Random randomness

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:34 am

At least when I'm farting I'm no longer scared of the consequences. So that's nice this morning.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:28 am

So something really interesting on your phone? A cool cat video? That's nice but get off the fucking rowing machine and watch it elsewhere so I can do my workout.

Have a nice day.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 1:03 pm

San Francisco mayor Ed Lee apparently dropped yesterday while shopping due to a heart attack, and passed away this morning 1AM.

Sectoid · Post by **Sectoid** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 2:20 pm

$iljanus wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:28 am So something really interesting on your phone? A cool cat video? That's nice but get off the fucking rowing machine and watch it elsewhere so I can do my workout.

I absolutely HATE that. There are a finite amount of machines at the gym. Be on your phone ELSEWHERE. Often people will go on facebook or whatever between sets. That's not how it works!!

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 4:11 pm

Sectoid wrote:
$iljanus wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:28 am So something really interesting on your phone? A cool cat video? That's nice but get off the fucking rowing machine and watch it elsewhere so I can do my workout.
I absolutely HATE that. There are a finite amount of machines at the gym. Be on your phone ELSEWHERE. Often people will go on facebook or whatever between sets. That's not how it works!!

So I workout at the Y and there's a lot of older people there who sometimes take long breaks on a piece of equipment. I try to be patient with that because they're older and someday I too will be "Old People". All the other younger folks and people my age who are texting, checking texts, watching cat videos have no excuse. Also, people having long conversations with someone while they recline on an exercise machine. Get a fucking room.

Sectoid · Post by **Sectoid** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 4:19 pm

$iljanus wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2017 4:11 pmSo I workout at the Y and there's a lot of older people there who sometimes take long breaks on a piece of equipment. I try to be patient with that because they're older and someday I too will be "Old People". All the other younger folks and people my age who are texting, checking texts, watching cat videos have no excuse. Also, people having long conversations with someone while they recline on an exercise machine. Get a fucking room.

I once had someone walking around the gym on a Facetime call. I got so aggravated I told the front desk. I don't want to be in the background of your Facetime chat, sweaty and disgusting. Have some goddamn decency. This isn't your house.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 5:19 pm

I asked them what apples they use in their apple juice....wasn't sure they'd tell me...but they replied.... We mostly use the Pippin, Granny Smith, Fuji, Red Golden, and Red Delicious varieties.

wonderpug · Post by **wonderpug** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 5:50 pm

People really shouldn't be making apple juice at the gym.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 6:22 pm

wonderpug wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2017 5:50 pm People really shouldn't be making apple juice at the gym.

Those people are THE WORST!

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 7:06 pm

Sectoid wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2017 4:19 pm
$iljanus wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2017 4:11 pmSo I workout at the Y and there's a lot of older people there who sometimes take long breaks on a piece of equipment. I try to be patient with that because they're older and someday I too will be "Old People". All the other younger folks and people my age who are texting, checking texts, watching cat videos have no excuse. Also, people having long conversations with someone while they recline on an exercise machine. Get a fucking room.
I once had someone walking around the gym on a Facetime call. I got so aggravated I told the front desk. I don't want to be in the background of your Facetime chat, sweaty and disgusting. Have some goddamn decency. This isn't your house.

Don't most gyms have a "no photo" policy? I can't imagine video would be acceptable.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 7:12 pm

We didn't go anywhere for vacation this year and so had a little extra money saved. We made it through the whole year with no extra expenses, so I thought we'd have a bigger Christmas than normal as a treat. All gifts are bought and wrapped and we were feeling good.

So today we learned my car needs a front wheel bearing for $300 and as I was driving to the mechanic in my wife's car, my wife's car's radiator cracked. Apparently there was a bad sensor so the fans weren't kicking in to cool the radiator. That will be $1000, please. Unbelievable and yet so predictable.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 7:26 pm

The cars have ears.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Dec 12, 2017 7:27 pm

Thats my daily life. I sometimes dont think some people on here believe me.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Dec 13, 2017 6:19 am

In the BSG 2004 ep Exodus pt2 I think Apollo should have been shot by firing squad for wasting Pegasus like that. It was a much bigger more advanced Battlestar with a damn production facility in it to build anything they needed...even new Vipers. Geebus.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Dec 14, 2017 2:01 am

Last time I visited my wife in the nursing home (she's due to come back in the middle of January by the way) she told me that one of the nurses was asking her if we were divorced and if she would mind if she asked me out on a date. My (ex) wife said okay.
I haven't heard anything but I don't know that I would go out with anyone that would go out with someone like me.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Dec 15, 2017 5:16 pm

Many many years ago there was a song about the Beverly Hillbillies sung to LA Woman by The Doors. I am flashbacks to vague memories of this song and I can't find a trace of it on the Internet. All I remember "Ellie Clampett" in place of LA Woman and Mr Drysdale Drysdale Drysdale Drysdale but those bits won't go away this afternoon. Thank goodness it's nearing time to go home.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:07 pm

Providing me with lunch on the day of coworkers funeral is a confusing message. It feels like I am somehow being rewarded.

I'll miss you Jim. Yet another one of the best of us gone and I can't comprehend.

To y'all, be careful.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 3:07 pm

I started and finished all my Christmas shopping in 20 minutes on my lunch break today. Harry Potter book, Echo, jewelry, headphones, and perfume for the wife. Action figures, 3DS game, Pokemon cards, and books for the kids.

Bless you, Amazon Prime.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Dec 20, 2017 2:20 pm

In twelve days, kids born in the year 2000 will be able to vote and enlist to serve in the military after their next birthday.

MHS · Post by **MHS** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 1:41 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Dec 20, 2017 2:20 pm In twelve days, kids born in the year 2000 will be able to vote and enlist to serve in the military after their next birthday.

And NYE will be the only day in our lifetime when every adult was born in the 1900s, and every minor was born in the 2000s.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 7:45 pm

Weird to think of it that way but waaay cool.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:33 pm

It's 2017, and I've met people born in the 1800s.

MHS · Post by **MHS** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:53 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:33 pm It's 2017, and I've met people born in the 1800s.

But they aren’t alive now unless Wikipedia is wrong, which means they won’t be alive on NYE, which makes the statement true if we assume by “adult,” we mean living person over the age of 18.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of ... ing_people

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 9:17 pm

MHS wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:53 pm
Holman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:33 pm It's 2017, and I've met people born in the 1800s.
But they aren’t alive now unless Wikipedia is wrong, which means they won’t be alive on NYE, which makes the statement true if we assume by “adult,” we mean living person over the age of 18.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of ... ing_people

Oh, I know. I'm just doing the long-stretch-of-generations thing. (My grandfather met veterans of the Civil War, etc.)

I was responding more to Daehawk's awe than to your math.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 10:45 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:33 pm It's 2017, and I've met people born in the 1800s.

Hepcat has you beat.

He has slept with people born in the 1800s.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 12:14 pm

Back in September, our sales team all went through a really intensive sales training. As part of it, we we4e assigned sales coaches that we would engage with once a week. I was initially very resistant, as it felt like I’d just be adding one more thing to my already packed schedule.

Rick got assigned as my coach, and I was completely blown away. In addition to being a warm, funny, genuine guy, he has completely transformed the way I approach sales. He is, by far, the best consultative sales person I’ve ever met, and I went from initially dreading our coaching calls to them being the absolute highlight of my week.

Woke up this morning to an email this morning that Rick passed away yesterday. No details, but whatever happened, it happened fast. We had a coaching calll earlier this week, and he seemed to be just fine.

Hug your loved ones everyone. Things can happen fast and very unexpectedly. RIP Rick, you will be sorely missed.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 1:09 pm

I'm sorry for your loss.

I was lining up a Glengarry Glen Ross joke until I read the sad news in the second half of your post. It's genuinely good to be reminded that there are fine and inspiring people in Sales.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Dec 23, 2017 3:10 pm

That is sad. So sorry for the loss of your friend.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Dec 24, 2017 7:28 pm

Woke up to Trading Places on tv. I haven't seen that movie since the early 80s but always loved it. I had forgotten it was a Christmas time movie lol.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Dec 24, 2017 10:27 pm

Heres the national weather 10 day outlook for us...going to freeze.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sun Dec 24, 2017 10:57 pm

Rip wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2017 10:45 pm
Holman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:33 pm It's 2017, and I've met people born in the 1800s.
Hepcat has you beat.

He has slept with people born in the 1800s.

I was lonely and I had a shovel...

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Mon Dec 25, 2017 8:22 am

Daehawk wrote:Heres the national weather 10 day outlook for us...going to freeze.

-30 Celsius this morning. Cold ride in to work.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Mon Dec 25, 2017 8:43 am

I still have scar tissue in my right earlobe courtesy of a stroll through downtown Regina on a windy winter day about 30 years ago. I don't much miss that prairie weather.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Mon Dec 25, 2017 8:45 am

Max Peck wrote:I still have scar tissue in my right earlobe courtesy of a stroll through downtown Regina on a windy winter day about 30 years ago. I don't much miss that prairie weather.

Scarred for life. Regina's new motto.

I'm just hoping we only get bullshit calls today. The one day I won't mind receiving those calls.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Dec 25, 2017 11:31 am

Just got done talking to my sister over Facebook and learning about my great great grandfather on my dad's side on up to dad himself. Lots of info and some cool pics. Got one of gggrandad young and a 2nd lt in the confederacy to him old with his kids, his wife, and HER mom in a 1892 pic! Cool stuff to see and read it all.

Great great grandpa was a 2nd Lt under Lillard in the CSS. Got a pic of him in uniform and then late in life with some history and his grave. It says "His regiment's history show they were in the first Battle of Bull Run, also called Manassas. This was the first true land battle of the war and a victory for Confederate forces. By the Fall 1861 he was camped 20 miles east of Washington, D.C., near today's Manassas National Battlefield Park. "
3rd Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry
In April, 1865, it moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, and became part of President Davis' escort, until surrendering at Washington, Georgia, on May 9.

Which is kinda neat because I was born on a May 9th.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Dec 25, 2017 11:53 pm

Gal Gadot doing a little working out ...nsfw perhaps.

Spoiler:

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Dec 26, 2017 6:36 pm

Local cop was arrested for domestic assault.

Reminds me of this 1990s music video. I am not kidding when I wonder if he can hear better.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:31 pm

That moment when you’re listening to music from the Echo, and the volume drops, and you look at it to see the light ring pointed to the living room and back door ... when you’re home alone.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:50 pm

One of Mrs. Skinypupy's main goals over the holiday break was to get the kid's rooms organized and cleaned up. She has spent the last 4 hours organizing everything in the Wonder Twins 4.6's room into labeled bins. Legos, books, action figures, etc. She just had the very serious talk with both of them about how everything needs to be put away in it's place before they get out something else to play with, and that she expects them to be big boys who can keep their rooms clean.

I give it a max of 2 hours before she's in tears because their room looks like a bomb went off in it again.

We also did a stuffed animal purge this morning. Each kid got to keep 10 animals on their bed, another 6 in their toy bin, and we’re donating the rest. We are donating over 150 stuffed animals.

The tears that came from that little exercise were outrageous. You’d think we were sending actual family members to face the firing squad.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Wed Dec 27, 2017 2:56 pm

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:50 pm We also did a stuffed animal purge this morning. Each kid got to keep 10 animals on their bed, another 6 in their toy bin, and we’re donating the rest. We are donating over 150 stuffed animals.

I think it would be about the same numbers in my house. My boys are 8 and 11 and the 11 year old has most of them. of course I am an enabler despite myself. Their favorite christmas gifts were stuffed porgs (spoiler: chicken things from The Last Jedi).