[QuickTidal]

Andorion, on 05 August 2015 - 03:46 PM, said:

Had a truly shitty day. Spent half an hour slogging through knee deep filthy water. My city is getting flooded by intense rain on the one hand and the rising river on the other. At high tide the river floods the city through the storm drains. Had the surreal experience of watching water bubble out from a previously dry drain and then start flooding the street.

That sucks! Which river do you live by? It's not the Ganges flooding is it?

[Andorion]

QuickTidal, on 05 August 2015 - 04:00 PM, said:

Andorion, on 05 August 2015 - 03:46 PM, said:

Had a truly shitty day. Spent half an hour slogging through knee deep filthy water. My city is getting flooded by intense rain on the one hand and the rising river on the other. At high tide the river floods the city through the storm drains. Had the surreal experience of watching water bubble out from a previously dry drain and then start flooding the street.

That sucks! Which river do you live by? It's not the Ganges flooding is it?

Its the Hugli which is a distributary of the Ganges (or the Ganga as we call it) We have had a lot of heavy rain this year and several dams upstream had to release water. At this time of the year the tide is usually quite high and a few old low areas always flood. People are used to it. But this year due to abnormally high water levels large parts of the city are flooded. In one area the water is chest high. In fact large parts of my state (West Bengal) are also flooded.

[QuickTidal]

Andorion, on 05 August 2015 - 04:07 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 05 August 2015 - 04:00 PM, said:

Andorion, on 05 August 2015 - 03:46 PM, said:

Had a truly shitty day. Spent half an hour slogging through knee deep filthy water. My city is getting flooded by intense rain on the one hand and the rising river on the other. At high tide the river floods the city through the storm drains. Had the surreal experience of watching water bubble out from a previously dry drain and then start flooding the street.

That sucks! Which river do you live by? It's not the Ganges flooding is it?

Its the Hugli which is a distributary of the Ganges (or the Ganga as we call it) We have had a lot of heavy rain this year and several dams upstream had to release water. At this time of the year the tide is usually quite high and a few old low areas always flood. People are used to it. But this year due to abnormally high water levels large parts of the city are flooded. In one area the water is chest high. In fact large parts of my state (West Bengal) are also flooded.

That sounds like a crappy thing to have to deal with. Hope it improves soon.

[Maark Abbott]

Absolutely snowed under with work just now. It keeps piling up and up and up and then they ask 'where are we?'. The response so far is 'your guess is as good as mine'. I can foresee the workload hitting crisis point soon enough.

[Gorefest]

QuickTidal, on 05 August 2015 - 04:32 PM, said:

That sounds like a crappy thing to have to deal with.

Judging by the images we normally get to see of the Ganges, that statement could be both literal and figurative.

[Maark Abbott]

Gorefest, on 06 August 2015 - 10:00 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 05 August 2015 - 04:32 PM, said:

That sounds like a crappy thing to have to deal with.

Judging by the images we normally get to see of the Ganges, that statement could be both literal and figurative.

All I associate it with is quad bikes and Aussies with sunglasses.

[Gorefest]

Bloodes versus Cripes?

[Maark Abbott]

Gorefest, on 06 August 2015 - 11:34 AM, said:

Bloodes versus Cripes?

Naw, the River Ganges level from Tomb Raider 3.

[Andorion]

King Briar, on 05 August 2015 - 09:31 PM, said:

I heard the patter of rain for about 1 min 2 times today. The grass is so brown and it's not the winter tan gold color I love it's death brown/yellow in growing islands among an ocean of green. Looks nasty

King Briar, on 06 August 2015 - 06:15 AM, said:

Ando your city was just on CNN with the flooding.

Gorefest, on 06 August 2015 - 10:00 AM, said:

QuickTidal, on 05 August 2015 - 04:32 PM, said:

That sounds like a crappy thing to have to deal with.

Judging by the images we normally get to see of the Ganges, that statement could be both literal and figurative.

Can't my city ever be on the news for good things?

Like we are hosting a huge Theatre festival at the moment. Hundreds of groups, nationallly known actors and directors, it will all go on for a month. But it gets overshadowed by this stuff.

And yes the river is filthy. But at this time of the year its actually relatively clean. All the water washes a lot of stuff away. But if you really want a clean Ganges, you have to go up the Himalayas to Gangotri or Gomukh just below the glacial meltwater pool

[Maark Abbott]

Work again, although the tech folk in here might get a giggle out of this.

So we have a massive IT rollout of IE11 or whatever the latest one is. I get it a week before anyone else does (for some reason) and consequently spend some time faffing so that the proxy server settings are right, that all my links work... I come in seven days after the update, and I'm back on IE8 and nothing works.

Well, my stapler works.

...Uh, scratch that last thought, too.

[Gothos]

34 degrees outside.
This is a calamity.

[Gothos]

King Briar, on 07 August 2015 - 05:45 PM, said:

Gothos, on 07 August 2015 - 02:32 PM, said:

34 degrees outside.
This is a calamity.

I think that's about 90.

~98 of your silly, silly, childish scale

[Andorion]

Gothos, on 07 August 2015 - 08:07 PM, said:

King Briar, on 07 August 2015 - 05:45 PM, said:

Gothos, on 07 August 2015 - 02:32 PM, said:

34 degrees outside.
This is a calamity.

I think that's about 90.

~98 of your silly, silly, childish scale

34 C Maximum or minimum?

[Solidsnape]

Best Mans speech today.
I'm bricking it.

[HoosierDaddy]

Violently ill.

UGH.

[A Demon Llama!]

Poison ivy. Super sensitive to that shit and always manage to get poison ivy all over when I go camping.

[A Demon Llama!]

Solidsnape, on 08 August 2015 - 05:49 AM, said:

Best Mans speech today.
I'm bricking it.

I had to write a best man's speech as well and had months to prepare and write something. I couldnt come up with anything good and ended up writing something on the way down to the wedding. I would say just make it short and sweet and a bit funny. Mine was like a minute long and people said it was the best one. No one wants to listen to some long ass ramblings or stories.

If you want, you can use my intro (which I kinda lifted Serendipity) which was in the lines of: "Name has found his perfect soul mate; beautiful, funny, smart and much more. That perfect person is me." Make it more eloquent and you are good to go. Then you say how she is in close second and all the other bullshit good things that has to be said.

Do a back flip mid speech as well and all should be good.

[Illuyankas]

After two and a half best man's speeches, my best advice to you would be to not worry if you feel it's too short, imagine a line where jokes about the groom would be too far and then take two-three steps back from it, and compliment everyone liberally except the groom, who should be seen as ehhh at most (but secretly you're really pleased etc)

[Solidsnape]

Solidsnape, on 08 August 2015 - 05:49 AM, said:

Best Mans speech today.
I'm bricking it.

Thanks for the advice chaps. Apparently I'm a natural!!
Yeah it was fairly short but genuine.
Got a lot of praise actually.

My opening line was from Cheech and Chong (if I remember correctly)
And it went
"I've never done a beat mans speech before so I really hope I don't fuck it up"
Haha. Was only advised to use it the day previous, but when I told the groom he creased up. And wor lass did too, which is usually a good sign. Haha. Went down well apart from one person who shouted "You just did!"
Lol.
The rest of the speech was classified and nobody had any previews. So all in all, pretty chuffed with myself.

Messing with my groove?
I want to play guitars really loudly with my mate but it's already midnight.


I suppose friendly neighbours are overrated.

This post has been edited by Solidsnape: 08 August 2015 - 10:57 PM

[worry]

Neighbours are a right bunch of bloody knobheads, innit?