[Garak]

My retard government is at it again. After the anti-corruptio protests they went to Bruxelles to explain to the EU that it was the people on the street who didn't know jack s*it and were in the wrong. From what I heard, they didn't really manage to convince anyone, but the leader of one of the governing parties is spewing anti-EU stuff and says he applauds Brexit. Wanker just doesn't want an EU commission to be sent over, that might see him tossed out of politics.

Anyway, that gaggle of cretins calling itself our leaders is now aiming to modify the constitution to declare that a family means marriage between a man and a woman instead of between spouses. This is straight up homophobic and it disgusts me to no end. But it's ok, the Coalition for Proper something or other, who gathered 3 mil. votes to support this turd, will be happy that kids won't turn gay now - because that's totally how it works Oh, and the Church will be happy as well, since our priests are so backward, I don't think the Crusades have started yet in whatever timeline they live in.

And to add to the general idiocy, the media is making a big case with the Blue Whale "game". And they insist on calling it a "game" when it's clearly the invention of a sick mind, meant to prey on and hurt the gullible and the stupid. But they keep reporting it like it's some new PC game that came out, with warnings to never install something from an unknown source. That's not how this works and I wish they'd stop calling it a game because it's not and it gives people the wrong impression about PC games (as if we don't have enough idiots going on about the evils of those, while the news is yelling in the background about some grisly murder and that same parent proclaims that gays should be punished in various cruel ways because religion ........ugh).

This is why I prefer cats.

[Tsundoku]

Puck, on 28 March 2017 - 03:49 PM, said:

LadyMTL, on 28 March 2017 - 11:16 AM, said:

death rattle, on 28 March 2017 - 06:09 AM, said:

You're thinking of Boob Shark: The Shark With Boobs.

My problem right now is I'm addicted to bubble gum. I bought a bag of 90 bubble gums less than a week ago and I'm halfway through already. It's not high quality gum or anything. It's Super Bubble, the Halloween staple for households that warred with Dubble Bubble households.

It did at least lead me to a Retrojunk article on gum: http://www.retrojunk...bubble-gum-wars

I loved bubble gum when I was a kid! I think it was one of my favorite Hallowe'en treats, right after any kind of chocolate. I used to buy Bazooka and / or Hubba Bubba - grape flavor forever! - at my local corner store. I think the Bazooka ones were like 10 cents apiece, but man were those comics dumb.
Alas for me though, once when I was about 11 I was happily chewing away when the gum actually ripped out one of my loose molars. I can't remember what kind of gum it was, but needless to say I was traumatized; my groove took months to recover from that.

Back in post-Soviet Ukraine, it was not uncommon to buy bubble gum and discover that some asshole had substituted it for rubber and resold it. Or the the manufacturer never bothered to use real bubble gum. As a kid, I loved the stuff anyway, which is why bubble gum will forever be associated with disappointment for me. Imagine spending your cherished little pocket money on nothing.

Then again, we also had instantly flammable coockies.

In Post-Soviet Ukraine, gum bubbles you.

[Loki]

Matador had to treat an 80 year old cancer patient for cyanide poisoning today because some fucking charlatan alternative 'medicine' practitioner told her to eat apricot kernals (which contain amygdalin) as they can stop/cure cancer (unproven and therefore bullshit). You know what apricot kernals actually do? Poison you.

If she had died there would have been no legal recourse available to her family because the laws around quackery in Australia are pathetic. It's only illegal for qualified, legitimate health practitioners to spout woo. Because 'they should know better' (and even then most of the punishment and sanctions are dealt out by the Australian Medical Authority and not the justice system) but it's cool for any one with a degree from Google College to tell vulnerable people that their chia ginger nightshade smoothies will stop their aggressive cancer from killing them all for the low low price of half their freakin' pension.

This post has been edited by Loki: 29 March 2017 - 07:15 AM

[Tiste Simeon]

It's Regression and Isolation Day in the UK today...

[LadyMTL]

Puck, on 28 March 2017 - 10:11 PM, said:

Abyss, on 28 March 2017 - 03:57 PM, said:

Puck, on 28 March 2017 - 03:49 PM, said:

... we also had instantly flammable coockies.

Sounds like a James Bond gimmick. How did they taste?

No idea, I was a good kid and too scared to try them after the following incident: In first or second grade or thereabouts, we had the principal do the rounds through all the classes in the middle of a lesson. Insisted on interrupting, then proceeded to take out a pack of cookies and was like: 'See those? You can buy them at the store around the corner. Don't do that. Bad for your health.' She rattled off why but I forgot, all my first/second grade self registered was how she then held a burning match to one of the cookies and it instantly burner. Looked like it contained some kind of fuel, based on the flame, which my first/second grad self could identify based on my brother previously spending an afternoon demonstrating how to set a rain puddle on fire to fuck with my limited perception of physics. I later found out he'd prepared said rain puddle by pouring so much fuel into the water, that's what the puddle eventually mostly consisted off. Anyway, at least I knew what stuff infused with fuel looked like when burning. Fun times. I miss them, despite the potentially hazardous crap Masquerading for food in the stores, sometimes.

Between that and the gum I wouldn't be surprised if the next thing you said was that the floor really was made of lava.

[Loki]

I feel strange. I was totally set on banging the alien but then this guy came out of nowhere and despite myself I couldn't stop myself from flirting with them. Just locked them in.

It feels weird to be with a human.

I feel conflicted.

[Tsundoku]

Loki, on 29 March 2017 - 02:53 PM, said:

I feel strange. I was totally set on banging the alien but then this guy came out of nowhere and despite myself I couldn't stop myself from flirting with them. Just locked them in.

It feels weird to be with a human.

I feel conflicted.

Paint them green and "Get Your Kirk On".

This post has been edited by Captain Needa: 29 March 2017 - 03:21 PM

[Loki]

Briar King, on 29 March 2017 - 04:37 PM, said:

Loki, on 29 March 2017 - 02:53 PM, said:

I feel strange. I was totally set on banging the alien but then this guy came out of nowhere and despite myself I couldn't stop myself from flirting with them. Just locked them in.

It feels weird to be with a human.

I feel conflicted.

Have you seen any titties or dongs yet?

I had the option to see blue titties but I opted out. Other than a purple arse, it's been somewhat dry on nudity so far.

[Abyss]

Loki, on 29 March 2017 - 02:53 PM, said:

I feel strange. I was totally set on banging the alien but then this guy came out of nowhere and despite myself I couldn't stop myself from flirting with them. Just locked them in.

It feels weird to be with a human.

I feel conflicted.

Happens all the time.
...wait were you talking about a video game...?

[Traveller]

Tiste Simeon, on 29 March 2017 - 10:41 AM, said:

It's Regression and Isolation Day in the UK today...

I've been trying to avoid it all day. Came home and May was on the tv... had to change channel.

What a totally misguided, delusional bunch of fucktards.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 29 March 2017 - 07:33 PM

[Loki]

Abyss, on 29 March 2017 - 06:38 PM, said:

Loki, on 29 March 2017 - 02:53 PM, said:

I feel strange. I was totally set on banging the alien but then this guy came out of nowhere and despite myself I couldn't stop myself from flirting with them. Just locked them in.

It feels weird to be with a human.

I feel conflicted.

Happens all the time.
...wait were you talking about a video game...?

So I decided to play through two Ryders simultaneously from an earlier save. I'm literally doing everything twice just so I can play through both romance options in my first playthrough.

I am so fucking hopeless. 😂

This post has been edited by Loki: 29 March 2017 - 08:13 PM

[Tiste Simeon]

Traveller, on 29 March 2017 - 07:32 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 29 March 2017 - 10:41 AM, said:

It's Regression and Isolation Day in the UK today...

I've been trying to avoid it all day. Came home and May was on the tv... had to change channel.

What a totally misguided, delusional bunch of fucktards.

Ugh I know. Cheerfully walking off a cliff proclaiming victory.

[WinterPhoenix]

Tiste Simeon, on 29 March 2017 - 09:14 PM, said:

Traveller, on 29 March 2017 - 07:32 PM, said:

Tiste Simeon, on 29 March 2017 - 10:41 AM, said:

It's Regression and Isolation Day in the UK today...

I've been trying to avoid it all day. Came home and May was on the tv... had to change channel.

What a totally misguided, delusional bunch of fucktards.

Ugh I know. Cheerfully walking off a cliff proclaiming victory.

Genuinely managed to ignore it all day until just earlier, Dark Souls offers a release where the only idiocy I have to worry about it is my own! Now I am sad again at the completely regressive state of politics in this country right now! It is mind boggling, but I'm sure they'll proclaim victory right until the moment they hit the floor :/

This post has been edited by WinterPhoenix: 29 March 2017 - 09:44 PM

[worry]

How have opinions shifted among the populace?

[Tiste Simeon]

death rattle, on 29 March 2017 - 10:02 PM, said:

How have opinions shifted among the populace?

Hard to know. I think if we held another referendum tomorrow Remain would win but there are still loads and loads of people who think this is for the best (but it's not about racism, no sir) despite the vast amount of now proven lies that were told by the leavers.

Not saying the Remain Campaign was free from idiocy and lies but by comparison...

[Loki]

It's kinda like the entirety of southern Queensland is shutdown.

Government said to send employees home by midday. All public and private schools are closed down. Public transport is free to ensure people can get home.

I hope it looks worse than it's going to actually be.

[Andorion]

Horrible toothache started yesterday night.

[worry]

I don't mean to sound superstitious or anything but some people claim that toothaches are bad omens regarding mouth issues.

[Loki]

People making light of the school closure due to 'a little rain' is really pissing me off.

When the floods hit it 2011 no one was really prepared. We had children stranded out schools. Some were there for 24-48 hours with no supplies or anything. There's an entire generation of Ipswich kids terrified of rain. The government had to put out a children's book about the flood to help with PTSD in primary age students.

People really piss me off in situations like this. Just because there's only a little rain near you doesn't change the fact that my cousin's car is currently half filled with water.

Or that my friend had to go into work to relocate animals due to their enclosures starting to be blanketed by water.
Or the fact that the tiny creek near my place is now a river or that roads are already under water.

This post has been edited by Loki: 30 March 2017 - 04:27 AM

[Tsundoku]

Snotface is at work at Booval McDonalds and they won't let them close early and go home, even though the emergency services basically told everyone who wasn't essential services to stay home.

She is on til midnight, lives in Brassall and doesn't know if she will make it home. She asked before she started at 5pm if this was necessary and was told to stop being silly etc. Drove through water over the road to get to work and from what I've seen on TV it's not guaranteed that she'll get home.

I loathe multinational corporations - all profit before people. It was a direction from emergency services FFS! It should be LAW that unless you are essential services, you MUST stay off the roads etc. I really don't give a shit that some stupid fat fucks won't get their lardburgers tonight.