Author Topic: minor inconveniences that are not struggles (Read 918745 times)

chronovore · « **Reply #840 on:** June 21, 2015, 09:59:16 PM »

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Got into a stupid semantics argument with Brian Wood on Twitter. Dude seems kinda defensive.

Who dat?

Comics writer; was a comics artist, and before that an illustrator. He has turned out some good work. He also did the character designs and type work for GTA III.

Ahh, I see he worked on DMZ. Why is he getting defensive.

He mentioned a pet peeve of reviewers using the term "360º turn" when they surely intended 180º -- I made a joke about it, and he wanted to over-analyze my joke. Whatevs.

I liked Channel Zero more than DMZ. And I liked his Couscous Express work more than either of those. Really nuts, playful action movie stuff.

toku · « **Reply #841 on:** June 22, 2015, 12:53:11 AM »

I liked DMZ but then it went super dark and made the main character just this awful human being so I bailed

toku · « **Reply #842 on:** June 22, 2015, 02:31:44 AM »

Quote from: WRATH VICE™ on June 22, 2015, 02:13:21 AM

I was getting ready to JO only for my VPN program not to connect and now I'm stuck with a semi chub that's on it's way to a full erection.

Why must I live in this phantom zone of a country?

law of attraction?

Huff · « **Reply #843 on:** June 22, 2015, 02:23:43 PM »

Someone asked the dreaded what do you do for fun question at a new employee mixer.

I always freeze since I can never figure out a way to explain my urge to get hammered at bars into a positive experience

Kara · « **Reply #844 on:** June 22, 2015, 02:30:38 PM »

Solicited some business banking offers for a concern with cash holdings in excess of the FDIC coverage limit and I got the flabbiest and most sick sales pitch today in response to one of my enquiries. When I asked about the cost structure for excess transaction volume the salesperson had to look it up.

They also sounded stoned af. #notallstoners

This wasn't even one of the XBOX HUEG megabanks that frankly don't need or care about another deposit account.

X post most Jewish thing I did today.

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #845 on:** June 22, 2015, 03:04:11 PM »

I would like to make a website called The Self-Hating Handyman. Every week I make a new project, but I only show you very detailed pictures of all the small flaws it has. Then I end each article with a small anecdote about how my father never loved me.

I think I'm on to a new career here.

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #846 on:** June 22, 2015, 06:50:27 PM »

I feel the urge to drink to forget stuff I did while drinking.

So recursively demonic, brehs.

Kara · « **Reply #847 on:** June 22, 2015, 07:01:30 PM »

It's sf hot and I can't have a cold glass of pastis.

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #848 on:** June 23, 2015, 10:27:31 AM »

A VP in a meeting yesterday said, "You can trust Puppy, he has the work ethic of a janitor"

I was like, "Hey! What do you mean by that?" Not knowing if I should take offense or if it were a comment about me being latino (probably was)

He said, "It's a compliment, You're here before everyone else, you're the last one to leave and you don't leave until it's done."

My dad was a Janitor for a while. I remembered how little we had then, and I said, "If that's the case you should pay your janitors more."

Everyone laughed. But I wasn't joking.

Kara · « **Reply #849 on:** June 23, 2015, 04:00:43 PM »

People who hide their inappropriate personal spending from their family by running it through the business because no one knows how to read a K-1.

And by inappropriate I mean fucking stupid and not lascivious.

chronovore · « **Reply #850 on:** June 23, 2015, 06:35:17 PM »

Caught the beginnings of a cold, but still went to go pick up my wife's business guests in downtown Osaka. By the time I got home, I had a 38.5º c (101.3º f) fever. Spent the entire night thrashing, probably got 4 hours sleep over 10 hours in bed. Today my voice sounds like Michael Jackson.

Fuck this virus-riddled earth.

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #851 on:** June 23, 2015, 11:29:42 PM »

Got a meeting with Singapore office until 11pm.

Started at 7am this morning.

Kara · « **Reply #852 on:** June 24, 2015, 01:42:19 AM »

Received a lengthy business email with "Hello" as the subject.

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #853 on:** June 24, 2015, 02:02:40 AM »

Quote from: Vularai on June 24, 2015, 01:42:19 AM

Received a lengthy business email with "Hello" as the subject.

bluemax · « **Reply #854 on:** June 24, 2015, 02:36:00 AM »

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fuck. think i got talked into going to a ska concert tonight with a tinderella

What would have been bad about that?

Is it OK to still like Fishbone?

Fishbone never really considered themselves a ska band and they didn't really come up as part of the Los Angeles/Orange County ska explosion, although they certainly profited off it as much as any other band that jumped on that short lived gravy train.

Today I drove from Marina Del Rey to Pasadena for a job interview.

The interview was actually scheduled for Thursday.

Luckily the place was cool and still let me interview, and when I got home they emailed and asked when I would want to start and how much I want. They got another candidate but I'll hear by Friday.

chronovore · « **Reply #855 on:** June 24, 2015, 02:43:59 AM »

Congrats!

And thanks for the Fishbone clarification.

Kara · « **Reply #856 on:** June 24, 2015, 03:37:41 AM »

MDR to Pasadena. Woof.

benjipwns · « **Reply #857 on:** June 24, 2015, 06:20:37 AM »

That was always Hollinger's intention with PER. That it gave a general range of a players production. 30+ = epic, 25-30 = superstar, 20-25 = all-star, 18-20 = borderline all-star, 15-18 = starter, 10-15 = decent rotation player, 10 and under = not too good unless specialist or terrific defender.

Game Score is the same, but for individual games.

It was ESPN really that pushed PER as some kind of magic rating (as they're now doing with Real Plus/Minus) and published the RANKINGS every year to spark arguments. Hollinger's always been open about the limitations (except the shooting one) even if it was his primary tool.

Say what you will about PER, Plus-Minus, WS, WARP, etc. At least they aren't WP: http://www.boxscoregeeks.com/teams

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #858 on:** June 24, 2015, 09:50:26 AM »

Should go to a talk from some dude from Colorado today but I really don't want to.

Kara · « **Reply #859 on:** June 24, 2015, 01:01:13 PM »

PER

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Starting on Sunday and running through today, every day I've tried to purchase a basic food item and been told they weren't available. I'm starting to think this is poetic justice for all the times I've smugly reminded an (economic) liberal of the rationing function of the pricing mechanism.

Kara · « **Reply #860 on:** June 24, 2015, 08:08:20 PM »

I brought a pack of Davidoffs to the counter at my tobacconist who gives me the high roller treatment and they went

"That's it?" Who would have thought a literal merchant of death would be so bluntly unsentimental?

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #861 on:** June 24, 2015, 09:19:47 PM »

I got bit by the one-eyed squirrel that my parents are feeding in the backyard.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #862 on:** June 24, 2015, 09:29:58 PM »

I had to look up 'getting bitten by the one eyed squirrel' on urban dictionary. You disgust me Joe.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #863 on:** June 24, 2015, 09:36:47 PM »

bluemax · « **Reply #864 on:** June 24, 2015, 11:21:36 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on June 24, 2015, 03:37:41 AM

MDR to Pasadena. Woof.

I mean my current commute is 7 miles in 30 minutes...

I dunno this seems like a cool job so I could probably deal with the commute. If they let me bring my dog to work it won't be so bad.

Kara · « **Reply #865 on:** June 24, 2015, 11:25:55 PM »

Work doge.

OT: I used "exculpatory" and "err" in consecutive work emails.

bluemax · « **Reply #866 on:** June 24, 2015, 11:27:25 PM »

All meetings are greatly improved with a doge: https://instagram.com/p/3e_6NzxIlB/?taken-by=bluemaxmb

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #867 on:** June 25, 2015, 12:26:10 AM »

when the engineer team forgets to cc your overnight team of maintenance and you see alerts of an entire environment going down.

chronovore · « **Reply #868 on:** June 25, 2015, 12:33:51 AM »

After sweating for nearly three days, and failing to stay ahead of the hydration curve, my morning piss looked like dropping iodine into the toilet bowl.

Taking steps to remedy; thought I was smarter than this.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #869 on:** June 25, 2015, 02:06:30 AM »

Key is stuck in the ignition. I think it's some electronic issue since it's just a plastic fob that goes inside the hole but now it won't go all the way counterclockwise to position 0 to let me take it out. Car's just trying to act smart and being dumb.

Makes me miss my first car that had manual windows and locks and nothing ever broke.

chronovore · « **Reply #870 on:** June 25, 2015, 03:37:50 AM »

EVERY TIME a driver uses their power window control to put up my passenger-side window, while my arm is draped over the window, it's worse than a dozen jump-scares in horror movies. I just cannot deal with it. The last time it happened, the driver was a very skittish woman who thought I was about to start punching. I felt horrible, but it is a reflex for me.

This shit would never happen with manual windows.

I sure don't mind power steering though.

Kara · « **Reply #871 on:** June 25, 2015, 12:49:02 PM »

People always warn me before doing that.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #872 on:** June 25, 2015, 01:35:20 PM »

I read on the Internet that squirrels aren't common carriers of rabies or other diseases, but the site was SquirrelNutrition.com, so they may be a biased source. If I die from a squirrel bite, pls ban Arvie for me, tia.

chronovore · « **Reply #873 on:** June 25, 2015, 05:31:33 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on June 25, 2015, 12:49:02 PM

People always warn me before doing that.

That's what I thought should happen, but no-one, ever warns me about it. I guess they drive with people who don't rest their arm on the sill.

PlayDat · « **Reply #874 on:** June 26, 2015, 12:33:49 AM »

Fucking paid $19 today for a 7-day charlie ticket and only got to use it once before it got jammed in the machine. Gate didn't open for me so I had to spend another $2.10 to get home.

Gonna try calling customer support in the morning to see if they'll replace the card. I haven't been printing out my receipts lately, but even if I had, I doubt I would have held on to it for the ~5 hours between rides.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #875 on:** June 26, 2015, 07:05:11 AM »

So close to my target that it almost makes sense for me to buy from myself in order to get a bonus

Two more days next week to hit that SOB, don't see it happening though unless some clients decide to splurge before the holidays

chronovore · « **Reply #876 on:** June 26, 2015, 05:55:24 PM »

Still sick. Saw a doctor and got prescription cough suppressant, still could not lay down without coughing.

Trying to sleep from 10PM, I'm actually awake until after 1AM. Then at 4AM the feral cats in our neighborhood decided to have a fight, and it went on and on and on. I finally went out there just before 5AM, and a cat had cornered another in the garbage pen. The only reason the cat had gone in there is because the shit heads in the apartment have once again failed to wait until trash day to put it out. In fact, they've put a useless net over the pen which left the cats a way in and out, but it's narrow, which is why the cat was cornered.

Anyway, here I am exhausted but unable to sleep at 7AM on a Saturday, having organized my music for the last two hours. I'd like to claim that's me making the most of it, but the truth is I'm feeling murderous.

Kara · « **Reply #877 on:** June 26, 2015, 07:57:28 PM »

Got a copy of a letter sent to the IRS with the following heading:

INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURE

Setting aside the obvious typo, as the IRS is a bureau of the Treasury department it should therefore be listed below DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURE [sic.] instead of above it.

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pls end my existence

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CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #878 on:** June 27, 2015, 10:18:53 AM »

Working Saturday in 100 degree weather in jeans and steel toes, life is grand.

Purrp Skirrp · « **Reply #879 on:** June 27, 2015, 11:25:34 AM »

Looks like I have a Ben creeping around my room.
Going to make my cat put in work, or maybe befriend the vermin and kill em softly, big hands Lennie style.

Update: cat stepped up.

Shadow Mod · « **Reply #880 on:** June 27, 2015, 05:34:03 PM »

Too many cats to play with at the same time.

chronovore · « **Reply #881 on:** June 28, 2015, 07:12:29 AM »

Quote from: Shadow Mod on June 27, 2015, 05:34:03 PM

Too many cats to play with at the same time.

Possibly the most on-topic post so far in this thread.

team filler · « **Reply #882 on:** June 28, 2015, 08:17:53 AM »

I know longer

Purrp Skirrp · « **Reply #883 on:** June 28, 2015, 11:51:43 AM »

Getting sick of cleaning up cute little animal carcasses. The other cat offered up a dead baby bunny.

Walking around the neighborhood with a bloody shovel, coming in and out of the woods

Kara · « **Reply #884 on:** June 28, 2015, 12:00:29 PM »

My room smells of absinthe so artisan it has a handwritten batch number on the label and Little Caesar's deep dish. I have discovered eau du Karakand.

Kara · « **Reply #885 on:** June 28, 2015, 01:42:42 PM »

Got a pinch flat on the furthest possible point of my regular bike ride and brought no tools to do an emergency patch up so I had to do an embarrassing mix of walking it and riding it very slowly to not fuck up the rim.

Be prepared brehs.

king of the internet · « **Reply #886 on:** June 28, 2015, 01:53:49 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on June 28, 2015, 12:00:29 PM

My room smells of absinthe so artisan it has a handwritten batch number on the label and Little Caesar's deep dish. I have discovered eau du Karakand.

You selected the deep dish options.

This post belongs in the triumph thread.

chronovore · « **Reply #887 on:** June 28, 2015, 07:35:54 PM »

Quote from: Vularai on June 28, 2015, 12:00:29 PM

My room smells of absinthe so artisan it has a handwritten batch number on the label and Little Caesar's deep dish. I have discovered eau du Karakand.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #888 on:** June 28, 2015, 07:39:32 PM »

Quote from: WRATH VICE™ on June 27, 2015, 05:25:47 PM

Cut all ties with my best friend in Saudi. Dude is not only a defeated, husk of a man that's a complete downer to hang out with, he won't stop trying to get me to debate him on gay marriage. First of all, I'm not going to try to appease anybody on bullshit anymore just cause I live here. Secondly, I'm not debating people on subjects they don't know anything about. Finally, I don't give a shit what he thinks.

The minor inconvenience here is I no longer have friends outside family in this desert aside from some dude who gets me my shisha at the Hookah bar, and that guy is just someone I talk to when I'm there. It's for the best, though.

Damn, sorry to hear that. Will Shaka at least keep posting here?

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #889 on:** June 29, 2015, 04:46:17 AM »

Baby is super fussy last few days leading us not to get much sleep or relaxation at all. Still two days to holidays and I feel so drained, hope she will be better soon.

Also hate advice or insinuations of parents with kids that sleep 14 hours a day, or even better, people without kids. Might stab someone one of these days.

Quote from: WRATH VICE™ on June 27, 2015, 05:25:47 PM

Cut all ties with my best friend in Saudi. Dude is not only a defeated, husk of a man that's a complete downer to hang out with, he won't stop trying to get me to debate him on gay marriage. First of all, I'm not going to try to appease anybody on bullshit anymore just cause I live here. Secondly, I'm not debating people on subjects they don't know anything about. Finally, I don't give a shit what he thinks.

The minor inconvenience here is I no longer have friends outside family in this desert aside from some dude who gets me my shisha at the Hookah bar, and that guy is just someone I talk to when I'm there. It's for the best, though.

Dude that's harsh, but a feeling is creeping in I might lose my friends like that too in the future

They are pretty racist and also seem so toxic when discussing things. Like why do people feel the need to be negative? Maybe they don't even see it anymore.

Example:

me: I want to get a puppy
friend: how can you get a dog in that small apartment (that I just bought recently)?

me: I applied for 3 months paternity leave
friends: thats a womans holidays, real nonsense that you could get that

Shit is so tiring

Rufus · « **Reply #890 on:** June 29, 2015, 04:52:47 AM »

Your friends sound very German.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #891 on:** June 29, 2015, 05:03:55 AM »

They are the closest thing to Germans I guess, Dutch.

Maybe I've been away so long I only see it now, but in Ireland people are always happy for you and positive. In Holland everything needs to be questioned and remarked on. Maybe bit the same here in Denmark.

If in Ireland you bought an old dingy car cause that's what you can afford and what makes sense people would be like "ah sure it will get you there" in Holland they would start talking that "I could never be happy with that"

Rufus · « **Reply #892 on:** June 29, 2015, 05:06:07 AM »

Do the Dutch also say you "can't complain" to praise something?

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #893 on:** June 29, 2015, 05:08:32 AM »

Yes.

Maybe its a fucking protestant thing.

"are you earning ok?"
"I can't complain"

Rufus · « **Reply #894 on:** June 29, 2015, 05:15:50 AM »

Catholics are just as bad. Must be cultural. We simply know best and are not afraid to let everyone know. (Stinging irony here.)

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #895 on:** June 29, 2015, 06:42:00 AM »

Catholic peoples have their own brand of stupid of course.

Kara · « **Reply #896 on:** June 29, 2015, 04:40:55 PM »

Bike shop doesn't have any 23 mm tubes.

I'm going to have to buy new tires or pay more money to have the tube I punctured repaired.

Or fix it myself instead of being a lazy git.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #897 on:** June 29, 2015, 09:28:16 PM »

On my fourth attempt at getting though 'Canada - A People's History'. This is such shat compared to anything done by PBS or BBC.

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #898 on:** June 30, 2015, 09:01:16 PM »

Say, "I don't care if senior management bonuses aren't paid out for 3 months in exchange for paying commissions correctly from day 1. You can live without senior managers for 3 months. But you can't live without a sales force for 3 months." In a room full of senior manager brehs.

Purrp Skirrp · « **Reply #899 on:** July 01, 2015, 01:38:49 PM »

Trimming arm hair?

Most I do is pubes, excess pits, back of neck, and those rogue hairs on my upper back

Is this some euro shit or am I just uncultivated?

Luckily when I would lifeguard my body hair would lighten, almost turning blonde from all the sun. Paired with the darkest cac skin tones imaginable I looked p. gud.

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