists. People who always need to be complaining, especially to ruin a good time for everyone else, really are near the top of my list of People I Hate Most. And like my friends in the area said, they're probably the same people up at the crack of dawn mowing their fucking lawns while everyone else is trying to sleep.
It's the same 4 people. Over and over again. I have no idea why the festival is listening to them, because the cops already told them that they need to suck it up. Something tells me that these are also the same people who hate the idea of Portsmouth being a *gasp* working port where tankers come in and ship things, and that the Naval Shipyard is an eyesore. :roll:
This is what happens when your rich Bostonian parents leave you a fucking trust fund, you go to Harvard, you never work a day in your life and you decide to be "hip" by buying an old Victorian for millions in downtown Portsmouth so you don't have to pay Massachusetts taxes on your independent wealth while getting socked for New Hampshire property tax. However, since you never worked a day in your sheltered life, you don't understand that other places don't just thrive on being a pretty tourist destination. If the port and shipyard were to close to meet every rich shitfuck's expectation of their New Hampshire tax dodging paradise, Portsmouth would die. Not to mention, the shipyard is in Maine. What are they going to do? Write letters to another fucking state? PEOPLE ACTUALLY FUCKING WORK FOR A LIVING IN THIS AREA, AND IT'S NOT JUST AT KITSCHY STORES AND RESTAURANTS, GODDAMNIT.
In PTown, a couple bought a house overlooking the beach, just off Commercial St, then complained to the local council about the noise.
Keep in mind that Commercial St is the ONLY strip in town, filled with bars, clubs, Restaraunts, and more UNTZ UNTZ than you can handle sober.
They were laughed out of the room.
Also, today must be link day, because this is awesome:
Unexpectedly nude photography. SFW.
http://jezebel.com/these-are-the-strangest-nude-photos-youve-ever-seen-1627338799
This is so wonderful.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 28, 2014, 04:52:46 PM
Also, today must be link day, because this is awesome:
Unexpectedly nude photography. SFW.
http://jezebel.com/these-are-the-strangest-nude-photos-youve-ever-seen-1627338799
This is so wonderful.
Cool idea!
20 textbooks between 3 classes. No Kindle editions available. :kingmeh:
Quote from: The Suu on August 28, 2014, 04:28:18 PM
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on August 28, 2014, 04:08:55 PM
Quote from: The Suu on August 28, 2014, 03:51:25 PM
In other bullshit cease and desist news: Apparently a handful of Bostonian yuppies who decided to move out to the "country" (Fact: Portsmouth is NOT the country) are complaining about all the gosh darn "noise" downtown because Portsmouth is actually a city with festivals and movies in the park and such. So the arts festival actually listened to them and cancelled the movie double feature for tonight. They're even complaining about a musical being put on every night in the park downtown. THE SAME PEOPLE ARE CALLING EVERY FUCKING NIGHT to the point the cops are pissed. Because nothing is actually happening that is breaking the law, and all events end before 11pm. The locals are now in a total uproar and have started a counteroffensive called Keep Portsmouth Loud and selling obnoxious hot green and pink T-shirts with that saying on it. I need to give them my money, because I was looking forward to hitting a movie in the park night once the husband's training is over.
Seriously, you move to a seaside tourist destination city to get away from the big city in hopes of quiet? Morons.
Hey Portland, can we borrow your unicycle Darth Vader with the bag pipes?
Yea, like a week ago or so, I'd seen the posts that they were throwing the Movie in the Park event and thought it was awesome. This week people are already complaining about it. What a crock of shit. An art-based tourist center and they're going to complain about the arts and tourists. People who always need to be complaining, especially to ruin a good time for everyone else, really are near the top of my list of People I Hate Most. And like my friends in the area said, they're probably the same people up at the crack of dawn mowing their fucking lawns while everyone else is trying to sleep.
It's the same 4 people. Over and over again. I have no idea why the festival is listening to them, because the cops already told them that they need to suck it up. Something tells me that these are also the same people who hate the idea of Portsmouth being a *gasp* working port where tankers come in and ship things, and that the Naval Shipyard is an eyesore. :roll:
This is what happens when your rich Bostonian parents leave you a fucking trust fund, you go to Harvard, you never work a day in your life and you decide to be "hip" by buying an old Victorian for millions in downtown Portsmouth so you don't have to pay Massachusetts taxes on your independent wealth while getting socked for New Hampshire property tax. However, since you never worked a day in your sheltered life, you don't understand that other places don't just thrive on being a pretty tourist destination. If the port and shipyard were to close to meet every rich shitfuck's expectation of their New Hampshire tax dodging paradise, Portsmouth would die. Not to mention, the shipyard is in Maine. What are they going to do? Write letters to another fucking state? PEOPLE ACTUALLY FUCKING WORK FOR A LIVING IN THIS AREA, AND IT'S NOT JUST AT KITSCHY STORES AND RESTAURANTS, GODDAMNIT.
The problem is how those kids are probably being incubated for later political use. They are just practicing antics that later will be repeated on a larger scale. Someone needs to send them "The political economy of noise".
I've been spending a lot of time in that glass hallway I mentioned, these days. Gotta get my grind on, material science is vastly more fun than people tend to be (with a few notable exceptions, such as my wife). I am also working on purging myself of some personality defects of which I have recently become aware.
The above reasons are why I am not posting so much, outside of the Waffle/Roger thread.
I'm not posting simply because I ripped out my thumbnail by mistake, and typing makes me wince.
This is great, since one of my jobs involves a contracted 10 hours a week of typing.
Quote from: Cain on August 29, 2014, 07:53:32 PM
I'm not posting simply because I ripped out my thumbnail by mistake, and typing makes me wince.
This is great, since one of my jobs involves a contracted 10 hours a week of typing.
Ouch, shit. I did that once. Left index finger. Tore that bugger right off.
Mine's not all off..but half of the left hand side of my right thumb is. Unfortunately, when I type I instictively use that thumb for the spacebar and...well, yeah. I've wiped more blood off my laptop than I'm strictly comfortable with, at this stage.
Quote from: Cain on August 29, 2014, 08:20:33 PM
Mine's not all off..but half of the left hand side of my right thumb is. Unfortunately, when I type I instictively use that thumb for the spacebar and...well, yeah. I've wiped more blood off my laptop than I'm strictly comfortable with, at this stage.
Wrap it in gauze, under a smear of bactine, to keep the gauze from sticking.
Quote from: Cain on August 29, 2014, 07:53:32 PM
I'm not posting simply because I ripped out my thumbnail by mistake, and typing makes me wince.
This is great, since one of my jobs involves a contracted 10 hours a week of typing.
Jesus. :horrormirth:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 29, 2014, 08:24:38 PM
Wrap it in gauze, under a smear of bactine, to keep the gauze from sticking.
Thanks. Unfortunately, no gauze at all. I ran it under a cold tap for a bit and left it alone overnight, which seems to have done the trick. Still hurts like hell whenever I hit the spacebar, though.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 30, 2014, 02:10:28 AM
Jesus. :horrormirth:
I have a real talent for ripping my thumbnails off. As you may or may not recall, I did something similar about 4 months back.
....And I've just stabbed my other thumb with a name label pin. I'm pretty sure I hit the bone.
What's got two thumbs and goes "argh" when trying to do the "who's got two thumbs and somethingorother" gag-
Argh!
Just a few more weeks.
My ex told me he is going around telling people that the other night, when I went to the kitchen for some ice and he was standing in there naked, I looked at him like he was going to rape me. And how insensitive that makes me.
I have no idea what night this was supppsed to be. When he told me this is what he was telling others it led to a very stupid discussion wherein I said I didn't think he'd do that and he replied by asking me what was wrong with him disrespecting my boundaries if I wasn't worried about rape.
I told him he was seriously fucked up and needed therapy. Then he asked if we were still friends. I left.
Later, I asked my roommate about the convo since he said he told her. She says that convo never happened.
So he is making stuff up to talk to me about rape.
Good to know.
Sorry about your thumbs, Cain. That sounds shitty.
Quote from: Cain on August 30, 2014, 06:16:51 PM
....And I've just stabbed my other thumb with a name label pin. I'm pretty sure I hit the bone.
What's got two thumbs and goes "argh" when trying to do the "who's got two thumbs and somethingorother" gag-
Argh!
Dude! What's the deal with you and your thumbs?
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on August 30, 2014, 07:18:59 PM
Just a few more weeks.
My ex told me he is going around telling people that the other night, when I went to the kitchen for some ice and he was standing in there naked, I looked at him like he was going to rape me. And how insensitive that makes me.
I have no idea what night this was supppsed to be. When he told me this is what he was telling others it led to a very stupid discussion wherein I said I didn't think he'd do that and he replied by asking me what was wrong with him disrespecting my boundaries if I wasn't worried about rape.
I told him he was seriously fucked up and needed therapy. Then he asked if we were still friends. I left.
Later, I asked my roommate about the convo since he said he told her. She says that convo never happened.
So he is making stuff up to talk to me about rape.
Good to know.
Your ex is a psycho asshole.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 30, 2014, 09:56:49 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 30, 2014, 06:16:51 PM
....And I've just stabbed my other thumb with a name label pin. I'm pretty sure I hit the bone.
What's got two thumbs and goes "argh" when trying to do the "who's got two thumbs and somethingorother" gag-
Argh!
Dude! What's the deal with you and your thumbs?
They're the source of all our ills. Once they became opposable, everything went to shit.
Quote from: Cain on August 30, 2014, 10:17:36 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 30, 2014, 09:56:49 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 30, 2014, 06:16:51 PM
....And I've just stabbed my other thumb with a name label pin. I'm pretty sure I hit the bone.
What's got two thumbs and goes "argh" when trying to do the "who's got two thumbs and somethingorother" gag-
Argh!
Dude! What's the deal with you and your thumbs?
They're the source of all our ills. Once they became opposable, everything went to shit.
:lulz:
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 30, 2014, 09:57:50 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on August 30, 2014, 07:18:59 PM
Just a few more weeks.
My ex told me he is going around telling people that the other night, when I went to the kitchen for some ice and he was standing in there naked, I looked at him like he was going to rape me. And how insensitive that makes me.
I have no idea what night this was supppsed to be. When he told me this is what he was telling others it led to a very stupid discussion wherein I said I didn't think he'd do that and he replied by asking me what was wrong with him disrespecting my boundaries if I wasn't worried about rape.
I told him he was seriously fucked up and needed therapy. Then he asked if we were still friends. I left.
Later, I asked my roommate about the convo since he said he told her. She says that convo never happened.
So he is making stuff up to talk to me about rape.
Good to know.
Your ex is a psycho asshole.
:eek: see heres where i'd stock up on pepper spray and tazers. And knives, lots of knives.
As of Yesterday i am now a YMCA afterschool Program Leader! Hopefully between this and my tutoring job I can start saving to move out of my family's place.
Congrats, man. :)
Quote from: Cain on August 30, 2014, 10:17:36 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on August 30, 2014, 09:56:49 PM
Quote from: Cain on August 30, 2014, 06:16:51 PM
....And I've just stabbed my other thumb with a name label pin. I'm pretty sure I hit the bone.
What's got two thumbs and goes "argh" when trying to do the "who's got two thumbs and somethingorother" gag-
Argh!
Dude! What's the deal with you and your thumbs?
They're the source of all our ills. Once they became opposable, everything went to shit.
Arg, I supposed well, now that they're opposable, at least I stand an Abel chance at not being just opposed :lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 27, 2014, 05:08:52 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 27, 2014, 05:07:15 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 27, 2014, 04:52:25 PM
Quote from: The Suu on August 27, 2014, 04:14:53 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on August 27, 2014, 02:25:12 PM
My old home tops the list of safest places to drive...Boston bottoms:
http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf (http://www.allstate.com/resources/Allstate/attachments/tools-and-resources/ABD-Report-2014.pdf)
Portland comes in the lower quarter (177 out of 200). I have contributed to that.
This isn't news for anyone who lives in New England. I take my life into my own hands every time I get behind the wheel.
That's because You People are all CRAZY. I have been there twice, and I wouldn't trust ANY of you bastards with anything more than one of those Shriner cars.
You're just not SERIOUS about having a good time.
I almost got run over at the train station. Not in the street by the train station. I was at the train station, safely on the sidewalk (ha HAha hahahahaHAHAHAHA), and damn near got squished.
Welcome to Texas!
Well, I am now a great uncle, as my niece delivered something this morning. I find this to be very inconsiderate, as I remember my great uncles as being fantastically old men who would have been about...um...45 when I was born.
It's still bullshit.
Anyway, say hello to Ailie Victoria, who seems less than amused by the whole turn of events.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/7376_778480388870286_4783351920639609594_n.jpg?oh=80c6bb5680af03999b6ffe079abf478a&oe=54786728&__gda__=1415508675_c8a5e6a7a602fc9fd9ec257709c2be81)
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 01, 2014, 05:06:35 AM
Well, I am now a great uncle, as my niece delivered something this morning. I find this to be very inconsiderate, as I remember my great uncles as being fantastically old men who would have been about...um...45 when I was born.
It's still bullshit.
Anyway, say hello to Ailie Victoria, who seems less than amused by the whole turn of events.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/7376_778480388870286_4783351920639609594_n.jpg?oh=80c6bb5680af03999b6ffe079abf478a&oe=54786728&__gda__=1415508675_c8a5e6a7a602fc9fd9ec257709c2be81)
Wow, congrats! She's already mastered the "Yeah, so what?" expression. :P
That baby looks nothing like Churchill. I'd get your niece to demand her money back.
Bleh. Had to do some emergency last-minute edits and additions to my Parliamentary submission. Literally just sent them a moment ago...hopefully, not too late for the deadline. If not, the previous draft should suffice...apparently, they wanted citations. Parliament wants evidence? Who knew?
Anyway, it's done.
Quote from: Cain on September 01, 2014, 11:16:44 AM
That baby looks nothing like Churchill. I'd get your niece to demand her money back.
I think the baby and I are in agreement that the whole thing was a bad idea.
Also, Churchill is stage 2. For about a week and a half, they resemble lizards of some sort. THEN Churchill.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 01, 2014, 06:16:11 AM
Wow, congrats! She's already mastered the "Yeah, so what?" expression. :P
I think that's the "I'm cold out here, must formulate plan to get back to base" look.
And thanks.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on August 22, 2014, 10:35:40 PM
Grills are really finicky. Is there a problem with the oven?
Yes, there wasn't one. It came out okay in the end and was delicious.
Quote from: Alty on August 28, 2014, 05:00:31 AM
Gay conservative date stood me up.
This is all according to GAWD'S plan.
Lame. :(
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on August 30, 2014, 07:18:59 PM
Just a few more weeks.
My ex told me he is going around telling people that the other night, when I went to the kitchen for some ice and he was standing in there naked, I looked at him like he was going to rape me. And how insensitive that makes me.
I have no idea what night this was supppsed to be. When he told me this is what he was telling others it led to a very stupid discussion wherein I said I didn't think he'd do that and he replied by asking me what was wrong with him disrespecting my boundaries if I wasn't worried about rape.
I told him he was seriously fucked up and needed therapy. Then he asked if we were still friends. I left.
Later, I asked my roommate about the convo since he said he told her. She says that convo never happened.
So he is making stuff up to talk to me about rape.
Good to know.
What the shit? :eek:
I am looking for a new laptop for school. There are too many options, and I can't even anymore.
Some suggestions would be appreciated. I need Microsoft Office to run on it, it needs to be hard-wearing, and multiple CPU eating tasks have to run on it at the same time without it going HRRGRK.
I got this alert this weekend:
" On August 29, 2014 at approximately 5:00 pm, a female UNH student reported that at 1:45 am on Garrison Avenue in the area Strafford Avenue and Madbury Road, 3 white males described as ?military looking? pulled up to her in a tan 4 door sedan with South Carolina plates, 2 of the males got out of the vehicle and tried talking the female student into going with them. The males took the female student by the arm and tried moving her to the vehicle. The males opened the trunk of the vehicle trying to get the female into the trunk. Some male friends of the female student came along and the male suspects got back in the vehicle and left area. The female student was not injured. "
Gonna be a hell of a fucking semester.
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on September 01, 2014, 10:39:35 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on August 30, 2014, 07:18:59 PM
Just a few more weeks.
My ex told me he is going around telling people that the other night, when I went to the kitchen for some ice and he was standing in there naked, I looked at him like he was going to rape me. And how insensitive that makes me.
I have no idea what night this was supppsed to be. When he told me this is what he was telling others it led to a very stupid discussion wherein I said I didn't think he'd do that and he replied by asking me what was wrong with him disrespecting my boundaries if I wasn't worried about rape.
I told him he was seriously fucked up and needed therapy. Then he asked if we were still friends. I left.
Later, I asked my roommate about the convo since he said he told her. She says that convo never happened.
So he is making stuff up to talk to me about rape.
Good to know.
What the shit? :eek:
The fun never stops! He's going to Texas for two weeks, in theory to talk to a chronic illness advocate he knows from the intarnets. Which makes no sense since they talk online. I think something else is up but I don't care, he'll be gone.
So enjoy with that, you Texas PD-ers. Hide yo kids, hide yo wife.
Quote from: The Suu on September 02, 2014, 01:54:44 AM
I got this alert this weekend:
" On August 29, 2014 at approximately 5:00 pm, a female UNH student reported that at 1:45 am on Garrison Avenue in the area Strafford Avenue and Madbury Road, 3 white males described as ?military looking? pulled up to her in a tan 4 door sedan with South Carolina plates, 2 of the males got out of the vehicle and tried talking the female student into going with them. The males took the female student by the arm and tried moving her to the vehicle. The males opened the trunk of the vehicle trying to get the female into the trunk. Some male friends of the female student came along and the male suspects got back in the vehicle and left area. The female student was not injured. "
Gonna be a hell of a fucking semester.
That's less of an alert and more "Attempted kidnapping". I'm guessing fuck all gets done until someone shows up dead.
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on September 01, 2014, 10:43:57 PM
I am looking for a new laptop for school. There are too many options, and I can't even anymore.
Some suggestions would be appreciated. I need Microsoft Office to run on it, it needs to be hard-wearing, and multiple CPU eating tasks have to run on it at the same time without it going HRRGRK.
Anything by Samsung or Toshiba. Ideally you want 4 gig of RAM, at least an intel core i5 processor and, if your preferences run that way, Windows 7 as opposed to Windows 8.
You should be able to score a fairly cheap laptop with those specs, which will work exceptionally well as an all purpose web browser and word processing laptop.
Mine is similar to that (slightly more RAM, two rather than one integrated graphics card, Samsung, Windows 7) and I can run Windows Media Player, have 20 tabs open on Firefox, have Word open, have uTorrent open, have Microsoft Security, Steam and Origin running in the background, and have no discernible notice on the laptop itself.
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 02, 2014, 08:09:04 AM
Quote from: The Suu on September 02, 2014, 01:54:44 AM
I got this alert this weekend:
" On August 29, 2014 at approximately 5:00 pm, a female UNH student reported that at 1:45 am on Garrison Avenue in the area Strafford Avenue and Madbury Road, 3 white males described as ?military looking? pulled up to her in a tan 4 door sedan with South Carolina plates, 2 of the males got out of the vehicle and tried talking the female student into going with them. The males took the female student by the arm and tried moving her to the vehicle. The males opened the trunk of the vehicle trying to get the female into the trunk. Some male friends of the female student came along and the male suspects got back in the vehicle and left area. The female student was not injured. "
Gonna be a hell of a fucking semester.
That's less of an alert and more "Attempted kidnapping". I'm guessing fuck all gets done until someone shows up dead.
Yeah well, my husband is a wee pissed off. Because of the "military looking" description, both the Navy shipyard and the Air Force base were also alerted. The shipyard just got a new submarine in to be overhauled, and a garrison of Marines also just moved in. Chances are it's not anyone from the bases and probably some ROTC brats on campus, but now they have to deal with that potential. And, you know, being immediately cast in a negative spotlight by the new freshmen's snowplow parents, in addition to the trustafarians bitching that the shipyard is an "eyesore" that ruins their perfect view of Kittery Foreside, therefore harshing their New England Experience or some shit, this isn't really a hit the military needs right now when they employ 3/4 of the fucking population in this city.
Either way, I'm off to my first day of graduate school. I probably have midterms next week.
You'll have midterms tomorrow. It is, after all, the middle of the week.
Also, you'll probably enjoy grad school a lot more than undergrad. There's definitely a noticeable improvement, in my experience, moving up the education chain in terms of quality and interest of what is studied (as you would hope). I'm interested to see if doctorate level ups the quality even further.
One thing I've found quite surprising is that while it's intellectually engaging, it's not challenging or difficult, per se. This could be because I've spent the last five years reading books aimed at PhD level audiences. But I'd be interested to see where the ceiling is, in terms of my academic ability, because so far the Masters hasn't hit it yet.
Either I've stopped laughing, or it has become my resting state.
Quote from: Cain on September 02, 2014, 12:42:37 PM
You'll have midterms tomorrow. It is, after all, the middle of the week.
Also, you'll probably enjoy grad school a lot more than undergrad. There's definitely a noticeable improvement, in my experience, moving up the education chain in terms of quality and interest of what is studied (as you would hope). I'm interested to see if doctorate level ups the quality even further.
One thing I've found quite surprising is that while it's intellectually engaging, it's not challenging or difficult, per se. This could be because I've spent the last five years reading books aimed at PhD level audiences. But I'd be interested to see where the ceiling is, in terms of my academic ability, because so far the Masters hasn't hit it yet.
The class I had today is what's called a piggyback. It's a combination of graduates and advanced undergrads. They have to be junior and senior year and be ready to start working on their thesis. I'm going to have more work than them, my papers will be graded on different criteria, but they aren't immature brats who are looking for an easy A. The class is called, "Saints, Sinners, and Heretics." It's primarily focused on the Reformation, but we're cover the period from the Investiture Controversy into the early colonization of North America. Grad students are allowed more leeway on how we want to form our research plan, so I'll be going earlier into the 11th Century back to the Great Schism of 1054 and see if I can touch more on the Orthodox side of Europe's struggles with their own spiritual versus temporal aspects of the Church. I'd like to go even earlier and talk about real heresies, like Council of Nicaea level stuff, but I don't want to diverge that far from the coursework, that's what the independent research classes I'll be taking starting next semester are for.
I have another piggyback class tomorrow on the Early History of Ancient Greece, so Minoan through the Archaic periods, which I'm pretty excited about, and then my grad-only Museum Studies course. I'm only taking three classes, and I'm glad, because there's going to be a lot of writing. So I guess all that layover time I was bitching about between classes and buses are going to work in my favor with the library, which I found today. Uphill. Way up hill. If I don't lose 20lbs this semester because of that library, I'll be in shock.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 02, 2014, 05:08:34 PM
Either I've stopped laughing, or it has become my resting state.
Eventually you laugh at something so funny you can't laugh anymore.
Quote from: Triggered word /b/ear on September 02, 2014, 07:57:37 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 02, 2014, 05:08:34 PM
Either I've stopped laughing, or it has become my resting state.
Eventually you laugh at something so funny you can't laugh anymore.
Nail/head.
Back in 1989, I got so scared that I've never been scared since. This might be similar.
I've been feeling very jaded lately.
It's weird. I don't like this feeling at all. So I do productive things until the monkey gets off my back.
I haven't gone to the gym in three weeks. Haven't gained anything. Someone said something to me, and subtly mind fucked me, and I don't who/what was said.
Quote from: Triggered word /b/ear on September 02, 2014, 08:03:40 PM
I've been feeling very jaded lately.
It's weird. I don't like this feeling at all. So I do productive things until the monkey gets off my back.
I haven't gone to the gym in three weeks. Haven't gained anything. Someone said something to me, and subtly mind fucked me, and I don't who/what was said.
Never mind the pricks. Do what you gotta do.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 02, 2014, 08:16:32 PM
Quote from: Triggered word /b/ear on September 02, 2014, 08:03:40 PM
I've been feeling very jaded lately.
It's weird. I don't like this feeling at all. So I do productive things until the monkey gets off my back.
I haven't gone to the gym in three weeks. Haven't gained anything. Someone said something to me, and subtly mind fucked me, and I don't who/what was said.
Never mind the pricks. Do what you gotta do.
Yeah, what ever was said it clearly wasn't important.
Quote from: Triggered word /b/ear on September 02, 2014, 08:27:16 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 02, 2014, 08:16:32 PM
Quote from: Triggered word /b/ear on September 02, 2014, 08:03:40 PM
I've been feeling very jaded lately.
It's weird. I don't like this feeling at all. So I do productive things until the monkey gets off my back.
I haven't gone to the gym in three weeks. Haven't gained anything. Someone said something to me, and subtly mind fucked me, and I don't who/what was said.
Never mind the pricks. Do what you gotta do.
Yeah, what ever was said it clearly wasn't important.
Are you feeling tired again? Or was it just the comment from the person that threw you off?
The comment.
Sometimes various people will say something, and then I feel jaded. Like the words they all said are some how linked.
Either it's Discordia, or Jaded feelings.
Quote from: Triggered word /b/ear on September 02, 2014, 08:36:56 PM
The comment.
Sometimes various people will say something, and then I feel jaded. Like the words they all said are some how linked.
Either it's Discordia, or Jaded feelings.
I know how you feel. I think it's a form of social anxiety, but I'd rather blame Eris. Or Obama.
Quote from: The Suu on September 02, 2014, 08:44:36 PM
Quote from: Triggered word /b/ear on September 02, 2014, 08:36:56 PM
The comment.
Sometimes various people will say something, and then I feel jaded. Like the words they all said are some how linked.
Either it's Discordia, or Jaded feelings.
I know how you feel. I think it's a form of social anxiety, but I'd rather blame Eris. Or Obama.
The Jews.
My impending move to Portland has been put on the rocks. Not sure what to do. Can't stay here and things are going to be so exciting driving a 16' truck across the country solo.
. . . . I need more Pepsi.
Don't knock it until you try it. Solo traveling can be so much fun!
Quote from: Cain on September 02, 2014, 08:34:26 AM
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on September 01, 2014, 10:43:57 PM
I am looking for a new laptop for school. There are too many options, and I can't even anymore.
Some suggestions would be appreciated. I need Microsoft Office to run on it, it needs to be hard-wearing, and multiple CPU eating tasks have to run on it at the same time without it going HRRGRK.
Anything by Samsung or Toshiba. Ideally you want 4 gig of RAM, at least an intel core i5 processor and, if your preferences run that way, Windows 7 as opposed to Windows 8.
You should be able to score a fairly cheap laptop with those specs, which will work exceptionally well as an all purpose web browser and word processing laptop.
Mine is similar to that (slightly more RAM, two rather than one integrated graphics card, Samsung, Windows 7) and I can run Windows Media Player, have 20 tabs open on Firefox, have Word open, have uTorrent open, have Microsoft Security, Steam and Origin running in the background, and have no discernible notice on the laptop itself.
All Samsung PCs were $350+ (which would have totalled like $740), and Toshiba was even more. I got a HP Pavillion 15 with 4 gig RAM, Windows 8.1 (because they don't sell 7 anymore) and AMD E1-6010 APU processor, which means fuck all to me, I just copied it from the system specs thing.
Well, that processor is not the most powerful thing on earth. Only 1.35 GHz and a dual core...it should probably handle Office and a browser at the same time, but I wouldn't bet on it taking much more. I'm running a processor with 2.3 GHz, which is probably around what you should be looking for in a current laptop model (remember, mine is now 2 years old).
Also, I'm wary of HP because their laptop models generally have weak hinges and external casing. By the end of my last HP laptop's life, I was literally holding the screen up with one hand while typing with the other. It was terrible. By contrast, I've had two Toshiba and one Samsung laptop since then (and had flatmates with Samsung laptops) and all are in full working condition, even three years later.
But of course, you can only buy what you can afford. Maybe keep those models in mind for the future?
Quote from: Cain on September 03, 2014, 08:15:37 AM
Well, that processor is not the most powerful thing on earth. Only 1.35 GHz and a dual core...it should probably handle Office and a browser at the same time, but I wouldn't bet on it taking much more. I'm running a processor with 2.3 GHz, which is probably around what you should be looking for in a current laptop model (remember, mine is now 2 years old).
Also, I'm wary of HP because their laptop models generally have weak hinges and external casing. By the end of my last HP laptop's life, I was literally holding the screen up with one hand while typing with the other. It was terrible. By contrast, I've had two Toshiba and one Samsung laptop since then (and had flatmates with Samsung laptops) and all are in full working condition, even three years later.
But of course, you can only buy what you can afford. Maybe keep those models in mind for the future?
I'll definitely keep your recommendations in mind, so your efforts aren't entirely wasted.
I'm still chugging along on a 7 year old laptop, which can handle Adobe Creative Suite, multiple browsers with a shit-ton of open tabs, Open Office, Skype, and iTunes, all on 2 gb of RAM. It's not particularly fast, but it still eventually does everything I ask it to. Though to be fair, it was a gift, I'm decidedly not a gamer, has a dual core 2.4 GHz processor, and costed about 2 grand when it was new. If it lasts even a few more years, it's only about $200 per year. That said, I'm expecting it to die on me at any moment, so I've been doing backups on the regular. It also crashes on me more than it used to, though I have to say that Apple handles said crashes with aplomb—it saves your stuff for the most part even when it does eat shit.
Apple has some downsides, but nowadays they actually tend to run dual boot Windows OS just as well as most PCs. The software to set this up is even baked into the Mac OS. Since I'm kind of locked into the Apple ecosystem (major downside) I'm waiting for the next Mac Mini or a suitable dual boot hackintosh/PC. It's just the craftsmanship of Macs is pretty damn good, they don't fall apart even after being lugged around in an overstuffed backpack by bike on pothole riddled roads for years on end. I've even been able to boot
a lot of Linux distros, though mostly for shits and giggles.
I also may have just lucked out that CPU advancements have slowed over the past 7 years (thanks to a huge diversion in focus on low power consumption CPUs thanks to the tablet market), so it's not necessarily an indicator of how things will progress over the next decade.
That's a pretty decent processor for a machine that old. No wonder it's lasted so long.
Lets put it this way - I can run Skyrim, with HD textures, on a machine with that much processing power. Admittedly, I'd have to uninstall all my other mods and have no other problems running (2 gig bottleneck causes crashes to desktop), but it's certainly within the realms of possibility. For a machine built in, lets see, 2007? That's pretty good.
I joined my school's Taekwondo club. Apparently they have no qualms with out of shape black belt grad students who haven't been able to nail down a training schedule for 12 years and are looking forward to me showing up to practices. It will probably just be Sunday afternoons at first until I get my car, then I'll be able to get to the weeknight practices without carrying my gear on the bus and through my classes.
Well, this is new. My uni finance department is refusing my payment. Usually they have no problem taking vast amounts of money off me, whether I'm willing to give it to them or not.
Quote from: Cain on September 03, 2014, 12:19:56 PM
Well, this is new. My uni finance department is refusing my payment. Usually they have no problem taking vast amounts of money off me, whether I'm willing to give it to them or not.
What the hell?
Something very strange is going on, and strange situations make bureaucrats twitchy. You'd better get this sorted before they decide to blame it on you.
Quote from: Cain on September 03, 2014, 12:19:56 PM
Well, this is new. My uni finance department is refusing my payment. Usually they have no problem taking vast amounts of money off me, whether I'm willing to give it to them or not.
Are... are they feeling ok?
Quote from: Cain on September 03, 2014, 12:19:56 PM
Well, this is new. My uni finance department is refusing my payment. Usually they have no problem taking vast amounts of money off me, whether I'm willing to give it to them or not.
Double down. Send as many tiny payments as possible, send cheques if possible. Create administration costs far in excess of your outstanding debt.
You know it makes sense.
Quote from: Cain on September 03, 2014, 08:15:37 AM
Well, that processor is not the most powerful thing on earth. Only 1.35 GHz and a dual core...it should probably handle Office and a browser at the same time, but I wouldn't bet on it taking much more. I'm running a processor with 2.3 GHz, which is probably around what you should be looking for in a current laptop model (remember, mine is now 2 years old).
Also, I'm wary of HP because their laptop models generally have weak hinges and external casing. By the end of my last HP laptop's life, I was literally holding the screen up with one hand while typing with the other. It was terrible. By contrast, I've had two Toshiba and one Samsung laptop since then (and had flatmates with Samsung laptops) and all are in full working condition, even three years later.
But of course, you can only buy what you can afford. Maybe keep those models in mind for the future?
I will definitely keep this stuff in mind, thanks a bunch.
Quote from: Cain on September 03, 2014, 12:19:56 PM
Well, this is new. My uni finance department is refusing my payment. Usually they have no problem taking vast amounts of money off me, whether I'm willing to give it to them or not.
Whaaaat the hell?
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 03, 2014, 02:28:16 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 03, 2014, 12:19:56 PM
Well, this is new. My uni finance department is refusing my payment. Usually they have no problem taking vast amounts of money off me, whether I'm willing to give it to them or not.
Double down. Send as many tiny payments as possible, send cheques if possible. Create administration costs far in excess of your outstanding debt.
You know it makes sense.
:lulz: It's the only way to be safe.
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 03, 2014, 02:28:16 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 03, 2014, 12:19:56 PM
Well, this is new. My uni finance department is refusing my payment. Usually they have no problem taking vast amounts of money off me, whether I'm willing to give it to them or not.
Double down. Send as many tiny payments as possible, send cheques if possible. Create administration costs far in excess of your outstanding debt.
You know it makes sense.
YES YES YES THIS.
Holy fucking fucks of fuck, I'm tired.
STUPID SEMESTER OFF HAS MADE ME WEAK! :argh!:
Second Daughter was born a few days ago. She spent some time in the ICU but is okay now.
SD's grandparents hate me so visiting her and her mom has been difficult since she's been out of the hospital. It's a very complicated situation and every time I try to write about it I just end up deleting it. There's some KYFMS material in there too, so it's for the better. TLDR version is SD's mom lives with her parents who are shitty people and I have trouble abiding their shittiness so I do not live with them.
First Daughter's mother (a different woman) has taken to making major decisions without discussing them with me and being weaselly about me visiting and Skyping with FD so I'm only talking with her via email before I lawyer up. Hopefully it won't even go to mediation.
Previous job turned out to be horseshit, though possibly useful for early twenty-somethings as an internship. So I'm trying to juggle looking for work all day, fucking off on the internets to keep my sanity, and spending time with my littlest one.
Shit be suckin. But my roommate is super cool, so at least there's that.
Quote from: N E T on September 04, 2014, 01:03:42 AM
Second Daughter was born a few days ago. She spent some time in the ICU but is okay now.
:banana:
Quote from: N E T on September 04, 2014, 02:13:06 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 04, 2014, 02:08:05 AM
Quote from: N E T on September 04, 2014, 01:03:42 AM
Second Daughter was born a few days ago. She spent some time in the ICU but is okay now.
Yup. :D
:banana:
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big heart mittens for the new babby
Had my first day at the YMCA job. If discordians had any real doctine of faith to speak of, i'm pretty sure wrangling roughly twenty children would challenge it because GODDAMN that is the face of Chaos.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 03, 2014, 07:39:53 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 03, 2014, 02:28:16 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 03, 2014, 12:19:56 PM
Well, this is new. My uni finance department is refusing my payment. Usually they have no problem taking vast amounts of money off me, whether I'm willing to give it to them or not.
Double down. Send as many tiny payments as possible, send cheques if possible. Create administration costs far in excess of your outstanding debt.
You know it makes sense.
YES YES YES THIS.
If only. Also, they don't accept cheques.
Instead, I have to call them today, and sort it out before the end of next week, or else I get booted off the course for non-payment.
Hmm. Most vexing.
I've got other ideas but few of them probably end up with you remaining on said course, which I'm assuming is the preferred option.
Just told some fucktard on the internets that the US has been the laughing stock of the world since our Civil War. I have a feeling I'll be making some screenshots of uppity anti-Obama rhetoric all the soon.
Payments sorted.
Now I'm just waiting for my computer screen to arrive. I've had my actual computer for 6 days now...where it's sat under my desk, doing fuck all. Because the monitor has yet to be delivered.
To say I'm slightly annoyed at this situation would not be overstating my feelings. Especially when it was meant to have been delivered by Tuesday, at the latest.
So what the hell was causing the payment clusterfuck? Usually universities are all kinds of excited to take money.
To the wise ladies of PD:
We have a new co-worker. She is now one of two dispatchers that uses the Ladies room. She was working during first shift and left. When the girl on 2nd shift went to the bathroom a few hours later, she came out not knowing what the hell she should do - she saw what looked like a blood drop on the floor next to the toilet and a few blood streaks down the outside of the bowl.
She was not comfortable using the facility, not knowing anything about this new person and what kinds of wonderful diseases strangers could have. None of the dudes volunteered to clean it, and I am now gone.
Right now the plan is, when I get in tomorrow, to wait a half hour or so for the new hire to go on break, check to see if the blood is still there, and inform one of the supervisors that will be present of the situation. Do you feel like this is the least invasive method, and one which will avoid embarrassment or ill will?
I would prefer not to approach the new hire about it. Having spent the last week with her, she makes me a bit uneasy in her mannerisms and I would prefer to not have some completely off the wall accusation flown at me in the event my suspicions are correct.
Congrats on the new daughter Net!
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 04, 2014, 09:22:14 PM
To the wise ladies of PD:
We have a new co-worker. She is now one of two dispatchers that uses the Ladies room. She was working during first shift and left. When the girl on 2nd shift went to the bathroom a few hours later, she came out not knowing what the hell she should do - she saw what looked like a blood drop on the floor next to the toilet and a few blood streaks down the outside of the bowl.
She was not comfortable using the facility, not knowing anything about this new person and what kinds of wonderful diseases strangers could have. None of the dudes volunteered to clean it, and I am now gone.
Right now the plan is, when I get in tomorrow, to wait a half hour or so for the new hire to go on break, check to see if the blood is still there, and inform one of the supervisors that will be present of the situation. Do you feel like this is the least invasive method, and one which will avoid embarrassment or ill will?
I would prefer not to approach the new hire about it. Having spent the last week with her, she makes me a bit uneasy in her mannerisms and I would prefer to not have some completely off the wall accusation flown at me in the event my suspicions are correct.
Well, for one: Fucking gross.
And for two: Accidents happen, drips happen. But, you REALLY NEED TO CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF. I have wet wipes in my purse for a damn reason. But streaks? Awful. Uncalled for. I get it, it's gross enough being a woman, it really is, but FFS, with great power comes great responsibility.
Quote from: The Suu on September 04, 2014, 11:46:17 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 04, 2014, 09:22:14 PM
To the wise ladies of PD:
We have a new co-worker. She is now one of two dispatchers that uses the Ladies room. She was working during first shift and left. When the girl on 2nd shift went to the bathroom a few hours later, she came out not knowing what the hell she should do - she saw what looked like a blood drop on the floor next to the toilet and a few blood streaks down the outside of the bowl.
She was not comfortable using the facility, not knowing anything about this new person and what kinds of wonderful diseases strangers could have. None of the dudes volunteered to clean it, and I am now gone.
Right now the plan is, when I get in tomorrow, to wait a half hour or so for the new hire to go on break, check to see if the blood is still there, and inform one of the supervisors that will be present of the situation. Do you feel like this is the least invasive method, and one which will avoid embarrassment or ill will?
I would prefer not to approach the new hire about it. Having spent the last week with her, she makes me a bit uneasy in her mannerisms and I would prefer to not have some completely off the wall accusation flown at me in the event my suspicions are correct.
Well, for one: Fucking gross.
And for two: Accidents happen, drips happen. But, you REALLY NEED TO CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF. I have wet wipes in my purse for a damn reason. But streaks? Awful. Uncalled for. I get it, it's gross enough being a woman, it really is, but FFS, with great power comes great responsibility.
Yeah, that. And you know, it attracts bears. We don't need them in the workplace. It's a safety hazard.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 04, 2014, 11:48:42 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 04, 2014, 11:46:17 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 04, 2014, 09:22:14 PM
To the wise ladies of PD:
We have a new co-worker. She is now one of two dispatchers that uses the Ladies room. She was working during first shift and left. When the girl on 2nd shift went to the bathroom a few hours later, she came out not knowing what the hell she should do - she saw what looked like a blood drop on the floor next to the toilet and a few blood streaks down the outside of the bowl.
She was not comfortable using the facility, not knowing anything about this new person and what kinds of wonderful diseases strangers could have. None of the dudes volunteered to clean it, and I am now gone.
Right now the plan is, when I get in tomorrow, to wait a half hour or so for the new hire to go on break, check to see if the blood is still there, and inform one of the supervisors that will be present of the situation. Do you feel like this is the least invasive method, and one which will avoid embarrassment or ill will?
I would prefer not to approach the new hire about it. Having spent the last week with her, she makes me a bit uneasy in her mannerisms and I would prefer to not have some completely off the wall accusation flown at me in the event my suspicions are correct.
Well, for one: Fucking gross.
And for two: Accidents happen, drips happen. But, you REALLY NEED TO CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF. I have wet wipes in my purse for a damn reason. But streaks? Awful. Uncalled for. I get it, it's gross enough being a woman, it really is, but FFS, with great power comes great responsibility.
Yeah, that. And you know, it attracts bears. We don't need them in the workplace. It's a safety hazard.
SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!
Quote from: Triggered word /b/ear on September 04, 2014, 11:50:46 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 04, 2014, 11:48:42 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 04, 2014, 11:46:17 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 04, 2014, 09:22:14 PM
To the wise ladies of PD:
We have a new co-worker. She is now one of two dispatchers that uses the Ladies room. She was working during first shift and left. When the girl on 2nd shift went to the bathroom a few hours later, she came out not knowing what the hell she should do - she saw what looked like a blood drop on the floor next to the toilet and a few blood streaks down the outside of the bowl.
She was not comfortable using the facility, not knowing anything about this new person and what kinds of wonderful diseases strangers could have. None of the dudes volunteered to clean it, and I am now gone.
Right now the plan is, when I get in tomorrow, to wait a half hour or so for the new hire to go on break, check to see if the blood is still there, and inform one of the supervisors that will be present of the situation. Do you feel like this is the least invasive method, and one which will avoid embarrassment or ill will?
I would prefer not to approach the new hire about it. Having spent the last week with her, she makes me a bit uneasy in her mannerisms and I would prefer to not have some completely off the wall accusation flown at me in the event my suspicions are correct.
Well, for one: Fucking gross.
And for two: Accidents happen, drips happen. But, you REALLY NEED TO CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF. I have wet wipes in my purse for a damn reason. But streaks? Awful. Uncalled for. I get it, it's gross enough being a woman, it really is, but FFS, with great power comes great responsibility.
Yeah, that. And you know, it attracts bears. We don't need them in the workplace. It's a safety hazard.
SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!
I said bear
s.
One is fine.
Quote from: Cain on September 02, 2014, 12:42:37 PM
You'll have midterms tomorrow. It is, after all, the middle of the week.
Also, you'll probably enjoy grad school a lot more than undergrad. There's definitely a noticeable improvement, in my experience, moving up the education chain in terms of quality and interest of what is studied (as you would hope). I'm interested to see if doctorate level ups the quality even further.
One thing I've found quite surprising is that while it's intellectually engaging, it's not challenging or difficult, per se. This could be because I've spent the last five years reading books aimed at PhD level audiences. But I'd be interested to see where the ceiling is, in terms of my academic ability, because so far the Masters hasn't hit it yet.
I always kinda had the impression that you have to make your own ceiling, after you graduate, when you start running your own research. Everything up to that point is supposed to prep you.
Everyone's told me that grad school is easier than undergrad, in much the same way that upper division classes are easier than lower division, because you have the foundation and you get to start building on it and narrowing your focus in on your specific interests.
Quote from: N E T on September 04, 2014, 01:03:42 AM
Second Daughter was born a few days ago. She spent some time in the ICU but is okay now.
SD's grandparents hate me so visiting her and her mom has been difficult since she's been out of the hospital. It's a very complicated situation and every time I try to write about it I just end up deleting it. There's some KYFMS material in there too, so it's for the better. TLDR version is SD's mom lives with her parents who are shitty people and I have trouble abiding their shittiness so I do not live with them.
First Daughter's mother (a different woman) has taken to making major decisions without discussing them with me and being weaselly about me visiting and Skyping with FD so I'm only talking with her via email before I lawyer up. Hopefully it won't even go to mediation.
Previous job turned out to be horseshit, though possibly useful for early twenty-somethings as an internship. So I'm trying to juggle looking for work all day, fucking off on the internets to keep my sanity, and spending time with my littlest one.
Shit be suckin. But my roommate is super cool, so at least there's that.
Congratulations on the new baby... hope everything else works out OK.
Thanks Hoops and Nigel.
Net: Much love for the little one!
EoC: I'd just bless it with amonia, good for blood, who knows, might be taken care of already?
Congrats on the baby.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 05, 2014, 12:45:20 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 02, 2014, 12:42:37 PM
You'll have midterms tomorrow. It is, after all, the middle of the week.
Also, you'll probably enjoy grad school a lot more than undergrad. There's definitely a noticeable improvement, in my experience, moving up the education chain in terms of quality and interest of what is studied (as you would hope). I'm interested to see if doctorate level ups the quality even further.
One thing I've found quite surprising is that while it's intellectually engaging, it's not challenging or difficult, per se. This could be because I've spent the last five years reading books aimed at PhD level audiences. But I'd be interested to see where the ceiling is, in terms of my academic ability, because so far the Masters hasn't hit it yet.
I always kinda had the impression that you have to make your own ceiling, after you graduate, when you start running your own research. Everything up to that point is supposed to prep you.
Everyone's told me that grad school is easier than undergrad, in much the same way that upper division classes are easier than lower division, because you have the foundation and you get to start building on it and narrowing your focus in on your specific interests.
One professor hasn't given me his parameters yet, but I'll be talking with him soon, because I'd like him to be on my committee as he's the Classics department chair. In one class I have absolute free reign on research for my final topic as long as I show up and engage in the lectures. The course is centered around 1400-1600 religious history, but I'm taking it back earlier, because I can, while the other grad student I sit with is taking it to American colonialism. So you make the classes work for YOU. These are the piggyback classes I talked about, that involve the undergrads.
My museum studies course is graduate only, and there are 3 of us in the cohort, so he opened it to undergrads as an elective, but already warned them it's not going to be easy. Instead of writing, it's a series of projects, and I've decided that my final is going to be an exhibit at the library on living historians at UNH. So yeah, it gives me an excuse to show off my stuff, but I have a couple friends that also graduated from there that are going to loan me materials. It's also a cheeky way to recruit into our reenactment groups, but overall it should be a fun project and catch the eye.
I've been feeling really emotionally vulnerable lately. I don't know what the deal is; whether it has something to do with the whole "falling in love" threat or if it's some kind of early sign of hormonal menopause.
I've been feeling the same, but most likely for entirely different reasons. Instead of choking it back, I've decided to roll with it, and be open and honest about my, for the lack of better terms, "feels".
It's been mildly freaking out my friends, and causing my wife to love me even more. So, I'm gonna tentatively call it "beneficial".
Your results may, and probably will, differ.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 05, 2014, 05:51:33 PM
I've been feeling the same, but most likely for entirely different reasons. Instead of choking it back, I've decided to roll with it, and be open and honest about my, for the lack of better terms, "feels".
It's been mildly freaking out my friends, and causing my wife to love me even more. So, I'm gonna tentatively call it "beneficial".
Your results may, and probably will, differ.
So far it isn't really hurting anything. I'm taking much the same tack, and just telling people when something is difficult for me to handle. My boyfriend felt bad the other day because he made a joke that upset me, but we repaired that pretty quickly. I'm largely just making it a point to steer clear of things and people that don't seem to foster positive interactions and feelz for me right now, which means (once again) leaving the facebook discordian groups.
I'm glad I'm not alone in being a tender tender cupcake right now.
Wait! How will I know what to do when I find a dead body?
...I've been loving those, BTW.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 05, 2014, 06:12:43 PM
Wait! How will I know what to do when I find a dead body?
...I've been loving those, BTW.
Haha, thanks!
I have them all saved and will find an appropriate place to post them all. Perhaps even here.
I'm also not drinking and last night was my first night without some kind of chemical sleep aid in a while. My default unmedicated sleep mode is "intermittent and light, with vivid strange dreams" and only lasts about six hours, so we'll see how this goes.
I'm just trying to get all the crap out of my system and hopefully lose weight and get my heartbeat reasonably regular again.
Just done a 9 hour shift on 3 hours of sleep. Yay *falls over*
On the plus side, thumbs are functional again.
It's Friday.
I know this because everything is breaking at once.
I know that feeling. Shit, I mean, I work in retail and I know that feeling. AC, bakery, tills, anything to do with lottery...all borked beyond belief.
I mean, no-one will die because of it. Probably. But still.
Quote from: Cain on September 05, 2014, 06:42:46 PM
I know that feeling. Shit, I mean, I work in retail and I know that feeling. AC, bakery, tills, anything to do with lottery...all borked beyond belief.
I mean, no-one will die because of it. Probably. But still.
Same here, it's just small shit that takes forever to fix. 3.5 hours before the weekend.
Quote from: Cain on September 05, 2014, 06:34:47 PM
Just done a 9 hour shift on 3 hours of sleep. Yay *falls over*
On the plus side, thumbs are functional again.
Congratulations on the thumbs!
Quote from: Cain on September 05, 2014, 06:34:47 PM
On the plus side, thumbs are functional again.
"And this, too, shall pass."
Thanks for the comments, guys. She's amazing.
Congrats Net!
Wer're getting a new dog!
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Quote from: Allfader Waffles on September 05, 2014, 08:15:49 PM
Wer're getting a new dog!
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:)
BABBY DAWG! much cute, so heart.
Holy shit, that dog is adorable!
Thanks Waffles. Sweet pooch!
Dear Navy, I want my husband back.
No, I know you're not giving him back-back until 2024, but I want him to be himself again. Not a fan of him turning into a snippy 17 year old on the phone when I ask him if he wants to run to do something on campus tonight. That's not him, damnit, that's meeeeeee! I know I only have a week and change until this chief shit is over, but for fuck's sake, we made it this far without killing each other, can he NOT do it NOW?!
Quote from: The Suu on September 05, 2014, 09:26:15 PM
Dear Navy, I want my husband back.
No, I know you're not giving him back-back until 2024, but I want him to be himself again. Not a fan of him turning into a snippy 17 year old on the phone when I ask him if he wants to run to do something on campus tonight. That's not him, damnit, that's meeeeeee! I know I only have a week and change until this chief shit is over, but for fuck's sake, we made it this far without killing each other, can he NOT do it NOW?!
Even the best people occasionally go arse biscuits.
The guy in the black pickup truck that's been honking at me for like two years now happened to be outside along my walk home today and introduced himself as such. He was genuinely surprised that his behavior was unwelcome. SO MUCH HATE.
Yay babies and puppies, boo bad things.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 05, 2014, 09:27:11 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 05, 2014, 09:26:15 PM
Dear Navy, I want my husband back.
No, I know you're not giving him back-back until 2024, but I want him to be himself again. Not a fan of him turning into a snippy 17 year old on the phone when I ask him if he wants to run to do something on campus tonight. That's not him, damnit, that's meeeeeee! I know I only have a week and change until this chief shit is over, but for fuck's sake, we made it this far without killing each other, can he NOT do it NOW?!
Even the best people occasionally go arse biscuits.
He's starting to snap a bit. Which is part of the ultimate plan, of course. This last week is going to be really rough on him, and with me in school full-time, I come home just as tired as him, so the last few days have been us staring at each other in a stupor. My system will regulate in another couple of weeks, and then he'll be back to his normal work hours, but I knew these last couple of weeks were going suck for us.
In other more happier news, my cousin is having twin boys. Although I wanted girls, it appears her husband throws Ys instead of Xs. So when she told me on the phone, I was like, "Well, I guess that makes shopping easier."
Husband goes, "Let me talk to cousin-in-law!" So I pass the phone over, she passes the phone over to her husband, and I hear this:
"Boys, eh? Congratulations, now I don't have to buy you a double-barreled Remington. Suu would have killed me anyway, her damn yarn is expensive enough." :horrormirth:
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on September 05, 2014, 09:31:31 PM
The guy in the black pickup truck that's been honking at me for like two years now happened to be outside along my walk home today and introduced himself as such. He was genuinely surprised that his behavior was unwelcome. SO MUCH HATE.
Yay babies and puppies, boo bad things.
Why the hell would anyone think that honking at a strange woman for two years would be anything but CREEPY???
In Burning Man-related news, this is hilarious: http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/92109247.html
Quote from: The Suu on September 05, 2014, 10:07:18 PM
In other more happier news, my cousin is having twin boys.
:banana:
Yea, some folks honk going round bends and such, for safety.
...
Totally unrelated, free retail inventory software is soul-crushingingly boring without all the gratuitous frustrations it is so eager to throw at me. What fun a malevolent archonic hacker must have had inventing "data entry".
Quote from: LuciferX on September 05, 2014, 10:52:31 PM
Yea, some folks honk going round bends and such, for safety.
...
Totally unrelated, free retail inventory software is soul-crushingingly boring without all the gratuitous frustrations it is so eager to throw at me. What fun a malevolent archonic hacker must have had inventing "data entry".
To be clear, said stranger explicitly said he was honking at me, to try to say hi or something. Because he lives in a world where this isn't terrifying for people. There was no miscommunication.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 05, 2014, 10:09:32 PM
In Burning Man-related news, this is hilarious: http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/92109247.html
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on September 05, 2014, 11:02:41 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on September 05, 2014, 10:52:31 PM
Yea, some folks honk going round bends and such, for safety.
...
Totally unrelated, free retail inventory software is soul-crushingingly boring without all the gratuitous frustrations it is so eager to throw at me. What fun a malevolent archonic hacker must have had inventing "data entry".
To be clear, said stranger explicitly said he was honking at me, to try to say hi or something. Because he lives in a world where this isn't terrifying for people. There was no miscommunication.
I can't even imagine a fantasyland where repeatedly encountering and being honked at by a strange man in a black truck over the course of two years wouldn't be paranoia-inducing at the very least.
Some neighbor's dog two blocks away has been barking incessantly for three hours.
My Discordia seems to be borked.
I love you horrible fuckers.
See you around, whenever this particular gear starts rolling again.
Except von, I don't love von.
Quote from: Alty on September 06, 2014, 04:44:22 AM
My Discordia seems to be borked.
I love you horrible fuckers.
See you around, whenever this particular gear starts rolling again.
Okay. I hope things work out for you.
Quote from: Alty on September 06, 2014, 04:45:20 AM
Except von, I don't love von.
I'll hate him even harder.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 06, 2014, 04:08:22 AM
Some neighbor's dog two blocks away has been barking incessantly for three hours.
We have that. Only it lives next door. Is the sun out? Barking. Dawn? Barking. Sundown? Barking. Rain? Barking.
I've honestly considered a sniper rifle before now.
Quote from: Cain on September 06, 2014, 06:34:15 AM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 06, 2014, 04:08:22 AM
Some neighbor's dog two blocks away has been barking incessantly for three hours.
We have that. Only it lives next door. Is the sun out? Barking. Dawn? Barking. Sundown? Barking. Rain? Barking.
I've honestly considered a sniper rifle before now.
It's the fucking owners. Asshole owners who shouldn't even have a fucking dog because normal dogs can't handle being left alone outside for hours. Here, I think I'll take this HIGHLY SOCIAL ANIMAL that is specially evolved to be highly attached to human beings, and leave it outside alone for hours on end.
Gee, is that a bad idea maybe? Who would have thunk it.
Oh, I'd do the owner in too, except he's a paramedic and so, despite his assholishness towards his dog actually of sum benefit to society.
Probably.
But yeah. Dogs are not fashion accessories or toys. Cats, on the other hand, are.
Cats give few fucks, as long as their food bowls are kept full.
One of ours literally only comes home to get fed, or if it is raining.
The other one, on the other hand, has severe attachment issues. To me in particular. I'm not sure why. But at least she can't wake up half the town with her meowing.
Quote from: Cain on September 06, 2014, 04:32:47 PM
One of ours literally only comes home to get fed, or if it is raining.
The other one, on the other hand, has severe attachment issues. To me in particular. I'm not sure why. But at least she can't wake up half the town with her meowing.
Awww. That's cute, actually. I like it when cats are lovey and attached.
Hi guys, I haven't been on in a few days.
I've decided that I've reached a place in my life where I am morally and philosophically opposed to being in charge of other people.
Also ECHGF and I are 99% sure that she has a screaming case of undiagnosed diabeetus.
So we're saying "Fuck Maine" and moving back to WA in about a month. I don't care about the money or "big fish/small pond prestige" bullshit. I just want my life back.
Don't be a chef, kids. Learn to cook because it will help you attract people to whom you find yourself attracted but as a career choice seriously, fuck the fuck out of that shit. I'm gonna be stuck cooking for a couple more years while I school because bills and rent but I'm gonna learn to go be a HVAC tech or some shit like that where I don't have to give too many fucks about what other people are doing.
Hope everything works out for you man, good luck.
Also Maine to Washington is one helluva move.
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on September 07, 2014, 12:16:37 AM
Hi guys, I haven't been on in a few days.
I've decided that I've reached a place in my life where I am morally and philosophically opposed to being in charge of other people.
Also ECHGF and I are 99% sure that she has a screaming case of undiagnosed diabeetus.
So we're saying "Fuck Maine" and moving back to WA in about a month. I don't care about the money or "big fish/small pond prestige" bullshit. I just want my life back.
Don't be a chef, kids. Learn to cook because it will help you attract people to whom you find yourself attracted but as a career choice seriously, fuck the fuck out of that shit. I'm gonna be stuck cooking for a couple more years while I school because bills and rent but I'm gonna learn to go be a HVAC tech or some shit like that where I don't have to give too many fucks about what other people are doing.
1. Yayyyyy I like it when you live on the West Coast!
2. Booo diabeetus!
Quote from: Raz Tech on September 07, 2014, 12:34:03 AM
Hope everything works out for you man, good luck.
Also Maine to Washington is one helluva move.
He's kind of a pro at it, at this point.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on September 05, 2014, 11:02:41 PM
Quote from: LuciferX on September 05, 2014, 10:52:31 PM
Yea, some folks honk going round bends and such, for safety.
...
Totally unrelated, free retail inventory software is soul-crushingingly boring without all the gratuitous frustrations it is so eager to throw at me. What fun a malevolent archonic hacker must have had inventing "data entry".
To be clear, said stranger explicitly said he was honking at me, to try to say hi or something. Because he lives in a world where this isn't terrifying for people. There was no miscommunication.
Yea, then we also got one pheasant wannabe biker that pulls on his harley's throttle, full twist in neutral, right in front of my building because it's actually a natural amphitheater. Thanks, neighbor!
The great crochetpalooza 2014 has begun. Baby afghans ahoy!
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on September 07, 2014, 12:16:37 AM
Hi guys, I haven't been on in a few days.
I've decided that I've reached a place in my life where I am morally and philosophically opposed to being in charge of other people.
Also ECHGF and I are 99% sure that she has a screaming case of undiagnosed diabeetus.
So we're saying "Fuck Maine" and moving back to WA in about a month. I don't care about the money or "big fish/small pond prestige" bullshit. I just want my life back.
Don't be a chef, kids. Learn to cook because it will help you attract people to whom you find yourself attracted but as a career choice seriously, fuck the fuck out of that shit. I'm gonna be stuck cooking for a couple more years while I school because bills and rent but I'm gonna learn to go be a HVAC tech or some shit like that where I don't have to give too many fucks about what other people are doing.
You'd be good at PLC work. And it wouldn't involve, by definition, working in areas that have no functional AC.
(In response to "some shit like that).
Quote from: Cain on September 06, 2014, 04:32:47 PM
One of ours literally only comes home to get fed, or if it is raining.
The other one, on the other hand, has severe attachment issues. To me in particular. I'm not sure why. But at least she can't wake up half the town with her meowing.
Depends on the breed. Bombays, and Persians are the most needy, and attention whoring like a dog.
I currently have a Russian White. He's tomcat, and only comes to eat, get out of the rain, or spend a day, or two at home. I hate seeing him cry at home wanting to get out.
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on September 07, 2014, 12:16:37 AM
Hi guys, I haven't been on in a few days.
I've decided that I've reached a place in my life where I am morally and philosophically opposed to being in charge of other people.
Also ECHGF and I are 99% sure that she has a screaming case of undiagnosed diabeetus.
So we're saying "Fuck Maine" and moving back to WA in about a month. I don't care about the money or "big fish/small pond prestige" bullshit. I just want my life back.
Don't be a chef, kids. Learn to cook because it will help you attract people to whom you find yourself attracted but as a career choice seriously, fuck the fuck out of that shit. I'm gonna be stuck cooking for a couple more years while I school because bills and rent but I'm gonna learn to go be a HVAC tech or some shit like that where I don't have to give too many fucks about what other people are doing.
Welder. You'll eventually play with plasma if the company allows it.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 06, 2014, 04:51:06 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 06, 2014, 04:32:47 PM
One of ours literally only comes home to get fed, or if it is raining.
The other one, on the other hand, has severe attachment issues. To me in particular. I'm not sure why. But at least she can't wake up half the town with her meowing.
Awww. That's cute, actually. I like it when cats are lovey and attached.
She's more like a creepy stalker. If I'm asleep and someone lets her in the house, she will run up the stairs and sit outside my door, meowing and scratching to get in. When I do get up, as soon as she hears me move, she'll rush up to me, and follow me around. Can't go to the bathroom, have a shower or get breakfast without her constantly trying to get my attention. After a couple of hours, she'll calm down enough to go to sleep (on my bed) but whenever she wakes and hears my voice, she'll come running to find me.
The only thing she doesn't like is being picked up by me, so I tend to do that every now and again, just so I can have some peace and quiet.
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on September 07, 2014, 12:16:37 AM
Hi guys, I haven't been on in a few days.
I've decided that I've reached a place in my life where I am morally and philosophically opposed to being in charge of other people.
Also ECHGF and I are 99% sure that she has a screaming case of undiagnosed diabeetus.
So we're saying "Fuck Maine" and moving back to WA in about a month. I don't care about the money or "big fish/small pond prestige" bullshit. I just want my life back.
Don't be a chef, kids. Learn to cook because it will help you attract people to whom you find yourself attracted but as a career choice seriously, fuck the fuck out of that shit. I'm gonna be stuck cooking for a couple more years while I school because bills and rent but I'm gonna learn to go be a HVAC tech or some shit like that where I don't have to give too many fucks about what other people are doing.
I'd noticed you hadn't been around much lately.
Are you set on the HVAC stuff, or are you still considering your options?
God damn, this Windows 8 update is so damn innovative it deleted all the cookie files on my browser, and god knows what else. Thanks Obama (http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Technology/gty_obama_ipad_jef_120216_wg.jpg).
Quote from: Triggered word /b/ear on September 07, 2014, 07:26:44 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 06, 2014, 04:32:47 PM
One of ours literally only comes home to get fed, or if it is raining.
The other one, on the other hand, has severe attachment issues. To me in particular. I'm not sure why. But at least she can't wake up half the town with her meowing.
Depends on the breed. Bombays, and Persians are the most needy, and attention whoring like a dog.
I currently have a Russian White. He's tomcat, and only comes to eat, get out of the rain, or spend a day, or two at home. I hate seeing him cry at home wanting to get out.
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Sorry I missed this when replying to Nigel.
I've heard that about Persians. I've also heard that Siamese, while not quite as needy necessarily, are also quite vocal so when you have a needy one it's really annoying.
These are both British shorthairs though. And brother and sister, which makes it even stranger. Both raised in exactly the same environment, yet they turned out very differently.
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on September 07, 2014, 04:36:16 PM
God damn, this Windows 8 update is so damn innovative it deleted all the cookie files on my browser, and god knows what else. Thanks Obama (http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Technology/gty_obama_ipad_jef_120216_wg.jpg).
That's the sacrifice Windows 8 demands. Just be lucky it didn't decide it also wanted your WIN32 folder or something. An OS that evil is capable of anything.
Quote from: Cain on September 07, 2014, 11:33:36 AM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 06, 2014, 04:51:06 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 06, 2014, 04:32:47 PM
One of ours literally only comes home to get fed, or if it is raining.
The other one, on the other hand, has severe attachment issues. To me in particular. I'm not sure why. But at least she can't wake up half the town with her meowing.
Awww. That's cute, actually. I like it when cats are lovey and attached.
She's more like a creepy stalker. If I'm asleep and someone lets her in the house, she will run up the stairs and sit outside my door, meowing and scratching to get in. When I do get up, as soon as she hears me move, she'll rush up to me, and follow me around. Can't go to the bathroom, have a shower or get breakfast without her constantly trying to get my attention. After a couple of hours, she'll calm down enough to go to sleep (on my bed) but whenever she wakes and hears my voice, she'll come running to find me.
The only thing she doesn't like is being picked up by me, so I tend to do that every now and again, just so I can have some peace and quiet.
:lulz: :lulz: Wow.
(http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/overly+attached+cat.+What+a+nice+bath_21021e_3851839.jpg)
Hah. Yeah, pretty much.
We'd let the cats stay in the house overnight, if not for her. She's impossible, because if you're sleeping, then you're not paying attention to her. So she'll sink her claws into your arm or leg to wake you up.
Quote from: Cain on September 07, 2014, 04:43:01 PM
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on September 07, 2014, 04:36:16 PM
God damn, this Windows 8 update is so damn innovative it deleted all the cookie files on my browser, and god knows what else. Thanks Obama (http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Technology/gty_obama_ipad_jef_120216_wg.jpg).
That's the sacrifice Windows 8 demands. Just be lucky it didn't decide it also wanted your WIN32 folder or something. An OS that evil is capable of anything.
If there is an open type font in the wrong place occasionally a patch will put it in a bluescreen or reboot loop. Borks some so bad you need to do a system restore or sacrifice two doves and a goat. How they get in the wrong folder is you stepped on the grave of a powerful witch who was one of the coders who made the kernal.
I have Windows 8 on a touchscreen laptop and it is the worst thing I have ever used. Almost totally unusable. And it will decide to update itself at random times, giving me no choice in the matter.
Ah, windows 8... I don't trust anything beyond NT. It's funny because Turing had it so that during any self-respecting install, a pop-up warns me when a piece of code is going to try to check itself. Now, the whole thing updates itself while I sleep. NOT ON MY WATCH!
I have Windows 8 on a touchscreen laptop and I love it and have had zero problems at all.
Windows mobile for a cell phone, on the other hand, is a work of pure unmitigated evil.
Pumpkin Spice Vagisil
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on September 07, 2014, 12:16:37 AM
Hi guys, I haven't been on in a few days.
I've decided that I've reached a place in my life where I am morally and philosophically opposed to being in charge of other people.
Also ECHGF and I are 99% sure that she has a screaming case of undiagnosed diabeetus.
So we're saying "Fuck Maine" and moving back to WA in about a month. I don't care about the money or "big fish/small pond prestige" bullshit. I just want my life back.
Don't be a chef, kids. Learn to cook because it will help you attract people to whom you find yourself attracted but as a career choice seriously, fuck the fuck out of that shit. I'm gonna be stuck cooking for a couple more years while I school because bills and rent but I'm gonna learn to go be a HVAC tech or some shit like that where I don't have to give too many fucks about what other people are doing.
Damn. Sorry that didn't work out for you. Seemed like a good gig at the time.
Oh the delicious, delicious schadenfreude. http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/morning_call/2014/09/mars-hill-church-closing-seattle-branches-laying.html
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on September 07, 2014, 11:45:23 PM
I have Windows 8 on a touchscreen laptop and I love it and have had zero problems at all.
Windows mobile for a cell phone, on the other hand, is a work of pure unmitigated evil.
How do you make it not the worst thing since Hitler? I fucking hate it.
I, too, am interested in hearing how Windows 8 is not meant to be an exercise in self-torture.
In other news, the weather is trying to wash Tucson away. It nearly managed it near where I live, but it won't manage it, sadly.
I am soaked and freezing and I wish it would stop raining.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 08, 2014, 06:10:20 PM
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on September 07, 2014, 11:45:23 PM
I have Windows 8 on a touchscreen laptop and I love it and have had zero problems at all.
Windows mobile for a cell phone, on the other hand, is a work of pure unmitigated evil.
How do you make it not the worst thing since Hitler? I fucking hate it.
Revert back to Windows 7? :asshat:
before Windows 8 I was using Vista. That may clear things up a bit.
Quote from: Cain on September 08, 2014, 10:22:24 PM
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on September 08, 2014, 10:14:44 PM
Vista
:nope:
Vista was better than 8. 8 is an offense to God & Mankind.
I will never, ever buy a Microsoft or HP product again.
Skipped from XP to 7, will be skipping 8 as well and hoping the trend continues. I've never even used Vista or 8.
EoC, no complaints about MS. 8)
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 08, 2014, 10:25:57 PM
Skipped from XP to 7, will be skipping 8 as well and hoping the trend continues. I've never even used Vista or 8.
EoC, no complaints about MS. 8)
I skipped 7.
:tgrr:
I hate Microsoft with the fire of ten thousand suns. I stay up an extra hour at night just to hate them more.
I've never used 8, and never will.
I did use Vista once, however.
(http://i.imgur.com/JtCQ1cI.png)
I never upgraded XP to service pack 3, then skipped to 7. If I could afford the Cult of Macintosh, I would, but I can't. I'm also too stupid for Linux.
Finally done my article on Libya. Only three days overdue, but I certainly feel I understand the conflict better now.
Just gotta hyperlink it up and send it out.
WINDOWS 8/8.1 IS SHIT. You can't find and delete programs you don't want anymore except ones that it decides is okay for you to get rid of, the control panel doesn't, and I just hate it so much.
I'd like to insert some snarky comment about being a lifetime Mac user, but that has epic fails all its own.
Enjoy your overpriced "lifestyle" suckware!
But it's not Windows 8!
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 04, 2014, 09:22:14 PM
To the wise ladies of PD:
We have a new co-worker. She is now one of two dispatchers that uses the Ladies room. She was working during first shift and left. When the girl on 2nd shift went to the bathroom a few hours later, she came out not knowing what the hell she should do - she saw what looked like a blood drop on the floor next to the toilet and a few blood streaks down the outside of the bowl.
She was not comfortable using the facility, not knowing anything about this new person and what kinds of wonderful diseases strangers could have. None of the dudes volunteered to clean it, and I am now gone.
Right now the plan is, when I get in tomorrow, to wait a half hour or so for the new hire to go on break, check to see if the blood is still there, and inform one of the supervisors that will be present of the situation. Do you feel like this is the least invasive method, and one which will avoid embarrassment or ill will?
I would prefer not to approach the new hire about it. Having spent the last week with her, she makes me a bit uneasy in her mannerisms and I would prefer to not have some completely off the wall accusation flown at me in the event my suspicions are correct.
lady probably uses a menstrual cup? an unwieldy removal is probably embarrassing enough, and IDK if you wanna be talking to someone about their san-pro preferences. Lady needs some antibac bathroom wipes in her purse, or you need em in in the cubicles. if you sit down for a long time sometimes they ride up and can be a little messy on removal.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 05, 2014, 10:08:07 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on September 05, 2014, 09:31:31 PM
The guy in the black pickup truck that's been honking at me for like two years now happened to be outside along my walk home today and introduced himself as such. He was genuinely surprised that his behavior was unwelcome. SO MUCH HATE.
Yay babies and puppies, boo bad things.
Why the hell would anyone think that honking at a strange woman for two years would be anything but CREEPY???
Hey, this kind of feeds into my current project- Make the zine I wrote the bit on OMF for an actual thing with more than that one submission... Q.G do you mind if I use that quote? You too, Nigel!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 08, 2014, 11:03:40 PM
I'd like to insert some snarky comment about being a lifetime Mac user, but that has epic fails all its own.
I am not a lifetime Mac user, but I've had one for the last 20 years continuously so I might as well be. Except for my shipping computer and now this shitty touchscreen laptop. My next laptop is going to be a Mac.
Quote from: Cain on September 08, 2014, 10:40:58 PM
Finally done my article on Libya. Only three days overdue, but I certainly feel I understand the conflict better now.
Just gotta hyperlink it up and send it out.
Well done. Now go have a beer.
Windows: fail. Mac: fail. Linux?
8:45AM. Already restrained myself from slapping 3 people in the style of the Three Stooges, four times.
I suspect I won't be able to exercise this level of control by 10.
Increasingly tempted to invest in some kind of hidden camera tech. I know "Did you hear this shit?" isn't a viable defence in court but it's better than fuck all.
In a bid to stave off madness, I have had the welder create "The Wheel of Misfortune".
It's a large metal disk, on a metal rod. It spins.
I've crudely laminated a variety of emotions such as "Happy" "Sad" "On Glue" "Lonely" "Masturating Furiously" and so on. These have been attached and with a vice and another rod, it has begun to predict the future.
My previous phone call was "Hissy fit" and my next is apparently "Coming down from Meth". Feel free to add suggestions.
It's amazing how much being able to shout "SPIN THE WHEEL" can improve your day. It's the little things, you know?
"Daily Mail reader"
"David Icke enthusiast"
"Relative of George Osbourne"
"Smartest Guy in the Room"
Duly noted and will be shortly included.
My poor husband keeps forgetting I'm back in school. :sad: I hope he can make it through the last week without a total breakdown. Holy shit.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 08, 2014, 10:24:07 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 08, 2014, 10:22:24 PM
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on September 08, 2014, 10:14:44 PM
Vista
:nope:
Vista was better than 8. 8 is an offense to God & Mankind.
I will never, ever buy a Microsoft or HP product again.
The problem with abandoning Microsoft is that you're stuck with Apple. It's sort of like deciding to quit smoking cigarettes only to take up smoking meth.
I mean, unless you're one of those weirdos that can figure out linux, in which case kudos to you and your strangely wired brain.
Honestly though, I really don't understand why people hate 8. I think it's the best OS since XP. I've literally never had a problem with it and it's great with a touchscreen interface (which is clearly what it was really designed for).
OTOH, I'm not what anyone would consider a "high-powered" user.
There's also the new chromebook OS that came out. It's surprisingly not bad, just lacking a few functionalities that are necessary for me, but probably not so big a deal for most people. For example, it cannot open encrypted PDF's. I feel like it could be a viable windows replacement with a few tweaks. Also, no viruses for it yet. Oh and you have to be connected to the internet all the time, which kind of sucks.
It's probably because 7 was so good. It was essentially XP, updated for newer computers and with even better functionality.
8 might be OK, on an objective level, but after 7 anything less would be, and was, a disappointment. Also, based on what I've seen, 8 is a fantastic OS...for a tablet. But if someone wants a more customisable PC experience, then they're probably not going to have a good time.
*heavy breathing*
Windows 8 has one major flaw, which is consistency across metro and desktop. At work I come accross it a lot when I need something like services msc which opens only in the desktop mode but the most common one that windows 8 home users will run into is connecting to their home network
In metro (or whatever the tile thing is called now) you click to connect to the network, fine we can do that, but should you have to give a custom setting like dns, gateway or ip, it will force you to the desktop in "network and sharing center".
But from the desktop you want to connect to a network? You right click the Icon to connect to the network, but instead of network and sharing center you get the ridiculous black tile again.
Either have all the settings in one, or have all the settings in both.
I guess the reason for this is that each one had to be gradually ported over to the new interface but rather than delay release for small stuff like this they just released it inconsistent. It will improve, but it will take time.
Sales wise it is another dead on arrival like vista, but it's certainly not as flawed as vista, and as someone who was very hostile to it when it came out I have had very few issues with other then irritating things like what I describe.
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 09, 2014, 09:19:29 AM
In a bid to stave off madness, I have had the welder create "The Wheel of Misfortune".
It's a large metal disk, on a metal rod. It spins.
I've crudely laminated a variety of emotions such as "Happy" "Sad" "On Glue" "Lonely" "Masturating Furiously" and so on. These have been attached and with a vice and another rod, it has begun to predict the future.
My previous phone call was "Hissy fit" and my next is apparently "Coming down from Meth". Feel free to add suggestions.
It's amazing how much being able to shout "SPIN THE WHEEL" can improve your day. It's the little things, you know?
I've been writing Pipi Lonshanks stories in notepad.
It's like Pipi Longstockings, only she throws people out of windows and picks fights with the Scots.
Why all the linux hate? Ubuntu and Mint are both built for non-nerds.
I don't hate on Linux, to each his own sort of thing, but I couldn't figure out Ubuntu and internetting. I felt like a derp.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on September 09, 2014, 07:16:25 PM
Why all the linux hate? Ubuntu and Mint are both built for non-nerds.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Qftb2O--Y)
I remember installing red-hat distributions that required a 600pp manual, twenty 3.5" disks and a long week-end. Haven't seen slack distributions around for a while. From a distance, Ubutnu seems like a popular "build". I think I may be trying that next. It just really pisses me off when I have a , well, "working" OS, that tries at every turn to retroactively break itself. It's just plain stupid.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on September 09, 2014, 07:16:25 PM
Why all the linux hate? Ubuntu and Mint are both built for non-nerds the slightly less nerdy.
FTFY.
Why is the first beer I order always shitty? Why am I so adventurous?
House hunting over.
Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 01:36:02 AM
House hunting over.
Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.
If not, may I suggest an alternative method of destruction?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq6T5BojXc8
aaargh i have to family birthday again today. I am single minded in my mission to get me some more submissions for the Reclaim the Night zine i'm helping out for for my feminist group and our first big ass event in the form of a march and do a couple of pieces myself.
I hate September.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 01:36:02 AM
House hunting over.
Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.
Wait... I missed something. New house? No more golf course shenanegins?
Today I learned you can piss off a Texan on the internet by telling them you live in New Hampshire and that we're better at freedom than they are.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 10, 2014, 11:55:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 01:36:02 AM
House hunting over.
Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.
Wait... I missed something. New house? No more golf course shenanegins?
I too seem to have missed something.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 10, 2014, 11:55:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 01:36:02 AM
House hunting over.
Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.
Wait... I missed something. New house? No more golf course shenanegins?
Yes. 4 years of that shit has worn thin, and there's only 3 of us now, so there is no reason for gigantic money pit.
For anyone having problems with windows 8/8.1 you can turn it into a passable facsimile of win7 by installing classic shell. Lets you dump metro and bring back the ver 7 start menu/orb
Once I did this I started to like 8 a lot. It's stable as a mofo (even compared to 7) and runs like shit off a stick. It's basically a pretty solid OS with a pathologically retarded gui. Ditch the gui and you should be good.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 01:57:37 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 10, 2014, 11:55:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 01:36:02 AM
House hunting over.
Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.
Wait... I missed something. New house? No more golf course shenanegins?
Yes. 4 years of that shit has worn thin, and there's only 3 of us now, so there is no reason for gigantic money pit.
Plus, no more homeowner's association!
I was going to ask "Whoever will he fuck with now?" and then realised there's hardly a shortage of people to fuck with.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 10, 2014, 02:26:26 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 01:57:37 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 10, 2014, 11:55:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 01:36:02 AM
House hunting over.
Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.
Wait... I missed something. New house? No more golf course shenanegins?
Yes. 4 years of that shit has worn thin, and there's only 3 of us now, so there is no reason for gigantic money pit.
Plus, no more homeowner's association!
WRONG.
And the entire neighorhood I am moving into is full of the sort of Calvinist that subjects their children to door-to-door evangelizing, and even
scouting.
There is work to be done.
Quote from: The Suu on September 10, 2014, 02:04:09 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 01:36:02 AM
House hunting over.
Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.
If not, may I suggest an alternative method of destruction?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq6T5BojXc8
That's me in 1995, dancing to jungle music on meth. The outcomes were similar as well.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 03:34:25 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 10, 2014, 02:26:26 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 01:57:37 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 10, 2014, 11:55:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 01:36:02 AM
House hunting over.
Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.
Wait... I missed something. New house? No more golf course shenanegins?
Yes. 4 years of that shit has worn thin, and there's only 3 of us now, so there is no reason for gigantic money pit.
Plus, no more homeowner's association!
WRONG.
And the entire neighorhood I am moving into is full of the sort of Calvinist that subjects their children to door-to-door evangelizing, and even scouting.
There is work to be done.
Well, at least you'll never be bored.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 10, 2014, 04:31:32 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 03:34:25 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 10, 2014, 02:26:26 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 01:57:37 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 10, 2014, 11:55:34 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 01:36:02 AM
House hunting over.
Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.
Wait... I missed something. New house? No more golf course shenanegins?
Yes. 4 years of that shit has worn thin, and there's only 3 of us now, so there is no reason for gigantic money pit.
Plus, no more homeowner's association!
WRONG.
And the entire neighorhood I am moving into is full of the sort of Calvinist that subjects their children to door-to-door evangelizing, and even scouting.
There is work to be done.
Well, at least you'll never be bored.
I have already seen what needs to be done.
Inviting a few of the dirty boys from Grant road over for the housewarming party.
I'm LMNO, and I approve this message.
Paper writing time. :crankey:
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on September 09, 2014, 01:17:42 PM
Honestly though, I really don't understand why people hate 8. I think it's the best OS since XP. I've literally never had a problem with it and it's great with a touchscreen interface (which is clearly what it was really designed for).
OTOH, I'm not what anyone would consider a "high-powered" user.
It's shit.
It's shit with a touchscreen, I can only imagine the nightmare that it must be without one.
It appears to COMPLETELY LACK MULTITASKING.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 10, 2014, 03:54:24 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 10, 2014, 02:04:09 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 01:36:02 AM
House hunting over.
Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.
If not, may I suggest an alternative method of destruction?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq6T5BojXc8
That's me in 1995, dancing to jungle music on meth. The outcomes were similar as well.
:lulz:
I got an email from my favorite classmate from gen chem, he's in my Ochem class this fall.
:banana:
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 10, 2014, 03:54:24 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 10, 2014, 02:04:09 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 10, 2014, 01:36:02 AM
House hunting over.
Now I just need to find out if the washer & drier I've had in storage since 2005 still work.
If not, may I suggest an alternative method of destruction?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq6T5BojXc8
That's me in 1995, dancing to jungle music on meth. The outcomes were similar as well.
SHAKE YOUR MONEY MAKER
:hammer:
My husband has had very little problem with Windows 8. And he very often runs multiple programs at once.
He also rarely uses the start screen/menu/whatever it's called. Everything he gets to from the desktop.
Also has no touch screen, it's just a regular pc and monitor.
Don't know why some people have such troubles :(
I'm alone in the house, and had 8 hours of sleep over the past two nights. It's dark and the cats are out.
Obviously this is the best time ever to read NoSleep (http://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/).
I'm cooling down liquid-like conducting alloy particulates in large counter-rotating magnetic fields. I figure it will work like plasma. In my mind there is a biological vacuum. Everything is on fire.
Having squeeing moments over new Navy uniforms in the house. I think it's more of a tailoring gasm than a promotion gasm. I'm all like, "DUDE, THE FITTING ON THIS IS AWESOME, HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CUT? I'm going to take measurements and see if I can draft off of this coat!"
Excellent news, Roger!
I accidentally another computer today. :oops:
A whole computer?
A whole computer! :sad:
This one meets the specs you said I ought to have gotten for a laptop. Also I accidentally the package Skyrim deal. I am ashame.
Well, that's not so bad then, is it?
If you want, I can put in the Skyrim thread links to a bunch of low-peformance impacting but really useful mods?
Quote from: Cain on September 11, 2014, 08:06:20 AM
Well, that's not so bad then, is it?
If you want, I can put in the Skyrim thread links to a bunch of low-peformance impacting but really useful mods?
VERY YES. I LOVE YOU FOREVER.
Quote from: The Suu on September 11, 2014, 01:26:34 AM
Having squeeing moments over new Navy uniforms in the house. I think it's more of a tailoring gasm than a promotion gasm. I'm all like, "DUDE, THE FITTING ON THIS IS AWESOME, HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CUT? I'm going to take measurements and see if I can draft off of this coat!"
:) That's cute.
Quote from: Cain on September 11, 2014, 08:06:20 AM
Well, that's not so bad then, is it?
If you want, I can put in the Skyrim thread links to a bunch of low-peformance impacting but really useful mods?
Have you seen the VorpX app running Skyrim on Oculus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFjoAoNVMYI)?.
MY BODY HAS NEVER BEEN THIS READY!!! :fap:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 11, 2014, 09:41:23 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 11, 2014, 08:06:20 AM
Well, that's not so bad then, is it?
If you want, I can put in the Skyrim thread links to a bunch of low-peformance impacting but really useful mods?
Have you seen the VorpX app running Skyrim on Oculus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFjoAoNVMYI)?.
MY BODY HAS NEVER BEEN THIS READY!!! :fap:
No, but hook that up with a Wii for the sword/spell actions and you'd have a
hell of a game.
Why stop there? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7n5kRRHDpw)
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 11, 2014, 09:52:39 AM
Why stop there? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7n5kRRHDpw)
So much rage in the comments. They mad.
I couldn't find a chrome mod like adblock to block youtube comments so I installed one in my head. I'm honestly incapable of seeing them now. :lulz:
"zomg u look like such a douchebag m8, douchebag, fat nerd tech, lame, go outside ur basement, i own a console and im a fucking stud"
Basically stuff like that. Just surprising how much there is, given it's a damn cool piece of tech.
Heh, yeah. The presenter guy came across a part man / part douche. Maybe related?
Maybe. I wasn't really paying attention to him though. I was paying attention to being able to shoot dragons with a fricking longbow using current tech. Which is probably why I don't get the comments.
Yeah, funny the things people fixate on. I'm kinda siding with you on the which part was relevent issue :) I've had a play with Google cardboard on my Nexus5 and, given that what I experienced was the result of a 1 year old smartphone and some cardboard, I can confidently say that VR is going to change the fucking world.
Speaking of cool gamer related stuff, have you seen No Man's Sky? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVl1Hmth3HE)
I'm not getting how he can walk in that rig. Something's not adding up right in my head.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 11, 2014, 12:01:38 PM
I'm not getting how he can walk in that rig. Something's not adding up right in my head.
He's sliding. Like moowalking with the rig holding him in place. Gotta admit I prefer the idea of a hamsterball but those are waaaay fkin pricey. Could see me settling for something like this until they can jack my cerebellum.
Or he's pressing L Alt.
One or the other.
So, it's generally known I'm apathetic as fuck on FB, but holy shitballs, I think it's worth the seven seconds of clicking it takes to leave all these incredibly stupid, hurtful, and hateful Discordian pages people keep volunteering me to.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 11, 2014, 06:09:17 PM
So, it's generally known I'm apathetic as fuck on FB, but holy shitballs, I think it's worth the seven seconds of clicking it takes to leave all these incredibly stupid, hurtful, and hateful Discordian pages people keep volunteering me to.
I've been adding them to teabagger pages since I left TDS.
OSHIDASHI!
So nearly two weeks after getting my new computer, my monitor should be arriving today. Maybe. Yay.
God this has been frustrating.
Tender complete. Approximately the size of 3 phone books.
I think the only details missing are my blood group and the procedure guide on fluent human-dolphin communication. That may sound irrelevant but how many of those pages do you really think are? I'll fucking tell you. 3. 3 pages, out of 3 fucking phone books is all that is actually really needed.
I'm fairly sure who-ever wrote the requests and required docs list has some form of OCD. I've never seen shit like this before and I've worked out of some quite serious places.
New computer now set up, verified, online and all that jazz. However, my internet connection probably means it will be another week before I have everything installed.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 11, 2014, 06:09:17 PM
So, it's generally known I'm apathetic as fuck on FB, but holy shitballs, I think it's worth the seven seconds of clicking it takes to leave all these incredibly stupid, hurtful, and hateful Discordian pages people keep volunteering me to.
Are you in Eris's Disco Clitterball? I think it's the only one that's not full of assholes. It has an actual moderator who has made it clear that it isn't a free-for-all, and it's female-friendly so the misogynists stay away.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 11, 2014, 09:52:39 AM
Why stop there? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7n5kRRHDpw)
That looks fucking awesome and I would totally use it.
Quote from: Cain on September 11, 2014, 10:24:44 AM
"zomg u look like such a douchebag m8, douchebag, fat nerd tech, lame, go outside ur basement, i own a console and im a fucking stud"
Basically stuff like that. Just surprising how much there is, given it's a damn cool piece of tech.
Anybody who gives a fuck about looking silly while playing a game doesn't
deserve to have that much fun.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 12, 2014, 07:29:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 11, 2014, 06:09:17 PM
So, it's generally known I'm apathetic as fuck on FB, but holy shitballs, I think it's worth the seven seconds of clicking it takes to leave all these incredibly stupid, hurtful, and hateful Discordian pages people keep volunteering me to.
Are you in Eris's Disco Clitterball? I think it's the only one that's not full of assholes. It has an actual moderator who has made it clear that it isn't a free-for-all, and it's female-friendly so the misogynists stay away.
What the WHAT? I searched for it...Facebook said no and slapped me for my impudence.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on September 11, 2014, 02:52:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 11, 2014, 12:01:38 PM
I'm not getting how he can walk in that rig. Something's not adding up right in my head.
He's sliding. Like moowalking with the rig holding him in place. Gotta admit I prefer the idea of a hamsterball but those are waaaay fkin pricey. Could see me settling for something like this until they can jack my cerebellum.
Perfect rig for any ninja-like character, I wonder if sliding +/- on "X" axis during forward "Y" movement makes the character crouch, perhaps.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 12, 2014, 07:44:05 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 12, 2014, 07:29:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 11, 2014, 06:09:17 PM
So, it's generally known I'm apathetic as fuck on FB, but holy shitballs, I think it's worth the seven seconds of clicking it takes to leave all these incredibly stupid, hurtful, and hateful Discordian pages people keep volunteering me to.
Are you in Eris's Disco Clitterball? I think it's the only one that's not full of assholes. It has an actual moderator who has made it clear that it isn't a free-for-all, and it's female-friendly so the misogynists stay away.
What the WHAT? I searched for it...Facebook said no and slapped me for my impudence.
Ohhh, it must be set to "secret". I'll add you, and anyone else who wants to be added and can be trusted not to be a big dumb jerk. Which is everyone here pretty much, except I guess cow ass.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 12, 2014, 07:35:13 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 11, 2014, 10:24:44 AM
"zomg u look like such a douchebag m8, douchebag, fat nerd tech, lame, go outside ur basement, i own a console and im a fucking stud"
Basically stuff like that. Just surprising how much there is, given it's a damn cool piece of tech.
Anybody who gives a fuck about looking silly while playing a game doesn't deserve to have that much fun.
I love you.
Quote from: Ragret on September 12, 2014, 11:41:16 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 12, 2014, 07:35:13 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 11, 2014, 10:24:44 AM
"zomg u look like such a douchebag m8, douchebag, fat nerd tech, lame, go outside ur basement, i own a console and im a fucking stud"
Basically stuff like that. Just surprising how much there is, given it's a damn cool piece of tech.
Anybody who gives a fuck about looking silly while playing a game doesn't deserve to have that much fun.
I love you.
:cheers:
And now there's dickpics all over Discordian selfies.
Fuck it. I'm out of all these fucking groups. Nobody add me again. Goddamnit.
The aurora borealis was killed by the moon last night. :argh!: We had a blue green horizon with some random flickers coming up and then the moon went and decided to be a douchebag.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 12, 2014, 07:29:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 11, 2014, 06:09:17 PM
So, it's generally known I'm apathetic as fuck on FB, but holy shitballs, I think it's worth the seven seconds of clicking it takes to leave all these incredibly stupid, hurtful, and hateful Discordian pages people keep volunteering me to.
Are you in Eris's Disco Clitterball? I think it's the only one that's not full of assholes. It has an actual moderator who has made it clear that it isn't a free-for-all, and it's female-friendly so the misogynists stay away.
Invite me, please!
Quote from: The Suu on September 13, 2014, 01:38:18 AM
And now there's dickpics all over Discordian selfies.
Fuck it. I'm out of all these fucking groups. Nobody add me again. Goddamnit.
I kind of enjoyed the dick pics, actually... they were posted on request by some of the single ladies. But you don't expect that kind of thing on Facebook. I didn't ask for them, given that it's not my bag, but there was ample warning and I stuck around for them.
But holy
shit, some of those guys are gorgeous. Gary whatever his name is... oh my god. Beautiful. And his pictures were beautifully composed.
Computer so slow....
Not sure if it's network problems, the dongle, or a combination of the two (my personal bet). Either way, my internet is crawling along. Bleh.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 13, 2014, 03:13:09 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 12, 2014, 07:29:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 11, 2014, 06:09:17 PM
So, it's generally known I'm apathetic as fuck on FB, but holy shitballs, I think it's worth the seven seconds of clicking it takes to leave all these incredibly stupid, hurtful, and hateful Discordian pages people keep volunteering me to.
Are you in Eris's Disco Clitterball? I think it's the only one that's not full of assholes. It has an actual moderator who has made it clear that it isn't a free-for-all, and it's female-friendly so the misogynists stay away.
Invite me, please!
Invited!
Thanks! It already feels better.
Jewcat's final PC part came in.
Celebrated with butt secks.
Must stop fapping to high definition porn. I can see parts of the vagina I never seen before. In HIGH-DEF!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 14, 2014, 03:18:27 AM
Thanks! It already feels better.
Yeah it's nowhere near as busy, but also doesn't attract the attention-whore shit-spewers, racists, and MRAs.
I apparently had amazing sex last night, and only barely remember it. Way too much whiskey, combined with way too much oldness. My boyfriend tells me that it was incredible.
I feel totally cheated. GodDAMNIT.
So there's this little mini-Doberman that visits at night and sleeps under my bed. Kinda v.super cute to wake up and find you actually have a guest. Well, turns out hes's off tomorrow, might be back next year :sad: This is why I don't have many friends.
Laibach were awesome.
I'm going to the expensive nail salon tomorrow to get dolled up for the week of Navy things. I kinda want to shoot myself for how much I'm paying, but the place closest to me is gross and they did a shitty job, and it's worth paying the extra to get the gel with a 10 day guarantee.
I'm nervous as fuck. Husband leaves for work at 4am, and they are going to make his life a living hell until midnight. I'll see him on Tuesday for the pinning ceremony, during which I must not fall and die in my adorbs heels that are not friendly to my non-existent bunions, so I need to remember to get moleskin tomorrow. I still need to finish making my living room and bathroom look presentable for the in-laws. They aren't filthy, but we own a lot of stuff, and for some reason, my coffee table is a magnet for it. My bathroom just needs a wipe down and a sweep. Oh, and vacuum, must vacuum the whole house.
:whack: :cpd:
Told a friend I used to date that I still had feelings for her. In related news, gonna slam my dick in a drawer to see if that improves my mood.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 13, 2014, 03:13:09 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 12, 2014, 07:29:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 11, 2014, 06:09:17 PM
So, it's generally known I'm apathetic as fuck on FB, but holy shitballs, I think it's worth the seven seconds of clicking it takes to leave all these incredibly stupid, hurtful, and hateful Discordian pages people keep volunteering me to.
Are you in Eris's Disco Clitterball? I think it's the only one that's not full of assholes. It has an actual moderator who has made it clear that it isn't a free-for-all, and it's female-friendly so the misogynists stay away.
Invite me, please!
me too please!
Good morning!
Quote from: BBC NewsA body has been found in a burning skip on a main road into Manchester city centre.
OK, I'm going back to bed.
Fast ran out on the flat. Rental is jacked by the square. I'm rolling the wheel away and flower shops are suddenly popping up all 'round. Don't mind me.
Quote from: Cain on September 15, 2014, 08:09:24 AM
Good morning!
Quote from: BBC NewsA body has been found in a burning skip on a main road into Manchester city centre.
OK, I'm going back to bed.
Meanwhile at work, we're playing "Who owned said skip and who have they pissed off recently".
It's more fun than I really wanted around here.
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 15, 2014, 09:33:37 AM
Quote from: Cain on September 15, 2014, 08:09:24 AM
Good morning!
Quote from: BBC NewsA body has been found in a burning skip on a main road into Manchester city centre.
OK, I'm going back to bed.
Meanwhile at work, we're playing "Who owned said skip and who have they pissed off recently".
It's more fun than I really wanted around here.
I just had to look up what a skip was.
Meanwhile, in Providence, throwing dead people into dumpsters is a thing. They don't always burn, though, so good on ya, Manchester.
My great aunt has ALS.
Day over.
Quote from: The Suu on September 15, 2014, 11:28:08 AM
Meanwhile, in Providence, throwing dead people into dumpsters is a thing. They don't always burn, though, so good on ya, Manchester.
We were doing that
before it was cool.
Yes, but where you are it's just called "Going outside". The fact you all have skin made from asbestos is the only reason the lot of you aren't on fire right now.
Quote from: The Suu on September 15, 2014, 12:13:07 PM
My great aunt has ALS.
Day over.
I appreciate this isn't much, but at least there's been a fuckton of cash raised for that recently.
Hope shit improves Suu.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on September 15, 2014, 06:34:31 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 13, 2014, 03:13:09 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 12, 2014, 07:29:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 11, 2014, 06:09:17 PM
So, it's generally known I'm apathetic as fuck on FB, but holy shitballs, I think it's worth the seven seconds of clicking it takes to leave all these incredibly stupid, hurtful, and hateful Discordian pages people keep volunteering me to.
Are you in Eris's Disco Clitterball? I think it's the only one that's not full of assholes. It has an actual moderator who has made it clear that it isn't a free-for-all, and it's female-friendly so the misogynists stay away.
Invite me, please!
me too please!
I will! The only thing is, I'm not sure who you are on Facebook!
Ask Nigel or Roger, they have me on FB
or i could just PM you. Not at my best today i'm afraid
Quote from: Your Mom on September 15, 2014, 05:39:51 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on September 15, 2014, 06:34:31 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 13, 2014, 03:13:09 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 12, 2014, 07:29:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 11, 2014, 06:09:17 PM
So, it's generally known I'm apathetic as fuck on FB, but holy shitballs, I think it's worth the seven seconds of clicking it takes to leave all these incredibly stupid, hurtful, and hateful Discordian pages people keep volunteering me to.
Are you in Eris's Disco Clitterball? I think it's the only one that's not full of assholes. It has an actual moderator who has made it clear that it isn't a free-for-all, and it's female-friendly so the misogynists stay away.
Invite me, please!
me too please!
I will! The only thing is, I'm not sure who you are on Facebook!
I also want this
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 15, 2014, 04:55:10 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 15, 2014, 12:13:07 PM
My great aunt has ALS.
Day over.
I appreciate this isn't much, but at least there's been a fuckton of cash raised for that recently.
Hope shit improves Suu.
Unfortunately it's not something that gets better, but she's being well taken care of. She's a year in, and officially non-verbal according to my mom. But my great-uncle is still healthy and taking care of her. All we can do is make sure she stays with it and is comfortable.
Quote from: The Suu on September 15, 2014, 08:11:57 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 15, 2014, 04:55:10 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 15, 2014, 12:13:07 PM
My great aunt has ALS.
Day over.
I appreciate this isn't much, but at least there's been a fuckton of cash raised for that recently.
Hope shit improves Suu.
Unfortunately it's not something that gets better, but she's being well taken care of. She's a year in, and officially non-verbal according to my mom. But my great-uncle is still healthy and taking care of her. All we can do is make sure she stays with it and is comfortable.
Learned a lot about ALS when I was doing this play. (http://www.33variations.com/) It's a bitch of a diagnosis. There have been a lot of advancements in easing the symptoms and accommodating the patients as the disease progresses...for what that's worth.
My sympathies. Hope everything is the best it can be, given...
I friended some family members that I barely know (or don't know at all). Come to find out I'm a great-great-uncle. Have been for quite a while now...at 38-years-old.
I have a feeling one could look at that fact alone and make a pretty accurate estimate of the socio-economic status of my kin.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on September 15, 2014, 06:34:31 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 13, 2014, 03:13:09 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 12, 2014, 07:29:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 11, 2014, 06:09:17 PM
So, it's generally known I'm apathetic as fuck on FB, but holy shitballs, I think it's worth the seven seconds of clicking it takes to leave all these incredibly stupid, hurtful, and hateful Discordian pages people keep volunteering me to.
Are you in Eris's Disco Clitterball? I think it's the only one that's not full of assholes. It has an actual moderator who has made it clear that it isn't a free-for-all, and it's female-friendly so the misogynists stay away.
Invite me, please!
me too please!
aww yisss!
Radiohead can suck my universal everything.
Or does radiohead suck universally?
*gong*
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 15, 2014, 08:19:28 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 15, 2014, 08:11:57 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 15, 2014, 04:55:10 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 15, 2014, 12:13:07 PM
My great aunt has ALS.
Day over.
I appreciate this isn't much, but at least there's been a fuckton of cash raised for that recently.
Hope shit improves Suu.
Unfortunately it's not something that gets better, but she's being well taken care of. She's a year in, and officially non-verbal according to my mom. But my great-uncle is still healthy and taking care of her. All we can do is make sure she stays with it and is comfortable.
Learned a lot about ALS when I was doing this play. (http://www.33variations.com/) It's a bitch of a diagnosis. There have been a lot of advancements in easing the symptoms and accommodating the patients as the disease progresses...for what that's worth.
My sympathies. Hope everything is the best it can be, given...
It is what it is. Things are taken care of for the inevitable, but she's still in high spirits. :)
In other family news, my gramma's apartment complex put a dedication plaque up for her at the rec room, since she ran bingo and all the events they had there. I need to make a pilgrimage to Long Island to see it in person now when I get a chance to get to her and my grandfather's gravesite.
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on September 15, 2014, 08:39:50 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on September 15, 2014, 06:34:31 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 13, 2014, 03:13:09 PM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 12, 2014, 07:29:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 11, 2014, 06:09:17 PM
So, it's generally known I'm apathetic as fuck on FB, but holy shitballs, I think it's worth the seven seconds of clicking it takes to leave all these incredibly stupid, hurtful, and hateful Discordian pages people keep volunteering me to.
Are you in Eris's Disco Clitterball? I think it's the only one that's not full of assholes. It has an actual moderator who has made it clear that it isn't a free-for-all, and it's female-friendly so the misogynists stay away.
Invite me, please!
me too please!
aww yisss!
Pixie I am not finding you on FB, PM me?
50 minutes and I find out if my husband survived the worst day of his life in the Navy.
I kinda want to go to bed, though. I think I'll do that and leave the ringer on.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on September 15, 2014, 11:12:55 PM
Or does radiohead suck universally?
*gong*
Thank you. And it still pisses me off when they come before me to suck-seed.
Off to go chiefify the dude.
Put far more scorpion pepper sauce in my lunch soup than I had intended. My face is on fire and my brain is buzzing with AWESOME (at least I hope that's what it is). Also, I have achieved goosebumps.
Also hello again! (although my lack of lurking and occasional posts may not have been noticed - still it felt weird not being here for a while). Spent a week in Virginia playing with hippies at a festival and then visiting with my boyfriend's dad & family. The days before and since did not leave much time for checking in due to preparing my boss for my absence and subsequent catching up, but I have achieved that comfortable level of not much outstanding.
Hey, TP! :)
ALL THE USB PORTS ON MY COMPUTER DON'T WORK. :crankey: What does this mean? It means that I can't use a mouse. Which means that, because there is a choice of accounts to log into, I CAN'T EVEN USE THE DAMN THING. Much upset, very anger.
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on September 16, 2014, 06:05:44 PM
Hey, TP! :)
ALL THE USB PORTS ON MY COMPUTER DON'T WORK. :crankey: What does this mean? It means that I can't use a mouse. Which means that, because there is a choice of accounts to log into, I CAN'T EVEN USE THE DAMN THING. Much upset, very anger.
Return it. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
USB ports are now working. :?
We took it to SWS to see about getting it fixed. During the drive, my mom took a corner too sharply, and the tower hit the side of the car. SWS says it works fine.
1. FIND PROBLEM.
2. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!
It's either that or I'm just dumb and can't mouse.
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on September 16, 2014, 10:07:23 PM
USB ports are now working. :?
We took it to SWS to see about getting it fixed. During the drive, my mom took a corner too sharply, and the tower hit the side of the car. SWS says it works fine.
1. FIND PROBLEM.
2. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!
It's either that or I'm just dumb and can't mouse.
Hmmm probably a loose connection that reconnected during the drive. I would insist on someone looking at the wiring before it's out of warranty.
I am home, which is fine and lovely, but I kind of wanted to spend the night with the bf, but I guess there's a houseguest which makes that awkward. :( So I'm gonna head back out to play ingress.
GIGANTIC storm coming through, thanks to Mexico not controlling their hurricanes and letting them out of the yard.
Sky is black, we're supposed to get 6" of rain by morning, and this shit is supposed to continue until Monday night, which means we'll lose a bunch of roads.
Time to grab the boogie board!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 17, 2014, 03:20:16 PM
Time to grab the boogie board!
Time to be on bedrock, watching La Cholla road slide down to the highway.
So long, Marana! We won't miss you!
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 17, 2014, 03:12:06 PM
GIGANTIC storm coming through, thanks to Mexico not controlling their hurricanes and letting them out of the yard.
Sky is black, we're supposed to get 6" of rain by morning, and this shit is supposed to continue until Monday night, which means we'll lose a bunch of roads.
I thought we were preaching border protection. We're going to send away a bunch of kids who never did us any wrong and let an enormous fucking hurricane right through it? Fuck's sake that's backwards.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 17, 2014, 03:27:37 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 17, 2014, 03:12:06 PM
GIGANTIC storm coming through, thanks to Mexico not controlling their hurricanes and letting them out of the yard.
Sky is black, we're supposed to get 6" of rain by morning, and this shit is supposed to continue until Monday night, which means we'll lose a bunch of roads.
I thought we were preaching border protection. We're going to send away a bunch of kids who never did us any wrong and let an enormous fucking hurricane right through it? Fuck's sake that's backwards.
It's like leaving a rider mower unattended, to drive through the neighbor's begonias.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 17, 2014, 03:12:06 PM
GIGANTIC storm coming through, thanks to Mexico not controlling their hurricanes and letting them out of the yard.
Sky is black, we're supposed to get 6" of rain by morning, and this shit is supposed to continue until Monday night, which means we'll lose a bunch of roads.
Now you know how we feel.
EVERY DAMN YEAR.
I mean, after that little warning shot called Sandy you sent us a few years ago to see if Richter was paying attention turned and decided to have a Jersey Shore vacation it was only a matter of time before your rain divinity backfired.
Quote from: Your Mom on September 17, 2014, 07:30:14 AM
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on September 16, 2014, 10:07:23 PM
USB ports are now working. :?
We took it to SWS to see about getting it fixed. During the drive, my mom took a corner too sharply, and the tower hit the side of the car. SWS says it works fine.
1. FIND PROBLEM.
2. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!
It's either that or I'm just dumb and can't mouse.
Hmmm probably a loose connection that reconnected during the drive. I would insist on someone looking at the wiring before it's out of warranty.
The only warantee I have is to return it to the pawn store (yes, I know) within 6 months for store credit. I'll probably lug it back to SWS again, I need a sound board too, apparently.
Quote from: The Suu on September 17, 2014, 05:06:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 17, 2014, 03:12:06 PM
GIGANTIC storm coming through, thanks to Mexico not controlling their hurricanes and letting them out of the yard.
Sky is black, we're supposed to get 6" of rain by morning, and this shit is supposed to continue until Monday night, which means we'll lose a bunch of roads.
Now you know how we feel.
EVERY DAMN YEAR.
I mean, after that little warning shot called Sandy you sent us a few years ago to see if Richter was paying attention turned and decided to have a Jersey Shore vacation it was only a matter of time before your rain divinity backfired.
The rains are coming to Arizona. A flood will spread across the land, seeping into the withered pores of the desert's skin. Sand-tainted effluvia will run deep into Tucson's mummified heart, swelling its size until it bursts like over-ripe fruit or a body left in the sun too long.
The rains are coming to Arizona. The steady drumming, the unending pummeling of the desert will cover other noises. It will mask the beating of Tucson's awakened, swollen heart. As that creaking, ancient organ squelches and contracts with renewed malevolence it will pump more vile pus into its spore making. Tucson will bloom like mold on damp walls. It will send its spores into the sewers. Into the sea. Into your lungs. And it will thrive, torpid and malicious, until the rains recede.
The rains are coming to Arizona. Everything will be covered in that metallic-sand scented slime that is Tucson's spreading disease. The rains are coming but they will not last long enough to drown Tucson. And when the rains are spent, when the sky is once more bare, then the sun returns. That burning ball of hate and evil will pound, pound, pound Earth until the last bit moisture has been wicked away, burned to steam and then nothing. And when everything is as desiccated as it was before the rain, when it has all withered once more into an inert husk . . . then beware the spores.
CPD's got a case of the Holies...
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 17, 2014, 05:23:42 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 17, 2014, 05:06:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 17, 2014, 03:12:06 PM
GIGANTIC storm coming through, thanks to Mexico not controlling their hurricanes and letting them out of the yard.
Sky is black, we're supposed to get 6" of rain by morning, and this shit is supposed to continue until Monday night, which means we'll lose a bunch of roads.
Now you know how we feel.
EVERY DAMN YEAR.
I mean, after that little warning shot called Sandy you sent us a few years ago to see if Richter was paying attention turned and decided to have a Jersey Shore vacation it was only a matter of time before your rain divinity backfired.
The rains are coming to Arizona. A flood will spread across the land, seeping into the withered pores of the desert's skin. Sand-tainted effluvia will run deep into Tucson's mummified heart, swelling its size until it bursts like over-ripe fruit or a body left in the sun too long.
The rains are coming to Arizona. The steady drumming, the unending pummeling of the desert will cover other noises. It will mask the beating of Tucson's awakened, swollen heart. As that creaking, ancient organ squelches and contracts with renewed malevolence it will pump more vile pus into its spore making. Tucson will bloom like mold on damp walls. It will send its spores into the sewers. Into the sea. Into your lungs. And it will thrive, torpid and malicious, until the rains recede.
The rains are coming to Arizona. Everything will be covered in that metallic-sand scented slime that is Tucson's spreading disease. The rains are coming but they will not last long enough to drown Tucson. And when the rains are spent, when the sky is once more bare, then the sun returns. That burning ball of hate and evil will pound, pound, pound Earth until the last bit moisture has been wicked away, burned to steam and then nothing. And when everything is as desiccated as it was before the rain, when it has all withered once more into an inert husk . . . then beware the spores.
:mittens:
And the spores don't wait for the rain to stop. No. I can see them piling up on my office window. Waiting for a chance to get in. We have duct taped all the doors and windows in my building. Nobody has heard from the office building for hours. I have booby-trapped my lunchbox. When the food runs low, there will be lunch both inside AND outside of the box.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 17, 2014, 05:23:42 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 17, 2014, 05:06:50 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 17, 2014, 03:12:06 PM
GIGANTIC storm coming through, thanks to Mexico not controlling their hurricanes and letting them out of the yard.
Sky is black, we're supposed to get 6" of rain by morning, and this shit is supposed to continue until Monday night, which means we'll lose a bunch of roads.
Now you know how we feel.
EVERY DAMN YEAR.
I mean, after that little warning shot called Sandy you sent us a few years ago to see if Richter was paying attention turned and decided to have a Jersey Shore vacation it was only a matter of time before your rain divinity backfired.
The rains are coming to Arizona. A flood will spread across the land, seeping into the withered pores of the desert's skin. Sand-tainted effluvia will run deep into Tucson's mummified heart, swelling its size until it bursts like over-ripe fruit or a body left in the sun too long.
The rains are coming to Arizona. The steady drumming, the unending pummeling of the desert will cover other noises. It will mask the beating of Tucson's awakened, swollen heart. As that creaking, ancient organ squelches and contracts with renewed malevolence it will pump more vile pus into its spore making. Tucson will bloom like mold on damp walls. It will send its spores into the sewers. Into the sea. Into your lungs. And it will thrive, torpid and malicious, until the rains recede.
The rains are coming to Arizona. Everything will be covered in that metallic-sand scented slime that is Tucson's spreading disease. The rains are coming but they will not last long enough to drown Tucson. And when the rains are spent, when the sky is once more bare, then the sun returns. That burning ball of hate and evil will pound, pound, pound Earth until the last bit moisture has been wicked away, burned to steam and then nothing. And when everything is as desiccated as it was before the rain, when it has all withered once more into an inert husk . . . then beware the spores.
Damn good writing there, CPD. Damn good.
Little Susie thinks the vomit-yellow and grave-mold-green particles floating amidst the deluge look almost magical in the dim light, against a backdrop of hissing downpour. She presses her little face to the window and stares intently at the mysterious motes dancing about, turning the rain to sloppy sludge as the specks infiltrated each drop. She stares until she perceives, in the lizard portion of her brain, a malevolent sentience in each tiny fleck. Until she can not turn away. Until she can no longer resist their piercing siren wail beyond the glass.
Little Susie flings open the window, letting in the rain. And the spores. Almost instantly she becomes coated in slime. And the spores waste no time getting to know their new food source. Seeping into her skin, the spores burrow. Deeper in, down into the meat and marrow of Little Susie. Burrow until they reached Little Susie's heart.
Now her pulse is in perfect sync with Tucson's. Now Little Susie is a part of something bigger. Older.
Little Susie smiles in the mirror. She smiles with her vomit-yellow lips until her grave-mold-green eyes spark with mirth.
Then she skips off to ask Mommy for permission to go play at a friend's house. Mommy will say yes.
Mommy will do anything Little Susie asks.
Or else.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 17, 2014, 07:37:25 PM
Little Susie thinks the vomit-yellow and grave-mold-green particles floating amidst the deluge look almost magical in the dim light, against a backdrop of hissing downpour. She presses her little face to the window and stares intently at the mysterious motes dancing about, turning the rain to sloppy sludge as the specks infiltrated each drop. She stares until she perceives, in the lizard portion of her brain, a malevolent sentience in each tiny fleck. Until she can not turn away. Until she can no longer resist their piercing siren wail beyond the glass.
Little Susie flings open the window, letting in the rain. And the spores. Almost instantly she becomes coated in slime. And the spores waste no time getting to know their new food source. Seeping into her skin, the spores burrow. Deeper in, down into the meat and marrow of Little Susie. Burrow until they reached Little Susie's heart.
Now her pulse is in perfect sync with Tucson's. Now Little Susie is a part of something bigger. Older.
Little Susie smiles in the mirror. She smiles with her vomit-yellow lips until her grave-mold-green eyes spark with mirth.
Then she skips off to ask Mommy for permission to go play at a friend's house. Mommy will say yes.
Mommy will do anything Little Susie asks.
Or else.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! :eek:
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 17, 2014, 07:37:25 PM
Little Susie thinks the vomit-yellow and grave-mold-green particles floating amidst the deluge look almost magical in the dim light, against a backdrop of hissing downpour. She presses her little face to the window and stares intently at the mysterious motes dancing about, turning the rain to sloppy sludge as the specks infiltrated each drop. She stares until she perceives, in the lizard portion of her brain, a malevolent sentience in each tiny fleck. Until she can not turn away. Until she can no longer resist their piercing siren wail beyond the glass.
Little Susie flings open the window, letting in the rain. And the spores. Almost instantly she becomes coated in slime. And the spores waste no time getting to know their new food source. Seeping into her skin, the spores burrow. Deeper in, down into the meat and marrow of Little Susie. Burrow until they reached Little Susie's heart.
Now her pulse is in perfect sync with Tucson's. Now Little Susie is a part of something bigger. Older.
Little Susie smiles in the mirror. She smiles with her vomit-yellow lips until her grave-mold-green eyes spark with mirth.
Then she skips off to ask Mommy for permission to go play at a friend's house. Mommy will say yes.
Mommy will do anything Little Susie asks.
Or else.
Wow.
Tonight, my boyfriend is going to see Neil DeGrasse Tyson, while I'm going to volunteer at an event at the Columbia Slough. :kingmeh:
CPD has all the holies!
I have tissues stuffed in my face to keep the brain juice off the carpet.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on September 18, 2014, 01:44:23 AM
CPD has all the holies!
I have tissues stuffed in my face to keep the brain juice off the carpet.
Ain't it AWESOME? :lulz:
Quote from: Your Mom on September 17, 2014, 11:39:10 PM
Tonight, my boyfriend is going to see Neil DeGrasse Tyson, while I'm going to volunteer at an event at the Columbia Slough. :kingmeh:
You might be on the higher moral trip?
They have canned haggis on sale at the grocery store.
I bought a couple of cans, in case of nuclear attack.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 18, 2014, 03:44:10 AM
They have canned haggis on sale at the grocery store.
I bought a couple of cans, in case of nuclear attack.
Save one for your work place's secret Santa, this year. Who wouldn't want a canned haggis in their stocking?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2014, 02:55:24 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on September 17, 2014, 11:39:10 PM
Tonight, my boyfriend is going to see Neil DeGrasse Tyson, while I'm going to volunteer at an event at the Columbia Slough. :kingmeh:
You might be on the higher moral trip?
I couldn't get a ticket, his girl-on-the-side and her life partner had a spare someone had to bail on and they offered it to him.
I bet it's good seats, too. Plus they took him out to dinner first.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on September 18, 2014, 04:40:54 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 18, 2014, 03:44:10 AM
They have canned haggis on sale at the grocery store.
I bought a couple of cans, in case of nuclear attack.
Save one for your work place's secret Santa, this year. Who wouldn't want a canned haggis in their stocking?
If they launch, I have maybe 35 minutes before all manner of shit falls on Tucson (Davis Monthan AFB/the boneyard makes this one of the most heavily targeted places on Earth). I figure I can get the can open and eat the shit raw, and still have 20 minutes or so for it to fucking kill me before the bombs hit.
Fuck you, Putin. Fuck you.
I've decided I need to make a new meme about how homophobes should be fascist, because the founders of democracy (Athens) and republicanism (Romans) allowed for open homosexuality.
BAN THE REPUBLIC, IT WAS FOUNDED BY THE GAYS
This (http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/17/joint-over-and-underdiagnosis/) is a bit of a brain twister.
QuoteSuppose that 3% of the population has ADHD.
Suppose that of people with ADHD, 50% of them realize they have ADHD like symptoms and go to a psychiatrist to get checked out.
Suppose that of people without ADHD, 10% of them falsely believe they have ADHD and also go to a psychiatrist to get checked out.
The Conners Continuous Performance Test is a commonly used test that evaluates children for ADHD. It is found to have a sensitivity of 75% and a specificity of 73%. In theory our system is based on faith that a trained psychiatrist can do better than a neuropsychological test; in practice they probably do much worse. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and say this is an excellent psychiatrist who outperforms the test handily and has both a sensitivity and specificity of 85%.
We can see that of every 100 people, 3 will have ADHD and 97 won't. 1.5 true patients and 9.7 false patients will show up for psychiatric evaluation. The psychiatrist will diagnose 1.275 true patients and 1.455 false patients with the condition, and prescribes stimulants according to the diagnosis.
So we have three things that, surprisingly, all happen at once:
1. We have an excellent psychiatrist who outperforms the tests and is right 85% of the time.
2. The majority of people who are on Ritalin, shouldn't be.
3. The majority of people who should be on Ritalin, aren't.
Number two sounds a lot like what we mean by "overdiagnosis", and number three sounds a lot like what we mean by "underdiagnosis". So even with a pretty good psychiatrist acting honestly, we expect ADHD to be both overdiagnosed and underdiagnosed at the same time.
I think this is real...
http://mysocialsherpa.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-my-roommate-with-targeted-facebook-ads/
Pretty freaking cool.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2014, 06:42:22 PM
I think this is real...
http://mysocialsherpa.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-my-roommate-with-targeted-facebook-ads/
Pretty freaking cool.
That was HILARIOUS!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 18, 2014, 01:18:21 PM
This (http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/17/joint-over-and-underdiagnosis/) is a bit of a brain twister.
QuoteSuppose that 3% of the population has ADHD.
Suppose that of people with ADHD, 50% of them realize they have ADHD like symptoms and go to a psychiatrist to get checked out.
Suppose that of people without ADHD, 10% of them falsely believe they have ADHD and also go to a psychiatrist to get checked out.
The Conners Continuous Performance Test is a commonly used test that evaluates children for ADHD. It is found to have a sensitivity of 75% and a specificity of 73%. In theory our system is based on faith that a trained psychiatrist can do better than a neuropsychological test; in practice they probably do much worse. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt and say this is an excellent psychiatrist who outperforms the test handily and has both a sensitivity and specificity of 85%.
We can see that of every 100 people, 3 will have ADHD and 97 won't. 1.5 true patients and 9.7 false patients will show up for psychiatric evaluation. The psychiatrist will diagnose 1.275 true patients and 1.455 false patients with the condition, and prescribes stimulants according to the diagnosis.
So we have three things that, surprisingly, all happen at once:
1. We have an excellent psychiatrist who outperforms the tests and is right 85% of the time.
2. The majority of people who are on Ritalin, shouldn't be.
3. The majority of people who should be on Ritalin, aren't.
Number two sounds a lot like what we mean by "overdiagnosis", and number three sounds a lot like what we mean by "underdiagnosis". So even with a pretty good psychiatrist acting honestly, we expect ADHD to be both overdiagnosed and underdiagnosed at the same time.
Sounds about right.
Once I understood that damnable breast cancer example on Less Wrong, things like that became much easier to grasp. Not saying I'm intuitively Bayesian in my thinking, only that it's a useful reminder to sometimes expand ones categories in thinking about a problem ie; overall population vs population diagnosed with ADHD versus population with ADHD. Because once you think about it like that, over and underdiagnosis doesn't seem like a logical contradiction at all.
I'm slightly annoyed, as I'm waiting for about 4 different jobs to get back to me, and have been for about 5 weeks now. In particular, one job is government and two are NGO-related, and I know I'm still being considered for them, but come on now.
They're trying to decrypt your FB posts for messages to ISIL.
Given I haven't been on my main facebook account since June, I wish them the best of luck in that.
Bleh. I'm essentially arguing in favour of a full, boots on the ground, invasion of Iraq and Syria, I've realised.
Proposition 1): ISIS must be dealt with. Because they're genocidal, sectarian lunatics who aint gonna stop. Militarily, they don't really pose a risk to the UK or USA, but they're gonna keep on doing what they do best until someone bigger and meaner than them makes them stop.
Proposition 2) Airforce is useless against insurgents. Sure, ISIS will abandon their frontlines once the bombing starts in earnest...and retreat right back into the major population centres. What now? You're going to start indiscriminatly bombing Mosul in the hope you'll kill some ISIS fighters? Yeah, that seems smart. Arab civilian populations love watching Americans bomb mosques.
Proposition 3) No-one else can be trusted to do it. The Iraqi Army turned tail and ran. The Peshmerga are brave...but bravery don't make up for logistics or experience. Or resources, for that matter. Saudi Arabia and Turkey...hahahaha no. Assad? Urgh, I'd probably puke just thinking about having to shake his hand. Iran? Sure, lets make this sectarian conflict even worse. The Syrian rebels? They're basically a subsidiary of Al-Qaeda at this point.
Proposition 4) Counter-terrorism is best conducted via intelligence, special forces and "clear-and-hold" operations by regular ground troops. ie; an invasion.
It'd probably mean a lot of people dying, any invasion. Which I really don't like. But would it deal with ISIS? Maybe...which is more than be said for the current strategy, I guess.
Of course, whether it would deal with the aftermath of a successful campaign, in which Syrian rebels/Assad, the Kurds, the Iraqi government, Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia are all scrabbling for advantage...well, that's far more questionable.
Well, fuck.
Depressingly accurate synopsis, Cain.
Of course, Obama's plan is to use ISIS as a causus belli to overthrow Assad, but nevertheless, the plan wont work. The Syrian rebels are currently scrambling to sign truces with ISIS to fight Assad (which should be a clue) and if Assad does fall...well, who are the most powerful group in that region after Assad, again? Clue: ISIS are currently expanding their territory around Aleppo, while the FSA are struggling to stay alive.
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Quote from: Cain on September 19, 2014, 03:27:17 PM
Of course, Obama's plan is to use ISIS as a causus belli to overthrow Assad, but nevertheless, the plan wont work. The Syrian rebels are currently scrambling to sign truces with ISIS to fight Assad (which should be a clue) and if Assad does fall...well, who are the most powerful group in that region after Assad, again? Clue: ISIS are currently expanding their territory around Aleppo, while the FSA are struggling to stay alive.
My hypothesis is that if they're left alone, they'll be cutting each other's throats inside of 180 days.
Or they'll fuck with the Turks and/or Jordanians, which seems to be the unbeatable level in that particular game.
Last night I went on a test run for my club. Found a specimen immediately. Like uncanny. Had not even turned on my head-lamp yet and I could "feel" something right in front of me. Not the exact member I wanted, but it's closest relative. Too bad I'm not Haitian. Very excited for tonight. Catch and release, strictly up to highest herp standards. :lulz:
Why's everyone get all offended when they find out that I hate them?
I hate 7 billion people. Get over yourself; you aren't that special.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 20, 2014, 12:48:56 AM
Why's everyone get all offended when they find out that I hate them?
I hate 7 billion people. Get over yourself; you aren't that special.
I am the main character. Some walk-on villain parks illegally and gives me red-ass, I'm gonna get offended. This is a direct violation of my contract.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 20, 2014, 12:50:46 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 20, 2014, 12:48:56 AM
Why's everyone get all offended when they find out that I hate them?
I hate 7 billion people. Get over yourself; you aren't that special.
I am the main character. Some walk-on villain parks illegally and gives me red-ass, I'm gonna get offended. This is a direct violation of my contract.
If they didn't want it parked on they shouldn't have a put a curb there. That hatchback defied space. It fit three grown men over six feet tall and fit into a spot intended for shopping carts. It gave one of the construction workers vertigo because he thought he was viewing it from a mile up. I never even sold that hatchback - I lost it, like a set of car keys.
My hating a person is like the perfect attendance award for the human race.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 20, 2014, 12:59:01 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 20, 2014, 12:50:46 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 20, 2014, 12:48:56 AM
Why's everyone get all offended when they find out that I hate them?
I hate 7 billion people. Get over yourself; you aren't that special.
I am the main character. Some walk-on villain parks illegally and gives me red-ass, I'm gonna get offended. This is a direct violation of my contract.
If they didn't want it parked on they shouldn't have a put a curb there. That hatchback defied space. It fit three grown men over six feet tall and fit into a spot intended for shopping carts. It gave one of the construction workers vertigo because he thought he was viewing it from a mile up. I never even sold that hatchback - I lost it, like a set of car keys.
I still don't believe you're really over 6' tall. It is an optical illusion of some kind, or perhaps you are just very tall for your height.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 20, 2014, 01:03:46 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 20, 2014, 12:59:01 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 20, 2014, 12:50:46 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 20, 2014, 12:48:56 AM
Why's everyone get all offended when they find out that I hate them?
I hate 7 billion people. Get over yourself; you aren't that special.
I am the main character. Some walk-on villain parks illegally and gives me red-ass, I'm gonna get offended. This is a direct violation of my contract.
If they didn't want it parked on they shouldn't have a put a curb there. That hatchback defied space. It fit three grown men over six feet tall and fit into a spot intended for shopping carts. It gave one of the construction workers vertigo because he thought he was viewing it from a mile up. I never even sold that hatchback - I lost it, like a set of car keys.
I still don't believe you're really over 6' tall. It is an optical illusion of some kind, or perhaps you are just very tall for your height.
Feels like a bit of a waste walking around with all that height all the time. I store most of it up in my teeth and just use it as I need to.
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Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 20, 2014, 01:03:46 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 20, 2014, 12:59:01 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 20, 2014, 12:50:46 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 20, 2014, 12:48:56 AM
Why's everyone get all offended when they find out that I hate them?
I hate 7 billion people. Get over yourself; you aren't that special.
I am the main character. Some walk-on villain parks illegally and gives me red-ass, I'm gonna get offended. This is a direct violation of my contract.
If they didn't want it parked on they shouldn't have a put a curb there. That hatchback defied space. It fit three grown men over six feet tall and fit into a spot intended for shopping carts. It gave one of the construction workers vertigo because he thought he was viewing it from a mile up. I never even sold that hatchback - I lost it, like a set of car keys.
I still don't believe you're really over 6' tall. It is an optical illusion of some kind, or perhaps you are just very tall for your height.
Feels like a bit of a waste walking around with all that height all the time. I store most of it up in my teeth and just use it as I need to.
I think your smile freaked LMNO out. I am used to it, though, having grown up on the seashore.
Very much fun exploring AZ's canals. No target specimen yet. Did catch an Osprey and Tomcat landing, though. Wetlands somewhat compromised by military. So many Chinese head-shots on entry. Ohwell.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 19, 2014, 05:32:20 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 19, 2014, 03:27:17 PM
Of course, Obama's plan is to use ISIS as a causus belli to overthrow Assad, but nevertheless, the plan wont work. The Syrian rebels are currently scrambling to sign truces with ISIS to fight Assad (which should be a clue) and if Assad does fall...well, who are the most powerful group in that region after Assad, again? Clue: ISIS are currently expanding their territory around Aleppo, while the FSA are struggling to stay alive.
My hypothesis is that if they're left alone, they'll be cutting each other's throats inside of 180 days.
Or they'll fuck with the Turks and/or Jordanians, which seems to be the unbeatable level in that particular game.
Probably, on the left alone bit. Problem is, a crazy cult of death squad Sunnis are too useful to be left alone.
I doubt they'd go for Turkey, since there appears to be a bit of covert support there (lots of their logistics is based in Turkey, it seems). But yeah, picking on Jordan wouldn't be smart. I don't know who it is over there who knows what their doing (it's most definitely not King Playstation), but they seem to be doing it well.
I surpassed my Goddamn Industry Professional level drunk last night for the first time in 4 years. Ow. My liver has declared total war. Full on outright total war. I couldn't keep water down, but Gatorade worked. I feel fucking horrible and I've been sleeping on and off all day so far.
Apparently I got naked and threw up in the sink last night. :?
That sounds terribly unpleasant, Suu.
I'm babysitting and have about 3 more hours of Nothing Happening At All before my best friend and her husband come home. I can't even play Ingress.
Meanwhile, one of my obsessed fans on Facebook has reposted some art-project nudes of mine in TDS. Joy.
I like to think bananas balance Gatorade well.
Quote from: axod on September 21, 2014, 06:53:58 AM
I like to think bananas balance Gatorade well.
I got some crackers during the day once I started feeling hungry. Then for dinner I got a greasy chicken finger dinner from the clam shack across the street. So that, coupled with 3 20oz bottles of Gatorade and all the water I diluted it into seems to have done the trick. I'm still a bit parched and woke up with an epic dry mouth, but I no longer feel like a train hit me.
Well, the assholes in TDS have succeeded in making me feel threatened enough that I no longer want anything to do with anything that has "Discordian Society" in the name.
I find it ironic that Facebook has basically completely lost control of all users and content on its site, but is cracking down on drag queens for using fake names.
Quote from: Your Mom on September 21, 2014, 03:22:25 PM
Well, the assholes in TDS have succeeded in making me feel threatened enough that I no longer want anything to do with anything that has "Discordian Society" in the name.
I find it ironic that Facebook has basically completely lost control of all users and content on its site, but is cracking down on drag queens for using fake names.
Is this the open or closed group?
Quote from: Your Mom on September 21, 2014, 03:22:25 PM
Well, the assholes in TDS have succeeded in making me feel threatened enough that I no longer want anything to do with anything that has "Discordian Society" in the name.
I find it ironic that Facebook has basically completely lost control of all users and content on its site, but is cracking down on drag queens for using fake names.
Is this with the earlier mentioned nudes, or has it escalated since then?
I also can't say I'm entirely surprised. TDS are pretty much made up entirely of adolescent jackasses (physically or mentally) who practically embody the disinhibition effect of the internet.
If I may suggest something, if anyone has their real name used, feel free to set up a blog and detail their choice statements and actions. For future employers to find. PD gives a suitable pagerank bonus to such sites, if linked from here.
Quote from: The Suu on September 21, 2014, 03:27:01 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on September 21, 2014, 03:22:25 PM
Well, the assholes in TDS have succeeded in making me feel threatened enough that I no longer want anything to do with anything that has "Discordian Society" in the name.
I find it ironic that Facebook has basically completely lost control of all users and content on its site, but is cracking down on drag queens for using fake names.
Is this the open or closed group?
Mostly the open group. I'm not in the closed group.
Quote from: Cain on September 21, 2014, 04:12:10 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on September 21, 2014, 03:22:25 PM
Well, the assholes in TDS have succeeded in making me feel threatened enough that I no longer want anything to do with anything that has "Discordian Society" in the name.
I find it ironic that Facebook has basically completely lost control of all users and content on its site, but is cracking down on drag queens for using fake names.
Is this with the earlier mentioned nudes, or has it escalated since then?
I also can't say I'm entirely surprised. TDS are pretty much made up entirely of adolescent jackasses (physically or mentally) who practically embody the disinhibition effect of the internet.
If I may suggest something, if anyone has their real name used, feel free to set up a blog and detail their choice statements and actions. For future employers to find. PD gives a suitable pagerank bonus to such sites, if linked from here.
A guy going by Lucas SpamSpam SpamSpam Wise posted some pretty fucked-up vitriol about wanting my kids to be raped. Among other similarly awful things. I am pretty sure he's the same person who posted my nudes, and may also be the same person as Mike Martin but that might just be because I don't want to believe that there are two similarly shitty people in a group that small. Mike Martin is also threatening to hire someone to dox me, which is just baffling because I use my real name and am incredibly easy to find.
Harvey Rowland is the name that posted my pics, but it's pretty obviously a fake account.
I've got the PI for Lucas, still working on Martin. I can forward what I have so far if anyone wants in on it.
Woah, what the fuck?
Some people are seriously messed up. :(
Scare the fuck out of them till they start crawling on their knees, begging for repentance. That should do it. Of course I am against escalation, until a child is threatened. Then things just changed. WTF?
This is more than fucked up.
I couldn't fucking stand them to begin with, but seriously, these Facebook "Discordians" are going way too fucking far this time.
All in favor of a discordian jihad say aye?
Well she has their IP. This will be good.
That is so fucked up. Nigel, if I can do anything to help, let me know.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 22, 2014, 12:17:53 PM
That is so fucked up. Nigel, if I can do anything to help, let me know.
Ditto.
Even though my free time is quite limited atm, if you want a hand or need some advice, you know how to get in touch with me.
As an aside, if money isn't an issue, I hear there is a thriving trade in Bitcoin bounties. Even though I abhor libertarian anarchocapitalism as an organising principle for society, I rather like it on the internet. A couple of bitcoins offered in the right corners of the web could see all kinds of hilarious consequences for people.
Quote from: Your Mom on September 21, 2014, 03:22:25 PM
Well, the assholes in TDS have succeeded in making me feel threatened enough that I no longer want anything to do with anything that has "Discordian Society" in the name.
I find it ironic that Facebook has basically completely lost control of all users and content on its site, but is cracking down on drag queens for using fake names.
You have my support in fucking with them, anything you need/want?
Quote from: Cain on September 22, 2014, 12:39:24 PM
Even though my free time is quite limited atm, if you want a hand or need some advice, you know how to get in touch with me.
As an aside, if money isn't an issue, I hear there is a thriving trade in Bitcoin bounties. Even though I abhor libertarian anarchocapitalism as an organising principle for society, I rather like it on the internet. A couple of bitcoins offered in the right corners of the web could see all kinds of hilarious consequences for people.
I am intrigued by these "Bitcoin Bounties" and wish to learn more. Please advise.
If facebook still implements the auto suspend, people could all report the same post and he gets autobanned until facebook looks at it.
Thanks, you guys. If any of you can come up with any leads on Mike Martin (probably not his real name) I would appreciate it. I have some info including pictures and two of his Soundcloud accounts. I need his real name/address/place of work if possible. And you know, if you get the itch to mass-report his posts on Facebook, it shouldn't be hard to find some that are legitimately repugnant, he's a racist piece of shit. I'd even be willing to re-join TDS to act as bait.
Our safety guy is one of those people who likes clip art and thinks it improves documents and presentations. He also uses elipses where a period would have been appropriate.
It makes me weep. He's a good safety tech in most other ways, though he has some strange ideas occasionally (like "no e-cigs in the offices" means the maintenance shops are included. They aren't offices, piss off.)
I have 2 conferences next month. Back to back weekends. The first is on Credit and Debt in the Middle Ages to Early Modern Period, that's just one day of panels. The weekend after that is a Classical Symposium focusing on mythology. My nerd cred is going to grow exponentially.
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:17:54 PM
I have 2 conferences next month. Back to back weekends. The first is on Credit and Debt in the Middle Ages to Early Modern Period, that's just one day of panels. The weekend after that is a Classical Symposium focusing on mythology. My nerd cred is going to grow exponentially.
You'll get to sit at the head of the table in the cafeteria where all the other middle ages scholars sit.
:lol:
SOOOOOO...The new Deadpool movie is gonna be PG13.
PG13
Maybe he can give an anti-drug speech in there somewhere. Or maybe have a cute talking mascot. Soundtrack includes uplifting songs by Elton John.
(http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/018/420/Advice-Deadpool-First-there-will-be-utter-carnage-And-then-cake.jpg)
And who's surprised? Wasn't the last Terminator film a 12 or some shit?
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 22, 2014, 06:37:51 PM
And who's surprised? Wasn't the last Terminator film a 12 or some shit?
When I was a kid, I wouldn't have been caught DEAD watching a PG13 movie.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 06:22:18 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:17:54 PM
I have 2 conferences next month. Back to back weekends. The first is on Credit and Debt in the Middle Ages to Early Modern Period, that's just one day of panels. The weekend after that is a Classical Symposium focusing on mythology. My nerd cred is going to grow exponentially.
You'll get to sit at the head of the table in the cafeteria where all the other middle ages scholars sit.
:lol:
I KNOW. With all of their epic moustaches, while we bitch about the latest version of the Chicago Manual of Style and reminisce about the old days of Turabian. All while sipping black coffee and giving dirty, if not sketchy looks to the undergrads that perceive all history professors are batshit.
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:44:36 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 06:22:18 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:17:54 PM
I have 2 conferences next month. Back to back weekends. The first is on Credit and Debt in the Middle Ages to Early Modern Period, that's just one day of panels. The weekend after that is a Classical Symposium focusing on mythology. My nerd cred is going to grow exponentially.
You'll get to sit at the head of the table in the cafeteria where all the other middle ages scholars sit.
:lol:
I KNOW. With all of their epic moustaches, while we bitch about the latest version of the Chicago Manual of Style and reminisce about the old days of Turabian. All while sipping black coffee and giving dirty, if not sketchy looks to the undergrads that perceive all history professors are batshit.
You get bonus points if you make them recite Chaucer's
The Miller's Tale out loud as a precondition for seating.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 06:47:52 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:44:36 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 06:22:18 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:17:54 PM
I have 2 conferences next month. Back to back weekends. The first is on Credit and Debt in the Middle Ages to Early Modern Period, that's just one day of panels. The weekend after that is a Classical Symposium focusing on mythology. My nerd cred is going to grow exponentially.
You'll get to sit at the head of the table in the cafeteria where all the other middle ages scholars sit.
:lol:
I KNOW. With all of their epic moustaches, while we bitch about the latest version of the Chicago Manual of Style and reminisce about the old days of Turabian. All while sipping black coffee and giving dirty, if not sketchy looks to the undergrads that perceive all history professors are batshit.
You get bonus points if you make them recite Chaucer's The Miller's Tale out loud as a precondition for seating.
HOT.
I'm reading the
Decameron right now. My husband wants to know why I keep wincing.
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:57:39 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 06:47:52 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:44:36 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 06:22:18 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:17:54 PM
I have 2 conferences next month. Back to back weekends. The first is on Credit and Debt in the Middle Ages to Early Modern Period, that's just one day of panels. The weekend after that is a Classical Symposium focusing on mythology. My nerd cred is going to grow exponentially.
You'll get to sit at the head of the table in the cafeteria where all the other middle ages scholars sit.
:lol:
I KNOW. With all of their epic moustaches, while we bitch about the latest version of the Chicago Manual of Style and reminisce about the old days of Turabian. All while sipping black coffee and giving dirty, if not sketchy looks to the undergrads that perceive all history professors are batshit.
You get bonus points if you make them recite Chaucer's The Miller's Tale out loud as a precondition for seating.
HOT.
I'm reading the Decameron right now. My husband wants to know why I keep wincing.
The 4th tale is a hoot.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 07:03:59 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:57:39 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 06:47:52 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:44:36 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 06:22:18 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:17:54 PM
I have 2 conferences next month. Back to back weekends. The first is on Credit and Debt in the Middle Ages to Early Modern Period, that's just one day of panels. The weekend after that is a Classical Symposium focusing on mythology. My nerd cred is going to grow exponentially.
You'll get to sit at the head of the table in the cafeteria where all the other middle ages scholars sit.
:lol:
I KNOW. With all of their epic moustaches, while we bitch about the latest version of the Chicago Manual of Style and reminisce about the old days of Turabian. All while sipping black coffee and giving dirty, if not sketchy looks to the undergrads that perceive all history professors are batshit.
You get bonus points if you make them recite Chaucer's The Miller's Tale out loud as a precondition for seating.
HOT.
I'm reading the Decameron right now. My husband wants to know why I keep wincing.
The 4th tale is a hoot.
Which one? The 4th on the 1st day? The young woman and the abbot? Yup. It's actually part of my required reading for tomorrow, since we're talking about secular opinions of the church.
TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL, BOCCACCIO.
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 07:13:11 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 07:03:59 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:57:39 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 06:47:52 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:44:36 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 06:22:18 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:17:54 PM
I have 2 conferences next month. Back to back weekends. The first is on Credit and Debt in the Middle Ages to Early Modern Period, that's just one day of panels. The weekend after that is a Classical Symposium focusing on mythology. My nerd cred is going to grow exponentially.
You'll get to sit at the head of the table in the cafeteria where all the other middle ages scholars sit.
:lol:
I KNOW. With all of their epic moustaches, while we bitch about the latest version of the Chicago Manual of Style and reminisce about the old days of Turabian. All while sipping black coffee and giving dirty, if not sketchy looks to the undergrads that perceive all history professors are batshit.
You get bonus points if you make them recite Chaucer's The Miller's Tale out loud as a precondition for seating.
HOT.
I'm reading the Decameron right now. My husband wants to know why I keep wincing.
The 4th tale is a hoot.
Which one? The 4th on the 1st day? The young woman and the abbot? Yup. It's actually part of my required reading for tomorrow, since we're talking about secular opinions of the church.
TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL, BOCCACCIO.
You'd almost think he felt there was corruption in the clergy.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 07:22:27 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 07:13:11 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 07:03:59 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:57:39 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 06:47:52 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:44:36 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 06:22:18 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 06:17:54 PM
I have 2 conferences next month. Back to back weekends. The first is on Credit and Debt in the Middle Ages to Early Modern Period, that's just one day of panels. The weekend after that is a Classical Symposium focusing on mythology. My nerd cred is going to grow exponentially.
You'll get to sit at the head of the table in the cafeteria where all the other middle ages scholars sit.
:lol:
I KNOW. With all of their epic moustaches, while we bitch about the latest version of the Chicago Manual of Style and reminisce about the old days of Turabian. All while sipping black coffee and giving dirty, if not sketchy looks to the undergrads that perceive all history professors are batshit.
You get bonus points if you make them recite Chaucer's The Miller's Tale out loud as a precondition for seating.
HOT.
I'm reading the Decameron right now. My husband wants to know why I keep wincing.
The 4th tale is a hoot.
Which one? The 4th on the 1st day? The young woman and the abbot? Yup. It's actually part of my required reading for tomorrow, since we're talking about secular opinions of the church.
TELL US HOW YOU REALLY FEEL, BOCCACCIO.
You'd almost think he felt there was corruption in the clergy.
Just a bit.
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 07:24:00 PM
Just a bit.
He was pretty clever, though, in pointing at "bad apples", rather than the bushel. Considering when and where he published.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 07:34:28 PM
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 07:24:00 PM
Just a bit.
He was pretty clever, though, in pointing at "bad apples", rather than the bushel. Considering when and where he published.
I kinda of want to find a copy of the trippy Pasolini movie from the 70s. :lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 06:31:12 PM
SOOOOOO...The new Deadpool movie is gonna be PG13.
PG13
Maybe he can give an anti-drug speech in there somewhere. Or maybe have a cute talking mascot. Soundtrack includes uplifting songs by Elton John.
Weird, because the teaser footage was pretty damn violent?
Quote from: Hoopla on September 22, 2014, 08:02:03 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 06:31:12 PM
SOOOOOO...The new Deadpool movie is gonna be PG13.
PG13
Maybe he can give an anti-drug speech in there somewhere. Or maybe have a cute talking mascot. Soundtrack includes uplifting songs by Elton John.
Weird, because the teaser footage was pretty damn violent?
Yeah, I know.
But PG13 gets one F-bomb per movie, and gore? You gotta raise little soldiers somehow.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 08:03:46 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on September 22, 2014, 08:02:03 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2014, 06:31:12 PM
SOOOOOO...The new Deadpool movie is gonna be PG13.
PG13
Maybe he can give an anti-drug speech in there somewhere. Or maybe have a cute talking mascot. Soundtrack includes uplifting songs by Elton John.
Weird, because the teaser footage was pretty damn violent?
Yeah, I know.
But PG13 gets one F-bomb per movie, and gore? You gotta raise little soldiers somehow.
Oh right, I forgot gore was ok in kids movies.
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SOOOOOO...The new Deadpool movie is gonna be PG13.
PG13
Maybe he can give an anti-drug speech in there somewhere. Or maybe have a cute talking mascot. Soundtrack includes uplifting songs by Elton John.
Weird, because the teaser footage was pretty damn violent?
Yeah, I know.
But PG13 gets one F-bomb per movie, and gore? You gotta raise little soldiers somehow.
Oh right, I forgot gore was ok in kids movies.
G rated movies get nothing at all. They are generally restricted to horror stories such as those put out by Disney, in which the scars and conditioning are inflicted more indirectly. Pocahontas, for example.
In random movie news, Mr. Suu has been on a western kick as of late. Bad westerns. Though right now we are watching Fist Full of Dollars, which is of course, a goddamn legend among films, but some of these ones he's finding are just atrocious. Not just spaghetti westerns either, which he usually turns off because he can't stand the dubbing, but just old crusty ones from the 50s that are horrific in all the things. :horrormirth:
I have actually never watched the classic Wild Wild West series until now, and it's FRIGGIN AMAZING.
Is it steampunky too?
Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 08:35:12 PM
In random movie news, Mr. Suu has been on a western kick as of late. Bad westerns. Though right now we are watching Fist Full of Dollars, which is of course, a goddamn legend among films, but some of these ones he's finding are just atrocious. Not just spaghetti westerns either, which he usually turns off because he can't stand the dubbing, but just old crusty ones from the 50s that are horrific in all the things. :horrormirth:
I have actually never watched the classic Wild Wild West series until now, and it's FRIGGIN AMAZING.
Get him on some classic spaghetti westerns. El Topo (if you're feeling WEIRD), or Los Manitas Gehennas.
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Is it steampunky too?
...Not like the movie, no. But there ARE random gizmos, like where they hide all the guns on the train. :lulz:
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Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 08:35:12 PM
In random movie news, Mr. Suu has been on a western kick as of late. Bad westerns. Though right now we are watching Fist Full of Dollars, which is of course, a goddamn legend among films, but some of these ones he's finding are just atrocious. Not just spaghetti westerns either, which he usually turns off because he can't stand the dubbing, but just old crusty ones from the 50s that are horrific in all the things. :horrormirth:
I have actually never watched the classic Wild Wild West series until now, and it's FRIGGIN AMAZING.
Get him on some classic spaghetti westerns. El Topo (if you're feeling WEIRD), or Los Manitas Gehennas.
I think we have El Topo!
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Is it steampunky too?
...Not like the movie, no. But there ARE random gizmos, like where they hide all the guns on the train. :lulz:
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Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 08:35:12 PM
In random movie news, Mr. Suu has been on a western kick as of late. Bad westerns. Though right now we are watching Fist Full of Dollars, which is of course, a goddamn legend among films, but some of these ones he's finding are just atrocious. Not just spaghetti westerns either, which he usually turns off because he can't stand the dubbing, but just old crusty ones from the 50s that are horrific in all the things. :horrormirth:
I have actually never watched the classic Wild Wild West series until now, and it's FRIGGIN AMAZING.
Get him on some classic spaghetti westerns. El Topo (if you're feeling WEIRD), or Los Manitas Gehennas.
I think we have El Topo!
Watch it sober the first time.
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Is it steampunky too?
...Not like the movie, no. But there ARE random gizmos, like where they hide all the guns on the train. :lulz:
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Quote from: The Suu on September 22, 2014, 08:35:12 PM
In random movie news, Mr. Suu has been on a western kick as of late. Bad westerns. Though right now we are watching Fist Full of Dollars, which is of course, a goddamn legend among films, but some of these ones he's finding are just atrocious. Not just spaghetti westerns either, which he usually turns off because he can't stand the dubbing, but just old crusty ones from the 50s that are horrific in all the things. :horrormirth:
I have actually never watched the classic Wild Wild West series until now, and it's FRIGGIN AMAZING.
Get him on some classic spaghetti westerns. El Topo (if you're feeling WEIRD), or Los Manitas Gehennas.
I think we have El Topo!
Watch it sober the first time.
Oh, this is gonna be good.
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Just a bit.
He was pretty clever, though, in pointing at "bad apples", rather than the bushel. Considering when and where he published.
I kinda of want to find a copy of the trippy Pasolini movie from the 70s. :lulz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EBdYG7Q9gg
If you're looking for "WTF AMERICA" westerns, try Sam Peckinpah.
My new thing with PD "trolls" is to just change the topic of conversation to something which actually interests me.
I feels that's safe to admit here since David Duke doesn't seem to read anything but his own vanity thread.
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I feels that's safe to admit here since David Duke doesn't seem to read anything but his own vanity thread.
Pretty sure that will change.
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I feels that's safe to admit here since David Duke doesn't seem to read anything but his own vanity thread.
Pretty sure that will change.
Your optimism amuses me.
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Quote from: Hoopla on September 22, 2014, 10:52:08 PM
I feels that's safe to admit here since David Duke doesn't seem to read anything but his own vanity thread.
Pretty sure that will change.
Your optimism amuses me.
No, he'll be sicking it up all over the board by this time next week.
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I feels that's safe to admit here since David Duke doesn't seem to read anything but his own vanity thread.
Pretty sure that will change.
Your optimism amuses me.
No, he'll be sicking it up all over the board by this time next week.
Sounds like the start of a bet...
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Quote from: Hoopla on September 22, 2014, 10:52:08 PM
I feels that's safe to admit here since David Duke doesn't seem to read anything but his own vanity thread.
Pretty sure that will change.
Your optimism amuses me.
No, he'll be sicking it up all over the board by this time next week.
Sounds like the start of a bet...
Could be. I'll PM a proposal to you tonight.
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Quote from: Hoopla on September 22, 2014, 10:52:08 PM
I feels that's safe to admit here since David Duke doesn't seem to read anything but his own vanity thread.
Pretty sure that will change.
Your optimism amuses me.
No, he'll be sicking it up all over the board by this time next week.
Sounds like the start of a bet...
Could be. I'll PM a proposal to you tonight.
:lulz:
Sounds good.
Quote from: Hoopla on September 22, 2014, 10:51:11 PM
My new thing with PD "trolls" is to just change the topic of conversation to something which actually interests me.
Turtle soup is ok, if you're into that sort of thing. Eat too much of it though and you'll end up like all the rest of the uneducated Southern Folk.
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I feels that's safe to admit here since David Duke doesn't seem to read anything but his own vanity thread.
Pretty sure that will change.
Your optimism amuses me.
No, he'll be sicking it up all over the board by this time next week.
Sounds like the start of a bet...
He's already shitting up other threads now that he's not getting enough attention in the one he started.
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I feels that's safe to admit here since David Duke doesn't seem to read anything but his own vanity thread.
Pretty sure that will change.
Your optimism amuses me.
No, he'll be sicking it up all over the board by this time next week.
Sounds like the start of a bet...
He's already shitting up other threads now that he's not getting enough attention in the one he started.
I guess I owe Roger. Dammit.
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Quote from: Hoopla on September 22, 2014, 10:52:08 PM
I feels that's safe to admit here since David Duke doesn't seem to read anything but his own vanity thread.
Pretty sure that will change.
Your optimism amuses me.
No, he'll be sicking it up all over the board by this time next week.
Sounds like the start of a bet...
He's already shitting up other threads now that he's not getting enough attention in the one he started.
I guess I owe Roger. Dammit.
2 pages, bro. :lulz:
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Quote from: Hoopla on September 22, 2014, 10:52:08 PM
I feels that's safe to admit here since David Duke doesn't seem to read anything but his own vanity thread.
Pretty sure that will change.
Your optimism amuses me.
No, he'll be sicking it up all over the board by this time next week.
Sounds like the start of a bet...
He's already shitting up other threads now that he's not getting enough attention in the one he started.
I guess I owe Roger. Dammit.
2 pages, bro. :lulz:
It shall be done.
Hoops... You went into a bet with Roger about the PD habits of trolls...
Make your time.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 23, 2014, 02:56:15 AM
Hoops... You went into a bet with Roger about the PD habits of trolls...
Make your time.
I also datamined the FUCK out of Lucas and sent it to Nigel. This does not indicate that I wish to dance in the wildflowers with her.
I just don't tolerate doorstepping, especially when kids are brought into it.
I am waiting for the last of his amazingly limp-dicked criminal record to trickle in, then she gets that, too.
Then we can go back to pretending each other doesn't exist.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 23, 2014, 02:56:15 AM
Hoops... You went into a bet with Roger about the PD habits of trolls...
Make your time.
I also datamined the FUCK out of Lucas and sent it to Nigel. This does not indicate that I wish to dance in the wildflowers with her.
I just don't tolerate doorstepping, especially when kids are brought into it.
I am waiting for the last of his amazingly limp-dicked criminal record to trickle in, then she gets that, too.
Then we can go back to pretending each other doesn't exist.
Excellent.
I still admire both of you, whether you talk to one another or not.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 23, 2014, 02:56:15 AM
Hoops... You went into a bet with Roger about the PD habits of trolls...
Make your time.
I also datamined the FUCK out of Lucas and sent it to Nigel. This does not indicate that I wish to dance in the wildflowers with her.
I just don't tolerate doorstepping, especially when kids are brought into it.
I am waiting for the last of his amazingly limp-dicked criminal record to trickle in, then she gets that, too.
Then we can go back to pretending each other doesn't exist.
Excellent.
I still admire both of you, whether you talk to one another or not.
Thanks, but there's not much to admire here, anymore. :lulz:
I've decided to go back to what I'm good at.
Let me know if I can help for the wrap party. I'm so hungry right now.
I somehow managed to get talked into going to the Red Sox/Yankees game on Friday. At Fenway. For Derek Jeter's last series in Boston.
Two teams that I abhor, for the sake of baseball history. Two teams that aren't making the playoffs this year right next to mine. So it's okay. I'll be in black for mourning and lament with the Sox fans of the good old days when Baltimore couldn't hold a division if their lives depended on it.
Either way, it only took me 12 years of actually living in New England, but I'm finally setting foot in Fenway Park. This means there's only one left in the AL East I need to go to, and that's the Skydome. But that involves Toronto.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 23, 2014, 02:56:15 AM
Hoops... You went into a bet with Roger about the PD habits of trolls...
Make your time.
I don't know what I was thinking. Now my own optimism amuses me.
:horrormirth:
Turns out that the hard part of dealing with Mike Martin is that he's Mikael Martin. Once that was established, everything else was easy. Nigel, check your inbox.
This guy is a fucking hoot. 28 year old basement case, bounces back and forth between parents as they get disgusted with him, tries to be a tough guy neo-Nazi, fails miserably. All the other white nationalists laugh at him, and won't let him play their reindeer games.
Gotta love data-mining.
I never wanted Roger mad at me in the first place, but this fucking cinches it.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on September 23, 2014, 05:09:50 PM
I never wanted Roger mad at me in the first place, but this fucking cinches it.
It takes a special kind of mad for this.
Threatening children is one way to get there. I don't see you doing that, QG. You're a good & decent person.
Apparently, a guy named Tyler Kelly was also involved. More info for German perverts, I guess.
You know, opening a personals account on a German fetishist site is awesome, especially when:
1. You put "it is okay to call at any time", and
2. It's not your information.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 23, 2014, 05:15:12 PM
Apparently, a guy named Tyler Kelly was also involved. More info for German perverts, I guess.
You know, opening a personals account on a German fetishist site is awesome, especially when:
1. You put "it is okay to call at any time", and
2. It's not your information.
Youre pure evil :lulz:
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on September 23, 2014, 05:16:11 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 23, 2014, 05:15:12 PM
Apparently, a guy named Tyler Kelly was also involved. More info for German perverts, I guess.
You know, opening a personals account on a German fetishist site is awesome, especially when:
1. You put "it is okay to call at any time", and
2. It's not your information.
Youre pure evil :lulz:
I may as well embrace it, given how my life has gone over the last 3-5 weeks. :lulz:
Quote28 year old basement case, bounces back and forth between parents as they get disgusted with him, tries to be a tough guy neo-Nazi, fails miserably
Ah, such a winner at life. I can clearly see why he needs to assert his superiority online.
Quote from: Cain on September 23, 2014, 05:20:06 PM
Quote28 year old basement case, bounces back and forth between parents as they get disgusted with him, tries to be a tough guy neo-Nazi, fails miserably
Ah, such a winner at life. I can clearly see why he needs to assert his superiority online.
Yeah. The other neo-Nazis kicked him out of their website for being too annoying about it. He has a thing about teh JOOOOOOOZ, which they're all about, but it's EVERY POST. He tries too hard, and it's kinda pathetic watching him try to out-catholic the pope.
That, on the other hand, is hilarious. I mean, who gets kicked out of Nazi websites for being too extreme about Jews?
Quote from: Cain on September 23, 2014, 05:28:15 PM
That, on the other hand, is hilarious. I mean, who gets kicked out of Nazi websites for being too extreme about Jews?
A guy who rants about it while they try to talk about beer?
He's basically the Nazi version of a pinealist. And no threat at all. But still, threatening children is a little beyond the pale.
I had his address and his parents phone number, but the criminal record stuff will be really interesting, as is the stuff about Tyler Kelly.
I need to get a bead on Mike Martin, though. That guy is probably behind the sock that posted my pics.
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I had his address and his parents phone number, but the criminal record stuff will be really interesting, as is the stuff about Tyler Kelly.
Working that now.
QuoteI need to get a bead on Mike Martin, though. That guy is probably behind the sock that posted my pics.
Check your PMs. I sent you his docs.
You know, I don't often say it, but some days I fucking hate this place.
Today is certainly not one of them. Well played Roger, 5 stars and you're off the list.
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 23, 2014, 06:00:09 PM
You know, I don't often say it, but some days I fucking hate this place.
Today is certainly not one of them. Well played Roger, 5 stars and you're off the list.
:lulz: Thanks.
And I'm done being sore at Nigel, provided she can speak to me what with the new position I've taken at work.
Here is the dreaded Tyler Kelley:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10169352_4287829490028_9107936548950312666_n.jpg?oh=a4752e60051aa972bec291064c50ff54&oe=54C0E6FF&__gda__=1422361342_50c622e16d283edf14057e7d34a8a128)
Horrible dirt to follow.
:scared:
He so skeery.
So, I am going to LA the second week of October.
I fucking HATE LA.
I hear LAX is a special kind of hell all on its own. Like if Dante's hell had an annex.
Quote from: Cain on September 23, 2014, 06:37:40 PM
I hear LAX is a special kind of hell all on its own. Like if Dante's hell had an annex.
It's almost as bad as Heathrow, so yeah.
In fact, new flunky and I have decided to drive. It's an estimated 70 minutes faster on the return trip.
I'M HELPING! :lulz:
I got a fitbit and now can see how inactive I really am.
For whatever reason, despite being bogged down enough with for-credit courses, I was led like a goat to FutureLearn, a website of free online courses offered by universities in the UK. I figured this 6 week chat on Hadrian's Wall is a nice little way to take a break from my daily grind. Or something.
But yes, free school is the best kind of school. And they offer certificates as well you can purchase if you pass the tests.
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/upcoming
Quote from: The Suu on September 24, 2014, 02:26:22 AM
For whatever reason, despite being bogged down enough with for-credit courses, I was led like a goat to FutureLearn, a website of free online courses offered by universities in the UK. I figured this 6 week chat on Hadrian's Wall is a nice little way to take a break from my daily grind. Or something.
But yes, free school is the best kind of school. And they offer certificates as well you can purchase if you pass the tests.
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/upcoming
Nifty!
Hey, not trying to dictate, but could we please all try to pledge on that nutbag down there? I know we all think we have the perfect rejoinder, but it may be agreed that the shit's been played out.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2014, 02:57:51 AM
Hey, not trying to dictate, but could we please all try to pledge on that nutbag down there? I know we all think we have the perfect rejoinder, but it may be agreed that the shit's been played out.
Okay, but how many times have we tried THAT?
All it takes is one person. Just one.
Just done did translating these Etruscan urn fragments:
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Death present in life flowers beyond itself.
So suffer my children to return.
How they twist and seek being drawn back
That the Image of their Sun, the Father burns
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And Fall they do, each and every One
For just a hint at their vestigial birthright
Thoth pecks at their heart's undone remains
& Drops a feather to measure, scales on sight
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Love is toward of what they conspire
So cloven surfeit by false desire
The object is to more absence aquire
For there: false memory no Right inspires
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The kingdom is taken by storm
So harness these forces that roam
Awake therefore my spirited soul
This nightmare is really getting old.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 24, 2014, 03:16:41 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2014, 02:57:51 AM
Hey, not trying to dictate, but could we please all try to pledge on that nutbag down there? I know we all think we have the perfect rejoinder, but it may be agreed that the shit's been played out.
Okay, but how many times have we tried THAT?
All it takes is one person. Just one.
I know, I know.
Hey, is that a windmill? Fetch my lance!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2014, 03:29:03 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 24, 2014, 03:16:41 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2014, 02:57:51 AM
Hey, not trying to dictate, but could we please all try to pledge on that nutbag down there? I know we all think we have the perfect rejoinder, but it may be agreed that the shit's been played out.
Okay, but how many times have we tried THAT?
All it takes is one person. Just one.
I know, I know.
Hey, is that a windmill? Fetch my lance!
Backin' the Titanic up for another run at the iceberg... :lulz:
I have a potential rant about this, and I'll bring my pail to empty the ocean.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2014, 03:31:35 AM
I have a potential rant about this, and I'll bring my pail to empty the ocean.
I await said rant.
Which means I should get some sleep.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2014, 02:57:51 AM
Hey, not trying to dictate, but could we please all try to pledge on that nutbag down there? I know we all think we have the perfect rejoinder, but it may be agreed that the shit's been played out.
Any particular reason?
Isn't it obvious? It's banal, he's boring, interacting with him is boring.
Fair enough, I can't say I disagree.
Quote from: Faust on September 24, 2014, 07:43:20 AM
Isn't it obvious? It's banal, he's boring, interacting with him is boring.
My thoughts exactly.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2014, 02:57:51 AM
Hey, not trying to dictate, but could we please all try to pledge on that nutbag down there? I know we all think we have the perfect rejoinder, but it may be agreed that the shit's been played out.
Which'n? (I'm probably already ignoring them, whoever it is)
Trust me, you'd know him if you saw him.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2014, 03:25:50 PM
Trust me, you'd know him if you saw him.
Hmm. I don't have anybody hard ignored. I've just clicked the pledge button in my mind on some.
Lady on one of my groups is having an absolute shitfit about a spammer from India trying to add her on Facebook because she changed her picture to one of her and her husband while hes in uniform. So clearly, he's an ISIS terrorist trying to find out where she lives and wants to kill her for being a Navy wife. Because India is full of Muslims.
I can't even.
Ummm....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_India
Turns out I actually did learn something from Slumdog Millionare.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2014, 05:05:46 PM
Ummm....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_India
Turns out I actually did learn something from Slumdog Millionare.
Oh I know, but she's being really over the top. The terrorists are winning with her, so to speak. I mean, the guy's profile pic makes him look like a Calvin Klein model and he's a member of random groups posting about Ray Bans.
I just want to say that i fucking hate militant vegans messing up the safe space policy on one of the groups I mod.
Veganism isn't achievable for everyone for health or financial reasons and omni's aren't "just like pedophiles"
We've had more than 7 people upset because they have eating disorders or health issues and i'm moderating a workshop on intersectionality tonight-
seriously, there are some real assholes flying around and I want to nuke them from orbit.
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on September 24, 2014, 05:30:14 PM
and omni's aren't "just like pedophiles"
WOW! :lulz:
Way to trivialize the raping of children. Well done, that Vegan.
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on September 24, 2014, 05:30:14 PM
I just want to say that i fucking hate militant vegans messing up the safe space policy on one of the groups I mod.
Veganism isn't achievable for everyone for health or financial reasons and omni's aren't "just like pedophiles"
We've had more than 7 people upset because they have eating disorders or health issues and i'm moderating a workshop on intersectionality tonight-
seriously, there are some real assholes flying around and I want to nuke them from orbit.
HOW DOES THAT ARGUMENT EVEN FUCKING WORK?!
Quote from: The Suu on September 24, 2014, 06:01:06 PM
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on September 24, 2014, 05:30:14 PM
I just want to say that i fucking hate militant vegans messing up the safe space policy on one of the groups I mod.
Veganism isn't achievable for everyone for health or financial reasons and omni's aren't "just like pedophiles"
We've had more than 7 people upset because they have eating disorders or health issues and i'm moderating a workshop on intersectionality tonight-
seriously, there are some real assholes flying around and I want to nuke them from orbit.
HOW DOES THAT ARGUMENT EVEN FUCKING WORK?!
Well for one they're stupid to believe that the life of animal is the same as a fucking human being.
fucked if i know. I took great pleasure in applying the banhammer real hard.
the non-militant vegans have been fucking awesome though.
Just say "Enemy".
Jesus Christ, what the actual everliving fuck.
The crazies are out there in rare form today. Pity, it was just maybe going to be a good day. Oh, wait, sure, I love counterfactual arguments insinuating my culpability for both everything real and not. Works like a charm, every time, even if it doesn't. That must be why it's AMAZING. :horror:
Tomorrow I enter middle age.
Tomorrow, I get my first bottle of PILLZ HERE for the rest of my life that aren't BCP or artificial happiness. They're actual pills that are going to make me function properly and stop me from eventually slipping into a coma and dying. :lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 23, 2014, 06:10:57 PM
Here is the dreaded Tyler Kelley:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10169352_4287829490028_9107936548950312666_n.jpg?oh=a4752e60051aa972bec291064c50ff54&oe=54C0E6FF&__gda__=1422361342_50c622e16d283edf14057e7d34a8a128)
Horrible dirt to follow.
Oh yeah, he's a real badass. You can tell.
Quote from: Trivial on September 24, 2014, 02:19:01 AM
I got a fitbit and now can see how inactive I really am.
Get Ingress, and watch your activity rates SOAR.
I'm still alive. Just as a heads up.
It's possible that I'm going to be mostly gone for the next month. School. Hope all is well.
My ex is back from two weeks in Texas. He and his new girlfriend got an apartment in San Antonio and she's nesting while he comes back for his stuff.
Tonight he asked me if I wanted to "lay down with" him to "help relax" him. I said no. He went off to his soon-to-be vacated room in a pout.
He hasn't even started packing his shit yet.
I'm about to do it for him.
With a chipper-shredder to cut down on bulk. Then he won't have to rent a big ol' truck. Maybe a scooter.
I finally got an e-cig. Rich tobacco taste. I'm in love.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 24, 2014, 03:16:41 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 24, 2014, 02:57:51 AM
Hey, not trying to dictate, but could we please all try to pledge on that nutbag down there? I know we all think we have the perfect rejoinder, but it may be agreed that the shit's been played out.
Okay, but how many times have we tried THAT?
All it takes is one person. Just one.
And invariably someone doesn't get the memo. Which explains why at least two people are persisting in engaging with him, in one case
naming a thread after him.
Well, at least they showed us how clever they are, I guess.
On the plus side, it seems Roger was completely right.
This is a plus only in the technical sense. In every other sense it's a clear loss.
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on September 25, 2014, 05:40:10 AM
I'm still alive. Just as a heads up.
It's possible that I'm going to be mostly gone for the next month. School. Hope all is well.
yo
Excellent timing that Twid.
Broke the wives group again.
"You should just go to a natural doctor for your thyroid! I swear they fixed my sister!"
"So....are you saying that getting the actual pig hormone versus the synthetic is better?"
"PIG HORMONE?! I said natural, not hurting animals!"
Apparently people don't know how natural medicine actually works. :lulz:
Is that like a staunch vegetarian who enjoys BLTs?
How do I ignore button?
Somewhere under profile options, I belive. Oh, and RWHN was back. Again. It's really quite pathetic now.
Ohhhhh. I figured out who it is now.
Spoilers should be bannable. Throwing that out there for consideration.
Quote from: Cain on September 25, 2014, 02:37:03 PM
Somewhere under profile options, I belive. Oh, and RWHN was back. Again. It's really quite pathetic now.
Who was he this time?
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on September 25, 2014, 05:40:10 AM
I'm still alive. Just as a heads up.
It's possible that I'm going to be mostly gone for the next month. School. Hope all is well.
Greetings Twid! Glad to hear that the living is still happening!
Has your term started yet? Mine starts on Monday and I'm sceert. Hoping I didn't bite off more than I can chew this term. Also hoping my boyfriend puts up with not seeing me more than once a week for the next three months, poor thing.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 25, 2014, 11:58:54 AM
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on September 25, 2014, 05:40:10 AM
I'm still alive. Just as a heads up.
It's possible that I'm going to be mostly gone for the next month. School. Hope all is well.
yo
Howdy!
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 25, 2014, 12:05:18 PM
Excellent timing that Twid.
How's that?
Quote from: Your Mom on September 25, 2014, 03:12:15 PM
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on September 25, 2014, 05:40:10 AM
I'm still alive. Just as a heads up.
It's possible that I'm going to be mostly gone for the next month. School. Hope all is well.
Greetings Twid! Glad to hear that the living is still happening!
Has your term started yet? Mine starts on Monday and I'm sceert. Hoping I didn't bite off more than I can chew this term. Also hoping my boyfriend puts up with not seeing me more than once a week for the next three months, poor thing.
Yeah, had two tests this week. I'm playing hookey today. Well, not exactly, I'm still going to work, just not Cell Bio. Pretty sure I did poorly on the physics test. Our professor is an odd guy who told us straight out that some of the problems on every test are basically there to stress us out, but they're nonsense. So he's trolling us, we just don't know when. I suppose we're supposed to know.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 25, 2014, 02:55:49 PM
Ohhhhh. I figured out who it is now.
Spoilers should be bannable. Throwing that out there for consideration.
While it is the most shitbag thing to do, I'd be and even bigger shitbag after arguing that someone shouldn't be banned for posting idiotic racist comments if I advocated banning people for spoilers.
I do think spoilers should be deleted though, but that is censorship.
Quote from: Faust on September 25, 2014, 03:30:04 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 25, 2014, 02:55:49 PM
Ohhhhh. I figured out who it is now.
Spoilers should be bannable. Throwing that out there for consideration.
While it is the most shitbag thing to do, I'd be and even bigger shitbag after arguing that someone shouldn't be banned for posting idiotic racist comments if I advocated banning people for spoilers.
I do think spoilers should be deleted though, but that is censorship.
I was being half tongue-in-cheek. Spoilers should be tar-and-featherable. We're far too lax on such things.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 25, 2014, 02:57:39 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 25, 2014, 02:37:03 PM
Somewhere under profile options, I belive. Oh, and RWHN was back. Again. It's really quite pathetic now.
Who was he this time?
"sacredchao". In the Duh Rugs thread, of course. Because it's not like he's a one-trick pony or fanatically obsessed with the subject or anything.
Quote from: Cain on September 25, 2014, 05:27:12 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 25, 2014, 02:57:39 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 25, 2014, 02:37:03 PM
Somewhere under profile options, I belive. Oh, and RWHN was back. Again. It's really quite pathetic now.
Who was he this time?
"sacredchao". In the Duh Rugs thread, of course. Because it's not like he's a one-trick pony or fanatically obsessed with the subject or anything.
Oh. LOL. Heading down there.
QuoteYou have been banned for the following reason:
Death threats
Date the ban will be lifted: Never
I just got banned for posting the
navy seal copypasta.
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on September 25, 2014, 05:31:10 PM
QuoteYou have been banned for the following reason:
Death threats
Date the ban will be lifted: Never
I just got banned for posting the navy seal copypasta.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in Troll School, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Gaia-Online, and I have over 300 confirmed ragequits. I am trained in gorilla argumentation and I'm the top troll in the entire internets. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of sockpuppets across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can troll you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in butthurt insults, but I have access to the entire arsenal of Ogrish.com and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on September 25, 2014, 05:31:10 PM
QuoteYou have been banned for the following reason:
Death threats
Date the ban will be lifted: Never
I just got banned for posting the navy seal copypasta.
I've seen about 30 people get banned from facebook pages for that, including once for the IT professional version of it.
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on September 25, 2014, 05:31:10 PM
QuoteYou have been banned for the following reason:
Death threats
Date the ban will be lifted: Never
I just got banned for posting the navy seal copypasta.
At least you know exactly what to put in your appeal.
But lol, seriously. Does this place have a name?
I would like to see Suu do the INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL version of that, come to think of it.
Should involve lethal sewing machine antics.
hxxp://www.weed-forums.com/ was the place.
Quote from: xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed) on September 25, 2014, 05:41:25 PM
hxxp://www.weed-forums.com/ was the place.
Nice. The Shroomery is even better. It's basically a huge forum full of shroom-using neocons, with some goldbugs thrown in for good measure.
They should've named that place Hemp Is Money. It drew much of the same crowd.
Quote from: Cain on September 25, 2014, 05:46:20 PM
They should've named that place Hemp Is Money. It drew much of the same crowd.
:lulz:
Gold is Money was AMAZING. I still have an account there...John Stuart Mill, IIRC.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 25, 2014, 05:48:36 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 25, 2014, 05:46:20 PM
They should've named that place Hemp Is Money. It drew much of the same crowd.
:lulz:
Gold is Money was AMAZING. I still have an account there...John Stuart Mill, IIRC.
You're a bad man, and you do bad things.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 25, 2014, 06:10:57 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 25, 2014, 05:48:36 PM
Quote from: Cain on September 25, 2014, 05:46:20 PM
They should've named that place Hemp Is Money. It drew much of the same crowd.
:lulz:
Gold is Money was AMAZING. I still have an account there...John Stuart Mill, IIRC.
You're a bad man, and you do bad things.
They line up and beg for it, man. What am I supposed to do? Send them home empty-handed? I'm a Goddamn HOLY MAN™! This is sort of the JOB DESCRIPTION.
Besides, none of them knew who he was. They're goldbugs.
Synthroid 88mg is my starting dose.
Ankle is fucked forever. I start PT in 2 weeks.
Oh, and husband is going overseas for training. :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Mikael Martin:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10628382_1483502588591488_3277741485442175764_n.jpg?oh=84626fb1067accb8055d5f59f440dca1&oe=548B9532&__gda__=1421688920_64794cc11498b3afac6654c61ed89588)
Yeah, he's a schlubby looking dude, for one so convinced of his own superiority. :lol:
Lucas popped back up. I've got lots of snail mail addresses, and a few pages worth of screen-shot highlights. Seems a shame to let that all go to waste.
Also watched Derpina get railed and exposed for a sickly chain of posts last night. Think I'll do my last bit and go back to dutifully ignoring TDS.
There appears to be a fedora missing from that picture. Or at least a hat he claims is a fedora.
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 26, 2014, 06:27:03 PM
There appears to be a fedora missing from that picture. Or at least a hat he claims is a fedora.
This was my opinion as well. Also, the pic needs a Cutlery World sword and a nerf gun.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 26, 2014, 05:49:28 PM
Lucas popped back up. I've got lots of snail mail addresses, and a few pages worth of screen-shot highlights. Seems a shame to let that all go to waste.
Also watched Derpina get railed and exposed for a sickly chain of posts last night. Think I'll do my last bit and go back to dutifully ignoring TDS.
What was the story behind that? Is there some history between them?
The whole thing was incredibly confusing, especially since a lot of it seemed to be attacks on physical appearance and slut shaming. Or talking about sexual prowess. Or... I really don't know what the Hell any of that was.
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on September 26, 2014, 06:28:12 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 26, 2014, 05:49:28 PM
Lucas popped back up. I've got lots of snail mail addresses, and a few pages worth of screen-shot highlights. Seems a shame to let that all go to waste.
Also watched Derpina get railed and exposed for a sickly chain of posts last night. Think I'll do my last bit and go back to dutifully ignoring TDS.
What was the story behind that? Is there some history between them?
I'm not sure. I was just personally pretty disgusted with Derpina's comments during the Mike and Lucas shit show, so that whole thing was hilarious to me. She really had nothing there. But to be fair, nobody ever does in the face of that much crazy railing.
Hi Twid.
I wanted to tell you about something and i've totally forgotten about what it was. Assume it was urgent and life threatening and act accordingly just to be safe.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 26, 2014, 06:39:37 PM
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on September 26, 2014, 06:28:12 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 26, 2014, 05:49:28 PM
Lucas popped back up. I've got lots of snail mail addresses, and a few pages worth of screen-shot highlights. Seems a shame to let that all go to waste.
Also watched Derpina get railed and exposed for a sickly chain of posts last night. Think I'll do my last bit and go back to dutifully ignoring TDS.
What was the story behind that? Is there some history between them?
I'm not sure. I was just personally pretty disgusted with Derpina's comments during the Mike and Lucas shit show, so that whole thing was hilarious to me. She really had nothing there. But to be fair, nobody ever does in the face of that much crazy railing.
Yeah, Amy sure left an impression on me. So, I'm not sure what the Mike and Lucas shit show was. I've been added to too many groups to keep track of all that.
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 26, 2014, 06:40:24 PM
Hi Twid.
I wanted to tell you about something and i've totally forgotten about what it was. Assume it was urgent and life threatening and act accordingly just to be safe.
Will do. Be sure to tell when you remember.
Good man, you'll probably survive the week.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on September 26, 2014, 05:49:28 PM
Lucas popped back up. I've got lots of snail mail addresses, and a few pages worth of screen-shot highlights. Seems a shame to let that all go to waste.
Also watched Derpina get railed and exposed for a sickly chain of posts last night. Think I'll do my last bit and go back to dutifully ignoring TDS.
Send it to me, I'm sure I'll make good and wholesome use of it.
Who's Derpina?
I'm off camping for a couple of days. Don't let the racists burn the place down while I'm gone!
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on September 26, 2014, 08:14:06 PM
I'm off camping for a couple of days. Don't let the racists burn the place down while I'm gone!
According to the PICS thread, the port-a-potties are already melted. It's only a matter of time before the rest of the site goes.
I've been watching a lot of his work lately, and apart from his weird fixation on projectile tongues, I think Guillermo del Toro might actually be the spiritual successor to Jim Henson, based on his monster creation alone. I think Henson would have had a wet dream about the Troll Market scene in Hellboy II.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on September 28, 2014, 02:59:55 AM
I've been watching a lot of his work lately, and apart from his weird fixation on projectile tongues, I think Guillermo del Toro might actually be the spiritual successor to Jim Henson, based on his monster creation alone. I think Henson would have had a wet dream about the Troll Market scene in Hellboy II.
I think it's the vestigial potential from the toad scene in pan's lab. that calls for expression.
So, after a full hour of just getting it to install. GTAV has decided that it doesnt like my Xbox harddrive. So 5 seconds into the game starting, the screen goes black and the entire game restarts. Time to delete and reinstall it for a THIRD TIME.
So freaking done with FB disco shit. It was liberating, refreshing really, to close the groups and just see friends in my feed again. Also much more time for PD.com, where people treat people right!
Eat shit.
:kiss:
Se :wave:e? I didn't even get called any variation of a fgt and there's real context to work with thanks to the wonderful emotes!
Have a fine day too sir!
:wave:
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on September 29, 2014, 02:58:46 PM
So freaking done with FB disco shit. It was liberating, refreshing really, to close the groups and just see friends in my feed again. Also much more time for PD.com, where people treat people right!
Seriously. It was fun for a bit and I did meet some cool people, but holy shit it's just too much of a clusterfuck and has too many people who seem to think hurting other people makes them cool.
Camping was fun. I indulged in a number of mind-altering substances and stayed up until dawn. I'm almost back to normal now though, which is good because first day of school, squeee!!!
The problem with TDS and to a lesser extent TDS2014 is that they are unmoderated.
So you have monkeys trying to see just how far they can push it. It's more harmful to them than to any of us...But it's what they wanted.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on September 29, 2014, 03:42:58 PM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on September 29, 2014, 02:58:46 PM
So freaking done with FB disco shit. It was liberating, refreshing really, to close the groups and just see friends in my feed again. Also much more time for PD.com, where people treat people right!
Seriously. It was fun for a bit and I did meet some cool people, but holy shit it's just too much of a clusterfuck and has too many people who seem to think hurting other people makes them cool.
When I first looked I to Discordianism, before I ever posted here, I came to expect amoral retards. My sources were not necessarily incorrect but shallow and incomplete. The fact that I just popped in here and LEARNED was a bit of kismet I think.
The dam broke when TDS went down. No tactics changed on tds2014 and the hordes of trolls went strategically unopposed. There was not much to stay for... so done. AND FEELING FINE!! :)
Yeah, TDS has gone right down the drain in terms of quality of discussion since TDS went bye-bye or whatever happened to it (I don't know, and more importantly, don't care). At TDS2014, you could at least occasionally get a decent discussion, even if you had to start it yourself and filter out about 25% of the comments, but lately it's been overrun by 3edgy5me 4chan rejects (contrary to popular opinion, you can actually still have civilized discussions on 4chan...which is more than can be said for TDS2014).
I realise many of us were also major-league assholes, once upon a time (and many would argue we haven't changed since), but I like to think our methods and techniques were more refined, subtle and ultimately effective than whatever this pack of losers is trying to accomplish.
Hamish Howl is no longer, on Facebook.
Mike Martin ratted me out for my fake name, using his own fake account. So I reported that account, and it's gone.
Now, Mike isn't his real name. Mikael is. Anyone care to report him for using a fake name?
It'd be my pleasure. Unfortunately, I'm not on under my real name either....might be able to do it under my real account, though. Just checking, this (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003582882102&fref=ts) is him, yeah?
Oh, and for Nigel...Here is the valiant white nationalist hero who preaches about "faggots" all day:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10698490_791785097539815_3162968269243096368_n.jpg?oh=6f612f2a970721991692a655d6c02c91&oe=5482491D&__gda__=1422748052_574578c2677de3a831737424ed59891b)
:hm:
Quote from: Cain on September 29, 2014, 04:59:43 PM
It'd be my pleasure. Unfortunately, I'm not on under my real name either....might be able to do it under my real account, though. Just checking, this (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003582882102&fref=ts) is him, yeah?
I've seen that asshat. He was one of the first signs of real trouble. He got banned Since then he's been using socks if he's been around at all. Not sure if what Howl was looking for.
Reported for fake name use.
Earlier today I had a call from a nice Indian chap about my computer. Rough transcript follows:
Nice Indian Chap - We have detected a virus on your computer....
Horrible Uncle Junkie - Well that explains everything! No wonder it's been so slow of late. How do we fix this?
NIC - Well if you could go to your computer now I will explain the process...
HUJ- It's already on, I was using when you called
NIC - Could I ask you to log into...
HUJ - THERE'S GAY PORN ON THE SCREEN! OH MY GOD. WHAT IS HE? WHY ARE THEY? WHY IS HE SUCKING THAT?
NIC - Yes sir, this is the problem we are trying to remedy....
HUJ - I'M AT WORK! EVERYONE CAN SEE AND HEAR THE GAY PORN YOU'VE PUT ON MY COMPUTER! I'M GOING TO GET FIRED!
NIC - Sir I am trying to help you....
HUJ - Oh. Oh wait. It's OK. This is MY gay porn. Whew. That was close, I thought I had some kind of nasty virus or something.
NIC - (Audibly trying to hold it together, sounds like the supervisor is now monitoring the call) Sir are you not wanting to....
HUJ - Oh come on now man. Not even a slight chuckle? Tell me this isn't the best call you've had all day
NIC - Thank you for your time sir, have a nice day.
BEST SALES CALL EVER.
I never get the Windows virus calls. :(
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 29, 2014, 06:15:26 PM
Earlier today I had a call from a nice Indian chap about my computer. Rough transcript follows:
Nice Indian Chap - We have detected a virus on your computer....
Horrible Uncle Junkie - Well that explains everything! No wonder it's been so slow of late. How do we fix this?
NIC - Well if you could go to your computer now I will explain the process...
HUJ- It's already on, I was using when you called
NIC - Could I ask you to log into...
HUJ - THERE'S GAY PORN ON THE SCREEN! OH MY GOD. WHAT IS HE? WHY ARE THEY? WHY IS HE SUCKING THAT?
NIC - Yes sir, this is the problem we are trying to remedy....
HUJ - I'M AT WORK! EVERYONE CAN SEE AND HEAR THE GAY PORN YOU'VE PUT ON MY COMPUTER! I'M GOING TO GET FIRED!
NIC - Sir I am trying to help you....
HUJ - Oh. Oh wait. It's OK. This is MY gay porn. Whew. That was close, I thought I had some kind of nasty virus or something.
NIC - (Audibly trying to hold it together, sounds like the supervisor is now monitoring the call) Sir are you not wanting to....
HUJ - Oh come on now man. Not even a slight chuckle? Tell me this isn't the best call you've had all day
NIC - Thank you for your time sir, have a nice day.
BEST SALES CALL EVER.
:lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: The Suu on September 29, 2014, 06:21:41 PM
I never get the Windows virus calls. :(
My first one. I kind of hope I get more.
SO...Mikael Martin tried to sign up as CJ_Ninja. Unfortunately, the datamining done on him and the location of his IP addie are identical, so no dice.
How widespread is that picture? Because that Hello kitty thing in the background just makes it even more disturbing.
Once again, White power activists prove their own case against them. Like they always fucking do.
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 29, 2014, 08:37:50 PM
How widespread is that picture? Because that Hello kitty thing in the background just makes it even more disturbing.
Once again, White power activists prove their own case against them. Like they always fucking do.
That's only one pic. And it's the least disturbing. Turns out our boy is a coprophiliac.
Please tell me there's no kids crap in those pictures.
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 29, 2014, 09:03:02 PM
Please tell me there's no kids crap in those pictures.
Not that I know of. He's just standing there with shit all around his mouth.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 29, 2014, 09:04:10 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 29, 2014, 09:03:02 PM
Please tell me there's no kids crap in those pictures.
Not that I know of. He's just standing there with shit all around his mouth.
:horrormirth: my first thought when he started in on the whole schtick was "who is THIS shitneck?". He complained when I followed him from thread to thread. I let him go. He got banned in a day or so.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 29, 2014, 09:04:10 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 29, 2014, 09:03:02 PM
Please tell me there's no kids crap in those pictures.
Not that I know of. He's just standing there with shit all around his mouth.
Well, good, I guess. In the circumstances. I think.
reported shiteater for fake name.
Mahatma Ghandi always walked barefoot, rarely ate, and what diet he did have gave him bad breath.
He was a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 29, 2014, 05:14:12 PM
Oh, and for Nigel...Here is the valiant white nationalist hero who preaches about "faggots" all day:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10698490_791785097539815_3162968269243096368_n.jpg?oh=6f612f2a970721991692a655d6c02c91&oe=5482491D&__gda__=1422748052_574578c2677de3a831737424ed59891b)
That is sincerely just... :lulz: I wouldn't feel the desire to make fun of him if he wasn't such a HYPOCRITE. We all like to feel pretty sometimes.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 29, 2014, 08:40:49 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 29, 2014, 08:37:50 PM
How widespread is that picture? Because that Hello kitty thing in the background just makes it even more disturbing.
Once again, White power activists prove their own case against them. Like they always fucking do.
That's only one pic. And it's the least disturbing. Turns out our boy is a coprophiliac.
:vom:
So I started on my thyroid medication on Friday. So far I've lost my appetite, or rather the unbalanced hunger that was making me nauseous by 11am no matter how big my breakfast was, and I didn't nap today after school. I still have some fog, but I feel more alert. I'm also noticing that I'm not as irritable, and this is just in a few days. It will fully kick in in about 2 weeks.
However, I went from being cold all the time to hot flashing. And considering I've always had a low body temp, I'm feeling pretty warm. A small price to pay for not feeling dizzy and tired all the time.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on September 30, 2014, 12:57:11 AM
That is sincerely just... :lulz: I wouldn't feel the desire to make fun of him if he wasn't such a HYPOCRITE. We all like to feel pretty sometimes.
You haven't seen the poopymouf pic. :vom:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 30, 2014, 03:37:46 AM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on September 30, 2014, 12:57:11 AM
That is sincerely just... :lulz: I wouldn't feel the desire to make fun of him if he wasn't such a HYPOCRITE. We all like to feel pretty sometimes.
You haven't seen the poopymouf pic. :vom:
So is he the guy with a shitload of socks who isn't Smiggles?
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on September 30, 2014, 03:40:40 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 30, 2014, 03:37:46 AM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on September 30, 2014, 12:57:11 AM
That is sincerely just... :lulz: I wouldn't feel the desire to make fun of him if he wasn't such a HYPOCRITE. We all like to feel pretty sometimes.
You haven't seen the poopymouf pic. :vom:
So is he the guy with a shitload of socks who isn't Smiggles?
As far as I can tell. Smiggles seems to be a different person who hates Mike Martin, but you can't be paranoid enough.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 30, 2014, 03:57:09 AM
Quote from: Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn on September 30, 2014, 03:40:40 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 30, 2014, 03:37:46 AM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on September 30, 2014, 12:57:11 AM
That is sincerely just... :lulz: I wouldn't feel the desire to make fun of him if he wasn't such a HYPOCRITE. We all like to feel pretty sometimes.
You haven't seen the poopymouf pic. :vom:
So is he the guy with a shitload of socks who isn't Smiggles?
As far as I can tell. Smiggles seems to be a different person who hates Mike Martin, but you can't be paranoid enough.
Yeah, I used to think they were the same too, at first.
I blocked one of that guys socks almost immediately.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on September 30, 2014, 03:37:46 AM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on September 30, 2014, 12:57:11 AM
That is sincerely just... :lulz: I wouldn't feel the desire to make fun of him if he wasn't such a HYPOCRITE. We all like to feel pretty sometimes.
You haven't seen the poopymouf pic. :vom:
That is seriously. Just really something. :lulz:
Is it just me or have the "Recent unread posts / topics" sections vanished?
Downloading 2GB of tender docs, about 300 docs all in. Downloading one at a time.
I'm about ready to kill someone.
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 30, 2014, 11:25:13 AM
Is it just me or have the "Recent unread posts / topics" sections vanished?
Still there for me
Did you click the arrow at the top right corner to collapse the menu?
Have you tried turning the forum off, and then turning it back on again?
Quote from: Faust on September 30, 2014, 01:17:45 PM
Did you click the arrow at the top right corner to collapse the menu?
It seems that I did.
Ignore me today, I'm clearly having a bout of incompetence.
Quote from: Junkenstein on September 30, 2014, 02:05:08 PM
Quote from: Faust on September 30, 2014, 01:17:45 PM
Did you click the arrow at the top right corner to collapse the menu?
It seems that I did.
Ignore me today, I'm clearly having a bout of incompetence.
No no, the only reason I know about it is because I did it and I didn't realise what the problem was for about a week.
Each of my books weighs about eight pounds, with the consequence that I have to pick one to bring to school. I will be at school all fucking day.
Urgh.
Eventually I will either develop a system, or. I don't know. Rent a locker?
It sucks you can't get 'em electronically.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 30, 2014, 03:27:07 PM
It sucks you can't get 'em electronically.
Right? I thought this was the information age, the era of the Internet.
I bought some women's skinny pants today. Apparently I'm a size 9? The brand must run large...
As this is my second week of training for my new job, and the dress code is "business casual", I've decided to see what I can get away with. I figure an ironed collared shirt will be the key to pulling this off.
I'd try out an ascot, if I were you.
I have a car for the first time since 2005 when my Jetta died. I was cut off by 2 Massholes on the way home from buying it.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on September 30, 2014, 03:10:49 PM
Each of my books weighs about eight pounds, with the consequence that I have to pick one to bring to school. I will be at school all fucking day.
Urgh.
Eventually I will either develop a system, or. I don't know. Rent a locker?
Or get big from all the lifting
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 30, 2014, 03:27:07 PM
It sucks you can't get 'em electronically.
Oh, I COULD. If I had a newer device and was willing to pay the $200 per.
Quote from: N E T on September 30, 2014, 07:05:44 PM
I bought some women's skinny pants today. Apparently I'm a size 9? The brand must run large...
As this is my second week of training for my new job, and the dress code is "business casual", I've decided to see what I can get away with. I figure an ironed collared shirt will be the key to pulling this off.
It's all about the hips, son.
Quote from: Slyph on September 30, 2014, 09:10:32 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on September 30, 2014, 03:10:49 PM
Each of my books weighs about eight pounds, with the consequence that I have to pick one to bring to school. I will be at school all fucking day.
Urgh.
Eventually I will either develop a system, or. I don't know. Rent a locker?
Or get big from all the lifting
They don't actually fit, physically, in my backpack. I could get two in, max, if I took everything else out, like my clicker, notebook, lunch, calculator, wallet, pens, and bus-readin.
The worst thing about these fucking books is that they're impractical for reading on the bus. I'd get stabbed.
I'd like to offer some impractical and unsolicited advice.
Hire porters. It's what all the best people do.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 01, 2014, 04:04:37 AM
I'd like to offer some impractical and unsolicited advice.
Hire porters. It's what all the best people do.
:lulz: :lulz: :mittens: :mittens:
Best impractical and unsolicited advice ITT.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 01, 2014, 04:02:22 AM
Quote from: Slyph on September 30, 2014, 09:10:32 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on September 30, 2014, 03:10:49 PM
Each of my books weighs about eight pounds, with the consequence that I have to pick one to bring to school. I will be at school all fucking day.
Rent a locker?
you might consider my old locker
it is in nueberger ? 4th floor as i remember
on the path to the math lab 465?
on the South wall | proble is i do not
eXactly remember the number 338
its not a coat locker its just holds books & papers
you don't kneed a key | you can turn the
lock with anything finger nail works
paper clip tops of ball points etc
you may have to try sever to find 338
its about 4 to 6 rows from the East end
and about tit leval | easy to reach
no stooping or reaching up
just walk up when the hall is empty
and turn
but it could well be the whole bank is gone
from the South hall across from a water fountain?
good luck | also check SU.sub basement SE corner ?/?
Incidentally, I won't be around much today. I've been volunteered for some all day training thing.
:jumper:
You could always watching jihadi training videos instead, like me.
This Jabhat al-Nusra one is actually quite good. Slick production values, but not over the top. Music is not overpowering, or obnoxious, or entirely terrible. And for a sniper unit, these guys have some neat parkour moves.
Interesting. What do you hope to learn from watching them?
Oh, something to do with this Khorasan group. Basically, it seems like someone in the Middle East did some actual journalism and went into one of the bombed out safe houses a US jet hit and took some documents. As it turns out, Khorasan may have another name, and some names of its members were included in the documents the reporter took.
One of those names was (before sadly dying in a freak accident involving a head-on collision with a laser-guided American missile) part of an elite sniper unit, who had videos made of them training. So I'm watching the videos as part of my research.
Ah. Gotcha. Well, at least there's parkour.
Quote from: Cain on October 01, 2014, 12:17:13 PM
You could always watching jihadi training videos instead, like me.
This Jabhat al-Nusra one is actually quite good. Slick production values, but not over the top. Music is not overpowering, or obnoxious, or entirely terrible. And for a sniper unit, these guys have some neat parkour moves.
:lulz: Sounds pretty entertaining. Instead, I will do Organic Chemistry homework.
Quote from: hirley0 on October 01, 2014, 10:37:21 AM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 01, 2014, 04:02:22 AM
Quote from: Slyph on September 30, 2014, 09:10:32 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on September 30, 2014, 03:10:49 PM
Each of my books weighs about eight pounds, with the consequence that I have to pick one to bring to school. I will be at school all fucking day.
Rent a locker?
you might consider my old locker
it is in nueberger ? 4th floor as i remember
on the path to the math lab 465?
on the South wall | proble is i do not
eXactly remember the number 338
its not a coat locker its just holds books & papers
you don't kneed a key | you can turn the
lock with anything finger nail works
paper clip tops of ball points etc
you may have to try sever to find 338
its about 4 to 6 rows from the East end
and about tit leval | easy to reach
no stooping or reaching up
just walk up when the hall is empty
and turn
but it could well be the whole bank is gone
from the South hall across from a water fountain?
good luck | also check SU.sub basement SE corner ?/?
Thanks N0p! I think I have devised a system that is complex but functional. I will do Ochem homework at home on Monday and Wednesday mornings, and at school on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons. I'll read my Neuro book at school on Monday and Wednesday afternoons, and my Molecular Bio book at home on Monday and Wednesday evenings. I'll do my Systems Science reading on the bus to and from school.
I'll work on projects on weekends.
Seems like this should cover me, and I'll only have one really big textbook on me at any given time.
Free GPU's? Was wondering if, absent petty cash, we might be able to pool some cycles off of off machines home/work/skewl? I have no idea why, though, at least somewhat selfishly, a few tings come to dis quartermaster's mind... Wow, don't mind me.
People drama llamaing about the whole Facebook real name thing is seriously starting to get on my nerves. No, Snowflake, Facebook is almost certainly not deliberately targeting San Francisco drag queens in order to make money by forcing them to make fan pages. In fact, that possibility almost certainly never even crossed the wee little minds of Facebook's executives when they decided to enact their ill-fated and decidedly moronic real name policy. Yes, their policy has enabled assholes to target drag queens for persecution, but, as much as I hate Facebook, rationally thinking the situation through, I am almost forced to contemplate the high probability that persecuting drag queens was almost certainly not their diabolical plan all along.
Facebook's lack of giving a fuck about the safety of various groups of people including (but not limited to) drag performers, schoolteachers, minor children, and people fleeing domestic violence, at least until the bad publicity sunk in, is far more damning of their ethical senses, IMO, than the fact that they enacted the policy in the first place, which is merely damning of their collective ability to rub two sticks together to make fire.
Not that their ethical senses were in question to begin with, having set them on fire and thrown them out the window earlier this year when they performed human subject research without informed consent.
*grumble* This is the last time I let my husband do anything without my supervision. He registered the car today and put a Red Sox frame on my license plate. *grumble*
I just ordered Tampa Bay decals using his Paypal account though. :)
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 02, 2014, 12:28:30 AM
People drama llamaing about the whole Facebook real name thing is seriously starting to get on my nerves. No, Snowflake, Facebook is almost certainly not deliberately targeting San Francisco drag queens in order to make money by forcing them to make fan pages. In fact, that possibility almost certainly never even crossed the wee little minds of Facebook's executives when they decided to enact their ill-fated and decidedly moronic real name policy. Yes, their policy has enabled assholes to target drag queens for persecution, but, as much as I hate Facebook, rationally thinking the situation through, I am almost forced to contemplate the high probability that persecuting drag queens was almost certainly not their diabolical plan all along.
All I know is that I can't be Hamish Howl anymore so fuck Zuckerberg right in his pimply fucking ear.
Sam Tarwell? What the fuck is THAT shit?
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 02, 2014, 12:34:32 AM
Facebook's lack of giving a fuck about the safety of various groups of people including (but not limited to) drag performers, schoolteachers, minor children, and people fleeing domestic violence, at least until the bad publicity sunk in, is far more damning of their ethical senses, IMO, than the fact that they enacted the policy in the first place, which is merely damning of their collective ability to rub two sticks together to make fire.
Not that their ethical senses were in question to begin with, having set them on fire and thrown them out the window earlier this year when they performed human subject research without informed consent.
I wonder if that was a case of "we have no idea what we're doing BUT IT'S SCIENCE" or "We know and don't care"?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2014, 01:09:23 AM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 02, 2014, 12:34:32 AM
Facebook's lack of giving a fuck about the safety of various groups of people including (but not limited to) drag performers, schoolteachers, minor children, and people fleeing domestic violence, at least until the bad publicity sunk in, is far more damning of their ethical senses, IMO, than the fact that they enacted the policy in the first place, which is merely damning of their collective ability to rub two sticks together to make fire.
Not that their ethical senses were in question to begin with, having set them on fire and thrown them out the window earlier this year when they performed human subject research without informed consent.
I wonder if that was a case of "we have no idea what we're doing BUT IT'S SCIENCE" or "We know and don't care"?
My suspicion is the latter, because when the editor asked about it she was told that the "local IRB" had approved it, which later turned out to not be a formal IRB application or even a review board at all, but a Facebook Ethics Committee discussing it
after the fact, which, well.
Last week i started a male feminist facebook group centered on fighting male gender roles and promoting a kinder more progressive masculinity. I was almost immediately screeched at by two feminist acquaintances of mine for...i'm still not entirely sure what to be honest, at a certain point they were just flinging Tumblr-grade talking points at me without even engaging my arguments directly. I somehow managed to field the entire fiasco without calling either one of them a name or resorting to ad hominem attacks, which believe took the patience of a saint on Quaaludes. Joke's on them though, after that shitstorm, people actually started showing up to make discussion and post things so... i win i guess?
Well, after the backlash it seems Facebook is going to be a bit more lenient on it's real name policy.
Seems to be the same thing that Google went through a while back.
Why sites are so insistent on this real name stuff I don't understand.
After the first week on thyroid meds...well, it's 6:51am here. My alarm doesn't go off for 9 minutes. I've already had 3/4ths a cup of coffee. That should explain everything.
I scared my husband. He was like, "What are you doing up?" I staggered out at 5:45 to take my pill when his alarm went off. By 6:20, I was up. Now I'm borderline bouncing off the walls. Bearman was right, this shit is insomnia in a bottle.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 02, 2014, 01:21:46 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2014, 01:09:23 AM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 02, 2014, 12:34:32 AM
Facebook's lack of giving a fuck about the safety of various groups of people including (but not limited to) drag performers, schoolteachers, minor children, and people fleeing domestic violence, at least until the bad publicity sunk in, is far more damning of their ethical senses, IMO, than the fact that they enacted the policy in the first place, which is merely damning of their collective ability to rub two sticks together to make fire.
Not that their ethical senses were in question to begin with, having set them on fire and thrown them out the window earlier this year when they performed human subject research without informed consent.
I wonder if that was a case of "we have no idea what we're doing BUT IT'S SCIENCE" or "We know and don't care"?
My suspicion is the latter, because when the editor asked about it she was told that the "local IRB" had approved it, which later turned out to not be a formal IRB application or even a review board at all, but a Facebook Ethics Committee discussing it after the fact, which, well.
"OOPSIE!"
- Adolf Eichmann
Quote from: Sita on October 02, 2014, 10:44:46 AM
Well, after the backlash it seems Facebook is going to be a bit more lenient on it's real name policy.
Seems to be the same thing that Google went through a while back.
Why sites are so insistent on this real name stuff I don't understand.
It's already going horrible and wrong. Something about having to "prove" that you are an artist and/or LGBT.
Which might be interesting.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on October 02, 2014, 03:28:51 AM
Last week i started a male feminist facebook group centered on fighting male gender roles and promoting a kinder more progressive masculinity. I was almost immediately screeched at by two feminist acquaintances of mine for...i'm still not entirely sure what to be honest, at a certain point they were just flinging Tumblr-grade talking points at me without even engaging my arguments directly. I somehow managed to field the entire fiasco without calling either one of them a name or resorting to ad hominem attacks, which believe took the patience of a saint on Quaaludes. Joke's on them though, after that shitstorm, people actually started showing up to make discussion and post things so... i win i guess?
That does, indeed, sound like a win!
I've left the closed Discordian group. I was just going to start blocking people, but I have better things to do with my time than to block fucking monkeys on an individual level everyone they decide to post a pornographic picture or a guy whose had his chest blasted open. Even if I didn't mind seeing that shit I still check my Facebook on my phone when I'm at work or on the T. So fuck that shit.
Quote from: Sita on October 02, 2014, 10:44:46 AM
Well, after the backlash it seems Facebook is going to be a bit more lenient on it's real name policy.
Seems to be the same thing that Google went through a while back.
Why sites are so insistent on this real name stuff I don't understand.
In Facebook's case, I think they're trying to use it as a means of reducing bullying and harassment without paying to have employees actually investigate bullying and harassment.
Which, of course, is pretty much wholly ineffective. Basically they don't want to actually pay mods to mod.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2014, 02:02:26 PM
Quote from: Sita on October 02, 2014, 10:44:46 AM
Well, after the backlash it seems Facebook is going to be a bit more lenient on it's real name policy.
Seems to be the same thing that Google went through a while back.
Why sites are so insistent on this real name stuff I don't understand.
It's already going horrible and wrong. Something about having to "prove" that you are an artist and/or LGBT.
Which might be interesting.
Yeah.
People are really outraged (people LOVE being outraged, especially about first world problems) but I'm more excited in the ways in which this is likely to go horribly wrong. ("Horribly" and "wrong" from the perspective of people whose worst problem is the possibility of losing their Facebook account, of course).
On the one hand: Facebook is a private site, and they can administer that private site in whatever hilariously inept, counterproductive and stupid way they want to. Any whining about so-called rights mistakes our society for one in which said rights trump ownership rights, and making such complaints for FB to acquiese to merely allows them to mask the true authoritarian nature of the omnscient nerd complex that seeks to put us all under surveillance for greater good and profit.
On the other hand, I don't like Facebook much, so have at them.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 02, 2014, 03:07:01 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2014, 02:02:26 PM
Quote from: Sita on October 02, 2014, 10:44:46 AM
Well, after the backlash it seems Facebook is going to be a bit more lenient on it's real name policy.
Seems to be the same thing that Google went through a while back.
Why sites are so insistent on this real name stuff I don't understand.
It's already going horrible and wrong. Something about having to "prove" that you are an artist and/or LGBT.
Which might be interesting.
Yeah.
People are really outraged (people LOVE being outraged, especially about first world problems) but I'm more excited in the ways in which this is likely to go horribly wrong. ("Horribly" and "wrong" from the perspective of people whose worst problem is the possibility of losing their Facebook account, of course).
I just love the idea of "PROVE YOU'RE LGBT". Yeah, it's not on par with Darfur and ebola, but it's still funny in a grotesque sort of way.
And, as well, it is directed.
The FUNNY part is WHY the policy exists. It's hard to collect personal data if people change their names.
I am especially amused by the fact that this policy has apparently been in place for the last ten years, and it's only now that people are noticing.
The whole thing, really, is kind of delicious.
Thank you for submitting the picture of Bear George sucking your dick.
Unfortunately we cannot beyond a reasonable doubt ascertain your LGBT status from this as you could just be looking to get your dick wet or merely curious, please submit pictures of assfucking so we can continue processing your application.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 02, 2014, 02:59:48 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on October 02, 2014, 03:28:51 AM
Last week i started a male feminist facebook group centered on fighting male gender roles and promoting a kinder more progressive masculinity. I was almost immediately screeched at by two feminist acquaintances of mine for...i'm still not entirely sure what to be honest, at a certain point they were just flinging Tumblr-grade talking points at me without even engaging my arguments directly. I somehow managed to field the entire fiasco without calling either one of them a name or resorting to ad hominem attacks, which believe took the patience of a saint on Quaaludes. Joke's on them though, after that shitstorm, people actually started showing up to make discussion and post things so... i win i guess?
That does, indeed, sound like a win!
Thanks! :D BTW, anyone wanting to check the group out feel free to PM me or hit me up on facebook.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 02, 2014, 03:31:12 PM
I am especially amused by the fact that this policy has apparently been in place for the last ten years, and it's only now that people are noticing.
The whole thing, really, is kind of delicious.
I think they only just started enforcing it.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on October 02, 2014, 03:28:51 AM
Last week i started a male feminist facebook group centered on fighting male gender roles and promoting a kinder more progressive masculinity. I was almost immediately screeched at by two feminist acquaintances of mine for...i'm still not entirely sure what to be honest, at a certain point they were just flinging Tumblr-grade talking points at me without even engaging my arguments directly. I somehow managed to field the entire fiasco without calling either one of them a name or resorting to ad hominem attacks, which believe took the patience of a saint on Quaaludes. Joke's on them though, after that shitstorm, people actually started showing up to make discussion and post things so... i win i guess?
Ooh. I wanna see!
^^^^Derp after reading your next post.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 02, 2014, 03:31:12 PM
I am especially amused by the fact that this policy has apparently been in place for the last ten years, and it's only now that people are noticing.
The whole thing, really, is kind of delicious.
It was a major part of the appeal when I joined back in 2005. It was super small, and only available to people with certain university email addresses. You could search people you knew by their actual name, or even what department they were in, and there they were. It was actually really novel for the time.
Different time, though. Different site entirely. What was this super-cool feature, is now...exactly the opposite.
The original Facebook was a great site. There was absolutely no need to change it. Zuckerberg just saw the money that was made available to MySpace and got fucking greedy.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 01, 2014, 04:38:55 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 01, 2014, 04:04:37 AM
I'd like to offer some impractical and unsolicited advice.
Hire porters. It's what all the best people do.
:lulz: :lulz: :mittens: :mittens:
Best impractical and unsolicited advice ITT.
a wheelie grocery bag? (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSRRNQ6Siwf0n2Ds5XIYhDCrcHxDglWWMQNs_TayTrxD0xjDRJu)
drag that shit, don't heft it.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2014, 04:58:05 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 02, 2014, 03:31:12 PM
I am especially amused by the fact that this policy has apparently been in place for the last ten years, and it's only now that people are noticing.
The whole thing, really, is kind of delicious.
I think they only just started enforcing it.
Nope. When a friend of mine came out as trans Facebook demanded all sorts of documents and shit from him to change his account name. this was about a year or so ago.
It was all so tedious he said FUCK IT and opened a new acct.
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on October 02, 2014, 09:18:42 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2014, 04:58:05 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 02, 2014, 03:31:12 PM
I am especially amused by the fact that this policy has apparently been in place for the last ten years, and it's only now that people are noticing.
The whole thing, really, is kind of delicious.
I think they only just started enforcing it.
Nope. When a friend of mine came out as trans Facebook demanded all sorts of documents and shit from him to change his account name. this was about a year or so ago.
It was all so tedious he said FUCK IT and opened a new acct.
Yeah, same story with a trans person I know, He's had to set up a new account.
also i got a new wireless keyboard with the shallower keys (srsly the keyboard is tiny) and now I apparently don't have to worry about RAGE TYPING sounding like a machine gun and waking up the entire house with my insomniac habits.
I also am having to use spellcheck less and seem to have a faster more accurate typing speed. All of those things are pleasing to me :D
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 01, 2014, 04:38:55 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 01, 2014, 04:04:37 AM
I'd like to offer some impractical and unsolicited advice.
Hire porters. It's what all the best people do.
:lulz: :lulz: :mittens: :mittens:
Best impractical and unsolicited advice ITT.
I am surrounded by insanity. It gives me good ideas.
(http://o.onionstatic.com/images/27/27517/16x9/700.jpg?9303)
:spittake:
I AM TYPING AND THERE ARE WORDS BUT THE WORDS DO NOT MEAN ANYTHING
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
MIND BLOWN. NOT YOURS, YOUR MIND IS PRETTY. MINE. MY MIND IS STICKY WITH BEER BUT IT'S STILL DTF.
I apologize. :(
Skipping school tomorrow to deal with some spectacular plumbing issues. Or rather, finding my house amidst the pre-deployment mess so maintenance can deal.
These next 3 months of my life are going to be awesome.
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on October 02, 2014, 09:13:39 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 01, 2014, 04:38:55 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 01, 2014, 04:04:37 AM
I'd like to offer some impractical and unsolicited advice.
Hire porters. It's what all the best people do.
:lulz: :lulz: :mittens: :mittens:
Best impractical and unsolicited advice ITT.
a wheelie grocery bag? (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSRRNQ6Siwf0n2Ds5XIYhDCrcHxDglWWMQNs_TayTrxD0xjDRJu)
drag that shit, don't heft it.
:lulz: Can't tell if srs or being facetious.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2014, 04:58:05 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 02, 2014, 03:31:12 PM
I am especially amused by the fact that this policy has apparently been in place for the last ten years, and it's only now that people are noticing.
The whole thing, really, is kind of delicious.
I think they only just started enforcing it.
What happened is that someone started mass-reporting all of the drag queens in SF.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on October 02, 2014, 05:20:32 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 02, 2014, 03:31:12 PM
I am especially amused by the fact that this policy has apparently been in place for the last ten years, and it's only now that people are noticing.
The whole thing, really, is kind of delicious.
It was a major part of the appeal when I joined back in 2005. It was super small, and only available to people with certain university email addresses. You could search people you knew by their actual name, or even what department they were in, and there they were. It was actually really novel for the time.
Different time, though. Different site entirely. What was this super-cool feature, is now...exactly the opposite.
Yeah. There are a couple of social networking sites that basically took its place for schools, but I think the school has to subscribe to them.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2014, 04:58:05 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 02, 2014, 03:31:12 PM
I am especially amused by the fact that this policy has apparently been in place for the last ten years, and it's only now that people are noticing.
The whole thing, really, is kind of delicious.
I think they only just started enforcing it.
No, my sister used to have an account for her cat. It was actually more amusing than it sounds... Facebook shut it down years and years ago.
I remember them doing that for pets. Wanted everyone to make pages for them instead of profiles.
Maybe they have the same mindset about people that want to use an alias?
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 04:48:44 AM
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on October 02, 2014, 09:13:39 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 01, 2014, 04:38:55 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 01, 2014, 04:04:37 AM
I'd like to offer some impractical and unsolicited advice.
Hire porters. It's what all the best people do.
:lulz: :lulz: :mittens: :mittens:
Best impractical and unsolicited advice ITT.
a wheelie grocery bag? (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSRRNQ6Siwf0n2Ds5XIYhDCrcHxDglWWMQNs_TayTrxD0xjDRJu)
drag that shit, don't heft it.
:lulz: Can't tell if srs or being facetious.
To be honest it sounds like a good suggestion. A small luggage bag with wheels/handle might be just thing thing.
Had to stay home from school this morning to call maintenance and let them know that we have plumbing fail all the things.
Verdict: Bolt behind the toilet was loose, better than leaking at the base like I thought it was. And new garbage disposal.
Apply for a job in Kazakhstan? Sure, why not.
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 03, 2014, 12:32:09 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 04:48:44 AM
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on October 02, 2014, 09:13:39 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 01, 2014, 04:38:55 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 01, 2014, 04:04:37 AM
I'd like to offer some impractical and unsolicited advice.
Hire porters. It's what all the best people do.
:lulz: :lulz: :mittens: :mittens:
Best impractical and unsolicited advice ITT.
a wheelie grocery bag? (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSRRNQ6Siwf0n2Ds5XIYhDCrcHxDglWWMQNs_TayTrxD0xjDRJu)
drag that shit, don't heft it.
:lulz: Can't tell if srs or being facetious.
To be honest it sounds like a good suggestion. A small luggage bag with wheels/handle might be just thing thing.
Yes, it is certainly a novel suggestion that no student has ever before considered, not in any way a common sight on all college campuses everywhere in the world, and there is no possible way that I may have rejected it for reasons I never would have anticipated explaining on a forum.
Seriously, guys, the problem with unsolicited advice based on incomplete knowledge is that it's tiresome and almost always unintentionally both condescending and stupid, and generally puts the unwilling advisee in a situation where they are explaining details that nobody gives any fucks about, like the part where their walk from downtown to south waterfront precludes dragging a stupid small case on wheels. Not to mention what a pain in the ass those things are on the bus.
I was just complaining. Not asking for solutions to a mundane problem absolutely nobody on the internet knows enough details of to possibly have the tools to solve. Suggesting really obvious solutions gives me the impression you think I'm an idiot, and is a waste of everyone's time.
Seriously, give people a little credit. :lol:
Have you considered using your hands or perhaps arms to carry the books in question?
What if you kicked the books down along the street as you walked?
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 03, 2014, 03:00:06 PM
Have you considered using your hands or perhaps arms to carry the books in question?
What if you kicked the books down along the street as you walked?
:lulz:
How good is your balance? Could you stack a bunch of them on your head?
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 03, 2014, 03:01:48 PM
How good is your balance? Could you stack a bunch of them on your head?
I was thinking that if I got a bunch of helium balloons I could just float them back and forth.
I think you should just quit college. If you can't carry books, you have no purpose there.
NO.
PURPOSE.
THERE.
Get thee hence, non book carrier. Your kind are not required.
Have you looked into forklift rentals? They can be surprisingly cheap.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Now THAT's the kind of unsolicited impractical advice I can get behind.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 03:31:28 PM
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Now THAT's the kind of unsolicited impractical advice I can get behind.
I need to start doing that to everyone.
Of course, I'm also kind of assuming that Pix was being facetious, since I posted that I'd worked out a system back on page 69:
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 01, 2014, 03:22:07 PMThanks N0p! I think I have devised a system that is complex but functional. I will do Ochem homework at home on Monday and Wednesday mornings, and at school on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday afternoons. I'll read my Neuro book at school on Monday and Wednesday afternoons, and my Molecular Bio book at home on Monday and Wednesday evenings. I'll do my Systems Science reading on the bus to and from school.
I'll work on projects on weekends.
Seems like this should cover me, and I'll only have one really big textbook on me at any given time.
Well I was going to suggest slaving a series of segways together for each book but that seemed somewhat costly.
I hear you've got plenty of kids over there looking for work experience. Take on an intern. That's got to be the best way. Hell, you could take on a few and get yourself a sedan chair.
This is pretty much why I tend to abstain from open bar threads.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 03:32:31 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 03:31:28 PM
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Now THAT's the kind of unsolicited impractical advice I can get behind.
I need to start doing that to everyone.
You seriously should, because so many people do it with absolute sincerity that it would be hilarious.
Facebook is the worst. I always forget that if I ever complain about anything, or even simply comment on something mundane, generally at least 5 people (most of whom don't even really know me and know nothing about the larger context of my complaint) will offer the most infuriatingly inapplicable advice, usually in the format "why don't you just...?" and then fifteen minutes later I realize that I'm in a conversation where I'm explaining minute details of my life that nobody cares about and are nobody's business to near-strangers.
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 03, 2014, 03:40:34 PM
Well I was going to suggest slaving a series of segways together for each book but that seemed somewhat costly.
I hear you've got plenty of kids over there looking for work experience. Take on an intern. That's got to be the best way. Hell, you could take on a few and get yourself a sedan chair.
This is pretty much why I tend to abstain from open bar threads.
There, there. I know you meant well. :lol:
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 03:43:33 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 03:32:31 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 03:31:28 PM
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Now THAT's the kind of unsolicited impractical advice I can get behind.
I need to start doing that to everyone.
You seriously should, because so many people do it with absolute sincerity that it would be hilarious.
Facebook is the worst. I always forget that if I ever complain about anything, or even simply comment on something mundane, generally at least 5 people (most of whom don't even really know me and know nothing about the larger context of my complaint) will offer the most infuriatingly inapplicable advice, usually in the format "why don't you just...?" and then fifteen minutes later I realize that I'm in a conversation where I'm explaining minute details of my life that nobody cares about and are nobody's business to near-strangers.
I think we need to gin up two absolutely absurd tales of woe that have no real answer. Then you and I should each post one and compare the results. My hypothesis is that you, being female, will receive WAY more stupid/condescending advice.
Nigel, why don't you just memorize all your textbooks? Sheesh, make an effort, why don't ya.
"Aw, it started raining, I guess I'm not going to the beach this weekend after all"
"Why don't you just get a raincoat and go anyway?"
"Why not go to the beach and have a picnic in your car?"
"Is it still warm enough to go swimming? If you're going to be getting wet anyway you might as well"
"Why can't you go to the museum again... you can look at beach paintings there?"
"Have you thought about getting an umbrella?"
"The beach is still nice when it's raining, why not just go anyway?"
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 03:45:33 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 03:43:33 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 03:32:31 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 03:31:28 PM
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Now THAT's the kind of unsolicited impractical advice I can get behind.
I need to start doing that to everyone.
You seriously should, because so many people do it with absolute sincerity that it would be hilarious.
Facebook is the worst. I always forget that if I ever complain about anything, or even simply comment on something mundane, generally at least 5 people (most of whom don't even really know me and know nothing about the larger context of my complaint) will offer the most infuriatingly inapplicable advice, usually in the format "why don't you just...?" and then fifteen minutes later I realize that I'm in a conversation where I'm explaining minute details of my life that nobody cares about and are nobody's business to near-strangers.
I think we need to gin up two absolutely absurd tales of woe that have no real answer. Then you and I should each post one and compare the results. My hypothesis is that you, being female, will receive WAY more stupid/condescending advice.
:lulz: I love this idea.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 03:49:49 PM
"Aw, it started raining, I guess I'm not going to the beach this weekend after all"
"Why don't you just get a raincoat and go anyway?"
"Why not go to the beach and have a picnic in your car?"
"Is it still warm enough to go swimming? If you're going to be getting wet anyway you might as well"
"Why can't you go to the museum again... you can look at beach paintings there?"
"Have you thought about getting an umbrella?"
"The beach is still nice when it's raining, why not just go anyway?"
:lulz:
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 03:50:30 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 03:45:33 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 03:43:33 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 03:32:31 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 03:31:28 PM
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Now THAT's the kind of unsolicited impractical advice I can get behind.
I need to start doing that to everyone.
You seriously should, because so many people do it with absolute sincerity that it would be hilarious.
Facebook is the worst. I always forget that if I ever complain about anything, or even simply comment on something mundane, generally at least 5 people (most of whom don't even really know me and know nothing about the larger context of my complaint) will offer the most infuriatingly inapplicable advice, usually in the format "why don't you just...?" and then fifteen minutes later I realize that I'm in a conversation where I'm explaining minute details of my life that nobody cares about and are nobody's business to near-strangers.
I think we need to gin up two absolutely absurd tales of woe that have no real answer. Then you and I should each post one and compare the results. My hypothesis is that you, being female, will receive WAY more stupid/condescending advice.
:lulz: I love this idea.
I say we invent each other's problems.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 03, 2014, 03:46:30 PM
Nigel, why don't you just memorize all your textbooks? Sheesh, make an effort, why don't ya.
:lol: I'm working on it, but it will take me approximately three months.
Today's new conspiracy theory on the internet:
When Ebola goes epidemic in the US because it's going to mutate and go airborne, Obama and all the politicians have a hidden city in the mountain. Food trucks are going there right now.
:?
Quote from: The Suu on October 03, 2014, 05:42:12 PM
Today's new conspiracy theory on the internet:
When Ebola goes epidemic in the US because it's going to mutate and go airborne, Obama and all the politicians have a hidden city in the mountain. Food trucks are going there right now.
:?
Weren't you just saying that politics don't make you crazy? :lulz:
Well, to be fair, they do have a hidden city in the mountain. It's called the Cheyenne Mountain Nuclear Bunker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Mountain_nuclear_bunker).
However, it's hardly a secret, as it was the setting for Stargate-SG1 for eleventy billion seasons of airtime. Once again, conspiracy theorists have rediscovered the wheel, and are insisting anyone who does not recognise their genuis in rediscovering the wheel are secret government shills.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 05:46:24 PM
Quote from: The Suu on October 03, 2014, 05:42:12 PM
Today's new conspiracy theory on the internet:
When Ebola goes epidemic in the US because it's going to mutate and go airborne, Obama and all the politicians have a hidden city in the mountain. Food trucks are going there right now.
:?
Weren't you just saying that politics don't make you crazy? :lulz:
I've decided I need to take a long break from Facebook, especially comment reading. It's making me believe that this entire state is full of conspiracy theorists. Bad. Hence all the cat pictures. Seriously, New Hampshire, I thought you were going to be smarter than this.
Live free, or die.
Quote from: Hoopla on October 03, 2014, 05:58:59 PM
Live free, or die.
Oh Jesus Christ, WMUR just released that one of the hospitals has scabies patients. My friend is a nurse there. 2 patients. TWO WHOLE FUCKING PATIENTS WITH A CURABLE ISSUE AND IT NEEDS TO MAKE THE NEWS. BECAUSE OBAMABOLA.
Quote from: The Suu on October 03, 2014, 06:00:27 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on October 03, 2014, 05:58:59 PM
Live free, or die.
Oh Jesus Christ, WMUR just released that one of the hospitals has scabies patients. My friend is a nurse there. 2 patients. TWO WHOLE FUCKING PATIENTS WITH A CURABLE ISSUE AND IT NEEDS TO MAKE THE NEWS. BECAUSE OBAMABOLA.
I think scabies patients
should be kept in hospitals. It is better than storing them in your cupboard. Or in the trunk of your car.
Where does WMUR expect to find scabies patients?
Just FYI, I've turned off all notifications from TDS2014. The truly retarded output of the final week has convinced me nothing of value would be lost by removing it from my feed permamently.
Just got my new salary, post-promotion. :eek:
:eek:
:eek:
This can't be real. Something bad is gonna happen. God won't let me keep this.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 08:33:28 PM
Just got my new salary, post-promotion. :eek:
:eek:
:eek:
This can't be real. Something bad is gonna happen. God won't let me keep this.
:banana:
All and any planned playthroughs for Youtube have been put indefinitely on hold, thanks to an almost infinite number of BSODs since yesterday.
Save me any of your cheap OS wars comments - I'm extremely frustrated that I spent good money on a machine which isn't working any longer, and I will find time to take out that frustration on a suitable target if they present themselves. Until I can get to the root of the problem and fix it, though, I basically cant do anything.
Quote from: Cain on October 03, 2014, 07:28:29 PM
Just FYI, I've turned off all notifications from TDS2014. The truly retarded output of the final week has convinced me nothing of value would be lost by removing it from my feed permamently.
This is where I got to a few days ago. The territory was not worth holding. I've got copies of my few sincere projects from there so why bother with the spam?
It had occurred to me some time ago that in the context of being a mystery school for problem students Discordianism is inside out. The useful, appealing, practical stuff is esoteric, and the off putting, weird, borderline illegal BS is exoteric.
Quote from: Cain on October 03, 2014, 09:23:33 PM
All and any planned playthroughs for Youtube have been put indefinitely on hold, thanks to an almost infinite number of BSODs since yesterday.
Save me any of your cheap OS wars comments - I'm extremely frustrated that I spent good money on a machine which isn't working any longer, and I will find time to take out that frustration on a suitable target if they present themselves. Until I can get to the root of the problem and fix it, though, I basically cant do anything.
Shitty, dude. :(
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 04:48:44 AM
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on October 02, 2014, 09:13:39 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 01, 2014, 04:38:55 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 01, 2014, 04:04:37 AM
I'd like to offer some impractical and unsolicited advice.
Hire porters. It's what all the best people do.
:lulz: :lulz: :mittens: :mittens:
Best impractical and unsolicited advice ITT.
a wheelie grocery bag? (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSRRNQ6Siwf0n2Ds5XIYhDCrcHxDglWWMQNs_TayTrxD0xjDRJu)
drag that shit, don't heft it.
:lulz: Can't tell if srs or being facetious.
totally serious. I love mine, it's fucking useful.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 02:53:47 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 03, 2014, 12:32:09 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 04:48:44 AM
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on October 02, 2014, 09:13:39 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 01, 2014, 04:38:55 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 01, 2014, 04:04:37 AM
I'd like to offer some impractical and unsolicited advice.
Hire porters. It's what all the best people do.
:lulz: :lulz: :mittens: :mittens:
Best impractical and unsolicited advice ITT.
a wheelie grocery bag? (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSRRNQ6Siwf0n2Ds5XIYhDCrcHxDglWWMQNs_TayTrxD0xjDRJu)
drag that shit, don't heft it.
:lulz: Can't tell if srs or being facetious.
To be honest it sounds like a good suggestion. A small luggage bag with wheels/handle might be just thing thing.
Yes, it is certainly a novel suggestion that no student has ever before considered, not in any way a common sight on all college campuses everywhere in the world, and there is no possible way that I may have rejected it for reasons I never would have anticipated explaining on a forum.
Seriously, guys, the problem with unsolicited advice based on incomplete knowledge is that it's tiresome and almost always unintentionally both condescending and stupid, and generally puts the unwilling advisee in a situation where they are explaining details that nobody gives any fucks about, like the part where their walk from downtown to south waterfront precludes dragging a stupid small case on wheels. Not to mention what a pain in the ass those things are on the bus.
I was just complaining. Not asking for solutions to a mundane problem absolutely nobody on the internet knows enough details of to possibly have the tools to solve. Suggesting really obvious solutions gives me the impression you think I'm an idiot, and is a waste of everyone's time.
apologies, my bad. or wheelie bag, IDK
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 03:51:03 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 03:50:30 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 03:45:33 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 03:43:33 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 03:32:31 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 03:31:28 PM
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Now THAT's the kind of unsolicited impractical advice I can get behind.
I need to start doing that to everyone.
You seriously should, because so many people do it with absolute sincerity that it would be hilarious.
Facebook is the worst. I always forget that if I ever complain about anything, or even simply comment on something mundane, generally at least 5 people (most of whom don't even really know me and know nothing about the larger context of my complaint) will offer the most infuriatingly inapplicable advice, usually in the format "why don't you just...?" and then fifteen minutes later I realize that I'm in a conversation where I'm explaining minute details of my life that nobody cares about and are nobody's business to near-strangers.
I think we need to gin up two absolutely absurd tales of woe that have no real answer. Then you and I should each post one and compare the results. My hypothesis is that you, being female, will receive WAY more stupid/condescending advice.
:lulz: I love this idea.
I say we invent each other's problems.
All right. I'm home all day tomorrow doing homework and hanging out with my children. I will ponder this and concoct a really absurd problem/complaint for you that could only conceivably be resolved by someone with the full context of the situation.
Quote from: The Suu on October 03, 2014, 05:42:12 PM
Today's new conspiracy theory on the internet:
When Ebola goes epidemic in the US because it's going to mutate and go airborne, Obama and all the politicians have a hidden city in the mountain. Food trucks are going there right now.
:?
They couldn't come up with an ORIGINAL conspiracy theory? That one's completely cobbled together out of the old "mountain stronghold" conspiracy theory from the 40's.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 08:33:28 PM
Just got my new salary, post-promotion. :eek:
:eek:
:eek:
This can't be real. Something bad is gonna happen. God won't let me keep this.
Worse scenario: God gave it to you, because you're doing His work.
Don't think too hard about that.
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on October 04, 2014, 01:20:58 AM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 02:53:47 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 03, 2014, 12:32:09 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 04:48:44 AM
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on October 02, 2014, 09:13:39 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 01, 2014, 04:38:55 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 01, 2014, 04:04:37 AM
I'd like to offer some impractical and unsolicited advice.
Hire porters. It's what all the best people do.
:lulz: :lulz: :mittens: :mittens:
Best impractical and unsolicited advice ITT.
a wheelie grocery bag? (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSRRNQ6Siwf0n2Ds5XIYhDCrcHxDglWWMQNs_TayTrxD0xjDRJu)
drag that shit, don't heft it.
:lulz: Can't tell if srs or being facetious.
To be honest it sounds like a good suggestion. A small luggage bag with wheels/handle might be just thing thing.
Yes, it is certainly a novel suggestion that no student has ever before considered, not in any way a common sight on all college campuses everywhere in the world, and there is no possible way that I may have rejected it for reasons I never would have anticipated explaining on a forum.
Seriously, guys, the problem with unsolicited advice based on incomplete knowledge is that it's tiresome and almost always unintentionally both condescending and stupid, and generally puts the unwilling advisee in a situation where they are explaining details that nobody gives any fucks about, like the part where their walk from downtown to south waterfront precludes dragging a stupid small case on wheels. Not to mention what a pain in the ass those things are on the bus.
I was just complaining. Not asking for solutions to a mundane problem absolutely nobody on the internet knows enough details of to possibly have the tools to solve. Suggesting really obvious solutions gives me the impression you think I'm an idiot, and is a waste of everyone's time.
apologies, my bad. or wheelie bag, IDK
Not trying to shit on your wheelie bag, Pix. It's just that I wasn't looking for advice, nor anticipating having to explain why a bunch of really rather obvious solutions that work fine for many people don't work for my particular scenario. Plus I worked out the logistics already, which is what my OP on the topic was about needing to do.
Quote from: Cain on October 03, 2014, 07:28:29 PM
Just FYI, I've turned off all notifications from TDS2014. The truly retarded output of the final week has convinced me nothing of value would be lost by removing it from my feed permamently.
I left all of the Discordian groups except for the Portland one and Eris's Disco Clitterball. They've just gone to the point of being utter cesspools.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 04, 2014, 04:44:55 AM
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on October 04, 2014, 01:20:58 AM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 02:53:47 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 03, 2014, 12:32:09 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 03, 2014, 04:48:44 AM
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on October 02, 2014, 09:13:39 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 01, 2014, 04:38:55 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 01, 2014, 04:04:37 AM
I'd like to offer some impractical and unsolicited advice.
Hire porters. It's what all the best people do.
:lulz: :lulz: :mittens: :mittens:
Best impractical and unsolicited advice ITT.
a wheelie grocery bag? (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSRRNQ6Siwf0n2Ds5XIYhDCrcHxDglWWMQNs_TayTrxD0xjDRJu)
drag that shit, don't heft it.
:lulz: Can't tell if srs or being facetious.
To be honest it sounds like a good suggestion. A small luggage bag with wheels/handle might be just thing thing.
Yes, it is certainly a novel suggestion that no student has ever before considered, not in any way a common sight on all college campuses everywhere in the world, and there is no possible way that I may have rejected it for reasons I never would have anticipated explaining on a forum.
Seriously, guys, the problem with unsolicited advice based on incomplete knowledge is that it's tiresome and almost always unintentionally both condescending and stupid, and generally puts the unwilling advisee in a situation where they are explaining details that nobody gives any fucks about, like the part where their walk from downtown to south waterfront precludes dragging a stupid small case on wheels. Not to mention what a pain in the ass those things are on the bus.
I was just complaining. Not asking for solutions to a mundane problem absolutely nobody on the internet knows enough details of to possibly have the tools to solve. Suggesting really obvious solutions gives me the impression you think I'm an idiot, and is a waste of everyone's time.
apologies, my bad. or wheelie bag, IDK
Not trying to shit on your wheelie bag, Pix. It's just that I wasn't looking for advice, nor anticipating having to explain why a bunch of really rather obvious solutions that work fine for many people don't work for my particular scenario. Plus I worked out the logistics already, which is what my OP on the topic was about needing to do.
Fair enough. I often post before reading the rest of the thread.
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 04, 2014, 04:42:25 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 08:33:28 PM
Just got my new salary, post-promotion. :eek:
:eek:
:eek:
This can't be real. Something bad is gonna happen. God won't let me keep this.
Worse scenario: God gave it to you, because you're doing His work.
Don't think too hard about that.
Glad to hear fortune has turned your way sir. Last I seem to vaguely recall, you were in manufacturing as some sort of maintenance or production supervisor. I don't understand the concept completely, but does this constitute more slack?
And Nigel, I think Nigel?, you know if the Calvinists are right... God knew. God understands that silence is golden, and so can't be held down to it, but it ain't like He didn't know the man was all Holy and stuff. Whatever happens next is on the man from Tuscon, but if there be a He
(I prefer the male pronoun, but God invented gender and I don't concieve of God as either)
Then He saw this coming from the beginning. It's not On Him, but it's not not On Him.
As for me hard work and just the right emote sums it up.
Ok I do NOT see popcorn.. are you out or did I miss it?
well.. this works I guess... actually hell yeah!
:dream:
If the Calvinists are right, God is evil.
At least, the Calvinist god is evil.
"I didn't mean to shit in your wheelie bag."
Newsfeed? :lulz:
(And that ain't a slam on Pixie, it just struck my funnybone.)
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 04, 2014, 05:41:34 AM
If the Calvinists are right, God is evil.
At least, the Calvinist god is evil.
Well I hope that they aren't and REALLY doubt it.
Predestination vs. Free Will I had to table. The difference makes no difference to my experience so... meh.
I think that if there is a God, and I think so but accept I'm quite, quite possibly WRONG, then that being is beyond good and evil as we think of them. The laws of the jungle produced consciousness after millions of years of strife. Was all that worth it?
If there be a Diety then it appearantly thought so.
That's a choice way beyond common morality. Or even sense. It implies a totally implacable, even ruthless, mentality. The local 'face' of God, I imagine, is a Creator that set out to make other free willed creators. Then shit got complicated.
Or I'm wrong and ok if that's so, we're still potentially Godlike creators.
Hilariously, it has turned out my computer's copy of Windows is not genuine.
I'm not 100% sure that is the cause of the problems, but it does mean the company is now 110% at fault and has all legal liability.
I have a coworker that's been out for months. His wife left him and he's been on so many med cocktails he can barely function. It's a crappy situation and I feel bad for him, but he's also a bit of a sociopath. My boss mentioned something about missing him, because he's funny as hell and gets the whole office rolling.
I spent the second half of yesterday's shift cutting out 50 wallet sized photocopies of his face and taping them everywhere in my boss's office. They're on the underside of his computer mouse, along the lights, and covering up the faces of his children on the photos on his desk. The creme de la creme is a 3x3 printout of his face colored over in dry erase markers and mounted on his wall like a demented Andy Warhol painting.
I am on vacation for 9 days. I wonder what will come of this.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 04, 2014, 01:05:36 PM
I have a coworker that's been out for months. His wife left him and he's been on so many med cocktails he can barely function. It's a crappy situation and I feel bad for him, but he's also a bit of a sociopath. My boss mentioned something about missing him, because he's funny as hell and gets the whole office rolling.
I spent the second half of yesterday's shift cutting out 50 wallet sized photocopies of his face and taping them everywhere in my boss's office. They're on the underside of his computer mouse, along the lights, and covering up the faces of his children on the photos on his desk. The creme de la creme is a 3x3 printout of his face colored over in dry erase markers and mounted on his wall like a demented Andy Warhol painting.
I am on vacation for 9 days. I wonder what will come of this.
The erased face/Andy Warhol one will be perceived as a death threat and you will be accused, convicted in absencia, and arrested upon your return.
Such sayeth the prophecy.
My accountant (with whom I have been in love for 20 years) is in town. As usual, both of us are otherwise paired up. Which is just as well, because really, what can one do from a typical distance of 2800 miles apart? So as usual, we just hang out and make wisecracks. Had dinner last night, might try to arrange some kind of group thing with all the old gang of geeks on Sunday.
Of course, in the meantime I have @75 organic chemistry problems to answer by Monday.
I still don't really understand hybridization.
I feel like I kinda did a year ago, when I was taking gen chem, but now... damned if I remember. :lol: And I had the worst instructor for that part of the series, too.
Good fortune! I kind of know I have to go to school eventually here, but for now am content, maybe a little bit too content, to labor and dream and work on ideas. But I'll need the school to realize most of what I want and dread the idea of going through all the brain training that will take. I'm no academic.
The good news is that academics are made, not born... you might be surprised by how much your perspective can shift after a year of being embedded in higher education. I was an artist for 20 years, and supported myself and my family for ten of those years, before entering academia. I love it.
Must not fap:
Fuck it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRcOCRPPEoY
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 04, 2014, 06:30:59 PM
The good news is that academics are made, not born... you might be surprised by how much your perspective can shift after a year of being embedded in higher education. I was an artist for 20 years, and supported myself and my family for ten of those years, before entering academia. I love it.
Yeah I remember reading bits of your story, here and there, and greatly admire your sheer grit and resulting accomplishments. I'm glad to hear that academics is a match and that you love what you're doing!
I am not uneducated, just primarily self taught, or mentored, and so not 'officially' educated. I've a very strong tendancy to seek, and some talent for filtering, info but despise having to be held accountable for it. It's not a good thing overall. Bad wiring that I just don't want to be bothered to change. Which of course is why I really have to do it.
Quote from: Derrick Broze on October 04, 2014, 08:04:00 PM
Must not fap:
Fuck it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRcOCRPPEoY
Shit, even I fapped to that.
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 04, 2014, 08:55:12 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 04, 2014, 06:30:59 PM
The good news is that academics are made, not born... you might be surprised by how much your perspective can shift after a year of being embedded in higher education. I was an artist for 20 years, and supported myself and my family for ten of those years, before entering academia. I love it.
Yeah I remember reading bits of your story, here and there, and greatly admire your sheer grit and resulting accomplishments. I'm glad to hear that academics is a match and that you love what you're doing!
I am not uneducated, just primarily self taught, or mentored, and so not 'officially' educated. I've a very strong tendancy to seek, and some talent for filtering, info but despise having to be held accountable for it. It's not a good thing overall. Bad wiring that I just don't want to be bothered to change. Which of course is why I really have to do it.
The fact that you know that already puts you a step ahead of most people entering college.
I'm procrastinating the shit out of working through the section on bond strength. Maybe I should go for a walk or something, maybe play a little Ingress.
I had this hilarious idea that I would print a shipping label for an order so I could walk it up to the post office drop box, but my shipping computer won't connect to the internet, the printer doesn't recognize my ancient Mac, and inexplicably my new Windows 8 notebook can't find my printer on the network even though it's PLUGGED DIRECTLY INTO IT.
OH MY GOD I DID IT AFTER AN HOUR OF FUCKERY I CAN TAKE THIS FUCKING PACKAGE TO THE DROP BOX AND CLOSE MY ETSY STORE.
Quote from: Cain on October 04, 2014, 09:37:00 AM
Hilariously, it has turned out my computer's copy of Windows is not genuine.
I'm not 100% sure that is the cause of the problems, but it does mean the company is now 110% at fault and has all legal liability.
oh dear...
Well, so long as they can actually get me a new, working computer I'm not too worried. And if they don't...well, I'll report them to the correct regulatory bodies, give it to the local geek store for a fixup, and then keep the receipts and transfer the charges to them once they accept they are legally in the wrong.
Always nice when in the middle of something fucking annoying, events conspire to make it largely someone else's problem.
Then you can direct all your 'fixing it' efforts to making it excessively annoying for that person to not resolve things.
See, Paes understands me.
I pinched my lower back nerve jack knifing my wife. So fuck you all until I move without barking.
Quote from: Cain on October 05, 2014, 12:39:11 PM
See, Paes understands me.
being a massive pain in someones arse to fix something is very satisfying.
I got some of Nigel's favorite unsolicited advice yesterday. I was joking about the time I was gifted a pair of boxers that didn't have a crotch hole, which I didn't know until I wore them out drinking, confusedly fumbling around to find the opening while half in the bag.
Immediately I get a chorus of "Why don't you cut an opening for them?" And "Why not just pull them down and go up and over?"
GOOD IDEA FUCKSTICKS, GUESS I CAN STOP SIMPLY URINATING MYSELF NOW. :lulz:
:lulz:
Because clearly, your problem solving skills are top tier when you've been out drinking.
yeah?
so? anyway my question at the top of the hour will be
ACADEMIA LINK LATER AS 4 THE RST OF YOU: yes i do try to follow HEr exploits
there is a bar near Portland State | called the Tortus
they have free Pool there on Sundays | & sTiLL is
My Remaing connection to the Game i call Academia
I play the game at the NEW.k Level {Enough said
http://sf0.org/hub box4>
https://sf0.academia.edu/ManleyHubbell/Activity act1>
https://pdx.academia.edu/CameronMSmith/Activity >>
pdx = Portland State UNIverseITyY
YNever mind the Maid 4 Prime Time TV JokEs
the back story is the maid4 NH465 {as i Remember
& my memmory is getting Really PooRer by Ms
So yeah i do recommend CMs & crew | Ants are in.
another note about A Lambda 2 ΛΛ
Quote from: Your Mom on October 04, 2014, 08:58:21 PM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 04, 2014, 08:55:12 PM
Quote from: Doktor Skinsaw on October 04, 2014, 06:30:59 PM
The good news is that academics are made, not born... you might be surprised by how much your perspective can shift after a year of being embedded in higher education. I was an artist for 20 years, and supported myself and my family for ten of those years, before entering academia. I love it.
Yeah I remember reading bits of your story, here and there, and greatly admire your sheer grit and resulting accomplishments. I'm glad to hear that academics is a match and that you love what you're doing!
I am not uneducated, just primarily self taught, or mentored, and so not 'officially' educated. I've a very strong tendancy to seek, and some talent for filtering, info but despise having to be held accountable for it. It's not a good thing overall. Bad wiring that I just don't want to be bothered to change. Which of course is why I really have to do it.
The fact that you know that already puts you a step ahead of most people entering college.
Husband deployed today. His first prank was replacing my Kindle with a box of drywall screws in my backpack. Good thing I didn't need it for class.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 06, 2014, 01:53:39 AM
I got some of Nigel's favorite unsolicited advice yesterday. I was joking about the time I was gifted a pair of boxers that didn't have a crotch hole, which I didn't know until I wore them out drinking, confusedly fumbling around to find the opening while half in the bag.
Immediately I get a chorus of "Why don't you cut an opening for them?" And "Why not just pull them down and go up and over?"
GOOD IDEA FUCKSTICKS, GUESS I CAN STOP SIMPLY URINATING MYSELF NOW. :lulz:
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: The Suu on October 06, 2014, 01:46:02 PM
Husband deployed today. His first prank was replacing my Kindle with a box of drywall screws in my backpack. Good thing I didn't need it for class.
Anybody messes with my school backpack and they are cut off forever.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 06, 2014, 01:53:39 AM
I got some of Nigel's favorite unsolicited advice yesterday. I was joking about the time I was gifted a pair of boxers that didn't have a crotch hole, which I didn't know until I wore them out drinking, confusedly fumbling around to find the opening while half in the bag.
Immediately I get a chorus of "Why don't you cut an opening for them?" And "Why not just pull them down and go up and over?"
GOOD IDEA FUCKSTICKS, GUESS I CAN STOP SIMPLY URINATING MYSELF NOW. :lulz:
I can't stop thinking of the profound level of Bad Idea cutting a pee-hole in your underwear while wearing them, intoxicated, is.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 06, 2014, 03:08:21 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 06, 2014, 01:53:39 AM
I got some of Nigel's favorite unsolicited advice yesterday. I was joking about the time I was gifted a pair of boxers that didn't have a crotch hole, which I didn't know until I wore them out drinking, confusedly fumbling around to find the opening while half in the bag.
Immediately I get a chorus of "Why don't you cut an opening for them?" And "Why not just pull them down and go up and over?"
GOOD IDEA FUCKSTICKS, GUESS I CAN STOP SIMPLY URINATING MYSELF NOW. :lulz:
I can't stop thinking of the profound level of Bad Idea cutting a pee-hole in your underwear while wearing them, intoxicated, is.
In their defense, they assumed it'd be from the inside out, as it's well known in my circles that my organ is both barbed and prehensile.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 06, 2014, 03:39:49 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 06, 2014, 03:08:21 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 06, 2014, 01:53:39 AM
I got some of Nigel's favorite unsolicited advice yesterday. I was joking about the time I was gifted a pair of boxers that didn't have a crotch hole, which I didn't know until I wore them out drinking, confusedly fumbling around to find the opening while half in the bag.
Immediately I get a chorus of "Why don't you cut an opening for them?" And "Why not just pull them down and go up and over?"
GOOD IDEA FUCKSTICKS, GUESS I CAN STOP SIMPLY URINATING MYSELF NOW. :lulz:
I can't stop thinking of the profound level of Bad Idea cutting a pee-hole in your underwear while wearing them, intoxicated, is.
In their defense, they assumed it'd be from the inside out, as it's well known in my circles that my organ is both barbed and prehensile.
:lulz:
GODDAMNIT! Several first shift call outs... again. We've had a crew of three all morning. Gonna be hell trying to get stuff I won't have to upset folks in the hospital again. And again. It's like I can perform 100 minor miracles and only the times I can't come through get remembered. :argh!:
I'm having that "pecked to death by ducks" feeling.
Somehow I have been handed the role of social organizer for my friend who is in town. One of my friends is freaking out and wants to talk to me because her 23-year-old son isn't close to her anymore. Another of my friends is messaging me because he's having conflicts with his mom. Yet another keeps trying to talk me about Ingress. My daughter is refusing to go to her father's house and is being really needy. And last night on Facebook, one of my old friends I don't really hang out with anymore accused me of playing "the race card" because I pointed out the irony of a headline about someone getting mugged in a newly-gentrified neighborhood where formerly even STABBINGS didn't make the news.
WTF, dude.
Oh and one of my friends just messaged me an article link and was like "There's something amusing hidden in this!" and I was like, "can you tell me what it is, or do you actually expect me to stop what I'm doing to read it and try to figure out what's supposed to be funny?"
Seriously, jerks. The fact that you have ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD is not reflective of everyone else's reality.
Quick! Somebody offer unsolicited advice!
Have you tried rebooting your friends?
Have you tried jerking on and off again?
Everything tech support does to try and fix my computer is progressively breaking it even more.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.
I'm now doing a system restore to a previous (if still broken) state, because the last piece of advice they gave me made it so my computer wont detect my mouse.
Just volleyed a fly on the upswing and then smashed it with my sword brush. Ippon!
So.
As is tradition with deployments, apparently, something always breaks. My computer is just about dead. I got permission last night to order a new one from TigerDirect, so that's on the way.
I can't determine if I want a nap or to do chores right now. Blah. Tomorrow I see the podiatrist about my ankle, and Thursday I start physical therapy. I'm glad I got a damn car, this is going to suck balls.
Just had a breakthrough on the computer issues. Found a handy "BSOD logger" had been installed, about 4 days ago, when I was updating my drivers and shiz. Have sent off the whole thing to tech support...which should give them the ability to fix most of the problems I'm having.
My cousin was hospitalized last week and put on bedrest. Apparently the twins want out a lot sooner. Or rather, her cervix is being a jerk, or something. I dunno. They're hoping they can keep the babbehs inside for at least another month so they're viable. FML.
I'm beginning to think that our generation was not meant to procreate.
Quote from: Cain on October 06, 2014, 08:41:10 PM
Just had a breakthrough on the computer issues. Found a handy "BSOD logger" had been installed, about 4 days ago, when I was updating my drivers and shiz. Have sent off the whole thing to tech support...which should give them the ability to fix most of the problems I'm having.
Duuuude!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 06, 2014, 05:09:45 PM
Quick! Somebody offer unsolicited advice!
Have you tried rebooting your friends?
:lol:
Quote from: Your Mom on October 06, 2014, 04:25:53 PM
Somehow I have been handed the role of social organizer for my friend who is in town. One of my friends is freaking out and wants to talk to me because her 23-year-old son isn't close to her anymore. Another of my friends is messaging me because he's having conflicts with his mom. Yet another keeps trying to talk me about Ingress. My daughter is refusing to go to her father's house and is being really needy. And last night on Facebook, one of my old friends I don't really hang out with anymore accused me of playing "the race card" because I pointed out the irony of a headline about someone getting mugged in a newly-gentrified neighborhood where formerly even STABBINGS didn't make the news.
WTF, dude.
BEST LIFE EVER!
It's like you're never bored.
*Eating a shitty sandwich* What's that the house is on fire? The dog stole my car? *Injects PCP* FUCK IT LET'S DO THIS!
Chilling post work-apocalypse with friends. Tonight they are showing me a thing called 'Cowboy Bebop'. We do this weekly to help me boot up some of the popular culture.
So today I got an email from my former sister-in-law informing me that my ex-husband died a few days ago.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 07, 2014, 12:23:17 AM
Quote from: Cain on October 06, 2014, 08:41:10 PM
Just had a breakthrough on the computer issues. Found a handy "BSOD logger" had been installed, about 4 days ago, when I was updating my drivers and shiz. Have sent off the whole thing to tech support...which should give them the ability to fix most of the problems I'm having.
Duuuude!
Well, they've confirmed that this strongly suggests it is a memory test....but they want me to run MemTest86 anyway. Which I was having problems with the previous day.
Anyone used memtest86 on a USB here before? I wouldnt mind a step-by-step guide if someone has that experience.
I didn't "get into" patient records, no. :muah:
Quote from: Your Mom on October 07, 2014, 06:09:20 AM
So today I got an email from my former sister-in-law informing me that my ex-husband died a few days ago.
Sorry to hear that. You OK?
Whoa. That's awful.
Well that's one way to start a day. Not a good one though, hope it's not too fucked up.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 07, 2014, 06:09:20 AM
So today I got an email from my former sister-in-law informing me that my ex-husband died a few days ago.
That's a terrible way to learn of someone's death.
My condolences.
I'm OK... it's a little weird, but I'm OK. The weird thing is that a friend of mine mentioned him just the other day, and I said "I have a feeling he's dead" and, well, now he is.
So weird. I'll probably be processing a lot of stuff over the next couple weeks. I married him very young and he was not a good man to be married to.
well, on the plus side, at least this proves you're psychic now
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 07, 2014, 02:09:27 AM
Chilling post work-apocalypse with friends. Tonight they are showing me a thing called 'Cowboy Bebop'. We do this weekly to help me boot up some of the popular culture.
Cue the earworm theme song.
At least it's an instrumental. I always feel more intelligent when I have instrumentals stuck in my brain.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 07, 2014, 06:09:20 AM
So today I got an email from my former sister-in-law informing me that my ex-husband died a few days ago.
Oh wow, Nigel...that's...yeah. Tricky.
I still spend a lot of time around the old hood if you want to get a pitcher and talk about foosball, or anything.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 07, 2014, 02:08:45 PM
I'm OK... it's a little weird, but I'm OK. The weird thing is that a friend of mine mentioned him just the other day, and I said "I have a feeling he's dead" and, well, now he is.
So weird. I'll probably be processing a lot of stuff over the next couple weeks. I married him very young and he was not a good man to be married to.
Very sorry to hear this. As to the intuition, I've seen weirder. I don't pretend to understand everything, but have pretty much written off secular materialism.
Hang in there, I've lost people close to me and it always brings up stuff.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on October 07, 2014, 05:09:57 PM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 07, 2014, 02:09:27 AM
Chilling post work-apocalypse with friends. Tonight they are showing me a thing called 'Cowboy Bebop'. We do this weekly to help me boot up some of the popular culture.
Cue the earworm theme song.
At least it's an instrumental. I always feel more intelligent when I have instrumentals stuck in my brain.
We saw the movie and the score was amazing! The whole thing was a wonderful work of art. There's a series too I'm told... may just have to acquire it.
Finally, a half hour to get scrubbed down and internet access.
Then the horror begins again. I love LA. It makes me feel dirty.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on October 07, 2014, 05:13:59 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 07, 2014, 06:09:20 AM
So today I got an email from my former sister-in-law informing me that my ex-husband died a few days ago.
Oh wow, Nigel...that's...yeah. Tricky.
I still spend a lot of time around the old hood if you want to get a pitcher and talk about foosball, or anything.
I'd like that. Probably not this week, but almost certainly after the memorial.
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 07, 2014, 10:25:00 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 07, 2014, 02:08:45 PM
I'm OK... it's a little weird, but I'm OK. The weird thing is that a friend of mine mentioned him just the other day, and I said "I have a feeling he's dead" and, well, now he is.
So weird. I'll probably be processing a lot of stuff over the next couple weeks. I married him very young and he was not a good man to be married to.
Very sorry to hear this. As to the intuition, I've seen weirder. I don't pretend to understand everything, but have pretty much written off secular materialism.
Hang in there, I've lost people close to me and it always brings up stuff.
I'm just kind of sad for him right now. I just got off the phone with his sister and it just sounds like after we split up he was in and out of rehab. Last time I saw him was ten years ago and since then it sounds like he spent a couple of years homeless, was finally clean again (for two years) but his health was just terribly degraded and he ended up dying of a garden-variety stomach bug.
The rational part of me is saying "thank god you got out before he took you down with him", and the irrational part of me is saying "I wonder if things would have been different if I'd stayed?"
Oh, shit, Nigel...I have no idea what to say. :sad:
Quote from: Your Mom on October 08, 2014, 02:58:04 AM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 07, 2014, 10:25:00 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 07, 2014, 02:08:45 PM
I'm OK... it's a little weird, but I'm OK. The weird thing is that a friend of mine mentioned him just the other day, and I said "I have a feeling he's dead" and, well, now he is.
So weird. I'll probably be processing a lot of stuff over the next couple weeks. I married him very young and he was not a good man to be married to.
Very sorry to hear this. As to the intuition, I've seen weirder. I don't pretend to understand everything, but have pretty much written off secular materialism.
Hang in there, I've lost people close to me and it always brings up stuff.
I'm just kind of sad for him right now. I just got off the phone with his sister and it just sounds like after we split up he was in and out of rehab. Last time I saw him was ten years ago and since then it sounds like he spent a couple of years homeless, was finally clean again (for two years) but his health was just terribly degraded and he ended up dying of a garden-variety stomach bug.
The rational part of me is saying "thank god you got out before he took you down with him", and the irrational part of me is saying "I wonder if things would have been different if I'd stayed?"
I think the rational part of you is talking sense. Of course, the only real question for me would be "did you still love him when you left?"
If not, then maybe it's just a survivor guilt thing.
Awful. Your rational and irrational thoughts are both right and both, of course, equally useless. Sorry, Nigel. :sad:
I had an ex smash herself on a motorcycle. I felt bad about it all for a few days. Then I realized that I didn't feel anything for her when she was alive (anymore), so why would I be overly upset when she died (anymore, that is, than hearing about anyone's death).
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 08, 2014, 03:17:54 AM
Oh, shit, Nigel...I have no idea what to say. :sad:
Thanks, man.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 08, 2014, 03:26:49 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 08, 2014, 03:17:54 AM
Oh, shit, Nigel...I have no idea what to say. :sad:
Thanks, man.
Then I fucked it up by saying something anyway. My apologies, I am half-drunk and all the way stupid. I have a comatose chemist on my hands and it's Tim's turn to sleep.
I no longer loved him and knew I couldn't stay with him, but I cared about him. Sometimes I hated him (he did some pretty fucked up things, to me and to other people). I actually tried to find him for several years, but eventually gave up.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 08, 2014, 03:28:26 AM
I no longer loved him and knew I couldn't stay with him, but I cared about him. Sometimes I hated him (he did some pretty fucked up things, to me and to other people). I actually tried to find him for several years, but eventually gave up.
Sometimes mission failure is a success.
Trust the doktor on this one.
3 more days and I get to go home to Tucson. :banana:
To clarify: I get to go home to my wife. :hammer:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 08, 2014, 03:36:14 AM
3 more days and I get to go home to Tucson. :banana:
To clarify: I get to go home to my wife. :hammer:
You and Tucson made it official, huh?
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 08, 2014, 03:37:58 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 08, 2014, 03:36:14 AM
3 more days and I get to go home to Tucson. :banana:
To clarify: I get to go home to my wife. :hammer:
You and Tucson made it official, huh?
:lulz:
Jenny is much prettier than Tucson. Hell, YOU are much prettier than Tucson.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 08, 2014, 03:37:58 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 08, 2014, 03:36:14 AM
3 more days and I get to go home to Tucson. :banana:
To clarify: I get to go home to my wife. :hammer:
You and Tucson made it official, huh?
:horrormirth: :argh!: :lulz:
Jesus Nigel, that's just...yeah. I got nothing. :sad:
And here I was just about to bitch that in the last 24 hours, my shower broke again, my computer blew moar, and my router went. :kingmeh:
In better news, my boyfriend, whose last job ended on Thursday, got another job. Thank god. He was starting to go all head-splodey.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 08, 2014, 02:58:04 AM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 07, 2014, 10:25:00 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 07, 2014, 02:08:45 PM
I'm OK... it's a little weird, but I'm OK. The weird thing is that a friend of mine mentioned him just the other day, and I said "I have a feeling he's dead" and, well, now he is.
So weird. I'll probably be processing a lot of stuff over the next couple weeks. I married him very young and he was not a good man to be married to.
Very sorry to hear this. As to the intuition, I've seen weirder. I don't pretend to understand everything, but have pretty much written off secular materialism.
Hang in there, I've lost people close to me and it always brings up stuff.
I'm just kind of sad for him right now. I just got off the phone with his sister and it just sounds like after we split up he was in and out of rehab. Last time I saw him was ten years ago and since then it sounds like he spent a couple of years homeless, was finally clean again (for two years) but his health was just terribly degraded and he ended up dying of a garden-variety stomach bug.
The rational part of me is saying "thank god you got out before he took you down with him", and the irrational part of me is saying "I wonder if things would have been different if I'd stayed?"
Things would have been different if you had stayed in terms of impact on you and your life. Negative impact it sounds like. Dok is right, sometimes failure is a success.
You looked for him. That was you being earnest. Despite that you did not find. If you had you would surely have spent more of your life's limited resources on him but not likely turned him and surely weakened yourself.
You and yours would certainly not be where you are now, full of potential. He was responsible for his life and its consequences. You cared earnestly, and that is very good, but were not responsible for him.
Factors outside your control thwarted you to your own benefit. I could go on, but in essence I'm saying destiny has other plans for you. He reaped the consequences of his choices. You and yours are still gaining from you not finding him, 'Tis Kismet methinks.
I don't think I would have been in any way compromised by finding him... it's not like I wanted to remarry him, I've just been interested in what became of him. I have a pretty decent set of defenses against people who want to suck resources from me, including time and energy, as well as material resources. I am a grownup, after all.
Obviously, things would have been bad had I stayed. That's why I used the words "rational" and "irrational" to describe my conflicting thoughts. It's not as if I wished I'd stayed, but it's natural when someone dies a needless death to wonder if something could have gone differently and averted that death.
Knock off the platitudes. I don't need them, and we're here on peedee so you're not obliged to utter them.
Fair.
In other news... I've been recruited to play Clash of Clans. My homie actually called me instead of some blank FB invite so I took him up on it. Man is this game slow, but FREE TO DOWNLOAD I guess. The whole thing is designed to get impatient folks to drop real cash for fake items... freaking brilliant!
It's gonna take me days to play the slow way up to the point I can join their clan.
I played that for a while, until the upgrades started taking literally a week to build if you didn't want to pay for it.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 08, 2014, 04:52:27 PM
I played that for a while, until the upgrades started taking literally a week to build if you didn't want to pay for it.
:lulz: I can already see it going that direction! The devils that designed this are gonna get money on a patience con. . But not from me.. then they win. At least I can play it in short moments of resource gathering and upgrading for now.
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 08, 2014, 04:13:41 PM
Fair.
In other news... I've been recruited to play Clash of Clans. My homie actually called me instead of some blank FB invite so I took him up on it. Man is this game slow, but FREE TO DOWNLOAD I guess. The whole thing is designed to get impatient folks to drop real cash for fake items... freaking brilliant!
It's gonna take me days to play the slow way up to the point I can join their clan.
I've got a level 8. And pointers aplenty. If you reddit, hit the CoC sub. It's a great place to learn how to do the game proper.
Also, if you hold on to your gems and use them to build builder huts, it takes a lot of the impatience factor out because you can have many builds going at once.
I bought my fourth hut, because I figure $10 for a game I've played this many hours is reasonable.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on October 08, 2014, 06:10:56 PM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 08, 2014, 04:13:41 PM
Fair.
In other news... I've been recruited to play Clash of Clans. My homie actually called me instead of some blank FB invite so I took him up on it. Man is this game slow, but FREE TO DOWNLOAD I guess. The whole thing is designed to get impatient folks to drop real cash for fake items... freaking brilliant!
It's gonna take me days to play the slow way up to the point I can join their clan.
I've got a level 8. And pointers aplenty. If you reddit, hit the CoC sub. It's a great place to learn how to do the game proper.
Also, if you hold on to your gems and use them to build builder huts, it takes a lot of the impatience factor out because you can have many builds going at once.
I bought my fourth hut, because I figure $10 for a game I've played this many hours is reasonable.
I am familiar with the reddit, but not well. Will do some searching. Seems I have 2 days and a precious few hours before I lose immunity to attack.
Having the game run in the background is killing my battery. :sad:
I was on to the gem game right after I wasted a bunch on the town hall. Got 2 builders and that will have to do for now. Chewed through a bunch of goblin camps. It's too bad you lose units deployed, survive or no.
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 08, 2014, 09:37:45 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on October 08, 2014, 06:10:56 PM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 08, 2014, 04:13:41 PM
Fair.
In other news... I've been recruited to play Clash of Clans. My homie actually called me instead of some blank FB invite so I took him up on it. Man is this game slow, but FREE TO DOWNLOAD I guess. The whole thing is designed to get impatient folks to drop real cash for fake items... freaking brilliant!
It's gonna take me days to play the slow way up to the point I can join their clan.
I've got a level 8. And pointers aplenty. If you reddit, hit the CoC sub. It's a great place to learn how to do the game proper.
Also, if you hold on to your gems and use them to build builder huts, it takes a lot of the impatience factor out because you can have many builds going at once.
I bought my fourth hut, because I figure $10 for a game I've played this many hours is reasonable.
I am familiar with the reddit, but not well. Will do some searching. Seems I have 2 days and a precious few hours before I lose immunity to attack.
Having the game run in the background is killing my battery. :sad:
I was on to the gem game right after I wasted a bunch on the town hall. Got 2 builders and that will have to do for now. Chewed through a bunch of goblin camps. It's too bad you lose units deployed, survive or no.
No need to run it in the background. Just exit when you're done doing your biz. Game keeps time on the server.
Also shields are annoying. They tempt you not to attack player villages.
Finally convinced tech support I'm not a moron who shoved sandwiches into my CD-rom drive for kicks and that they may have actually screwed up here though they've not actually accepted liability, thus far. Well, not explicitly, but they're sending someone to collect my laptop for repairs, which implies they are...I'm just getting ready for them to try and turn it around on me, despite the fact I didn't do anything and my computer simply spazzed out on me one day.
But with any luck, I should have a working computer again. At some point.
I can walk now. It almost crippled me, and I didnt get to finish, but this sex that almost crippled me by far is the best sex I ever had.
It always is. Without exception.
I am having this weird realization that my oldest child is kind of a horrible brat.
I don't know what to do about this, and I don't understand how she got this way. My other children aren't brats. She's a fucking Tumblr SJW special snowflake who has a tantrum any time she's asked to be considerate of other people or do something she doesn't want to do.
It's also a weird feeling to realize that you love your child, but don't particularly like them, at least at this stage of their development.
[unsolicited]
Troll her.
[/unsolicited]
That feeling must suck.
Not that anyone here needs reminding that I'm piss poor at interpersonal relationships, but I'm pretty sure I just blew it with a girl because she asked me for an opinion on the opening paragraph to The Call of Cthulhu as part of her class assignment and I launched into an explanation of how the island in a vast sea of ignorance was both the individual vs. reality and the earth vs. the cosmos, then arguing that Lovecraft's resurgent popularity was a reflection of the fact we find unknowable horrors familiar in that we live in an incomprehensibly complex self-correcting God-machine society. Via text message.
:whack:
Are you kidding? That's sexy as hell.
Rawr.
Yeah it is!
She is probably just recovering from the txtgasm you gave her, I know I am glad I was sitting down and I'm not even into Lovecraft!
:lulz:
This is why PD is my one true love.
Now come here and let me whisper into your ear sweet nothings on the absurdity of existence.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2752/4030778384_d221bd1cd3_z.jpg?zz=1)
:lulz:
Title scene to _ the call-girl of chutlu_ seems promising.
NEW COMPUTER AND ROUTER. :banana:
New Job. Sub sandwich/liquor store hybrid. Hyped.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 09, 2014, 03:17:06 PM
Not that anyone here needs reminding that I'm piss poor at interpersonal relationships, but I'm pretty sure I just blew it with a girl because she asked me for an opinion on the opening paragraph to The Call of Cthulhu as part of her class assignment and I launched into an explanation of how the island in a vast sea of ignorance was both the individual vs. reality and the earth vs. the cosmos, then arguing that Lovecraft's resurgent popularity was a reflection of the fact we find unknowable horrors familiar in that we live in an incomprehensibly complex self-correcting God-machine society. Via text message.
:whack:
"Blew it"? If that was blowing it, she isn't your kind of girl. That's exactly the kind of conversation that would give me a mad crush.
Agreed.
also agreed.
Got sent home today for feeling sick. Not sure with what though. I was feeling short of breath, feverish, dizzy and there was a pain in my side. I'm starting to wonder if i'm cut out to work so many young kids like this. I'm worried the stress is what's making me sick.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on October 10, 2014, 04:31:39 AM
also agreed.
Got sent home today for feeling sick. Not sure with what though. I was feeling short of breath, feverish, dizzy and there was a pain in my side. I'm starting to wonder if i'm cut out to work so many young kids like this. I'm worried the stress is what's making me sick.
:sad: The pain in your side, in conjunction with everything else, is alarming. Have you gone to the doctor yet?
no, this is the first time i've had something like this. I'm hoping this isnt heart related.i dunno if i could stand the familial i-told-you-so's
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on October 10, 2014, 04:48:05 AM
no, this is the first time i've had something like this. I'm hoping this isnt heart related.i dunno if i could stand the familial i-told-you-so's
Yeah, I'd suggest going to the doc as soon as you can, that's concerning. I actually wasn't thinking heart as much as a possible lung infection or a lung clot, but heart is also certainly a possibility.
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on October 10, 2014, 04:31:39 AM
also agreed.
Got sent home today for feeling sick. Not sure with what though. I was feeling short of breath, feverish, dizzy and there was a pain in my side. I'm starting to wonder if i'm cut out to work so many young kids like this. I'm worried the stress is what's making me sick.
Recently I had a similar spell... I wonder if it's related?
I was sitting at my computer two days ago, noticed my breath was short like it's never been before, and suddenly felt a strange pressure below my belly button... where I think my bladder is, followed by a heavy instant headache and loud "ringing" in my ears. I put ringing in quotes because the sound was not like ringing at all or anything I've heard before, more like loud analog TV static. Anyway I stood up to go into the bathroom, immediately felt dizzy as all hell, and barely made it away from my computer desk before my vision greyed out completely and I was so weak and dizzy I fell over and passed out. Or fainted, it's hard to tell. I believe I was out from between 10 minutes to 30 minutes, but I'm not entirely certain as I was home alone at the time. Nothing like this has ever happened to me and it scared the fuck out of me.
After I woke up I was still dizzy and weak and short of breath for about half an hour before it finally went away, though I was very shaky and had chills (it was also really cold in my house at the time) for an hour or so afterwards.
If you visit a doctor and discover the cause of your spell, please let me know as I might have the same or a similar issue. I just can't afford a doctor.
Probably worth mentioning that I was not doing anything strenuous at the time. Or for the past three years. I'm such a computer nerd I barely stand up all day long.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 23, 2014, 04:39:23 PM
Turns out that the hard part of dealing with Mike Martin is that he's Mikael Martin. Once that was established, everything else was easy. Nigel, check your inbox.
This guy is a fucking hoot. 28 year old basement case, bounces back and forth between parents as they get disgusted with him, tries to be a tough guy neo-Nazi, fails miserably. All the other white nationalists laugh at him, and won't let him play their reindeer games.
I was wondering why this moron in the discordian society going apeshit over some "Fake-girl-profile" sounded so familiar, turns out its this guy.
He accused me of being "anti-hate" for posting that I don't find his little tirades against this spam account interesting.
The idea of anti hate is an amusing one for me, I'm going to have to think about it for a bit. In the meantime I responded with this:
"Fuck I've been exposed as the post hipster I am.
I'm not anti hate mike, I love hate mike, hate makes my world go round. It's just that Your hate is banal.
You're just no GOOD at it because you're boring. Condolences."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/263448077182226/#
Trix:
QuoteProbably worth mentioning that I was not doing anything strenuous at the time. Or for the past three years. I'm such a computer nerd I barely stand up all day long.
I suspect I may have identified your issue.
Quote from: Faust on October 10, 2014, 10:42:14 AM
He accused me of being "anti-hate" for posting that I don't find his little tirades against this spam account interesting.
The idea of anti hate is an amusing one for me, I'm going to have to think about it for a bit. In the meantime I responded with this:
"Fuck I've been exposed as the post hipster I am.
I'm not anti hate mike, I love hate mike, hate makes my world go round. It's just that Your hate is banal.
You're just no GOOD at it because you're boring. Condolences."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/263448077182226/#
Wait, what? Is he trying to say you should be Pro-hate?
How the fuck does that even work? Buy the Daily Mail and join UKIP?
Thread deleted after Xopher Joseph Renteria and I worked him into a tizzy
Nigel, I'm posting this because he mentioned you towards the end and I thought you might want to see it.
Thread deleted after Xopher Joseph Renteria and I worked him into a tizzy
Nigel, I'm posting this because he mentioned you towards the end and I thought you might want to see it.
Xopher Joseph Renteria rip van winkle..
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Mike Martin better astroturf this anti klavdia FUD with anti-hate FUD. this is just so uninteresting. im so over it
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Xopher Joseph Renteria rip taylor
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Faust Fuck I've been exposed as the post hipster I am.
I'm not anti hate mike, I love hate mike, hate makes my world go round. It's just that Your hate is banal....See More
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Mike Martin youre like boring. the worst offense in the wayseeing truthspeakers worldview is to be boring. gotta get that dopamine rush from novelty, right?
go absorb some memes about it
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Xopher Joseph Renteria ^"about it"
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Faust I'm not asking a lot here Mike, its not the avant guarde posting I want to see, its just a group that sits around discussing itself doesn't justify it's own existence.
I see you think you are a truthspeaker. And this spammers account is obviously important to you, but tou think your cause is important to others. ...See More
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Mike Martin ever think an original thought? i bet you cant even remember back that far
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Xopher Joseph Renteria "post"
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Mike Martin yeah reposting 4chan memes is avant garde posting
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Faust meta-post
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Mike Martin go read some weird twitter about your avant garde internet tastes
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Faust post-meta
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Xopher Joseph Renteria "4chan"
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Mike Martin yeah we all know its all about hotwheels and 8chan now right
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Faust twitter
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Mike Martin something about moot selling out to social justice warriors
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Mike Martin its almost like yall only live through the internet because youre real life rejects
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Mike Martin i made 1900 dollars while typing this shit up. what did you losers do
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Xopher Joseph Renteria ^"real life"
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Faust Make 2000
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Mike Martin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZfg1Gtcg08
get on my level
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Xopher Joseph Renteria ^"1900"
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Xopher Joseph Renteria "my"^
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Mike Martin fine let me post some sell orders up
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Mike Martin another .3 is not really anything
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Faust I love to see you people still posting here when I come back from the gym
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Mike Martin i am posting on my phone from the gym
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Xopher Joseph Renteria ^"up"
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Mike Martin i squat 480 body weight 170
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Mike Martin im also an unironic national socialist race realist
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Xopher Joseph Renteria ^"squat"
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Xopher Joseph Renteria ^"Im"
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Faust I squat 420 and my body weight is 69
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Mike Martin i wonder if your glutes match my pecs
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Mike Martin ive seen trannies on here with traps that are bigger than mine tho
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Xopher Joseph Renteria ^"mike martin"
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Mike Martin not to mention that high t bone in nose abbo dysgenic freak that stopped reading discordian groups because she posted her own nudes and got scared over self-dox and 'her family being threatened'
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Mike Martin you ever make any money off of cryptocurrency speculation? would you like to learn how
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Mike Martin or would you like to learn how to make designer drugs in ecig juice to make a living off of destroying the lives of the untermensch?
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Faust Hack their exchanges
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Faust its what everyone else does
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Xopher Joseph Renteria ^"real"
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Mike Martin yeah mtgox is the only exchange ever and operated really well
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Faust you still think about that girl
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Faust thats sweet
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Faust hahahaha
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Faust I'm sorry I wont insult you by even trying to pretend at taking you seriously about bitcoin
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Mike Martin what girl? you mean the bone in nose freak that lost her shit over the internet while being a 46 year old trying to live vicariously through hundreds of fawning internet virgins posting on her facebook?
its like she liked the attention until it stopped being positive attention
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Mike Martin attention whores and memetarded losers the lot of you
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Faust I haven't given her that much thought
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Faust you have
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Mike Martin you ever hear of how rich games bittrex from his own server with high frequency trading algorithms, and he charges coins to inflate volume and fabricate value
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Xopher Joseph Renteria ^"mike martin"
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Mike Martin look how memetarded you are. you think that thinking about something takes effort or some retarded bullshit
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Xopher Joseph Renteria never heard of it... go awn....
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Faust Tell me more about rich game bittrex *sigh* he's dreamy
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Mike Martin 'lol you thought about something. how dumb is that. youre such a loser, thinking. i bet youve read a book too'
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Quote from: Junkenstein on October 10, 2014, 10:45:43 AM
Trix:
QuoteProbably worth mentioning that I was not doing anything strenuous at the time. Or for the past three years. I'm such a computer nerd I barely stand up all day long.
I suspect I may have identified your issue.
Indeed, I've been meaning to get out more.
I gotta get better at staying out of this thread.
I just get depressed that other people have problems, too. I fuckin wish they didn't.
We got the new puppy yesterday.
(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s131/Slesk/1779904_10152414925996723_6017101618492283485_n_zpsf1327139.jpg)
(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s131/Slesk/10712817_10152413678456723_1321565314260592469_n_zps21c53578.jpg)
awww
CAN I HOLD IT THROUGH THE INTERNET PLEASE?
I wont hurt it, I just want to hug it and do baby talk while trying to dodge the face-licking!
Quote from: trix on October 10, 2014, 12:06:15 PM
awww
CAN I HOLD IT THROUGH THE INTERNET PLEASE?
I wont hurt it, I just want to hug it and do baby talk while trying to dodge the face-licking chin and nose biting!
Fixed that for you. :)
Oh, I am well protected.
Example:
(http://www.pagepulp.com/wp-content/Beard_by_picasio.jpg)
except my real one is made of barbed wire and burrito crumbs.
Quote from: Faust on October 10, 2014, 10:42:14 AM
He accused me of being "anti-hate" for posting that I don't find his little tirades against this spam account interesting.
The idea of anti hate is an amusing one for me, I'm going to have to think about it for a bit. In the meantime I responded with this:
"Fuck I've been exposed as the post hipster I am.
I'm not anti hate mike, I love hate mike, hate makes my world go round. It's just that Your hate is banal.
You're just no GOOD at it because you're boring. Condolences."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/263448077182226/#
:lulz:
Nice to know that Mike Martin is still thinking about me. :vom:
Quote from: Allfader Waffles on October 10, 2014, 11:56:30 AM
We got the new puppy yesterday.
(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s131/Slesk/1779904_10152414925996723_6017101618492283485_n_zpsf1327139.jpg)
(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s131/Slesk/10712817_10152413678456723_1321565314260592469_n_zps21c53578.jpg)
PUPPY!!!
Quote from: trix on October 10, 2014, 10:27:08 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on October 10, 2014, 04:31:39 AM
also agreed.
Got sent home today for feeling sick. Not sure with what though. I was feeling short of breath, feverish, dizzy and there was a pain in my side. I'm starting to wonder if i'm cut out to work so many young kids like this. I'm worried the stress is what's making me sick.
Recently I had a similar spell... I wonder if it's related?
You both have Ebola.
been, taking it easy since yesterday, on the dvice nurse hotline to get some guidance on what this could be. It's been over a half hour tho and i cant schedule a weekend appointment until tomorrow. Fucking Kaiser. First they refer me to a cult and now this
Husband is currently in port in Guam. The typhoon is clear of the island, and he's going to explore today (which is actually tomorrow.) He says it hasn't dipped below 80 and the sun is always shining. I asked him for a cheesy souvenir, so he decided that it will be a t-shirt from one of the strip clubs. :lulz:
Quote from: Cain on October 10, 2014, 04:26:48 PM
Quote from: trix on October 10, 2014, 10:27:08 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on October 10, 2014, 04:31:39 AM
also agreed.
Got sent home today for feeling sick. Not sure with what though. I was feeling short of breath, feverish, dizzy and there was a pain in my side. I'm starting to wonder if i'm cut out to work so many young kids like this. I'm worried the stress is what's making me sick.
Recently I had a similar spell... I wonder if it's related?
You both have Ebola.
:spittake:
:lulz:
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on October 10, 2014, 06:32:52 PM
been, taking it easy since yesterday, on the dvice nurse hotline to get some guidance on what this could be. It's been over a half hour tho and i cant schedule a weekend appointment until tomorrow. Fucking Kaiser. First they refer me to a cult and now this
I hope it works out! Please share what possibilities they give you as to what it could be.
Trix, from what you've posted, you're probably malnourished, anemic, and have low blood pressure.
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 10, 2014, 10:45:43 AM
Trix:
QuoteProbably worth mentioning that I was not doing anything strenuous at the time. Or for the past three years. I'm such a computer nerd I barely stand up all day long.
I suspect I may have identified your issue.
Chronically bad circulation in the legs is no joke. The area below the belly button contains the area under the greatest blood pressure when the main artery splits to go down the legs (also, this is your physical center of balance point). Look up some stretches for computer users, man. :)
(http://i.imgur.com/urK9f.jpg)
[img WIDTH=300]http://i.imgur.com/urK9f.jpg[/img]
(http://i.imgur.com/urK9f.jpg)
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz13dae6K11qzxmjgo1_500.png) :lulz:
As a side effect of my boyfriend having a job now, I'm not gonna see him this weekend. :(
I mean, he had a job before, but it was data entry and he could do it in the middle of the night from home. Now he's a bartender.
Ty Telarus: I finally got that to work!
Bar-tending is a terrible job.
Well, for me it was. But then, I don't like people much. Data entry in the middle of the night is definitely more my speed.
Quote from: Cain on October 11, 2014, 08:57:13 PM
Bar-tending is a terrible job.
Well, for me it was. But then, I don't like people much. Data entry in the middle of the night is definitely more my speed.
He hates data entry, loves to work with people. And bartending here is a whole different game... bartenders make bank and it's incredibly hard to get a job doing it. It's not uncommon for bartenders to make six figures here.
Today I learned that Guam has 40% more spiders than the rest of the Pacific islands, and a lot of them are invasive Australian species that killed all the birds.
:eek:
This calls for the Nopetopus.
(http://media.giphy.com/media/6h4z4b3v6XWxO/giphy.gif)
They have a shit ton of brown tree snakes as well, don't they?
ARGH I have online homework I need to do, and the website isn't fucking working. :kingmeh:
Quote from: trix on October 11, 2014, 03:44:47 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Lust-Driven Dickwolf on October 10, 2014, 06:32:52 PM
been, taking it easy since yesterday, on the dvice nurse hotline to get some guidance on what this could be. It's been over a half hour tho and i cant schedule a weekend appointment until tomorrow. Fucking Kaiser. First they refer me to a cult and now this
I hope it works out! Please share what possibilities they give you as to what it could be.
went to the after hours doc last night, she ruled out lung infection and heart problems so that's good. Says it is probably just a bit of rhinohirus that is still kicking around from when i was sick a few weeks ago. Gave me a prescription for cough syrup (the good shit with codeine in it) and told me to stay hydrated and rest. which is hard to do when you still have to watch after your nephew and drive out to long beach to take a 6 hour CPR course, so i'm just now getting around to self-care. :argh!:
Quote from: Your Mom on October 11, 2014, 11:26:06 PM
They have a shit ton of brown tree snakes as well, don't they?
Yes, and the spiders eat those too. :kingmeh:
Apparently the spiders and snakes are such a huge problem, the government has air lifted and dropped poisonous dead mice to try to kill them off or something. That didn't work.
From what it's been described to me, it's what happens when you let Australia off of Australia on a tiny island full of American military families, Japanese tourists, and the occasional Micronesian native.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 11, 2014, 11:07:51 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 11, 2014, 08:57:13 PM
Bar-tending is a terrible job.
Well, for me it was. But then, I don't like people much. Data entry in the middle of the night is definitely more my speed.
He hates data entry, loves to work with people. And bartending here is a whole different game... bartenders make bank and it's incredibly hard to get a job doing it. It's not uncommon for bartenders to make six figures here.
Ah of course, tips. Makes sense.
Here, I pulled down just above minimum wage, and had to do most of the ordering and maintenance and stupid shit the owners are supposed to do. I was effectively the manager, which was certainly not reflected in my pay.
Quote from: The Suu on October 12, 2014, 12:14:52 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 11, 2014, 11:26:06 PM
They have a shit ton of brown tree snakes as well, don't they?
Yes, and the spiders eat those too. :kingmeh:
Uh, I'm not so sure about that, especially given they're about 3-6 feet long. My understanding was that brown tree snakes ate all the birds which used to hunt spiders, leading to a population explosion, and the only animals which feed on the brown tree snakes are red-bellied black snakes and cane toads. The former is...not terrible, as far as Australian snakes and invasive species go, but the latter...
Quote from: Cain on October 12, 2014, 09:37:54 AM
Quote from: The Suu on October 12, 2014, 12:14:52 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 11, 2014, 11:26:06 PM
They have a shit ton of brown tree snakes as well, don't they?
Yes, and the spiders eat those too. :kingmeh:
Uh, I'm not so sure about that, especially given they're about 3-6 feet long. My understanding was that brown tree snakes ate all the birds which used to hunt spiders, leading to a population explosion, and the only animals which feed on the brown tree snakes are red-bellied black snakes and cane toads. The former is...not terrible, as far as Australian snakes and invasive species go, but the latter...
Is there anything from Australia that is not trying to kill something else?
Quote from: The Suu on October 12, 2014, 05:09:51 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 12, 2014, 09:37:54 AM
Quote from: The Suu on October 12, 2014, 12:14:52 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 11, 2014, 11:26:06 PM
They have a shit ton of brown tree snakes as well, don't they?
Yes, and the spiders eat those too. :kingmeh:
Uh, I'm not so sure about that, especially given they're about 3-6 feet long. My understanding was that brown tree snakes ate all the birds which used to hunt spiders, leading to a population explosion, and the only animals which feed on the brown tree snakes are red-bellied black snakes and cane toads. The former is...not terrible, as far as Australian snakes and invasive species go, but the latter...
Is there anything from Australia that is not trying to kill something else?
FTFY
Quote from: Cain on October 12, 2014, 08:51:21 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 11, 2014, 11:07:51 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 11, 2014, 08:57:13 PM
Bar-tending is a terrible job.
Well, for me it was. But then, I don't like people much. Data entry in the middle of the night is definitely more my speed.
He hates data entry, loves to work with people. And bartending here is a whole different game... bartenders make bank and it's incredibly hard to get a job doing it. It's not uncommon for bartenders to make six figures here.
Ah of course, tips. Makes sense.
Here, I pulled down just above minimum wage, and had to do most of the ordering and maintenance and stupid shit the owners are supposed to do. I was effectively the manager, which was certainly not reflected in my pay.
Yeah, a good Saturday night here could mean $1000 for the bartender, and that's after tipping out the support staff. And then there's a minimum-wage paycheck at the end of the month.
Quote from: Cain on October 12, 2014, 09:37:54 AM
Quote from: The Suu on October 12, 2014, 12:14:52 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 11, 2014, 11:26:06 PM
They have a shit ton of brown tree snakes as well, don't they?
Yes, and the spiders eat those too. :kingmeh:
Uh, I'm not so sure about that, especially given they're about 3-6 feet long. My understanding was that brown tree snakes ate all the birds which used to hunt spiders, leading to a population explosion, and the only animals which feed on the brown tree snakes are red-bellied black snakes and cane toads. The former is...not terrible, as far as Australian snakes and invasive species go, but the latter...
The bufo marinus was a bad choice, it's just too prolific. Other large toads have more specific breeding profiles, though this also restricts their yearly net consumption. They don't eat much during periods of non-reproduction.
Quote from: The Suu on October 12, 2014, 05:09:51 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 12, 2014, 09:37:54 AM
Quote from: The Suu on October 12, 2014, 12:14:52 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 11, 2014, 11:26:06 PM
They have a shit ton of brown tree snakes as well, don't they?
Yes, and the spiders eat those too. :kingmeh:
Uh, I'm not so sure about that, especially given they're about 3-6 feet long. My understanding was that brown tree snakes ate all the birds which used to hunt spiders, leading to a population explosion, and the only animals which feed on the brown tree snakes are red-bellied black snakes and cane toads. The former is...not terrible, as far as Australian snakes and invasive species go, but the latter...
Is there anything from Australia that is not trying to kill something else?
Some of the sheep.
Quote from: LuciferX on October 12, 2014, 07:09:33 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 12, 2014, 09:37:54 AM
Quote from: The Suu on October 12, 2014, 12:14:52 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 11, 2014, 11:26:06 PM
They have a shit ton of brown tree snakes as well, don't they?
Yes, and the spiders eat those too. :kingmeh:
Uh, I'm not so sure about that, especially given they're about 3-6 feet long. My understanding was that brown tree snakes ate all the birds which used to hunt spiders, leading to a population explosion, and the only animals which feed on the brown tree snakes are red-bellied black snakes and cane toads. The former is...not terrible, as far as Australian snakes and invasive species go, but the latter...
The bufo marinus was a bad choice, it's just too prolific. Other large toads have more specific breeding profiles, though this also restricts their yearly net consumption. They don't eat much during periods of non-reproduction.
Quite true. Lets just leave it at ecology0
is complicated!
Parents are moving back here at the end of the month :)
Mom hates being in Tampa, but they moved back there few years ago because it was closer to both her and Dad's jobs. Now that Dad can't work anymore she finally convinced him to come back here.
They're up here at least two or three times a month anyway either for doctor visits (they didn't want to go through the hassle of trying to find a good one again) or to visit us. The place they found is just a 5-10 minute drive away.
This makes everyone happy, especially my son since this means seeing them more often.
:noodledance:
So, I posted on my Facebook wall that I just applied to that study abroad opportunity in Borneo. Everyone is wishing me luck and being all positive and shit, and then this chick asks whether I can take my kids. Realizing that she probably doesn't realize why asking a college student whether they can take four teenagers on an overseas research trip is FUCKING STUPID, I tried to respond with gentle humor by saying that if I could afford to bring them there and put them up and hire someone to watch them while I'm working in the field, sure. To which she responds with suggesting that maybe I can get a grant or start a Kickstarter. :roll:
Because nothing says "good luck, I hope you get into the program!" like "Too bad your kids couldn't go too".
Borneo you say?
As I understand matters, working regulations are a little more lax in that part of the world. I'm pretty sure you could live a decent lifestyle with 4 kids working 12 hour shifts to support you.
Hell, it's realistic that you could return in a better financial position that when you left.
Also, hard work is character building. So everyone wins.
Being sold into slave prostitution is a cultural experience, too!
Technically, everything is a cultural experience.
"Encounter the USA from the unique perspective of the homeless! See the wonders of how those around those around the breadline treat those below it! Make difficult financial decisions on a purchase to purchase basis while dealing with a mental illness (Or three) and a couple of medical ailments for good measure! We offer a full range of auditory, visual and physically jarring hallucinations coupled with no visible escape from poverty. Weekend tickets start at $1,500 and include no hotel, travel, toiletries or basic human decency and contact. For families, enquire about our "Living in a car" package"."
If someone isn't selling this, then I'm looking for a business partner in the US. Have your people call my people.
The fascinating thing about her suggestion is that the point of the program is to provide field research experience for me, not to enrich my children's life experiences.
And then it was shortly followed up by another guy lamenting that it's only an 11-day program and not a 6-month program. Jesus fucking christ people, I just want to get accepted to the program I actually applied for, not some hypothetical 6-month program where I can bring my children. Let me at least get accepted to the thing I WANT before starting in on how it's too bad it isn't something else entirely.
On FB, your posts are a canvas for other people to paint their hopes and desires upon.
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 13, 2014, 04:47:25 PM
Technically, everything is a cultural experience.
"Encounter the USA from the unique perspective of the homeless! See the wonders of how those around those around the breadline treat those below it! Make difficult financial decisions on a purchase to purchase basis while dealing with a mental illness (Or three) and a couple of medical ailments for good measure! We offer a full range of auditory, visual and physically jarring hallucinations coupled with no visible escape from poverty. Weekend tickets start at $1,500 and include no hotel, travel, toiletries or basic human decency and contact. For families, enquire about our "Living in a car" package"."
If someone isn't selling this, then I'm looking for a business partner in the US. Have your people call my people.
Do I have to pay extra to be rousted by the police?
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on October 13, 2014, 05:11:26 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 13, 2014, 04:47:25 PM
Technically, everything is a cultural experience.
"Encounter the USA from the unique perspective of the homeless! See the wonders of how those around those around the breadline treat those below it! Make difficult financial decisions on a purchase to purchase basis while dealing with a mental illness (Or three) and a couple of medical ailments for good measure! We offer a full range of auditory, visual and physically jarring hallucinations coupled with no visible escape from poverty. Weekend tickets start at $1,500 and include no hotel, travel, toiletries or basic human decency and contact. For families, enquire about our "Living in a car" package"."
If someone isn't selling this, then I'm looking for a business partner in the US. Have your people call my people.
Do I have to pay extra to be rousted by the police?
The Police? Oh, dear boy, gather round and I can show you our deluxe Law Enforcement Encounter Package.
Here, not only will you get direct hands-on contact with a local goon, you will get passed into the chain of custody on a charge no-ones sure about because you have a name kind of similar to someone who actually did something rather serious. After being left in one of our premier custody suites (Soundproofed for your privacy) for a about a week and a half you will be drinking your own piss and calling it wine!
We have to say, it's proving very popular with minorities, tourists and anyone who looks at people funny. Sorts them right out. Available in a range of accents.
Seriously, looking for a business partner in the US.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 13, 2014, 04:59:08 PM
The fascinating thing about her suggestion is that the point of the program is to provide field research experience for me, not to enrich my children's life experiences.
And then it was shortly followed up by another guy lamenting that it's only an 11-day program and not a 6-month program. Jesus fucking christ people, I just want to get accepted to the program I actually applied for, not some hypothetical 6-month program where I can bring my children. Let me at least get accepted to the thing I WANT before starting in on how it's too bad it isn't something else entirely.
I also used to behave like that, sometimes. It's envy that masks itself with a disparaging comparison. They will resist the idea that they actually resent you for nearly living their dreams. The best response I found is to say "I'm so jealous" re: something they do.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 13, 2014, 05:05:19 PM
On FB, your posts are a canvas for other people to paint their hopes and desires upon.
Yeah, every so often I post something that reminds me why I don't normally post anything that delves into my real life on FB.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 12:19:12 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 13, 2014, 05:05:19 PM
On FB, your posts are a canvas for other people to paint their hopes and desires upon.
Yeah, every so often I post something that reminds me why I don't normally post anything that delves into my real life on FB.
Three of us invented the "blocked" troll, and that's largely all I do anymore.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 14, 2014, 12:31:18 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 12:19:12 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 13, 2014, 05:05:19 PM
On FB, your posts are a canvas for other people to paint their hopes and desires upon.
Yeah, every so often I post something that reminds me why I don't normally post anything that delves into my real life on FB.
Three of us invented the "blocked" troll, and that's largely all I do anymore.
:lulz: Wait, what's that?
I came up with a new FB troll the other day, but I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. It's simply picking one person, preferably one who kind of annoys you, and only ever replying to their posts with "hahahahaha". Same number of "ha"s every time. Pretty sure it would send certain temperament types right up a wall.
It would be great to do it to an admin and see if I could get banned from a group over it.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 12:37:18 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 14, 2014, 12:31:18 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 12:19:12 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 13, 2014, 05:05:19 PM
On FB, your posts are a canvas for other people to paint their hopes and desires upon.
Yeah, every so often I post something that reminds me why I don't normally post anything that delves into my real life on FB.
Three of us invented the "blocked" troll, and that's largely all I do anymore.
:lulz: Wait, what's that?
I came up with a new FB troll the other day, but I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. It's simply picking one person, preferably one who kind of annoys you, and only ever replying to their posts with "hahahahaha". Same number of "ha"s every time. Pretty sure it would send certain temperament types right up a wall.
Person A posts a mildy provocative article.
Persons B & C respond to it.
Person A responds to someone who never posted, accusing them of derailing or being a bigot or whatnot.
Persons B & C argue with the OP and become more and more abusive toward nonexistent person D.
People watching think they're talking to someone they have blocked or who has blocked them
People ask who it is.
Person A, B, or C respond to non-existent person D with "how did this turn into a vaccination/circumcision/gun ownership thread (whichever is LEAST appropriate).
Persons A, B, & C sit back and watch EVERYONE WHO HAS READ THE THREAD go fucking ballistic over the subject.
Nobody says who the "blocked" person is.
Rinse, repeat on same page in 3 days. It never stops working.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 14, 2014, 12:42:06 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 12:37:18 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 14, 2014, 12:31:18 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 12:19:12 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 13, 2014, 05:05:19 PM
On FB, your posts are a canvas for other people to paint their hopes and desires upon.
Yeah, every so often I post something that reminds me why I don't normally post anything that delves into my real life on FB.
Three of us invented the "blocked" troll, and that's largely all I do anymore.
:lulz: Wait, what's that?
I came up with a new FB troll the other day, but I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. It's simply picking one person, preferably one who kind of annoys you, and only ever replying to their posts with "hahahahaha". Same number of "ha"s every time. Pretty sure it would send certain temperament types right up a wall.
Person A posts a mildy provocative article.
Persons B & C respond to it.
Person A responds to someone who never posted, accusing them of derailing or being a bigot or whatnot.
Persons B & C argue with the OP and become more and more abusive toward nonexistent person D.
People watching think they're talking to someone they have blocked or who has blocked them
People ask who it is.
Person A, B, or C respond to non-existent person D with "how did this turn into a vaccination/circumcision/gun ownership thread (whichever is LEAST appropriate).
Persons A, B, & C sit back and watch EVERYONE WHO HAS READ THE THREAD go fucking ballistic over the subject.
Nobody says who the "blocked" person is.
Rinse, repeat on same page in 3 days. It never stops working.
:lulz: That's goddamn diabolical.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 12:48:56 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 14, 2014, 12:42:06 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 12:37:18 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 14, 2014, 12:31:18 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 12:19:12 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 13, 2014, 05:05:19 PM
On FB, your posts are a canvas for other people to paint their hopes and desires upon.
Yeah, every so often I post something that reminds me why I don't normally post anything that delves into my real life on FB.
Three of us invented the "blocked" troll, and that's largely all I do anymore.
:lulz: Wait, what's that?
I came up with a new FB troll the other day, but I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. It's simply picking one person, preferably one who kind of annoys you, and only ever replying to their posts with "hahahahaha". Same number of "ha"s every time. Pretty sure it would send certain temperament types right up a wall.
Person A posts a mildy provocative article.
Persons B & C respond to it.
Person A responds to someone who never posted, accusing them of derailing or being a bigot or whatnot.
Persons B & C argue with the OP and become more and more abusive toward nonexistent person D.
People watching think they're talking to someone they have blocked or who has blocked them
People ask who it is.
Person A, B, or C respond to non-existent person D with "how did this turn into a vaccination/circumcision/gun ownership thread (whichever is LEAST appropriate).
Persons A, B, & C sit back and watch EVERYONE WHO HAS READ THE THREAD go fucking ballistic over the subject.
Nobody says who the "blocked" person is.
Rinse, repeat on same page in 3 days. It never stops working.
:lulz: That's goddamn diabolical.
My new philosophy is "Give people what they want. Good & hard."
It came to me in LA.
Note that this is in addition to, rather than instead of, my old philosophy of "laugh while everything burns".
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 14, 2014, 12:50:52 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 12:48:56 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 14, 2014, 12:42:06 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 12:37:18 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 14, 2014, 12:31:18 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 12:19:12 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 13, 2014, 05:05:19 PM
On FB, your posts are a canvas for other people to paint their hopes and desires upon.
Yeah, every so often I post something that reminds me why I don't normally post anything that delves into my real life on FB.
Three of us invented the "blocked" troll, and that's largely all I do anymore.
:lulz: Wait, what's that?
I came up with a new FB troll the other day, but I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. It's simply picking one person, preferably one who kind of annoys you, and only ever replying to their posts with "hahahahaha". Same number of "ha"s every time. Pretty sure it would send certain temperament types right up a wall.
Person A posts a mildy provocative article.
Persons B & C respond to it.
Person A responds to someone who never posted, accusing them of derailing or being a bigot or whatnot.
Persons B & C argue with the OP and become more and more abusive toward nonexistent person D.
People watching think they're talking to someone they have blocked or who has blocked them
People ask who it is.
Person A, B, or C respond to non-existent person D with "how did this turn into a vaccination/circumcision/gun ownership thread (whichever is LEAST appropriate).
Persons A, B, & C sit back and watch EVERYONE WHO HAS READ THE THREAD go fucking ballistic over the subject.
Nobody says who the "blocked" person is.
Rinse, repeat on same page in 3 days. It never stops working.
:lulz: That's goddamn diabolical.
My new philosophy is "Give people what they want. Good & hard."
It came to me in LA.
Note that this is in addition to, rather than instead of, my old philosophy of "laugh while everything burns".
I like this.
My boyfriend is basically nocturnal. He wanted to spend the night, and refused melatonin when I offered it to him, and has been in my bed fidgeting every 3 minutes for the last two hours. I am desperately tired and stressed with school, and have to get up at 7 am.
And I am a light sleeper who is easily awakened by movement near me.
Basically I am in my own personal hell right now.
Also my oldest children do not appear to give a fuck about my stress level or sleep needs. It's one fucking AM and I come downstairs and they're down here just traipsing around doing whatever the fuck they feel like.
Seriously, just fuck everything.
Alternadly, enjoy the other's willing participation in your deranged fantasy. Just, put a shirt on next time mnkay? :lulz:
Quote from: axod on October 14, 2014, 08:51:43 AM
Alternadly, enjoy the other's willing participation in your deranged fantasy. Just, put a shirt on next time mnkay? :lulz:
Go fuck yourself.
Quote from: axod on October 14, 2014, 08:51:43 AM
Alternadly, enjoy the other's willing participation in your deranged fantasy. Just, put a shirt on next time mnkay? :lulz:
Wow. You're an asshole. Way to go.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 07:40:55 AM
My boyfriend is basically nocturnal. He wanted to spend the night, and refused melatonin when I offered it to him, and has been in my bed fidgeting every 3 minutes for the last two hours. I am desperately tired and stressed with school, and have to get up at 7 am.
And I am a light sleeper who is easily awakened by movement near me.
Basically I am in my own personal hell right now.
This is one of the only things the fiancée and I ever fight about, I am a fidget (and find very few beds comfortable), I turn every few hours and about once a week I need to get up to the bathroom. She is up at 6:45 to get to work. Maybe I should try melatonin.
Quote from: Faust on October 14, 2014, 03:27:21 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 07:40:55 AM
My boyfriend is basically nocturnal. He wanted to spend the night, and refused melatonin when I offered it to him, and has been in my bed fidgeting every 3 minutes for the last two hours. I am desperately tired and stressed with school, and have to get up at 7 am.
And I am a light sleeper who is easily awakened by movement near me.
Basically I am in my own personal hell right now.
This is one of the only things the fiancée and I ever fight about, I am a fidget (and find very few beds comfortable), I turn every few hours and about once a week I need to get up to the bathroom. She is up at 6:45 to get to work. Maybe I should try melatonin.
Turning every three hours I can live with. Random fidgets every three minutes followed by snoring = massively incompatible sleep style, given my "often insomniac hypervigilant" sleep style.
Not saying it's him. It's not him. But it's also not tolerable.
"It's not you, it's me. I hate you."
Ah, that sucks, Nigel. If I'm asleep, then nothing much bothers me. But if I'm trying to get to sleep, any little thing will keep me up.
I hope he finds the couch comfortable.
Quote from: axod on October 14, 2014, 08:51:43 AM
Alternadly, enjoy the other's willing participation in your deranged fantasy. Just, put a shirt on next time mnkay? :lulz:
Who do we have here? And how many posts?
Please say we've got a Pennsylvania IP...OH PLEASE, SAY THAT!!! I'd really love to be pushed over the edge to taking actions I'm finding less and less objectionable by the minute.
EDIT: Registered 2011. Dammit. Would it be immoral to blame Pennsylvania for this douche's bullshit anyways?
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 03:29:54 PM
Quote from: Faust on October 14, 2014, 03:27:21 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 07:40:55 AM
My boyfriend is basically nocturnal. He wanted to spend the night, and refused melatonin when I offered it to him, and has been in my bed fidgeting every 3 minutes for the last two hours. I am desperately tired and stressed with school, and have to get up at 7 am.
And I am a light sleeper who is easily awakened by movement near me.
Basically I am in my own personal hell right now.
This is one of the only things the fiancée and I ever fight about, I am a fidget (and find very few beds comfortable), I turn every few hours and about once a week I need to get up to the bathroom. She is up at 6:45 to get to work. Maybe I should try melatonin.
Turning every three hours I can live with. Random fidgets every three minutes followed by snoring = massively incompatible sleep style, given my "often insomniac hypervigilant" sleep style.
Not saying it's him. It's not him. But it's also not tolerable.
Is it all the time, how would you feel about separate rooms during the week?
Quote from: LuciferX on October 13, 2014, 07:48:59 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 13, 2014, 04:59:08 PM
The fascinating thing about her suggestion is that the point of the program is to provide field research experience for me, not to enrich my children's life experiences.
And then it was shortly followed up by another guy lamenting that it's only an 11-day program and not a 6-month program. Jesus fucking christ people, I just want to get accepted to the program I actually applied for, not some hypothetical 6-month program where I can bring my children. Let me at least get accepted to the thing I WANT before starting in on how it's too bad it isn't something else entirely.
I also used to behave like that, sometimes. It's envy that masks itself with a disparaging comparison. They will resist the idea that they actually resent you for nearly living their dreams. The best response I found is to say "I'm so jealous" re: something they do.
Quote from: axod on October 14, 2014, 08:51:43 AM
Alternadly, enjoy the other's willing participation in your deranged fantasy. Just, put a shirt on next time mnkay? :lulz:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 14, 2014, 03:24:59 PM
Quote from: axod on October 14, 2014, 08:51:43 AM
Alternadly, enjoy the other's willing participation in your deranged fantasy. Just, put a shirt on next time mnkay? :lulz:
Wow. You're an asshole. Way to go.
Quote from: axod on October 14, 2014, 08:51:43 AM
Alternadly, enjoy the other's willing participation in your deranged fantasy. Just, put a shirt on next time mnkay? :lulz:
This is the poster known as LuciferX.
So tired right now.
Hold on, that nimrod gets two accounts?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 14, 2014, 06:01:01 PM
Hold on, that nimrod gets two accounts?
He can set them up but we generally out them immediately.
Quote from: Faust on October 14, 2014, 06:04:46 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 14, 2014, 06:01:01 PM
Hold on, that nimrod gets two accounts?
He can set them up but we generally out them immediately.
I thought the rule was one ACTIVE account, and another one if it's FUNNY, but the moment it is used for an attack, it is outed and the person must choose between the accounts.
Quote from: axod on October 14, 2014, 05:57:35 PM
So tired right now.
Well, the obvious thing to do when you're tired is log in under a bogus account and attack Nigel. That's what I do when I can't sleep.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 14, 2014, 06:09:29 PM
Quote from: Faust on October 14, 2014, 06:04:46 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 14, 2014, 06:01:01 PM
Hold on, that nimrod gets two accounts?
He can set them up but we generally out them immediately.
I thought the rule was one ACTIVE account, and another one if it's FUNNY, but the moment it is used for an attack, it is outed and the person must choose between the accounts.
I'm not sure. I don't know if there was a rule on them, and yeah I generally out immediately unless the account is a funny.
Quote from: Faust on October 14, 2014, 06:28:24 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 14, 2014, 06:09:29 PM
Quote from: Faust on October 14, 2014, 06:04:46 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 14, 2014, 06:01:01 PM
Hold on, that nimrod gets two accounts?
He can set them up but we generally out them immediately.
I thought the rule was one ACTIVE account, and another one if it's FUNNY, but the moment it is used for an attack, it is outed and the person must choose between the accounts.
I'm not sure. I don't know if there was a rule on them, and yeah I generally out immediately unless the account is a funny.
Not really worried about it as long as they get outed when they pull that Hugh shit.
ay, luciferx, why are you using two accounts?
This is LuciferX's tender. It's how he stelfully traffics all those apaches without getting caught.
Quote from: axod on October 14, 2014, 07:29:53 PM
This is LuciferX's tender. It's how he stelfully traffics all those apaches without getting caught.
Oh, you're off your meds again.
Nevermind.
Taxes filed. I'm going to watch Dracula.
My ankle is killing me today. I'm assuming this is what the PT meant when he said it would get worse before it got better.
There is nothing more soothing in this world than two sleeping bull terriers.
Quote from: Faust on October 14, 2014, 05:38:40 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 03:29:54 PM
Quote from: Faust on October 14, 2014, 03:27:21 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 07:40:55 AM
My boyfriend is basically nocturnal. He wanted to spend the night, and refused melatonin when I offered it to him, and has been in my bed fidgeting every 3 minutes for the last two hours. I am desperately tired and stressed with school, and have to get up at 7 am.
And I am a light sleeper who is easily awakened by movement near me.
Basically I am in my own personal hell right now.
This is one of the only things the fiancée and I ever fight about, I am a fidget (and find very few beds comfortable), I turn every few hours and about once a week I need to get up to the bathroom. She is up at 6:45 to get to work. Maybe I should try melatonin.
Turning every three hours I can live with. Random fidgets every three minutes followed by snoring = massively incompatible sleep style, given my "often insomniac hypervigilant" sleep style.
Not saying it's him. It's not him. But it's also not tolerable.
Is it all the time, how would you feel about separate rooms during the week?
We don't live together, so it's only an occasional problem. The lesson here for me is, no sleepovers on school nights.
If he ever does move in, it will have to be after a kid or two has moved out, so that he could have his own room. But I doubt he'll move in because I don't really ever want to live with anyone again.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 15, 2014, 04:37:13 PM
Quote from: Faust on October 14, 2014, 05:38:40 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 03:29:54 PM
Quote from: Faust on October 14, 2014, 03:27:21 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 14, 2014, 07:40:55 AM
My boyfriend is basically nocturnal. He wanted to spend the night, and refused melatonin when I offered it to him, and has been in my bed fidgeting every 3 minutes for the last two hours. I am desperately tired and stressed with school, and have to get up at 7 am.
And I am a light sleeper who is easily awakened by movement near me.
Basically I am in my own personal hell right now.
This is one of the only things the fiancée and I ever fight about, I am a fidget (and find very few beds comfortable), I turn every few hours and about once a week I need to get up to the bathroom. She is up at 6:45 to get to work. Maybe I should try melatonin.
Turning every three hours I can live with. Random fidgets every three minutes followed by snoring = massively incompatible sleep style, given my "often insomniac hypervigilant" sleep style.
Not saying it's him. It's not him. But it's also not tolerable.
Is it all the time, how would you feel about separate rooms during the week?
We don't live together, so it's only an occasional problem. The lesson here for me is, no sleepovers on school nights.
If he ever does move in, it will have to be after a kid or two has moved out, so that he could have his own room. But I doubt he'll move in because I don't really ever want to live with anyone again.
Yeah, I sleep in the spare room during Mon Thurs, at first it kind of bothered me but when our sleep patterns differ by about 3 hours it makes more sense (and I do fidget a lot at night, its just the turning over is really loud).
Yeah, basically I told him that it's not his fault, but that we need to find a way to spend time together that doesn't end in sleep deprivation.
I can't really sleep worth a shit if I'm alone in the bed.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 15, 2014, 04:57:28 PM
Yeah, basically I told him that it's not his fault, but that we need to find a way to spend time together that doesn't end in sleep deprivation.
Or at least not the
wrong kind of sleep deprivation, ifyaknowwhatimean.
:uday:
Some days, not many, but some, I have actual job satisfaction.
I must be ill.
I am pretty shakey these days. Every time something happens to lift me up, it's only to shove me forcefully back down.
Sometimes I want to post here, but my stomach knots up and my brain goes blank, and I just don't. Who knows why.
What sucks about this is how I feel like I lost my only real connection to a community. That used to make me feel like a tiger loaded on adrenaline. Now I just feel sick.
I keep trying though, why is that?
I spent that last month and a half being used to make someone feel better about their recent divorce. Now I am tossed away like so much used tissue.
It would be sort of funny if such experiences weren't the norm. This one was supposed to be kind and positive and communicative.
Ha ha.
Computer returned.
No email from the company to let me know the computer was returning, or that the problem has been fixed.
It's now sitting on the end of my bed. I'll check it out tomorrow and see if they actually fixed the RAM and installed a valid copy of Windows. Well, after I do half-a-dozen things tomorrow...which will continue to keep me from here.
Cain, fingers crossed.
Alty, I wish you could get out of there.
I'm going to go and look for a solution that isn't the only thing I can't do.
Quote from: Alty on October 15, 2014, 08:50:55 PM
I spent that last month and a half being used to make someone feel better about their recent divorce. Now I am tossed away like so much used tissue.
Yeah, I know that feel.
Quote from: Alty on October 15, 2014, 08:50:55 PM
I spent that last month and a half being used to make someone feel better about their recent divorce. Now I am tossed away like so much used tissue.
It would be sort of funny if such experiences weren't the norm. This one was supposed to be kind and positive and communicative.
Ha ha.
I have learned through bitter experience that recent divorcees are trainwrecks who probably shouldn't be held fully accountable for their bad behavior, but also who it's a bad idea to spend much time/energy on.
Pretty sure I've been that asshole myself, a time or two.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 15, 2014, 05:36:14 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 15, 2014, 04:57:28 PM
Yeah, basically I told him that it's not his fault, but that we need to find a way to spend time together that doesn't end in sleep deprivation.
Or at least not the wrong kind of sleep deprivation, ifyaknowwhatimean.
:uday:
I'm at the point where I literally give no fucks. This term sucks, I hurt inside (WHICH I AM PRETTY SURE IS PLEURISY, WTF WHO GETS PLEURISY???), my right arm is mostly numb from taking 20-30 pages of handwritten notes a day, and I'm angry pretty much 24/7.
As a predictable result, I have not had sex for about two weeks.
Somebody get they dick between me and my sleep I'm cutting it off.
Quote from: Alty on October 15, 2014, 10:41:41 PM
I'm going to go and look for a solution that isn't the only thing I can't do.
I suggest you come to New England, and allow Richter and EOC to help assist you with your solutions. Luna and I just got our hazmat suits, so we should be fine.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 15, 2014, 10:39:53 PM
Cain, fingers crossed.
Quick test shows tentative signs for hope. After updating all my Windows files (which did not crash the computer...like previously...or cause a "this copy of Windows is not legit" message to flash up, like previously), I was able to run my previous heavily modded Skyrim install (which previously crashed my computer). And I just ran Dragon Age Origins now (which previously crashed the computer) without issue. Next test is Dishonored and fraps.
Ugh, Boston Govenor's race. All the candidates suck. Even the independents aren't nearly as whacked out as they should be.
Actually, I take that back. One of the independents is being sued for crimes against humanity for inspiring Uganda's anti-gay laws. And he co-authored a book in 1995 called "The Pink Swastika," which says that, far from being victims of the Nazis and the Holocaust, gays were actually responsible for creating the Nazi party.
So, there's that.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 16, 2014, 01:42:13 PM
Ugh, Boston Govenor's race. All the candidates suck. Even the independents aren't nearly as whacked out as they should be.
Actually, I take that back. One of the independents is being sued for crimes against humanity for inspiring Uganda's anti-gay laws. And he co-authored a book in 1995 called "The Pink Swastika," which says that, far from being victims of the Nazis and the Holocaust, gays were actually responsible for creating the Nazi party.
So, there's that.
Nothing good in Evan Fulchick, then? I did some cursory searching for the name and all I found was "yeah, this guy exists" news articles.
Falchuck basically is clawing for 3% so the United Independent Party can become a thing. I might go for that.
So, yeah, almost ran two cops over this morning. They weren't happy, but I wound up with a $283 citation instead of getting arrested, so okay.
How did you avoid getting shot and beaten exactly? Right skin colour?
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 16, 2014, 03:18:16 PM
How did you avoid getting shot and beaten exactly? Right skin colour?
Upscale neighborhood + white skin + nice car. But the beaten thing wasn't out of the question. They were pissed off, and I can't say I blame them. I'd have been pissed off.
Well, I locked myself out of my university email. So, no tutorial tonight.
So, is it WRONG to go to "prepper"1 pages and try to whip them into greater frenzies about ebola? I am told this makes me a bad person, but these folks ARE fear junkies, so I figure it's a public service.
1 "Prepper" is what survivalists and gold bugs call themselves now.
YOU'RE GIVING THEM A REASON TO LIVE
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2014, 06:12:49 PM
So, is it WRONG to go to "prepper"1 pages and try to whip them into greater frenzies about ebola? I am told this makes me a bad person, but these folks ARE fear junkies, so I figure it's a public service.
1 "Prepper" is what survivalists and gold bugs call themselves now.
It's your duty.
SOMEHOW still have a bit of cough from last week. I've already taken off as much time as i feel my jobs will permit me in order to get better tho, so i've now entered the "Fuck it, gotta be up and doin'" part of my healing process. This is the part where i throw myself into catching up on all the shit i've neglected while i was feeling shitty for a day or two, then look back and notice that at some point the virus disappeared.
Quote from: Hoopla on October 16, 2014, 06:26:59 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2014, 06:12:49 PM
So, is it WRONG to go to "prepper"1 pages and try to whip them into greater frenzies about ebola? I am told this makes me a bad person, but these folks ARE fear junkies, so I figure it's a public service.
1 "Prepper" is what survivalists and gold bugs call themselves now.
It's your duty.
Wait, they aren't just doing this to themselves anyway? I thought that was their thing. Wait for the next news item and scream sky is falling. Repeat with next week's news item.
But hey, if you could get a bunch of these assholes to just fuck off into the wilderness I doubt they'd be much missed.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2014, 06:12:49 PM
So, is it WRONG to go to "prepper"1 pages and try to whip them into greater frenzies about ebola? I am told this makes me a bad person, but these folks ARE fear junkies, so I figure it's a public service.
1 "Prepper" is what survivalists and gold bugs call themselves now.
Yes. But only because you're missing out on a perfect opportunity to purposefully confuse "prepper" with "preppy" and troll them with endless talk about whether Harvard is better than MIT for your course and if the Ralph Lauren autumn collection is actually better than Brooks Brothers.
While talking about ebola.
Quote from: Cain on October 16, 2014, 07:28:24 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2014, 06:12:49 PM
So, is it WRONG to go to "prepper"1 pages and try to whip them into greater frenzies about ebola? I am told this makes me a bad person, but these folks ARE fear junkies, so I figure it's a public service.
1 "Prepper" is what survivalists and gold bugs call themselves now.
Yes. But only because you're missing out on a perfect opportunity to purposefully confuse "prepper" with "preppy" and troll them with endless talk about whether Harvard is better than MIT for your course and if the Ralph Lauren autumn collection is actually better than Brooks Brothers.
While talking about ebola.
:lulz:
And THAT, ladies & gentlemen, is why we call Cain "The Chairman of the Board".
:lulz:
:lulz:
if you go for that troll you should post some quotes on here!
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2014, 06:12:49 PM
So, is it WRONG to go to "prepper"1 pages and try to whip them into greater frenzies about ebola? I am told this makes me a bad person, but these folks ARE fear junkies, so I figure it's a public service.
1 "Prepper" is what survivalists and gold bugs call themselves now.
If its wrong, I never want you to be right.
Quote from: Cain on October 16, 2014, 07:28:24 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2014, 06:12:49 PM
So, is it WRONG to go to "prepper"1 pages and try to whip them into greater frenzies about ebola? I am told this makes me a bad person, but these folks ARE fear junkies, so I figure it's a public service.
1 "Prepper" is what survivalists and gold bugs call themselves now.
Yes. But only because you're missing out on a perfect opportunity to purposefully confuse "prepper" with "preppy" and troll them with endless talk about whether Harvard is better than MIT for your course and if the Ralph Lauren autumn collection is actually better than Brooks Brothers.
While talking about ebola.
:lulz:
I'm in the honors commons. The other students who are here right now are all 18-year-olds who live in the honors building.
I feel old.
Is it wrong that I've been starting a hoax on FB that John Mayer is doing a Metallica cover album?
Because I've done it on several dozen pages, and the rumor seems to be spreading.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 16, 2014, 08:57:53 PM
I'm in the honors commons. The other students who are here right now are all 18-year-olds who live in the honors building.
I feel old.
I'm over it. I realized that I'll be in my LATE FORTIES in 2 weeks, and I just sorta gave up.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2014, 08:59:58 PM
Is it wrong that I've been starting a hoax on FB that John Mayer is doing a Metallica cover album?
Because I've done it on several dozen pages, and the rumor seems to be spreading.
Haha that's totally worth logging into FB for the first time in months to spread! I just cringe at the amount of FB bs my inbox is about to receive.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2014, 08:59:58 PM
Is it wrong that I've been starting a hoax on FB that John Mayer is doing a Metallica cover album?
Because I've done it on several dozen pages, and the rumor seems to be spreading.
Yes.
So so deliciously wrong.
:lol:
I'm going to make a prime time tv show.
It will be called :
Sigmund and Freud - about two bigshot Hollywood psychologists who take on cases involving high-profile lions, tigers, and panthers. The pilot episode would be about counseling Simba, who in a shocking twist actually wanted to kill Mufasa in order to steal Sarabi from him.
Bonus: When the show starts to get stale, it can (d)evolve into a Lost-esque mystery about how Sigmund and Freud may have been the same person at one point, and eventually they discover that one of them is Sigmund Freud's Superego and the other one is his Id.
They then must decide if they should find a way to merge back together, but aren't sure if they're comfortable.sharing the same corporeal form.
Or maybe they'll fight crime.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 16, 2014, 09:14:55 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2014, 08:59:58 PM
Is it wrong that I've been starting a hoax on FB that John Mayer is doing a Metallica cover album?
Because I've done it on several dozen pages, and the rumor seems to be spreading.
Yes.
So so deliciously wrong.
:lol:
:spittake:
Oh, that was Dok Howl? Nicely done man.
Quote from: Telarus on October 17, 2014, 01:32:08 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 16, 2014, 09:14:55 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2014, 08:59:58 PM
Is it wrong that I've been starting a hoax on FB that John Mayer is doing a Metallica cover album?
Because I've done it on several dozen pages, and the rumor seems to be spreading.
Yes.
So so deliciously wrong.
:lol:
:spittake:
Oh, that was Dok Howl? Nicely done man.
If you troll a thousand times in a year, at least one of them is bound to take off.
Feelin' love for PD tonight.
I may be drinking wine.
Still, loving you all.
Fuck off.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2014, 09:00:30 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 16, 2014, 08:57:53 PM
I'm in the honors commons. The other students who are here right now are all 18-year-olds who live in the honors building.
I feel old.
I'm over it. I realized that I'll be in my LATE FORTIES in 2 weeks, and I just sorta gave up.
My old man on the side turned 50 today.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 17, 2014, 03:09:21 AM
Feelin' love for PD tonight.
I may be drinking wine.
Still, loving you all.
Fuck off.
:kiss:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 17, 2014, 03:09:21 AM
Feelin' love for PD tonight.
I may be drinking wine.
Still, loving you all.
Fuck off.
:lmnuendo:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 16, 2014, 09:00:30 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 16, 2014, 08:57:53 PM
I'm in the honors commons. The other students who are here right now are all 18-year-olds who live in the honors building.
I feel old.
I'm over it. I realized that I'll be in my LATE FORTIES in 2 weeks, and I just sorta gave up.
OVER THE HILL they say.
Then why it feel like hill only STEEPER? Tell notloki THAT!
When scooter battery dead notloki fucked.
Should not say over the hill. Should say ALMOST TO CLIFF.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 17, 2014, 03:09:21 AM
Feelin' love for PD tonight.
I may be drinking wine.
Still, loving you all.
Fuck off.
notloki love you too LMNO!
You smart, you funny, and best you original!
notloki drink one for you, LMNO!
You make notloki want visit GAY BAR in avatar. Look like fun place!
Your friend,
notloki
My bitch face is on fucking point today. I made someone apologize for hollering out his window at me just by glaring.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 17, 2014, 01:29:08 PM
My bitch face is on fucking point today. I made someone apologize for hollering out his window at me just by glaring.
:cheers:
THAT how it done!
Annnnd my fucking network is dildos. Just lost 45 minutes worth of work, and every single piece of network software is acting weird, except for my browser, which can strangely enough only see PD.
I blame Faust. I never trusted the Irish.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 17, 2014, 03:00:19 PM
Annnnd my fucking network is dildos. Just lost 45 minutes worth of work, and every single piece of network software is acting weird, except for my browser, which can strangely enough only see PD.
I blame Faust. I never trusted the Irish.
We're replacing our Irish/Dutch Tax loophole with a black hole that pulls in internet traffic since your Fearless Leader™ called us a tax haven.
Soon all traffic will be diverted to principiadiscordia.com
I am going to take a stab in the dark and say DNS or gateway error.
If you can see PD its because you have the dns entry stored locally.
Now spreading rumors that a Star Wars movie based entirely on Gungans is in the works.
I just got screamed at by a 400 pound "tuskan raider".
Life is good.
None of these sound like rumours, I'm calling this shit prophecy and I dare anyone to correct me.
Roger, please begin referring to yourself as a "Tucson Raider".
That is all.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 17, 2014, 01:29:08 PM
My bitch face is on fucking point today. I made someone apologize for hollering out his window at me just by glaring.
awesome.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 17, 2014, 04:00:25 PM
Now spreading rumors that a Star Wars movie based entirely on Gungans is in the works.
I just got screamed at by a 400 pound "tuskan raider".
Life is good.
Meesa think this plenty good idea.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 17, 2014, 04:37:05 PM
Roger, please begin referring to yourself as a "Tucson Raider".
That is all.
:lulz:
This fucking coffee is like having a bot fly infestation. In my ass. And the bot flies have ebola.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 17, 2014, 04:37:05 PM
Roger, please begin referring to yourself as a "Tucson Raider".
That is all.
Yes, this!
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 17, 2014, 04:00:25 PM
Now spreading rumors that a Star Wars movie based entirely on Gungans is in the works.
I just got screamed at by a 400 pound "tuskan raider".
Life is good.
Even knowing you're full of shit... I hate you. :p
Quote from: Luna on October 18, 2014, 12:20:50 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 17, 2014, 04:00:25 PM
Now spreading rumors that a Star Wars movie based entirely on Gungans is in the works.
I just got screamed at by a 400 pound "tuskan raider".
Life is good.
Even knowing you're full of shit... I hate you. :p
I like to think of myself as an
artist.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 18, 2014, 02:10:27 AM
Quote from: Luna on October 18, 2014, 12:20:50 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 17, 2014, 04:00:25 PM
Now spreading rumors that a Star Wars movie based entirely on Gungans is in the works.
I just got screamed at by a 400 pound "tuskan raider".
Life is good.
Even knowing you're full of shit... I hate you. :p
I like to think of myself as an artist.
Yeah... I did a full-body shudder at the very concept.
Burned two bridges today. One I'm not any the worse for being rid of. The other went up as a result of a complete fucking accident I'm sick about.
I could really use a deep dark hole right now.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on October 19, 2014, 03:34:42 AM
Burned two bridges today. One I'm not any the worse for being rid of. The other went up as a result of a complete fucking accident I'm sick about.
I could really use a deep dark hole right now.
Oh no, I'm sorry. :(
I wish work would make up their fucking minds. They either want me pulling insanely long shifts (6am to 4pm yesterday) or none at all (ie; all of this week).
Is it too much to ask for reasonable workloads, every day? I'd much prefer working 5 hours a day, every day of the week, than pulling three huge shifts which then require at least a day just to recover from.
Well, I suppose this is why I'm applying to go back to work in education. Not Houseparenting...but still. Teenagers. Urgh. On the other hand, stable working hours are pretty desirable right now...
Quote from: Cain on October 19, 2014, 08:39:05 AM
I wish work would make up their fucking minds. They either want me pulling insanely long shifts (6am to 4pm yesterday) or none at all (ie; all of this week).
Is it too much to ask for reasonable workloads, every day? I'd much prefer working 5 hours a day, every day of the week, than pulling three huge shifts which then require at least a day just to recover from.
Well, I suppose this is why I'm applying to go back to work in education. Not Houseparenting...but still. Teenagers. Urgh. On the other hand, stable working hours are pretty desirable right now...
That's shitty. I hope the pay rate makes it somewhat worth it.
My new corporate employers have been fairly reasonable if you don't factor in paying minimum wage. Looks like there may be a path to a well-paying position involving working with the interwebs backbone, so I'm going to suck it up for now.
Quote from: Cain on October 19, 2014, 08:39:05 AM
I wish work would make up their fucking minds. They either want me pulling insanely long shifts (6am to 4pm yesterday) or none at all (ie; all of this week).
Is it too much to ask for reasonable workloads, every day? I'd much prefer working 5 hours a day, every day of the week, than pulling three huge shifts which then require at least a day just to recover from.
Well, I suppose this is why I'm applying to go back to work in education. Not Houseparenting...but still. Teenagers. Urgh. On the other hand, stable working hours are pretty desirable right now...
It sucks trying to have a life without a semi-stable schedule. Pretty much just end up living for vacation.
Quote from: Cain on October 19, 2014, 08:39:05 AM
I wish work would make up their fucking minds. They either want me pulling insanely long shifts (6am to 4pm yesterday) or none at all (ie; all of this week).
Is it too much to ask for reasonable workloads, every day? I'd much prefer working 5 hours a day, every day of the week, than pulling three huge shifts which then require at least a day just to recover from.
Well, I suppose this is why I'm applying to go back to work in education. Not Houseparenting...but still. Teenagers. Urgh. On the other hand, stable working hours are pretty desirable right now...
That's just rude. Are they using you to fill in shifts when the other employees call in sick or no-show?
Ouija boards allow people who can't spell to speak with spirits that also can't spell.
Which I think is awesome.
A little nightmare fuel, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanoboa
(https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1011240_1071103106252475_901039585871973897_n.jpg?oh=e2463dd372373bc4c04f12bdaf972ac5&oe=54B6CB99)
Oooh, neat. Someone made it... COME ALIVE! http://youtu.be/UvoS8rP-dH4
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 20, 2014, 04:45:20 PM
Ouija boards allow people who can't spell to speak with spirits that also can't spell.
Which I think is awesome.
:lulz:
Managing my appetite on thyroid meds has become interesting. Some days I'm a bottomless pit, and other days I eat breakfast and I'm good for hours, but I'm never starving anymore. I'm either generally peckish or uninterested in food most of the day, but I am hungry in the morning, typically right after I take my pill and I need to wait like a half hour. :argh!: This isn't a bad thing, because I'm assuming this means my thyroid is seeing that I have fat to burn and don't need as many calories, but at the same time I'm worried about keeping up with nutrition. So I think I need to force myself to eat something small and balanced for lunch or early dinner every day even if I'm not feeling hungry. I'll bring this up to my doctor when I go for my first check-in in a couple of weeks.
I've set up a page on one of those "let people buy your prints" sites. I will be reaching out to people over PM for permission to post some of the Big Words materials there. Just a heads up.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 21, 2014, 03:12:53 AM
I've set up a page on one of those "let people buy your prints" sites. I will be reaching out to people over PM for permission to post some of the Big Words materials there. Just a heads up.
QG, if you can make a buck at it, go ahead and use anything of mine that's already in BW. Attribution is required, but if you sell anything, you keep the cash.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 03:33:03 AM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on October 21, 2014, 03:12:53 AM
I've set up a page on one of those "let people buy your prints" sites. I will be reaching out to people over PM for permission to post some of the Big Words materials there. Just a heads up.
QG, if you can make a buck at it, go ahead and use anything of mine that's already in BW. Attribution is required, but if you sell anything, you keep the cash.
Likewise.
See PM response. I assume you'll have no problem meeting the stated demands.
Quote from: N E T on October 19, 2014, 01:36:05 PMThat's shitty. I hope the pay rate makes it somewhat worth it.
For the current one? Unfortunately no. Minimum wage all the way. The education one is significantly better, if I get it. I also know the school, and it is a
very good school. Good enough that private school students are frequently enrolled there (it's a state school) to do their A levels. I would be working with students with behavioural and learning disabilities if I were there, but in conjunction with a teacher, which is something.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on October 20, 2014, 03:42:42 PM
It sucks trying to have a life without a semi-stable schedule. Pretty much just end up living for vacation.
Yeah, exactly. And I don't get much say over that, either. Last time I had a week off, I didn't book it, wasn't given any say over it.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 20, 2014, 03:44:18 PM
That's just rude. Are they using you to fill in shifts when the other employees call in sick or no-show?
In theory, no. In practice, probably.
Over here, we have something called "zero-hour contracts", which are an abomination. I'm not on one of those, but I am basically the next rung up - I have contracted hours, but not contracted times. Those contracted hours are not many, and basically I need to work overtime every single week just to pay my rent. And as one of the newer employees, I of course don't have any sort of social capital to influence the rota.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 21, 2014, 05:09:18 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 03:33:03 AM
QG, if you can make a buck at it, go ahead and use anything of mine that's already in BW. Attribution is required, but if you sell anything, you keep the cash.
Likewise.
Thank you both.
Already sent PM, but I'll say it publicly: Go for it.
Ugh. Arguing with a Jungian on FB about Quantum Physics. Why do I do this?
Clash of Clans is a most fiendish and addictive time waster. I'm hooked and getting pretty good at it.
It only took me like 10 days of obsessive playing!
Gonna catch up on the scuttlebutt ITT as my day goes on. I'm at the point where upgrades take 12 hrs to a couple days. Like a war game combined with bonsai. I dig it, but now it's pretty much long term building strategy and occasional raiding fits for wall money.
The Trickster accesses your shadow psyche, compelling you.
Quote from: Cain on October 21, 2014, 02:37:41 PM
The Trickster accesses your shadow psyche, compelling you.
I counter with (http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/2/8/1/2812991818a5f62e981118a582e433bd.png)
I counter with "my resignation letter finally has a response, 6 days after I sent it" and "I'm arguing with nerds about health regen".
Which isn't strictly a counter, but whatever.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 21, 2014, 02:31:05 PM
Ugh. Arguing with a Jungian on FB about Quantum Physics. Why do I do this?
Because if you're doing it publicly, you're performing a service?
Also, maybe there's a deterrence factor. Being able to get away with "Quantum physics states that your aura is jacked into the collective consciousness field which is why water holds you anxieties," is entirely dependent on nobody in the audience having any knowledge about what quantum physics
actually is. Nothing wrong with a person being a little hand-shy about half-assing it.
Sadly, the argument is going in the direction of "reality is only perception" and "conciousness is not a physical aspect".
"My perception is that your argument is bullshit. Since most people agree with this perception, you'll find that this actually exerts a very real influence on the collective subconscious, thus turning reality into a mostly empirical construct."
Pwn3d!!12! etc.
You are so much more amusing than the Philosophy 101 I'm dealing with.
"Physics is the science of how matter and energy interact. That speaks very little to consciousness, and is still reductionist/rationalist/materialist, which speak even less to consciousness. The physical world (I still don't like calling it "world") may be amplitudes in configuration space as far as you and physics are concerned, but consciousness isn't. Ergo, if your reality is physical in nature, consciousness cannot be reality."
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 21, 2014, 02:36:45 PM
Clash of Clans is a most fiendish and addictive time waster. I'm hooked and getting pretty good at it.
It only took me like 10 days of obsessive playing!
Gonna catch up on the scuttlebutt ITT as my day goes on. I'm at the point where upgrades take 12 hrs to a couple days. Like a war game combined with bonsai. I dig it, but now it's pretty much long term building strategy and occasional raiding fits for wall money.
I'm saving up for my Level 3 dragon upgrade right now. Cost is 3 million elixir. Upgrade time is 10 days.
Eventually the game will force you to be active in your raiding or buy shit. The last two raids on me have cost me 500k elixir. If I just relied on my resource collectors which are all maxed, that would take me 27 hours generate -- exactly as long as I am under shield after those attacks.
Even if you max your defenses, raiders who are bad at math and trophy hunters will readily throw a 250k army to raid you for 200k elixir. Only solution I've found is to try to steal more than I lose.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 21, 2014, 03:11:49 PM
You are so much more amusing than the Philosophy 101 I'm dealing with.
"Physics is the science of how matter and energy interact. That speaks very little to consciousness, and is still reductionist/rationalist/materialist, which speak even less to consciousness. The physical world (I still don't like calling it "world") may be amplitudes in configuration space as far as you and physics are concerned, but consciousness isn't. Ergo, if your reality is physical in nature, consciousness cannot be reality."
Oh wow, hahah. Argument through assertion
and conflation. "Consciousness isn't part of reality. Nothing more to say, reductionist pig."
Brand new $4 Mn kiln.
Built under budget. How did Mike manage this? Why, he left off inconsequential things like elevated platforms for people to stand on (extension ladders as a routine operations thing, lol) and maintenance rails for the 3 ton carts.
Which has managed to bite us a whole week into running the machine, when 2 "top" operators decided that the procedure was inefficient and decided to load the machine in manual mode. Not gonna bore you with details, but "manual" turns off all the safeties, and as they overloaded the entrance tracks, the end car fell off the rail, because in manual, the loading traverse cart doesn't automatically return (hence the "manual" part).
So I have been here since 3 AM, first righting the cart, then using a monster fork lift to lift the cart off the tracks and place it on the ground, as there is no maintenance rail to shunt it off onto. Every single time there is a problem, we will have to rig and lift the carts, which is an inherently hazardous task.
I explained this in the morning staff meeting in terms that made Mike literally weep with rage. I approve of this. I shall see if I can ramp it up until the fat useless arrogant bastard strokes the fuck out.
Hatefully,
Dok
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 21, 2014, 03:11:49 PM
You are so much more amusing than the Philosophy 101 I'm dealing with.
"Physics is the science of how matter and energy interact. That speaks very little to consciousness, and is still reductionist/rationalist/materialist, which speak even less to consciousness. The physical world (I still don't like calling it "world") may be amplitudes in configuration space as far as you and physics are concerned, but consciousness isn't. Ergo, if your reality is physical in nature, consciousness cannot be reality."
:kingmeh:
I've always found it to be a huge failing of physics that it's not neurology.
-or-
Pics or it didn't happen!
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 21, 2014, 02:59:21 PM
Sadly, the argument is going in the direction of "reality is only perception" and "conciousness is not a physical aspect".
Right this minute, I'd like to feed fuckers like that into the choppy grindy burny machine.
Which is actually a thing.
Plus, he unironically used the word "ergo". In public.
How is it Mike still has a job, again?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 03:20:04 PM
Brand new $4 Mn kiln.
Built under budget. How did Mike manage this? Why, he left off inconsequential things like elevated platforms for people to stand on (extension ladders as a routine operations thing, lol) and maintenance rails for the 3 ton carts.
Which has managed to bite us a whole week into running the machine, when 2 "top" operators decided that the procedure was inefficient and decided to load the machine in manual mode. Not gonna bore you with details, but "manual" turns off all the safeties, and as they overloaded the entrance tracks, the end car fell off the rail, because in manual, the loading traverse cart doesn't automatically return (hence the "manual" part).
So I have been here since 3 AM, first righting the cart, then using a monster fork lift to lift the cart off the tracks and place it on the ground, as there is no maintenance rail to shunt it off onto. Every single time there is a problem, we will have to rig and lift the carts, which is an inherently hazardous task.
I explained this in the morning staff meeting in terms that made Mike literally weep with rage. I approve of this. I shall see if I can ramp it up until the fat useless arrogant bastard strokes the fuck out.
Hatefully,
Dok
Carts filled with oil?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 03:22:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 21, 2014, 02:59:21 PM
Sadly, the argument is going in the direction of "reality is only perception" and "conciousness is not a physical aspect".
Right this minute, I'd like to feed fuckers like that into the choppy grindy burny machine.
Which is actually a thing.
But does the choppy grindy burny machine have a consciousness that exists in the "real" world?
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on October 21, 2014, 03:24:27 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 03:20:04 PM
Brand new $4 Mn kiln.
Built under budget. How did Mike manage this? Why, he left off inconsequential things like elevated platforms for people to stand on (extension ladders as a routine operations thing, lol) and maintenance rails for the 3 ton carts.
Which has managed to bite us a whole week into running the machine, when 2 "top" operators decided that the procedure was inefficient and decided to load the machine in manual mode. Not gonna bore you with details, but "manual" turns off all the safeties, and as they overloaded the entrance tracks, the end car fell off the rail, because in manual, the loading traverse cart doesn't automatically return (hence the "manual" part).
So I have been here since 3 AM, first righting the cart, then using a monster fork lift to lift the cart off the tracks and place it on the ground, as there is no maintenance rail to shunt it off onto. Every single time there is a problem, we will have to rig and lift the carts, which is an inherently hazardous task.
I explained this in the morning staff meeting in terms that made Mike literally weep with rage. I approve of this. I shall see if I can ramp it up until the fat useless arrogant bastard strokes the fuck out.
Hatefully,
Dok
Carts filled with oil?
No, carts filled with aluminum oxide.
Quote from: Cain on October 21, 2014, 03:25:56 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 03:22:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 21, 2014, 02:59:21 PM
Sadly, the argument is going in the direction of "reality is only perception" and "conciousness is not a physical aspect".
Right this minute, I'd like to feed fuckers like that into the choppy grindy burny machine.
Which is actually a thing.
But does the choppy grindy burny machine have a consciousness that exists in the "real" world?
Yes. Yes, it does.
It is a simple machine, and has only one desire.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 03:26:05 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on October 21, 2014, 03:24:27 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 03:20:04 PM
Brand new $4 Mn kiln.
Built under budget. How did Mike manage this? Why, he left off inconsequential things like elevated platforms for people to stand on (extension ladders as a routine operations thing, lol) and maintenance rails for the 3 ton carts.
Which has managed to bite us a whole week into running the machine, when 2 "top" operators decided that the procedure was inefficient and decided to load the machine in manual mode. Not gonna bore you with details, but "manual" turns off all the safeties, and as they overloaded the entrance tracks, the end car fell off the rail, because in manual, the loading traverse cart doesn't automatically return (hence the "manual" part).
So I have been here since 3 AM, first righting the cart, then using a monster fork lift to lift the cart off the tracks and place it on the ground, as there is no maintenance rail to shunt it off onto. Every single time there is a problem, we will have to rig and lift the carts, which is an inherently hazardous task.
I explained this in the morning staff meeting in terms that made Mike literally weep with rage. I approve of this. I shall see if I can ramp it up until the fat useless arrogant bastard strokes the fuck out.
Hatefully,
Dok
Carts filled with oil?
No, carts filled with aluminum oxide.
I'd say "phew" but it's a small, small "phew". More like a
"phew".
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 03:26:58 PM
Quote from: Cain on October 21, 2014, 03:25:56 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 03:22:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 21, 2014, 02:59:21 PM
Sadly, the argument is going in the direction of "reality is only perception" and "conciousness is not a physical aspect".
Right this minute, I'd like to feed fuckers like that into the choppy grindy burny machine.
Which is actually a thing.
But does the choppy grindy burny machine have a consciousness that exists in the "real" world?
Yes. Yes, it does.
It is a simple machine, and has only one desire.
:lulz:
Well that's no phew. That's no phew at all!
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on October 21, 2014, 03:31:03 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 03:26:05 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on October 21, 2014, 03:24:27 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 03:20:04 PM
Brand new $4 Mn kiln.
Built under budget. How did Mike manage this? Why, he left off inconsequential things like elevated platforms for people to stand on (extension ladders as a routine operations thing, lol) and maintenance rails for the 3 ton carts.
Which has managed to bite us a whole week into running the machine, when 2 "top" operators decided that the procedure was inefficient and decided to load the machine in manual mode. Not gonna bore you with details, but "manual" turns off all the safeties, and as they overloaded the entrance tracks, the end car fell off the rail, because in manual, the loading traverse cart doesn't automatically return (hence the "manual" part).
So I have been here since 3 AM, first righting the cart, then using a monster fork lift to lift the cart off the tracks and place it on the ground, as there is no maintenance rail to shunt it off onto. Every single time there is a problem, we will have to rig and lift the carts, which is an inherently hazardous task.
I explained this in the morning staff meeting in terms that made Mike literally weep with rage. I approve of this. I shall see if I can ramp it up until the fat useless arrogant bastard strokes the fuck out.
Hatefully,
Dok
Carts filled with oil?
No, carts filled with aluminum oxide.
I'd say "phew" but it's a small, small "phew". More like a "phew".
At least it wrecked on the cold side (room temperature). On the other side, it's 1475C.
Apparently, I have a doppelganger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY58VG0laBw
Quote from: Allfader Waffles on October 21, 2014, 08:48:03 PM
Apparently, I have a doppelganger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY58VG0laBw
(http://us.tintin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/characters-captain-haddock-mug.jpg)
?
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on October 21, 2014, 03:11:57 PM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 21, 2014, 02:36:45 PM
Clash of Clans is a most fiendish and addictive time waster. I'm hooked and getting pretty good at it.
It only took me like 10 days of obsessive playing!
Gonna catch up on the scuttlebutt ITT as my day goes on. I'm at the point where upgrades take 12 hrs to a couple days. Like a war game combined with bonsai. I dig it, but now it's pretty much long term building strategy and occasional raiding fits for wall money.
I'm saving up for my Level 3 dragon upgrade right now. Cost is 3 million elixir. Upgrade time is 10 days.
Eventually the game will force you to be active in your raiding or buy shit. The last two raids on me have cost me 500k elixir. If I just relied on my resource collectors which are all maxed, that would take me 27 hours generate -- exactly as long as I am under shield after those attacks.
Even if you max your defenses, raiders who are bad at math and trophy hunters will readily throw a 250k army to raid you for 200k elixir. Only solution I've found is to try to steal more than I lose.
I started opportunistic raiding pretty much as soon as the starter wall came down. The ROI is excellent and once spent the spoils cannot be taken back. Took me a little time to figure the AI out and now I've got the hang of it offensively at lv5 town hall.
My advice on defense is don't bother with classical wall cells. It's all about inter-nesting and channeling hostiles into bunching up in overlapping fire zones. I've had my base bested but it's consistently been by much higher level cats with huge armies and rev3nge (I love raiding above my class) not winning economically on their minds. Precious few 3star wipeouts and I learned from each and modded my tactics accordingly. Losing to raids barely matters, but it seems folks just hate losing. In this game that is how you fail, abandon your base and become raid fodder. It's a lot of fun!
Downloaded "Manga Studio 5" hopefully me and the wife can create some cards for our card game we're creating.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 03:20:04 PM
Brand new $4 Mn kiln.
Built under budget. How did Mike manage this? Why, he left off inconsequential things like elevated platforms for people to stand on (extension ladders as a routine operations thing, lol) and maintenance rails for the 3 ton carts.
Which has managed to bite us a whole week into running the machine, when 2 "top" operators decided that the procedure was inefficient and decided to load the machine in manual mode. Not gonna bore you with details, but "manual" turns off all the safeties, and as they overloaded the entrance tracks, the end car fell off the rail, because in manual, the loading traverse cart doesn't automatically return (hence the "manual" part).
So I have been here since 3 AM, first righting the cart, then using a monster fork lift to lift the cart off the tracks and place it on the ground, as there is no maintenance rail to shunt it off onto. Every single time there is a problem, we will have to rig and lift the carts, which is an inherently hazardous task.
I explained this in the morning staff meeting in terms that made Mike literally weep with rage. I approve of this. I shall see if I can ramp it up until the fat useless arrogant bastard strokes the fuck out.
Hatefully,
Dok
This sort of preventable crap drives me nuts.
I work at a hospital laundry for a very large complex. It's one of the few in the nation with an internal "full service" accredited laundry. Most outsource.
The hospital completed an addition this last January and I was shown the schematics and maps by my bosses to see what I thought. What I thought was that it was grossly unintelligent to have 1 single chute to handle virtually everything from a 6 floor housing unit. I was correct, but unheeded.
The damn thing was made worse by a large ramp in the basement area that the chute deposits at the bottom of and the fact that they installed a garbage chute that went straight down and was crimped at the end. It really should be slanted to soak momentum and throw the bag into the room on exit instead of piling up directly under the chute. It has a spring loaded, sliding door on the bottom.
The bags are meant to be around 50lbs max, but QUITE FREQUENTLY are stuffed to 100+. The consequences need not be detailed explicitly, but it was hellish for the first months until they managed to modify things. It still only functions because some few of us are vigilant and hard working enough to keep it clear.
One day, but not if I can help it, it will likely back up so bad that the pressure will pack it like a cigarette. Then we shall see how things go. The chute is built into the middle of the building. There's no way to remove it in such a situation and they've made no moves to replace it before this happens. This is just one of dozens of little bits of folly I deal with. Decisions out of my hands and all I can do is watch and adapt.. or get the hell out.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 21, 2014, 02:31:05 PM
Ugh. Arguing with a Jungian on FB about Quantum Physics. Why do I do this?
You, sir, are a glutton for punishment.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 21, 2014, 03:11:49 PM
You are so much more amusing than the Philosophy 101 I'm dealing with.
"Physics is the science of how matter and energy interact. That speaks very little to consciousness, and is still reductionist/rationalist/materialist, which speak even less to consciousness. The physical world (I still don't like calling it "world") may be amplitudes in configuration space as far as you and physics are concerned, but consciousness isn't. Ergo, if your reality is physical in nature, consciousness cannot be reality."
In theory, as a baby neurobiologist who will be TA-ing Perception next term, I have a lot of fancy words to counter that. In reality, I am way too fucking tired to formulate them in any way that makes sense.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 03:22:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 21, 2014, 02:59:21 PM
Sadly, the argument is going in the direction of "reality is only perception" and "conciousness is not a physical aspect".
Right this minute, I'd like to feed fuckers like that into the choppy grindy burny machine.
Which is actually a thing.
I want one plz.
Quote from: Allfader Waffles on October 21, 2014, 08:48:03 PM
Apparently, I have a doppelganger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY58VG0laBw
Great song though! You can be proud of him. :)
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 09:12:49 PM
Quote from: Allfader Waffles on October 21, 2014, 08:48:03 PM
Apparently, I have a doppelganger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY58VG0laBw
(http://us.tintin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/characters-captain-haddock-mug.jpg)
?
Correction. Apparently I have
two doppelgangers.
Captain Haddock is much older than you, so you are his doppelganger!
Quote from: Your Mom on October 22, 2014, 06:42:11 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 21, 2014, 03:11:49 PM
You are so much more amusing than the Philosophy 101 I'm dealing with.
"Physics is the science of how matter and energy interact. That speaks very little to consciousness, and is still reductionist/rationalist/materialist, which speak even less to consciousness. The physical world (I still don't like calling it "world") may be amplitudes in configuration space as far as you and physics are concerned, but consciousness isn't. Ergo, if your reality is physical in nature, consciousness cannot be reality."
In theory, as a baby neurobiologist who will be TA-ing Perception next term, I have a lot of fancy words to counter that. In reality, I am way too fucking tired to formulate them in any way that makes sense.
I had a feeling you might. But, as the whole thing collapsed into snark and mockery, it was a good choice not to make the effort.
QuoteOne day, but not if I can help it, it will likely back up so bad that the pressure will pack it like a cigarette. Then we shall see how things go. The chute is built into the middle of the building. There's no way to remove it in such a situation and they've made no moves to replace it before this happens. This is just one of dozens of little bits of folly I deal with. Decisions out of my hands and all I can do is watch and adapt.. or get the hell out.
Joe, Have a word with me if/when this occurs. I've dealt with similar kinds of situations and there's PLENTY of fun to be had here.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 22, 2014, 06:43:15 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 21, 2014, 03:22:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 21, 2014, 02:59:21 PM
Sadly, the argument is going in the direction of "reality is only perception" and "conciousness is not a physical aspect".
Right this minute, I'd like to feed fuckers like that into the choppy grindy burny machine.
Which is actually a thing.
I want one plz.
There's only one. And I worked for decades to rate that thing.
ATTENTION IT/WEB DESIGN SKILLED SPAGS.
I have a new client and he wants a website and various shit made YESTERDAY. If you are at all skilled in this regard I currently have NO ONE to sub this kind of shit out to.
Genuine offer of legit, paid work. Would expect to see proof of previous work and skills. This should not be an issue for you. I have a reasonable understanding of the level of effort required and would ensure suitable compensation. I will make no promises to anyone beyond the fact I will consider and evaluate you in the same way I would anyone else. UK based would obviously be somewhat easier, but provided we can communicate that's somewhat flexible.
I am mainly posting this here because I'm actually stunned at the (lack of) quality the two I've had meetings with this over today. I've not got high hopes for tomorrow either.
I grow increasingly worried that the fist I've made for years to say "leave me the fuck alone" has actually become my identity. Especially lately.
Well, do people leave you the fuck alone? The opposite seems to occur.
And "The welcoming fist" sounds like either a terrible martial art, among other things.
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 22, 2014, 09:40:27 PM
Well, do people leave you the fuck alone? The opposite seems to occur.
And "The welcoming fist" sounds like either a terrible martial art, among other things.
IRL, I usually get left alone. It does not translate well to the interbutts. It has taken a while to catch on at work, but functions normally now (mosly on account of my new job duties, which seemed to have caused my erstwhile coworkers to look at me like I'm the fucking NKVD or something).
Interesting. It sounds like that the new duties are amplifying the existing fist?
Does your increased role result in the ability to allow any increased leniency on a fuck-up? From their apparent reactions I'd guess not.
A better question, might be - Why does it worry you? I can guess but I'd prefer not to assume here.
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 22, 2014, 10:08:22 PM
Interesting. It sounds like that the new duties are amplifying the existing fist?
Does your increased role result in the ability to allow any increased leniency on a fuck-up? From their apparent reactions I'd guess not.
A better question, might be - Why does it worry you? I can guess but I'd prefer not to assume here.
When I saw what my new job was, I immediately and blatantly ripped off Grant Morrison. We are the Science Gestapo.
And it worries me because I once spent 8 months here yelling at people for
becoming their labels.
Friend in KC's mom may have TB. :| She's had pneumonia for a month, and it hasn't been healing, so she went to the ER today, and sure 'nuff, they took a CT scan and found lesions in her lungs. I hope that if it DOES turn out to be TB that they can stop it, but since she's already been on some antibiotics for the pneumonia, they're hoping it's not drug resistant. What bakes my noodle is that here is this woman coughing uncontrollably for weeks and they don't give her a TB test? REALLY?
People are freaking out over Ebola, and Consumption is creeping up on people left and right like the kiss of death.
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 22, 2014, 01:22:41 PM
QuoteOne day, but not if I can help it, it will likely back up so bad that the pressure will pack it like a cigarette. Then we shall see how things go. The chute is built into the middle of the building. There's no way to remove it in such a situation and they've made no moves to replace it before this happens. This is just one of dozens of little bits of folly I deal with. Decisions out of my hands and all I can do is watch and adapt.. or get the hell out.
Joe, Have a word with me if/when this occurs. I've dealt with similar kinds of situations and there's PLENTY of fun to be had here.
Happily. Took a few choice pics as today (the guy on days that should have cleared it failed to do so) and as soon as I get my butt onto figuring how to post pics I'll share a few images. My NDA ain't that tight.
Quote from: The Suu on October 23, 2014, 12:18:38 AM
Friend in KC's mom may have TB. :| She's had pneumonia for a month, and it hasn't been healing, so she went to the ER today, and sure 'nuff, they took a CT scan and found lesions in her lungs. I hope that if it DOES turn out to be TB that they can stop it, but since she's already been on some antibiotics for the pneumonia, they're hoping it's not drug resistant. What bakes my noodle is that here is this woman coughing uncontrollably for weeks and they don't give her a TB test? REALLY?
People are freaking out over Ebola, and Consumption is creeping up on people left and right like the kiss of death.
LOL no just kidding, tests are negative for TB. It's leukemia.
On that note, I'm going to call my friend and keep her fucking sane.
AND THEN THIS HAPPENED.
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/22/fox_news_to_young_women_dont_worry_about_voting_just_focus_on_your_tinder_profile/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 23, 2014, 01:41:48 AM
AND THEN THIS HAPPENED.
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/22/fox_news_to_young_women_dont_worry_about_voting_just_focus_on_your_tinder_profile/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Emote....
:cpd:
Not sure if that's appropriate but it seems to fit how that made me feel.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 23, 2014, 01:41:48 AM
AND THEN THIS HAPPENED.
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/22/fox_news_to_young_women_dont_worry_about_voting_just_focus_on_your_tinder_profile/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
DON'T YOU TROUBLE YOUR PRETTY LITTLE HEADS.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 22, 2014, 10:40:44 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 22, 2014, 10:08:22 PM
Interesting. It sounds like that the new duties are amplifying the existing fist?
Does your increased role result in the ability to allow any increased leniency on a fuck-up? From their apparent reactions I'd guess not.
A better question, might be - Why does it worry you? I can guess but I'd prefer not to assume here.
When I saw what my new job was, I immediately and blatantly ripped off Grant Morrison. We are the Science Gestapo.
And it worries me because I once spent 8 months here yelling at people for becoming their labels.
When a new social function becomes available, it's natural to dive in headfirst, and wear the uniform for a bit. When the novelty wears off, you can start messing with the label's expectations.
PD, where horribly mixing metaphors is just another Thursday.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 23, 2014, 02:45:41 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 23, 2014, 01:41:48 AM
AND THEN THIS HAPPENED.
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/22/fox_news_to_young_women_dont_worry_about_voting_just_focus_on_your_tinder_profile/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
DON'T YOU TROUBLE YOUR PRETTY LITTLE HEADS.
Fortunately, no kid on EARTH views Fox News as a role model.
BUT STILL.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 23, 2014, 11:43:50 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 22, 2014, 10:40:44 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 22, 2014, 10:08:22 PM
Interesting. It sounds like that the new duties are amplifying the existing fist?
Does your increased role result in the ability to allow any increased leniency on a fuck-up? From their apparent reactions I'd guess not.
A better question, might be - Why does it worry you? I can guess but I'd prefer not to assume here.
When I saw what my new job was, I immediately and blatantly ripped off Grant Morrison. We are the Science Gestapo.
And it worries me because I once spent 8 months here yelling at people for becoming their labels.
When a new social function becomes available, it's natural to dive in headfirst, and wear the uniform for a bit. When the novelty wears off, you can start messing with the label's expectations.
PD, where horribly mixing metaphors is just another Thursday.
You make an excellent point.
The irony of life when anti-gmo people lecture you about nutrition and health while smoking cigarettes.
I don't remember whether I mentioned this yesterday, but my dishwasher crapped the bed.
I hate being poor.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 24, 2014, 03:22:37 AM
I don't remember whether I mentioned this yesterday, but my dishwasher crapped the bed.
I hate being poor.
:sad:
Did it stop working, or start leaking?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 24, 2014, 03:38:12 AM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 24, 2014, 03:22:37 AM
I don't remember whether I mentioned this yesterday, but my dishwasher crapped the bed.
I hate being poor.
:sad:
Did it stop working, or start leaking?
Stopped working
the door latch mechanism is broken. Mechanically broken, ie plastic parts have fractured. It's probably replaceable, but the dishwasher's ten years old and starting to disintegrate.
I decided to replace the latch anyway, for the reason that getting rid of broken appliances is a huge pain in the ass. Same reason I still have the same ancient POS washer and dryer in my basement; the idea of getting them OUT of my basement is too much of an ordeal to bear, so I just keep repairing them. :lol:
Also I invented the best drink. It's cheap beer mixed with pickle juice, hot sauce, and V-8. If you're feeling adventurous, a dash of fish sauce.
I call it a Picklada.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 24, 2014, 05:24:43 AM
Also I invented the best drink. It's cheap beer mixed with pickle juice, hot sauce, and V-8. If you're feeling adventurous, a dash of fish sauce.
I call it a Picklada.
Ok, that sounds delicious. I'm in.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 24, 2014, 03:22:37 AM
I don't remember whether I mentioned this yesterday, but my dishwasher crapped the bed.
Have you tried turning it off, then turning it back on again?
QuoteI hate being poor.
Actually, have you tried
not being poor?
I started making my own plates, so when my current ones are dirty I just throw them away and use new ones.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 24, 2014, 05:17:04 AM
I decided to replace the latch anyway, for the reason that getting rid of broken appliances is a huge pain in the ass. Same reason I still have the same ancient POS washer and dryer in my basement; the idea of getting them OUT of my basement is too much of an ordeal to bear, so I just keep repairing them. :lol:
I have been carting around a giant old-school TV, because there is no legal way of getting rid of it, and the penalties for dumping it are greater than the pain in the ass of keeping it.
Kafka was a sissy. We're all going to die under heaps of broken household appliances.
I really hope that reads with as much hyperbolic satire as was intended.
:scared:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 24, 2014, 02:11:28 PM
I really hope that reads with as much hyperbolic satire as was intended.
:scared:
Obviously.
And then THIS happened:
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 24, 2014, 12:15:16 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 24, 2014, 05:24:43 AM
Also I invented the best drink. It's cheap beer mixed with pickle juice, hot sauce, and V-8. If you're feeling adventurous, a dash of fish sauce.
I call it a Picklada.
Ok, that sounds delicious. I'm in.
Quote from: Your Mom on October 24, 2014, 03:22:37 AM
I don't remember whether I mentioned this yesterday, but my dishwasher crapped the bed.
Have you tried turning it off, then turning it back on again?
QuoteI hate being poor.
Actually, have you tried not being poor?
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 24, 2014, 02:03:32 PM
Quote from: Your Mom on October 24, 2014, 05:17:04 AM
I decided to replace the latch anyway, for the reason that getting rid of broken appliances is a huge pain in the ass. Same reason I still have the same ancient POS washer and dryer in my basement; the idea of getting them OUT of my basement is too much of an ordeal to bear, so I just keep repairing them. :lol:
I have been carting around a giant old-school TV, because there is no legal way of getting rid of it, and the penalties for dumping it are greater than the pain in the ass of keeping it.
Kafka was a sissy. We're all going to die under heaps of broken household appliances.
Whoa. That reminds me of something.
Found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSM4EBf5T9U
I hate being poor too, but my shit could be far worse.
About a month+ ago I got me some nasty respiratory virus. Could not breathe and was getting faint on the job so I used some PTO to go to the urgent care walk in. 3 hrs and a week and a half's pay later I got an albuteral inhaler and a scrip for more. Very glad I told the MD that I had no need for a chest xray to 'confirm it wasn't pneumonia'.
He looked at me like an alien for telling him why I was sure. Must have been the laundry uniform and total lack of fear or deference to his medical opinion now that I knew I didn't have a fever and the inhaler had got me oxygen to the brain.
An X Ray would have tacked on several hundreds more. This with THEIR insurance.
Worst part is I know well what it's like to not have any of the above advantages like the PTO. the vast majority of the extra overtime I've been pulling down and burning out on went to this one bill.
It does beat total destitution. I like the Stoic approach to suffering.
All things considered, I have it pretty good. I'm poor, but I live in a nice neighborhood and I haven't lost my house. I have a scholarship and live in a state with socialized health care that covers my kids, plus I'm on the university health plan, which my scholarship pays for. Not to mention that I have travel opportunities through school that I would never have otherwise.
Yeah I count my blessings too and at the end of the day they stack up pretty high. It helps to be focused on the positive pretty much no matter how things are laid out. I got no major debts, stable work, very good friends and fam. I live in peace and plenty with much to learn. I have leisure time. I feel a good day at work coming on. :)
Good luck with the things Nigel!
About to be thrown off an atheist page on FB for failure to repent of the statement:
"Josef Stalin had Eastern and Orthodox priests put in gulags strictly on account of their religion."
:lulz:
It's a good think whitewashing the past isn't a universal human behavior or anything.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 24, 2014, 06:15:37 PM
About to be thrown off an atheist page on FB for failure to repent of the statement:
"Josef Stalin had Eastern and Orthodox priests put in gulags strictly on account of their religion."
:lulz:
It's a good think whitewashing the past isn't a universal human behavior or anything.
Been there, done that. :lulz: They also really dislike being reminded of Chairman Mao and Pol Pot.
I've always been fond of the notion among mystic minded conspiracy theorists that you only go to hell if you sign on the line and back Old Louie or otherwise intentionally put yourself in enmity with God.
(the idea being that Atheists are his patsies to be done away with when he surely takes the Throne :roll:)
Therefore most genuine Atheists are going to heaven.
Just imagine the awkwardness at the gates. The shuffling feet and nervous glances.
There may even now be segregation issues in Eternity in need of resolution.
Carl Sagan's facial expression would be priceless!
So, we have exactly one "sovereign citizen" in Norway, who a couple of years ago left her passport and social security number at the local police office, and proclaimed her house a sovereign state called Niceland. She got thrown out on Monday. I laughed.
Thrown Out of her house or out of the country?
Quote from: Junkenstein on October 24, 2014, 10:03:13 PM
Thrown Out of her house or out of the country?
Her house. She hasn't paid bills since 2012.
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 24, 2014, 09:39:31 PM
I've always been fond of the notion among mystic minded conspiracy theorists that you only go to hell if you sign on the line and back Old Louie or otherwise intentionally put yourself in enmity with God.
(the idea being that Atheists are his patsies to be done away with when he surely takes the Throne :roll:)
Therefore most genuine Atheists are going to heaven.
Just imagine the awkwardness at the gates. The shuffling feet and nervous glances.
There may even now be segregation issues in Eternity in need of resolution.
Carl Sagan's facial expression would be priceless!
Sagan would have said, "Wow! In the face of this evidence, HOSANNA!"
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 25, 2014, 12:14:13 AM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 24, 2014, 09:39:31 PM
I've always been fond of the notion among mystic minded conspiracy theorists that you only go to hell if you sign on the line and back Old Louie or otherwise intentionally put yourself in enmity with God.
(the idea being that Atheists are his patsies to be done away with when he surely takes the Throne :roll:)
Therefore most genuine Atheists are going to heaven.
Just imagine the awkwardness at the gates. The shuffling feet and nervous glances.
There may even now be segregation issues in Eternity in need of resolution.
Carl Sagan's facial expression would be priceless!
Sagan would have said, "Wow! In the face of this evidence, HOSANNA!"
Hah, just logged in to say the same thing more or less.
I feel like he'd want to have words with a certain deity.
I would. I'd call that asshole.
COME AT ME, BROSANNA.
Quote from: Alty on October 25, 2014, 12:16:29 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on October 25, 2014, 12:14:13 AM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 24, 2014, 09:39:31 PM
I've always been fond of the notion among mystic minded conspiracy theorists that you only go to hell if you sign on the line and back Old Louie or otherwise intentionally put yourself in enmity with God.
(the idea being that Atheists are his patsies to be done away with when he surely takes the Throne :roll:)
Therefore most genuine Atheists are going to heaven.
Just imagine the awkwardness at the gates. The shuffling feet and nervous glances.
There may even now be segregation issues in Eternity in need of resolution.
Carl Sagan's facial expression would be priceless!
Sagan would have said, "Wow! In the face of this evidence, HOSANNA!"
Hah, just logged in to say the same thing more or less.
I feel like he'd want to have words with a certain deity.
I would. I'd call that asshole.
COME AT ME, BROSANNA.
:lulz:
Sup bro? Do you even pray bro? PSHAW! It's gonna be YHVH or the highway bro.
LMNO:
Yeah I know. Either there is no such entity or It is much different than the religions portray. I like to explore the latter possibility as my subjective experience leads me to think Not Nothing.
I do like the image in my head of Sagan's eyes lit up like he just got a dose of platonic mushrooms or Something.
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 24, 2014, 09:39:31 PM
I've always been fond of the notion among mystic minded conspiracy theorists that you only go to hell if you sign on the line and back Old Louie or otherwise intentionally put yourself in enmity with God.
(the idea being that Atheists are his patsies to be done away with when he surely takes the Throne :roll:)
Therefore most genuine Atheists are going to heaven.
Just imagine the awkwardness at the gates. The shuffling feet and nervous glances.
There may even now be segregation issues in Eternity in need of resolution.
Carl Sagan's facial expression would be priceless!
I'm taking a course on the Reformation this semester, and now my arsenal is full of Atheist cannon fodder. I especially like some of the early humanist stuff from Boccaccio and Erasmus, which boils down to, It doesn't fucking matter if you're holy or not holy, or if you're a priest or a pedo, all humans have God's grace instilled within them and act on his will. Therefore, human actions are godly actions no matter how vile of a person you are. You all go to heaven. Game over.
Or my new personal ballista bolt for the Christian right when they bitch about big government and taxes: Romans 13.
Quote from: The Suu on October 25, 2014, 01:12:37 AM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 24, 2014, 09:39:31 PM
I've always been fond of the notion among mystic minded conspiracy theorists that you only go to hell if you sign on the line and back Old Louie or otherwise intentionally put yourself in enmity with God.
(the idea being that Atheists are his patsies to be done away with when he surely takes the Throne :roll:)
Therefore most genuine Atheists are going to heaven.
Just imagine the awkwardness at the gates. The shuffling feet and nervous glances.
There may even now be segregation issues in Eternity in need of resolution.
Carl Sagan's facial expression would be priceless!
I'm taking a course on the Reformation this semester, and now my arsenal is full of Atheist cannon fodder. I especially like some of the early humanist stuff from Boccaccio and Erasmus, which boils down to, It doesn't fucking matter if you're holy or not holy, or if you're a priest or a pedo, all humans have God's grace instilled within them and act on his will. Therefore, human actions are godly actions no matter how vile of a person you are. You all go to heaven. Game over.
Or my new personal ballista bolt for the Christian right when they bitch about big government and taxes: Romans 13.
So.. under that perception when a guy like Gengis Kahn says, "I am the wrath of God. If you had not committed terrible sins God would not have placed a man like me in your path" or the like they are maybe right?
And f7ck Paul. I respect that he was willing to die for what he thought to be true, but I just don't like how he thread jacked like half the new testament. The jerk.
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Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 25, 2014, 01:25:14 AM
Quote from: The Suu on October 25, 2014, 01:12:37 AM
Quote from: a somewhat wiser Joe. on October 24, 2014, 09:39:31 PM
I've always been fond of the notion among mystic minded conspiracy theorists that you only go to hell if you sign on the line and back Old Louie or otherwise intentionally put yourself in enmity with God.
(the idea being that Atheists are his patsies to be done away with when he surely takes the Throne :roll:)
Therefore most genuine Atheists are going to heaven.
Just imagine the awkwardness at the gates. The shuffling feet and nervous glances.
There may even now be segregation issues in Eternity in need of resolution.
Carl Sagan's facial expression would be priceless!
I'm taking a course on the Reformation this semester, and now my arsenal is full of Atheist cannon fodder. I especially like some of the early humanist stuff from Boccaccio and Erasmus, which boils down to, It doesn't fucking matter if you're holy or not holy, or if you're a priest or a pedo, all humans have God's grace instilled within them and act on his will. Therefore, human actions are godly actions no matter how vile of a person you are. You all go to heaven. Game over.
Or my new personal ballista bolt for the Christian right when they bitch about big government and taxes: Romans 13.
So.. under that perception when a guy like Gengis Kahn says, "I am the wrath of God. If you had not committed terrible sins God would not have placed a man like me in your path" or the like they are maybe right?
And f7ck Paul. I respect that he was willing to die for what he thought to be true, but I just don't like how he thread jacked like half the new testament. The jerk.
Don't get me started on Paul. He contradicts himself more than the entire US Senate.
And you are correct, even in Khan's hubris, not only is he a saved man because as God's creation, he is automatically full of His Grace. You're thinking more of a predestination, with is Lutheran/Calvinist. No matter what, God knows where he wants to put you, and you may or may not live, and you may or may not go to Heaven. Your life is already planned. Pray all you want, you still have a 50/50 shot at being damned.
Quote from: Alty on October 25, 2014, 01:53:02 AM
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*yoink*
Quote from: Allfader Waffles on October 24, 2014, 09:47:45 PM
So, we have exactly one "sovereign citizen" in Norway, who a couple of years ago left her passport and social security number at the local police office, and proclaimed her house a sovereign state called Niceland. She got thrown out on Monday. I laughed.
:lulz:
Quote from: Alty on October 25, 2014, 01:53:02 AM
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:eek: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: ipeed
Mah fee fees
Neckbeardom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6LIty6Uea4
My mentor and former boss has some big mothafuckin' news:
http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2014/10/portland_state_university_wins.html
QuoteThe National Institutes of Health selected Portland State University for a $24 million grant, the largest in PSU history, designed to help grow the number of biomedical and health researchers who are Latino, Pacific Islander, Alaska native, African-American, Native American, low-income, raised in foster care or have a disability.
Here's Dr. Crespo and two of my mentees from this past summer, in the very, very odd building I go to school in:
(http://www.pdx.edu/syndication/sites/www.pdx.edu.syndication/files/styles/large/public/Alan%2C-Catalina%2C-Carlos-3.jpg)
HOW CUTE ARE THEY? SO CUTE.
The press release:
http://www.pdx.edu/news/portland-state-receives-24-million-help-diverse-and-underrepresented-students-largest-research-grant
Needless to say, I am incredibly excited about this.
:banana:
That's awesome Nigel!
That is good news.
You should apply several times, for each ethnicity and social group you belong to. You could get your course to pay for itself.
In other news, I hate modding. Look, just because I've given you artificial intelligence so you're not as dumb as a sack of bricks does not mean you can wander off in the middle of a scripted scene to kill things, thus breaking the game. Or, rather, it shouldn't.
This. This is why God has a problem with Free Will, right here.
Quote from: Cain on October 26, 2014, 01:53:46 PM
That is good news.
You should apply several times, for each ethnicity and social group you belong to. You could get your course to pay for itself.
In other news, I hate modding. Look, just because I've given you artificial intelligence so you're not as dumb as a sack of bricks does not mean you can wander off in the middle of a scripted scene to kill things, thus breaking the game. Or, rather, it shouldn't.
This. This is why God has a problem with Free Will, right here.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
I don't know why this made me giggle so, but it did.
I am just imagining your intelligence-enriched NPCs being incredibly irritating, and you being all "THIS IS NOT WHAT I HAD IN MIND". :lol:
That's pretty much exactly what happened. Scripted scene, the NPC is meant to be riding behind me. But, a wolf spawns (a wolf is not supposed to spawn). Instead of ignoring it, despite the fact he is invulnerable and so cannot take damage (the normal flag for combat for this NPC), he jumps off his horse and starts hacking away at the wolf. Even better, the other members of his faction recognise he's in combat and because they're all the same faction, they jump off their horses to go fuck up the wolf as well.
I just wanted you guys to be a bit more aggressive with blocking and power attacks, jeez. :sad:
Quote from: Cain on October 26, 2014, 04:07:06 PM
That's pretty much exactly what happened. Scripted scene, the NPC is meant to be riding behind me. But, a wolf spawns (a wolf is not supposed to spawn). Instead of ignoring it, despite the fact he is invulnerable and so cannot take damage (the normal flag for combat for this NPC), he jumps off his horse and starts hacking away at the wolf. Even better, the other members of his faction recognise he's in combat and because they're all the same faction, they jump off their horses to go fuck up the wolf as well.
I just wanted you guys to be a bit more aggressive with blocking and power attacks, jeez. :sad:
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
We seem to be having a bit of a revolution over here.. I think Hungary scored a first in having demonstrators break the windows of the ruling party's headquarters by throwing dead computer bits. The policy that finally provoked public violence: a proposal to impose a 75 cents per gigabyte internet tax.
A good revolution, or a Jobbik approved style revolution?
Three nice words about my job.
Free unlimited coffee.
Hospital, not industrial, grade.
Almost worth the heightened chance
of getting all of the ebola.
Free unlimited coffee
Fit for consumption
Quote from: Cain on October 26, 2014, 08:16:19 PM
A good revolution, or a Jobbik approved style revolution?
Wannabe ultras were present and surprisingly pleasant (they did most of the throwing as well).
It's fitting that fanatical football fans are at the forefront of the movement against a dictator wannabe who is a mad footie fanatic himself.
Hardcore Jobbikers (xenophobia, antisemitism, irredentisim, "deep-Hungarianism") - not in evidence at all. I heard exactly one anti-Roma comment, the woman was booed (by me, mostly). Being in a demo with a massive and solid dog is fun.
Unless they back down on the Internet tax notion, a repeat performance is promised for Tuesday night.
I personally think the US has decided that the Orbán regime is over, and so it is. A large, feathered and taloned leg has landed on this country, with the bear's paw hovering over it, and there is a mighty, echoing screech: MINE!
Sounds likely. My thoughts ran to similar lines - courting Moscow is foolish, especially when one is a NATO state. One would think a Hungarian politician might understand the concept of jealous patrons better than some others, but I suppose if Orban has proven anything, it's that one need not be aware of history in order to repeat its mistakes.
Me and payne are officially breaking up and shit.
i am sad.
it's all grown up and respectful and civil, and pretty much a mutual decision.
i need hugs and maybe bourbon.
D: :sad: I'm sorry to hear that, Pixie. -hugs-
well he already wanted to be closer to work for his own self care and we were getting different places to live soon anyhoo, but it's definitely not going to be a change of state and continuing relationship past being friends.
Oh.
Hugs anyway.
This mantis wants a hug!
(http://height=500]http://www.artistheather.freewebspace.com/images/flower_mantis.jpg)
Sorry, Pix.
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on November 23, 2014, 08:45:59 PM
Me and payne are officially breaking up and shit.
i am sad.
it's all grown up and respectful and civil, and pretty much a mutual decision.
i need hugs and maybe bourbon.
I'm sorry. :(
I'm sorry to hear that Pix.
That must have been a hard decision.
Sorry to hear that, Pix. :(
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on November 23, 2014, 08:45:59 PM
Me and payne are officially breaking up and shit.
i am sad.
it's all grown up and respectful and civil, and pretty much a mutual decision.
i need hugs and maybe bourbon.
:cry:
Sorry pix. *hugs*
I'm really sorry to hear that, Pix.
Damn, Pix. So sorry. Best of luck to both of you.