Controlled Falling [chat]

RMS Oceanic

Argh, my phone rang and I thought it was the computer shop but it was just my Mum.

Daxon

I think part of our hatred of bankers and well-paid upper corporate management is that they're not hot.

Richy

Kalkino wrote:

Richy wrote:

I am the reincarnation of Cleopatra. A tarot reader at the mall told me so.

Tell us more sexy stories about dat snake Mark Antony

Mark Antony was a level-5 clinger. Couldn't leave me alone for five minutes. Like that one time, he was fighting a naval battle and I was there cheering him on, then I got bored and left, and next thing I know he's taking his entire fleet and following me.

Man, telling him I died was the only way I could get rid of him.

syndalis

Daxon wrote:

I think part of our hatred of bankers and well-paid upper corporate management is that they're not hot.

Greg Giraldo had a bit about how Bill Gates would not have been successful were he hot; that it took a lot of days getting shoved into his own locker before he cried out "fuck you, I am going to own the world of computers!"

I think similar things can apply to the people who decide to say "fuck it, I need to be cutthroat if I plan to succeed, because this mug is gonna get me nowhere"

Richy

syndalis wrote:

Daxon wrote:

I think part of our hatred of bankers and well-paid upper corporate management is that they're not hot.

Greg Giraldo had a bit about how Bill Gates would not have been successful were he hot; that it took a lot of days getting shoved into his own locker before he cried out "fuck you, I am going to own the world of computers!"

I think similar things can apply to the people who decide to say "fuck it, I need to be cutthroat if I plan to succeed, because this mug is gonna get me nowhere"

I like to think that Bill Gates personally hired his former school bullies to work as janitors at Microsoft HQ.

Winky

Okay I just invented a way to make any book title instantly better. You just add "and other fun drinking games" to the end of it.

Examples from my room:
The Blind Watchmaker and other fun drinking games
Integrated Chinese and other fun drinking games
Gravity's Rainbow and other fun drinking games

Robos A Go Go

RMS Oceanic wrote:

Argh, my phone rang and I thought it was the computer shop but it was just my Mum.

You should be happier to talk to your mom.

Did a computer shop carry you in it's womb for nine months? I don't think so.

Abdhyius

Winky wrote:

Okay I just invented a way to make any book title instantly better. You just add "and other fun drinking games" to the end of it.

Examples from my room:
The Blind Watchmaker and other fun drinking games
Integrated Chinese and other fun drinking games
Gravity's Rainbow and other fun drinking games

take this to the patent office

Robos A Go Go

Janitors at Microsoft probably get pretty good benefits.

Too bad I never gave Bill Gates a wedgie

Richy

Winky wrote:

Okay I just invented a way to make any book title instantly better. You just add "and other fun drinking games" to the end of it.

Examples from my room:
The Blind Watchmaker and other fun drinking games
Integrated Chinese and other fun drinking games
Gravity's Rainbow and other fun drinking games

Coping with alcoholism and other fun drinking games

Eddy

Daxon wrote:

I think part of our hatred of bankers and well-paid upper corporate management is that they're not hot.

I'm not entirely sure about this rationale

Daxon

Eddy wrote:

Daxon wrote:

I think part of our hatred of bankers and well-paid upper corporate management is that they're not hot.

I'm not entirely sure about this rationale

Eddy, just go with it

go with it, maaaaaaan

RMS Oceanic

Robos A Go Go wrote:

RMS Oceanic wrote:

Argh, my phone rang and I thought it was the computer shop but it was just my Mum.

You should be happier to talk to your mom.

Did a computer shop carry you in it's womb for nine months? I don't think so.

So you've never waited for days on a phone call and everytime it rings it's not the call you were waiting on.

Robos A Go Go

I Don't know what bankers and CEOs look like.

Aldo

I never tracked my family, but I've been told dad's side came in from France and mom's side from Germany.

Not sure if that's something to be proud of. :P

Eddy

Imagine everyone at your Harvard club suddenly wearing suspenders and Oliver peoples glasses. BAM.

simonwolf

I think my family is pretty much just English, for better or worse

RMS Oceanic

Pureblood Irish Peasantry all up ins.

Sparvy

A mix of scandinavian (finnish, sami, swedish) farmers and miners I would think

Mostly swedish though

Kagera

Pagans and displaced mainlanders is what you lot are

Daxon

I wouldn't be surprised if my ancestors murdered a whole bunch of danes at one point.

simonwolf

actually, my grandmother (before she went dementia-loopy) used to insist that her side of the family came from the Eliott border clan, and had the tartan to prove it, so I guess I am English-Scottish

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

according to my mother we are descended from Napolean

simonwolf

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote:

according to my mother we are descended from Napolean

Are you sure she isn't claiming you are descended from Napoleon

or are you descended from his dyslexic cousin

Kagera

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote:

according to my mother we are descended from Napolean

That explains so much!

No it doesn't.

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot

simonwolf wrote:

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote:

according to my mother we are descended from Napolean

Are you sure she isn't claiming you are descended from Napoleon

or are you descended from his dyslexic cousin

lololo i maek typo

Richy

Dread Pirate Arbuthnot wrote:

according to my mother we are descended from Napolean

Is that the little-known French revolution general that was always 5 minutes behind Napoleon and totally missed out on being emperor of France, instead settling for a peaceful retirement as a baker in Paris?

simonwolf

Typos are hilarious

Aldo

Being an descendant of @Naporeon would be a lot weirder. I mean, the dude's not that old.

simonwolf

My old Pokemon game is filled with descendants of Vaporeon

Leitner

My local has been shut down, and is getting converted into a Tesco's.

That thing had been their for decades.

Nerdgasmic

I'm sorry, leitner

Daxon

TESCO'S THE ALL CONSUMING FEASTS AGAIN

simonwolf

That's a real shame, Leitner, it's always sad when a local fixture gets replaced with something far less charming

evilbob

I've tried to commit suicide.
I've spent extended periods of time on mental health wards.
I've woken up to hallucinations of aliens operating on me.

But I read the shit my little brother posts on facebook about ron paul and chem trails and the gold standard and 9/11 and I feel so incredibly sane.

Daxon

well now I've caught up on Parks and Rec

oh well

nexuscrawler

it's spelled RON PAUL bob

evilbob

I WILL ALL CAPS FUCKING ANYTHING EXCEPT THAT MAN'S NAME.

Abdhyius

holy shit how did I miss this case

the Stavanger child protective service apparently does care about the children in their care

two turkish-norwegian children who had gone into the care of the child protective service and were living with foster parents,

went on a holiday to turkey. Which was a bad idea, as the turkish government didn't let them take the kids back.

Stavanger child protective services smuggled them back, with the help of a private investigator and half a million

When it came to telling his political superiors about this, the guy in charge here thought "they'll probably pussy out" so he simply didn't

What's going down now is how more than half of that half million cannot be accounted for. I mean, it's obviously been used to bribe their way out of turkey, but they can't say that.

Aldo

evilbob wrote:

I've tried to commit suicide.
I've spent extended periods of time on mental health wards.
I've woken up to hallucinations of aliens operating on me.

But I read the shit my little brother posts on facebook about ron paul and chem trails and the gold standard and 9/11 and I feel so incredibly sane.

But you are very sane for someone who has been through so much shit, Bob. You may take that as a compliment.