Pant Thread (because we need more panting)

[Chewbaccawacca]

I prefer hobbies that aren't spiteful and don't ruin other people's good time. Like... arranging bottle-tops into mosaics. If it must be destructive behaviour, I heard there's good catharsis in choppin' wood. This is why all lumberjacks live longer than regular humans.

Yeah splitting logs is good. So is breaking something that needs to be broken for whatever reason. Assuming of course that you have something on hand that needs breaking.

Get a clean mace and tarp and a couple pumkins, put the pumkins on the tarp then beat the hell out of the pumkins and use the remains for some pumkin based food. It's destructive and constructive!

Heh, that sound's pretty great. I'll have to give it a shot next time pumpkins are in season.

[felltir]

BAH PEOPLE NEED TO STOP BRINGING UP MY EX

Also, referring to me as "hers" because she introduced me to this group? Totally not ok.

[nehpest]

BAH PEOPLE NEED TO STOP BRINGING UP MY EX

Also, referring to me as "hers" because she introduced me to this group? Totally not ok.

Didn't you know? You're indefinitely her exclusive property.

Seriously though, here's an e-cookie. I hate being referred to as property too.

[emceng]

Great. I was told a customer needed to come in early. So I wake up early, drag myself to work, speed because I was going to be a few minutes late, then...nothing. Oh, turns out they're not coming in early. Thanks for letting me know about that, sales guy.

[Chewbaccawacca]

Heh, I just got fired.

[Giant Speck]

^ That really sucks. Sorry.

I got my first speeding ticket ever today.

[Angua]

Was it because of your avatar? You definitely look like you're breaking the speed limit there!

[pseudoidiot]

"I'm going to need to see your license to bounce."

[Giant Speck]

If I could bounce at 35 miles per hour, I'd get rid of my car and bounce to work!

[The Scyphozoa]

Looks like you're bouncing pretty close to 35 on my phone, which renders gifs erratically.

Bouncebouncebouncebouncebounce.

[Xeio]

Oh OutOfMemoryException, how I hate thee, let me count the -OutOfMemoryException

[existential_squirrrel]

why don't my pain meds work, dammit??? OW!

[Jumble]

And, I've just spoken to my mother for the last times before she goes into hospital tomorrow for open heart surgery to replace her aortic valve and bridge. And fit a pacemaker (possibly). 

I know this is run of the mill surgery these days and I know she has a 96% chance of surviving. However, she's going to go to hell and back over the next 2 months and there's fuck all I ca n do to help. I also know she's scared, and so am I.

If the fucking filte rs screw this post up I shall not be amused. I' am not in the spirit of mod madness, sorry. You will all have to excuse me for a few days.

[Ghostbear]

And, I've just spoken to my mother for the last times before she goes into hospital tomorrow for open heart surgery to replace her aortic valve and bridge. And fit a pacemaker (possibly). 

I know this is run of the mill surgery these days and I know she has a 96% chance of surviving. However, she's going to go to hell and back over the next 2 months and there's fuck all I ca n do to help. I also know she's scared, and so am I.

I hope everything goes well for her!

[Kewangji]

*offers big hugs for Jumble*

[Amie]

*hugs* for Jumble. Please take care of yourself. It's a shitty place to be in but hang in there.

[Xeio]

Every time you write your own open file dialog that is provided by the OS, Thor kills ONE MILLION KITTENS.

[Lostdreams]

If I could bounce at 35 miles per hour, I'd get rid of my car and bounce to work!

Gummiberry Juice. You would still need a ride home though.

[ExplodingHat]

Craigslist ad: "Apply in person at *location* and ask for *person*. Or you can e-mail your resume." Bikes 10 miles in the morning to location and catches said person. Person says to email resume. -__-

[Jumble]

All,

Thanks for the good wishes. It really means a lot.

She's settled in and the ops tomorrow. I'll let you know.

I like this place.

[Whelan]

Bloody Word crashed and I lost an hour odd of work, less than 10 minutes before I had to leave the house. Looks like I'm skipping my lecture to finish this.

[SlyReaper]

Bloody Word crashed and I lost an hour odd of work, less than 10 minutes before I had to leave the house. Looks like I'm skipping my lecture to finish this.

Doesn't Word usually autosave?

[e^iπ+1=0]

*sigh* Orange customer service is annoying. When I signed up for this plan, I was told I could freeze it for a while if I needed to and that that wouldn't affect the deposit I paid that was tied to me being with Orange. Today I called Orange and was basically told that because of the type of plan I was on, I couldn't. So I called the store where I got the plan and they basically refused to talk to me over the phone because they claimed they couldn't verify who I was (why they couldn't just ask for my birthday and shit is beyond me; that's what the main Orange helpline did). All they said was that I should either come in person (not going to happen, because they're in Manchester) or call Orange again and specifically ask about the deposit. So I called up Orange again, said almost the same thing as I had the first time, and I got put through to someone who actually knew what they were talking about with no problems whatsoever. They told me exactly what I had initially been told when I got the plan, took down the date I wanted to start the freeze, and that was it. I'm glad it got sorted, but why the fuck didn't that happen in the first place?

[Sytri]

Bah. Reading misses out on city status again.

[Kewangji]

Bah. Reading misses out on city status again.

It's clearly a verb.

[Sytri]

Maybe that's why we keep missing out. It doesn't really mean a lot in the grand scheme of things but I would've liked to be able to say that I live in a city. Alas, I live in one of the largest towns in the UK instead.

[bigglesworth]

My GF used to live there, she said it was bad and smelled of gone-off beer.

[Sytri]

It's a nice enough place and only some places smell of gone-off beer. It's got a lot better in the 7 years I've lived here. Lot's of development going on and stuff like that. The only thing I dont like is that certain parts become off limits when it's dark but most large urbanised areas seem to get that and the police/ council are trying to combat it.

Minor rant: Really want a burrito but i dont have my card or cash on me

[Mumpy]

Bah. Reading misses out on city status again. :(

It's clearly a verb.

You would think so, but actually it's the setting for some good books.

[Plasma Man]

So, at work, one person has left, and we have the usual rush of people trying to take their annual leave before the financial year ends. What's our manager's plan to get through this? Book more than usual, cross your fingers and hope that everything turns out OK. Brilliant plan! More shit, less shovel.

[Menacing Spike]

"Golden ratio is everywhere blah blah blah"

What about the goddamn sine wave?

[felltir]

What about it? I don't have a sine wave tattoo'd on my fucking chest.

[Menacing Spike]

What about it? I don't have a sine wave tattoo'd on my fucking chest.

But you have so many of them in your processes.

[Giant Speck]

What about it? I don't have a sine wave tattoo'd on my fucking chest.

I have a chest tattooed onto my sine wave.

[Chewbaccawacca]

Minor rant: Really want a burrito but i dont have my card or cash on me

You could try to see if someone will give you one for a song and dance. Don't know about in your area but it's worked at least once for me. I guess it depends on the person you're asking, sometimes it's hard to judge.

[adho]

Minor rant: Really want a burrito but i dont have my card or cash on me

You could try to see if someone will give you one for a song and dance. Don't know about in your area but it's worked at least once for me. I guess it depends on the person you're asking, sometimes it's hard to judge.

Where do you live/can I come and live with you? That's magical. I get to sing, dance AND eat a burrito.

Happy Rant: Tried two nights out in a row before a 7AM start. Cruising on very little sleep. Life is good, somehow.

[PhoenixEnigma]

Happy Rant: Tried two nights out in a row before a 7AM start. Cruising on very little sleep. Life is good, somehow.

I, too, must be tired, as I read that as " Cruising on very little sheep". Life is good, indeed!

[Chewbaccawacca]

Where do you live/can I come and live with you? That's magical. I get to sing, dance AND eat a burrito.

I live in the beautiful city of Spokane! And yes you may, though I'm leaving for the great white north soon so I don't know how executable that will be for you.

[adho]

Happy Rant: Tried two nights out in a row before a 7AM start. Cruising on very little sleep. Life is good, somehow.

I, too, must be tired, as I read that as " Cruising on very little sheep". Life is good, indeed!

I must still be overly tired, because I just broke up laughing for that mental image. Caffeine and sleep deprivation.

I live in the beautiful city of Spokane!

Well, the people there must be lovely. I'd have a high chance of getting my block knocked off trying that in some parts of town.

[farnsworth]

I now have the mental image of a young man sitting on atop piece of plywood supported and propelled by hundreds of tiny sheep. I ask him where he got the sheep and he says that it's a rental.