Posts made by WTFE

I posted a random link to Wuhan's AQUAPOCALYPSE yesterday. Since I live on a hill (the ominously-named "flood hill" … we in the trade like to call this "foreshadowing"), the flood had minimal and mostly comical impact on me.
As you can see from the photo, however, that's not true of the whole city:

That was downtown Wuhan yesterday. Near Zhongshan Park and right in the middle of the commercial district. This is the worst flood to hit the city in 50 years.

So why is this in the "RL things I love" category?

• Nobody died. Seriously. Torrential rainfall that at its peak exceeded 66mm per hour; that left buses partially submerged and cars fully submerged; that let people swim in the streets and even go fishing (with umbrellas!) in them; all of that and nobody died.
• Nobody whined. The general reaction of the citizenry was to either get out and help (like the cleaning lady at a university that helped stranded students get to the bus by carrying them on her back!), or it was to go out and play and laugh and generally enjoy the fuck out of nature being a classic grade A bitch.
• It's getting cleaned up by a host of volunteers. Yes, the PLA is in doing its usual thing, but so are all the out-of-town students who're in town for the summer visiting family for vacation. And so are construction workers and housewives and a myriad of others.

Here are a few more pictures to entertain:

I wasn't kidding about submerged cars.

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This guy is one bad-ass bicyclist!

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I guess that's one way to do it…

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Who said chivalry is dead?

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Flood waters falling.

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They have a submarine engineering facility in Wuhan. You can tell, can't you?

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AQUAPOCALYPSE!

@Anonymous said:

@Glitch Oh I know they weren't concerned with MU*s/WoD, I'm just stating their likely reasoning and of course why it simply doesn't apply to us.

Yes. "Us." Heh.

Holy. Fuck.

OK, maybe my eyes are fading due to age and to the fact it's past midnight ... but I don't see a snow leopard in that photo. Is that the joke?

The "ignore" function I use is "if the name and icon at the left is someone who's a gibbering idiot, skip to the next one".

I just received 3×180g bags of Salmiakki today. After shipping, even, it was under US$5. Not per bag. Total.

Of course, being the good family man that I am, I shared it with my family. My family who've never tasted any kind of licorice before, not to mention "salt" licorice…. My son put on a brave face and pretended to enjoy it (later confessing he didn't), but my wife and mother-in-law both promptly spit it out, looking at me like I'd suddenly grown a third eyeball for enjoying it.

I beg to differ.

@Arkandel said:

If an MSB project started I'd be all over it.

MSB? My Set of Bronies?

@il-volpe said:

Curious: What is it about GoT (which is in so many ways genericly fantasy-ish) that so many folks who want a fantasy game dislike? Are you looking for more high-fantasy magic-and-elf-PCs stuff, or?

For me it's just that I didn't like the first book (didn't get past 50 pages before giving up on it) and thus am not familiar with the setting and don't really want to get that familiar with it. Don't get me wrong: I enjoyed the few scenes I played at your game, but the setting wasn't the appeal even slightly.

@NOTuseless said:

If my wording made it appear I was demanding, that's not my problem…

Um… I'm pretty sure that by definition if your wording makes it appear that you mean something you don't intend that it is very much your problem.

Wow, this thread has everything I've been missing from the older WORA. A stupidly vague "question" that was painfully obviously an attempt to fish for a specific answer. More obvious twists than an M. Night ShamalyouthinkImgoingtobotherlookinguphowtospellhislastnameareyounuts film. More "dark revelations" than a Springer episode. This has potential to be true entertainment at last!

@Thenomain said:

@TNP said:

@Thenomain said:

We're #1! You're #0!

Who is number one? You are number six.

I am the new Number Two.

"Who is Number One?"

"You are, Number Six."

I told a friend who was a serious Prisoners freak, that there was a pause between "are" and "number" there (just like I punctuated it) and that it meant that Number Six was really Number One. His problem was that when I told him this there were no copies of the show handy for him to double-check. He was left the rest of the day pondering what that would imply and what that meant for the "meaning" of the show until he got home and slid in a tape. Next day he punched me.

Fucking customers.

I just fired a couple of customers today who had a really free-and-loose interpretation of what "payment" and "fees" and such actually meant. First they "forgot" what my actual rate was, misremembering it downward by 25%. Then, a week into the work, I've been paid half of what I should have gotten even from the "misremembered" price. So when I remind them that I actually work for money, and reminded them of how much, they got all offended at my "tone" and at the notion that you're actually, in the absence of a specific contract to the contrary, supposed to pay in advance of receipt of a service or good.

When I pointed out that every other business they used, ranging from small shops outside their homes to schools and online behemoths, requires payment up-front, "well, that's different".

Fuck, it feels good to fire asshats like that.

[edited to add]
Not only did I manage to fire them, I scared them enough that they paid up in full—the correct rate even!

@RoguePotato said:

@WTFE Yep. And I gave them. ( ° ͜ʖ͡°)

I just checked all your posts. Now it's decidedly possible that I"ve gone blind and/or stupid, but I don't see anything that looks like an actual example of what you're talking about. Could you perhaps show an example character so my poorly-calibrated brain can follow along here?

I'm wanting contact
I'm wanting contact with you
Shake those hands, shake those hands
Give me the thing I understand

@RoguePotato said:

I'm not sure how else to write this.

Do they have "examples" as a notion in your part of the world?

It turns out that there can be a code solution to a social problem!

You're saying that bodybuilders have gotten smarter in seven years?

Fair point. They can't get much dumber.

The bodybuilder in his natural habitat is a wonder to behold.