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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 5, 2017 17:57:40 GMT -5
I have a half-assed Pinterest account, and it's funny - the one item on there that's most often pinned by other people is a Stargate necklace. (I'll post the image when I can remember how.)
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Post by Trurl on Aug 5, 2017 18:16:45 GMT -5
Well, she's currently stuck inside the water bottle packaging, so she won't be hard to catch. EHRMEGERD! *gets face clawed to the point of requiring stitches and a transfusion when trying to nuzzle kitten, but worth it*
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Post by Incense on Aug 5, 2017 18:31:07 GMT -5
I have a half-assed Pinterest account, and it's funny - the one item on there that's most often pinned by other people is a Stargate necklace. (I'll post the image when I can remember how.) I am always happy to find new people to follow on Pinterest so, if you're comfortable with the idea (real names and all), let me know via message and I'll follow you. If you're not comfortable, I totally understand.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 5, 2017 20:00:29 GMT -5
JESUS CHRIST, I had forgotten how wicked sharp kitten's claws are I've been reading Darwin's Descent of Man, and the other day I came across the following footnote in response to an anecdote he related from some other naturalist guy named Brehm, who claimed that he saw a baboon bite off the claws of a kitten which had scratched it. Darwin writes: "A critic, without any grounds, disputes the possibility of this act as described by Brehm, for the sake of discrediting my work. Therefore I tried, and found that I could readily seize with my own teeth the sharp little claws of a kitten nearly five weeks old." I'm pretty sure I said "What the fuck, Darwin?" out loud when I read this, because what the actual fuck, Darwin?
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 5, 2017 20:18:51 GMT -5
I wonder if there is a Rocky Mountain chapter of the Flat Earth Society. " In Colorado, Ptolemaic-science revivalists have lofty ambitions: raising $6,000 to put up a billboard along Interstate 25 broadcasting their worldview." “We get accused of being idiots, of doing it for money,” Knodel said. “Believe me, there’s only humiliation in this." Good; I'm glad there's only humiliation in the insufferable persecution complex you've built up around your dumb, shitty pseudoscientific conspiracy, guy. I know that there's a bunch of more gratuitous ways in which people waste money on extravagant luxuries, but it makes me mad that in a society where tons of people struggle to pay for basic necessities like food, rent, and healthcare, that a bunch of middle-aged suburban dumbfucks have enough money to blow on round-trip plane tickets from Denver to Durham for a fucking Flat Earther Convention so they can all misunderstand how physics works together. I suppose they're not as bad as the fucking racist ancient astronaut conspiracists who go on vacation to Latin America so they can tour Pumapunku and marvel at how " purposeful" the site was, or the fuckers who mutiliate human remains to make them look more "alien". But still, I've no reservations about being scornful of the dumbshits most responsible for promulgating this bullshit.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 5, 2017 20:41:17 GMT -5
My neighbor upstairs just ran his disposal and I got a water leak under my sink. Fortunately the maintenance guy actually answered his phone and is on his way. I knew I shouldn't be hearing water run in pipes when he runs his disposal (which has been happening a lot). I'm also getting a kind of sewer gas smell tonight.
When I first moved in, we had to call emergency maintenance because of the methane smell coming from the pipes and I hoped that that would be it, but I should have known there would be more problems.
Also, when I went upstairs to tell the neighbor I'd called maintenance, the guy is stoned out of his gourd which should be fun.
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Post by Incense on Aug 5, 2017 20:46:18 GMT -5
My neighbor upstairs just ran his disposal and I got a water leak under my sink. Fortunately the maintenance guy actually answered his phone and is on his way. I knew I shouldn't be hearing water run in pipes when he runs his disposal (which has been happening a lot). I'm also getting a kind of sewer gas smell tonight. When I first moved in, we had to call emergency maintenance because of the methane smell coming from the pipes and I hoped that that would be it, but I should have known there would be more problems. Also, when I went upstairs to tell the neighbor I'd called maintenance, the guy is stoned out of his gourd which should be fun. Ugh. Shit going wrong with the infrastructure of your home is always the worst. There's always that feeling of possible impending doom, either to your finances or your comfort level.
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Post by Lord Lucan on Aug 5, 2017 22:44:18 GMT -5
If someone ran for president on a platform that included setting up a federal agency that made sure people who claimed to be good writers on their resumes and LinkedIn pages were actually good writers, I would vote for that candidate almost completely regardless of the rest of the candidate's platform. What's the point of actually being good at writing when the job market is flooded with people whose writing is muddled garbage but who still assert confidently "Talented writer!" on their CVs? "Your writing has been judged CONFUSING. Please remove this qualification or face a $200 fine." I've found that good writers -- much like good speakers, good lovers, good presidents, etc. etc. -- don't have to advertise; it should be clear from what they've written. The cliches here apply: Show, don't tell. Actions speak louder than words. I am circumspect about any individual or company that has to tell you how great it is. This is generally my view, though I'm also aware that a measure of rodomontade is sometimes not unavailing, even to discerning minds.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Aug 5, 2017 22:50:31 GMT -5
My neighbor upstairs just ran his disposal and I got a water leak under my sink. Fortunately the maintenance guy actually answered his phone and is on his way. I knew I shouldn't be hearing water run in pipes when he runs his disposal (which has been happening a lot). I'm also getting a kind of sewer gas smell tonight. When I first moved in, we had to call emergency maintenance because of the methane smell coming from the pipes and I hoped that that would be it, but I should have known there would be more problems. Also, when I went upstairs to tell the neighbor I'd called maintenance, the guy is stoned out of his gourd which should be fun. Ugh. Shit going wrong with the infrastructure of your home is always the worst. There's always that feeling of possible impending doom, either to your finances or your comfort level. Ever since a bathtub overflowed directly over the bed I was sleeping in, this has also been my perspective.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 5, 2017 23:07:50 GMT -5
My neighbor upstairs just ran his disposal and I got a water leak under my sink. Fortunately the maintenance guy actually answered his phone and is on his way. I knew I shouldn't be hearing water run in pipes when he runs his disposal (which has been happening a lot). I'm also getting a kind of sewer gas smell tonight. When I first moved in, we had to call emergency maintenance because of the methane smell coming from the pipes and I hoped that that would be it, but I should have known there would be more problems. Also, when I went upstairs to tell the neighbor I'd called maintenance, the guy is stoned out of his gourd which should be fun. Ugh. Shit going wrong with the infrastructure of your home is always the worst. There's always that feeling of possible impending doom, either to your finances or your comfort level. Fortunately I live in an apartment so don't have the financial problems, but it does mean that it's not just me I have to worry about, it's all the neighbors too.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 6, 2017 19:27:40 GMT -5
"Trash of the Titans" is on.
It was a lot funnier prior to November.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2017 2:39:49 GMT -5
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Post by thepromisedprince on Aug 7, 2017 4:34:52 GMT -5
I made the grave mistake of reading the comments on Chris Pratt's FB post about his separation and uggggh at the people saying stuff like "marriage is suppose to a commitment for life, you should stay together for your child," "people these days give up on marriage too easily, why don't you try marriage counseling?" like wow you're really just going to assume they're divorcing on whim and haven't put serious thought and effort into reconciliation? You really think a dysfunctional marriage is going to better for a child than an amicable separation? I know it's their personal situation and there's really no reason for me to care at all about whatever shit people are writing about it on the internet but that attitude towards marriage that it should be treated as an unbreakable contract and people shouldn't be able to decide that their current situation just isn't ideal for anybody involved is the most annoying thing to me.
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Post by ayatollahcm on Aug 7, 2017 4:43:16 GMT -5
I made the grave mistake of reading the comments on Chris Pratt's FB post about his separation and uggggh at the people saying stuff like "marriage is suppose to a commitment for life, you should stay together for your child," "people these days give up on marriage too easily, why don't you try marriage counseling?" like wow you're really just going to assume they're divorcing on whim and haven't put serious thought and effort into reconciliation? You really think a dysfunctional marriage is going to better for a child than an amicable separation? I know it's their personal situation and there's really no reason for me to care at all about whatever shit people are writing about it on the internet but that attitude towards marriage that it should be treated as an unbreakable contract and people shouldn't be able to decide that their current situation just isn't ideal for anybody involved is the most annoying thing to me. I read some too, but more to gawk at how goddamn dumb people are (because I'm clearly so much smarter). My favorites were the people blaming Jennifer Lawrence, insinuating that they must've banged during the filming of Passengers and JLaw is a homewrecker. Hollywood gossip, get the fuck in my mouth!
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Post by Powerthirteen on Aug 7, 2017 11:40:38 GMT -5
"Trash of the Titans" is on. It was a lot funnier prior to November. It hasn't gotten unfunny as aggressively as the Parks & Rec arc where Paul Rudd runs for city council.
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Aug 7, 2017 16:14:06 GMT -5
"Trash of the Titans" is on. It was a lot funnier prior to November. It hasn't gotten unfunny as aggressively as the Parks & Rec arc where Paul Rudd runs for city council. Counterpoint: Parks had mostly ceased to be funny by that point
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Post by Powerthirteen on Aug 7, 2017 17:01:58 GMT -5
It hasn't gotten unfunny as aggressively as the Parks & Rec arc where Paul Rudd runs for city council. Counterpoint: Parks had mostly ceased to be funny by that point
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Aug 8, 2017 11:22:17 GMT -5
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Aug 8, 2017 11:23:14 GMT -5
"Trash of the Titans" is on. It was a lot funnier prior to November. It hasn't gotten unfunny as aggressively as the Parks & Rec arc where Paul Rudd runs for city council. How dare you
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Post by Powerthirteen on Aug 8, 2017 11:52:25 GMT -5
It hasn't gotten unfunny as aggressively as the Parks & Rec arc where Paul Rudd runs for city council. How dare you Thanks to Donald Trump it's still funny, it's just not "ha ha" funny.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Aug 8, 2017 15:19:01 GMT -5
I can't imagine buying a street when so many are apparently up for adoption.
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Post by ganews on Aug 8, 2017 17:32:35 GMT -5
The real beauty are the bios of the buyer couple and this last factoid:
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Aug 9, 2017 9:35:29 GMT -5
I feel like every single person I follow on Facebook is more excited about the eclipse than I am.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Aug 9, 2017 9:40:14 GMT -5
You know that episode of TNG where several of the Enterprise crew are being abducted by aliens and experimented on without their knowing it? And at one point it's casually mentioned that Riker's had his arm amputated and reattached? I think that's happened to me. I've been unreasonably tired lately, for starters. And I just realized, here in the middle of my morning while sitting at my desk in a wide-open office with dozens of people sitting around me, that my shirt is on backwards. And is the third consecutive shirt I've done this with -- yesterday morning I caught it right away, yesterday evening I realized after a few minutes that the lounge shirt I'd changed into after work was backwards, and now this.
YOU GUYS, I THINK ALIENS AMPUTATED AND THEN REATTACHED MY HEAD.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Aug 9, 2017 9:41:16 GMT -5
I feel like every single person I follow on Facebook is more excited about the eclipse than I am. If I was on Facebook I'd offer to start a group of people who aren't excited about the eclipse. You could hang out with us.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Aug 9, 2017 10:06:31 GMT -5
You know that episode of TNG where several of the Enterprise crew are being abducted by aliens and experimented on without their knowing it? And at one point it's casually mentioned that Riker's had his arm amputated and reattached? I think that's happened to me. I've been unreasonably tired lately, for starters. And I just realized, here in the middle of my morning while sitting at my desk in a wide-open office with dozens of people sitting around me, that my shirt is on backwards. And is the third consecutive shirt I've done this with -- yesterday morning I caught it right away, yesterday evening I realized after a few minutes that the lounge shirt I'd changed into after work was backwards, and now this. YOU GUYS, I THINK ALIENS AMPUTATED AND THEN REATTACHED MY HEAD. Maybe they reattached your head backwards, and your shirts were on correctly the whole time.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Aug 9, 2017 10:41:06 GMT -5
Maybe they reattached your head backwards, and your shirts were on correctly the whole time. That's exactly what I was thinking! It makes perfect sense!
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Post by Dripping Yellow Madness on Aug 9, 2017 21:44:14 GMT -5
I feel like ranting about work, but I'm paralyzed as to whether I should do it here or on the Avocado.
TOO MANY CHOICES
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Post by ganews on Aug 9, 2017 21:45:40 GMT -5
I feel like ranting about work, but I'm paralyzed as to whether I should do it here or on the Avocado. TOO MANY CHOICES Don't be silly, no one goes to the...how do you pronounce it, aaay-vock-aaydoo?
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 9, 2017 21:49:26 GMT -5
I feel like ranting about work, but I'm paralyzed as to whether I should do it here or on the Avocado. TOO MANY CHOICES You could compromise and post both here and at the Avocado, which wouldn't solve your paralyzing indecision re: where to post, but, if you let that indecision gnaw at you and only ever post about the subject of the the thing you want to post about and your indecision about where to post it, you could become known as that guy with the postmodern gimmick where he only ever posts about his indecision about which website to post his comments about his indecision about where to post on.
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