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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1250 on: 14 Feb 2015, 07:51 »

Higher on one side than the other. 


My poor eyesight is a superpower, apparently....
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1251 on: 14 Feb 2015, 08:14 »

I should say so, it's only lopsided by a single pixel.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1252 on: 14 Feb 2015, 17:11 »

When approx. 16 pixels is all you got, that one pixel counts.

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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1253 on: 14 Feb 2015, 17:15 »

It looks like a happy smile to me, but fine, I won't use it anymore :(
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1254 on: 14 Feb 2015, 17:17 »

It's okay, I'm here for you  :roll:






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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1255 on: 14 Feb 2015, 19:28 »

I'm looking at apartment listings, and I'm coming to realize I have no freaking clue what I'm doing.

Seriously... I lived in dorms my entire time in college, and I've lived in the university-owned apartments all through grad school. What the hell was I thinking.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1256 on: 14 Feb 2015, 19:30 »

Going through a rental company was real easy for me. I lived off campus in college and they did all the work seeing as they get paid by the landlord, not the renter.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1257 on: 14 Feb 2015, 20:34 »

Before it's over, happy valentine's day.  Don't get trapped by the big three of the love-industrial complex (Hershey's, Hallmark and FTD). 
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« Reply #1258 on: 14 Feb 2015, 20:47 »

I thought it was Russel Stover's that was the first of the big three. Hershey doesn't do much other than Kisses, which it makes year-round anyways.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1259 on: 14 Feb 2015, 22:36 »

Yeah, but it doesn't roll off the tongue as well... 
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1260 on: 16 Feb 2015, 19:18 »

I want to see an earthbound like game with Zelda characters. 

Ness = Link
Paula = Saria
Jeff = Zelda
Poo = Skull-kid???

Or some sort of amalgamation of that.  Or hell, play as Zelda from the begging and Link becomes the first party member followed by Navi then another person.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1261 on: 16 Feb 2015, 19:24 »

I bought new sneakers a month ago, and I just realized today that my footprints look like I'm wearing horseshoes.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1262 on: 16 Feb 2015, 20:40 »

*Hands you two Coconut halves*
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1263 on: 17 Feb 2015, 20:53 »

Today I banned a person from my gaming server who was - in my mind - ironically named <3. Things I do not let people get away with 1.) being a dick.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1264 on: 18 Feb 2015, 01:12 »

I don't get it, what's wrong with having the nickname <3?
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« Reply #1265 on: 18 Feb 2015, 01:15 »

No, hold up, poor grammar skills....

ahem, I banned him for being an asshole (calling people names, etc.), his name just happened to be <3 which I found to be slightly ironic, because love usually doesn't involve assholery (and if it does it's usually someone's birthday  :roll:)
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1266 on: 18 Feb 2015, 08:30 »

So, a friend of mine has a strange game that he plays.  The object of the game is to come up with the strangest combination of three things to bring into the bedroom.  Yesterday's winner was a quart of motor oil, a shaved weasel, and a saddle. 

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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1267 on: 18 Feb 2015, 08:54 »

Is the saddle for the weasel?

I'll go with

an anemometer
half a jar of potted shrimp
a Rammstein DVD
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1268 on: 18 Feb 2015, 11:32 »

I am told Rammstein makes really good fucking musing, although I personally prefer Scorpions :roll: And well, food play?
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« Reply #1269 on: 18 Feb 2015, 11:37 »

I usually just went overboard with that game all at once:

two things: sleeping pills. A coathanger.

That one makes people mad sometimes...
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1270 on: 18 Feb 2015, 12:20 »

Xkcd had a game where you pick the two weirdest items to bring to the checkout of a store. The alt text had the winner being a pregnancy test and a wire hanger.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1271 on: 18 Feb 2015, 12:38 »

There was an IRC conversation (monologue) about it (presumably from irc.foonetic.net channel #xkcd )

http://www.xkcdb.com/882
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1272 on: 18 Feb 2015, 15:18 »

I used to do stuff like that at supermarkets all the time. Leave boxes of condoms in the produce section, prunes by the laxatives...

I think my personal choice for weirding out the cashier would have to be condoms, peanut butter, and a dog's chew toy.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1273 on: 18 Feb 2015, 15:22 »

The best way to play the game is without anything that's technically sexual. Because anything can be creepy if you buy it with condoms.

1.) Mayonnaise, 2.) Women's Home and Garden, 3.) Heavy duty soap.
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« Reply #1274 on: 18 Feb 2015, 15:29 »

So, clothesline, olive oil and a toilet plunger, then?
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« Reply #1275 on: 18 Feb 2015, 16:21 »

As someone who worked in a grocery store for ages, don't purposely leave things in the wrong spot. When they have to put the condoms away from the banana display twice a week, the staff don't think you're clever or funny, just annoying. If you want to play the game, buy the things.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1276 on: 18 Feb 2015, 16:57 »

Remember, if you thought of it, someone else has first :D

And I've never bought condoms at the grocery store, there's just something about going into 7-11 and only buying condoms that makes me feel special.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1277 on: 18 Feb 2015, 21:34 »

i once bought latex gloves and vaseline from a chemist.

i needed them for a perfectly valid, non sexual reason.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1278 on: 19 Feb 2015, 01:04 »

Even as an embarrassed teen I never understood the condom embarrassment, at least from a cis-white male perspective. Surely if you're buying condoms you're getting laid, which is 'cool' at that age, right? So I never got that.

As an adult I simply enjoy doing it without a hint of shame and enjoying the bafflement. Buying lube from somewhere that isn't Ann Summers is also entertaining.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1279 on: 19 Feb 2015, 01:13 »

The only time I felt weird was the first time, and then some Indian guy said (in a heavy accent), "oh someone's going to have a lot of fun tonight huh" and high fived me. Wasn't really that embarrassed anymore.
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« Reply #1280 on: 19 Feb 2015, 01:14 »

I literally read that in the accent and suddenly felt so good inside  :psyduck:
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1281 on: 19 Feb 2015, 09:08 »

I get condoms and lube on my grocery shop so they're mixed in with toilet cleaner and dog food. I don't have time to be embarrassed about one or two items when I'm getting dozens of items and want to be home before the chicken or ice cream has defrosted.

When I worked in the shop, a few times when a man was buying condoms, he'd try to embarrass me. They'd ask my favourite types and laugh about having a good time tonight. Looking back that's even more skeezy considering that happened when I was as young as seventeen from lads in their thirties or forties.

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« Reply #1282 on: 19 Feb 2015, 09:13 »

Talk to me about embarrassment when you're an audio engineer and you have to buy unlubricated condoms and batteries at the same time. That usually elicits no comment at all.
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« Reply #1283 on: 19 Feb 2015, 09:16 »

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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1285 on: 19 Feb 2015, 12:44 »

The problem with having the name explicit is that it's a fairly common word that people use when they're making an argument. So whenever I see it (in real life now too, because I've used this handle for eight years), it makes me get scared for a moment because it's always used in a more aggressive tone. "I EXPLICITLY said...". I keep seeing it and I think, "shit, people are talking about me? AND THEY'RE MAD AT ME?" heh.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1286 on: 19 Feb 2015, 13:34 »

I always felt more embarrassed buying pregnancy tests than condoms when I was younger, because I felt that people were much more judgmental.

I guess I'm old enough now that people would judge me less, but I'd still be nervous that they'd try to small talk with me about it.
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« Reply #1287 on: 19 Feb 2015, 13:52 »

Just realised I've never bought either of those.
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« Reply #1288 on: 19 Feb 2015, 16:57 »

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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1289 on: 19 Feb 2015, 18:13 »

Time to Exorcise your phone then.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1290 on: 19 Feb 2015, 23:39 »

Xkcd had a game where you pick the two weirdest items to bring to the checkout of a store. The alt text had the winner being a pregnancy test and a wire hanger.

Once I was going camping, around the same time I started rebuilding the transmission for my mom's car and I needed supplies for both.

I ended up buying:
rubber gloves,
rope,
a survival knife,
ether (a.k.a. carb cleaner),
huge box of paper towels,
a tarp,
heavy duty soap,
bailing wire,
screwdrivers,
camping stove and propane,
concrete stain remover,
a hamburger grinder,
and an ax.

The 3rd season of Dexter was on sale at the time, but I'm pretty sure the cops would've been called if they saw that at the checkout counter.
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« Reply #1291 on: 20 Feb 2015, 06:35 »

I complained to my boss that I'm bored. She suggested I crack on with some work.

It's like she doesn't even listen.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1292 on: 20 Feb 2015, 07:13 »

Time to Exorcise your phone then.
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« Reply #1293 on: 20 Feb 2015, 07:15 »

Time to Exorcise your phone then.
what, why?
Also, never.
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1294 on: 20 Feb 2015, 08:26 »

Xkcd had a game where you pick the two weirdest items to bring to the checkout of a store. The alt text had the winner being a pregnancy test and a wire hanger.

Once I was going camping, around the same time I started rebuilding the transmission for my mom's car and I needed supplies for both.

I ended up buying:
rubber gloves,
rope,
a survival knife,
ether (a.k.a. carb cleaner),
huge box of paper towels,
a tarp,
heavy duty soap,
bailing wire,
screwdrivers,
camping stove and propane,
concrete stain remover,
a hamburger grinder,
and an ax.

The 3rd season of Dexter was on sale at the time, but I'm pretty sure the cops would've been called if they saw that at the checkout counter.

...and we have a winner!
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« Reply #1295 on: 20 Feb 2015, 13:42 »

Time to Exorcise your phone then.
what, why?
Also, never.
Perhaps Kugai misspelled "exercise." Your phone needs to get in shape.


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« Reply #1296 on: 20 Feb 2015, 15:04 »

To get rid of what? Tapatalk, or Windows Phone?
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Re: miscellaneous musings
« Reply #1297 on: 20 Feb 2015, 15:20 »

To get rid of what? Tapatalk, or Windows Phone?

Ew, that's gross on several levels dude.

(Correct me if I'm wrong on "dude")
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« Reply #1298 on: 20 Feb 2015, 15:24 »

Yeah, if everyone's gonna bring that up again I'm outta here.

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« Reply #1299 on: 20 Feb 2015, 15:28 »

No, I didn't mean to. I was just wondering since they were the only two things that seemed relevant t to your phone in that context.

@osaka: wut?
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