Random talk thread: It just keeps happening

[Huff]

Going to a semi college reunion including a dnc staffer and former military diehard trump fan.

Alcohol binds us together

[Rufus]

That's - a lot of anime...

[Madrun Badrun]

My new favorite beer is back in stock!  so I bought a lot

[Madrun Badrun]

also bought this



Its not great.  Just like Tom Green. 

[Madrun Badrun]

The little card says I should eat it with moose so maybe I fucked up

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

[Great Rumbler]

[I'm a Puppy!]

My first thought this morning: "I should produce a Dragonball porno, I could call it "Bukkakarot"

Either I'm a genius. Or need help.

[Momo]

Now there's a thought to have while having water from the shower stream down on your face

[Huff]

Heard someone describe in detail how they strangled their pet cat today. Kinda awk

[brawndolicious]

Patient or staff?

[Huff]

Patient. She cray

[Great Rumbler]

Beano?

[eleuin]

It never grabbed me either and I tried twice. Never made me feel anything the way it did other people. All those tear-jerker backstories and 'powering up' moments just had me shrugging.

try the anime first

then move to the manga once the anime goes downhill, which happens at like episode 400 or something

this is the worst fucking suggestion, the anime has so much fluff well before 400

[Bebpo]

Well my S2000 broke down at work last night of course right before thanksgiving weekend.  Spent the morning doing battery checks & charging because my dad was convinced it was the battery even though I was fairly certain it was the starter or at worst engine.  Well it wasn't the battery and by that time no place could look at it so yup.

I love my s2000 and roadsters/sports cars because they're fun to drive, but a lot of stuff has been breaking needing fixing this year with my turning 9 year old 71,000 miles car.  Gonna be the 4th time at the mechanics this year.  Kinda getting tempted to just get a boring Prius or something that will hold together.  :/

[Mupepe]

What problems has it had? 9 years you should be expecting some of the secondaries like a starter/alternator to fail no matter what the make/model is.

[Bebpo]

It's not that bad, but this year so far:

#1 - Tear in soft top that is an issue with all s2000s.  Been there for years, but finally replaced the soft top this year, which wasn't all that cheap.

#2 - Clutch died, so replaced it and did a major service on all items trying out a new mechanic shop that specializes in s2000s and has like 5 stars on yelp.  Price was good, like half of what dealer would've charged, seemed like a solid job.

#3 - Driver seat lever died.  Apparently you have to replace the entire seat if the little 1 foot $2 lever breaks.  Haven't fixed this yet, but seat is stuck in forward driving position which is good for driving but tough to get in and out.  Valet's hate my car right now.

#4 - Car won't start, probably starter, will see on Saturday. 

It's not a ton, and if it's just the starter, all combined even if I replace the seat that's like <$4,000 in replacement items probably.  It's just having a lot of maintenance in one year kind of sucks.  Even though the car is turning 9 years old, I bought it off a 3 year lease, so it's just turning 6 years since I've had it and I was hoping to keep it as my main car until around 120,000 miles (so another 50,000 miles / 5 years for me) before looking to change cars.  I'm interested in the 30k Tesla coming up, but I feel electric cars are like iphones and every year there will be a better model so I was hoping to wait like 5 years and maybe jump on that.

Dream car when I was a teen was an NSX, maybe I should start looking into the used prices on those...   Probably still out of my price range.

[Mupepe]

Man that sucks. The clutch surprises me with so few miles.h hopefully you're problem free in 2017!

[brawndolicious]

If you want to sell it, keep in mind that unmodified S2000s have crazy high resale value in the $19-$20k range. If you can find a drivers seat for a few hundred like here:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/ptd/5884014582.html

Then I imagine it would be worth a couple hours of your time or that of a cheap/fast mechanic to replace it.

Man that sucks. The clutch surprises me with so few miles.h hopefully you're problem free in 2017!

Probably the fault of LA traffic.

[Bebpo]

Yeah, I figure if I fix the rest of what needs fixing I can sell it for at least $15k at some point (maybe 18k-20k, but being conservative).  But then if I fix what needs fixing, I have a working car and I'd rather just drive it.  Despite venting, I'll probably keep it as my main car for another 5 years and just hope a lot more stuff doesn't break.  There's nothing really on the market that I'm interested for the next year or so. 

[seagrams hotsauce]

Anyone here like to eat beans.

What can you do about the gas?

Because this is getting kind of ridiculous.

Also what the fuck do you do when you like to eat beans and you're in a relationship? Like, you live together and shit?

Then what? You just let it all out when you're on the couch together watching television?

Or do you excuse yourself each time and go all Palando-like? "Excuse me my love, I have gastrointestinal matters to attend to "

I Dutch Oven that ho brah.

[bork]

Made a rare trip to Gamestop last Tuesday to pick up a game that Amazon didn't have in stock.  It was pretty depressing.

To paint a picture here, this particular store is located in Buckhead, which is one of the wealthiest, most upscale areas in uptown Atlanta.  However, this store is located in a shopping center that's oddly displaced from all the upscale shit surrounding it; it's like an oasis of dirt mall stores that should not exist in this area, but somehow remains unchanged.

I pull up to the store and see a strung-out junkie sitting on the steps.  I'm also not sure that I'm at the right place, because I can't see the store signs from my car and all I see where Gamestop is supposed to be are big signs for Cricket Wireless plastered on the windows. 

Walk in and sure enough, it's a Gamestop.  There's a putrid smell and everything is generally pretty unclean.  The front of the store is filled with toys and phone crap, and only the back half has games.  There's a small group of employees all talking about Pokemon or something.  One of them looks up at me and welcomes me to "Cricket Gamestop".  I tell him I want to buy a new game and he goes right back to ignoring me and talking about Pokemon.

I go up to the counter and there's one lone employee actually working.  He helps me out and looks extremely tired and miserable.  He actually apologizes for his demeanor and appearance and says he just came from his other job.  I felt so bad for the guy.  The store was such a shithole. 

Are all these stores going downhill like this one?

[archnemesis]

My local Gamestop has few customers and steep prices. The staff is friendly though. I was planning to pick up an early Christmas gift this week, but when I discovered that the price was 50% higher than my usual store I said "thanks, but no thanks" and backed out.

[chronovore]

When I visit San Jose, most of the Gamestops in the Bay Area are depression-inducing, poorly organized shops which alternately reek of apathy and desperation. I've visited gamestops on Oahu and Maui that were essentially the platonic ideal of what a GS could aspire to be. 

[bork]

This phone call happened at work last Wednesday.  With the holidays comes an increase in idiots attempting to work remotely.  Let's call the caller "Mary."  All instances of caps really are her yelling.

Me: Thank you for calling the service desk, how can I help--
Mary: NOTHING WORKS!!!  EVERYTHING IS FROZEN!!!!!  I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  NOTHING EVER WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me: So Windows is frozen or is it a particular application?
Mary: OUTLOOK.  I OPEN IT AND IMMEDIATELY OUTLOOK DOESN'T WORK!!!!!!!!! 
Me: OK, let me see if I can remote to you.  Hmm...I don't see your PC online.  Are you working remotely?
Mary: YES!!  AND NOTHING IS WORKING!!  I JUST WANTED TO WORK FROM HOME AND HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me: Can you try restarting your PC?
Mary: I'M GOING TO LOSE AN EMAIL IF DO THAT!!!!  I DON'T WANT TO RESTART!!!!

Note that she just told me that she opened Outlook and it immediately froze...so what email?

I check her ticket history and notice that she has a loaner laptop, which explains why her own PC is offline.  She neglected to mention this.

Me: I see that you have a loaner laptop.  Are you trying to work using the VPN or in Citrix?
Mary: I DON'T KNOW!!!  HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THIS?!?!!?!??!  THIS LAPTOP IS DIRTY, BY THE WAY, YOU GUYS DO SUCH A BAD JOB!!!!

Note- Everyone knows this.  There are only two ways to work remotely at the firm.

Me: When you connected to the firm network, did you click on a little icon that said "Cisco VPN" or did you log onto a website first?
Mary: I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT!  I JUST TRIED OUTLOOK AND IT FROZE!!!
Me: OK, it sounds like you're not connected to the firm at all.  You'll need to do that before you can use anything on that laptop.

I walk her through using the VPN software.  You need a token to connect to it.  She claims she doesn't have the token generating software, so I pull up her account and see that she has apps for it on both her iPad and iPhone.  When I explain this to her, she suddenly realizes what I'm talking about.

Mary: THIS IS SO STUPID!  WHY DO I HAVE TO CONNECT TO THE FIRM FIRST?!?!?!?!?
Me: Uh, well...if you just turn on the laptop at home, you'll be on your home network.  You can't just connect to the firm network when you're not in the building.
Mary: THAT IS RIDICULOUS!  WHY DID YOU GUYS SET IT UP THIS WAY!??!
Me: That's how remote software works anywhere.  You have to connect to the network you want to use first.
Mary: ....Oh.  Really? 
Me: Yes.
Mary: OK.  But I STILL HAVE NO CONNECTION!!  IT DOESN'T WORK!
Me: Can you open up your web browser for me and try going to any website?  Let's try CNN.com.
Mary: NOTHING IS LOADING!!!  I-- oh.  It says I have no Internet connection. 
Me: ......

She connects to her home network (I am amazed she knows how to do this) and then as if by magic, remembers how to generate a token code and connects to the VPN.

Mary: Well, that would explain it, wouldn't it?    Don't mind me.  I'm just crazy.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Oh man. That brings back memories of my days in service. My favorite one was a guy who I needed to get to delete a file to fix the problem so I told him to open windows explorer and he was like "what's that?" So I decided to take an easier route and told him to go his desktop and click the "My Computer" icon. Dude was quite for like 2 minutes, I was like "My computer, click on it." The guy was like like "uhhh...." When I asked him what was wrong he said, "I'm in Texas. I can't see your computer from here."

BTW, said dude was a sales rep. For a major software firm.

[Rufus]

I don't tend to break stuff in rage, but interaction like those would bring me very close.

[nudemacusers]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/safiyanygaard/these-women-went-a-day-without-using-any-period-products-to?utm_term=.dxXlxKGVM#.eo4KRQWnx

BUZZFEED AS FUCK

[brawndolicious]

I looked up some numbers since I doubt any active members know and each pad/tampon is about 25 cents and can last ~4-8 hours. So it's a couple bucks a day for a few days a month. Unless of course they use a menstrual cup then we're getting into a whole bunch of new variables involving upfront costs and maintenance in the form of cleaning and time.

It would be more helpful to know what cross-section of society can't give up the money for these things. Because that's the bigger issue than how much blood comes out.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

dat clickbait hustle

[Mr. Gundam]

Wow, kinda been away a while. I'm good, no one died. Much beer consumed as always.

Crazy times lately for me. I made the decision over the Summer to leave my old job and am in the middle of a career change/job search. Doing the daily job hunt while being a stay at home dad. Wife is super supportive but I'd love to get back to work sooner than later.

[Himu]

Wow, kinda been away a while. I'm good, no one died. Much beer consumed as always.

Crazy times lately for me. I made the decision over the Summer to leave my old job and am in the middle of a career change/job search. Doing the daily job hunt while being a stay at home dad. Wife is super supportive but I'd love to get back to work sooner than later.

i miss you

[Himu]

what industry are you planning to get into? what prompted the career change?

[Mr. Gundam]

what industry are you planning to get into? what prompted the career change?

I'd been thinking about making a move for a while. Had a rough last year, my wife and my parents both figured I was done before I was.

I'm looking to get into something that utilizes my background (BS Psych, Masters Psych) with experimental design and quantitative/qualitative analysis as well as the hope that my soft/people skills would be an added benefit. Been applying for a bunch of university and tech jobs (design researcher, usability research, etc.) in the area and I'm now at the point where maybe I need to get some background/course work in UX design and research. I've only been applying for about 6 weeks, and I'm really ok starting out low and working my way up in a new field.

I'm actually trying to devise a 150 character response for a Facebook application on what makes me unique for a researcher position right now. I wish I was a clever Twitterer person... argh.

[Himu]

i wish you luck. i miss talking to you. had a rough yet good year. I hope everything checks out. Hope your baby is doing well.

[Mr. Gundam]

i wish you luck. i miss talking to you. had a rough yet good year. I hope everything checks out. Hope your baby is doing well.

Thanks! It's gonna take some time but I think something will happen eventually. I'd really to break into something that incorporates human learning and tech. I'm in the right part of the country, someone just needs to take a chance on me. Might take some UX classes starting in January.

My baby ain't no baby any more. She'll be five in February, starts Kindergarten next Fall.

[Himu]

i wish you luck. i miss talking to you. had a rough yet good year. I hope everything checks out. Hope your baby is doing well.

Thanks! It's gonna take some time but I think something will happen eventually. I'd really to break into something that incorporates human learning and tech. I'm in the right part of the country, someone just needs to take a chance on me. Might take some UX classes starting in January.

My baby ain't no baby any more. She'll be five in February, starts Kindergarten next Fall.

at the baby being grown

ux classes? what kind? I've been thinking of taking some classes myself.

[Mr. Gundam]

i wish you luck. i miss talking to you. had a rough yet good year. I hope everything checks out. Hope your baby is doing well.

Thanks! It's gonna take some time but I think something will happen eventually. I'd really to break into something that incorporates human learning and tech. I'm in the right part of the country, someone just needs to take a chance on me. Might take some UX classes starting in January.

My baby ain't no baby any more. She'll be five in February, starts Kindergarten next Fall.

at the baby being grown

ux classes? what kind? I've been thinking of taking some classes myself.

DesignLab and General Assembly are the top of my list. University of Washington has some stuff I could do as well.

[Himu]

how long are the programs?

[Himu]

I hope you're doing well psychologically. being jobless tore me apart mentally a few years back. I hope you're getting ample socialization and not drinking too much beer. Yes, I know I'm telling this to a psychologist.

[etiolate]

Why are DVDs of 5 year old movies still $20 in 2016

[Mr. Gundam]

DesignLab has some 4 week/10 hour a week courses (one on UX design, next one on Interaction Design) for $300, but I'm wondering if I should take a 10 week/40 hour a week that's a bit more but could help me land a job.

I hope you're doing well psychologically. being jobless tore me apart mentally a few years back. I hope you're getting ample socialization and not drinking too much beer. Yes, I know I'm telling this to a psychologist.

I'm actually doing really well, my spirits are high. I worked with a resume coach on creating a resume and developing my LinkedIn profile since I had never done any of that. I went straight from grad school to an internship to a job that I was in for ten years.

My days are spent getting my daughter to pre-school, spending two to three hours looking at jobs, applying and then picking her up at noon. We hang out, go to the zoo, the park, etc. I've done a lot of projects around the house and try to do as much as humanly possible so my wife doesn't have to when she's done with her day. We're not hurting financially and will be ok until I find something, but man I'd love to get my feet wet and start learning new skills on the job.

Beer consumption no different than before. No self-medicating. We hang out with our friends weekly, I've been helping my little cousin renovate her house and just staying busy. Em and I went to Montreal and Quebec City back in July for our 10th wedding anniversary. Life goes on.

[Madrun Badrun]

Taskmaster is hilarious.

 

[Madrun Badrun]

[nudemacusers]

Wow, kinda been away a while. I'm good, no one died. Much beer consumed as always.

Crazy times lately for me. I made the decision over the Summer to leave my old job and am in the middle of a career change/job search. Doing the daily job hunt while being a stay at home dad. Wife is super supportive but I'd love to get back to work sooner than later.

Good to see you're still doing well.

[chronovore]

what industry are you planning to get into? what prompted the career change?

I'd been thinking about making a move for a while. Had a rough last year, my wife and my parents both figured I was done before I was.

I'm looking to get into something that utilizes my background (BS Psych, Masters Psych) with experimental design and quantitative/qualitative analysis as well as the hope that my soft/people skills would be an added benefit. Been applying for a bunch of university and tech jobs (design researcher, usability research, etc.) in the area and I'm now at the point where maybe I need to get some background/course work in UX design and research. I've only been applying for about 6 weeks, and I'm really ok starting out low and working my way up in a new field.

I'm actually trying to devise a 150 character response for a Facebook application on what makes me unique for a researcher position right now. I wish I was a clever Twitterer person... argh.

I'm talking from my buttocks here, but what my partner tells me is that ad/PR agencies are using psychologists now to determine the best approach to customers. When we're working on medical device mobile sales engagement apps, the direction for these things is largely based on strategically predetermining a desired response. It's been eye-opening -- anyway, it's something that may use your skillset.

I'd be happier for you if you can stay near education, and improving UI/UX to improve engagement in education. I'm not sure what that would entail, but I'll keep it backburnered in my brain.

Glad you're back.

[Bebpo]

Just walked through downtown solo for the first time in like 10 years in LA.  Usually the stuff I go to LA for is in the northern side.  Downtown is really cool these days, walked through skid row, Korean district, business district and there's just so much culture, cool art, history, food.  People everywhere on the street.  Reminds me a lot of NYC.  Sometimes I'm tempted to live in a city and do the whole city life thing for a few years instead of the suburbs never see another human being outside work and eating.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Had some friends over last night and they got a little tipsy.

Me: "Man, I was so tired after 18 hour flight because I can't sleep on the plane that when I finally got to the hotel I accidentally told the hotel clerk 'I love you' instead of 'thanks'."
"Hahah! Oh man Puppy. You must have been exhausted. How long was that flight?"
"...18 hours."
".....oh yeah...."

[Madrun Badrun]

I did that twice in a row to someone the other day.  Bet they thought I wasn't listening instead of me just being an idiot. 

[CatsCatsCats]

Anyone else have someone falling for a holiday gift exchange wine pyramid scheme? As pyramid schemes go, it's fairly harmless but I feel like posting something more transparent asking people to get their friends to send me wine

[Mupepe]

Anyone else have someone falling for a holiday gift exchange wine pyramid scheme? As pyramid schemes go, it's fairly harmless but I feel like posting something more transparent asking people to get their friends to send me wine

They're doing that at work. That's exactly what I called it during a Thursday happy hour get together. The organizer didn't appreciate that apparently.

[chronovore]

Anyone else have someone falling for a holiday gift exchange wine pyramid scheme? As pyramid schemes go, it's fairly harmless but I feel like posting something more transparent asking people to get their friends to send me wine

How does that happen? Is it "Bring a gift and also a bottle of wine"? Because an "exchange" should mean a one-to-one ratio of things being given and received.

[Mupepe]

It's more like a raffle. Everyone puts in a bottle of wine and for 5 days there are drawings. The people drawn on the first 4 days win nothing and the people drawn on the last day win a certain % of the total bottles of wine. One person wins 30%. Fucking ridiculous. There's 300 bottles of wine in the one at my job.

[CatsCatsCats]

I'll copy and paste the status:


ATTENTION WINE DRINKERS!!!🍷*Holiday Wine Exchange*

(You guys know I really don't do things like this, but...wine)

Let's create some positivity over the next few weeks leading up to the holidays ... Anyone interested in a holiday wine bottle exchange?
It doesn't matter where you live, you are welcome to join. I need a minimum of 6 (or preferably up to 36) wine lovers to participate in a secret wine bottle exchange.
You only have to buy ONE bottle of wine valued at $15 or more and send it to ONE secret wine lover. Afterwards, you will receive from 6 to 36 wine bottles in return!! It all depends how many wine drinkers join.
Let me know if you are interested and I will send you the information! Please don't ask to participate if you're not going to follow through with sending one wine bottle.
TIS THE SEASON!
Comment below if you're in & I'll send you the details via fb messenger - if they are confusing at all, please let me know!
This is real! Many participated last year and received so many amazing wines from around the world.
If I didn't tag you, it doesn't mean you can't participate. I just did a quick run through. This will be super fun!!!




After I'm assuming no one bit, self comment:

This isn't a weird thing. Basically I'll pm you the name and address of a person who you'll send your bottle to ( if you have prime you can ship directly from there and save yourself a trip to the post office) as well as my info. You repost on your FB and delete the name I sent you and bump up my name and put your info where mine was. It continues this way and depending on how many join you can get anywhere between 6-30+ bottles.

[chronovore]

That's a scam. The math doesn't work. If the person organizing that activity is in your accounting department, find a new job because they can't math.

[Valkyrie]

Man, what a shitty exchange. Everyone who contributed should get the equal amount of gifts. 5 bux it's rigged.

[Samson Manhug]

Not only is it a copy and paste scam based on another pyramid scheme from last year, mailing alcohol is illegal.

[CatsCatsCats]

Is there a way with how embedding YouTube works on this site to have a video start at a specific time?

[I'm a Puppy!]

edit: I'm an idiot.

I've tried the t thing it doesn't work here.

[Purrp Skirrp]

Is there a way with how embedding YouTube works on this site to have a video start at a specific time?

Nah, I've tried before and it never works.