Random randomness

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 3:41 pm

The FBI estimates there are around 2.2 million people pretending to be Navy SEALs.

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 4:04 pm

Man, this getting older thing sucks. I bled the brakes on my truck today and that completely wore me out.

The actual bleeding process wasn't bad but jacking the truck up, putting it on jackstands, taking the wheels off, then after bleeding the brakes, putting everything back on and jacking the truck back down just about killed me.

At least now when I'm driving the truck I won't need a football field worth of distance to come to a stop accompanied by the sickening psssshhhhh sound as the pedal sinks to the floorboard.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 4:31 pm

I was watching "Cops" with my wife and I don't know which upsets me more, cops thinking they're god or people that won't keep their mouths shut.
Listen people, those cops are going to arrest you. Keep your freaking mouths shut!

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 4:42 pm

As Ron White has said in his act, they may have the right, but they do not have the ability.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:24 pm

Holman wrote:
dbt1949 wrote:Amazon is now collecting state sales tax from everyone.
This will be a comfort to any brick-and-mortar bookstores that still exist.

...as well as to small online stores who feared national tax legislation. By doing it voluntarily, Amazon took most of the wind out of those sails for the time being. Curio City orders are still tax-free for everyone except Massholes.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 12:44 am

In California they expect you to pay taxes on anything you bought out of state.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 1:15 am

Jaymann wrote:In California they expect you to pay taxes on anything you bought out of state.

As usual, that's based on people abusing it, going out of state to buy yachts and expensive cars, etc,which hurts California businesses.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:11 pm

Ovaltine, Horlicks or Milo?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:18 pm

Max Peck wrote:Ovaltine, Horlicks or Milo?

Milo is Nestlé. In the US, so is Ovaltine. Horlicks is GlaxoSmithKline.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:18 pm

I need to replace my entire wardrobe with velour tracksuits.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:20 pm

Only permitted if you can maintain the Slav squat for fifteen minutes at a stretch.

KKBlue · Post by **KKBlue** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 11:21 am

MHS wrote:
coopasonic wrote:We may never hear from KKBlue again. Speaking of, has anyone heard from KKBlue?
On Facebook, yes.

I'm around

My better half keeps me updated. I feel I'm still in touch when I look over at the laptop and see telcta checking in with you folks. Sorry, my silly little part time job is kicking my ass.

Actually was going to text Default and wish him happy Octocon! Coop, was just reminiscing how you were our ride for one of those days when we both made the trip into Chicago to hand with our internet family.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 12:01 pm

KKBlue wrote:Actually was going to text Default and wish him happy Octocon! Coop, was just reminiscing how you were our ride for one of those days when we both made the trip into Chicago to hand with our internet family.

And I had almost recovered. Now you have reopened the wound. I need to call my therapist.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 8:02 am

Paingod in 2012 wrote:Teeth vary by person. Some are fragile, some are strong, some are granite.

I brush my teeth once a day and never floss. I haven't been to a dentist in 17 years. I have no tooth pains, no fillings, no visible issues. I suppose there might be things I don't see, but they're not bothering me in any way.

I've been thinking of going in for a screening and to have my sealant replaced, but have never liked the experience of a dentists' office. My recollections are them jabbing my gums with sharp metal pins until I bleed and then telling me that I'm not doing a good enough job.

Remus West in 2012 wrote:If you are only brushing once a day and never flossing then you are not doing a good enough job.

stessier in 2012 wrote:Egads, Paingod - get thee to a dentist!

There have been a lot of changes in the last 17 years. If you don't like your old dentist, try to find a younger guy.

Okay, so I never made it to a dentist in 2012. Or 2013. Or anytime really, until yesterday. 21/22 years since my last visit. I chipped a tooth in my sleep (I grind my teeth sometimes while I sleep) and I wondered if it was indicative of tooth decay or damage. I did find a younger dentist, wanting to avoid some old stodgy guy with rusty picks and tobacco stains on his fingers.

I sat down in the chair, nervous, and the dentist tried to put me at ease, though she did say that she cringes when she hears that someone's been without dental care for 2 decades. That means she gets to deal with nasty, rotten teeth and start courses of pulling and oral surgery to correct the mess in there.

My outcome?

Spoiler:

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 8:54 am

Apparently my family is genetically resistant to Novocain. Or something like that. It took a long time and multiple shots... and I could still feel it faintly. Compounded with the fact that 2 of my wisdom teeth had an extra root; which apparently thought it would be cool to wrap itself around a nerve. There is not enough Novocain made for that. It was painful. Very painful. But survivable, obviously. And I'm sure that your experience will be very different.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 9:29 am

MHS will be able to commiserate. Are you a redhead,

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 1:09 pm

How do people in HR not go home and throw themselves off a cliff every day? Every time we terminate someone and I have to do their access terminations it eats away at my soul but it doesn't make me numb and having your soul be eaten alive sucks ass. It's like you're the good soldier just taking orders. Just fulfilling commands from up the hierarchy.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 1:19 pm

TheMix wrote:Apparently my family is genetically resistant to Novocain. Or something like that. It took a long time and multiple shots... and I could still feel it faintly. Compounded with the fact that 2 of my wisdom teeth had an extra root; which apparently thought it would be cool to wrap itself around a nerve. There is not enough Novocain made for that. It was painful. Very painful. But survivable, obviously. And I'm sure that your experience will be very different.

I have that same problem, and it applies to almost all pain medications. They just don't do much for me.

When they do manage to numb a tooth, they've pumped so much novocain into me that my entire head tingles.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 1:31 pm

LordMortis wrote:How do people in HR not go home and throw themselves off a cliff every day? Every time we terminate someone and I have to do their access terminations it eats away at my soul but it doesn't make me numb and having your soul be eaten alive sucks ass. It's like you're the good soldier just taking orders. Just fulfilling commands from up the hierarchy.

I've come to learn and accept that HR doesn't mean "cares about employees" - it means "manages the company's human resources" - as in, people are their tools, and they're okay with replacing them to keep the company running smoothly. They also make sure that if a tool is acting up, it's either adjusted and fixed, or discarded before it can cause other problems.

I still feel bad for them though. It sucks. I went through a steady and constant downsizing as a business repeatedly shed staff to stay afloat, letting go of the least essential people layer by layer. He had to sit there with termination envelopes in his desk all week, interacting like nothing was wrong, until it was time to call them into the office.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 1:38 pm

Ditto. I'm not a redhead but I am fair of skin and have a very red beard. I think I gots the gene. I experience all sensation intensely, and even sensory overload very easily and well, pain... I'm not like other people. Pain hurts me.

I'm pretty certain I've said this before but when I had my first kidney stone they pumped me full of morphine. It didn't even take the edge off the pain but eventually it did make me loopy and sleepy enough that I found I could sleep the pain off. They decided that this was because my heart was almost stopping and then they put a attendant in my room to keep me from falling asleep. It was the worst torture of my life. I was so ready to die and they're like 'nope. Pain Pain Pain.'

My usual response to medical work plus pain killers is grip things really hard and sit really still. The doctor then always wants to stop the procedure and beef up the pain killers and I'm like "please stop stopping and just get this done. Please. Please.

It was really not a lot of fun when they put the stent in my heart. The Local mostly worked but mostly isn't even in the ball park when they're playing around in your heart.

Knock me out. That's the way to win the war on pain. Short of that, I live with it. According to MHS and other dyed in wool gingers, a high thresh hold for pain comes with the red head gene. I do not have that. Rather I have very low thresh hold for pain causing me to puke and be able to pay attention to nothing else.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 1:59 pm

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 6:26 pm

Apparent real-life Mowgli/Tarzan found in India.

Amid a troop of monkeys in the Katraniaghat forest range in northern India roamed a naked human girl, playing with the primates as if she were one of them. She looked emaciated, her hair disheveled. But she appeared to be in a comfortable state, until the police arrived.

A group of woodcutters had alerted authorities after spotting the girl, believed to be 10 to 12 years old. When police approached her, the monkeys surrounded the girl, protecting her as one of their own, and attacking an officer as the girl screeched at him, the New Indian Express reported this week. After rescuing the girl, the officer sped away in his patrol car, the monkeys chasing him.

She was soon admitted to a state-run hospital in Bahraich, a city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where she has remained for the past two months. Doctors believe the girl had been raised by monkeys for quite some time, and her story has so far mystified authorities, sending them searching through reports of missing children in an attempt to identify her, according to the Associated Press.

In the Indian press, the girl has also drawn comparisons to Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli, a feral child from Seoni, India, featured as the prominent character in Kipling’s “The Jungle Book.”

Based on her behavior, it appears she could have lived among the primates since she was an infant, Bahraich police officer Dinesh Tripathi told the New Indian Express. When the girl arrived at the hospital, she had wounds all over her body. “Her nails and hair were unkempt like monkeys,” Tripathi said.

The thin, weak girl looked like she had not eaten for many days. Although she was capable of walking on her feet, she would sometimes suddenly drop down on all fours.

“The way she moved, even her eating habits were like that of an animal,” D.K. Singh, chief medical superintendent at Bahraich District Hospital, told the Associated Press in an interview recorded on video. “She would throw food on the ground and eat it directly with her mouth, without lifting it with her hands. She used to move around using only her elbows and her knees.”

Now, doctors are tasked with teaching her how to transition to life as a human, a task that initially proved difficult because of her aversion to human interaction.

“She behaves like an ape and screams loudly if doctors try to reach out to her,” Singh told the New Indian Express. Another doctor treating her said the girl struggles to understand anything, and makes apelike noises and facial expressions.

But over the past two months, the girl’s health and behavior have improved significantly, doctors say. She has begun to walk normally by herself and eat food with her own hands. She is still unable to speak, and has begun to use gestures to communicate. Occasionally, she smiles, according to a hospital spokesman, Sky News reported.

tjg_marantz · Post by **tjg_marantz** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 8:48 am

Theory now is that she was abandoned not too long ago. Mentally challenged. Just sad.

Sent from my Nexus 6P using Tapatalk

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 8:59 pm

I am closing in on post #30,000. I am also closing in on my 60th birthday. They might even coincide, or very nearly so. The pressure is on.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 9:50 pm

At you 30,000 get to go thru the Time Warp again.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Sun Apr 09, 2017 10:43 pm

dbt1949 wrote:At you 30,000 get to go thru the Time Warp again.

It's just a jump to the left.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkplPbd2f60

xwraith · Post by **xwraith** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 8:55 am

This will end well.

Paingod · Post by **Paingod** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 9:31 am

So I'm the IT Department here, right? If the system is broken, I can certainly fix it - and if I can't fix it, I know exactly who to involve to get it fixed. What I don't know is how to run all of our different reporting used by each department, when they need them, or what the end result should look like. That knowledge is kind of department-specific and is managed by the people in those departments.

So when one of the new owners, who was simply my boss before but is now my boss plus 25% owner of the company, sends an email to me and the department he manages days ago asking us to produce an accounting report that splits the old and new business down a clear line, I assume his department has it under control and I don't actually know why I was the primary recipient of that email. I ignore it and move on.

Today I get a huffy call from the boss/owner asking me who he needs to talk to in order to get the report he wants, because he hasn't seen it yet. I felt like saying "I think you need to talk to the guy running your department" but that would have been a little too snarky. I offered to call his staff and ask them where his report was. He sounded satisfied.

His staff, in turn, had tried to run the reports but couldn't figure out how and simply hadn't bothered to communicate with him about that. Now I'm at a place I belong - fixing a broken system. I get the developer involved and step back to watch the gears grind around and find an answer.

I'm hoping that going forward in the new business, these kinds of hiccups aren't the norm, and it's happened a few times now. I don't want to get dragged into running his department for him piece by piece.

KDH · Post by **KDH** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 12:08 pm

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.. Happy Inception Day to Blade Runner Replicant Leon Kowalski

in celebration of such a grand day .. please take today's Voight-Kampff test

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 12:52 pm

Sewer repairs turned off the water. Boss approved remote work for the afternoon.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 4:31 pm

A Greg Graffin (Bad Religion) interview sucked me down an old-school punk/ska rabbit hole this morning. That was a fun trip.

How No Doubt made it as the darlings of the 90's pop/ska scene while Dance Hall Crashers were mostly ignored is positively criminal. Elyse and Karina were an absolute blast to watch, and were every bit the singers that Gwen Stefani was.

I actually saw DHC (and Unwritten Law) open for Bad Religion back in 96 (?). Such an amazing show.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 12:21 am

Yesterday while at my wife's doc office for her visit I hung my arm on the back of her chair to have my arm around her. It was there maybe at most 10 minutes. No pain of anything. But when I took it back it hurt my forearm and left a red indent mark. Thats pretty normal. but that mark took an hour or so to go away then all day today my forearm has been very sore and has a swollen place the size of a golfball there. Its under the skin and cant see it and its soft.

I had no idea what caused it. My wife thought Id hit it and forgot. I do that. Then I remembered I simply had it on her chair back. I think Im getting old when indents take that long to go away and I feel hurt and swollen like this the next day from resting my arm on a chair.

A tad bit frightening too.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:16 am

I don't know what it is, but you should consider the possibility that the chair wasn't the cause. It is possible that something else happened (for instance, a bug bite) earlier or at the same time and you just noticed it because of the chair. Also a possibility is that the chair might not have caused it, but may have aggravated something else that was already there.

The chair may just be coincidence, like feeling pain in a toe when you put on your shoe may not mean the shoe hurt your toe, but that it is the first time you bumped it after it became hurt.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 2:30 am

Could be. Ive had a bad week. Ive felt bad all week. For the first time ever others asked if I was sick or something wrong and said I seemed off. I have plans to go to a doc to start treating my blood pressure. Ive also had insomnia for a week. Last night was the first night I sorta slept.

killbot737 · Post by **killbot737** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 9:07 am

Why am I noticing that the "trendy" haircut lately is a poor copy of Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg's? Shaved real tight with long on the top, and possibly only shaved on one side. It's very weird.

I sort of noticed it a year or two ago when Miley Cyrus did it because it looked so awful on her, but then I was watching The Expanse and the detective's haircut just really bothered me a lot. One of the ship crew has the same cut too, except it's short on the other side.

And now I'm seeing it everywhere!

Calgon, take me away!

P.S. I suppose I should be happy we've moved away from the Ed Grimley Jr. forehead shark fin. I'm talking to you, Boreanaz.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 9:20 am

My blood runs cold.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 9:28 am

Better drink some antifreeze.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:41 am

Rip wrote:My blood runs cold.

Your memory has just been sold?

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:38 pm

As of today Ive started saving money to take my wife here. Had no idea such a good looking Cuban place was anywhere near me.

http://www.cenizalounge.com/welcome#modern-organic-thai

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:50 pm

Pretty bad wreck. And pretty slow reaction time on that guy standing there.