Topic: This thread is like a broken pencil: pointless. (Read 812027 times)

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #350 on:** 27 May 2015, 14:46 »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5z1wXFzVF4

Pilchard123 · « **Reply #351 on:** 28 May 2015, 00:25 »

jwhouk · « **Reply #352 on:** 28 May 2015, 04:16 »

Only took 24 hours for that to come about?

Welu · « **Reply #353 on:** 28 May 2015, 10:28 »

LeeC · « **Reply #354 on:** 28 May 2015, 12:50 »

Welu · « **Reply #355 on:** 28 May 2015, 13:40 »

Kugai · « **Reply #356 on:** 28 May 2015, 14:26 »

................

What the fuck was that???!!!!

94ssd · « **Reply #357 on:** 28 May 2015, 14:41 »

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #358 on:** 28 May 2015, 15:03 »

LeeC · « **Reply #359 on:** 28 May 2015, 15:38 »

Akima · « **Reply #360 on:** 28 May 2015, 15:42 »

me: Hey can you pretend this empty Coke can I found outside is a bomb?
him: No.

TRVA123 · « **Reply #361 on:** 28 May 2015, 16:02 »

Method of Madness · « **Reply #362 on:** 28 May 2015, 16:17 »

Quote from: Akima on 28 May 2015, 15:42

me: Hey can you pretend this empty Coke can I found outside is a bomb?
him: No.

Buh?

Akima · « **Reply #363 on:** 28 May 2015, 18:52 »

What happened to Gus (NSFW).

Method of Madness · « **Reply #364 on:** 28 May 2015, 18:59 »

Now I'm even more confused. Was that related to the Coke thing from before?

Akima · « **Reply #365 on:** 28 May 2015, 19:21 »

My Coke can posting, and my "What happened to Gus" one, both related to this previous one.

Have I dissected the frog sufficiently?

Method of Madness · « **Reply #366 on:** 28 May 2015, 19:33 »

jwhouk · « **Reply #367 on:** 28 May 2015, 20:57 »

One of my favorite rockers is doing some recording at a studio in Northampton.

I don't think Jeph will be banging down the door to listen to any of the sessions, though. Especially since he's mocked his once-and-former band in the past.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #368 on:** 28 May 2015, 20:58 »

Care to tell us who it is?

jwhouk · « **Reply #369 on:** 28 May 2015, 21:18 »

Michael Sweet. He's recording at Spirithouse Studios

You might know him. He's played lead guitar and vocals for Boston; he just published his autobiography of his days on the road as the lead singer for a heavy metal band.

Oh, and there was this band he and his brother put together. They used to be called "Roxx Regime." You might know them better as Stryper.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #370 on:** 28 May 2015, 21:23 »

Jeph doesn't like Boston? Blasphemy.

Was looking at pictures I posted on Twitter and found this from a year ago, if I've shared it here before...oops?

Also found this, this was parked near my apartment when I lived in NH.

Akima · « **Reply #371 on:** 28 May 2015, 22:00 »

That trick never works!

osaka · « **Reply #372 on:** 28 May 2015, 23:11 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 28 May 2015, 21:23

Also found this, this was parked near my apartment when I lived in NH.

I wonder if that'd segfault.

94ssd · « **Reply #373 on:** 29 May 2015, 17:12 »

I have discovered what is indisputably the greatest Buzzfeed quiz - http://www.buzzfeed.com/agh/you-think-a-you-smart?utm_term=.dgKGNXlKX&fb_ref=click_share#.xbz07VxnV

Akima · « **Reply #374 on:** 29 May 2015, 17:38 »

I don't know if Chinese folk-tales about inns where some of the guests were robbed, murdered, and their meat used to make "pork buns" served for dinner, pre-date Sweeney Todd, but it seems to be a universal meme.

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #375 on:** 29 May 2015, 20:38 »

Well given the era of Sweeney Todd, I can't see how those Chinese folk-tales wouldn't pre-date it by centuries. And yes, I've heard of tales of cannibals and monsters that lure travelers to their death and consumption from all over the world. Japanese myths, Grimm's fairy tales, Native American folk lore...

Kugai · « **Reply #376 on:** 29 May 2015, 23:51 »

Ya know, when I saw Sweeney Todd in your Post, for some reason all I could think of was this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D99O6oTJVHo

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #377 on:** 30 May 2015, 06:35 »

LeeC · « **Reply #378 on:** 30 May 2015, 08:02 »

cesium133 · « **Reply #379 on:** 30 May 2015, 12:27 »

http://www.sadanduseless.com/2015/05/pet-store-prank/#y6Of3c3UjMCv3soJ.01

pwhodges · « **Reply #380 on:** 30 May 2015, 15:04 »

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #381 on:** 30 May 2015, 18:53 »

Quote from: Welu on 28 May 2015, 10:28

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Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic make up 90s grunge band Nirvana. Pictured here in 1990.
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Kugai · « **Reply #382 on:** 30 May 2015, 20:23 »

The bitch is back

94ssd · « **Reply #383 on:** 31 May 2015, 14:46 »

If you have Netflix please look up and watch "Example Short X 2997 fps 11 Minute Remote"

You won't regret it.

Masterpiece · « **Reply #384 on:** 31 May 2015, 15:44 »

Quote from: Kugai on 30 May 2015, 20:23

The bitch is back

Woo hoo hoo

Masterpiece · « **Reply #385 on:** 31 May 2015, 15:45 »

Method of Madness · « **Reply #386 on:** 31 May 2015, 15:50 »

Because texting is less efficient than talking but everyone's convinced it's better, even if there's nothing actually preventing you from talking.

LTK · « **Reply #387 on:** 31 May 2015, 16:32 »

Except talking to someone whom you cannot see is incredibly mentally taxing and amplifies any social anxiety you might have, not least due to all the nonverbal cues you're not getting, and texting is a huge improvement on all those points.

Method of Madness · « **Reply #388 on:** 31 May 2015, 16:58 »

Hmm, never thought about it like that.

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #389 on:** 31 May 2015, 18:39 »

Yeah, I can tell you from experience that comic could be renamed 'Horror stories for people with social anxiety problems'. I by far prefer to deal with people via text or email than over the phone. When I do have to talk with someone on the phone I keep it as short as possible. The worst was the time I've spent working in call centers, at tech support, customer service or order departments. Nothing like spending 8 hours dealing with angry people on the phone to drive my stress levels through the roof.

Akima · « **Reply #390 on:** 31 May 2015, 19:19 »

Quote from: Method of Madness on 31 May 2015, 15:50

Because texting is less efficient than talking but everyone's convinced it's better, even if there's nothing actually preventing you from talking.

Sometimes it is better. I have texted across a tabletop with people who speak a Chinese dialect that I don't. Written Chinese is pretty standard; spoken, not so much.

explicit · « **Reply #391 on:** 31 May 2015, 21:17 »

Method of Madness · « **Reply #392 on:** 31 May 2015, 21:19 »

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osaka · « **Reply #393 on:** 01 Jun 2015, 03:17 »

A problem that almost never appears in Spanish. Even less so in medieval times, when v and b had distinct sounds (now they don't).

Thrillho · « **Reply #394 on:** 01 Jun 2015, 04:12 »

Quote from: Neko_Ali on 31 May 2015, 18:39

Yeah, I can tell you from experience that comic could be renamed 'Horror stories for people with social anxiety problems'. I by far prefer to deal with people via text or email than over the phone. When I do have to talk with someone on the phone I keep it as short as possible. The worst was the time I've spent working in call centers, at tech support, customer service or order departments. Nothing like spending 8 hours dealing with angry people on the phone to drive my stress levels through the roof.

Yeah this is very much the same for me.

Customer service training is a nightmare when you have social anxiety.

Honestly, working in call centres and in customer service has actually helped ease my social anxiety. It's like aversion therapy. When the options are 'have an anxiety attack' and 'fail to pay rent or feed self,' I realise how relatively mild my anxiety issues are when compared to other people's.

But to this day, I need that professional veneer to talk on the phone. If it's not a work call, then unless it's my girlfriend I'm talking to I HAAAAAATE talking on the phone with the fire of a thousand suns.

And I remember watching a video at a customer service training course I went on recently with the 'good customer experience' and the 'bad customer experience.'

The bad one was a dream for me because it was lonely. The good one found this poor bastard being accosted by sales staff at every fucking turn. They had five items in their fictional basket by the end and they'd spoken to nine people. You realise what a nightmare that is for me on a bad day? On a good day I'll chat to the checkout people quite happily, but on a day when I'm so desperate to be left alone that I'll walk 20 minutes out of my way to go to the OTHER Tesco that has automatic scan checkouts rather than actually make eye contact with someone, I don't want someone greeting me at the door, and at the butcher counter on the way past, and at the till, and on the way out, and on every fucking aisle, if I get greeted by some arsehole on every fucking aisle then I'm going to get greeted THIRTY TIMES as a conservative estimate.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #395 on:** 01 Jun 2015, 04:51 »

That's what people like. The majority of people at least.

Fuckers.

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #396 on:** 01 Jun 2015, 06:34 »

I know the check out line/shopping experience too. I know those automated tellers/self checkouts suck in terms of work force since it means one person can oversee up to like a dozen check outs.. that means 11 people out of a job. But for me they are a godsend. No small talk. No dealing with being misgendered. Just scan my stuff, swipe my card and go. When I had access to a car and all night stores (and frankly when it was potentially safer to wander around alone at 2am) I used to love doing what shopping I could in the middle of the night. Usually I was one of the few people there, and those who were working weren't doing greeting... They were to busy stocking shelves and such. Peace and quiet... it was bliss.

Welu · « **Reply #397 on:** 01 Jun 2015, 08:04 »

Quote from: LTK on 31 May 2015, 16:32

Except talking to someone whom you cannot see is incredibly mentally taxing and amplifies any social anxiety you might have, not least due to all the nonverbal cues you're not getting, and texting is a huge improvement on all those points.

I find it so helpful if someone texts before calling, either to ask if I'm free to be on the phone, which is super courteous, or that they're about to call and it is or is not going to be about a big deal, which either lets me not worry because it's not a bad call or to be mentally prepared for a bad call.

Neko_Ali · « **Reply #398 on:** 01 Jun 2015, 08:36 »

mmm. I always screen my calls. Of course that's as much because everyone who knows me knows better than to call me. So probably about 90% of the calls I do get are someone either trying to sell me something, or a scam. It's good to just go 'nope, I don't know that number' and ignore it, or look it up online to see who it is.

Welu · « **Reply #399 on:** 01 Jun 2015, 09:13 »

Something I'm still getting used to answering work calls is the five or six sentences of politeness before hand.

"Hello, [work name]."
"Hey, is that Welu?"
"Yep, how can I help?"
"How are you?"
"I'm well, thanks. How are you?"
"I'm well, thank you. HEY, CAN YOU HELP PLEASE?"

I know most people prefer a how are you and I know it's "just polite" but it means I have to spend more time on the phone talking to someone I don't know and we both know they're only ringing because they need something. Not a That Would Be Great If You Could something but a This Needs Done For Both Of Our Jobs To Work something. More often I'm only passing the phone on to someone who they're going to have the exact same conversation with before getting on to what needs to be done. I know this is where I'm weird though and until I realised I'm sure I came across as super rude because I used to get asked how are you and say, "Grand, thanks. What's up?" I could have at least said, "What can I do for you?"

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