[Slow Ben]

Yes i'm well aware Foster won it for me. Bowe didnt hurt either.


Yeah, by less than a point. I probably would have broken something. But your probably a little more restrained than i am. Or you took it out on Slum.

[teholbeddict]

The Holy Ralphim of Apocalypse, on 03 January 2011 - 05:09 PM, said:

Yes i'm well aware Foster won it for me. Bowe didnt hurt either.


Yeah, by less than a point. I probably would have broken something. But your probably a little more restrained than i am. Or you took it out on Slum.

Lol! Well....I did beat him with a broom ....no no! He was really worried I'd be furious, as he was the one who decided on putting Naanne in and I do have a terrible temper believe it or not. Thankfully I restrained myself lol. I admit I was disappointed, especially because I came so close, even with all of those injuries, but that's the way ff goes. I wasn't expecting to win the game, so it didn't upset me nearly as much as it normally would have. Poor Slum on the other hand was beside himself because he thought he'd ruined my whole season. It's better that you won anyways, you had the better season, it's more fitting. Too bad our match up wasnt the final one, that would have been a great way to finish the season.

[Mentalist]

Hey, TB, happy holidays!

how bad is Winterpeg weather these days? I'm flying back today, lol

[Darkwatch]

Hey TB! Good to see you alive and well.

How was Christmas? Did you get to go to south?

[Darkwatch]

I find myself awoken this morning.
Not by the sound of my alarms, which were set for an hour later, but by the screeching of a child.
Upstairs they run a daycare and this kid is screaming "Maman!" as if the very horrors of hell have descended upon it.
I lay in bed considering a few things. Quite a few of them involved duct tape.
Finally I went up stairs to ask that they move the kid from the kitchen to a bedroom (since the kitchen is right over my room). Turns out the kid had a splinter...
So back down in my apartment contemplating how I could ensure silence in the future I was faced with the following problems:

1. The Universal Declaration of Human Right
2. The Geneva Convention (technically non-applicable, but you never know)
3. Child Welfare Laws
4. My need and desire to sleep. Specifically to wake up when I want to ensure that I get enough sleep.

Some of you might say: "DW why don't you use earplugs?". I do, when I don't need to be up at a specific pre-9am time. To make sure I actually wake up I rely in part on my alarms so that I get to where I need to be. If I wear earplugs I will probably sleep right through my alarms. So if the kids decide they want to raise the roof at say 7:30am and I want to get up at 8:30 am that day then I'm losing an hour (or more sometimes).
I considered using a pacifier and duct tape, but it was surely an illegal idea.
Then I thought about a noise cancellation room with all the foam. It would work. You make a noise cancellation room with a huge play pen in the middle the kids can't get out of. Whenever they decide to wail you put them into the room and wait till they pass out from exhaustion of screeching.
Everybody wins! The babysitters, me and the kids.
You see kids have this incredible capacity to forget anything that isn't in their current perception range. This means that once they fall asleep from screaming that they'll wake up and never know it happened, or more likely it'll seem like a long time ago and not worth concern, kind of like when you teach them not to shit themselves but they forget forcing you to repeat yourself over and over again for a while until it sinks in.
So once they've passed out, you go into the room and then transfer them into a comfy bed, thus they get their day's nap (two things at once!) and you can even give them a cup of warm honey water for their throats when they wake up.

Then again the idea of a babysitter saying to a noise machine (read: child) "Time for the ROOM!" sounds like something out of a horror movie probably doesn't have the best potential. Besides you'd need to sacrifice an entire room to it, granted for an excellent reason but still.
There had to be a better solution. Less horror movie and less space intensive.
The duct tape plus pacifier idea returned to me. I had discarded it because it would be illegal, but then it hit me. Practically speaking it works, and it does so by plugging the sound hole the kids are screaming from. All I needed was something localized around the child's head.
A box. Kids love putting boxes on their heads and imagine they're some kind of squash or something. So you could combine the noise cancellation foam and a box that fits over the kid's head. Make the exterior of hard but light foam and the inside with soft non-toxic foam cones (which not only blocks noise but also ensure air pockets and no choking to death) and you've got a winning product.
Imagine "Do you want to play with the magic box!" much better than the room tagline. Not only that, but because you only bring it out after screeching and all other matters have failed the kids might see the box as rare and thus valuable and actually just stop screaming anyway while they play with it. If they don't well they won't be as bothersome anyway.

So then anyone feel like becoming investment partners in the box venture?

This post has been edited by Darkwatch: 10 January 2011 - 03:35 PM

[Thelomen Toblerone]

I was awakened at several times throughout the night by the screeching of mating foxes.

Seriously, tht noise is blood curdling. The sex must accordingly be fantastic.

Im subsequently shattered, and have been drinking all evening which makes me more tired, yet need to do some exercise and still be up early tomorrow. Realistically I'll just drink more and pass out then be late and hungover for work as usual, but it's nice to have a plan.

[Mentalist]

might violate the Charter, too....
EDIT: this was @ DW

I've actually spent the entire weekend sober. pathetic, I know, but in my defense, after the New Year's festivities, i've had 1 day of recovery (interspersed with family stuff), prior to the chaos of packing, going back to school and plunging head first into the unholy tangle of school and work again. so a respite was deffo much needed.

also, my faculty's dean knows me by name. I'm still trying to figure out whether or not that's a good thing.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 11 January 2011 - 12:53 AM

[Centzon Totochtin]

Hello Tricksters! I've been sent home from work as I am likely to get cut off today for road access. And my work may flood... and my house... and my dads house.... and their other house.... I HATE RAIN saw 2 bad accidents just withing 3km of my house

[Darkwatch]

Wow... That's a lot of rain. Hope your house doesn't get swamped Centz, keep us up to date.

[Thelomen Toblerone]

I did think of yuou lot when I saw all those crazy floods in Rockhampton - when they said it was an area the size of Germany and France that was under like 10 foot of whatever, I sprayed tea in a very English surprised manner.

I feel awful this morning. Never shave hungover, it's asking for trouble.

[Centzon Totochtin]

Yeah, they are still flooded too.... we have had what they are calling a land tsunami in Toowoomba and Ipswich and Brisbane (where Sombra, Shiara, Loki, Lucy and I are) are now facing their worst floods ever on record. Pretty damn terrifying.... and I have broken my toe So far we are all safe and okay, but some of us face potential flooding of our houses tonight and tomorrow.

I certainly need a drink this evening.... except, as I live alone, I need to keep myself in a state that I can drive in

[Starshade]

Centzon Totochtin, on 11 January 2011 - 10:35 AM, said:

Yeah, they are still flooded too.... we have had what they are calling a land tsunami in Toowoomba and Ipswich and Brisbane (where Sombra, Shiara, Loki, Lucy and I are) are now facing their worst floods ever on record. Pretty damn terrifying.... and I have broken my toe So far we are all safe and okay, but some of us face potential flooding of our houses tonight and tomorrow.

I certainly need a drink this evening.... except, as I live alone, I need to keep myself in a state that I can drive in

Crossing fingers for you. Hope you all stay safe!

[Loki]

Need something STRONG but that won't make it harder for me to swim to safety if need be....I don't want to be flooded

[Slow Ben]

Afternoon Tricksters! Hope our Austrailian friends stay above water!

We've just got about 5 inches of snow here, nothing the 4x4 cant handle.

I think its time for a tuna salad sandwich.

[KalamMekhar]

we just had 3 to 5 i think here in texas...... i made a golfing snowman!

[Darkwatch]

I hate people who lick their fingers to rifle through paper, specifically money.

This habit has become a very intense pet peeve over the last 4 years. I see customers do it all the time and I have to hold back telling them off. I've tried it in the past and it is no more efficient really. Not to mention the multiple lickings due to the reflex nature of the motion makes sure that they're tasting the very dirty money. I'm surprised the whole flu scare last year didn't breed and anti finger licking campaign. What better way spread and absorb germs then by essentially licking bills.
Then the reflex action just makes things worse. Some people will lick their finger to get a card out... It's slick plastic, not only is licking your finger unhygienic but it's counter productive.

Though these same people also tend to cough into their hand, then hand you money that has seen a lung full of sick. Or worse they don't block their cough and wait until you're placing something on the counter and cough right onto your hand. Frankly some people do not know how to live.

Also, tired and look akin to a shipwreck at the moment.

[MTS]

If it was in the US I'd say they're obviously addicted to the trace amounts of cocaine that's apparently on a lot of US currency, but since you're in Canada I've got nothing.

[Thelomen Toblerone]

I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone do that with money over here, if I have then it's literally only been once or twice so I've not noticed it. The big thing here to do with cash atm is cash machine/ATMs, and the fact that the keypads all have huge amounts of faecal related basteria on them yet nowhere to wash hands nearby. Lick through your money after taking it out and make yourself doubly sick, says I.

Does anyone know how all the Bisbaners are doing? I'm conscious Centz's post and Loki's map were made just before things were due to peak, and since then nowt heard.

Although spookily enough I now see Shiara's name in the 'users reading topic bit at the bottom', so somebody's alive, hooray!

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Oh, shit.

Was chatting after a few drinks at work, then the top boss comes over. The man in charge, notoriously fickle and back stabberish, on the day where redundancies in each department are being announced.

It's a woman's borthday, a significant one, and we're all talking about her having kids.

I venture my own name as a good one, people ask why I think it's good.

I say, "well, you associate good names with good people you known named such, and as I'm amazing, obviously it's a great name."

"I mean, you wouldn't call a kid something like Sebastian, which is only a name for c**ts."

Complete silence. A few glances towards the boss. It's at this point I recall the name of one of his sons.

AWKWARD.

[Darkwatch]

Ouch, sounds like a fun evening there TT. Hope the big boss doesn't take it wrong.

I'm currently awake prior to the Sun's rise in preparation to go to work. I do not like this. I'm wondering if I'll need caffeinated help for the day.