Open Bar: Arguments About Turtles, All the Way Down

[xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed)]

God damn, this Windows 8 update is so damn innovative it deleted all the cookie files on my browser, and god knows what else. Thanks Obama.

[Cain]

One of ours literally only comes home to get fed, or if it is raining.

The other one, on the other hand, has severe attachment issues.  To me in particular.  I'm not sure why.  But at least she can't wake up half the town with her meowing.

Depends on the breed. Bombays, and Persians are the most needy, and attention whoring like a dog.

I currently have a Russian White. He's tomcat, and only comes to eat, get out of the rain, or spend a day, or two at home. I hate seeing him cry at home wanting to get out.

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Sorry I missed this when replying to Nigel.

I've heard that about Persians.  I've also heard that Siamese, while not quite as needy necessarily, are also quite vocal so when you have a needy one it's really annoying.

These are both British shorthairs though.  And brother and sister, which makes it even stranger.  Both raised in exactly the same environment, yet they turned out very differently.

[Cain]

God damn, this Windows 8 update is so damn innovative it deleted all the cookie files on my browser, and god knows what else. Thanks Obama.

That's the sacrifice Windows 8 demands.  Just be lucky it didn't decide it also wanted your WIN32 folder or something.  An OS that evil is capable of anything.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

One of ours literally only comes home to get fed, or if it is raining.

The other one, on the other hand, has severe attachment issues.  To me in particular.  I'm not sure why.  But at least she can't wake up half the town with her meowing.

Awww. That's cute, actually. I like it when cats are lovey and attached.

She's more like a creepy stalker.  If I'm asleep and someone lets her in the house, she will run up the stairs and sit outside my door, meowing and scratching to get in.  When I do get up, as soon as she hears me move, she'll rush up to me, and follow me around.  Can't go to the bathroom, have a shower or get breakfast without her constantly trying to get my attention.  After a couple of hours, she'll calm down enough to go to sleep (on my bed) but whenever she wakes and hears my voice, she'll come running to find me.

The only thing she doesn't like is being picked up by me, so I tend to do that every now and again, just so I can have some peace and quiet.

Wow.

[Cain]

Hah.  Yeah, pretty much.

We'd let the cats stay in the house overnight, if not for her.  She's impossible, because if you're sleeping, then you're not paying attention to her.  So she'll sink her claws into your arm or leg to wake you up.

[Trivial]

God damn, this Windows 8 update is so damn innovative it deleted all the cookie files on my browser, and god knows what else. Thanks Obama.

That's the sacrifice Windows 8 demands.  Just be lucky it didn't decide it also wanted your WIN32 folder or something.  An OS that evil is capable of anything.

If there is an open type font in the wrong place occasionally a patch will put it in a bluescreen or reboot loop.  Borks some so bad you need to do a system restore or sacrifice two doves and a goat.  How they get in the wrong folder is you stepped on the grave of a powerful witch who was one of the coders who made the kernal.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I have Windows 8 on a touchscreen laptop and it is the worst thing I have ever used. Almost totally unusable. And it will decide to update itself at random times, giving me no choice in the matter.

[minuspace]

Ah, windows 8...  I don't trust anything beyond NT.  It's funny because Turing had it so that during any self-respecting install, a pop-up warns me when a piece of code is going to try to check itself.  Now, the whole thing updates itself while I sleep.  NOT ON MY WATCH!

[East Coast Hustle]

I have Windows 8 on a touchscreen laptop and I love it and have had zero problems at all.

Windows mobile for a cell phone, on the other hand, is a work of pure unmitigated evil.

[Ben Shapiro]

Pumpkin Spice Vagisil

[Suu]

Pumpkin Spice Vagisil

You know it's next.

[LMNO]

Hi guys, I haven't been on in a few days.

I've decided that I've reached a place in my life where I am morally and philosophically opposed to being in charge of other people.

Also ECHGF and I are 99% sure that she has a screaming case of undiagnosed diabeetus.

So we're saying "Fuck Maine" and moving back to WA in about a month. I don't care about the money or "big fish/small pond prestige" bullshit. I just want my life back.

Don't be a chef, kids. Learn to cook because it will help you attract people to whom you find yourself attracted but as a career choice seriously, fuck the fuck out of that shit. I'm gonna be stuck cooking for a couple more years while I school because bills and rent but I'm gonna learn to go be a HVAC tech or some shit like that where I don't have to give too many fucks about what other people are doing.

Damn.  Sorry that didn't work out for you.  Seemed like a good gig at the time.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh the delicious, delicious schadenfreude. http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/morning_call/2014/09/mars-hill-church-closing-seattle-branches-laying.html

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I have Windows 8 on a touchscreen laptop and I love it and have had zero problems at all.

Windows mobile for a cell phone, on the other hand, is a work of pure unmitigated evil.

How do you make it not the worst thing since Hitler? I fucking hate it.

[Freeky]

I, too, am interested in hearing how Windows 8 is not meant to be an exercise in self-torture.


In other news, the weather is trying to wash Tucson away.  It nearly managed it near where I live, but it won't manage it, sadly. 
I am soaked and freezing and I wish it would stop raining.