This is the thread where I say things and maybe other people say things too

[FaultyMario]

How do you block access to a youtube channel across a Google account?

We use my account for the appletv but I'm SICK of watching superhero videos (different channels, same thing: dudes and dudettes in lame ass Spiderman, Elsa and Joker costumes in no-dialogue shorts set to royalty-free tunes) and i want to block those from Junior's youtube regularly scheduled programming.

[TheBenior]

Talked to my sister for the first time in a couple weeks, she had her Shih-Tzu/Maltese mix (our little fluff Apollo is the same mix) named Stitch that she's had since she was a puppy put to sleep. Old girl was 13 years old and had a malignant tumor on her spleen.

Her 4 year old twins asked where Stitch was. She told them that she was sick and had to go somewhere where she'll get to play with doggies and kitties all day. She said they seemed good with that.

[novicius]

:(

[JoshInKC]

Ugh. I'm getting close to the point where I think our dog is going to need to be put down. She's something like 15 now and getting blinder, deafer, and more confused by the day.

[21Kid]

How do you block access to a youtube channel across a Google account?

We use my account for the appletv but I'm SICK of watching superhero videos (different channels, same thing: dudes and dudettes in lame ass Spiderman, Elsa and Joker costumes in no-dialogue shorts set to royalty-free tunes) and i want to block those from Junior's youtube regularly scheduled programming.

What about this? https://kids.youtube.com

[FaultyMario]

Thanks Bill, but it's not a matter of inappropriate content, just videos that are really fucking annoying.

Also, he mainly watches it on the TV that's connected to the apple device, so it's a limited enviroment, what I want to do is like with any other social network, tell youtube that i don't want to see previews/ads/videos from specific people, because quite frankly, I go stupidder every time I watch them

[21Kid]

Kids watch stupid shit... no way around that. :p

[Freude am Fahren]

Backspace no longer goes back in chrome, now you have to hit alt+left arrow.

:down::rolleyes:

[Kchrpm]

They figured out that more people did it accidentally while trying to type something than did it on purpose. I'm one of those people, so I'm fine with the change.

[Freude am Fahren]

I dislike legislating/designing for the people that use something wrong :|

I would have NO problem if they just made it an option.

I can't believe that to be true though, just that more people complained about it than praised it, especially since it's been a staple in all browsers for so long. If 100 people find it annoying, maybe 50 complain, while 100 people like it, and no one says anything back to google. So now they'll see if more people complain about the change. I know it's minor, but it's not like it's some new feature that turned out to be a failure.

[Kchrpm]

It's less about using it wrong and more because websites want you to type things in, but the fields aren't consistently handled (especially inside HTML5 and other complex pages). You're typing normally entering your info, then hit backspace and it takes you backwards and deletes all the information you've put in. That has happened more to me than I've actually used Backspace to go back. Doesn't help that my Chromebook doesn't have a Delete key, so I have to use Backspace to delete things and various online tools are not comfortable with that.

[TheBenior]

It's less about using it wrong and more because websites want you to type things in, but the fields aren't consistently handled (especially inside HTML5 and other complex pages). You're typing normally entering your info, then hit backspace and it takes you backwards and deletes all the information you've put in. That has happened more to me than I've actually used Backspace to go back. Doesn't help that my Chromebook doesn't have a Delete key, so I have to use Backspace to delete things and various online tools are not comfortable with that.

This.

[dodint]

Someone on my hockey board was ranting about this and I thought he would be the only one in the world to care. And he had a really good use case.

And now, again, here. Must be one in every crowd. ;)

[overpowered]

It's less about using it wrong and more because websites want you to type things in, but the fields aren't consistently handled (especially inside HTML5 and other complex pages). You're typing normally entering your info, then hit backspace and it takes you backwards and deletes all the information you've put in. That has happened more to me than I've actually used Backspace to go back. Doesn't help that my Chromebook doesn't have a Delete key, so I have to use Backspace to delete things and various online tools are not comfortable with that.Yep. It was way too easy to hit backspace in the wrong place and end up going back a page. If I want to go back a page, I can always click the left arrow.

[Random]

I have always used Alt-left arrow as my kb shortcut for back. Funky.

[Kchrpm]

My Chromebook also lets me do two-finger swipe left or right to go backwards and forwards. I am posting this as a reminder to myself.

[Drachen596]

Why not make it a switchable option.

I have never had a problem with backspace going back whem i didn't intend it to. Still hitting it when trying to back a page as well..

[Kchrpm]

Why not make it a switchable option.
I agree. But the tech industry is increasingly going to "we know what's right for you" because of the Apple model and how much people love it. It's quite frustrating.

Speaking of choice, I had my new shoe choices down to three different Nikes. All three were in my shopping cart at some point last week, but I just couldn't pull the trigger.

First Choice: Nike Free Train Instinct - $130

http://4.kicksonfire.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Nike-Free-Trainer-Instinct-1.jpg

Second Choice: Nike Free Trainer 3.0 V4 - $80 (at the time, I just saw online for $70)

http://images.footlocker.com/pi/49361001/zoom/nike-free-trainer-3.0-v4-mens

Third Choice: Nike Lunar Caldra - $85 (I think they might have been part of a 20% off clearance thing, too)

http://images.nike.com/is/image/DotCom/PDP_HERO_M/NIKE-LUNAR-TR1-V3-803879_015_A_PREM.jpg

I went out to the Nike Factory Store in the area that I hadn't tried before, and was told that only Dick's Sporting Goods *might* have First Choice, but that they could order it online. I don't like ordering shoes online, because it's too easy for them to not fit or be uncomfortable and then I have to deal with returns and trying another size and on and on. They had Second Choice in stock in my size, 12, so I tried it on. Too small! THIS IS WHY I TRY THEM ON!

So Second Choice it was. They were actually cheaper than First Choice anyway, by about $50, so I was OK with the trade off. After lunch, I decided to go to the mall and walk around to see how they felt and just see what caught my eye, if there was any reason to return the shoes before I got home.

The first store I go in to after starting back on my loop through one half of top floor was Champs Sports. In Champs, on the discount shelf with a tag showing a price $50 less than I had seen anywhere else online, was First Choice. Just like Second Choice, 13 was the right size, and I decided that, since I got a good deal and am replacing two pairs of shoes that have both worn out (sole on one, toe on the other), I'll just keep both. I'm wearing First Choice today to work, the flexible mid-height collar is a nice feeling so far, but makes them difficult to put on.

[Freude am Fahren]

I agree. But the tech industry is increasingly going to "we know what's right for you" because of the Apple model and how much people love it. It's quite frustrating.

Good point. And Google is doing it quite a bit lately, despite their original stance of being the opposite of Apple in that way.

As for backspace, I didn't realize it was that big an issue. I almost never have the problem, especially since chrome always asks me if I'm sure when I try to navigate away from anything that has an input box that I've started typing into. (I just clicked out of this box and pressed Alt+left arrow to check, and yeah, it asked if I was sure. Said no and added this :) )

[Kchrpm]

As for backspace, I didn't realize it was that big an issue. I almost never have the problem, especially since chrome always asks me if I'm sure when I try to navigate away from anything that has an input box that I've started typing into. (I just clicked out of this box and pressed Alt+left arrow to check, and yeah, it asked if I was sure. Said no and added this :) )

I love that sites have this. I don't know how it works, though, because it's definitely not everywhere. I've run into that while checking out at a store, filling out reviews and resumes, I forget what else.

[Kchrpm]

Good point. And Google is doing it quite a bit lately, despite their original stance of being the opposite of Apple in that way.

Apple's cult of personality is how you appeal to the common man. They didn't originate it, but they have done a great job of introducing the normal consumer mindset to a tech industry full of people focused on functionality over form and simplicity.

[George]

Random (not :random:) question of the moment:

Is it better to have an okay beard - not bad, and far too grey, lately, like an old dog - and moustache, or is it better to have an absolutely stellar moustache only. I'm talkin' a Tom Selleck or Sam Elliott quality 'stache, here, people, with plenty to grow out on the ends for a slight handlebar twirl - but without the wax, of course.

This is my problem. My sideburns are weak and one side of my beard is a little fuller than the other (but do people really see that, or is that just mirror-staring vanity?) but my moustache could make me millions, if they still hired actors on that quality alone.

Yet it still seems modern American society has deemed that moustaches = well, let's just say "deviants", without going into detail. They're a negative, right?

Too bad. :smh:

[Kchrpm]

Nothing wrong with rocking an epic porn 'stache.

[Random]

Selleck-style works for some people.

How about a Zappa-eqsue mustache/soul patch combo?

[George]

I've never tried the soul patch. Hmm.

And I wasn't even setting out to grow another beard, but as some of you may have read in the cycling thread, I landed on my face last Sunday and scraped up my chin, so the obvious solution was not to shave for a while. Now I'm a week into it and the idea of shaving is sort of like selling stock too soon.

First-world problems, eh?

[Alan P]

Moustache and goatee combo?

[21Kid]

Depends on how the rest of your face looks, imo...

Bradley Cooper. Pretty face... except when you add a moustache.
http://www.maxmayo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/celebrity-moustache-bradley-coopers.jpg

Jude Law. Pretty face... also with moustache.

http://www.falkondigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/03-moustache-jude-law.jpgalso, Freddie Mercuryhttp://www.falkondigital.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/06-moustache-freddie-mercury.jpg

[Freude am Fahren]

Yeah, 'staches are gonna be on a case-by-case basis, and you wont know until you try. I'd put it at 30/60/10% chance that you look like a molester/hipster/good. The good percentage goes up as you get older, and once you have full on white hair, you're good. :D

[Freude am Fahren]

Speaking of Chrome, and maybe this is a YouTube thing, but does anyone know why sometimes when you go fullscreen on a video, it just does it within the browser window, sometimes it does real fullscreen?

[Kchrpm]

Is that for on YouTube itself, or on embedded YouTube videos? My only guess is that it's filling the frame that the video was embedded in.

It also does that if you're streaming the tab (vs the video itself) to a Chromecast and go fullscreen, no idea if that's related.

[Drachen596]

Had that happen before. Though once it does it keeps doing it.

Always assumed it was a chrome issue as closing and reopening chrome entirely fixed it.

[Freude am Fahren]

It's on YouTube itself. I've found no common link between which ones do and don't. The same video might at one time and not others. Multiple computers (home and work).

As for embedded, I notice a lot force me to go to YouTube if I want to go fullscreen, but I assume that is some kind of rights thing on purpose.

(example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgMTyRpiu_Q I watched that earlier here at work, and it stayed in the window full screened, but I just loaded it now at work, and it went fullscreen)

I assume it's just a glitch.

[21Kid]

1888Mo.

[Kchrpm]

I love all those completely bullshit sayings that are just generated so that every day nuisances are given greater, positive meanings.

[21Kid]

;)

[Kchrpm]

Why not make it a switchable option.

https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/17/chrome-go-back-with-backspace/


Google released a Chrome extension called Go Back With Backspace that does exactly what its name implies.
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Arguably the more elegant solution here would have just been to include a toggle in Chrome's Settings page to enable or disable the behavior, but Googlers apparently weren't fond of that possibility from the beginning.

"There will not be a flag for this," said Peter Kastings, a senior software engineer on the Chrome UI team in late April. "We prefer that extensions, rather than options, be used to add non-default behavior in most cases." Bummer.

[Freude am Fahren]

:up:

[Sad, little man]

I'm pretty much convinced that every single person who does that aerial silk gymnastic stuff is a complete head case... Every single one of them. I don't know why there's such a strong correlation.

Apologies to anyone that has a friend that does that, but not really.

[novicius]

:finger:

[Sad, little man]

Aw fuck, seriously?? I knew I was going to step on some toes here. I'm just calling em how I see em.

[Drachen596]

https://www.engadget.com/2016/08/17/chrome-go-back-with-backspace/

And.. immediately installed/added.


In other news, work sucks. They have me training the new hire. This though isn't the issue, what is actually the problem is the huge lack of support and additional staffing. I'm unable to concentrate solely on training the new hire because I'm constantly having to do at least 2 other things. Also not helping is we have literally started our busy season in the last two days. 102 inbound loads were scheduled for Wednesday, that means double file back through our gate and well onto the access road to the property. This isn't counting the drivers bringing empty trailers in to pick up an outbound load of which there were about 90 scheduled for the same day.


Oh.. and Wednesday was the night that scheduling failed to the extreme. Only myself and the new hire were scheduled. I was literally doing 4 jobs at once.

[Sad, little man]

You literally need to look for a new job.

[novicius]

Aw fuck, seriously?? I knew I was going to step on some toes here. I'm just calling em how I see em.
My wife does silks so I know more than a few. ;)

Only one of her silkie friends is... emotionally unique -- but still very hot. :lol:

[Kchrpm]

Pics or gtfo

[novicius]

I'm not a creeper.

[Kchrpm]

gtfo
"Hey beautiful wife, I'd like to get a picture of you and your friends!"

[novicius]

...to then be shared wit ya boys? :rolleyes:

That's that creeper behavior I'm talking about.

[Kchrpm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nabNdHO6lYk

[novicius]

Heh, I'm no saint -- I still gaze, I just don't feel the need to go that extra creeper mile and take photographic proof and then share it. :lol:

[Godson]

...to then be shared wit ya boys? :rolleyes:

That's that creeper behavior I'm talking about.

Hey now! ;)

[21Kid]

Pretend you're on your phone... c'mon man, get creative! :lol:

[Freude am Fahren]

I'm pretty much convinced that every single person who does that aerial silk gymnastic stuff is a complete head case... Every single one of them. I don't know why there's such a strong correlation.

Apologies to anyone that has a friend that does that, but not really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg8Jyx3ZxAM&ab_channel=carwow

[Drachen596]

Been feeling like someones lying to me but i cant find anything to prove it.

Some people say trust your gut instincts but sometimes you really want proof to back it up.

[speedpimp]

So you're playing tonsil hockey with a coworker in the parking lot at work and every few minutes she looks over her shoulder to see if someone is coming because a) she wants to be seen making out or b) she is afraid to be seen.

[Alan P]

So my 15 year old tearaway son is coming to stay with me, likely for the foreseeable future. As much as I want him here and love him, he will bring with it a shitload of change to my routine. This annoys me slightly.

[novicius]

Yeah that's a life-changing event!

S'Pimp, mebby she was just keeping an eye out for your HR rep? :lol:

[speedpimp]

The "HR Rep" is the wife of the owner and semi-retired. We do reside in a nest of vipers and yentas so gossip does run rampant.

[Godson]

:lol:


Trust your gut.

[Yw-slayer]

Trust your gut.

So that's what they call it nowadays...

[21Kid]

1904

[speedpimp]

:lol:
Trust your gut.

I am. Slow and steady.

[21Kid]

Will publishers please stop using the G.O.A.T. acronym already!?! :mad: It doesn't even make sense. We can't verify all time... just the past.

[Drachen596]

I hate that acronym. It sounds like an insult when spoken instead of in print.

which is exactly how i first encountere the acronym. They were saying some motocross rider was the goat. Couldnt figure it out until they compared him to another rider.

[Freude am Fahren]

right? Especially because goat is also used to describe someone who screws up and costs a team a game. Probably comes from scapegoat, or the Cubs goat incident, who knows.

[Drachen596]

In stupid news, due to security concerns the airshow taking place here on Sept 10 and 11th is making EVERYONE wishing to attend go through a security screening at a downtown park and then take a bus to the airport. There is no other option if you wish to attend.

They are doing this instead of doing what they did in 2012 which was multiple lots at various nearby high schools being used to park at, get screened and take a bus. Or you could even just walk into the airport if you lived close enough.

Maybe its just me but they've actually made security worse with the plan they're using. 82000 people attended in 2012. That means 40000 a day would need to be screened and bused from this one location. 40000 people standing around sounds like a hugely inviting target if thats what someone wants. Oh there are already events going on downtown that weekend as well meaning its going to be far more than that downtown and nearly no parking.

[21Kid]

That's going to require a lot of busses. :o

[dodint]

One year of decreased ticket revenue will take care of that policy.

[Godson]

It happened in kc during the Royals world series celebration and parade.

800k when 300 was expected. Downtown was a shit show. Businesses were running out of food. But it some how worked out. No fights.

[Godson]

Fuck. I'm pissed off now.

One of the other members of the Ducati owners group posted some bullshit about how pain meds were designed to get you addicted to profit off of the people.

Going by my current situation I said this claim is largely bullshit.

Walk in someone else's fucking shoes for a day before making sure bullshit asinine comment.


If I wasn't in the rehab facility I'd be having a beer to calm down.

[Drachen596]

They're predicting higher attendance this year because Thunderbirds. they didn't have a headliner at the show 4 years ago. FWIW the whole thing feels like some kind of back alley political shenanigans since the Mayor is trying to convince everyone we need to spend 600 million on new crap downtown while we have infrastructure falling apart.



How exactly is big pharma benefiting from people who are addicted? do they make money when someone robs a pharmacy?
btw i don't think they want people to get addicted but the industry as a whole doesn't seem too focused on avoiding side effects from any medication.

[dodint]

Fuck. I'm pissed off now.

One of the other members of the Ducati owners group posted some bullshit about how pain meds were designed to get you addicted to profit off of the people.

Going by my current situation I said this claim is largely bullshit.


Why be upset? Opinions are like assholes.

Sounds like he's mad at Big Pharma. What's your stake in his position?

[Godson]

It's a smear against me directly as he is mad at not just big pharma, but basically everyone in the medical field.

[dodint]

He sounds unbalanced.

Offer him some Zoloft.

[Godson]

Lol.

[speedpimp]

Drach, I spent the last two days in FW and noticed FWPD passing the boot on both days. Any idea what that was about?

[Drachen596]

No idea. I havent seen the doing it.

Though they apparently had a full truck of spray foam insulation break on Engle road and get the stuff everywhere..

[MR2 Fan]

For a few months now, my workplace has had food trucks stop by twice a week with various cuisines. Some of it was pretty good, one bbq truck was everyone's favorite.

It was all going so well,

Until yesterday...

and now we can't have nice things anymore:

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p296x100/14088553_10154797467206874_4082120770671884578_n.j pg?oh=6bc297c80ad820e2bd4753c2f52681d4&oe=5841B0B2

[21Kid]

:o Oh noes!!!

[MR2 Fan]

also, no one was hurt, fire was put out and didn't spread

[Godson]

:lol:

I LOVE food trucks

[dodint]

I had a goat taco at a food truck in St. Paul on Friday. Amazeballs.

[George]

I had a big dish of goat vindaloo at a Pakistani diner in San Francisco about six weeks ago. Yep, it was good - really good, and what made it even more fun was that I seemed to be the only white guy in the place. To me, that's success - finding where the "locals" eat, if you know what I mean, and being there on a business trip without my family or even my co-workers at the time, so I was sort of a free-roaming person wandering around and going where I would, for a short time.

Things like that are especially enjoyable to us drones in Sector 7-G who seldom get a break from work or family.

[Drachen596]

Does drinking outside in the sun make alcohol affect you more?

company picnic last night. I had 3 beers and a mixed drink over abouy 5 or 6 hours. This is the worst i jave ever felt after drinking so little. I actually feel worse than when i killed a bottle of jager.

[George]

The sun probably adds to the dehydration from the alcohol. Drink lots of water today.

[Godson]

Yeah. Dehydration is increased when it in the sun. You are most likely just really dehydrated. Grab a Pedialyte and shotgun it.

[dodint]

Tangential: don't drink wine in a hot tub. Your heart *probably* won't explode, but it will lie to you about its intentions.

[JoshInKC]

Yeah, my wife had some trouble with that a few years ago - On vacation, hanging out in the hot tub with my sister and some cousins, drinking some wine, etc. She ended up having a little more to drink than she would on a normal saturday, but got completely wrecked that night and the next morning had the worst hangover she's ever had.

[Leon]

We (in Wellington, NZ) have just had the most remarkable explosion in food trucks / street food culture.

We have been blessed for *years* by intense coffee culture (you can go basically anywhere in the central business district and be within a stones throw of 12 great coffee shops). Then the flash brewery culture picked up.

Now there are food stalls and trucks gathering in large numbers several times a weekend, and you can get awesome food out of trendy (or untrendy) trucks for NZ$10 to NZ$15 :)

[Dicknose]

I might have to come over for lunch one day!

[MR2 Fan]

If you remote into another computer, then from that computer, remote back into your first one...will you create a major paradox?

[dodint]

Perhaps just a buffer overflow.

Amusingly you can't use Dameware Tools on your own machine. It just registers the machine as not online and inaccessible. At least in version 7.5.

[21Kid]

Why do some men undo their belt and pants button while at the urinal, instead of just using the zipper? :?

[dodint]

Only thing I can figure is they're due for a retuck so they might as well go for maximum comfort knowing they have to disrobe to do the retuck anyway.

[JoshInKC]

For me at least, it depends on the engineering of both the pants and the underwear. Depending on the layout of the hatch (fly? - The port in the underwear you can pull your dick through) it can be more trouble to reach into your pants' fly, get into the underwear hatch, and pull your junk out. Especially if you dress to the left. Unfortunately, some underwear are very nice and have features (comfort, support, materials, etc.) that you like, but a hatch which is inconvenient - therefore, since the hatch is something that can be easily bypassed, it takes a back-seat to more immutable features.

It might also make a difference that I rarely wear belts, so it's a lot less trouble than if I did.

[dodint]

I wear compression shorts as underwear a few days a week and it's like trying to undo a combination lock in the dark when I go through the zipper. It's no wonder that I don't piss on everything those days.

[Kchrpm]

I have never just gone through the zipper. I always pull things down. I am finding out that means I pee like a child, apparently. I'm not really worried about it, it works for me.

[FaultyMario]

Yeah, me too. But I had a difficult childhood.

[dodint]

I have never just gone through the zipper. I always pull things down. I am finding out that means I pee like a child, apparently. I'm not really worried about it, it works for me.

Well.

Pants around the ankles? Yes.

[Kchrpm]

Nah, just far enough to get the job done.

[21Kid]

I was just curious. Not implying anything.

Question answered. :) Thanks.

There are some shorts that I wear that are difficult, so I just pull it out through the bottom, if the boxer shorts I'm wearing are a bit loose. :lol:
(More like I hike the side of my shorts leg up.) I don't do that when anyone is around though, because I don't want them to think I'm weird.

[Kchrpm]

The morning show I listen to was discussing the same topic this morning, in regards to whether they use the flap on their underwear or not. That's where the pull down like a little kid thing came from.

[21Kid]

Ah. About 30% of the men do that here, I'd say. I didn't notice it so much before I worked here though. I didn't know if it was a regional thing or something.

[dodint]

You would have been an awesome pecker-checker during drug testing day in the military.

[Godson]

I sag so my jeans and pants "fit". So an unbuckle an unzip are required. I don't drop pants, but I do have them hang on my hips.

[21Kid]

I sag too Tyler. ;) ;)
You would have been an awesome pecker-checker during drug testing day in the military.Dr. Lamar: "For future reference, right-handed men don't hold it with their left. Just one of those things."

Completely false btw. :smh:

What about pulling the elastic band down if the front trap is difficult?

[dodint]

What about pulling the elastic band down if the front trap is difficult?

This is what I do. And incidentally I was thinking of you (in the context of this conversation) each time I went in there today. It's been sort of a day of self-discovery in a way.

[21Kid]

*mission accomplished* :lol:

[Alan P]

What if you have a button fly and can't unzip? You have no choice but to open the belt and pull apart.

[dodint]

Is it 1987?

[Cam]

I'm stymied that folks care how other people take a piss. :?

[Kchrpm]

We don't care, we're just saying things.

[speedpimp]

Undo the zipper, belt done up, pulls the drawers down and do my business. Since I wear cargo shorts during the summer it sucks to use a piss at a commode because the bottom of the shorts is usually at the same level as the toilet rim.

[Alan P]

So in unrelated to peeing news, my 15 year old will be coming to stay with me for the foreseeable future, likely many years anyway. As a father I feel that I at least should be overjoyed etc. but it represents such a huge shake up of my routine, meaning a change from being by myself, staying until 2 or 3 AM, sometimes even later, not having to get up until 11am or even 12 to go to work and having evenings to myself to, well, none of those things. I'm trying not to let it show, or let him see that I am on the verge of resenting him and his abject behaviour that's meant everyone at my ex's house can't wait for him to leave so they can have some peace and quiet. I don't think I'm coping very well with it all. And I don't want to hate him for it, but I suspect I will likely snap at him at some point. :(

[dodint]

We don't care, we're just saying things.

This guy gets it.

[21Kid]

Don't care... just curious as to different motives. :) Like how Nate explained his compression shorts dilemma, or Josh's engineering.





Mainly I wanted to make sure that I'm not missing some easier way. ;)

[Cam]

My solution is to just not wear pants.

[21Kid]

Cam FTW!

[Random]

<-- pees "like a kid," too, apparently.

<-- also, based on a recent reddit thread, is in a minority of men who point the baby-maker up in their briefs, rather than letting it point down. Go figure. Would explain why having the frank stick to the beans in hot weather was never a thing for me... :lol:

[dodint]

Mind blown.

[overpowered]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZsPJHij0so

[dodint]

Crap. I clicked on a Looper link. Youtube is going to recommend Looper to me for the next 20 years. I'll forever have to vaguely wonder why Hollywood Doesn't Cast Josh Hartnett.

[Kchrpm]

I actually watched that video. IIRC it was a shocking revelation that he wasn't that good and his movies didn't do that well.

[Alan P]

So in unrelated to peeing news, my 15 year old will be coming to stay with me for the foreseeable future, likely many years anyway. As a father I feel that I at least should be overjoyed etc. but it represents such a huge shake up of my routine, meaning a change from being by myself, staying until 2 or 3 AM, sometimes even later, not having to get up until 11am or even 12 to go to work and having evenings to myself to, well, none of those things. I'm trying not to let it show, or let him see that I am on the verge of resenting him and his abject behaviour that's meant everyone at my ex's house can't wait for him to leave so they can have some peace and quiet. I don't think I'm coping very well with it all. And I don't want to hate him for it, but I suspect I will likely snap at him at some point. :(

So I did snap at him a bit, but school looks like it'll start on Friday, maybe Monday, if everything works out I could actually be £400 a month up after the benefits I'll get for having him here. I was in a mild panic expecting to be worse off. I know there will be extra expenses, more gas, more electric, more food but it shouldn't be bad as I feared. That and there's a chance that I might have a new job which could mean more money, but weekend working.

[Kchrpm]

http://kotaku.com/isaac-hayes-son-says-someone-else-made-his-dad-quit-sou-1786664396

:|

[Kchrpm]

I hope that somewhere two guys named Juan are getting married, and at some point during the engagement/wedding process a sign is made that says Juan + Juan = 1.

[dodint]

k.

[Drachen596]

50/50 custody and the ex wife has to pay child support? Wtf texas?

or am i being lied to as i somewhat suspect*

[speedpimp]

If the wife has a much higher income than the husband it is quite possible that she would have to pay child support &/or alimony.

[Drachen596]

Based on what i know of her income hed have to be making minimum wage..

[dodint]

50/50 custody and the ex wife has to pay child support? Wtf texas?

or am i being lied to as i somewhat suspect*

When I worked for RadioShack in 2005 my store manager was receiving palimony. I know because he told the story to everyone he ever met. I think he liked to tell it because he thought it made his ex-wife look like a real piece of shit or something. The judge let a man take care of children!

[Drachen596]

I've always just assumed if custody was split evenly that child support wasn't really something that happened. Guess I'm wrong and it pays to have a lawyer during a divorce.



fwiw i generally think Alimony is bullshit. Child support is different however.

[dodint]

I think alimony/palimony should regress. Every year it drops off by 10% or so, or by some other structure. Paying your ex indefinitely to bang someone new isn't really fair.

[TheBenior]

I spent the last hour of work hanging out with a guy killed in a fire that was probably arson.

http://www.trbimg.com/img-57dbe23f/turbine/ct-fatal-fire-21st-street-160916-photo/650/650x366

[Yw-slayer]

You guys talking about divorce are going to love this one: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/28/ex-model-christina-estrada-breaks-down-in-court-as-she-defends-2/

Although *SPOILERS* in the end she did get more than they'd offered her but less than she'd asked for.

Benior - so you mean you hung out with the guy at work and then soon after that he died due to suspected arson? That's harsh man.

[dodint]

By the looks of things, his last hour of work was spent with a guy that was just arsoned to death.

[TheBenior]

No, just post mortem while waiting for the removal service.

[Cam]

:(

[Leon]

Oh man. That's a rough day at work.

[Drachen596]

I think alimony/palimony should regress. Every year it drops off by 10% or so, or by some other structure. Paying your ex indefinitely to bang someone new isn't really fair.

It stops once they get remarried I thought? probably be smart to ensure the divorce decree includes common law marriage since i can see some greedy folk never getting remarried even though they're living and in a relationship with someone forever.

[speedpimp]

My water heater is dying a miserable death. Thermostat is failing and it can't be replaced. Guess I was lucky to get twelve years out of it. So tomorrow a new one is being installed and plumbing is being brought "up to code".

Friday night my dad called me. He rarely calls out of the blue unless he needs something or has bad news. He called to tell me that the father of my niece's two oldest kids had died. He was 48. The kids are nine and eight. The eight year old had her birthday on Weds, his body was found Thurs, so he may have died on her birthday. His mother passed away six months ago and the little girl had a rough time with that one. Can't imagine what is going through her or her brother's minds. This year can really fuck off with its death type shit.

[Alan P]

That's very rough. :(

[dodint]

12 years is a really long life for a water heater. We just replaced ours a few weeks ago.

[George]

48 years is a really short life for a father. :(

[21Kid]

My step father died on Saturday. :( He's been battling cancer for over a year. We went to visit over Xmas break because his health had been deteriorating. So, we knew it was coming. I was never really that close with him. But, both of my kids consider him their grandpa, because my dad has never been in their lives. (I haven't seen my father since my son was born, 7 years ago.) My mom married him when I was 13, and they moved 45 minutes away when I was 15, then had my sister when I was 16. So, I resented him for a long time, because he took my mom away. I was never really close with my dad. I chose to live with him when they moved away, because I didn't want to live on a farm at 15 and start junior year in high school somewhere new. Then for years, they would come to any family gathering as a family, and I'd show up by myself, so I felt like an outsider to all family events for a long time. But eventually that feeling waned and my kids grew up knowing him as grandpa boomie. He bought 100s of dollars worth of fireworks each summer, maybe more... what else is there to do out in the country. He always liked to joke, some of them were pretty bad, but he liked making people laugh and was always willing to help.

I need to stop so I don't start crying at work. But, if felt good to get it off my chest. With Shannon away, I'm not sure if she is going to be able to make it to the funeral. I've been depressed the last few days. Even though we knew it was coming, it hit me harder than I thought it would. No matter how much you prepare for it, you aren't ready.

I just started rambling. I'm sure this doesn't make much sense. sorry.

[Kchrpm]

I could follow it when reading slowly, it's all good. Stay strong, d00d.

[Cam]

Sorry to hear, Bill. :(

[dodint]

Makes sense, mate. :(

Ramble away, here or in chat or wherever.

[mk]

48 years is a really short life for a father. :(
It's relative.

My daughter hasn't seen him, she's 26.

[speedpimp]

Sorry, Bill.

[neanderthal]

Ouch Bill.

That resonates with me. My parents divorced/ split when we were 7 (I have a twin brother. Oh, and I have a Honda Africa Twin. So I have three twins. (My mother is also a twin!) so we were sent to boarding school the next year, and I always had some issues with whoever they were dating. I actually never felt like I had a real family of my own.

I don't think the impact of family breakups on the kids has been studied enough. We're both still single. And 43. No kids.

[FaultyMario]

48 years is a really short life for a father. :(

My condolences.

[FaultyMario]

To both.

[speedpimp]

New water heater installed. Also installed was a new gas line to the water heater because the old one was kinked.

[JoshInKC]

I got a celebrity guest to appear on my dumb podcast, so thats pretty exciting.

[Yw-slayer]

Sasha Grey?

[overpowered]

I'm sick of these Oedipus snakes on this Oedipus plane!

[Godson]

Sasha Grey?

Ironically, she was in a metal band....

[Yw-slayer]

Sorry to hear it dude.

[Yw-slayer]

So, Hooters HK isn't actually that bad.

[mk]

It's relative.

My daughter hasn't seen him, she's 26.

Cynical moment.

Sorry about that.

[SportWagon]

New water heater installed. Also installed was a new gas line to the water heater because the old one was kinky.

Did you go from not needing electricity to get hot water to needing electricity (for ignition)?

[speedpimp]

Old one was gas. Lighting the pilot light involves pushing a button for a set amount of time and it lights the pilot.

[Jason]

I thought this was 340 pages of SLM talking to himself.

I feel like I've missed a lot of things :lol:

[Godson]

So, Hooters HK isn't actually that bad.

I really like the Daytona style wings

[dodint]

Shaped like giant handles?

[Yw-slayer]

Might check them out next time.

[Kchrpm]

I really like the Daytona style wings

I'm a long time fan of the Daytona sauce, and Habanero BBQ is a new favorite, too.

[21Kid]

I thought this was 340 pages of SLM talking to himself.

I feel like I've missed a lot of things :lol:

Not really... ;)

[overpowered]

If your Tesla gets stolen is it now an Edison?

[speedpimp]

Oof.

[21Kid]

:lol:

[overpowered]

It's Afrika hot.

[GB]

I really like the Daytona style wings

http://www.wallywings.com/menu.html

The inventors of the "Daytona Style" wings. Invented by Walter Curtis, hence the moniker Wally Wings. My absolute favorite.

If anybody visits, Wally Wings and beer are on me. :toast:

[Kchrpm]

I have a hard time making a decision without having a visceral, emotional reaction to something. I sometimes try to drag myself through things despite the lack of such a reaction, either because I believe it will come later, or because I believe I haven't done enough to deserve such a reaction.

[dodint]

http://i.giphy.com/9JZYVpuXk2KmA.gif

[Godson]

I thought Ambien was supposed to be strong. It seems to do is keep me up later.

[dodint]

You've taken the wrong blue pill, mate.

[Godson]

Must have, mine is purple!!!!

[21Kid]

Not the little blue pill?

[FaultyMario]

I have a hard time making a decision without having a visceral, emotional reaction to something. I sometimes try to drag myself through things despite the lack of such a reaction, either because I believe it will come later, or because I believe I haven't done enough to deserve such a reaction.

I work at a hotel owned by a Junguian therapist. He sometimes has workshops on emotions and dreaming. I've heard him say on those sesions that the "trick" is to not let yourself get along the first reaction. That they are a natural thing and we have the right to those visceral moments, but if you know that they're going to appear and you let them die down after a moment, you're in a better position to distance from your bodily reaction and choose the more rational behaivor instead.

[JoshInKC]

I work at a hotel owned by a Junguian therapist.
This sounds like the set up for a movie.

[Kchrpm]

I work at a hotel owned by a Junguian therapist. He sometimes has workshops on emotions and dreaming. I've heard him say on those sesions that the "trick" is to not let yourself get along the first reaction. That they are a natural thing and we have the right to those visceral moments, but if you know that they're going to appear and you let them die down after a moment, you're in a better position to distance from your bodily reaction and choose the more rational behaivor instead.

If I didn't make a major decision based on a visceral reaction, I would never make a major decision :)

[FaultyMario]

This sounds like the set up for a movie.

Yeah, thinking Jack directed by Danny Boyle.

[21Kid]

If I didn't make a major decision based on a visceral reaction, I would never make a major decision :)

Then you'd already have a Corvette. :finger:

[Kchrpm]

No, without a visceral reaction I would *never* buy a Corvette. It doesn't make any sense outside of an emotional desire.

[Freude am Fahren]

What's the point of life, if not to fulfill emotional desires?

:)

[Kchrpm]

Exactly!

[Drachen596]

I should really quit talking to my ex.

Also my preapproval for a mortgage came through and is higher than i expected... i need to do some thinking on this topic.

[21Kid]

Just remember you don't need to take a loan for the full amount. Get the full payment with taxes, ins, etc... and make sure you are comfortable with it. I see so many people take out the biggest loan they can, and then when the smallest problem comes up, they have no safety net.

[Drachen596]

yeah. i feel i may have to aim my Realtor into a lower price range. the lists he sent me yesterday are all for bascially the max i got preapproved on..

not really what i want. i am going to try and keep my payments close to or below a 40 hour paycheck amount if at all possible.

[21Kid]

Yup. They all work off commission. The more expensive house they can get you into the more $$$ they make. Both Loan officers and Brokers. Even if you have a buyer's agent, working on your side, they still work off of % from the sales price.

[Leon]

I'm trying to work out an appropriate reaction, for when my friend tells me that his girlfriend is pregnant (deliberately).

Myself, and a good few of his friends all think his girlfriend is absolute poison.

Sigh. Stupid guy has set himself up for 18 years of very expensive child care payments (well, less the amount of time that they spend together until she does a runner). He is on good money, and child support payments are fairly ouch in NZ when you're not the custodial parent.

[Drachen596]

Work was interesting for a bit tonight.

a slipsheet(cardboard square, only purpose is to protect the bottom of the cube) got caught under a lift. driver didnt notice and apparently it was touching something hot.

ended up with a fire. cardboard burned, no idea of damage to the lift as precautions require it be towed instead of driven to the maintenance area. they'll look it over tomorrow. fire extinguisher powder ended up all over the row/aisle.

[speedpimp]

Fire Dept. come out? How long did it take to clean the mess up?

[Drachen596]

they did not and didn't seem to be too long. our sanitation dept took care of it.

quick reaction by one of the other lift drivers prevented anything super serious from happening.

[speedpimp]

Glad they got it in time.

[Godson]

Why is it, when really getting into a set at the gym while cranking out some damned good music. People always want to talk to you?

[speedpimp]

Playlist/conversation designed my Murphy?

[JoshInKC]

Our shipment of elephant bones arrived at work! Thanks, Poachers!*
Now all I need to do is find some time to break them.

*Fresh elephant bones for academic use are completely legally acquired from governments/gov't agencies like game parks in Africa. Speculation around the dept is that these elephants were killed by poachers for their tusks (which would be very useful for our work) and left to rot. I have no idea where you'd get the skeleton of a healthy adult elephant otherwise.

[MR2 Fan]

There's a new guy where I work, he's a bit strange. Of our parking lot of around 300 cars, he is the only one who meticulously puts his under a car cover every day. His car? A Pontiac Aztek. I am really fighting the urge to ask him whether he puts the car cover on so he can keep it new and fresh looking or if he's just too embarrassed to own it.

[Godson]

Buddy works with a guy who does the same for a Prius.

A. Fucking. Prius.

[Random]

Some people take care of their stuff. *shrug*

I like it--it makes me smile when a guy (or gal!) putters past me in their pristine, shiny, 1985 Camry. :)

[Yw-slayer]

It's fair enough. People would probably think I'm crazy to spend 10-15% of the Legacy's value on paint protection/washing services every year, and insane for having spent 15-20% of its value on a brand-new dashboard to replace the old one (which had cracks in it due to age and the original manufacturing).

[21Kid]

Cracks? How old is your Legacy? I didn't think that happened to modern dashes.

[TheBenior]

Cracks? How old is your Legacy? I didn't think that happened to modern dashes.

Seriously, I don't think I've seen that in anything past the 1990s, and that's in spite of me having driven some really shitty cars for work and the extreme hot and cold weather Chicago gets on an annual basis.

[Freude am Fahren]

In 2050, pristine Azteks will probably go for 6-7 figures in today's money. Especially if they can keep all the plastic from fading.


:p

[Yw-slayer]

2005/2006 model. Apparently it was due to the way they were originally manufactured. I may have also hit it in frustration (at other tosser Road users) a few times...

[21Kid]

Ahhh, I see the culprit. :lol:



I have a 2006 Saabaru and the dash is perfectly fine. :finger:

[Leon]

92 uncracked Subaru dash reporting in*

*disclaimer, the car has lived in a garage the previous 16 years, as apparently they nearly always fall apart.

[Cam]

"I don't understand why my [object] is damaged. I only smashed it a couple of times." :lol:

[SportWagon]

The only cracks in my 2000 Impreza dash were on either side of the cover of that terribly convenient clutter tray. Sniffle.

[Alan P]

So there's a 'girl' at work. Now I can usually see the beauty in most women but this one, she's not only an ugly person, she's certainly not a pretty lady either. Early 20's I'd guess. Overheard a conversation and she said 'my kids'. And I was kind of shocked, then dismayed and disappointed that someone did the deed.

[speedpimp]

There is somebody for everybody. I mean somebody fucked you, didn't they?

[Alan P]

There is somebody for everybody. I mean somebody fucked you, didn't they?

LOL that's true. More than once too!

It wasn't so much her physical appearance, she really isn't a nice person. That was the main thing.

[Drachen596]

drunken one night stand. personality wouldn't mean much then.


Why is it that every house i seem to like is missing one of the things i want in a house? most recent one is missing two of them. AC and a Garage though its nearly 3/4ths of an acre of land.

[21Kid]

There's lots of them out there... patience.

[dodint]

I will sell you mine...

[21Kid]

Motivated Seller
Moving across country
Needs to move quick; make an offer

[Yw-slayer]

"I don't understand why my [object] is damaged. I only smashed it a couple of times." :lol:

Well I'm happy to own up to it, but what I did find puzzling was Subaru HK saying something along the lines of it happening to cars of that vintage. Maybe it reflects driving standards in HK...

[dodint]

Motivated Seller
Moving across country
Needs to move quick; make an offer

You joke but I would sell it right now for what I owe with no questions asked. It's 'listed' about $10k above that but I'd throw the keys at a buyer that offered my balance.

[Yw-slayer]

It's like my friend who is selling her P90D because she's moving to the US next year (why??). She said we can sell it back to tesla for around usd70k in 2018. So we all offered her usd70.5k. :D

[21Kid]

Well I'm happy to own up to it, but what I did find puzzling was Subaru HK saying something along the lines of it happening to cars of that vintage. Maybe it reflects driving standards in HK... Still confused... how "driving standards" would crack a dash panel? :?

Is it like this?
http://legacygt.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=103739&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1465398716

[Kchrpm]

I think he meant "driving standards" as in "people do such crazy shit that everyone is angry and pounding on their dashboard."

[Phil_SS]

So there's a 'girl' at work. Now I can usually see the beauty in most women but this one, she's not only an ugly person, she's certainly not a pretty lady either. Early 20's I'd guess. Overheard a conversation and she said 'my kids'. And I was kind of shocked, then dismayed and disappointed that someone did the deed.

Does she have nice assets otherwise?

[FaultyMario]

She probably gives good head.

[Yw-slayer]

I think he meant "driving standards" as in "people do such crazy shit that everyone is angry and pounding on their dashboard."

Yeah, this.

The cracks were bigger and also in places (and spreading) other than near where I'd hit the dashboard.

This gen of Legacy has very nice soft touch plastic which feels good but was initially probably less durable than the typical Sube plastic (of which I have experience from the Forester, and which I strangely dreamt about last night).

[2ndMoparMan]

Wakes and funerals suck. Espically when it's a co worker that just found out she had cancer 4 days previous and you've been working with them for your entire carrear.

[Yw-slayer]

Yeah, that does suck. Sorry to hear about it, man.

[2ndMoparMan]

At least she went fast and didn't suffer. She did have a good life 14 grandkids and 14 great grandkids. Basically everyone who worked any decent time there showed up either last night or will be there today. Will be missed a lot.

[Godson]

:'(

[speedpimp]

Started wearing an "all natural, aluminum free, scentless" deodorant a month ago. You put it on and it smells like dirty pits, a few hours later the dirty pit smell is even more pronounced. I'll leave the smelly pit hippy shit to others.

[Godson]

So, I think I'm actually done with being single.

Like, I have been completely content and happy with being single for the last 4+ years. I think this accident has changed something with me.

[Random]

PT chick pretty nice? ;)

[FaultyMario]

I just read that in Papillon Soo's voice.

[Godson]

PT chick is cool, but I wouldn't date her.

[TheBenior]

I was recently impressed by my dog after my daughter did a ton of vomiting due to a stomach ailment. Instead of trying to eat her puke, he felt the need to inspect her by closely looking at and sniffing her.

[Kchrpm]

*rethinks plans to crash on Ross's couch*

[dodint]

Your stance on dogs never ceases to amaze me.

[Kchrpm]

Wait, you think the bad thing about his post was the dog?

[dodint]

I think you think the bad thing about that situation is the dog.

[21Kid]

I thought he thought it was baby vomit.

[Cam]

Far too much thinking.

[Freude am Fahren]

:lol:

[dodint]

Far too much thinking.

First time for everything!

[Drachen596]

Youre 33 with 3 kids. Do the fucking chemo and shit the doctor recommends.

Youre not gonna get some all natural noside eeffects cure.

[speedpimp]

Yes they will, it's called death.

[Godson]

Yes they will, it's called death.

It works 100% of the time.

[Drachen596]

yeah.. and i'm kind of pissed at them for their decision.
I know quite a few people who have had cancer and omg chemo and radiation therapy has cured them. one of them recently had a baby too.

but they think that chemo is bad for you just makes you sicker and lots of excuses i typically hear from the Anti-vax crowd. 'there are other safer ways that work better and are natural' really? cause if the insurance companies that hate paying for shit found that out they'd be demanding its use over the chemo therapies.

[dodint]

Well, chemo does make you sicker. It taps your strength, drains your soul, and makes you question if you'll ever be whole again.

It also CURES FUCKING CANCER.

[dodint]

Halloween is over, Christmas is coming:

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2014-12/6/9/enhanced/webdr03/enhanced-16596-1417874794-1.jpg