@puppybreath said in RL Anger:
At which point she called me Hitlerish because I would have fired someone because I didn't agree with his 'opinion'.
Remember when religious fundamentalists told kids to burn Nirvana CDs because of their music?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Did they stop?
They turned their wrath to Marilyn Manson.
McDonald's claimed in federal filings that their CEO made 10.8M in total compensation in 2020, which is only $5,192.31 an hour. </sarcasm>
@catsnake said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):
@derp The former. I remember playing it when it released back on White Wolf's offical game/chat New Bremen many years ago.
I'd be down for a good Orpheus game.
@wizz said in Good Anime:
All I know is that King of the Hill is the greatest anime of all time
I laughed entirely too hard at this.
@catsnake said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):
Orpheus.
White Wolf Orpheus or some other Orpheus?
@aria said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
When I was little and I threw a tantrum in public, it didn't matter where we were or what we were doing, my parents would just pack me up and leave. Halfway through dinner at a restaurant? Doggie bags. Middle of the grocery store? Full cart returned to an employee with apologies while they marched screeching toddler-me out of the store. After about half a dozen goes at it, I decided that I liked going out and doing things more than I liked having fits, so I stopped having tantrums in public.
Didn't even matter if you were someone else's kid. Didn't matter where we were or what property you were on. Drop me off at school and find a pack of kids bullying someone? She'd yell at you to knock it off and get your asses inside before she called your mother. Running around the neighborhood acting all crazy-like? She'd scream at you to get out of the damned street before you got hit by a car.
This is precisely the types of things that the people in question are protesting against. If we took any kind of action like that, more punitive than what is already out there, you're just adding jet fuel to the fire.
FREEDOM! is a national religion, and that mostly means that the government can't tell you what to do.
@crawfish said in Crafting Thread Part ?:
@deviante I've drawn at least 70 cats.
It's really entertaining seeing what you come up with. I don't even play this game, but the cats are amusing.
That feeling when I know what to do, but I don't have the credentials behind my name to do it. 
In a fight with my landlord at the moment. Asked that a shower door be installed at the new place. He was like 'Sure, find one you like and send me the receipts and we'll get it approved'.
So, did that. His asset manager came back and was like 'you are approved to install it at your own expense'.
Me: Wait, what? That is not what we agreed to.
Them: Oh, that was what we meant. You must have been confused.
Me: No, I was very much not confused. Why in the world would I need to send you receipts and any quotes from contractors just to get the installation approved at my own expense? No reasonable person would ever agree to that.
Them: Well, that is our policy. All documentation must be submitted before work is done, and it's done at your own expense.
Me: ...do you hear yourselves? Like -- nobody, and I mean nobody, would ever agree to that. Nobody would believe, after the conversations in writing that we have had, that that was the agreement. You told me to submit these for reimbursement, I did.
Them: Not for reimbursement, no.
Naturally, it is far too late in the process to cancel them, and I cannot send them back. Part of me wants to send a demand letter, but I'm pretty much a nobody, and I don't know attorneys scary enough around these parts to ask a favor.
But these motherfuckers. Not even a month into this and I already have to start researching promissory estoppel on a contract too low to fall under the statute of frauds?
Ugh. It's gonna be a long year.
Man. I would not wanna cross Mama Law-Lion-Bot. That is not a good place to be.
Well, @insomniac7809 is my new hero for the day, then.
Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed Shadow and Bone, BUT...
I started a rewatch of The Nanny and I am genuinely surprised at how well it holds up. Also, Fran Fine is officially now my style icon, big hair and all.
@jibberthehut
Its basically faux Russia, faux Yuan(Mongol) China and faux Netherlands.
And faux Germany.
@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Regarding the stupid, arcane chicanery of bankruptcy courts:
I don't even envy you.
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@kk I mean. All of that has literally happened in exceedingly recent history just in the United States. So it's not even remotely hypothetical.
Which is why I said:
@derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
You want it because people suck, but you can't have it because people suck.
@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Adopting a pet should be more like adopting a child than just buying a toaster.
Having seen a lot of abuse cases involving adopted children, some people should really just be relegated to buying toasters.
Amen. The same can be said for having children.
I have always been an advocate for a license to procreate, but my colleagues give me horrified expressions and lectures on human rights and state intrusions and how horrible it would be for minorities.
And yet... I dunno man. Still tempting. You want it because people suck, but you can't have it because people suck.
I mean. How would you even enforce it?
Mandatory invasive surgery, or just taking away every unauthorized birth and having the completely problem-free state care system handle it?
There are tons of ways that it could be done. Circumcision is still practiced widely in this country almost as a default, and god help you if you come out swinging against the practice. Mandatory vasectomy is even less invasive, easily reversible upon approval, etc.
It's not even that new of an idea. "If you were serious about stopping abortion because you think it was murder, you would make vasectomies mandatory just like you do vaccinations for school children" has been a very real argument for many many years.
@testament said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
My goal was to always get back down to my weight that I was when I was more active. Before my knees and feet decided to say otherwise. Which is going from 254 lbs to 195. Sure at 6'3" that's not like terrible, but I'm not a fan of the dadbod. Especially when I don't even have kids.
So 251 lbs, that's not bad for starting out. A pound a week isn't a bad goal. But eating so much protein wasn't expected. But helpful in not really being all that hungry as often.
Also Greek yogurt. I've literally been living off it.
I mean, some of us are fans of dadbods. Just saying.
