Random talk thread: It just keeps happening

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

"Unfortunately, we have decided to move forward with another candidate for the position. We wish you the best of luck in your next steps..."

Fuck you, I hope your project fails, and you die of syphilis, cuntrag. Do these people think their bullshit consolation messages make things better? I'd much rather get "We're going with another candidate for the position," end message.

Sorry to hear that.

On the other hand, most employers these days won't even bother sending you a form rejection response.

[Junpei the Tracer!]

Today in class I sat behind this dude that had awesome ass. I just kept looking at him from behind, he had a better ass than all the Asian girls in the class(not like that's difficult feat to accomplish but still). I wanted to go up to him complement him on his tattoo but I turned into a beta and I couldn't. I feel like such a loser sometimes, I'm 22 and I've never been in a relationship.  :'(

/beta

Junpei. Just feel it out. Go up and talk to him, what's the worst that could happen? Was that at AAU? How hot is he?

Yeah it was at AAU. He's not exactly hot but I find him attractive(I got a thing for guys in really tight jeans plus he was wearing glasses and had earrings in both ears). I feel so dumb because his mannerisms/body language screamed queer but i didn't act on it, then I google'd him later and whatasuprise he's gay. Next monday or whenever i see him I'm gonna go talk to him/say hi/etc.

[Rahxephon91]

Rahxephon, just try out the headphones for awhile, and see if you can't tell a difference.

Yeah I mean I did this and they sound fine, but no I can't tell a difference. I mean they are more comfortable and it actually has a working mic, I guess that good. But still it looks like you can return them and I will probably end up doing that. I mean I'd use this for my ipod mostly if at all, but I don't think I'd  walk around with these big headphones. It's just not me, so I just don't get the reason for keeping them.

[Phoenix Dark]

Today in class I sat behind this dude that had awesome ass. I just kept looking at him from behind, he had a better ass than all the Asian girls in the class(not like that's difficult feat to accomplish but still). I wanted to go up to him complement him on his tattoo but I turned into a beta and I couldn't. I feel like such a loser sometimes, I'm 22 and I've never been in a relationship.  :'(

/beta

Junpei. Just feel it out. Go up and talk to him, what's the worst that could happen? Was that at AAU? How hot is he?

Yeah it was at AAU. He's not exactly hot but I find him attractive(I got a thing for guys in really tight jeans plus he was wearing glasses and had earrings in both ears). I feel so dumb because his mannerisms/body language screamed queer but i didn't act on it, then I google'd him later and whatasuprise he's gay. Next monday or whenever i see him I'm gonna go talk to him/say hi/etc.

So you aren't a trans woman?  :'(

[Junpei the Tracer!]

  No, I am. I'm just still presenting as a dude and until I start living as a woman, it's just gay/bi dudes(maybe girls) for me.

[Himu]

How long have you been on hormones Junpei?

[Junpei the Tracer!]

A year and 1 month. 36A

[Flannel Boy]

A year and 1 month. 36A

Jesus, how thin are you?

[Madrun Badrun]

Congrats.  My boob size has also increased in the last year an a half.

[Junpei the Tracer!]

  5'10 184 ish

[Flannel Boy]

5'10 184 ish

5'11", 155, and 40B (with chest hair).

[Madrun Badrun]

I measure my boobs as the minimum distance, in inches, in which I can position by tongue to nipple, averaged across the three and standardized by tongue length.  I'm a 1.8'', but the third one highly skews the distance distribution.

[lennedsay]

@himu

Face moisturizer:


Face wash:


Face exfoliant - $20 for the basic kit, can't beat it


Body moisturizer - I used to use their cocoa butter exclusively even though it was a pain because I hate most lotion, but someone bought me the oil when I was preggs. I think they make a few kinds - pregs, skin therapy, regular. Love love love. My skin is more dry than oily, so I can handle feeling oily for a few min while it soaks in. Some people hate that feeling though, so fair warning.


Body exfoliant - I love any kind of sugar scrub and also make my own with olive and jojoba oils. I want to scrub scrub scrub, smell good, and be all moisturized at the same time. This is what I'm using right now. Their products are primarily for black people, so you might like them (if you're still black). I buy their baby shampoo, baby lotion and baby ointment, and now I keep an extra tube of the ointment in my bag for when my hands get dry cause goddamn! The baby shampoo and lotion smell amazing.


I'm joking about the black comment, so don't hate me. This took forever to post from my tablet, so its all love over here girl.

[Madrun Badrun]

Nami is sick again 

[Himu]

PALMER'S IS THE TRUTH, LEN

Palmer's is a black product too, sister

[Himu]

I'm thinking of switching over to african black soap as an exfoliant



don't be shy. if you have oily skin black products are perfect for you

[Cormacaroni]

as far as I can tell, cosmetics do a small handful of things:

1) remove oil
2) add oil
3) add fragrance
4) abrade your skin

That's it. It's all some combo of those, with magical advertising piled on top to vary the price

[lennedsay]

Nah my skin's dry and my hair gets oily. I'm the antiblack

LISTEN HERE PASTY FUCKS. That fucking Palmers... The cocoa butter is the best sunburn stuffs around. Messy as shit but beats lotion and aloe by a million.

[Himu]

Dry skin AND oily hair? Damn girl I need to get your fried chicken badge RIGHT NOW.

Palmers is the magic!

Len what do you think of this lingerie line made specifically for trans women? Does it look decent?

http://www.chrysalislingerie.com/

interview here: http://www.lingerietalk.com/2012/03/26/lingerie-news/were-done-hiding-a-first-lingerie-line-for-transgendered-women.html

[Don Flamenco]

as far as I can tell, cosmetics do a small handful of things:

1) remove oil
2) add oil
3) add fragrance
4) abrade your skin

That's it. It's all some combo of those, with magical advertising piled on top to vary the price

yes, a $2 bottle of witch hazel + cotton pads and some moisturizer gets all the jobs done, except fragrance which should just come from a dedicated cologne rather than body wash or a stanky stick of Old Spice. 

[lennedsay]

Dry skin AND oily hair? Damn girl I need to get your fried chicken badge RIGHT NOW.

Palmers is the magic!

Len what do you think of this lingerie line made specifically for trans women? Does it look decent?

http://www.chrysalislingerie.com/

interview here: http://www.lingerietalk.com/2012/03/26/lingerie-news/were-done-hiding-a-first-lingerie-line-for-transgendered-women.html

Looks nice! Shit I haven't been out of a nursing bra in almost 8 months. Anything that doesn't look like sports bras with clips looks gorgeous right now lol

That's awesome they make specific lingerie for trans. Women's lingerie is generally absolute shit made for scrawny small chested bitches. It falls apart in a month, isn't comfy, etc. I have a hard time finding something that works for me, so I know transwomen have a hard time.

I saw a trans on Double Divas, some horrible/awesome reality show about two ladies who own a lingerie shop in Atlanta. She was getting fitted for bras (real boobs! No implants) and ended up getting a cute tutu for the bottom for some coverage.

[Himu]

That is actually the first trans specific lingerie line haha. 

A sports bra for 8 months? How long until the baby is off breast milk?

[The Sceneman]

I am shitting bricks about a job interview tomorrow. It's been so long since I've been anxious, and man anxiety sucks.

Which just made me realise, I used to be anxious like all the time and I suffer from it so less frequently now, so thats something to be happy about 

[brawndolicious]

Good way to get rid of anxiety is to give some help to another person. Drop some change in a homeless person's hand or just save him a trip and give him a bottle of whiskey.

[Huff]

It always makes me feel better as a person to feed a homeless persons alcohol addiction, but doubt it will get rid of any anxiety I have because of some other factor

[Groogrux]

Solution:  Get drunk with the homeless person.  Of course, you're anxiety will return as you drink with them more and more and realize that they're probably going to rob you.

[bork]

Moving in a week and a half...to the apartment building next door.  We decided to downsize slightly.  Should save about $200+ on rent a month.

Going from this:



To this:



So not a huge change, but I do lose the spare room that I was using to house all my nerd shit.   :'(  We never use the dining room area in our current place, so the plan is to ditch the table/chairs and I'm just going to use the space in that area for my stuff instead.  Planning on creating a wall using one of the large bookcases I have.  Actually would have thought about doing this sooner, but I didn't know that the some of the smaller places still had two large walk-in closets.

The money saved will be nice...but my wife just had her birthday and the family decided to get her a dog as a present (they're going to pay all the initial fees and also pay the apartment's ridiculous pet fee), so I'm sure the little fucker will eat into that money saved.   

[Reb]

I don't even want to add up what our dog costs a year. Ugh.

[bork]

Like a $2400 a year raise! 

Dirty poor raise!   

 :'(

I don't even want to add up what our dog costs a year. Ugh.

  

Is that from food bills alone or from vet visits?

[Groogrux]

My kid gave me this drawing last night and told me it was the sun.



Is it just me, or does it look a little like the eye of Sauron to anyone else?

[Reb]

Food, training (she's on course no. 5 now), toys, crate, dog beds, leashes, sterilization, yearly shots...

Thank god she doesn't chew things up.

[bork]

Food, training (she's on course no. 5 now), toys, crate, dog beds, leashes, sterilization, yearly shots...

Thank god she doesn't chew things up.

 

I wanted a cat.  You can leave a few of those things out with felines! 

My kid gave me this drawing last night and told me it was the sun.

Is it just me, or does it look a little like the eye of Sauron to anyone else?

Evil mutant vagina

[Mr. Gundam]

A sports bra for 8 months? How long until the baby is off breast milk?

Not sure about Lenns, but my wife is still breast feeding at 12 months with kiddo. We've successfully introduced cow milk and moved on from bottles to sippy cups, but she would like to keep feeding her for a while longer.

[Groogrux]

Some women breast feed all the way up in to the child's 2nd and 3rd year...

[Mupepe]

When my wife gets pregnant I'll breast feed for years after the child stops.  milk

I was trying to convince my wife to let me bake a cake or some cookies with someone's breast milk.  She was mildly receptive.

[Groogrux]

Nope.

[Mupepe]

[Phoenix Dark]

Nope.

[Madrun Badrun]

Maybe.

[demi]

My kid gave me this drawing last night and told me it was the sun.

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Is it just me, or does it look a little like the eye of Sauron to anyone else?

Maddie has been browsing Daddy's catalog...

[Mupepe]

Maybe.

My nicca

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You still post crazy pics in the NSFW thread

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[Groogrux]

Maybe.

My nicca

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You still post crazy pics in the NSFW thread

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[Joe Molotov]

My kid gave me this drawing last night and told me it was the sun.

(Image removed from quote.)

Is it just me, or does it look a little like the eye of Sauron to anyone else?

Looks like a rainbow colored butthole.

[Madrun Badrun]

Just got my final exam scheduled.  All at the end, which gives me an extra two weeks, fuck ya.

[demi]

I guess someone hasn't told Don yet...

[Madrun Badrun]

too much homework for me 

[lennedsay]

Breast milk is like drinking the milk at the end of a bowl of Frosted Flakes. Or so I hear. I know the baby prefers it to formula.

If it were up to me, I'd probably nurse for 1-2 years. But I'm out of the house and away from the baby for 13-15 hours a day. Pumping 4-5 times a day at work, 20-30 min per break, isn't exactly feasible. I'd have to work an extra hour or two to make up the break time, and I only see her 2 hours until she goes to bed as it is. And milk supply is all supply and demand - if pumping/nursing slows down, the milk supply drops. As soon as I went back to work, my supply dropped dramatically because I couldn't possibly continue pumping every other hour like she was eating.

I combo feed now with soy formula and breastmilk, which was very hard for me, but honestly, as soon as we took that step, my stress level dropped. I was so worried all day long that I wasn't pumping enough for her to eat the next day. As soon as I gave my mom a container of back-up formula and stopped worrying about it, I felt so much better. She's happy, I'm happy, she's still getting immunities from breastmilk but I'm not constantly worried that she's not gaining weight or will starve to death while I work. I didn't think I could make it to 6 months with my health issues and with working/pumping, but she'll be 8 months and we're still limping along.

[ZephyrFate]

A quarter through Tagesreste now; I'm glad that writer's block hasn't hit and I can keep chugging along.

[DCharlieJP]

When my wife gets pregnant I'll breast feed for years after the child stops.  milk

I was trying to convince my wife to let me bake a cake or some cookies with someone's breast milk.  She was mildly receptive.

[ZephyrFate]

A quarter through Tagesreste now; I'm glad that writer's block hasn't hit and I can keep chugging along.

You've written 3.25 books in less time than it's taken me to write 0.75 books.

Once the Muses take over I'm a goddamn machine. I do this with a (not anymore) full-time job and doing Let's Plays for SomethingAwful. And drinking/partying. And working out, and ... okay I write at work when there's downtime.

[Cormacaroni]

I posted this on the Gaming side but the thread is dead and nobody has seen it. I think this game is special and more people should give it a shot. After years of posting on forums, this is the first time I've actually tried to write about games in some meaningful fashion (I am quite honestly rarely moved to do so, and when I do, i tend to have plenty of knowledgeable folks around me to talk it out with instead....)

Anyway, let me know what you think. Let's face it, I'd be a dick about anything you all wrote so don't hold back

http://cormacaroni.tumblr.com/post/42431431876/on-antichamber-pc-game-available-on-steam-15-by

[Fifstar]

A quarter through Tagesreste now; I'm glad that writer's block hasn't hit and I can keep chugging along.

Is this supposed to be a german word? Kinda sounds like one of those weird japanese game titles.

[Fifstar]

I posted this on the Gaming side but the thread is dead and nobody has seen it. I think this game is special and more people should give it a shot. After years of posting on forums, this is the first time I've actually tried to write about games in some meaningful fashion (I am quite honestly rarely moved to do so, and when I do, i tend to have plenty of knowledgeable folks around me to talk it out with instead....)

Anyway, let me know what you think. Let's face it, I'd be a dick about anything you all wrote so don't hold back

http://cormacaroni.tumblr.com/post/42431431876/on-antichamber-pc-game-available-on-steam-15-by

Is it spoilerish? I'm interested in the game but it looks like one that is best experienced if you don't know anything about it beforehand.

[Cormacaroni]

Oh definitely, which is why I took great care to give no specifics beyond the first few screens of the game. You should stay away from videos, as there is no way to demonstrate gameplay without also giving the solutions to the puzzles.

[ZephyrFate]

A quarter through Tagesreste now; I'm glad that writer's block hasn't hit and I can keep chugging along.

Is this supposed to be a german word? Kinda sounds like one of those weird japanese game titles.

It's a bastard way of saying Tages des Reste, or "Remains/Rest of the Day". I saw an obscure short film by a German director that simply shortened it to "Tagesreste", and there's already a novel called The Remains of the Day. I like the way the name rolls off the tongue and its American translation has metaphorical implications for the novel/series.

[Fifstar]

A quarter through Tagesreste now; I'm glad that writer's block hasn't hit and I can keep chugging along.

Is this supposed to be a german word? Kinda sounds like one of those weird japanese game titles.

It's a bastard way of saying Tages des Reste, or "Remains/Rest of the Day". I saw an obscure short film by a German director that simply shortened it to "Tagesreste", and there's already a novel called The Remains of the Day. I like the way the name rolls off the tongue and its American translation has metaphorical implications for the novel/series.

Interesting, although the correct way to say it in german would be "Rest des Tages" and Tagesreste definetely sounds funky to german ears. I understand what you're going for though.

Actually in german it could be a play on words as you can say something like Essensreste in german (meaning remains of food) even though Tagesreste is highly unusual.

[The Sceneman]

A word that Japanese games (In particular Nier and FF13) use is "Gestalt". It's apparently a German word with no direct English translation, definition being: "a configuration, pattern, or organized field having specific properties that cannot be derived from the summation of its component parts; a unified whole.". Nuts

[The Sceneman]

I posted this on the Gaming side but the thread is dead and nobody has seen it. I think this game is special and more people should give it a shot. After years of posting on forums, this is the first time I've actually tried to write about games in some meaningful fashion (I am quite honestly rarely moved to do so, and when I do, i tend to have plenty of knowledgeable folks around me to talk it out with instead....)

Anyway, let me know what you think. Let's face it, I'd be a dick about anything you all wrote so don't hold back

http://cormacaroni.tumblr.com/post/42431431876/on-antichamber-pc-game-available-on-steam-15-by

Oh this game does look fantastic, I showed a couple of friends the Giant Bomb quicklook myself.

[Fifstar]

Gestalt normally is used for a human being that is not clearly identifiable. E.g. if you say "there was somebody in the fog" or "somebody was coming from the shadows" you could replace somebody with Gestalt. I guess that's sorta like your definiton but it's pretty clear what it means in german day to day use.

[demi]

The new Fallout Boy song is fire

Get at me