Random talk thread: It just keeps happening

[hampster]

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

500th Episode

Ira Glass

[Madrun Badrun]

I went outside today; it's summer. 

[Brehvolution]

Damn pool filter shit the bed right before vacation. Pool store says it's not repairable. Come back to green pool.   

Now I have to spend $200 on a new filter and chemicals half way through the summer.

It's still going to be a week before it's swimmable.

Fuck this summer.

[chronovore]

No, a one-percenter would just move to one of their other houses where the pool still worked.

[chronovore]

That's great!

If you're on meds for the bipolar illness, no alcohol is likely a wise choice.

[Shadow Mod]

Loud ass motorcycles plus sensitive car alarms. 

[nudemacusers]

haha, was standing in target checkout and two people in front of me is this 20 something dude buying some nippon-esque video game and the guy checking him out (another 20 something dude) goes "huh, looks interesting". Guy in line goes, "oh you should check out persona 4" and drops into a two minute speech about how persona 4 is not like most rpgs out there right now, has interesting characters, allows you to mix spells or something (actually gives an example of creating a new ice spell(?)), and tells him about his let's play channel on youtube so he can check out the game if he wants.

poor employee guy didn't know what he was asking for lol. probably didn't think these people lived in montana.

[Mupepe]

Loud ass motorcycles plus sensitive car alarms. 

  I love setting off car alarms.  And I have a baby motorcycle

[bork]

Been taking Office 2010 practice tests recently for Office Certifications.  They set up practice and testing machines at my job and are paying the testing fees, which is awesome.  You get a nice little pay raise for completing them all and yet the majority of the people working here aren't bothering to take it, which makes no sense whatsoever to me.   

Already passed Word, but I failed the Excel Expert test two weeks ago and spent the last week grinding practice tests.  Just took one and aced it in 20 minutes.  The trainer told me to go ahead and come back in a half hour for the cert test retry.  Tests make me so damn nervous but I want to pass this already!   

[nudemacusers]

Been taking Office 2010 practice tests recently for Office Certifications.  They set up practice and testing machines at my job and are paying the testing fees, which is awesome.  You get a nice little pay raise for completing them all and yet the majority of the people working here aren't bothering to take it, which makes no sense whatsoever to me.   

When I worked at a faceless conglomerate that did stuff like this (pay bumps for certs etc), I was surprised how many people were simply happy just doing their 9-5 and going home. When I started in data entry and moved to account management (a pretty good bump), a bunch of my coworkers were like, "Why would you want to do all that extra work?" and I was thinking "uhh cuz it pays double and I don't want to the same shit I was doing a year ago?" 

[hampster]

haha, was standing in target checkout and two people in front of me is this 20 something dude buying some nippon-esque video game and the guy checking him out (another 20 something dude) goes "huh, looks interesting". Guy in line goes, "oh you should check out persona 4" and drops into a two minute speech about how persona 4 is not like most rpgs out there right now, has interesting characters, allows you to mix spells or something (actually gives an example of creating a new ice spell(?)), and tells him about his let's play channel on youtube so he can check out the game if he wants.

poor employee guy didn't know what he was asking for lol. probably didn't think these people lived in montana.

What a loser recommending Persona to some stranger

The target guy should being checking out Shin Megami Tensei IV instead

[Mupepe]

Been taking Office 2010 practice tests recently for Office Certifications.  They set up practice and testing machines at my job and are paying the testing fees, which is awesome.  You get a nice little pay raise for completing them all and yet the majority of the people working here aren't bothering to take it, which makes no sense whatsoever to me.   

When I worked at a faceless conglomerate that did stuff like this (pay bumps for certs etc), I was surprised how many people were simply happy just doing their 9-5 and going home. When I started in data entry and moved to account management (a pretty good bump), a bunch of my coworkers were like, "Why would you want to do all that extra work?" and I was thinking "uhh cuz it pays double and I don't want to the same shit I was doing a year ago?" 

Tons of my people at my job are just happy to stay in their rut and wait it out until retirement.  Not shitty enough to be fired, but definitely not going anywhere.  I guess every company needs someone to do the menial tasks.

[bork]

I failed it.   :'(  Pretty much the same results as before...was literally two correct questions away from passing. 

But they are going to offer Excel training classes next month and told me I can attend those, then retake it.  Will do. 

In the meantime I'll go ahead and do Outlook and Powerpoint, which I am told are jokes in comparison to Word and Excel.

NOT GIVING UP 

[Mupepe]

You can do it! 

I do an obnoxious amount of work in excel but I still always have trouble remembering the order of commands in formulas and shit.  fuck Excel!  Go bork laser!

[Shadow Mod]

Find pornstar who makes vids interesting. Great body. Tits actually move.

Find a newer vid, implants, 

[Broseidon]

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Find pornstar who makes vids interesting. Great body. Tits actually move.

Find a newer vid, implants, 

Who?

[Rahxephon91]

Yeah, I don't understand why the smaller breasted ones think it's a good idea to get really big fake tits. It really never looks good.

[archnemesis]

My suggestion is to not get a cheap video card. For general use you can use the built-in motherboard graphics. For gaming you want to get something decent that will last you a few years. If you're on a limited budget I would suggest getting a GTX 660 or similar. Try to get a model with good user reviews and low fan noise.

Edit: Wait, what?

[Rahxephon91]

My suggestion is to not get a cheap video card. For general use you can use the built-in motherboard graphics. For gaming you want to get something decent that will last you a few years. If you're one a limited budget I would suggest getting a GTX 660 or similar. Try to get a model with good user reviews and low fan noise.

Edit: Wait, what?

Sorry, I realized this wasn't the Random gaming thread.

[Shadow Mod]

Find pornstar who makes vids interesting. Great body. Tits actually move.

Find a newer vid, implants, 

Who?

Bonnie Rotten. Hate tattoos too but she works it. Found more recent vids, implants.

[nudemacusers]

I failed it.   :'(  Pretty much the same results as before...was literally two correct questions away from passing. 

But they are going to offer Excel training classes next month and told me I can attend those, then retake it.  Will do. 

In the meantime I'll go ahead and do Outlook and Powerpoint, which I am told are jokes in comparison to Word and Excel.

NOT GIVING UP 

don't give up bro

[lennedsay]

Been taking Office 2010 practice tests recently for Office Certifications.  They set up practice and testing machines at my job and are paying the testing fees, which is awesome.  You get a nice little pay raise for completing them all and yet the majority of the people working here aren't bothering to take it, which makes no sense whatsoever to me.   

Already passed Word, but I failed the Excel Expert test two weeks ago and spent the last week grinding practice tests.  Just took one and aced it in 20 minutes.  The trainer told me to go ahead and come back in a half hour for the cert test retry.  Tests make me so damn nervous but I want to pass this already!   

People do that at my work too. And it's not even technical shit. You sit in a 45 min class on a work-related topic, usually about a department and their basic tasks, and take a test. If you pass, you get a small pay increase, but you can take like a dozen of these tests, so it amounts to like $4,000 a year. Plus, when you get your annual pay increase, it's a percentage of your current pay, so your pay will be even higher. But people won't do them, and it's always people who bitch about pay and how broke they are.


The company just told us about some new special job titles with higher pay but without additional work, and one of the qualifications is that you've passed all of these tests. They only offer each test once per year, so at the very minimum without failing anything, it would take you a year, but most take close to 2 years. Now we have all these old bitches who have been in their positions forever but due to their own laziness, they haven't even started taking these tests, so people they trained will qualify before they do. Fucking lazy bitches. "I'm too busy to take those tests!" How? We do the exact same job, you've been here longer than me, and I've passed them.

[chronovore]

They're probably the same type of person who claim immigrants are stealing all the American jobs.

[Huff]

At the airport 3 hours early. #firsttimeflyer

[hampster]

At the airport 3 hours early. #firsttimeflyer

Smart move, never fuck with airports. A few years ago I missed a good job interview by getting to the airport only 1.5 hours early and couldn't get to gate in time 

[Huff]

But now you have a nervous flyer with too much time to kill and a bar that is calling my name.

[Steve Youngblood]

But now you have a nervous flyer with too much time to kill and a bar that is calling my name.

It's five o'clock somewhere.

[Polari]

But now you have a nervous flyer with too much time to kill and a bar that is calling my name.

It's five o'clock somewhere.

It's 5 o'clock exactly here right now. BOOM.

[Huff]

I feel no shame drinking whenever where ever.

And fuck people that hate jimmy

[bork]

You can do it! 

I do an obnoxious amount of work in excel but I still always have trouble remembering the order of commands in formulas and shit.  fuck Excel!  Go bork laser!

I failed it.   :'(  Pretty much the same results as before...was literally two correct questions away from passing. 

But they are going to offer Excel training classes next month and told me I can attend those, then retake it.  Will do. 

In the meantime I'll go ahead and do Outlook and Powerpoint, which I am told are jokes in comparison to Word and Excel.

NOT GIVING UP 

don't give up bro

[Positive Touch]

  i tend to lose almost-full bottles that i'd keep in my car

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

I'm going to get drunk as fuck tonight.  I don't care what's here in the house, I'm mixing and drinking it.

Here's a pro tip for ya'all:  Don't try to sell two houses while buying a new one at the same time and have the closing dates all fall within the same week.  Holy crap, what a stupid idea this was.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I've wanted to learn the Spanish language for some time just because.  However I am a procrastinating lump of shit who apparently is not a self directed learner, in spite of the bullshit I tell my bosses.  So I thought that there would be maybe an associates degree I can get at a community college for Spanish.  Well, sure enough, out of the eight colleges and universities in my area, not a single one of them offers Spanish classes.  I was hoping I can take a Spanish class in with my MBA classes but looks like I'm shit out of luck. 

[Madrun Badrun]

I found the easiest way to learn a foreign language is to kidnap vacationers. 

[Positive Touch]

pirate rosetta stone?

[Shadow Mod]

A bunch of community colleges aren't offering Spanish? What?

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

pirate rosetta stone?

I did that a while ago but I failed because:

However I am a procrastinating lump of shit who apparently is not a self directed learner, in spite of the bullshit I tell my bosses.

A bunch of community colleges aren't offering Spanish? What?

Not a single one.  It is very strange to me.

[archnemesis]

Rosetta Stone might be a good start, but if you really want to learn a new language you need to combine it with other resources. I went through the first chapters of Rosetta Stone Spanish and it was pretty good for freshening up my high school skills.

[Positive Touch]

pirate rosetta stone?

I did that a while ago but I failed because:

However I am a procrastinating lump of shit who apparently is not a self directed learner, in spite of the bullshit I tell my bosses.

i did the exact same thing. damn program sat on my computer for three years, untouched.

[Huff]

Puking up and down the streets of Richmond like a boss

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

pirate rosetta stone?

I did that a while ago but I failed because:

However I am a procrastinating lump of shit who apparently is not a self directed learner, in spite of the bullshit I tell my bosses.

i did the exact same thing. damn program sat on my computer for three years, untouched.

I did a couple of lessons with it and stopped.  I'm just too unmotivated.

I prefer the classroom for a couple of reasons: one is to motivate my ass to learn it and second is to have an academic record that I have taken those classes.  Being in management, I know that you can put "knows Spanish" on a resume but nobody is going to give a fuck vs. having a degree in it.  At my company, the way HR sees it, is if you don't have a degree or certification in what you claim you're skilled in, they assume you're lying (probably because most people are).  Which isn't to say that having a degree means you know it and not having a degree means you don't, it's just the stupid world human resources works in.  If I do get proficient and fluent in the language, it is something I want to have down on my resume, given demographic trends and all that.

It seems like my only option is to find a distant community college (as four year school would be obscenely expensive to do this) that has an AA in Spanish online and then learn to speak the language through tutoring or immersing myself in enough of the language.  I do have some friends who know the language well enough.

[tiesto]

I went to that Final Fantasy rave thing the other night...

First off, the locale was in the middle of Bed Stuy of all places... Luckily, there were cops everywhere...

Anyways, the rave starts and it basically feels like a halfassed version of a 90's rave with some tacked on FF references here and there (like the balcony part of the venue was labeled with a cardboard sign saying "The Highwind". The crowd was pretty ethnically diverse - You don't really see many black people at EDM events in NY but there were a bunch here, probably because of the area. Age wise, most were in the 18-21 range and a lot of people dressed like 90's kandi kids. Some cute girls there too. One kid with baggy UFO style pants and hippie dreads got flagged down by the cops for drinking a Four Loko in front of the cops standing outside and being underage... he got taken away by them, probably had some other shit on him...

So it started, and DJ Cutman opened up. He plays typical dubstep/electrohouse/edm mixed up with chiptunes.



After about 20 minutes though, the music stopped and the bouncer was yelling at everyone to go home. The party was closed down... I thought the cops were gonna bust it for drugs, but no... apparently there was an issue with the permit for the venue. So my friend and I left and since we were 20 min from Barcade we went there and I got fairly drunk, some dude and his girlfriend, both from St Louis, were buying me drinks (wtf!).

There's gonna be a Chrono Trigger and Super Smash Bros themed rave too in October, but hopefully the promotion company gets their act together and gets a venue in a better area...

[brawndolicious]

Apparently a few people moved in last night between when I got home at 9PM and when I went for an evening stroll at 3AM. They seem pretty nice but I had to wait an hour and a half to take a huge shit this morning, just pacing around my room, since they take pretty long showers.

[Polari]

Apparently a few people moved in last night between when I got home at 9PM and when I went for an evening stroll at 3AM. They seem pretty nice but I had to wait an hour and a half to take a huge shit this morning, just pacing around my room, since they take pretty long showers.

Be banging on that door man. If you got a communal bathroom folks gotta be considerate.

[Shadow Mod]

When I read more details about how things used to be I hate conservatives even more.

[Polari]

When I read more details about how things used to be I hate conservatives even more.

?

[Polari]

As an aside, does anyone else feel that the whole liberal/conservative left/right dichotomy is really damaging to both democracy and society as a whole? It wouldn't hurt for people to be more fluid/flexible in their representations. There are plenty of elements from both "sides" that I think have merit.

[Shadow Mod]

When I read more details about how things used to be I hate conservatives even more.

?

Reading what people used to do to single mothers in this country is a fucking depressing ass read.

[Positive Touch]

What are some Republican ideas that have merit?

joke post; there are none

[Madrun Badrun]

I don't know.  Oppressing minorities has worked out pretty well for many of us. 

[Positive Touch]

As an aside, does anyone else feel that the whole liberal/conservative left/right dichotomy is really damaging to both democracy and society as a whole? It wouldn't hurt for people to be more fluid/flexible in their representations. There are plenty of elements from both "sides" that I think have merit.

interesting idea! you should write a paper on it and present it to your poli sci 201 class

[Shadow Mod]

I gotta be more careful, fell asleep in this hot ass room without the fans, pretty sure I woke up with heat exhaustion. Better now. Ugh.

[Polari]

As an aside, does anyone else feel that the whole liberal/conservative left/right dichotomy is really damaging to both democracy and society as a whole? It wouldn't hurt for people to be more fluid/flexible in their representations. There are plenty of elements from both "sides" that I think have merit.

interesting idea! you should write a paper on it and present it to your poli sci 201 class

Oh snap.

I do roll my eyes whenever someone refers to themselves as a liberal or a conservative though.

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Currently writing my Masters dissertation in public policy. Not about this though, obviously.

[close]

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Ugh, keep this shit in the politics thread, please.

[Polari]

Oh snap.

I do roll my eyes whenever someone refers to themselves as a liberal or a conservative though.

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Currently writing my Masters dissertation in public policy. Not about this though, obviously.

[close]

You're doing an MPP? Which school?

UCL

[Polari]

University College London?

If you're from the UK, then your statement about conservatives and liberals not being that different makes a lot more sense. The Republican party in the states is a hot mess of idiocy and hatred though.

That's the one - just over a month more and I'm done thankfully. I'm actually part the New Zealand contingent here (although they all seem to have vanished on me!) It's kind of funny though - back home people don't really tend to discuss who they vote for as it's considered a sort of impolite, which perhaps tempers discussion a little more.

[Shadow Mod]

Why are kittens so damn cute. So jealous of my mom who finally got this momma cat and her kittens into our house. Got to see them when I was down there a couple weeks ago. Kittens grow so fast jeez.

[Eli Gulgin]

Why are kittens so damn cute. So jealous of my mom who finally got this momma cat and her kittens into our house. Got to see them when I was down there a couple weeks ago. Kittens grow so fast jeez.

You say this and don't post pics

[Shadow Mod]

Why are kittens so damn cute. So jealous of my mom who finally got this momma cat and her kittens into our house. Got to see them when I was down there a couple weeks ago. Kittens grow so fast jeez.

You say this and don't post pics

She's pretty bad with tech but managed to send these the other day.

Momma cat



One of the kittens