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  • GnizmoGnizmo Registered User regular
    Never heard of Raising Crane's. Seems like it's Bojangles for the midwest? (or Bojangles is Raising Crane's for the southeast)

    Far as I know it started in Louisiana so I would say not exactly. From what I see on Bojangles menu Raising Canes would be much more specialized. It basically is just about fried chicken and a dipping sauce other people seem to love. Personally I don't get the appeal. The chicken ain't even good, and the sauce doesn't impress me. I am apparently in an extreme minority as people just love that shit around here.

  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Liiya wrote: »
    It's about drunk driving.

    That's ridiculous. And most likely ineffective.

    I grew up in a shitty country town with little else to do besides drink, smoke weed, and fuck. I would confidently estimate that somewhere around 7-8% of all the people that were in the same grade as me in highschool have died from drunk driving at some time in the two decades since, and somewhere around double that would have lost family members to the same.

    It doesn't stop people from drink driving.

    A fake accident at the school would have been openly laughed at and ridiculed forever.

  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Brainleech wrote: »
    Well not really work related but one of things that happens after work
    the police officer whom patrols the area who said I had a warrant {I doubt as the other officers who talked to me while walking home said nothing]
    to which I called the courts and asked if I had a warrant they said I was not on the books. That officer has told me 3 times to go to the precinct and ask if I have a warrant :rotate: not to call in asking
    But he rolls on me after work kindly reminding me as in his words it would be a shame to arrest me over something so petty
    I have reported him to the city task force overseeing police problems but it still is happening
    I have to change where I walk home just to avoid him now again
    Yes yet another part of my life is a living hell I somehow deal with


    Today sucked as tomorrow is the Inventory
    So I had to go in less than 12 hours I got off from last night {I left at 2354 and had to come back at 1000} so other than being a weird day it's going to be sucky tomorrow as we have to wait till they release the store so I can start my job

    How does a person in the US get the phone number for the internal affairs department of their state police force?

  • Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    I'm going to apply at a new restaurant closer to my home than the one at which I currently work and I am doing that at roughly 2 P.M. tomorrow.

    I really don't care about my KM getting transferred away from me; I'm more concerned that I'm considered 'full-time' but I clock less than 35 hours/5 nights so I can't get benefits.

    Also, the executive chef has been on vacation for a week and decided to come back and lay down some sort of law about cleaning practices that should have been mandatory, but haven't been enforced in the three months I've been there.

    The guy cleaning the sandwich/burger station used about two gallons of sanitizer to flush out his well after removing the drawers; two burger patties came out, black and rotting, and I wanted to vomit at the sight of them.

    Whatever you do, don't go to eat at the BJ's Brewhouse in Addison, TX on Belt Line Road just west of the Dallas North Tollway.

    I don't know exactly how long it takes for ground beef to turn black at 35 degrees Farenheit (1.6 Celsisus), but I know that it takes at least a week.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Brainleech wrote: »
    Well not really work related but one of things that happens after work
    the police officer whom patrols the area who said I had a warrant {I doubt as the other officers who talked to me while walking home said nothing]
    to which I called the courts and asked if I had a warrant they said I was not on the books. That officer has told me 3 times to go to the precinct and ask if I have a warrant :rotate: not to call in asking
    But he rolls on me after work kindly reminding me as in his words it would be a shame to arrest me over something so petty
    I have reported him to the city task force overseeing police problems but it still is happening
    I have to change where I walk home just to avoid him now again
    Yes yet another part of my life is a living hell I somehow deal with


    Today sucked as tomorrow is the Inventory
    So I had to go in less than 12 hours I got off from last night {I left at 2354 and had to come back at 1000} so other than being a weird day it's going to be sucky tomorrow as we have to wait till they release the store so I can start my job

    How does a person in the US get the phone number for the internal affairs department of their state police force?

    Google, presumably. There's not a well known easily accessible database if that's what you're asking.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    Darkewolfe wrote: »
    Look, I learned driving from Mad Max. I'm only taking constructive criticism from his superior, So It Goes.

    Out here, everything hurts

    (brake before the turn not during!)

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Because of the shoot first and answer questions later attitude of the police and the Justice Dept stepped in to fix that they set up a civilian oversight committee to help build the trust of the community back into the police and try to be the first place you talk to before contacting the internal affairs of the ABQ police
    Just the police are actively resisting the justice dept over it's changes and the COC
    I have contacted them over officer #2980 and his harassment of me a few times since the 2nd time
    Just his silly hint of I should go to the precinct and inquire is silly I know better
    I think he harasses me because I walk and he thinks I am homeless/dirt poor because the city has a huge homeless problem as of late and is poorly handling it

  • GnizmoGnizmo Registered User regular
    Brainleech wrote: »
    Well not really work related but one of things that happens after work
    the police officer whom patrols the area who said I had a warrant {I doubt as the other officers who talked to me while walking home said nothing]
    to which I called the courts and asked if I had a warrant they said I was not on the books. That officer has told me 3 times to go to the precinct and ask if I have a warrant :rotate: not to call in asking
    But he rolls on me after work kindly reminding me as in his words it would be a shame to arrest me over something so petty
    I have reported him to the city task force overseeing police problems but it still is happening
    I have to change where I walk home just to avoid him now again
    Yes yet another part of my life is a living hell I somehow deal with


    Today sucked as tomorrow is the Inventory
    So I had to go in less than 12 hours I got off from last night {I left at 2354 and had to come back at 1000} so other than being a weird day it's going to be sucky tomorrow as we have to wait till they release the store so I can start my job

    How does a person in the US get the phone number for the internal affairs department of their state police force?

    The problem with trying this stuff against the police in the US is they tend to escalate, and escalate hard. My dad once filed a complaint. He was beaten after they handcuffed him while arresting him for various traffic crimes cause he was being an asshole, but not violent. He sold his car a few weeks later. He couldn't even make it to a gas station without being pulled over at least once. That is the kindest response I have seen to a serious complaint being filed. Admittedly it supposedly has gotten a lot better here in the time since then, and I don't personally know of any major scandals. Point being that if they want to make your life miserable, they have a number of ways to do it. Be very careful how much you piss them off, and weigh it against what you might have to deal with.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    So It Goes wrote: »
    Darkewolfe wrote: »
    Look, I learned driving from Mad Max. I'm only taking constructive criticism from his superior, So It Goes.

    Out here, everything hurts

    (brake before the turn not during!)

    Sorry, I learned everything about driving from the classic documentary Tokyo Drift

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    So It Goes wrote: »
    (brake before the turn not during!)

    Trail braking is a valid technique for cars that understeer. You brake heavily in a straight line before turn-in, but you do not release the brakes completely, you maintain a little bit of drag on the front wheels to keep the weight transfer hard on them and force them into the asphalt to increase turn-in. It's mostly useful on cars that understeer badly, like front wheel drive Audis or Nissan Pulsar GTiRs.

  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    The tiny lion cub survived the night. This morning it was seen on the move with the 5 bigger (~6 month) cubs. Which is kind of good, at least it is with other lions again. But still feels like something is wrong because such a small cub should not be moving around without its mother. So I still don't hold much hope for the little one.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2017
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    I feel like we need a follow up on that, dude

    what manner of camp was this?

    Ok, so I'll elaborate on all of this. I don't think I've ever told this story here, could be wrong. It's not super pleasant, at the time I had my large intestines and was undergoing extremely large doses of prednisone. So large that in order to get people at the camp to recognize me (as this was my 2nd time at the camp) I had to tell them my AIM screenname. And that also instantly dates this story. This was also the session that someone stole a counselor's cigarette's and we sat in an un-airconditioned mess hall in the sweltering Alabama summer for hours while the staff ineffectively tried to force a confession out of the entire camp. I learned a lot on "how to not be a leader" from this session.

    This was an Episcopal Summer camp for people entering highschool at the 10th grade to 12th grade. It was about 10 days long, whereabouts.

    When we arrived at camp on the first day they did a small survey and didn't tell us the significance of it. Basically it was a bunch of filler questions and one about eye color. I dunno how many of ya'll have stared deeply into my eyes, but the best way to describe mine would be 'hazel'. Keep in mind that I could have easily gone with either green or brown as the name of the color of my eyes is fairly arbitrary. It's greenish brown.

    At the very first big group meeting we were told that we had been seperated into groups. Cool, cool. And they started passing out monopoly bucks. Like, literal monopoly bucks. They had a couple games of monopoly there and were bulling the dollars out as needed for this. They told us we were being seperated according to our eye color. And, accordingly, this meant that certain eye colors got a lot of monopoly bucks. And some eye colors got practically no monopoly bucks. Blue eyes got the most, green and brown got an average amount. Hazel got the absolute ass worst. But you could do favors or chores for the staff and get more dollars, or you could trade the bucks among yourselves!

    So what could you get with this monopoly money? Really, basically nothing. Premimum spots by the pool. Reserve sitting in the mess hall. Access to a 'country club' which just a house on the property that had proper A/C, a small CRT with built in VCR, and the Goonies. That was about it. You could only buy status symbols or very very minor concessions about "saving a spot" with the monopoly bucks. But since these are teenagers and the monopoly bux translated into a literal, tangible status symbol...things started to get out of hand. Some people outright sold their monopoly bucks for real cash. At least one kid sold himself into slavery for monopoly bux. A few girls were offering kisses for monopoly bux. One girl started to say she would flash you her boobs for a certain amount of cash.

    Annnnnnd that's when they called the experiment to an end. It had gone on far too long (over half the session at least). I am not proud to say I did a lot of extra chores to earn the 'privilege' of getting into the 'country club'....then I realized how dumb it was (I hated the goonies) and became very very bitter about the whole endeavor. It also didn't help that half the counselors were being super rigid about things and half of them would just give you bux if they liked you. And those guys sure as hell didn't like me.

    So yeah. That's that story.

    Munkus Beaver on
    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    I don't know, it seems like they managed an accurate portrayal of the lessons of capitalism while also tying in and conveying the overarching theme of the game of Monopoly at the same time.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Fishman wrote: »
    I don't know, it seems like they managed an accurate portrayal of the lessons of capitalism while also tying in and conveying the overarching theme of the game of Monopoly at the same time.

    Nah man, it was mainly bully enabling for both the campers and counselors. Counselors used it in a variety of assholish ways and the campers (who at every other session I went to were great) became massive bullies about lording the status symbols around. It went from "let's teach people not to discriminate" to creating an environment that fostered and encouraged bullying.

    They used eye-color as a stand-in for race and then provided little to no direction after setting us on our way. It was an absolute nightmare to be a part of and it has largely informed my own style of leadership regarding how to treat adolescents.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I don't mean to be snappy, @Fishman . I apologize if I am coming off as such. The experiment was intended to cause discrimination, just not to the degree that it occurred. I dunno, I guess we were supposed to be annoyed that some people got better seats at lunch and the pool and leave it at that? But the same damn thing that happened in the Stanford Prison Experiment, or the Third Wave experiment, or any number of other likewise experiments occurred: They took a group of adolescents and said "This group of you is superior to that group of you" and then set them loose.

    And also: they didn't end the experiment because of the bullying or the discrimination that was happening. I have no idea how long the thing would have kept running if some of the girls hadn't started a game of chicken about which part they could sell for monopoly money.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    Oh yeah, that's a completely droll and deadpan snark expression of bemused facepalming ineptitude at those idiots.

    "I know. let's come up with a bullshit activity that wouldn't pass muster at a highschool ethics committee to encourage reflecting on inequality without either following that line of thought to its logical conclusion or even reflecting on it ourselves before (or after) it blew up in our faces".

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Is there any game that successfully teaches you about something awful? It seems most are like Monopoly where the only thing people get out of it are a bad time and hatred of other players. The alternative is worse imo. A game about something awful that makes it fun.

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    Is there any game that successfully teaches you about something awful? It seems most are like Monopoly where the only thing people get out of it are a bad time and hatred of other players. The alternative is worse imo. A game about something awful that makes it fun.

    Well, if we include video games, Crusader Kings 2 does a pretty good job of teaching you about feudalism

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    edited May 2017
    There's also a fairly compelling parlour game about colonialism called Dog Eat Dog

    But I don't know if that counts as "fun"

    Platy on
  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    Is there any game that successfully teaches you about something awful? It seems most are like Monopoly where the only thing people get out of it are a bad time and hatred of other players. The alternative is worse imo. A game about something awful that makes it fun.

    So Cards Against Humanity.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    Is there any game that successfully teaches you about something awful? It seems most are like Monopoly where the only thing people get out of it are a bad time and hatred of other players. The alternative is worse imo. A game about something awful that makes it fun.

    Well, if we include video games, Crusader Kings 2 does a pretty good job of teaching you about feudalism

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrath_of_the_Gods

    I played this game all the fucking time as a kid and it's literally what got me super interested into mythology.

    No, i don't care that this isn't something awful. I yearn to learn.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • Anon the FelonAnon the Felon In bat country.Registered User regular
    Brainleech wrote: »
    Well not really work related but one of things that happens after work
    the police officer whom patrols the area who said I had a warrant {I doubt as the other officers who talked to me while walking home said nothing]
    to which I called the courts and asked if I had a warrant they said I was not on the books. That officer has told me 3 times to go to the precinct and ask if I have a warrant :rotate: not to call in asking
    But he rolls on me after work kindly reminding me as in his words it would be a shame to arrest me over something so petty
    I have reported him to the city task force overseeing police problems but it still is happening
    I have to change where I walk home just to avoid him now again
    Yes yet another part of my life is a living hell I somehow deal with


    Today sucked as tomorrow is the Inventory
    So I had to go in less than 12 hours I got off from last night {I left at 2354 and had to come back at 1000} so other than being a weird day it's going to be sucky tomorrow as we have to wait till they release the store so I can start my job

    This is some red hot bullshit.

  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    Had this crazy patient who said he was about to throw up but we didn't have any barf bags near by, all I had was his tiny water cup by the bedside I handed it to him and said "if you spew spew into this." He then proceeded to vomit about half a liter which u then had to clean up.

    Later we had this drunk old Russian guy who hit his head. He said he was difficult to get an IV on and the paramedics couldn't get one. One of the guy nurses put one in right away and goes "look at that, first try." The patient replies in his thick Russian accent "you know how I knew you would get it? Because you have the biggest dick here!" The nurse of course replies "how'd you know!?"

    bnet: TheStig#1787 Steam: TheStig
  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    Is there any game that successfully teaches you about something awful? It seems most are like Monopoly where the only thing people get out of it are a bad time and hatred of other players. The alternative is worse imo. A game about something awful that makes it fun.

    Well, if we include video games, Crusader Kings 2 does a pretty good job of teaching you about feudalism

    Kerbal Space Program teaches you about stranding cute little dudes to an eternity of solitude in cold darkness because you didn't pay enough attention in physics classes!

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    I don't know, space exploration seems more awesome than awful! So far there was only one occasion in which humans have died horribly in space

  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    How is my day going?

    I put glue traps down to try and combat our severe roach problem, and one of them caught a gecko, and I had to kill it with a rock.

    That's how my day is going.

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    The newest expansion for Crusader Kings 2 has a feature called secret cults - which means can now practice a different religion from their professed one in private

    And since secret cults can be a real danger to your game plan you feel compelled to mount an inquisition and root out the cult by burning half of your nobility at the stake

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    How is my day going?

    I put glue traps down to try and combat our severe roach problem, and one of them caught a gecko, and I had to kill it with a rock.

    That's how my day is going.

    Oh no Smof

  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    Is there any game that successfully teaches you about something awful? It seems most are like Monopoly where the only thing people get out of it are a bad time and hatred of other players. The alternative is worse imo. A game about something awful that makes it fun.

    Freedom the Underground Railroad is a co op boardgame that teaches about. slavery being awful.

    Twilight Struggle is a head to head boardgame that teaches about the Cold War.

    There are other examples but those two stand out to me.The COIN series is interesting as well.

  • Kane Red RobeKane Red Robe Master of Magic ArcanusRegistered User regular
    The newest expansion for Crusader Kings 2 has a feature called secret cults - which means can now practice a different religion from their professed one in private

    And since secret cults can be a real danger to your game plan you feel compelled to mount an inquisition and root out the cult by burning half of your nobility at the stake

    It was somewhere between "Damn, another useless daughter." and "Hey, I can totally inherit this title, all I have to do is murder three children." that I realized the game had done it's job too well.

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    How is my day going?

    I put glue traps down to try and combat our severe roach problem, and one of them caught a gecko, and I had to kill it with a rock.

    That's how my day is going.

    Oh no Smof

    I still remember how upset you were when I relayed on the forums that I had (unsuccessfully) made an attempt to kill a spider

  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    I don't know, space exploration seems more awesome than awful! So far there was only one occasion in which humans have died horribly in space

    You sure about that? I reckon Vladimir Komarov might disagree with you. (be advised, if you Google him, you may see pictures of the charred remains of his corpse)

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    He died after re-entering the earth's atmosphere, not in space

  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    TheStig wrote: »
    Had this crazy patient who said he was about to throw up but we didn't have any barf bags near by, all I had was his tiny water cup by the bedside I handed it to him and said "if you spew spew into this." He then proceeded to vomit about half a liter which u then had to clean up.

    Later we had this drunk old Russian guy who hit his head. He said he was difficult to get an IV on and the paramedics couldn't get one. One of the guy nurses put one in right away and goes "look at that, first try." The patient replies in his thick Russian accent "you know how I knew you would get it? Because you have the biggest dick here!" The nurse of course replies "how'd you know!?"

    Your stories are pretty fucking great

  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Last week, I felt my face go weird.

    This week, it happened again. I mulled over one friend having similar symptoms and suggesting a dentist. Staring at my face in a site's bathroom mirror, I noticed the scar of an ingrown hair on my face.

    Ingrown hairs resemble pimples, which in turn resemble boils.

    Such as I had in college when I had an ingrown toenail that became infected......I'm seeing the dentist this week.

    I also realized that losing feeling in your ring and pinky fingers on a regular basis when you wake up is a bad thing.

  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    He died after re-entering the earth's atmosphere, not in space

    Well if you're gonna be picky like that, technically no-one has ever died from drink-driving. They died from the injuries sustained in the crash.

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    edited May 2017
    There was one accident in which humans died in outer space, that is beyond the Kármán line which marks the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space

    For the purposes of my statement, anything below the Kármán line is not "in space"

    [edit]

    I mean, he died by crashing into the ground

    The ground is not in space

    Platy on
  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    I would posit that anyone who died in a spaceship that is not sitting stationary on the ground is close enough to call a death in space. Challenger and Columbia, for example.

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    You could call it a death during spaceflight or maybe a spaceflight-related death

    But they were not physically in space

  • JoolanderJoolander Registered User regular
    In space, no one can hear you die

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