Whats making you happy right now

#8712 Obdigore

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Posted 19 September 2012 - 09:03 AM

Adjutant Stormy, on 19 September 2012 - 06:27 AM, said:

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#8713 Janacek

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Posted 19 September 2012 - 11:49 AM

If you just need a little something to make your day, check out today's xkcd comic. It's the most awesomest thing ever.

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#8714 QuickTidal

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Posted 19 September 2012 - 01:41 PM

I got my Amanda Palmer Kickstarter Backer package last night! There were squee's. It came with a foldout 3D picture thank you card which was pretty darn cool.

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#8715 rhulad

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Posted 19 September 2012 - 05:54 PM

Borderlands 2.

Edit: Also, my wife and I celebrated our second anniversary last night (Sept 18).

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#8716 worry

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Posted 19 September 2012 - 07:49 PM

Janacek, on 19 September 2012 - 11:49 AM, said:

If you just need a little something to make your day, check out today's xkcd comic. It's the most awesomest thing ever.

http://www.theonion....rd-6-day,29588/

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#8717 Solidsnape

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Posted 19 September 2012 - 08:55 PM

Finished The Road this morning. I really enjoyed it, harrowing as it was.
I hugged the life out of my 2 boys after putting it down.
How lucky I am.

It's the first book I've read in months. Seems to have ended the drought though. Up for something else now.....

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#8718 worry

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Posted 19 September 2012 - 09:00 PM

Try The Road 2: The Great Goblin Caper. Totally different feel, but if you wanna find out what happens to Boy in his next adventure...

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#8719 Solidsnape

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Posted 19 September 2012 - 10:18 PM

worrywort, on 19 September 2012 - 09:00 PM, said:

Try The Road 2: The Great Goblin Caper. Totally different feel, but if you wanna find out what happens to Boy in his next adventure...

Haha. Someone needs to write that!!

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#8720 Mentalist

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Posted 20 September 2012 - 03:59 AM

Had an amazing day at work today. It was an important night, because we have a new batch of employees starting after their training this weekend, and it was crucial that we get the last batch properly trained so that they are able to get on with the job, while we (the supervisors) are gonna be preoccupied with working with new people from scratch.

Training went well, the trainees were receptive to advice and showed huge improvements, while the rest of the team also did a solid job. The night's results were good, and I'm left feeling confident about the people we've just finished training.

Since what attracts me in my job is the potential to be a problem solver, figuring out where to put the right people to get the necessary result, and what to do to improve a person's performance, seeing everything click, and knowing that my fellow supervisors are working on the same wavelength to the same goal gives me great pleasure.

This is one of those days when I love my job.

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

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Posted 20 September 2012 - 06:59 AM

Obdigore, on 19 September 2012 - 09:03 AM, said:

Adjutant Stormy, on 19 September 2012 - 06:27 AM, said:

13/f/CA

Touche, mon cheri.

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bla bla bla

Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.

Also people with big noses aren't jews, they're just french

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#8722 Macros

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Posted 20 September 2012 - 10:01 AM

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Posted 20 September 2012 - 12:54 PM

Mentalist, on 20 September 2012 - 03:59 AM, said:

Nice! Though if we lived in the same country, I'd be wondering if you were one of my bosses right now.

Similar thing is making me happy, as my work's latest trainees all seem to be good people who are picking up the job quickly. Oh, and I also got publicly acknowledged for all the extra work I do at the start of the night - minor downside is that in the past 11 months, I've had this happen two (or is it three? O.o) times so far...there are people there who still have yet to receive a "monthly achiever award" AT ALL, despite being there longer than I by far. :S Awkward.

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<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.

#8724 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 20 September 2012 - 04:47 PM

I got to the end of the xkcd click and drag! And yes, that feels like an achievement!

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#8725 Slow Ben

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Posted 20 September 2012 - 05:13 PM

rhulad, on 19 September 2012 - 05:54 PM, said:

Borderlands 2.

Hells yes. :rolleyes:

I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.

#8726 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 20 September 2012 - 09:24 PM

Someone threw a GRENADE onto a football pitch, a player picks it up and casually tosses it to the side, WHERE IT BLOWS UP!

Flippin' Epic

No-one was hurt or anything thankfully but that is a pretty insane story!

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Posted 21 September 2012 - 12:31 AM

The only reason no-one was hurt was because that wasn't a professional grenade (or it was a dud)...a proper frag would have killed everyone who was on-screen at the time, and even an HE would have taken out the guy who threw it. But luckily it was neither, lol. Also, cool find. :rolleyes:

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<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.

#8728 Ain't_It_Just_

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Posted 21 September 2012 - 07:44 AM

Slow Ben, on 20 September 2012 - 05:13 PM, said:

rhulad, on 19 September 2012 - 05:54 PM, said:

Borderlands 2.

Hells yes. :rolleyes:

THIS!!!!!

Although my older brother won't get off the TV we use the Xbox for and it's incurring my wrath.

Suck it Errant!

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#8729 Loki

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Posted 21 September 2012 - 08:39 AM

Aij, better things are on the telly tonight!

Wry, on 29 February 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

And you're not complaining, you're criticizing. It's a side-effect of being better than everyone else, I get it sometimes too.

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Posted 21 September 2012 - 09:24 AM

There's a comment in reply to this complete piece of codswallop:

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http://www.news.com....9-1226478853271

Porn distorting how young men view sex

By Daniel Piotrowski
news.com.au
September 21, 2012 1:35PM

YOUNG men getting distorted ideas about sex from porn
They "think it's all about them", says leading businesswoman
Cindy Gallop wants videos of "real sex" to replace porn

A GENERATION of young men is developing extreme ideas about sex from hardcore online porn.

So says Cindy Gallop, a New York businesswoman who is visiting Australia this week and is determined to change their views.

Young men think sex is "all about them" - and it's freaking young women out, Ms Gallop told news.com.au.

Blokes are expected to watch porn because "guys bond around grossness and ridiculousness", Ms Gallop said, adding that many were watching from as young as 11.

They're copying pornography's "extreme" depictions of sex in the bedroom, she said, and those porn videos don't show what real-world sex is all about: "Having a great time."

Ms Gallop is pioneering a form of "real world" porn with a website called Make Love Not Porn.

She hopes videos uploaded on her website - which she described to an American newpsaper as broadcasting only "real, unscripted, messy and even comical sex" - will change people's perceptions.

But the porn industry alone can't take the blame for young men growing up with perverted ideas, she said.

Ms Gallop said parents need to educate their children about sex as soon as they start exhibiting sexual behaviour, because otherwise porn will fill the gaps.

"It's never too young," Ms Gallop said. "Every parent should be talking to their children about sex as early as possible."

Tens of thousands of Australians are so addicted to porn they watch up to five hours a night, according to Perth researcher Dr Phil Watts. About 70 per cent of Australian men watch porn occasionally.

A May 2012 study in the Australian Journal of Medicine said 28 per cent of nine-to-16 year olds had seen sexual material online.

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The comments in full are here:

http://www.news.com....9-1226478853271

But it is comment #3 that absolutely made my day. And a lot of other people's too, apparently. I think it is my new sig. :rolleyes:

Howser of BNE Posted at 2:54 PM Today

Hardcore porn has distorted nearly every aspect of my life. Whenever I put fuel in the car, I pull the nozzle out just before the tank is full and spray petrol all over the ground. Watering the garden means inviting some mates over and five of us hose the same plant. I don't fluff my pillows anymore, I motorboat them. I don't shop at Big W anymore, to me its BBW. Somebody please help me.

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