so i fixed our sink. water was only coming through the hose, rather than the tap. i got a new shower head for the sink, and replaced the hose underneath and sealed it against leaks.
it is kind of ridiculous how good it felt. i don't give a shit about plumbing, and it was a relatively simple DIY project- but completing it felt amazing. it's amazing how, after such a long stretch of unemployment, accomplishing anything measurable and examinable feels like you have worth again.
come replace my tail light!
hold on let me find a really bright pair of briefs. gonna cabana boy it up.
My housemate's boyfriend did just that once. Something was wrong with the washing machine and I was on one of my weekends in France, so she rang her gentleman of the moment and he turned up shirtless and wearing a toolbelt, announcing himself with "I'm here to fix your washing machine".
I wish he'd also had a moustache. And that he ever did anything nearly as entertaining ever again.
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so i fixed our sink. water was only coming through the hose, rather than the tap. i got a new shower head for the sink, and replaced the hose underneath and sealed it against leaks.
it is kind of ridiculous how good it felt. i don't give a shit about plumbing, and it was a relatively simple DIY project- but completing it felt amazing. it's incredible how, after such a long stretch of unemployment, accomplishing anything measurable and examinable feels like you have worth again.
yesssss
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So the Republicans sat down and had a thoughtgul discussion of policy?
:P
i heard that they all turned viciously on Reagan
and that they started trying to hash out new revenue sources and targeting wasteful military expenditures in keeping with their agreed-upon goal of reducing the deficit.
are we testing out the vanilla plugin that lets us post from alternate universes
let's talk about how awesome the star wars prequels were. I can't decide if I liked the one directed by david fincher or the one directed by steven spielberg best!
Man, System Shock 5 was amazing.
Origin really does make the best games.
It helped that Peter Molyneux came over to write SHODAN's dialogue for the escape pod sequences.
I played that with my sister! it was great.
fuck I just depressed myself
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now, in your defense, kakos weighs a lot more than you and he kind of had your back against the proverbial wall... but after a few minutes you guys were chatting away fervently about the rules and rare, lawyery exceptions. you don't fool me.
then you came up to our room and ate domino's!
god.
you probably got an orange scooter so the cheeto dust wouldn't be conspicuous.
yess
i did my best to stay above all the dorkery at pax
but you bastards dragged me in
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so i fixed our sink. water was only coming through the hose, rather than the tap. i got a new shower head for the sink, and replaced the hose underneath and sealed it against leaks.
it is kind of ridiculous how good it felt. i don't give a shit about plumbing, and it was a relatively simple DIY project- but completing it felt amazing. it's amazing how, after such a long stretch of unemployment, accomplishing anything measurable and examinable feels like you have worth again.
come replace my tail light!
hold on let me find a really bright pair of briefs. gonna cabana boy it up.
My housemate's boyfriend did just that once. Something was wrong with the washing machine and I was on one of my weekends in France, so she rang her gentleman of the moment and he turned up shirtless and wearing a toolbelt, announcing himself with "I'm here to fix your washing machine".
I wish he'd also had a moustache. And that he ever did anything nearly as entertaining ever again.
now, in your defense, kakos weighs a lot more than you and he kind of had your back against the proverbial wall... but after a few minutes you guys were chatting away fervently about the rules and rare, lawyery exceptions. you don't fool me.
then you came up to our room and ate domino's!
god.
you probably got an orange scooter so the cheeto dust wouldn't be conspicuous.
yess
i did my best to stay above all the dorkery at pax
but you bastards dragged me in
well in our defense, we can't really help it. we're so fat we have a pretty strong orbital attraction coefficient.
A man recently called selling stickers that said "NO JUNK MAIL". He said he was out of work and this was his money making idea.
He produced a pedlar's certificate allowing door to door sales. He claimed the sticker would slash junk through the door by 80%. I wasn't totally convinced but I admired his enterprise and paid £1.
The sticker is now by the front door. There are fewer pizza fliers but people collecting clothes and other items ostensibly for charity continue to batter my doormat with plastic bags and leaflets.
Some, like the bag from Barnardo's, would save me taking unwanted books, CDs and other items to their shop. I have no problem with this — or similar bags from British Heart Foundation or Age UK.
But over the past ten days, I have received three leaflets asking for items such as clothes, handbags, jewellery, perfumes and mobile telephones but refusing books and CDs.
One is headed: "Third World Clothing Collection — Please Help Those Who Really Need Your Support." followed by "Can you spare any of your old unwanted clothes which will be sent to the Third World where the garments will be carefully sorted and worn again."
Another said: "Your donations are sent to third world countries to help clothe the poor." And the third said: "If you can donate any for [sic] your old and unwanted clothes, you can help people in Third World Countries. Spared clothes will be carefully sorted and worn again."
Like many people, I probably have clothes I no longer wear. So why not give them to people in poorer countries? It would be an act of charity. And that is what I am supposed to think with words like "donate" and "help".
But these fliers do not come from a charity. Instead, they are sent out by Rutex Ltd, a commercial firm. There is a company rather than a charity registration number — few will notice this.
Rutex even makes its commercial activities sound charitable. It says: "Your donations are sent to the third world countries to help clothe the poor. Our company provides jobs in the sorting of clothes for distribution. It provides business for the the UK export and transport companies. It provides employment for the UK factories grading the clothes and people collecting the bags door to door."
Translated that means: You give us items for free. We sell them in street markets in poorer countries. We make a profit. We use an old van. We pay a few people to collect the bags (you have to provide your own) and sort the clothes into the sellable and what will go for rags.
Of course, if you throw out anything really good, it will be sold in a vintage clothing shop in the UK. And mobile phones, even models from three or four years ago, fetch good money abroad.
Rutex was incorporated on May 1, 2009 giving an address in east London. It had one director, Gintaras Ragauskas, a Lithuanian, now aged 43. Rutex never bothered with legal niceties such as filing annual returns or accounts to Companies House. The company was dissolved on December 14, 2010.
So a collection that would seem — and is designed to appear — charitable is from a company that no longer exists. Using the name and number of a dissolved company is a criminal offence.
Rutex has flouted the rules almost from its first day. A few months after it was set up, the Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint from a member of the public who "objected that the ad was misleading because it implied that Rutex was a charity".
Rutex did not reply to the ASA. The ASA said in September 2009:
The ASA was concerned by Rutex's lack of response and apparent disregard for the Code, which was a breach of CAP Code clause 2.6 (Non-response). We reminded them of their responsibility to respond promptly to our enquiries and told them to do so in future.
We noted the ad did not make clear that clothing collected was sold for profit and considered that the claim "Not everyone and especially young families can afford to buy new, often expensive clothes, shoes and household things. We would be grateful if you could kindydonate [sic]" misleadingly implied that Rutex was a charity.
The ASA ruled that the flier must not appear again in this form.
Rutex ignored the ASA and continues to this day to use circulars with the same or similar wording. It ignores company law. It ignores the law that says door to door collections require a local authority permit. It flouts everything.
ZampanovYou May Not Go HomeUntil Tonight Has Been MagicalRegistered Userregular
edited June 2011
so I'm watching Wire In The Blood and the second season intro seems like someone at BBC watched Seven and wanted that intro so hard they didn't care that they didn't have the budget for neat lettering and trent reznor.
it was in those days, the chu days, where gravity ran heavy and people could be open with their souls and minds for we were all together and could not think of a better place to be, except for chu who thought with madness in his heart that maybe friendship was over rated and selfish athleticism was the way to happiness
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so I'm watching Wire In The Blood and the second season intro seems like someone at BBC watched Seven and wanted that intro so hard they didn't care that they didn't have the budget for neat lettering and trent reznor.
How is that show? Netflix has been recommending it to me.
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I don't want visible abs, I want little to no stomach fat so I'm flat and pretty
I sat down to tune my best commander deck for an event tomorrow night and discovered not only had I already made the tune-ups I was thinking about, I must have been angry when I did so because the deck is aggressive as fuck.
All the Jackal Pups? All the Jackal Pups.
All the Jackal Pups? All the Jackal Pups.
In commander?
More like
trolololol
Glod, I miss MtG.
This looks to be as much fun as the Goblin Fanatic + Furnace of Rath combo.
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so I'm watching Wire In The Blood and the second season intro seems like someone at BBC watched Seven and wanted that intro so hard they didn't care that they didn't have the budget for neat lettering and trent reznor.
How is that show? Netflix has been recommending it to me.
I like it. I don't know how much of that is it being actually interesting and how much is just the novelty of a slightly different culture the police procedural is taking place in. I also like the format approach BBC seems to take with them, or at least they have with this and Luther. They treat them more like miniseries than full seasons, which makes it more palatable to me.
so I'm watching Wire In The Blood and the second season intro seems like someone at BBC watched Seven and wanted that intro so hard they didn't care that they didn't have the budget for neat lettering and trent reznor.
How is that show? Netflix has been recommending it to me.
I like it. I don't know how much of that is it being actually interesting and how much is just the novelty of a slightly different culture the police procedural is taking place in. I also like the format approach BBC seems to take with them, or at least they have with this and Luther. They treat them more like miniseries than full seasons, which makes it more palatable to me.
how many episodes of luther have you watched?
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edited June 2011
I literally just watched the hustler the other day
so i started playing this game (oblivion) and i've logged way too many hours in the past few days. i quit LoL for exactly this reason. i might just delete my windows partition altogether. my addictive personality is starting to really get on my nerves. this is why i no longer drink at home. it sucks to feel like i'm powerless against my own urges, that i have to deny myself altogether instead of being an adult who can moderate his consumption.
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My housemate's boyfriend did just that once. Something was wrong with the washing machine and I was on one of my weekends in France, so she rang her gentleman of the moment and he turned up shirtless and wearing a toolbelt, announcing himself with "I'm here to fix your washing machine".
I wish he'd also had a moustache. And that he ever did anything nearly as entertaining ever again.
yesssss
I played that with my sister! it was great.
yess
i did my best to stay above all the dorkery at pax
but you bastards dragged me in
"I think i'll go ahead and throw in a load"
well in our defense, we can't really help it. we're so fat we have a pretty strong orbital attraction coefficient.
self...zing?
I'm sorry I inadvertently led you there.
I've got some stray bread and cheese and coffee and that's basically it
the pax event horizon ends somewhere around brockton
and I can barely see the screen past her
Her best friend moved back here to go to law school a few weeks ago, so we've been talking about her a lot.
That's my quota of anger for the day. :x
i need to get on this level
Scorn and derision in [chat]...
then he logs off and greedily thumbs through his collection of out of print Naruto manga...
then the figure case comes out...
I know a closet-case when I see one
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The only option is substantially longer runs. So, it's ~1.8km around the park. So I'd need to do two laps to make it worthwhile. Hmmmm.
TIME TO FIND SOME TINY SHORTS AND AWFUL EUROPOP
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me regaining visible abs is a lot more important to me than the continued life and liberty of 6.775 billion human beings
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It's a noble goal, but visible abs is just a step too far into bullshit for me to ever bother.
How is that show? Netflix has been recommending it to me.
similar path to either.
Holy shit The Hustler is also available now yesss
honestly it isn't anything new
the only novel thing is the means of contact
yesterday i made an excellent post invoking the hustler about me shooting jacob in the face
you missed it
Luther is pretty good.
Glod, I miss MtG.
This looks to be as much fun as the Goblin Fanatic + Furnace of Rath combo.
I like it. I don't know how much of that is it being actually interesting and how much is just the novelty of a slightly different culture the police procedural is taking place in. I also like the format approach BBC seems to take with them, or at least they have with this and Luther. They treat them more like miniseries than full seasons, which makes it more palatable to me.
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yeah it was pretty good
totally subverted my expectations. it really took a strange turn after kind of pointing in a direction i thought it was gonna run in.
the hustler is a fuckin fantastic movie too.
how many episodes of luther have you watched?
it is a brilliant movie. absolutely fantastic.