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#3761 User is offline   Slow Ben 

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Posted 07 June 2020 - 03:35 AM

View PostDarkwatch, on 06 June 2020 - 04:52 AM, said:

Hey Slow Ben, good to see you to.
Anything big happen while I was out?




Nope. The world is crazy, but the Empire grinds on.

Everythings completely normal out in the real world too. Nothing crazy at all going on.
I've always been crazy but its kept me from going insane.
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#3762 User is offline   Darkwatch 

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Posted 29 June 2020 - 01:51 AM

Yeah, though when I thought the world going crazy I wasn't expecting all my days to feel the same.
The Pub is Always Open

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Cursed Summer returns. The Lady Now Sleeps.

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You're a rock.
A non-touching itself rock.
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#3763 User is offline   Tsundoku 

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Posted 20 August 2020 - 12:15 PM

Just watched the uncensored version of the Cardi B "WAP" video. My initial reaction was "ugh" and while that remains true I'm a bit amused by all the pearl-clutching going on.

Doesn't anyone recall the uncensored version (which you'd stay up late to catch late at night on the ABC) of Duran Duran "Girls on Film"? More explicit visually, but a waaaaay better piece of music and stands the test of time as a bit of a pop culture moment.
Remember the furore back then? My goodness, you'd think it was worse than Reefer Madness.

My point being ... "WAP" isn't original. It isn't even good. What it is though, is it's from a female perspective, so ... props for that I guess?

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 20 August 2020 - 12:16 PM

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#3764 User is offline   Darkwatch 

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Posted 20 August 2020 - 10:54 PM

The pearl clutching is really getting old. I remember the panic around Manson and the tail end of the Madonna panic.
I give it 7 years before something else causes this level of pearl clutch.
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#3765 User is offline   Tsundoku 

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Posted 22 August 2020 - 08:00 AM

Rugby League.
Not a fan of either side but seeing a 110kg prop chasing down a 70kg halfback over about 60m and ankletapping him, forcing the knock-on and turnover, well that's pretty cool.



You could see the big fella sucking in the big ones afterward. :thumbsup:

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 22 August 2020 - 08:01 AM

"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes

"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys

"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
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#3766 User is offline   Aptorian 

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Posted 04 February 2022 - 03:57 PM

Rise! Riiise dead watering hole!

I don't have anyone to go drinking with after work but I feel like after this week I desperately need to vent about how much work sucks!

This was my first week as a Teamleader in a new Library Logistics department that transports, handles and retrieves all the city's library materials (Books and stuff).

Fuck me, it's more grueling than I feared.

Same day as I started, was the same day as my district switches over to a separation from overlapping library staff to logistics people and hosts IE Peons and Librarians. Next to nothing has been prepared before the switch except the work schedule. There's no new workplace SOPs, no management info, no telephone lists, my staff don't have their own personal work phones, a lot of the personnel are expected to work independently but aren't "all round" logistics people. There's stuff they don't know how to do, how to process. 7 people, many of whom work part time, to handle 4 houses - 4 houses where all the library staff used to be handled by a handful of people per library. In a couple months it's going to be 8 houses I'm managing.

Oh and first day somebody calls in sick, then we get a mail that one of the libraries has been hit by a tree after a weekend storm and has to keep closed for 3 days. Great because I can move resources between houses, bad because at the end of the week there's 3 times the amount of books to process - And one person missing due to illness. Then I get a call Thursday that X didn't show up at one of the libraries, when I try to contact them today, there's no contact. Are they ill? Dead? Kidnapped by mole people? They're supposed to cover the weekend shifts, so now the weekend is fucked if they don't turn up tomorrow. The houses can survive with no logistics people during the weekend but Monday is going to be tough.

While this is going on I have to attend about 2-3 meetings per day, some of them across town, and I'm still getting called from my old library because I had to drop everything with short notice because they didn't find a replacement in good time. I'm getting chewed out by my boss because I'm not communicating in the right "manager" style. Or I shouldn't ask "those kinds of questions" in front of the staff, etc.

FUUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKK. I'm not getting paid enough for this.

The catharsis I'm going to feel if I get this district running properly is going to be overwhelming.

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 04 February 2022 - 03:59 PM

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#3767 User is offline   Slow Ben 

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Posted 05 February 2022 - 02:13 AM

That sounds like a whole fuckton of annoying.

Cheers!


You’ll probably have to make your own drink though, DW hasn’t been by in ages.
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#3768 User is offline   D'rek 

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Posted 07 February 2022 - 06:54 PM

I have chocolate milk. You can't have any.

View Postworrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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#3769 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

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Posted 07 February 2022 - 07:17 PM

Apt I'm looking for a new job, hire me! Please note I don't speak Danish and am not willing to relocate to Denmark at this point but I'll do all the busy work on remote!
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Posted 27 April 2023 - 03:53 AM

Do you have tacos here?
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#3771 User is offline   Tsundoku 

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Posted 27 April 2023 - 07:32 AM

Only on Tuesdays.
"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes

"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys

"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
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#3772 User is offline   RealGatekeeper1 

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Posted 08 May 2023 - 05:26 AM

Tuesdays ain’t enough, pal. I want a by-law exemption. Or a Juarez-Two-For-Two.
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#3773 User is offline   Mentalist 

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Posted 01 August 2023 - 08:57 PM

What's with all the thread necros going on here lately?

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 01 August 2023 - 10:30 PM

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard
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View PostJump 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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#3774 User is offline   Tsundoku 

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Posted 02 August 2023 - 08:44 AM

We decided to do some corpse-bothering so Simeon wouldn't have to.

;)
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#3775 User is offline   Macros 

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Posted 02 August 2023 - 11:50 AM

Comfort nostalgia.

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#3776 User is offline   Azath Vitr (D'ivers 

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Posted 02 August 2023 - 01:23 PM

Those are tacos that were his eyes

Sightless, unless
The tacos reappear
As the perpetual singularity, multifoliate hole
Of death's twilight kingdom
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#3777 User is offline   Slow Ben 

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Posted 02 August 2023 - 09:49 PM

Y’all are gonna summon Darkwatch, messin around in here.
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#3778 User is offline   Tsundoku 

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Posted 03 August 2023 - 11:29 AM

View PostSlow Ben, on 02 August 2023 - 09:49 PM, said:

Y’all are gonna summon Darkwatch, messin around in here.


One can only hope. I suspect he's put himself into cryosleep to avoid the heat.
"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes

"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys

"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
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#3779 User is offline   Tiste Simeon 

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Posted 04 August 2023 - 02:43 PM

View PostTsundoku, on 02 August 2023 - 08:44 AM, said:

We decided to do some corpse-bothering so Simeon wouldn't have to.

;)

Crikey, that's a blast of past silliness right there hah
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#3780 User is offline   Lady Bliss 

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Posted 09 August 2023 - 01:21 AM

I’ll have a shot of jack with a pickle back.
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