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[öde]

How old are you again, homes?

18!

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

That's the problem, I have no plans, and nothing ever happens.

[pwhodges]

But you're talking about it - that's more planning than some people ever manage.

[negative creep]

You cannot drink gin & tonic in winter. It's just not done.

Can I close my eyes and pretend it's summer?


As for the other thing, when I was Dan's age, i felt quite the way he does now. Now I'm 22 and nothing has changed. Sometimes this worries me, but most of the time I have accepted it.

[valley_parade]

Hell yeah you can do that.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

don't worry, Dan!

i'm 21 and more clueless than ever, and i don't think i'm alone in that respect, either.

[tania]

if you are -
a) in school,
b) taking lots of different courses, and
c) enjoying most/all of them
then you are probably the type of person who will be happy doing just about anything so don't worry about the future! everything sorts itself out eventually.

EDIT: actually that applies to people not in school as well. the more interests you have/stuff you like, the more likely you are to really enjoy whatever you end up doing with your life no matter what it is. that in itself is a pretty good sign and also one that you can let yourself relax and not worry about it for now.

[est]

I have very little interest in working for a living.  IT lets me slack off and play with computers, but it is not really something I have specifically chosen as a career path due to wanting to work with computers.  It just funds my activites outside of work.

And Dan, at 18 I had even less of an idea of what I wanted to do with my life than I do now.  Sometimes inspiration strikes people late or not at all.

[Jace]

I feel outcast because I'm 19 and I know exactly what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Anywho retail shit thread,
I work in a hotel, at the front desk.

At least twice a week I could be writing about my worst experience. It seems that each time I think I've experienced the most angry guest, another one pops up.

The best ones are the ones that have Platinum preferred guest status (the highest level). Those guys will bitch and bitch and say they'll call corporate and get the hotel shut down or get people fired. Makes me laugh.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

 contrary to my previous post, i also know exactly what i want to do for the rest of my life.


unfortunately, that thing is "jack shit" and i don't think anyone is hiring for that.

[KvP]

Man, there's all sorts of shit you can jack. Carjackings. Hijackings. Jack Jackings.

[squawk]

I know what I truly want to do with my life and I probably can't do it D:

This does not stop me from trying like a motherfucker though.

[Inlander]

Man, there's all sorts of shit you can jack. Carjackings. Hijackings. Jack Jackings.

Don't forget shipjacking. You can get whole oil-tankers these days if you apply yourself!

[CarrionMan]

Like the Somalians!

[RedLion]

Somalis

[J-cob9000]

I'm about to get a new Mac too

And one of you could buy me one and call it the Wonder Triplets. It would be wonderful. But only if you buy it for me.

[David_Dovey]

Or you could just Jack Off oh come on someone had to say it

[Dazed]

DEAR ANGRY THREAD,

I'm on the verge of taking this computer out on the deck and throwing it 3 stories into the street.

[jodizzle]

Jodizzle: which Toowoomba supermarket are you working at? I spent my last few years of school in T-ba. Glad to be out of there, I have to say.

Ye Olde Cocos, soon to be merged with IGA!  One more week of enjoying my job to go!

(I do not like change)

[CarrionMan]

Somalis

Po-tay-to
Po-tah-to

[ViolentDove]

Who actually says po-tah-to?

[CarrionMan]

People with funny accents.

[Spluff]

Who actually says Tomayto?

[Inlander]

Who actually says po-tah-to?

Nobody. The expression is Tomayto-Tomahto.

Actually either is a valid phrase, seeing as how they both derive from the song "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", by George & Ira Gershwin:

You say potayto and I say potahto
You say tomayto and I say tomahto
Potayto, potahto,
Tomayto, tomahto,
Let's call the whole thing off.

[Inlander]

Agreed nobody actually says "potahto", but I don't think you can say that "tomayto/tomahto" is the expression, seeing as how "potayto/potahto" (along with numerous other couplets) exists in the same source material.

[Emaline]

Re: Jobs sucking/shitty customers



At my work, we have a very strict return policy. If the item is defective, the customer has a 90 day return policy, AS LONG AS THEY HOLD ONE TO THEIR ACTUAL STORE RECEIPT. If the item is not defective, and the customer wants to return it, we can give them 2/3 new store credit(so basically they get 2/3 of the sale price of the item back and that can go towards anything in the store). We do not give cash back on used items(we sell new and used). Refunds are only give on new unopened merchandise.


The other day this youngish guy, with a thick Spanish accent, comes in and wants to return a dvd his girlfriend bought. At the time, only three people were working: myself(a cashier, essentially), this girl named Kristen(also cashier), and my friend Daniel(team leader, so manager on duty). Daniel talks to the guy and tells him that he can get a full exchange towards something else in the store for the dvd, but he can't get cash back. Ok, already Daniel is bending the rule for this guy. The guy says he will have to check with his girlfriend. Ten minutes later this oldish lady comes in, and immediately starts asking why she can't get cash back for her dvd. Kristen tries to calm her, but its not happening. Daniel comes over and explains the situation to the lady. The lady starts screaming and yelling saying that when she bought it she was told that she could return it anytime she wanted to. Kristen, who rang her up, says "I told you that you could return it if it was defective." The lady starts yelling and screaming, asking why she can't return it now, and Daniel once again explains it to her, saying that we aren't Blockbuster, and if we allowed people to do that we'd just be like any movie rental place, except free. She keeps screaming that she wants to return it, so Daniel says "Well, is there anything wrong with it?" to which she replies, without even missing a beat, "Yes, I don't want it."

At this point I can tell that Daniel is pissed, and even arguing. She finally demands the number to someone higher up than him, and he gives her the owner's number. She snatches the card out of his hand, and storms out of the store, stating "I will never shop at this store again!"

About an hour later, I get a call from the owner, laughing about the whole thing. Apparently, the dvd she bought(I tried to stay out of it as much as I could, so I had no idea what dvd it was) was the movie Little Man, and she bought it for her four year old daughter. The owner just said that Daniel did waaay more than he should for that woman, and that he just told her that he isn't changing the store policy for her, and she should have been happy with what she got because he doubted that Daniel would even do that for her again.



TL;DR


"Is the something wrong with it?"
-"Yes, I don't want it."

Sometimes, I weep for humanity.

[tania]

Who actually says Tomayto?

north americans! unless maybe it differs depending on where exactly you are.

[Caleb]

Blog:

One of the library users is literally pressed up against the computer screen to read it.  He is actually rubbing his nose up against the screen.

I don't know what to think about this.

[negative creep]

Maybe he has just very bad eyesight? I had a teacher once who couldn't read shit without his nose touching the paper.

[Caleb]

I don't know.

He had his nose pressed to the keyboard when he was typing stuff as well.

[RedLion]

Who actually says Tomayto?

north americans! unless maybe it differs depending on where exactly you are.

Nah you're right; everywhere in America people say tomayto..at least everywhere I've been, which is everywhere except Maine and Hawaii.

[0bsessions]

Maine says Tomayto, so it's down to Hawaii. Anybody?

[jhocking]

Maybe he has jsut very bad eyesight? I had a teacher once who couldn't read shit without his nose touching the paper.

[CardinalFang]

Maine says Tomayto, so it's down to Hawaii. Anybody?

My gf's parents say tomahto. I think it may be a Richmond, Virginia thing though since I and other Virginians I know all say tomayto.

[CarrionMan]

Hawaiians are mostly Japanese. I'm not sure how they would say that.

[Tom]

Actually the portion of Hawaii's population that are of Japanese ethnicity is 16.7%. This means that a fair number of those people are 2nd and 3rd generation immigrants and as such they have been, to a considerable degree, Americanised.

[Emaline]

I am part Hawaiian. I say tomayto.

[Lunchbox]

Hey Blog thread.
Things been pretty heavy in my head lately. Aside from my laptop dying I have kind of been seeing two boys. This afternoon I told one of these boys that we probably shouldn't see each other any more. This is never fun.
I'm feeding my internet addiction currently at a LAN cafe that smells like every other LAN cafe in the world: like pubescent boys and cheap deodorant. Mmm.

[Elizzybeth]

Maybe not every one... the one I frequented in Italy smelled like cigarettes and unwashed Romanian men.

And hi, blog thread,

I can't decide whether or not I really want to put the effort into applying for a shitty retail job somewhere again.  I'll probably be able to work at the Writing Lab on campus starting in January, but evidently they've got a tutor overload and can only hire me for four or five hours per week, about half of what I'd been hoping for.  That plus loans plus whatever my boyfriend makes will technically keep us afloat, financially, but things may be pretty tight.  Plus I would kind of like to get a moped or a cheap used car because the public transportation system shuts down at 9 p.m. here.  But this quarter I have been up until 3 a.m. most mornings studying (including weekends), only going out with friends once a week and watching maybe one TV show a day.  My course load will be slightly lessened next quarter (full time for a graduate student is 8 units; this quarter, I had 14, and next quarter I'll have 12), but I'm not sure I'm willing to give up all of what very little free time I have.

Also, like most college towns, shitty retail jobs are in short supply because college kids are basically free disposable labor--the first month and a half after we moved here, I put in 40-odd applications, went to four interviews, and didn't get any job.  And not having a vehicle works against me, as I can only work within a couple-mile radius (catch-22: no job=no car, no car=no job).  Rumor has it that Albertsons is always hiring, but I don't think it's elitist of me to say that I'd really rather not bag groceries for minimum wage when, in nine months, I will be able to teach freshman composition at my university.

Mostly, though, I just really hate working retail.

[Social Bacon]

tomayto.

I say potahtah.
I am also hammered.

[Jimmy the Squid]

So today I was at work, my market research career is coming a close (one can only hope) so I've only had a few shifts a week as it is always quiet around this time of year. Anyway, I swung past the big shopping centre/mall thing on the way home because I needed to buy some shampoo and toilet paper. Before I went into the supermarket, some Scottish woman pulled me aside and roped me into doing this blind taste test thing. She asked me a couple of questions about what kind of foods I generally like and then gave me an icecream to eat. Just a vanilla Drumstick, nothing incredible but it was free and it tasted ok so I wasn't displeased. Anyway after I finished it I answered some more questions about the actual ice cream and then she gave me thirty dollars.

I basically live in the best of all possible worlds today. $30 and a free fucking icecream. Sometimes I get really depressed about Things but right now I love my life.

Also I had a huge attack of vertigo this morning. I was sitting on a couch at work before my shift started and whenever I closed my eyes it felt like the room was spinning around really quickly but when I opened my eyes everything seemed to jump from left to right really quickly, like it was vibrating in slow motion. I felt really sick and I spent the whole time clutching the arm of this couch, willing myself not to tip forwards and smack my head on the metal table in front of me. This experience lasted for about ten minutes and I'm a bit worried about it happening again because I honestly think that if I had been standing up or walking about I probably would have just keeled over and felt like I was about to fall into the sky.

[Barmymoo]

Frog bread, I have an interview at Cambridge! I am one more small step on the way towards going to my first choice university! It is all kinds of awesome! I get to spend the night in the supernice college for free! Again! And last time I went to Cambridge I met Stephen Hawking! Perhaps this time it will be the Queen! Or Emma Thompson!

I am so excited and happy!

[Jace]

Dear Tomato thread,

I am a potato.


(Ihave also stayed up for far too long and then went to work. When I get home I imagine I will fall asleep on my bed post haste)

[valley_parade]

Dearest grog thread:

Maybe that girl was NOT ignoring me. She texted me today, demanding hangouts in the coming week.

[tania]

yesterday i saw some plays. my silly drama student friend was in one of them and part of me was a bit worried i wouldn't be able to take him seriously and would start laughing during the performance but he was really good so that wasn't something i had to worry about after all.
the day before that, i wrote a 15 page research paper on children exposed to domestic violence. i was supposed to spend two months on this but wrote it in two days instead because i am just that much of a fucking genius (i am not a genius at all and will be extremely lucky to get higher than a C on this).
i spent all of today baking for counseling services at my uni and there will be more baking when i come back from cfru but once again, my silly housemates are all on diets and won't eat them so anything that remains unsold i will probably end up eating myself. anyone who lives in guelph or nearby should come over and eat some cupcakes and brownies. you know who you are. come get fat with me.

[20 jazz funk greats]

tania, i don't know you that well but i live fairly close to you and am not on a diet, can i has free baked goods please?

[tania]

if you are willing to come to guelph to get them, absolutely!

[michaelicious]

I know a guy who directed one of those plays. It was the one called Abstinence. Was it any good? My roommate said it was but he might have just been being nice because he is that kind of guy.

[Slick]

If not for the snow on the ground I would bike to Guelph right now. I could totally go for a stupidly long trek into the night. I have been unhappy a while and could go for a long ride.

Dear omnithread,
I got a bike yesterday! I am giving my grandfather's hybrid bike back but a friend had an old mountain bike (sans shocks, yes!) that a friend gave him broken to fix, so now he gave it to me to fix and use through the winter. I'm looking forwards to fixing this old thing, it's fairly pretty and will look good with some racing handlebars and a better seat.

[Social Bacon]

I've been craving a bike trip for the past few days, unfortunately my bike got stolen this summer and I haven't the funds for a new one.

[tania]

oh man abstinence was the funniest and probably best one. the rest were excellent as well but very dark and unsettling.
my friend was in the worker but he auditioned for abstinence as well. the scene from this play he was asked to do for the audition involved making out passionately with another student followed by getting into a 69 position and then they bark into each other's genitals for a while. what a spectacular play.