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I don't care if you all hate my first [chat], I'm still too excited from last Wednesday to care. My local football (soccer) team got through the ACL quarter finals and are now only two rounds from being named Asian Champions.
Excited about starting my road trip tomorrow. I wonder where it'll take me.
You'll have good times, bad times, find love, have zany adventures, break down at some point, and cherish the experience for the rest of your life.
Unless you're in a horror road trip movie then expect to run into an abandoned middle of nowhere place where slack-jawed rednecks hunt you down for fun.
Let's have a pastel pajama party where we all wear pastel pajamas and paint each other's toenails with pastel colors!
I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
Excited about starting my road trip tomorrow. I wonder where it'll take me.
You'll have good times, bad times, find love, have zany adventures, break down at some point, and cherish the experience for the rest of your life.
Unless you're in a horror road trip movie then expect to run into an abandoned middle of nowhere place where slack-jawed rednecks hunt you down for fun.
I... might bring a .38 revolver and stick it in the glove compartment.
We ... we actually had a lot of motivations, you know. It wasn't just "for the lulz." [laughter] Debate & Discourse was coming off an era beset by poor [chat] threads -- and you know, this wasn't ... this wasn't a matter of opinion, this was something documented. We had the oldies ... a lot of the old shit resurfacing, we had "the first rule of [chat]" you know, that one comes up too much ... and we had threads with poor visibility, and those just don't go over well ...
so I wanted to do something ambitious, you know? Just like the guy over at timecube dot com! [laughter]
The idea then, y-yeah ... the idea was, "this is a chat that's new, and this is a chat that people will find easily. It says [chat] four times," and that's the point, you know? Less time looking, more time chatting. It was for the people. Not for the lulz. [brief pause, then laughter]
Oboro, on the timeChat director's commentary wrote:
Oh, I won't lie, it came up. The concern was there, that -- that people would take it the wrong way, as an endorsement, you know? That's not my job to be concerned about, you know, I ... I hire people to care about that stuff for me. [laughter]
I mean, yeah, it came up, it came up in the meeting everyday. There was always some prodigy from marketing who 'went the extra mile' and did some independent research, and I mean ... it was the shit, you know? It was hilarious shit. Little pasty-ass guy whose tie matches his shoes shows up for the morning pow-wow, and is all, "I think we can do something big with this timecube thing, I think the original franchise didn't cover the ground floor as well as it could have," and I'm just like ...
it's a bloody parody, you know? We're stealing here, we're not usurping. I don't want that fucking craven edifice. Wherever the creator of timecube goes to bed, a fucking banshee haunts the rafters. Shit be wacked.
[laughter] Alright, you got me. Yeah. Yeah. I pretty much had morphine on tap the same way The Onion plugs its writers in to PCP. Hold on, can I say that? Get my lawyer in here, and uh, for the time being ... I was being ironic.
Like raaaaaiin! On your weeeeedding day! [forced laughter] I-ironic! Ha ha ha!
The idea was Frank's. All credit goes out to him -- honestly, the man was a blast and it might've tacked an extra month onto filming, but someone would probably have pulled an AK out on us if we didn't have someone like Frank on the team, and you know how it goes ... "better one month late than riddled with bullets," right?
We were just sitting down, you know, and it's that bit of awkward time before I call lunch. I mean, we've already turned off the cameras and everyone's pretty much on their ass. It's just ... it's a time card thing, you know? So we're waiting out the technicalities and Frank starts up, "You know, I hired twelve strippers to come down here today," and he says it just ... completely non-chalant, you know? Poker face. He's lighting a cigarette.
"The real bitch though," he continues, "was getting them in. They said they'd work for free, you know? They thought it was the bitch-and-tits just to get on the scene," and he's still just completely kosher, you know, he puts the lighter away and he's just sitting there, everyone else is sort of ... sort of zoning in on the conversation, you know. He doesn't say anything else though, so I blurt out, "Well where the fuck are they? Don't be fucking pulling my leg here, Frank."
So the bell goes off, they open the main hangar door and no one's paying shit for attention, we're all locked onto Frank, you know? Frank and his fucking cigarette. "The real bitch," he starts up again, "was that I was able to get strippers for free, but Subway still charged retail on the sandwiches."
"Hey, caterers? What the fuck you got for us today?" Frank shouted, and everyone's attention turned to twelve vixens in bunny ears at the gate, Subway sandwiches tucked underarm.
"Five dollar footlongs!"
Frank put his cigarette out on the arm of the chair. "You owe me $600, Obs. The extra zero's my service charge."
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Wonder_Hippie's gonna get raped by a hobo.
I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
I can do the first one, but it takes too much effort in my rubber-soled shoes. Don't know the second one very well, yet, but this girl was trying to teach it to me earlier, and I picked up some things.
Yeah, that's what I figured. I don't really care if mine is short, it's just a [chat] thread.
It's not the size of the [chat], it's how you use it.
hey guy, tell me if I will like Bladestorm.
I played the demo and found the leveling mechanics compelling, and I sort of liked the gameplay, does it get boring?
You played the demo, so you know basically how the game plays. Basically expand that to include other areas, some special missions, a thin storyline about Joan of Arc, and hours of leveling about 20 different kinds of units and that's the game.
If you hate repetition or found that what you did played could get old after a while it will.
But you need to realize the demo you played is basically how the entirety of the game plays, with more units of course. Including elephants, ninjas, guns, and magic users.
If that's not enough for you, I would recommend waiting until it's cheaper or rent it.
I can do the first one, but it takes too much effort in my rubber-soled shoes. Don't know the second one very well, yet, but this girl was trying to teach it to me earlier, and I picked up some things.
Excited about starting my road trip tomorrow. I wonder where it'll take me.
You'll have good times, bad times, find love, have zany adventures, break down at some point, and cherish the experience for the rest of your life.
Unless you're in a horror road trip movie then expect to run into an abandoned middle of nowhere place where slack-jawed rednecks hunt you down for fun.
I... might bring a .38 revolver and stick it in the glove compartment.
One of the psychopaths may be or pretend to be a cop, be forewarned.
Excited about starting my road trip tomorrow. I wonder where it'll take me.
You'll have good times, bad times, find love, have zany adventures, break down at some point, and cherish the experience for the rest of your life.
Unless you're in a horror road trip movie then expect to run into an abandoned middle of nowhere place where slack-jawed rednecks hunt you down for fun.
I... might bring a .38 revolver and stick it in the glove compartment.
Don't go for the .38 special. That's just asking for trouble.
Now I ain't gonna actually click to find out - cause, seriously, fuck Robert Jordan, but is there really a girl thread in H/A that makes a Wheel of Time reference?
What you think "makes sense" has nothing to do with reality. It just has to do with your life experience. And your life experience may only be a small smidgen of reality. Possibly even a distorted account of reality at that. So what this means is that, beginning in the 20th century as our means of decoding nature became more and more powerful, we started realizing our common sense is no longer a tool to pass judgment on whether or not a scientific theory is correct. - Neil Degrasse Tyson
I can do the first one, but it takes too much effort in my rubber-soled shoes. Don't know the second one very well, yet, but this girl was trying to teach it to me earlier, and I picked up some things.
Excited about starting my road trip tomorrow. I wonder where it'll take me.
You'll have good times, bad times, find love, have zany adventures, break down at some point, and cherish the experience for the rest of your life.
Unless you're in a horror road trip movie then expect to run into an abandoned middle of nowhere place where slack-jawed rednecks hunt you down for fun.
I... might bring a .38 revolver and stick it in the glove compartment.
Don't go for the .38 special. That's just asking for trouble.
Where'd you decide to go?
I'm going to go to Cincinnati first and visit some old friends, run through Dayton and see my ex's sister's baby and drop off her crap, and then over to Boston to visit another friend, circling around and head south to NJ to visit Mike and nexus and Var and such this weekend mayhaps.
And wait, Elki -- you mean you can only do the first step, the wiggly front-back with the toes? And you can't do the leg kicks then after that?
Haha -- I'm a better dancer than you, fucker. Both those steps are easy as shit, and I don't even take dance classes. So nyah.
I can do them, but I'm not comfortable enough to do them with a partner, and with turns and such, so not really do them.
Oh -- okay. Dancing with partners is obviously a different beast. And I can't do them as fly as those guys in the video. Those steps are dope as hell. I wish I could do those little variations they sneak in there as well.
Why is it legal for Safeway to require male employees to have short hair in a state where sex and gender identity are both protected classes state-wide? Am I wrong in interpreting I have an auto-out if pressed about conforming to that part of the dress code?
Why is it legal for Safeway to require male employees to have short hair in a state where sex and gender identity are both protected classes state-wide? Am I wrong in interpreting I have an auto-out if pressed about conforming to that part of the dress code?
Yes. Courts have routinely ruled that employers have the right to administer dress codes. If you have a problem with Safeway's dress code, you'd have to bring it up with your manager.
The Safeway next to my house has a transgendered man who works there, so obviously it's something with some flexibility. Don't look to the law to back you up, though.
EDIT: I wouldn't be looking to existing law, I'd be looking to the ACLU and setting precedent myself.
The ACLU probably wouldn't take your case, because the courts have been pretty consistent in ruling in favor of employers in this regard.
Tattoos -- I was just reading an article about the growth of tattoos (maybe in the New York Times?) among young people, that's where I just read this. Courts have been pretty consistent in finding in favor of the employer. Deal with it.
around the world around the world
around the world around the world
my favorite part of the song <3
hehehe
I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
I mean it's partially because my personal life has forced me to accept gender as something fluid -- or else I will cease to be -- but there's just something deathly absurd about having separate stipulations in your male and female dress codes when the right of your employees to switch between the two is protected
EDIT: I wouldn't be looking to existing law, I'd be looking to the ACLU and setting precedent myself.
The ACLU probably wouldn't take your case, because the courts have been pretty consistent in ruling in favor of employers in this regard.
Tattoos -- I was just reading an article about the growth of tattoos (maybe in the New York Times?) among young people, that's where I just read this. Courts have been pretty consistent in finding in favor of the employer. Deal with it.
You're completely missing the larger situation. This isn't about dress codes themselves, it's about by-gender/sex application of a dress code when it's not (there's a specific legal term for this, but I don't remember it) relevant to the position being worked, and when your employees have a protected right to be whatever gender they wish to be.
I mean it's partially because my personal life has forced me to accept gender as something fluid -- or else I will cease to be -- but there's just something deathly absurd about having separate stipulations in your male and female dress codes when the right of your employees to switch between the two is protected
Congratulations -- you've blown open the bizarre world of gender restrictions and their peculiar institutions.
It's a stupid policy. It's also Safeway's policy, and it's not going to change, or at least I seriously doubt you're going to be the one who changes it. I'm sure if they could legally discriminate against transgender people, they'd do that, too, but in this regard the courts have ruled against employers.
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SODOMISE INTOLERANCE
Tide goes in. Tide goes out.
You'll have good times, bad times, find love, have zany adventures, break down at some point, and cherish the experience for the rest of your life.
Unless you're in a horror road trip movie then expect to run into an abandoned middle of nowhere place where slack-jawed rednecks hunt you down for fun.
Let's have a pastel pajama party where we all wear pastel pajamas and paint each other's toenails with pastel colors!
I... might bring a .38 revolver and stick it in the glove compartment.
I can do the first one, but it takes too much effort in my rubber-soled shoes. Don't know the second one very well, yet, but this girl was trying to teach it to me earlier, and I picked up some things.
You played the demo, so you know basically how the game plays. Basically expand that to include other areas, some special missions, a thin storyline about Joan of Arc, and hours of leveling about 20 different kinds of units and that's the game.
If you hate repetition or found that what you did played could get old after a while it will.
But you need to realize the demo you played is basically how the entirety of the game plays, with more units of course. Including elephants, ninjas, guns, and magic users.
If that's not enough for you, I would recommend waiting until it's cheaper or rent it.
One of the psychopaths may be or pretend to be a cop, be forewarned.
Don't go for the .38 special. That's just asking for trouble.
Where'd you decide to go?
Haha -- I'm a better dancer than you, fucker. Both those steps are easy as shit, and I don't even take dance classes. So nyah.
No man!, shut up I feel so dumb
How 'bout you give me one more chance?
She don't want your revolution if she can't dance (whoa-oh-ohh)
She don't want your revolution if she can't dance (whoa-oh-ohh) :whistle:
I can do them, but I'm not comfortable enough to do them with a partner, and with turns and such, so not really do them.
I'm going to go to Cincinnati first and visit some old friends, run through Dayton and see my ex's sister's baby and drop off her crap, and then over to Boston to visit another friend, circling around and head south to NJ to visit Mike and nexus and Var and such this weekend mayhaps.
today there will be the re-reading of books, the making of lists of more books that need to be re-read, and the general mewling of cats.
Worse, an irrational hobo.
around the world around the world
my favorite part of the song <3
I love you so much Mike. Soon, very soon, I will be able to show you that love.
The Safeway next to my house has a transgendered man who works there, so obviously it's something with some flexibility. Don't look to the law to back you up, though.
it's in their best interest not to bring it up
EDIT: I wouldn't be looking to existing law, I'd be looking to the ACLU and setting precedent myself.
Tattoos -- I was just reading an article about the growth of tattoos (maybe in the New York Times?) among young people, that's where I just read this. Courts have been pretty consistent in finding in favor of the employer. Deal with it.
hehehe
It's a stupid policy. It's also Safeway's policy, and it's not going to change, or at least I seriously doubt you're going to be the one who changes it. I'm sure if they could legally discriminate against transgender people, they'd do that, too, but in this regard the courts have ruled against employers.
C'est la vie.
I'm laughing really hard at anybody who thinks it counts as an insult. It ranks up with calling someone an "idiotic twit."