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the worst that usually happens is that we cut a few people off, pay attention to how a couple others are doing, throw some people out
but most times there is a friend who is slightly less drunk who manages to drag people with them when they've had enough.
and "throwing out" is a bit hyperbolic - it's mostly "suggest that maybe it's time to end the night" and if that's unsuccessful tell them that it is time to end the night and that's final and coax them into leaving
a normal shift is messing about with the candles, shooting the shit, enjoy the company of a lot of lovely girls, chat with charming drunks, see how tall towers of beer glasses I can carry around (broke my record tonight! I got to 20!), drink a lot of bad coffee, eat a lot of popcorn and warm buns, get hit on by guests, get a nice fuzzy feeling from how many people leave happy and saying it's been awesome.
The bitch tonight was def the worst ever by far. She was fantastically aggravating.
Good pranks should be mild and relatively harmless, although some embarrassment is not completely out of order. Some of the pranks that were played on submarines were essentially hazing, for example. If it results in someone getting beat up, it ceases to be a prank.
Most of the pranks were harmless though.
Although.
When I was stealing people's coveralls while they were asleep and festooning them with epic applications of plastic gems with a bedazzler before replacing their coveralls, I did catch one guy such that he had to report to control to take the watch in his festive uniform.
That was probably more than slightly embarrassing.
My only regret is that I was not there in control to see him report to my department head (who was officer of the deck) and request permission to relieve the watch as sonar supervisor.
the worst that usually happens is that we cut a few people off, pay attention to how a couple others are doing, throw some people out
but most times there is a friend who is slightly less drunk who manages to drag people with them when they've had enough.
and "throwing out" is a bit hyperbolic - it's mostly "suggest that maybe it's time to end the night" and if that's unsuccessful tell them that it is time to end the night and that's final and coax them into leaving
a normal shift is messing about with the candles, shooting the shit, enjoy the company of a lot of lovely girls, chat with charming drunks, see how tall towers of beer glasses I can carry around (broke my record tonight! I got to 20!), drink a lot of bad coffee, eat a lot of popcorn and warm buns, get hit on by guests, get a nice fuzzy feeling from how many people leave happy and saying it's been awesome.
The bitch tonight was def the worst ever by far. She was fantastically aggravating.
Yeah, overall that sounds pretty good. I don't think I've ever seen a bouncer at a bar around here. The bars close at 1am though, not really a significant number of hours to get violently drunk (although I'm sure people do).
when we got recruits in the army there was some nascent ideas for fucking with them but then the NCOs and officers told us, with a sadistic anticipatory gleam in their eyes, that anything we did to them would result in a lot worse happening to us
we were super nice to them, actually
made them waffles when they got off the bus, jet-lagged cold and apprehensive, and told them it was all straight downhill like a cliff from here.
Good pranks should be mild and relatively harmless, although some embarrassment is not completely out of order. Some of the pranks that were played on submarines were essentially hazing, for example. If it results in someone getting beat up, it ceases to be a prank.
Most of the pranks were harmless though.
Although.
When I was stealing people's coveralls while they were asleep and festooning them with epic applications of plastic gems with a bedazzler before replacing their coveralls, I did catch one guy such that he had to report to control to take the watch in his festive uniform.
That was probably more than slightly embarrassing.
My only regret is that I was not there in control to see him report to my department head (who was officer of the deck) and request permission to relieve the watch as sonar supervisor.
and then the cob made him go outside while you guys were underwater?
the worst that usually happens is that we cut a few people off, pay attention to how a couple others are doing, throw some people out
but most times there is a friend who is slightly less drunk who manages to drag people with them when they've had enough.
and "throwing out" is a bit hyperbolic - it's mostly "suggest that maybe it's time to end the night" and if that's unsuccessful tell them that it is time to end the night and that's final and coax them into leaving
a normal shift is messing about with the candles, shooting the shit, enjoy the company of a lot of lovely girls, chat with charming drunks, see how tall towers of beer glasses I can carry around (broke my record tonight! I got to 20!), drink a lot of bad coffee, eat a lot of popcorn and warm buns, get hit on by guests, get a nice fuzzy feeling from how many people leave happy and saying it's been awesome.
The bitch tonight was def the worst ever by far. She was fantastically aggravating.
Yeah, overall that sounds pretty good. I don't think I've ever seen a bouncer at a bar around here. The bars close at 1am though, not really a significant number of hours to get violently drunk (although I'm sure people do).
this lady is the first violent drunk I've encountered here, actually. A good while ago the singer in the band playing got way too drunk and became an asshole but we defused that by letting him rant in the streets for a while and then getting him to fuck off with a white lie about the neighbours calling the police.
Beer sales close at 02:30 and everybody has to be out by 03:00 but the people who were going to get too drunk have already gotten too drunk an hour before that usually.
and well, I say bouncer mostly because well, we bounce people, but generally our job is just being doormen and just keeping an eye on things, in case something happens.
also she punched like... well, like a girl, by definition, but I don't know any girls who punch that badly.
Which was good for her because she closed her fist around her thumb so if she had managed to punch me in a way that would have hurt she'd probably have broken her thumb.
also we would have gone into "fuck diplomacy" mode and dragged her out of there in a very painful fashion.
sigh. Handling shit like one should isn't all that satisfying.
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I do like drunk people
and the people I work with are fantastic people
the worst that usually happens is that we cut a few people off, pay attention to how a couple others are doing, throw some people out
but most times there is a friend who is slightly less drunk who manages to drag people with them when they've had enough.
and "throwing out" is a bit hyperbolic - it's mostly "suggest that maybe it's time to end the night" and if that's unsuccessful tell them that it is time to end the night and that's final and coax them into leaving
a normal shift is messing about with the candles, shooting the shit, enjoy the company of a lot of lovely girls, chat with charming drunks, see how tall towers of beer glasses I can carry around (broke my record tonight! I got to 20!), drink a lot of bad coffee, eat a lot of popcorn and warm buns, get hit on by guests, get a nice fuzzy feeling from how many people leave happy and saying it's been awesome.
The bitch tonight was def the worst ever by far. She was fantastically aggravating.
Matrix 2.
I mean his name is JASON BATEMAN.
I guess he's a semi-successful comedic actor, so at least he's probably still a psychopath.
Most of the pranks were harmless though.
Although.
When I was stealing people's coveralls while they were asleep and festooning them with epic applications of plastic gems with a bedazzler before replacing their coveralls, I did catch one guy such that he had to report to control to take the watch in his festive uniform.
That was probably more than slightly embarrassing.
My only regret is that I was not there in control to see him report to my department head (who was officer of the deck) and request permission to relieve the watch as sonar supervisor.
The movie Cube.
Ice Cube.
Just kidding.
He's great.
gasp
The movie Gleaming the Cube.
woah woah woah
he and mike meyers had to take classes
80s hair bands
Yeah, overall that sounds pretty good. I don't think I've ever seen a bouncer at a bar around here. The bars close at 1am though, not really a significant number of hours to get violently drunk (although I'm sure people do).
we were super nice to them, actually
made them waffles when they got off the bus, jet-lagged cold and apprehensive, and told them it was all straight downhill like a cliff from here.
Too Human
Alcohol.
Am I doing this right?
and then the cob made him go outside while you guys were underwater?
Queen
Star Wars
Christopher Nolan
all electronic music
Half Life 2
Steam
Arrested Development
Game of Thrones
Dr Who
it's trash but the scene where the AI family talks to keanau about loving their daughter in the subway station?
Six pack of Zima.
God damn I love their mp3 service
on scale from 1 to Cannibalism, how would you rate eating orc meat
ORIGINALLY PLANNED FOR THE N64, IT ONLY TOOK THEM 10 YEARS TO MAKE A DUD.
Ew you like that stuff?
this lady is the first violent drunk I've encountered here, actually. A good while ago the singer in the band playing got way too drunk and became an asshole but we defused that by letting him rant in the streets for a while and then getting him to fuck off with a white lie about the neighbours calling the police.
Beer sales close at 02:30 and everybody has to be out by 03:00 but the people who were going to get too drunk have already gotten too drunk an hour before that usually.
and well, I say bouncer mostly because well, we bounce people, but generally our job is just being doormen and just keeping an eye on things, in case something happens.
but i'll still only give it a seven because i'm a fantasy racist
Are you an orc? Because if so I would rate that at just shy of cannibalism. Because orcs aren't people, silly.
Took Blizzard 11 to do the same thing (Diablo 3)
Jesus Christ Is a Feast for Crows
is one hell of an incendiary anti-Christian propaganda film
Nerds will pop monocles all over the world when I say this, but I liked all three.
Which was good for her because she closed her fist around her thumb so if she had managed to punch me in a way that would have hurt she'd probably have broken her thumb.
also we would have gone into "fuck diplomacy" mode and dragged her out of there in a very painful fashion.
sigh. Handling shit like one should isn't all that satisfying.
Wasn't there something about them making another Eternal Darkness once they were done with the Too Human thing?
Nah, Diablo 2 was fun.
Now that Chris Taylor quit and Silicon Knights is broke, I'd say loot grinding dungeon crawlers are well and truly dead.