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Trollheart 05-09-2021 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by adidasss (Post 2172348)
I think TH is winding us up...;)

Edit: If not, TH, you can find the confirmation in her intro thread. https://www.musicbanter.com/2169803-post1.html

My world has just come crashing down. :(
Oh well, nothing for it I guess but to kill everyone else so that my shame never leaks out. Now, let's see, A-Z, A-Z, where are we....?
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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks (Post 2172356)
That was good work Frown. I personally commend you for your valiant efforts. You absolutely earned the privilege to be mod.

I watch some gory subreddits (most of the time, I'm nonplussed by it), and there was this one video of a mother in India. It's Mother's Day (happy Mothers' day to all the moms here), and there was a video of an Indian mother grieving over the dead body/remains of her daughter in the street who just got ran over by a semi truck. It looked like she got stepped on by a damn stegosaurus. And the pain she exhibited was just heartbreaking. Man, this world is ****ing cruel. My heart ****ing sank.

Jesus Christ in space overshooting the ISS and ending up floating off Jupiter! Why would you a) watch such a thing b) equate it with Mother's Day and c) tell us about it? Spread the misery, huh?

SGR 05-09-2021 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2172364)
Jesus Christ in space overshooting the ISS and ending up floating off Jupiter! Why would you a) watch such a thing b) equate it with Mother's Day and c) tell us about it? Spread the misery, huh?

I don't know, I've got a fascination with the insides of the human body. Sometimes we forget that we're just (physically, at least) bags of meat, bones and blood. Seeing **** like this definitely brings you down to Earth and helps you appreciate life and your loved ones more. Sometimes, it's worth the discomfort to see the brutal realities of life in certain places. Mother's Day just popped into my head because of the context. And I had to tell y'all because this colored my day - and this is of course the 'Your Day' thread.

Frownland 05-09-2021 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks (Post 2172356)
I watch some gory subreddits (most of the time, I'm nonplussed by it), and there was this one video of a mother in India. It's Mother's Day (happy Mothers' day to all the moms here), and there was a video of an Indian mother grieving over the dead body/remains of her daughter in the street who just got ran over by a semi truck. It looked like she got stepped on by a damn stegosaurus. And the pain she exhibited was just heartbreaking. Man, this world is ****ing cruel. My heart ****ing sank.

I used to do the same, I think I've even seen that video or a similar one at least. I was generally nonplussed when watching them, but my opinion is that they add up over time and leave an impact. It's worth understanding and seeing it is the best way to know for most people, but I prefer being informed about the world's harsh realities without living them vicariously. Watching brutal videos doesn't prepare you for when those situations happen to you as much as people think, either.

You do you but that **** ain't healthy imo. There's plenty of excellently done fake gore with no real suffering where you can scratch that itch.

SGR 05-09-2021 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 2172372)
I used to do the same, I think I've even seen that video or a similar one at least. I was generally nonplussed when watching them, but my opinion is that they add up over time and leave an impact. It's worth understanding and seeing it is the best way to know for most people, but I prefer being informed about the world's harsh realities without living them vicariously. Watching brutal videos doesn't prepare you for when those situations happen to you as much as people think, either.

You do you but that **** ain't healthy imo. There's plenty of excellently done fake gore with no real suffering where you can scratch that itch.

Thanks Frown, I genuinely do appreciate the input.

I don't watch it often. But occasionally when I scroll through Reddit, it is there. It hasn't affected my mental health or anything. But if/when it does, I'll certainly be unfollowing.

As you say, it is stuff that's worth understanding. I primarily became interested in it due to the desire to see what is really happening in warzones and overseas in territory that is disputed (my strongest political stance is being anti-war - it's one of the reasons I so strongly identified with liberals as I grew up in the midst of the Iraq War). Add in the cartel stuff I follow with that. It's genuinely scary and frightening stuff. I can only take it in small doses.

DianneW 05-09-2021 11:54 PM

:bowdown:sayings....
Don't get Mad get Even
Don't let the the Bastards Grind you Down
Don't upset the Apple Cart
A Leopard cannot change his Spots
A Red Rag At A Bull
Make A Rod For Your Back

there are thousand's I can write up if I Choose.....



:wavey:

Trollheart 05-10-2021 05:14 AM

I'm so disappointed you're not French. All those jokes wasted. :(
(Whaddya mean, what jokes???)

DianneW 05-10-2021 08:00 AM

:bowdown:People get disappointed all the time with stuff.... c'est la vie

The land we are trying to buy at the moment is causing a headache..The estate agent has lied to us and now she realises I am not a walk over and swords at dawn could be sometime today..haha..stuff like that is more frustrating..I tell her we need this and that then the next email she says it back to me like she has come up with it....I called her a Politician she ignored that,,, infact she ignores a lot that is important..like the size of the plot is questionable so I tell her get a geometre man in..then she wants me to pay him..she can go and swivvel...she knows that now as well..
most of us have french in our genes ...history spells it out...Husbands ancestor's on one side are all from around this area where we live now..The other side some famous Londoners who moved on without leaving and of there riches..bugs...In fact Husband's Grand Father on his Dad's side lived in a work house in the East End of London with his 10 children and Wife so they lost out also...lording it all before that I have discovered....Its an interesting hobby when the people get up to all sorts...
I thought I read somewhere you were Irish..no idea where I saw that or if I actually did as all. I do actually live in cuckoo land mostly, take coffee breaks from it though..:wavey:

Trollheart 05-10-2021 11:45 AM

I am Irish, so disappointment comes naturally to me. :)

Lucem Ferre 05-10-2021 03:48 PM

So you're not a colonizer, you're a colonized.

DianneW 05-10-2021 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre (Post 2172465)
So you're not a colonizer, you're a colonized.

I can settle anywhere if I am happy and I am happy except when I am not some days....some days people just piss me off..not today though...

Trollheart 05-10-2021 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre (Post 2172465)
So you're not a colonizer, you're a colonized.

We've been invaded so many times you can still see the signs around the older roads: IRELAND WELCOMES CAREFUL INVADERS.

True story.*







* not a true story

The Batlord 05-10-2021 07:45 PM

*snort*

DianneW 05-11-2021 03:46 AM

:wavey:snort or s'not?

there are lots of words in French that are the same as in English
i.e. Ridicule, Optimism,Zest..Rich...Variety all good meaningful words...Valid also....Restaurant, Sentiment...Soup, , Similar..yes we can all get by, now we are bi-lingual ....just them damn local dialects that get you into trouble...:crazy:

fire 05-11-2021 11:20 AM

Today was good, the weather, artwork, zoom meeting, shopping.

Plankton 05-11-2021 11:45 AM

Did someone say Snot?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-nhgu-SkYo

ribbons 05-11-2021 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by fire (Post 2172569)
Today was good, the weather, artwork, zoom meeting, shopping.

Glad it's a good day for you. But as for Zoom meetings, too many of those for my liking lately due to being assigned to a new committee at work. :(

DianneW 05-11-2021 12:10 PM

:bowdown:Did someone say Snot? @Plankton ... well that sounded 'nice' and so calming..drifting off now onto the next cloud....thankyou so muchly...https://as1.ftcdn.net/jpg/01/84/51/8...QvXUH9raEP.jpg :wavey:

Marie Monday 05-11-2021 12:18 PM

Zoom meetings are often hell, I'm glad fire's was a good one. Sounds like a nice day

Plankton 05-11-2021 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by DianneW (Post 2172583)
:bowdown:Did someone say Snot? @Plankton ... well that sounded 'nice' and so calming..drifting off now onto the next cloud....thankyou so muchly...https://as1.ftcdn.net/jpg/01/84/51/8...QvXUH9raEP.jpg :wavey:

You are most welcome. Here, have some more Snot:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB5P1R-mmn8

DianneW 05-11-2021 01:12 PM

not even going to peep at that....thankyoumuchly..just the same, as manners maketh not just man....
https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...=278&crop=fill

Mindfulness 05-11-2021 01:20 PM

Eating blueberries and blackberries for breakfast today. had a dream about 1992 fleer cards set, woke up and physically got one graded in the mail. :)

Plankton 05-11-2021 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by DianneW (Post 2172602)
not even going to peep at that....thankyoumuchly..just the same, as manners maketh not just man....

But... it's a slower tune. Really. Groove Metal Lounge music in it's peak form.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Good bants.

rostasi 05-11-2021 01:39 PM


Lucem Ferre 05-11-2021 02:29 PM

It wasn't a booger it was a tonsil stone and I can't rewatch any part of that speech because it makes me sick to my stomach. Which is weird considering all the gross stuff I watch. Ted Cruz eating his own tonsil stone during a speech is up there with the worst of Jackass.

Trollheart 05-11-2021 07:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness (Post 2172603)
Eating blueberries and blackberries for breakfast today. had a dream about 1992 fleer cards set, woke up and physically got one graded in the mail. :)

Is this a euphemism? :laughing:

Mindfulness 05-11-2021 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 2172681)
Is this a euphemism? :laughing:

:)

Mindfulness 05-12-2021 01:37 PM

Train ride to Quad Cities in two weeks, Plankton; I'm not renting a car so I cant drive to where you are. :o:
Im thinking most likely I will buy a bike from a pawn shop for two week and sell back when I leave.

going to be nice seeing different stuff.

Plankton 05-12-2021 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Mindfulness (Post 2172757)
Train ride to Quad Cities in two weeks, Plankton; I'm not renting a car so I cant drive to where you are. :o:
Im thinking most likely I will buy a bike from a pawn shop for two week and sell back when I leave.

going to be nice seeing different stuff.

No problem amigo. Sounds like you got a good plan with the bike.

Heck, I wouldn't mind driving out to Davenport to play Camden again. There was a tournament there just last weekend that a bunch of my friends hit up. If I do head out that way I'll let you know.

Mindfulness 05-12-2021 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Plankton (Post 2172766)
No problem amigo. Sounds like you got a good plan with the bike.

Heck, I wouldn't mind driving out to Davenport to play Camden again. There was a tournament there just last weekend that a bunch of my friends hit up. If I do head out that way I'll let you know.

:beer:

Trollheart 05-15-2021 05:11 AM

He wasn't wearing a MAGA hat was he? Assume it was a he... :laughing:

Exo 05-15-2021 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 2173063)
Customer: This coffee is too black. Something wrong with the machine?

Me: huh?....it just dispenses iced coffee

Customer: It's too black

Me: *points to label* it's a black coffee dispenser

Customer: nah man it's too black

Me: *Opens dispenser* yeah you see this a bag of black coffee...in the black coffee dispenser...it dispenses this black coffee

Customer: *still suspicious*

People don't understand how dumb people are. Yesterday I had a woman on the phone who didn't want to tell me WHERE in Pennsylvania she was located but still wanted me to point her in the direction of a store that would buy her terrible CD collection.

We share a certain bond Elph whether you know it or not. We deal with idiots.

innerspaceboy 05-15-2021 01:45 PM

I wanted to do something fun to celebrate Brian Eno's birthday today. The self-proclaimed "non-musician" remains one of my greatest creative and philosophical inspirations and today he turned 73.

This quirky image of Eno appeared in the British rock music magazine, ZigZag in 1982 and calls to mind the Oblique Strategies card which reads, “The tape is now the music." I tracked down the highest resolution scan of the image I could find, cleaned it up a bit, and had it printed and framed for my listening room.

Cheers to you, Mr. Eno!

https://i.imgur.com/IaNWMqTl.jpg

Trollheart 05-15-2021 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo (Post 2173100)
People don't understand how dumb people are. Yesterday I had a woman on the phone who didn't want to tell me WHERE in Pennsylvania she was located but still wanted me to point her in the direction of a store that would buy her terrible CD collection.

We share a certain bond Elph whether you know it or not. We deal with idiots.

Reminds me of that line from Fawlty Towers, when Basil is asked by a guy he considers "common" if he knows anywhere that does good French food?

"Yes," he answers. "France. They seem to like it over there. If you leave now you can catch the tide. The swim should certainly sharpen your appetite!" :laughing:

jwb 05-15-2021 02:28 PM

Spoiler for long ass work rant:

So they're training me to be operator as I mentioned.. reason being my operator quit and they brought in this young redneck who is the cousin of the plant manager and were gonna train him to replace my operator. I told them they should train me to do it so now they're training both of us.

The other two operators quit too so we went from 3 shifts with experienced operators to 2 shifts with me and the other young guy and neither of us really know wtf we're doing lol. He pretends to know a lot more than he does cause his whole family is in the box business or whatever plus he's just cocky like that... Never wants to own that he is ****ing up.

Where as me I know damn well I'm completely underqualified and just seized an opportunity to try to advance cause the place is losing operators and even supervisors left and right. I'm starting to get the hang of it a bit but it's mentally taxing .. so much **** going on at once that I'm supposed to keep track of...
Plus I'm in the new position of having to boss other people around which doesn't come naturally to me... But I am learning quickly that if you don't they just take advantage of you.. which I already knew it's just weird being the one in that position...

The two people I have on my crew are the fake OH guy and some tomboyish country girl who's only like 18. She's stocky and almost comes across like a lesbian but apparently she has a boyfriend who just ripped her off and stole her credit card. The fake OH... The teacher/former meth addict I mentioned... Let's call him professor meth.

Well professor seems to have a thing for the young girl though he also almost comes across as gay so I can't tell whether he's OH thirsting over a typing broad or just her catty old gay friend. Kinda funny though. Either way they're decent enough people and easy enough to work with. Professor meth is predictably lazy though and sand bags sometimes.

Now I am gonna be on 7pm -7am as opposed to 3pm - 3am starting Monday but the other workers schedule stays the same.. only me and the other operator are changing schedules so I'll have his crew part of the time and mine part of the time and vice versa. ****s ****in exhausting though if they don't get a 3rd shift in soon enough I'll quit.. and after they spent all that time and energy training me :laughing:.

They'll be pissed off of that happens and I won't care in the slightest except for I'll feel sorta bad for the guy who's training me cause he puts in a lot of effort... But they keep talking about we're gonna fix this ****... Clock is ticking cause once I'm completely out of debt and situated I ain't doing this 70 hrs a week ****. They'll be **** outta luck if they're relying on that long term. :o:

Marie Monday 05-15-2021 03:37 PM

yeah 70 hours/week is brutal, they can't expect you to keep that up. No one should have to do that even short term. The fake OH/country tomboy situation speaks to the imagination though, at least that sounds like it'll offer some entertaining diversions. Keep us updated about it

The Batlord 05-15-2021 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday (Post 2173124)
yeah 70 hours/week is brutal, they can't expect you to keep that up.

It must be nice having been born yesterday.

Marie Monday 05-15-2021 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2173125)
It must be nice having been born yesterday.

by can't I meant shouldn't, of course -_-

SGR 05-16-2021 05:51 PM

Work sucks. I really just want to be drunk, play Doom, and occasionally have sex. Is that so much to ask for?

YorkeDaddy 05-17-2021 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by innerspaceboy (Post 2173109)
I wanted to do something fun to celebrate Brian Eno's birthday today. The self-proclaimed "non-musician" remains one of my greatest creative and philosophical inspirations and today he turned 73.

This quirky image of Eno appeared in the British rock music magazine, ZigZag in 1982 and calls to mind the Oblique Strategies card which reads, “The tape is now the music." I tracked down the highest resolution scan of the image I could find, cleaned it up a bit, and had it printed and framed for my listening room.

Cheers to you, Mr. Eno!

https://i.imgur.com/IaNWMqTl.jpg

This is ****ing badass, what an awesome idea. You're inspiring me to do something similar!

innerspaceboy 05-17-2021 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy (Post 2173319)
This is ****ing badass, what an awesome idea. You're inspiring me to do something similar!

Fantastic! I'm always delighted when I can inspire creativity!


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