Principia Discordia

Principia Discordia => Two vast and trunkless legs of stone => Topic started by: Nephew Twiddleton on December 31, 2013, 04:38:25 AM

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on December 31, 2013, 04:38:25 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on December 29, 2013, 05:07:52 PM
So I have a sort of dilemma.

I mean, not REALLY, but let's just pretend that somehow I have some kind of say in the matter.

There's my accountant. In Baltimore. Who I have been kind of in love with for like 20 years. I would like him to move back to Portland, no idea if that's going to actually ever happen. Pipe dreams and wishful thinking, right?

And then there's this artist who I have had kind of a minor recurring crush on for the last 5-ish years. Who owns a home in St. Johns and is really into dogs and gardening, and who gave me a fantastically panty-moistening hug last night. With his absurd, perfect body OMG how does he even do that.

I think artist guy likes me and he is single again, having finally broken up with his last lady who was basically superhumanly awesome and totally intimidating. But he's also suuuper monogamous and if I go there, that's IT. Any extracurricular interests go into shutdown, goodbye accountant.

Actually this is not even really a dilemma because I'm too chickenshit to do anything about it. Like if I was a player I would be all "hey artist, know how you wanted to come to the coast but there's no more room at the house? Well you can share my bed" but I'm not actually ever going to say that.

Well, could you see yourself spending the rest of your life with him and enjoying it? If so, take the chance. If not, then don't. The extracurricular is a draw, but if the intramural outweighs it, intramural.

To put it into my experience, Villager chased after me for a couple of years, and I resisted it because I wanted to not be tied down. Now I can't imagine life without her. And thing was, I could, when she was chasing me, see myself marrying her, and I think that's why I was so resistant. If that makes sense.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on December 31, 2013, 04:42:39 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on December 29, 2013, 06:03:08 PM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on December 29, 2013, 05:49:07 PM
Yeah, I hear ya. I've never in my life asked a girl out. If I hadn't been somewhat attractive and interesting I would be a forever alone virgin. But eventually, roughly after highschool, the girls stopped asking me out and I've been alone ever since, more or less. And frankly that sucks, but I just don't have the social skills to make something happen. What are ya gonna do, though?

"Go ask a girl out."

The penalty for failure is a "no", which leaves you where you started, not further back.

This. Get a no, move on. That's roughly how high school works except with intense bouts of hormonal ennui.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on December 31, 2013, 04:47:51 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on December 29, 2013, 06:07:45 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on December 29, 2013, 06:02:17 PM
So, in the same world where it's totes cool to down 12 glasses of wine, about two bottles a night, yep, that's totes not drinking too much.

In the meantime, the girl who drinks too much is just going to come out and say, 1/2 gallon of gin every three days is drinking too much, stop that.
I'll try, but I literally crave the stuff when I don't have it.

Definition of addiction.

I drink about 1.4 coffees per hour at work, each hour, Monday through Friday. I rarely drink coffee on Saturday or Sunday. If you crave it, you are addicted. I quit nicotine cold turkey, though I needed to be hung over as shit several days in a row to make that work (thought behind it was get so disgustingly drunk you can't move until sunset the next day. It worked.)
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on December 31, 2013, 05:12:51 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on December 29, 2013, 11:55:51 PM
I keep calling Roger out on the fact that he lives somewhere that nobody can live because it's uninhabitable, and he just keeps getting back to me with "it's because we're all dead".

This makes me uncomfortable, so I mostly ignore it. YOU CAN'T LIVE SOMEWHERE UNINHABITABLE JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE DEAD. That's a weak excuse.

Hmmm. Let me consider this.

Considered.

I posit that since every major city is inhabited by dead people, the only thing that makes it different is how they died.

Tucson tucsons everyone. Portland makes you jump off bridges. Boston? Hmmm... It does, but I'm not sure of the method. Drink yourself  to death is probably the most accurate. MIT deaths. Usually alcohol poisoning. High caliber colleges, high caliber pain killing. Also, the annual sacrifice. There is always one college student who gets nailed by the commuter rail, because he or she forgot the train tracks.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on December 31, 2013, 05:16:00 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on December 30, 2013, 04:13:08 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on December 30, 2013, 12:04:44 AM
Well it's pretty terrible but mostly because of Nigel's and Rogers' own twisted brand of toughlove.  :fap:

Oh, it's the Nigel and Roger show, again.

I guess.

:kingmeh:

Your back, I got it.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on December 31, 2013, 05:28:30 AM
Quote from: Da6s on December 31, 2013, 02:47:21 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on December 30, 2013, 10:49:10 PM
I am a 17-year-old gay male person (hate being called boy, I'm a man, god damn it) living in the South USoA. I am also a pretty pretty princess.


Define "in the South".

Atlanta, Georgia - USA.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Lenin McCarthy on December 31, 2013, 05:40:35 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on December 29, 2013, 05:49:07 PM
Yeah, I hear ya. I've never in my life asked a girl out. If I hadn't been somewhat attractive and interesting I would be a forever alone virgin. But eventually, roughly after highschool, the girls stopped asking me out and I've been alone ever since, more or less. And frankly that sucks, but I just don't have the social skills to make something happen. What are ya gonna do, though?

By Jove, you remind me of myself (not a past me, even). But for now it is better if you think of me as some long dead old Roman guy.

Fate has assigned to you a limited lifespan. This fleeting moment might just as well be your last. Cherish it.
Since girls have already asked you out before, it is reasonable to think other girls can find you interesting and attractive as well. Especially considering the stigma against girls who ask guys out.
Feeling socially inept?
a) getting anywhere takes practice. All those people around you weren't born with fully developed social skills; they have gained them through persistent trial and error throughout their lives. You've gotta start somewhere, even if you're late entering the game.
b) some girls find social awkwardness charming, to some extent.
Life is short. Ask her out. And remember that others think about you way less than what you probably believe. Even if she says no, she might even admire your courage. Believe it or not, acting like you have balls is generally attractive to people who are attracted to people who have balls.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 06:56:23 AM
Quote from: Waffleman on December 31, 2013, 12:11:46 AM
This pretty princess has made some new music with the new guy in the band.

What do y'allses think? https://soundcloud.com/fabian-schmidt-10/no-cure

That was REAL nice.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 06:58:13 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on December 30, 2013, 10:25:25 PM
Look, I'm no hound dog...but I should like to know if I am surrounded by lady-folk.

Welll... I can't say much, but if that's important to you, watch your backspace. If you know what I mean.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 07:00:29 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on December 31, 2013, 02:31:05 AM
NOTHING IS AS BAD AS IT SEEMS.

BUT YOU'RE STILL FUCKED.


I just burned all of my trash and my christmas tree in the backyard.


True story.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on December 31, 2013, 07:00:37 AM
Quote from: Waffleman on December 31, 2013, 12:11:46 AM
This pretty princess has made some new music with the new guy in the band.

What do y'allses think? https://soundcloud.com/fabian-schmidt-10/no-cure

Listening to now.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on December 31, 2013, 07:02:06 AM
I'm less than a minute in and it's gorgeous.

Damn dude.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 07:04:29 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on December 30, 2013, 10:27:54 PM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on December 30, 2013, 10:25:25 PM
Look, I'm no hound dog...but I should like to know if I am surrounded by lady-folk.

I am an angry Black woman.

And a beautiful fairy princess.  I have proof of this on Youtube.

This is totally undeniable.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 07:05:54 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on December 30, 2013, 10:46:17 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on December 30, 2013, 09:07:01 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on December 30, 2013, 07:55:09 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on December 30, 2013, 07:50:10 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on December 30, 2013, 07:48:43 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on December 30, 2013, 06:36:24 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 30, 2013, 06:32:23 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on December 30, 2013, 05:37:44 PM
Board is empty again today.  Except for Obadai Grallspex or whatever his name is, and LuciferX explaining why woo > physics, etc.

So I'm going to go find something offline to do.

Sorry.  Lunch with Mrs LMNO, and then I had to revisit some of the LessWrong quantum physics sequence, because of that damn science fiction thread.

No worries.  I assume you're busy during the day, these days.  Cain's got shit on his plate, and Nigel is busier than hell.

Everyone else, though, has fucked off to Facebook to share and Like, because they care.  Most people won't bother to share or repost, you know.  It's a well-known fact.

I checked in here briefly, then I fucked off to facebook to make sure one of my groups wasn't getting infested with INTUITIVE PAGAN, then I came back.

Bring the "intuitive pagans" here.   :lulz:

I've never heard that term, but I already know what it means:  Even the ridiculous forms of neo-paganism thrown off in favor of flat-out, unadorned wish-fulfillment fantasy.

Please yes do. I am ever so interested in hearing what enlightenment my intuitive brothers and sisters bring to the butcher table. Oh my yes.

This just in : My newer-than-new boss just fired 2/3 rds of the staff.  :lulz: :horrormirth: :lulz: :horrormirth: I am closing forever. Hehehehe. HAHAHAHAA.

Your place of work is an ongoing trainwreck that never fails to amaze.

Did they at least get rid of that one shitty, lazy coworker who lies? Or is she long gone?

That was the last manager. She quit. The new-new manager is firing pretty much everyone else. Except me and one other guy. Problem? Hasn't hired anyone. :P

I feel like this is a grand opportunity to make things happen?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 07:13:45 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on December 31, 2013, 04:38:25 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on December 29, 2013, 05:07:52 PM
So I have a sort of dilemma.

I mean, not REALLY, but let's just pretend that somehow I have some kind of say in the matter.

There's my accountant. In Baltimore. Who I have been kind of in love with for like 20 years. I would like him to move back to Portland, no idea if that's going to actually ever happen. Pipe dreams and wishful thinking, right?

And then there's this artist who I have had kind of a minor recurring crush on for the last 5-ish years. Who owns a home in St. Johns and is really into dogs and gardening, and who gave me a fantastically panty-moistening hug last night. With his absurd, perfect body OMG how does he even do that.

I think artist guy likes me and he is single again, having finally broken up with his last lady who was basically superhumanly awesome and totally intimidating. But he's also suuuper monogamous and if I go there, that's IT. Any extracurricular interests go into shutdown, goodbye accountant.

Actually this is not even really a dilemma because I'm too chickenshit to do anything about it. Like if I was a player I would be all "hey artist, know how you wanted to come to the coast but there's no more room at the house? Well you can share my bed" but I'm not actually ever going to say that.

Well, could you see yourself spending the rest of your life with him and enjoying it? If so, take the chance. If not, then don't. The extracurricular is a draw, but if the intramural outweighs it, intramural.

To put it into my experience, Villager chased after me for a couple of years, and I resisted it because I wanted to not be tied down. Now I can't imagine life without her. And thing was, I could, when she was chasing me, see myself marrying her, and I think that's why I was so resistant. If that makes sense.

How could I see myself spending the rest of my life with anyone I don't really know and enjoying it? That question is hilarious, really. Who could I spend two hours with and know that? I could as easily say that I could see myself spending the rest of my life with Waffle Iron, because I like his music.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 07:18:19 AM
Although having said that, this music is pure experiential sweet.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on December 31, 2013, 07:22:25 AM
Fair, though, that said, I would totally Waffle Iron's roommate forever if he lived in Boston, or I around Olso.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on December 31, 2013, 07:28:46 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on December 31, 2013, 07:18:19 AM
Although having said that, this music is pure experiential sweet.

That's a saner reason than the reasons a lot of people have for committing.  :lol:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 07:29:24 AM
I'd fly there to hit that.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on December 31, 2013, 07:31:30 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on December 31, 2013, 04:42:39 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on December 29, 2013, 06:03:08 PM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on December 29, 2013, 05:49:07 PM
Yeah, I hear ya. I've never in my life asked a girl out. If I hadn't been somewhat attractive and interesting I would be a forever alone virgin. But eventually, roughly after highschool, the girls stopped asking me out and I've been alone ever since, more or less. And frankly that sucks, but I just don't have the social skills to make something happen. What are ya gonna do, though?

"Go ask a girl out."

The penalty for failure is a "no", which leaves you where you started, not further back.

This. Get a no, move on. That's roughly how high school works except with intense bouts of hormonal ennui.

More THIS.
Ask. Maybe get shot down - so what? Everybody does. Do not push, do not PUA. Ask somebody else. Repeat until it works.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on December 31, 2013, 07:33:10 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on December 31, 2013, 07:29:24 AM
I'd fly there to hit that.

Waffles is one of those rare guys that you want to grab by the lapels and shout in his face, "BE MY FRIEND DAMMIT" and his response is "I already am. Also, don't grab me, I might have to fuck your shit up."
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 07:33:58 AM
 Yeah ok as romanced as I am by the music, which is pretty amazing, i guess if michael made a move here that was convincing I would go for that.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on December 31, 2013, 07:35:17 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on December 31, 2013, 07:31:30 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on December 31, 2013, 04:42:39 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on December 29, 2013, 06:03:08 PM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on December 29, 2013, 05:49:07 PM
Yeah, I hear ya. I've never in my life asked a girl out. If I hadn't been somewhat attractive and interesting I would be a forever alone virgin. But eventually, roughly after highschool, the girls stopped asking me out and I've been alone ever since, more or less. And frankly that sucks, but I just don't have the social skills to make something happen. What are ya gonna do, though?

"Go ask a girl out."

The penalty for failure is a "no", which leaves you where you started, not further back.

This. Get a no, move on. That's roughly how high school works except with intense bouts of hormonal ennui.

More THIS.
Ask. Maybe get shot down - so what? Everybody does. Do not push, do not PUA. Ask somebody else. Repeat until it works.

Worked for Gene Simmons. Well that and ridiculous amounts of money. And the tongue. I don't doubt that that helped.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 07:38:38 AM
I don't really know what question im being asked anymore.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on December 31, 2013, 07:40:24 AM
 . . . my text is deleting itself as I type again. Which might have something to do with the insta-killer-headache and numb appendages. Forget whatever I was going to bitch about. Bed time.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on December 31, 2013, 07:43:27 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on December 31, 2013, 07:38:38 AM
I don't really know what question im being asked anymore.

Not sure if I'm asking a question anymore.

I think we drifted in various ways. Anyway, :flips coing: :heads:

Go with your head.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 07:49:41 AM
I think that the only thing that makes sense right now is going to bed, probably.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on December 31, 2013, 08:01:25 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on December 31, 2013, 07:49:41 AM
I think that the only thing that makes sense right now is going to bed, probably.

Errr. Yep. I'm a bit surprised by the time, to be honest.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on December 31, 2013, 08:09:00 AM
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Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on December 31, 2013, 08:10:06 AM
Hey Fred, how goes?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on December 31, 2013, 08:13:37 AM
Just bored on the internets. How are you?

(http://www.netanimations.net/biped-cat_techno-091029.gif)
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on December 31, 2013, 08:17:00 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on December 31, 2013, 08:13:37 AM
Just bored on the internets. How are you?

(http://www.netanimations.net/biped-cat_techno-091029.gif)

Well. At the noticeably tired point. Which is good. And, admittedly, inebriated. So I bid you good night, but hope you stick around for a while.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: LMNO on December 31, 2013, 01:06:03 PM
Fred?

Fred?


FRED!






Hi.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on December 31, 2013, 03:26:16 PM
Accidentally ate some beef last night.

As a result, I got an hour and fifteen minutes sleep, as the horrible intestinal hurricane wracked me from the neck down.  Seriously, I had fucking gas in my upper arms.  Then, this morning, the world fell outta my ass.

The reason I mention this is because I am definitely not up to adding a chapter today, unless you want it to read like James Joyce on a bag of bad crank.

But I will put one up tomorrow, I promise.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: LMNO on December 31, 2013, 03:28:26 PM
Since when were you allergic to beef?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on December 31, 2013, 03:34:55 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 31, 2013, 03:28:26 PM
Since when were you allergic to beef?

Not allergic, intolerant.  Since I quit read meat for medical reasons about 36 months ago.  Apparently there is a portion of the population that - once they quit - cannot go back to red meat.

In other news, I finally blackmailed Henry into giving me access to FB from work, so I can go join everyone from PD.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: LMNO on December 31, 2013, 03:36:04 PM
There goes the neighborhood...
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on December 31, 2013, 03:38:43 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 31, 2013, 03:36:04 PM
There goes the neighborhood...

Well, I got sick of being all by myself 90% of the time here.  So I guess I'm gonna go join the zombie horde that used to be PD.

Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: LMNO on December 31, 2013, 03:46:45 PM
It's more awful than it looks.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on December 31, 2013, 03:51:02 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 31, 2013, 03:46:45 PM
It's more awful than it looks.

Yeah, I know. 

Posting in a morgue, or following all the zombies out into the street. 

I can't decide which is worse.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: LMNO on December 31, 2013, 03:57:08 PM
Wasn't too bad yesterday.  Actually had to do some research, and thinking.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on December 31, 2013, 03:58:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 31, 2013, 03:57:08 PM
Wasn't too bad yesterday.  Actually had to do some research, and thinking.

Yeah, for about an hour or so.

I'm not flouncing.  I'm just going to be spending more time THERE, because that's where most of the Discordians I know wound up.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Ben Shapiro on December 31, 2013, 04:00:19 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on December 31, 2013, 03:51:02 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 31, 2013, 03:46:45 PM
It's more awful than it looks.

Yeah, I know. 

Posting in a morgue, or following all the zombies out into the street. 

I can't decide which is worse.

Not being able to shit your pants.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on December 31, 2013, 04:38:55 PM
Either PD is slow as fuck, or my interbutts are fucked.  Either way, I'm gonna bail for a bit, because 3 minute load times are against God.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Cain on December 31, 2013, 04:48:04 PM
Could be a bit of both.  I got a three-second load here, which is noticeably slower than usual...but I'm also uploading to the Youtubes, which can slow load times as well.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on December 31, 2013, 04:52:55 PM
Quote from: Cain on December 31, 2013, 04:48:04 PM
Could be a bit of both.  I got a three-second load here, which is noticeably slower than usual...but I'm also uploading to the Youtubes, which can slow load times as well.

EVERYTHING is slow.  I think our network may be having problems.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 05:43:45 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on December 31, 2013, 03:26:16 PM
Accidentally ate some beef last night.

As a result, I got an hour and fifteen minutes sleep, as the horrible intestinal hurricane wracked me from the neck down.  Seriously, I had fucking gas in my upper arms.  Then, this morning, the world fell outta my ass.

The reason I mention this is because I am definitely not up to adding a chapter today, unless you want it to read like James Joyce on a bag of bad crank.

But I will put one up tomorrow, I promise.

All I ate yesterday was vindaloo and PBR.

This morning is special.

I gotta stop partying like a college kid. Even though staying up all night burning shit was fun.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Cain on December 31, 2013, 05:49:07 PM
My diet for the last week has consisted of turkey and leek pie (http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/turkey-recipes/turkey-and-sweet-leek-pie) (half the leek given in the recipe), Doritos, twiglets and Wasabi flavoured peanuts.

I feel great.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 05:51:10 PM
Load times are slow for me too.

In other news, I'm looking forward to spending today and tomorrow at the coast.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 05:51:34 PM
Quote from: Cain on December 31, 2013, 05:49:07 PM
My diet for the last week has consisted of turkey and leek pie (http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/turkey-recipes/turkey-and-sweet-leek-pie) (half the leek given in the recipe), Doritos, twiglets and Wasabi flavoured peanuts.

I feel great.

That sounds fantastic, actually. I'm envious.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: EK WAFFLR on December 31, 2013, 05:55:12 PM
Twid and Nigel, I love you guys.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 06:01:19 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on December 31, 2013, 05:55:12 PM
Twid and Nigel, I love you guys.

(http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/bouquet/t4428.gif)
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Cain on December 31, 2013, 06:02:37 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on December 31, 2013, 05:51:34 PM
Quote from: Cain on December 31, 2013, 05:49:07 PM
My diet for the last week has consisted of turkey and leek pie (http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/turkey-recipes/turkey-and-sweet-leek-pie) (half the leek given in the recipe), Doritos, twiglets and Wasabi flavoured peanuts.

I feel great.

That sounds fantastic, actually. I'm envious.

The pie is pretty awesome.  I fully recommend it, and I don't even like leek. 
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Ben Shapiro on December 31, 2013, 06:03:57 PM
Quote from: Cain on December 31, 2013, 06:02:37 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on December 31, 2013, 05:51:34 PM
Quote from: Cain on December 31, 2013, 05:49:07 PM
My diet for the last week has consisted of turkey and leek pie (http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/turkey-recipes/turkey-and-sweet-leek-pie) (half the leek given in the recipe), Doritos, twiglets and Wasabi flavoured peanuts.

I feel great.

That sounds fantastic, actually. I'm envious.

The pie is pretty awesome.  I fully recommend it, and I don't even like leek. 

Looks amazing.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 06:06:45 PM
Quote from: Cain on December 31, 2013, 06:02:37 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on December 31, 2013, 05:51:34 PM
Quote from: Cain on December 31, 2013, 05:49:07 PM
My diet for the last week has consisted of turkey and leek pie (http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/turkey-recipes/turkey-and-sweet-leek-pie) (half the leek given in the recipe), Doritos, twiglets and Wasabi flavoured peanuts.

I feel great.

That sounds fantastic, actually. I'm envious.

The pie is pretty awesome.  I fully recommend it, and I don't even like leek.

I want it.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: LMNO on December 31, 2013, 06:09:38 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on December 31, 2013, 05:43:45 PM
All I ate yesterday was vindaloo and PBR.

This morning is special.

I gotta stop partying like a college kid. Even though staying up all night burning shit was fun.

And now your morning also consisted of burning shit, I presume?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 31, 2013, 06:47:43 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 31, 2013, 06:09:38 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on December 31, 2013, 05:43:45 PM
All I ate yesterday was vindaloo and PBR.

This morning is special.

I gotta stop partying like a college kid. Even though staying up all night burning shit was fun.

And now your morning also consisted of burning shit, I presume?

It sure did!  :lol:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Salty on December 31, 2013, 06:48:42 PM
I hit a downswing after not drinking, taken care of housemate/landlord shit.
Yesterday and today are blech, tomorroe should be better.
More yoga.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on December 31, 2013, 07:11:01 PM
There's this phrase going through my head "Life is a totally meaningless misery . . . " and I can't remember where I heard it. I think it's from the old Beetlejuice cartoon or something. Or some Tim Burton thing. God damn hibernating ear worms.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: LMNO on December 31, 2013, 07:31:18 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on December 31, 2013, 07:11:01 PM
There's this phrase going through my head "Life is a totally meaningless misery . . . " and I can't remember where I heard it. I think it's from the old Beetlejuice cartoon or something. Or some Tim Burton thing. God damn hibernating ear worms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URzZX5XjygM


Also, THIS (http://justfuckinggoogleit.com).

Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Cain on December 31, 2013, 09:32:11 PM
Another video uploaded - and on New Year's Eve no less (it's either this, or go to the underage meat market otherwise known as The Only Local Club).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rev0LaSqDqk
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on December 31, 2013, 09:46:25 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 31, 2013, 07:31:18 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on December 31, 2013, 07:11:01 PM
There's this phrase going through my head "Life is a totally meaningless misery . . . " and I can't remember where I heard it. I think it's from the old Beetlejuice cartoon or something. Or some Tim Burton thing. God damn hibernating ear worms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URzZX5XjygM


Also, THIS (http://justfuckinggoogleit.com).

Sorry, LMNO. Didn't mean to piss you off.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: LMNO on December 31, 2013, 10:00:35 PM
Oh, I was just joking. I simply like linking to that.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Odibex Grallspice on December 31, 2013, 10:35:11 PM
So I haven't had anything to drink yet today and I feel wonderful! It's all spinning on it's axis, which is to say things are definitely turning around for me! But seriously, I'm hoping to quit(slowing down won't do, there is no slowing down).I figured I spend like $200 on gin a month and I've got some unpleasant financial news, I'm not sure how unpleasant yet, but I'm probably going to need that money for, uh, medical purposes.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on December 31, 2013, 10:46:15 PM
I am going to a pizza and board games party tonight because I am actually 12.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Odibex Grallspice on December 31, 2013, 11:23:47 PM
Want some Laffy Taffy?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 01, 2014, 12:04:33 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on December 31, 2013, 10:46:15 PM
I am going to a pizza and board games party tonight because I am actually 12.

Fred is like 19 by now.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Odibex Grallspice on January 01, 2014, 12:14:54 AM
What do the yellow squares below your name and text mean. I notice I've got three where Rog only has two, though he has way more posts than me.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 01, 2014, 12:16:55 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on January 01, 2014, 12:14:54 AM
What do the yellow squares below your name and text mean. I notice I've got three where Rog only has two, though he has way more posts than me.

You have to be a level 3 user to get the manual to that sort of thing.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Odibex Grallspice on January 01, 2014, 12:23:10 AM
Well, I can assume it doesn't signify what level user I am, 'cause that would be three.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 01, 2014, 12:23:50 AM
When I get this tired, I begin to think that I may not actually be the world's most likeable guy.

When I finally get some sleep, I will most likely keep believing this, but stop caring.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 01, 2014, 12:24:43 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on January 01, 2014, 12:23:10 AM
Well, I can assume it doesn't signify what level user I am, 'cause that would be three.

You aren't going to out-think the evil genius that is ECH, no matter how hard you try.  So concentrate on something easier, like the Grand Unified Theory or some shit.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 01, 2014, 12:54:51 AM
Spiced multt-berry punch, and tuna casserole done.  World of Warcraft TCG raid night will commence shortly. Prepare your anus 2014.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Suu on January 01, 2014, 03:32:08 AM
I am getting great joy out of bourbon this evening.

Me and Evan Williams. Yes. I know understand the magic of this beverage. It's making me relaxed and hate-filled at the same time. In fact, I'm fucking inspired.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 01, 2014, 03:52:29 AM
Pizza over, Guiness time.

One of my friends has given me the save the date for her wedding which is PIRATE THEMED and I'm expected to come IN COSTUME. Does this mean don't shower for a month before?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 01, 2014, 03:56:15 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 01, 2014, 12:04:33 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on December 31, 2013, 10:46:15 PM
I am going to a pizza and board games party tonight because I am actually 12.

Fred is like 19 by now.

26  :argh!:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 01, 2014, 04:55:56 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 01, 2014, 03:52:29 AM
Pizza over, Guiness time.

One of my friends has given me the save the date for her wedding which is PIRATE THEMED and I'm expected to come IN COSTUME. Does this mean don't shower for a month before?

Yes. And toss the toothbrush - pirate teeth (the few they have left, anyway) should be MOSSY.

Missed ya, Fred!
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 01, 2014, 05:44:21 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 01, 2014, 03:56:15 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 01, 2014, 12:04:33 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on December 31, 2013, 10:46:15 PM
I am going to a pizza and board games party tonight because I am actually 12.

Fred is like 19 by now.

26  :argh!:

No, because that would make me 45, and the universe wouldn't do that to me.

Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 01, 2014, 05:45:13 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 01, 2014, 03:52:29 AM
Pizza over, Guiness time.

One of my friends has given me the save the date for her wedding which is PIRATE THEMED and I'm expected to come IN COSTUME. Does this mean don't shower for a month before?

Also, lice.  Scurvy would be a nice touch.  Can you make it look like your jaw is rotting off?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 01, 2014, 05:52:37 AM
Lice are hard to see with the naked eye.
Nits and crabs, along with strategic and obvious scratching.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: minuspace on January 01, 2014, 10:05:36 AM
The parrot is also always a nice touch IMHO :link:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: LMNO on January 01, 2014, 06:10:43 PM
Fred is 26?


...






HOW THE FUCK LONG HAVE I BEEN ON PD.COM!?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 01, 2014, 06:18:23 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 01, 2014, 06:10:43 PM
Fred is 26?


...






HOW THE FUCK LONG HAVE I BEEN ON PD.COM!?

Apparently between 8 and 12 years?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 01, 2014, 07:07:50 PM
2014 smells a lot more like fire and burned tires than 2013 did. One of my neighbors had a bonfire in his driveway last night. I think he accidentally set his car on fire when they fed the fire a 12 pack of Shlitz. It all smells like warm, bad beer.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 01, 2014, 07:21:14 PM
If anyone is wondering what the new Open Bar title is in reference to, it's this:

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m689kx89md1qzqnxxo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 01, 2014, 07:33:34 PM
That is kind of adorable.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 01, 2014, 08:00:42 PM
Despite my deeply ingrained dislike for manga, Yotsuba is all kinds of adorable.

(http://25.media.tumblr.com/45fa30ae9dfeca7cc5f2eaa5c17ad03e/tumblr_mpurbc1QJk1rv0nn9o1_500.jpg)
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/01421cd6abdec1f039efa47ade25b682/tumblr_mpurbc1QJk1rv0nn9o2_500.jpg)
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/ff69ac187617849d9cdf004048f292d1/tumblr_mpurbc1QJk1rv0nn9o3_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: minuspace on January 01, 2014, 09:33:53 PM
 :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Odibex Grallspice on January 02, 2014, 01:59:09 AM
My enjoyment of that page was hindered by my trying to read it backwards.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 02, 2014, 02:45:13 AM
That's pretty damn cute.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 02, 2014, 02:50:57 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on December 31, 2013, 07:11:01 PM
There's this phrase going through my head "Life is a totally meaningless misery . . . " and I can't remember where I heard it. I think it's from the old Beetlejuice cartoon or something. Or some Tim Burton thing. God damn hibernating ear worms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoEezZD71sc
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 02, 2014, 02:52:08 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on January 01, 2014, 12:14:54 AM
What do the yellow squares below your name and text mean. I notice I've got three where Rog only has two, though he has way more posts than me.

You get squares???
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 02, 2014, 03:02:49 AM
I went to  my friend's house at the beach for my last night of full-out overindulgence before knuckling down for the new year.

Too much champagne

Too much bourbon

Special gingerbread

A whole crab

So many oysters. I don't know how many. Just a lot, like bottomless oysters. Oysters forever.

Truffle butter on everything.

Cigarettes.

I woke up feeling like I died this  morning, so I had a michelada and a bloody mary and coffee with irish cream in it, and some more gingerbread.

Perhaps predictably, this led to me needing Rude to pull over so I could puke on our way back over the mountains this afternoon.

I think I gained three pounds and I feel like shiiiiiiiiit

but it was really fun. And my dog behaved herself impeccably, despite being in a strange house with five other dogs.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 02, 2014, 03:04:52 AM
Tomorrow I am getting a Fitbit and a new phone, hiking the ridge, and previewing my books for next term. I want to lose ten pounds by the end of February.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Odibex Grallspice on January 02, 2014, 04:00:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 02, 2014, 02:52:08 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on January 01, 2014, 12:14:54 AM
What do the yellow squares below your name and text mean. I notice I've got three where Rog only has two, though he has way more posts than me.

You get squares???
Yuh, man. Squares. Little yellow squares, you got 'em too. It's an epidemic,
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 02, 2014, 04:02:27 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on January 02, 2014, 04:00:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 02, 2014, 02:52:08 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on January 01, 2014, 12:14:54 AM
What do the yellow squares below your name and text mean. I notice I've got three where Rog only has two, though he has way more posts than me.

You get squares???
Yuh, man. Squares. Little yellow squares, you got 'em too. It's an epidemic,

I have stars.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 02, 2014, 05:13:47 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on January 02, 2014, 04:00:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 02, 2014, 02:52:08 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on January 01, 2014, 12:14:54 AM
What do the yellow squares below your name and text mean. I notice I've got three where Rog only has two, though he has way more posts than me.

You get squares???
Yuh, man. Squares. Little yellow squares, you got 'em too. It's an epidemic,

Naw man. I have four stars, you have three.

What they mean? Only ECH knows for sure.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 02, 2014, 12:35:54 PM
Managed to get Civilization V and all the expansion packs for less than £10 in the sales.

I am pretty pleased with that.

Now, since I haven't really played the game since Civ III, this should be...interesting.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 02, 2014, 02:30:42 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 02, 2014, 12:35:54 PM
Managed to get Civilization V and all the expansion packs for less than £10 in the sales.

I am pretty pleased with that.

Now, since I haven't really played the game since Civ III, this should be...interesting.

Good choice. Civ V is probably my favorite of the series. I played II nonstop when I was a kid, but III and IV never really did it for me.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 02, 2014, 03:12:29 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 02, 2014, 03:04:52 AM
Tomorrow I am getting a Fitbit and a new phone, hiking the ridge, and previewing my books for next term. I want to lose ten pounds by the end of February.

I can link you a fitness app that tracks you calorie content, and you can also scan in products you buy. Very handy whenever I go to bar's.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 02, 2014, 03:47:25 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 02, 2014, 02:30:42 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 02, 2014, 12:35:54 PM
Managed to get Civilization V and all the expansion packs for less than £10 in the sales.

I am pretty pleased with that.

Now, since I haven't really played the game since Civ III, this should be...interesting.

Good choice. Civ V is probably my favorite of the series. I played II nonstop when I was a kid, but III and IV never really did it for me.
CIV V prevents unit stacking, you can only stack one military with one civilian at most. This greatly improves the tactical element. The AI players are a bit too incompetent and the higher dificulty levels just mean the comp keeps giving the AI's more and more free stuff. They tend to have 2 cities and at least 3 units in turn 4. This is impossible without cheating, the difficulty level descriptions say as much. Insanely addictive, as always.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 02, 2014, 05:21:57 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 02, 2014, 12:35:54 PM
Managed to get Civilization V and all the expansion packs for less than £10 in the sales.

I am pretty pleased with that.

Now, since I haven't really played the game since Civ III, this should be...interesting.

Kiss your life goodbye.   :lulz:

Load the whole fucking thing, play Pocatello.  That is all.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 02, 2014, 05:54:51 PM
Well, I've been playing for almost five hours now..it's fair to say I have no life.

I like the expanded focus on culture, religion and diplomacy, with win conditions for those.  I mean, we all know the real way to win is with nuclear hellfire and screaming Mongols riding war-ponies (or, alternative, the power of SPACE NERDS), but for those with delicate stomaches, the options are a good idea.

Civilization AI has never been good, the computer has always been a cheating bastard.  Still, once I get to grips with the game, I'll definitely give the Pocatello a go.  I've currently got a Greek game running, where I seem to have accidentally founded a religion.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 02, 2014, 05:56:36 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 02, 2014, 05:54:51 PM
Well, I've been playing for almost five hours now..it's fair to say I have no life.

I like the expanded focus on culture, religion and diplomacy, with win conditions for those.  I mean, we all know the real way to win is with nuclear hellfire and screaming Mongols riding war-ponies (or, alternative, the power of SPACE NERDS), but for those with delicate stomaches, the options are a good idea.

Civilization AI has never been good, the computer has always been a cheating bastard.  Still, once I get to grips with the game, I'll definitely give the Pocatello a go.  I've currently got a Greek game running, where I seem to have accidentally founded a religion.

Pocatello is busted.  Play him twice, and then go back to playing the Polish or something.  It adds a challenge.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 02, 2014, 06:08:47 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 02, 2014, 05:56:36 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 02, 2014, 05:54:51 PM
Well, I've been playing for almost five hours now..it's fair to say I have no life.

I like the expanded focus on culture, religion and diplomacy, with win conditions for those.  I mean, we all know the real way to win is with nuclear hellfire and screaming Mongols riding war-ponies (or, alternative, the power of SPACE NERDS), but for those with delicate stomaches, the options are a good idea.

Civilization AI has never been good, the computer has always been a cheating bastard.  Still, once I get to grips with the game, I'll definitely give the Pocatello a go.  I've currently got a Greek game running, where I seem to have accidentally founded a religion.

Pocatello is busted.  Play him twice, and then go back to playing the Polish or something.  It adds a challenge.
:argh!: He is not busted I am just exceptionally good with him!  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Sita on January 02, 2014, 06:12:24 PM
Today is Thursday. When did it become Thursday? I blinked and the week is gone already.
Tomorrow is shopping. Need some basics and some snacks for Saturday. That is if parents are coming over, haven't heard a definite on that yet.

New year means we also get screwed with new insurance. Hoping that the free insulin thing that husband was on will be returning. Freaking stuff is expensive.
Also our dental and vision better not suck because I'm sure I will be needing those this year.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 02, 2014, 06:12:49 PM
Quote from: :regret: on January 02, 2014, 06:08:47 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 02, 2014, 05:56:36 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 02, 2014, 05:54:51 PM
Well, I've been playing for almost five hours now..it's fair to say I have no life.

I like the expanded focus on culture, religion and diplomacy, with win conditions for those.  I mean, we all know the real way to win is with nuclear hellfire and screaming Mongols riding war-ponies (or, alternative, the power of SPACE NERDS), but for those with delicate stomaches, the options are a good idea.

Civilization AI has never been good, the computer has always been a cheating bastard.  Still, once I get to grips with the game, I'll definitely give the Pocatello a go.  I've currently got a Greek game running, where I seem to have accidentally founded a religion.

Pocatello is busted.  Play him twice, and then go back to playing the Polish or something.  It adds a challenge.
:argh!: He is not busted I am just exceptionally good with him!  :lulz:

BUSTED.

Cain:  When you play Pocatello, your pathfinder (which you get as your first unit) can pick the benefit of ruins.  Take "upgrade your unit" and see what happens.

That's just one tiny bit of the broken.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 02, 2014, 06:18:25 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 02, 2014, 06:12:49 PM
Quote from: :regret: on January 02, 2014, 06:08:47 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 02, 2014, 05:56:36 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 02, 2014, 05:54:51 PM
Well, I've been playing for almost five hours now..it's fair to say I have no life.

I like the expanded focus on culture, religion and diplomacy, with win conditions for those.  I mean, we all know the real way to win is with nuclear hellfire and screaming Mongols riding war-ponies (or, alternative, the power of SPACE NERDS), but for those with delicate stomaches, the options are a good idea.

Civilization AI has never been good, the computer has always been a cheating bastard.  Still, once I get to grips with the game, I'll definitely give the Pocatello a go.  I've currently got a Greek game running, where I seem to have accidentally founded a religion.

Pocatello is busted.  Play him twice, and then go back to playing the Polish or something.  It adds a challenge.
:argh!: He is not busted I am just exceptionally good with him!  :lulz:

BUSTED.

Cain:  When you play Pocatello, your pathfinder (which you get as your first unit) can pick the benefit of ruins.  Take "upgrade your unit" and see what happens.

That's just one tiny bit of the broken.
The Romans are quite powerful as well, since your Legions can build roads and fortresses. These guys are the masters of tactical use of armies and at least these units can be upgraded unlike the pathfinder. Alright, if you upgrade your pathfinder with ruins you can have 1 unit that keeps his skills, but long term, that is useless.
I do think Pocatello's "city starts with..." skill is a bit too much.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 02, 2014, 06:21:12 PM
Quote from: :regret: on January 02, 2014, 06:18:25 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 02, 2014, 06:12:49 PM
Quote from: :regret: on January 02, 2014, 06:08:47 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 02, 2014, 05:56:36 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 02, 2014, 05:54:51 PM
Well, I've been playing for almost five hours now..it's fair to say I have no life.

I like the expanded focus on culture, religion and diplomacy, with win conditions for those.  I mean, we all know the real way to win is with nuclear hellfire and screaming Mongols riding war-ponies (or, alternative, the power of SPACE NERDS), but for those with delicate stomaches, the options are a good idea.

Civilization AI has never been good, the computer has always been a cheating bastard.  Still, once I get to grips with the game, I'll definitely give the Pocatello a go.  I've currently got a Greek game running, where I seem to have accidentally founded a religion.

Pocatello is busted.  Play him twice, and then go back to playing the Polish or something.  It adds a challenge.
:argh!: He is not busted I am just exceptionally good with him!  :lulz:

BUSTED.

Cain:  When you play Pocatello, your pathfinder (which you get as your first unit) can pick the benefit of ruins.  Take "upgrade your unit" and see what happens.

That's just one tiny bit of the broken.
The Romans are quite powerful as well, since your Legions can build roads and fortresses. These guys are the masters of tactical use of armies and at least these units can be upgraded unlike the pathfinder. Alright, if you upgrade your pathfinder with ruins you can have 1 unit that keeps his skills, but long term, that is useless.
I do think Pocatello's "city starts with..." skill is a bit too much.

Absolutely disagree.  One gatling gun with increased movement that ignores terrain is the best fucking bandit buster ever.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 02, 2014, 06:22:58 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 02, 2014, 03:12:29 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 02, 2014, 03:04:52 AM
Tomorrow I am getting a Fitbit and a new phone, hiking the ridge, and previewing my books for next term. I want to lose ten pounds by the end of February.

I can link you a fitness app that tracks you calorie content, and you can also scan in products you buy. Very handy whenever I go to bar's.

Is it MyFitnessPal? I think that's the one Fitbit uses.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 02, 2014, 06:38:13 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 02, 2014, 06:22:58 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 02, 2014, 03:12:29 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 02, 2014, 03:04:52 AM
Tomorrow I am getting a Fitbit and a new phone, hiking the ridge, and previewing my books for next term. I want to lose ten pounds by the end of February.

I can link you a fitness app that tracks you calorie content, and you can also scan in products you buy. Very handy whenever I go to bar's.

Is it MyFitnessPal? I think that's the one Fitbit uses.

Yes! You can also create your recipes and know how much you consume with your from scratch products. Or if you ever decided fuck it I'm getting some fast food joint stuff you can keep track of the info.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 02, 2014, 07:02:12 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 02, 2014, 06:38:13 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 02, 2014, 06:22:58 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 02, 2014, 03:12:29 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 02, 2014, 03:04:52 AM
Tomorrow I am getting a Fitbit and a new phone, hiking the ridge, and previewing my books for next term. I want to lose ten pounds by the end of February.

I can link you a fitness app that tracks you calorie content, and you can also scan in products you buy. Very handy whenever I go to bar's.

Is it MyFitnessPal? I think that's the one Fitbit uses.

Yes! You can also create your recipes and know how much you consume with your from scratch products. Or if you ever decided fuck it I'm getting some fast food joint stuff you can keep track of the info.

Yeah, my friends use it and it seems awesome!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Freeky on January 02, 2014, 09:05:17 PM
I MADED $50!  CASH, EVEN!  I CAN PAY A BILL!  EXCITEMENT! 


HI FRED, ALSO! 
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Odibex Grallspice on January 02, 2014, 09:12:31 PM
That's Texas money!
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Verbal Mike on January 02, 2014, 09:25:00 PM
OMG FRED! HULLOW!

Another Civ V protip: Venice is fucking awesome. Oh my god is it awesome. I played Venice and then I bought the everything.
Like one time, when I had just like two cities and France was half a continent of scary, I bought up the city-state next to Paris, then later did a trade mission, then I just bought an army and took Paris and restored peace because peace is good for trade. Later I had to take some more of Napoleon's toys, but you know, nbd.
Seriously, Venice is kinda broken.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Freeky on January 02, 2014, 09:26:52 PM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on January 02, 2014, 09:12:31 PM
That's Texas money!

More like, is money that a struggling small business can pay.  BUT OMG. 

:noodledance:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Odibex Grallspice on January 02, 2014, 09:27:22 PM
I played one of the Civ games on the original PS. Never could "win" though if that's even possible.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 02, 2014, 09:34:55 PM
I wish they would make a new Alpha Centauri. The elevation and weather simulation was great in that sequel to CIV. You also got to design your own units. Annoying UI though.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 02, 2014, 09:45:35 PM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 01, 2014, 03:52:29 AM
Pizza over, Guiness time.

One of my friends has given me the save the date for her wedding which is PIRATE THEMED and I'm expected to come IN COSTUME. Does this mean don't shower for a month before?

I think it means you show up unannounced, steal all of the booze and wedding gifts, and leave with the bridesmaids.

Also, hey Fred! how's things?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 03, 2014, 01:13:04 AM
Today's mission of upgrading my phone and buying a Fitbit has been accomplished. I also found a chest of drawers on my way to the store, which I snagged for the new roomies.

I am apparently hyper as fuck, having already taken about 3000 steps and 8 flights of stairs in about three hours, and that's without going for any walks or doing anything interesting. I don't think meeting the 10,000 step a day fitness goal is probably going to be too tough.

I also went to accomplish my other goal for today, which is starting on the genetics chapter of my bio textbook just to get a jump on things, and realized that I read it last term for shits and giggles.

I also made an appointment for a flu shot. Yay flu shot! I'm hearing reports that H1N1 has officially reached Portland this season.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 03, 2014, 01:15:36 AM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 02, 2014, 09:45:35 PM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 01, 2014, 03:52:29 AM
Pizza over, Guiness time.

One of my friends has given me the save the date for her wedding which is PIRATE THEMED and I'm expected to come IN COSTUME. Does this mean don't shower for a month before?

I think it means you show up unannounced, steal all of the booze and wedding gifts, and leave with the bridesmaids.

Also, hey Fred! how's things?

This has to be what it means.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 03, 2014, 02:14:36 AM
I got a hot date with D.H.  Lawrence and James Brown tonight.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 03, 2014, 03:17:59 AM
YOU SAY IT.

YOU SAY IT TO MY FUCKING FACE.

SAY A SUPER GAY BABY PROGENATED BY D.H. LAWRENCE AND CHARLES BUKOWSKI WOULD NOT BE A LITERARY GENUIS.

SAY IT, FUCKER.

I WILL KILL YOU.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 03, 2014, 03:19:06 AM
What if the baby was straight?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Odibex Grallspice on January 03, 2014, 03:25:13 AM
How did James Brown turn into Bukowski?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 03, 2014, 03:32:10 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 03, 2014, 03:19:06 AM
What if the baby was straight?

NO.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 03, 2014, 03:36:00 AM
THAT WOULD IMPLY BUKOWSKI'S SPERM IS STRONGER.

I HAVE MY DOUBTS.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Odibex Grallspice on January 03, 2014, 03:37:28 AM
Bukowski probably can't even get it up.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 03, 2014, 03:38:25 AM
DOUBTFUL, HE WAS MARRIED SOME TIME.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 03, 2014, 03:38:55 AM
WOMEN LIKE GETTING LAID.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Odibex Grallspice on January 03, 2014, 03:39:49 AM
THAT'S NEWS TO ME MY GF HATED IT
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 03, 2014, 03:41:05 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on January 03, 2014, 03:39:49 AM
THAT'S NEWS TO ME MY GF HATED IT


DOIN IT WRONG.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Odibex Grallspice on January 03, 2014, 03:46:29 AM
Peg goes in the hole. What could go wrong?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 03, 2014, 03:47:20 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on January 03, 2014, 03:46:29 AM
Peg goes in the hole. What could go wrong?

IF YOU HAVE TO ASK...
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 03, 2014, 04:18:43 AM
I am looking forward to someday having regular sex again.

Preferably with, y'know, my accountant.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 03, 2014, 04:22:50 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 03, 2014, 04:18:43 AM
I am looking forward to someday having regular sex again.

Preferably with, y'know, my accountant.


GOTTA MAKE THAT...WAIT, NO.

NOOOOOOOOO.

ME TOO, THOUGH I THINK MY LIFE WOULD IMPROVE WITH LESS SEXUAL DESIRE.

Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 03, 2014, 05:56:40 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 02, 2014, 04:02:27 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on January 02, 2014, 04:00:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 02, 2014, 02:52:08 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on January 01, 2014, 12:14:54 AM
What do the yellow squares below your name and text mean. I notice I've got three where Rog only has two, though he has way more posts than me.

You get squares???
Yuh, man. Squares. Little yellow squares, you got 'em too. It's an epidemic,

I have stars.

I do too.
They have none upon thars.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 03, 2014, 06:17:37 AM
See you guys on Saturday.  I'll be traveling all day tomorrow.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 03, 2014, 06:25:17 AM
Hope Germany can handle the Tucson.  :lol: Enjoy!
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on January 03, 2014, 06:25:36 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 03, 2014, 05:56:40 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 02, 2014, 04:02:27 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on January 02, 2014, 04:00:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 02, 2014, 02:52:08 AM
Quote from: Odibex Grallspice on January 01, 2014, 12:14:54 AM
What do the yellow squares below your name and text mean. I notice I've got three where Rog only has two, though he has way more posts than me.

You get squares???
Yuh, man. Squares. Little yellow squares, you got 'em too. It's an epidemic,

I have stars.

I do too.
They have none upon thars.

I have two squares and one star, I just figured it was an approximation of how long you've been here and/or how many posts you have.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on January 03, 2014, 06:27:04 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 03, 2014, 06:17:37 AM
See you guys on Saturday.  I'll be traveling all day tomorrow.


May butts be upon you.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 03, 2014, 07:19:49 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 03, 2014, 06:17:37 AM
See you guys on Saturday.  I'll be traveling all day tomorrow.

Safe travels, Roger. Try not to accidentally anyone in the air.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 03, 2014, 09:18:32 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 03, 2014, 06:17:37 AM
See you guys on Saturday.  I'll be traveling all day tomorrow.

GOOD TRAVELS ROGER!!!!
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Verbal Mike on January 03, 2014, 10:55:01 AM
PLEASE DONT DEMOLISH ALL OF GERMANY ROGER I STILL HAVE SOME STUFF THERE.

SRSLY. DO WHATEVER YOU WANT WITH THE WEST BUT LEAVE THE EAST INTACT PLEASE.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 03, 2014, 11:36:05 AM
Ahoy, Have I missed anything good?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 03, 2014, 01:15:38 PM
Mass Effect 1+2 soundtracks = the best.  Virmire Ride (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDak4Y3kXAA), Techno Madness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjDt3N9H210) and Suicide Mission (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTsD2FjmLsw) are probably some of the best musical scores for any video game ever made.

Meanwhile, whoever is responsible for the aborted atrocity that is ME3's music should be thrown out the airlock.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Sita on January 03, 2014, 02:42:53 PM
Fuck this walking from the store carrying 2 gallons of milk, a bag of cat food, a bag of cat litter (because like hell am i going to try and carry one of those tubs) and a 2-liter of soda (plus a couple other things, but they are very light and not related to the rant).

My shoulders ache, my arms feel like pudding and it's taken a full 5 minutes to get my breath under control. When tax money comes in I'm investing in one of those foldable shopping carts.

Or maybe just make multiple trips, which is what I really should've done but didn't feel like dealing with people any longer than I had to today.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 03, 2014, 06:11:40 PM
Quote from: Sita on January 03, 2014, 02:42:53 PM
Fuck this walking from the store carrying 2 gallons of milk, a bag of cat food, a bag of cat litter (because like hell am i going to try and carry one of those tubs) and a 2-liter of soda (plus a couple other things, but they are very light and not related to the rant).

My shoulders ache, my arms feel like pudding and it's taken a full 5 minutes to get my breath under control. When tax money comes in I'm investing in one of those foldable shopping carts.

Or maybe just make multiple trips, which is what I really should've done but didn't feel like dealing with people any longer than I had to today.

Radio flyer!

I never wanna make multiple trips if I am walking to a store, either. I will load up a backpack or something. Or take a wagon or hand truck. But I don't try to carry everything. That way lies madness. And people trying to run you off the road for fun, down here.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 03, 2014, 06:43:14 PM
I don't know how close your store is but I have found the daily trip, and sometimes twice daily trips, to be the easiest for me. That way I never have to carry large quantities of anything. But my neighborhood grocery stores are like 1/4 mile away and we have sidewalks.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: trippinprincezz13 on January 03, 2014, 06:47:20 PM
Wow, the past week (weeks?) has flown by. Had the best New Year's Eve in a while (except for a sad note) at a lake house on Lake Winnipesaukee. Just my boyfriend and his brothers and their girlfriends and one other close family friend of theirs and his girlfriend (plus an extra childhood friend). No bars, no driving, no obnoxiously drunk people. Despite being up until past 4, boyfriend and I able to get up early and cook breakfast for everyone. Then on the way home, stopped at a local packie and brought home much fancy beer. (You know, Budweiser Select)

On a sad note, before heading to said NYE party, our pet mouse did in front of us. Hadn't seen him when I first got home and changed his water. Went to get him cheese and by the time I got back to the room, he was lying on his side...dying. Last until my boyfriend got home from work at least. Most people don't care about mice, but he was still our pet for the past 7-ish years since we caught him in our old apartment. So, it sucks  :sad:   Still have our cat and snake, and we knew this was coming eventually, but I've grown accustomed to seeing him come out to greet me/beg for food everyday, so, yea.

Hello again.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 03, 2014, 06:47:59 PM
THIS PLACE IS A MORGUE AND YOU PEOPLE ARE NO FUN AT ALL I'M GONNA GO FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO. FACEBOOK IS MORE FUN THAN THIS STALE CESSPOOL OF F5ING SPECTATORS, I'M OUTTA HERE.



J/K, I just got back from getting a flu shot and haven't really read the board yet today. I just felt like something was missing from my morning.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 03, 2014, 06:49:45 PM
Hi!  It's been pretty slow all day, but shit happens.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 03, 2014, 06:55:14 PM
I dunno if you guys could tell but hit the booze a little last night.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: minuspace on January 03, 2014, 06:55:59 PM
Zykam, zinc compounds and some diuretics...  Could not manage that after two boxes of oscillo and some airborne put me back like a kick in the sack...  Prefrontal cortex and frontal lobes currently occupied fighting flying decoys of systemic tension...  Will that lack of Zycam also result in loss? :?
(recommended at checkout this morning, anyone think that stuff works?)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 03, 2014, 06:58:14 PM
Tonigt is the last night away. When I go home I wont have to share my kids room anymore.

Yay!
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 03, 2014, 07:01:38 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 03, 2014, 01:13:04 AM
Today's mission of upgrading my phone and buying a Fitbit has been accomplished. I also found a chest of drawers on my way to the store, which I snagged for the new roomies.

I am apparently hyper as fuck, having already taken about 3000 steps and 8 flights of stairs in about three hours, and that's without going for any walks or doing anything interesting. I don't think meeting the 10,000 step a day fitness goal is probably going to be too tough.

I also went to accomplish my other goal for today, which is starting on the genetics chapter of my bio textbook just to get a jump on things, and realized that I read it last term for shits and giggles.

I also made an appointment for a flu shot. Yay flu shot! I'm hearing reports that H1N1 has officially reached Portland this season.

I woke up this morning to find that H1N1 seems to have officially reached my face.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: minuspace on January 03, 2014, 07:05:02 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 03, 2014, 07:01:38 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 03, 2014, 01:13:04 AM
Today's mission of upgrading my phone and buying a Fitbit has been accomplished. I also found a chest of drawers on my way to the store, which I snagged for the new roomies.

I am apparently hyper as fuck, having already taken about 3000 steps and 8 flights of stairs in about three hours, and that's without going for any walks or doing anything interesting. I don't think meeting the 10,000 step a day fitness goal is probably going to be too tough.

I also went to accomplish my other goal for today, which is starting on the genetics chapter of my bio textbook just to get a jump on things, and realized that I read it last term for shits and giggles.

I also made an appointment for a flu shot. Yay flu shot! I'm hearing reports that H1N1 has officially reached Portland this season.

I woke up this morning to find that H1N1 seems to have officially reached my face.
And is being ejected through my seven facial orifices to way beyond the planets, sun and all the other orphan stars.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 03, 2014, 07:05:38 PM
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on January 03, 2014, 06:47:20 PM
Wow, the past week (weeks?) has flown by. Had the best New Year's Eve in a while (except for a sad note) at a lake house on Lake Winnipesaukee. Just my boyfriend and his brothers and their girlfriends and one other close family friend of theirs and his girlfriend (plus an extra childhood friend). No bars, no driving, no obnoxiously drunk people. Despite being up until past 4, boyfriend and I able to get up early and cook breakfast for everyone. Then on the way home, stopped at a local packie and brought home much fancy beer. (You know, Budweiser Select)

On a sad note, before heading to said NYE party, our pet mouse did in front of us. Hadn't seen him when I first got home and changed his water. Went to get him cheese and by the time I got back to the room, he was lying on his side...dying. Last until my boyfriend got home from work at least. Most people don't care about mice, but he was still our pet for the past 7-ish years since we caught him in our old apartment. So, it sucks  :sad:   Still have our cat and snake, and we knew this was coming eventually, but I've grown accustomed to seeing him come out to greet me/beg for food everyday, so, yea.

Hello again.

Holy shit, you had a 7 year old mouse?!? That's GOTTA be a record. I've never had a rat make it past 4.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: minuspace on January 03, 2014, 07:11:30 PM
Eh, you said the mouse was wearing a lab coat, fascinating, and it communicated desires, wants and needs, yes, go on...
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 03, 2014, 07:18:12 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 03, 2014, 06:47:59 PM
THIS PLACE IS A MORGUE AND YOU PEOPLE ARE NO FUN AT ALL I'M GONNA GO FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO. FACEBOOK IS MORE FUN THAN THIS STALE CESSPOOL OF F5ING SPECTATORS, I'M OUTTA HERE.



J/K, I just got back from getting a flu shot and haven't really read the board yet today. I just felt like something was missing from my morning.

You're not due to flounce until February.

There IS a schedule you know.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 03, 2014, 07:23:55 PM
Did you sing "Circle of Life" as you fed it to your snake?



OK, too soon.  I apologize.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: trippinprincezz13 on January 03, 2014, 08:42:15 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 03, 2014, 07:05:38 PM
Holy shit, you had a 7 year old mouse?!? That's GOTTA be a record. I've never had a rat make it past 4.

6 1/2 is probably a bit more accurate, but I rounded up a bit. Still, I am amazed he lived this long. About 6 months ago or so, there was a period where he wasn't coming out as much, seemed a bit disoriented when he did and seemed to have some sort of his growth on his underbelly. Then, suddenly, that was gone and he was acting completely normal again. I've read that your average field mouse lives 1-2 if they're lucky, 3-4 if they're really lucky. So yea, we knew he was living on borrowed time, but we briefly wondered if he was Mr. Jingles. During the period that we had him, one of our friends had caught one and gave it to us. We put it in a separate cage, close to Mousie's (creative, I know), but it was dead within a month. I could go on, but much like people gushing about their kids, people gushing about their pets wears thin.

Our former roommate who was at NYE raised a toast to Mousie, so all is well. Though it'll probably still take some getting used to/
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 03, 2014, 07:23:55 PM
Did you sing "Circle of Life" as you fed it to your snake?



OK, too soon.  I apologize.
:lol: Same kid that raised the toast also asked that question. It was very briefly debated (in a gallows-humory sort of way), but decided against just as fast. The "burial" was still none to fancy, seeing as the ground is frozen.

Hell, I feel bad for the rats that we feed to the snake sometimes. We just don't typically have them long enough to form much of a bond
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 03, 2014, 08:45:41 PM
Some further thoughts on Civ V:

- intelligence is not as fun anymore.  I want to be able to plant a nuke in an enemy city.  Yes, it's only 1550 AD and I've only just figured out frigates, but that's not the point.  Civ II with Communism was awesome, because you could produce legions of spy units, and have them gang up on an enemy city until one of them succeeded.

- Social Policies are a good replacement for Ideology/Regime.  My only quibble is their relation to culture, and exponential increase in value over the course of the game.  It'd be better if they were the result of some mixture of culture, faith, technology and military prowess.

- Ranged units are so overpowered in the early game.  I know that's why composite bowmen cost more than spearmen etc but still, they should probably cost even more.  And ranged naval units...oh my god.

- Non-transferrable production is annoying, especially with the Wonders.  I've had no less than five projects scuppered by other civilizations, and gotten a pittance of gold as compensation.

- Exploration is utterly gimped on an Archipegalo map until you get caravels.  Island hopping only works until you reach the first big stretch of ocean.

- I briefly became a Doge.  I laffed.

(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/581/296/c09.jpg)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 03, 2014, 08:57:18 PM
I've been watching shit storms unfold on Ravelry, sleeping, and reading up about a guy with two dicks. It is almost time for work. Twee. I am off tomorrow and will probably spend it sleeping, eating Advil like candy, and playing with yarn.

I live an adventuresome life, yo.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Odibex Grallspice on January 03, 2014, 09:07:43 PM
Seeing my mum tomorrow. We play pool, then watch an episode of the Walking Dead and then play scrabble. Since pa died it's been not the same.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 03, 2014, 10:50:19 PM
Quote from: Poleris on January 03, 2014, 06:55:14 PM
I dunno if you guys could tell but hit the booze a little last night.

I suspected, a little bit.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 03, 2014, 10:54:23 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 03, 2014, 07:05:38 PM
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on January 03, 2014, 06:47:20 PM
Wow, the past week (weeks?) has flown by. Had the best New Year's Eve in a while (except for a sad note) at a lake house on Lake Winnipesaukee. Just my boyfriend and his brothers and their girlfriends and one other close family friend of theirs and his girlfriend (plus an extra childhood friend). No bars, no driving, no obnoxiously drunk people. Despite being up until past 4, boyfriend and I able to get up early and cook breakfast for everyone. Then on the way home, stopped at a local packie and brought home much fancy beer. (You know, Budweiser Select)

On a sad note, before heading to said NYE party, our pet mouse did in front of us. Hadn't seen him when I first got home and changed his water. Went to get him cheese and by the time I got back to the room, he was lying on his side...dying. Last until my boyfriend got home from work at least. Most people don't care about mice, but he was still our pet for the past 7-ish years since we caught him in our old apartment. So, it sucks  :sad:   Still have our cat and snake, and we knew this was coming eventually, but I've grown accustomed to seeing him come out to greet me/beg for food everyday, so, yea.

Hello again.

Holy shit, you had a 7 year old mouse?!? That's GOTTA be a record. I've never had a rat make it past 4.

Sounds like it was a wild-type, which means it didn't have all the weird inbreeding problems that often kill domesticated strains.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 03, 2014, 11:10:35 PM
So I made my 10,000 steps, 5 miles, and 30 minutes of aerobic activity before 3pm today, which informs me that I am nowhere near as sedentary as I thought I was. Plus I've climbed twice the number of flights of stairs as were my "goal", and since my house is made mostly of stairs I will most likely triple it before bed. I also realized that part of the reason I've been drinking so much on break is simply because I'm only eating about half the calories I need to maintain my squirrel-like activity rate, and my body's like "Yeah? FUCK THAT" and as soon as my guard is down a bit it wants to guzzle all the delicious beer calories it can get. So I need to eat more.

I also learned that I slept for approximately 5 hours and 55 minutes last night, waking up twice and spending 45 minutes "restless".

I love my Fitbit. It's awesome.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: minuspace on January 04, 2014, 07:35:12 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 03, 2014, 11:10:35 PM
So I made my 10,000 steps, 5 miles, and 30 minutes of aerobic activity before 3pm today, which informs me that I am nowhere near as sedentary as I thought I was. Plus I've climbed twice the number of flights of stairs as were my "goal", and since my house is made mostly of stairs I will most likely triple it before bed. I also realized that part of the reason I've been drinking so much on break is simply because I'm only eating about half the calories I need to maintain my squirrel-like activity rate, and my body's like "Yeah? FUCK THAT" and as soon as my guard is down a bit it wants to guzzle all the delicious beer calories it can get. So I need to eat more.

I also learned that I slept for approximately 5 hours and 55 minutes last night, waking up twice and spending 45 minutes "restless".

I love my Fitbit. It's awesome.

Beer is awesome because in addition to calories, it also provides me with a sense of hydration :lulz:

And...  and...  I'm too well darn bred domesticated to patiently negotiate that last part like a proper gentleman  :lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 04, 2014, 07:42:05 AM
Hey hey hey! I was talking about my new fitness tracker!  :lol:

http://www.fitbit.com/start
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 04, 2014, 07:47:11 AM
I have seen a company, cant remember which, try and fail to sell those kinds of things at att. It was super flimsy ajd did not do what it said on the label.

Glad to see somebody has managed it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 04, 2014, 03:21:04 PM
Bleh, writing about Iraq is utterly depressing.  And just reminds me that I really wish in the existence of hell, since it's about the only fit punishment for unleashing that kind of exercise in mass bloodletting on a country. 

That I strongly suspect Saudi Arabia are helping stage Anbar Awakening 2: Electric Boogaloo as a means to collapse the Iraqi state does not improve my mood any.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 04, 2014, 05:45:07 PM
Good thing it all paid for itself with all that oil money.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 04, 2014, 08:15:33 PM
Quote from: Poleris on January 04, 2014, 07:47:11 AM
I have seen a company, cant remember which, try and fail to sell those kinds of things at att. It was super flimsy ajd did not do what it said on the label.

Glad to see somebody has managed it.

The early fitness monitors were OK, but maybe not as smoothly integrated or as simple to use. Fitbit is pretty cool. The one thing I wish it had was a heart rate monitor, but then it would cost more.

From what I hear, we can expect heart rate monitors to show up on these this fall (at about $100 more) and by the end of 2015 they'll be on all of them. Hopefully breathing rate monitors will follow shortly.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 04, 2014, 08:20:52 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 04, 2014, 08:15:33 PM
Quote from: Poleris on January 04, 2014, 07:47:11 AM
I have seen a company, cant remember which, try and fail to sell those kinds of things at att. It was super flimsy ajd did not do what it said on the label.

Glad to see somebody has managed it.

The early fitness monitors were OK, but maybe not as smoothly integrated or as simple to use. Fitbit is pretty cool. The one thing I wish it had was a heart rate monitor, but then it would cost more.

From what I hear, we can expect heart rate monitors to show up on these this fall (at about $100 more) and by the end of 2015 they'll be on all of them. Hopefully breathing rate monitors will follow shortly.

That is really awesome, those kinds of details could help people a lot.

I may have to get one. I have been thinking quite a bit about teaching beginner fitness, and that data would make things a lot easier. I would assume.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 04, 2014, 09:27:17 PM
Quote from: Poleris on January 04, 2014, 08:20:52 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 04, 2014, 08:15:33 PM
Quote from: Poleris on January 04, 2014, 07:47:11 AM
I have seen a company, cant remember which, try and fail to sell those kinds of things at att. It was super flimsy ajd did not do what it said on the label.

Glad to see somebody has managed it.

The early fitness monitors were OK, but maybe not as smoothly integrated or as simple to use. Fitbit is pretty cool. The one thing I wish it had was a heart rate monitor, but then it would cost more.

From what I hear, we can expect heart rate monitors to show up on these this fall (at about $100 more) and by the end of 2015 they'll be on all of them. Hopefully breathing rate monitors will follow shortly.

That is really awesome, those kinds of details could help people a lot.

I may have to get one. I have been thinking quite a bit about teaching beginner fitness, and that data would make things a lot easier. I would assume.

It was surprisingly enlightening for me. I have been thinking of myself as "sedentary" for years, but yesterday I walked seven and a half miles, almost 17,000 steps, 26 flights of stairs, and did 41 minutes of aerobic activity, just in the course of my daily routine.  And I haven't even started school yet, nor did I go hiking. I just need to increase my calories from food and decrease my calorie intake from alcohol.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 04, 2014, 10:25:18 PM
You probably mentioned it earlier but my head is full of dayquil and snot and I'm a little out of it...is this a standalone device or an app for your phone? I'm already pretty sure I live a more physically active life than most Americans but I'd be curious to see it quantified.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 04, 2014, 10:51:07 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 04, 2014, 10:25:18 PM
You probably mentioned it earlier but my head is full of dayquil and snot and I'm a little out of it...is this a standalone device or an app for your phone? I'm already pretty sure I live a more physically active life than most Americans but I'd be curious to see it quantified.

It's a device that goes in a wristband or your pocket (or in my case, my bra): http://www.fitbit.com/start

It syncs to your phone and your computer, and you can integrate it with other apps. I use it with MyFitnessPal.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 05, 2014, 03:49:30 AM
So, my stress levels are starting to soar, so I excuse the ranty nature of this, but I think it's just vent time.

I'm still in Florida, I'm scheduled to fly home on Monday morning, but due to the high volume of people stuck because of the Nor'Easter, I'm going to voluntarily bump and take some vouchers. This is really no big deal, because I'm currently unemployed, my boyfriend is stationed 2 hours away, and my house has no food with an extremely nasty cold snap happening this week. It will delay my work a bit, but I'm honestly not sure how well I will be able to function coming from the 60s to the negatives on Tuesday, anyway. Even if not, my brain does feel a bit better now that it's had 3 weeks of not-Rhode Island.
The big issue at hand is that URI still has not made any decisions on graduate admissions, well, as far as I go. Yesterday I saw that some folks were receiving spring decisions for other schools, so I figured it's just a matter of time now, but the idea of me not getting in, and having to deal with a move to New Hampshire in the middle of what appears to be the coldest winter I've ever experienced just doesn't sound pleasant. On top of that, Sallie Mae already asked for money, and I had to cough up $205 this week with no option of forbearance for the rest of my life. It's not a terrible amount, but it's not easy without a job. So, I'm probably worrying over this far more than I actually have to, considering both options have been made pretty clear. Admission = stay in RI, finish masters. No admission = move to NH, either apply for an online degree or get apps in for other schools for fall admissions. I've made the decision that once I'm out of RI, I'm out for good, even if it means living North of the Wall for a while in Libertarian Heaven.

Sure I have these paths, but it's not helping my imminent levels of WTF WTF WTF. It's bad enough they're waiting until January to provide admission decisions, because getting registration and financial aid sorted before the 22nd is going to be tough for a Master's program.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 05, 2014, 05:56:55 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 03, 2014, 06:47:59 PM
THIS PLACE IS A MORGUE AND YOU PEOPLE ARE NO FUN AT ALL I'M GONNA GO FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO. FACEBOOK IS MORE FUN THAN THIS STALE CESSPOOL OF F5ING SPECTATORS, I'M OUTTA HERE.



J/K, I just got back from getting a flu shot and haven't really read the board yet today. I just felt like something was missing from my morning.

Needs more bitterness and seething rage.   :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 05, 2014, 06:12:14 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 05, 2014, 05:56:55 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 03, 2014, 06:47:59 PM
THIS PLACE IS A MORGUE AND YOU PEOPLE ARE NO FUN AT ALL I'M GONNA GO FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO DO. FACEBOOK IS MORE FUN THAN THIS STALE CESSPOOL OF F5ING SPECTATORS, I'M OUTTA HERE.



J/K, I just got back from getting a flu shot and haven't really read the board yet today. I just felt like something was missing from my morning.

Needs more bitterness and seething rage.   :lulz:

I'll work on it.  :argh!:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 05, 2014, 06:19:05 AM
Having met my workout goals two days in a row, I am positively glowing with health.

What this thing doesn't know is that I'm working this hard so that I can have that fucking beer that's been sitting in the fridge since yesterday, when I managed to max out my calories on stew and bread with butter. :argh!:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 05, 2014, 06:43:03 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 05, 2014, 06:19:05 AM
Having met my workout goals two days in a row, I am positively glowing with health.

What this thing doesn't know is that I'm working this hard so that I can have that fucking beer that's been sitting in the fridge since yesterday, when I managed to max out my calories on stew and bread with butter. :argh!:

Poor beer. So alone. And cold. And alone. Longing for company. How could you forsake the beer, Nigel? Poor beer.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 05, 2014, 08:24:08 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 05, 2014, 06:43:03 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 05, 2014, 06:19:05 AM
Having met my workout goals two days in a row, I am positively glowing with health.

What this thing doesn't know is that I'm working this hard so that I can have that fucking beer that's been sitting in the fridge since yesterday, when I managed to max out my calories on stew and bread with butter. :argh!:

Poor beer. So alone. And cold. And alone. Longing for company. How could you forsake the beer, Nigel? Poor beer.

HEY I DID RIGHT BY IT IN THE END.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 05, 2014, 10:05:46 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 04, 2014, 05:45:07 PM
Good thing it all paid for itself with all that oil money.

Indeed.

Otherwise, yesterday, Al-Qaeda in Iraq declaring an Islamic state in Fallujah (http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2014/01/iraq-update-42-al-qaeda-in-iraq-patrols.html#rssowlmlink) might look bad.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: hirley0 on January 05, 2014, 11:34:03 AM
anyway i put the routing 111 :fnord:  (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,31235.msg1148988.html#msg1148988) { there if interested
AS4 the beer? it has been in the fridge at least 1 year {maybe 5


Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 05, 2014, 08:24:08 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 05, 2014, 06:43:03 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 05, 2014, 06:19:05 AM
Having met my workout goals two days in a row, I am positively glowing with health.

What this thing doesn't know is that I'm working this hard so that I can have that fucking beer that's been sitting in the fridge since yesterday, when I managed to max out my calories on stew and bread with butter. :argh!:

Poor beer. So alone. And cold. And alone. Longing for company. How could you forsake the beer, Nigel? Poor beer.

HEY I DID RIGHT BY IT IN THE END.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 05, 2014, 12:40:16 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 05, 2014, 03:49:30 AM
So, my stress levels are starting to soar, so I excuse the ranty nature of this, but I think it's just vent time.

I'm still in Florida, I'm scheduled to fly home on Monday morning, but due to the high volume of people stuck because of the Nor'Easter, I'm going to voluntarily bump and take some vouchers. This is really no big deal, because I'm currently unemployed, my boyfriend is stationed 2 hours away, and my house has no food with an extremely nasty cold snap happening this week. It will delay my work a bit, but I'm honestly not sure how well I will be able to function coming from the 60s to the negatives on Tuesday, anyway. Even if not, my brain does feel a bit better now that it's had 3 weeks of not-Rhode Island.
The big issue at hand is that URI still has not made any decisions on graduate admissions, well, as far as I go. Yesterday I saw that some folks were receiving spring decisions for other schools, so I figured it's just a matter of time now, but the idea of me not getting in, and having to deal with a move to New Hampshire in the middle of what appears to be the coldest winter I've ever experienced just doesn't sound pleasant. On top of that, Sallie Mae already asked for money, and I had to cough up $205 this week with no option of forbearance for the rest of my life. It's not a terrible amount, but it's not easy without a job. So, I'm probably worrying over this far more than I actually have to, considering both options have been made pretty clear. Admission = stay in RI, finish masters. No admission = move to NH, either apply for an online degree or get apps in for other schools for fall admissions. I've made the decision that once I'm out of RI, I'm out for good, even if it means living North of the Wall for a while in Libertarian Heaven.

Sure I have these paths, but it's not helping my imminent levels of WTF WTF WTF. It's bad enough they're waiting until January to provide admission decisions, because getting registration and financial aid sorted before the 22nd is going to be tough for a Master's program.
Damn. I hope they get back to you soon.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 05, 2014, 03:14:57 PM
I'll be writing more LDW during this trip, but won't have anything to post until maybe Tuesday.  I won't post in that thread until I have the next chapter.

Anyway, off to eat REAL FOOD on the company's dime.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 05, 2014, 04:25:01 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 05, 2014, 03:14:57 PM
I'll be writing more LDW during this trip, but won't have anything to post until maybe Tuesday.  I won't post in that thread until I have the next chapter.

Anyway, off to eat REAL FOOD on the company's dime.
McDonalds?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 04:39:50 PM
I ran with a couple of friends on slushy roads and icy sidewalks this morning. My previous best without having to stop was maybe 3 miles or so. We did 5.21 at 9:54 a mile. Still room for improvement, but I am very pleased with this new personal best.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 05, 2014, 05:56:08 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 04:39:50 PM
I ran with a couple of friends on slushy roads and icy sidewalks this morning. My previous best without having to stop was maybe 3 miles or so. We did 5.21 at 9:54 a mile. Still room for improvement, but I am very pleased with this new personal best.

That's pretty damn good from where I sit. I'm doing better every run, but even at a mere 1.5 miles I have to slow to a walk 3 or 4 times. Still, considering that as recently as September, a full year after surgery, I still couldn't run even a couple blocks, I'm really pleased.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 05, 2014, 06:55:17 PM
Quote from: :regret: on January 05, 2014, 04:25:01 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 05, 2014, 03:14:57 PM
I'll be writing more LDW during this trip, but won't have anything to post until maybe Tuesday.  I won't post in that thread until I have the next chapter.

Anyway, off to eat REAL FOOD on the company's dime.
McDonalds?

No.  I said REAL FOOD, not pink slime.  In this case, a pig that had met with an unfortunate accident involving cutty/burny/choppy things.  It no longer resembled pig, but it was DELICIOUS.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 05, 2014, 07:03:25 PM
Devour all the wursts.

If you can find it, I recommend trying currywurst and weisswurst.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 05, 2014, 07:06:29 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 05, 2014, 07:03:25 PM
Devour all the wursts.

If you can find it, I recommend trying currywurst and weisswurst.

Been trying to find currywurst.  I was beginning to think the locals were pranking us.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 05, 2014, 07:36:31 PM
Apparently it's kinda street food.  If you see a roadside diner or foodstall or something, they'll probably have it, but it's less likely served in a pub or restaurant.

Which is a shame, because it's delicious.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 05, 2014, 07:51:41 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 05, 2014, 07:36:31 PM
Apparently it's kinda street food.  If you see a roadside diner or foodstall or something, they'll probably have it, but it's less likely served in a pub or restaurant.

Which is a shame, because it's delicious.

I looked up some recipes online and it sounds disgustingly tasty.

It's basically chunks of pork sausage smothered in curry-flavored ketchup.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 05, 2014, 07:55:01 PM
I find it too sweet, but man do I love a good döner. It isnt German, but they sell it on the streets.

I am home and slept. Today I am going to set up my room. Th only.piece of decor left is my rainbow puking unicorn painting.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 05, 2014, 07:55:02 PM
Do never question Germans when it comes to pork products.  They know their stuff.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 05, 2014, 07:57:26 PM
I am highly jealous of Roger's journey to the Faltherland of sausage and beer and big-ass castles.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 05, 2014, 07:59:56 PM
If you can, and havent yet, do try an acual frankfurter, Roger.

Then compare to a hot dog.

Then weep.

Eta, Linsen und Spätzle if available is heaven.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:03:09 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 05, 2014, 07:57:26 PM
I am highly jealous of Roger's journey to the Faltherland of sausage and beer and big-ass castles.

If you can ever get the scratch to go, it's the cat's ass.  I did have loads of good advice in my thread, and I gotta say that BIGASS CASTLE is WAY BIGGER than I thought was even possible.  Fucking thing took 400 YEARS to build.  Hauling stones up the side of a mountain.

Also, everything I ever thought about German people was 169% wrong, for good and for ill.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:03:25 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 05, 2014, 07:59:56 PM
If you can, and havent yet, do try an acual frankfurter, Roger.

Then compare to a hot dog.

Then weep.

Eta, Linsen und Spätzle if available is heaven.

Will do.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 08:14:39 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 05, 2014, 07:36:31 PM
Apparently it's kinda street food.  If you see a roadside diner or foodstall or something, they'll probably have it, but it's less likely served in a pub or restaurant.

Which is a shame, because it's delicious.

Quote from: Alty on January 05, 2014, 07:55:01 PM
I find it too sweet, but man do I love a good döner. It isnt German, but they sell it on the streets.

I am home and slept. Today I am going to set up my room. Th only.piece of decor left is my rainbow puking unicorn painting.

Doner kebab and currywurst are the two best fucking things I ate there. They are not fancy, but sweet balls was I glad I had those experiences.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:14:51 PM
I am so fucking jetlagged that I've forgotten what time it is in hell.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 08:16:19 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:14:51 PM
I am so fucking jetlagged that I've forgotten what time it is in hell.

You must be jetlagged. Obviously you meant Tucson, here. Tucson.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:16:47 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 08:16:19 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:14:51 PM
I am so fucking jetlagged that I've forgotten what time it is in hell.

You must be jetlagged. Obviously you meant Tucson, here. Tucson.

That's what I said.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 08:23:26 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 05, 2014, 05:56:08 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 04:39:50 PM
I ran with a couple of friends on slushy roads and icy sidewalks this morning. My previous best without having to stop was maybe 3 miles or so. We did 5.21 at 9:54 a mile. Still room for improvement, but I am very pleased with this new personal best.

That's pretty damn good from where I sit. I'm doing better every run, but even at a mere 1.5 miles I have to slow to a walk 3 or 4 times. Still, considering that as recently as September, a full year after surgery, I still couldn't run even a couple blocks, I'm really pleased.

Thanks! But there is nothing mere about 1.5. It still kills me when I'm running alone. With a couple of others, the pace helped me not burn myself out. And I got to look at butts the entire time, so that was a great motivator.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:24:01 PM
I have to hit it.  Time is all stretchy here, and somehow it's very late.  But it isn't.

Pills will handle this. 
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:25:17 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 08:23:26 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 05, 2014, 05:56:08 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 04:39:50 PM
I ran with a couple of friends on slushy roads and icy sidewalks this morning. My previous best without having to stop was maybe 3 miles or so. We did 5.21 at 9:54 a mile. Still room for improvement, but I am very pleased with this new personal best.

That's pretty damn good from where I sit. I'm doing better every run, but even at a mere 1.5 miles I have to slow to a walk 3 or 4 times. Still, considering that as recently as September, a full year after surgery, I still couldn't run even a couple blocks, I'm really pleased.

Thanks! But there is nothing mere about 1.5. It still kills me when I'm running alone. With a couple of others, the pace helped me not burn myself out. And I got to look at butts the entire time, so that was a great motivator.

Wait a few years.  The butts at the gym stop being interesting when the horrible respiratory/heart rate monster comes and punches you inna face a few times.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 08:26:09 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:16:47 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 08:16:19 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:14:51 PM
I am so fucking jetlagged that I've forgotten what time it is in hell.

You must be jetlagged. Obviously you meant Tucson, here. Tucson.

That's what I said.

:horrormirth:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:27:31 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 08:26:09 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:16:47 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 08:16:19 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:14:51 PM
I am so fucking jetlagged that I've forgotten what time it is in hell.

You must be jetlagged. Obviously you meant Tucson, here. Tucson.

That's what I said.

:horrormirth:

In hell you never look back.

You'll never see anyone in Tucson look over their shoulder.  Everything changes when you look away, and it's disturbing.  The docks, for example, disappeared at some point, and the beach never ends.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 08:31:19 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:25:17 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 08:23:26 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 05, 2014, 05:56:08 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 04:39:50 PM
I ran with a couple of friends on slushy roads and icy sidewalks this morning. My previous best without having to stop was maybe 3 miles or so. We did 5.21 at 9:54 a mile. Still room for improvement, but I am very pleased with this new personal best.

That's pretty damn good from where I sit. I'm doing better every run, but even at a mere 1.5 miles I have to slow to a walk 3 or 4 times. Still, considering that as recently as September, a full year after surgery, I still couldn't run even a couple blocks, I'm really pleased.

Thanks! But there is nothing mere about 1.5. It still kills me when I'm running alone. With a couple of others, the pace helped me not burn myself out. And I got to look at butts the entire time, so that was a great motivator.

Wait a few years.  The butts at the gym stop being interesting when the horrible respiratory/heart rate monster comes and punches you inna face a few times.

This is one reason I started exercising at the end of last summer. I keep getting closer to 30, somehow, and I figure the longer I wait the more difficult it will be to get in shape in the first place. The other is that I'm less of a moody bastard when I exercise.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 05, 2014, 09:47:05 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 08:31:19 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:25:17 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 08:23:26 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 05, 2014, 05:56:08 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 04:39:50 PM
I ran with a couple of friends on slushy roads and icy sidewalks this morning. My previous best without having to stop was maybe 3 miles or so. We did 5.21 at 9:54 a mile. Still room for improvement, but I am very pleased with this new personal best.

That's pretty damn good from where I sit. I'm doing better every run, but even at a mere 1.5 miles I have to slow to a walk 3 or 4 times. Still, considering that as recently as September, a full year after surgery, I still couldn't run even a couple blocks, I'm really pleased.

Thanks! But there is nothing mere about 1.5. It still kills me when I'm running alone. With a couple of others, the pace helped me not burn myself out. And I got to look at butts the entire time, so that was a great motivator.

Wait a few years.  The butts at the gym stop being interesting when the horrible respiratory/heart rate monster comes and punches you inna face a few times.

This is one reason I started exercising at the end of last summer. I keep getting closer to 30, somehow, and I figure the longer I wait the more difficult it will be to get in shape in the first place. The other is that I'm less of a moody bastard when I exercise.

It definitely gives you a head start when you go into it in good shape. I was rock-hard until I had Little Orange and started working at home - you should see pics from right before I got preggo with her, I was moving furniture and biking 16 miles a day - and I think that's what saved me from fattening up too much during the work-at-home years, not to mention after my surgery.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 05, 2014, 11:46:00 PM
Germany? Eisbein, goddamnit!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 06, 2014, 12:18:26 AM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 05, 2014, 11:46:00 PM
Germany? Eisbein, goddamnit!

Who?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: minuspace on January 06, 2014, 01:11:11 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 06, 2014, 12:18:26 AM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 05, 2014, 11:46:00 PM
Germany? Eisbein, goddamnit!

Who?
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 05, 2014, 09:47:05 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 08:31:19 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 05, 2014, 08:25:17 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 08:23:26 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 05, 2014, 05:56:08 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 05, 2014, 04:39:50 PM
I ran with a couple of friends on slushy roads and icy sidewalks this morning. My previous best without having to stop was maybe 3 miles or so. We did 5.21 at 9:54 a mile. Still room for improvement, but I am very pleased with this new personal best.

That's pretty damn good from where I sit. I'm doing better every run, but even at a mere 1.5 miles I have to slow to a walk 3 or 4 times. Still, considering that as recently as September, a full year after surgery, I still couldn't run even a couple blocks, I'm really pleased.

Thanks! But there is nothing mere about 1.5. It still kills me when I'm running alone. With a couple of others, the pace helped me not burn myself out. And I got to look at butts the entire time, so that was a great motivator.

Wait a few years.  The butts at the gym stop being interesting when the horrible respiratory/heart rate monster comes and punches you inna face a few times.

This is one reason I started exercising at the end of last summer. I keep getting closer to 30, somehow, and I figure the longer I wait the more difficult it will be to get in shape in the first place. The other is that I'm less of a moody bastard when I exercise.

It definitely gives you a head start when you go into it in good shape. I was rock-hard until I had Little Orange and started working at home - you should see pics from right before I got preggo with her, I was moving furniture and biking 16 miles a day - and I think that's what saved me from fattening up too much during the work-at-home years, not to mention after my surgery.
After repairing (placing) the lock (block) that was so bent out of shape, I have 400 more Acute reasons to be a Prick about hitting that mark:  then I will be whole again.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 06, 2014, 01:23:34 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 06, 2014, 12:18:26 AM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 05, 2014, 11:46:00 PM
Germany? Eisbein, goddamnit!

Who?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisbein
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 06, 2014, 02:50:02 AM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 06, 2014, 01:23:34 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 06, 2014, 12:18:26 AM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 05, 2014, 11:46:00 PM
Germany? Eisbein, goddamnit!

Who?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisbein

Oh THAT looks goddamn amazing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 06, 2014, 02:53:42 AM
Huh that is what boys in Germany call it when they stand next to you and suddenly shove their knee into your IT band, causing Eisbein or Iceleg.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 06, 2014, 02:54:46 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 06, 2014, 02:50:02 AM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 06, 2014, 01:23:34 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 06, 2014, 12:18:26 AM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 05, 2014, 11:46:00 PM
Germany? Eisbein, goddamnit!

Who?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisbein

Oh THAT looks goddamn amazing.

Dear lord.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 06, 2014, 03:18:02 AM
Today I went to the oversized asian mart on 82nd and got all kinds of lovely things, and now I have two quarts of pickles and two quarts of kimchi fermenting away in the cupboard.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Roly Poly Oly-Garch on January 06, 2014, 05:23:03 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 06, 2014, 03:18:02 AM
Today I went to the oversized asian mart on 82nd and got all kinds of lovely things, and now I have two quarts of pickles and two quarts of kimchi fermenting away in the cupboard.

What, no durian?

I took son's mom there when she was here a couple weeks ago. I managed not to gag, which was big time. When last I was there the lady got mad because my gagging was offensive. It was also involuntary. So while I agreed, I also *urp*. Now I just avoid the meat section.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 06, 2014, 06:17:09 AM
I just saw an article on Yahoo about a 22-seat plane leaving Tucson, AZ that crashed in Aspen and almost freaked out until I realized TGRR was on a 747 and should have arrived sometime around now. Brain is slow tonight.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 06, 2014, 06:38:31 AM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on January 06, 2014, 05:23:03 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 06, 2014, 03:18:02 AM
Today I went to the oversized asian mart on 82nd and got all kinds of lovely things, and now I have two quarts of pickles and two quarts of kimchi fermenting away in the cupboard.

What, no durian?

I took son's mom there when she was here a couple weeks ago. I managed not to gag, which was big time. When last I was there the lady got mad because my gagging was offensive. It was also involuntary. So while I agreed, I also *urp*. Now I just avoid the meat section.

I got a durian once, at Food 4 Less on 82nd. I think that will hold me for a while.

I was mightily tempted to get a jackfruit, though. The only thing that deterred me was my inability to locate one less than 15 lbs.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 06, 2014, 07:03:23 AM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on January 06, 2014, 05:23:03 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 06, 2014, 03:18:02 AM
Today I went to the oversized asian mart on 82nd and got all kinds of lovely things, and now I have two quarts of pickles and two quarts of kimchi fermenting away in the cupboard.

What, no durian?

I took son's mom there when she was here a couple weeks ago. I managed not to gag, which was big time. When last I was there the lady got mad because my gagging was offensive. It was also involuntary. So while I agreed, I also *urp*. Now I just avoid the meat section.

You guys must be talking about a different place. Fubonn smells like heaven, and should be considered the only Asian supermarket worth a damn on 82nd in PDX proper.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 06, 2014, 07:17:31 AM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 06, 2014, 07:03:23 AM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on January 06, 2014, 05:23:03 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 06, 2014, 03:18:02 AM
Today I went to the oversized asian mart on 82nd and got all kinds of lovely things, and now I have two quarts of pickles and two quarts of kimchi fermenting away in the cupboard.

What, no durian?

I took son's mom there when she was here a couple weeks ago. I managed not to gag, which was big time. When last I was there the lady got mad because my gagging was offensive. It was also involuntary. So while I agreed, I also *urp*. Now I just avoid the meat section.

You guys must be talking about a different place. Fubonn smells like heaven, and should be considered the only Asian supermarket worth a damn on 82nd in PDX proper.

To be fair, it had a bit of a funk today, some sort of weird fish guts/cleaning fluid combo near the south end.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 06, 2014, 07:21:12 AM
And it may be the only Asian market worth a damn in PDX proper, but its Korean selection sucks. Badly.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 06, 2014, 07:24:11 AM
Yeah, that's a fact. I keep telling you, you gotta come up here for a visit and a trip to H-Mart, a trip that usually guarantees that ECHGF will cook some korean spicy pork belly.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 06, 2014, 07:35:52 AM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 06, 2014, 07:24:11 AM
Yeah, that's a fact. I keep telling you, you gotta come up here for a visit and a trip to H-Mart, a trip that usually guarantees that ECHGF will cook some korean spicy pork belly.

I know, that would be awesome! Maybe during Spring break.

There's also Boo Han, but I haven't been there yet.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 06, 2014, 09:16:16 AM
House is getting hammered. Tomorrow is going to be craaaaaaay-craaaaaaaaaaaaay. Georgians everywhere driving into each other and fence posts. Lining the streets with their crashed cars and spazzing out about every little snowflake.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: minuspace on January 06, 2014, 09:40:23 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 06, 2014, 06:38:31 AM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on January 06, 2014, 05:23:03 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 06, 2014, 03:18:02 AM
Today I went to the oversized asian mart on 82nd and got all kinds of lovely things, and now I have two quarts of pickles and two quarts of kimchi fermenting away in the cupboard.

What, no durian?

I took son's mom there when she was here a couple weeks ago. I managed not to gag, which was big time. When last I was there the lady got mad because my gagging was offensive. It was also involuntary. So while I agreed, I also *urp*. Now I just avoid the meat section.

I got a durian once, at Food 4 Less on 82nd. I think that will hold me for a while.

I was mightily tempted to get a jackfruit, though. The only thing that deterred me was my inability to locate one less than 15 lbs.

Perhaps it's better that my response in belaboredly butchered German just got erased...  But, yea, jackfruit...
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 06, 2014, 10:36:56 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 06, 2014, 06:17:09 AM
I just saw an article on Yahoo about a 22-seat plane leaving Tucson, AZ that crashed in Aspen and almost freaked out until I realized TGRR was on a 747 and should have arrived sometime around now. Brain is slow tonight.

Actually, I left on Friday, in a puddle jumper to San Fran.

Besides, God isn't kind enough to do that for you.  No, I am to remain a hideous golem in your lives.  If the golem could talk.  Or screech.  Or rant and rave.  Prague is like Tucson, you know, only with better beer.

Rabbi Loew?

FUCK DA POLICE.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 06, 2014, 12:22:57 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 05, 2014, 07:55:01 PM
I find it too sweet, but man do I love a good döner. It isnt German, but they sell it on the streets.

I am home and slept. Today I am going to set up my room. Th only.piece of decor left is my rainbow puking unicorn painting.
I've read somewhere that doner in bread is a German invention.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 06, 2014, 12:29:11 PM
Well, Turkish-German, yes.  The "inventor" of the doner kebab died in Berlin not that long ago (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24685617).
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 06, 2014, 04:26:21 PM
Just spent half the day grappling with the Swiss banking system's international transfer methods.

Ugh.  It's almost not worth the effort.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 06, 2014, 04:52:19 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 06, 2014, 12:29:11 PM
Well, Turkish-German, yes.  The "inventor" of the doner kebab died in Berlin not that long ago (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24685617).

Doner kebab sounds like gyros.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: trippinprincezz13 on January 06, 2014, 05:00:07 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 03, 2014, 10:54:23 PM
Sounds like it was a wild-type, which means it didn't have all the weird inbreeding problems that often kill domesticated strains.

Indeed, a little brown field mouse.

Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 03, 2014, 11:10:35 PM
I love my Fitbit. It's awesome.

Checked out the website - definitely looks awesome. I assume you have the Force? (may have missed it in an earlier post). Going to look into it more, but I'm intrigued. Trying to be more active, get into some sort of exercise routine, especially since I usually hit a slump during the winter. And it helps me a bit to have visual representations and "goals" and such to keep me motivated. Definitely interested.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 06, 2014, 05:12:21 PM
Quote from: trippinprincezz13 on January 06, 2014, 05:00:07 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 03, 2014, 10:54:23 PM
Sounds like it was a wild-type, which means it didn't have all the weird inbreeding problems that often kill domesticated strains.

Indeed, a little brown field mouse.

Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 03, 2014, 11:10:35 PM
I love my Fitbit. It's awesome.

Checked out the website - definitely looks awesome. I assume you have the Force? (may have missed it in an earlier post). Going to look into it more, but I'm intrigued. Trying to be more active, get into some sort of exercise routine, especially since I usually hit a slump during the winter. And it helps me a bit to have visual representations and "goals" and such to keep me motivated. Definitely interested.

I have the One, because I can't deal with things around my wrist. It's definitely helpful, and it greets me every morning with some kind of motivational message.

It's also a great motivator to go for a walk in the evening when I'm bored, instead of heading for a bottle of wine, and the coolest thing is that it records my sleep and the difference between sleeping after walking and sleeping after drinking wine is MASSIVE.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Sita on January 06, 2014, 06:20:14 PM
My son has figured out how to register for sites. This means he is no longer reliant on me for it, also means that he can sign up for stuff without me even knowing.
Especially if he uses a fake email as he's just figured out is possible. At least he's telling me when he gets an account somewhere.

I feel lost all of a sudden.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 06, 2014, 06:55:43 PM
Pretty sure you can limit/restrict stuff like that if you choose to. You just have to set up separate user accounts on the computer(s) and install some parental restriction software on his account.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 06, 2014, 07:16:52 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 06, 2014, 04:52:19 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 06, 2014, 12:29:11 PM
Well, Turkish-German, yes.  The "inventor" of the doner kebab died in Berlin not that long ago (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24685617).

Doner kebab sounds like gyros.

You've never reached the absolute depths of human suffering until you've tasted one
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 06, 2014, 07:31:34 PM
Quote from: Sita on January 06, 2014, 06:20:14 PM
My son has figured out how to register for sites. This means he is no longer reliant on me for it, also means that he can sign up for stuff without me even knowing.
Especially if he uses a fake email as he's just figured out is possible. At least he's telling me when he gets an account somewhere.

I feel lost all of a sudden.

I can't help but feel very proud for the little bugger. It's like some kind of modern rite of passage.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 06, 2014, 07:51:28 PM
I didn't get in to matriculate this spring as a Master's student. They asked me to take a seminar or two as a non-matriculating student to "see how I do" and then try for the fall. In other words, they don't want to say yes, and still want my money.

The seminar I would be taking, and paying $1400 out of pocket, would be Comparative U.S. and Latin American Environmental History.

If that doesn't sound horrible, I don't know what does.

I'm out of Rhode Island.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 06, 2014, 07:57:21 PM
It's about damn time.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Sita on January 06, 2014, 08:16:37 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 06, 2014, 06:55:43 PM
Pretty sure you can limit/restrict stuff like that if you choose to. You just have to set up separate user accounts on the computer(s) and install some parental restriction software on his account.
Yeah, but I don't want to go that route yet. As long as he keeps me informed of the sites he joins (so far it's just gaming sites) and leaves if I decide he's not old enough for them then everything will be fine.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 06, 2014, 08:39:43 PM
WaffleGF deadlifted 199lbs today. Is proud.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 06, 2014, 08:45:00 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 06, 2014, 07:57:21 PM
It's about damn time.

Unfortunately, it's to New Hampshire.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 06, 2014, 08:45:52 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 06, 2014, 08:39:43 PM
WaffleGF deadlifted 199lbs today. Is proud.

Does your GF even lift, bro?  :eek:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 06, 2014, 08:46:33 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 06, 2014, 08:45:52 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 06, 2014, 08:39:43 PM
WaffleGF deadlifted 199lbs today. Is proud.

Does your GF even lift, bro?  :eek:

Her first time today. :)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 06, 2014, 08:48:30 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 06, 2014, 08:45:00 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 06, 2014, 07:57:21 PM
It's about damn time.

Unfortunately, it's to New Hampshire.

It's not RI, so you're already ahead of the game.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 06, 2014, 08:53:05 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 06, 2014, 08:48:30 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 06, 2014, 08:45:00 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 06, 2014, 07:57:21 PM
It's about damn time.

Unfortunately, it's to New Hampshire.

It's not RI, so you're already ahead of the game.

Yes.

And tax-free liquor.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 06, 2014, 08:54:24 PM
A sharp reduction in slush, and a near-zero rate of flooding.  Unless a damn breaks.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 06, 2014, 08:58:55 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 06, 2014, 08:54:24 PM
A sharp reduction in slush, and a near-zero rate of flooding.  Unless a damn breaks.

:|

I don't even know you anymore.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 06, 2014, 08:59:31 PM
Cons: More snow, worse cold, mountains, and psychotic libertarians.
Pros: Boyfriend, UNH's museum studies masters, no tax on anything.

Bonus con: When he's done at Portsmouth we have to move to Connecticut.
Bonus Pro: Connecticut is still not Rhode Island.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 06, 2014, 09:12:10 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 06, 2014, 08:58:55 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 06, 2014, 08:54:24 PM
A sharp reduction in slush, and a near-zero rate of flooding.  Unless a damn breaks.

:|

I don't even know you anymore.

I meant a damn dam, of course.


Of course.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 06, 2014, 09:15:52 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 06, 2014, 09:12:10 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 06, 2014, 08:58:55 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 06, 2014, 08:54:24 PM
A sharp reduction in slush, and a near-zero rate of flooding.  Unless a damn breaks.

:|

I don't even know you anymore.

I meant a damn dam, of course.


Of course.

YOUR PENANCE:  A post from TCC.

QuoteThus far, my spiritual journey for becoming the HedgeWitch I have been called to be has been a challenge for sure! I am up for the challenge, and I press forward! I have started my HedgeWitch journal and dedicated myself to completing the 13 Rites of a HedgeWitch. I am taking a week for each Rite. My focus this week has been the Wind/Air and connecting with Spirit. It has been a blustery cold week. I believe the Universe is listening to my calling!1 The hardest part for me this week is trying to align my jumbled thoughts as I learn the primal language the Universe understands. My thoughts have been like a dandelion tossling and blowing in the wind...also appropriate for this week's focus! Meditation and journaling have been a great tool in helping me understand my thoughts and concentrate on one at a time...my personality doesn't like this! LOL! I am a high-strung individual! I will end this week's Rite tonight with a ceremony. I have everything in place except one ingredient for my conjuring bag. I cannot find Lemon Verbena right now. This will be def be something I will add to my garden in the Spring...oh, Spring, I beckon you to come fast!! Does anyone have a suggestion for substituting the Lemon Verbena and how a substitution may affect the ceremony tonight? Again, Thank you for your help and patience with me.



1 It's fucking WINTER.  Oh, GODDAMMIT.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 06, 2014, 09:35:35 PM
HedgeWitch.

Sounds like something served at a goddamn English tea.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 06, 2014, 11:40:40 PM
A lack of focus is necessary for this focus?

:asplode:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 06, 2014, 11:43:27 PM
 :lulz: :lulz: :horrormirth:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 06, 2014, 11:44:39 PM
I decided to come home between classes because I have no homework the first week back, but now it's off to Chemistry. You spags better keep the place warm for when I get back!  :argh!:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 07, 2014, 01:42:49 AM
She's dirty girl.

(http://i.imgur.com/cLOAw19.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 07, 2014, 02:13:41 AM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 07, 2014, 01:42:49 AM
She's dirty girl.

(http://i.imgur.com/cLOAw19.jpg?1)

That looks goddamn fantastic.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 07, 2014, 02:21:16 AM
I'm so glad I switched chemistry instructors. I really wish I'd changed classes last term when it became obvious a week in that my professor hated teaching, hated us, and hated being there. I should have known when he said "You're mostly going to be learning from the online homework, I don't even know why I'm here".

This term is going to be cherries and sunshine. Biology is still going to be hard as hell, but that's because biology is hard as hell, not because I have a bad instructor. Thanks to the fact that I now also have a good chem instructor, I will be able to give biology the study time it deserves, rather than chemistry sucking up all my study time just to maintain a B.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 07, 2014, 05:19:58 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 07, 2014, 02:13:41 AM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 07, 2014, 01:42:49 AM
She's dirty girl.

(http://i.imgur.com/cLOAw19.jpg?1)

That looks goddamn fantastic.

PICKLED JALAPENOS = MINE
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 07, 2014, 07:26:00 AM
This is a hit and run hello to let you all know that I'm still here. Finals+Christmas+New Years+Holy shit Anarchangel's first gig in over a year let's fucking practice (This Saturday at the Middle East Upstairs for anyone in striking distance of Cambridge, doors at, of all things 6:30 pm. Lame.).No time for proper thought. I miss you guys though, happy new year, and I'll be back in a few days.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 07, 2014, 03:22:41 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 07, 2014, 05:19:58 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 07, 2014, 02:13:41 AM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 07, 2014, 01:42:49 AM
She's dirty girl.

(http://i.imgur.com/cLOAw19.jpg?1)

That looks goddamn fantastic.

PICKLED JALAPENOS = MINE

They're not pickled. Mon/Tues after 5 pm. Large 16 inch 1 topping pie for 8.50! God bless Rocky's Sub's.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 07, 2014, 04:38:24 PM
It's beach weather, right?

Yup. It sure is. I'm headed to Ocean Shores for a couple days of storm watching. See you suckers on thursday, hopefully with some cool pics to post.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 07, 2014, 08:03:01 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 07, 2014, 04:38:24 PM
It's beach weather, right?

Yup. It sure is. I'm headed to Ocean Shores for a couple days of storm watching. See you suckers on thursday, hopefully with some cool pics to post.

Thursday, we're going up through the Hanau city walls, then down the "main drag", taking pics.  Will post early next week.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 07, 2014, 09:47:05 PM
I totally counted up all my remaining credits today and I'm SO TOTALLY on track to graduate with a double major Spring 2016, which is a perfect timeline. FUCK YEAH!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 07, 2014, 10:08:13 PM
Excellent work. Ideal motivation too.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 07, 2014, 10:16:15 PM
I've been working on German phrases, so I can get along with the locals.

Lassen Sie meinen penis, das ist ansteckend.

"I think you have mistaken me for someone else."

Scheiße essen kommunistischen europäischen Schweine, weiß ich nicht Ihre Missbrauch zu nehmen.

"I believe that is my parking spot, sir."

Meine Syphilis Aufflammen

"Can I buy you a drink?"

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on January 07, 2014, 10:22:21 PM
I seem to be descending into the vice of being a loose leaf tea junkie.

I got this big ol mug with an infuser and it's own lid from Payne for our 4yh anniversary and I've been using it pretty much alllll the time.

I have subsequently decided that teabags are the work of the devil.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 07, 2014, 10:47:31 PM
Quote from: Pixie on January 07, 2014, 10:22:21 PM
I seem to be descending into the vice of being a loose leaf tea junkie.

I got this big ol mug with an infuser and it's own lid from Payne for our 4yh anniversary and I've been using it pretty much alllll the time.

I have subsequently decided that teabags are the work of the devil.

HOLY CRAP I'VE BEEN ON PD TOO LONG
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on January 07, 2014, 11:12:21 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 07, 2014, 10:47:31 PM
Quote from: Pixie on January 07, 2014, 10:22:21 PM
I seem to be descending into the vice of being a loose leaf tea junkie.

I got this big ol mug with an infuser and it's own lid from Payne for our 4yh anniversary and I've been using it pretty much alllll the time.

I have subsequently decided that teabags are the work of the devil.

HOLY CRAP I'VE BEEN ON PD TOO LONG

hahaha.

it was just after xmas and such.

I am currently deciding whether i should have another cup of tea.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 08, 2014, 01:44:20 AM
Estimated moving date to Portsmouth is around February 20th.

That's it. No more Providence. No more Rhode Island. Up to the land of tax-free all the things, libertarians with guns and no seatbelt laws.

Live free or die, motherfuckers.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 08, 2014, 01:45:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 07, 2014, 10:16:15 PM
I've been working on German phrases, so I can get along with the locals.

Lassen Sie meinen penis, das ist ansteckend.

"I think you have mistaken me for someone else."

Scheiße essen kommunistischen europäischen Schweine, weiß ich nicht Ihre Missbrauch zu nehmen.

"I believe that is my parking spot, sir."

Meine Syphilis Aufflammen

"Can I buy you a drink?"

:spittake:

Your German is impeccable.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 08, 2014, 04:18:07 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 07, 2014, 10:16:15 PM
I've been working on German phrases, so I can get along with the locals.

Lassen Sie meinen penis, das ist ansteckend.

"I think you have mistaken me for someone else."

Scheiße essen kommunistischen europäischen Schweine, weiß ich nicht Ihre Missbrauch zu nehmen.

"I believe that is my parking spot, sir."

Meine Syphilis Aufflammen

"Can I buy you a drink?"


:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 08, 2014, 05:00:21 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 07, 2014, 10:47:31 PM
Quote from: Pixie on January 07, 2014, 10:22:21 PM
I seem to be descending into the vice of being a loose leaf tea junkie.

I got this big ol mug with an infuser and it's own lid from Payne for our 4yh anniversary and I've been using it pretty much alllll the time.

I have subsequently decided that teabags are the work of the devil.

HOLY CRAP I'VE BEEN ON PD TOO LONG

YOU GET OLD ANYWAY.  MAY AS WELL DO IT WITH FRIENDS.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 08, 2014, 05:19:20 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 08, 2014, 05:00:21 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 07, 2014, 10:47:31 PM
Quote from: Pixie on January 07, 2014, 10:22:21 PM
I seem to be descending into the vice of being a loose leaf tea junkie.

I got this big ol mug with an infuser and it's own lid from Payne for our 4yh anniversary and I've been using it pretty much alllll the time.

I have subsequently decided that teabags are the work of the devil.

HOLY CRAP I'VE BEEN ON PD TOO LONG

YOU GET OLD ANYWAY.  MAY AS WELL DO IT WITH FRIENDS.

I was born old. Friends are the people with whom I have a begrudging cease fire in the creamed corn line at the old folks home.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 08, 2014, 06:28:51 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 07, 2014, 10:16:15 PM
I've been working on German phrases, so I can get along with the locals.

Lassen Sie meinen penis, das ist ansteckend.

"I think you have mistaken me for someone else."

Scheiße essen kommunistischen europäischen Schweine, weiß ich nicht Ihre Missbrauch zu nehmen.

"I believe that is my parking spot, sir."

Meine Syphilis Aufflammen

"Can I buy you a drink?"


:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: I wish I could go drinking with you in Germany.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 08, 2014, 06:34:15 AM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 08, 2014, 01:44:20 AM
Estimated moving date to Portsmouth is around February 20th.

That's it. No more Providence. No more Rhode Island. Up to the land of tax-free all the things, libertarians with guns and no seatbelt laws.

Live free or die, motherfuckers.

So wait, am I mistaken, or did the last place, which you were an alum of so they had some investment be like "We aren't totally convinced of your dedication as a student, you want to attend on probation for a term and show us you're dedicated?" and you were all "NAW SOUNDS LIKE NO FUN". ?

Because honestly, unless you do something pretty spectacular to fix that, it sounds a lot like either you fall back on bartending, or you pay 200,000 for a for-profit-school degree and then fall back on bartending.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 08, 2014, 08:23:09 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 08, 2014, 06:28:51 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 07, 2014, 10:16:15 PM
I've been working on German phrases, so I can get along with the locals.

Lassen Sie meinen penis, das ist ansteckend.

"I think you have mistaken me for someone else."

Scheiße essen kommunistischen europäischen Schweine, weiß ich nicht Ihre Missbrauch zu nehmen.

"I believe that is my parking spot, sir."

Meine Syphilis Aufflammen

"Can I buy you a drink?"


:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: I wish I could go drinking with you in Germany.

It was only supposed to be dinner.  But then Germans.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: minuspace on January 08, 2014, 10:00:35 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 08, 2014, 08:23:09 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 08, 2014, 06:28:51 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 07, 2014, 10:16:15 PM
I've been working on German phrases, so I can get along with the locals.

Lassen Sie meinen penis, das ist ansteckend.

"I think you have mistaken me for someone else."

Scheiße essen kommunistischen europäischen Schweine, weiß ich nicht Ihre Missbrauch zu nehmen.

"I believe that is my parking spot, sir."

Meine Syphilis Aufflammen

"Can I buy you a drink?"


:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: I wish I could go drinking with you in Germany.

It was only supposed to be dinner.  But then Germans.
Schiessbudenfigur, wo ist meine leider hosen?
"Do you have the time?"
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 08, 2014, 04:48:02 PM
Writing about Thailand.  Boring.  Boooooooooring.  Not least because it's for a "respectable" publication, and so I cannot describe it the ongoing political crisis as a turf war between the world's two most boring, aged gangs.  Which is exactly what it is.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 08, 2014, 04:48:59 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 08, 2014, 04:48:02 PM
Writing about Thailand.  Boring.  Boooooooooring.  Not least because it's for a "respectable" publication, and so I cannot describe it the ongoing political crisis as a turf war between the world's two most boring, aged gangs.  Which is exactly what it is.

:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 08, 2014, 04:50:51 PM
Yesterday I went to yoga, ran, walked five miles, and then completely wasted all of that by going out and drinking five beers.

Today, I am hungover, which is great because I have school for ten hours, including lab.

Someday, I will grow up and develop impulse control and foresight. Maybe.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 08, 2014, 04:55:43 PM
I drank too much vodka and my brain hurts.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 08, 2014, 04:58:15 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 08, 2014, 04:48:02 PM
Writing about Thailand.  Boring.  Boooooooooring.  Not least because it's for a "respectable" publication, and so I cannot describe it the ongoing political crisis as a turf war between the world's two most boring, aged gangs.  Which is exactly what it is.

I wish I could pay you enough to read the alternate version.

Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 08, 2014, 05:00:12 PM
I'm out at the coast hiking beach trails and storm-watching. And I think I might also be hunting for real estate. I come out here whenever I have a few days to get out of the city and I don't have any burning need to be IN the city, so why the fuck not?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 08, 2014, 05:08:26 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 08, 2014, 06:34:15 AM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 08, 2014, 01:44:20 AM
Estimated moving date to Portsmouth is around February 20th.

That's it. No more Providence. No more Rhode Island. Up to the land of tax-free all the things, libertarians with guns and no seatbelt laws.

Live free or die, motherfuckers.

So wait, am I mistaken, or did the last place, which you were an alum of so they had some investment be like "We aren't totally convinced of your dedication as a student, you want to attend on probation for a term and show us you're dedicated?" and you were all "NAW SOUNDS LIKE NO FUN". ?

Because honestly, unless you do something pretty spectacular to fix that, it sounds a lot like either you fall back on bartending, or you pay 200,000 for a for-profit-school degree and then fall back on bartending.

I'm applying to other schools for fall admission. I cannot afford what they want for me to take one class, since you get no aid when you're non-matriculating. It's not that I don't want to do it, it's that I don't have the MEANS to do it, and I intend to let them know exactly that in a courteous email response. $2000 for one class is a bit ridiculous when a semester for a full-time matriculating student is $5000, and I just can't pull that money out of my ass. If I had it, I'd do it, even if the class they want me to take sounds less than appealing (Comparative United States and Latin American Environmental History with the professor who said, outwardly on the news, that he wanted Wayne LaPierre's head on a stick.) For $2000 a class, I could go to Harvard.


It sucks, trust me, it sucks, and my parents already told me that they won't help me pay for it. I keep telling myself it's a sign, and that there are better schools I can go to.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 08, 2014, 05:42:14 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 08, 2014, 04:58:15 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 08, 2014, 04:48:02 PM
Writing about Thailand.  Boring.  Boooooooooring.  Not least because it's for a "respectable" publication, and so I cannot describe it the ongoing political crisis as a turf war between the world's two most boring, aged gangs.  Which is exactly what it is.

I wish I could pay you enough to read the alternate version.

"The military hide behind the skirts of the Chakri Dynasty and get political support from central Thai cities.  Thaksin comes from the countryside and gets support from rural areas neglected by the Chakri Dynasty.  Both are incompetent, corrupt and whine far too much about how "undemocratic" the other are.  Nothing will change because the reforms needed to give Thailand a strong economy would undermine the military position, and populist policies are equally self-defeating because they require taxing the increasingly pissed off middle classes who support the monarchy."

That will be $500 please.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 08, 2014, 05:48:38 PM
Good thing the food is so fantastic.



The check will be in the mail.  Sometime.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 08, 2014, 05:54:29 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 08, 2014, 05:08:26 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 08, 2014, 06:34:15 AM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 08, 2014, 01:44:20 AM
Estimated moving date to Portsmouth is around February 20th.

That's it. No more Providence. No more Rhode Island. Up to the land of tax-free all the things, libertarians with guns and no seatbelt laws.

Live free or die, motherfuckers.

So wait, am I mistaken, or did the last place, which you were an alum of so they had some investment be like "We aren't totally convinced of your dedication as a student, you want to attend on probation for a term and show us you're dedicated?" and you were all "NAW SOUNDS LIKE NO FUN". ?

Because honestly, unless you do something pretty spectacular to fix that, it sounds a lot like either you fall back on bartending, or you pay 200,000 for a for-profit-school degree and then fall back on bartending.

I'm applying to other schools for fall admission. I cannot afford what they want for me to take one class, since you get no aid when you're non-matriculating. It's not that I don't want to do it, it's that I don't have the MEANS to do it, and I intend to let them know exactly that in a courteous email response. $2000 for one class is a bit ridiculous when a semester for a full-time matriculating student is $5000, and I just can't pull that money out of my ass. If I had it, I'd do it, even if the class they want me to take sounds less than appealing (Comparative United States and Latin American Environmental History with the professor who said, outwardly on the news, that he wanted Wayne LaPierre's head on a stick.) For $2000 a class, I could go to Harvard.


It sucks, trust me, it sucks, and my parents already told me that they won't help me pay for it. I keep telling myself it's a sign, and that there are better schools I can go to.

Well, good luck.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 08, 2014, 05:57:12 PM
Wait, how is $1400 = $2000 now?

You can't put that on a credit card?

I mean, if you don't want to do it, you don't want to do it, but "can't" sounds like a bit of a stretch.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 08, 2014, 08:22:17 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 08, 2014, 05:57:12 PM
Wait, how is $1400 = $2000 now?

You can't put that on a credit card?

I mean, if you don't want to do it, you don't want to do it, but "can't" sounds like a bit of a stretch.

"Fees."

It's $1400 a class, plus registration fee, plus student services fee, plus some other fucking fee for a total of $1989. I already emailed the grad director, and she agreed that the school's fees are way too high. They have me down to take a class at anytime once I can afford it and my application is still good with no prejudice.

I don't have any credit cards, nor the opportunity to take out a private student loan, thank Sallie Mae for that, when she assraped me in 2008 when I lost my job. My credit is destroyed for at least 7 years because my private loan almost went into default. There's a chance that Navy Federal could lend me the money if the BF and I were married, and I could also use part of his GI Bill, but we aren't married, nor are we willing to take that step just yet.

So basically, I'm applying to other schools and working for 6 months to save some cash to take it in the fall should the other schools turn me down. I figure a semester off isn't going to kill me, and I'm going to maintain RI residency for now. We just cannot afford 2 apartments in 2 different states with me not being in school and receiving housing assistance. :(

I'll get there. This is a hiccup, just like so many other things I've had to deal with. I don't have good days anymore, I have bad days and extraordinarily horrid days. Thanks, Eris.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 09, 2014, 03:30:20 AM
So, Pete is considering moving to California which he dropped on us last night at practice.

And tonight, Villager told me she hates Boston, which makes things a bit problematic since I can't see myself living anywhere else. If it's Boston specifically and not Massachusetts in general, no problem. But aside from the fact that I can't see myself living elsewhere I am basically stuck here until at least 2017, which is when I expect to get my BS.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 09, 2014, 03:35:18 AM
I'm not terribly worried about Anarchangel breaking up because we already did that once and Pat's wife is pregnant so we would remain an intermittent band at best anyway. It's just that I'm going to miss the hell out of him and his projected move date, if he decides to do it, is a month before my birthday.

As far as Villager, I suspect its Boston specifically and that Eastern Massachusetts is still fair game, but I think the miserable weather and Pete's announcement made her feel less love for the Hub.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 09, 2014, 03:45:18 AM
But it does raise an interesting question. WHY do I want to stay here? And could I move far away? I hate the climate here too, fucking humid as shit in summer and bitter cold in winter and autumn and spring taken up by bipolar extremes between the two but with a shitload of rain, but at the same time I like that about Boston. I like hating the weather here. It's just part of being Bostonian. And while it is familiar, so is Western Ireland, but I couldn't see myself living there permanently (just as an example, it's not even a remote consideration) even though the temperatures are more stable.

I guess it just really boils down to this is home.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 09, 2014, 03:52:55 AM
Move to Albuquerque.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 09, 2014, 03:59:43 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 09, 2014, 03:52:55 AM
Move to Albuquerque.

Too far away. Leaving Massachusetts is a stretch. I could see myself living in Rhode Island or New Hampshire. You're probably not going to get me to live outside of New England either way. I would need one hell of an incentive to do it. And I say RI or NH because it's very easy to come into Boston from there, either by Commuter Rail (which is run by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, even though it services, to a limited degree, two other states) or by car (which would probably be a necessity if I lived outside of Boston anyway).
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 09, 2014, 04:02:17 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 09, 2014, 03:59:43 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 09, 2014, 03:52:55 AM
Move to Albuquerque.

Too far away. Leaving Massachusetts is a stretch. I could see myself living in Rhode Island or New Hampshire. You're probably not going to get me to live outside of New England either way. I would need one hell of an incentive to do it. And I say RI or NH because it's very easy to come into Boston from there, either by Commuter Rail (which is run by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, even though it services, to a limited degree, two other states) or by car (which would probably be a necessity if I lived outside of Boston anyway).

The fact that I strongly identify as Irish, and could legally live in Ireland (or the UK for that matter) with minimal paperwork (I'd have to get a tax payer number) but refuse to live there should indicate how attached I am.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 09, 2014, 04:06:29 AM
Well, there's also the matter that as an American citizen the United States would still insist on me paying taxes to it even though I was ex-pat.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 09, 2014, 04:19:27 AM
Huh. That's weird. There is a small (very small part) of me that would be ok with living in the UK. Specifically England, but it's there.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 09, 2014, 04:31:32 AM
England is a horrible place. I've seen what those people are like. All chimneysweeps and chamberpots and teatime.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 09, 2014, 04:45:39 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 09, 2014, 04:31:32 AM
England is a horrible place. I've seen what those people are like. All chimneysweeps and chamberpots and teatime.

Fair, but it also gave us all of the best metal this wrong side of Scandinavia. It's closer to Ireland than Boston (so I'd be trading out one side of the family for another). Irish citizens can live there no problem (as evidenced by my dad living off the Crown due to disability). And again, stabler climate, with just the right amount of atmospheric misery to satisfy me.

Ah but there's that double tax, distance from Boston, and I get sick of tea pretty quick but have blood in my coffee stream (sorry chaps, your coffee is shite).
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 09, 2014, 04:57:19 AM
I would also, for this to be feasible, have to marry Villager, unless there's some thing between the UK and Canada that I don't fully understand (her father is from Canada, but raised in the South, which, admittedly is pretty funny since he sounds like a Southerner. Though, if I recall, her brother only is eligible for Canadian citizenship because he was born before a certain date). I intend to do so anyway, but not before it's financially feasible. And then we return to 2017.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 09, 2014, 04:58:30 AM
I'm overanalysing a non-issue, aren't I?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on January 09, 2014, 05:58:49 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 09, 2014, 04:45:39 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 09, 2014, 04:31:32 AM
England is a horrible place. I've seen what those people are like. All chimneysweeps and chamberpots and teatime.

Fair, but it also gave us all of the best metal this wrong side of Scandinavia. It's closer to Ireland than Boston (so I'd be trading out one side of the family for another). Irish citizens can live there no problem (as evidenced by my dad living off the Crown due to disability). And again, stabler climate, with just the right amount of atmospheric misery to satisfy me.

Ah but there's that double tax, distance from Boston, and I get sick of tea pretty quick but have blood in my coffee stream (sorry chaps, your coffee is shite).

BUT THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF TEA.

HOW CAN YOU BE SICK OF TEA? Shit, son, I have at least 20 types of tea (and herbal infusions) both bagged and loose  all up in my kitchen right now and i have more in the mail coming to me.

I have a tea drawer. And a tea shelf.













I think I may need a tea intervention :s

Black tea has way more caffeine than coffee.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 09, 2014, 07:43:41 AM
Quote from: Pixie on January 09, 2014, 05:58:49 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 09, 2014, 04:45:39 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 09, 2014, 04:31:32 AM
England is a horrible place. I've seen what those people are like. All chimneysweeps and chamberpots and teatime.

Fair, but it also gave us all of the best metal this wrong side of Scandinavia. It's closer to Ireland than Boston (so I'd be trading out one side of the family for another). Irish citizens can live there no problem (as evidenced by my dad living off the Crown due to disability). And again, stabler climate, with just the right amount of atmospheric misery to satisfy me.

Ah but there's that double tax, distance from Boston, and I get sick of tea pretty quick but have blood in my coffee stream (sorry chaps, your coffee is shite).

BUT THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF TEA.

HOW CAN YOU BE SICK OF TEA? Shit, son, I have at least 20 types of tea (and herbal infusions) both bagged and loose  all up in my kitchen right now and i have more in the mail coming to me.

I have a tea drawer. And a tea shelf.













I think I may need a tea intervention :s

Black tea has way more caffeine than coffee.

It does, but the delivery is weaker. And I have an American tongue. I drink disgusting amounts of coffee at work. I could not do the same with tea without suddenly jumping up and maybe shouting "I'm off to the pub for a proper drink."
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 09, 2014, 09:22:09 AM
I've spent a bracing morning reading about Le Veilleurs, Schwaller de Lubicz, Synarchy and interwar occult fascist movements.

It's more fun than filling in a job application form, anyway.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 09, 2014, 12:02:30 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 09, 2014, 03:30:20 AM

And tonight, Villager told me she hates Boston,

Bring her to Tucson for 10 days.  We'll fix that shit.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 09, 2014, 01:41:05 PM
Speaking of tea, in the last month or so I have developed a fanatical addiction to green tea, which I had formerly decided to hate. I just can't process all this change in my life.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on January 09, 2014, 01:45:52 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 09, 2014, 01:41:05 PM
Speaking of tea, in the last month or so I have developed a fanatical addiction to green tea, which I had formerly decided to hate. I just can't process all this change in my life.

if you brew it right, it's amazing. Brew it wrong, it's fucking disgusting.

are you using bags or loose leaf?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 09, 2014, 02:01:31 PM
Quote from: Pixie on January 09, 2014, 01:45:52 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 09, 2014, 01:41:05 PM
Speaking of tea, in the last month or so I have developed a fanatical addiction to green tea, which I had formerly decided to hate. I just can't process all this change in my life.

if you brew it right, it's amazing. Brew it wrong, it's fucking disgusting.

are you using bags or loose leaf?

Both, but usually bags. Best with some white tea mixed in plus a HINT of like mango or something. Not enough to flavor it, just smooth out the natural flavor.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 09, 2014, 02:09:13 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 09:22:09 AM
I've spent a bracing morning reading about Le Veilleurs, Schwaller de Lubicz, Synarchy and interwar occult fascist movements.

It's more fun than filling in a job application form, anyway.

This was spurred on by reading The Stargate Conspiracy, which is despite the name actually quite interesting and fairly grounded.

Essentially, the book asks the question "what the hell is going on with this New Age Egyptology fetish all of a sudden" (this was in the late 1990s) and comes away with some pretty disturbing conclusions.

It also includes our old friends The Nine, for those who read the notes from Sinister Forces that I posted.  Essentially, the books authors trace the origins of The Nine, whatever they may be, back beyond Andrija Puharich and to Schwaller de Lubicz, an academic with a side interest in mystical fascism...and possibly Crowley (of course).

They come away with the conclusion that someone is trying to hijack New Age beliefs, mixing them with apocalyptic, fundamentalist Christianity and using these beliefs to take quite deliberate aim at Muslims and blacks.  Whether that's the intelligence community, mystical fascists or even The Nine (assuming one believes they really exist) is left up for the reader to decide.

Unfortunately, you have to go through quite a bit on the internal politics of the pyramidiots and Cydonian conspiracy types to get to the good stuff.  But it's worth it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on January 09, 2014, 02:12:42 PM
the key to good green tea is not using boiling water, but water that has been allowed to cool a bit, and do nevar oversteep.

I had a white tea with cherry flavours a while back that was fucking gorgeous.

I'm more of a flavoured black tea or herbal infusions kind of lass, myself but yea, I love tea generally, apart from bog standard builders black tea. if imma drink unflavoured black tea, I prefer a Assam, Ceylon or Darjeeling rather than blends.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on January 09, 2014, 02:13:52 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 02:09:13 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 09:22:09 AM
I've spent a bracing morning reading about Le Veilleurs, Schwaller de Lubicz, Synarchy and interwar occult fascist movements.

It's more fun than filling in a job application form, anyway.

This was spurred on by reading The Stargate Conspiracy, which is despite the name actually quite interesting and fairly grounded.

Essentially, the book asks the question "what the hell is going on with this New Age Egyptology fetish all of a sudden" (this was in the late 1990s) and comes away with some pretty disturbing conclusions.

It also includes our old friends The Nine, for those who read the notes from Sinister Forces that I posted.  Essentially, the books authors trace the origins of The Nine, whatever they may be, back beyond Andrija Puharich and to Schwaller de Lubicz, an academic with a side interest in mystical fascism...and possibly Crowley (of course).

They come away with the conclusion that someone is trying to hijack New Age beliefs, mixing them with apocalyptic, fundamentalist Christianity and using these beliefs to take quite deliberate aim at Muslims and blacks.  Whether that's the intelligence community, mystical fascists or even The Nine (assuming one believes they really exist) is left up for the reader to decide.

Unfortunately, you have to go through quite a bit on the internal politics of the pyramidiots and Cydonian conspiracy types to get to the good stuff.  But it's worth it.

Sounds interesting..
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 09, 2014, 02:22:27 PM
When you say "take quite deliberate aim", do you mean that it is anti-black and anti-muslim?

I'm going to have to read this someday, because I can't see how promoting Egyptology via New Age apocalyptic woo would do that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 09, 2014, 02:30:34 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 09, 2014, 02:22:27 PM
When you say "take quite deliberate aim", do you mean that it is anti-black and anti-muslim?

I'm going to have to read this someday, because I can't see how promoting Egyptology via New Age apocalyptic woo would do that.

Oh yes, very much so.

Well, apparently all races on earth were seeded by space alien gods...except black people, who are apparently a "control".  Race-mixing is apparently bad.  It's OK to nuke the Japanese because they are of the "4th race nervous system type" which is "defunct".  Islam is in thrall to the "dark ones" and shows signs of being philosophically influenced by the "dark ones".  A great battle between Light and Darkness is coming.  Jews denied Jesus as an Ascended Master (though the exact status of Jews tends to vary, with some saying they are also in thrall to the dark ones, and others saying they're cool, once they accept Jesus).

You basically combine Blavatsky with The Nine's own disturbing racial pronouncements and...well, a particular kind of political philosophy seems to be advocated.  It starts with a N and ends in -azism.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 09, 2014, 02:49:44 PM
That's a rather... interesting... theology.  It's been a while since 1990 (which is disturbing to me, personally), do you feel this ever gained much traction?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 09, 2014, 02:57:42 PM
Oh yes, absolutely.  However, since quite a few of them pinned their hopes on the year 2000, there was a subsequent hit to those beliefs...but they are very firmly entrenched within the New Age philosophy, with its love of syncretism and hatred of research or coherency.  A lot of The Stargate Conspiracy involves doing basic research on where people like Graham Hancock got things wildly wrong...not just according to the science and available knowledge, but even according to his own theories.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 09, 2014, 03:04:06 PM
I love tea. I have to cut back my tea intake, I drink waaaayyyy too much tea.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:05:18 PM
Chai Tea latte or GTFO.

Cain,
beverage philistine
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 09, 2014, 03:06:13 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 02:57:42 PM
Oh yes, absolutely.  However, since quite a few of them pinned their hopes on the year 2000, there was a subsequent hit to those beliefs...but they are very firmly entrenched within the New Age philosophy, with its love of syncretism and hatred of research or coherency.  A lot of The Stargate Conspiracy involves doing basic research on where people like Graham Hancock got things wildly wrong...not just according to the science and available knowledge, but even according to his own theories.

I had no idea there was a new age pack of bigots floating around for the past 20 years.

WHY AREN'T WE TROLLING THEM?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:08:11 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 09, 2014, 03:06:13 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 02:57:42 PM
Oh yes, absolutely.  However, since quite a few of them pinned their hopes on the year 2000, there was a subsequent hit to those beliefs...but they are very firmly entrenched within the New Age philosophy, with its love of syncretism and hatred of research or coherency.  A lot of The Stargate Conspiracy involves doing basic research on where people like Graham Hancock got things wildly wrong...not just according to the science and available knowledge, but even according to his own theories.

I had no idea there was a new age pack of bigots floating around for the past 20 years.

WHY AREN'T WE TROLLING THEM?

What do you think we were doing on MW and TCC?

I just think we didn't realise quite how widespread or deep the bigotry went.  Like most New Agers, in fact.

I may throw up a thread on this exact topic.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 09, 2014, 03:19:30 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:05:18 PM
Chai Tea latte or GTFO.

Cain,
beverage philistine

If anything is in thrall to the Dark Ones, it's fucking chai tea. Gross.

Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 09, 2014, 03:04:06 PM
I love tea. I have to cut back my tea intake, I drink waaaayyyy too much tea.

I've tried to quit but I can't. The ritual part of preparing decent tea is encroaching and slowly displacing my smoking habit, so that's good I suppose.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 09, 2014, 03:20:22 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 09, 2014, 03:04:06 PM
I love tea. I have to cut back my tea intake, I drink waaaayyyy too much tea.

It can cause kidney stones. :/ Especially if you drink rich black teas. If you're more into green tea and lighter herbals, not so much, but they can still be very dehydrating. Which sucks of course, because tea is worlds better than coffee, imo.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 09, 2014, 03:21:31 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:08:11 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 09, 2014, 03:06:13 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 02:57:42 PM
Oh yes, absolutely.  However, since quite a few of them pinned their hopes on the year 2000, there was a subsequent hit to those beliefs...but they are very firmly entrenched within the New Age philosophy, with its love of syncretism and hatred of research or coherency.  A lot of The Stargate Conspiracy involves doing basic research on where people like Graham Hancock got things wildly wrong...not just according to the science and available knowledge, but even according to his own theories.

I had no idea there was a new age pack of bigots floating around for the past 20 years.

WHY AREN'T WE TROLLING THEM?

What do you think we were doing on MW and TCC?

I just think we didn't realise quite how widespread or deep the bigotry went.  Like most New Agers, in fact.

I may throw up a thread on this exact topic.

I thought they were just dumb.  You mean they were quite possibly pawns in some shadowy political group?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on January 09, 2014, 03:23:08 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:05:18 PM
Chai Tea latte or GTFO.

Cain,
beverage philistine

I fucking love chai. even the frothy shit you  get at coffee chains that's made with powder.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:24:09 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 09, 2014, 03:21:31 PM
You mean they were quite possibly pawns in some shadowy political group?

Isn't everyone?  For a given value of shadowy, of course.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on January 09, 2014, 03:24:17 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 09, 2014, 03:20:22 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 09, 2014, 03:04:06 PM
I love tea. I have to cut back my tea intake, I drink waaaayyyy too much tea.

It can cause kidney stones. :/ Especially if you drink rich black teas. If you're more into green tea and lighter herbals, not so much, but they can still be very dehydrating. Which sucks of course, because tea is worlds better than coffee, imo.

I've got a 5 cup a day habit, but i mix it up with tisanes (technical name for herbal tea)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on January 09, 2014, 03:24:59 PM
and yea, sometimes I mix the loose tisanes with black tea.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 09, 2014, 03:25:57 PM
I'm in it for the theanine. I'm trying to find the strongest possible theanine content because I feel like it might induce a zombie-like trance state in which I no longer care about the skyrocketing costs of my company's health care plans.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:25:58 PM
Quote from: Pixie on January 09, 2014, 03:23:08 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:05:18 PM
Chai Tea latte or GTFO.

Cain,
beverage philistine

I fucking love chai. even the frothy shit you  get at coffee chains that's made with powder.

I have a coffee machine which I make all my chai lattes with.  The Tassimo/Twinnings stuff is pretty nice, actually.  Smooth and fragrant.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:26:41 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 09, 2014, 03:25:57 PM
I'm in it for the theanine. I'm trying to find the strongest possible theanine content because I feel like it might induce a zombie-like trance state in which I no longer care about the skyrocketing costs of my company's health care plans.

I have European Union policy papers for that.  Cheaper, too.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on January 09, 2014, 03:28:49 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:25:58 PM
Quote from: Pixie on January 09, 2014, 03:23:08 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:05:18 PM
Chai Tea latte or GTFO.

Cain,
beverage philistine

I fucking love chai. even the frothy shit you  get at coffee chains that's made with powder.

I have a coffee machine which I make all my chai lattes with.  The Tassimo/Twinnings stuff is pretty nice, actually.  Smooth and fragrant.

I tend to brew it like a average black tea and add a teeny bit of milk so it looks like coffee. With sugar.

Traditional chai making methods just seems like arseache.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 09, 2014, 03:42:32 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:26:41 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 09, 2014, 03:25:57 PM
I'm in it for the theanine. I'm trying to find the strongest possible theanine content because I feel like it might induce a zombie-like trance state in which I no longer care about the skyrocketing costs of my company's health care plans.

I have European Union policy papers for that.  Cheaper, too.

:lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 09, 2014, 05:27:41 PM
The alternative/new-age fucktards in norway are making pedo accusations against people in the skeptic community. Shitstorms all the way.
I hate new-agers with the passion of a thousand mohammad alis.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 09, 2014, 05:36:04 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 09, 2014, 05:27:41 PM
The alternative/new-age fucktards in norway are making pedo accusations against people in the skeptic community. Shitstorms all the way.
I hate new-agers with the passion of a thousand mohammad alis.

I hate Causes in general.  They do that sort of thing to primates.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 09, 2014, 06:06:10 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:05:18 PM
Chai Tea latte or GTFO.

Cain,
beverage philistine

I like chai lattes, but one has enough calories to count as a full meal.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 09, 2014, 06:14:53 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 05:36:04 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 09, 2014, 05:27:41 PM
The alternative/new-age fucktards in norway are making pedo accusations against people in the skeptic community. Shitstorms all the way.
I hate new-agers with the passion of a thousand mohammad alis.

I hate Causes in general.  They do that sort of thing to primates.

"The movement is more important the people"........ Makes you want to set them on fire!
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 09, 2014, 06:21:31 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 09, 2014, 06:14:53 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 05:36:04 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 09, 2014, 05:27:41 PM
The alternative/new-age fucktards in norway are making pedo accusations against people in the skeptic community. Shitstorms all the way.
I hate new-agers with the passion of a thousand mohammad alis.

I hate Causes in general.  They do that sort of thing to primates.

"The movement is more important the people"........ Makes you want to set them on fire!

I need to set something on fire. Preferably the Cause people.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:25:21 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 09, 2014, 06:21:31 PM

I need to set something on fire. Preferably the Cause people.

But, being Norwegian, anything will do.   :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 09, 2014, 06:28:10 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 09, 2014, 03:20:22 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 09, 2014, 03:04:06 PM
I love tea. I have to cut back my tea intake, I drink waaaayyyy too much tea.

It can cause kidney stones. :/ Especially if you drink rich black teas. If you're more into green tea and lighter herbals, not so much, but they can still be very dehydrating. Which sucks of course, because tea is worlds better than coffee, imo.

Drinking black tea reduces the risk of kidney stones in women. http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=711282

The myth that tea contributes to kidney stone formation is based solely on its oxalic acid content, not on research into the effects of consumption. Even if the oxalic acid content was a concern, adding milk helps the body process it.

Luckily I'm not prone to kidney stones anyway, though.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:30:33 PM
So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.

I'm pretty fucking proud of him right now.

So is the USMC, apparently.  They'll be giving him 3 weeks convalescent leave in February, a month before he goes to Okinawa.  So I'll have him back for more time than I expected.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 09, 2014, 06:36:12 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 09, 2014, 06:06:10 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:05:18 PM
Chai Tea latte or GTFO.

Cain,
beverage philistine

I like chai lattes, but one has enough calories to count as a full meal.

That's perfect for me.  I'm hardly eating of late, but I'm drinking loads. 

Actually, these are about 90 calories, which is less than I expected.  Still wouldn't want to have more than 10 a day, but it's fairly manageable.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 09, 2014, 06:37:08 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:30:33 PM
So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.

I'm pretty fucking proud of him right now.

So is the USMC, apparently.  They'll be giving him 3 weeks convalescent leave in February, a month before he goes to Okinawa.  So I'll have him back for more time than I expected.
Serious kudos to that man. I'd be proud as fuck too. Hope all goes well for everyone.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 09, 2014, 06:37:32 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:30:33 PM
So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.

I'm pretty fucking proud of him right now.

So is the USMC, apparently.  They'll be giving him 3 weeks convalescent leave in February, a month before he goes to Okinawa.  So I'll have him back for more time than I expected.

Tell him that some spag he's never met is also really proud of him.


You helped raise a good kid.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 09, 2014, 06:38:17 PM
Your son is amazing, DOUR.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:42:55 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 09, 2014, 06:37:32 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:30:33 PM
So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.

I'm pretty fucking proud of him right now.

So is the USMC, apparently.  They'll be giving him 3 weeks convalescent leave in February, a month before he goes to Okinawa.  So I'll have him back for more time than I expected.

Tell him that some spag he's never met is also really proud of him.


You helped raise a good kid.

Yeah, I'm proud of him for being tough enough for the marines, etc...But what I'm really proud of in both kids is that they're essentially good people.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 09, 2014, 06:57:55 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:25:21 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 09, 2014, 06:21:31 PM

I need to set something on fire. Preferably the Cause people.

But, being Norwegian, anything will do.   :lulz:

Yep.

(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s131/Slesk/IMG_1097_zpsd6a29b32.jpg)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 09, 2014, 06:58:24 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 09, 2014, 06:37:32 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:30:33 PM
So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.

I'm pretty fucking proud of him right now.

So is the USMC, apparently.  They'll be giving him 3 weeks convalescent leave in February, a month before he goes to Okinawa.  So I'll have him back for more time than I expected.

Tell him that some spag he's never met is also really proud of him.


You helped raise a good kid.

THIS.

He's doing a truly beautiful thing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: hooplala on January 09, 2014, 06:59:31 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 09, 2014, 06:37:32 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:30:33 PM
So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.

I'm pretty fucking proud of him right now.

So is the USMC, apparently.  They'll be giving him 3 weeks convalescent leave in February, a month before he goes to Okinawa.  So I'll have him back for more time than I expected.

Tell him that some spag he's never met is also really proud of him.


You helped raise a good kid.

Two spags.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 09, 2014, 07:29:52 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:30:33 PM
So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.

I'm pretty fucking proud of him right now.

So is the USMC, apparently.  They'll be giving him 3 weeks convalescent leave in February, a month before he goes to Okinawa.  So I'll have him back for more time than I expected.

Mighty fine semen you got there brah!
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 09, 2014, 07:31:39 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 09, 2014, 06:57:55 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:25:21 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 09, 2014, 06:21:31 PM

I need to set something on fire. Preferably the Cause people.

But, being Norwegian, anything will do.   :lulz:

Yep.

(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s131/Slesk/IMG_1097_zpsd6a29b32.jpg)

Is that a hippie?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 09, 2014, 07:41:27 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 12:02:30 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 09, 2014, 03:30:20 AM

And tonight, Villager told me she hates Boston,

Bring her to Tucson for 10 days.  We'll fix that shit.

:spittake:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 09, 2014, 07:42:46 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 09, 2014, 07:41:27 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 12:02:30 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 09, 2014, 03:30:20 AM

And tonight, Villager told me she hates Boston,

Bring her to Tucson Seguin for 10 days.  We'll fix that shit.

:spittake:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 09, 2014, 07:44:03 PM
 :lulz:


Also Roger, your kid's awesome.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 09, 2014, 08:29:30 PM
The only thing I don't like about Germany is that they use a different time than we do back home.  It's 9:30 PM here, for fuck's sake, when everyone knows it's 1:30 PM.

Europeans always feel they have to do things differently, just to be special.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 09, 2014, 08:30:07 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 09, 2014, 06:59:31 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 09, 2014, 06:37:32 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:30:33 PM
So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.

I'm pretty fucking proud of him right now.

So is the USMC, apparently.  They'll be giving him 3 weeks convalescent leave in February, a month before he goes to Okinawa.  So I'll have him back for more time than I expected.

Tell him that some spag he's never met is also really proud of him.


You helped raise a good kid.

Two spags.

Three and a half spags (I need to go running more).
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 09, 2014, 08:30:54 PM
Also, everything is in 3 languages.

Ladies, did you know that "shower cap" in French is "bonnet de douche"?

So now you have THAT on your head.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Enrico Salazar on January 09, 2014, 08:32:46 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 08:30:54 PM
"bonnet de douche"

Was Enrico's nickname in hi-...

Deja vu.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 09, 2014, 08:35:45 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:30:33 PM
So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.

I'm pretty fucking proud of him right now.

So is the USMC, apparently.  They'll be giving him 3 weeks convalescent leave in February, a month before he goes to Okinawa.  So I'll have him back for more time than I expected.

Wow, that's INCREDIBLY cool. Way to go, kid!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 09, 2014, 08:37:02 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 06:36:12 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 09, 2014, 06:06:10 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:05:18 PM
Chai Tea latte or GTFO.

Cain,
beverage philistine

I like chai lattes, but one has enough calories to count as a full meal.

That's perfect for me.  I'm hardly eating of late, but I'm drinking loads. 

Actually, these are about 90 calories, which is less than I expected.  Still wouldn't want to have more than 10 a day, but it's fairly manageable.

Whoa

the ones from the coffee shop are about 300 for a medium-size one.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 09, 2014, 08:37:48 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 09, 2014, 07:31:39 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 09, 2014, 06:57:55 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:25:21 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 09, 2014, 06:21:31 PM

I need to set something on fire. Preferably the Cause people.

But, being Norwegian, anything will do.   :lulz:

Yep.

(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s131/Slesk/IMG_1097_zpsd6a29b32.jpg)

Is that a hippie?

yeah. The anti-semitic motherfucker running the biggest new age shop in norway. I wish.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 09, 2014, 08:50:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 09, 2014, 08:37:02 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 06:36:12 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 09, 2014, 06:06:10 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:05:18 PM
Chai Tea latte or GTFO.

Cain,
beverage philistine

I like chai lattes, but one has enough calories to count as a full meal.

That's perfect for me.  I'm hardly eating of late, but I'm drinking loads. 

Actually, these are about 90 calories, which is less than I expected.  Still wouldn't want to have more than 10 a day, but it's fairly manageable.

Whoa

the ones from the coffee shop are about 300 for a medium-size one.

Damn.  These are probably cheaper too, since they cost about $1 per drink.  I mean, that's still pretty expensive, but much much less than coffee shop bought stuff.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 09, 2014, 08:58:14 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:30:33 PM
So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.

I'm pretty fucking proud of him right now.

So is the USMC, apparently.  They'll be giving him 3 weeks convalescent leave in February, a month before he goes to Okinawa.  So I'll have him back for more time than I expected.
Your son is good people.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 09, 2014, 09:03:52 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:30:33 PM
So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.

I'm pretty fucking proud of him right now.

So is the USMC, apparently.  They'll be giving him 3 weeks convalescent leave in February, a month before he goes to Okinawa.  So I'll have him back for more time than I expected.

This is multiple-level FANTASTIC.  8)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 09, 2014, 09:06:46 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:30:33 PM
So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.

I'm pretty fucking proud of him right now.

So is the USMC, apparently.  They'll be giving him 3 weeks convalescent leave in February, a month before he goes to Okinawa.  So I'll have him back for more time than I expected.

Have I told you lately how fucking awesome your son is?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 09, 2014, 09:19:39 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 08:50:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 09, 2014, 08:37:02 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 06:36:12 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 09, 2014, 06:06:10 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:05:18 PM
Chai Tea latte or GTFO.

Cain,
beverage philistine

I like chai lattes, but one has enough calories to count as a full meal.

That's perfect for me.  I'm hardly eating of late, but I'm drinking loads. 

Actually, these are about 90 calories, which is less than I expected.  Still wouldn't want to have more than 10 a day, but it's fairly manageable.

Whoa

the ones from the coffee shop are about 300 for a medium-size one.

Damn.  These are probably cheaper too, since they cost about $1 per drink.  I mean, that's still pretty expensive, but much much less than coffee shop bought stuff.

It sounds like we're paying by the calorie, here.  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 09, 2014, 09:52:32 PM
I am just kinda chugging along here. That blowup on FB now shakes lose my last bit of mooring other than my son and my sister.

I am grateful for them, and I an grateful for all of you. You help me feel less alone, and right now that is pretty god damned valuable to me.

I do not stay overwhelmingly positive, the reality is my life still isnt all that terrible.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 09, 2014, 09:57:26 PM
I do not have much substance on my mind though.

I am trying Brahmacharya, yoga celibacy. In part to see if there is any inherent benefit, and in part to keep myself stable.

So far the lack of concern about sex is already set in and I feel relieved.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Freeky on January 09, 2014, 11:01:40 PM
Good on yer, Alty.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 09, 2014, 11:10:09 PM
That's an awesome idea! We loves you, Alty!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 09, 2014, 11:12:22 PM
The other people in my evaluation of argument class are not very good at following directions.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Freeky on January 10, 2014, 12:44:40 AM
Why, what are they doing?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Telarus on January 10, 2014, 12:55:30 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 09, 2014, 03:21:31 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:08:11 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 09, 2014, 03:06:13 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 02:57:42 PM
Oh yes, absolutely.  However, since quite a few of them pinned their hopes on the year 2000, there was a subsequent hit to those beliefs...but they are very firmly entrenched within the New Age philosophy, with its love of syncretism and hatred of research or coherency.  A lot of The Stargate Conspiracy involves doing basic research on where people like Graham Hancock got things wildly wrong...not just according to the science and available knowledge, but even according to his own theories.

I had no idea there was a new age pack of bigots floating around for the past 20 years.

WHY AREN'T WE TROLLING THEM?

What do you think we were doing on MW and TCC?

I just think we didn't realise quite how widespread or deep the bigotry went.  Like most New Agers, in fact.

I may throw up a thread on this exact topic.

I thought they were just dumb.  You mean they were quite possibly pawns in some shadowy political group?

Oh shit. Do you remember how "Lena" reacted when I outted that she was associated with that CRAZY South African blog?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Freeky on January 10, 2014, 12:56:31 AM
What?  No. Tell!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Telarus on January 10, 2014, 01:03:29 AM
VERY cool of your son to do that Rog. Very impressed.


@ Feaky: I'll have to check my notes when I get back home, but it was on wicca.com.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 10, 2014, 01:41:57 AM
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on January 10, 2014, 12:44:40 AM
Why, what are they doing?

All kinds of things that are not at all what the assignment says to do.  :lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 10, 2014, 02:05:33 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 08:30:54 PM
Also, everything is in 3 languages.

Ladies, did you know that "shower cap" in French is "bonnet de douche"?

So now you have THAT on your head.

At some point I'll partially forget that and call somebody a "douche bonnet".
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 10, 2014, 02:15:26 AM
Quote from: Telarus on January 10, 2014, 12:55:30 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 09, 2014, 03:21:31 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 03:08:11 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 09, 2014, 03:06:13 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 02:57:42 PM
Oh yes, absolutely.  However, since quite a few of them pinned their hopes on the year 2000, there was a subsequent hit to those beliefs...but they are very firmly entrenched within the New Age philosophy, with its love of syncretism and hatred of research or coherency.  A lot of The Stargate Conspiracy involves doing basic research on where people like Graham Hancock got things wildly wrong...not just according to the science and available knowledge, but even according to his own theories.

I had no idea there was a new age pack of bigots floating around for the past 20 years.

WHY AREN'T WE TROLLING THEM?

What do you think we were doing on MW and TCC?

I just think we didn't realise quite how widespread or deep the bigotry went.  Like most New Agers, in fact.

I may throw up a thread on this exact topic.

I thought they were just dumb.  You mean they were quite possibly pawns in some shadowy political group?

Oh shit. Do you remember how "Lena" reacted when I outted that she was associated with that CRAZY South African blog?

I bump up against that shit ALL THE TIME.
And it's cult-like. If you question them or correct them on anything, you "need to respect their beliefs".

And yes. THREAD. PLEASE.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Telarus on January 10, 2014, 02:45:28 AM
I remember it because I first posted in OM about it, and then she let slip (over at TCC) that she could view OM via Google searches. When I threw some of the meme key-words from the blog at her over @ wicca.com, she got all sorts of paranoid and started trying... well "passwords" on me, for lack of a better term.

I'm home now, so I'll look for the thread.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 10, 2014, 03:00:38 AM
Quote from: Telarus on January 10, 2014, 02:45:28 AM
I remember it because I first posted in OM about it, and then she let slip (over at TCC) that she could view OM via Google searches. When I threw some of the meme key-words from the blog at her over @ wicca.com, she got all sorts of paranoid and started trying... well "passwords" on me, for lack of a better term.

I'm home now, so I'll look for the thread.

Thanks.

Holy fuck.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 10, 2014, 03:33:04 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 10, 2014, 02:05:33 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 08:30:54 PM
Also, everything is in 3 languages.

Ladies, did you know that "shower cap" in French is "bonnet de douche"?

So now you have THAT on your head.

At some point I'll partially forget that and call somebody a "douche bonnet".

I need to use this effective immediately. It sounds all the more classier than "douche canoe."
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 10, 2014, 04:30:26 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:30:33 PM
So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.

I'm pretty fucking proud of him right now.

So is the USMC, apparently.  They'll be giving him 3 weeks convalescent leave in February, a month before he goes to Okinawa.  So I'll have him back for more time than I expected.

That is god damn amazeballs. Your son rocks.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 10, 2014, 04:41:18 AM
YOU MIGHT THINK ALLCAPS ALTY IS DRUNK.

PERHAPS A LITTLE, BUT IT ONLY SERVES TO LOOSEN THE GRIP ON MY ETERNAL HATRED FOR YOU ALL.

WHICH DIFFERS FROM TGRR HATE IN THIS WAY:

HE WANTS ALLA YOUSE MONKEYS OFF HIS PLANET.

I, MEANWHILE, HAVE NO INTENTION OF LETTING YOU OFF SO EASY.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 10, 2014, 04:53:29 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 10, 2014, 04:41:18 AM
YOU MIGHT THINK ALLCAPS ALTY IS DRUNK.

PERHAPS A LITTLE, BUT IT ONLY SERVES TO LOOSEN THE GRIP ON MY ETERNAL HATRED FOR YOU ALL.

WHICH DIFFERS FROM TGRR HATE IN THIS WAY:

HE WANTS ALLA YOUSE MONKEYS OFF HIS PLANET.

I, MEANWHILE, HAVE NO INTENTION OF LETTING YOU OFF SO EASY.

We love you too, Alty. In that special way. With the flanges.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 10, 2014, 04:59:15 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 10, 2014, 04:53:29 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 10, 2014, 04:41:18 AM
YOU MIGHT THINK ALLCAPS ALTY IS DRUNK.

PERHAPS A LITTLE, BUT IT ONLY SERVES TO LOOSEN THE GRIP ON MY ETERNAL HATRED FOR YOU ALL.

WHICH DIFFERS FROM TGRR HATE IN THIS WAY:

HE WANTS ALLA YOUSE MONKEYS OFF HIS PLANET.

I, MEANWHILE, HAVE NO INTENTION OF LETTING YOU OFF SO EASY.

We love you too, Alty. In that special way. With the flanges.

There is no other way to love.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 10, 2014, 05:01:08 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 10, 2014, 04:59:15 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 10, 2014, 04:53:29 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 10, 2014, 04:41:18 AM
YOU MIGHT THINK ALLCAPS ALTY IS DRUNK.

PERHAPS A LITTLE, BUT IT ONLY SERVES TO LOOSEN THE GRIP ON MY ETERNAL HATRED FOR YOU ALL.

WHICH DIFFERS FROM TGRR HATE IN THIS WAY:

HE WANTS ALLA YOUSE MONKEYS OFF HIS PLANET.

I, MEANWHILE, HAVE NO INTENTION OF LETTING YOU OFF SO EASY.

We love you too, Alty. In that special way. With the flanges.

There is no other way to love.

Unless you're a strictly gay man. They don't like flanges.

Unless they're guitarists with an ear towards interesting effects.

Twid,
Confused now, by 21st Century English
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 10, 2014, 07:55:09 AM
I just got asked what the USA did to hurt me.

Achievement unlocked?

Twid,
Actually felt American and Angry As Shit when that happened. And honestly still angry as shit about it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 10, 2014, 08:00:04 AM
I want to out-American this fucker.

I also want to Irish everywhere.

That is to say, just beat the shit out of him and then produce spurious paperwork to legitimize it.

It is weird though. Bastard made me feel patriotic towards the US.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 10, 2014, 09:10:21 AM
linky/context?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 10, 2014, 09:24:59 AM
Quote from: :regret: on January 10, 2014, 09:10:21 AM
linky/context?

Is on the FB of a teacher from my old high school. Not sure if he has it set to private.

The short of it is this teacher is largely typically left (except for his weird position on executing drug dealers, which admittedly all came down to "you're retarded" and "wait til you're a dad"), and very union. He posted a Louis D. Brandeis quote to the effect that democracy and concentration of wealth are incompatible.

I mentioned that the US was a plutonomic republic and some dude with an avatar of Reagan (seriously who has avatars of politicians?) started asking about confiscation.

Considering how retarded the postiion of "confiscation" is and my tendency to get a bit crazy eyed about that, the results are probably predictable from that point on.

But at one point I was asked about what the USA did to hurt me. My response was essentially "Um. Nothing. ANd that's fucked up you apparently anti-American fuck")
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on January 10, 2014, 11:01:19 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 09, 2014, 06:28:10 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 09, 2014, 03:20:22 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 09, 2014, 03:04:06 PM
I love tea. I have to cut back my tea intake, I drink waaaayyyy too much tea.

It can cause kidney stones. :/ Especially if you drink rich black teas. If you're more into green tea and lighter herbals, not so much, but they can still be very dehydrating. Which sucks of course, because tea is worlds better than coffee, imo.

Drinking black tea reduces the risk of kidney stones in women. http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=711282

The myth that tea contributes to kidney stone formation is based solely on its oxalic acid content, not on research into the effects of consumption. Even if the oxalic acid content was a concern, adding milk helps the body process it.

Luckily I'm not prone to kidney stones anyway, though.

I always has milk with my black tea.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on January 10, 2014, 11:05:31 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 09, 2014, 08:30:07 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 09, 2014, 06:59:31 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 09, 2014, 06:37:32 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:30:33 PM
So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.

I'm pretty fucking proud of him right now.

So is the USMC, apparently.  They'll be giving him 3 weeks convalescent leave in February, a month before he goes to Okinawa.  So I'll have him back for more time than I expected.

Tell him that some spag he's never met is also really proud of him.


You helped raise a good kid.

Two spags.

Three and a half spags (I need to go running more).

Haha, add me and it counts as 5.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 10, 2014, 12:17:31 PM
Quote from: Telarus on January 10, 2014, 12:55:30 AM
Oh shit. Do you remember how "Lena" reacted when I outted that she was associated with that CRAZY South African blog?

I do, that was fun.  For those who don't, start here (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,21957.30.html).
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 10, 2014, 12:25:47 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 10, 2014, 12:17:31 PM
I do, that was fun.  For those who don't, start here (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,21957.30.html).

I've started a new thread for this discussion here (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,36050.new.html#new).
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Telarus on January 10, 2014, 04:49:03 PM
Ah, I don't think I would have found that. Thanks Cain!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 10, 2014, 05:02:02 PM
Suu, your FB friends suck at pedantry.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 10, 2014, 10:08:19 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 08, 2014, 04:48:02 PM
Writing about Thailand.  Boring.  Boooooooooring.  Not least because it's for a "respectable" publication, and so I cannot describe it the ongoing political crisis as a turf war between the world's two most boring, aged gangs.  Which is exactly what it is.

I can't wait to trot this one out the next time we go visit ECHGF's family. Some of them are borderline fanatical supporters of the king. It'll be juicy payback for them making me watch his interminable parade and speech on a bad stream feed of Thai TV last month. :lulz:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 10, 2014, 10:14:03 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 09, 2014, 01:41:05 PM
Speaking of tea, in the last month or so I have developed a fanatical addiction to green tea, which I had formerly decided to hate. I just can't process all this change in my life.

"Green Tea" is a fucking myth. They only call it that because "pencil shavings" didn't play well in the marketing tests.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 10, 2014, 10:14:37 PM
If you really want the fireworks to fly, mention how much of an awesome king you'd think the Crown Prince will make.  Bonus points if you suggest he promote his dog from Air Chief Marshal to Supreme Commander of the Thai Air Force.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 10, 2014, 10:23:28 PM
Oh, I've already heard ALL about the crown prince. Apparently, the loyalist position boils down to "we just have to hope the king never dies". Watching him try to gargle out his barely coherent ramblings in his national speech, I don't think their position is very tenable.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 10, 2014, 10:38:24 PM
Yeah, as long-term plans go, putting your bets on a man who has ruled for 67 years is never a good one.

I believe some of the Privy Council are looking at the Princess, though my understanding of the 1924 Palace Law is that while it's not forbidden for them to do so, it's not exactly explictly stated either, and that the Crown Prince, simply by virtue of his title, has good grounds to contest.

Not to mention he's in deep debt to Thaksin, who no doubt sees the benefit of having a King owing him one.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 11, 2014, 01:54:51 AM
It's kind of bumming me out that, in a college with over 50% black enrollment, there is literally not even one other black person in either chemistry or biology at my class level. I looked at the other classes, just to be sure.
:sad:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 11, 2014, 01:55:37 AM
Why do you suppose that is?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 11, 2014, 03:02:07 AM
Just met some hippie globetrotter midlife Crisis Eartha clone.

She has been to the North coast of Spain.  Not kidding.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 11, 2014, 05:00:16 AM
There's a northern part that juts out away from France. It's coastline.
But my money is still on cray-cray.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 11, 2014, 11:31:06 AM
The north coast of Spain is actually pretty nice.  Beautiful views over the Bay of Biscay, accessible mountains and virtually untouched ancient castles.

Kill her.  The secret cannot get out.  It's the only place in Spain I can tolerate the temperature and not run into fucking English tourists everywhere.  Kill her now.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 11, 2014, 02:17:44 PM
I can't remember which thread it was that we were talking about hats, but here's this:
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/brand-thats-not-a-fedora-and-stop-wearing-it/
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 11, 2014, 06:28:37 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 11, 2014, 01:55:37 AM
Why do you suppose that is?

I think there are a lot of ingrained cultural messages that basically tell black people that they aren't cut out to be scientists. They aren't encouraged in math, there are few visible black representations in math and science, and at the community college level we are mostly talking about poor black kids from poor black schools, so they were severely shortchanged at the elementary school level. My guess is that the #1 reason I don't see black faces in my classes is because they are intimidated by the math required to go on to the "serious" chemistry and biology courses. They feel like they just can't do it... even though, like every other class they may take, it is simply a matter of taking the classes that lead up to it. If you can pass math 95, you can pass 111, and then 112, and then 253/254. But math is mystified, and black students are given the message at the elementary level that they aren't up for it. Teachers expect less of black students.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 11, 2014, 06:34:38 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 11, 2014, 02:17:44 PM
I can't remember which thread it was that we were talking about hats, but here's this:
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/brand-thats-not-a-fedora-and-stop-wearing-it/

Those are TOTALLY the hats east-coast douchebags wear. They are totally not a thing here and I wish people would stop talking about them. Someone mentioned them last night and I was like, listen, have you EVER actually seen a dude wearing a Trilby anywhere but the Internet?

I think people are just repeating the "it's not a Fedora" meme because they saw it on the internet. NOBODY FUCKING WEARS TRILBIES HERE. NOBODY THINKS THEY'RE FEDORAS, BECAUSE NOBODY WEARS THEM. They are the domain of East Coast douchebags and bros.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 11, 2014, 06:39:31 PM
Yeah, I just asked my housemates whether they have EVER IN THEIR LIVES seen a person in real life wearing a Trilby. Answers: "No", and "My grandpa in Boston".
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 11, 2014, 06:52:00 PM
Pretty sure I own both.

:lulz:

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 11, 2014, 07:10:18 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 11, 2014, 03:02:07 AM
Just met some hippie globetrotter midlife Crisis Eartha clone.

She has been to the North coast of Spain.  Not kidding.

As long as it wasn't the North coast of India.  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 11, 2014, 07:10:51 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 11, 2014, 06:52:00 PM
Pretty sure I own both.

:lulz:

Is the Trilby plaid?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 11, 2014, 07:43:21 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 11, 2014, 07:10:51 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 11, 2014, 06:52:00 PM
Pretty sure I own both.

:lulz:

Is the Trilby plaid?

No, it is black with a gold flower print band and a large fake white flower.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 11, 2014, 08:53:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 11, 2014, 02:17:44 PM
I can't remember which thread it was that we were talking about hats, but here's this:
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/brand-thats-not-a-fedora-and-stop-wearing-it/

QuoteA trilby on a big man looks like the reservoir tip on a condom.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:23:50 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 11, 2014, 08:53:42 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 11, 2014, 02:17:44 PM
I can't remember which thread it was that we were talking about hats, but here's this:
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/brand-thats-not-a-fedora-and-stop-wearing-it/

QuoteA trilby on a big man looks like the reservoir tip on a condom.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

Hehehe. Good article.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Lenin McCarthy on January 11, 2014, 11:46:55 PM
Ariel Sharon is dead, and I'm pretty happy because he sent a friend of mine's uncle (while he was about to have Sharon investigated for corruption) on a suicide mission (that he survived) to South Lebanon a few years ago.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 11, 2014, 11:59:58 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 09, 2014, 06:30:33 PM
So, my son has apparently come up as a match for bone marrow for a very sick 19 year old girl in Canada.  So he's going to DC in February, to endure the glory that is a marrow tap (agonizing, and the drugs make you ill).  For some kid he doesn't even know.


Wow!

Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Eep... Here's hoping it's still some annoyingly swollen gland. *Crosses fingers*

I/we seem to be hitting the nice sunny uplands of what passes for mental stability here.
So back here, catching up. 
Hope I'm still welcome-and sure I'll be told if not.

...Since I ended the new year by being bitten by a concussed raccoon, and will get rabies shot #4 on Tuesday...I'm hoping for a WAY better year this year.
Better me, better health, better attitude, better job.

It's a new year...time to kick names and take ass.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 12, 2014, 01:50:25 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Chances are it's just a growth or fibroma of some kind. Don't worry if you don't have to.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 03:36:56 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 12, 2014, 01:50:25 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Chances are it's just a growth or fibroma of some kind. Don't worry if you don't have to.

Don't even care. It's just annoyingly itchy and starting to show under my shirts. Also, I hate doctors like the plague upon humanity that they are . . . in my paranoia-infused fantasy world.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 03:38:07 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 03:36:56 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 12, 2014, 01:50:25 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Chances are it's just a growth or fibroma of some kind. Don't worry if you don't have to.

Don't even care. It's just annoyingly itchy and starting to show under my shirts. Also, I hate doctors like the plague upon humanity that they are . . . in my paranoia-infused fantasy world.

By which I mean to ALSO say, thank you for the advice. :)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 12, 2014, 03:57:18 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

That's scary. I had a lumpectomy a few years ago, if you have any questions I'm here. Also if you just want to have a lumpectomy under local and not deal with general anaesthesia and all that entails, it's TOTALLY ok to do that and don't let them talk you into general if you don't want to do it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 12, 2014, 03:59:09 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 03:36:56 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 12, 2014, 01:50:25 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Chances are it's just a growth or fibroma of some kind. Don't worry if you don't have to.

Don't even care. It's just annoyingly itchy and starting to show under my shirts. Also, I hate doctors like the plague upon humanity that they are . . . in my paranoia-infused fantasy world.

Yeah, it's itchy and growing fast, get it removed and biopsied ASAP.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 04:03:38 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 12, 2014, 03:59:09 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 03:36:56 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 12, 2014, 01:50:25 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Chances are it's just a growth or fibroma of some kind. Don't worry if you don't have to.

Don't even care. It's just annoyingly itchy and starting to show under my shirts. Also, I hate doctors like the plague upon humanity that they are . . . in my paranoia-infused fantasy world.

Yeah, it's itchy and growing fast, get it removed and biopsied ASAP.

I took a nap earlier and had a dream that the doctor was trying to force me to have a whole drawn-out surgery to get it removed. $$ upon $$. I said screw that and borrowed his scalpel and removed it myself. Which is what I was tempted to do in the first place but my roommates think I'm nuts. I might possibly be but I really hate constant itching. Pain I can ignore but not itchy.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 12, 2014, 04:14:46 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 04:03:38 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 12, 2014, 03:59:09 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 03:36:56 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 12, 2014, 01:50:25 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Chances are it's just a growth or fibroma of some kind. Don't worry if you don't have to.

Don't even care. It's just annoyingly itchy and starting to show under my shirts. Also, I hate doctors like the plague upon humanity that they are . . . in my paranoia-infused fantasy world.

Yeah, it's itchy and growing fast, get it removed and biopsied ASAP.

I took a nap earlier and had a dream that the doctor was trying to force me to have a whole drawn-out surgery to get it removed. $$ upon $$. I said screw that and borrowed his scalpel and removed it myself. Which is what I was tempted to do in the first place but my roommates think I'm nuts. I might possibly be but I really hate constant itching. Pain I can ignore but not itchy.

Yeah NOPE NOPE NOPE. Get it properly removed and biopsied as soon as you can. Like, tomorrow if possible. Earliest possible appointment, please.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 12, 2014, 04:15:47 AM
It could just be a fluid-filled cyst. But the sooner you know, the better.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 12, 2014, 06:07:40 AM
What Nigel said. If it's itchy it's not a fibroma - it *might* be some kind of abscess or something, but it might not. Just go, let THEM cut it out and get it biopsied and over with. 
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: hirley0 on January 12, 2014, 07:32:58 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 11, 2014, 01:54:51 AM
It's kind of bumming me out that, in a college with over 50% black enrollment, there is literally not even one other black person in either chemistry or biology at my class level. I looked at the other classes, just to be sure.
:sad:
soon 2b limegreen
My guess this must mean you started classes on Monday last
& it could mean you're crossing the river on a regular schedule

Chemistry & Biology ? sounds like possibly SB1 OR 2
MAYBE the earthquake retrofit is finished
maybe it is possible to get to the forth
it still appears to me
the best bet is Smith
Just a minute M111 (http://www.fap.pdx.edu/floorplans/docs/SMSU_f1386697905.pdf)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: hirley0 on January 12, 2014, 07:42:10 AM
sTay the fuck away from those (U no}
take pictures, post pictures, revize them, often
on the forth shot | begin youR approach, / very sharp object!

Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 12, 2014, 06:07:40 AM
What Nigel said. If it's itchy it's not a fibroma - it *might* be some kind of abscess or something, but it might not. Just go, let THEM cut it out and get it biopsied and over with.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: hirley0 on January 12, 2014, 07:48:04 AM
What i found  =  No Messages Found
/\/\/\/\/\/\
what i sent in >
   01/11/2014 01:24 PM
20140111 1125 carbapenems
http://www.drugs.com/drug-class/carbapenems.html

Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 12, 2014, 04:15:47 AM
It could just be a fluid-filled cyst. But the sooner you know, the better.

My bet 25¢, is it's that yellow sticky fluid,
once there is an opening it drains
the first hole that's the chore

the danger is what happens next
the approach matters
use? ovencleaner?/?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 09:06:51 AM
Quote from: hirley0 on January 12, 2014, 07:48:04 AM
What i found  =  No Messages Found
/\/\/\/\/\/\
what i sent in >
   01/11/2014 01:24 PM
20140111 1125 carbapenems
http://www.drugs.com/drug-class/carbapenems.html

Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 12, 2014, 04:15:47 AM
It could just be a fluid-filled cyst. But the sooner you know, the better.

My bet 25¢, is it's that yellow sticky fluid,
once there is an opening it drains
the first hole that's the chore

the danger is what happens next
the approach matters
use? ovencleaner?/?

Sadly, I'm very reactant to most heavy-chemical cleaning products. Can't be around bleach, for instance. Migraines and rashes and such. But thanks for the suggestion.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 09:09:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 12, 2014, 04:14:46 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 04:03:38 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 12, 2014, 03:59:09 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 03:36:56 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 12, 2014, 01:50:25 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Chances are it's just a growth or fibroma of some kind. Don't worry if you don't have to.

Don't even care. It's just annoyingly itchy and starting to show under my shirts. Also, I hate doctors like the plague upon humanity that they are . . . in my paranoia-infused fantasy world.

Yeah, it's itchy and growing fast, get it removed and biopsied ASAP.

I took a nap earlier and had a dream that the doctor was trying to force me to have a whole drawn-out surgery to get it removed. $$ upon $$. I said screw that and borrowed his scalpel and removed it myself. Which is what I was tempted to do in the first place but my roommates think I'm nuts. I might possibly be but I really hate constant itching. Pain I can ignore but not itchy.

Yeah NOPE NOPE NOPE. Get it properly removed and biopsied as soon as you can. Like, tomorrow if possible. Earliest possible appointment, please.

I know. It's just . . . iiiiitchy. Will do soonest.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 12, 2014, 09:21:31 AM
ACH!  ZE JETLAG!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 12, 2014, 09:32:58 AM
Quote from: Lenin McCarthy on January 11, 2014, 11:46:55 PM
Ariel Sharon is dead, and I'm pretty happy because he sent a friend of mine's uncle (while he was about to have Sharon investigated for corruption) on a suicide mission (that he survived) to South Lebanon a few years ago.

The sad thing is Sharon is practically normal compared to the people now populating the Israeli right.

But then again, it's not like I'll miss another war criminal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre#Sharon_.22personal_responsibility.22).
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 12, 2014, 02:53:28 PM
This one should be an interesting read for most of you.

http://afroginthefjord.com/2014/01/05/the-joys-of-being-a-woman-in-norway/
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 12, 2014, 08:46:03 PM
Quote from: hirley0 on January 12, 2014, 07:32:58 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 11, 2014, 01:54:51 AM
It's kind of bumming me out that, in a college with over 50% black enrollment, there is literally not even one other black person in either chemistry or biology at my class level. I looked at the other classes, just to be sure.
:sad:
soon 2b limegreen
My guess this must mean you started classes on Monday last
& it could mean you're crossing the river on a regular schedule

Chemistry & Biology ? sounds like possibly SB1 OR 2
MAYBE the earthquake retrofit is finished
maybe it is possible to get to the forth
it still appears to me
the best bet is Smith
Just a minute M111 (http://www.fap.pdx.edu/floorplans/docs/SMSU_f1386697905.pdf)

Naw, I'm still at PCC Cascade for these classes... the courses both run through Spring. I'll be downtown starting Summer term, assuming they actually decide not to cut the classes I need.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 12, 2014, 08:52:20 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 12, 2014, 02:53:28 PM
This one should be an interesting read for most of you.

http://afroginthefjord.com/2014/01/05/the-joys-of-being-a-woman-in-norway/

That is so so rad! I wish the US would go in that direction. I wish the whole rest of the WORLD would go in that direction.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 13, 2014, 12:27:41 AM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 12, 2014, 02:53:28 PM
This one should be an interesting read for most of you.

http://afroginthefjord.com/2014/01/05/the-joys-of-being-a-woman-in-norway/

WAAANT!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 13, 2014, 09:33:06 AM
I think I broke something (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RjKsWIQuwA&feature=youtu.be) modding Skyrim.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 13, 2014, 10:21:04 AM
Also, just so you all know, I've finally succumbed to becoming a "Utubes Partnuh", which means ads on videos fund my exboritant lifestyle of martinis, swimming pools on hotel roofs and models in bikinis.

Seriously though, I have to wait until Google Adsense wakes up and realises I've signed up with an account and then, if they say yes, I'll get paid for views.  Which would mean I would kindly request that Adblock and similar services are turned off, if only for my channel.  Regardless, my videos will be available on all platforms, monetized or not, and it will be a video at the start, nothing more.

And it's not happening for a week or so anyway, so feel free to go wild in the meantime.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 13, 2014, 03:23:06 PM
CPD: Fingers crossed.
Cain: Yay!
Nigel.  I own a few trilbys.  I may Spagbook them if I can find any pics.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Richter on January 13, 2014, 03:44:26 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 09:09:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 12, 2014, 04:14:46 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 04:03:38 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 12, 2014, 03:59:09 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 03:36:56 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 12, 2014, 01:50:25 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Chances are it's just a growth or fibroma of some kind. Don't worry if you don't have to.

Don't even care. It's just annoyingly itchy and starting to show under my shirts. Also, I hate doctors like the plague upon humanity that they are . . . in my paranoia-infused fantasy world.

Yeah, it's itchy and growing fast, get it removed and biopsied ASAP.

I took a nap earlier and had a dream that the doctor was trying to force me to have a whole drawn-out surgery to get it removed. $$ upon $$. I said screw that and borrowed his scalpel and removed it myself. Which is what I was tempted to do in the first place but my roommates think I'm nuts. I might possibly be but I really hate constant itching. Pain I can ignore but not itchy.

Yeah NOPE NOPE NOPE. Get it properly removed and biopsied as soon as you can. Like, tomorrow if possible. Earliest possible appointment, please.

I know. It's just . . . iiiiitchy. Will do soonest.

Youtube "Cyst removal" for why you should listen to Nigel.  The hillarity of having body-made reekcheese spew out of your flesh faded when it turns into an infected crater of pain.   
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:47:06 PM
Growing the fu manchu back in.

Also, we got another Safety Officer.  It isn't looking good so far.  He told me I had to tarp the ALL WEATHER welding machines.  I asked him if there was an easier way to gather up scorpions, snakes, and killer bees.  He then ORDERED me to do it.  I showed him the org chart and explained the chain of command to him, as well as the fact that his title is "safety technician", not "safety director", as his helmet says (he had the helmet made...and illegally modified).

He is currently whimpering to my boss.

Somehow, this all seems so terribly familiar.  ALMOST LIKE IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 13, 2014, 03:48:40 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:47:06 PM
Growing the fu manchu back in.

:fap:

QuoteAlso, we got another Safety Officer.  It isn't looking good so far.  He told me I had to tarp the ALL WEATHER welding machines.  I asked him if there was an easier way to gather up scorpions, snakes, and killer bees.  He then ORDERED me to do it.  I showed him the org chart and explained the chain of command to him, as well as the fact that his title is "safety technician", not "safety director", as his helmet says (he had the helmet made...and illegally modified).

He is currently whimpering to my boss.

Somehow, this all seems so terribly familiar.  ALMOST LIKE IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE.

He needs more Tucson in his life.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:49:46 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 13, 2014, 03:48:40 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:47:06 PM
Growing the fu manchu back in.

:fap:

QuoteAlso, we got another Safety Officer.  It isn't looking good so far.  He told me I had to tarp the ALL WEATHER welding machines.  I asked him if there was an easier way to gather up scorpions, snakes, and killer bees.  He then ORDERED me to do it.  I showed him the org chart and explained the chain of command to him, as well as the fact that his title is "safety technician", not "safety director", as his helmet says (he had the helmet made...and illegally modified).

He is currently whimpering to my boss.

Somehow, this all seems so terribly familiar.  ALMOST LIKE IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE.

He needs more Tucson in his life.

Fortunately, we have an overstock.

We may be fresh out of hand grenades, but complete and utter failure is half off.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 13, 2014, 03:50:30 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:47:06 PM
Growing the fu manchu back in.

Also, we got another Safety Officer.  It isn't looking good so far.  He told me I had to tarp the ALL WEATHER welding machines.  I asked him if there was an easier way to gather up scorpions, snakes, and killer bees.  He then ORDERED me to do it.  I showed him the org chart and explained the chain of command to him, as well as the fact that his title is "safety technician", not "safety director", as his helmet says (he had the helmet made...and illegally modified).

He is currently whimpering to my boss.

Somehow, this all seems so terribly familiar.  ALMOST LIKE IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE.

You reached the end of the Tucson ouroboros again. Expect a threat of the end and a nightmare of teeth, before the nagging sense of repetition comes.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:53:29 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 13, 2014, 03:50:30 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:47:06 PM
Growing the fu manchu back in.

Also, we got another Safety Officer.  It isn't looking good so far.  He told me I had to tarp the ALL WEATHER welding machines.  I asked him if there was an easier way to gather up scorpions, snakes, and killer bees.  He then ORDERED me to do it.  I showed him the org chart and explained the chain of command to him, as well as the fact that his title is "safety technician", not "safety director", as his helmet says (he had the helmet made...and illegally modified).

He is currently whimpering to my boss.

Somehow, this all seems so terribly familiar.  ALMOST LIKE IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE.

You reached the end of the Tucson ouroboros again. Expect a threat of the end and a nightmare of teeth, before the nagging sense of repetition comes.

Expect it?  I set my fucking watch to it.

Seriously, how fucking hard is it to find a safety technician that doesn't think he's Goddamn Lee Iacoca?  This jackass has "Capt <last name>" on his helmet, and told one of my guys to refer to him as captain (Wtf?  For real.  WTF?  CAPTAIN?).  I told my guy to refer to ME as "Emperor by Grace of God Roger I", and to refer to the safety officer as "Just another bloody peasant".  He got mad, started bitching about me "undermining his authority".  I pointed out that he hasn't got any.

The man is obviously unhinged.  Time to push things along, and cut right to the end.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Richter on January 13, 2014, 03:54:10 PM
This is less an issue with authority or chain of command, more an issue where this guy needs to show the rest of the area how big ze cockles are.  He is clearly stuck at pre-high school levels.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:55:14 PM
Quote from: Richter on January 13, 2014, 03:54:10 PM
This is less an issue with authority or chain of command, more an issue where this guy needs to show the rest of the area how big ze cockles are.  He is clearly stuck at pre-high school levels.

And I am jet lagged and irritable.  I needed a victim, and LO!  There he was.

THANKS, TUCSON!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 13, 2014, 03:57:01 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:55:14 PM
Quote from: Richter on January 13, 2014, 03:54:10 PM
This is less an issue with authority or chain of command, more an issue where this guy needs to show the rest of the area how big ze cockles are.  He is clearly stuck at pre-high school levels.

And I am jet lagged and irritable.  I needed a victim, and LO!  There he was.

THANKS, TUCSON!

TUCSON PROVIDES.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 13, 2014, 03:57:59 PM
More sentences need to have the phrase, "and LO!" in them.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 13, 2014, 04:01:38 PM
THAT WE MAY BE REMINDED OF OUR MORTALITY AND INSIGNIFICANCE, A BODY BE DISPOSED IN A DUMPSTER
Tucson Provides.

THAT IT BE KNOWN WE ARE POWERLESS IN THE FACE OF BLIND LUCK, A MAN IS SHOT WHILE SHOOTING SOMEONE
Tucson Provides.

THAT A PERSON CANNOT TRULY BE GREAT, AND ABOVE, WE INHALE THE FECAL DUST OF SCAVENGERS
Tucson Provides.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Richter on January 13, 2014, 04:04:22 PM
AND LO!  The ice cream man was capped in his ass, and did perish from it.  His life ran out upon the orange creamsicles, and still none would partake of them.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 13, 2014, 04:23:16 PM
Having to explain to my mother that Real Housewives of Orange County is scripted, when I should be reading a paper for my tutorial tonight.

Kill me now.  Please.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 13, 2014, 04:33:40 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 13, 2014, 04:23:16 PM
Having to explain to my mother that Real Housewives of Orange County is scripted, when I should be reading a paper for my tutorial tonight.

Kill me now.  Please.

NO THOSE ARE REAL LADIES FACING REAL LIFE CHALLENGES
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 13, 2014, 04:48:01 PM
I can't tell if this is early onset dementia or I'm being trolled  :sad:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 13, 2014, 04:50:43 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 12, 2014, 08:52:20 PM
Quote from: Waffleman on January 12, 2014, 02:53:28 PM
This one should be an interesting read for most of you.

http://afroginthefjord.com/2014/01/05/the-joys-of-being-a-woman-in-norway/

That is so so rad! I wish the US would go in that direction. I wish the whole rest of the WORLD would go in that direction.

We still have a long way to go. At least if the comments sections of newspapers are anything to go by. But I was extremely happy to read that article. Warmed my pinko heart.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 13, 2014, 04:52:22 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 13, 2014, 04:48:01 PM
I can't tell if this is early onset dementia or I'm being trolled  :sad:

I used to think that the show must be real, because the plots, narratives, language, and behaviors were so awful, there's no way they could be deliberate choices.

But then I remembered that the average person's intelligence drops when watching TV.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 13, 2014, 04:56:57 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 13, 2014, 04:52:22 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 13, 2014, 04:48:01 PM
I can't tell if this is early onset dementia or I'm being trolled  :sad:

I used to think that the show must be real, because the plots, narratives, language, and behaviors were so awful, there's no way they could be deliberate choices.

But then I remembered that the average person's intelligence drops when watching TV.

"Scripted reality"

The producers sit down, decide what conflicts they want at the start of the season, and pass on gossip/use misleading editing designed to create those conflicts.

So it's not entirely scripted, but it's definitely fake.  After all, it's too expensive to actually follow these people around with cameras for 18 hours a day, go through all that footage, edit it etc.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 13, 2014, 04:58:37 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 13, 2014, 04:23:16 PM
Having to explain to my mother that Real Housewives of Orange County is scripted, when I should be reading a paper for my tutorial tonight.

Kill me now.  Please.

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 13, 2014, 05:00:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 13, 2014, 03:23:06 PM
CPD: Fingers crossed.
Cain: Yay!
Nigel.  I own a few trilbys.  I may Spagbook them if I can find any pics.

You are an Easterner. Your people apparently wear trilbys.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 13, 2014, 05:01:47 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:47:06 PM
Growing the fu manchu back in.

Also, we got another Safety Officer.  It isn't looking good so far.  He told me I had to tarp the ALL WEATHER welding machines.  I asked him if there was an easier way to gather up scorpions, snakes, and killer bees.  He then ORDERED me to do it.  I showed him the org chart and explained the chain of command to him, as well as the fact that his title is "safety technician", not "safety director", as his helmet says (he had the helmet made...and illegally modified).

He is currently whimpering to my boss.

Somehow, this all seems so terribly familiar.  ALMOST LIKE IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE.

:lulz:

These people. Where does your company find them?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 13, 2014, 06:18:21 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:53:29 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 13, 2014, 03:50:30 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:47:06 PM
Growing the fu manchu back in.

Also, we got another Safety Officer.  It isn't looking good so far.  He told me I had to tarp the ALL WEATHER welding machines.  I asked him if there was an easier way to gather up scorpions, snakes, and killer bees.  He then ORDERED me to do it.  I showed him the org chart and explained the chain of command to him, as well as the fact that his title is "safety technician", not "safety director", as his helmet says (he had the helmet made...and illegally modified).

He is currently whimpering to my boss.

Somehow, this all seems so terribly familiar.  ALMOST LIKE IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE.

You reached the end of the Tucson ouroboros again. Expect a threat of the end and a nightmare of teeth, before the nagging sense of repetition comes.

Expect it?  I set my fucking watch to it.

Seriously, how fucking hard is it to find a safety technician that doesn't think he's Goddamn Lee Iacoca?  This jackass has "Capt <last name>" on his helmet, and told one of my guys to refer to him as captain (Wtf?  For real.  WTF?  CAPTAIN?).  I told my guy to refer to ME as "Emperor by Grace of God Roger I", and to refer to the safety officer as "Just another bloody peasant".  He got mad, started bitching about me "undermining his authority".  I pointed out that he hasn't got any.

The man is obviously unhinged.  Time to push things along, and cut right to the end.


My Muse! My Inspiration!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 13, 2014, 06:21:24 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 13, 2014, 05:01:47 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:47:06 PM
Growing the fu manchu back in.

Also, we got another Safety Officer.  It isn't looking good so far.  He told me I had to tarp the ALL WEATHER welding machines.  I asked him if there was an easier way to gather up scorpions, snakes, and killer bees.  He then ORDERED me to do it.  I showed him the org chart and explained the chain of command to him, as well as the fact that his title is "safety technician", not "safety director", as his helmet says (he had the helmet made...and illegally modified).

He is currently whimpering to my boss.

Somehow, this all seems so terribly familiar.  ALMOST LIKE IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE.

:lulz:

These people. Where does your company find them?

Tucson, of course.  Remember that we are under your cities, and all the weird shit flows down here.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 13, 2014, 07:18:46 PM
Tutorial on terrorists and crime.  Boring, boring BORING.  Some of us were reading John Robb in 2004, you know.  MEND, FARC, Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, Haqqani Network....yawn.  And having to read some snorefest apparently authorised by the DIA is not helping any.  Kidnappers in bed with suicide bombers in bed with money launderers in bed with heroin traffickers in bed with assassins, oh my!

Let's talk about crime as terrorism.  Economic asymmetrical warfare.  Self-sustaining profit networks that contribute to insecurity used in a strategic fashion.

That'd be fun.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 13, 2014, 07:27:29 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 13, 2014, 07:18:46 PM
Tutorial on terrorists and crime.  Boring, boring BORING.  Some of us were reading John Robb in 2004, you know.  MEND, FARC, Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, Haqqani Network....yawn.  And having to read some snorefest apparently authorised by the DIA is not helping any.  Kidnappers in bed with suicide bombers in bed with money launderers in bed with heroin traffickers in bed with assassins, oh my!

Let's talk about crime as terrorism.  Economic asymmetrical warfare.  Self-sustaining profit networks that contribute to insecurity used in a strategic fashion.

That'd be fun.

It would, and I wish to know more! Can I encourage a thread or book recommendation?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 13, 2014, 07:31:36 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on January 13, 2014, 07:27:29 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 13, 2014, 07:18:46 PM
Tutorial on terrorists and crime.  Boring, boring BORING.  Some of us were reading John Robb in 2004, you know.  MEND, FARC, Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, Haqqani Network....yawn.  And having to read some snorefest apparently authorised by the DIA is not helping any.  Kidnappers in bed with suicide bombers in bed with money launderers in bed with heroin traffickers in bed with assassins, oh my!

Let's talk about crime as terrorism.  Economic asymmetrical warfare.  Self-sustaining profit networks that contribute to insecurity used in a strategic fashion.

That'd be fun.

It would, and I wish to know more! Can I encourage a thread or book recommendation?

John Robb's archives (http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/), 2004-6 would be a good start.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 13, 2014, 07:35:16 PM
Seriously, I think I've spoken more this session than anyone, including the presenter and the professor.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 13, 2014, 07:37:19 PM
Appreciated, will add to the list.

ETA - Awesome. Impart wisdom to those fuckers.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 13, 2014, 08:52:19 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 13, 2014, 03:23:06 PM
CPD: Fingers crossed.
Cain: Yay!
Nigel.  I own a few trilbys.  I may Spagbook them if I can find any pics.

Thank you. Appointment is Wednesday.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 13, 2014, 08:56:43 PM
Quote from: Richter on January 13, 2014, 03:44:26 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 09:09:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 12, 2014, 04:14:46 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 04:03:38 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 12, 2014, 03:59:09 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 03:36:56 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 12, 2014, 01:50:25 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Chances are it's just a growth or fibroma of some kind. Don't worry if you don't have to.

Don't even care. It's just annoyingly itchy and starting to show under my shirts. Also, I hate doctors like the plague upon humanity that they are . . . in my paranoia-infused fantasy world.

Yeah, it's itchy and growing fast, get it removed and biopsied ASAP.

I took a nap earlier and had a dream that the doctor was trying to force me to have a whole drawn-out surgery to get it removed. $$ upon $$. I said screw that and borrowed his scalpel and removed it myself. Which is what I was tempted to do in the first place but my roommates think I'm nuts. I might possibly be but I really hate constant itching. Pain I can ignore but not itchy.

Yeah NOPE NOPE NOPE. Get it properly removed and biopsied as soon as you can. Like, tomorrow if possible. Earliest possible appointment, please.

I know. It's just . . . iiiiitchy. Will do soonest.

Youtube "Cyst removal" for why you should listen to Nigel.  The hillarity of having body-made reekcheese spew out of your flesh faded when it turns into an infected crater of pain.

Yup, I know. Grew up on the farm, was a vet tech. Cysts are all the fun, especially in odd places on animals that out weigh you liek woah. I just . . . really really hate itching. Fear not, Nigel's wisdom has been taken unto my heart and carried out.

I told my doctor it was probably filled with lymph-flavored Pepsi since I drink so much (Pepsi, not lymph). I think he was crying after that. I thought it was funny.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 14, 2014, 03:41:24 AM
Odd, maybe personal question: Is it along your bra line, perhaps located under the wire?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Richter on January 14, 2014, 03:44:10 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 13, 2014, 08:56:43 PM
Quote from: Richter on January 13, 2014, 03:44:26 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 09:09:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 12, 2014, 04:14:46 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 04:03:38 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 12, 2014, 03:59:09 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 03:36:56 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 12, 2014, 01:50:25 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Chances are it's just a growth or fibroma of some kind. Don't worry if you don't have to.

Don't even care. It's just annoyingly itchy and starting to show under my shirts. Also, I hate doctors like the plague upon humanity that they are . . . in my paranoia-infused fantasy world.

Yeah, it's itchy and growing fast, get it removed and biopsied ASAP.

I took a nap earlier and had a dream that the doctor was trying to force me to have a whole drawn-out surgery to get it removed. $$ upon $$. I said screw that and borrowed his scalpel and removed it myself. Which is what I was tempted to do in the first place but my roommates think I'm nuts. I might possibly be but I really hate constant itching. Pain I can ignore but not itchy.

Yeah NOPE NOPE NOPE. Get it properly removed and biopsied as soon as you can. Like, tomorrow if possible. Earliest possible appointment, please.

I know. It's just . . . iiiiitchy. Will do soonest.

Youtube "Cyst removal" for why you should listen to Nigel.  The hillarity of having body-made reekcheese spew out of your flesh faded when it turns into an infected crater of pain.

Yup, I know. Grew up on the farm, was a vet tech. Cysts are all the fun, especially in odd places on animals that out weigh you liek woah. I just . . . really really hate itching. Fear not, Nigel's wisdom has been taken unto my heart and carried out.

I told my doctor it was probably filled with lymph-flavored Pepsi since I drink so much (Pepsi, not lymph). I think he was crying after that. I thought it was funny.

WEll done  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 14, 2014, 06:29:42 AM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 14, 2014, 03:41:24 AM
Odd, maybe personal question: Is it along your bra line, perhaps located under the wire?

Nope. It's right below my collar bone on the right side. If it gets any bigger it will be ON my collar bone.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 14, 2014, 06:30:55 AM
Quote from: Richter on January 14, 2014, 03:44:10 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 13, 2014, 08:56:43 PM
Quote from: Richter on January 13, 2014, 03:44:26 PM
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Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 12, 2014, 04:14:46 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 12, 2014, 04:03:38 AM
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Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Chances are it's just a growth or fibroma of some kind. Don't worry if you don't have to.

Don't even care. It's just annoyingly itchy and starting to show under my shirts. Also, I hate doctors like the plague upon humanity that they are . . . in my paranoia-infused fantasy world.

Yeah, it's itchy and growing fast, get it removed and biopsied ASAP.

I took a nap earlier and had a dream that the doctor was trying to force me to have a whole drawn-out surgery to get it removed. $$ upon $$. I said screw that and borrowed his scalpel and removed it myself. Which is what I was tempted to do in the first place but my roommates think I'm nuts. I might possibly be but I really hate constant itching. Pain I can ignore but not itchy.

Yeah NOPE NOPE NOPE. Get it properly removed and biopsied as soon as you can. Like, tomorrow if possible. Earliest possible appointment, please.

I know. It's just . . . iiiiitchy. Will do soonest.

Youtube "Cyst removal" for why you should listen to Nigel.  The hillarity of having body-made reekcheese spew out of your flesh faded when it turns into an infected crater of pain.

Yup, I know. Grew up on the farm, was a vet tech. Cysts are all the fun, especially in odd places on animals that out weigh you liek woah. I just . . . really really hate itching. Fear not, Nigel's wisdom has been taken unto my heart and carried out.

I told my doctor it was probably filled with lymph-flavored Pepsi since I drink so much (Pepsi, not lymph). I think he was crying after that. I thought it was funny.

WEll done  :lulz:

*bows*
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 14, 2014, 06:31:31 AM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 13, 2014, 06:18:21 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:53:29 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 13, 2014, 03:50:30 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:47:06 PM
Growing the fu manchu back in.

Also, we got another Safety Officer.  It isn't looking good so far.  He told me I had to tarp the ALL WEATHER welding machines.  I asked him if there was an easier way to gather up scorpions, snakes, and killer bees.  He then ORDERED me to do it.  I showed him the org chart and explained the chain of command to him, as well as the fact that his title is "safety technician", not "safety director", as his helmet says (he had the helmet made...and illegally modified).

He is currently whimpering to my boss.

Somehow, this all seems so terribly familiar.  ALMOST LIKE IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE.

You reached the end of the Tucson ouroboros again. Expect a threat of the end and a nightmare of teeth, before the nagging sense of repetition comes.

Expect it?  I set my fucking watch to it.

Seriously, how fucking hard is it to find a safety technician that doesn't think he's Goddamn Lee Iacoca?  This jackass has "Capt <last name>" on his helmet, and told one of my guys to refer to him as captain (Wtf?  For real.  WTF?  CAPTAIN?).  I told my guy to refer to ME as "Emperor by Grace of God Roger I", and to refer to the safety officer as "Just another bloody peasant".  He got mad, started bitching about me "undermining his authority".  I pointed out that he hasn't got any.

The man is obviously unhinged.  Time to push things along, and cut right to the end.


My Muse! My Inspiration!

Tucson provides.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 14, 2014, 07:37:14 AM
I am many tired.

Long long day. So much education, wow.

ALso there was a HUGE nerd fight that came to a head today. Shit went down. Brain club has been double mutinied. We won.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 14, 2014, 07:47:02 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 07:37:14 AM
I am many tired.

Long long day. So much education, wow.

ALso there was a HUGE nerd fight that came to a head today. Shit went down. Brain club has been double mutinied. We won.

Yay!
Much smart.
Way nerd go.
Wow.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 14, 2014, 08:34:01 AM
Quote from: Richter on January 13, 2014, 03:44:26 PM
Youtube "Cyst removal" for why you should listen to Nigel.  The hillarity of having body-made reekcheese spew out of your flesh faded when it turns into an infected crater of pain.

I've likely mentioned this story before, but Cain-friend is a fully qualified vetinary surgeon. Back when he was doing his training, he once came across a horse that couldn't walk due to an oddly placed cyst on its lower leg.

I believe once pierced, it took a good 10 minutes before the flow of pus slowed down, and it was of sufficient quantity to fill a large wok. And then of course came the cleaning etc
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 14, 2014, 09:44:44 AM
Honestly, how obsessed are the media with Sharon's withdrawal from Gaza?  He led a life of killing, and that one decent act was demanded by international law.

I mean, Mandela picked up the gun briefly and we never heard the end of it.  Sharon worked closely with Phalangist militias who debated whether they should simply murder people, or rape them before killing them (and that is no exaggeration - they literally discussed this).  But he told settlers to withdraw from Gaza!  Man of peace!  We can't melt the metal for a Nobel Peace Prize fast enough!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 14, 2014, 12:55:05 PM
What do you expect, when a president that indiscriminately murders civilians gets the peace prize, and spends his acceptance speech talking about the benefits of war?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 14, 2014, 01:15:37 PM
I dunno.  I mean, when the Times did it's obit of Kurt Vonnegut, it basically spent two-thirds of the article calling him Hitler because he used an inflated Dresden death toll, before people knew David Irving was a lying twat.

I mean, by that standard, Sharon is basically Galactus.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 14, 2014, 01:24:14 PM
It's like there's some sort of bias against people who are anti-violence, or something.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 14, 2014, 03:21:11 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 07:37:14 AM
I am many tired.

Long long day. So much education, wow.

ALso there was a HUGE nerd fight that came to a head today. Shit went down. Brain club has been double mutinied. We won.

Many new brain cells, but first moosh.
Moar Education muchly good.
Brain club for victory.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 14, 2014, 03:36:19 PM
Today, I applied for a job in Turkey, and another job as a writer.

Turkey sounds interesting...and suspiciously well paid.  Writing...well, I dunno.  We'll see.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 14, 2014, 03:42:25 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 14, 2014, 03:36:19 PM
Today, I applied for a job in Turkey, and another job as a writer.

Turkey sounds interesting...and suspiciously well paid.  Writing...well, I dunno.  We'll see.

Suspicious, yet with potential.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 14, 2014, 03:45:13 PM
Well, I won't say no to a job I'm qualified for, that pays nearly $60000 a year.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 14, 2014, 03:55:26 PM
I should say not!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 14, 2014, 03:57:52 PM
And I don't know exactly how high the living costs are in Turkey, but I strongly suspect it is cheaper than the UK, so that makes my effective pay even higher.  Should I get the job.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 14, 2014, 04:02:46 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 14, 2014, 03:57:52 PM
And I don't know exactly how high the living costs are in Turkey, but I strongly suspect it is cheaper than the UK, so that makes my effective pay even higher.  Should I get the job.

I hope that works out for you, it sounds potentially amazeballs.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 14, 2014, 04:02:52 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 14, 2014, 06:29:42 AM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 14, 2014, 03:41:24 AM
Odd, maybe personal question: Is it along your bra line, perhaps located under the wire?

Nope. It's right below my collar bone on the right side. If it gets any bigger it will be ON my collar bone.

Not at all what I thought it was then.

Please get it removed, be it Pepsi or not.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 14, 2014, 04:03:45 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 14, 2014, 04:02:52 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 14, 2014, 06:29:42 AM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 14, 2014, 03:41:24 AM
Odd, maybe personal question: Is it along your bra line, perhaps located under the wire?

Nope. It's right below my collar bone on the right side. If it gets any bigger it will be ON my collar bone.

Not at all what I thought it was then.

Please get it removed, be it Pepsi or not.

Yes ma'am. I will report as to the flavor upon removal.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 14, 2014, 04:14:07 PM
Will be offline most of this week on account of budget-building hijinks.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 14, 2014, 04:15:42 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 14, 2014, 04:03:45 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 14, 2014, 04:02:52 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 14, 2014, 06:29:42 AM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 14, 2014, 03:41:24 AM
Odd, maybe personal question: Is it along your bra line, perhaps located under the wire?

Nope. It's right below my collar bone on the right side. If it gets any bigger it will be ON my collar bone.

Not at all what I thought it was then.

Please get it removed, be it Pepsi or not.

Yes ma'am. I will report as to the flavor upon removal.

"Pepsi Blue?! Oh GOD. A throwback!"
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 14, 2014, 04:30:46 PM
Hey peeps, doing a test.  If your firewall lets you, please click on this link (http://www.twitch.tv/scarabandaris), and let me know what the video quality etc is like?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 14, 2014, 04:33:21 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 14, 2014, 04:30:46 PM
Hey peeps, doing a test.  If your firewall lets you, please click on this link (http://www.twitch.tv/scarabandaris), and let me know what the video quality etc is like?

Blocked.  Will check it out this evening.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 14, 2014, 04:37:49 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 14, 2014, 04:30:46 PM
Hey peeps, doing a test.  If your firewall lets you, please click on this link (http://www.twitch.tv/scarabandaris), and let me know what the video quality etc is like?

A little bit of pixelation when you move, but nothing that creates severe distortion so far.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 14, 2014, 04:38:16 PM
Blocked as well.  Will attempt later tonight.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 14, 2014, 04:38:57 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 14, 2014, 04:30:46 PM
Hey peeps, doing a test.  If your firewall lets you, please click on this link (http://www.twitch.tv/scarabandaris), and let me know what the video quality etc is like?

The video quality isn't that good, tbh.

(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s131/Slesk/ScreenShot2014-01-14at173724_zps76b50533.png)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 14, 2014, 04:53:47 PM
When he moves the character, the pixelation increases, but when he stands still and fights, it's not as bad.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 14, 2014, 04:59:27 PM
Urgh, thats a shame.  Thanks everyone.  I was trying livestreaming, though I strongly suspected my connection couldn't handle it.  God damn countryside wireless internet, the packets are probably transported by bumblebee or something around here.

Still, I may try again, if I end up moving anytime soon.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 14, 2014, 05:43:18 PM
Sometimes you run into people or situations that makes you WANT the assholes running the show to win.

Just saying.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 14, 2014, 05:48:47 PM
Have you been watching Duck Dynasty again?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 14, 2014, 05:50:35 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 14, 2014, 05:48:47 PM
Have you been watching Duck Dynasty again?

No.  FB discordians.

In other news, I have been told while entering my budget numbers that inflation isn't an acceptable thing to base numbers on, or even mention.

The whole world is stupid, and everyone should run out and die in the desert.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 14, 2014, 05:52:57 PM
For real.  I have been told that mechanical engineering and physics are largely a matter of opinion.

I fucking hate people.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 14, 2014, 05:53:23 PM
Well, FB Discordians, yuppies pretending to be rednecks (http://www.refinedguy.com/2013/03/27/duck-dynasty-cast-before-and-after-style-pics/#26), people who can't reconcile maths with reality...it's all the same thing, really.  If you squint.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 14, 2014, 05:54:17 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 14, 2014, 05:53:23 PM
Well, FB Discordians, yuppies pretending to be rednecks (http://www.refinedguy.com/2013/03/27/duck-dynasty-cast-before-and-after-style-pics/#26), people who can't reconcile maths with reality...it's all the same thing, really.  If you squint.

I don't even have to squint.  It's like there's 7.23 Bn Snookies running around.  I can't stand it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 14, 2014, 06:04:04 PM
You can't factor inflation into a budget?


?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 14, 2014, 06:05:46 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 14, 2014, 06:04:04 PM
You can't factor inflation into a budget?


?

No.  Apparently, the home office has decided that inflation is undesirable, and therefore does not exist.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 14, 2014, 06:06:34 PM
Ah. The HO are Republicans. 'Nuff said.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 14, 2014, 06:08:27 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 14, 2014, 06:06:34 PM
Ah. The HO are Republicans. 'Nuff said.

No, they're just insulated from reality by having too many minions, and spending too much time huffing farts in the conference room.

Also, if they approve a larger budget, they look bad.  If they approve a smaller one and I can't hold to it, they look fine and *I* look bad.

So I'm gonna pad the FUCK out of this thing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 14, 2014, 06:14:02 PM
Ah, the planning fallacy.

In addition, dad once explained to me that if a team comes in under budget, then that budget is reduced for the amount saved, regardless of where those savings may have come from, and regardless of what the future expectations may be.

Shit is fucked, yo.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 14, 2014, 06:25:46 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 14, 2014, 06:14:02 PM
Ah, the planning fallacy.

Oh, yeah.  We live by that.  But that assumes that things will go best, not that things will go impossible.

QuoteIn addition, dad once explained to me that if a team comes in under budget, then that budget is reduced for the amount saved, regardless of where those savings may have come from, and regardless of what the future expectations may be.

Shit is fucked, yo.

That doesn't happen here.  We are retarded in a different manner.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 14, 2014, 06:44:37 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 14, 2014, 04:30:46 PM
Hey peeps, doing a test.  If your firewall lets you, please click on this link (http://www.twitch.tv/scarabandaris), and let me know what the video quality etc is like?

It came up as "offline" for me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 14, 2014, 06:59:37 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 06:44:37 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 14, 2014, 04:30:46 PM
Hey peeps, doing a test.  If your firewall lets you, please click on this link (http://www.twitch.tv/scarabandaris), and let me know what the video quality etc is like?

It came up as "offline" for me.

It will do now, I'm afraid.  I was testing livestreaming, but I've since stopped.  My internet connection doesn't support the framerate for proper viewing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 14, 2014, 08:00:00 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 14, 2014, 04:15:42 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 14, 2014, 04:03:45 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 14, 2014, 04:02:52 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 14, 2014, 06:29:42 AM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 14, 2014, 03:41:24 AM
Odd, maybe personal question: Is it along your bra line, perhaps located under the wire?

Nope. It's right below my collar bone on the right side. If it gets any bigger it will be ON my collar bone.

Not at all what I thought it was then.

Please get it removed, be it Pepsi or not.

Yes ma'am. I will report as to the flavor upon removal.

"Pepsi Blue?! Oh GOD. A throwback!"

ROFL!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 14, 2014, 08:00:26 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 04:14:07 PM
Will be offline most of this week on account of budget-building hijinks.

Godspeed.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 14, 2014, 08:01:47 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 05:52:57 PM
For real.  I have been told that mechanical engineering and physics are largely a matter of opinion.

I fucking hate people.

O.o Why can't the sun selectively fry people with that level of special?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 14, 2014, 08:35:07 PM
Meanwhile on Facebook, my friend seems to be arguing that selective breeding is fundamentally the same as GMO. :kingmeh:

I actually loathe BOTH sides of the argument. They are all ignorant absolutists who don't know what they're talking about and should shut the fuck up.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 14, 2014, 08:43:44 PM
Yeah, is it just me or are there a lot of REALLY REALLY REALLY stupid people on Facebook?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 14, 2014, 08:44:21 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 14, 2014, 08:43:44 PM
Yeah, is it just me or are there a lot of REALLY REALLY REALLY stupid people on Facebook?

Law of large numbers.  Most of them will be stupid.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 14, 2014, 08:46:30 PM
I understand the woes of company budgeting myself, having just had a run-in with the Suits. Late last year I was told to FIND A SOLUTION TO PROBLEM X RIGHT NOW AND WE DON'T CARE WHAT IT COSTS. So I found the perfect solution, and it cost $107,000 up front with a recurring annual cost of $72k. This, I was assured, was Small Potatoes given the gravity of Problem X, and the budget would be rushed through immediately. Well, two months later, they FINALLY returned the budget and guess which solution had been left to fend for itself on the cutting room floor? Attached to the budged was a note that read BY THE WAY, WHY IS PROBLEM X NOT SOLVED YET?

I called the sales people and got them to drop the price from $107,000 up front to $50,000, and from $72,000 recurring annually to ZERO. I am currently awaiting round THREE of the budget negotiations, which at this company apparently are run by two Iranians, two Israelis, and the Pope, and the budget is item #2 on the list, right after World Peace.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 14, 2014, 08:47:57 PM
So, according to this study I'm looking at, in 2011, 46% percent of Americans thought Iraq gave al Qaeda substantial support (31%) or thought it was directly involved in 9/11 (15%).  And all of them post on Facebook.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 14, 2014, 08:48:18 PM
V3X, I hope you saved those emails instructing you to find a solution regardless of cost.  They'll come in very handy at your year-end evaluation.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 14, 2014, 08:48:42 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 14, 2014, 08:47:57 PM
So, according to this study I'm looking at, in 2011, 46% percent of Americans thought Iraq gave al Qaeda substantial support (31%) or thought it was directly involved in 9/11 (15%).  And all of them post on Facebook.

That sounds about right.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 14, 2014, 08:52:52 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 14, 2014, 08:43:44 PM
Yeah, is it just me or are there a lot of REALLY REALLY REALLY stupid people on Facebook?

Well, all of our old members who "don't have time to be online anymore" post about a million times a day, there.

So yes.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 14, 2014, 09:29:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 08:35:07 PM
Meanwhile on Facebook, my friend seems to be arguing that selective breeding is fundamentally the same as GMO. :kingmeh:

I actually loathe BOTH sides of the argument. They are all ignorant absolutists who don't know what they're talking about and should shut the fuck up.

And then this happened:

Quote from: KaiThis thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

Broad brush techniques are maybe a requirement in MS programs?

Or maybe Kai has just become a ridiculous elitist stuffed shirt.  Fuck him.

DOUR,
Food down my shirt, knuckles dragging.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 14, 2014, 10:17:58 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 09:29:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 08:35:07 PM
Meanwhile on Facebook, my friend seems to be arguing that selective breeding is fundamentally the same as GMO. :kingmeh:

I actually loathe BOTH sides of the argument. They are all ignorant absolutists who don't know what they're talking about and should shut the fuck up.

And then this happened:

Quote from: KaiThis thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

Broad brush techniques are maybe a requirement in MS programs?

Or maybe Kai has just become a ridiculous elitist stuffed shirt.  Fuck him.

DOUR,
Food down my shirt, knuckles dragging.

He's been increasingly douchey, and decreasingly able to communicate with others without being condescending or throwing a tantrum when his sweeping statements are challenged for a while now. I've lost interest in talking to him.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 14, 2014, 10:19:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 10:17:58 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 09:29:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 08:35:07 PM
Meanwhile on Facebook, my friend seems to be arguing that selective breeding is fundamentally the same as GMO. :kingmeh:

I actually loathe BOTH sides of the argument. They are all ignorant absolutists who don't know what they're talking about and should shut the fuck up.

And then this happened:

Quote from: KaiThis thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

Broad brush techniques are maybe a requirement in MS programs?

Or maybe Kai has just become a ridiculous elitist stuffed shirt.  Fuck him.

DOUR,
Food down my shirt, knuckles dragging.

He's been increasingly douchey, and decreasingly able to communicate with others without being condescending or throwing a tantrum when his sweeping statements are challenged for a while now. I've lost interest in talking to him.

Yeah, thing is that I keep trying to pretend he'll stop, and go back to being the guy I used to love having around.

But that isn't going to happen.   :sad:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 14, 2014, 10:31:29 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 10:19:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 10:17:58 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 09:29:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 08:35:07 PM
Meanwhile on Facebook, my friend seems to be arguing that selective breeding is fundamentally the same as GMO. :kingmeh:

I actually loathe BOTH sides of the argument. They are all ignorant absolutists who don't know what they're talking about and should shut the fuck up.

And then this happened:

Quote from: KaiThis thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

Broad brush techniques are maybe a requirement in MS programs?

Or maybe Kai has just become a ridiculous elitist stuffed shirt.  Fuck him.

DOUR,
Food down my shirt, knuckles dragging.

He's been increasingly douchey, and decreasingly able to communicate with others without being condescending or throwing a tantrum when his sweeping statements are challenged for a while now. I've lost interest in talking to him.

Yeah, thing is that I keep trying to pretend he'll stop, and go back to being the guy I used to love having around.

But that isn't going to happen.   :sad:

Yeah, I don't think so.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 15, 2014, 12:42:40 AM
I hear children screaming in the hall, and open to door to find no less than 20 children playing in the stairwell. This bothers me, because I'm seriously afraid that one of them will get hurt. And then out of nowhere, 2 of them try to come into my house. I tell them no and close the door.

Then PopeTom gives me a revelation: Eris has gifted me with droves of free child labor. I have extra machines, we can do this...
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 15, 2014, 12:50:53 AM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 15, 2014, 12:42:40 AM
I hear children screaming in the hall, and open to door to find no less than 20 children playing in the stairwell. This bothers me, because I'm seriously afraid that one of them will get hurt. And then out of nowhere, 2 of them try to come into my house. I tell them no and close the door.

Then PopeTom gives me a revelation: Eris has gifted me with droves of free child labor. I have extra machines, we can do this...

Just think of them as Santa's misplaced elves.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 15, 2014, 01:05:15 AM
Maybe Kai's tolerance has reached a new low point.

"This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals"

This pretty much pushes away everyone in America.

To all people who have higher education(s) than me here. I'm 90% complete in my A.A.S in Mechanical Engineering. Can a engineer call themselves a scientist, or is that reserved when I pick up another scientific field, or until I get a BS?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 15, 2014, 01:07:28 AM
AFK til dinner is over.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 15, 2014, 03:44:21 AM
Instead of buying a toyota previa or a chevy astro to transform into a stealth mobile home, thus rendering me and my son legally homeless, I have managed to calm my brain.

Got a god damned laser printer for propaganda.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 15, 2014, 03:51:53 AM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 15, 2014, 01:05:15 AM
Maybe Kai's tolerance has reached a new low point.

"This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals"

This pretty much pushes away everyone in America.

To all people who have higher education(s) than me here. I'm 90% complete in my A.A.S in Mechanical Engineering. Can a engineer call themselves a scientist, or is that reserved when I pick up another scientific field, or until I get a BS?

No, you're one of those technician people.  Building things and other grubby stuff.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 15, 2014, 04:37:34 AM
Speaking of grumbly, I have someone asking for a full Landsknecht set. I can do this, I have access to patterns for it so I don't have to cross my eyes figuring out the hosen. Now I just need to find a source for wool flannel that isn't going to kill me and the client when I slash it to bits.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 15, 2014, 05:09:32 AM
Huh. I hav never had a BSOD before, thanks Brother!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 15, 2014, 05:36:56 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 10:31:29 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 10:19:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 10:17:58 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 09:29:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 08:35:07 PM
Meanwhile on Facebook, my friend seems to be arguing that selective breeding is fundamentally the same as GMO. :kingmeh:

I actually loathe BOTH sides of the argument. They are all ignorant absolutists who don't know what they're talking about and should shut the fuck up.

And then this happened:

Quote from: KaiThis thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

Broad brush techniques are maybe a requirement in MS programs?

Or maybe Kai has just become a ridiculous elitist stuffed shirt.  Fuck him.

DOUR,
Food down my shirt, knuckles dragging.

He's been increasingly douchey, and decreasingly able to communicate with others without being condescending or throwing a tantrum when his sweeping statements are challenged for a while now. I've lost interest in talking to him.

Yeah, thing is that I keep trying to pretend he'll stop, and go back to being the guy I used to love having around.

But that isn't going to happen.   :sad:

Yeah, I don't think so.

If the friend is me, I was talking about irresponsible selective breeding, going for extremes like those chicken that can't walk because they have too much breast meat, or bulldogs that have breathing problems their entire life. That cow or steer or whatever it was had a shaved inflated ass that looked like a 600 lb. pumpkin. The caption had some shit about it being GMO, but FACEBOOK.

I think Kai was just frustrated at that point. Yeah, he was a jerk about it but those people couldn't even argue with him, they were like "YUO TROLLIN".

I let the damn thread die. Fuck it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 15, 2014, 09:02:26 AM
Today...today is a good day.

Firstly, the geopolitical forecasting group I applied to like my sample articles enough that they're already asking about publishing rights and throwing around named sums of money on the initial, speculative email. 

And the Turkish people...well, the owner of the company who are doing the recruiting has sent me an email asking for a picture, and wants to talk to me on the phone.

Yes, I like today.  Even if the weather is miserable as shit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 15, 2014, 09:07:47 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 15, 2014, 09:02:26 AM
Today...today is a good day.

Firstly, the geopolitical forecasting group I applied to like my sample articles enough that they're already asking about publishing rights and throwing around named sums of money on the initial, speculative email. 

And the Turkish people...well, the owner of the company who are doing the recruiting has sent me an email asking for a picture, and wants to talk to me on the phone.

Yes, I like today.  Even if the weather is miserable as shit.
WOOOOOOOOO!
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 15, 2014, 09:12:04 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 15, 2014, 03:51:53 AM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 15, 2014, 01:05:15 AM
Maybe Kai's tolerance has reached a new low point.

"This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals"

This pretty much pushes away everyone in America.

To all people who have higher education(s) than me here. I'm 90% complete in my A.A.S in Mechanical Engineering. Can a engineer call themselves a scientist, or is that reserved when I pick up another scientific field, or until I get a BS?

No, you're one of those technician people.  Building things and other grubby stuff.

Yeah, engineers just track mud through the hallowed and clean halls of science.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 15, 2014, 10:28:10 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 15, 2014, 09:02:26 AM
Today...today is a good day.

Firstly, the geopolitical forecasting group I applied to like my sample articles enough that they're already asking about publishing rights and throwing around named sums of money on the initial, speculative email. 

And the Turkish people...well, the owner of the company who are doing the recruiting has sent me an email asking for a picture, and wants to talk to me on the phone.

Yes, I like today.  Even if the weather is miserable as shit.

....

Just what kind of employment are these people offering you?

You don't want to end up like Manny.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_msb7eQA-RFY/TUBwnqlv86I/AAAAAAAACgo/SlCwRuLdZoI/s640/black-books-hes-leaving-home-manny-662x381.jpg)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 15, 2014, 10:32:08 AM
Oh, babysitting again.  But it's a one-on-one thing, the kid is only 10 and it's temporary.  How temporary determines my interest, of course.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: hooplala on January 15, 2014, 01:24:09 PM
Quote from: KaiThis thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

That's an interesting qualifier.  So he will mix with non-scientist conservatives?  Or non-scientist tea-baggers?  Ooook.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 15, 2014, 01:24:44 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 15, 2014, 03:51:53 AM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 15, 2014, 01:05:15 AM
Maybe Kai's tolerance has reached a new low point.

"This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals"

This pretty much pushes away everyone in America.

To all people who have higher education(s) than me here. I'm 90% complete in my A.A.S in Mechanical Engineering. Can a engineer call themselves a scientist, or is that reserved when I pick up another scientific field, or until I get a BS?

No, you're one of those technician people.  Building things and other grubby stuff.

If the theory holds that fewer characters = dumber statements, then that should hold true, even for smart people who know better.  Even post-grad Biology majors.

And not to sound like a broken record, but this is why I have and will always appreciate E-Prime, regardless of what ALL'YALL (yeah, even YOU.  And YOU) have to say about it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 15, 2014, 02:42:13 PM
Holy shit, I'm actually getting WORK. In JANUARY.

Hot damn, I'll be able to make my student loan payments this semester after all! :banana:

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 15, 2014, 02:42:51 PM
I have to go to the county ER for rabies shot # 4 today, since I didn't yesterday.

...There is no other way to get a course of rabies shots, other than to sit in the waiting-room of the damned.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on January 15, 2014, 02:44:25 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 15, 2014, 02:42:13 PM
Holy shit, I'm actually getting WORK. In JANUARY.

Hot damn, I'll be able to make my student loan payments this semester after all! :banana:

i'll toast to that!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 15, 2014, 02:47:53 PM
 :cheers:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 15, 2014, 02:48:38 PM
Thailand article published.  Funny, as I felt the Iraq/Saudi article was the stronger of the two...though it was dated by subsequent events.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 15, 2014, 02:59:21 PM
Nice!  Will there be links, or do you not want to cross the streams?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 15, 2014, 03:03:18 PM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 15, 2014, 02:42:51 PM
I have to go to the county ER for rabies shot # 4 today, since I didn't yesterday.

...There is no other way to get a course of rabies shots, other than to sit in the waiting-room of the damned.

Dude, those blow. Best of luck to you.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 15, 2014, 03:04:11 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 15, 2014, 02:59:21 PM
Nice!  Will there be links, or do you not want to cross the streams?

Probably best not to, since they use my real name and everything.

Still, from what I've said, you could probably find it, if you tried.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 15, 2014, 03:26:17 PM
This is such a first world problem, but I made my coffee way too strong this morning. Like, beyond Starbucks strong. It's almost undrinkable.  :argh!:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 15, 2014, 03:29:31 PM
No such thing as coffee too strong to drink.

There is only coffee that people are too weak to handle.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 15, 2014, 03:36:13 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 15, 2014, 03:29:31 PM
No such thing as coffee too strong to drink.

There is only coffee that people are too weak to handle.

brushing with troofpaste.

The yuppies at my place of employment drive me up the fucking wall with their "light blend" coffees. Might as well be drinking tap water.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 15, 2014, 03:41:37 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 15, 2014, 03:29:31 PM
No such thing as coffee too strong to drink.

There is only coffee that people are too weak to handle.

No dude, this shit is gross. It's generic coffee to begin with (hello, poverty) but I can already feel the disruption in my bowels. It's going to be an epic day.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 15, 2014, 03:43:41 PM
You're talking to someone here, Suu, who will happily take coffee in volumes from a heaped teaspoon to multiple tablespoons to "only 3% water".  And that's the nasty instant stuff.  It's the only way I can get a buzz off it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 15, 2014, 03:49:58 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 15, 2014, 03:43:41 PM
You're talking to someone here, Suu, who will happily take coffee in volumes from a heaped teaspoon to multiple tablespoons to "only 3% water".  And that's the nasty instant stuff.  It's the only way I can get a buzz off it.

You'd love what I just made then. French press and everything. I knew it was a bit much, but I went with it and now my intestines are revolting.

Have you ever heard the tale of Richter's Espresso Machine when we both worked in Boston?

He would put 3x the amount of espresso roast into a machine that would give you about the amount of coffee to fill a large mug. There were two people in the office that could handle it, him, and Fabulously Gay Nate, who's previous gig was a bike messenger, and also the front of a synthpop band.

This shit notoriously sent me on a vision quest across Boston Common one lunch hour during which I preached THE WORD to a congregation of bums near the Park St. subway stop. I returned back to my desk and had a caffeine crash. My supervisor came over to check on me, as my head was down on the desk and groaning. Knowing exactly what to do, he picked up my phone, and dialed Richter. Who, within a few minutes, appeared at my desk with a fresh pot of rocket fuel he heated my mug with.

That was the day I saw Eris. Though it may have been Mayor Menino in drag. I haven't figured it out yet.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on January 15, 2014, 04:57:20 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 15, 2014, 03:49:58 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 15, 2014, 03:43:41 PM
You're talking to someone here, Suu, who will happily take coffee in volumes from a heaped teaspoon to multiple tablespoons to "only 3% water".  And that's the nasty instant stuff.  It's the only way I can get a buzz off it.

You'd love what I just made then. French press and everything. I knew it was a bit much, but I went with it and now my intestines are revolting.

Have you ever heard the tale of Richter's Espresso Machine when we both worked in Boston?

He would put 3x the amount of espresso roast into a machine that would give you about the amount of coffee to fill a large mug. There were two people in the office that could handle it, him, and Fabulously Gay Nate, who's previous gig was a bike messenger, and also the front of a synthpop band.

This shit notoriously sent me on a vision quest across Boston Common one lunch hour during which I preached THE WORD to a congregation of bums near the Park St. subway stop. I returned back to my desk and had a caffeine crash. My supervisor came over to check on me, as my head was down on the desk and groaning. Knowing exactly what to do, he picked up my phone, and dialed Richter. Who, within a few minutes, appeared at my desk with a fresh pot of rocket fuel he heated my mug with.

That was the day I saw Eris. Though it may have been Mayor Menino in drag. I haven't figure it out yet.


:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Pope Pixie Pickle on January 15, 2014, 05:07:25 PM
I'm getting caffeine twitches from the masala chai i had an hour or so ago.

j
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 15, 2014, 05:43:17 PM
I didn't start drinking coffee until I caved to the harsh peer pressure here in New England. Down in Florida, Mountain Dew is an accepted form of morning beverage. But seriously, I could not drink hot coffee regularly until about...2004-2005? Prior to that, I had to ease myself in with iced coffee with lots of sugar.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 15, 2014, 05:45:25 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 15, 2014, 05:43:17 PM
Down in Florida, Mountain Dew is an accepted form of morning beverage.

This explains quite a lot.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 15, 2014, 06:27:11 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 15, 2014, 03:29:31 PM
No such thing as coffee too strong to drink.

There is only coffee that people are too weak to handle.

Cain has the Holies™.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 15, 2014, 06:42:00 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 15, 2014, 01:05:15 AM
Maybe Kai's tolerance has reached a new low point.

"This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals"

This pretty much pushes away everyone in America.

To all people who have higher education(s) than me here. I'm 90% complete in my A.A.S in Mechanical Engineering. Can a engineer call themselves a scientist, or is that reserved when I pick up another scientific field, or until I get a BS?

I really hope I don't start getting like that when I get my PhD. If I do, I'd like you guys to please take a hit out on me.

I don't think I'd call an engineer a scientist, that's a different kind of beast altogether. Probably a kind that isn't good enough to associate with Kai.

But what do I know? I'm just a lowly Associate of Arts.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 15, 2014, 06:42:59 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 15, 2014, 01:24:09 PM
Quote from: KaiThis thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

That's an interesting qualifier.  So he will mix with non-scientist conservatives?  Or non-scientist tea-baggers?  Ooook.

They won't mix with him. Librul elitists are BADWRONG.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 15, 2014, 06:44:13 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 15, 2014, 05:36:56 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 10:31:29 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 10:19:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 10:17:58 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 09:29:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 08:35:07 PM
Meanwhile on Facebook, my friend seems to be arguing that selective breeding is fundamentally the same as GMO. :kingmeh:

I actually loathe BOTH sides of the argument. They are all ignorant absolutists who don't know what they're talking about and should shut the fuck up.

And then this happened:

Quote from: KaiThis thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

Broad brush techniques are maybe a requirement in MS programs?

Or maybe Kai has just become a ridiculous elitist stuffed shirt.  Fuck him.

DOUR,
Food down my shirt, knuckles dragging.

He's been increasingly douchey, and decreasingly able to communicate with others without being condescending or throwing a tantrum when his sweeping statements are challenged for a while now. I've lost interest in talking to him.

Yeah, thing is that I keep trying to pretend he'll stop, and go back to being the guy I used to love having around.

But that isn't going to happen.   :sad:

Yeah, I don't think so.

If the friend is me, I was talking about irresponsible selective breeding, going for extremes like those chicken that can't walk because they have too much breast meat, or bulldogs that have breathing problems their entire life. That cow or steer or whatever it was had a shaved inflated ass that looked like a 600 lb. pumpkin. The caption had some shit about it being GMO, but FACEBOOK.

I think Kai was just frustrated at that point. Yeah, he was a jerk about it but those people couldn't even argue with him, they were like "YUO TROLLIN".

I let the damn thread die. Fuck it.

It wasn't you; I am not the kind of person who passive-aggressively complains about other people in the third person where I know they'll see it, I'm the kind of person who aggressive-aggressively says what I think to their face. :lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 15, 2014, 06:54:16 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 15, 2014, 06:44:13 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 15, 2014, 05:36:56 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 10:31:29 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 10:19:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 10:17:58 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 09:29:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 08:35:07 PM
Meanwhile on Facebook, my friend seems to be arguing that selective breeding is fundamentally the same as GMO. :kingmeh:

I actually loathe BOTH sides of the argument. They are all ignorant absolutists who don't know what they're talking about and should shut the fuck up.

And then this happened:

Quote from: KaiThis thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

Broad brush techniques are maybe a requirement in MS programs?

Or maybe Kai has just become a ridiculous elitist stuffed shirt.  Fuck him.

DOUR,
Food down my shirt, knuckles dragging.

He's been increasingly douchey, and decreasingly able to communicate with others without being condescending or throwing a tantrum when his sweeping statements are challenged for a while now. I've lost interest in talking to him.

Yeah, thing is that I keep trying to pretend he'll stop, and go back to being the guy I used to love having around.

But that isn't going to happen.   :sad:

Yeah, I don't think so.

If the friend is me, I was talking about irresponsible selective breeding, going for extremes like those chicken that can't walk because they have too much breast meat, or bulldogs that have breathing problems their entire life. That cow or steer or whatever it was had a shaved inflated ass that looked like a 600 lb. pumpkin. The caption had some shit about it being GMO, but FACEBOOK.

I think Kai was just frustrated at that point. Yeah, he was a jerk about it but those people couldn't even argue with him, they were like "YUO TROLLIN".

I let the damn thread die. Fuck it.

It wasn't you; I am not the kind of person who passive-aggressively complains about other people in the third person where I know they'll see it, I'm the kind of person who aggressive-aggressively says what I think to their face. :lol:

Indeed. 
I had a moment of doubt ("Maybe she doesn't have time to Nigel everything thats fucked up, I know I don't") but on reflection, you'd have made time. With a machete.  :lulz:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: P3nT4gR4m on January 15, 2014, 06:56:01 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 15, 2014, 06:42:00 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 15, 2014, 01:05:15 AM
Maybe Kai's tolerance has reached a new low point.

"This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals"

This pretty much pushes away everyone in America.

To all people who have higher education(s) than me here. I'm 90% complete in my A.A.S in Mechanical Engineering. Can a engineer call themselves a scientist, or is that reserved when I pick up another scientific field, or until I get a BS?

I really hope I don't start getting like that when I get my PhD. If I do, I'd like you guys to please take a hit out on me.

I don't think I'd call an engineer a scientist, that's a different kind of beast altogether. Probably a kind that isn't good enough to associate with Kai.

But what do I know? I'm just a lowly Associate of Arts.

new meme - Speaking as a scientist  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 15, 2014, 06:56:42 PM
Sheesh.  Remind me not to use hyperbole on FaceBook.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 15, 2014, 07:17:31 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 15, 2014, 05:45:25 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 15, 2014, 05:43:17 PM
Down in Florida, Mountain Dew is an accepted form of morning beverage.

This explains quite a lot.

Yes. My intolerance to Yellow 5 and subsequent UTIs was a start. But let's face it, it's sometimes too goddamn hot for a cup of proper coffee in the morning. When the iced coffee phenomenon reached Florida 5 years after it swept across New England like the 1938 Hurricane, it was the greatest thing in the world.

-Suu
Didn't even know iced coffee was a thing until 2002.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 15, 2014, 07:23:43 PM
In the last 24 hours, I have spoken to graduate advisors at both the University of South Florida and Norwich University, and both of them, after seeing my GPA, basically went, "Wait, URI wanted you to PAY FOR A CLASS to write them a dang paper? They wouldn't just let you audit?"

So it's not just me that feels like something is badwrong, here. I'm feeling fucked by Rhode Island. Again.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 15, 2014, 07:50:43 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 15, 2014, 07:17:31 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 15, 2014, 05:45:25 PM
Quote from: Kaousuu's Krazy Khaki Kristmas Kookies on January 15, 2014, 05:43:17 PM
Down in Florida, Mountain Dew is an accepted form of morning beverage.

This explains quite a lot.

Yes. My intolerance to Yellow 5 and subsequent UTIs was a start. But let's face it, it's sometimes too goddamn hot for a cup of proper coffee in the morning. When the iced coffee phenomenon reached Florida 5 years after it swept across New England like the 1938 Hurricane, it was the greatest thing in the world.

-Suu
Didn't even know iced coffee was a thing until 2002.

What?
I remember my mom ordering iced coffee when she used to take me out for ice cream when I was really little. It's always been a thing.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 15, 2014, 08:15:22 PM
Coffee??? Coffee??? Coffee?? Silly Anglo Americans. Just chew habanero peppers and speak TRUTH.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 15, 2014, 08:34:50 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 15, 2014, 08:15:22 PM
Coffee??? Coffee??? Coffee?? Silly Anglo Americans. Just chew habanero peppers and speak TRUTH.

I was married to a Hispanic. This is what made me drink coffee. His parents were like, "Angela, coffee?" And put it in front of me before I could say no. Cafe Bustelo. If I asked nice, they would give me milk for it. When we would go to taekwondo tournaments in Florida, our team would often sit near one of the schools from Miami we were friends with. They brewed Cuban coffee they served out of a thermos into little paper cups. I'm pretty sure that is the only way our parents got through 12 hour days in the stands.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 15, 2014, 08:50:57 PM
Cafe Bustelo is fucking righteous fuel.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 15, 2014, 08:52:48 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 15, 2014, 08:50:57 PM
Cafe Bustelo is fucking righteous fuel.

It makes SLAMMING Turkish coffee because of that fine grind. And then you will see forever.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 15, 2014, 09:38:42 PM
I just got offered a job.

Or, rather, I just got offered my old old job back with a whole bunch of shiny new enticements, the most important of which is that it would be year-round.

Naturally, I just signed a one year renewal on my lease yesterday. And I'm nowhere near certain I want to take the offer. But I'm not happy with my current employers and if this is what it's presented to be I'd pretty much instantly walking into a situation in which I'd have the chance to make an actual mark on the culinary landscape of the region, and probably make a half-decent living as well. And the offer included the offer of prime bartending shifts to ECHGF if she were to be interested, and that's one of the most lucrative bartending gigs in all of eastern Maine. So I'm going to try to fly out there in a couple months when they're opening up for the season and see if there's any truth to what I'm hearing. I'm also hoping to see if I can postpone making a decision until this summer or even later on the condition that I'm willing to help with the winterization work this fall since the real crux of the proposed plans can't assume its final form until that's all done anyway. Interesting shit is happening one way or another.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 15, 2014, 10:07:04 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 15, 2014, 09:38:42 PM
I just got offered a job.

Or, rather, I just got offered my old old job back with a whole bunch of shiny new enticements, the most important of which is that it would be year-round.

Naturally, I just signed a one year renewal on my lease yesterday. And I'm nowhere near certain I want to take the offer. But I'm not happy with my current employers and if this is what it's presented to be I'd pretty much instantly walking into a situation in which I'd have the chance to make an actual mark on the culinary landscape of the region, and probably make a half-decent living as well. And the offer included the offer of prime bartending shifts to ECHGF if she were to be interested, and that's one of the most lucrative bartending gigs in all of eastern Maine. So I'm going to try to fly out there in a couple months when they're opening up for the season and see if there's any truth to what I'm hearing. I'm also hoping to see if I can postpone making a decision until this summer or even later on the condition that I'm willing to help with the winterization work this fall since the real crux of the proposed plans can't assume its final form until that's all done anyway. Interesting shit is happening one way or another.

If that happens, I will be up there to see you. Being that we'll be practically living in the same state. Technically. Maybe. We're still looking in New Hampshire for tax (or lack there of) purposes. It just seems more lucrative to live in a state where you don't pay income taxes if you're only going to be there for a year. Not that there's much of a difference between Kittery, Portsmouth, or Newburyport anyway, aside from the amount the state wants to gouge you for. Though I can't see Maine being nearly as bad as Rhode Island.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Freeky on January 15, 2014, 10:38:53 PM
Oooooh, that sounds awesome, ECH.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 15, 2014, 10:51:22 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 15, 2014, 06:54:16 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 15, 2014, 06:44:13 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 15, 2014, 05:36:56 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 10:31:29 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 10:19:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 10:17:58 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 09:29:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 08:35:07 PM
Meanwhile on Facebook, my friend seems to be arguing that selective breeding is fundamentally the same as GMO. :kingmeh:

I actually loathe BOTH sides of the argument. They are all ignorant absolutists who don't know what they're talking about and should shut the fuck up.

And then this happened:

Quote from: KaiThis thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

Broad brush techniques are maybe a requirement in MS programs?

Or maybe Kai has just become a ridiculous elitist stuffed shirt.  Fuck him.

DOUR,
Food down my shirt, knuckles dragging.

He's been increasingly douchey, and decreasingly able to communicate with others without being condescending or throwing a tantrum when his sweeping statements are challenged for a while now. I've lost interest in talking to him.

Yeah, thing is that I keep trying to pretend he'll stop, and go back to being the guy I used to love having around.

But that isn't going to happen.   :sad:

Yeah, I don't think so.

If the friend is me, I was talking about irresponsible selective breeding, going for extremes like those chicken that can't walk because they have too much breast meat, or bulldogs that have breathing problems their entire life. That cow or steer or whatever it was had a shaved inflated ass that looked like a 600 lb. pumpkin. The caption had some shit about it being GMO, but FACEBOOK.

I think Kai was just frustrated at that point. Yeah, he was a jerk about it but those people couldn't even argue with him, they were like "YUO TROLLIN".

I let the damn thread die. Fuck it.

It wasn't you; I am not the kind of person who passive-aggressively complains about other people in the third person where I know they'll see it, I'm the kind of person who aggressive-aggressively says what I think to their face. :lol:

Indeed. 
I had a moment of doubt ("Maybe she doesn't have time to Nigel everything thats fucked up, I know I don't") but on reflection, you'd have made time. With a machete.  :lulz:

A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.  :lol:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 15, 2014, 10:52:38 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 15, 2014, 06:56:01 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 15, 2014, 06:42:00 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 15, 2014, 01:05:15 AM
Maybe Kai's tolerance has reached a new low point.

"This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals"

This pretty much pushes away everyone in America.

To all people who have higher education(s) than me here. I'm 90% complete in my A.A.S in Mechanical Engineering. Can a engineer call themselves a scientist, or is that reserved when I pick up another scientific field, or until I get a BS?

I really hope I don't start getting like that when I get my PhD. If I do, I'd like you guys to please take a hit out on me.

I don't think I'd call an engineer a scientist, that's a different kind of beast altogether. Probably a kind that isn't good enough to associate with Kai.

But what do I know? I'm just a lowly Associate of Arts.

new meme - Speaking as a scientist  :lulz:

Speaking as a mother, I approve of this spaggotry.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 15, 2014, 10:54:10 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 15, 2014, 06:56:42 PM
Sheesh.  Remind me not to use hyperbole on FaceBook.

Oh, this isn't an isolated incident. There's back story.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 15, 2014, 10:56:47 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 15, 2014, 09:38:42 PM
I just got offered a job.

Or, rather, I just got offered my old old job back with a whole bunch of shiny new enticements, the most important of which is that it would be year-round.

Naturally, I just signed a one year renewal on my lease yesterday. And I'm nowhere near certain I want to take the offer. But I'm not happy with my current employers and if this is what it's presented to be I'd pretty much instantly walking into a situation in which I'd have the chance to make an actual mark on the culinary landscape of the region, and probably make a half-decent living as well. And the offer included the offer of prime bartending shifts to ECHGF if she were to be interested, and that's one of the most lucrative bartending gigs in all of eastern Maine. So I'm going to try to fly out there in a couple months when they're opening up for the season and see if there's any truth to what I'm hearing. I'm also hoping to see if I can postpone making a decision until this summer or even later on the condition that I'm willing to help with the winterization work this fall since the real crux of the proposed plans can't assume its final form until that's all done anyway. Interesting shit is happening one way or another.

Whoa, good luck ECH! What's the penalty on breaking the lease?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 15, 2014, 10:59:09 PM
How far up the coast might you be? As in, hours from Boston, say.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 15, 2014, 11:00:51 PM
Posting on my tiny Google tablet on the library's shitty connection kind of sucks. But I have another hour before class and I've done all the homework I can do without my biology textbook.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on January 16, 2014, 12:49:23 AM
Grand-slammin'-ding-daddly-danglin'-rock-em-sock-em-fuck-yeah News: I have been bumped up to full-time hours with a 33% raise. This is apparently considered "temporary full-time" until such time as they decide that they want to keep me around and I get the full benefits.

Bummer-dummer-fing-fang-fumbler News: This upgrade came on the heels of the most boring, tedious, skullfuck asinine task I've had to do since I got hired. I'm basically acting as a data entry geek until we figure out what the fuck to actually do with the data.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 16, 2014, 01:57:03 AM
So, one commission currently in negotiations has almost a $500 material cost /alone./  People need to start sheering more sheep, because the price of wool is ridiculous. $20 a yard! I get silk half that price, damnit. This is the reason why people are wearing petroleum based products as clothing and not natural fibers. Dear GOD, and I thought when linen went up last year to $9 a yard that was bad.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 16, 2014, 03:48:01 AM
Something is amiss when processed dinosaur carcasses are cheaper than sheep fur...
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 16, 2014, 03:48:55 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 16, 2014, 03:48:01 AM
Something is amiss when processed dinosaur carcasses are cheaper than sheep fur...

Right? Sounds like we need to start killing some sheep.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on January 16, 2014, 04:18:01 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 16, 2014, 03:48:55 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 16, 2014, 03:48:01 AM
Something is amiss when processed dinosaur carcasses are cheaper than sheep fur...

Right? Sounds like we need to start killing some sheep.

What's that?

THE SHEEP HAVE OIL?!

:chickenhawk:

:dream:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 16, 2014, 04:18:46 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 16, 2014, 03:48:01 AM
Something is amiss when processed dinosaur carcasses are cheaper than sheep fur...

DRILL BABY DRILL

MAMA NEEDS A NEW ACRYLIC SWEATER
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 16, 2014, 04:19:43 AM
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on January 16, 2014, 04:18:01 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 16, 2014, 03:48:55 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 16, 2014, 03:48:01 AM
Something is amiss when processed dinosaur carcasses are cheaper than sheep fur...

Right? Sounds like we need to start killing some sheep.

What's that?

THE SHEEP HAVE OIL?!

:chickenhawk:

:dream:

Is called lanolin.

-Suu
DREAM RUINT

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 16, 2014, 05:17:09 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 11, 2014, 06:28:37 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 11, 2014, 01:55:37 AM
Why do you suppose that is?

I think there are a lot of ingrained cultural messages that basically tell black people that they aren't cut out to be scientists. They aren't encouraged in math, there are few visible black representations in math and science, and at the community college level we are mostly talking about poor black kids from poor black schools, so they were severely shortchanged at the elementary school level. My guess is that the #1 reason I don't see black faces in my classes is because they are intimidated by the math required to go on to the "serious" chemistry and biology courses. They feel like they just can't do it... even though, like every other class they may take, it is simply a matter of taking the classes that lead up to it. If you can pass math 95, you can pass 111, and then 112, and then 253/254. But math is mystified, and black students are given the message at the elementary level that they aren't up for it. Teachers expect less of black students.

Which is stupid. My bio professor from last semester is from Africa, and I'm looking forward to having him again in Genetics, because he's an awesome teacher who knows his stuff, and is friendly as hell to boot. One of my math projects was to talk to someone in a field I wanted to go into, which is at the moment, loosely biology. I could have gone to anyone I work with, but I chose him. Honestly, if he taught more classes at BHCC, I'd probably stack them with him.

You know, there's a funny thing there, too. I looked at Rate My Professors halfway through the semester and some people were all about him and others were talking about how he can't be bothered with you and he's a horrible teacher. I couldn't help but think that those bad reviews were from people who just didn't want to put in the work. And I'm saying this as a slacker who has to force himself to work. That's a side note of course.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 16, 2014, 05:19:43 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Jesus.

I hope it's just an annoying abscess or something.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 16, 2014, 06:23:38 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 14, 2014, 03:45:13 PM
Well, I won't say no to a job I'm qualified for, that pays nearly $60000 a year.

:eek:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 16, 2014, 06:35:44 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 05:52:57 PM
For real.  I have been told that mechanical engineering and physics are largely a matter of opinion.

I fucking hate people.

I....

Yeah, I'll leave it at that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 16, 2014, 06:45:22 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 10:31:29 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 10:19:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 10:17:58 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 09:29:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 08:35:07 PM
Meanwhile on Facebook, my friend seems to be arguing that selective breeding is fundamentally the same as GMO. :kingmeh:

I actually loathe BOTH sides of the argument. They are all ignorant absolutists who don't know what they're talking about and should shut the fuck up.

And then this happened:

Quote from: KaiThis thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

Broad brush techniques are maybe a requirement in MS programs?

Or maybe Kai has just become a ridiculous elitist stuffed shirt.  Fuck him.

DOUR,
Food down my shirt, knuckles dragging.

He's been increasingly douchey, and decreasingly able to communicate with others without being condescending or throwing a tantrum when his sweeping statements are challenged for a while now. I've lost interest in talking to him.

Yeah, thing is that I keep trying to pretend he'll stop, and go back to being the guy I used to love having around.

But that isn't going to happen.   :sad:

Yeah, I don't think so.

I noticed it a little bit in a status that got sidetracked. I think I get it on his end. It's frustration. Damned if I don't feel it sometimes. I don't blame him for it, and damned if we all aren't frustrated. Hmmm. I have the beginning of a thought leading to a rant, I think. think I'm going to have to poke it a bit more.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 16, 2014, 06:52:39 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 15, 2014, 03:49:58 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 15, 2014, 03:43:41 PM
You're talking to someone here, Suu, who will happily take coffee in volumes from a heaped teaspoon to multiple tablespoons to "only 3% water".  And that's the nasty instant stuff.  It's the only way I can get a buzz off it.

You'd love what I just made then. French press and everything. I knew it was a bit much, but I went with it and now my intestines are revolting.

Have you ever heard the tale of Richter's Espresso Machine when we both worked in Boston?

He would put 3x the amount of espresso roast into a machine that would give you about the amount of coffee to fill a large mug. There were two people in the office that could handle it, him, and Fabulously Gay Nate, who's previous gig was a bike messenger, and also the front of a synthpop band.

This shit notoriously sent me on a vision quest across Boston Common one lunch hour during which I preached THE WORD to a congregation of bums near the Park St. subway stop. I returned back to my desk and had a caffeine crash. My supervisor came over to check on me, as my head was down on the desk and groaning. Knowing exactly what to do, he picked up my phone, and dialed Richter. Who, within a few minutes, appeared at my desk with a fresh pot of rocket fuel he heated my mug with.

That was the day I saw Eris. Though it may have been Mayor Menino in drag. I haven't figured it out yet.

Hi,

You both need to work in this city again.

Preferably on Longwood Ave, in between Huntington and Louis Pasteur.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 16, 2014, 06:56:13 AM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 15, 2014, 08:15:22 PM
Coffee??? Coffee??? Coffee?? Silly Anglo Americans. Just chew habanero peppers and speak TRUTH.

Speaking as an Irishman, this it truth.

Twid,
Mouthful of penance
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on January 16, 2014, 07:09:32 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

:(

Hope it turns out to be nothing important.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 16, 2014, 07:25:44 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 16, 2014, 05:19:43 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Jesus.

I hope it's just an annoying abscess or something.

Doctor appointment went well-ish.

Got antibiotics to see if that takes care of the lump thing. He's pretty convinced it is just an abscess. Of all the shit we discussed today, that was the LEAST of his concerns about my health. God damn it. He's also pretty convinced a large super shiny mole he freeze-nuked was NOT just a mole. Annnnnd I need to find a gyno and/or reproductive endocrinewhatsit for my woman-bit healthcare from here on out because -unnecessary TMI- and he's not going to touch it with a ten-foot pole. God damn it.

If the antibiotics don't work on the chest-decoration and/or it doesn't sprout a Pepsi logo, I go back in and he'll do whatever it is they do to non-Pepsi oriented lumpy bits.

And I didn't have a gigantic panic attack, snap, and beat the shit out of random people; so that's good.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 16, 2014, 07:26:29 AM
Quote from: Net on January 16, 2014, 07:09:32 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

:(

Hope it turns out to be nothing important.

Possibly did. Thank you. I'll know for sure in about three days. :)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 16, 2014, 07:33:28 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 16, 2014, 07:25:44 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 16, 2014, 05:19:43 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Jesus.

I hope it's just an annoying abscess or something.

Doctor appointment went well-ish.

Got antibiotics to see if that takes care of the lump thing. He's pretty convinced it is just an abscess. Of all the shit we discussed today, that was the LEAST of his concerns about my health. God damn it. He's also pretty convinced a large super shiny mole he freeze-nuked was NOT just a mole. Annnnnd I need to find a gyno and/or reproductive endocrinewhatsit for my woman-bit healthcare from here on out because -unnecessary TMI- and he's not going to touch it with a ten-foot pole. God damn it.

If the antibiotics don't work on the chest-decoration and/or it doesn't sprout a Pepsi logo, I go back in and he'll do whatever it is they do to non-Pepsi oriented lumpy bits.

And I didn't have a gigantic panic attack, snap, and beat the shit out of random people; so that's good.

Crossing fingers for ya.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 16, 2014, 01:45:40 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 15, 2014, 10:52:38 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 15, 2014, 06:56:01 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 15, 2014, 06:42:00 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 15, 2014, 01:05:15 AM
Maybe Kai's tolerance has reached a new low point.

"This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals"

This pretty much pushes away everyone in America.

To all people who have higher education(s) than me here. I'm 90% complete in my A.A.S in Mechanical Engineering. Can a engineer call themselves a scientist, or is that reserved when I pick up another scientific field, or until I get a BS?

I really hope I don't start getting like that when I get my PhD. If I do, I'd like you guys to please take a hit out on me.

I don't think I'd call an engineer a scientist, that's a different kind of beast altogether. Probably a kind that isn't good enough to associate with Kai.

But what do I know? I'm just a lowly Associate of Arts.

new meme - Speaking as a scientist  :lulz:

Speaking as a mother, I approve of this spaggotry.

I don't know if I can mix with mothers.
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Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 16, 2014, 03:05:21 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 16, 2014, 05:17:09 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 11, 2014, 06:28:37 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 11, 2014, 01:55:37 AM
Why do you suppose that is?

I think there are a lot of ingrained cultural messages that basically tell black people that they aren't cut out to be scientists. They aren't encouraged in math, there are few visible black representations in math and science, and at the community college level we are mostly talking about poor black kids from poor black schools, so they were severely shortchanged at the elementary school level. My guess is that the #1 reason I don't see black faces in my classes is because they are intimidated by the math required to go on to the "serious" chemistry and biology courses. They feel like they just can't do it... even though, like every other class they may take, it is simply a matter of taking the classes that lead up to it. If you can pass math 95, you can pass 111, and then 112, and then 253/254. But math is mystified, and black students are given the message at the elementary level that they aren't up for it. Teachers expect less of black students.

Which is stupid. My bio professor from last semester is from Africa, and I'm looking forward to having him again in Genetics, because he's an awesome teacher who knows his stuff, and is friendly as hell to boot. One of my math projects was to talk to someone in a field I wanted to go into, which is at the moment, loosely biology. I could have gone to anyone I work with, but I chose him. Honestly, if he taught more classes at BHCC, I'd probably stack them with him.

You know, there's a funny thing there, too. I looked at Rate My Professors halfway through the semester and some people were all about him and others were talking about how he can't be bothered with you and he's a horrible teacher. I couldn't help but think that those bad reviews were from people who just didn't want to put in the work. And I'm saying this as a slacker who has to force himself to work. That's a side note of course.

Half the reviews for  my chemistry professor are bad, too, and I think it's for the same reason. Yes, she IS anal-retentive and exacting... do you want to learn chemistry, or not?

An interesting observation: African immigrants don't have the same academic limitations American blacks do. It's purely a cultural artifact, which means our culture is doing something very wrong.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 16, 2014, 03:07:24 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 16, 2014, 06:45:22 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 10:31:29 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 10:19:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 10:17:58 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 14, 2014, 09:29:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 14, 2014, 08:35:07 PM
Meanwhile on Facebook, my friend seems to be arguing that selective breeding is fundamentally the same as GMO. :kingmeh:

I actually loathe BOTH sides of the argument. They are all ignorant absolutists who don't know what they're talking about and should shut the fuck up.

And then this happened:

Quote from: KaiThis thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals. You're all as bad as the reactionaries with your bloody propaganda. Bunch of mindless sheep in thrall to hype.

Broad brush techniques are maybe a requirement in MS programs?

Or maybe Kai has just become a ridiculous elitist stuffed shirt.  Fuck him.

DOUR,
Food down my shirt, knuckles dragging.

He's been increasingly douchey, and decreasingly able to communicate with others without being condescending or throwing a tantrum when his sweeping statements are challenged for a while now. I've lost interest in talking to him.

Yeah, thing is that I keep trying to pretend he'll stop, and go back to being the guy I used to love having around.

But that isn't going to happen.   :sad:

Yeah, I don't think so.

I noticed it a little bit in a status that got sidetracked. I think I get it on his end. It's frustration. Damned if I don't feel it sometimes. I don't blame him for it, and damned if we all aren't frustrated. Hmmm. I have the beginning of a thought leading to a rant, I think. think I'm going to have to poke it a bit more.

He applies that level of slimy condescension to everyone who disagrees with him, and triples it when he's wrong. Not worth talking to. Not the same guy anymore that he's found Religion.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 16, 2014, 03:12:04 PM
Tangentially related is this FB update by Stephen King:

"What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle."
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 16, 2014, 03:19:23 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 16, 2014, 03:12:04 PM
Tangentially related is this FB update by Stephen King:

"What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle."

Partially true.

We also breed like roaches.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 16, 2014, 03:47:46 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 16, 2014, 07:25:44 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 16, 2014, 05:19:43 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Jesus.

I hope it's just an annoying abscess or something.

Doctor appointment went well-ish.

Got antibiotics to see if that takes care of the lump thing. He's pretty convinced it is just an abscess. Of all the shit we discussed today, that was the LEAST of his concerns about my health. God damn it. He's also pretty convinced a large super shiny mole he freeze-nuked was NOT just a mole. Annnnnd I need to find a gyno and/or reproductive endocrinewhatsit for my woman-bit healthcare from here on out because -unnecessary TMI- and he's not going to touch it with a ten-foot pole. God damn it.

If the antibiotics don't work on the chest-decoration and/or it doesn't sprout a Pepsi logo, I go back in and he'll do whatever it is they do to non-Pepsi oriented lumpy bits.

And I didn't have a gigantic panic attack, snap, and beat the shit out of random people; so that's good.

If you need someone to chat with out the women-bit issue, give me a holler, k?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 16, 2014, 04:32:28 PM
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Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 16, 2014, 04:37:01 PM
If it allows me to shoot Electronic Arts in the face, I'm sold.

Thanks to an outdated page on their site that they failed to remove, I signed up with a third company to access a form (copyright stuff, for the Youtubes).  Said company is now virtually harassing me, and mysteriously, all their automated "be taken off our contact list" site stuff is not working.

I've just spent half an hour finding relevant information on harassment law in the UK, USA and Switzerland and mailing it to their primary contact with me, to make my point abundantly clear.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 16, 2014, 05:06:38 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 16, 2014, 03:47:46 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 16, 2014, 07:25:44 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 16, 2014, 05:19:43 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 11, 2014, 10:31:03 PM
So I don't know if I posted about this or if I did and erased it or whatever so forgive me if this is a repeat. Or not, whatevs.

I have a lump on my chest. Directly below the point of my right collar bone. It started out as a tiny annoying bump that got written off as a clogged pore or whatever. I forget when this was. And it stayed small for a long time, and invisible to the naked eye, but recently it has started growing. Last month it was smaller than my pinky-fingertip. Yesterday it fit under my index fingertip. Today it does not.

So doctor's appointment for me. And what the hell, I may as well get a pap smear too. Damn it.

Jesus.

I hope it's just an annoying abscess or something.

Doctor appointment went well-ish.

Got antibiotics to see if that takes care of the lump thing. He's pretty convinced it is just an abscess. Of all the shit we discussed today, that was the LEAST of his concerns about my health. God damn it. He's also pretty convinced a large super shiny mole he freeze-nuked was NOT just a mole. Annnnnd I need to find a gyno and/or reproductive endocrinewhatsit for my woman-bit healthcare from here on out because -unnecessary TMI- and he's not going to touch it with a ten-foot pole. God damn it.

If the antibiotics don't work on the chest-decoration and/or it doesn't sprout a Pepsi logo, I go back in and he'll do whatever it is they do to non-Pepsi oriented lumpy bits.

And I didn't have a gigantic panic attack, snap, and beat the shit out of random people; so that's good.

If you need someone to chat with out the women-bit issue, give me a holler, k?

Thank you very much. I will be taking you up on this as soon as I get some more information.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 16, 2014, 05:07:59 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 16, 2014, 03:19:23 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 16, 2014, 03:12:04 PM
Tangentially related is this FB update by Stephen King:

"What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle."

Partially true.

We also breed like roaches.

Humans : Bad-ass mo-fos who will stick their wang in anythang.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 16, 2014, 05:31:16 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 15, 2014, 10:07:04 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 15, 2014, 09:38:42 PM
I just got offered a job.

Or, rather, I just got offered my old old job back with a whole bunch of shiny new enticements, the most important of which is that it would be year-round.

Naturally, I just signed a one year renewal on my lease yesterday. And I'm nowhere near certain I want to take the offer. But I'm not happy with my current employers and if this is what it's presented to be I'd pretty much instantly walking into a situation in which I'd have the chance to make an actual mark on the culinary landscape of the region, and probably make a half-decent living as well. And the offer included the offer of prime bartending shifts to ECHGF if she were to be interested, and that's one of the most lucrative bartending gigs in all of eastern Maine. So I'm going to try to fly out there in a couple months when they're opening up for the season and see if there's any truth to what I'm hearing. I'm also hoping to see if I can postpone making a decision until this summer or even later on the condition that I'm willing to help with the winterization work this fall since the real crux of the proposed plans can't assume its final form until that's all done anyway. Interesting shit is happening one way or another.

If that happens, I will be up there to see you. Being that we'll be practically living in the same state. Technically. Maybe. We're still looking in New Hampshire for tax (or lack there of) purposes. It just seems more lucrative to live in a state where you don't pay income taxes if you're only going to be there for a year. Not that there's much of a difference between Kittery, Portsmouth, or Newburyport anyway, aside from the amount the state wants to gouge you for. Though I can't see Maine being nearly as bad as Rhode Island.

Maine has a state income tax but you'll get most if not all of it back. Sales tax is 5% (maybe 5.5 now?) except for on prepared food and lodging, when it's 7%.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Sita on January 16, 2014, 05:36:37 PM
After 12 years my husband has finally gotten tired of me being a socially awkward person and has arranged for us to hang out with some friends from his work.
He's hoping that since they also like gaming and Doctor Who and things of that nature that it will bring me out of my shell.

Because apparently I need to figure out how to talk to people in the real world and not just online or something.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 16, 2014, 06:32:05 PM
Quote from: Sita on January 16, 2014, 05:36:37 PM
After 12 years my husband has finally gotten tired of me being a socially awkward person and has arranged for us to hang out with some friends from his work.
He's hoping that since they also like gaming and Doctor Who and things of that nature that it will bring me out of my shell.

Because apparently I need to figure out how to talk to people in the real world and not just online or something.

I was all, damn, sorry Sita, that blows, until I got to the second part.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 16, 2014, 06:41:07 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 16, 2014, 05:31:16 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 15, 2014, 10:07:04 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 15, 2014, 09:38:42 PM
I just got offered a job.

Or, rather, I just got offered my old old job back with a whole bunch of shiny new enticements, the most important of which is that it would be year-round.

Naturally, I just signed a one year renewal on my lease yesterday. And I'm nowhere near certain I want to take the offer. But I'm not happy with my current employers and if this is what it's presented to be I'd pretty much instantly walking into a situation in which I'd have the chance to make an actual mark on the culinary landscape of the region, and probably make a half-decent living as well. And the offer included the offer of prime bartending shifts to ECHGF if she were to be interested, and that's one of the most lucrative bartending gigs in all of eastern Maine. So I'm going to try to fly out there in a couple months when they're opening up for the season and see if there's any truth to what I'm hearing. I'm also hoping to see if I can postpone making a decision until this summer or even later on the condition that I'm willing to help with the winterization work this fall since the real crux of the proposed plans can't assume its final form until that's all done anyway. Interesting shit is happening one way or another.

If that happens, I will be up there to see you. Being that we'll be practically living in the same state. Technically. Maybe. We're still looking in New Hampshire for tax (or lack there of) purposes. It just seems more lucrative to live in a state where you don't pay income taxes if you're only going to be there for a year. Not that there's much of a difference between Kittery, Portsmouth, or Newburyport anyway, aside from the amount the state wants to gouge you for. Though I can't see Maine being nearly as bad as Rhode Island.

Maine has a state income tax but you'll get most if not all of it back. Sales tax is 5% (maybe 5.5 now?) except for on prepared food and lodging, when it's 7%.

That's actually not terrible. Unlike Rhode Island, where sales tax is 7%, but 8-12% on restaurant/lodging based on locality. But, we don't get taxed on clothes, shoes, food and booze. That hit me in the face when I was in Florida and I had to pay sales tax on a damn shirt. I forgot most states still do that.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 16, 2014, 06:56:38 PM
You don't pay taxes on clothes? WTF? I never heard of such a thing. No wonder your state's finances are fucked. That's 90% of the disposable income of the 14-25 year old demographic not being taxed, is what that is.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 16, 2014, 07:00:54 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 16, 2014, 06:56:38 PM
You don't pay taxes on clothes? WTF? I never heard of such a thing. No wonder your state's finances are fucked. That's 90% of the disposable income of the 14-25 year old demographic not being taxed, is what that is.

I thought MA didn't tax clothes either on the grounds that they're a necessity.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 16, 2014, 07:02:56 PM
Yep, to a certain point.

QuoteSales of food and clothing:
Sales of food for human consumption, other than meals sold by a restaurant, generally are tax-exempt. Sales of individual items of clothing costing $175 or less also generally are exempt. (Sales tax is due only on the amount over $175 per item.)

http://www.mass.gov/dor/individuals/taxpayer-help-and-resources/tax-guides/salesuse-tax-guide.html
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 16, 2014, 07:05:58 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 16, 2014, 06:56:38 PM
You don't pay taxes on clothes? WTF? I never heard of such a thing. No wonder your state's finances are fucked. That's 90% of the disposable income of the 14-25 year old demographic not being taxed, is what that is.

Neither does MA or CT last I checked. It's considered a necessity.

Fuck dude, NH doesn't tax a goddamn thing except prepared food, lodging, and property and they're doing pretty damn good for themselves. Granted, they also are something like 75% state park and have a quarter of the population of RI, but I digress.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 16, 2014, 07:27:55 PM
I have lost a textbook I need to return to the rental company. I have no idea where it is, other than that it is in the house somewhere, because I just had it on Sunday. It's seriously right in front of my face, and I can't find it.  :?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 16, 2014, 07:31:48 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 16, 2014, 07:05:58 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 16, 2014, 06:56:38 PM
You don't pay taxes on clothes? WTF? I never heard of such a thing. No wonder your state's finances are fucked. That's 90% of the disposable income of the 14-25 year old demographic not being taxed, is what that is.

Neither does MA or CT last I checked. It's considered a necessity.

Fuck dude, NH doesn't tax a goddamn thing except prepared food, lodging, and property and they're doing pretty damn good for themselves. Granted, they also are something like 75% state park and have a quarter of the population of RI, but I digress.

They prop up their state's finances by selling so much Allens Coffee Brandy to Mainers.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 16, 2014, 07:44:18 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 16, 2014, 07:31:48 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 16, 2014, 07:05:58 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 16, 2014, 06:56:38 PM
You don't pay taxes on clothes? WTF? I never heard of such a thing. No wonder your state's finances are fucked. That's 90% of the disposable income of the 14-25 year old demographic not being taxed, is what that is.

Neither does MA or CT last I checked. It's considered a necessity.

Fuck dude, NH doesn't tax a goddamn thing except prepared food, lodging, and property and they're doing pretty damn good for themselves. Granted, they also are something like 75% state park and have a quarter of the population of RI, but I digress.

They prop up their state's finances by selling so much Allens Coffee Brandy to Mainers.

Clearly, I need to try this stuff.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 16, 2014, 07:55:57 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 16, 2014, 07:31:48 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 16, 2014, 07:05:58 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 16, 2014, 06:56:38 PM
You don't pay taxes on clothes? WTF? I never heard of such a thing. No wonder your state's finances are fucked. That's 90% of the disposable income of the 14-25 year old demographic not being taxed, is what that is.

Neither does MA or CT last I checked. It's considered a necessity.

Fuck dude, NH doesn't tax a goddamn thing except prepared food, lodging, and property and they're doing pretty damn good for themselves. Granted, they also are something like 75% state park and have a quarter of the population of RI, but I digress.

They prop up their state's finances by selling so much Allens Coffee Brandy to Mainers.

O GAWD I remember when you brought that stuff and I threw up everywhere. Well actually I don't remember because i blacked out. But I found the vomit the next day!  :horrormirth:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 16, 2014, 08:08:53 PM
In all fairness, you didn't throw up EVERYWHERE. There was about a 6 square foot patch of floor and a corner of the mirror that escaped unscathed. :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 16, 2014, 08:10:41 PM
 :vom: <- me

Apparently I missed the toilet and displeased my roommate greatly
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 16, 2014, 08:15:27 PM
Yeah, when I was leaving the next morning you offered me the use of your shower before I hit the road. I hadn't had one since Maine and probably wasn't going to get another chance at one until San Diego so it was a very welcome offer.

Until I actually looked in the bathroom. Then I decided that the Puerto Rican shower at the Burger King a few miles down the road was a MUCH more hygienic option. :lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 16, 2014, 08:17:26 PM
 :thanks: I was training for the Olympic Projectile Vomiting Team ok
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Sita on January 16, 2014, 09:38:26 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 16, 2014, 06:32:05 PM
Quote from: Sita on January 16, 2014, 05:36:37 PM
After 12 years my husband has finally gotten tired of me being a socially awkward person and has arranged for us to hang out with some friends from his work.
He's hoping that since they also like gaming and Doctor Who and things of that nature that it will bring me out of my shell.

Because apparently I need to figure out how to talk to people in the real world and not just online or something.

I was all, damn, sorry Sita, that blows, until I got to the second part.
Ack, probably could've structured that sentence better.
Only bummer bit about it is my needing to socialize, which I suck at and thus avoid whenever possible.

And yet it seems everyone considers me a friend. I'll never understand people.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 16, 2014, 10:52:46 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 16, 2014, 01:45:40 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 15, 2014, 10:52:38 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 15, 2014, 06:56:01 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 15, 2014, 06:42:00 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 15, 2014, 01:05:15 AM
Maybe Kai's tolerance has reached a new low point.

"This thread is one of the reasons that I, as a biologist, do not like to mix with non-scientist liberals"

This pretty much pushes away everyone in America.

To all people who have higher education(s) than me here. I'm 90% complete in my A.A.S in Mechanical Engineering. Can a engineer call themselves a scientist, or is that reserved when I pick up another scientific field, or until I get a BS?

I really hope I don't start getting like that when I get my PhD. If I do, I'd like you guys to please take a hit out on me.

I don't think I'd call an engineer a scientist, that's a different kind of beast altogether. Probably a kind that isn't good enough to associate with Kai.

But what do I know? I'm just a lowly Associate of Arts.

new meme - Speaking as a scientist  :lulz:

Speaking as a mother, I approve of this spaggotry.

I don't know if I can mix with mothers.
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:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 16, 2014, 10:58:32 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 16, 2014, 03:19:23 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 16, 2014, 03:12:04 PM
Tangentially related is this FB update by Stephen King:

"What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle."

Partially true.

We also breed like roaches.

We actually breed really, really slowly compared to most other species of comparable size: only one child every two to three years. We just live way longer, have a much lower infant mortality rate, no predators, and our females are reproductively viable for 20-30 years, as well as continuing to provide food and nurturing to subsequent generations for another 30-40 years after they can no longer breed, which confers a HUGE survival advantage.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 16, 2014, 10:59:42 PM
And we're really fucking hard to kill, shrugging off traumas and deprivation that would be fatal to most species.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 16, 2014, 11:03:15 PM
Humans are stubbornly tenacious. Those thumbs really hook into life and are hard to shake loose.

That is why (real) wrestling has such a high and hideous rate of injury. And why my job is so hard.

Humans have no idea about the mastery they hold over all that...mmmmmeeeeat.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 16, 2014, 11:03:49 PM
Quote from: Sita on January 16, 2014, 09:38:26 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 16, 2014, 06:32:05 PM
Quote from: Sita on January 16, 2014, 05:36:37 PM
After 12 years my husband has finally gotten tired of me being a socially awkward person and has arranged for us to hang out with some friends from his work.
He's hoping that since they also like gaming and Doctor Who and things of that nature that it will bring me out of my shell.

Because apparently I need to figure out how to talk to people in the real world and not just online or something.

I was all, damn, sorry Sita, that blows, until I got to the second part.
Ack, probably could've structured that sentence better.
Only bummer bit about it is my needing to socialize, which I suck at and thus avoid whenever possible.

And yet it seems everyone considers me a friend. I'll never understand people.

You probably don't suck as much as you think you suck. Everybody has flaws and makes social gaffes, but most people are perfectly willing to overlook the flaws and focus on the good things, plus nobody spends as much time thinking about other people's social gaffes as they spend thinking about their own.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 16, 2014, 11:07:42 PM
As a matter of fact, if other people think of you as a friend, you definitely don't suck as much as you think you suck. Protip: if everyone else thinks you're awesome, they probably aren't all wrong.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 16, 2014, 11:42:39 PM
Didn't we have a thread about humans and their awesomeness?
Oh yeah, here (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,35227.0.html) it is.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 17, 2014, 01:29:14 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 16, 2014, 10:58:32 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 16, 2014, 03:19:23 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 16, 2014, 03:12:04 PM
Tangentially related is this FB update by Stephen King:

"What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle."

Partially true.

We also breed like roaches.

We actually breed really, really slowly compared to most other species of comparable size: only one child every two to three years. We just live way longer, have a much lower infant mortality rate, no predators, and our females are reproductively viable for 20-30 years, as well as continuing to provide food and nurturing to subsequent generations for another 30-40 years after they can no longer breed, which confers a HUGE survival advantage.

Hunter-gatherers were and are (what few of them are left) barely able to top the replacement rate, because their caloric intake won't support much more than that. 
Agriculture made us explode...well, population-wise.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 17, 2014, 01:32:42 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 16, 2014, 10:58:32 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 16, 2014, 03:19:23 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 16, 2014, 03:12:04 PM
Tangentially related is this FB update by Stephen King:

"What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle."

Partially true.

We also breed like roaches.

We actually breed really, really slowly compared to most other species of comparable size: only one child every two to three years. We just live way longer, have a much lower infant mortality rate, no predators, and our females are reproductively viable for 20-30 years, as well as continuing to provide food and nurturing to subsequent generations for another 30-40 years after they can no longer breed, which confers a HUGE survival advantage.

Sure.

End result, though?  7.24 billion primates?  Close enough.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 17, 2014, 02:50:23 AM
I seem to have found myself in the odd position of being fairly sure a god of some sort exists but that an afterlife doesn't. Probably just an error in the programming combined with the input. But it's an odd mindset to have. Not that it hasn't happened before with other people or even whole cultures but the two are usually seen as a package deal, and this is kind of a package screw over. The opposite would obviously be a better deal.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 17, 2014, 04:14:31 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 17, 2014, 02:50:23 AM
I seem to have found myself in the odd position of being fairly sure a god of some sort exists but that an afterlife doesn't.

...Curious.  Wanna elaborate?

*Goes back to Al-gibberish.*

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 17, 2014, 04:36:03 AM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 17, 2014, 04:14:31 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 17, 2014, 02:50:23 AM
I seem to have found myself in the odd position of being fairly sure a god of some sort exists but that an afterlife doesn't.

...Curious.  Wanna elaborate?

*Goes back to Al-gibberish.*

The more that I understand about biology the more I believe in a god, even with evolution taken into consideration. It just seems so... ridiculous that I can't wrap my head around it. And I was a theist to begin with.

The more that I understand about consciousness, the less I believe in the immortality of the soul. And really it is the one religious belief that I CAN measure. Where do I go for those couple of hours between falling asleep and going into REM? I don't go anywhere. I experience nothing. I, as a sentient entity, temporarily cease to exist. The body is still there, and the personality is still wired in to reboot when I wake up, or even dream, but there's about a third of my existence where it is nothing more than biological activity. I am not there to experience it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 17, 2014, 04:42:59 AM
Never mind that personality is merely a consensus between conflicting parts of the brain. I tagged Nigel in this yesterday, but this was merely something else to back up some sneaking thought in the back of my head anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFJPtVRlI64
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 17, 2014, 05:16:50 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 17, 2014, 04:36:03 AM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 17, 2014, 04:14:31 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 17, 2014, 02:50:23 AM
I seem to have found myself in the odd position of being fairly sure a god of some sort exists but that an afterlife doesn't.

...Curious.  Wanna elaborate?

*Goes back to Al-gibberish.*

The more that I understand about biology the more I believe in a god, even with evolution taken into consideration. It just seems so... ridiculous that I can't wrap my head around it.

So, God shows its' work in its' warped sense of humor?
:)

Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 17, 2014, 04:36:03 AM
The more that I understand about consciousness, the less I believe in the immortality of the soul. And really it is the one religious belief that I CAN measure. Where do I go for those couple of hours between falling asleep and going into REM? I don't go anywhere. I experience nothing. I, as a sentient entity, temporarily cease to exist. The body is still there, and the personality is still wired in to reboot when I wake up, or even dream, but there's about a third of my existence where it is nothing more than biological activity. I am not there to experience it.

...Brain shutdown is apparently a necessary biological purging process:
http://www.livescience.com/40510-sleep-cleans-brain-harmful-toxins.html

Dunno.
The "near-death experience sorta thing" I had was just probably just due to pain overload.  I found it interesting (in retrospect) that it was nothing like fainting or being anesthetized, which I've done rather more often. 

*Shrug*
What the hell do I know? 
Thanks for sharing.

Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 17, 2014, 04:42:59 AM
Never mind that personality is merely a consensus between conflicting parts of the brain.
I can't watch youtube @ work right now, whitescreen.
...But I laughed loudly at the above sentence, because truth.


Edited to add:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostatic_model_of_personality  *That's* the personality model I was looking for, couldn't remember the term.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 17, 2014, 06:58:49 AM
Idk, man. I am accused often of being anti-spiritual because I can't take any religious teaching seriously, especially teachings about the afterlife. But I haven't ever been fully convinced that there is no such thing. I just have never encountered an idea of an afterlife that didn't sound absurd. Especially after a few month-long LSD benders...

As for there being a god, I guess I am pantheist. There are organizing principles to the universe. I think that is a profound enough thing to call "god" in itself.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 17, 2014, 07:50:13 AM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 17, 2014, 05:16:50 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 17, 2014, 04:36:03 AM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 17, 2014, 04:14:31 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 17, 2014, 02:50:23 AM
I seem to have found myself in the odd position of being fairly sure a god of some sort exists but that an afterlife doesn't.

...Curious.  Wanna elaborate?

*Goes back to Al-gibberish.*

The more that I understand about biology the more I believe in a god, even with evolution taken into consideration. It just seems so... ridiculous that I can't wrap my head around it.

So, God shows its' work in its' warped sense of humor?
:)

I am still open to the possibilities, and always have been, that this is some kid's shitty science project in another universe; that everything that exists is God and that God is indivorceable from reality, it's just that we got the idea of God wrong; That God honestly doesn't know what s/he's doing and just making it up has s/he goes along; God's a little crazy. I dunno, it's, as far as the biology thing is concerned, I can only accept emergent properties to a degree. It seems like there's a hell of a fucking leap between organic molecules and those organic molecules self-organizing and taking on specialized tasks in order to maintain other processes going on with other self-organizing molecules. I understand that biology and physics tend to shake theistic belief off of people and that chemists and engineers tend to be more theistic, but I'm getting the opposite effect.

Quote
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 17, 2014, 04:36:03 AM
The more that I understand about consciousness, the less I believe in the immortality of the soul. And really it is the one religious belief that I CAN measure. Where do I go for those couple of hours between falling asleep and going into REM? I don't go anywhere. I experience nothing. I, as a sentient entity, temporarily cease to exist. The body is still there, and the personality is still wired in to reboot when I wake up, or even dream, but there's about a third of my existence where it is nothing more than biological activity. I am not there to experience it.

...Brain shutdown is apparently a necessary biological purging process:
http://www.livescience.com/40510-sleep-cleans-brain-harmful-toxins.html

Dunno.
The "near-death experience sorta thing" I had was just probably just due to pain overload.  I found it interesting (in retrospect) that it was nothing like fainting or being anesthetized, which I've done rather more often. 

*Shrug*
What the hell do I know? 
Thanks for sharing.

The nearest death experience I've had, other than sleeping, was that I expected my plane to crash (I was stranded abroad for another couple of days instead). I don't doubt that sleep has important things to do to the brain, and I'm not worried about the brain. I'm thinking about where Twid goes when Twid's brain powers down. It's an absurd question. The Essence of Twid winks out of existence for a while. I know this because I experience non-experience.

Quote
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 17, 2014, 04:42:59 AM
Never mind that personality is merely a consensus between conflicting parts of the brain.
I can't watch youtube @ work right now, whitescreen.
...But I laughed loudly at the above sentence, because truth.


Edited to add:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostatic_model_of_personality  *That's* the personality model I was looking for, couldn't remember the term.
[/quote]

The gist is that people who have had their hemispheres split (presumably to stop seizures) develop two distinct personas. One speaks, the other can understand simple language and respond by pointing to yes, no, or I don't know.

The experiment demonstrated people who verbally were left brain atheist and right brain theist. Cool. But what does that mean? And as the presenter asks, does one hemisphere go to heaven and the other hell? (When I believe in the afterlife, I don't think the matter of belief has any bearing on destination)

Quote from: V3X on January 17, 2014, 06:58:49 AM
Idk, man. I am accused often of being anti-spiritual because I can't take any religious teaching seriously, especially teachings about the afterlife. But I haven't ever been fully convinced that there is no such thing. I just have never encountered an idea of an afterlife that didn't sound absurd. Especially after a few month-long LSD benders...

As for there being a god, I guess I am pantheist. There are organizing principles to the universe. I think that is a profound enough thing to call "god" in itself.

I consider my baseline belief to be pantheist too, but I dunno. I've recognized that the belief in god(s) and belief in an afterlife are two separate, but usually attached thoughts. And now the thoughts are detached, but instead of being an atheist Buddhist, I'm a Sumerian who thinks this is it. Part of my wanting religion was the comfort of the idea of surviving physical death, with or without God.


Like I said, it's probably just some buggy thing, but I'm a bit stuck on the... I guess, "This statement is false"
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: minuspace on January 17, 2014, 08:36:10 AM
I always love this one:
Paul Fenwick, "All Your Brains Suck - Known Bugs And Exploits In Wetware"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnX5v0uwNjc&feature=youtube_gdata_player (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnX5v0uwNjc&feature=youtube_gdata_player)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 17, 2014, 02:48:52 PM
I am grudgingly coming to the conclusion that every single essay I will write for this course will involve at least a thousand words devoted to explaining you can ask three terrorism reseachers for a definition and get seventeen billion different answers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_terrorism#Scholars_and_recognized_experts_on_terrorism).

Oh well, it makes hitting the word limit easier.  And I can just copy and paste the same section each time.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 17, 2014, 02:56:27 PM
Why is there no commonly agreed-upon definition?  Politics? Academic elitism?  Too much variation, so a single definition is too broad to be effective?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 17, 2014, 03:07:12 PM
All of the above.  Plus research problems.  From one of the papers I'm citing:

QuoteThe first problem is that terrorism quite simply is not a topic that is easily researched. Or at least, it does not give that impression on first inspection.  The central actors involved in the phenomenon are difficult to access – and extremely difficult to access in a systematic manner. As Ariel Merari notes, 'the clandestine nature of terrorist organizations and the ways and means by which intelligence can be obtained will extremely rarely enable data collection which meets commonly accepted academic standards'.3

Terrorism itself is an emotive subject and researchers have traditionally not been overly concerned with remaining objective and neutral in how they view the subject and its perpetrators. It has been noted that many researchers seem confused by their roles. As Schmid and Jongman have pointed out, the researcher's 'role is not to "fight" the terrorist fire; rather than a "firefighter", [the researcher] should be a "student of combustion"'.4 But such objectivity is relatively rare in the field (not especially surprising when most of the research is paid for by one side in the terrorism equation). Most researchers do seem to believe they are fulfilling – or are meant to fulfil – a firefighting role. The result is that research is largely driven by policy concerns and the area has fallen into a trap where it is largely limited to government agendas. This is unfortunate as government agendas rarely if ever stretch beyond the next election, and the result is that research tends to be driven by similarly short-term tactical considerations. The other problem with the impact of policy is that it tends to lead to research fads that can divert an excessive amount of scarce resources down unnecessary and unproductive paths (e.g. the massive amount of energy channelled into research on weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Other problems emerge from the tenacious conceptual confusion which mires the area. What is terrorism? What makes an act a terrorist act?  What makes a group a terrorist group? These are such basic questions, but satisfactory answers continue to elude the field.

Plus the original researchers on the topic were, perhaps unsurprisingly, Cold Warriors looking to lend academic expertise to fighting the Soviet Union and third world nationalist movements.  Also:

QuoteThe understanding of terrorism or terrorism theory is at a similar point of crisis, as it is affected by the same post-Cold War and globalisation trends and is also in the international spotlight following September 11th and the war on terrorism. However, the study of terrorism it seems has not yet embraced the changes pioneered by conflict studies and made the transition to a more holistic understanding of the roots of political violence. This is largely because attempts at understanding 'new terrorism' are still located in the Cold War state-centric, realist and positivist perception. This is primarily because the understanding and definition of terrorism is contained within a state discourse. Terrorism is defined primarily in terms of state legitimacy and is largely understood to represent a challenge and threat to state authority by an illegitimate body. This is the conventional or the 'orthodox theory' of terrorism and is based on the legitimacy/illegitimacy dualism that constructs non-state violence as terrorist while state violence is deemed to be legitimate. As a result it does not engage in a roots debate about the causes of terrorism, as this would legitimise non-state violence
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 17, 2014, 03:12:44 PM
Makes sense to me.  I'm assuming you're on the side that believes State-based Terrorism is a thing, yes?  Have you pissed off anyone in your classes with that, yet?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 17, 2014, 03:23:51 PM
It is a Thing, yes.  I suspect a few are annoyed at me, but since the professors in question also think it is a Thing, they haven't really argued the point too strongly.

This essay, incidentally, is research methods, aka "why researching terrorism isn't for sissies or people who believe in verifiable facts."
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 17, 2014, 03:32:55 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 17, 2014, 03:23:51 PM
It is a Thing, yes.  I suspect a few are annoyed at me, but since the professors in question also think it is a Thing, they haven't really argued the point too strongly.

This essay, incidentally, is research methods, aka "why researching terrorism isn't for sissies or people who believe in verifiable facts."

EPISTEMOLOGISTS TO THE BACK OF THE BUS.

:shortbus:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 17, 2014, 03:59:29 PM
No grant-funded trips to the Kurdistan badlands for YUO.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 17, 2014, 08:23:29 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 13, 2014, 03:48:40 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:47:06 PM
Growing the fu manchu back in.

:fap:

There's an awful lot of white in this thing.  Even more than last time.  This is BULLSHIT.  :crankey:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 17, 2014, 08:34:07 PM
Tell me about it.  I was looking through some old profile pictures, and I realized my forehead just grew by another inch.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 17, 2014, 08:50:00 PM
What's that?







What's that, you say?














(http://thenewgay.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/gay-bar-soap.jpg)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 17, 2014, 11:14:48 PM
I mentioned it on facebook but for any of you NE spags - Ratskeller tonight. I'm going to try to make it there for 8.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 17, 2014, 11:29:16 PM
Since some of you liked the previous song. Here's a new one.
https://soundcloud.com/sermoiii/everything-is-fine-ft-vorma
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 17, 2014, 11:31:02 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 17, 2014, 08:23:29 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 13, 2014, 03:48:40 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 13, 2014, 03:47:06 PM
Growing the fu manchu back in.

:fap:

There's an awful lot of white in this thing.  Even more than last time.  This is BULLSHIT.  :crankey:

...Yup. Ain't fucking fair.

*Is vain enough to dye hair to hide gray streaks*
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 17, 2014, 11:40:10 PM
I just want to be nce to people, why won't they let me be NICE?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 17, 2014, 11:41:20 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 17, 2014, 11:40:10 PM
I just want to be nce to people, why won't they let me be NICE?
Because humans. :sad:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 18, 2014, 12:05:30 AM
I have made nice all around, things are calm and mellow and I intend to keep them that way for about 13 years if I can.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 18, 2014, 12:23:06 AM
Wow, somebody wrote a song about my hometown, like, four years ago. Of course nobody ever heard of it and I only found it when I was looking for shitty polkafest music to post here yesterday.

He actually nailed it pretty good. Says a lot about why I only go there every X decades to visit graves, lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=homVFSPEyaI
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 18, 2014, 01:12:14 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 17, 2014, 11:14:48 PM
I mentioned it on facebook but for any of you NE spags - Ratskeller tonight. I'm going to try to make it there for 8.

No, but I hope you had fun by the time you read this.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 18, 2014, 05:46:33 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 18, 2014, 01:12:14 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 17, 2014, 11:14:48 PM
I mentioned it on facebook but for any of you NE spags - Ratskeller tonight. I'm going to try to make it there for 8.

No, but I hope you had fun by the time you read this.

Hah, we did. Luna, Suu, and Rich met a couple of my friends from high school, one of whom was the subject of the first Marrowman story.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 18, 2014, 06:06:09 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 18, 2014, 05:46:33 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 18, 2014, 01:12:14 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 17, 2014, 11:14:48 PM
I mentioned it on facebook but for any of you NE spags - Ratskeller tonight. I'm going to try to make it there for 8.

No, but I hope you had fun by the time you read this.

Hah, we did. Luna, Suu, and Rich met a couple of my friends from high school, one of whom was the subject of the first Marrowman story.

Funny enough, Villager and I are about to spend the weekend in Newport, because we're both overdue for a getaway, and well, school starts Tuesday.

She does have the added benefit of having her birthday falling during spring break, but we are incredibly overdue.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 18, 2014, 06:14:07 AM
Also bump that thread. It was, if I recall, better than Lovecraft.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 18, 2014, 04:14:56 PM
2366 words since I started yesterday, not including footnotes and headers.  With those, it's like, uh, 17500 or something.  If I can knock out another 1200 words today, I can call it quits, write a conclusion tomorrow, then mail this thing off.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 18, 2014, 07:15:41 PM
Today was the last day before taking my new ironclad quarterly week off, but my back is telling me it will lock up for a week if I work today, and I am listening.

You have to know when to say no.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 18, 2014, 07:43:20 PM
Jesus fucking christ I'm fucking tired. I'm having one of those "everybody wants a piece of me" terms, and it is not unlikely that the result will be that I go into hiding for a while.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 18, 2014, 07:43:43 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 18, 2014, 07:15:41 PM
Today was the last day before taking my new ironclad quarterly week off, but my back is telling me it will lock up for a week if I work today, and I am listening.

You have to know when to say no.

I need to get better at this.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 18, 2014, 08:02:55 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 18, 2014, 07:43:43 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 18, 2014, 07:15:41 PM
Today was the last day before taking my new ironclad quarterly week off, but my back is telling me it will lock up for a week if I work today, and I am listening.

You have to know when to say no.

I need to get better at this.

I find the memory of horrible pain and immobility help motivate me.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 18, 2014, 08:41:47 PM
I just use "NO" as my default position and require people to convince me otherwise about pretty much everything. It's a sort of militant skepticism.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 18, 2014, 08:52:46 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 18, 2014, 08:41:47 PM
I just use "NO" as my default position and require people to convince me otherwise about pretty much everything. It's a sort of militant skepticism.

Skepticism, like, totally limits your consciousness, man. Studies have shown that the universe operates on open frequencies so you have to be, like, open to receive them. Man.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 18, 2014, 09:19:47 PM
Frankly, I can't find ways to limit my consciousness nearly enough for my liking.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 18, 2014, 09:47:13 PM
Allergy and asthma attack in progress.  All inhalers (4) taken, Pseudoephedrine in system as of 1 hour ago, 200 milligram caffeine pill taken, chlorpheniramine taken, zyrtec taken, accolate taken, quercetin megadose taken.
Out of generic allegra ATM.
Now drinking my second big-ass coffee of the day, laced with 50 milligrams of benadryl.  Only have 50 milligrams more benadryl. :eek:

Lungs opening, though, so I can wait until I go off-shift, I think, to acquire more.  Don't want to drag someone over here with emergency benadryl.

...Feeling fairly cheerful otherwise.  Going to make myself do algebra and study Spanish today.

Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 19, 2014, 12:25:46 AM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 18, 2014, 08:41:47 PM
I just use "NO" as my default position and require people to convince me otherwise about pretty much everything. It's a sort of militant skepticism.

I've noticed that there are some people whose default is "Why?" and others whose default is "Why not?".

I tend to be a "Why not?" person, but I kind of wish I was more of a "Why?" person, because I say yes too much and then I end up exhausted and overstretched. Like, I'm going out tonight, but I don't really want to.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: StandBackJack on January 19, 2014, 02:02:12 AM
I'm more of a "You First!" kinda person.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 19, 2014, 03:33:24 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 18, 2014, 09:19:47 PM
Frankly, I can't find ways to limit my consciousness nearly enough for my liking.

This is awesome.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 19, 2014, 04:28:29 PM
Final stretch now.  Just gotta write a conclusion, do the bibliography and maybe spruce up the rather lacklustre abstract.  And with 36 hours to spare, as well.  I have learnt from my undergrad days.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 19, 2014, 04:36:38 PM
Nicely done, sir.  Does it then go through the editorial thresher, or does it get published as-is?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 19, 2014, 04:44:31 PM
Oh, this won't get published.  This is school work, so it sits in a desk for forever.

Though I am going to ask about how copyright pertains to my uni essays.  Common sense dictates that I would own it, but common sense and copyright rarely align on purpose.  I'm thinking I can use whittled down versions of my essays as submissions to my writing masters (as it takes me about a week to do the research and write the paper, leaving no time for anything else), thus making up for a lost week in writing...assuming I do, in fact, own my writing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 19, 2014, 06:32:32 PM
Writing done.  Just gotta play around with the presentation tomorrow.  Also done custom thumbnails for Skyrim and Tomb Raider gameplay.  I think that's enough work today, so I'm going to sit down and relax. 

Some spag on Imgur recommended watching Monster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_%28manga%29) and despite my general antipathy for anime, I have been assured it is quite good, and the basic plot seems intriguing so I am willing to give it a go.  It's not like there is anything on TV that is really worth watching right now.  And if I end up enjoying that, I'll give Shingeki no Kyojin a go as well.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 19, 2014, 08:26:38 PM
I am so hungover my hangover has a hangover.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 19, 2014, 08:50:45 PM
Just got the news that my nephew has a greater than 70% chance of having bone cancer in his knee. 14 years old. Shit.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 19, 2014, 08:58:20 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 19, 2014, 08:50:45 PM
Just got the news that my nephew has a greater than 70% chance of having bone cancer in his knee. 14 years old. Shit.

Fuck's sake. That's awful, Vex.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 19, 2014, 09:04:59 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 19, 2014, 08:58:20 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 19, 2014, 08:50:45 PM
Just got the news that my nephew has a greater than 70% chance of having bone cancer in his knee. 14 years old. Shit.

Fuck's sake. That's awful, Vex.

Yeah, I don't know... living 1,200 miles away doesn't help.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 19, 2014, 09:36:38 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 19, 2014, 08:50:45 PM
Just got the news that my nephew has a greater than 70% chance of having bone cancer in his knee. 14 years old. Shit.

Shit.  Poor kid.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 19, 2014, 09:41:51 PM
Fuck.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 19, 2014, 11:53:17 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 19, 2014, 08:50:45 PM
Just got the news that my nephew has a greater than 70% chance of having bone cancer in his knee. 14 years old. Shit.

Fuck. :(
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 19, 2014, 11:54:19 PM
I walked seven miles and then I ate green papaya salad and now I need to work on chemistry but what I really want is a nap.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 20, 2014, 12:02:09 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 19, 2014, 11:54:19 PM
I walked seven miles and then I ate green papaya salad and now I need to work on chemistry but what I really want is a nap.
That looks really, really good, have to learn how to make it.
(http://mmm-yoso.typepad.com/mmmyoso/images/2007/06/14/papaya_salad01.jpg)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 20, 2014, 12:15:03 AM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 20, 2014, 12:02:09 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 19, 2014, 11:54:19 PM
I walked seven miles and then I ate green papaya salad and now I need to work on chemistry but what I really want is a nap.
That looks really, really good, have to learn how to make it.
(http://mmm-yoso.typepad.com/mmmyoso/images/2007/06/14/papaya_salad01.jpg)

It's amazing, and really not difficult to make. I like it best with some dried shrimp but the place I went didn't use any.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Freeky on January 20, 2014, 02:31:45 AM
That looks delicious. 


Holy oh no, Vex.  :(



I'm being blamed and punished for things that aren't my fault and I didn't want to happen, but I was involved in, and nobody else is getting this same treatment (the ones who really did cause it, anyway.)  Such is life?  Maybe.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 20, 2014, 03:43:26 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 19, 2014, 08:50:45 PM
Just got the news that my nephew has a greater than 70% chance of having bone cancer in his knee. 14 years old. Shit.

That there is a raw deal. :(
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 20, 2014, 03:47:56 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 20, 2014, 03:43:26 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 19, 2014, 08:50:45 PM
Just got the news that my nephew has a greater than 70% chance of having bone cancer in his knee. 14 years old. Shit.

That there is a raw deal. :(

Aye.

I looked up osteosarcoma, looking for evidence that surely there's got to be some good news for the kid.

Nope.

5-year survival rate, in the best case scenario, can reach as high as 70%-80%. No data published on 10-year survival rates.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 20, 2014, 03:59:32 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 20, 2014, 03:47:56 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 20, 2014, 03:43:26 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 19, 2014, 08:50:45 PM
Just got the news that my nephew has a greater than 70% chance of having bone cancer in his knee. 14 years old. Shit.

That there is a raw deal. :(

Aye.

I looked up osteosarcoma, looking for evidence that surely there's got to be some good news for the kid.

Nope.

5-year survival rate, in the best case scenario, can reach as high as 70%-80%. No data published on 10-year survival rates.

FUCK. O.O
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 20, 2014, 04:00:49 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 20, 2014, 03:47:56 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 20, 2014, 03:43:26 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 19, 2014, 08:50:45 PM
Just got the news that my nephew has a greater than 70% chance of having bone cancer in his knee. 14 years old. Shit.

That there is a raw deal. :(

Aye.

I looked up osteosarcoma, looking for evidence that surely there's got to be some good news for the kid.

Nope.

5-year survival rate, in the best case scenario, can reach as high as 70%-80%. No data published on 10-year survival rates.
Im'ma sit right here and hope it's a totally false alarm.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 20, 2014, 04:09:23 AM
Vex, I'm really sorry.

Nigel, that's one thing I'm gonna try to make. Pics will be posted in the usual place, when it happens.

Fred, enjoy it while it lasts.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 20, 2014, 04:27:03 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 20, 2014, 04:09:23 AM

Fred, enjoy it while it lasts.

Getting drunk again. I'LL SHOW THAT HANGOVER  :argh!: hopefully this time I wont wake up covered in bruises with a swollen lip.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 20, 2014, 04:32:04 AM
Gawd, I miss being that young, when that kinda shit was rote.


I mean, sure, I did the exact same thing today, but still.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 20, 2014, 04:35:36 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 20, 2014, 04:32:04 AM
Gawd, I miss being that young, when that kinda shit was rote.


I mean, sure, I did the exact same thing today, but still.

I hope to continue this until my hair is grey. Actually my hair might be grey I don't know I keep dyeing it weird colors...
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 20, 2014, 04:43:07 AM
A word from the future: Cardio.

I'm not kidding. If you're going to fuck up your body, make sure your body can take it.


Trust me. I'd be in a much better place if I did a solid hour of cardio every day in my 20s.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 20, 2014, 04:45:46 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 20, 2014, 04:43:07 AM
A word from the future: Cardio.

I'm not kidding. If you're going to fuck up your body, make sure your body can take it.


Trust me. I'd be in a much better place if I did a solid hour of cardio every day in my 20s.

I run 3 times a week. Or I try to run. These 60 yr old men lap me  :oops:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 20, 2014, 04:53:24 AM
Every little bit helps.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 20, 2014, 06:56:56 AM
Eat a shiyt-ton of veggies and stay active. It'll help.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 20, 2014, 06:58:17 AM
Sorry for the spelling, I'm at Beulahland waiting for some nachos and the settings on their computer make it impossible toi see what I'm typing. It's ;ike black on blue.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 20, 2014, 08:34:06 AM
Ugh I am so tired. That was the un-punkest punk show I've ever been to.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 20, 2014, 09:07:34 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 20, 2014, 03:47:56 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 20, 2014, 03:43:26 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 19, 2014, 08:50:45 PM
Just got the news that my nephew has a greater than 70% chance of having bone cancer in his knee. 14 years old. Shit.

That there is a raw deal. :(

Aye.

I looked up osteosarcoma, looking for evidence that surely there's got to be some good news for the kid.

Nope.

5-year survival rate, in the best case scenario, can reach as high as 70%-80%. No data published on 10-year survival rates.
Shit, that is terrible.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 20, 2014, 03:25:00 PM
A girl that I went to school with had/has bone cancer. They had been systematically removing her bones and replacing them with metal since she was about 6. She seemed to be okay, but was very proud of being a cyborg. So there ARE options, but I guess it comes down to the severity of the disease, and what treatment options he may have.

I just hope that because there seems to be an option, you know not all is lost. I hope things work out for the best.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 20, 2014, 03:40:44 PM
Same here Vex.  I know it doesn't sound like a good chance, but 30% is something at least. 
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 20, 2014, 05:39:41 PM
I take it they haven't biopsied it yet? Here's hoping it's something else entirely, or, barring that, that they've caught it in early-stage. Osteosarcomas have a pretty good surgical remission rate if they're caught early.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 20, 2014, 06:13:37 PM
My life now consists of:

Work
Sleep
Driving absurd distances to do anything
Interbutts
Video games
2-3 friends over on the weekend.  Less and less often.
Smoke shop for e-cig shit.
Grocery store
Pharmacy
That's basically it.

I feel like shit.  I don't feel like trolling, even.  I want to write, but there's nothing there.  I want to state my case, but I can't make myself be understood, and I'm too tired to deal with people getting pissed off.  I am in fact too tired to rise to the bait.



Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 20, 2014, 06:21:08 PM
More balanced net ionic equations today. I feel like this is all I've been doing for days. Four hours a week, my ass.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 20, 2014, 06:29:18 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 20, 2014, 06:13:37 PM
My life now consists of:

Work
Sleep
Driving absurd distances to do anything
Interbutts
Video games
2-3 friends over on the weekend.  Less and less often.
Smoke shop for e-cig shit.
Grocery store
Pharmacy
That's basically it.

I feel like shit.  I don't feel like trolling, even.  I want to write, but there's nothing there.  I want to state my case, but I can't make myself be understood, and I'm too tired to deal with people getting pissed off.  I am in fact too tired to rise to the bait.

Are you still exercising?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 20, 2014, 06:30:06 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 20, 2014, 06:29:18 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 20, 2014, 06:13:37 PM
My life now consists of:

Work
Sleep
Driving absurd distances to do anything
Interbutts
Video games
2-3 friends over on the weekend.  Less and less often.
Smoke shop for e-cig shit.
Grocery store
Pharmacy
That's basically it.

I feel like shit.  I don't feel like trolling, even.  I want to write, but there's nothing there.  I want to state my case, but I can't make myself be understood, and I'm too tired to deal with people getting pissed off.  I am in fact too tired to rise to the bait.

Are you still exercising?

Not like I ought to, but a bit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 20, 2014, 06:31:44 PM
I get like that at times.  In my case, though, it's existential angst displacing more valid money concerns.  I'm guessing that probably isn't the problem here.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 20, 2014, 06:33:23 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 20, 2014, 06:31:44 PM
I get like that at times.  In my case, though, it's existential angst displacing more valid money concerns.  I'm guessing that probably isn't the problem here.

Oh, money sucks still.  I get paid a decent wage, but the food bill for 3 people is now over $800/month, if you don't want to eat processed cheese-like food product.

But I've been broke before.  Never felt like this.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 20, 2014, 06:35:25 PM
Ah, I'm sorry to hear that.  I always worry about the direction of my life when I'm broke, which expresses itself in worrying about my work ethic, about not writing what I want or even knowing what to write, about wasting time on "trivialities" etc...so I can sympathise, even if I can't offer much help.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 20, 2014, 06:45:31 PM
Adhere to the tested First Church of GO OUTSIDE. I'm sure you've been here often enough that you know it won't solve that feeling, but it'll at least quiet it down for a while.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 20, 2014, 06:47:06 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 20, 2014, 06:33:23 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 20, 2014, 06:31:44 PM
I get like that at times.  In my case, though, it's existential angst displacing more valid money concerns.  I'm guessing that probably isn't the problem here.

Oh, money sucks still.  I get paid a decent wage, but the food bill for 3 people is now over $800/month, if you don't want to eat processed cheese-like food product.

But I've been broke before.  Never felt like this.

Sex with the wife now! Even if she's at work! Wear the things she likes!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 20, 2014, 06:48:52 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 20, 2014, 06:45:31 PM
Adhere to the tested First Church of GO OUTSIDE. I'm sure you've been here often enough that you know it won't solve that feeling, but it'll at least quiet it down for a while.

Yeah, hadn't thought of that, for some reason.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 20, 2014, 06:53:20 PM
Fuck that.  This so called "Outside" is nothing more than a holding pen for losers with skinny weiners.  Next you'll be suggesting sleep isn't optional or something.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 20, 2014, 06:54:54 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 20, 2014, 06:33:23 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 20, 2014, 06:31:44 PM
I get like that at times.  In my case, though, it's existential angst displacing more valid money concerns.  I'm guessing that probably isn't the problem here.

Oh, money sucks still.  I get paid a decent wage, but the food bill for 3 people is now over $800/month, if you don't want to eat processed cheese-like food product.

But I've been broke before.  Never felt like this.

I don't know if food is just way more expensive there, but I feed 5 people on less than $500/month, and everything's from scratch because I can't afford processed crap. So there might be some wiggle room to be found there.

If you can do it, I second the going outside suggestion. I have been spending a LOT of time outside, almost all my free time, in fact. It's been really good for my mental and emotional health. Mainly I struggle with being lonely, because as fond as I am of my boyfriend, he is married and I am his secondary partner. I miss being married, and as you know, being the head of household is exhausting and stressful. It would be nice to do it with someone.

But, c'est la vie. I have decided that putting energy into looking for someone is not a productive use of my time, so instead I spend lots of time walking. It helps. It's hard to be lonely outside.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 20, 2014, 06:55:26 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 20, 2014, 06:53:20 PM
Fuck that.  This so called "Outside" is nothing more than a holding pen for losers with skinny weiners.  Next you'll be suggesting sleep isn't optional or something.

I am living proof that sleep is optional.   :lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 20, 2014, 06:57:36 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 20, 2014, 06:54:54 PM

I don't know if food is just way more expensive there, but I feed 5 people on less than $500/month, and everything's from scratch because I can't afford processed crap. So there might be some wiggle room to be found there.

Food is expensive as hell, here.  All of it has to be trucked in from California, and things suck there.

QuoteIf you can do it, I second the going outside suggestion. I have been spending a LOT of time outside, almost all my free time, in fact. It's been really good for my mental and emotional health. Mainly I struggle with being lonely, because as fond as I am of my boyfriend, he is married and I am his secondary partner. I miss being married, and as you know, being the head of household is exhausting and stressful. It would be nice to do it with someone.

I shall go outside instead of on the computer all this week after work each night.  We'll see.

Also, I can't picture you playing second fiddle to anyone.

QuoteBut, c'est la vie. I have decided that putting energy into looking for someone is not a productive use of my time, so instead I spend lots of time walking. It helps. It's hard to be lonely outside.

Yeah, I'll try this.  I don't understand why I didn't think of it, given that I have often suggested it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 20, 2014, 07:02:56 PM
Your brain isn't working at its most efficient right now. It happens to me all the time. Simple solutions to the problem either don't seem plausible or don't even occur to me, when that happens.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 20, 2014, 07:04:50 PM
I keep trying to think funny, clever thoughts but all I am getting is static this morning

Just hope you feel better, Roger. Your time being forced into your job is soon closing, maybe its tension cause by anticipation? I get like that when the end of a long haul is coming. Antsy, wanna move around more, I pace and fidgit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 20, 2014, 07:07:49 PM
Have you ever had the chance to witness regret in the eyes of someone who fucked you over for no good reason?
I have, and you know, it is not nearly as sweet as I thought it would be.

Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 20, 2014, 07:11:23 PM
One of best friends has moved to Galveston. To pursue his drag queen career. Bear now h as two friends IRL in Texas.  Bear is now sad because he's like a brother to me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 20, 2014, 07:11:24 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 20, 2014, 07:07:49 PM
Have you ever had the chance to witness regret in the eyes of someone who fucked you over for no good reason?
I have, and you know, it is not nearly as sweet as I thought it would be.

Yeah, it's always just given me a horrible sick feeling. A mixture of compassion, contempt, and meaninglessness.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 20, 2014, 07:12:21 PM
Everybody who is not feeling good, try listening to this. It always 100% cheers me up.

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/listening_post/files/KomarMelamid_The-Most-UnwantedSong.mp3
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 20, 2014, 09:35:37 PM
Today marks five years dispatching. I am unsure how I feel about this.

However, my co-worker got a promotion, so I can take his shift. I'm going from 3pm-11pm with Fridays and Saturdays off to 11am-7pm with Saturdays and Sundays off. I think it's a good move, overall.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Freeky on January 20, 2014, 10:08:35 PM
So Awesome, EOC.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 20, 2014, 11:49:15 PM
Damn Vex, sorry to hear it, hope it's nothing.

Roger, hope you feel better.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 20, 2014, 11:56:37 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 20, 2014, 11:49:15 PM
Damn Vex, sorry to hear it, hope it's nothing.

Roger, hope you feel better.

I am not by nature prone to depression, which I can now see is obviously what's wrong with me.

If I don't feel better in a week, I'll be off to see the doctor.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 12:04:43 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xljA6zJn4I

CLICK IT.


JUST FUCKING CLICK IT.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 21, 2014, 12:11:22 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 12:04:43 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xljA6zJn4I

CLICK IT.


JUST FUCKING CLICK IT.

Dear God.....
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 21, 2014, 12:12:04 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 20, 2014, 11:56:37 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 20, 2014, 11:49:15 PM
Damn Vex, sorry to hear it, hope it's nothing.

Roger, hope you feel better.

I am not by nature prone to depression, which I can now see is obviously what's wrong with me.

If I don't feel better in a week, I'll be off to see the doctor.

Yeah, you don't want that sort of thing to grow. It's a real motherfucker.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 01:56:23 AM
I ATE TOO MANY FAJITAS
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 01:57:31 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 01:56:23 AM
I ATE TOO MANY FAJITAS

FRED IS A GIGANTIC BALL OF BAD HABITS.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:02:24 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 01:57:31 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 01:56:23 AM
I ATE TOO MANY FAJITAS

FRED IS A GIGANTIC BALL OF BAD HABITS.

I'M A GIANT BALL OF MEXICAN FOOD ATM. Its cool I'll shit it out soon!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:03:01 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:02:24 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 01:57:31 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 01:56:23 AM
I ATE TOO MANY FAJITAS

FRED IS A GIGANTIC BALL OF BAD HABITS.

I'M A GIANT BALL OF MEXICAN FOOD ATM. Its cool I'll shit it out soon!

Kill it with whiskey.  It's the only way to be safe.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 21, 2014, 02:04:03 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 21, 2014, 12:11:22 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 12:04:43 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xljA6zJn4I

CLICK IT.


JUST FUCKING CLICK IT.

Dear God.....

This is the greatest fucking thing on the internet right now.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:04:50 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 21, 2014, 02:04:03 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 21, 2014, 12:11:22 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 12:04:43 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xljA6zJn4I

CLICK IT.


JUST FUCKING CLICK IT.

Dear God.....

This is the greatest fucking thing on the internet right now.

It's all I ever wanted from America.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 21, 2014, 02:06:01 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 20, 2014, 03:47:56 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 20, 2014, 03:43:26 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 19, 2014, 08:50:45 PM
Just got the news that my nephew has a greater than 70% chance of having bone cancer in his knee. 14 years old. Shit.

That there is a raw deal. :(

Aye.

I looked up osteosarcoma, looking for evidence that surely there's got to be some good news for the kid.

Nope.

5-year survival rate, in the best case scenario, can reach as high as 70%-80%. No data published on 10-year survival rates.

Ted Kennedy's kid had it when he was about 12.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:06:59 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:03:01 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:02:24 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 01:57:31 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 01:56:23 AM
I ATE TOO MANY FAJITAS

FRED IS A GIGANTIC BALL OF BAD HABITS.

I'M A GIANT BALL OF MEXICAN FOOD ATM. Its cool I'll shit it out soon!

Kill it with whiskey.  It's the only way to be safe.

I'm no longer in possession of a gallbladder, shitting it out quickly is almost guaranteed.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:09:59 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:06:59 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:03:01 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:02:24 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 01:57:31 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 01:56:23 AM
I ATE TOO MANY FAJITAS

FRED IS A GIGANTIC BALL OF BAD HABITS.

I'M A GIANT BALL OF MEXICAN FOOD ATM. Its cool I'll shit it out soon!

Kill it with whiskey.  It's the only way to be safe.

I'm no longer in possession of a gallbladder, shitting it out quickly is almost guaranteed.

I told you not to loan shit out.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:19:06 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:09:59 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:06:59 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:03:01 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:02:24 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 01:57:31 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 01:56:23 AM
I ATE TOO MANY FAJITAS

FRED IS A GIGANTIC BALL OF BAD HABITS.

I'M A GIANT BALL OF MEXICAN FOOD ATM. Its cool I'll shit it out soon!

Kill it with whiskey.  It's the only way to be safe.

I'm no longer in possession of a gallbladder, shitting it out quickly is almost guaranteed.

I told you not to loan shit out.

It broke  :sad: the doctor wouldn't even let me keep it in a jar  :argh!:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:19:45 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:19:06 AM

It broke  :sad: the doctor wouldn't even let me keep it in a jar  :argh!:

Once something's been cut out of me, I don't want it anymore.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 21, 2014, 02:22:13 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:19:45 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:19:06 AM

It broke  :sad: the doctor wouldn't even let me keep it in a jar  :argh!:

Once something's been cut out of me, I don't want it anymore.

I tried to get my wisdom tooth, but the dentist said it was illegal to give it to me because it was "toxic waste".
My tooth was "toxic waste".
THANKS A LOT OBAMA CLINTON
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:23:55 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 21, 2014, 02:22:13 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:19:45 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:19:06 AM

It broke  :sad: the doctor wouldn't even let me keep it in a jar  :argh!:

Once something's been cut out of me, I don't want it anymore.

I tried to get my wisdom tooth, but the dentist said it was illegal to give it to me because it was "toxic waste".
My tooth was "toxic waste".
THANKS A LOT OBAMA CLINTON

My whole face is toxic waste.

And let's not get started on my hair problem.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 21, 2014, 02:33:37 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:23:55 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 21, 2014, 02:22:13 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:19:45 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:19:06 AM

It broke  :sad: the doctor wouldn't even let me keep it in a jar  :argh!:

Once something's been cut out of me, I don't want it anymore.

I tried to get my wisdom tooth, but the dentist said it was illegal to give it to me because it was "toxic waste".
My tooth was "toxic waste".
THANKS A LOT OBAMA CLINTON

My whole face is toxic waste.

And let's not get started on my hair problem.

Yeah, but this is A MOUTH FULL OF TOXIC WASTE.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 21, 2014, 02:44:11 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 21, 2014, 02:22:13 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:19:45 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:19:06 AM

It broke  :sad: the doctor wouldn't even let me keep it in a jar  :argh!:

Once something's been cut out of me, I don't want it anymore.

I tried to get my wisdom tooth, but the dentist said it was illegal to give it to me because it was "toxic waste".
My tooth was "toxic waste".
THANKS A LOT OBAMA CLINTON

I still have all of my wisdom teeth in a little cloth baggy. 3.0+0.5+0.5 wisdom teeth.

Local anaesthetic and Jimi Hendrix. Then vicodin. That was a pretty fun week.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:53:28 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 21, 2014, 02:33:37 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:23:55 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 21, 2014, 02:22:13 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:19:45 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:19:06 AM

It broke  :sad: the doctor wouldn't even let me keep it in a jar  :argh!:

Once something's been cut out of me, I don't want it anymore.

I tried to get my wisdom tooth, but the dentist said it was illegal to give it to me because it was "toxic waste".
My tooth was "toxic waste".
THANKS A LOT OBAMA CLINTON

My whole face is toxic waste.

And let's not get started on my hair problem.

Yeah, but this is A MOUTH FULL OF TOXIC WASTE.

One day, I shall have to tell you a particularly horrible tale.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2014, 03:53:40 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 20, 2014, 11:56:37 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 20, 2014, 11:49:15 PM
Damn Vex, sorry to hear it, hope it's nothing.

Roger, hope you feel better.

I am not by nature prone to depression, which I can now see is obviously what's wrong with me.

If I don't feel better in a week, I'll be off to see the doctor.

Depression sucks horribly. I hope it lifts quickly.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2014, 03:54:12 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 12:04:43 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xljA6zJn4I

CLICK IT.


JUST FUCKING CLICK IT.

:lulz: That pretty much made my whole fucking night.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:03:09 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 03:53:40 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 20, 2014, 11:56:37 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 20, 2014, 11:49:15 PM
Damn Vex, sorry to hear it, hope it's nothing.

Roger, hope you feel better.

I am not by nature prone to depression, which I can now see is obviously what's wrong with me.

If I don't feel better in a week, I'll be off to see the doctor.

Depression sucks horribly. I hope it lifts quickly.

Thanks.  It comes and goes.  I've been okay since I got home, but I doubt that's the end of it.

I think part of it is being chained to that fucking desk in that horrible fucking place.

6 more months.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:03:44 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 03:54:12 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 12:04:43 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xljA6zJn4I

CLICK IT.


JUST FUCKING CLICK IT.

:lulz: That pretty much made my whole fucking night.

Just the first close up with his nose hair sticking out had me chortling.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2014, 04:10:24 AM
So after a day of studying chemistry, I got a call from a friend who has been on-again, off-again with a guy in the middle of a divorce, against pretty much everyone's advice. As of this afternoon, it's off again, and I am going to fucking light someone on fire if it goes back on.

She spent a lot of time complaining about how hard it is to find a guy. She's early 30's, no kids, super pretty, smart, educated, good job. Sometimes I wish people would take a minute to think about who they're complaining TO.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2014, 04:11:21 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:03:44 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 03:54:12 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 12:04:43 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xljA6zJn4I

CLICK IT.


JUST FUCKING CLICK IT.

:lulz: That pretty much made my whole fucking night.

Just the first close up with his nose hair sticking out had me chortling.

My housemate kept cracking up because I was making involuntary moans of horror in between peals of laughter.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2014, 04:12:05 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:03:09 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 03:53:40 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 20, 2014, 11:56:37 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 20, 2014, 11:49:15 PM
Damn Vex, sorry to hear it, hope it's nothing.

Roger, hope you feel better.

I am not by nature prone to depression, which I can now see is obviously what's wrong with me.

If I don't feel better in a week, I'll be off to see the doctor.

Depression sucks horribly. I hope it lifts quickly.

Thanks.  It comes and goes.  I've been okay since I got home, but I doubt that's the end of it.

I think part of it is being chained to that fucking desk in that horrible fucking place.

6 more months.

You can do it!

For me, getting out of the depression had everything to do with changing what I was doing with my life.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:13:30 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:10:24 AM
She spent a lot of time complaining about how hard it is to find a guy.

I have found, in similar situations, that the problem is internal, not external.

You know how it always seems like you can't find someone, and then you do, and then people are falling all over you?  I expect that's because when you're in the mode that allows you to find someone, EVERYONE is attracted, and when you aren't, they run like hell.  Because you aren't being very attractive at that time.



Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 21, 2014, 04:30:59 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:13:30 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:10:24 AM
She spent a lot of time complaining about how hard it is to find a guy.

I have found, in similar situations, that the problem is internal, not external.

You know how it always seems like you can't find someone, and then you do, and then people are falling all over you?  I expect that's because when you're in the mode that allows you to find someone, EVERYONE is attracted, and when you aren't, they run like hell.  Because you aren't being very attractive at that time.

There's a grain of truth here.

I've had crushes on people who otherwise found me physically attractive, but nothing ever came of it, because I was being a certain kind of Twid at the time.

ETA: I've found these things out through mutual friends well after the crush died out.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 21, 2014, 04:34:13 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:03:44 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 03:54:12 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 12:04:43 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xljA6zJn4I

CLICK IT.


JUST FUCKING CLICK IT.

:lulz: That pretty much made my whole fucking night.

Just the first close up with his nose hair sticking out had me chortling.

This is the most beautiful thing I have seen all day.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2014, 04:38:31 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:13:30 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:10:24 AM
She spent a lot of time complaining about how hard it is to find a guy.

I have found, in similar situations, that the problem is internal, not external.

You know how it always seems like you can't find someone, and then you do, and then people are falling all over you?  I expect that's because when you're in the mode that allows you to find someone, EVERYONE is attracted, and when you aren't, they run like hell.  Because you aren't being very attractive at that time.

Yes, exactly. And she's refusing to date guys her own age, and insisting that it's because they aren't mature enough for her. Then proceeds to date men ten years her senior she met online who are in the midst of a divorce.

And then is all upset when that doesn't work out so well.  :horrormirth:

I'm like, dude, stop sabotaging yourself.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 21, 2014, 04:41:42 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:38:31 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:13:30 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:10:24 AM
She spent a lot of time complaining about how hard it is to find a guy.

I have found, in similar situations, that the problem is internal, not external.

You know how it always seems like you can't find someone, and then you do, and then people are falling all over you?  I expect that's because when you're in the mode that allows you to find someone, EVERYONE is attracted, and when you aren't, they run like hell.  Because you aren't being very attractive at that time.

Yes, exactly. And she's refusing to date guys her own age, and insisting that it's because they aren't mature enough for her. Then proceeds to date men ten years her senior she met online who are in the midst of a divorce.

And then is all upset when that doesn't work out so well.  :horrormirth:

I'm like, dude, stop sabotaging yourself.

Why?

I want to add more to that question, but I think why applies to every relevant bit of that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 21, 2014, 04:45:01 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 21, 2014, 04:41:42 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:38:31 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:13:30 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:10:24 AM
She spent a lot of time complaining about how hard it is to find a guy.

I have found, in similar situations, that the problem is internal, not external.

You know how it always seems like you can't find someone, and then you do, and then people are falling all over you?  I expect that's because when you're in the mode that allows you to find someone, EVERYONE is attracted, and when you aren't, they run like hell.  Because you aren't being very attractive at that time.

Yes, exactly. And she's refusing to date guys her own age, and insisting that it's because they aren't mature enough for her. Then proceeds to date men ten years her senior she met online who are in the midst of a divorce.

And then is all upset when that doesn't work out so well.  :horrormirth:

I'm like, dude, stop sabotaging yourself.

Why?

I want to add more to that question, but I think why applies to every relevant bit of that.

Lady got baggage, yo.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 21, 2014, 04:46:37 AM
Your input is not relevant to the why.

All of her thing is relevant to the why.

It's kinda like the opposite. People go out with 10 or more years their junior and can't figure out why they're constantly unhappy in their relationships. You get a little bit of wiggle room, but don't push it into really questionable numbers and pass it off like the younger person is more mature than they actually are and need to find their maturity match in someone who is just as incapable of figuring out where they are in the space-time continuum but who's physically way closer to the grave and with way more baggage.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 21, 2014, 04:50:13 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 21, 2014, 04:45:01 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 21, 2014, 04:41:42 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:38:31 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:13:30 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:10:24 AM
She spent a lot of time complaining about how hard it is to find a guy.

I have found, in similar situations, that the problem is internal, not external.

You know how it always seems like you can't find someone, and then you do, and then people are falling all over you?  I expect that's because when you're in the mode that allows you to find someone, EVERYONE is attracted, and when you aren't, they run like hell.  Because you aren't being very attractive at that time.

Yes, exactly. And she's refusing to date guys her own age, and insisting that it's because they aren't mature enough for her. Then proceeds to date men ten years her senior she met online who are in the midst of a divorce.

And then is all upset when that doesn't work out so well.  :horrormirth:

I'm like, dude, stop sabotaging yourself.

Why?

I want to add more to that question, but I think why applies to every relevant bit of that.

Lady got baggage, yo.

I guess that's fair too.

I dunno. Pete used to date girls who were getting progressively way too young for him. Because he was getting older and his new girlfriends were staying the same age.

He's currently in the most stable relationship that I've ever seen him in. And he wants to stay in it, where as before he couldn't have cared less if the relationship failed. Pete's 32. His current girlfriend is 34. They're both really happy together. There's something to be said about getting romantically involved with people who are approximately the same age as you.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 21, 2014, 08:21:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:38:31 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:13:30 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:10:24 AM
She spent a lot of time complaining about how hard it is to find a guy.

I have found, in similar situations, that the problem is internal, not external.

You know how it always seems like you can't find someone, and then you do, and then people are falling all over you?  I expect that's because when you're in the mode that allows you to find someone, EVERYONE is attracted, and when you aren't, they run like hell.  Because you aren't being very attractive at that time.

Yes, exactly. And she's refusing to date guys her own age, and insisting that it's because they aren't mature enough for her. Then proceeds to date men ten years her senior she met online who are in the midst of a divorce.

And then is all upset when that doesn't work out so well.  :horrormirth:

I'm like, dude, stop sabotaging yourself.

Are you sure your friend isn't this person?

www.theverge.com/2013/4/11/4187906/ok-cupid-giving-your-love-life-to-google-glass-and-the-hive-mind

Just putting it out there as a possibility
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2014, 08:53:38 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 21, 2014, 04:41:42 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:38:31 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:13:30 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:10:24 AM
She spent a lot of time complaining about how hard it is to find a guy.

I have found, in similar situations, that the problem is internal, not external.

You know how it always seems like you can't find someone, and then you do, and then people are falling all over you?  I expect that's because when you're in the mode that allows you to find someone, EVERYONE is attracted, and when you aren't, they run like hell.  Because you aren't being very attractive at that time.

Yes, exactly. And she's refusing to date guys her own age, and insisting that it's because they aren't mature enough for her. Then proceeds to date men ten years her senior she met online who are in the midst of a divorce.

And then is all upset when that doesn't work out so well.  :horrormirth:

I'm like, dude, stop sabotaging yourself.

Why?

I want to add more to that question, but I think why applies to every relevant bit of that.

She doesn't know why, and I could only speculate as to why, given what I know about her after the last six years.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2014, 08:54:59 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 21, 2014, 08:21:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:38:31 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:13:30 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:10:24 AM
She spent a lot of time complaining about how hard it is to find a guy.

I have found, in similar situations, that the problem is internal, not external.

You know how it always seems like you can't find someone, and then you do, and then people are falling all over you?  I expect that's because when you're in the mode that allows you to find someone, EVERYONE is attracted, and when you aren't, they run like hell.  Because you aren't being very attractive at that time.

Yes, exactly. And she's refusing to date guys her own age, and insisting that it's because they aren't mature enough for her. Then proceeds to date men ten years her senior she met online who are in the midst of a divorce.

And then is all upset when that doesn't work out so well.  :horrormirth:

I'm like, dude, stop sabotaging yourself.

Are you sure your friend isn't this person?

www.theverge.com/2013/4/11/4187906/ok-cupid-giving-your-love-life-to-google-glass-and-the-hive-mind

Just putting it out there as a possibility

Yes, I am sure, and the reason is that the entire article is about speculation and experimentation, but is ultimately meaningless, as far as science goes.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 21, 2014, 09:30:00 AM
Livestreaming dating will be the wave of the future, trust me,

And I'll be right there, demanding "make him put his shoe on his head before you accept the second date".

In other news, University website decided to partially go down on the day I needed to upload my assignment.  Including the entire module that deals with online assignments.  It's working now...or was a moment ago anyway...but nevertheless, that gave me the adrenaline I needed to really wake up.

I may have found a decent substitite for coffee.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 21, 2014, 10:44:51 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 12:04:43 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xljA6zJn4I

CLICK IT.


JUST FUCKING CLICK IT.

GUHHAHAHAHA....

Roger, that was incredibly repulsive.  Yet, somehow, so right.
Get better...
Remember, pills do not make you sane, they just help you enjoy insanity a LOT better.

Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:10:24 AM
So after a day of studying chemistry, I got a call from a friend who has been on-again, off-again with a guy in the middle of a divorce, against pretty much everyone's advice. As of this afternoon, it's off again, and I am going to fucking light someone on fire if it goes back on.

She spent a lot of time complaining about how hard it is to find a guy. She's early 30's, no kids, super pretty, smart, educated, good job. Sometimes I wish people would take a minute to think about who they're complaining TO.

Sympathies.
If she does, and she probably will, are you going to light Unicycle Bagpipe Guy on fire?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 21, 2014, 11:09:44 AM
A very elderly Indian shopkeeper very clearly and politely told me to "Fight the power".

Today is going to be interesting.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 21, 2014, 11:20:47 AM
Quote from: Junkenstein on January 21, 2014, 11:09:44 AM
A very elderly Indian shopkeeper very clearly and politely told me to "Fight the power".

Today is going to be interesting.

That's kind of excellent.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 21, 2014, 11:45:11 AM
Roger: feel better. And by 'better' I do not mean to imply 'poop more rainbows.'

Just don't take Wellbutrin. I tried that once and it made me forget how to fucking talk.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 21, 2014, 11:57:20 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 21, 2014, 11:45:11 AM
Roger: feel better. And by 'better' I do not mean to imply 'poop more rainbows.'

Just don't take Wellbutrin. I tried that once and it made me forget how to fucking talk.

I wonder if you had serotonin poisoning?
Long story why, but I did have a very mild case of that once...and I did have trouble talking.  Also saw lots of sparkly geometric shapes.

My best friend's on a shitton of Effexor; works for him...I tried the baby dose of that and went nuts.

It would be really nice if they had better ways of doing this than "Here, try this pill."
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 21, 2014, 12:16:51 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 21, 2014, 11:20:47 AM
Quote from: Junkenstein on January 21, 2014, 11:09:44 AM
A very elderly Indian shopkeeper very clearly and politely told me to "Fight the power".

Today is going to be interesting.

That's kind of excellent.

It really was. I've got a warm glow inside and for a change it isn't hate or heartburn.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 21, 2014, 04:02:33 PM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 21, 2014, 11:57:20 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 21, 2014, 11:45:11 AM
Roger: feel better. And by 'better' I do not mean to imply 'poop more rainbows.'

Just don't take Wellbutrin. I tried that once and it made me forget how to fucking talk.

I wonder if you had serotonin poisoning?
Long story why, but I did have a very mild case of that once...and I did have trouble talking.  Also saw lots of sparkly geometric shapes.

My best friend's on a shitton of Effexor; works for him...I tried the baby dose of that and went nuts.

It would be really nice if they had better ways of doing this than "Here, try this pill."

Even my cousin, who is a psychologist, says that we need to focus more on psychotherapy than referrals to psychiatrists for drugs unless it's absolutely necessary.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:05:59 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 21, 2014, 11:45:11 AM
Roger: feel better. And by 'better' I do not mean to imply 'poop more rainbows.'

Just don't take Wellbutrin. I tried that once and it made me forget how to fucking talk.

Wellbutrin is contraindicated for use with my sleeping pills.

I am currently using the Nigelco™ "Go Outside" pill, and it seemed to work well last night.

But now I am back behind this fucking desk.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 21, 2014, 04:11:49 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:05:59 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 21, 2014, 11:45:11 AM
Roger: feel better. And by 'better' I do not mean to imply 'poop more rainbows.'

Just don't take Wellbutrin. I tried that once and it made me forget how to fucking talk.

Wellbutrin is contraindicated for use with my sleeping pills.

I am currently using the Nigelco™ "Go Outside" pill, and it seemed to work well last night.

But now I am back behind this fucking desk.

Sounds like you need Vitamin D. Maybe if you get time after work you can sit outside and read a book or something?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:14:35 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 21, 2014, 04:11:49 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:05:59 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 21, 2014, 11:45:11 AM
Roger: feel better. And by 'better' I do not mean to imply 'poop more rainbows.'

Just don't take Wellbutrin. I tried that once and it made me forget how to fucking talk.

Wellbutrin is contraindicated for use with my sleeping pills.

I am currently using the Nigelco™ "Go Outside" pill, and it seemed to work well last night.

But now I am back behind this fucking desk.

Sounds like you need Vitamin D. Maybe if you get time after work you can sit outside and read a book or something?

My vitamin D levels are fine, as of Monday.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 21, 2014, 04:32:08 PM
In other news, Rickets is apparently back and in fashion in the UK.

It seems Roger took ALL of the vitamin D.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 05:06:04 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on January 21, 2014, 04:32:08 PM
In other news, Rickets is apparently back and in fashion in the UK.

It seems Roger took ALL of the vitamin D.

And then went out and stared at the desert for a while, which is really good for you.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 05:13:18 PM
I had to take 2 sleeping pills last night, so I feel okay today.  Better than okay, actually.  But still going outside every 90 minutes for a half hour staring contest with the Sonoran desert.  Yes, I know that isn't normal, but the pills tell me "there is no normal", and so I am unafraid of things that used to scare the pants off the Navajo.

"Niʼ Hodisxǫs"?  What the fuck is that?

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: trippinprincezz13 on January 21, 2014, 05:15:44 PM
Went snowboarding yesterday for the first time this season. Considering I essentially just started learning last year and only got to go a few times, I was happy to discover I hadn't forgotten everything. Much more practice is needed though.

Today, everything hurts, but it was worth it.

Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 12:04:43 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xljA6zJn4I

CLICK IT.


JUST FUCKING CLICK IT.

Also, that was fantastic.  :lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2014, 05:23:29 PM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 21, 2014, 10:44:51 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 12:04:43 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xljA6zJn4I

CLICK IT.


JUST FUCKING CLICK IT.

GUHHAHAHAHA....

Roger, that was incredibly repulsive.  Yet, somehow, so right.
Get better...
Remember, pills do not make you sane, they just help you enjoy insanity a LOT better.

Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 04:10:24 AM
So after a day of studying chemistry, I got a call from a friend who has been on-again, off-again with a guy in the middle of a divorce, against pretty much everyone's advice. As of this afternoon, it's off again, and I am going to fucking light someone on fire if it goes back on.

She spent a lot of time complaining about how hard it is to find a guy. She's early 30's, no kids, super pretty, smart, educated, good job. Sometimes I wish people would take a minute to think about who they're complaining TO.

Sympathies.
If she does, and she probably will, are you going to light Unicycle Bagpipe Guy on fire?

That would be my #1 choice, yes.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 21, 2014, 07:42:58 PM
I get a front row, 3am seat to a fella yelling at his GF that she "fucked a whole bunch of guys" and is thus probably doing so now.

This GF moved several thousand miles to be here and does just about everything she can to make him happy. He is embarrassed because he is an activist, journalist type and she does not give a fuck about politics. She isnt exactly well read, but she reasons mostly for herself and is a pretty cool human.

Why do I know this? Why is all that info in my brain? It is none of my business and I have pre-algebra to consider.

Also, vodka is my friend.

Also, when you get down to it, or rather when you dont, genitals are awful. They smell weird, make weird noises, they are messy, and they look weird. Fuck that shit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 21, 2014, 08:32:36 PM
Going to be busy over the next few days, with interviews and things.

I will have a video up hopefully on Friday at the latest, stating exactly what I'll be doing with my Youtube.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 21, 2014, 09:12:22 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 21, 2014, 04:02:33 PM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 21, 2014, 11:57:20 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 21, 2014, 11:45:11 AM
Roger: feel better. And by 'better' I do not mean to imply 'poop more rainbows.'

Just don't take Wellbutrin. I tried that once and it made me forget how to fucking talk.

I wonder if you had serotonin poisoning?
Long story why, but I did have a very mild case of that once...and I did have trouble talking.  Also saw lots of sparkly geometric shapes.

My best friend's on a shitton of Effexor; works for him...I tried the baby dose of that and went nuts.

It would be really nice if they had better ways of doing this than "Here, try this pill."

Even my cousin, who is a psychologist, says that we need to focus more on psychotherapy than referrals to psychiatrists for drugs unless it's absolutely necessary.
Absolutely agreed, there's lots of overprescription, for reasons economic. Pills are cheaper.
Pills are also way easier than fixing society so that it stops making lots and lots of people profoundly unhappy and alienated.

Therapy...or more specifically, the correct sort of therapy, can create permanent, drug-free improvement...and using drugs only when necessary should be the goal. 
If I didn't believe in therapy I wouldn't dream of being a therapist.
..I'm just one of those extra-speshul people who have both and mostly feel horrible anyway.
Like...I can't have my gun here anymore, because it's too convenient.

Rog had that brain infection thingee...he actually might be able to get off the drugs in time, ought to be taking lots of b vitamins, Omega-3 fatty acids and such.
And he should be mediating...everybody should be fucking meditating.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361002/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120613183813.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130409131811.htm

Yesterday it occurred to me ...I should train to run marathons.
Running makes my legs constantly sore,  but it also makes me  feel less depressed.
Very few things do the latter.  And I don't push my meat-sack enough.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 09:16:01 PM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 21, 2014, 09:12:22 PM
Rog had that brain infection thingee...he actually might be able to get off the drugs in time, ought to be taking lots of b vitamins, Omega-3 fatty acids and such.

Roger is very well aware of his condition, and will never be able to sleep properly without medication.

Roger would appreciate not getting diagnosis or prescription advice from the peanut gallery in the future.

Roger thanks you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 21, 2014, 09:41:42 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 09:16:01 PM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 21, 2014, 09:12:22 PM
Rog had that brain infection thingee...he actually might be able to get off the drugs in time, ought to be taking lots of b vitamins, Omega-3 fatty acids and such.

Roger is very well aware of his condition, and will never be able to sleep properly without medication.

Roger would appreciate not getting diagnosis or prescription advice from the peanut gallery in the future.

Roger thanks you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.

Pardon, and apologies.
I would never attempt to tell you what to do, as you're smarter than I am, and I don't live in your head.

Besides that, I'm up to 3 psych drugs, 5 asthma drugs, all the OTC antihistamines, quercetin megadose,  vitamin d3, N-acetyl cystiene, and vitamin c.
...This in addition to self-treating something I believe myself to have but that's not been diagnosed...the self-treating involves taking one interestingly-sourced antibiotic that makes me puke, and another that might kill my liver...and taking both for at least 18 months.

...So telling anyone to get off meds would be hypocritical as hell coming from me.
I just don't wish this *points to own head* on anyone, yanno?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 09:44:50 PM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 21, 2014, 09:41:42 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 09:16:01 PM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 21, 2014, 09:12:22 PM
Rog had that brain infection thingee...he actually might be able to get off the drugs in time, ought to be taking lots of b vitamins, Omega-3 fatty acids and such.

Roger is very well aware of his condition, and will never be able to sleep properly without medication.

Roger would appreciate not getting diagnosis or prescription advice from the peanut gallery in the future.

Roger thanks you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.

Pardon.
I would never attempt to tell you what to do, as you're smarter than I am, and I don't live in your head.

Besides that, I'm up to 3 psych drugs, 5 asthma drugs, all the OTC antihistamines, quercetin megadose,  vitamin d3, N-acetyl cystiene, and vitamin c.
...This in addition to self-treating something I believe myself to have but that's not been diagnosed...the self-treating involves taking one interestingly-sourced antibiotic that makes me puke, and another that might kill my liver...and taking both for at least 18 months.

...So telling anyone to get off meds would be hypocritical as hell coming from me.
I just don't wish this *points to own head* on anyone, yanno?

Thing is, I am not a case of brain damage with a person attached.  It does not define me.  It is merely one condition among many - some serious, some not - that I must deal with from day to day.  And loads of people have it WAY fucking worse than me.

And I DO meditate.  I spend at least an hour every day, silently contemplating a gigantic Goddamn comet slamming into the Earth and erasing all that I hate.  This is usually done in the afternoon staff meeting.

And someone who self-diagnoses has a fool for a patient.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 09:47:05 PM
So I guess what I am trying to say is that I don't want to be part of any episodes of wallowing in our collective problems.  It happened, it's done, time to move on.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2014, 10:02:01 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 21, 2014, 04:11:49 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:05:59 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 21, 2014, 11:45:11 AM
Roger: feel better. And by 'better' I do not mean to imply 'poop more rainbows.'

Just don't take Wellbutrin. I tried that once and it made me forget how to fucking talk.

Wellbutrin is contraindicated for use with my sleeping pills.

I am currently using the Nigelco™ "Go Outside" pill, and it seemed to work well last night.

But now I am back behind this fucking desk.

Sounds like you need Vitamin D. Maybe if you get time after work you can sit outside and read a book or something?

Unlike places like, say, here, where people regularly off themselves as a byproduct of low vitamin D, people in Arizona have that problem so rarely it would be quite remarkable if Roger managed it.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2014, 10:03:33 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 09:16:01 PM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 21, 2014, 09:12:22 PM
Rog had that brain infection thingee...he actually might be able to get off the drugs in time, ought to be taking lots of b vitamins, Omega-3 fatty acids and such.

Roger is very well aware of his condition, and will never be able to sleep properly without medication.

Roger would appreciate not getting diagnosis or prescription advice from the peanut gallery in the future.

Roger thanks you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.

:lulz:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 21, 2014, 10:10:11 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 10:02:01 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 21, 2014, 04:11:49 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:05:59 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 21, 2014, 11:45:11 AM
Roger: feel better. And by 'better' I do not mean to imply 'poop more rainbows.'

Just don't take Wellbutrin. I tried that once and it made me forget how to fucking talk.

Wellbutrin is contraindicated for use with my sleeping pills.

I am currently using the Nigelco™ "Go Outside" pill, and it seemed to work well last night.

But now I am back behind this fucking desk.

Sounds like you need Vitamin D. Maybe if you get time after work you can sit outside and read a book or something?

Unlike places like, say, here, where people regularly off themselves as a byproduct of low vitamin D, people in Arizona have that problem so rarely it would be quite remarkable if Roger managed it.

Arizonians' entire carapace is made from concentrated Vitamin D that is used defensively and offensively to bash tourists into pulp or as a feeble shield between the tender inner meat and the pounding hammer of sky-born death rays that is colloquially known elsewhere as 'sunlight'. Giving foreign-sourced vitamin D to an Arizonian would be like offering sushi made in an Ohio garage to Chef Hashimoto and have about the same effect.

The Arizonian will be enraged and the carapace will harden further and the offending person, building, or javelina will be smeared into a fine paste across the sand.

This is how topsoil is made in Arizona.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2014, 10:21:09 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 21, 2014, 10:10:11 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 10:02:01 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 21, 2014, 04:11:49 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:05:59 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 21, 2014, 11:45:11 AM
Roger: feel better. And by 'better' I do not mean to imply 'poop more rainbows.'

Just don't take Wellbutrin. I tried that once and it made me forget how to fucking talk.

Wellbutrin is contraindicated for use with my sleeping pills.

I am currently using the Nigelco™ "Go Outside" pill, and it seemed to work well last night.

But now I am back behind this fucking desk.

Sounds like you need Vitamin D. Maybe if you get time after work you can sit outside and read a book or something?

Unlike places like, say, here, where people regularly off themselves as a byproduct of low vitamin D, people in Arizona have that problem so rarely it would be quite remarkable if Roger managed it.

Arizonians' entire carapace is made from concentrated Vitamin D that is used defensively and offensively to bash tourists into pulp or as a feeble shield between the tender inner meat and the pounding hammer of sky-born death rays that is colloquially known elsewhere as 'sunlight'. Giving foreign-sourced vitamin D to an Arizonian would be like offering sushi made in an Ohio garage to Chef Hashimoto and have about the same effect.

The Arizonian will be enraged and the carapace will harden further and the offending person, building, or javelina will be smeared into a fine paste across the sand.

This is how topsoil is made in Arizona.

:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2014, 10:21:27 PM
Hylie, you might find this interesting: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/does-everybody-have-chronic-lyme-disease-does-anyone/
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 21, 2014, 10:24:33 PM
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/when-lyme-disease-lasts-and-lasts/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 10:25:09 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 21, 2014, 10:10:11 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 10:02:01 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 21, 2014, 04:11:49 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:05:59 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 21, 2014, 11:45:11 AM
Roger: feel better. And by 'better' I do not mean to imply 'poop more rainbows.'

Just don't take Wellbutrin. I tried that once and it made me forget how to fucking talk.

Wellbutrin is contraindicated for use with my sleeping pills.

I am currently using the Nigelco™ "Go Outside" pill, and it seemed to work well last night.

But now I am back behind this fucking desk.

Sounds like you need Vitamin D. Maybe if you get time after work you can sit outside and read a book or something?

Unlike places like, say, here, where people regularly off themselves as a byproduct of low vitamin D, people in Arizona have that problem so rarely it would be quite remarkable if Roger managed it.

Arizonians' entire carapace is made from concentrated Vitamin D that is used defensively and offensively to bash tourists into pulp or as a feeble shield between the tender inner meat and the pounding hammer of sky-born death rays that is colloquially known elsewhere as 'sunlight'. Giving foreign-sourced vitamin D to an Arizonian would be like offering sushi made in an Ohio garage to Chef Hashimoto and have about the same effect.

The Arizonian will be enraged and the carapace will harden further and the offending person, building, or javelina will be smeared into a fine paste across the sand.

This is how topsoil is made in Arizona.

:lulz:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 21, 2014, 10:47:39 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 10:25:09 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 21, 2014, 10:10:11 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 10:02:01 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 21, 2014, 04:11:49 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:05:59 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 21, 2014, 11:45:11 AM
Roger: feel better. And by 'better' I do not mean to imply 'poop more rainbows.'

Just don't take Wellbutrin. I tried that once and it made me forget how to fucking talk.

Wellbutrin is contraindicated for use with my sleeping pills.

I am currently using the Nigelco™ "Go Outside" pill, and it seemed to work well last night.

But now I am back behind this fucking desk.

Sounds like you need Vitamin D. Maybe if you get time after work you can sit outside and read a book or something?

Unlike places like, say, here, where people regularly off themselves as a byproduct of low vitamin D, people in Arizona have that problem so rarely it would be quite remarkable if Roger managed it.

Arizonians' entire carapace is made from concentrated Vitamin D that is used defensively and offensively to bash tourists into pulp or as a feeble shield between the tender inner meat and the pounding hammer of sky-born death rays that is colloquially known elsewhere as 'sunlight'. Giving foreign-sourced vitamin D to an Arizonian would be like offering sushi made in an Ohio garage to Chef Hashimoto and have about the same effect.

The Arizonian will be enraged and the carapace will harden further and the offending person, building, or javelina will be smeared into a fine paste across the sand.

This is how topsoil is made in Arizona.

:lulz:

A certain subset of Arizonian has also been known to engage in 'composting', where in the thin smear of meat and bone splinters and sand is rolled up akin to a jelly roll or a carpet and then deposited in a dumpster.

In there, the overwhelming heat contained within the metal box first melts then solidifies the carbon-silica composite and renders it into what is called 'sand sparkly', something that can be compressed further into a sort of gruesome 'memorial diamond (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_diamond)' that can be used to adorn, displayed as a trophy while further weaponizing an Arizonian carapace.

Or it can be removed from the dumpster and planted in the desert to nourish the soil from beneath to create a micro environment that will sustain plant life despite the harsh sun and unforgiving wind.

It is recommended that no crop plants (fruit trees, corn, Skittles bushes) be planted above these fertilizer bombs as the source of the fertilizer lends an odd taste to the resulting crop and there has been some note of side-effects. While these have not been fully explored, initial reports indicated increased rage responses and uncontrollable tea-bagging or twerking, depending on prior political persuasion.

While in other areas of the country, 'composting' is a sustainable living practice and a form of social currency among 'green people' or 'agro-hipsters', in Arizona it has become something far deadlier and far more repugnant.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 10:48:51 PM
Weaponized carparace!  :banana:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 21, 2014, 10:50:07 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 21, 2014, 10:10:11 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 10:02:01 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 21, 2014, 04:11:49 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 04:05:59 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 21, 2014, 11:45:11 AM
Roger: feel better. And by 'better' I do not mean to imply 'poop more rainbows.'

Just don't take Wellbutrin. I tried that once and it made me forget how to fucking talk.

Wellbutrin is contraindicated for use with my sleeping pills.

I am currently using the Nigelco™ "Go Outside" pill, and it seemed to work well last night.

But now I am back behind this fucking desk.

Sounds like you need Vitamin D. Maybe if you get time after work you can sit outside and read a book or something?

Unlike places like, say, here, where people regularly off themselves as a byproduct of low vitamin D, people in Arizona have that problem so rarely it would be quite remarkable if Roger managed it.

Arizonians' entire carapace is made from concentrated Vitamin D that is used defensively and offensively to bash tourists into pulp or as a feeble shield between the tender inner meat and the pounding hammer of sky-born death rays that is colloquially known elsewhere as 'sunlight'. Giving foreign-sourced vitamin D to an Arizonian would be like offering sushi made in an Ohio garage to Chef Hashimoto and have about the same effect.

The Arizonian will be enraged and the carapace will harden further and the offending person, building, or javelina will be smeared into a fine paste across the sand.

This is how topsoil is made in Arizona.

:spittake:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 21, 2014, 10:59:05 PM
*Deleted for stupid*
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 11:01:07 PM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 21, 2014, 10:59:05 PM
Roger pities them. Then visualizes them getting splattered by asteroids.

No, yes.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 21, 2014, 11:13:00 PM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 21, 2014, 10:59:05 PM
Posting here never seems to go well.

FTFY.  Welcome to the rest of us.   :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 21, 2014, 11:13:51 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 11:13:00 PM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 21, 2014, 10:59:05 PM
Posting here never seems to go well.

FTFY.  Welcome to the rest of us.   :lulz:

Truth.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 21, 2014, 11:55:27 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 21, 2014, 11:13:51 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 11:13:00 PM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 21, 2014, 10:59:05 PM
Posting here never seems to go well.

FTFY.  Welcome to the rest of us.   :lulz:

Truth.

Yep.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 22, 2014, 12:05:54 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:53:28 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 21, 2014, 02:33:37 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:23:55 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 21, 2014, 02:22:13 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 02:19:45 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 21, 2014, 02:19:06 AM

It broke  :sad: the doctor wouldn't even let me keep it in a jar  :argh!:

Once something's been cut out of me, I don't want it anymore.

I tried to get my wisdom tooth, but the dentist said it was illegal to give it to me because it was "toxic waste".
My tooth was "toxic waste".
THANKS A LOT OBAMA CLINTON

My whole face is toxic waste.

And let's not get started on my hair problem.

Yeah, but this is A MOUTH FULL OF TOXIC WASTE.

One day, I shall have to tell you a particularly horrible tale.

:banana: :banana: :banana:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 22, 2014, 12:45:19 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 09:16:01 PM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 21, 2014, 09:12:22 PM
Rog had that brain infection thingee...he actually might be able to get off the drugs in time, ought to be taking lots of b vitamins, Omega-3 fatty acids and such.

Roger is very well aware of his condition, and will never be able to sleep properly without medication.

Roger would appreciate not getting diagnosis or prescription advice from the peanut gallery in the future.

Roger thanks you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.

Brah your frequencies are out of whack. Let me rub some cabbage on you.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 22, 2014, 12:49:18 AM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 22, 2014, 12:45:19 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 09:16:01 PM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 21, 2014, 09:12:22 PM
Rog had that brain infection thingee...he actually might be able to get off the drugs in time, ought to be taking lots of b vitamins, Omega-3 fatty acids and such.

Roger is very well aware of his condition, and will never be able to sleep properly without medication.

Roger would appreciate not getting diagnosis or prescription advice from the peanut gallery in the future.

Roger thanks you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.

Brah your frequencies are out of whack. Let me rub some cabbage on you.

That's hot.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 22, 2014, 01:44:19 AM
I'd pay to watch that. Although only if Bear then combs the cabbage out of Roger's back fur with a curry comb afterwards. Because it would be rude to send him home to his wife adorned with cabbage bits. Coleslaw is not an aphrodisiac to most people.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 22, 2014, 02:08:22 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 10:24:33 PM
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/when-lyme-disease-lasts-and-lasts/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Long and boring-ass story, but not lyme.
cpnhelp.org

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 22, 2014, 02:50:43 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 22, 2014, 01:44:19 AM
I'd pay to watch that. Although only if Bear then combs the cabbage out of Roger's back fur with a curry comb afterwards. Because it would be rude to send him home to his wife adorned with cabbage bits. Coleslaw is not an aphrodisiac to most people.

A curry is totally the wrong tool for back hair. With a longer handle it might make a good backscratcher, though. At least better than those bamboo hands they sell to tourists in Chinatown.

(http://www.sinnamonshowsupply.com/prodadmin/images/product/2pic321.jpg)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:09:22 AM
So, I'm getting married.

We've been planning it for 2 weeks now, and we're getting the license on Thursday when he's down from base. I've been keeping it under wraps since we didn't want it to be a big to-do (such as, My Big Fat Italian Wedding Mark II) and just on paper for now, so I can get on military benefits because he's nervous about me not being able to get real coverage out of school and in between jobs, as well as me not being able to get on base for grocery shopping and the like when he deploys eventually. Thing is, EVERYONE wants us to get married. It's kind of weird, I never got this the first time around. This time it's, "So when are you getting married?" And "Get married, already!" or my personal favorite, "We like him, and you haven't scared him away yet."

We are, damnit. Richter is our clergy, and Luna is one of the witnesses. So there. We'll have an actual wedding in a year or 2, but for now, we're just going to tell everyone I'm engaged, as to control familial explosions. If my grandmother and the Long Island contingent of the Suu clan were to find out I went and got hitched without a Catholic Priest, again, and did it without telling them, you could hear the brains pop all the way in Tucson.

Yay, mahwage.

-Suu
Ain't changing the name this time, either. Too much work.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 22, 2014, 03:13:37 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:09:22 AM
So, I'm getting married.

We've been planning it for 2 weeks now, and we're getting the license on Thursday when he's down from base. I've been keeping it under wraps since we didn't want it to be a big to-do (such as, My Big Fat Italian Wedding Mark II) and just on paper for now, so I can get on military benefits because he's nervous about me not being able to get real coverage out of school and in between jobs, as well as me not being able to get on base for grocery shopping and the like when he deploys eventually. Thing is, EVERYONE wants us to get married. It's kind of weird, I never got this the first time around. This time it's, "So when are you getting married?" And "Get married, already!" or my personal favorite, "We like him, and you haven't scared him away yet."

We are, damnit. Richter is our clergy, and Luna is one of the witnesses. So there. We'll have an actual wedding in a year or 2, but for now, we're just going to tell everyone I'm engaged, as to control familial explosions. If my grandmother and the Long Island contingent of the Suu clan were to find out I went and got hitched without a Catholic Priest, again, and did it without telling them, you could hear the brains pop all the way in Tucson.

Yay, mahwage.

-Suu
Ain't changing the name this time, either. Too much work.

Congrats!!! That's amazeballs. :D Happy times!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 22, 2014, 03:16:03 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:09:22 AM
So, I'm getting married.

We've been planning it for 2 weeks now, and we're getting the license on Thursday when he's down from base. I've been keeping it under wraps since we didn't want it to be a big to-do (such as, My Big Fat Italian Wedding Mark II) and just on paper for now, so I can get on military benefits because he's nervous about me not being able to get real coverage out of school and in between jobs, as well as me not being able to get on base for grocery shopping and the like when he deploys eventually. Thing is, EVERYONE wants us to get married. It's kind of weird, I never got this the first time around. This time it's, "So when are you getting married?" And "Get married, already!" or my personal favorite, "We like him, and you haven't scared him away yet."

We are, damnit. Richter is our clergy, and Luna is one of the witnesses. So there. We'll have an actual wedding in a year or 2, but for now, we're just going to tell everyone I'm engaged, as to control familial explosions. If my grandmother and the Long Island contingent of the Suu clan were to find out I went and got hitched without a Catholic Priest, again, and did it without telling them, you could hear the brains pop all the way in Tucson.

Yay, mahwage.

-Suu
Ain't changing the name this time, either. Too much work.

I would like to attend the larger celebration, whenever it may be.

May you two have many ears.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 22, 2014, 03:16:36 AM
Congrats. :)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 22, 2014, 03:19:03 AM
Congrats, Suu!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:23:32 AM
Thanks guys, when the party happens, we'll let everyone know. Richter will be proceeding over that one as well. He mentioned something about duct tape.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 22, 2014, 03:25:59 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:23:32 AM
Thanks guys, when the party happens, we'll let everyone know. Richter will be proceeding over that one as well. He mentioned something about duct tape.

Much more secure than a tiny ring.

Unless you're going to do a bondage tape wedding dress. That would be . . . O.O . . . brb, I'll be in my bunk.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:33:13 AM
I just Googled "bondage tape wedding dress" and am disappoint.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 22, 2014, 03:35:51 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:33:13 AM
I just Googled "bondage tape wedding dress" and am disappoint.

Fucking Pintrest.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: StandBackJack on January 22, 2014, 04:12:50 AM
Congratumalations!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 22, 2014, 04:13:26 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:09:22 AM
So, I'm getting married.

We've been planning it for 2 weeks now, and we're getting the license on Thursday when he's down from base. I've been keeping it under wraps since we didn't want it to be a big to-do (such as, My Big Fat Italian Wedding Mark II) and just on paper for now, so I can get on military benefits because he's nervous about me not being able to get real coverage out of school and in between jobs, as well as me not being able to get on base for grocery shopping and the like when he deploys eventually. Thing is, EVERYONE wants us to get married. It's kind of weird, I never got this the first time around. This time it's, "So when are you getting married?" And "Get married, already!" or my personal favorite, "We like him, and you haven't scared him away yet."

We are, damnit. Richter is our clergy, and Luna is one of the witnesses. So there. We'll have an actual wedding in a year or 2, but for now, we're just going to tell everyone I'm engaged, as to control familial explosions. If my grandmother and the Long Island contingent of the Suu clan were to find out I went and got hitched without a Catholic Priest, again, and did it without telling them, you could hear the brains pop all the way in Tucson.

Yay, mahwage.

-Suu
Ain't changing the name this time, either. Too much work.

HAH!  CALLED IT!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 22, 2014, 04:22:30 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 22, 2014, 04:13:26 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:09:22 AM
So, I'm getting married.

We've been planning it for 2 weeks now, and we're getting the license on Thursday when he's down from base. I've been keeping it under wraps since we didn't want it to be a big to-do (such as, My Big Fat Italian Wedding Mark II) and just on paper for now, so I can get on military benefits because he's nervous about me not being able to get real coverage out of school and in between jobs, as well as me not being able to get on base for grocery shopping and the like when he deploys eventually. Thing is, EVERYONE wants us to get married. It's kind of weird, I never got this the first time around. This time it's, "So when are you getting married?" And "Get married, already!" or my personal favorite, "We like him, and you haven't scared him away yet."

We are, damnit. Richter is our clergy, and Luna is one of the witnesses. So there. We'll have an actual wedding in a year or 2, but for now, we're just going to tell everyone I'm engaged, as to control familial explosions. If my grandmother and the Long Island contingent of the Suu clan were to find out I went and got hitched without a Catholic Priest, again, and did it without telling them, you could hear the brains pop all the way in Tucson.

Yay, mahwage.

-Suu
Ain't changing the name this time, either. Too much work.

HAH!  CALLED IT!

I figured I may as well post it here first, since you figured it out. I knew you did. I think MOST people have, actually. Especially after the whole debacle today he had to deal with as far as housing goes. I just didn't want it to come across as me being all murky and going for his benefits when it's not the case. Yes, for now, it is a marriage of benefits, and a contract, but, we really do love each other, and I haven't wanted to murder him in the 2 years we've dated so far. So I think we're doing well.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 22, 2014, 04:32:47 AM
I will also add that yes, we've discussed the possibility of me going to school far away, but he's also going to be gone for at least 6 months by the end of 2016 on his next deployment. I've already started taking care of his finances and such while he's at the shipyard, this is really going to make both of our lives easier. No, I am not stealing his GI Bill, my school costs are my own. But Tricare is cheaper monthly than my Obamacare premium (which is still, might I add, very reasonable) and he gets dependent allowance which will help me have a safety net with my bills when work shits the bed in March, like it always does.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 22, 2014, 04:35:27 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 04:32:47 AM
I will also add that yes, we've discussed the possibility of me going to school far away, but he's also going to be gone for at least 6 months by the end of 2016 on his next deployment. I've already started taking care of his finances and such while he's at the shipyard, this is really going to make both of our lives easier. No, I am not stealing his GI Bill, my school costs are my own. But Tricare is cheaper monthly than my Obamacare premium (which is still, might I add, very reasonable) and he gets dependent allowance which will help me have a safety net with my bills when work shits the bed in March, like it always does.

I don't think anyone is accusing you of anything.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 22, 2014, 04:37:44 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 22, 2014, 04:35:27 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 04:32:47 AM
I will also add that yes, we've discussed the possibility of me going to school far away, but he's also going to be gone for at least 6 months by the end of 2016 on his next deployment. I've already started taking care of his finances and such while he's at the shipyard, this is really going to make both of our lives easier. No, I am not stealing his GI Bill, my school costs are my own. But Tricare is cheaper monthly than my Obamacare premium (which is still, might I add, very reasonable) and he gets dependent allowance which will help me have a safety net with my bills when work shits the bed in March, like it always does.

I don't think anyone is accusing you of anything.

I know. But I wanted to have my ass covered. I guess you can say I'm shellshocked from previous mistakes.

I mean, it's not like it's only been 2 months, and we're living together, and we're thinking of the children, or anything.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 22, 2014, 04:39:40 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 22, 2014, 01:44:19 AM
I'd pay to watch that. Although only if Bear then combs the cabbage out of Roger's back fur with a curry comb afterwards. Because it would be rude to send him home to his wife adorned with cabbage bits. Coleslaw is not an aphrodisiac to most people.

I would maw the cabbage out of him at 70% strength because you know he's getting up there, and I'm getting less and less sane.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 22, 2014, 04:40:58 AM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 22, 2014, 04:39:40 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 22, 2014, 01:44:19 AM
I'd pay to watch that. Although only if Bear then combs the cabbage out of Roger's back fur with a curry comb afterwards. Because it would be rude to send him home to his wife adorned with cabbage bits. Coleslaw is not an aphrodisiac to most people.

I would maw the cabbage out of him at 70% strength because you know he's getting up there, and I'm getting less and less sane.

I fear no Texan.  Give it your best shot.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 22, 2014, 04:41:54 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 22, 2014, 04:40:58 AM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 22, 2014, 04:39:40 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 22, 2014, 01:44:19 AM
I'd pay to watch that. Although only if Bear then combs the cabbage out of Roger's back fur with a curry comb afterwards. Because it would be rude to send him home to his wife adorned with cabbage bits. Coleslaw is not an aphrodisiac to most people.

I would maw the cabbage out of him at 70% strength because you know he's getting up there, and I'm getting less and less sane.

I fear no Texan.  Give it your best shot.

I shall channel the animal spirit of Stella, and /b/inks
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 22, 2014, 04:45:27 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:09:22 AM
So, I'm getting married.

We've been planning it for 2 weeks now, and we're getting the license on Thursday when he's down from base. I've been keeping it under wraps since we didn't want it to be a big to-do (such as, My Big Fat Italian Wedding Mark II) and just on paper for now, so I can get on military benefits because he's nervous about me not being able to get real coverage out of school and in between jobs, as well as me not being able to get on base for grocery shopping and the like when he deploys eventually. Thing is, EVERYONE wants us to get married. It's kind of weird, I never got this the first time around. This time it's, "So when are you getting married?" And "Get married, already!" or my personal favorite, "We like him, and you haven't scared him away yet."

We are, damnit. Richter is our clergy, and Luna is one of the witnesses. So there. We'll have an actual wedding in a year or 2, but for now, we're just going to tell everyone I'm engaged, as to control familial explosions. If my grandmother and the Long Island contingent of the Suu clan were to find out I went and got hitched without a Catholic Priest, again, and did it without telling them, you could hear the brains pop all the way in Tucson.

Yay, mahwage.

-Suu
Ain't changing the name this time, either. Too much work.

HHAHAHHHAAHAHHA NICE!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 22, 2014, 04:51:06 AM
I gotta admit, Suu, I'm kinda jealous.

Not because of the ginger sailorman thing because not my bag.

Just in general. It's going to be a while for me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 22, 2014, 05:39:39 AM
Congrats, Suu!

In other news, who was the asshat that planted this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542048/Parents-warned-alarming-Smarties-snorting-craze-kids-crush-candies-inhale-dust-nose.html
:lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 22, 2014, 05:44:02 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:09:22 AM
So, I'm getting married.

We've been planning it for 2 weeks now, and we're getting the license on Thursday when he's down from base. I've been keeping it under wraps since we didn't want it to be a big to-do (such as, My Big Fat Italian Wedding Mark II) and just on paper for now, so I can get on military benefits because he's nervous about me not being able to get real coverage out of school and in between jobs, as well as me not being able to get on base for grocery shopping and the like when he deploys eventually. Thing is, EVERYONE wants us to get married. It's kind of weird, I never got this the first time around. This time it's, "So when are you getting married?" And "Get married, already!" or my personal favorite, "We like him, and you haven't scared him away yet."

We are, damnit. Richter is our clergy, and Luna is one of the witnesses. So there. We'll have an actual wedding in a year or 2, but for now, we're just going to tell everyone I'm engaged, as to control familial explosions. If my grandmother and the Long Island contingent of the Suu clan were to find out I went and got hitched without a Catholic Priest, again, and did it without telling them, you could hear the brains pop all the way in Tucson.

Yay, mahwage.

-Suu
Ain't changing the name this time, either. Too much work.

Congratulations!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 22, 2014, 05:49:07 AM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 22, 2014, 02:08:22 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 10:24:33 PM
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/when-lyme-disease-lasts-and-lasts/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Long and boring-ass story, but not lyme.
cpnhelp.org

Ah that's a shitty one. But what's with the self-diagnosis and black-market (and potentially lethal) self-treatment?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 22, 2014, 05:51:40 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 22, 2014, 05:39:39 AM
Congrats, Suu!

In other news, who was the asshat that planted this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542048/Parents-warned-alarming-Smarties-snorting-craze-kids-crush-candies-inhale-dust-nose.html
:lol:

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: wow

"Preventionists", known in another era as Chicken Little, really will believe anything.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 22, 2014, 06:36:23 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:09:22 AM
So, I'm getting married.

We've been planning it for 2 weeks now, and we're getting the license on Thursday when he's down from base. I've been keeping it under wraps since we didn't want it to be a big to-do (such as, My Big Fat Italian Wedding Mark II) and just on paper for now, so I can get on military benefits because he's nervous about me not being able to get real coverage out of school and in between jobs, as well as me not being able to get on base for grocery shopping and the like when he deploys eventually. Thing is, EVERYONE wants us to get married. It's kind of weird, I never got this the first time around. This time it's, "So when are you getting married?" And "Get married, already!" or my personal favorite, "We like him, and you haven't scared him away yet."

We are, damnit. Richter is our clergy, and Luna is one of the witnesses. So there. We'll have an actual wedding in a year or 2, but for now, we're just going to tell everyone I'm engaged, as to control familial explosions. If my grandmother and the Long Island contingent of the Suu clan were to find out I went and got hitched without a Catholic Priest, again, and did it without telling them, you could hear the brains pop all the way in Tucson.

Yay, mahwage.

-Suu
Ain't changing the name this time, either. Too much work.

You have been with him for quite a while now and, to my knowledge, you have yet to post one thing that makes him out to be a raging douchetard. Plus, sailor. Lock that shit down, yo. And congratulations!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 22, 2014, 07:11:55 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 22, 2014, 05:49:07 AM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 22, 2014, 02:08:22 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 10:24:33 PM
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/when-lyme-disease-lasts-and-lasts/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Long and boring-ass story, but not lyme.
cpnhelp.org

Ah that's a shitty one. But what's with the self-diagnosis and black-market (and potentially lethal) self-treatment?

I'm enrolled in the county indigent medical system.
In Texas.   :horrormirth:
...All my specialists are n00bs, doctors doing residencies.
I have a psych dx too.
Nobody's bothered to culture, even after sinus surgery #2 and a decade plus of illness,and me begging.
I'm not taken seriously,and I don't expect that to improve.

...Don't have access to better, so rolling dice on DIY.  I seem to have a really resilient liver anyway, so it'll probably be fine.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 22, 2014, 08:03:02 AM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 22, 2014, 07:11:55 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 22, 2014, 05:49:07 AM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 22, 2014, 02:08:22 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 21, 2014, 10:24:33 PM
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/when-lyme-disease-lasts-and-lasts/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Long and boring-ass story, but not lyme.
cpnhelp.org

Ah that's a shitty one. But what's with the self-diagnosis and black-market (and potentially lethal) self-treatment?

I'm enrolled in the county indigent medical system.
In Texas.   :horrormirth:
...All my specialists are n00bs, doctors doing residencies.
I have a psych dx too.
Nobody's bothered to culture, even after sinus surgery #2 and a decade plus of illness,and me begging.
I'm not taken seriously,and I don't expect that to improve.

...Don't have access to better, so rolling dice on DIY.  I seem to have a really resilient liver anyway, so it'll probably be fine.

We don't have the indigent one. In THIS county you pay thirty bucks for them to fuck you up.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 22, 2014, 10:55:56 AM
Congrats Suu!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 22, 2014, 11:10:03 AM
Congratulations Suu.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Sita on January 22, 2014, 12:47:20 PM
Oh god the Smarties snorting thing. I had to deal with that recently with my son.
By deal I mean that my son asked about it because some kids at school were talking about it. Thankfully my son is smart enough to just eat the candy and not stick it up his nose, which he thought was a really stupid way to enjoy it.


Also congrats Suu! Hope your married life is a wonderful one :)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 22, 2014, 02:29:16 PM
All ongoing things I may have promised may be subject to further delay, as I have interviews coming up and another essay due in a few weeks. 

I mean, I should get around to some of them this weekend, but my time is becoming increasingly less free for the short term.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:14:21 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 22, 2014, 05:39:39 AM
Congrats, Suu!

In other news, who was the asshat that planted this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542048/Parents-warned-alarming-Smarties-snorting-craze-kids-crush-candies-inhale-dust-nose.html
:lol:

We snorted Pixy Stix back in the 90s. It was only a matter of time until the next "big thing." Also, that's Portsmouth, RI for you. East Bay, that "island" over there where the state actually gets it's name from. Yeah. Penal Colony for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Exiled Puritans, like Anne Hutchinson.  :kingmeh:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 22, 2014, 03:18:19 PM
I suspect the whole "snorting Smarties" thing is an urban legend anyway.

I mean, I'm sure a select number of dumbasses, after hearing "everyone" was doing it gave it a try themselves, but I hardly believe it is an "epidemic sweeping OUR schools", as the Daily Mail puts it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:22:00 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 22, 2014, 03:18:19 PM
I suspect the whole "snorting Smarties" thing is an urban legend anyway.

I mean, I'm sure a select number of dumbasses, after hearing "everyone" was doing it gave it a try themselves, but I hardly believe it is an "epidemic sweeping OUR schools", as the Daily Mail puts it.

They were supposedly licking toads in Barrington, another East Bay town, a few years back. I wouldn't put it past them.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 22, 2014, 03:38:35 PM
Yeah, but that was according to FOX News.  Did their "reporter" even go to the school?  Speak to anyone involved? 

Panics like this occur every few years.  You couldn't set your watch by them, but you probably could them as the basis for a regular calendar system.  The Age of Jenkem, the Age of Crushed Smarties, the Age of Vodka Soaked Tampons, the Age of Kids Getting Suicidal Because Their Tamagotchi Died etc etc.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 22, 2014, 03:42:34 PM
I put that shit right up there with butt-chuffing and vodka tampons.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:46:49 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 22, 2014, 03:38:35 PM
Yeah, but that was according to FOX News.  Did their "reporter" even go to the school?  Speak to anyone involved? 

Panics like this occur every few years.  You couldn't set your watch by them, but you probably could them as the basis for a regular calendar system.  The Age of Jenkem, the Age of Crushed Smarties, the Age of Vodka Soaked Tampons, the Age of Kids Getting Suicidal Because Their Tamagotchi Died etc etc.

THEY'RE THINKING OF THE CHILDREN. CLEARLY.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: hooplala on January 22, 2014, 03:48:11 PM
Wouldn't snorting smarties just be an elaborate way to consume them?  Would it do much damage?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:48:59 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 22, 2014, 03:48:11 PM
Wouldn't snorting smarties just be an elaborate way to consume them?  Would it do much damage?

Nosebleeds, at most. And colorful boogers.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: hooplala on January 22, 2014, 03:49:42 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:48:59 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 22, 2014, 03:48:11 PM
Wouldn't snorting smarties just be an elaborate way to consume them?  Would it do much damage?

Nosebleeds, at most. And colorful boogers.

What's not to love about either of those?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 22, 2014, 03:51:22 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 22, 2014, 03:48:11 PM
Wouldn't snorting smarties just be an elaborate way to consume them?  Would it do much damage?

If you did enough, I'd assume there's a possibility of asphyxia, as the sugar is going into the lungs rather than the stomach.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: hooplala on January 22, 2014, 03:53:20 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 22, 2014, 03:51:22 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 22, 2014, 03:48:11 PM
Wouldn't snorting smarties just be an elaborate way to consume them?  Would it do much damage?

If you did enough, I'd assume there's a possibility of asphyxia, as the sugar is going into the lungs rather than the stomach.

Oh right... science.  I forgot about what snorting did.  I'd blame it on being Monday, but I believe I am two days late for that.  Carry on...
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 22, 2014, 04:07:01 PM
There was apparently a trend of snorting (crushed) Polo mints here relatively recently. The idea appears to be that they know they can't get high from the mint, but the oxygen deprivation is apparently equivalent to something.

What "something" is, I don't know. Bullshit? Probably. Believable? Round here, certainly.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 22, 2014, 04:43:31 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:14:21 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 22, 2014, 05:39:39 AM
Congrats, Suu!

In other news, who was the asshat that planted this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542048/Parents-warned-alarming-Smarties-snorting-craze-kids-crush-candies-inhale-dust-nose.html
:lol:

We snorted Pixy Stix back in the 90s. It was only a matter of time until the next "big thing." Also, that's Portsmouth, RI for you. East Bay, that "island" over there where the state actually gets it's name from. Yeah. Penal Colony for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Exiled Puritans, like Anne Hutchinson.  :kingmeh:

The Pixy Stix thing, which I assume is the same as the Smarties thing since they're chemically similar, was all about talking about how it really works to get you high until you convinced one of your friends to actually try it, and then laughing and laughing because a combination of sugar and citric acid in your sinuses is one of the most painful experiences a kid that age has probably ever had. The ensuing agony, coughing, and copious mucous production is enough to prevent pretty much anyone with a functioning nervous system from trying it more than once.

In other words, these people are taking a child's prank and inflating it into a "drug epidemic". It's fucking ridiculous.  :lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 22, 2014, 04:48:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 22, 2014, 04:43:31 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:14:21 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 22, 2014, 05:39:39 AM
Congrats, Suu!

In other news, who was the asshat that planted this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542048/Parents-warned-alarming-Smarties-snorting-craze-kids-crush-candies-inhale-dust-nose.html
:lol:

We snorted Pixy Stix back in the 90s. It was only a matter of time until the next "big thing." Also, that's Portsmouth, RI for you. East Bay, that "island" over there where the state actually gets it's name from. Yeah. Penal Colony for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Exiled Puritans, like Anne Hutchinson.  :kingmeh:

The Pixy Stix thing, which I assume is the same as the Smarties thing since they're chemically similar, was all about talking about how it really works to get you high until you convinced one of your friends to actually try it, and then laughing and laughing because a combination of sugar and citric acid in your sinuses is one of the most painful experiences a kid that age has probably ever had. The ensuing agony, coughing, and copious mucous production is enough to prevent pretty much anyone with a functioning nervous system from trying it more than once.

In other words, these people are taking a child's prank and inflating it into a "drug epidemic". It's fucking ridiculous.  :lol:

Don't you care about our assets?   :|
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 22, 2014, 05:05:16 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 22, 2014, 04:48:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 22, 2014, 04:43:31 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:14:21 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 22, 2014, 05:39:39 AM
Congrats, Suu!

In other news, who was the asshat that planted this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542048/Parents-warned-alarming-Smarties-snorting-craze-kids-crush-candies-inhale-dust-nose.html
:lol:

We snorted Pixy Stix back in the 90s. It was only a matter of time until the next "big thing." Also, that's Portsmouth, RI for you. East Bay, that "island" over there where the state actually gets it's name from. Yeah. Penal Colony for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Exiled Puritans, like Anne Hutchinson.  :kingmeh:

The Pixy Stix thing, which I assume is the same as the Smarties thing since they're chemically similar, was all about talking about how it really works to get you high until you convinced one of your friends to actually try it, and then laughing and laughing because a combination of sugar and citric acid in your sinuses is one of the most painful experiences a kid that age has probably ever had. The ensuing agony, coughing, and copious mucous production is enough to prevent pretty much anyone with a functioning nervous system from trying it more than once.

In other words, these people are taking a child's prank and inflating it into a "drug epidemic". It's fucking ridiculous.  :lol:

Don't you care about our assets?   :|

:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 22, 2014, 05:16:13 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 22, 2014, 05:05:16 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 22, 2014, 04:48:15 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 22, 2014, 04:43:31 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 22, 2014, 03:14:21 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 22, 2014, 05:39:39 AM
Congrats, Suu!

In other news, who was the asshat that planted this? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542048/Parents-warned-alarming-Smarties-snorting-craze-kids-crush-candies-inhale-dust-nose.html
:lol:

We snorted Pixy Stix back in the 90s. It was only a matter of time until the next "big thing." Also, that's Portsmouth, RI for you. East Bay, that "island" over there where the state actually gets it's name from. Yeah. Penal Colony for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Exiled Puritans, like Anne Hutchinson.  :kingmeh:

The Pixy Stix thing, which I assume is the same as the Smarties thing since they're chemically similar, was all about talking about how it really works to get you high until you convinced one of your friends to actually try it, and then laughing and laughing because a combination of sugar and citric acid in your sinuses is one of the most painful experiences a kid that age has probably ever had. The ensuing agony, coughing, and copious mucous production is enough to prevent pretty much anyone with a functioning nervous system from trying it more than once.

In other words, these people are taking a child's prank and inflating it into a "drug epidemic". It's fucking ridiculous.  :lol:

Don't you care about our assets?   :|

:lulz:

Oh man. That took me a second. :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 22, 2014, 05:58:41 PM
 :lulz:

But yeah, totally more of a prank than anything. Not a pleasant experience, but totally worth a laugh when you're 13.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 22, 2014, 06:20:18 PM
I wonder how long before a kid is put in jail for it?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 22, 2014, 06:59:02 PM
6 months.

Seriously, calling it now. 6 months.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 22, 2014, 07:13:47 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 22, 2014, 03:38:35 PM
Yeah, but that was according to FOX News.  Did their "reporter" even go to the school?  Speak to anyone involved? 

Panics like this occur every few years.  You couldn't set your watch by them, but you probably could them as the basis for a regular calendar system.  The Age of Jenkem, the Age of Crushed Smarties, the Age of Vodka Soaked Tampons, the Age of Kids Getting Suicidal Because Their Tamagotchi Died etc etc.

It's a tradition that dates back to the Age of Hairy Palms, Madness, Blindness and Wasting Away from Self Abuse.

Quote from: Junkenstein on January 22, 2014, 06:59:02 PM
6 months.

Seriously, calling it now. 6 months.

Less, I think. I give it a month. A Rhose Island school is already warning parents. (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/middle-schoolers-snorting-smarties-candy-droves-article-1.1585876)

QuoteThe idiotic extracurricular activity has become such a problem that Portsmouth Middle School in Rhode Island warned parents of the "widespread phenomenon," WPRI-TV reported.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 22, 2014, 08:09:51 PM
OK, just wrecked my throat by talking for half an hour nonstop for my latest Youtube video.

Just editing it now to test for sound levels etc but I should be able to upload it for tomorrow.  You may want to watch once it is up, as it has pertinent information about what I'll be doing with the channel in the near future.

It also has some gameplay, so if you mostly watch my videos for that, you can see me solo most of a round after my team mates ignobly snuff it, like the scrubs they are.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Telarus on January 22, 2014, 08:49:58 PM
I haven't been able to catch many of your videos, but I'm impressed man. I've wanted to try streaming for a while.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 22, 2014, 08:53:33 PM
Thank you.  Streaming with Origin is pretty easy...I would do it that way if the option were there, but the speed in the countryside is horrible (based on feedback from this forum). 

I also understand Twitch.tv are a lot easier to deal with than Youtube...even if they do pay less overall.

Edit: video is good, audio-wise.  Should be able to upload it tomorrow afternoon, UK time.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 22, 2014, 10:04:41 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 22, 2014, 08:09:51 PM
OK, just wrecked my throat by talking for half an hour nonstop for my latest Youtube video.

Just editing it now to test for sound levels etc but I should be able to upload it for tomorrow.  You may want to watch once it is up, as it has pertinent information about what I'll be doing with the channel in the near future.

It also has some gameplay, so if you mostly watch my videos for that, you can see me solo most of a round after my team mates ignobly snuff it, like the scrubs they are.

Excellent!

I don't even play, I just put it on and listen to you talk.  :lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 22, 2014, 10:05:48 PM
God I'm tired. After sleeping for almost nine hours last night. I hope to god I'm not coming down with something.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 22, 2014, 10:06:30 PM
Oh and I'm getting sent to another conference next month. This one's in town though. Apparently one of my mentors nominated me months ago.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 22, 2014, 10:35:54 PM
You know, I open my class page today and am greeted with the announcement that we have completed stoichiometry. And I'm like, really? That's it?

I feel oddly let down.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 22, 2014, 10:37:04 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 22, 2014, 10:35:54 PM
You know, I open my class page today and am greeted with the announcement that we have completed stoichiometry. And I'm like, really? That's it?

I feel oddly let down.

Is that the twirly pasta that's in all different colors?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 22, 2014, 10:51:32 PM
Yeah, well, won't ever be speaking to St Mae again.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 22, 2014, 10:54:42 PM
FACEBOOK - BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU HATED THEM.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 22, 2014, 11:12:59 PM
What is up with that?
When were we all inducted into the Nice and Friendly Oppressed?
I, for one, hold privacy to be one the most fundamentao of human rights.

But what is good for me is good enough for that pigfucker.

The idea that real violence may happen to you as a result of doing your best to help the Man™ is, well, one of the reasons you dont sell out your own people. Cause that is what happens when you do.

Maybe we should all just meditate and think good feelinga about he NSA and all the babies in Gunatanamo will have a merry christmas.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 22, 2014, 11:13:46 PM
I know, my spelling and typos are terrible, I am working on it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Freeky on January 22, 2014, 11:27:35 PM
So, there's been this thing going on with HWiGS, he's been having business lessons or something with a guy who usually charges $2k/hr for his presentations.  HWiGS initial plan was to start a new business with those maker things, but it appears that a new business would be two years away at least, so he's turned his focus to improving his interbutts presence and making a store there.  Since I run his Ebay store, I am now included in the whole deal and that's neat, because learning.  Last week Mr Thursday offered to us some vintage and mint condition board games which could fetch a nice amount.  If it sells, he gets half and HWiGS gets half to create an internet store + presence.  Perhaps soon I'll be making a living wage from this!  :D
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 22, 2014, 11:40:38 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on January 22, 2014, 10:54:42 PM
FACEBOOK - BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU HATED THEM.

FACEBOOK - Because you didn't know that disagreement on one (1) issue means that you have no agency as a functional human being.

:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 22, 2014, 11:41:51 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 22, 2014, 11:12:59 PM
What is up with that?
When were we all inducted into the Nice and Friendly Oppressed?
I, for one, hold privacy to be one the most fundamentao of human rights.

But what is good for me is good enough for that pigfucker.

The idea that real violence may happen to you as a result of doing your best to help the Man™ is, well, one of the reasons you dont sell out your own people. Cause that is what happens when you do.

Maybe we should all just meditate and think good feelinga about he NSA and all the babies in Gunatanamo will have a merry christmas.

It's not even the argument, Alty.  It's the fact that my disagreement means that I'm not an actual person.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 22, 2014, 11:43:18 PM
Missed that part, though I figured it would be bad if you were that mad about it.

That sucks, man.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 22, 2014, 11:49:09 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 22, 2014, 11:43:18 PM
Missed that part, though I figured it would be bad if you were that mad about it.

That sucks, man.

"Hamish, I know you're just a troll, but not now."

:lulz:

To hell with her.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 23, 2014, 12:01:54 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 22, 2014, 11:49:09 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 22, 2014, 11:43:18 PM
Missed that part, though I figured it would be bad if you were that mad about it.

That sucks, man.

"Hamish, I know you're just a troll, but not now."

:lulz:

To hell with her.

:snob:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 23, 2014, 12:05:58 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 23, 2014, 12:01:54 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 22, 2014, 11:49:09 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 22, 2014, 11:43:18 PM
Missed that part, though I figured it would be bad if you were that mad about it.

That sucks, man.

"Hamish, I know you're just a troll, but not now."

:lulz:

To hell with her.

:snob:

I don't always demean people, but when I do, I make sure that they're properly humiliated.
\
:snob:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 23, 2014, 12:13:05 AM
I just do not have the time for that in my life anymore.
It drives me absolutely out of my mind enraged when people just assume the worst about my intentions. People that do hat sort of passive aggressivrle bullshit can go set themselves on fire. Or just leave me the hell alone. Either way.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 23, 2014, 12:15:39 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 23, 2014, 12:13:05 AM
I just do not have the time for that in my life anymore.
It drives me absolutely out of my mind enraged when people just assume the worst about my intentions. People that do hat sort of passive aggressivrle bullshit can go set themselves on fire. Or just leave me the hell alone. Either way.

My personal peeve is the "you're not a person" thing.  I can tolerate just about anything else.

Of course, it only works when it's someone whose opinion I gave a shit about, and it only works once...Because, um, I stop giving a shit about them at that point, even if I later on resume talking to them.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 23, 2014, 12:25:08 AM
I have noticed that I am finding it more and more difficult to get along with most Discordians.  Not sure if the change is them or me...Probably me.  This is kind of distressing, because I hate just about everyone who isn't a Discordian.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 23, 2014, 12:32:21 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 12:25:08 AM
I have noticed that I am finding it more and more difficult to get along with most Discordians.  Not sure if the change is them or me...Probably me.  This is kind of distressing, because I hate just about everyone who isn't a Discordian.

I just think it's a "people in groups" thing. We got lucky with this group but as a rule, things like philosophies, religions, hobbies - anything, really - can be really awesome and really resonate with a person - UNTIL YOU START MEETING THE OTHERS.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 23, 2014, 12:33:23 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 23, 2014, 12:32:21 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 12:25:08 AM
I have noticed that I am finding it more and more difficult to get along with most Discordians.  Not sure if the change is them or me...Probably me.  This is kind of distressing, because I hate just about everyone who isn't a Discordian.

I just think it's a "people in groups" thing. We got lucky with this group but as a rule, things like philosophies, religions, hobbies - anything, really - can be really awesome and really resonate with a person - UNTIL YOU START MEETING THE OTHERS.

Point.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 23, 2014, 03:16:50 AM
Tonight I learned a lesson that I am not infallible.

I am good at what I do, but I am not perfect, and I am incapable of flaw. I screw stuff up all the time, but tonight it hit me like a ton of bricks, because it's this stupid contest project I've poured a lot of passion into. I'm not going to win on Saturday, just out of sheer bias of the judges, and I'm okay with that, but I am going to make sure my point is made. That not only am I capable sewing out of my period LIKE A FUCKING BOSS, I can do so in a way that makes everyone be reminded of how much I still hate their fucking sports teams in the worst known NFL color scheme ever created...This contest is stupid.

In other news, my Pandora station is playing a lot of NIN tonight, and I'm reminded that Downward Spiral is now 20 years old. My head fucking hurts.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 03:49:54 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 22, 2014, 11:40:38 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on January 22, 2014, 10:54:42 PM
FACEBOOK - BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU HATED THEM.

FACEBOOK - Because you didn't know that disagreement on one (1) issue means that you have no agency as a functional human being.

:lulz:

Every time I think about making a Facebook account thingie, I come here and find fifty reason why NO.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 23, 2014, 04:44:02 AM
The two most godless cities in America are Providence and New Bedford (http://nation.time.com/2014/01/22/godless-cities-in-america/)

:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 04:58:03 AM
Moving to the Portland area at the end of the year-ish. Probably smack-dab in the middle of NaNo. Which will be entertaining. Looking at the Gresham area. Beaverton is right out. Fuck that place. Whee!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 23, 2014, 05:15:08 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 04:58:03 AM
Moving to the Portland area at the end of the year-ish. Probably smack-dab in the middle of NaNo. Which will be entertaining. Looking at the Gresham area. Beaverton is right out. Fuck that place. Whee!

Portland Portland?

Make sure you tell Nigel all about your NaNoWriMo. She LOVES it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Telarus on January 23, 2014, 05:26:15 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 04:58:03 AM
Beaverton is right out. Fuck that place. Whee!

Gods, I've been living here for the last 10 years.  :argh!:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 23, 2014, 05:44:50 AM
UPDATE: Cancer scare was, apparently, a false alarm. Thank you all for praying to Eris, not because I believe in prayer, but because I now get to tell my sister in law that her son will live because a bunch of Internet people prayed to the Goddess of Confusion and Chaos. Seriously though, I imagine the kid is feeling like a bazillion bucks right now, even if his knee does still have a weird lump in its bone and inexplicable chronic pain.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 06:09:49 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 23, 2014, 05:44:50 AM
UPDATE: Cancer scare was, apparently, a false alarm. Thank you all for praying to Eris, not because I believe in prayer, but because I now get to tell my sister in law that her son will live because a bunch of Internet people prayed to the Goddess of Confusion and Chaos. Seriously though, I imagine the kid is feeling like a bazillion bucks right now, even if his knee does still have a weird lump in its bone and inexplicable chronic pain.

Hallelujah! Praise Eris! Pass the hotdogs (sans buns) 'round!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 06:10:51 AM
Quote from: Telarus on January 23, 2014, 05:26:15 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 04:58:03 AM
Beaverton is right out. Fuck that place. Whee!

Gods, I've been living here for the last 10 years.  :argh!:

I meant to say it sounds like a delightful place. >.>

Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 23, 2014, 05:15:08 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 04:58:03 AM
Moving to the Portland area at the end of the year-ish. Probably smack-dab in the middle of NaNo. Which will be entertaining. Looking at the Gresham area. Beaverton is right out. Fuck that place. Whee!

Portland Portland?

Make sure you tell Nigel all about your NaNoWriMo. She LOVES it.

I want to keep my fingers attached to my hands, thanks.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 23, 2014, 06:34:49 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 23, 2014, 05:44:50 AM
UPDATE: Cancer scare was, apparently, a false alarm. Thank you all for praying to Eris, not because I believe in prayer, but because I now get to tell my sister in law that her son will live because a bunch of Internet people prayed to the Goddess of Confusion and Chaos. Seriously though, I imagine the kid is feeling like a bazillion bucks right now, even if his knee does still have a weird lump in its bone and inexplicable chronic pain.

Great news, good for the kid. Too bad about the knee, though.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 23, 2014, 07:01:32 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 23, 2014, 04:44:02 AM
The two most godless cities in America are Providence and New Bedford (http://nation.time.com/2014/01/22/godless-cities-in-america/)

:lulz:

...Was looking at that, and Cedar Rapids is a hotbed of secularism???  :|  In fact, I'm surprised it's a hot bed of anything.

Also surprised Detroit scored as high as it did; I would think Detroit residents would know their God to be a vengeful and uncaring bastard.

Quote from: V3X on January 23, 2014, 05:44:50 AM

UPDATE: Cancer scare was, apparently, a false alarm.

YAY!  ... I hope the pain either goes away on its' own or can be treated.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 07:13:38 AM
Quote from: hylierandom, A.D.D. on January 23, 2014, 07:01:32 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 23, 2014, 04:44:02 AM
The two most godless cities in America are Providence and New Bedford (http://nation.time.com/2014/01/22/godless-cities-in-america/)

:lulz:

...Was looking at that, and Cedar Rapids is a hotbed of secularism???  :|  In fact, I'm surprised it's a hot bed of anything.

Also surprised Detroit scored as high as it did; I would think Detroit residents would know their God to be a vengeful and uncaring bastard.

Quote from: V3X on January 23, 2014, 05:44:50 AM

UPDATE: Cancer scare was, apparently, a false alarm.

YAY!  ... I hope the pain either goes away on its' own or can be treated.

I can vouch for Cedar Rapids and Waterloo being godless pits of corn and despair. They only have one church for every two bars and/or 'social clubs' whereas the rest of Iowa has two churches for every bar and/or 'social club'.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 23, 2014, 07:27:10 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 23, 2014, 05:44:50 AM
UPDATE: Cancer scare was, apparently, a false alarm. Thank you all for praying to Eris, not because I believe in prayer, but because I now get to tell my sister in law that her son will live because a bunch of Internet people prayed to the Goddess of Confusion and Chaos. Seriously though, I imagine the kid is feeling like a bazillion bucks right now, even if his knee does still have a weird lump in its bone and inexplicable chronic pain.

Ohhh so much good

I have been in that "you probably have cancer... oh wait nope" place before. It's crazymaking.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 23, 2014, 07:29:04 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 22, 2014, 10:51:32 PM
Yeah, well, won't ever be speaking to St Mae again.

Wow, really? Missed that. She's LO's aunt.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 23, 2014, 07:32:12 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 04:58:03 AM
Moving to the Portland area at the end of the year-ish. Probably smack-dab in the middle of NaNo. Which will be entertaining. Looking at the Gresham area. Beaverton is right out. Fuck that place. Whee!

Sweeeeet! Gresham though! That's hardcore.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 23, 2014, 07:32:53 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 23, 2014, 05:15:08 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 04:58:03 AM
Moving to the Portland area at the end of the year-ish. Probably smack-dab in the middle of NaNo. Which will be entertaining. Looking at the Gresham area. Beaverton is right out. Fuck that place. Whee!

Portland Portland?

Make sure you tell Nigel all about your NaNoWriMo. She LOVES it.

:lulz:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 23, 2014, 09:14:03 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 23, 2014, 05:44:50 AM
UPDATE: Cancer scare was, apparently, a false alarm. Thank you all for praying to Eris, not because I believe in prayer, but because I now get to tell my sister in law that her son will live because a bunch of Internet people prayed to the Goddess of Confusion and Chaos. Seriously though, I imagine the kid is feeling like a bazillion bucks right now, even if his knee does still have a weird lump in its bone and inexplicable chronic pain.
Excellent news!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 23, 2014, 10:12:22 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 22, 2014, 10:04:41 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 22, 2014, 08:09:51 PM
OK, just wrecked my throat by talking for half an hour nonstop for my latest Youtube video.

Just editing it now to test for sound levels etc but I should be able to upload it for tomorrow.  You may want to watch once it is up, as it has pertinent information about what I'll be doing with the channel in the near future.

It also has some gameplay, so if you mostly watch my videos for that, you can see me solo most of a round after my team mates ignobly snuff it, like the scrubs they are.

Excellent!

I don't even play, I just put it on and listen to you talk.  :lol:

Ah, but you should watch this one.  I'm playing a lizard in a trenchcoat with a laser-based sniper rifle that melts things.

Also, cheesy scanning devices that let me see enemies through cover (and shoot them) and big-ass explosions.  It doesn't get much cooler than that.

I will say, any games that allow a) scanning through walls and b) cover penetrating weapons is just asking for trouble.  This isn't as cheesy as the time I used drill rounds on the Javelin sniper rifle with a high velocity barrel (combined cover penetration of 4.85 metres), but it's close.

I will, eventually, do a Mass Effect playthrough, so all of you can know the storyline behind what I'm playing.  Just not straight away.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 23, 2014, 10:22:27 AM
My second article has been published by the strategic forecasting people.  Keywords: Saudi Arabia, strain, USA, Iraq, relations.  If you want to look for it, that is.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 23, 2014, 01:46:58 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 23, 2014, 07:29:04 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 22, 2014, 10:51:32 PM
Yeah, well, won't ever be speaking to St Mae again.

Wow, really? Missed that. She's LO's aunt.

Yeah, it's unfortunate.  I won't be throwing much shit all over the walls, but I don't take kindly to being told I'm not an actual person.  Didn't know about her being LO's aunt.  Makes the whole thing worse.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: hooplala on January 23, 2014, 02:13:50 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 01:46:58 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 23, 2014, 07:29:04 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 22, 2014, 10:51:32 PM
Yeah, well, won't ever be speaking to St Mae again.

Wow, really? Missed that. She's LO's aunt.

Yeah, it's unfortunate.  I won't be throwing much shit all over the walls, but I don't take kindly to being told I'm not an actual person.  Didn't know about her being LO's aunt.  Makes the whole thing worse.

This also took place on Disco2014 group? 
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 23, 2014, 02:16:35 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 23, 2014, 02:13:50 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 01:46:58 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 23, 2014, 07:29:04 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 22, 2014, 10:51:32 PM
Yeah, well, won't ever be speaking to St Mae again.

Wow, really? Missed that. She's LO's aunt.

Yeah, it's unfortunate.  I won't be throwing much shit all over the walls, but I don't take kindly to being told I'm not an actual person.  Didn't know about her being LO's aunt.  Makes the whole thing worse.

This also took place on Disco2014 group?

Nope.  Autumn's wall.

In happier news:

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Ghost-ship-cannibal-rats-crash-Devon-coast/story-20487193-detail/story.html
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 23, 2014, 02:22:17 PM
Autumn = St Mae, yes?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: hooplala on January 23, 2014, 02:27:48 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 02:22:17 PM
Autumn = St Mae, yes?

I believe so.

Sometimes I think the whole "You disagree with me, therefor you are not being serious" issue is one of the things ruining the world... and then I think it's probably always been like this.  I mean shit, I disagree with people all the time... at least I give them the respect of believing they actually hold their opinions.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 23, 2014, 02:30:48 PM
That's great news, Vex. Whatever it is, it ain't the big C.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 23, 2014, 02:31:58 PM
Yeah, definitely.  Once you rule out cancer, the options can only look better.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 23, 2014, 02:35:37 PM
:sight of relief:

Good to hear, V3X.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 23, 2014, 02:48:25 PM
Quote from: V3X on January 23, 2014, 05:44:50 AM
UPDATE: Cancer scare was, apparently, a false alarm. Thank you all for praying to Eris, not because I believe in prayer, but because I now get to tell my sister in law that her son will live because a bunch of Internet people prayed to the Goddess of Confusion and Chaos. Seriously though, I imagine the kid is feeling like a bazillion bucks right now, even if his knee does still have a weird lump in its bone and inexplicable chronic pain.

Yeah, but his prognosis just got a lot better. It may be a benign tumor or bone spur, but now they can go in and take care of it without threat of malignancy. He's going to live to be a grownup, that's all that matters.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 23, 2014, 02:50:31 PM
So because Janus happened on the first day of classes, I've only been to Microbiology. General Bio II is tonight, I log into the Algebra class tomorrow (14 days free access to MyMathLab, payday is Thursday), and Saturday is Intro to Biotech.

Applied for FAFSA for 2014-2015, but I think my eligibility for the Pell Grant through BHCC will run out in Fall (when I reach the maximum amount of allowable credits), and so, aside from settling into classes, I'll be looking into whether non-government grants and scholarships are allowable after that point, or start making my case for "LOL JUST KIDDING ABOUT THE HISTORY DEGREE" or, you know. Consider transferring to UMass Boston earlier.

And internships. Looking into internships.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 23, 2014, 03:23:11 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on January 23, 2014, 02:27:48 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 02:22:17 PM
Autumn = St Mae, yes?

I believe so.

Sometimes I think the whole "You disagree with me, therefor you are not being serious" issue is one of the things ruining the world... and then I think it's probably always been like this.  I mean shit, I disagree with people all the time... at least I give them the respect of believing they actually hold their opinions.

Yes, you demonstrated that courtesy during the atheism debate.

Thing is, I don't like being told that I have no agency any more than anyone else does.  If she had said, "NO, YOU'RE WRONG", that would have been one thing.  But I was told that I was "just a troll" and my opinion was not actually an opinion and thus carries no weight.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 23, 2014, 03:29:10 PM
Richter just texted me to tell me that he is clear with the city clerk of Providence, and has been addressed formally as a man of the cloth.

The Real Reverend Richter.  :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 23, 2014, 03:32:07 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 23, 2014, 03:29:10 PM
Richter just texted me to tell me that he is clear with the city clerk of Providence, and has been addressed formally as a man of the cloth.

The Real Reverend Richter.  :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

Why wouldn't he be?  I've legally performed weddings in Chicago and Arizona.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 23, 2014, 03:36:19 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 03:32:07 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 23, 2014, 03:29:10 PM
Richter just texted me to tell me that he is clear with the city clerk of Providence, and has been addressed formally as a man of the cloth.

The Real Reverend Richter.  :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

Why wouldn't he be?  I've legally performed weddings in Chicago and Arizona.

Rhode Island gives no fuss about these things either, but he's a bit giddy over the formality. Hell in Florida, you can get married by a Notary Public. If that was the case, I was going to have Luna do it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Sita on January 23, 2014, 03:52:58 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 23, 2014, 03:36:19 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 03:32:07 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 23, 2014, 03:29:10 PM
Richter just texted me to tell me that he is clear with the city clerk of Providence, and has been addressed formally as a man of the cloth.

The Real Reverend Richter.  :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

Why wouldn't he be?  I've legally performed weddings in Chicago and Arizona.

Rhode Island gives no fuss about these things either, but he's a bit giddy over the formality. Hell in Florida, you can get married by a Notary Public. If that was the case, I was going to have Luna do it.
That's exactly what we did, since it was a friend of my husband and she was going to be invited anyway.
Didn't know that was such an odd thing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 23, 2014, 04:06:23 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 23, 2014, 04:44:02 AM
The two most godless cities in America are Providence and New Bedford (http://nation.time.com/2014/01/22/godless-cities-in-america/)

:lulz:

Balls. There are plenty of gods in New Beige. Just not the ones that answer prayers and tuck you in at night.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 23, 2014, 04:07:22 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 04:58:03 AM
Moving to the Portland area at the end of the year-ish. Probably smack-dab in the middle of NaNo. Which will be entertaining. Looking at the Gresham area. Beaverton is right out. Fuck that place. Whee!

We call it "Greshamphetamine". Fair warning.

TBH, SE and/or NE Portland are just as affordable and nowhere near as shitty.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 23, 2014, 04:12:33 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 23, 2014, 04:44:02 AM
The two most godless cities in America are Providence and New Bedford (http://nation.time.com/2014/01/22/godless-cities-in-america/)

:lulz:

This is hardly anything new for anyone who has ever spent significant time in Providence and her illustrious suburbs of Southern MA.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 23, 2014, 04:14:57 PM
In New Bedford's case, it's because God wants nothing to do with them.   :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 23, 2014, 04:16:00 PM
"Only Here, And No Further."
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 23, 2014, 05:15:52 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 04:14:57 PM
In New Bedford's case, it's because God wants nothing to do with them.   :lulz:

I don't blame God. Heck, when I met EoC's friends last week at the German Club, they seemed THRILLED to be living in Prov. Sad to think that Providence is considered an upgrade from anything...until you've been to New Bedford.

Well, that and Brockton.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 23, 2014, 05:21:15 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 23, 2014, 05:15:52 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 04:14:57 PM
In New Bedford's case, it's because God wants nothing to do with them.   :lulz:

I don't blame God. Heck, when I met EoC's friends last week at the German Club, they seemed THRILLED to be living in Prov. Sad to think that Providence is considered an upgrade from anything...until you've been to New Bedford.

Well, that and Brockton.

And...

AND...

AND...
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 23, 2014, 05:26:25 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 05:21:15 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 23, 2014, 05:15:52 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 04:14:57 PM
In New Bedford's case, it's because God wants nothing to do with them.   :lulz:

I don't blame God. Heck, when I met EoC's friends last week at the German Club, they seemed THRILLED to be living in Prov. Sad to think that Providence is considered an upgrade from anything...until you've been to New Bedford.

Well, that and Brockton.

And...

AND...

AND...


Bullshit, Tucson is PARADISE.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 23, 2014, 05:27:06 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 23, 2014, 05:26:25 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 05:21:15 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 23, 2014, 05:15:52 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 04:14:57 PM
In New Bedford's case, it's because God wants nothing to do with them.   :lulz:

I don't blame God. Heck, when I met EoC's friends last week at the German Club, they seemed THRILLED to be living in Prov. Sad to think that Providence is considered an upgrade from anything...until you've been to New Bedford.

Well, that and Brockton.

And...

AND...

AND...


Bullshit, Tucson is PARADISE.

:?

Was gonna say "Phoenix".
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 23, 2014, 05:29:07 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 05:27:06 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 23, 2014, 05:26:25 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 05:21:15 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 23, 2014, 05:15:52 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 04:14:57 PM
In New Bedford's case, it's because God wants nothing to do with them.   :lulz:

I don't blame God. Heck, when I met EoC's friends last week at the German Club, they seemed THRILLED to be living in Prov. Sad to think that Providence is considered an upgrade from anything...until you've been to New Bedford.

Well, that and Brockton.

And...

AND...

AND...


Bullshit, Tucson is PARADISE.

:?

Was gonna say "Phoenix".

Oh, then you're totally right. Carry on.

Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 05:57:27 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 23, 2014, 04:07:22 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 04:58:03 AM
Moving to the Portland area at the end of the year-ish. Probably smack-dab in the middle of NaNo. Which will be entertaining. Looking at the Gresham area. Beaverton is right out. Fuck that place. Whee!

We call it "Greshamphetamine". Fair warning.

TBH, SE and/or NE Portland are just as affordable and nowhere near as shitty.

Duly noted. :) If you have any other tips, I am all ears.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 23, 2014, 06:29:02 PM
I don't understand why people feel the need to post the same article on my page 4 times in a day.

I get it, they found a Byzantine Church in Israel. Why yes, that WAS the dig I was supposed to work on that got cancelled by the university that I am no longer going to because they decided they didn't want me as a full-time graduate student. This is awesome, thank you all for making me feel like a wasted piece of fucking failure.

I'm going to go sew something horrible.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 23, 2014, 06:37:31 PM
Ahhhh! Ok, I am never trolling gay dudes on CL ever again, but I have discovered: Closeted guys in near the arctic are 10x more disgusting than anything I can come up with.

:horrormirth: :horrormirth: :horrormirth:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 23, 2014, 06:39:03 PM
 :taco: :lord: :walken: :walken: :walken:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Freeky on January 23, 2014, 06:53:14 PM
 :eek: at Alty.



V3x, that's awesome! 
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 23, 2014, 06:57:48 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 23, 2014, 04:16:00 PM
"Only Here, And No Further."

"As far as the river."
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 23, 2014, 07:03:59 PM
Tim from upstairs is going to help me try and get summer internships. Because i already work in a lab and why not?
Dr. S's new admin speaks irish. Will have to converse with her at some point. I felt a little put on the spot when introduced.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 23, 2014, 07:16:59 PM
Well that's it.

Husband-type whatever he is just signed a lease at a complex in Portsmouth. They gave him a sweet deal for being all Navy-like. Just called the landlord here in Providence, and told him we'd be out by the end of next month.

Holy balls, I'm moving to New Hampshire.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 07:17:50 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 23, 2014, 07:03:59 PM
Tim from upstairs is going to help me try and get summer internships. Because i already work in a lab and why not?
Dr. S's new admin speaks irish. Will have to converse with her at some point. I felt a little put on the spot when introduced.

Yay!!

Quote from: The Suu on January 23, 2014, 07:16:59 PM
Well that's it.

Husband-type whatever he is just signed a lease at a complex in Portsmouth. They gave him a sweet deal for being all Navy-like. Just called the landlord here in Providence, and told him we'd be out by the end of next month.

Holy balls, I'm moving to New Hampshire.

Yay!!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 23, 2014, 08:16:44 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 23, 2014, 06:57:48 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 23, 2014, 04:16:00 PM
"Only Here, And No Further."

"As far as the river."

I knew I was going to get that wrong.  I have to consult the old texts.




...Actually, I have to finish the old texts.  Dammit.  This is shame on me.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Telarus on January 23, 2014, 08:24:09 PM
Quote from: :regret: on January 23, 2014, 09:14:03 AM
Quote from: V3X on January 23, 2014, 05:44:50 AM
UPDATE: Cancer scare was, apparently, a false alarm. Thank you all for praying to Eris, not because I believe in prayer, but because I now get to tell my sister in law that her son will live because a bunch of Internet people prayed to the Goddess of Confusion and Chaos. Seriously though, I imagine the kid is feeling like a bazillion bucks right now, even if his knee does still have a weird lump in its bone and inexplicable chronic pain.
Excellent news!
OH! Almost missed this. Very glad to hear it, V3X.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 23, 2014, 08:28:00 PM
Things I have taught people on Facebook today:

1.  Rob Halford is the mayor of Canada, and has some sort of substance abuse problem.

2.  I don't think we can deport Justin Beiber to Canada, because you can't get into Canada if you have a DUI.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Telarus on January 23, 2014, 08:30:18 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 08:28:00 PM
Things I have taught people on Facebook today:

1.  Rob Halford is the mayor of Canada, and has some sort of substance abuse problem.

2.  I don't think we can deport Justin Beiber to Canada, because you can't get into Canada if you have a DUI.
:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 23, 2014, 08:39:49 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 23, 2014, 08:16:44 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 23, 2014, 06:57:48 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 23, 2014, 04:16:00 PM
"Only Here, And No Further."

"As far as the river."

I knew I was going to get that wrong.  I have to consult the old texts.




...Actually, I have to finish the old texts.  Dammit.  This is shame on me.

You and me both. That thread was great.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 23, 2014, 08:54:01 PM
OK, video up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjoNTOFg1Y0).  Please like, subscribe, not use AdBlock when viewing my video and, most of all, enjoy.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 23, 2014, 08:55:41 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 23, 2014, 08:54:01 PM
OK, video up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjoNTOFg1Y0).  Please like, subscribe, not use AdBlock when viewing my video and, most of all, enjoy.

Sweet.  Will hit this at home (now that it's posted and not streaming), as people think I'm doing work right now, so no sound available.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 23, 2014, 08:56:35 PM
Cool, and thanks.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 23, 2014, 09:05:19 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 08:55:41 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 23, 2014, 08:54:01 PM
OK, video up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjoNTOFg1Y0).  Please like, subscribe, not use AdBlock when viewing my video and, most of all, enjoy.

Sweet.  Will hit this at home (now that it's posted and not streaming), as people think I'm doing work right now, so no sound available.

Will do the same, I have been too low on bandwidth for video.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 23, 2014, 10:03:40 PM
I have class in an hour but will do when i get home
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 23, 2014, 11:07:57 PM
My father, warning me about the shit inducing liquid you have to drink the night before a colonoscopy:

"Do not. Under any circumstances. Think you can get away with a fart."

He's never offered me much sage advice before, but that might make up for it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 23, 2014, 11:28:55 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 23, 2014, 10:12:22 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 22, 2014, 10:04:41 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 22, 2014, 08:09:51 PM
OK, just wrecked my throat by talking for half an hour nonstop for my latest Youtube video.

Just editing it now to test for sound levels etc but I should be able to upload it for tomorrow.  You may want to watch once it is up, as it has pertinent information about what I'll be doing with the channel in the near future.

It also has some gameplay, so if you mostly watch my videos for that, you can see me solo most of a round after my team mates ignobly snuff it, like the scrubs they are.

Excellent!

I don't even play, I just put it on and listen to you talk.  :lol:

Ah, but you should watch this one.  I'm playing a lizard in a trenchcoat with a laser-based sniper rifle that melts things.

Also, cheesy scanning devices that let me see enemies through cover (and shoot them) and big-ass explosions.  It doesn't get much cooler than that.

I will say, any games that allow a) scanning through walls and b) cover penetrating weapons is just asking for trouble.  This isn't as cheesy as the time I used drill rounds on the Javelin sniper rifle with a high velocity barrel (combined cover penetration of 4.85 metres), but it's close.

I will, eventually, do a Mass Effect playthrough, so all of you can know the storyline behind what I'm playing.  Just not straight away.

Sounds like fun! I'll watch it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 23, 2014, 11:34:27 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 23, 2014, 02:50:31 PM
So because Janus happened on the first day of classes, I've only been to Microbiology. General Bio II is tonight, I log into the Algebra class tomorrow (14 days free access to MyMathLab, payday is Thursday), and Saturday is Intro to Biotech.

Applied for FAFSA for 2014-2015, but I think my eligibility for the Pell Grant through BHCC will run out in Fall (when I reach the maximum amount of allowable credits), and so, aside from settling into classes, I'll be looking into whether non-government grants and scholarships are allowable after that point, or start making my case for "LOL JUST KIDDING ABOUT THE HISTORY DEGREE" or, you know. Consider transferring to UMass Boston earlier.

And internships. Looking into internships.

I'm in a similar boat; this is the last term I'm eligible for the Pell at community college, but I still have another term of lower-division prereqs to finish and it's the third term of a sequence so I can't just finish up at the University. Well, I can, but breaking sequence for genchem and bio is not a good idea.

I don't know what happens summer term. If they aren't offering enough classes that apply to my majors I guess it's job time.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 23, 2014, 11:34:53 PM
Ugh, or I could try to make myself make beads. :(
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 23, 2014, 11:38:28 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 23, 2014, 03:29:10 PM
Richter just texted me to tell me that he is clear with the city clerk of Providence, and has been addressed formally as a man of the cloth.

The Real Reverend Richter.  :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

Well, Richter, welcome to the cloth. It ain't easy, being a holy man, but I know you've got it in you.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 23, 2014, 11:46:46 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 05:57:27 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 23, 2014, 04:07:22 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 04:58:03 AM
Moving to the Portland area at the end of the year-ish. Probably smack-dab in the middle of NaNo. Which will be entertaining. Looking at the Gresham area. Beaverton is right out. Fuck that place. Whee!

We call it "Greshamphetamine". Fair warning.

TBH, SE and/or NE Portland are just as affordable and nowhere near as shitty.

Duly noted. :) If you have any other tips, I am all ears.

Look into St. Johns. It's got a nice little community going on. If you want to feel like you live in the city, though, stick with the eastside, just about anywhere west of 82nd, especially along Broadway or Hawthorne. West of 39th is even better, but more expensive. There's a cheap area in the Wedge of the fifth quadrant; I have no idea why it hasn't been overrun by hipsters yet. I think they might be afraid of black people.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 24, 2014, 12:34:28 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 23, 2014, 08:28:00 PM
Things I have taught people on Facebook today:

1.  Rob Halford is the mayor of Canada, and has some sort of substance abuse problem.

2.  I don't think we can deport Justin Beiber to Canada, because you can't get into Canada if you have a DUI.

:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 24, 2014, 01:56:45 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 23, 2014, 11:07:57 PM
My father, warning me about the shit inducing liquid you have to drink the night before a colonoscopy:

"Do not. Under any circumstances. Think you can get away with a fart."

He's never offered me much sage advice before, but that might make up for it.

...Hope everything comes out ok...   *Ducks*
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 24, 2014, 02:11:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 23, 2014, 11:34:27 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 23, 2014, 02:50:31 PM
So because Janus happened on the first day of classes, I've only been to Microbiology. General Bio II is tonight, I log into the Algebra class tomorrow (14 days free access to MyMathLab, payday is Thursday), and Saturday is Intro to Biotech.

Applied for FAFSA for 2014-2015, but I think my eligibility for the Pell Grant through BHCC will run out in Fall (when I reach the maximum amount of allowable credits), and so, aside from settling into classes, I'll be looking into whether non-government grants and scholarships are allowable after that point, or start making my case for "LOL JUST KIDDING ABOUT THE HISTORY DEGREE" or, you know. Consider transferring to UMass Boston earlier.

And internships. Looking into internships.

I'm in a similar boat; this is the last term I'm eligible for the Pell at community college, but I still have another term of lower-division prereqs to finish and it's the third term of a sequence so I can't just finish up at the University. Well, I can, but breaking sequence for genchem and bio is not a good idea.

I don't know what happens summer term. If they aren't offering enough classes that apply to my majors I guess it's job time.

Prereqs. They can be a pain sometimes. For example, no where in the Biology Transfer Program is Precalculus a required course, and your general math requirement is probably going to be gotten out of the way with STEM Algebra (the one I'm taking now), since that is a prerequisite for a good chunk of the science courses in any of the programs, including Precalculus. Precalculus is not mentioned anywhere in the list of courses needed or recommended as an elective for the Biology Transfer Program. You know what is a required course? Calculus I. Which requires previously having taken......  :lulz:

I'm technically pissing away some of my science credits too, since my Microbiology class is actually for Healthcare and Biotechnology majors and not Biology Transfer, but it'll help me figure out specifically what line of work I would like to go into and what line of work I could tolerate, and what line of work I want to avoid.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 24, 2014, 03:26:23 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 24, 2014, 02:11:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 23, 2014, 11:34:27 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 23, 2014, 02:50:31 PM
So because Janus happened on the first day of classes, I've only been to Microbiology. General Bio II is tonight, I log into the Algebra class tomorrow (14 days free access to MyMathLab, payday is Thursday), and Saturday is Intro to Biotech.

Applied for FAFSA for 2014-2015, but I think my eligibility for the Pell Grant through BHCC will run out in Fall (when I reach the maximum amount of allowable credits), and so, aside from settling into classes, I'll be looking into whether non-government grants and scholarships are allowable after that point, or start making my case for "LOL JUST KIDDING ABOUT THE HISTORY DEGREE" or, you know. Consider transferring to UMass Boston earlier.

And internships. Looking into internships.

I'm in a similar boat; this is the last term I'm eligible for the Pell at community college, but I still have another term of lower-division prereqs to finish and it's the third term of a sequence so I can't just finish up at the University. Well, I can, but breaking sequence for genchem and bio is not a good idea.

I don't know what happens summer term. If they aren't offering enough classes that apply to my majors I guess it's job time.

Prereqs. They can be a pain sometimes. For example, no where in the Biology Transfer Program is Precalculus a required course, and your general math requirement is probably going to be gotten out of the way with STEM Algebra (the one I'm taking now), since that is a prerequisite for a good chunk of the science courses in any of the programs, including Precalculus. Precalculus is not mentioned anywhere in the list of courses needed or recommended as an elective for the Biology Transfer Program. You know what is a required course? Calculus I. Which requires previously having taken......  :lulz:

I'm technically pissing away some of my science credits too, since my Microbiology class is actually for Healthcare and Biotechnology majors and not Biology Transfer, but it'll help me figure out specifically what line of work I would like to go into and what line of work I could tolerate, and what line of work I want to avoid.

I have probably two full terms worth of classes that don't apply to anything and that I could have skipped. But hell, that just makes me well-rounded, right?  :lulz:

My bio program requires Calculus OR Stats, and since Stats is also required for every graduate program I'm interested in I took that. Which means that by the time I might be using it, it will have been 3 years since I took it. Of course, when I asked my mentor about that she said "That's what we have Statistics grad students for."  :lol:

I have totally managed to piss away my evening instead of finishing my stoichiometry homework. Fuck me.

At least I made Tandoori chicken. And it smells AMAZING.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 24, 2014, 04:03:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 24, 2014, 03:26:23 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 24, 2014, 02:11:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 23, 2014, 11:34:27 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 23, 2014, 02:50:31 PM
So because Janus happened on the first day of classes, I've only been to Microbiology. General Bio II is tonight, I log into the Algebra class tomorrow (14 days free access to MyMathLab, payday is Thursday), and Saturday is Intro to Biotech.

Applied for FAFSA for 2014-2015, but I think my eligibility for the Pell Grant through BHCC will run out in Fall (when I reach the maximum amount of allowable credits), and so, aside from settling into classes, I'll be looking into whether non-government grants and scholarships are allowable after that point, or start making my case for "LOL JUST KIDDING ABOUT THE HISTORY DEGREE" or, you know. Consider transferring to UMass Boston earlier.

And internships. Looking into internships.

I'm in a similar boat; this is the last term I'm eligible for the Pell at community college, but I still have another term of lower-division prereqs to finish and it's the third term of a sequence so I can't just finish up at the University. Well, I can, but breaking sequence for genchem and bio is not a good idea.

I don't know what happens summer term. If they aren't offering enough classes that apply to my majors I guess it's job time.

Prereqs. They can be a pain sometimes. For example, no where in the Biology Transfer Program is Precalculus a required course, and your general math requirement is probably going to be gotten out of the way with STEM Algebra (the one I'm taking now), since that is a prerequisite for a good chunk of the science courses in any of the programs, including Precalculus. Precalculus is not mentioned anywhere in the list of courses needed or recommended as an elective for the Biology Transfer Program. You know what is a required course? Calculus I. Which requires previously having taken......  :lulz:

I'm technically pissing away some of my science credits too, since my Microbiology class is actually for Healthcare and Biotechnology majors and not Biology Transfer, but it'll help me figure out specifically what line of work I would like to go into and what line of work I could tolerate, and what line of work I want to avoid.

I have probably two full terms worth of classes that don't apply to anything and that I could have skipped. But hell, that just makes me well-rounded, right?  :lulz:

My bio program requires Calculus OR Stats, and since Stats is also required for every graduate program I'm interested in I took that. Which means that by the time I might be using it, it will have been 3 years since I took it. Of course, when I asked my mentor about that she said "That's what we have Statistics grad students for."  :lol:

I have totally managed to piss away my evening instead of finishing my stoichiometry homework. Fuck me.

At least I made Tandoori chicken. And it smells AMAZING.

You know what blows in science courses in community colleges? Math courses.

You know what math courses I took in accordance with my History degree?

College Algebra (no longer exists at BHCC, cannot be applied to AS/Science Transfer). Needs to be replaced with College Algebra for STEM. 100 level course. Had to take MAT-095 last semester because my previous Algebra hasn't existed in almost a decade (Also kids, don't drop out. I dropped out twice and then changed my major from AS to BS transfer). STATS. I took Statistics. It wasn't a lab Stats though. 3 credits vs 4. Heh. Now I have to take Organic Chemistry I and just fucking forget about Orgo II, because I'll have transferred at that point. And fulfilled my Biology electives.

BUREAUCRACY!!!!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 24, 2014, 04:03:46 AM
Also I would give you all of the Drosophila for a bit of Tandoori.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 24, 2014, 04:09:06 AM
Thing is I want to take Orgo II but there's no point. None. Even with the pissing away factor I will have transferred to UMass before I can take it.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 24, 2014, 04:16:58 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 23, 2014, 11:46:46 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 05:57:27 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 23, 2014, 04:07:22 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 23, 2014, 04:58:03 AM
Moving to the Portland area at the end of the year-ish. Probably smack-dab in the middle of NaNo. Which will be entertaining. Looking at the Gresham area. Beaverton is right out. Fuck that place. Whee!

We call it "Greshamphetamine". Fair warning.

TBH, SE and/or NE Portland are just as affordable and nowhere near as shitty.

Duly noted. :) If you have any other tips, I am all ears.

Look into St. Johns. It's got a nice little community going on. If you want to feel like you live in the city, though, stick with the eastside, just about anywhere west of 82nd, especially along Broadway or Hawthorne. West of 39th is even better, but more expensive. There's a cheap area in the Wedge of the fifth quadrant; I have no idea why it hasn't been overrun by hipsters yet. I think they might be afraid of black people.

I will check it out, thank you. :) I'm a country lass at heart but I keep ending up near cities. Not sure what is up with that. O.o When I win the lottery I'm buyin' a farm.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 24, 2014, 04:37:38 AM
The irony is that my kitchen is already overrun with Drosophila. The little bastards.  :lol:

I got lucky at my CC, it has a really good math department.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 24, 2014, 04:43:04 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 24, 2014, 04:37:38 AM
The irony is that my kitchen is already overrun with Drosophila. The little bastards.  :lol:

I got lucky at my CC, it has a really good math department.

Drosophilae suck.

You leave a little wee bit of food out in what you would otherwise consider an impenetrable fortress. Fruit flies!

I learned that when I was 13 and left a bowl of ramen in my room, the door to which I never opened unless I was exiting or entering (because I was 13, territorial, and probably constantly masturbating instead of doing something useful). Fruit flies and bacteria colonies. Bacteria? Cool. Makes sense. Probably came from my mouth or something. WHERE THE HELL DID THE FRUIT FLIES COME FROM? Dunno. They made it in. They like ramen.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 24, 2014, 04:52:23 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 24, 2014, 04:43:04 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 24, 2014, 04:37:38 AM
The irony is that my kitchen is already overrun with Drosophila. The little bastards.  :lol:

I got lucky at my CC, it has a really good math department.

Drosophilae suck.

You leave a little wee bit of food out in what you would otherwise consider an impenetrable fortress. Fruit flies!

I learned that when I was 13 and left a bowl of ramen in my room, the door to which I never opened unless I was exiting or entering (because I was 13, territorial, and probably constantly masturbating instead of doing something useful). Fruit flies and bacteria colonies. Bacteria? Cool. Makes sense. Probably came from my mouth or something. WHERE THE HELL DID THE FRUIT FLIES COME FROM? Dunno. They made it in. They like ramen.

They are everywhere. If there is an all-knowing all-seeing god, fruit flies are its agents.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 24, 2014, 05:24:10 AM
I have found bottled lemon juice seems to be even better than vinegar for getting fruit flies to drown themselves politely.

*Has fruit flies often*
*has a really scary dwelling*

...Too bad there's not something similar for the giant flying roaches...not that they are invading yet.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 24, 2014, 05:30:34 AM
Maybe I'll try some of that.

I can usually get rid of them pretty quickly if the sink is kept empty and the children refrain from throwing food in the garage for a few days. Which, of course, is HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 24, 2014, 08:53:32 AM
I forgot to mention my video also included bonus audio footage of me trying to stop my cat from destroying stuff.

In vain, as it turned out, since she only went back later and did the same thing again.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 24, 2014, 10:07:24 AM
...Freezing drizzle predicted here until afternoon.
It's not so much that it's not safe to drive in this stuff as it's not safe to drive like a Houston driver in this stuff.
It's gonna be dicks on ice.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 24, 2014, 01:22:01 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 23, 2014, 08:54:01 PM
OK, video up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjoNTOFg1Y0).  Please like, subscribe, not use AdBlock when viewing my video and, most of all, enjoy.

Watched it, liked it, "Liked" it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 24, 2014, 01:33:48 PM
Thanks.

I'm also considering a possible Dishonoured (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1HlYTukh9A) playthrough.  Tests seem promising, though I have yet to test high impact combat on recording quality.  I mean, I could do the "moral" option of a stealth playthrough for Youtube, but that's a bit, well, boring.  And the subtitle is "Revenge Solves Everything".
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 24, 2014, 01:37:02 PM
I'm just enjoying the ride.  A good way to spend 30 minutes as my systems warm up.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 24, 2014, 05:53:09 PM
I like the juxtaposition of Cain's polite, conversational tone with the bloody mayhem.  :lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 24, 2014, 06:22:21 PM
I believe that overkill is the best kill.  Also, Drell Assassin is pretty overpowered, infiltrators are way overpowered, recon mine is overpowered and gives you temporary wall hacks (which are overpowered) the high-velocity barrel gives you cover penetration and a percentage damage bonus and so is overpowered, the infrared scope allows you to see cloaked enemies and through walls and so is overpowered and while the Collector Sniper Rifle is not overpowered on its own, with the 125% damage bonus from Tactical Cloak and the way Incendiary damage is applied (per shot), using Incendiary Ammo IV is overpowered.

I'm not much for playing fair.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 24, 2014, 07:12:35 PM
Suddenly, everyone's a fucking mechanical engineer.  Decisions made over the protest of myself and Filthy Assistant are going forward that will "save" a grand total of $3500 up front, cost an additional $10,000 over the first 15 days, and cause a major disruption in production and quality standards.

Seriously considering just walking out the door and never coming back, on account of both the sheer stupidity involved and the implied insult.

It's small potatoes, money-wise, but I am just sick to fucking death with fucking office monkeys deciding that if it's blue collar, it must be easy, because blue collar people are stupid as evidenced by the lack of a business degree.

I fucking hate my job.  I fucking hate my coworkers.  I fucking hate this city.

Everyone take a minute and be grateful that I have no control over this country's nuclear arsenal.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 24, 2014, 07:17:21 PM
Doesn't Bush II have some kind of business degree? Ivy League, no less?
That says a lot...
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 24, 2014, 07:19:08 PM
It's times like that I'm grateful for my crowbar.

Make sure the repair is slow and expensive. If it doesn't all explode anyway first.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 24, 2014, 07:21:12 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on January 24, 2014, 07:19:08 PM
It's times like that I'm grateful for my crowbar.

Make sure the repair is slow and expensive. If it doesn't all explode anyway first.

I am not going to make sure of anything.  I am staying completely out of this.  And when the fucking thing goes sideways, I am going to ask the three knuckleheads involved PRECISELY how they want it fixed, since I require desk jockeys to tell me how to do shit.

I will probably be fired.  I don't care.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 24, 2014, 07:25:07 PM
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/01/23/afa-radio-host-its-the-fault-of-african-americans-that-white-people-are-racist/

So, yeah.  Blow the whole fucking thing up.  Boil the oceans.

I am now in favor of excess CO2 emissions.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 24, 2014, 09:14:15 PM
QuoteA week later, Fischer published a blog post stating that Native Americans should have followed Pocahontas' lead,
:? So they should have died of illness midway through an Atlantic voyage?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 24, 2014, 09:30:31 PM
I can die happy now.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/toilet-part-sold-at-home-depot-lowes-recalled-over-bursting-reports/
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 24, 2014, 09:40:11 PM
"Barry Honington" is officially disabled. The real cop uploaded proof of impersonation.

R.I.P. RWHN's ultimate form.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 24, 2014, 09:42:24 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 24, 2014, 07:12:35 PM
Suddenly, everyone's a fucking mechanical engineer.  Decisions made over the protest of myself and Filthy Assistant are going forward that will "save" a grand total of $3500 up front, cost an additional $10,000 over the first 15 days, and cause a major disruption in production and quality standards.

Seriously considering just walking out the door and never coming back, on account of both the sheer stupidity involved and the implied insult.

It's small potatoes, money-wise, but I am just sick to fucking death with fucking office monkeys deciding that if it's blue collar, it must be easy, because blue collar people are stupid as evidenced by the lack of a business degree.

I fucking hate my job.  I fucking hate my coworkers.  I fucking hate this city.

Everyone take a minute and be grateful that I have no control over this country's nuclear arsenal.

I'm furious that you don't have control in the first place.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 24, 2014, 09:44:29 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 24, 2014, 09:42:24 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 24, 2014, 07:12:35 PM
Suddenly, everyone's a fucking mechanical engineer.  Decisions made over the protest of myself and Filthy Assistant are going forward that will "save" a grand total of $3500 up front, cost an additional $10,000 over the first 15 days, and cause a major disruption in production and quality standards.

Seriously considering just walking out the door and never coming back, on account of both the sheer stupidity involved and the implied insult.

It's small potatoes, money-wise, but I am just sick to fucking death with fucking office monkeys deciding that if it's blue collar, it must be easy, because blue collar people are stupid as evidenced by the lack of a business degree.

I fucking hate my job.  I fucking hate my coworkers.  I fucking hate this city.

Everyone take a minute and be grateful that I have no control over this country's nuclear arsenal.

I'm furious that you don't have control in the first place.

You and me both, brother.  You and me both.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 24, 2014, 09:44:58 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 24, 2014, 09:40:11 PM
"Barry Honington" is officially disabled. The real cop uploaded proof of impersonation.

R.I.P. RWHN's ultimate form.

You win, though.

Also, Barry Honington, you say?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 24, 2014, 09:53:49 PM
Just spent half an hour hunting for a bug in Skyrim before starting my new playthrough.  Basically, the character died whenever they jumped out of the window at the start of the game....after several dozen tests, I can only conclude that the difficulty level was too high, and with the slight change in the game physics engine, the character was splatting with more "realistic" levels of force...namely, boneshattering.

So, not a bug in other words.  On the plus side, I now know for sure that there are no more giant spiders in the game.  Giant spiders all got culled by invading bears.  Very sad, so tragic. 

Sorry to hear about the retards at your work Roger.  I'm honestly amazed you've been able to put up with them as long as you have.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 24, 2014, 09:54:47 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 24, 2014, 09:53:49 PM
Just spent half an hour hunting for a bug in Skyrim before starting my new playthrough.  Basically, the character died whenever they jumped out of the window at the start of the game....after several dozen tests, I can only conclude that the difficulty level was too high, and with the slight change in the game physics engine, the character was splatting with more "realistic" levels of force...namely, boneshattering.

So, not a bug in other words.  On the plus side, I now know for sure that there are no more giant spiders in the game.  Giant spiders all got culled by invading bears.  Very sad, so tragic. 

Sorry to hear about the retards at your work Roger.  I'm honestly amazed you've been able to put up with them as long as you have.

The work is so interesting that I am usually able to tune them out.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 24, 2014, 10:00:36 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 24, 2014, 09:44:58 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 24, 2014, 09:40:11 PM
"Barry Honington" is officially disabled. The real cop uploaded proof of impersonation.

R.I.P. RWHN's ultimate form.

You win, though.

Also, Barry Honington, you say?

The cop one.  So now I'm trying to create a new persona. I most likely will create a brony one.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 24, 2014, 10:02:42 PM
Brony Spider Jerusalem.  Has to be.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 24, 2014, 10:03:45 PM
Thinking of some sort of Naruto/MRA/Pagan/Otherkin/Libertarian type.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 24, 2014, 10:05:05 PM
It's coming to me. He was a teenage father who's son was taken away from him after CPS found adult brony toys, and pot.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 24, 2014, 10:41:50 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 24, 2014, 07:12:35 PM
Suddenly, everyone's a fucking mechanical engineer.  Decisions made over the protest of myself and Filthy Assistant are going forward that will "save" a grand total of $3500 up front, cost an additional $10,000 over the first 15 days, and cause a major disruption in production and quality standards.

Seriously considering just walking out the door and never coming back, on account of both the sheer stupidity involved and the implied insult.

It's small potatoes, money-wise, but I am just sick to fucking death with fucking office monkeys deciding that if it's blue collar, it must be easy, because blue collar people are stupid as evidenced by the lack of a business degree.

I fucking hate my job.  I fucking hate my coworkers.  I fucking hate this city.

Everyone take a minute and be grateful that I have no control over this country's nuclear arsenal.

One of the dumbest, most incapable, most bad-decision-making people I have ever known has an MBA.

I mean, this guy is EPIC, and cannot manage money to save his life.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 24, 2014, 10:45:33 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 24, 2014, 07:25:07 PM
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/01/23/afa-radio-host-its-the-fault-of-african-americans-that-white-people-are-racist/

So, yeah.  Blow the whole fucking thing up.  Boil the oceans.

I am now in favor of excess CO2 emissions.

:lulz: Wow. Truly astounding.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 24, 2014, 10:46:46 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 24, 2014, 09:40:11 PM
"Barry Honington" is officially disabled. The real cop uploaded proof of impersonation.

R.I.P. RWHN's ultimate form.

I don't even know what you're talking about, but  :cry:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 24, 2014, 11:19:05 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 24, 2014, 10:46:46 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 24, 2014, 09:40:11 PM
"Barry Honington" is officially disabled. The real cop uploaded proof of impersonation.

R.I.P. RWHN's ultimate form.

I don't even know what you're talking about, but  :cry:

My cop persona on facebook.

(http://i.imgur.com/gkwPz6h.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 25, 2014, 12:05:05 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 24, 2014, 07:21:12 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on January 24, 2014, 07:19:08 PM
It's times like that I'm grateful for my crowbar.

Make sure the repair is slow and expensive. If it doesn't all explode anyway first.

I am not going to make sure of anything.  I am staying completely out of this.  And when the fucking thing goes sideways, I am going to ask the three knuckleheads involved PRECISELY how they want it fixed, since I require desk jockeys to tell me how to do shit.

I will probably be fired.  I don't care.

Dilbert principle in action?
I'm really sorry you have to put up with this shit.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 25, 2014, 12:22:17 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 24, 2014, 09:44:29 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 24, 2014, 09:42:24 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 24, 2014, 07:12:35 PM
Suddenly, everyone's a fucking mechanical engineer.  Decisions made over the protest of myself and Filthy Assistant are going forward that will "save" a grand total of $3500 up front, cost an additional $10,000 over the first 15 days, and cause a major disruption in production and quality standards.

Seriously considering just walking out the door and never coming back, on account of both the sheer stupidity involved and the implied insult.

It's small potatoes, money-wise, but I am just sick to fucking death with fucking office monkeys deciding that if it's blue collar, it must be easy, because blue collar people are stupid as evidenced by the lack of a business degree.

I fucking hate my job.  I fucking hate my coworkers.  I fucking hate this city.

Everyone take a minute and be grateful that I have no control over this country's nuclear arsenal.

I'm furious that you don't have control in the first place.

You and me both, brother.  You and me both.

I am really sorry you work with a bunch of shitnecks.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on January 25, 2014, 03:16:59 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 24, 2014, 01:33:48 PM
Thanks.

I'm also considering a possible Dishonoured (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1HlYTukh9A) playthrough.  Tests seem promising, though I have yet to test high impact combat on recording quality.  I mean, I could do the "moral" option of a stealth playthrough for Youtube, but that's a bit, well, boring.  And the subtitle is "Revenge Solves Everything".

Oooh yes plz. I thoroughly enjoyed that game, but I only completed one playthrough (high on the stealth, low on the murder). The biggest complaint people seemed to have was the blatantly obvious "twist" in the last part, but it didn't bother me at all. I think it must have been so obvious, my brain subconsciously accepted it as part of the natural progress of the story and I didn't think twice about it.

I don't know much about recording gameplay for YouTube, but I would agree that going for a more aggressive playstyle would help. I found myself constantly reloading when I screwed up the stealth too badly, whouch would probably make for a lot of editing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 25, 2014, 03:57:43 AM
As I figured, roads on my way to work this afternoon were littered with shattered car bits. 
Apparently there were about 100 accidents in total in Houston this morning, according to the news.
I saw two wrecks being cleared on the way in to work.
This was in the afternoon, the roads had mostly become ice-free at that point. :|

...A friend texted me to tell me that a "running of the bulls," being held near where I live is going to get protested by animal-rights groups.
I hadn't heard of this, but I think any chance bulls have to actually mutilate or kill humans is a good thing.  Not inspired to protest.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 25, 2014, 04:06:23 AM
Todd Bryce is my new persona online. He's a really real Objectivist and Vegan.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on January 25, 2014, 04:23:26 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 21, 2014, 12:04:43 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xljA6zJn4I

CLICK IT.


JUST FUCKING CLICK IT.

I WAS NOT PREPARED. :horrormirth:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 25, 2014, 06:36:32 AM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 25, 2014, 04:06:23 AM
Todd Bryce is my new persona online. He's a really real Objectivist and Vegan.

Ah. Ok.


Bastard, next time this happens send me a message that says, hey it's Bear, or something like that.

Approval about to happen.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 25, 2014, 06:38:30 AM
Also, kudos for remembering how to spell my name in Irish.

I had to beat that shit into my head when I first started learning it.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 25, 2014, 09:48:43 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention...I haven't had a real cigarette in almost a month. Just the e-cig and while I know that's still not exactly good for me, I can already feel a difference in my lungs. Plus I am saving SO much money.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 25, 2014, 10:42:27 AM
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on January 25, 2014, 03:16:59 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 24, 2014, 01:33:48 PM
Thanks.

I'm also considering a possible Dishonoured (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1HlYTukh9A) playthrough.  Tests seem promising, though I have yet to test high impact combat on recording quality.  I mean, I could do the "moral" option of a stealth playthrough for Youtube, but that's a bit, well, boring.  And the subtitle is "Revenge Solves Everything".

Oooh yes plz. I thoroughly enjoyed that game, but I only completed one playthrough (high on the stealth, low on the murder). The biggest complaint people seemed to have was the blatantly obvious "twist" in the last part, but it didn't bother me at all. I think it must have been so obvious, my brain subconsciously accepted it as part of the natural progress of the story and I didn't think twice about it.

I don't know much about recording gameplay for YouTube, but I would agree that going for a more aggressive playstyle would help. I found myself constantly reloading when I screwed up the stealth too badly, whouch would probably make for a lot of editing.

Yeah, I started a stealth playthrough, but as you say, reloading would probably feature highly.  Almost certainly, since it's a blind playthrough anyway (well, after first meeting the Outsider, anyway).  I managed to escape Coldridge without major issue, except I screwed up at one point and so had to kill a guard.

The kind of extremely cautious play that stealth requires is just not as visually pleasing, IMO.  Playing it is tense as hell, of course, but all the viewer would be seeing is someone doing a lot of running away, crouching and, occasionally, knocking someone out and throwing their body in the river (which the game doesn't seem to register as a kill, oddly enough).  Whereas on a high chaos playthrough, you get to behead people and use their head to distract enemies.   I mean, it's obvious which is more fun.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 25, 2014, 12:35:55 PM
Just got my first paid writing assignment.

Of course, I actually have to write it, and it's not for a huge sum ("beer money" would probably be appropriate...though beer nowadays isn't exactly cheap), but just for the moment, I'm going to enjoy the simple fact of promised pay.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 25, 2014, 05:19:40 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 25, 2014, 09:48:43 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention...I haven't had a real cigarette in almost a month. Just the e-cig and while I know that's still not exactly good for me, I can already feel a difference in my lungs. Plus I am saving SO much money.

That is awesome, ECH! :)
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 25, 2014, 06:03:42 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 24, 2014, 09:40:11 PM
"Barry Honington" is officially disabled. The real cop uploaded proof of impersonation.

R.I.P. RWHN's ultimate form.

(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02435/s1_2435104b.jpg)
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 25, 2014, 06:04:43 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 24, 2014, 09:44:58 PM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 24, 2014, 09:40:11 PM
"Barry Honington" is officially disabled. The real cop uploaded proof of impersonation.

R.I.P. RWHN's ultimate form.

You win, though.

Also, Barry Honington, you say?

The Buddhists were right? People come back?  :lulz:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 25, 2014, 06:09:19 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 25, 2014, 06:36:32 AM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 25, 2014, 04:06:23 AM
Todd Bryce is my new persona online. He's a really real Objectivist and Vegan.

Ah. Ok.


Bastard, next time this happens send me a message that says, hey it's Bear, or something like that.

Approval about to happen.

I approved him right away. Then he 'liked' a bunch of my shit and posted "I'm so lonely" on his profile and I kind of went "ewwwwwww".

Well played, Bearman.  :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 25, 2014, 08:12:29 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 25, 2014, 06:09:19 PM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 25, 2014, 06:36:32 AM
Quote from: 375 lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal on January 25, 2014, 04:06:23 AM
Todd Bryce is my new persona online. He's a really real Objectivist and Vegan.

Ah. Ok.


Bastard, next time this happens send me a message that says, hey it's Bear, or something like that.

Approval about to happen.

I approved him right away. Then he 'liked' a bunch of my shit and posted "I'm so lonely" on his profile and I kind of went "ewwwwwww".

Well played, Bearman.  :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

:thanks:

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 25, 2014, 08:49:55 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 23, 2014, 08:54:01 PM
OK, video up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjoNTOFg1Y0).  Please like, subscribe, not use AdBlock when viewing my video and, most of all, enjoy.

Interesting. So fast! I can hardly keep track of whats happening.

Also, others have said as much, but you could bottle and sell that voice of yours.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 25, 2014, 09:08:55 PM
It's basic horde survival mode.  10 rounds, with steadily increasing enemy spawns.  Round 3, 6 and 10 have objectives, which can be assassination, recovering items, activating nodes, an escort mission or being restricted to a hack zone.  Failure to complete objectives cause the mission to fail.

I'm really honestly not that great.  There are players out there who can get 20 headshots before 25 kills and solo Gold with a level 1 character with a pistol. I am a mere dilettante when compared to them.  Plus Reapers are slow and stupid.  Their only advantage is Brutes and Banshees can execute players, and this is easily countered by standing on stairs (when you're at a different elevation, the animation doesn't work).  Ravagers are dumb beasts, cannibals are easily distracted by killing one of their own, husks are weaker than swarmers and Marauders, while admittedly somewhat deadly in groups, are easily dispatched from range.

The game also gives you lots of options for dealing with armor.  Biotic explosions and incendiary attacks (whether ammo or powers like inferno grenades and flamer) get bonus damage on armor, and pretty much every player now knows you take armor-penetrating mods on weapons, because at the highest levels they can negate up to 90% of the damage mitigation.  With a powerful weapon, like the Hurricane SMG and the right ammo (like in this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3KMlCgqA6PY#t=555)) armor just gets ripped to shreds.

But thank you.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 25, 2014, 11:01:48 PM
Personal bitching ahead: please feel free to ignore.

I was an ogre to my co-worker today.
...It was unwarranted in this instance, as he didn't lie on the time sheet *IN THIS INSTANCE*...well, only by 5 minutes...
I had to apologize to him. :x
But I don't feel really bad about it...probably should, and don't...

...He's (a) been actively rude to me for pretty much my whole stay here, and (b) he arrives late EVERY day, and (c) he often lies about his arrival time on his time sheet and states he was here on time or close to.
If it were just 5 minutes this would not be worth a fight, but we're talking 20 to 40 minute discrepancies here. 

I  now make two printouts of my shift report, one to take with me.  At one point he was altering time on that too. Altering a legal document.
Due to the schedule change he now cannot get away with altering my time on the time sheet by virtue of me being the one that faxes said sheet off, but I don't fill it out in advance, because it'd get "fixed."

...He views me as messy.
  I don't think I'm messy...well here.  No crumbs on the floor, all trash in the trash, empty trash when full.
I'm not a slob on the job.

But unlike him...I don't hose the front desk with lysol, put the trashcan as far away from the desk as possible. I don't empty the trash unless it's actually full. I don't run the vacuum. I do not rub every surface in the front desk area down with lysol wipes.  I do not then spray the entire area with lysol.
This cleaning ritual takes him over an hour.
...And then he runs the vacuum again when he goes off shift and/or repeats the entire sequence.
I *honestly* think he'd go through this hour-and-a-half OCD cleaning ritual no matter HOW sanitary I was, if for no other reason than to sanitize my presence out of the area.  You'd think I showed up stanky...No. 

...He does little passive aggressive, and covert-aggressive things to get back at me...for what I'm not sure, but it probably involves both the OCD thing AND the time thing.
Most just annoying, like making me wait outside the gate for a couple of minutes while I'm hitting the buzzer and he knows it's me
Something I don't do to him.

The worst thing he's done was hose the front desk area with ladies' perfume, after I left a note asking him, politely, to try to show up on time.
He knows I have asthma, the perfume made me sick 3 days running.
After that incident I make sure to park my car in line of sight, because I just don't know, you know?

I know I'm being like a fucking five-year-old: "HE STARTED IT!"
It's stupid of me, it's not the sort of person I want to be. 
I haven't been meditating, either; that's bad. 

I'd feel guiltier, but the bastard's gonna do something.  I know he is.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 26, 2014, 05:25:10 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 25, 2014, 12:35:55 PM
Just got my first paid writing assignment.

Of course, I actually have to write it, and it's not for a huge sum ("beer money" would probably be appropriate...though beer nowadays isn't exactly cheap), but just for the moment, I'm going to enjoy the simple fact of promised pay.

This is also awesome, hooray!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 26, 2014, 05:58:45 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 26, 2014, 05:25:10 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 25, 2014, 12:35:55 PM
Just got my first paid writing assignment.

Of course, I actually have to write it, and it's not for a huge sum ("beer money" would probably be appropriate...though beer nowadays isn't exactly cheap), but just for the moment, I'm going to enjoy the simple fact of promised pay.

This is also awesome, hooray!

Somebody knows good writing when they see it. Yeah!
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 26, 2014, 06:33:22 AM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 25, 2014, 09:48:43 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention...I haven't had a real cigarette in almost a month. Just the e-cig and while I know that's still not exactly good for me, I can already feel a difference in my lungs. Plus I am saving SO much money.

It's not bad for you either, in any measurable way.  I haven't had actual tobacco since September, and I don't miss it even a tiny bit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 26, 2014, 06:35:21 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 25, 2014, 12:35:55 PM
Just got my first paid writing assignment.

Of course, I actually have to write it, and it's not for a huge sum ("beer money" would probably be appropriate...though beer nowadays isn't exactly cheap), but just for the moment, I'm going to enjoy the simple fact of promised pay.

Welcome to the life (although, to be honest, I haven't been paid for a written word in more than a year).  Writing for money, no matter what kind of writing it is, has a level of truly enjoyable gutter mentality that cannot be provided by even the best drugs on the market. 

Congratulations.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 26, 2014, 06:36:38 AM
Quote from: Random anger problem on January 25, 2014, 11:01:48 PM
Personal bitching ahead: please feel free to ignore.

I was an ogre to my co-worker today.
...It was unwarranted in this instance, as he didn't lie on the time sheet *IN THIS INSTANCE*...well, only by 5 minutes...
I had to apologize to him. :x
But I don't feel really bad about it...probably should, and don't...

...He's (a) been actively rude to me for pretty much my whole stay here, and (b) he arrives late EVERY day, and (c) he often lies about his arrival time on his time sheet and states he was here on time or close to.
If it were just 5 minutes this would not be worth a fight, but we're talking 20 to 40 minute discrepancies here. 

I  now make two printouts of my shift report, one to take with me.  At one point he was altering time on that too. Altering a legal document.
Due to the schedule change he now cannot get away with altering my time on the time sheet by virtue of me being the one that faxes said sheet off, but I don't fill it out in advance, because it'd get "fixed."

...He views me as messy.
  I don't think I'm messy...well here.  No crumbs on the floor, all trash in the trash, empty trash when full.
I'm not a slob on the job.

But unlike him...I don't hose the front desk with lysol, put the trashcan as far away from the desk as possible. I don't empty the trash unless it's actually full. I don't run the vacuum. I do not rub every surface in the front desk area down with lysol wipes.  I do not then spray the entire area with lysol.
This cleaning ritual takes him over an hour.
...And then he runs the vacuum again when he goes off shift and/or repeats the entire sequence.
I *honestly* think he'd go through this hour-and-a-half OCD cleaning ritual no matter HOW sanitary I was, if for no other reason than to sanitize my presence out of the area.  You'd think I showed up stanky...No. 

...He does little passive aggressive, and covert-aggressive things to get back at me...for what I'm not sure, but it probably involves both the OCD thing AND the time thing.
Most just annoying, like making me wait outside the gate for a couple of minutes while I'm hitting the buzzer and he knows it's me
Something I don't do to him.

The worst thing he's done was hose the front desk area with ladies' perfume, after I left a note asking him, politely, to try to show up on time.
He knows I have asthma, the perfume made me sick 3 days running.
After that incident I make sure to park my car in line of sight, because I just don't know, you know?

I know I'm being like a fucking five-year-old: "HE STARTED IT!"
It's stupid of me, it's not the sort of person I want to be. 
I haven't been meditating, either; that's bad. 

I'd feel guiltier, but the bastard's gonna do something.  I know he is.

Go to the dollar store and get some plastic bugs.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 26, 2014, 06:43:55 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 26, 2014, 06:36:38 AM
Quote from: Random anger problem on January 25, 2014, 11:01:48 PM
Personal bitching ahead: please feel free to ignore.

I was an ogre to my co-worker today.
...It was unwarranted in this instance, as he didn't lie on the time sheet *IN THIS INSTANCE*...well, only by 5 minutes...
I had to apologize to him. :x
But I don't feel really bad about it...probably should, and don't...

...He's (a) been actively rude to me for pretty much my whole stay here, and (b) he arrives late EVERY day, and (c) he often lies about his arrival time on his time sheet and states he was here on time or close to.
If it were just 5 minutes this would not be worth a fight, but we're talking 20 to 40 minute discrepancies here. 

I  now make two printouts of my shift report, one to take with me.  At one point he was altering time on that too. Altering a legal document.
Due to the schedule change he now cannot get away with altering my time on the time sheet by virtue of me being the one that faxes said sheet off, but I don't fill it out in advance, because it'd get "fixed."

...He views me as messy.
  I don't think I'm messy...well here.  No crumbs on the floor, all trash in the trash, empty trash when full.
I'm not a slob on the job.

But unlike him...I don't hose the front desk with lysol, put the trashcan as far away from the desk as possible. I don't empty the trash unless it's actually full. I don't run the vacuum. I do not rub every surface in the front desk area down with lysol wipes.  I do not then spray the entire area with lysol.
This cleaning ritual takes him over an hour.
...And then he runs the vacuum again when he goes off shift and/or repeats the entire sequence.
I *honestly* think he'd go through this hour-and-a-half OCD cleaning ritual no matter HOW sanitary I was, if for no other reason than to sanitize my presence out of the area.  You'd think I showed up stanky...No. 

...He does little passive aggressive, and covert-aggressive things to get back at me...for what I'm not sure, but it probably involves both the OCD thing AND the time thing.
Most just annoying, like making me wait outside the gate for a couple of minutes while I'm hitting the buzzer and he knows it's me
Something I don't do to him.

The worst thing he's done was hose the front desk area with ladies' perfume, after I left a note asking him, politely, to try to show up on time.
He knows I have asthma, the perfume made me sick 3 days running.
After that incident I make sure to park my car in line of sight, because I just don't know, you know?

I know I'm being like a fucking five-year-old: "HE STARTED IT!"
It's stupid of me, it's not the sort of person I want to be. 
I haven't been meditating, either; that's bad. 

I'd feel guiltier, but the bastard's gonna do something.  I know he is.

Go to the dollar store and get some plastic bugs.

:lulz:
Holy shit YESS!

Think real bugs would be better...but yeah. 

...Chilled roaches. Crickets would be easier, but chilled roaches would have a better impact.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 26, 2014, 06:53:53 AM
I am full of good advice.  Much like Redman.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 26, 2014, 07:01:22 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 26, 2014, 06:53:53 AM
I am full of good advice.  Much like Redman.
This is the biggest I've smiled in WEEKS.  WEEKS, I tell you!

I think that argues for introducing my coworker to my little friends. 
A lot of little friends.

...This will take time, but I have an empty 20-gallon aquarium...
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 26, 2014, 07:02:32 AM
Quote from: Random anger problem on January 26, 2014, 07:01:22 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 26, 2014, 06:53:53 AM
I am full of good advice.  Much like Redman.
This is the biggest I've smiled in WEEKS.  WEEKS, I tell you!

I think that argues for introducing my coworker to my little friends. 
A lot of little friends.

...This will take time, but I have an empty 20-gallon aquarium...

I'd stick with the plastic ones.

For more good advice, watch this.  Redman is like Gandhi or some shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMelJIRCvmU
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 26, 2014, 10:33:36 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 26, 2014, 06:35:21 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 25, 2014, 12:35:55 PM
Just got my first paid writing assignment.

Of course, I actually have to write it, and it's not for a huge sum ("beer money" would probably be appropriate...though beer nowadays isn't exactly cheap), but just for the moment, I'm going to enjoy the simple fact of promised pay.

Welcome to the life (although, to be honest, I haven't been paid for a written word in more than a year).  Writing for money, no matter what kind of writing it is, has a level of truly enjoyable gutter mentality that cannot be provided by even the best drugs on the market. 

Congratulations.

Thanks.  Though I did remember after posting this, I got paid for all that essay writing a while back.  I don't feel that counts though, since it was answering undergrad University essay questions for the purpose of others plaigarizing them.

This is a lot more honest.  And even if my employers cannot pay me constantly (which they have said), it gives me some exposure and experience, as well as a number of online published articles which I might be able to leverage into better positions until I manage to achieve the dream and get paid by a newspaper for offering vapid opinions on the issue du jour, the writing equivalent of tenure for life.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 26, 2014, 10:35:29 AM
Uploading videos today.  We'll see if the countryside internet will allow me to get all 2 hours of it up (4 videos), or whether it will require tomorrow as well. 
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 26, 2014, 05:53:01 PM
I blame all my activity on Facebook today on reading DearCoquette and IOZ and H. L. Mencken simultaneously.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 26, 2014, 06:26:50 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 26, 2014, 06:36:38 AM
Quote from: Random anger problem on January 25, 2014, 11:01:48 PM
Personal bitching ahead: please feel free to ignore.

I was an ogre to my co-worker today.
...It was unwarranted in this instance, as he didn't lie on the time sheet *IN THIS INSTANCE*...well, only by 5 minutes...
I had to apologize to him. :x
But I don't feel really bad about it...probably should, and don't...

...He's (a) been actively rude to me for pretty much my whole stay here, and (b) he arrives late EVERY day, and (c) he often lies about his arrival time on his time sheet and states he was here on time or close to.
If it were just 5 minutes this would not be worth a fight, but we're talking 20 to 40 minute discrepancies here. 

I  now make two printouts of my shift report, one to take with me.  At one point he was altering time on that too. Altering a legal document.
Due to the schedule change he now cannot get away with altering my time on the time sheet by virtue of me being the one that faxes said sheet off, but I don't fill it out in advance, because it'd get "fixed."

...He views me as messy.
  I don't think I'm messy...well here.  No crumbs on the floor, all trash in the trash, empty trash when full.
I'm not a slob on the job.

But unlike him...I don't hose the front desk with lysol, put the trashcan as far away from the desk as possible. I don't empty the trash unless it's actually full. I don't run the vacuum. I do not rub every surface in the front desk area down with lysol wipes.  I do not then spray the entire area with lysol.
This cleaning ritual takes him over an hour.
...And then he runs the vacuum again when he goes off shift and/or repeats the entire sequence.
I *honestly* think he'd go through this hour-and-a-half OCD cleaning ritual no matter HOW sanitary I was, if for no other reason than to sanitize my presence out of the area.  You'd think I showed up stanky...No. 

...He does little passive aggressive, and covert-aggressive things to get back at me...for what I'm not sure, but it probably involves both the OCD thing AND the time thing.
Most just annoying, like making me wait outside the gate for a couple of minutes while I'm hitting the buzzer and he knows it's me
Something I don't do to him.

The worst thing he's done was hose the front desk area with ladies' perfume, after I left a note asking him, politely, to try to show up on time.
He knows I have asthma, the perfume made me sick 3 days running.
After that incident I make sure to park my car in line of sight, because I just don't know, you know?

I know I'm being like a fucking five-year-old: "HE STARTED IT!"
It's stupid of me, it's not the sort of person I want to be. 
I haven't been meditating, either; that's bad. 

I'd feel guiltier, but the bastard's gonna do something.  I know he is.

Go to the dollar store and get some plastic bugs.

THIS.

Your Rx is to read as many DOUR posts as you can find that refer to assweasels at work. He's your Sun Tzu here.
Then go back there and FUCK with this person. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense.  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 26, 2014, 08:29:28 PM
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on January 25, 2014, 03:16:59 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 24, 2014, 01:33:48 PM
Thanks.

I'm also considering a possible Dishonoured (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1HlYTukh9A) playthrough.  Tests seem promising, though I have yet to test high impact combat on recording quality.  I mean, I could do the "moral" option of a stealth playthrough for Youtube, but that's a bit, well, boring.  And the subtitle is "Revenge Solves Everything".

Oooh yes plz. I thoroughly enjoyed that game, but I only completed one playthrough (high on the stealth, low on the murder). The biggest complaint people seemed to have was the blatantly obvious "twist" in the last part, but it didn't bother me at all. I think it must have been so obvious, my brain subconsciously accepted it as part of the natural progress of the story and I didn't think twice about it.

I don't know much about recording gameplay for YouTube, but I would agree that going for a more aggressive playstyle would help. I found myself constantly reloading when I screwed up the stealth too badly, whouch would probably make for a lot of editing.

Part one uploaded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UelJyx5858&feature=youtu.be).  Sadly did not Ghost Coldridge Prison, due to confusing the gun and the blade buttons (I have to swap those settings), but it was pretty easy. 

Also, for those who did not check out the DAO thread, please do so  :)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 26, 2014, 08:45:47 PM
I lost my wallet when I was drunk and now I'm snowed into my parking lot and can't escape it to go find it  :argh!: LANDLORD Y U NO PLOW
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 26, 2014, 08:48:57 PM
Because you don't pay your rent on time, because you spend it all on alcohol.  That's why he no plow.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 26, 2014, 09:00:44 PM
I paid my rent. Landlord is an old lady maybe thats why.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 26, 2014, 10:36:32 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 26, 2014, 06:26:50 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 26, 2014, 06:36:38 AM
Quote from: Random anger problem on January 25, 2014, 11:01:48 PM
Personal bitching ahead: please feel free to ignore.

I was an ogre to my co-worker today.
...It was unwarranted in this instance, as he didn't lie on the time sheet *IN THIS INSTANCE*...well, only by 5 minutes...
I had to apologize to him. :x
But I don't feel really bad about it...probably should, and don't...

...He's (a) been actively rude to me for pretty much my whole stay here, and (b) he arrives late EVERY day, and (c) he often lies about his arrival time on his time sheet and states he was here on time or close to.
If it were just 5 minutes this would not be worth a fight, but we're talking 20 to 40 minute discrepancies here. 

I  now make two printouts of my shift report, one to take with me.  At one point he was altering time on that too. Altering a legal document.
Due to the schedule change he now cannot get away with altering my time on the time sheet by virtue of me being the one that faxes said sheet off, but I don't fill it out in advance, because it'd get "fixed."

...He views me as messy.
  I don't think I'm messy...well here.  No crumbs on the floor, all trash in the trash, empty trash when full.
I'm not a slob on the job.

But unlike him...I don't hose the front desk with lysol, put the trashcan as far away from the desk as possible. I don't empty the trash unless it's actually full. I don't run the vacuum. I do not rub every surface in the front desk area down with lysol wipes.  I do not then spray the entire area with lysol.
This cleaning ritual takes him over an hour.
...And then he runs the vacuum again when he goes off shift and/or repeats the entire sequence.
I *honestly* think he'd go through this hour-and-a-half OCD cleaning ritual no matter HOW sanitary I was, if for no other reason than to sanitize my presence out of the area.  You'd think I showed up stanky...No. 

...He does little passive aggressive, and covert-aggressive things to get back at me...for what I'm not sure, but it probably involves both the OCD thing AND the time thing.
Most just annoying, like making me wait outside the gate for a couple of minutes while I'm hitting the buzzer and he knows it's me
Something I don't do to him.

The worst thing he's done was hose the front desk area with ladies' perfume, after I left a note asking him, politely, to try to show up on time.
He knows I have asthma, the perfume made me sick 3 days running.
After that incident I make sure to park my car in line of sight, because I just don't know, you know?

I know I'm being like a fucking five-year-old: "HE STARTED IT!"
It's stupid of me, it's not the sort of person I want to be. 
I haven't been meditating, either; that's bad. 

I'd feel guiltier, but the bastard's gonna do something.  I know he is.

Go to the dollar store and get some plastic bugs.

THIS.

Your Rx is to read as many DOUR posts as you can find that refer to assweasels at work. He's your Sun Tzu here.
Then go back there and FUCK with this person. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense.  :lulz:

...I have a few ideas now...will let them marinate.

If something was stuck to the floor and he could not, for some strange reason, vacuum it up I think he'd explode in an OCD frenzy.  That has potential, I think.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 26, 2014, 11:02:08 PM
Quote from: Random anger problem on January 26, 2014, 10:36:32 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 26, 2014, 06:26:50 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 26, 2014, 06:36:38 AM
Quote from: Random anger problem on January 25, 2014, 11:01:48 PM
Personal bitching ahead: please feel free to ignore.

I was an ogre to my co-worker today.
...It was unwarranted in this instance, as he didn't lie on the time sheet *IN THIS INSTANCE*...well, only by 5 minutes...
I had to apologize to him. :x
But I don't feel really bad about it...probably should, and don't...

...He's (a) been actively rude to me for pretty much my whole stay here, and (b) he arrives late EVERY day, and (c) he often lies about his arrival time on his time sheet and states he was here on time or close to.
If it were just 5 minutes this would not be worth a fight, but we're talking 20 to 40 minute discrepancies here. 

I  now make two printouts of my shift report, one to take with me.  At one point he was altering time on that too. Altering a legal document.
Due to the schedule change he now cannot get away with altering my time on the time sheet by virtue of me being the one that faxes said sheet off, but I don't fill it out in advance, because it'd get "fixed."

...He views me as messy.
  I don't think I'm messy...well here.  No crumbs on the floor, all trash in the trash, empty trash when full.
I'm not a slob on the job.

But unlike him...I don't hose the front desk with lysol, put the trashcan as far away from the desk as possible. I don't empty the trash unless it's actually full. I don't run the vacuum. I do not rub every surface in the front desk area down with lysol wipes.  I do not then spray the entire area with lysol.
This cleaning ritual takes him over an hour.
...And then he runs the vacuum again when he goes off shift and/or repeats the entire sequence.
I *honestly* think he'd go through this hour-and-a-half OCD cleaning ritual no matter HOW sanitary I was, if for no other reason than to sanitize my presence out of the area.  You'd think I showed up stanky...No. 

...He does little passive aggressive, and covert-aggressive things to get back at me...for what I'm not sure, but it probably involves both the OCD thing AND the time thing.
Most just annoying, like making me wait outside the gate for a couple of minutes while I'm hitting the buzzer and he knows it's me
Something I don't do to him.

The worst thing he's done was hose the front desk area with ladies' perfume, after I left a note asking him, politely, to try to show up on time.
He knows I have asthma, the perfume made me sick 3 days running.
After that incident I make sure to park my car in line of sight, because I just don't know, you know?

I know I'm being like a fucking five-year-old: "HE STARTED IT!"
It's stupid of me, it's not the sort of person I want to be. 
I haven't been meditating, either; that's bad. 

I'd feel guiltier, but the bastard's gonna do something.  I know he is.

Go to the dollar store and get some plastic bugs.

THIS.

Your Rx is to read as many DOUR posts as you can find that refer to assweasels at work. He's your Sun Tzu here.
Then go back there and FUCK with this person. Sometimes the best defense is a good offense.  :lulz:

...I have a few ideas now...will let them marinate.

If something was stuck to the floor and he could not, for some strange reason, vacuum it up I think he'd explode in an OCD frenzy.  That has potential, I think.
put some styrofoam on the floorhis keyboard and pour some acetone on it. The resulting blackish tar will be quite hard to remove.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 26, 2014, 11:10:54 PM
...The keyboard is used by the secretary peeps more...collateral damage...otherwise excellent thought though...

He vacuums.
He uses one particular vacuum cleaner, which isn't the one the cleaning staff uses. 
In fact, he's the primary user of that vacuum cleaner to my knowledge.
This too has potential.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 27, 2014, 01:46:57 AM
I just spent all day applying for scholarships instead of studying for my midterm.

Sure hope that works out.  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2014, 02:47:18 AM
Nigel lives in some weird time warp where it's always midterm time.  Always.  Then one day it's finals.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 27, 2014, 03:38:12 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 02:47:18 AM
Nigel lives in some weird time warp where it's always midterm time.  Always.  Then one day it's finals.

This is pretty much literally true. Because we're on the quarter system, and that means that (assuming a full load) there are nine to twelve exams in a twelve-week period. And if you're taking "heavy" classes, they stagger them rather than stack them, so that essentially you get two weeks of breathing room at the beginning of the term, and then after that YOU ARE ALWAYS IN MIDTERMS ALL THE TIME. UNTIL YOU GET TO FINALS.

I almost prefer stacked midterms. Almost.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: StandBackJack on January 27, 2014, 04:14:32 AM
Where do you order the drinks?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 27, 2014, 05:06:29 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 26, 2014, 06:33:22 AM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 25, 2014, 09:48:43 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention...I haven't had a real cigarette in almost a month. Just the e-cig and while I know that's still not exactly good for me, I can already feel a difference in my lungs. Plus I am saving SO much money.

It's not bad for you either, in any measurable way.  I haven't had actual tobacco since September, and I don't miss it even a tiny bit.

I'm not convinced of that. AFAIK, the nicotine is suspended in propylene glycol. So there's still the nicotine itself, which is bad for you, plus I'm not sure what the long term effects of exposing your lungs to propylene glycol is.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 27, 2014, 05:21:28 AM
Quote from: StandBackJack on January 27, 2014, 04:14:32 AM
Where do you order the drinks?

Belly up.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 27, 2014, 05:24:52 AM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 27, 2014, 05:06:29 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 26, 2014, 06:33:22 AM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 25, 2014, 09:48:43 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention...I haven't had a real cigarette in almost a month. Just the e-cig and while I know that's still not exactly good for me, I can already feel a difference in my lungs. Plus I am saving SO much money.

It's not bad for you either, in any measurable way.  I haven't had actual tobacco since September, and I don't miss it even a tiny bit.

I'm not convinced of that. AFAIK, the nicotine is suspended in propylene glycol. So there's still the nicotine itself, which is bad for you, plus I'm not sure what the long term effects of exposing your lungs to propylene glycol is.

Nicotine is bad for you, just not in nearly the huge degree that inhaling the combustion byproducts is. Propylene glycol is known to have some detrimental effects in high inhalation doses, primarily related to mucosal dehydration, but also appears to have a negative effect on body weight.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 27, 2014, 07:35:01 AM
Dear sweet FUCK do I feel weird.

Like all of my vitality has been drained out of me for longer than I can remember.

It is coming back, bit by bit. And it feels good.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 27, 2014, 07:57:06 AM
RE Nicotine:

Wikipedia
QuoteHistorically, nicotine has not been regarded as a carcinogen and the IARC has not evaluated nicotine in its standalone form or assigned it to an official carcinogen group. While no epidemiological evidence supports that nicotine alone acts as a carcinogen in the formation of human cancer, research over the last decade has identified nicotine's carcinogenic potential in animal models and cell culture.[64][65] Nicotine has been noted to directly cause cancer through a number of different mechanisms such as the activation of MAP Kinases.[66] Indirectly, nicotine increases cholinergic signalling (and adrenergic signalling in the case of colon cancer[67]), thereby impeding apoptosis (programmed cell death), promoting tumor growth, and activating growth factors and cellular mitogenic factors such as 5-LOX, and EGF. Nicotine also promotes cancer growth by stimulating angiogenesis and neovascularization.[68][69] In one study, nicotine administered to mice with tumors caused increases in tumor size (twofold increase), metastasis (nine-fold increase), and tumor recurrence (threefold increase).[70] N-Nitrosonornicotine (NNN), classified by the IARC as a Group 1 carcinogen, is produced endogenously from nitrite in saliva and nicotine.

So, it is likely that it makes existing cancer worse, and may create an environment that is cancer friendly.

I read somewhere that it may intensify the carcinogenic properties of tar, etc

Also, it is not very friendly to your heart,

That said, I picked an ecig up because I can't afford teh weed. Gonna get a medical card amd grow myself, which has been legal here since the 70s. Until then...   So far, I do not wamt to kill everyone despite being so THC deficient, and I am thinking awfully clear. Which is nice.

Also, nicotine helps me deal with stress better than weed, Weed makes me feel everything deeeper, yet it prevente my head from seeing things as they are with clarity.

ALSO, oral fixation. I have tried many methods of getting weed in my system and tinctures are the best. Deep, long lasting. Plus, when THC goes through your liver it changes. I find the change perferrable. Yet, I have a hard time giving up smoking. Very hard. So far, this V2 ecig fills that need.

If I really wanted I could go with 0% nicotine and get my oral fixation fix.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 27, 2014, 01:14:27 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 26, 2014, 08:29:28 PM
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on January 25, 2014, 03:16:59 AM
Quote from: Cain on January 24, 2014, 01:33:48 PM
Thanks.

I'm also considering a possible Dishonoured (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1HlYTukh9A) playthrough.  Tests seem promising, though I have yet to test high impact combat on recording quality.  I mean, I could do the "moral" option of a stealth playthrough for Youtube, but that's a bit, well, boring.  And the subtitle is "Revenge Solves Everything".

Oooh yes plz. I thoroughly enjoyed that game, but I only completed one playthrough (high on the stealth, low on the murder). The biggest complaint people seemed to have was the blatantly obvious "twist" in the last part, but it didn't bother me at all. I think it must have been so obvious, my brain subconsciously accepted it as part of the natural progress of the story and I didn't think twice about it.

I don't know much about recording gameplay for YouTube, but I would agree that going for a more aggressive playstyle would help. I found myself constantly reloading when I screwed up the stealth too badly, whouch would probably make for a lot of editing.

Part one uploaded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UelJyx5858&feature=youtu.be).  Sadly did not Ghost Coldridge Prison, due to confusing the gun and the blade buttons (I have to swap those settings), but it was pretty easy. 

Also, for those who did not check out the DAO thread, please do so  :)

Part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZz9rPg-qC0) is now up also.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2014, 01:59:01 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 27, 2014, 05:06:29 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 26, 2014, 06:33:22 AM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 25, 2014, 09:48:43 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention...I haven't had a real cigarette in almost a month. Just the e-cig and while I know that's still not exactly good for me, I can already feel a difference in my lungs. Plus I am saving SO much money.

It's not bad for you either, in any measurable way.  I haven't had actual tobacco since September, and I don't miss it even a tiny bit.

I'm not convinced of that. AFAIK, the nicotine is suspended in propylene glycol. So there's still the nicotine itself, which is bad for you, plus I'm not sure what the long term effects of exposing your lungs to propylene glycol is.

The glycol is the particular one used in emergency inhalers since the year dot.

Nicotine, on its own and in the concentrations used in e-cigs, is about as bad as a cup of coffee.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2014, 02:01:20 PM
Fuck it.

I suppose I should just back to inhaling CO, cyanide, various tars, and all that other good shit.

My cardiologist and my physician have both stated that there are no known ill effects from the e-cig mix, but what the fuck do they know?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2014, 05:07:38 PM
I think I'm done with TDS2014.  I'm not going to throw poop all over the walls, but I am not going to accept being slapped down for taking part in a conversation, either.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 27, 2014, 05:16:26 PM
To be honest, the problem with throwing poop all over the walls with TDS2014 is how would you tell the difference?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2014, 05:16:48 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 27, 2014, 05:16:26 PM
To be honest, the problem with throwing poop all over the walls with TDS2014 is how would you tell the difference?

The difference is, I didn't expect it from Cram.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 27, 2014, 05:17:24 PM
Ah, I didn't realise.  Sorry.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2014, 05:19:01 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 27, 2014, 05:17:24 PM
Ah, I didn't realise.  Sorry.

It's all good.  It's not your fault I'm a slow learner.   :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2014, 06:18:34 PM
Well, I'm going to take a nap.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 27, 2014, 06:42:37 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 02:01:20 PM
Fuck it.

I suppose I should just back to inhaling CO, cyanide, various tars, and all that other good shit.

My cardiologist and my physician have both stated that there are no known ill effects from the e-cig mix, but what the fuck do they know?

That is what convinced me give it a go, the PG is used in inhalers.

You are correct, sir, I just enjoy going over the finer points for fun.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 27, 2014, 06:54:35 PM
So.....





....how 'bout them Dolphins?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 27, 2014, 06:55:48 PM
My new avatar perfectly capures my essence.
It illustrates the platitudes of my soul.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2014, 06:56:57 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 27, 2014, 06:55:48 PM
My new avatar perfectly capures my essence.
It illustrates the platitudes of my soul.

Eyes need to be red.  Goat needs to be upchucking.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 27, 2014, 06:59:51 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 06:56:57 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 27, 2014, 06:55:48 PM
My new avatar perfectly capures my essence.
It illustrates the platitudes of my soul.

Eyes need to be red.  Goat needs to be upchucking.

Why, sir, do you mean to.suggest I possess a firey temprament?

Am I not cool and collected?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2014, 07:01:43 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 27, 2014, 06:59:51 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 06:56:57 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 27, 2014, 06:55:48 PM
My new avatar perfectly capures my essence.
It illustrates the platitudes of my soul.

Eyes need to be red.  Goat needs to be upchucking.

Why, sir, do you mean to.suggest I possess a firey temprament?

Am I not cool and collected?

You are the very soul of tranquility, sir.  Yessirree.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 27, 2014, 07:01:57 PM
I AM THE CALM WIND IN YOUR LIMP SAIL!

I AM A THE SHELL OF A SNAIL!

THAT IS ALL THE RHYMES I GOT!

SOMETHING NUUUUH LIKE IT HOT!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 27, 2014, 08:16:23 PM
Life is awesome and amazing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 27, 2014, 08:19:59 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 27, 2014, 08:16:23 PM
Life is awesome and amazing.

It can be.

Alty,
A wee bit salty today.

What makes you say that? Tell me of this awesomness.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 27, 2014, 09:14:41 PM
Ummmm, it is 40F right now.

That just ain't right. Don't get me wrong, I love spring. Its just...you know. Doom.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 27, 2014, 10:37:01 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQFEY9RIRJA&feature=youtube_gdata_playerD
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 27, 2014, 10:40:17 PM
I have been waiting for an advisor for almost an hour. They just called the guy who was behind me in line. I just want to make sure I'm graduating this term. Wtf. It wasn't busy when I walked in or anything.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2014, 10:42:24 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 27, 2014, 10:40:17 PM
They just called the guy who was behind me in line.

Raise all manner of hell.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 27, 2014, 10:45:46 PM
Jumping the line is right up there with axe murder, in my book.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 27, 2014, 10:48:43 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 27, 2014, 08:19:59 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 27, 2014, 08:16:23 PM
Life is awesome and amazing.

It can be.

Alty,
A wee bit salty today.

What makes you say that? Tell me of this awesomness.

Sorry. I feel asleep. I was talking out my ass. Also, PD is eating my posts. Life probably is awesome and amazing but I feel like a Mack truck has been parked on my carcass for a week and just peeled rubber when leaving.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 28, 2014, 12:39:59 AM
So today I found out that the new apartment is within walking distance to Smuttynose Brewery. Yesterday we fell on top of Red Hook and had to stop in for a brew. Come to find out, Shipyard is within spitting distance across the river I cannot pronounce. Holy balls, I'm about to be surrounded by beer.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:15:07 AM
CIRCLETINE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19PWUliieNM

CIRCLETINE!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 03:23:26 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 10:42:24 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 27, 2014, 10:40:17 PM
They just called the guy who was behind me in line.

Raise all manner of hell.

It turns out that not only am I graduating this term, but I'm accidentally graduating with two degrees.  :lol:

That 1 credit yoga class that my friend Miz B talked me into at the last possible minute? Well, it turns out that all these random classes that I took while I was flailing around, before I decided I need to major in biology, when you combine them with the classes I'm taking for my AA Oregon transfer degree, they added up to be 1 credit shy of an AS. 1... PE credit.

So I am graduating with an AA and an AS in March.

I'm starting to be kind of superstitious about Miz B. I don't know if you recall, but she was my assistant and right-hand woman during my most profitable years of beadmaking. Everything I do that she's involved in turns out MUCH better than anticipated.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:25:11 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 03:23:26 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 10:42:24 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 27, 2014, 10:40:17 PM
They just called the guy who was behind me in line.

Raise all manner of hell.

It turns out that not only am I graduating this term, but I'm accidentally graduating with two degrees.  :lol:

That 1 credit yoga class that my friend Miz B talked me into at the last possible minute? Well, it turns out that all these random classes that I took while I was flailing around, before I decided I need to major in biology, when you combine them with the classes I'm taking for my AA Oregon transfer degree, they added up to be 1 credit shy of an AS. 1... PE credit.

So I am graduating with an AA and an AS in March.

I'm starting to be kind of superstitious about Miz B. I don't know if you recall, but she was my assistant and right-hand woman during my most profitable years of beadmaking. Everything I do that she's involved in turns out MUCH better than anticipated.

Congratulations.  And I do believe I remember her.

So, what plans for a BS?  Don't stop now, Lady.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 03:32:20 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:25:11 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 03:23:26 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 10:42:24 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 27, 2014, 10:40:17 PM
They just called the guy who was behind me in line.

Raise all manner of hell.

It turns out that not only am I graduating this term, but I'm accidentally graduating with two degrees.  :lol:

That 1 credit yoga class that my friend Miz B talked me into at the last possible minute? Well, it turns out that all these random classes that I took while I was flailing around, before I decided I need to major in biology, when you combine them with the classes I'm taking for my AA Oregon transfer degree, they added up to be 1 credit shy of an AS. 1... PE credit.

So I am graduating with an AA and an AS in March.

I'm starting to be kind of superstitious about Miz B. I don't know if you recall, but she was my assistant and right-hand woman during my most profitable years of beadmaking. Everything I do that she's involved in turns out MUCH better than anticipated.

Congratulations.  And I do believe I remember her.

So, what plans for a BS?  Don't stop now, Lady.

Oh yeah, I'm already admitted to PSU as an Organismal Biology BS/Psychology BS double major. :) Half my credits this term apply toward my BS, and next term all of them will.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:33:13 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 03:32:20 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:25:11 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 03:23:26 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 10:42:24 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 27, 2014, 10:40:17 PM
They just called the guy who was behind me in line.

Raise all manner of hell.

It turns out that not only am I graduating this term, but I'm accidentally graduating with two degrees.  :lol:

That 1 credit yoga class that my friend Miz B talked me into at the last possible minute? Well, it turns out that all these random classes that I took while I was flailing around, before I decided I need to major in biology, when you combine them with the classes I'm taking for my AA Oregon transfer degree, they added up to be 1 credit shy of an AS. 1... PE credit.

So I am graduating with an AA and an AS in March.

I'm starting to be kind of superstitious about Miz B. I don't know if you recall, but she was my assistant and right-hand woman during my most profitable years of beadmaking. Everything I do that she's involved in turns out MUCH better than anticipated.

Congratulations.  And I do believe I remember her.

So, what plans for a BS?  Don't stop now, Lady.

Oh yeah, I'm already admitted to PSU as am Organismal Biology BS/Psychology BS double major. :) Half my credits this term apply toward my BS, and next term all of them will.

I'm so proud of my Skinsaw Queen.   :)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 03:33:38 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:33:13 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 03:32:20 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:25:11 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 03:23:26 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 10:42:24 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 27, 2014, 10:40:17 PM
They just called the guy who was behind me in line.

Raise all manner of hell.

It turns out that not only am I graduating this term, but I'm accidentally graduating with two degrees.  :lol:

That 1 credit yoga class that my friend Miz B talked me into at the last possible minute? Well, it turns out that all these random classes that I took while I was flailing around, before I decided I need to major in biology, when you combine them with the classes I'm taking for my AA Oregon transfer degree, they added up to be 1 credit shy of an AS. 1... PE credit.

So I am graduating with an AA and an AS in March.

I'm starting to be kind of superstitious about Miz B. I don't know if you recall, but she was my assistant and right-hand woman during my most profitable years of beadmaking. Everything I do that she's involved in turns out MUCH better than anticipated.

Congratulations.  And I do believe I remember her.

So, what plans for a BS?  Don't stop now, Lady.

Oh yeah, I'm already admitted to PSU as am Organismal Biology BS/Psychology BS double major. :) Half my credits this term apply toward my BS, and next term all of them will.

I'm so proud of my Skinsaw Queen.   :)

D'awww  :oops:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:34:36 AM
I never finished my degree.  By now, I'd have to start all over again, and I simply lack the drive.  But I'm glad to see you doing so well, especially after how bad things seemed to be a few years back.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 03:35:47 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:15:07 AM
CIRCLETINE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19PWUliieNM

CIRCLETINE!

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

Reminds me of my childhood summers in Medford.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 03:37:25 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:34:36 AM
I never finished my degree.  By now, I'd have to start all over again, and I simply lack the drive.  But I'm glad to see you doing so well, especially after how bad things seemed to be a few years back.

YOU KNOW

Um, I thought I would have to start from scratch, but for some reason they helpfully included those 16 credits from 20 years ago.  :lol:

You actually might be surprised at what they won't make you re-take.

Worth a mention, since you will soon find yourself not supporting a kid.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 03:41:48 AM
In particular, math and history never really change, for the most part. They even let me keep my Computer Information Systems credits... those are total history, now!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:42:15 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 03:37:25 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:34:36 AM
I never finished my degree.  By now, I'd have to start all over again, and I simply lack the drive.  But I'm glad to see you doing so well, especially after how bad things seemed to be a few years back.

YOU KNOW

Um, I thought I would have to start from scratch, but for some reason they helpfully included those 16 credits from 20 years ago.  :lol:

You actually might be surprised at what they won't make you re-take.

Worth a mention, since you will soon find yourself not supporting a kid.

Yeah, but what I remember of math wouldn't get me through one semester.  I'd have to retake it because I don't remember it.  Trig, yes.  Some algebra, yes.  The chain rule.  That's it.

Also, I was talking with some Canucks back in the Old Country, and one of them wrote this (spelling unchanged):

QuoteIf this government wants to get rid of something get rid of them blood suckers in the senet. Make them members live on there wadges ,take there perks and boneses away.

WTF, CANADA?  WTF? 

The world is ending.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 03:48:53 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:42:15 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 03:37:25 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:34:36 AM
I never finished my degree.  By now, I'd have to start all over again, and I simply lack the drive.  But I'm glad to see you doing so well, especially after how bad things seemed to be a few years back.

YOU KNOW

Um, I thought I would have to start from scratch, but for some reason they helpfully included those 16 credits from 20 years ago.  :lol:

You actually might be surprised at what they won't make you re-take.

Worth a mention, since you will soon find yourself not supporting a kid.

Yeah, but what I remember of math wouldn't get me through one semester.  I'd have to retake it because I don't remember it.  Trig, yes.  Some algebra, yes.  The chain rule.  That's it.

Bah, if you have trig you would only need to re-take Calc, and that's nothing. But I admit that my main motivation in imagining you back in school is the degree of havoc you could wreak on your young fellow students' heads. :lol: If you don't really want to, that's one thing. But if the idea of how much you would have to re-take is holding you back, my advice is FUCK IT, DO WHAT YOU WANT. Because you're gonna be another couple years older no matter what. Fuck, major in philosophy and commence publishing papers that blow everyone's brains to The Wall. I'm in school with a fuckton of other elderlies, and it's fucking rad. Including some K-rad motherfucker who ran up to me and kissed me on the cheek today. I love these homies.

Quote
Also, I was talking with some Canucks back in the Old Country, and one of them wrote this (spelling unchanged):

QuoteIf this government wants to get rid of something get rid of them blood suckers in the senet. Make them members live on there wadges ,take there perks and boneses away.

WTF, CANADA?  WTF? 

The world is ending.

:eek: I thought Canada had funding for education??? WTF??????
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 28, 2014, 03:49:06 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 03:23:26 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 10:42:24 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 27, 2014, 10:40:17 PM
They just called the guy who was behind me in line.

Raise all manner of hell.

It turns out that not only am I graduating this term, but I'm accidentally graduating with two degrees.  :lol:

That 1 credit yoga class that my friend Miz B talked me into at the last possible minute? Well, it turns out that all these random classes that I took while I was flailing around, before I decided I need to major in biology, when you combine them with the classes I'm taking for my AA Oregon transfer degree, they added up to be 1 credit shy of an AS. 1... PE credit.

So I am graduating with an AA and an AS in March.

I'm starting to be kind of superstitious about Miz B. I don't know if you recall, but she was my assistant and right-hand woman during my most profitable years of beadmaking. Everything I do that she's involved in turns out MUCH better than anticipated.

Congrats! That's awesome. :)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 03:56:07 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 28, 2014, 03:49:06 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 03:23:26 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 10:42:24 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 27, 2014, 10:40:17 PM
They just called the guy who was behind me in line.

Raise all manner of hell.

It turns out that not only am I graduating this term, but I'm accidentally graduating with two degrees.  :lol:

That 1 credit yoga class that my friend Miz B talked me into at the last possible minute? Well, it turns out that all these random classes that I took while I was flailing around, before I decided I need to major in biology, when you combine them with the classes I'm taking for my AA Oregon transfer degree, they added up to be 1 credit shy of an AS. 1... PE credit.

So I am graduating with an AA and an AS in March.

I'm starting to be kind of superstitious about Miz B. I don't know if you recall, but she was my assistant and right-hand woman during my most profitable years of beadmaking. Everything I do that she's involved in turns out MUCH better than anticipated.

Congrats! That's awesome. :)

Thanks! It went by like nothing doing. I used to keep this list on my wall, of the classes I needed to take to finish my AA... and this term I have no list. It was so long! And now it's gone!

It makes me wish I'd done it sooner, but I'm sticking to a strict no-regrets policy.  :)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:57:43 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

Hehe...Fred, I haven't graduated after 27 years.  Just so you know.

And I worry that art school will make my daughter hate art.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 03:58:41 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

You will do it! And if you start to feel discouraged, just remember that you're still 17 years ahead of me. :)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 04:00:15 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:57:43 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

Hehe...Fred, I haven't graduated after 27 years.  Just so you know.

And I worry that art school will make my daughter hate art.

I would just quit now and find a job if I could but I feel obligated to finish because I took out so many loans already. I'd still have to pay them off and not have a degree to show for it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 04:00:29 AM
I am interested in the art school making a person hate art conversation, because EFO is a remarkable and driven artist. However, as of age 16, she wants to get her degree in psychology, so maybe that will be a non-issue.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:00:36 AM
It's the home stretch, after all.  You just have to get serious.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:01:34 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:00:29 AM
I am interested in the art school making a person hate art conversation, because EFO is a remarkable and driven artist. However, as of age 16, she wants to get her degree in psychology, so maybe that will be a non-issue.

It's what electives are for, I suppose.  There are some classes critical for an artist, but most artists I know that make a living - or most of a living at it - do not have an art degree.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 04:01:48 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 04:00:15 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:57:43 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

Hehe...Fred, I haven't graduated after 27 years.  Just so you know.

And I worry that art school will make my daughter hate art.

I would just quit now and find a job if I could but I feel obligated to finish because I took out so many loans already. I'd still have to pay them off and not have a degree to show for it.

Do you have the option of changing your degree?

One of my dear friends was an art major at Sarah Lawrence, ended up burning out/dropping out and when she took classes at PSU she took chemistry, ended up absolutely loving it and is now a chemistry PhD.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 04:02:00 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 03:58:41 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

You will do it! And if you start to feel discouraged, just remember that you're still 17 years ahead of me. :)
Yeah but I have been in school for the entire 6 years for a 4 year degree haha ugh. I'm just a terrible student. I don't even know how to be a good student I always fuck up somehow.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:02:29 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 04:00:15 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:57:43 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

Hehe...Fred, I haven't graduated after 27 years.  Just so you know.

And I worry that art school will make my daughter hate art.

I would just quit now and find a job if I could but I feel obligated to finish because I took out so many loans already. I'd still have to pay them off and not have a degree to show for it.

So finish.  You're not stupid by any means, so it isn't beyond your ability.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 04:03:27 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:01:48 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 04:00:15 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:57:43 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

Hehe...Fred, I haven't graduated after 27 years.  Just so you know.

And I worry that art school will make my daughter hate art.

I would just quit now and find a job if I could but I feel obligated to finish because I took out so many loans already. I'd still have to pay them off and not have a degree to show for it.

Do you have the option of changing your degree?

One of my dear friends was an art major at Sarah Lawrence, ended up burning out/dropping out and when she took classes at PSU she took chemistry, ended up absolutely loving it and is now a chemistry PhD.

Sticking with art will get me out the quickest. I tried fashion before switching back to art. I like my illustration program at my first school but i fucked up there and had to leave.
I don't know what I would switch to I'm not good at anything.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:04:01 AM
From what I have observed, the barriers to graduating are, in order:

1.  A family (this is what got me).
2.  Money.
3.  Beer.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 04:04:04 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:01:34 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:00:29 AM
I am interested in the art school making a person hate art conversation, because EFO is a remarkable and driven artist. However, as of age 16, she wants to get her degree in psychology, so maybe that will be a non-issue.

It's what electives are for, I suppose.  There are some classes critical for an artist, but most artists I know that make a living - or most of a living at it - do not have an art degree.

Some of my career artist friends do, some don't. It's pretty mixed. One of 'em, who has an art degree but has been making a living as a carpenter for the last 20 years, just wild-haired hisself into an art and craft graduate program and intends to teach art for the rest of his life. I think he's going to do well at it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 04:04:36 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:02:29 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 04:00:15 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:57:43 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

Hehe...Fred, I haven't graduated after 27 years.  Just so you know.

And I worry that art school will make my daughter hate art.

I would just quit now and find a job if I could but I feel obligated to finish because I took out so many loans already. I'd still have to pay them off and not have a degree to show for it.

So finish.  You're not stupid by any means, so it isn't beyond your ability.
The longer I'm in school the more stupid I feel  :lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 04:04:59 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 04:03:27 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:01:48 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 04:00:15 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:57:43 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

Hehe...Fred, I haven't graduated after 27 years.  Just so you know.

And I worry that art school will make my daughter hate art.

I would just quit now and find a job if I could but I feel obligated to finish because I took out so many loans already. I'd still have to pay them off and not have a degree to show for it.

Do you have the option of changing your degree?

One of my dear friends was an art major at Sarah Lawrence, ended up burning out/dropping out and when she took classes at PSU she took chemistry, ended up absolutely loving it and is now a chemistry PhD.

Sticking with art will get me out the quickest. I tried fashion before switching back to art. I like my illustration program at my first school but i fucked up there and had to leave.
I don't know what I would switch to I'm not good at anything.

Yeah, but do you want to get out the quickest, or try your hand at other options that you may find you love?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:05:17 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 04:03:27 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:01:48 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 04:00:15 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:57:43 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

Hehe...Fred, I haven't graduated after 27 years.  Just so you know.

And I worry that art school will make my daughter hate art.

I would just quit now and find a job if I could but I feel obligated to finish because I took out so many loans already. I'd still have to pay them off and not have a degree to show for it.

Do you have the option of changing your degree?

One of my dear friends was an art major at Sarah Lawrence, ended up burning out/dropping out and when she took classes at PSU she took chemistry, ended up absolutely loving it and is now a chemistry PhD.

Sticking with art will get me out the quickest. I tried fashion before switching back to art. I like my illustration program at my first school but i fucked up there and had to leave.
I don't know what I would switch to I'm not good at anything.

Balls.  Balls, I say! 

You're a smart kid.  You just haven't figured out what you want yet.  Also, the point of college is to get good at something.  If you were already good at it, you wouldn't need college.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:06:35 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:04:04 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:01:34 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:00:29 AM
I am interested in the art school making a person hate art conversation, because EFO is a remarkable and driven artist. However, as of age 16, she wants to get her degree in psychology, so maybe that will be a non-issue.

It's what electives are for, I suppose.  There are some classes critical for an artist, but most artists I know that make a living - or most of a living at it - do not have an art degree.

Some of my career artist friends do, some don't. It's pretty mixed. One of 'em, who has an art degree but has been making a living as a carpenter for the last 20 years, just wild-haired hisself into an art and craft graduate program and intends to teach art for the rest of his life. I think he's going to do well at it.

Yes, but you live in an area with more artists.  We have few here, but they're prolific as fuck, especially the sculptors and mural artists.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 04:08:54 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:04:01 AM
From what I have observed, the barriers to graduating are, in order:

1.  A family (this is what got me).
2.  Money.
3.  Beer.

For me, it was money, ignorance, men, and having kids, in that order.

Started out with no money, and my mom withdrew support.
Due to lack of parental support I was ignorant of how to navigate the system (and at 20, the year my mom cut me off, couldn't qualify for financial aid anyway).
Got married to an ass who had no interest in me going to school.
Got divorced, and LIKE AN IDIOT, promptly remarried to another ass who had no interest in me going to school.
Had kids.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 04:09:41 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:05:17 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 04:03:27 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:01:48 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 04:00:15 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:57:43 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

Hehe...Fred, I haven't graduated after 27 years.  Just so you know.

And I worry that art school will make my daughter hate art.

I would just quit now and find a job if I could but I feel obligated to finish because I took out so many loans already. I'd still have to pay them off and not have a degree to show for it.

Do you have the option of changing your degree?

One of my dear friends was an art major at Sarah Lawrence, ended up burning out/dropping out and when she took classes at PSU she took chemistry, ended up absolutely loving it and is now a chemistry PhD.

Sticking with art will get me out the quickest. I tried fashion before switching back to art. I like my illustration program at my first school but i fucked up there and had to leave.
I don't know what I would switch to I'm not good at anything.

Balls.  Balls, I say! 

You're a smart kid.  You just haven't figured out what you want yet.  Also, the point of college is to get good at something.  If you were already good at it, you wouldn't need college.

Another thing about college, it gives you a chance to try a lot of different things under trained tutelage.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 04:10:57 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:06:35 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:04:04 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:01:34 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:00:29 AM
I am interested in the art school making a person hate art conversation, because EFO is a remarkable and driven artist. However, as of age 16, she wants to get her degree in psychology, so maybe that will be a non-issue.

It's what electives are for, I suppose.  There are some classes critical for an artist, but most artists I know that make a living - or most of a living at it - do not have an art degree.

Some of my career artist friends do, some don't. It's pretty mixed. One of 'em, who has an art degree but has been making a living as a carpenter for the last 20 years, just wild-haired hisself into an art and craft graduate program and intends to teach art for the rest of his life. I think he's going to do well at it.

Yes, but you live in an area with more artists.  We have few here, but they're prolific as fuck, especially the sculptors and mural artists.

True.

The art degree, really, seems to be a crapshoot. Two of the best artists I know have chemistry PhDs.  :lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:12:43 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:08:54 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:04:01 AM
From what I have observed, the barriers to graduating are, in order:

1.  A family (this is what got me).
2.  Money.
3.  Beer.

For me, it was money, ignorance, men, and having kids, in that order.

Started out with no money, and my mom withdrew support.
Due to lack of parental support I was ignorant of how to navigate the system (and at 20, the year my mom cut me off, couldn't qualify for financial aid anyway).
Got married to an ass who had no interest in me going to school.
Got divorced, and LIKE AN IDIOT, promptly remarried to another ass who had no interest in me going to school.
Had kids.

Got stunned by a woman (yowza), and had a couple of sprogs.  Had to go get a job.

I have no regrets.  I have two kickass kids that I'm really proud of, and I've had a weird life that I wouldn't have had if I'd gone straight through school and become a salary man at 22 instead of 38.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 04:12:55 AM
I confess, I still resent my mom for her lack of academic support. She actively seemed to seek to hamstring me at every turn. I'll tell the whole story about my schooling and my mother, at some point.

Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 04:14:28 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:12:43 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:08:54 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:04:01 AM
From what I have observed, the barriers to graduating are, in order:

1.  A family (this is what got me).
2.  Money.
3.  Beer.

For me, it was money, ignorance, men, and having kids, in that order.

Started out with no money, and my mom withdrew support.
Due to lack of parental support I was ignorant of how to navigate the system (and at 20, the year my mom cut me off, couldn't qualify for financial aid anyway).
Got married to an ass who had no interest in me going to school.
Got divorced, and LIKE AN IDIOT, promptly remarried to another ass who had no interest in me going to school.
Had kids.

Got stunned by a woman (yowza), and had a couple of sprogs.  Had to go get a job.

I have no regrets.  I have two kickass kids that I'm really proud of, and I've had a weird life that I wouldn't have had if I'd gone straight through school and become a salary man at 22 instead of 38.

For the most part, I have no regrets... I had an interesting life, and awesome kids.

However, as I did mention, I still resent my mom. And I think that resentment is useful, in that it will prevent me from ever doing to my kids what she did to me.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on January 28, 2014, 04:15:11 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:10:57 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:06:35 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:04:04 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:01:34 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:00:29 AM
I am interested in the art school making a person hate art conversation, because EFO is a remarkable and driven artist. However, as of age 16, she wants to get her degree in psychology, so maybe that will be a non-issue.

It's what electives are for, I suppose.  There are some classes critical for an artist, but most artists I know that make a living - or most of a living at it - do not have an art degree.

Some of my career artist friends do, some don't. It's pretty mixed. One of 'em, who has an art degree but has been making a living as a carpenter for the last 20 years, just wild-haired hisself into an art and craft graduate program and intends to teach art for the rest of his life. I think he's going to do well at it.

Yes, but you live in an area with more artists.  We have few here, but they're prolific as fuck, especially the sculptors and mural artists.

True.

The art degree, really, seems to be a crapshoot. Two of the best artists I know have chemistry PhDs.  :lol:

SEE! IT'S TRUE!!
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:15:17 AM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it.

I approve of this assbaggery.

But she should finish her degree.  One less thing to stress about.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 04:16:01 AM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Math is beautiful and perfect. I was lured toward math for a while, but I decided in the end that I actually want the messy, complicated, ugly realities of biology and human behavior.

But math. Math! So lovely. So perfect. So CLEAN.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:16:14 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:14:28 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:12:43 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:08:54 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:04:01 AM
From what I have observed, the barriers to graduating are, in order:

1.  A family (this is what got me).
2.  Money.
3.  Beer.

For me, it was money, ignorance, men, and having kids, in that order.

Started out with no money, and my mom withdrew support.
Due to lack of parental support I was ignorant of how to navigate the system (and at 20, the year my mom cut me off, couldn't qualify for financial aid anyway).
Got married to an ass who had no interest in me going to school.
Got divorced, and LIKE AN IDIOT, promptly remarried to another ass who had no interest in me going to school.
Had kids.

Got stunned by a woman (yowza), and had a couple of sprogs.  Had to go get a job.

I have no regrets.  I have two kickass kids that I'm really proud of, and I've had a weird life that I wouldn't have had if I'd gone straight through school and become a salary man at 22 instead of 38.

For the most part, I have no regrets... I had an interesting life, and awesome kids.

However, as I did mention, I still resent my mom. And I think that resentment is useful, in that it will prevent me from ever doing to my kids what she did to me.

Yeah, I made a point of not being controlling over my kids.

And you know what?  They didn't grow up to be convicts or anything.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:17:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:16:01 AM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Math is beautiful and perfect. I was lured toward math for a while, but I decided in the end that I actually want the messy, complicated, ugly realities of biology and human behavior.

But math. Math! So lovely. So perfect. So CLEAN.

Math was always my first love. 

It tells you the hideous truth.  And you dream about it at night, when you're in the depths of your studies.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 04:22:53 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:17:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:16:01 AM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Math is beautiful and perfect. I was lured toward math for a while, but I decided in the end that I actually want the messy, complicated, ugly realities of biology and human behavior.

But math. Math! So lovely. So perfect. So CLEAN.

Math was always my first love. 

It tells you the hideous truth.  And you dream about it at night, when you're in the depths of your studies.

I miss dreaming about math.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 28, 2014, 04:24:12 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 05:07:38 PM
I think I'm done with TDS2014.  I'm not going to throw poop all over the walls, but I am not going to accept being slapped down for taking part in a conversation, either.

:x :x :x

Going to have a look.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:24:32 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:22:53 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:17:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:16:01 AM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Math is beautiful and perfect. I was lured toward math for a while, but I decided in the end that I actually want the messy, complicated, ugly realities of biology and human behavior.

But math. Math! So lovely. So perfect. So CLEAN.

Math was always my first love. 

It tells you the hideous truth.  And you dream about it at night, when you're in the depths of your studies.

I miss dreaming about math.

Not me.  Linear algebra is bad enough when you're AWAKE.  Difficult AND tedious.

But calc, now...That's a fucking SEX DREAM.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:25:13 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 28, 2014, 04:24:12 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 05:07:38 PM
I think I'm done with TDS2014.  I'm not going to throw poop all over the walls, but I am not going to accept being slapped down for taking part in a conversation, either.

:x :x :x

Going to have a look.

Ah, leave it be.  There's no point splattering shit all over the...

...holy shit.  I'm getting OLD.

:lulz:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 04:28:18 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:24:32 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:22:53 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:17:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:16:01 AM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Math is beautiful and perfect. I was lured toward math for a while, but I decided in the end that I actually want the messy, complicated, ugly realities of biology and human behavior.

But math. Math! So lovely. So perfect. So CLEAN.

Math was always my first love. 

It tells you the hideous truth.  And you dream about it at night, when you're in the depths of your studies.

I miss dreaming about math.

Not me.  Linear algebra is bad enough when you're AWAKE.  Difficult AND tedious.

But calc, now...That's a fucking SEX DREAM.

You're making me so jealous... I never got to take calc. I don't, technically, need it.

But I WANT it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 04:28:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:25:13 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 28, 2014, 04:24:12 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 05:07:38 PM
I think I'm done with TDS2014.  I'm not going to throw poop all over the walls, but I am not going to accept being slapped down for taking part in a conversation, either.

:x :x :x

Going to have a look.

Ah, leave it be.  There's no point splattering shit all over the...

...holy shit.  I'm getting OLD.

:lulz:

You should use it the way Zach and I use it. As an intermittent fuckfest, when we get bored with other things.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:30:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:28:18 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:24:32 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:22:53 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:17:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:16:01 AM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Math is beautiful and perfect. I was lured toward math for a while, but I decided in the end that I actually want the messy, complicated, ugly realities of biology and human behavior.

But math. Math! So lovely. So perfect. So CLEAN.

Math was always my first love. 

It tells you the hideous truth.  And you dream about it at night, when you're in the depths of your studies.

I miss dreaming about math.

Not me.  Linear algebra is bad enough when you're AWAKE.  Difficult AND tedious.

But calc, now...That's a fucking SEX DREAM.

You're making me so jealous... I never got to take calc. I don't, technically, need it.

But I WANT it.

Take it as continuing education, then.  It's fun, but it's a time sump that will harm your required courses. Seriously, I've seen it knock people right out of college.

No joke, it eats your life.  Hours and hours and hours per week.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:31:05 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:28:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:25:13 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 28, 2014, 04:24:12 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 05:07:38 PM
I think I'm done with TDS2014.  I'm not going to throw poop all over the walls, but I am not going to accept being slapped down for taking part in a conversation, either.

:x :x :x

Going to have a look.

Ah, leave it be.  There's no point splattering shit all over the...

...holy shit.  I'm getting OLD.

:lulz:

You should use it the way Zach and I use it. As an intermittent fuckfest, when we get bored with other things.

Oh, I'll be back, once I get over my butthurt.

I don't know why it bothered me so much.  It wasn't exactly surprising.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 28, 2014, 04:38:27 AM
Hey Nigel! LIKE A BOSS. Congrats!

DOUR, I've been thinking about "old". And you know what? Old people are CRABBY, and nobody goes up to them and tells them "SMILE!"
Old people carry STICKS.

I kind of look forward to this.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 28, 2014, 05:04:51 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:30:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:28:18 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:24:32 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:22:53 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:17:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:16:01 AM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Math is beautiful and perfect. I was lured toward math for a while, but I decided in the end that I actually want the messy, complicated, ugly realities of biology and human behavior.

But math. Math! So lovely. So perfect. So CLEAN.

Math was always my first love. 

It tells you the hideous truth.  And you dream about it at night, when you're in the depths of your studies.

I miss dreaming about math.

Not me.  Linear algebra is bad enough when you're AWAKE.  Difficult AND tedious.

But calc, now...That's a fucking SEX DREAM.

You're making me so jealous... I never got to take calc. I don't, technically, need it.

But I WANT it.

Take it as continuing education, then.  It's fun, but it's a time sump that will harm your required courses. Seriously, I've seen it knock people right out of college.

No joke, it eats your life.  Hours and hours and hours per week.

A buddy of mine is in Calc II. Three times a week. Five homework problems per class. Three hours per problem.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 05:34:22 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:31:05 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:28:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:25:13 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 28, 2014, 04:24:12 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 05:07:38 PM
I think I'm done with TDS2014.  I'm not going to throw poop all over the walls, but I am not going to accept being slapped down for taking part in a conversation, either.

:x :x :x

Going to have a look.

Ah, leave it be.  There's no point splattering shit all over the...

...holy shit.  I'm getting OLD.

:lulz:

You should use it the way Zach and I use it. As an intermittent fuckfest, when we get bored with other things.

Oh, I'll be back, once I get over my butthurt.

I don't know why it bothered me so much.  It wasn't exactly surprising.

I still think it's a misunderstanding based on the arbitrary order in which Facebook posts comments. For you, his comment came right after your comment. For  me, it showed up in response to the Bieber comment, which posted  the same minute yours did, and "who cares?" makes way more sense in reply to a Bieber comment, from a guy who has been spamming Bieber comments all over the fucking place for weeks. It's his thing. It makes little to no sense in reply to your comment.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 05:36:32 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 28, 2014, 04:38:27 AM
Hey Nigel! LIKE A BOSS. Congrats!

DOUR, I've been thinking about "old". And you know what? Old people are CRABBY, and nobody goes up to them and tells them "SMILE!"
Old people carry STICKS.

I kind of look forward to this.

Thanks, dawg!
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 05:39:58 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 28, 2014, 05:04:51 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:30:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:28:18 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:24:32 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:22:53 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:17:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:16:01 AM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Math is beautiful and perfect. I was lured toward math for a while, but I decided in the end that I actually want the messy, complicated, ugly realities of biology and human behavior.

But math. Math! So lovely. So perfect. So CLEAN.

Math was always my first love. 

It tells you the hideous truth.  And you dream about it at night, when you're in the depths of your studies.

I miss dreaming about math.

Not me.  Linear algebra is bad enough when you're AWAKE.  Difficult AND tedious.

But calc, now...That's a fucking SEX DREAM.

You're making me so jealous... I never got to take calc. I don't, technically, need it.

But I WANT it.

Take it as continuing education, then.  It's fun, but it's a time sump that will harm your required courses. Seriously, I've seen it knock people right out of college.

No joke, it eats your life.  Hours and hours and hours per week.

A buddy of mine is in Calc II. Three times a week. Five homework problems per class. Three hours per problem.

Really?

That seems excessive. I mean, vastly excessive. 45 hours of homework a week? On top of, what, six hours a week in class? They might want to find a good tutor. I have never heard of anyone spending more than a perfectly reasonable 12-16 hours a week on Calc II homework.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 05:41:20 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:30:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:28:18 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:24:32 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:22:53 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:17:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:16:01 AM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Math is beautiful and perfect. I was lured toward math for a while, but I decided in the end that I actually want the messy, complicated, ugly realities of biology and human behavior.

But math. Math! So lovely. So perfect. So CLEAN.

Math was always my first love. 

It tells you the hideous truth.  And you dream about it at night, when you're in the depths of your studies.

I miss dreaming about math.

Not me.  Linear algebra is bad enough when you're AWAKE.  Difficult AND tedious.

But calc, now...That's a fucking SEX DREAM.

You're making me so jealous... I never got to take calc. I don't, technically, need it.

But I WANT it.

Take it as continuing education, then.  It's fun, but it's a time sump that will harm your required courses. Seriously, I've seen it knock people right out of college.

No joke, it eats your life.  Hours and hours and hours per week.

Everything I have ever heard from EVERYONE about calc is that it makes everything make sense, and it makes it SO MUCH EASIER.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 05:42:21 AM
Of course, these are also all science majors. My chem & bio lab partner is in calc I right now and it's her easiest class.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 28, 2014, 06:10:55 AM
Vodka does not seem to be doing anything. Why?
I have been at it for days with the stuff and it just does not do its god danned job.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 28, 2014, 06:37:38 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 01:59:01 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 27, 2014, 05:06:29 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 26, 2014, 06:33:22 AM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 25, 2014, 09:48:43 AM
Oh, I forgot to mention...I haven't had a real cigarette in almost a month. Just the e-cig and while I know that's still not exactly good for me, I can already feel a difference in my lungs. Plus I am saving SO much money.

It's not bad for you either, in any measurable way.  I haven't had actual tobacco since September, and I don't miss it even a tiny bit.

I'm not convinced of that. AFAIK, the nicotine is suspended in propylene glycol. So there's still the nicotine itself, which is bad for you, plus I'm not sure what the long term effects of exposing your lungs to propylene glycol is.

The glycol is the particular one used in emergency inhalers since the year dot.

Nicotine, on its own and in the concentrations used in e-cigs, is about as bad as a cup of coffee.

Don't get me wrong, I know it's VASTLY better than actual smoking, or even using those tasty minty little camel snus pouches. Just not convinced it's COMPLETELY harmless. Not that I care all that much.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Placid Dingo on January 28, 2014, 06:43:57 AM
I don't really care what happens on Facebook, but I think some of you may have blocked the 'Skeletin' character. From what I saw, she threw off at DOUR and Cram responded to her. Just in case that's the misunderstanding in place.

If it's not, please jsut disregard this comment.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 28, 2014, 06:44:41 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 28, 2014, 12:39:59 AM
So today I found out that the new apartment is within walking distance to Smuttynose Brewery. Yesterday we fell on top of Red Hook and had to stop in for a brew. Come to find out, Shipyard is within spitting distance across the river I cannot pronounce. Holy balls, I'm about to be surrounded by beer.

Shityard is OK, barely. Don't know the NH beer scene too well but some good Maine breweries that you should be able to find on tap and/or in stores include: Allagash. ALLAGASH. Gritty's, Geary's, and Sea Dog are all generally good and each one has one or two really good beers. Stone Coast is pretty awesome. Belfast Bay is really good. Oh, and the Bar Harbor Blueberry Ale is wicked popular but it's absolute crap. Someone will probably try to get you to drink one sooner or later but feel free to ignore them and their tastes after that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 28, 2014, 06:46:54 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:42:15 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 03:37:25 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:34:36 AM
I never finished my degree.  By now, I'd have to start all over again, and I simply lack the drive.  But I'm glad to see you doing so well, especially after how bad things seemed to be a few years back.

YOU KNOW

Um, I thought I would have to start from scratch, but for some reason they helpfully included those 16 credits from 20 years ago.  :lol:

You actually might be surprised at what they won't make you re-take.

Worth a mention, since you will soon find yourself not supporting a kid.

Yeah, but what I remember of math wouldn't get me through one semester.  I'd have to retake it because I don't remember it.  Trig, yes.  Some algebra, yes.  The chain rule.  That's it.

Also, I was talking with some Canucks back in the Old Country, and one of them wrote this (spelling unchanged):

QuoteIf this government wants to get rid of something get rid of them blood suckers in the senet. Make them members live on there wadges ,take there perks and boneses away.

WTF, CANADA?  WTF? 

The world is ending.

Maritime provinces, I presume? :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 28, 2014, 06:48:11 AM
Quote from: Placid Dingo on January 28, 2014, 06:43:57 AM
I don't really care what happens on Facebook, but I think some of you may have blocked the 'Skeletin' character. From what I saw, she threw off at DOUR and Cram responded to her. Just in case that's the misunderstanding in place.

If it's not, please jsut disregard this comment.

That dumbass blocked me, and I have no regrets.

Fuck her, and fuck the lot of them.

Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 28, 2014, 07:28:13 AM
Shit's getting serious. My old boss just blew 3 pages of sunshine up my ass in an email then asked me what my salary and benefit requirements were. I didn't sell myself short. We'll see what happens next.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 28, 2014, 07:46:50 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 28, 2014, 04:38:27 AM
Hey Nigel! LIKE A BOSS. Congrats!

DOUR, I've been thinking about "old". And you know what? Old people are CRABBY, and nobody goes up to them and tells them "SMILE!"
Old people carry STICKS.

I kind of look forward to this.
... If I actually get to old age people won't fuck with me....hmm... 

Quote from: Alty on January 28, 2014, 06:10:55 AM
Vodka does not seem to be doing anything. Why?
I have been at it for days with the stuff and it just does not do its god danned job.

...I find it tends to make me feel worse the next day...YMMV.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 28, 2014, 09:20:02 AM
Bleh.  I spent most of yesterday in a haze called "a complete and utter lack of sleep".

Fred, I would definitely recommend changing your course, if you don't enjoy it.  There are always times when a course wont be motivating you as much, but if you're not enjoying it at all (like I wasn't with Philosophy), then look into other options.  I'd recommend maybe attending a couple of lectures for any other courses your University offers, and seeing if something grabs you.

If it does, then you've got a starting point for asking about transferring credits etc.  I mean, it could be as trivial as going from Art into Art History, or something more.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 28, 2014, 01:21:51 PM
When I was a music performance major, I got interested in any form of music other than what I was studying.

When I switched to music engineering and production, I fell down a rabbit hole of wonder and glory.

Maybe it's not that you hate art, but rather you hate the kind of art you're doing.  If you can find another angle that suits your interests better, you can still use the credits you've gathered, but just for a different purpose.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 28, 2014, 02:46:37 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 28, 2014, 06:44:41 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 28, 2014, 12:39:59 AM
So today I found out that the new apartment is within walking distance to Smuttynose Brewery. Yesterday we fell on top of Red Hook and had to stop in for a brew. Come to find out, Shipyard is within spitting distance across the river I cannot pronounce. Holy balls, I'm about to be surrounded by beer.

Shityard is OK, barely. Don't know the NH beer scene too well but some good Maine breweries that you should be able to find on tap and/or in stores include: Allagash. ALLAGASH. Gritty's, Geary's, and Sea Dog are all generally good and each one has one or two really good beers. Stone Coast is pretty awesome. Belfast Bay is really good. Oh, and the Bar Harbor Blueberry Ale is wicked popular but it's absolute crap. Someone will probably try to get you to drink one sooner or later but feel free to ignore them and their tastes after that.

I FUCKING LOVE ALLAGASH! Their double white is my go-to all the time, "just want a nice refreshing glass of awesome" beer. Not a fan of Sea Dog, I call it Soap Dog, mostly because everyone drinks their blueberry, and it takes like fucking soap in comparison to Wachusett or Newport Storm's RI Blueberry. Newport Storm may churn out a lot of ass (they're very experimental) but their blueberry and Octoberfest are failproof.

Smuttynose is pretty good, they can get rather hoppy, but their Old Brown Dog is a staple. Portsmouth Brewery is owned by the same folks. They're small. Red Hook is, well, Red Hook. It's Seattle beer with a 2nd brewery on the East Coast.  It was a really nice place though and when we were asking questions to our server, she had the manager come over and we were invited back anytime to talk with one of the brewers because they like getting new ideas from the public.

So far I'm pretty impressed with the area. Everybody is genuinely easy going, but Freestaters really do get their feathers ruffled when you say you're moving in. That whole, "Welcome to New Hampshire, now please leave" attitude can be a bit much from some people, but at the same time, there's a lot of others that are like, "Oh, check this out, go here, go there, if you need anything give me a call." Especially Navy. Unlike Groton/New London where they're sick of the base, Portsmouth/Kittery still very much supports the shipyard (probably because it's their ONLY source of money in the off-season.) Although Kittery is one big shopping mall, but the Trading Post...OMG. I could stock up for the apocalypse there.

Basically, we're going to be there for a year and a half. So we figure we're going to make the most out of it. We are going to go to Portland for a day soon to check it out, and we've been invited up to Bangor as well to see "real Maine." Same thing up in the White Mountains to see "real New Hampshire."

I'm also looking into the area museums, especially the Strawbery Banke, to put in volunteer hours for curation and archiving so I can start getting things on my resume.


...I'm also very impressed with their snow removal skills.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 28, 2014, 05:10:50 PM
Let me know if you're headed up towards Bangor. There's actually not shit in Bangor worth seeing, really, but there's lots of cool stuff an hour's drive in any direction, including the restaurant I used to chef at and may be cheffing at again by the time you get up that way.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 05:17:56 PM
I'm off to have my orifices probed! First physical since my surgery. Wish me luck!
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 28, 2014, 05:21:58 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 28, 2014, 05:10:50 PM
Let me know if you're headed up towards Bangor. There's actually not shit in Bangor worth seeing, really, but there's lots of cool stuff an hour's drive in any direction, including the restaurant I used to chef at and may be cheffing at again by the time you get up that way.

Will do. There's a lot of nature up there and the almost-husband wants to take me out into it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 05:25:48 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 05:34:22 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:31:05 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:28:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:25:13 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 28, 2014, 04:24:12 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 27, 2014, 05:07:38 PM
I think I'm done with TDS2014.  I'm not going to throw poop all over the walls, but I am not going to accept being slapped down for taking part in a conversation, either.

:x :x :x

Going to have a look.

Ah, leave it be.  There's no point splattering shit all over the...

...holy shit.  I'm getting OLD.

:lulz:

You should use it the way Zach and I use it. As an intermittent fuckfest, when we get bored with other things.

Oh, I'll be back, once I get over my butthurt.

I don't know why it bothered me so much.  It wasn't exactly surprising.

I still think it's a misunderstanding based on the arbitrary order in which Facebook posts comments. For you, his comment came right after your comment. For  me, it showed up in response to the Bieber comment, which posted  the same minute yours did, and "who cares?" makes way more sense in reply to a Bieber comment, from a guy who has been spamming Bieber comments all over the fucking place for weeks. It's his thing. It makes little to no sense in reply to your comment.

This is why I haven't been spraying shit all over the walls.  He might not have been talking to me.

Plus, there's this whole "Why can't Roger seem to get along with anyone this month" thing, which is apparently ME and not all of You People.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 05:27:11 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 28, 2014, 06:46:54 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:42:15 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 03:37:25 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 03:34:36 AM
I never finished my degree.  By now, I'd have to start all over again, and I simply lack the drive.  But I'm glad to see you doing so well, especially after how bad things seemed to be a few years back.

YOU KNOW

Um, I thought I would have to start from scratch, but for some reason they helpfully included those 16 credits from 20 years ago.  :lol:

You actually might be surprised at what they won't make you re-take.

Worth a mention, since you will soon find yourself not supporting a kid.

Yeah, but what I remember of math wouldn't get me through one semester.  I'd have to retake it because I don't remember it.  Trig, yes.  Some algebra, yes.  The chain rule.  That's it.

Also, I was talking with some Canucks back in the Old Country, and one of them wrote this (spelling unchanged):

QuoteIf this government wants to get rid of something get rid of them blood suckers in the senet. Make them members live on there wadges ,take there perks and boneses away.

WTF, CANADA?  WTF? 

The world is ending.

Maritime provinces, I presume? :lulz:

Retired mail carrier in Hamilton, Ontario.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2014, 05:33:33 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 05:41:20 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:30:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:28:18 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:24:32 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:22:53 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:17:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:16:01 AM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Math is beautiful and perfect. I was lured toward math for a while, but I decided in the end that I actually want the messy, complicated, ugly realities of biology and human behavior.

But math. Math! So lovely. So perfect. So CLEAN.

Math was always my first love. 

It tells you the hideous truth.  And you dream about it at night, when you're in the depths of your studies.

I miss dreaming about math.

Not me.  Linear algebra is bad enough when you're AWAKE.  Difficult AND tedious.

But calc, now...That's a fucking SEX DREAM.

You're making me so jealous... I never got to take calc. I don't, technically, need it.

But I WANT it.

Take it as continuing education, then.  It's fun, but it's a time sump that will harm your required courses. Seriously, I've seen it knock people right out of college.

No joke, it eats your life.  Hours and hours and hours per week.

Everything I have ever heard from EVERYONE about calc is that it makes everything make sense, and it makes it SO MUCH EASIER.

And they are in fact telling you the truth.  But are they remembering how many problems they had to run to learn the damn stuff well enough for a test?  For me, it was about 3 hours a day, 7 days a week, but I have to bash stuff through my skull.  You should plan on 2 hours/day, 6 days per week.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 28, 2014, 07:04:10 PM
Finished my article on Iraq.  Will need a bit of polishing before it gets sent off, but that can be done tomorrow.  It's mostly all there.

I hate having writing assignments hanging over me.  After this, there is another one for my course.  20 days or so away, give or take, but knowing it is there is annoying.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 28, 2014, 07:33:33 PM
Some of the guys in my SCA household are trying to plan a Norse feast, in which they are talking about eating hearty meats and drinking mead.

So I showed them hakarl, and said that in order to be a real Viking, you have to eat REAL Viking food.

...Suddenly, they changed their mind.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 28, 2014, 07:35:21 PM
Is that the rotten shark meat stuff that's more of a dare than actual food?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: trippinprincezz13 on January 28, 2014, 07:41:25 PM
Irritable as all hell today. Not angry at or with anything, or even in a particularly bad mood, if that makes sense. It just feels like everything is grating on my last nerve just because it's there, but again, not worked up enough to be mad at anything. A bit tired, but even sleep sounds annoying. More that I just want to crawl out of my own skin.

Meh
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 28, 2014, 07:59:36 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 28, 2014, 05:21:58 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 28, 2014, 05:10:50 PM
Let me know if you're headed up towards Bangor. There's actually not shit in Bangor worth seeing, really, but there's lots of cool stuff an hour's drive in any direction, including the restaurant I used to chef at and may be cheffing at again by the time you get up that way.

Will do. There's a lot of nature up there and the almost-husband wants to take me out into it.

Oh yeah, there is no shortage of really really awesome spots in central/eastern/midcoast Maine. Gulf Hagis, The Forks, Schoodic Peninsula, Roque Bluffs, Camden Hills, and any of the offshore islands are all pretty amazing and mostly not overrun with tourists like Acadia is, though Camden Hills can get crowded in the summer if you try to go to the main entrance. Baxter State Park is more impressive than most national parks and if you're up for the long and rugged hike, the view from the top of Katahdin is the single most stunning viewpoint in the US east of the Rockies.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on January 28, 2014, 08:07:12 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 05:17:56 PM
I'm off to have my orifices probed! First physical since my surgery. Wish me luck!

Good luck!

I bet you're healthy as an ox!
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 08:41:17 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 05:33:33 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 05:41:20 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:30:07 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:28:18 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:24:32 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:22:53 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:17:01 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:16:01 AM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Math is beautiful and perfect. I was lured toward math for a while, but I decided in the end that I actually want the messy, complicated, ugly realities of biology and human behavior.

But math. Math! So lovely. So perfect. So CLEAN.

Math was always my first love. 

It tells you the hideous truth.  And you dream about it at night, when you're in the depths of your studies.

I miss dreaming about math.

Not me.  Linear algebra is bad enough when you're AWAKE.  Difficult AND tedious.

But calc, now...That's a fucking SEX DREAM.

You're making me so jealous... I never got to take calc. I don't, technically, need it.

But I WANT it.

Take it as continuing education, then.  It's fun, but it's a time sump that will harm your required courses. Seriously, I've seen it knock people right out of college.

No joke, it eats your life.  Hours and hours and hours per week.

Everything I have ever heard from EVERYONE about calc is that it makes everything make sense, and it makes it SO MUCH EASIER.

And they are in fact telling you the truth.  But are they remembering how many problems they had to run to learn the damn stuff well enough for a test?  For me, it was about 3 hours a day, 7 days a week, but I have to bash stuff through my skull.  You should plan on 2 hours/day, 6 days per week.

Most of the people I know who talk about calc are students who are taking it right now. 12 hours of homework a week sounds about right.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 08:43:21 PM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 08:07:12 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 05:17:56 PM
I'm off to have my orifices probed! First physical since my surgery. Wish me luck!

Good luck!

I bet you're healthy as an ox!

Other than high blood pressure, it looks  like I am. Blood tests will take a week or so though. Knock on wood!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 28, 2014, 08:48:38 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 28, 2014, 07:35:21 PM
Is that the rotten shark meat stuff that's more of a dare than actual food?

It is. But people actually eat it, and have been eating it, since the Norse colonized Iceland. :vom:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 28, 2014, 08:49:47 PM
I believe that's one of the few foods Andrew Zimmern wouldn't eat.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 28, 2014, 09:03:11 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 28, 2014, 07:33:33 PM
Some of the guys in my SCA household are trying to plan a Norse feast, in which they are talking about eating hearty meats and drinking mead.

So I showed them hakarl, and said that in order to be a real Viking, you have to eat REAL Viking food.

...Suddenly, they changed their mind.
http://www.b3ta.com/questions/bestandworstfood/post1221743

QuoteI live in Sweden - and it pains me to tell you this, but I have eaten "SurStrömming".
Sprouts are like Cadbury's chocolate... and Smoked Eel (eaten here at x-mas) is a tasty treat in comparison.

Here's how the culinary comedians make it.
Catch Herring.
Kill Herring
Put Herring in Salt water... and LEAVE IT OUT IN THE SUN. (wankers)
Check to see if the fish stinks yet...
Leave it out in the sun some more.
Tin the herring in special corrugated tins that can expand. (this shit FERMENTS)

There are some airlines who won't allow you to fly with this stuff. NOT because the exploding tin is dangerous, but because the smell is impossible to get rid of, and until the plane is stripped and re-furnished, all passengers will be vomiting and gagging.

So... A happy summers day and a Swede says "Hey... have you tried Shuurshtrööömming yet?"
My first mistake was to say "no"
Leif happily produces a Tin that looks like a metal Football, and grinning like a wanking Eskimo he places it on a fencing post and hands me a rifle... "open it" says he...

My second shot grazed the tin, and it span off into the long grass hissing like an angry moggie with a stick of ginger up it's arse.

The smell of the fetid fish-oil on the approach to the tin made me gag... this is quite literately rotten fish, and you can buy it in the supermarkets. some of the tins aren't even even painted - probably because it just peels off again..

Admittedly when eating it you back it up with shed-loads of vodka and the like, but I honestly have never tasted anything so vile in my entire life. Even managing to get it into your mouth is a hurdle - based on the smell, your body tries to reject it. A reasonable reflex in my opinion.
The purest Absolout failed to strip my pallet of the taste, and god knows, I tried again and again.

Sprouts, (though it is satan's addition to x-mas), are a meal for kings when compared.

I developed the opinion that anything that has to be opened at a distance with a firearm should not actually be classed as food

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 28, 2014, 09:26:08 PM
Yet, curiously, fermented fish is a delicious seasoning for many foods! And of course, we eat many other "rotten" foods, like pickles, sauerkraut, cheese, yogurt, and so on.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 28, 2014, 10:45:05 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 28, 2014, 07:33:33 PM
Some of the guys in my SCA household are trying to plan a Norse feast, in which they are talking about eating hearty meats and drinking mead.

So I showed them hakarl, and said that in order to be a real Viking, you have to eat REAL Viking food.

...Suddenly, they changed their mind.
Had never heard of that...so I found this blog entry:
http://www.meemalee.com/2010/12/hakarl-rotten-shark-worst-thing-i-have.html
Quote
(So moved am I by the noxious fumes - like ramming bleach right up your nostrils - I break my self-imposed holiday Twitter ban that night to tweet that it resembles "a tramp's sock soaked in urine").

The hilarious thing is how (in contrast to svið), hakarl appears to be the most innocuous thing in the world - little creamy-white cubes stuck on toothpicks - like 70s party food, if that party was held in Hell.
Eyes watering with pain, I decide the easiest way to get rid of the unholy fug is to just eat the damned stuff. Holding my nose, I poke a cube of shark in my mouth and chew.

UUhhhhhHHooorraAAAAAAUhrrrRRRRrughhhauuKAAAarrrrUUUuull.

Hákarl is in fact a good approximation of the sound your throat makes as it contorts and constricts in a desperate attempt to regurgitate the chunks of fetid fish.
She also writes about eating another icelandic delicacy...svið:
http://www.meemalee.com/2010/06/satans-face-on-plate-iceland.html

Edited to add: I doubt "stinky tofu" even compares, so there's no vegan equivalents, methinks.   Though I'm willing to give that particular one a whirl.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 28, 2014, 10:47:33 PM
I complain about my job a lot, but it's nice that there is someone whose job is to receive diagrams I have scribbled out in sloppy pen and turn them into proper Visio diagrams for which I get credit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 28, 2014, 11:56:08 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 09:26:08 PM
Yet, curiously, fermented fish is a delicious seasoning for many foods! And of course, we eat many other "rotten" foods, like pickles, sauerkraut, cheese, yogurt, and so on.

And it has been for many years, actually. Fermented fish sauces are usually divine, but hakarl is supposedly extremely vile.

Quote from: Random anger problem on January 28, 2014, 10:45:05 PM

She also writes about eating another icelandic delicacy...svið:
http://www.meemalee.com/2010/06/satans-face-on-plate-iceland.html

Edited to add: I doubt "stinky tofu" even compares, so there's no vegan equivalents, methinks.   Though I'm willing to give that particular one a whirl.

I've done the sheep's head. It's scarier looking than it really is.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 29, 2014, 12:14:02 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 28, 2014, 11:56:08 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 09:26:08 PM
Yet, curiously, fermented fish is a delicious seasoning for many foods! And of course, we eat many other "rotten" foods, like pickles, sauerkraut, cheese, yogurt, and so on.

And it has been for many years, actually. Fermented fish sauces are usually divine, but hakarl is supposedly extremely vile.

Quote from: Random anger problem on January 28, 2014, 10:45:05 PM

She also writes about eating another icelandic delicacy...svið:
http://www.meemalee.com/2010/06/satans-face-on-plate-iceland.html

Edited to add: I doubt "stinky tofu" even compares, so there's no vegan equivalents, methinks.   Though I'm willing to give that particular one a whirl.

I've done the sheep's head. It's scarier looking than it really is.

Even getting past the idea of faces and eyeballs, it looks like it would be mostly gristle and connective tissue crap. Like a pigfoot.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 29, 2014, 12:23:26 AM
I can't find the county psych clinic phone number; the Abilify isn't doing anything for me. 
I put in a call to the number I do have; they'll get back to me with the number I actually need.
The main hospital doesn't have the outpatient psych clinic number.

The thought of going to the outpatient psych ER has crossed my mind. 
I don't know that that would even help though; and it might cost me my job if I get locked up...I can't see that convo going well.
"Hi, boss, I can't make it to work.  I'm locked up and they took my shoelaces."

Maybe I'll just go spend money I don't have instead and go eat something deep-fat fried and dripping in MSG-laden sauce, this might be good for a slight lift...Or have a pint of almond milk based ice cream or something...

Apparently, the only  atypical antipsychotic that showed any anti-depressant effect in meta-analysis was risperdal anyway. 
http://www.thementalelf.net/mental-health-conditions/depression/atypical-antipsychotics-dont-improve-quality-of-life-in-treatment-resistant-depression/
If the doc wants to stick to adding AP's I will tell him I want to try risperdal instead
...I think I want to try a tricyclic though. They're more powerful than the SSRI's.  They have more side-effects though,but then so does risperdal.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 29, 2014, 12:26:38 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 28, 2014, 11:56:08 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 09:26:08 PM
Yet, curiously, fermented fish is a delicious seasoning for many foods! And of course, we eat many other "rotten" foods, like pickles, sauerkraut, cheese, yogurt, and so on.

And it has been for many years, actually. Fermented fish sauces are usually divine, but hakarl is supposedly extremely vile.

Quote from: Random anger problem on January 28, 2014, 10:45:05 PM

She also writes about eating another icelandic delicacy...svið:
http://www.meemalee.com/2010/06/satans-face-on-plate-iceland.html

Edited to add: I doubt "stinky tofu" even compares, so there's no vegan equivalents, methinks.   Though I'm willing to give that particular one a whirl.

I've done the sheep's head. It's scarier looking than it really is.
Back when I ate meat, I tried tongue tacos...the meat tasted very much like a chewy roast beef, and was very good.
  I imagine sheep's head tastes similar.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 29, 2014, 12:43:35 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 29, 2014, 12:14:02 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 28, 2014, 11:56:08 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 09:26:08 PM
Yet, curiously, fermented fish is a delicious seasoning for many foods! And of course, we eat many other "rotten" foods, like pickles, sauerkraut, cheese, yogurt, and so on.

And it has been for many years, actually. Fermented fish sauces are usually divine, but hakarl is supposedly extremely vile.

Quote from: Random anger problem on January 28, 2014, 10:45:05 PM

She also writes about eating another icelandic delicacy...svið:
http://www.meemalee.com/2010/06/satans-face-on-plate-iceland.html

Edited to add: I doubt "stinky tofu" even compares, so there's no vegan equivalents, methinks.   Though I'm willing to give that particular one a whirl.

I've done the sheep's head. It's scarier looking than it really is.

Even getting past the idea of faces and eyeballs, it looks like it would be mostly gristle and connective tissue crap. Like a pigfoot.

The cheeks and the tongue are incredibly tender. I did not eat the tongue (I couldn't do it...) but my friend who did said that it was amazing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 29, 2014, 01:11:46 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 28, 2014, 11:56:08 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 09:26:08 PM
Yet, curiously, fermented fish is a delicious seasoning for many foods! And of course, we eat many other "rotten" foods, like pickles, sauerkraut, cheese, yogurt, and so on.

And it has been for many years, actually. Fermented fish sauces are usually divine, but hakarl is supposedly extremely vile.


:lol: I didn't think that the antiquity of fermented fish was under question, given that it exists in some form or other in every culture that had access to fish, ever.

I can't help suspecting that familiarity and acclimatization play a large role in how people react to the stuff. Here in the NW, it was common until not too long ago to ferment hooligan in barrels and skim the oil off to use as a sort of fishy butter. Outsiders thought it was disgusting.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 29, 2014, 01:13:29 AM
Tongue tacos are DELICIOUS.

And cheek is the best.

Still haven't managed to eat an eyeball though. Too gristly.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 29, 2014, 01:19:55 AM
I'm getting pretty fucking burned out on stoichiometry problems.

I'm determined to finish the motherfuckers today, though. So that I can move on to some enthalpy.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 29, 2014, 01:29:28 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 29, 2014, 01:11:46 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 28, 2014, 11:56:08 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 09:26:08 PM
Yet, curiously, fermented fish is a delicious seasoning for many foods! And of course, we eat many other "rotten" foods, like pickles, sauerkraut, cheese, yogurt, and so on.

And it has been for many years, actually. Fermented fish sauces are usually divine, but hakarl is supposedly extremely vile.


:lol: I didn't think that the antiquity of fermented fish was under question, given that it exists in some form or other in every culture that had access to fish, ever.

I can't help suspecting that familiarity and acclimatization play a large role in how people react to the stuff. Here in the NW, it was common until not too long ago to ferment hooligan in barrels and skim the oil off to use as a sort of fishy butter. Outsiders thought it was disgusting.

It's a food source, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to get the calories you need to survive.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 29, 2014, 01:38:09 AM
Sometimes, I get a tiny pang of pleasure in my clitoris when I complete a set of stoichiometry problems.

It's unnerving.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 29, 2014, 02:43:20 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 29, 2014, 01:38:09 AM
Sometimes, I get a tiny pang of pleasure in my clitoris when I complete a set of stoichiometry problems.

It's unnerving.

You get off on chemistry.  :lulz:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 29, 2014, 02:46:16 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:08:54 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:04:01 AM
From what I have observed, the barriers to graduating are, in order:

1.  A family (this is what got me).
2.  Money.
3.  Beer.

For me, it was money, ignorance, men, and having kids, in that order.

Started out with no money, and my mom withdrew support.
Due to lack of parental support I was ignorant of how to navigate the system (and at 20, the year my mom cut me off, couldn't qualify for financial aid anyway).
Got married to an ass who had no interest in me going to school.
Got divorced, and LIKE AN IDIOT, promptly remarried to another ass who had no interest in me going to school.
Had kids.

For me, it was:
1) Not being ready/not knowing what I wanted to do
2) Being prompted by a girlfriend to go to school, each time, which predictably increased my chances of dropping out once the relationship ended
3) Laziness in registering for FAFSA (and therefore money) and for classes (in reverse chronological order).
4) Beer
5) Not being frustrated enough with my lack of progress in life to give me the momentum to keep going regardless of the previous 4. I really had to get to the point where I was like, "Fuck all of this shit, including dropping out only to go back to school again" to make it happen.

Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:16:01 AM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Math is beautiful and perfect. I was lured toward math for a while, but I decided in the end that I actually want the messy, complicated, ugly realities of biology and human behavior.

But math. Math! So lovely. So perfect. So CLEAN.

I'm, so far at least, better at math than I am at science, probably for this exact reason. I can get frustrated with it sometimes but I think that's probably due to the fact that I either do it at night when I'm tired or do it during the days on the weekend for several hours at a time and burn out. I'm getting better at recognizing the latter.

I like how the shit actually makes sense, for the most part, to me, as opposed to high school when I thought it the most bewildering thing in the world. I just couldn't get it.


I got real fidgety in Gen Bio II today. I might have to reconsider going to work for the 5 hours with additional commute in between classes. Like, had to stand up and sit down like a Catholic fidgety. Fortunately I prefer sitting at the back of the class.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 29, 2014, 03:37:04 AM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Yeeeeup.

I owe more money for that shitty design degree than I do for my history degree. It took me 13 fucking years to finish my undergrad studies, because I decided it was a better option to be a graphic designer instead. I know you didn't want to believe me a few years ago when I told you it was a bad idea, but I'm glad you've realized it. It's just not worth it. Not when companies are hiring high schoolers for minimum wage to do design work.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 29, 2014, 03:47:17 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 29, 2014, 02:46:16 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:08:54 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 28, 2014, 04:04:01 AM
From what I have observed, the barriers to graduating are, in order:

1.  A family (this is what got me).
2.  Money.
3.  Beer.

For me, it was money, ignorance, men, and having kids, in that order.

Started out with no money, and my mom withdrew support.
Due to lack of parental support I was ignorant of how to navigate the system (and at 20, the year my mom cut me off, couldn't qualify for financial aid anyway).
Got married to an ass who had no interest in me going to school.
Got divorced, and LIKE AN IDIOT, promptly remarried to another ass who had no interest in me going to school.
Had kids.

For me, it was:
1) Not being ready/not knowing what I wanted to do
2) Being prompted by a girlfriend to go to school, each time, which predictably increased my chances of dropping out once the relationship ended
3) Laziness in registering for FAFSA (and therefore money) and for classes (in reverse chronological order).
4) Beer
5) Not being frustrated enough with my lack of progress in life to give me the momentum to keep going regardless of the previous 4. I really had to get to the point where I was like, "Fuck all of this shit, including dropping out only to go back to school again" to make it happen.

Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 28, 2014, 04:16:01 AM
Quote from: Net on January 28, 2014, 04:13:51 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on January 28, 2014, 03:56:27 AM
I still haven't managed to graduate after 6 years because I totally suck. Also art school made me hate art. I think I will graduate next spring tho finally...I hope

I didn't graduate either after being in school for 5-6 years.

I hate art schools now, but not art. In fact, I hate them so much that I refused to take the 3 remaining classes required to graduate from their crony-corporatist shit-show of a school. I'm going to cash those credits in on a worthwhile degree.

When I'm able to go back to school it's going to be in the hard sciences....possibly math. Pure fucking math. Shit where it's undeniable you've got the RIGHT answer and can fucking PROVE it. No more of this design bullshit that no one gives a shit about unless they're a rich, overeducated pisshole.

SUU WAS RIGHT, GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, IT'S A FUCKIN SCAM!

Math is beautiful and perfect. I was lured toward math for a while, but I decided in the end that I actually want the messy, complicated, ugly realities of biology and human behavior.

But math. Math! So lovely. So perfect. So CLEAN.

I'm, so far at least, better at math than I am at science, probably for this exact reason. I can get frustrated with it sometimes but I think that's probably due to the fact that I either do it at night when I'm tired or do it during the days on the weekend for several hours at a time and burn out. I'm getting better at recognizing the latter.

I like how the shit actually makes sense, for the most part, to me, as opposed to high school when I thought it the most bewildering thing in the world. I just couldn't get it.


I got real fidgety in Gen Bio II today. I might have to reconsider going to work for the 5 hours with additional commute in between classes. Like, had to stand up and sit down like a Catholic fidgety. Fortunately I prefer sitting at the back of the class.

It might be not that you're "better" at math than you are at science, so much as that the math you're doing is way easier than the science you're doing. Gen chem and intro bio are both far more complicated than anything you'll be doing with math for at least a few more terms. In fact, they're more complicated than any math anyone other than a math major is likely to take. Consider that the only people who typically take the gen chem and intro bio series are science majors and premed, whereas all science majors and premeds and pretty much everybody but humanities and art majors are expected to take math at least through stats II or calc II. Math majors don't take the big-kid science classes, they take the science classes for non-science majors. Likewise, science majors don't take the big-kid math classes.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 29, 2014, 04:08:49 AM
Fish sauce, et al is a condiment. From what I can tell, the Rotten Shark is a full dish.  Imagine, if you will, an entire patty made of Thai fermented shrimp paste, or a pint of Nam Pla.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 29, 2014, 05:32:34 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 29, 2014, 04:08:49 AM
Fish sauce, et al is a condiment. From what I can tell, the Rotten Shark is a full dish.  Imagine, if you will, an entire patty made of Thai fermented shrimp paste, or a pint of Nam Pla.

There are quite a few fermented fish dishes, though. Rakfisk, surstromming, stinkheads, hakari, etc.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 29, 2014, 05:33:44 AM
I'm just saying it's not that weird and is probably mostly more a matter of familiarity than anything else. I mean, the Japanese think that cheese is disgusting, and that Natto is delicious.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 29, 2014, 05:43:35 AM
Also, as I understand it, the hakarl is usually consumed much like a strong cheese would be, in small cubes on a toothpick, chased with spirits.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 29, 2014, 06:10:41 AM
And of course, there are the mildly-fermented fish we love to eat, like anchovies.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 29, 2014, 06:16:54 AM
Have I posted this here yet? http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_sapolsky_the_uniqueness_of_humans.html

I think that Roger in particular would appreciate this, particularly for reasons that start around 25 minutes in.

Also, probably because almost everything we know about the primate nature of human behavior, we know because of this guy.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 29, 2014, 06:17:17 AM
i tried anchovy pizza once, they were super salty and i wanna say...hairy? are they supposed to be hairy?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 29, 2014, 06:22:11 AM
Nooo they really shouldn't be hairy.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 29, 2014, 06:22:27 AM
Salty, chewy, and tangy, though; yes.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 29, 2014, 06:27:50 AM
maybe it was just my pizza place, i suspect i was the first person to order an anchovy pizza there in some time.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 29, 2014, 06:28:13 AM
You should prevomit all aquatically based sustenance.

Doktor Blight,
hates seafood and you do too.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 29, 2014, 06:36:03 AM
Seafood is at the base of my food pyramid.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 29, 2014, 06:37:05 AM
I just now found that a very old friend whom I may have mentioned here or there (I know I have, at least once) is currently back in Boston. His Foster Mother is dying.

I don't know what to say to him.

I offered to meet up with him, for cheap ass burgers in Southie, and I think that's the best I can do right now.

I confirmed that he knows my cell number and gave him my class schedule.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 29, 2014, 06:41:20 AM
(he's from Southie, or South Boston, obviously, but currently lives in Hawaii)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 29, 2014, 07:25:35 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 29, 2014, 06:37:05 AM
I just now found that a very old friend whom I may have mentioned here or there (I know I have, at least once) is currently back in Boston. His Foster Mother is dying.

I don't know what to say to him.


Just show up, be prepared to listen...or just bullshit.  Either will help.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 29, 2014, 07:30:16 AM
Quote from: Random anger problem on January 29, 2014, 07:25:35 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 29, 2014, 06:37:05 AM
I just now found that a very old friend whom I may have mentioned here or there (I know I have, at least once) is currently back in Boston. His Foster Mother is dying.

I don't know what to say to him.


Just show up, be prepared to listen...or just bullshit.  Either will help.

I know.

It's just that he was a very close friend, and well, then Georgia, and then Hawaii.

I may flat out tell him, dude, sorry, glad to see you again, wish it was under better circumstances.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 29, 2014, 07:38:07 AM
I did tell him that I would pray to his pre-Jesus god for her. And I did. I said the Shema and preemptive Kaddish.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 29, 2014, 08:33:25 AM
I think it's safe to ignore the opinion of the guy Junkenstein posted - he clearly cannot even cook brussels sprouts right, so his culinary expertise can be safely discarded.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 29, 2014, 11:06:32 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 29, 2014, 05:32:34 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 29, 2014, 04:08:49 AM
Fish sauce, et al is a condiment. From what I can tell, the Rotten Shark is a full dish.  Imagine, if you will, an entire patty made of Thai fermented shrimp paste, or a pint of Nam Pla.

There are quite a few fermented fish dishes, though. Rakfisk, surstromming, stinkheads, hakari, etc.

I have yet to try Surströmming and hakari, but Rakfisk is fucking delicious.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 29, 2014, 01:03:59 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 29, 2014, 05:32:34 AM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 29, 2014, 04:08:49 AM
Fish sauce, et al is a condiment. From what I can tell, the Rotten Shark is a full dish.  Imagine, if you will, an entire patty made of Thai fermented shrimp paste, or a pint of Nam Pla.

There are quite a few fermented fish dishes, though. Rakfisk, surstromming, stinkheads, hakari, etc.
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 29, 2014, 06:10:41 AM
And of course, there are the mildly-fermented fish we love to eat, like anchovies.

Point goes to Nigel.  I conceed.  I do enjoy many kinds of rotten fish.

Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on January 29, 2014, 06:17:17 AM
i tried anchovy pizza once, they were super salty and i wanna say...hairy? are they supposed to be hairy?

Probably not hair, probably the bones.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2014, 01:47:50 PM
Around here, we call rotten fish "coyote food", and we all wince when you bestial lowlanders begin discussing your disgusting feeding habits.  This is precisely why we aren't accepting any more refugees, so you all just stay down on your ice sheet.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 29, 2014, 02:15:49 PM
Who said growing up is all work and no fun? We put the minivexen to bed and then stayed up another 2 hours playing with their Legos. It turns out life does have small pleasures.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2014, 03:52:50 PM
Going to a meeting in 9 minutes.

It occurs to me that most memos translate out to "hey, I wrote a memo".

It also occurs to me that most meetings are actually based on "I had the juice to call a meeting and make all of you fuckers attend".

So now I have to make sure that nobody ever wants to invite me to one of these again.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 29, 2014, 04:09:01 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 29, 2014, 03:52:50 PM
Going to a meeting in 9 minutes.

It occurs to me that most memos translate out to "hey, I wrote a memo".

It also occurs to me that most meetings are actually based on "I had the juice to call a meeting and make all of you fuckers attend".

So now I have to make sure that nobody ever wants to invite me to one of these again.

I get the impression you work in a place that's rather like a nightmare version of a Dilbert cartoon.

...
QuoteI wrote The Dilbert Principle around the concept that in many cases the least competent, least smart people are promoted, simply because they're the ones you don't want doing actual work. You want them ordering the doughnuts and yelling at people for not doing their assignments—you know, the easy work. Your heart surgeons and your computer programmers—your smart people—aren't in management. That principle was literally happening everywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 29, 2014, 04:27:51 PM
Combine that with the Peter principle, and you've got a hell of a workplace.

Quotepeople will tend to be promoted until they reach their "position of incompetence".
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 29, 2014, 04:44:17 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 29, 2014, 04:27:51 PM
Combine that with the Peter principle, and you've got a hell of a workplace.

Quotepeople will tend to be promoted until they reach their "position of incompetence".
The Peter Principle seems to explain my current manager amazingly well.  He's a nice guy, but a bloody horrible manager.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 29, 2014, 05:45:47 PM
Work was cancelled today. My store hasn't had a single customer. The manager drove 40 minutes on shit roads during a state of emergency only to get pissed off. I told him it had snowed and that Georgians everywhere were huddled in their houses, saying prayers to their bright and shining Sun Lord, praying for the cessation of this foul white substance that chills the bones and turns cars into flying death traps. He didn't believe me.

He will learn.

Oh yes.

He will learn.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2014, 06:13:32 PM
Well, that was a fun 2 hours.

Other Jerk:  "We're going to do such-and-such.  How much will that cost, Roger?"

Roger:  "$70,000, if you don't want any bells and whistles."

Mike:  "It would be a whole lot better if it would cost $48,000."

Roger:  "Life would be a whole lot better if my wants and needs were so casually accepted by the universe, too."

Mike:  "So, what, $55,000?"

Roger:  "Yes, but you don't get a roof and the machine isn't connected to any power."

Mike:  "But I need a roof and power."

Roger:  "Then it's $70,000."

Mike:  "I don't like your attitude.  You're being very unreasonable."

Roger:  "Watch as I completely fail to give a fuck."

Jim:  "Be nice."

Roger:  "I am being nice.  The universe - and this includes vendors and contractors - works in a particular way.  You don't get more out than you put in.  Period.  The end."

Mike:  "Well, let's just put $48,000 down.  We can change it later."

Roger:  "Do what you like.  I'm not signing off on this unless it says at least $70,000."

Mike:  "You're being obstructionist."

Roger:  "No, I'm not violating Sarbanes/Oxely by fucking about with capital expenditures.  You want to go to jail, you go right ahead."

Jim:  "Fuck it, I'm tabling this.  NEXT ITEM."

Mike:  "The PCK.  Roger, how much is the infrastructure going to cost?"

Roger:  "$65,000."

Mike:  "It would be a whole lot better if it would cost $42,000."

Rinse, repeat.  For 2 hours.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 29, 2014, 06:16:06 PM
I think your bosses run the restaurant I work at.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2014, 06:18:49 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 29, 2014, 06:16:06 PM
I think your bosses run the restaurant I work at.

I think it's a personality type.  I really do.

Specifically, the autistic type that only sees a world in which everything is just the way they like it, and if not presented with that world, they go full potato and start biting people.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 29, 2014, 06:36:21 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 29, 2014, 06:18:49 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 29, 2014, 06:16:06 PM
I think your bosses run the restaurant I work at.

I think it's a personality type.  I really do.

Specifically, the autistic type that only sees a world in which everything is just the way they like it, and if not presented with that world, they go full potato and start biting people.

Can't you report that moron?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 29, 2014, 06:37:34 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 29, 2014, 06:13:32 PM
Well, that was a fun 2 hours.

Other Jerk:  "We're going to do such-and-such.  How much will that cost, Roger?"

Roger:  "$70,000, if you don't want any bells and whistles."

Mike:  "It would be a whole lot better if it would cost $48,000."

Roger:  "Life would be a whole lot better if my wants and needs were so casually accepted by the universe, too."

Mike:  "So, what, $55,000?"

Roger:  "Yes, but you don't get a roof and the machine isn't connected to any power."

Mike:  "But I need a roof and power."

Roger:  "Then it's $70,000."

Mike:  "I don't like your attitude.  You're being very unreasonable."

Roger:  "Watch as I completely fail to give a fuck."

Jim:  "Be nice."

Roger:  "I am being nice.  The universe - and this includes vendors and contractors - works in a particular way.  You don't get more out than you put in.  Period.  The end."

Mike:  "Well, let's just put $48,000 down.  We can change it later."

Roger:  "Do what you like.  I'm not signing off on this unless it says at least $70,000."

Mike:  "You're being obstructionist."

Roger:  "No, I'm not violating Sarbanes/Oxely by fucking about with capital expenditures.  You want to go to jail, you go right ahead."

Jim:  "Fuck it, I'm tabling this.  NEXT ITEM."

Mike:  "The PCK.  Roger, how much is the infrastructure going to cost?"

Roger:  "$65,000."

Mike:  "It would be a whole lot better if it would cost $42,000."

Rinse, repeat.  For 2 hours.

:lol: Wow. Maybe I should try that with the college, too. "It would be a whole lot better if this term cost $1500".
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 29, 2014, 06:38:06 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 29, 2014, 06:36:21 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 29, 2014, 06:18:49 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 29, 2014, 06:16:06 PM
I think your bosses run the restaurant I work at.

I think it's a personality type.  I really do.

Specifically, the autistic type that only sees a world in which everything is just the way they like it, and if not presented with that world, they go full potato and start biting people.

Can't you report that moron?

This was probably a really stupid thing to say. I apologize. I don't even work with him and I want to pound him into paste. I can't imagine what a draining effect his douchebaggery would have day after day after day after day.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2014, 06:39:41 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 29, 2014, 06:36:21 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 29, 2014, 06:18:49 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 29, 2014, 06:16:06 PM
I think your bosses run the restaurant I work at.

I think it's a personality type.  I really do.

Specifically, the autistic type that only sees a world in which everything is just the way they like it, and if not presented with that world, they go full potato and start biting people.

Can't you report that moron?

Not unless he actually does something.  And he's got just enough survival instincts to not do that shit unless he can get everyone else's signatures on it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2014, 06:41:31 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 29, 2014, 06:37:34 PM
:lol: Wow. Maybe I should try that with the college, too. "It would be a whole lot better if this term cost $1500".

:lulz:

Yeah, well, Mike is sort of a cross between Wally from Dilbert and the boss from Office Work.  Which is why he's not allowed to be in charge of anyone.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2014, 06:42:07 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 29, 2014, 06:38:06 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 29, 2014, 06:36:21 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 29, 2014, 06:18:49 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 29, 2014, 06:16:06 PM
I think your bosses run the restaurant I work at.

I think it's a personality type.  I really do.

Specifically, the autistic type that only sees a world in which everything is just the way they like it, and if not presented with that world, they go full potato and start biting people.

Can't you report that moron?

This was probably a really stupid thing to say. I apologize. I don't even work with him and I want to pound him into paste. I can't imagine what a draining effect his douchebaggery would have day after day after day after day.

No, no, it's okay.  And yeah, it is pretty bad.  But I occasionally have my fun.

Usually by crushing his dreams.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 29, 2014, 07:05:20 PM
This is spiffy:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15182905
....Boiled extract of common portulaca/purslane has about the same bronchodilatory effect as theophylline.

Grows everywhere in the lower 48, often quite happily in parking lots. Can be grown super-easily from branchlets.
  IIRC, also a very good source of plant omega-3-EFA's.
This stuff. 
(https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSYLfay0iKUgjUimY5Lt7o4Fvnpy-gbUHNoPCQ5V9araf3KrjFsIg)
(Reason for edit-wanted smaller picture.)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2014, 07:08:31 PM
Not familiar with that one.  The lower 48 must not include horrible, uninhabitable deserts.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 29, 2014, 07:21:56 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 29, 2014, 07:08:31 PM
Not familiar with that one.  The lower 48 must not include horrible, uninhabitable deserts.
Dunno, it's a succulent.  It would look less leafy where you live, and in the heat of the day the leaves would fold into the stem.
Maybe like this?:
(https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ9Xgydi8sDU1ksWZM_MpUMpgLfoqqW4mOyeMU3sRhMdEbFvmJ3ew)

Portulaca Grandiflora is probably sold in garden centers where you live, though I don't know if it's as nutritious:
(https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRvAziT4G1X-VFwBXuBFXZIVcPFTBiVUBZKAB3gNDYAd7yYQ0n1)
Note the round leaves.  There's a pointy-leafed version of P Grandiflora, but the leaves are bitter. 

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2014, 07:24:08 PM
Why is that sand red/brown?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 29, 2014, 07:54:43 PM
Blah, ran out of space on my hard drive for game footage.  I'll take this as the Great Internet Hivemend's way of telling me to start rendering my shit down.  And also to get a coffee.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2014, 07:57:25 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 29, 2014, 07:54:43 PM
And also to get a coffee.

This last bit should go without saying.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 29, 2014, 07:58:12 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 29, 2014, 06:42:07 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 29, 2014, 06:38:06 PM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 29, 2014, 06:36:21 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 29, 2014, 06:18:49 PM
Quote from: Jet City Hustle on January 29, 2014, 06:16:06 PM
I think your bosses run the restaurant I work at.

I think it's a personality type.  I really do.

Specifically, the autistic type that only sees a world in which everything is just the way they like it, and if not presented with that world, they go full potato and start biting people.

Can't you report that moron?

This was probably a really stupid thing to say. I apologize. I don't even work with him and I want to pound him into paste. I can't imagine what a draining effect his douchebaggery would have day after day after day after day.

No, no, it's okay.  And yeah, it is pretty bad.  But I occasionally have my fun.

Usually by crushing his dreams.

ROGER CRUSH!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 29, 2014, 08:05:12 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 29, 2014, 07:57:25 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 29, 2014, 07:54:43 PM
And also to get a coffee.

This last bit should go without saying.

True.  That bit could be added to almost every aspect of my life.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 29, 2014, 08:05:21 PM
1) Purslane also tastes good as a succulent.  And it's like a freakin' weed in New England.  You can find that stuff growing out of sidewalks.


2) Roger, can't you just add an extra $20,000 to your estimate, then go back to actual costs, and call it "compromise"?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2014, 08:17:11 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 29, 2014, 08:05:21 PM
1) Purslane also tastes good as a succulent.  And it's like a freakin' weed in New England.  You can find that stuff growing out of sidewalks.


2) Roger, can't you just add an extra $20,000 to your estimate, then go back to actual costs, and call it "compromise"?

I could...But why?  It's funnier to watch Mike go all spastic.  Besides, there's the principle of the whole thing:

I hate Mike.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 29, 2014, 08:28:59 PM
You make a damn good case.


The prosecution rests.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2014, 08:31:11 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 29, 2014, 08:28:59 PM
You make a damn good case.


The prosecution rests.

The thing is, I like to argue from reality.  I don't ever want them thinking there's any wiggle room in my estimates.  Give them an inch, they'll violate federal laws and drag you along with them.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 29, 2014, 08:35:59 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 29, 2014, 08:05:21 PM
1) Purslane also tastes good as a succulent.  And it's like a freakin' weed in New England.  You can find that stuff growing out of sidewalks.

Yup.  It is one tough-ass plant.  The thought of eating bronchodilators as a salad green is pretty swell...
I've noted what seems to be positive effect from turmeric, beets,  and white tea....reminds me, must drink white tea...
Of course caffeine opens lungs up too. MMM, coffeeeee....
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 29, 2014, 08:55:37 PM
I have completely given up the fight to bring sanity to the decision making processes of the executives at my company. When $25,000 for a fancy toy to broadcast video is a five-second decision, but $75,000 to actually provide the service we are selling to customers takes four months of bickering up and down the command chain, eventually coming out at "we'll pay $50,000 but we must have the same features as the $75,000 estimate," there is no hope for reason to win the day.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 29, 2014, 09:19:49 PM
Nice verizon lady:
"We can give you a tv-internet package for $99"
Me:
"I hate TV.  I don't own a TV"
Nice verizon lady:
"Well, if you ever change your mind, we could do that for you."
Me:
"I'll keep it in mind."

...Verizon is the only provider in this area; other options include nobody, nobody, and satellite... :argh!:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2014, 09:48:50 PM
Roger:  "Okay, Cramer...We turned the blower around like you wanted.  Now remember:  You have to adjust the damper before you put full pressure to the machine.  Got that?"

Cramer:  "Yep."

<5 minutes go by>

BANG

Bits of ceramic shoot through the roof and land on the ground outside.

Roger:  "Cramer, tell Dirty Old Uncle Roger what ya done wrong."

Cramer:  "I didn't adjust the damper."

Roger:  "Why didn't you adjust the damper, Cramer?"

Cramer:  "I was going to, but I got a text right when I started the machine."

Roger:  "And you walked away from the machine to answer the text."

Cramer:  "Yes."

Roger:  "Do you mind telling me what the $35,000 text was?"

Cramer:  "A pic of Tia Tequila nude."

Roger: "..."

Cramer:  "What?"

Roger:  "..."

Cramer:  "SORRY! WHAT?"

Roger:  "Nothing Cramer.  Nothing.  Go do whatever else you have to do.  We'll just get started here."

<10 minutes>

Cramer:  "The ball mill won't start."

Roger:  "Did you start the lube system first?"

Cramer:  "Oh, yeah."

Roger:  "How long have you been working here, Cramer?"

Cramer:  "8 years."

Roger:  "..."

Cramer:  "WHAT?"

Roger:  "..."

Cramer:  "I HATE WHEN YOU DO THAT.  I CAN HEAR YOU NOT SAYING ANYTHING!"





This is my job.  Where I work.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 29, 2014, 09:52:52 PM
Haven't we seen Tila Tequila nude since, like, 2004?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2014, 09:57:39 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 29, 2014, 09:52:52 PM
Haven't we seen Tila Tequila nude since, like, 2004?

This is Cramer we're talking about.  You could have sent him Courtney Love nude or a pic of a cat or some shit and he'd still fuck shit up.  Cramer is proof that you atheists are WRONG, because the universe acts differently when he's around.  Specifically, shit just blows up for NO FUCKING REASON.

The ball mill he was starting up just spit a brick out of the doorway.

There goes my weekend.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 29, 2014, 10:09:11 PM
Oh Jesus Fuck.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Freeky on January 29, 2014, 10:39:55 PM
I just tried to eat a pepper of some kind.  It was like, light green and four inches long or so.  I died for five minutes.  Then we watched a video of two guys eat ghost chilli peppers.  And then the adventure ended.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on January 30, 2014, 12:01:57 AM
I can't wait until I've been employed long enough to get a good feel for the assbaggery in the company I now work for. Things have seemed pretty stable, but I'm sure it's an optical illusion.

It might help that all of the engineers are downstairs and I work upstairs with the hydrologists, whom I believe were all banished upstairs for spaggotry.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 12:34:03 AM
Our highways are elaborate labyrinthine parking lots covered in ice and plastic sacks of trucker poop. Our streets are black ice covered asphalt. Everything is closed. Everyone is huddled inside, praying for the bright death star to turn its baleful eye from California and Arizona to our forsaken wasteland.

There are people who've been trapped on the highway for 22+ hours. No way off. No more gas. No welfare checks from first responders, nothing from any organization. And it's the snow's fault there's no infrastructure.

I can't stop giggling.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1079368
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on January 30, 2014, 12:41:58 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 12:34:03 AM
Our highways are elaborate labyrinthine parking lots covered in ice and plastic sacks of trucker poop. Our streets are black ice covered asphalt. Everything is closed. Everyone is huddled inside, praying for the bright death star to turn its baleful eye from California and Arizona to our forsaken wasteland.

There are people who've been trapped on the highway for 22+ hours. No way off. No more gas. No welfare checks from first responders, nothing from any organization. And it's the snow's fault there's no infrastructure.

I can't stop giggling.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1079368

You should really consider moving out of the third world country you live in.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 12:52:20 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 30, 2014, 12:41:58 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 12:34:03 AM
Our highways are elaborate labyrinthine parking lots covered in ice and plastic sacks of trucker poop. Our streets are black ice covered asphalt. Everything is closed. Everyone is huddled inside, praying for the bright death star to turn its baleful eye from California and Arizona to our forsaken wasteland.

There are people who've been trapped on the highway for 22+ hours. No way off. No more gas. No welfare checks from first responders, nothing from any organization. And it's the snow's fault there's no infrastructure.

I can't stop giggling.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1079368

You should really consider moving out of the third world country you live in.

I'm going to get shivved. They already hate Pepsi-swilling Yankees here. If I show up at work, driving without sliding into trees and driving on the sidewalks, they're going to shank me and pour Coca-Cola in the wounds.

And I still won't be able to stop giggling.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 12:56:17 AM
Yesterday it was 'hundreds and hundreds of accidents'. Today it's 'thousands'. The weather alert radio is going batshit. We're in a state of emergency. There's this high-pitched keening sort of noise coming from my face.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 01:01:52 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 12:52:20 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 30, 2014, 12:41:58 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 12:34:03 AM
Our highways are elaborate labyrinthine parking lots covered in ice and plastic sacks of trucker poop. Our streets are black ice covered asphalt. Everything is closed. Everyone is huddled inside, praying for the bright death star to turn its baleful eye from California and Arizona to our forsaken wasteland.

There are people who've been trapped on the highway for 22+ hours. No way off. No more gas. No welfare checks from first responders, nothing from any organization. And it's the snow's fault there's no infrastructure.

I can't stop giggling.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1079368

You should really consider moving out of the third world country you live in.

I'm going to get shivved. They already hate Pepsi-swilling Yankees here. If I show up at work, driving without sliding into trees and driving on the sidewalks, they're going to shank me and pour Coca-Cola in the wounds.

And I still won't be able to stop giggling.

You could point out that this is God's punishment for leaning on the Gays and stuff.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 01:08:03 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 01:01:52 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 12:52:20 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 30, 2014, 12:41:58 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 12:34:03 AM
Our highways are elaborate labyrinthine parking lots covered in ice and plastic sacks of trucker poop. Our streets are black ice covered asphalt. Everything is closed. Everyone is huddled inside, praying for the bright death star to turn its baleful eye from California and Arizona to our forsaken wasteland.

There are people who've been trapped on the highway for 22+ hours. No way off. No more gas. No welfare checks from first responders, nothing from any organization. And it's the snow's fault there's no infrastructure.

I can't stop giggling.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1079368

You should really consider moving out of the third world country you live in.

I'm going to get shivved. They already hate Pepsi-swilling Yankees here. If I show up at work, driving without sliding into trees and driving on the sidewalks, they're going to shank me and pour Coca-Cola in the wounds.

And I still won't be able to stop giggling.

You could point out that this is God's punishment for leaning on the Gays and stuff.

I'll go door-to-door in my t-shirt and shorts and give 'em the good news.

"Hello Sir. I've come with glad news. This is what happens to assholes like you who hate teh ghey and think corporations are people. Here's your complimentary salt packet for your sidewalk and rainbow hankie to dry your tears on. Cheer up, mister, only three more months before the burning day star returns. If you learn your lesson."
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 01:21:36 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 01:08:03 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 01:01:52 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 12:52:20 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 30, 2014, 12:41:58 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 12:34:03 AM
Our highways are elaborate labyrinthine parking lots covered in ice and plastic sacks of trucker poop. Our streets are black ice covered asphalt. Everything is closed. Everyone is huddled inside, praying for the bright death star to turn its baleful eye from California and Arizona to our forsaken wasteland.

There are people who've been trapped on the highway for 22+ hours. No way off. No more gas. No welfare checks from first responders, nothing from any organization. And it's the snow's fault there's no infrastructure.

I can't stop giggling.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1079368

You should really consider moving out of the third world country you live in.

I'm going to get shivved. They already hate Pepsi-swilling Yankees here. If I show up at work, driving without sliding into trees and driving on the sidewalks, they're going to shank me and pour Coca-Cola in the wounds.

And I still won't be able to stop giggling.

You could point out that this is God's punishment for leaning on the Gays and stuff.

I'll go door-to-door in my t-shirt and shorts and give 'em the good news.

"Hello Sir. I've come with glad news. This is what happens to assholes like you who hate teh ghey and think corporations are people. Here's your complimentary salt packet for your sidewalk and rainbow hankie to dry your tears on. Cheer up, mister, only three more months before the burning day star returns. If you learn your lesson."

Why, hello, and welcome to hell!  You've landed on one of the cold layers, and you'll be spending eternity here.

What?  You don't remember dying?  Most people don't.

Why are you here?  Oh, because God gets really mad when you use him as an excuse to hate people.  Anyway, here's the welcome wagon stuff, enjoy your stay!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 01:24:02 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 01:21:36 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 01:08:03 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 01:01:52 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 12:52:20 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 30, 2014, 12:41:58 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 12:34:03 AM
Our highways are elaborate labyrinthine parking lots covered in ice and plastic sacks of trucker poop. Our streets are black ice covered asphalt. Everything is closed. Everyone is huddled inside, praying for the bright death star to turn its baleful eye from California and Arizona to our forsaken wasteland.

There are people who've been trapped on the highway for 22+ hours. No way off. No more gas. No welfare checks from first responders, nothing from any organization. And it's the snow's fault there's no infrastructure.

I can't stop giggling.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1079368

You should really consider moving out of the third world country you live in.

I'm going to get shivved. They already hate Pepsi-swilling Yankees here. If I show up at work, driving without sliding into trees and driving on the sidewalks, they're going to shank me and pour Coca-Cola in the wounds.

And I still won't be able to stop giggling.

You could point out that this is God's punishment for leaning on the Gays and stuff.

I'll go door-to-door in my t-shirt and shorts and give 'em the good news.

"Hello Sir. I've come with glad news. This is what happens to assholes like you who hate teh ghey and think corporations are people. Here's your complimentary salt packet for your sidewalk and rainbow hankie to dry your tears on. Cheer up, mister, only three more months before the burning day star returns. If you learn your lesson."

Why, hello, and welcome to hell!  You've landed on one of the cold layers, and you'll be spending eternity here.

What?  You don't remember dying?  Most people don't.

Why are you here?  Oh, because God gets really mad when you use him as an excuse to hate people.  Anyway, here's the welcome wagon stuff, enjoy your stay!

I'll make sure to call everyone 'hon' two or three times and leave 'em a gallon of sweet tea, too.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 30, 2014, 02:58:33 AM
You should move up north. :) We got the same amount of snow this morning as you guys did all day yesterday. It was refreshing, actually. Really fine powder that I was able to just sweep off the driveway instead of walking outside an falling on my ass from the ice patches.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 03:00:54 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 02:58:33 AM
You should move up north. :) We got the same amount of snow this morning as you guys did all day yesterday. It was refreshing, actually. Really fine powder that I was able to just sweep off the driveway instead of walking outside an falling on my ass from the ice patches.

If my family weren't a pestilence upon the land, I'd go back to PA in a heartbeat. If I didn't think they'd infest Boston searching for me, I'd move there.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:01:23 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 02:58:33 AM
You should move up north. :) We got the same amount of snow this morning as you guys did all day yesterday. It was refreshing, actually. Really fine powder that I was able to just sweep off the driveway instead of walking outside an falling on my ass from the ice patches.

Tucson's where it's at.  75-80F, and we sit around all day taking the square root of negative numbers.  Because time is slower, but entropy is faster.  Nobody can explain it, and we'd beat the crap out of anyone who tried.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 03:03:09 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:01:23 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 02:58:33 AM
You should move up north. :) We got the same amount of snow this morning as you guys did all day yesterday. It was refreshing, actually. Really fine powder that I was able to just sweep off the driveway instead of walking outside an falling on my ass from the ice patches.

Tucson's where it's at.  75-80F, and we sit around all day taking the square root of negative numbers.  Because time is slower, but entropy is faster.  Nobody can explain it, and we'd beat the crap out of anyone who tried.

If I went to Tucson I'd never be able to leave. I want the delusion of travel options. Also, anything over 75F makes me sob like a sissy with a skinned knee.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 03:07:27 AM
I feel like a dog ate my heart, right after I got hit by a semi.

I also only slept for 3 hours last night.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:08:04 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 03:03:09 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:01:23 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 02:58:33 AM
You should move up north. :) We got the same amount of snow this morning as you guys did all day yesterday. It was refreshing, actually. Really fine powder that I was able to just sweep off the driveway instead of walking outside an falling on my ass from the ice patches.

Tucson's where it's at.  75-80F, and we sit around all day taking the square root of negative numbers.  Because time is slower, but entropy is faster.  Nobody can explain it, and we'd beat the crap out of anyone who tried.

If I went to Tucson I'd never be able to leave. I want the delusion of travel options. Also, anything over 75F makes me sob like a sissy with a skinned knee.

After 110F, you can't tell the difference. 
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:08:22 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:07:27 AM
I feel like a dog ate my heart, right after I got hit by a semi.

I also only slept for 3 hours last night.

These two things might be related.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 03:12:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:08:22 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:07:27 AM
I feel like a dog ate my heart, right after I got hit by a semi.

I also only slept for 3 hours last night.

These two things might be related.

I am going to pour beer all over it and see what happens.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:39:43 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:12:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:08:22 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:07:27 AM
I feel like a dog ate my heart, right after I got hit by a semi.

I also only slept for 3 hours last night.

These two things might be related.

I am going to pour beer all over it and see what happens.

Good move.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 30, 2014, 03:53:49 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 03:00:54 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 02:58:33 AM
You should move up north. :) We got the same amount of snow this morning as you guys did all day yesterday. It was refreshing, actually. Really fine powder that I was able to just sweep off the driveway instead of walking outside an falling on my ass from the ice patches.

If my family weren't a pestilence upon the land, I'd go back to PA in a heartbeat. If I didn't think they'd infest Boston searching for me, I'd move there.

They don't have to know.

Twid,
Everyone should live in Boston. Especially the traitors who move to California, for punishment purposes.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:34:13 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:39:43 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:12:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:08:22 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:07:27 AM
I feel like a dog ate my heart, right after I got hit by a semi.

I also only slept for 3 hours last night.

These two things might be related.

I am going to pour beer all over it and see what happens.

Good move.

It's common knowledge that beer replaces sleep perfectly.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 05:38:08 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:34:13 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:39:43 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:12:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:08:22 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:07:27 AM
I feel like a dog ate my heart, right after I got hit by a semi.

I also only slept for 3 hours last night.

These two things might be related.

I am going to pour beer all over it and see what happens.

Good move.

It's common knowledge that beer replaces sleep perfectly.

I FEEL BETTER ALREADY.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:43:27 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:38:08 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:34:13 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:39:43 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:12:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:08:22 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:07:27 AM
I feel like a dog ate my heart, right after I got hit by a semi.

I also only slept for 3 hours last night.

These two things might be related.

I am going to pour beer all over it and see what happens.

Good move.

It's common knowledge that beer replaces sleep perfectly.

I FEEL BETTER ALREADY.

Who needs sleep? Well you're never gonna get it.
Who needs sleep? Be happy with what you're getting.
There's a guy who's been awake since the second World War.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 05:47:22 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:43:27 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:38:08 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:34:13 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:39:43 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:12:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:08:22 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:07:27 AM
I feel like a dog ate my heart, right after I got hit by a semi.

I also only slept for 3 hours last night.

These two things might be related.

I am going to pour beer all over it and see what happens.

Good move.

It's common knowledge that beer replaces sleep perfectly.

I FEEL BETTER ALREADY.

Who needs sleep? Well you're never gonna get it.
Who needs sleep? Be happy with what you're getting.
There's a guy who's been awake since the second World War.

I NEED SLEEP LIKE I NEED TEETH IN MY ASS.















I NEED TEETH IN MY ASS.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:49:13 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:47:22 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:43:27 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:38:08 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:34:13 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:39:43 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:12:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:08:22 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:07:27 AM
I feel like a dog ate my heart, right after I got hit by a semi.

I also only slept for 3 hours last night.

These two things might be related.

I am going to pour beer all over it and see what happens.

Good move.

It's common knowledge that beer replaces sleep perfectly.

I FEEL BETTER ALREADY.

Who needs sleep? Well you're never gonna get it.
Who needs sleep? Be happy with what you're getting.
There's a guy who's been awake since the second World War.

I NEED SLEEP LIKE I NEED TEETH IN MY ASS.















I NEED TEETH IN MY ASS.

Given the conversation over in the Dream a Little Dream thread I read this probably some other way than you meant it and now I have a very disturbing picture in my head that is oddly tantalizing and somewhat terrifying.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 05:51:06 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:49:13 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:47:22 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:43:27 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:38:08 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:34:13 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:39:43 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:12:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:08:22 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:07:27 AM
I feel like a dog ate my heart, right after I got hit by a semi.

I also only slept for 3 hours last night.

These two things might be related.

I am going to pour beer all over it and see what happens.

Good move.

It's common knowledge that beer replaces sleep perfectly.

I FEEL BETTER ALREADY.

Who needs sleep? Well you're never gonna get it.
Who needs sleep? Be happy with what you're getting.
There's a guy who's been awake since the second World War.

I NEED SLEEP LIKE I NEED TEETH IN MY ASS.















I NEED TEETH IN MY ASS.

Given the conversation over in the Dream a Little Dream thread I read this probably some other way than you meant it and now I have a very disturbing picture in my head that is oddly tantalizing and somewhat terrifying.

SPLENDID.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 05:53:15 AM
IT OCCURS TO ME THAT ALL MY FAVORITE WRITERS WERE DRUNKS.

FURTHERMORE, IT OCCURS TO ME THAT I MAY HAVE BEEN BETTER OFF COMMITTING MYSELF TO BEING A DRUNK INSTEAD OF WOMEN.

OR AT LEAST, ABOUT AS WELL OFF.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 05:54:29 AM
I AM A GOD DAMNED FOOL FOR WOMEN. MEN CANNOT EVEN TOUCH THAT SHIT.

MAYBE WITH PRACTICE.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:54:40 AM
We can't stop here, this is vagina country?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 05:57:28 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:54:40 AM
We can't stop here, this is vagina country?

IT REALLY IS NOT THE VAGINA.

IT IS THE WAY THEY MOVE AND WALK AND TALK.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 05:58:31 AM
MEN, BY AND LARGE, PETER OUT.

WOMEN HAVE STAYING POWER.

THIS IS ALL BULLSHIT.

ALL OF IT.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 06:54:58 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 29, 2014, 09:48:50 PM
Roger:  "Okay, Cramer...We turned the blower around like you wanted.  Now remember:  You have to adjust the damper before you put full pressure to the machine.  Got that?"

Cramer:  "Yep."

<5 minutes go by>

BANG

Bits of ceramic shoot through the roof and land on the ground outside.

Roger:  "Cramer, tell Dirty Old Uncle Roger what ya done wrong."

Cramer:  "I didn't adjust the damper."

Roger:  "Why didn't you adjust the damper, Cramer?"

Cramer:  "I was going to, but I got a text right when I started the machine."

Roger:  "And you walked away from the machine to answer the text."

Cramer:  "Yes."

Roger:  "Do you mind telling me what the $35,000 text was?"

Cramer:  "A pic of Tia Tequila nude."

Roger: "..."

Cramer:  "What?"

Roger:  "..."

Cramer:  "SORRY! WHAT?"

Roger:  "Nothing Cramer.  Nothing.  Go do whatever else you have to do.  We'll just get started here."

<10 minutes>

Cramer:  "The ball mill won't start."

Roger:  "Did you start the lube system first?"

Cramer:  "Oh, yeah."

Roger:  "How long have you been working here, Cramer?"

Cramer:  "8 years."

Roger:  "..."

Cramer:  "WHAT?"

Roger:  "..."

Cramer:  "I HATE WHEN YOU DO THAT.  I CAN HEAR YOU NOT SAYING ANYTHING!"





This is my job.  Where I work.

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

This is amazing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 06:58:20 AM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on January 30, 2014, 12:41:58 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 12:34:03 AM
Our highways are elaborate labyrinthine parking lots covered in ice and plastic sacks of trucker poop. Our streets are black ice covered asphalt. Everything is closed. Everyone is huddled inside, praying for the bright death star to turn its baleful eye from California and Arizona to our forsaken wasteland.

There are people who've been trapped on the highway for 22+ hours. No way off. No more gas. No welfare checks from first responders, nothing from any organization. And it's the snow's fault there's no infrastructure.

I can't stop giggling.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1079368

You should really consider moving out of the third world country you live in.

Climate change.

When unexpected weather events happen in places that, well, don't expect them, things go to shit. Whether it's cold or hot.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 06:59:53 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:01:23 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 02:58:33 AM
You should move up north. :) We got the same amount of snow this morning as you guys did all day yesterday. It was refreshing, actually. Really fine powder that I was able to just sweep off the driveway instead of walking outside an falling on my ass from the ice patches.

Tucson's where it's at.  75-80F, and we sit around all day taking the square root of negative numbers.  Because time is slower, but entropy is faster.  Nobody can explain it, and we'd beat the crap out of anyone who tried.

It was a balmy 48 degrees here today.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 07:01:41 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:07:27 AM
I feel like a dog ate my heart, right after I got hit by a semi.

I also only slept for 3 hours last night.

Sleep more tonight.

I feel like I sense you sliding into the lure of numbing the spinning mind with liquor. That's OK, as long as you don't do it for too long.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 07:03:45 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:12:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:08:22 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:07:27 AM
I feel like a dog ate my heart, right after I got hit by a semi.

I also only slept for 3 hours last night.

These two things might be related.

I am going to pour beer all over it and see what happens.

Like I was saying.

It can be cathartic for a while, in which case wring as much out of it as you can. If you're using it as a numbing agent, try to limit it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 07:05:49 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 07:01:41 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 03:07:27 AM
I feel like a dog ate my heart, right after I got hit by a semi.

I also only slept for 3 hours last night.

Sleep more tonight.

I feel like I sense you sliding into the lure of numbing the spinning mind with liquor. That's OK, as long as you don't do it for too long.

Once I did it for a year. I do not think it will be like that now. Fortunately, my responsibilities prevent that from taking a deep hold.

Truth be told, I hate drunks, I found my grandmother unconsious once. I thought she was dead. I never, ever lose control like that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 07:06:54 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:53:15 AM
IT OCCURS TO ME THAT ALL MY FAVORITE WRITERS WERE DRUNKS.

FURTHERMORE, IT OCCURS TO ME THAT I MAY HAVE BEEN BETTER OFF COMMITTING MYSELF TO BEING A DRUNK INSTEAD OF WOMEN.

OR AT LEAST, ABOUT AS WELL OFF.

PSHHH

You're still young. Many women are in your future. Well, hopefully not "many". Hopefully, just a few, all of whom leave you feeling enriched, and at least one of whom will never leave you at all.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 07:07:44 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:58:31 AM
MEN, BY AND LARGE, PETER OUT.

WOMEN HAVE STAYING POWER.

THIS IS ALL BULLSHIT.

ALL OF IT.

"Peter out"

:lmnuendo:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 07:09:31 AM
At the moment it seems safer than random sex, whic really sends me into downward spiral.

That, and Nina Simone.

I will be all right.

This is all part of the healing process. I remember from 5 times before or so.

I give it three to six months. I dunno, it just takes me a while.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 07:13:09 AM
God damn android keyboards.


Fuck you, Apple and your stupid lawsuits.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 07:22:52 AM
Yeah random sex is never good for much other than the morning after "WHAT WAS I THINKING?"

It's funny, none of my regrets these days have anything to do with sex.

#1 is "the weird background I allowed my tattoo artist  to put behind my pteranodon"

and #2 is "Going straight for a hysterectomy without first trying out a uterine artery embolism, just in case that worked".
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 07:23:44 AM
Wow, having actually typed them out, neither of them seems worth losing sleep over.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 07:25:52 AM
Heh. Plus, that is a whole lot less weight to carry around.

I would give up my testicles if they weren't so important. They just drag around for the most part. Mostly useless.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 07:30:16 AM
My #1 regret is not buying that.POS trailer (along with the one next to it) when I still had a stable job wih The Man.

Moved out, ah ha ah ha, for the one before my wife.

But I find it best not to dwell on such things.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 07:33:19 AM
Relevant.

(http://i.imgur.com/OBy1MLz.jpg)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 30, 2014, 08:55:17 AM
First Email I open - 15 pages, A3, Bills of quantities. Due in a week. Reply was somewhat terse.

Second email - Audit due, 3 days long, in a week. Reply was less than polite.

Third email - Boss bitching about how he has so much to do. Probably shouldn't have replied.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Sita on January 30, 2014, 01:13:24 PM
Weather is cold and rainy.
But because of Florida it is not cold enough for snow.
Today temps are low 39 high 55, tomorrow it will be in the 70s again.

Apartment is almost looking reasonable again after another of my long episodes. *insert stupid, rambling, long complaint of people not helping here*

Can't wait for tax money to come in. Just so that I can see it all go away on things like rent and furniture and other needed but not fun at all things.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 30, 2014, 01:55:33 PM
I'm experiencing American™ problems.  The Entertainment© technology my wife and I bought and had installed isn't working properly.  Due to Clarke's Third Law1, I can't figure out how the hell this stuff is supposed to work, nor how to fix it.  Apparently, this makes me extremely frustrated and grumpy. Then, when I notice how much this affects me negatively, I am embarassed and get angry at myself for being so upset at such a petty problem.  When the initial anger doesn't abate, even when I point out to myself that I'm being stupid, I get angrier.  At which point I start drinking.  And then I realize I'm drinking to avoid the problem, which leads to more guilt and anger....


You get the picture.


LMNO
-mildly hung over, still pissed off at wireless technology and the Comcast monopoly.








1 "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:04:57 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 30, 2014, 01:55:33 PM
1 "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic CRAP."

Edited for accuracy.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 30, 2014, 02:08:48 PM
Preach it, brother.


I am fondly remembering my 4-in-one stereo system.  Turntable, cassette deck, CD player, FM Radio, in one molded plastic housing.  Two speakers.  Red wire to red clippy thing, black wire to the black clippy thing, 2-prong plug.  Start to finish setup time, approx. 3 minutes.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:33:29 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 30, 2014, 02:08:48 PM
Preach it, brother.


I am fondly remembering my 4-in-one stereo system.  Turntable, cassette deck, CD player, FM Radio, in one molded plastic housing.  Two speakers.  Red wire to red clippy thing, black wire to the black clippy thing, 2-prong plug.  Start to finish setup time, approx. 3 minutes.

And no OS to fuck up for no reason.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 30, 2014, 02:35:20 PM
And these kids need to GET OFF MY LAWN.

:ffs:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 02:40:57 PM
I have somehow fallen back into the habit of drinking wine every night.

Not enough to make me hung over, just enough to make me A. have to get up to pee in the middle of the night, B. not sleep all  that well, and C. keep me fat.

This seems like a really bad trade-off for getting to go to bed mildly tipsy.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:44:20 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 02:40:57 PM
I have somehow fallen back into the habit of drinking wine every night.

Not enough to make me hung over, just enough to make me A. have to get up to pee in the middle of the night, B. not sleep all  that well, and C. keep me fat.

This seems like a really bad trade-off for getting to go to bed mildly tipsy.

<insert unsolicited advice here>

There.  Formalities concluded.

Is it at least good wine?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 30, 2014, 02:48:34 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 30, 2014, 02:08:48 PM
Preach it, brother.


I am fondly remembering my 4-in-one stereo system.  Turntable, cassette deck, CD player, FM Radio, in one molded plastic housing.  Two speakers.  Red wire to red clippy thing, black wire to the black clippy thing, 2-prong plug.  Start to finish setup time, approx. 3 minutes.

OMG. I HAD ONE.

Now it's like...I have to set up my computer, load programs into it, buy mp3s, download them, and find the best player to play them while checking on my 8.1 surround sound to make sure that the balance is correct.

I miss the simpler days, except that my dad found an 8-track machine laying on the side of the road once, and then decided he was going to somehow make it connect to the 4 in 1, and it WORKED. Needed the ceremonial matchbook, but it worked!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:49:34 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:57:28 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:54:40 AM
We can't stop here, this is vagina country?

IT REALLY IS NOT THE VAGINA.

IT IS THE WAY THEY MOVE AND WALK AND TALK.

I agree with this 169.7%

Women make me stupid, and not just because I feel a need to get them into bed.  I mean, that's great and all, but even after sex, when there is not a single hormone left in my horribly withered and dessicated body, I am still a stunned bunny dumbass.  Because I love the hell out of women.  They are like a Rubens painting that can hold a conversation.

No, wait, that last bit isn't quite right, because they're not inanimate objects that have a semblance of humanity, and that wouldn't even be attractive at all.  I don't know how to explain this part.  Because women make me dumb.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 03:01:42 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:44:20 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 02:40:57 PM
I have somehow fallen back into the habit of drinking wine every night.

Not enough to make me hung over, just enough to make me A. have to get up to pee in the middle of the night, B. not sleep all  that well, and C. keep me fat.

This seems like a really bad trade-off for getting to go to bed mildly tipsy.

<insert unsolicited advice here>

There.  Formalities concluded.

Is it at least good wine?

No. Because I can't afford good wine. If I was drinking good wine, then not only would I feel stupid for disrupting my sleep and keeping myself fat, I would also feel guilty for irresponsibly spending money on something I can't afford.

I was sort of clinging to my one last vice, but I guess it has to go by the wayside, because it's just not worth being fat and sleep-deprived.

I'd replace it with chocolate or something, but I don't like sweets.

Sigh.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 03:04:59 PM
Maybe I should cultivate a liking for the pot. I think I still have some fancy gingerbread in the freezer.

I can't just turn into a clean-living sprout-eating yoga mom. Seriously, not OK.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 03:06:03 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:49:34 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:57:28 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:54:40 AM
We can't stop here, this is vagina country?

IT REALLY IS NOT THE VAGINA.

IT IS THE WAY THEY MOVE AND WALK AND TALK.

I agree with this 169.7%

Women make me stupid, and not just because I feel a need to get them into bed.  I mean, that's great and all, but even after sex, when there is not a single hormone left in my horribly withered and dessicated body, I am still a stunned bunny dumbass.  Because I love the hell out of women.  They are like a Rubens painting that can hold a conversation.

No, wait, that last bit isn't quite right, because they're not inanimate objects that have a semblance of humanity, and that wouldn't even be attractive at all.  I don't know how to explain this part.  Because women make me dumb.

I like guys, because they're hairy and smell like sweat and have dicks.

I don't know WHY this makes me like them, but there you have it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 30, 2014, 03:06:50 PM
Replace it with good wine.

Because you cannot afford it.  You'll buy one or two bottles, and you'll make it last.  Plus you get less of a hangover with good wine, so even if you do overindulge, you don't feel it as much in the morning and tend to sleep better.

Admittedly, this advice is just repurposed sotch advice I gave to a friend, and it's a lot easier to make scotch last, but I believe the principle is the same.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:09:30 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 03:01:42 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:44:20 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 02:40:57 PM
I have somehow fallen back into the habit of drinking wine every night.

Not enough to make me hung over, just enough to make me A. have to get up to pee in the middle of the night, B. not sleep all  that well, and C. keep me fat.

This seems like a really bad trade-off for getting to go to bed mildly tipsy.

<insert unsolicited advice here>

There.  Formalities concluded.

Is it at least good wine?

No. Because I can't afford good wine. If I was drinking good wine, then not only would I feel stupid for disrupting my sleep and keeping myself fat, I would also feel guilty for irresponsibly spending money on something I can't afford.

I was sort of clinging to my one last vice, but I guess it has to go by the wayside, because it's just not worth being fat and sleep-deprived.

I'd replace it with chocolate or something, but I don't like sweets.

Sigh.

I know how you feel.  All I have left is coffee.  Which isn't even a vice.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:10:08 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 03:06:03 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:49:34 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:57:28 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:54:40 AM
We can't stop here, this is vagina country?

IT REALLY IS NOT THE VAGINA.

IT IS THE WAY THEY MOVE AND WALK AND TALK.

I agree with this 169.7%

Women make me stupid, and not just because I feel a need to get them into bed.  I mean, that's great and all, but even after sex, when there is not a single hormone left in my horribly withered and dessicated body, I am still a stunned bunny dumbass.  Because I love the hell out of women.  They are like a Rubens painting that can hold a conversation.

No, wait, that last bit isn't quite right, because they're not inanimate objects that have a semblance of humanity, and that wouldn't even be attractive at all.  I don't know how to explain this part.  Because women make me dumb.

I like guys, because they're hairy and smell like sweat and have dicks.

I don't know WHY this makes me like them, but there you have it.

Well, I'd just like to say that I am happy that we aren't slaves to our biology.   :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 30, 2014, 03:28:18 PM
What is is about man smell that makes you go crazy?

No, not gross dirty BO smell, man smell, that smell. You know what I mean, I know Nigel knows.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:30:38 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 03:28:18 PM
What is is about man smell that makes you go crazy?

No, not gross dirty BO smell, man smell, that smell. You know what I mean, I know Nigel knows.

According to Mike Huckabee, it's that you cannot control your libido because birth control is available. 
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 30, 2014, 03:42:05 PM
Mix that with an utter disregard to keep one's ankles covered, and IT'S GOMORRAH ALL UP IN HERE.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:45:07 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 30, 2014, 03:42:05 PM
Mix that with an utter disregard to keep one's ankles covered, and IT'S GOMORRAH ALL UP IN HERE.

DOGS AND CATS FUCKING IN THE STREET, I'M TELLING YOU.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 30, 2014, 04:02:05 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:30:38 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 03:28:18 PM
What is is about man smell that makes you go crazy?

No, not gross dirty BO smell, man smell, that smell. You know what I mean, I know Nigel knows.

According to Mike Huckabee, it's that you cannot control your libido because birth control is available.

UNCLE SUGAR, IN THE HOUSE.

:snob:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 04:55:03 PM
Been busy today, dealing with exploded machines.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 05:16:29 PM
Courtesy of Suu, the best PSA ever made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STHpMUYeznQ

Wait for the payoff, it's worth it.

Australians are stark raving mad.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 05:17:48 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 30, 2014, 03:06:50 PM
Replace it with good wine.

Because you cannot afford it.  You'll buy one or two bottles, and you'll make it last.  Plus you get less of a hangover with good wine, so even if you do overindulge, you don't feel it as much in the morning and tend to sleep better.

Admittedly, this advice is just repurposed sotch advice I gave to a friend, and it's a lot easier to make scotch last, but I believe the principle is the same.

Naw, I'm just going to stop drinking it, because I really want to lose the pudge. I was at the doctor Tuesday and apparently I'm down a few pounds, but the easiest way to eliminate extra calories that I won't miss is to stop drinking alcohol, at least regularly.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 05:19:22 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:09:30 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 03:01:42 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:44:20 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 02:40:57 PM
I have somehow fallen back into the habit of drinking wine every night.

Not enough to make me hung over, just enough to make me A. have to get up to pee in the middle of the night, B. not sleep all  that well, and C. keep me fat.

This seems like a really bad trade-off for getting to go to bed mildly tipsy.

<insert unsolicited advice here>

There.  Formalities concluded.

Is it at least good wine?

No. Because I can't afford good wine. If I was drinking good wine, then not only would I feel stupid for disrupting my sleep and keeping myself fat, I would also feel guilty for irresponsibly spending money on something I can't afford.

I was sort of clinging to my one last vice, but I guess it has to go by the wayside, because it's just not worth being fat and sleep-deprived.

I'd replace it with chocolate or something, but I don't like sweets.

Sigh.

I know how you feel.  All I have left is coffee.  Which isn't even a vice.

God, I know! I drink tea. TEA. So not a vice.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 05:21:35 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 05:19:22 PM
God, I know! I drink tea. TEA. So not a vice.

Tea is a vice.  It is against God.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:22:23 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 05:16:29 PM
Courtesy of Suu, the best PSA ever made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STHpMUYeznQ

Wait for the payoff, it's worth it.

Australians are stark raving mad.

LOL  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 05:28:21 PM
I tried to make the most of last night, and feel I succeeded. I am going to give the booze a break. Which means I too will have no vice left, aside from this 1.2% nicotine ecig.

Tbough, I feel being horribly honest with people is its own sin. In their eyes anyway.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 05:29:17 PM
So straight edge, yo.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 30, 2014, 05:30:44 PM
(http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4636680433109153&pid=1.7)
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 05:38:24 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:10:08 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 03:06:03 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:49:34 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:57:28 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:54:40 AM
We can't stop here, this is vagina country?

IT REALLY IS NOT THE VAGINA.

IT IS THE WAY THEY MOVE AND WALK AND TALK.

I agree with this 169.7%

Women make me stupid, and not just because I feel a need to get them into bed.  I mean, that's great and all, but even after sex, when there is not a single hormone left in my horribly withered and dessicated body, I am still a stunned bunny dumbass.  Because I love the hell out of women.  They are like a Rubens painting that can hold a conversation.

No, wait, that last bit isn't quite right, because they're not inanimate objects that have a semblance of humanity, and that wouldn't even be attractive at all.  I don't know how to explain this part.  Because women make me dumb.

I like guys, because they're hairy and smell like sweat and have dicks.

I don't know WHY this makes me like them, but there you have it.

Well, I'd just like to say that I am happy that we aren't slaves to our biology.   :lulz:

It would be more accurate to say that we ARE our biology, IMO.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 05:38:53 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:28:21 PM
I tried to make the most of last night, and feel I succeeded. I am going to give the booze a break. Which means I too will have no vice left, aside from this 1.2% nicotine ecig.

Tbough, I feel being horribly honest with people is its own sin. In their eyes anyway.

DO EEEET

We can be dreadfully sober together.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 05:39:22 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 03:28:18 PM
What is is about man smell that makes you go crazy?

No, not gross dirty BO smell, man smell, that smell. You know what I mean, I know Nigel knows.

Mmmmm, man-musk. Makes me want to get all up in there.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 05:39:47 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 05:38:24 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 03:10:08 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 03:06:03 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:49:34 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:57:28 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:54:40 AM
We can't stop here, this is vagina country?

IT REALLY IS NOT THE VAGINA.

IT IS THE WAY THEY MOVE AND WALK AND TALK.

I agree with this 169.7%

Women make me stupid, and not just because I feel a need to get them into bed.  I mean, that's great and all, but even after sex, when there is not a single hormone left in my horribly withered and dessicated body, I am still a stunned bunny dumbass.  Because I love the hell out of women.  They are like a Rubens painting that can hold a conversation.

No, wait, that last bit isn't quite right, because they're not inanimate objects that have a semblance of humanity, and that wouldn't even be attractive at all.  I don't know how to explain this part.  Because women make me dumb.

I like guys, because they're hairy and smell like sweat and have dicks.

I don't know WHY this makes me like them, but there you have it.

Well, I'd just like to say that I am happy that we aren't slaves to our biology.   :lulz:

It would be more accurate to say that we ARE our biology, IMO.

Not me.  I'm special.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 05:41:37 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 05:16:29 PM
Courtesy of Suu, the best PSA ever made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STHpMUYeznQ

Wait for the payoff, it's worth it.

Australians are stark raving mad.

:aaa: WHAT THE SHIT
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 05:44:39 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 05:38:53 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:28:21 PM
I tried to make the most of last night, and feel I succeeded. I am going to give the booze a break. Which means I too will have no vice left, aside from this 1.2% nicotine ecig.

Tbough, I feel being horribly honest with people is its own sin. In their eyes anyway.

DO EEEET

We can be dreadfully sober together.

:awesome:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 05:44:43 PM
One of the things I hate about my fellow students is that someone will bring up an interesting study, say on memory formation in young children and memory culling which occurs at around age 7 (a developmentally interesting age in a lot of ways) and SOMEONE will inevitably pipe up with how they're different and special. Like it's about them. We don't care, SHUT UP.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 05:45:35 PM
Annnnd proceed to talk at length about how special they are, and why.

THIS CLASS IS NOT ABOUT YOU, SNOWFLAKE.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 05:46:49 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 05:44:43 PM
One of the things I hate about my fellow students is that someone will bring up an interesting study, say on memory formation in young children and memory culling which occurs at around age 7 (a developmentally interesting age in a lot of ways) and SOMEONE will inevitably pipe up with how they're different and special. Like it's about them. We don't care, SHUT UP.

I do it because PD.   :lol:

But you are correct.  No matter what you say, SOMEONE in the room is a snawflake and is the exception to whatever it is.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 05:47:52 PM
STAY CLASSY, UTAH!

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/30/utah-kids-in-tears-after-school-seizes-and-tosses-out-40-lunches-over-debt/

QuoteAccording to The Salt Lake Tribune, the children had already received their lunches at Uintah Elementary in Salt Lake City when the child-nutrition manager ordered cafeteria workers to take the meals away.

"So she took my lunch away and said, 'Go get a milk,'" fifth grader Sophia Isom told KSL. "I came back and asked, 'What's going on?' Then she handed me an orange. She said, 'You don't have any money in your account so you can't get lunch.'"

Then people ask me, they ask "Roger, why are you a discordian?  Why do you want everything to fall over and burn?"

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 30, 2014, 05:50:56 PM
What a fucking hero.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on January 30, 2014, 06:04:54 PM
I ACCIDENTALLY HIT "MARK ALL READ"
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 30, 2014, 06:06:53 PM
SHIT




FUCK





DAMN
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: trippinprincezz13 on January 30, 2014, 06:25:02 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 05:44:43 PM
One of the things I hate about my fellow students is that someone will bring up an interesting study, say on memory formation in young children and memory culling which occurs at around age 7 (a developmentally interesting age in a lot of ways) and SOMEONE will inevitably pipe up with how they're different and special. Like it's about them. We don't care, SHUT UP.

See, I wasn't like that in school. I KNEW I was special, but I didn't have to talk about it all the time like those other kids who thought they were special.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 07:15:46 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 05:46:49 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 05:44:43 PM
One of the things I hate about my fellow students is that someone will bring up an interesting study, say on memory formation in young children and memory culling which occurs at around age 7 (a developmentally interesting age in a lot of ways) and SOMEONE will inevitably pipe up with how they're different and special. Like it's about them. We don't care, SHUT UP.

I do it because PD.   :lol:

But you are correct.  No matter what you say, SOMEONE in the room is a snawflake and is the exception to whatever it is.

Yeah but PD is not an online classroom, where people are paying money to talk about interesting research, and not to hear you talk about how much you remember from early childhood, which literally NOBODY EXCEPT YOUR MOM cares about. :lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 07:20:17 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 05:47:52 PM
STAY CLASSY, UTAH!

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/30/utah-kids-in-tears-after-school-seizes-and-tosses-out-40-lunches-over-debt/

QuoteAccording to The Salt Lake Tribune, the children had already received their lunches at Uintah Elementary in Salt Lake City when the child-nutrition manager ordered cafeteria workers to take the meals away.

"So she took my lunch away and said, 'Go get a milk,'" fifth grader Sophia Isom told KSL. "I came back and asked, 'What's going on?' Then she handed me an orange. She said, 'You don't have any money in your account so you can't get lunch.'"

Then people ask me, they ask "Roger, why are you a discordian?  Why do you want everything to fall over and burn?"

Oh GOD This is SO Boring. Please Kill Me, that "nutrition manager" should be fired. This is especially shocking in a state which has recently decided to solve it's homeless problem by giving homeless people free apartments, food, and a social worker.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 07:21:27 PM
Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on January 30, 2014, 06:04:54 PM
I ACCIDENTALLY HIT "MARK ALL READ"

YOU'RE FUCKED FOREVER.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 30, 2014, 07:28:02 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 07:20:17 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 05:47:52 PM
STAY CLASSY, UTAH!

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/30/utah-kids-in-tears-after-school-seizes-and-tosses-out-40-lunches-over-debt/

QuoteAccording to The Salt Lake Tribune, the children had already received their lunches at Uintah Elementary in Salt Lake City when the child-nutrition manager ordered cafeteria workers to take the meals away.

"So she took my lunch away and said, 'Go get a milk,'" fifth grader Sophia Isom told KSL. "I came back and asked, 'What's going on?' Then she handed me an orange. She said, 'You don't have any money in your account so you can't get lunch.'"

Then people ask me, they ask "Roger, why are you a discordian?  Why do you want everything to fall over and burn?"

Oh GOD This is SO Boring. Please Kill Me, that "nutrition manager" should be fired. This is especially shocking in a state which has recently decided to solve it's homeless problem by giving homeless people free apartments, food, and a social worker.

Ok, I freely admit that this reply is confusing the hell out of me.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Sita on January 30, 2014, 07:28:57 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 05:16:29 PM
Courtesy of Suu, the best PSA ever made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STHpMUYeznQ

Wait for the payoff, it's worth it.

Australians are stark raving mad.
The message at the end was not the one I was expecting, even remotely.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Sita on January 30, 2014, 07:39:19 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 05:47:52 PM
STAY CLASSY, UTAH!

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/30/utah-kids-in-tears-after-school-seizes-and-tosses-out-40-lunches-over-debt/

QuoteAccording to The Salt Lake Tribune, the children had already received their lunches at Uintah Elementary in Salt Lake City when the child-nutrition manager ordered cafeteria workers to take the meals away.

"So she took my lunch away and said, 'Go get a milk,'" fifth grader Sophia Isom told KSL. "I came back and asked, 'What's going on?' Then she handed me an orange. She said, 'You don't have any money in your account so you can't get lunch.'"

Then people ask me, they ask "Roger, why are you a discordian?  Why do you want everything to fall over and burn?"
What gets me is that they just threw away the food after taking it from the kids. So the school was out of those lunches anyway. They could've at least let the kids have lunch that day and send them home with a paper for their parents explaining that they wouldn't be getting further lunches until the account was sorted out.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 07:39:41 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 30, 2014, 07:28:02 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 07:20:17 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 05:47:52 PM
STAY CLASSY, UTAH!

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/30/utah-kids-in-tears-after-school-seizes-and-tosses-out-40-lunches-over-debt/

QuoteAccording to The Salt Lake Tribune, the children had already received their lunches at Uintah Elementary in Salt Lake City when the child-nutrition manager ordered cafeteria workers to take the meals away.

"So she took my lunch away and said, 'Go get a milk,'" fifth grader Sophia Isom told KSL. "I came back and asked, 'What's going on?' Then she handed me an orange. She said, 'You don't have any money in your account so you can't get lunch.'"

Then people ask me, they ask "Roger, why are you a discordian?  Why do you want everything to fall over and burn?"

Oh GOD This is SO Boring. Please Kill Me, that "nutrition manager" should be fired. This is especially shocking in a state which has recently decided to solve it's homeless problem by giving homeless people free apartments, food, and a social worker.

Ok, I freely admit that this reply is confusing the hell out of me.

Um

I have a filter that changes certain words, and somehow it seems to have applied itself to my post. "Oh GOD This is SO Boring. Please Kill Me" should say "WOW". Oops  :lol:. Also, disregard the inappropriate apostrophe in "its".
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 07:40:50 PM
The filter is only supposed to affect what I READ, not what I WRITE. Hmmmmm
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 07:41:17 PM
I have to confess, I am laughing hysterically right now.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 30, 2014, 07:41:30 PM
 :lol:

That would explain it.

WOW
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 07:45:32 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 30, 2014, 07:41:30 PM
:lol:

That would explain it.

Zzzzzzzzzzz

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 30, 2014, 07:54:59 PM
Does your filter cycle through several different ones?


WOW



WOW


Such WOW
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 08:50:30 PM
Filter test:

gametes hot shit step into my love machine
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 30, 2014, 09:03:56 PM
In a way, it IS boring. People doing shit like yanking food away from little kids and throwing it in the trash is STANDARD now. It's TEDIOUS.

"Oboy, the sun is up. More horror. Wahoo."
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 09:10:31 PM
What I find funny is that even liberals feel they have to justify doing something that's right.

Example:  Utah giving homeless people a place to live.  People go on and on about the various benefits of doing so, and never even bother to mention that it's worth doing because it's THE RIGHT THING TO DO and DOESN'T NEED EXCUSES.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 09:43:20 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 30, 2014, 07:54:59 PM
Does your filter cycle through several different ones?


Zzzzzzzzzzz


Zzzzzzzzzzz


Such Zzzzzzzzzzz

Yes. But not always, I think?

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 09:44:01 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 08:50:30 PM
Filter test:

gametes hot shit step into my love machine

:eek:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 09:46:23 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 09:10:31 PM
What I find funny is that even liberals feel they have to justify doing something that's right.

Example:  Utah giving homeless people a place to live.  People go on and on about the various benefits of doing so, and never even bother to mention that it's worth doing because it's THE RIGHT THING TO DO and DOESN'T NEED EXCUSES.

OH I KNOW, RIGHT??? That's actually one of the most horrifying things about our society... that the state has to "justify" doing this by saying "Well, it will COST LESS MONEY than letting HUMAN BEINGS GO HOMELESS AND DIE ON THE STREETS FROM EXPOSURE. Since it saves money, that's OK right?"
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 30, 2014, 09:47:16 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 30, 2014, 09:03:56 PM
In a way, it IS boring. People doing shit like yanking food away from little kids and throwing it in the trash is STANDARD now. It's TEDIOUS.

"Oboy, the sun is up. More horror. Wahoo."

Especially considering the recent proposal to link FOOD STAMP BENEFITS to school performance.  :horrormirth:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on January 30, 2014, 10:11:52 PM
And it won't stop anytime soon, because even the poor hate the poor in America. They don't even accept the fact that they are, in fact, poor. They are just millionaires in training.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 30, 2014, 10:14:33 PM
In upsetting Internet News, Colonel Meow died.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=352443011564652&set=a.133183620157260.29899.133172250158397&type=1&theater

:(
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: EK WAFFLR on January 30, 2014, 10:18:16 PM
No cigarettes, no junk food, no sweets, intermittent fasting, rarely coffee (a lot of tea though. Green tea), almost never alcohol. I feel your pain Nigel! :(
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 10:23:16 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 09:46:23 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 09:10:31 PM
What I find funny is that even liberals feel they have to justify doing something that's right.

Example:  Utah giving homeless people a place to live.  People go on and on about the various benefits of doing so, and never even bother to mention that it's worth doing because it's THE RIGHT THING TO DO and DOESN'T NEED EXCUSES.

OH I KNOW, RIGHT??? That's actually one of the most horrifying things about our society... that the state has to "justify" doing this by saying "Well, it will COST LESS MONEY than letting HUMAN BEINGS GO HOMELESS AND DIE ON THE STREETS FROM EXPOSURE. Since it saves money, that's OK right?"

The state, hell.  I'm talking about everyone I know that's heard about this.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 30, 2014, 10:23:43 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 09:47:16 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 30, 2014, 09:03:56 PM
In a way, it IS boring. People doing shit like yanking food away from little kids and throwing it in the trash is STANDARD now. It's TEDIOUS.

"Oboy, the sun is up. More horror. Wahoo."

Especially considering the recent proposal to link FOOD STAMP BENEFITS to school performance.  :horrormirth:

wat
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 30, 2014, 10:41:18 PM
Aaaaaaand a friend is about to lose his 3 year battle with cancer in a matter of days. Shit went south this week and they took him off treatments and put him on comfort meds as of today. That's it.

Fuck cancer. Jesus fucking Christ.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 30, 2014, 10:52:20 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 10:41:18 PM
Aaaaaaand a friend is about to lose his 3 year battle with cancer in a matter of days. Shit went south this week and they took him off treatments and put him on comfort meds as of today. That's it.

Fuck cancer. Jesus fucking Christ.
Shit, that sucks.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 30, 2014, 11:35:32 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 10:23:43 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 09:47:16 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 30, 2014, 09:03:56 PM
In a way, it IS boring. People doing shit like yanking food away from little kids and throwing it in the trash is STANDARD now. It's TEDIOUS.

"Oboy, the sun is up. More horror. Wahoo."

Especially considering the recent proposal to link FOOD STAMP BENEFITS to school performance.  :horrormirth:

wat

http://openstates.org/tn/bills/108/SB132/documents/TND00018127/
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 31, 2014, 01:45:01 AM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 30, 2014, 11:35:32 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 10:23:43 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 09:47:16 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 30, 2014, 09:03:56 PM
In a way, it IS boring. People doing shit like yanking food away from little kids and throwing it in the trash is STANDARD now. It's TEDIOUS.

"Oboy, the sun is up. More horror. Wahoo."

Especially considering the recent proposal to link FOOD STAMP BENEFITS to school performance.  :horrormirth:

wat

http://openstates.org/tn/bills/108/SB132/documents/TND00018127/
Yeah, because starving them is sooo going to help academic performance, right? :horrormirth:
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 10:41:18 PM
Aaaaaaand a friend is about to lose his 3 year battle with cancer in a matter of days. Shit went south this week and they took him off treatments and put him on comfort meds as of today. That's it.

Fuck cancer. Jesus fucking Christ.
Jeez.   :sad:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 03:05:32 AM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:57:28 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:54:40 AM
We can't stop here, this is vagina country?

IT REALLY IS NOT THE VAGINA.

IT IS THE WAY THEY MOVE AND WALK AND TALK.

You know, I got to say, women's butts are really mesmerizing. Even if you're not thinking about the butt in a sexual manner, it's kinda like, that moves way differently than a guy's butt. Sometimes it looks like it's chewing on something. Other times it's like a metronome. And you're just like, how does it do that? Guy's butts don't that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 03:11:29 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 03:06:03 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:49:34 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:57:28 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:54:40 AM
We can't stop here, this is vagina country?

IT REALLY IS NOT THE VAGINA.

IT IS THE WAY THEY MOVE AND WALK AND TALK.

I agree with this 169.7%

Women make me stupid, and not just because I feel a need to get them into bed.  I mean, that's great and all, but even after sex, when there is not a single hormone left in my horribly withered and dessicated body, I am still a stunned bunny dumbass.  Because I love the hell out of women.  They are like a Rubens painting that can hold a conversation.

No, wait, that last bit isn't quite right, because they're not inanimate objects that have a semblance of humanity, and that wouldn't even be attractive at all.  I don't know how to explain this part.  Because women make me dumb.

I like guys, because they're hairy and smell like sweat and have dicks.

I don't know WHY this makes me like them, but there you have it.

This is probably the most unappealing description of my gender I can think of boiled down to a sentence. I won't debate it, but that's not what I like.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 03:16:36 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 05:39:22 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 03:28:18 PM
What is is about man smell that makes you go crazy?

No, not gross dirty BO smell, man smell, that smell. You know what I mean, I know Nigel knows.

Mmmmm, man-musk. Makes me want to get all up in there.

Ok, that makes a little more sense. I'm a hairy, sweaty guy. I find that unappealing, probably because I'm a hairy, sweaty guy. Whenever I sweat I smell like my dad. Which, obviously, is really unappealing to me in a variety of ways and makes me want to jump in the shower ASAP, but which Villager happens to like.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 03:20:00 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 10:41:18 PM
Aaaaaaand a friend is about to lose his 3 year battle with cancer in a matter of days. Shit went south this week and they took him off treatments and put him on comfort meds as of today. That's it.

Fuck cancer. Jesus fucking Christ.

Damn Suu. Sorry.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 31, 2014, 03:24:36 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 31, 2014, 03:16:36 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 05:39:22 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 03:28:18 PM
What is is about man smell that makes you go crazy?

No, not gross dirty BO smell, man smell, that smell. You know what I mean, I know Nigel knows.

Mmmmm, man-musk. Makes me want to get all up in there.

Ok, that makes a little more sense. I'm a hairy, sweaty guy. I find that unappealing, probably because I'm a hairy, sweaty guy. Whenever I sweat I smell like my dad. Which, obviously, is really unappealing to me in a variety of ways and makes me want to jump in the shower ASAP, but which Villager happens to like.

Fresh guy sweat is awesome. 
...I also find fresh girl sweat and the sweat smell of other assorted genders awesome.

...However, if the oils have been on your skin long enough to get rancid, you just stink, no matter what gender you happen to be.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 31, 2014, 03:32:34 AM
Quote from: :regret: on January 30, 2014, 10:52:20 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 10:41:18 PM
Aaaaaaand a friend is about to lose his 3 year battle with cancer in a matter of days. Shit went south this week and they took him off treatments and put him on comfort meds as of today. That's it.

Fuck cancer. Jesus fucking Christ.
Shit, that sucks.

I don't know what to say, or what to do to make his wife feel better right now. She still has to go to work, SHE IS NOT BEING GIVEN THE FUCKING TIME OFF TO SPEND WITH HER HUSBAND WHILE HE DIES.

Him and I were not close, in fact, we were fucking sandpaper on each other. He was a born-again Christian who was way too conservative for my tastes and his mouth almost always got him in trouble, but we were teammates and always worked together when it mattered. There isn't a soul in this world that needs to go like this. Ever. I'm not just sad that he's dying, I'm sad that here we are, in fucking 2014, and we haven't been able to find a cure for cancer [that's approved by the FDA anyway] or even have employers that possess an inkling of compassion enough to allow a woman and her husband's bedside for his last few days. It's fucking disgusting. All of it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 03:39:29 AM
Quote from: Random anger problem on January 31, 2014, 03:24:36 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 31, 2014, 03:16:36 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 05:39:22 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 03:28:18 PM
What is is about man smell that makes you go crazy?

No, not gross dirty BO smell, man smell, that smell. You know what I mean, I know Nigel knows.

Mmmmm, man-musk. Makes me want to get all up in there.

Ok, that makes a little more sense. I'm a hairy, sweaty guy. I find that unappealing, probably because I'm a hairy, sweaty guy. Whenever I sweat I smell like my dad. Which, obviously, is really unappealing to me in a variety of ways and makes me want to jump in the shower ASAP, but which Villager happens to like.

Fresh guy sweat is awesome. 
...I also find fresh girl sweat and the sweat smell of other assorted genders awesome.

...However, if the oils have been on your skin long enough to get rancid, you just stink, no matter what gender you happen to be.

I think, when I think of man stink, I think of the most obvious source. Me. Which is unappealing.

I'd probably have the same reaction if any of my female relatives just came in from a jog, except it would be gender appropriate sweat stuff.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 31, 2014, 03:41:48 AM
And suddenly, every little rant I have, every little stressful thought, is insignificant to the fact that I just ranted about moving stress on Facebook, and his wife just replied, "I'll trade you."

I now feel superficial as fuck. There is no first world problem that can fucking compare to a wife losing a husband to cancer. FUCK ME.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 03:45:07 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 10:23:43 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 09:47:16 PM
Quote from: Tiddleywomp Cockletit on January 30, 2014, 09:03:56 PM
In a way, it IS boring. People doing shit like yanking food away from little kids and throwing it in the trash is STANDARD now. It's TEDIOUS.

"Oboy, the sun is up. More horror. Wahoo."

Especially considering the recent proposal to link FOOD STAMP BENEFITS to school performance.  :horrormirth:

wat

Last year sometime, I'll try to find it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 03:47:00 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/04/01/proposed-tennessee-bill-would-cut-welfare-benefits-when-kids-fail-at-school/
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 03:50:18 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 31, 2014, 03:11:29 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 03:06:03 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:49:34 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:57:28 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:54:40 AM
We can't stop here, this is vagina country?

IT REALLY IS NOT THE VAGINA.

IT IS THE WAY THEY MOVE AND WALK AND TALK.

I agree with this 169.7%

Women make me stupid, and not just because I feel a need to get them into bed.  I mean, that's great and all, but even after sex, when there is not a single hormone left in my horribly withered and dessicated body, I am still a stunned bunny dumbass.  Because I love the hell out of women.  They are like a Rubens painting that can hold a conversation.

No, wait, that last bit isn't quite right, because they're not inanimate objects that have a semblance of humanity, and that wouldn't even be attractive at all.  I don't know how to explain this part.  Because women make me dumb.

I like guys, because they're hairy and smell like sweat and have dicks.

I don't know WHY this makes me like them, but there you have it.

This is probably the most unappealing description of my gender I can think of boiled down to a sentence. I won't debate it, but that's not what I like.

Well, really, you CAN'T debate it.  :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 31, 2014, 03:51:12 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 03:47:00 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/04/01/proposed-tennessee-bill-would-cut-welfare-benefits-when-kids-fail-at-school/

The Hunger Games. Good lord.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 03:54:53 AM
Quote from: The Suu on January 31, 2014, 03:32:34 AM
Quote from: :regret: on January 30, 2014, 10:52:20 PM
Quote from: The Suu on January 30, 2014, 10:41:18 PM
Aaaaaaand a friend is about to lose his 3 year battle with cancer in a matter of days. Shit went south this week and they took him off treatments and put him on comfort meds as of today. That's it.

Fuck cancer. Jesus fucking Christ.
Shit, that sucks.

I don't know what to say, or what to do to make his wife feel better right now. She still has to go to work, SHE IS NOT BEING GIVEN THE FUCKING TIME OFF TO SPEND WITH HER HUSBAND WHILE HE DIES.

Him and I were not close, in fact, we were fucking sandpaper on each other. He was a born-again Christian who was way too conservative for my tastes and his mouth almost always got him in trouble, but we were teammates and always worked together when it mattered. There isn't a soul in this world that needs to go like this. Ever. I'm not just sad that he's dying, I'm sad that here we are, in fucking 2014, and we haven't been able to find a cure for cancer [that's approved by the FDA anyway] or even have employers that possess an inkling of compassion enough to allow a woman and her husband's bedside for his last few days. It's fucking disgusting. All of it.

It's also illegal under FMLA.

http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/

QuoteFamily and Medical Leave Act
Overview
The FMLA entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons with continuation of group health insurance coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave. Eligible employees are entitled to:
Twelve workweeks of leave in a 12-month period for:
the birth of a child and to care for the newborn child within one year of birth;
the placement with the employee of a child for adoption or foster care and to care for the newly placed child within one year of placement;
to care for the employee's spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition;
a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the essential functions of his or her job;
any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the employee's spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a covered military member on "covered active duty;" or
Twenty-six workweeks of leave during a single 12-month period to care for a covered servicemember with a serious injury or illness if the eligible employee is the servicemember's spouse, son, daughter, parent, or next of kin (military caregiver leave).
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Suu on January 31, 2014, 04:00:32 AM
I'm forwarding that to her. I knew it was bullshit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 04:15:25 AM
It's possible that she just meant that she's used all her paid leave, so they can't pay her while she's out. I can't imagine any employer in the country blatantly violating Federal law (and human decency) in a way that would leave them so wide-open to lawsuit and public outcry. They're usually marginally smarter than that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 04:15:32 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 03:50:18 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 31, 2014, 03:11:29 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 03:06:03 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:49:34 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:57:28 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:54:40 AM
We can't stop here, this is vagina country?

IT REALLY IS NOT THE VAGINA.

IT IS THE WAY THEY MOVE AND WALK AND TALK.

I agree with this 169.7%

Women make me stupid, and not just because I feel a need to get them into bed.  I mean, that's great and all, but even after sex, when there is not a single hormone left in my horribly withered and dessicated body, I am still a stunned bunny dumbass.  Because I love the hell out of women.  They are like a Rubens painting that can hold a conversation.

No, wait, that last bit isn't quite right, because they're not inanimate objects that have a semblance of humanity, and that wouldn't even be attractive at all.  I don't know how to explain this part.  Because women make me dumb.

I like guys, because they're hairy and smell like sweat and have dicks.

I don't know WHY this makes me like them, but there you have it.

This is probably the most unappealing description of my gender I can think of boiled down to a sentence. I won't debate it, but that's not what I like.

Well, really, you CAN'T debate it.  :lulz:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandum

I tend towards androgynous men. I like androgyny in women too, but it's not a preference that's as strong in heterosexual attraction.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 31, 2014, 05:13:21 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 31, 2014, 04:15:32 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 03:50:18 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 31, 2014, 03:11:29 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 03:06:03 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:49:34 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:57:28 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:54:40 AM
We can't stop here, this is vagina country?

IT REALLY IS NOT THE VAGINA.

IT IS THE WAY THEY MOVE AND WALK AND TALK.

I agree with this 169.7%

Women make me stupid, and not just because I feel a need to get them into bed.  I mean, that's great and all, but even after sex, when there is not a single hormone left in my horribly withered and dessicated body, I am still a stunned bunny dumbass.  Because I love the hell out of women.  They are like a Rubens painting that can hold a conversation.

No, wait, that last bit isn't quite right, because they're not inanimate objects that have a semblance of humanity, and that wouldn't even be attractive at all.  I don't know how to explain this part.  Because women make me dumb.

I like guys, because they're hairy and smell like sweat and have dicks.

I don't know WHY this makes me like them, but there you have it.

This is probably the most unappealing description of my gender I can think of boiled down to a sentence. I won't debate it, but that's not what I like.

Well, really, you CAN'T debate it.  :lulz:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandum

I tend towards androgynous men. I like androgyny in women too, but it's not a preference that's as strong in heterosexual attraction.

...I was attracted to girlfriendo because she has kind eyes.  Eyes are a big thing. 
She has been subsequently shown to have a kind (and sexy) everything else.
...I appreciate that I'm nuts and nuts in a way that makes me very difficult to be around.  She puts up with that.
  I am very grateful and probably far luckier than I deserve to have her in my life.

...Okay, done.  Y'all can vomit now...
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 06:00:12 AM
Quote from: Random anger problem on January 31, 2014, 05:13:21 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 31, 2014, 04:15:32 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 03:50:18 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 31, 2014, 03:11:29 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 03:06:03 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:49:34 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:57:28 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:54:40 AM
We can't stop here, this is vagina country?

IT REALLY IS NOT THE VAGINA.

IT IS THE WAY THEY MOVE AND WALK AND TALK.

I agree with this 169.7%

Women make me stupid, and not just because I feel a need to get them into bed.  I mean, that's great and all, but even after sex, when there is not a single hormone left in my horribly withered and dessicated body, I am still a stunned bunny dumbass.  Because I love the hell out of women.  They are like a Rubens painting that can hold a conversation.

No, wait, that last bit isn't quite right, because they're not inanimate objects that have a semblance of humanity, and that wouldn't even be attractive at all.  I don't know how to explain this part.  Because women make me dumb.

I like guys, because they're hairy and smell like sweat and have dicks.

I don't know WHY this makes me like them, but there you have it.

This is probably the most unappealing description of my gender I can think of boiled down to a sentence. I won't debate it, but that's not what I like.

Well, really, you CAN'T debate it.  :lulz:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandum

I tend towards androgynous men. I like androgyny in women too, but it's not a preference that's as strong in heterosexual attraction.

...I was attracted to girlfriendo because she has kind eyes.  Eyes are a big thing. 
She has been subsequently shown to have a kind (and sexy) everything else.
...I appreciate that I'm nuts and nuts in a way that makes me very difficult to be around.  She puts up with that.
  I am very grateful and probably far luckier than I deserve to have her in my life.

...Okay, done.  Y'all can vomit now...

It's cool. You really can't pin down why you're attracted to your significant other. With Villager I can point out specific traits, both physical and personality wise, that I'm attracted to, but the combination is always unpredictable.

And you know, I gotta admit, you've all called it before, I friggin love that evil smile.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 06:04:02 AM
I mean fucking hell. She and I work next door to each other, but we're generally on separate schedules. Except this semester. I saw her standing alone on the subway platform, and I intentionally threw my weight against her, and she gave me that evil smile. Never did I want to go to class less.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 06:12:00 AM
I want to finish school and get a proper job so I can marry her. And it's going to be a while.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 06:40:45 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 31, 2014, 04:15:32 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 03:50:18 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 31, 2014, 03:11:29 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 03:06:03 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 30, 2014, 02:49:34 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 30, 2014, 05:57:28 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 30, 2014, 05:54:40 AM
We can't stop here, this is vagina country?

IT REALLY IS NOT THE VAGINA.

IT IS THE WAY THEY MOVE AND WALK AND TALK.

I agree with this 169.7%

Women make me stupid, and not just because I feel a need to get them into bed.  I mean, that's great and all, but even after sex, when there is not a single hormone left in my horribly withered and dessicated body, I am still a stunned bunny dumbass.  Because I love the hell out of women.  They are like a Rubens painting that can hold a conversation.

No, wait, that last bit isn't quite right, because they're not inanimate objects that have a semblance of humanity, and that wouldn't even be attractive at all.  I don't know how to explain this part.  Because women make me dumb.

I like guys, because they're hairy and smell like sweat and have dicks.

I don't know WHY this makes me like them, but there you have it.

This is probably the most unappealing description of my gender I can think of boiled down to a sentence. I won't debate it, but that's not what I like.

Well, really, you CAN'T debate it.  :lulz:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandum

I tend towards androgynous men. I like androgyny in women too, but it's not a preference that's as strong in heterosexual attraction.

:lol: Reread my post. I didn't say anything about what you like.

Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 30, 2014, 03:06:03 PM
I like guys, because they're hairy and smell like sweat and have dicks.

I don't know WHY this makes me like them, but there you have it.

You aren't really going to try to debate what I like with me, are you?  :lol:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 06:44:59 AM
 :lulz: Never mind, I clicked the link AFTER I posted.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 06:59:49 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 06:44:59 AM
:lulz: Never mind, I clicked the link AFTER I posted.

I took 6 years of Latin and for the life of me can't seem to remember how it's rendered without googling "In matters of taste, there is no argument." Because the actual translation is unimportant. The meaning is so yes that you need only be familiar with it, and that it was originally stated by a Roman.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 07:10:17 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 31, 2014, 06:59:49 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 06:44:59 AM
:lulz: Never mind, I clicked the link AFTER I posted.

I took 6 years of Latin and for the life of me can't seem to remember how it's rendered without googling "In matters of taste, there is no argument." Because the actual translation is unimportant. The meaning is so yes that you need only be familiar with it, and that it was originally stated by a Roman.

It is perfect.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 07:12:52 AM
So I revised my OK Cupid profile to be full nerd. http://www.okcupid.com/profile/WeaselPants?cf=search_overlay

A biochemistry professor at my school messaged me. :lulz: :lulz:

Hell, why not?

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 07:13:12 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 07:10:17 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 31, 2014, 06:59:49 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 06:44:59 AM
:lulz: Never mind, I clicked the link AFTER I posted.

I took 6 years of Latin and for the life of me can't seem to remember how it's rendered without googling "In matters of taste, there is no argument." Because the actual translation is unimportant. The meaning is so yes that you need only be familiar with it, and that it was originally stated by a Roman.

It is perfect.

I think that is why out of all of the quotes I was exposed to, that one stuck out the most. There was never a Latin phrase that one could disagree with less than that one.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 07:17:19 AM
So, manly men for you, ambiguous men for me. We cannot dispute these thing. :lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 07:20:34 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 31, 2014, 07:17:19 AM
So, manly men for you, ambiguous men for me. We cannot dispute these thing. :lulz:

THESE THING ARE BEYOND REFUTE.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 31, 2014, 07:20:44 AM
I thought I could, but I can't. I no longer want to be friends with anarchists. I tried long and hard and asked myself how much do I enjoy being around them. I see that they're incapable of enjoying life. Don't know if I'm now in the same stigma as Kai for doing this. I mean I can work with them engage them in public/work etc, but I can't do it in private. My breaking point came to two of them who just became fathers are now justifying them be so called "statists" because we they take some of the "entitlements" it's not them parasites since they're anarchists. Rather than see them become a really real RWHN I decided to jump ship. So I officially have 4 good friends now IRL. Time for bear to start being social again. I'm going to start looking for more techie and engineering hobbyists, and maybe do neckbeard projects together.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 07:22:04 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 07:12:52 AM
So I revised my OK Cupid profile to be full nerd. http://www.okcupid.com/profile/WeaselPants?cf=search_overlay

A biochemistry professor at my school messaged me. :lulz: :lulz:

Hell, why not?

I can't see anything wrong with it. At worst you get a laugh at a professor's expense, at best, power couple.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 31, 2014, 07:28:58 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 07:12:52 AM
So I revised my OK Cupid profile to be full nerd. http://www.okcupid.com/profile/WeaselPants?cf=search_overlay

A biochemistry professor at my school messaged me. :lulz: :lulz:

Hell, why not?



Is it a fake profile?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 07:29:02 AM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 07:20:44 AM
I thought I could, but I can't. I no longer want to be friends with anarchists. I tried long and hard and asked myself how much do I enjoy being around them. I see that they're incapable of enjoying life. Don't know if I'm now in the same stigma as Kai for doing this. I mean I can work with them engage them in public/work etc, but I can't do it in private. My breaking point came to two of them who just became fathers are now justifying them be so called "statists" because we they take some of the "entitlements" it's not them parasites since they're anarchists. Rather than see them become a really real RWHN I decided to jump ship. So I officially have 4 good friends now IRL. Time for bear to start being social again. I'm going to start looking for more techie and engineering hobbyists, and maybe do neckbeard projects together.

Do what you have to man.

I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at here other than hypocrisy though. Could be that my eyes are refusing to provide ample information to my brain.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 07:30:49 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 31, 2014, 07:29:02 AM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 07:20:44 AM
I thought I could, but I can't. I no longer want to be friends with anarchists. I tried long and hard and asked myself how much do I enjoy being around them. I see that they're incapable of enjoying life. Don't know if I'm now in the same stigma as Kai for doing this. I mean I can work with them engage them in public/work etc, but I can't do it in private. My breaking point came to two of them who just became fathers are now justifying them be so called "statists" because we they take some of the "entitlements" it's not them parasites since they're anarchists. Rather than see them become a really real RWHN I decided to jump ship. So I officially have 4 good friends now IRL. Time for bear to start being social again. I'm going to start looking for more techie and engineering hobbyists, and maybe do neckbeard projects together.

Do what you have to man.

I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at here other than hypocrisy though. Could be that my eyes are refusing to provide ample information to my brain.

Ah, ok. Got it.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 07:31:47 AM
I have a thought but it may have to wait for proper formulation.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 31, 2014, 07:50:16 AM
I wanted to know if I'm now the new Kai for doing this? I jumped ship for this reason alone I see the punch line (Really real anarchists become RWHN when they have children). I feel like I made the right decision, but I still feel like I did something wrong.

Let me re write what I wrote to clarify confusion.
1.) Two of my IRL Anarchists friends had children. They're now justifying taking "entitlements" because society forced them or something or other.
2.) Non-Anarchists (everyone else and me) are still parasites for creating and justifying the "system".
3.) I called them unbearable assholes, and told him to go fuck themselves for devaluing other people.
4.) They TRIED to convince me the life of their fucking children is worth more than other people's children because they're not "brain washed".
5.) One of them became a really real atheist too after converting from New Age/ Alternative Natural lifestyle.
6.) The atheist one might be becoming a MRA/facebook lawlivist.
7.)The Religious one condemns anyone who eats meat.

I think I feel bad for not jumping ship sooner. I feel like I just pissed away 8 years of my life on these two assclowns.
I'm sharing this with you guys because I feel like I might have gone too far like Kai.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 31, 2014, 07:54:24 AM
You can't compare yourself like that.

Well, you can if you want.

Either way, it sadly sounds like you lost some friends to religion. It happens sometimes. It sucks.

Sorry man.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Nephew Twiddleton on January 31, 2014, 07:56:59 AM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 07:50:16 AM
I wanted to know if I'm now the new Kai for doing this? I jumped ship for this reason alone I see the punch line (Really real anarchists become RWHN when they have children). I feel like I made the right decision, but I still feel like I did something wrong.

Let me re write what I wrote to clarify confusion.
1.) Two of my IRL Anarchists friends had children. They're now justifying taking "entitlements" because society forced them or something or other.
2.) Non-Anarchists (everyone else and me) are still parasites for creating and justifying the "system".
3.) I called them unbearable assholes, and told him to go fuck themselves for devaluing other people.
4.) They TRIED to convince me the life of their fucking children is worth more than other people's children because they're not "brain washed".
5.) One of them became a really real atheist too after converting from New Age/ Alternative Natural lifestyle.
6.) The atheist one might be becoming a MRA/facebook lawlivist.
7.)The Religious one condemns anyone who eats meat.

I think I feel bad for not jumping ship sooner. I feel like I just pissed away 8 years of my life on these two assclowns.
I'm sharing this with you guys because I feel like I might have gone too far like Kai.

Aside from a couple of things he said here or there I don't see why Kai is the current Kai (and I don't want to know, frankly. Nothing personal to anyone involved but, the whole Coyote blow out. I caught a whiff of it, and I don't want to smell anymore than I have to.)

I also don't see anything wrong with your positions.

Also you're good peeps. Even if you were the new Kai, whatever that means, I would judge you based on where you and I are unless there was some crazy ass thing that happened that even I can't ignore.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 31, 2014, 08:02:29 AM
Not to religion in theory but to maybe fear I think? They're anarchists who can't amount to anything because lack freedom or something other. One of them has a great potential to be a great machinist since he likes to get his hands dirty, but doesn't want to be a slave to some capitalist.

So yeah just amazed this ended so fast. I'm almost 28 I thought shit like this  was over for me. NOPE.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 31, 2014, 08:05:44 AM
Quote from: THE PHYTOPHTHORATIC HOLDER OF THE ADVANCED DEGREE on January 31, 2014, 07:56:59 AM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 07:50:16 AM
I wanted to know if I'm now the new Kai for doing this? I jumped ship for this reason alone I see the punch line (Really real anarchists become RWHN when they have children). I feel like I made the right decision, but I still feel like I did something wrong.

Let me re write what I wrote to clarify confusion.
1.) Two of my IRL Anarchists friends had children. They're now justifying taking "entitlements" because society forced them or something or other.
2.) Non-Anarchists (everyone else and me) are still parasites for creating and justifying the "system".
3.) I called them unbearable assholes, and told him to go fuck themselves for devaluing other people.
4.) They TRIED to convince me the life of their fucking children is worth more than other people's children because they're not "brain washed".
5.) One of them became a really real atheist too after converting from New Age/ Alternative Natural lifestyle.
6.) The atheist one might be becoming a MRA/facebook lawlivist.
7.)The Religious one condemns anyone who eats meat.

I think I feel bad for not jumping ship sooner. I feel like I just pissed away 8 years of my life on these two assclowns.
I'm sharing this with you guys because I feel like I might have gone too far like Kai.

Aside from a couple of things he said here or there I don't see why Kai is the current Kai (and I don't want to know, frankly. Nothing personal to anyone involved but, the whole Coyote blow out. I caught a whiff of it, and I don't want to smell anymore than I have to.)

I also don't see anything wrong with your positions.

Also you're good peeps. Even if you were the new Kai, whatever that means, I would judge you based on where you and I are unless there was some crazy ass thing that happened that even I can't ignore.

The Kai thing is a reference to becoming a smug elitist. I can see it happening to Kai, but I think it was him blowing off steam/frustration. I read somewhere this isn't the first time it's happened.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 31, 2014, 08:09:01 AM
In 17 days it will be me and my wife's 2 year anniversary, and 6 years living together. Don't know what to do.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 31, 2014, 08:49:26 AM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 08:02:29 AM
Not to religion in theory but to maybe fear I think? They're anarchists who can't amount to anything because lack freedom or something other. One of them has a great potential to be a great machinist since he likes to get his hands dirty, but doesn't want to be a slave to some capitalist.

So yeah just amazed this ended so fast. I'm almost 28 I thought shit like this  was over for me. NOPE.

What I mean to say is that they BELIEVE instead of KNOWING.

It doesn't have to be religion to be religion. The holy order of no guvmint is no different from fundamental christianity if they choose it over sense and friendship.

So it goes.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 31, 2014, 08:55:10 AM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 07:50:16 AM
I wanted to know if I'm now the new Kai for doing this? I jumped ship for this reason alone I see the punch line (Really real anarchists become RWHN when they have children). I feel like I made the right decision, but I still feel like I did something wrong.

Let me re write what I wrote to clarify confusion.
1.) Two of my IRL Anarchists friends had children. They're now justifying taking "entitlements" because society forced them or something or other.
2.) Non-Anarchists (everyone else and me) are still parasites for creating and justifying the "system".
3.) I called them unbearable assholes, and told him to go fuck themselves for devaluing other people.
4.) They TRIED to convince me the life of their fucking children is worth more than other people's children because they're not "brain washed".
5.) One of them became a really real atheist too after converting from New Age/ Alternative Natural lifestyle.
6.) The atheist one might be becoming a MRA/facebook lawlivist.
7.)The Religious one condemns anyone who eats meat.

I think I feel bad for not jumping ship sooner. I feel like I just pissed away 8 years of my life on these two assclowns.
I'm sharing this with you guys because I feel like I might have gone too far like Kai.

NOPE.
FUCK THOSE GUYS.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 31, 2014, 08:56:42 AM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 07:50:16 AM
I wanted to know if I'm now the new Kai for doing this? I jumped ship for this reason alone I see the punch line (Really real anarchists become RWHN when they have children). I feel like I made the right decision, but I still feel like I did something wrong.

Let me re write what I wrote to clarify confusion.
1.) Two of my IRL Anarchists friends had children. They're now justifying taking "entitlements" because society forced them or something or other.
2.) Non-Anarchists (everyone else and me) are still parasites for creating and justifying the "system".
3.) I called them unbearable assholes, and told him to go fuck themselves for devaluing other people.
4.) They TRIED to convince me the life of their fucking children is worth more than other people's children because they're not "brain washed".
5.) One of them became a really real atheist too after converting from New Age/ Alternative Natural lifestyle.
6.) The atheist one might be becoming a MRA/facebook lawlivist.
7.)The Religious one condemns anyone who eats meat.

I think I feel bad for not jumping ship sooner. I feel like I just pissed away 8 years of my life on these two assclowns.
I'm sharing this with you guys because I feel like I might have gone too far like Kai.

Admittedly, my antipathy for crude internet anarchists and their ridiculous political philosophy* knows no bounds and could be affecting my judgement, but it sounds like they were being preachy and demeaning assholes who believed the world should revolve exclusively around them for quite a while now.

*This may be overstating the coherency of such beliefs.  Ironically, I enjoy reading Proudhon, Voltairine de Cleyre, David Graeber and other Anarchist political theorists.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 31, 2014, 09:16:23 AM
Fucking special snowflakes giving anarchists a bad name.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: East Coast Hustle on January 31, 2014, 09:32:10 AM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 07:50:16 AM
I wanted to know if I'm now the new Kai for doing this? I jumped ship for this reason alone I see the punch line (Really real anarchists become RWHN when they have children). I feel like I made the right decision, but I still feel like I did something wrong.

Let me re write what I wrote to clarify confusion.
1.) Two of my IRL Anarchists friends had children. They're now justifying taking "entitlements" because society forced them or something or other.
2.) Non-Anarchists (everyone else and me) are still parasites for creating and justifying the "system".
3.) I called them unbearable assholes, and told him to go fuck themselves for devaluing other people.
4.) They TRIED to convince me the life of their fucking children is worth more than other people's children because they're not "brain washed".
5.) One of them became a really real atheist too after converting from New Age/ Alternative Natural lifestyle.
6.) The atheist one might be becoming a MRA/facebook lawlivist.
7.)The Religious one condemns anyone who eats meat.

I think I feel bad for not jumping ship sooner. I feel like I just pissed away 8 years of my life on these two assclowns.
I'm sharing this with you guys because I feel like I might have gone too far like Kai.

If they are as you describe and you left them physically able to make noises you didn't go far enough and/or you're a better man than I am. :lulz:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 31, 2014, 11:04:21 AM
After rolling around in bed for 2 hrs I still can't sleep. it's 5 A.M. here. Spending the next hour trying to fix this stupid wireless magic jack error 3002.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 31, 2014, 11:07:54 AM
I'm calling it now the religious one is going to call me for something in saw 4 months? I need help etc. The shithead might push his kid as a excuse. Which will one of two things make me do. Laugh at him, or convince his wife to leave the jackass.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 31, 2014, 11:21:52 AM
Heh, I've upset the Student Loans people in the UK.  They don't know whether I'm studying, working abroad or unemployed and they hate it, because they don't know what to charge me.  So they've sent a highly threatening letter demanding full access to my financial records.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Reginald Ret on January 31, 2014, 12:04:44 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 31, 2014, 11:21:52 AM
Heh, I've upset the Student Loans people in the UK.  They don't know whether I'm studying, working abroad or unemployed and they hate it, because they don't know what to charge me.  So they've sent a highly threatening letter demanding full access to my financial records.
Fuck, that sucks. Will this get you in trouble? Or even worse, require you to get a lawyer?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 31, 2014, 12:15:09 PM
Naw.  Under the terms of the loan, I only get money taken out when I'm earning above a certain amount.  Since I'm not earning anything, they can't do shit.  It's fun to watch them spazz out about it, though.

And given they're leeches on a system that used to be free, until government decided updating our pointless second-strike nuclear arsenal and inflating a property bubble was more important than a sustainable knowledge based economy, I'm not especially inclined to help them beyond the necessary
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 31, 2014, 01:49:03 PM
/b/ear, I was pretty sure it's next to impossible to be a Really Real IRL anarchist in the US.

How, exactly, did they justify all of the State's involvement in their lives prior to having kids?
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2014, 02:09:28 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 07:50:16 AM
4.) They TRIED to convince me the life of their fucking children is worth more than other people's children because they're not "brain washed".

This is the point where these two people stopped being relevant to just about anything.

I agree with ECH.  The fact that you left them mobile & with all of their bits makes you something of a Franciscan-esque saint.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 31, 2014, 02:28:36 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 31, 2014, 01:49:03 PM
/b/ear, I was pretty sure it's next to impossible to be a Really Real IRL anarchist in the US.

How, exactly, did they justify all of the State's involvement in their lives prior to having kids?

They tried too. I asked them where can I find the Anarchist road they only travel on. Every little jab was countered with blah blah blah "statist". You're a engineer, but rely on comcast for internet connection what a waste of knowledge. He pretty much blew up on me when I laughed at him for trying to do everything DIY. At least they weren't conspiracy theorists. It just occured to me I'm a dumbass for feeling any remorse. Everytime we did anything I was dragged into some sort of dick measuring contest.

I got my Magic Jack Plus to work. Static IP ftw!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 31, 2014, 02:29:14 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 31, 2014, 12:15:09 PM
Naw.  Under the terms of the loan, I only get money taken out when I'm earning above a certain amount.  Since I'm not earning anything, they can't do shit.  It's fun to watch them spazz out about it, though.

And given they're leeches on a system that used to be free, until government decided updating our pointless second-strike nuclear arsenal and inflating a property bubble was more important than a sustainable knowledge based economy, I'm not especially inclined to help them beyond the necessary

I would strongly encourage you to move twice just to fuck up their systems even further.

Remember, it's probably just a matter of time until student loans in the UK become a similar system to the US. When that happens it's probably best to have as much confusion on your file as possible.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 31, 2014, 02:38:55 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 31, 2014, 02:09:28 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 07:50:16 AM
4.) They TRIED to convince me the life of their fucking children is worth more than other people's children because they're not "brain washed".

This is the point where these two people stopped being relevant to just about anything.

I agree with ECH.  The fact that you left them mobile & with all of their bits makes you something of a Franciscan-esque saint.

I'm hoping for their children to kill their fathers, and save their mothers. Also I've had a lot on my mind lately so my bear brain has been dampened for now.

So far I'm going to finish paying off my folks home, and I'm going to ask my wife to decide if she wants kids or not. If yes off to Finland, or Norway we go. If no then we will continue to Boston. She said I would be the most fun dad ever. But she wants to leave with at least 50K anywhere.

I've been doing cardio, and I'm loving the ski machine at the gym. In one hour I burn 1800 calories on the highest incline and max resistance.

Paco, our little retarded dog has been gone for 4 days now. Someone either took him, or he finally ran away. He was a stray who almost died in the heat in our yard. I miss the little bastard we would bark at each other for hours.

It's 8:40 A.M. and I can't sleep time to brew some black coffee, and stay up.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on January 31, 2014, 03:04:50 PM
Hope your dog turns up OK man.


Turns out today is "Surprise sacking Friday" in which I get to sack the most incompetent man I've ever worked with.

Joy!
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 31, 2014, 03:07:24 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 02:28:36 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 31, 2014, 01:49:03 PM
/b/ear, I was pretty sure it's next to impossible to be a Really Real IRL anarchist in the US.

How, exactly, did they justify all of the State's involvement in their lives prior to having kids?

They tried too. I asked them where can I find the Anarchist road they only travel on. Every little jab was countered with blah blah blah "statist". You're a engineer, but rely on comcast for internet connection what a waste of knowledge. He pretty much blew up on me when I laughed at him for trying to do everything DIY. At least they weren't conspiracy theorists. It just occured to me I'm a dumbass for feeling any remorse. Everytime we did anything I was dragged into some sort of dick measuring contest.

I got my Magic Jack Plus to work. Static IP ftw!

Sadly, way too many anarchists and libertarians argue that way.  It basically means "I have no cogent argument, I am now proceeding to ad hominem." 

I say sadly because anarchists and libertarians could make useful allies in curbing actual state excessiveness*, but since they have this conspiracy theory type view of the world where the State is responsible for every bad thing, and as a consequence they renounce Satan and all his works refuse to work the system to the kind of world they'd like to see, instead standing back and waiting for the contradictions of State Coercion to drive the whole system into the ground.

Which is a great way to constantly whine and gripe without accepting any responsibility to improve the situation.

*Also if you can get them to shut up about the Free Market for 2 minutes.  For many anarchist and libertarian groups, "ally" means "captive audience for proselytisation".
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 31, 2014, 03:09:15 PM
Also, for those wondering, I have a backlog of about 5 hours of video for Youtube.  Unfortunately, I have to make a trade off between recording, rendering and uploading, because the last of those takes, on average, 5 hours per video (stupid countryside internet).  They've all been recorded and stuff, it's just I probably wont be uploading again until Monday.  And since I have an essay coming up, I'm building up a nice backlog of material so I can keep uploading while I'm writing.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 31, 2014, 03:10:31 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on January 31, 2014, 02:29:14 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 31, 2014, 12:15:09 PM
Naw.  Under the terms of the loan, I only get money taken out when I'm earning above a certain amount.  Since I'm not earning anything, they can't do shit.  It's fun to watch them spazz out about it, though.

And given they're leeches on a system that used to be free, until government decided updating our pointless second-strike nuclear arsenal and inflating a property bubble was more important than a sustainable knowledge based economy, I'm not especially inclined to help them beyond the necessary

I would strongly encourage you to move twice just to fuck up their systems even further.

Remember, it's probably just a matter of time until student loans in the UK become a similar system to the US. When that happens it's probably best to have as much confusion on your file as possible.

I've actually done that, too.

Sadly, the bank knows where I live, so they probably helped them track me down.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on January 31, 2014, 03:15:20 PM
Quote from: Cain on January 31, 2014, 03:07:24 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 02:28:36 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 31, 2014, 01:49:03 PM
/b/ear, I was pretty sure it's next to impossible to be a Really Real IRL anarchist in the US.

How, exactly, did they justify all of the State's involvement in their lives prior to having kids?

They tried too. I asked them where can I find the Anarchist road they only travel on. Every little jab was countered with blah blah blah "statist". You're a engineer, but rely on comcast for internet connection what a waste of knowledge. He pretty much blew up on me when I laughed at him for trying to do everything DIY. At least they weren't conspiracy theorists. It just occured to me I'm a dumbass for feeling any remorse. Everytime we did anything I was dragged into some sort of dick measuring contest.

I got my Magic Jack Plus to work. Static IP ftw!

Sadly, way too many anarchists and libertarians argue that way.  It basically means "I have no cogent argument, I am now proceeding to ad hominem." 

I say sadly because anarchists and libertarians could make useful allies in curbing actual state excessiveness*, but since they have this conspiracy theory type view of the world where the State is responsible for every bad thing, and as a consequence they renounce Satan and all his works refuse to work the system to the kind of world they'd like to see, instead standing back and waiting for the contradictions of State Coercion to drive the whole system into the ground.

Which is a great way to constantly whine and gripe without accepting any responsibility to improve the situation.

*Also if you can get them to shut up about the Free Market for 2 minutes.  For many anarchist and libertarian groups, "ally" means "captive audience for proselytisation".

It's actually quite a marvelous little ploy, if in fact the entire point is to be able to complain and not actually do anything.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on January 31, 2014, 03:30:06 PM
Well, there is a reason vulgar anarchism and libertarianism are the preferred ideology of teenage to 20somethings.  Because that is the age group that most hates the idea of repsonsibility, hard work and compromise.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2014, 03:56:27 PM
Bearman:  One thing about having kids...If you wait until you can afford it, you'll never have them.  There is no way to afford kids.  You just have them, then struggle along for 18 years.

It's worth it.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 04:43:31 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 07:20:44 AM
I thought I could, but I can't. I no longer want to be friends with anarchists. I tried long and hard and asked myself how much do I enjoy being around them. I see that they're incapable of enjoying life. Don't know if I'm now in the same stigma as Kai for doing this. I mean I can work with them engage them in public/work etc, but I can't do it in private. My breaking point came to two of them who just became fathers are now justifying them be so called "statists" because we they take some of the "entitlements" it's not them parasites since they're anarchists. Rather than see them become a really real RWHN I decided to jump ship. So I officially have 4 good friends now IRL. Time for bear to start being social again. I'm going to start looking for more techie and engineering hobbyists, and maybe do neckbeard projects together.

Yeah, the thing about holding extreme positions is that you can't do it without being a hypocrite when you make an exception for yourself. Good call, man.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 04:43:58 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 07:28:58 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 07:12:52 AM
So I revised my OK Cupid profile to be full nerd. http://www.okcupid.com/profile/WeaselPants?cf=search_overlay

A biochemistry professor at my school messaged me. :lulz: :lulz:

Hell, why not?



Is it a fake profile?

No,  that's my actual me.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 04:46:26 PM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 08:02:29 AM
Not to religion in theory but to maybe fear I think? They're anarchists who can't amount to anything because lack freedom or something other. One of them has a great potential to be a great machinist since he likes to get his hands dirty, but doesn't want to be a slave to some capitalist.

So yeah just amazed this ended so fast. I'm almost 28 I thought shit like this  was over for me. NOPE.

They're the same as the "pre-rich" Libertarians who WOULD have risen to the top if only Big Government wasn't holding them down. It's excuses.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2014, 04:55:54 PM
Sky is turning black, all air movement has stopped.

HOLD ON TO YOUR ASSES, SPACE COWBOYS!  WE'RE MAKIN' GRAVY WITHOUT THE LUMPS!
\
:hammer:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 31, 2014, 05:21:54 PM
God damned massage therapists are fucking morons.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2014, 05:25:46 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 31, 2014, 05:21:54 PM
God damned massage therapists are fucking morons.

So are preachers.  I just farted some particularly holy shit, but the internets are empty.   :sad:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 31, 2014, 05:28:58 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 31, 2014, 05:25:46 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 31, 2014, 05:21:54 PM
God damned massage therapists are fucking morons.

So are preachers.  I just farted some particularly holy shit, but the internets are empty.   :sad:

Sun is barely up.

I am, for a new PROSPECTIVE tenant, who messaged me at 7am to say she cannot make the 10am. She still needs to get paperwork.

Fucking clownshoes.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 31, 2014, 05:32:10 PM
On the plus side slept a solid 8 hours, did not drink last night, and have been writing a whole lot.

No holy work, but good shit.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2014, 05:36:38 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 31, 2014, 05:32:10 PM
On the plus side slept a solid 8 hours, did not drink last night, and have been writing a whole lot.

No holy work, but good shit.

Good, good, and good.

And you can't be Holy™ EVERY day, or they nail you to a stick.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on January 31, 2014, 05:38:34 PM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 31, 2014, 05:36:38 PM
Quote from: Alty on January 31, 2014, 05:32:10 PM
On the plus side slept a solid 8 hours, did not drink last night, and have been writing a whole lot.

No holy work, but good shit.

Good, good, and good.

And you can't be Holy™ EVERY day, or they nail you to a stick.

:lol:

It's funny 'casue it's true!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 05:38:45 PM
Woooot!

I went to the bar with my housemates, and managed to sip one shitty beer for three hours. And a soda water.

I slept solid, but I'm really groggy. Lab is in 25 minutes and I'm trying to drill shit like petiole and peptidoglycan into my head.

I am hoping that today's lab quiz is mostly about bacterial colonies.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2014, 05:39:18 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 05:38:45 PM
Woooot!

I went to the bar with my housemates, and managed to sip one shitty beer for three hours. And a soda water.

I slept solid, but I'm really groggy. Lab is in 25 minutes and I'm trying to drill shit like petiole and peptidoglycan into my head.

I am hoping that today's lab quiz is mostly about bacterial colonies.

Go kick some ass.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2014, 06:13:58 PM
Holy Fit™ over.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 10:30:42 PM
I won the lab quiz.

I also won the fast plants worksheet.

I hope I won the midterm, too.

Today's lab was all protista and fungi.

Making dinner now: next up, science lecture at Reed. I need to remember to bring a notebook, I always forget to do that.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Anna Mae Bollocks on January 31, 2014, 10:45:06 PM
HELL YEAHS, Nigel!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on January 31, 2014, 10:55:13 PM
I have that deep-down kind of tired.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on January 31, 2014, 11:12:35 PM
Edited for stupid:

People are evil monkeys.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on January 31, 2014, 11:15:53 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 10:30:42 PM
I won the lab quiz.

I also won the fast plants worksheet.

I hope I won the midterm, too.



There was never really any doubt.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Ben Shapiro on January 31, 2014, 11:21:02 PM
Went to sleep at 11 am. Finally woke up. Feels good man!
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on February 01, 2014, 12:23:23 AM
Quote from: /b/earman on January 31, 2014, 11:21:02 PM
Went to sleep at 11 am. Finally woke up. Feels good man!

:(  You didn't get your 8 hours.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on February 01, 2014, 02:31:30 AM
I feel like a rat that has suddenly noticed its no longer in a tiny cage. I need no "medicine" to shake away the walls. This is new and different.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on February 01, 2014, 02:35:38 AM
Quote from: Alty on February 01, 2014, 02:31:30 AM
I feel like a rat that has suddenly noticed its no longer in a tiny cage. I need no "medicine" to shake away the walls. This is new and different.

EXPLORE THE NEWLY OPENED WORLD

BEWARE THE CRUEL CHILD WITH HIS BB GUN
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 01, 2014, 02:45:43 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 31, 2014, 11:15:53 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 10:30:42 PM
I won the lab quiz.

I also won the fast plants worksheet.

I hope I won the midterm, too.



There was never really any doubt.

I ALWAYS have doubt.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on February 01, 2014, 05:12:45 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 01, 2014, 02:45:43 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 31, 2014, 11:15:53 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 10:30:42 PM
I won the lab quiz.

I also won the fast plants worksheet.

I hope I won the midterm, too.



There was never really any doubt.

I ALWAYS have doubt.

Well, that's because it's you looking at you doing it.

The rest of us already knew you'd kick all manner of ass.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on February 01, 2014, 08:13:08 AM
Had a discussion today that forced me to pick at the nagging idea that I have no idea what I want to do with this Psych BA, besides not be in school for the forseeable future
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 01, 2014, 08:13:49 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on February 01, 2014, 05:12:45 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 01, 2014, 02:45:43 AM
Quote from: Dirty Old Uncle Roger on January 31, 2014, 11:15:53 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on January 31, 2014, 10:30:42 PM
I won the lab quiz.

I also won the fast plants worksheet.

I hope I won the midterm, too.



There was never really any doubt.

I ALWAYS have doubt.

Well, that's because it's you looking at you doing it.

The rest of us already knew you'd kick all manner of ass.

Ahhh but that is craziness. C'mon!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 01, 2014, 08:15:05 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on February 01, 2014, 08:13:08 AM
Had a discussion today that forced me to pick at the nagging idea that I have no idea what I want to do with this Psych BA, besides not be in school for the forseeable future

What do you want to do with a psych BA?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 01, 2014, 08:15:46 AM
What would anyone want to do with a psych BA?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on February 01, 2014, 08:28:40 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 01, 2014, 08:15:46 AM
What would anyone want to do with a psych BA?
I don't know that *want* is an operative word, but work in human resources seems a likely fate.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on February 01, 2014, 08:40:38 AM
in a broad sense, i just wanna help people be happier (at least that was the goal at the start) so at first i thought i'd be a counselor or therapist. That takes a masters and i'd probably end up fixing the same people with the same problems over and over again. So then, i thought, i'll be a teacher, that's less schooling, i just need a certificate and i can hopefully guide entire roomfuls of kids at once to make something of themselves. I didn't get into my teaching cert program, and part of that was the realization that becoming a teacher is such a bureaucratic mess of frustration that i didn't think i could hack it. So now i've graduated, i've passed my CBEST, so beyond substituting i'm not sure where i'm going with all this. Hell, to be honest, the most appealing course to me seems to be writing dick jokes for the internet, which makes me question why the fuck i spent all these years and took on student loans
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on February 01, 2014, 09:02:39 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on February 01, 2014, 08:40:38 AM
in a broad sense, i just wanna help people be happier (at least that was the goal at the start) so at first i thought i'd be a counselor or therapist. That takes a masters and i'd probably end up fixing the same people with the same problems over and over again.
We crazy peeps are all unique little crazy snowflakes, methinks... :p 
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 01, 2014, 04:28:37 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on February 01, 2014, 08:40:38 AM
in a broad sense, i just wanna help people be happier (at least that was the goal at the start) so at first i thought i'd be a counselor or therapist. That takes a masters and i'd probably end up fixing the same people with the same problems over and over again. So then, i thought, i'll be a teacher, that's less schooling, i just need a certificate and i can hopefully guide entire roomfuls of kids at once to make something of themselves. I didn't get into my teaching cert program, and part of that was the realization that becoming a teacher is such a bureaucratic mess of frustration that i didn't think i could hack it. So now i've graduated, i've passed my CBEST, so beyond substituting i'm not sure where i'm going with all this. Hell, to be honest, the most appealing course to me seems to be writing dick jokes for the internet, which makes me question why the fuck i spent all these years and took on student loans

Where do you live where you don't have to have a masters to teach? In Oregon and Washington you have to have a masters and annual continuing education to get re-certified every year. The irony, of course, is that with all that education, the administration and standardized testing strips them of almost all autonomy when it comes to actual teaching.

Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 01, 2014, 04:29:39 PM
Quote from: Random anger problem on February 01, 2014, 09:02:39 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on February 01, 2014, 08:40:38 AM
in a broad sense, i just wanna help people be happier (at least that was the goal at the start) so at first i thought i'd be a counselor or therapist. That takes a masters and i'd probably end up fixing the same people with the same problems over and over again.
We crazy peeps are all unique little crazy snowflakes, methinks... :p

Crazy people do tend to think that, IME.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on February 01, 2014, 04:52:10 PM
TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE WRITTEN COOL STUFF IN THE LAST FEW DAYS:

Thanks. It's good to see that, even if I've been sort of lacking myself.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on February 01, 2014, 05:03:39 PM
I'm writing an invoice.

It's a very creative process, since I've never written one before, and I'm making it up as I go along.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 01, 2014, 05:08:03 PM
I have so many homeworks. :(
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Left on February 01, 2014, 05:34:19 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 01, 2014, 04:29:39 PM
Quote from: Random anger problem on February 01, 2014, 09:02:39 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on February 01, 2014, 08:40:38 AM
in a broad sense, i just wanna help people be happier (at least that was the goal at the start) so at first i thought i'd be a counselor or therapist. That takes a masters and i'd probably end up fixing the same people with the same problems over and over again.
We crazy peeps are all unique little crazy snowflakes, methinks... :p

Crazy people do tend to think that, IME.
Well, they call us lunatics for a reason, eh? 
Obviously we're not *terrifically* different from one another, otherwise support groups would consist of people looking baffled at each other.
I was mostly kidding.
However, everyone a therapist treats is going to present a unique challenge to said therapist, right? 
To me? burnout from the stress would seem more likely than getting bored.
...But that depends on the person doing the shrinking,  I would guess.

You told me that it's not a good idea to go to college until you are really motivated to go, and I think that's probably good advice for CtB in regards to grad school.
***************************
...After 4 hours, I woke up with a pounding heart and pesky chest pains. 
I would like my body to stop freaking out and let me sleep a bit before work.  Not likely. *sigh*
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Chelagoras The Boulder on February 01, 2014, 05:46:14 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 01, 2014, 04:28:37 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on February 01, 2014, 08:40:38 AM
in a broad sense, i just wanna help people be happier (at least that was the goal at the start) so at first i thought i'd be a counselor or therapist. That takes a masters and i'd probably end up fixing the same people with the same problems over and over again. So then, i thought, i'll be a teacher, that's less schooling, i just need a certificate and i can hopefully guide entire roomfuls of kids at once to make something of themselves. I didn't get into my teaching cert program, and part of that was the realization that becoming a teacher is such a bureaucratic mess of frustration that i didn't think i could hack it. So now i've graduated, i've passed my CBEST, so beyond substituting i'm not sure where i'm going with all this. Hell, to be honest, the most appealing course to me seems to be writing dick jokes for the internet, which makes me question why the fuck i spent all these years and took on student loans
Where do you live where you don't have to have a masters to teach? In Oregon and Washington you have to have a masters and annual continuing education to get re-certified every year. The irony, of course, is that with all that education, the administration and standardized testing strips them of almost all autonomy when it comes to actual teaching.
Here in California, it's at least a bachelors plus around 30 additional units for your certificate, tho it does also comes with the continuing education, re-certifying, and ironic lack of autonomy.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 01, 2014, 05:58:08 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on February 01, 2014, 05:46:14 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 01, 2014, 04:28:37 PM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on February 01, 2014, 08:40:38 AM
in a broad sense, i just wanna help people be happier (at least that was the goal at the start) so at first i thought i'd be a counselor or therapist. That takes a masters and i'd probably end up fixing the same people with the same problems over and over again. So then, i thought, i'll be a teacher, that's less schooling, i just need a certificate and i can hopefully guide entire roomfuls of kids at once to make something of themselves. I didn't get into my teaching cert program, and part of that was the realization that becoming a teacher is such a bureaucratic mess of frustration that i didn't think i could hack it. So now i've graduated, i've passed my CBEST, so beyond substituting i'm not sure where i'm going with all this. Hell, to be honest, the most appealing course to me seems to be writing dick jokes for the internet, which makes me question why the fuck i spent all these years and took on student loans
Where do you live where you don't have to have a masters to teach? In Oregon and Washington you have to have a masters and annual continuing education to get re-certified every year. The irony, of course, is that with all that education, the administration and standardized testing strips them of almost all autonomy when it comes to actual teaching.
Here in California, it's at least a bachelors plus around 30 additional units for your certificate, tho it does also comes with the continuing education, re-certifying, and ironic lack of autonomy.

I think it's ridiculous that people go to school for 6+ years to become experts in their field, only to have politicians and bureaucrats tell them how to do their job. It's like insurance companies making decisions about what kind of medical treatment patients should receive. What ever happened to letting experts make the decisions?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Eater of Clowns on February 01, 2014, 05:58:18 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 01, 2014, 08:15:46 AM
What would anyone want to do with a psych BA?

I like to walk by mine on my way out of the bathroom and glower at it for costing me 150% more than my rent every month.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Junkenstein on February 01, 2014, 06:53:24 PM
Quote from: Cain on February 01, 2014, 05:03:39 PM
I'm writing an invoice.

It's a very creative process, since I've never written one before, and I'm making it up as I go along.

Make sure you include:

Remitttance address
Bank/payment details in full
Assign it a job number (date commissioned longhand works well, ie. 01202014(yes, american but makes filing/finding easier) works well for writing gigs, keep a file with correspondence instructing works just in case. Always.)
Due by date, if not pre-agreed state 14, 30 is standard 60 is fuck you and 90 is not getting paid. If not disputed/contested should be completed by this date. Makes chasing money or selling the debt much easier.
VAT, if applicable. Probably not for your setup currently?
All relevant contact details
Description of product/service. Rule of thumb, the more complicated the works the less detail needed. In this instance I'd suggest something like "Article titled X submitted to (person) on (date), published on (date).

More unsolicited advice at 11.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on February 01, 2014, 07:14:47 PM
All done.  Besides, the paid an hour ago, in my paypal account.  So all is good.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on February 01, 2014, 07:50:16 PM
Cain, I just found your Dishonored playthrough. Looking forward to more.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cain on February 01, 2014, 07:59:39 PM
Excellent.  I've got another two episodes already recorded and I may do some more tomorrow.  They, and the Dragon Age videos will be uploaded on Monday...I'm building up a backlog, as I'm doing an essay next week.  Also got interviews/possible job offers coming up.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 01, 2014, 08:13:49 PM
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on February 01, 2014, 05:58:18 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 01, 2014, 08:15:46 AM
What would anyone want to do with a psych BA?

I like to walk by mine on my way out of the bathroom and glower at it for costing me 150% more than my rent every month.

:lulz:
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on February 01, 2014, 08:46:56 PM
I am starting up a massage/wellness blog that will feed from Wordpress onto tumblr.
It will have a focus of breaking down modalities from an empirical perspective, and will analyze a poorly understood industry.

I wanted to see what you all think about a name. So far I am going with Empirical Massage, but I think there has to be a better name. Massage for Skeptics?

Thoughts?
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on February 01, 2014, 11:50:03 PM
Hah! Look whose learned his lesson.

Got a prospective new tenant. Now, I could hop all over that and pay less rent myself.

But, having realized that people are more trouble than they are worth unless they prove otherwise, and that massage therapists are a bunch of flakes...

I say, "Ok we can meet at 10am this Friday. I will need your municipal massage license, your state business license, and proof of liability insurance before we sign."

"Ok," she said.

Come Friday, 8am, I get a text message saying she can't meet at 10 because she still needs some paperwork. Uh huh.

So I foolishly give her a pass. We meet at 11am. Still missing the proof of insurance. I STILL give her a pass and say, "Ok, email it to me and I will print it at home."

Today arrives, I have her keys. No email. Nothing.

So I tell her NOPE. She says, Oh you didn't get it? I sent it.

BAM email comes through.

Ha HA HA. NOPE. Now she won't stop texting me. TOO FUCKING BAD ASSCLOWN.

"But I am in dying need of space."

Well, then you should have worked harder to impress my ass. Dumbass.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 02, 2014, 12:07:35 AM
Seriously, if someone is too big of a flake to take care of the shit they need to take care of WHEN they need to take care of it, they are going to be nothing but trouble.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on February 02, 2014, 12:53:31 AM
Seven hours in to an eleven hour shift. Send pizza and Epsom salts.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 02, 2014, 01:34:38 AM
Mmmm, pizza!

I have been having a hard time motivating myself to work on my chemistry homework today. I did some philosophy homework and took the dogs to the river though.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on February 02, 2014, 02:41:34 AM
I moved to Fresno last Tuesday.

:asshat:
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 02, 2014, 02:42:40 AM
Quote from: Net on February 02, 2014, 02:41:34 AM
I moved to Fresno last Tuesday.

:asshat:

WHAT?? WHY???
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞ on February 02, 2014, 02:46:29 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 02, 2014, 02:42:40 AM
Quote from: Net on February 02, 2014, 02:41:34 AM
I moved to Fresno last Tuesday.

:asshat:

WHAT?? WHY???

To be within driving distance of my daughter, primarily.

Also, because there's apparently something about me that causes women to drag me to California by my balls.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 02, 2014, 02:49:50 AM
I just got officially asked out by that biochemistry professor. Who looks like Jon Cusack. Not to be shallow, but he wants to talk about fmr1 expression.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on February 02, 2014, 03:07:59 AM
Just got menthol ecig juice in my eye. This is how I die.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 02, 2014, 03:31:33 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on February 02, 2014, 03:07:59 AM
Just got menthol ecig juice in my eye. This is how I die.

:horrormirth: :horrormirth: :horrormirth: That sounds horrible and potentially very unhealthy.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on February 02, 2014, 03:33:05 AM
Just as an FYI, you can't flush paper towels down the toilet. Not even the whole roll at once.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on February 02, 2014, 03:34:45 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 02, 2014, 03:31:33 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on February 02, 2014, 03:07:59 AM
Just got menthol ecig juice in my eye. This is how I die.

:horrormirth: :horrormirth: :horrormirth: That sounds horrible and potentially very unhealthy.


OR the new youtube craze of America's youth!

Somebody stop this madness. These Juice Balls are a scourge!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 02, 2014, 03:34:53 AM
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on February 02, 2014, 03:33:05 AM
Just as an FYI, you can't flush paper towels down the toilet. Not even the whole roll at once.

This is an actual true fact!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 02, 2014, 03:38:02 AM
Quote from: Alty on February 02, 2014, 03:34:45 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 02, 2014, 03:31:33 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on February 02, 2014, 03:07:59 AM
Just got menthol ecig juice in my eye. This is how I die.

:horrormirth: :horrormirth: :horrormirth: That sounds horrible and potentially very unhealthy.


OR the new youtube craze of America's youth!

Somebody stop this madness. These Juice Balls are a scourge!

OMG

KIDS HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW WAY TO GET HIGH! Called "Juiceballing", teenagers have discovered that placing a drop of e-cigarette "juice" directly in their eye will lead to what users describe as a "temporary but intense" euphoria.
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on February 02, 2014, 03:41:29 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 02, 2014, 03:38:02 AM
Quote from: Alty on February 02, 2014, 03:34:45 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 02, 2014, 03:31:33 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on February 02, 2014, 03:07:59 AM
Just got menthol ecig juice in my eye. This is how I die.

:horrormirth: :horrormirth: :horrormirth: That sounds horrible and potentially very unhealthy.


OR the new youtube craze of America's youth!

Somebody stop this madness. These Juice Balls are a scourge!

OMG

KIDS HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW WAY TO GET HIGH! Called "Juiceballing", teenagers have discovered that placing a drop of e-cigarette "juice" directly in their eye will lead to what users describe as a "temporary but intense" euphoria.

Well after the initial burning and tears it turned into a nice tingling sensation for a minute. Felt like when you wash with the dr. bronners mint soap.

I DIDNT DIE THO FALSE ALARM!
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 02, 2014, 03:41:29 AM
Teenager Kim Sampson, 14, from Wahoma Falls OR reports that she first tried "Juiceballing" during an ordinary sleepover with her friends. "We all heard about it at school, and I was like, I mean, my dad breathes this stuff, right? It can't be dangerous."
Title: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: Salty on February 02, 2014, 03:44:21 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 02, 2014, 03:38:02 AM
Quote from: Alty on February 02, 2014, 03:34:45 AM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 02, 2014, 03:31:33 AM
Quote from: Vladimir Poutine ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on February 02, 2014, 03:07:59 AM
Just got menthol ecig juice in my eye. This is how I die.

:horrormirth: :horrormirth: :horrormirth: That sounds horrible and potentially very unhealthy.


OR the new youtube craze of America's youth!

Somebody stop this madness. These Juice Balls are a scourge!

OMG

KIDS HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW WAY TO GET HIGH! Called "Juiceballing", teenagers have discovered that placing a drop of e-cigarette "juice" directly in their eye will lead to what users describe as a "temporary but intense" euphoria.

Gathering at parties, sometimes call Juice Balls or Eye-Cig Parties, kids all across America are engaging in this dangerous trend.
Title: Re: Re: Open Bar: RECOMMENDABLE
Post by: LMNO on February 03, 2014, 01:58:08 PM
Quote from: Nigel's Red Velveteen Skinmeat Snacks on February 02, 2014, 02:42:40 AM
Quote from: Net on February 02, 2014, 02:41:34 AM
I moved to Fresno last Tuesday.

:asshat:

WHAT?? WHY???

Perhaps he's trying to break into the porn biz.