Ugh. I too live in the burbs on paper, but despite being about a 20 minute drive from downtown Seattle and about 5 minutes sidestreet from the downtown of one of the famous suburban towns, we are actually in unincorporated territory. Which means we have country (with a heavy emphasis on cuntry) standards of noise and other nuisances (livestock, unleashed dogs, fireworks at 3 AM whenever the neighbors get toasted enough, firearm discharges which is more of a temptation than it should be). We have had ATVs, those circus clown mini bike things, homebuilt motorized contraptions (granted, sometimes those are pretty hilarious, though the mom in me always has a gut clench seeing the kids take the huge hill, it's a miracle no one has had to go home scraped up off the side of the road and put into a paper cup). Someone did finally shoot the 3 peacocks. We've had an exotic cat on the loose too before from the animal sanctuary that is one house down from us.
RL Anger
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Now that t-shirts don't always have physical tags, I don't always know if I'm putting them on forwards.
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No "tag" printed on the inside of the shirt?
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@Warma-Sheen
The good news for Eagles fans is with your new coach you are going back to he glory days of the Andy Reid era. -
@Arkandel said:
People who grade books yet to be published - usually quite highly - on sites like Goodreads.
Yes, I'm looking forward to Doors of Stone too. But it has a 4.45/4 stars rating with 1500+ votes and not one of those people has read it. It just makes the entire rating system unreliable.
Some people do actually get ARCs and review based on them, but it definitely doesn't account for all of those.
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@Roz said:
@Arkandel said:
People who grade books yet to be published - usually quite highly - on sites like Goodreads.
Yes, I'm looking forward to Doors of Stone too. But it has a 4.45/4 stars rating with 1500+ votes and not one of those people has read it. It just makes the entire rating system unreliable.
Some people do actually get ARCs and review based on them, but it definitely doesn't account for all of those.
Yeah, I can see a dozen people having read previews or chapters but even assuming every single one of them did grade accordingly there are certainly outnumbered by all the expectation-based votes.
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Tomorrow is my 1 year Sadiversary of my breakup. But I got a fitbit yesterday so I got that going for mex which is nice.
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I suspect @Cirno will get a kick out of this and/or never let me live it down.
So we were in an informal tech meeting at work talking shop and the topic was which operating systems developers were using. Someone pointed out Windows was in the minority since most of our workstations are running Linux along with two Macs.
Since having to support different operating systems, warn about critical vulnerability patches being out etc is a pain in the ass I responded by saying out loud, "it's so annoying how annoying having even a minority using Windows is! In fact it's annoying we have any minorities in the office at all."
Then we all stop talking for a couple of seconds before everyone (well, everyone else, those assholes) starts yelling "HR!".
Yeah.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Arkandel said:
I suspect @Cirno will get a kick out of this and/or never let me live it down.
So we were in an informal tech meeting at work talking shop and the topic was which operating systems developers were using. Someone pointed out Windows was in the minority since most of our workstations are running Linux along with two Macs.
Since having to support different operating systems, warn about critical vulnerability patches being out etc is a pain in the ass I responded by saying out loud, "it's so annoying how annoying having even a minority using Windows is! In fact it's annoying we have any minorities in the office at all."
Then we all stop talking for a couple of seconds before everyone (well, everyone else, those assholes) starts yelling "HR!".
Yeah.
To your credit, I can overlook the unfortunate vocabulary in light of how ass backwards the Win users are being.
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People get pissed off by the strangest things. Yoobi will donate school supplies for each supply you buy. Some lady grumbled SHE should get the freebie.
Lady, I'm sorry you think you deserve a fucking pack of paper more than some poor inner city kid.
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I can understand working a few extra hours when someone quits. People have to pick up the slack.
I can understand me picking up even more hours because another co-worker's mother has cancer.
I can understand me picking up yet more hours because a third co-worker is on vacation for two days to visit family she never gets to see..
What I can't understand is my final co-worker taking off a few days due to 'work related stress' and forcing me to work double shifts 3-4 days a week.
Bitch, you were scheduled for 45 hours. Day-shift only! Now I'm working 74 hours of graveyard and days double shifts thanks to you.
...I'm so tired that I couldn't go on a rampage even if I wanted to.
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Dear kid with the ATV:
Do they not make mufflers for that shit? Or at least better ones than that?
Because goddamn, if you chain-gun that fucking motor one more time, I'm investing in caltrops.
We live in the suburbs, you noisy little shitweasel. Running up and down the crappily paved asphalt of the hill is not even what that thing was designed for, and yet, every damn day, you're going up and down that hill for hours.
Oh fucking well.
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Did you know that many states have licensing and permit requirements for ATVs?
Might want to look into that. Nothing will discourage that little shit more than a juvenile record.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede I
you so very much right now. I may have to do that.Seriously, it isn't even like... sprawly suburbs. It's dinky paved street. Currently, icy paved steep hill street.
(C'mon, gravity, do your thing. We used to live at the bottom of that hill, we remember how many cars ended up in the tree whenever we get weather!)
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Ugh. I too live in the burbs on paper, but despite being about a 20 minute drive from downtown Seattle and about 5 minutes sidestreet from the downtown of one of the famous suburban towns, we are actually in unincorporated territory. Which means we have country (with a heavy emphasis on cuntry) standards of noise and other nuisances (livestock, unleashed dogs, fireworks at 3 AM whenever the neighbors get toasted enough, firearm discharges which is more of a temptation than it should be). We have had ATVs, those circus clown mini bike things, homebuilt motorized contraptions (granted, sometimes those are pretty hilarious, though the mom in me always has a gut clench seeing the kids take the huge hill, it's a miracle no one has had to go home scraped up off the side of the road and put into a paper cup). Someone did finally shoot the 3 peacocks. We've had an exotic cat on the loose too before from the animal sanctuary that is one house down from us.
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@mietze Peacocks? Oh, god. You win. shudder
The noise they make is not compensated for by their level of pretty. Not even close. And they are seriously pretty creatures.
The only thing close to that we get here are foxes, which generate a few calls to the cops every year in the neighborhood since in mating season, well. "Someone is being murdered! Come quick!" about sums up the racket.
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We have peacocks that live about a mile away in a suburb. Those people fought tooth and nail to KEEP the birds in the area. I think its a mass psychosis. In my neighborhood, we get gators.
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@Miss-Demeanor
What is it with rural areas and weird birds/animals? When I was growing up, a family near my school had ostriches. I recall in like the 6th grade two getting out and somehow crossing the main road (the main road through town!) and ending up running around the playground and soccer field of my Catholic school, and watching these guys try to catch them. Twas hilarious. -
@Bobotron said:
What is it with rural areas and weird birds/animals?
People want to live with all of the conveniences of society without the inconveniences of having to accede to the reasonable wishes of the majority. In short, assholes abound.
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@Bobotron Oh, we're not in a rural area. That's what makes it all the weirder. XD
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The Order: 1886.
I don't think I need to explain myself to anyone who has tried to play this game. To everyone else? Just don't. Don't buy it. If someone gives it to you, take it in to Gamestop, the $1 they will give you will be worth more than this game.
It is pretty though.