RL Anger

[Arkandel]

@surreality I avoid watching somemost of my old favorites although it's mostly to avoid disappointment. In my head they are awesome.

Flight of Dragons is the one I'm most afraid of. The way I remember it it was a fucking masterpiece. Who knows what it actually is like, since I last watched in my early teens.

[Ganymede]

@surreality said in RL Anger:

This isn't exactly anger, but I can't call it something I love. More something that makes me wince with all the wincing: the husband sent a link to a show we watched as kids back in the 80s.

You watched Tales of the Gold Monkey? Bravo.

[surreality]

@Ganymede Yep. I am just staring at this in horror and shock and 'oh no they fucking did not'ing out loud.

I am actually old enough that I saw it when it was first on the air.

We were on this weird survey list for the network, supposedly we fell into SOME kind of demographic they were after, so we'd sometimes get calls to watch a show pilot and me, mom, and dad would all have to provide feedback.

Apparently 8 or 9 year old me thought this was entertaining.

...we got called about Manimal, too. I am still not sure how I feel about Manimal.

[Cupcake]

@surreality You cannot tell this story and not share what show this is! My brain is going to berate me to find out, so save me some grief, PLEASE.

Edited to add: Ah, someone else figured it out.

Though it's funny how in retrospective as societal convention changes, some things become very difficult to watch. I mean, Blazing Saddles is hilarious, but I feel a little less good about enjoying it now.

[surreality]

@Cupcake Gany got it in one. It's called 'Tales of the Gold Monkey'. It was a '1940s pulp adventure' thing in the wake of Raiders of the Lost Ark, more or less.

But no seriously, they absolutely went to the mud people place.•

It is... special. It is also funny watching them put Amish people on a Japanese island, all fucking up their thees and thous in terms of proper, uh, thee and thou grammar. Which annoys me on some level that I didn't know I had.

•The one we saw the most of at least was also a white girl in lots of makeup, though, I'm pretty sure.

[Paris]

@Sparks said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

@Sparks said in RL Anger:

status migrainosis

What do they call it when you've had the same migraine attack for 1-2 weeks?
Each migraine I get breaks roughly that often. I get a day off for every 1-2 weeks of pain.

That's the part that's worrying me. The 'mini-stroke' symptoms are becoming more frequent.

Honestly, as someone who suffers both migraines and cluster headaches (and is closing in on two weeks of cluster right now), that sounds terribly familiar. If it is a cluster, oxygen treatments might (but not definitely) help.

It still isn't normal migraine, so be very careful.

You have my sympathy, either way. From down in my own pit of pain, I offer a magic space tiara and the key to a hidden room of silent darkness.

This sounds like my own bout of cluster headaches, from the stroke symptoms to them lasting 5 days out of 7. This lasted for a few years, and while they decreased after my cancer surgery (my tumor was so big that it messed with my blood pressure), the worst one (stroke symptoms, massive visual disturbances) happened a few months afterward.

If anything is fucking with your blood pressure/the side and back of your neck (slipped discs, hypermobility), or your temple (trigeminal nerve, endocrine problems), or meds, thst could be triggering clusters. I still get flares if I am under stress. Edit: TMJ too.

[Thenomain]

Huge Pet Peeve: When in the course of a discussion someone brings up an example, then the discussion becomes about that example and not about the environment that example would come up in.

For example, a discussion about staff needing course corrections but all people will talk about is how it's reasonable if staff doesn't want gunpowder on their game. FOR EXAMPLE.

[Paris]

@Thenomain Sorry for adding to it! It might have struck a nerve for folks because it's a clear example of a player trying to jerk a game's theme around, and for some reason people don't want to just outright say 'no' (for fear of criticism).

[Ghost]

I work in IT.

Spread the fucking word, please.

When you're talking to IT people, never regale them about bullshit tech support stories. I had a guy recently regale me and some others about his time doing desktop support:

• "...so she called me and said her cupholder was broken. I said...cupholder? Lo' and behold I get to her PC and see the CD-ROM drive broken..."
• ...another lady said her mouse wasn't working and when I got there, it was on the floor and she was using it with her feet like a sewing machine pedal..."

NICE TO MEET YOU, GUY. IM A LEGEND, TOO. I AM -THE- GUY WHO DID TECH SUPPORT FOR A LADY WHO WROTE 'CLICK' IN SHARPIE ON HER MONITOR ON TOP OF THE ICON I WAS TRYING TO GET HER TO RIGHT-CLICK!

Repeating these tech stories to other IT immediately paints you as a bullshitter, and potentially someone who takes credit for other people's work. It's no different than repeating the entirety of a Chris Rock or Patton Oswalt comedy routine at a cocktail party, and everyone knows you're just repeating someone else's material.

There's only three thing women need in life: Food, Water, and Compliments.
MAAAAAN when did white people get less crazy?!?

++ So I told the flight attendant 'Like hell I'll get on the plane, I'm getting IN the plane LOLOLOLOLOL ++

Look, the chances that you're the true originating source of the cupholder, mouse wheel, or write 'CLICK' story is about 0.004%. Even if you were, it's old news, everyone in IT has heard them, and while it might work at your church or cocktail parties, it's still low hanging fruit and makes you look like a jackass.

Please spread the word. New material is needed for stealing.

Edit: added gif. Typos. Badass airplane joke that George Carlin stole from me.

[Ghost]

DOUBLE POST

Here's the kind of material that actually comes across like a true story to other IT people (actual true story):

So my company had a tier 2 data center where their main power supply failed due to a storm. One of the data center techs miswired the backup UPS to the data center, so when the data tried to fail over to the secondary power supply, it failed. Turns out the guy plugged the backup cabling into the primary instead of the backup. SO...we had this huge network outage, everyone's hair was on fire, and when they go into the data center to fix the problem...the doors were locked.

The doors had an electronic thumbprint security system that was running off of the data center's power supply, so they were locked out. Their shitty cabling setup locked them out from getting INTO the data center to route power to the secondary.

Around that time, the Group Executive (boss's boss's boss's boss) announces on a conference call that he's going to take off his suit and tie, roll up his sleeves, and go down there and fix the problem with his team. The Executive was a SUIT, had zero skills, but those poor bastards had to work with a boss three levels above them directing traffic and cracking the whip. Awkward.

True story.

I can tell that to other IT people and they will not only know I'm not full of shit, but that I actually work in IT

[Arkandel]

@Ghost My (real and actually-happened-to-me) IT story:

Back in the day I was teaching ECDL classes, and the first lesson was going over the real basics. You know, this is a computer's main unit, this is the keyboard, the monitor, etc.

Now keep in mind this was a class offered to professionals, paid by their companies. In fact the majority in the class were doctors and medical personnel, and although I'm not 100% certain I'm comfortable with assuming the person involved in this incident actually was a MD.

So anyway, I picked the mouse up to show it to them and explain its general use by waving it in the air to demonstrate. Once I was done I set it down and asked students to do it with their mice as well and control the cursor on their screens.

Naturally one of them picked his mouse up and started waving it in the air just like I had.

[Ghost]

@Arkandel ...oh my god.

Kinda makes me wonder if there are some people now who have never used a mouse. I mean, it's plausible. If someone only ever owned a laptop, never bought an external mouse, was used to using a trackpad...

[Arkandel]

@Ghost What bugged me is that this doctor... well okay, he had never used a computer before - fine. Had he never seen one anywhere? At a store, an airport, in a movie? Did he ever see anyone waving mice around in the air?

But anyway.

[Ghost]

@Arkandel Did he have a long beard and refer to himself as "Apothecary Jonas, son of Apothecary Ezekiel, grandson to Apothecary Ishmael?"

[Meg]

just saw a sign for a winter storm warning on the way home from work. who do i file a complaint with about this?

first off, it's not winter, guy.

[Auspice]

New symptom: paresthesia in mah face!
Began last night (at least I got to enjoy dinner!). It's mostly tapered off, but still present. Contacted my neuro to let him know, but he / his office hasn't gotten back to me yet.

I was reminded today about daith piercings and how they sometimes help migraines (I had totally forgotten!). Sadly, my paycheck was just enough to cover rent plus some (so basically: groceries). Might get one with my mid-month check and see if it helps.

EDIT: He just got back to me. Figures. He thinks it's due to the increased dosage in the meds. Says it should clear up in the 'next 1-2 weeks' and I should keep taking the increased dosage. Whee.

[Arkandel]

12 year old girl told she's 'too seductive' to play chess.

[Auspice]

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

12 year old girl told she's 'too seductive' to play chess.

And that dress is downright demure. jfc. I think that official just had a favored competitor he was afraid would lose to her.

[JinShei]

@Meg My OH started vaping a couple of months ago and picked up an aspire kit too. Nice and simple, he tells me. Beats smoking from my point of view!

[Tinuviel]

Regarding the vaping phenomenon....

I smoke. If I have lit a cigarette where it is legal for me to do so, and you settle yourself near me... the onus is on you to move. I was here first, motherfucker, and I will cut a bitch that makes demands of me.