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Seamus Fermanagh
11-20-2017, 19:40
Oh gosh, now this makes me even more nervous. Any tips?
Actually, this is the one where you want to be yourself as much as possible. The whole point is to not get stuck in with a crew you loathe. 50+ hour weeks with people you cannot stand will have you leaving the job or bounced from in in sheer frustration.
You've never been a jackhole here or in the backroom, so I think you'll do just fine.
Are you sure about the uncertainty argument? As far as I know, there are even academics who sing the epic of Gilgamesh, despite the fact that Akkadian are more obscure than Greek or Latin.
At least in the Hellenistic period, the pronunciation of ancient Greek was similar to the modern version. An easy way, even for a non-expert, to notice this is the epigraphic and papyrological evidence.
Spelling mistakes increase dramatically, because the engravers and scribes, who weren't always very talented at grammar, couldn't discern the difference between υ, ι, η, ει, and oι or between ο and ω or between ε and αι.
Τhey sounded the same since the times of Seleucus, a fact that has created enormous problems for Greek pupils for 2.300 years.
Go to Facebook, follow Golden Dawn accounts who gloat about their links to Pericles and you will observe the exact same mistakes.
I am quite sure about pronouncation being a mystery or at least mostly, never heard about the epic of Gilgamesh being sung maybe that is possible I guess but not just my guess, theirs as well, it's not a song it's poem with no melody I know of, but if they think there is power to them, I won't say they are full of it because I never heard of this before.
Spelling mistakes meh, make them all the time, I stopped trying to not make them, make more if I try not to make them
Montmorency
11-20-2017, 20:14
Are you sure about the uncertainty argument? As far as I know, there are even academics who sing the epic of Gilgamesh, despite the fact that Akkadian are more obscure than Greek or Latin.
At least in the Hellenistic period, the pronunciation of ancient Greek was similar to the modern version. An easy way, even for a non-expert, to notice this is the epigraphic and papyrological evidence.
Spelling mistakes increase dramatically, because the engravers and scribes, who weren't always very talented at grammar, couldn't discern the difference between υ, ι, η, ει, and oι or between ο and ω or between ε and αι.
Τhey sounded the same since the times of Seleucus, a fact that has created enormous problems for Greek pupils for 2.300 years.
Go to Facebook, follow Golden Dawn accounts who gloat about their links to Pericles and you will observe the exact same mistakes.
IIRC there is textual evidence from Late Antiquity (for Greek and Latin) where authors explicitly discuss how certain words or letters are supposed to sound, or more typically what mistakes they perceive there to be in contemporary pronunciation or spelling.
Also, across time and place we've dug up instructional tablets used in paideia.
IIRC there is textual evidence from Late Antiquity (for Greek and Latin) where authors explicitly discuss how certain words or letters are supposed to sound, or more typically what mistakes they perceive there to be in contemporary pronunciation or spelling.
Yes that's true
Hooahguy
11-23-2017, 17:07
Actually, this is the one where you want to be yourself as much as possible. The whole point is to not get stuck in with a crew you loathe. 50+ hour weeks with people you cannot stand will have you leaving the job or bounced from in in sheer frustration.
You've never been a jackhole here or in the backroom, so I think you'll do just fine.
So the interview was yesterday and I have no clue how I did. I feel ok about the interview. Skype didnt really work for some reason, so it turned into a phone call. Some of my answers I feel could have been better. Made sure to send everyone on the call a thank you email, and they said I would hear back by next week. The wait is the hardest thing.
Seamus Fermanagh
11-23-2017, 18:11
So the interview was yesterday and I have no clue how I did. I feel ok about the interview. Skype didnt really work for some reason, so it turned into a phone call. Some of my answers I feel could have been better. Made sure to send everyone on the call a thank you email, and they said I would hear back by next week. The wait is the hardest thing.
Always. I don't know how easy on the eyes you are, so maybe the phone only was good? ~D
j/k I am sure you did fine.
Hooahguy
11-23-2017, 22:18
I also made sure to do my research and ask questions about the organization and some of the things I would be doing so I hope that gives me an edge. Im resisting contacting my references again to see if they were contacted because I know that would turn me into a nervous wreck.
Seamus Fermanagh
11-25-2017, 16:26
I also made sure to do my research and ask questions about the organization and some of the things I would be doing so I hope that gives me an edge. Im resisting contacting my references again to see if they were contacted because I know that would turn me into a nervous wreck.
Desiderata time Hooah. You have done what you can and done it well. Relax, and start prepping for the next interview sequence elsewhere.
(That's not a judgement on how you did with this interview sequence, only simple practicality}.
Meh how did I screw this up, good friend keeps visiting me but she's not mine and she should be really, there's something not quie right with the universe and surroundings. I am still a bit in love with her I guess
Seamus Fermanagh
11-25-2017, 19:20
Meh how did I screw this up, good friend keeps visiting me but she's not mine and she should be really, there's something not quie right with the universe and surroundings. I am still a bit in love with her I guess
This is really a rather simple* problem Frags. You know the solution choices already -- you have but to pay the price/take the risk or not.
*alluding to Clauswitz. "Simple" in concept is not necessarily easy to achieve.
Montmorency
11-26-2017, 00:16
The best feeling in life is surprise. The realization, the confrontation, the distraction, of alarm, joy, fear: that very moment of unison.
This is really a rather simple* problem Frags. You know the solution choices already -- you have but to pay the price/take the risk or not.
*alluding to Clauswitz. "Simple" in concept is not necessarily easy to achieve.
Not going to undertake anything, good female friends who are just that are something to cherish
Seamus Fermanagh
11-26-2017, 19:13
Not going to undertake anything, good female friends who are just that are something to cherish
Are you aware your sig photo has lapsed? Are you maintaining the "please update" as a sort of reverse signature concept?
Are you aware your sig photo has lapsed? Are you maintaining the "please update" as a sort of reverse signature concept?
It shows up for me, but the issue could be related to the upgrade to https that therother performed:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?153120-Major-upgrade
You might want to let him know if the issue persists.
I don't have a sig what do you see? I see nothing
Oh, I misread, thought about avatars somehow. There is a spoiler in your signature and inside it is a placeholder for a missing picture.
No there isn't, I don't undestand
No there isn't, I don't undestand
Do you perhaps have signatures turned off or a skin that doesn't show them?
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Fragony, he means the image inside the spoiler. It was an imageshack picture that got purged, once the site decided that hosting would require a monthly subscription. Quite the dick move.
However, what is this photo above Fragony's avatar? I can't see anything similar, neither above Fragony's avatar nor above anyone else's. I'm intrigued.
That's me it's my face, don't know why that shows up, must have some things disabled i don't see that here
How do edit that? Can't find any options
therother may be able to help. I've also got a custom picture there but can't seem to find the option to change it anymore. Or maybe I did but it's empty despite the values I entered long ago to choose it. Could that have been broken during an update?
therother
11-27-2017, 04:44
It's a custom profile picture. You should be able to edit it here:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/profile.php?do=editprofilepic
No, says I didn't select anything. Could you folks see me all the time? Not that I am ashamed of my looks but I don't understand how my mugshot got there
I think it's been there for a few years, and that Husar commented on it in the Watchtower a long time ago, but you didn't quite believe him.
It's a custom profile picture. You should be able to edit it here:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/profile.php?do=editprofilepic
I thought that the profile picture was only viewable, if someone visited your profile. I can see my profile picture there (Yes Minister/Blackadder), but there's nothing when I visit Fragony's profile. There is nothing there, indicating he has not chosen any profile picture. However, I can't see any profile picture above avatars, not even mine. It's just the username, a customised user-title ("master of pwinverse"), a non-customisable usertitle (Member, Senior Member and etc.) and the avatar. So many questions, so confused.
Doesn't really matter I guess, please don't hunt me down and kill me tbough
I thought that the profile picture was only viewable, if someone visited your profile. I can see my profile picture there (Yes Minister/Blackadder), but there's nothing when I visit Fragony's profile. There is nothing there, indicating he has not chosen any profile picture. However, I can't see any profile picture above avatars, not even mine. It's just the username, a customised user-title ("master of pwinverse"), a non-customisable usertitle (Member, Senior Member and etc.) and the avatar. So many questions, so confused.
In the general settings there are thread view options about showing profile pictures and the broadband option etc.
I'm not sure it is the profile picture because in my profile I have no picture but I do have the big picture aboce the avatar in all my posts.
If you go to my profile however, there does not appear to be an actual profile picture and the box in the settings is almost empty, just says "http://www." or so... :dizzy2:
Could just be that therother broke my profile to punish me of course.
Seamus Fermanagh
11-27-2017, 18:19
Doesn't really matter I guess, please don't hunt me down and kill me tbough
I am not sure what the hunting limits are on Niederlanders these days...
Changed your user settings so you can see signatures Fragony. You can edit your signature in your profile settings.
Removed view profile images for you, Husar.
Vincent Butler
11-28-2017, 01:19
I always liked calling them moosi.
Moosen! I saw a flock of moosen! They were in the woods, the woodsen!
I am not sure what the hunting limits are on Niederlanders these days...
I had better watch out too, then. Though I am only half-Dutch, so maybe I am safe.
Seamus Fermanagh
11-28-2017, 02:53
Changed your user settings so you can see signatures Fragony. You can edit your signature in your profile settings.
Removed view profile images for you, Husar.
I was really just giving Frags a heads-up and twitting him a bit. Did not mean to turn this into a Watchtower moment. :shame:
Removed view profile images for you, Husar.
Is that the punishment now or did I make the impression that I wanted that? ~;)
I was really just giving Frags a heads-up and twitting him a bit. Did not mean to turn this into a Watchtower moment. :shame:
Yes, but then it looked like he wanted help so I couldn't resist to solve the issue. :creep:
I think we can move on now. :bow:
I was really just giving Frags a heads-up and twitting him a bit. Did not mean to turn this into a Watchtower moment. :shame:
Oh don't worry
Stilll can't change anything though, sig is as ancient as the green wave in Teheran
I only read Nature (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07522-z) for the cartoons:
https://i.imgur.com/1N3QD8V.jpg?1
Montmorency
12-06-2017, 07:15
"Literally" is almost never not used as an intensifier.
Hooahguy
12-06-2017, 23:02
I graduate from university in 6 days. Crazy.
Seamus Fermanagh
12-07-2017, 01:21
I graduate from university in 6 days. Crazy.
Congrats. Once free, keep running and do not stop. If you can make it the first mile or so you should be safe.
Hooahguy
12-07-2017, 01:24
Congrats. Once free, keep running and do not stop. If you can make it the first mile or so you should be safe.
Thanks! I dont have a job yet, but Ive been getting interviews and I should start to hear back within the next week or so. Hopefully not much longer will pass before I get a job. Planning on moving to a new city as well.
Hooahguy
12-13-2017, 00:54
So its been 6 days. I don't really feel much different. Maybe a bit lost. Sleeping in is nice though.
:boxedin:
Vincent Butler
12-13-2017, 09:11
So its been 6 days. I don't really feel much different. Maybe a bit lost. Sleeping in is nice though.
:boxedin:
Congratulations!:applause:
Once free, keep running and do not stop. If you can make it the first mile or so you should be safe.
Well said, Seamus Fermanagh.:hail:
I laugh every time I pass the university I graduated from. A very affected, obnoxious laugh. It is a good feeling. I lost over eight years of my life there:ballchain:. Now if I could only find a job in that field. You would think an electrical engineering grad could get a job quickly in a place whose economy depends heavily on the work of engineers.
Take him to Detroit. Well yourself, plenty of work in your field. I have an odd fascination for that city, it's a bit like Rapture from Bioshock, an art-deco paradise gone wrong
Hooahguy
12-14-2017, 02:06
Well, really only one city in the US for me to go to with a degree in international affairs.
Abokasee
12-14-2017, 11:02
I logged in and I dont really know why.
Well, really only one city in the US for me to go to with a degree in international affairs.
Wasn't talking to you but Vincent Butler, a tech-degree is of use there. Congratulations by the way, was ordered to congratulate you on behalve of my mates as well, they asked about your introvert self and I told them you just graduated, you must have made an impression
Hooahguy
12-16-2017, 11:44
Wasn't talking to you but Vincent Butler, a tech-degree is of use there. Congratulations by the way, was ordered to congratulate you on behalve of my mates as well, they asked about your introvert self and I told them you just graduated, you must have made an impression
Ahh oops. Oh well.
And I like to think I have come out of my introverted shell in the two years since we have met. But thanks! :laugh4:
Take him to Detroit. Well yourself, plenty of work in your field. I have an odd fascination for that city, it's a bit like Rapture from Bioshock, an art-deco paradise gone wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynY2begPzoM
Maybe a bit lost.
-> Steam -> Pile of shame -> #deservingit
Hooahguy
12-17-2017, 02:35
Almost got caught in a rental scam from Craigslist the other day. A friend and I were looking for an apartment together and we found this seemingly great one for $2500 a month in a great area, coming fully furnished too. Now for a 2 bed, 2 bath, $2500 is on the low side for the area we are looking at and having it come furnished is even rarer. So we thought hey, what a deal! But then the real estate agent wanted us to pay via money order the first month's rent plus the security deposit, which would be $5000 total before even being allowed to view the apartment. Did some sleuthing this morning, asking for payment before getting a tour is a common scam. So yeah I noped out of there.
:rtwno:
Screw this metoo stuff, this is how things ought to be. Told a friend I once had a dream about having sex with her, all she wanted to know was if she was any good. Not offended ar all, just a good laugh.
Screw this metoo stuff, this is how things ought to be. Told a friend I once had a dream about having sex with her, all she wanted to know was if she was any good. Not offended ar all, just a good laugh.
Okay, so what happened when you started groping a stranger or a female employee? Did she go "Oh Frags, such a tease" or are you now facing sexual assault charges?
There is a difference. Chatting with a friend is consensual.
Okay, so what happened when you started groping a stranger or a female employee? Did she go "Oh Frags, such a tease" or are you now facing sexual assault charges?
There is a difference. Chatting with a friend is consensual.
Women aren't all that innocent but that's for the backroon really, you should know that I am supportive of women's rights by now, regardless. I just like it when things can be so thoughtless and without any suspicion, and atraction is just seen as a compliment, letls what innocent be innocent
Women aren't all that innocent but that's for the backroon really, you should know that I am supportive of women's rights by now, regardless. I just like it when things can be so thoughtless and without any suspicion, and atraction is just seen as a compliment, letls what innocent be innocent
I was trying to say what is innocent be innocent as you put it, but don't use false equivalence. I know from your person comments you care about women rights but don't trash a campaign about giving people a voice in the cases of sexual assault by comparing it with friendly banter with a female friend.
But yes, I believe there is a thread in Backroom somewhere about this.
Well I don't find it's on me that it only annoys me by now, I would completily back it if it wasn't hostile to me. I like to flirt a bit, always do really, I see nothing wrong with that but suddenly you are a pig because of it. I am a really decent guy but I am still on their list. A lot of them simply dislike men and men simply can't do any good for these completily humourless spikey haired dikes
Seamus Fermanagh
12-19-2017, 03:01
Frags....Beirut would be using his axe on your last methinks. Not enough dulce et lux.
Only if I don't get him first you ever thought about that
Anyways, watched great WW1 movie I never heard of 'Galipoli' it's on youtube. Really good, WW1 is so evil
Damn, just woke up, friend comes here in tears, his cat is dying. Took care for that cat when he was in prison and got pretty fond of that cat. RIP in advance Roosje
Well public transportation was temporarily taken dawn in Phaleron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_of_Phalerum), because someone had cut down the cables of the tram.
Apparently, it was accidental. The culprit actually wanted to sabotage the electric supply of the nearby controversial statue (https://ethnikismosblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/phylax.jpg).
The pious local community have viewed it as an idol of Satan himself and they have protested against the mayor, led by a failed candidate for the national elections (with the pro-EU "River (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_(Greece))" party, not the Nazis).
I have reached the gloomy conclusion that my country is FUBAR.
'Taken dawn'was that intentional. Your country isn't all that fucked up really, you guys just have a temper
Seamus Fermanagh
12-26-2017, 19:06
Well public transportation was temporarily taken dawn in Phaleron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_of_Phalerum), because someone had cut down the cables of the tram.
Apparently, it was accidental. The culprit actually wanted to sabotage the electric supply of the nearby controversial statue (https://ethnikismosblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/phylax.jpg).
The pious local community have viewed it as an idol of Satan himself and they have protested against the mayor, led by a failed candidate for the national elections (with the pro-EU "River (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_(Greece))" party, not the Nazis).
I have reached the gloomy conclusion that my country is FUBAR.
I'd petition for its removal on the grounds that I don't find it an attractive statue. I find it a little odd that they're considering it satanic. Yes it is red in color, but traditionally the use of feathered wings has connoted the angelic, not the diabolic. Red is the color associated with the Archangel Uriel.
Hooahguy
12-27-2017, 03:47
Visiting a new city for a day to do job interviews and look at apartments. 22 hour day here I come!
Hooahguy
12-28-2017, 16:57
So my 22 hour day turned out to be much longer when my flight got delayed. Ended up having to do 36+ hours with no sleep since I cant sleep on planes. Or even in the airport when my flight kept getting delayed. It was a fun day.
On the plus side I had two successful interviews and saw some great apartments so hopefully something will come of all of this!
Seamus Fermanagh
12-28-2017, 17:08
So my 22 hour day turned out to be much longer when my flight got delayed. Ended up having to do 36+ hours with no sleep since I cant sleep on planes. Or even in the airport when my flight kept getting delayed. It was a fun day.
On the plus side I had two successful interviews and saw some great apartments so hopefully something will come of all of this!
GL Hooah
Kagemusha
12-31-2017, 22:24
Im sorry i disappeared last autumn.I was facing business problems and just could not find time.I hope you all happy new year!:bow:
Happy New Year, old rascals!
Hooahguy
01-04-2018, 21:03
11,000. Wow.
Frontier = best series ever. Main character is absolutily badass, manliest man ever. Set in Canada for a change, a country I oddly know nothing about
Teh mom bought two ocelots. They are really small now and very cute, not afraid at all. Still think you shouldn't have wild animals as a pet
edit, ffs not that small at all, when laying next to Erasmus, who is a Main coon, she is already half his size. She is going to be huge
Seamus Fermanagh
01-16-2018, 17:03
Ocelots?
Small....by the standards of wild hunting cats, NOT by the standard of house cats. The suckers hunt monkeys successfully in SA.
Yep. They are adorable kittens they behave exactly the same as housecats, they love to be petted, they meow, they purr, but they aren't ordinary housecats they are pocket-panters. She shouldn't have done this. Got no pics now I'll make them later, they are quite beautiful.
Seamus Fermanagh
01-17-2018, 02:25
Kittens of almost any cat breed are adorable. Even those breeds that are a bit off putting.
Yeah. They are supercute but they would kill you if they were bigger. They are predators through and through, they are constantly sneaking up on you, they are practising hunting. I pity everything alive here these are biological murder-machines, I have never seen anything like it they jump a meter high and snatch anything, it's quite impressive really. These are not ordinary cats they have superpowers
Kewl, really heavy storm here, why should others have all the fun. Trucks are blown right of the road and I lost my hat. Someone was kind enough to catch it.
150km/h wow, there is going to be some damage
Hooahguy
01-19-2018, 00:16
Kewl, really heavy storm here, why should others have all the fun. Trucks are blown right of the road and I lost my hat. Someone was kind enough to catch it.
150km/h wow, there is going to be some damage
The memes about the wind over there have been great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1cc4phCR8U&feature=youtu.be
Netflix just keeps giving, Ozark, also really recommended. Fantastic acting. The ending isn't really satisfying because the trouble the main character got himself and his family into is far from over, there will be a second season I guess.
Ocelots, lots of them. Not really it are only two ocelots but it feels like more. Really wild little things they go everywhere
Seamus Fermanagh
01-23-2018, 17:18
Ocelots, lots of them. Not really it are only two ocelots but it feels like more. Really wild little things they go everywhere
Ocelot to keep up with then...
[sorry, that pun was evil enough to be worthy of KukriKhan]
I call them slots, minxes that they are they keep stalking me, they are actually incredibly friendly but man.. they fly all over the place they are a feline demolition crew. Teh mom is slowly warming to my advice to not buy ocelots because they are climbing into everything probably right now including her art collection, I'll hear it later
Hooahguy
01-24-2018, 04:49
First day of work tomorrow! I officially join the real world, going to miss the relative freedom of university I think. Though making money is always nice.
Seamus Fermanagh
01-24-2018, 17:42
First day of work tomorrow! I officially join the real world, going to miss the relative freedom of university I think. Though making money is always nice.
In a couple of years, when you are truly and fully "on your own bottom," you will realize how things just fit this way.
https://i.imgur.com/jJCQ3OT.jpg
To be honest, it's kind of sad that these cartoons are needed to explain to the crowd something so simple. I even remember being taught how vaccines work, when I was 13.
The problem is that the trend is expanding here, as well. The main issue are homeopathy charlatans with fake diplomas from shady institutions, but anti-vaccine hysteria has begun to gain some ground.
There is a Facebook group of anti-vaccination mothers, eternally wondering why their offspring gets sick, despite being very careful at not approaching any doctor at proximity.
http://www.georgepaschalidis.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/The-Paschalidis-Tri-Anthropo-Type-Model-in-Education-Three-Learning-Profiles-Three-Teaching-Styles.pdf
Oh Netflix how I love you, Godless is awesome. I love grim westerns, and grim it is
done
10/10 I'm in love with Alice
At teh moms place, these ocelots are growing like crazy. It's legal to have a lynx as a pet in the Netherlands, not going to tell her that
Montmorency
02-18-2018, 02:27
At 9:00 PM Moscow time, all local and national Soviet TV channels would switch to a broadcast of the news program Вре́мя (Vremya, "Time").
Soviet joke:
A man is watching TV when Vremya comes on. He switches to next channel, it's still Vremya. He switches to the next channel, it's still Vremya. He switches the channel once more, but this time it's just a closeup of a KGB officer's face.
"I would stop switching channels if I were you."
This hits hard, found a letter in a cobert I didn't know I had, was in it's inner pocket. A sentence losely translated;
I am going to do die and that's a shame, it's all so easy if you have no choice, it's a shame for me and you but you will have to go on, just keep doing what you do''
Doing what, it was my job to beat up people and protecting hookers and sometimes join them
Dangit. There is a lot more in it, on his view on arts etc. Feel like a discoverer finding this, I'm going to frame this and give it to my mom.
'It's all so easy if you don't have a choice', I don't know if I should be angry or not, just found this in my pocket I have many cohberts I didn't wear it for 15 years
Another gem, someone is being stubborn if you simply can't explain why he is wrong; I think that was directed at me I am bad at that
This certainly brings up some memories of my father dying, we were completily conflicting characters when he was alive but maybe because we were much alike. Still, sorry dad I can't help not missing you at all
And yes I have issues that haunt me
Montmorency
03-03-2018, 06:00
Hearing Range tops around 17300-400 Hz.
Not too long ago I could jam to 20 KHz.
Get off my lawn, clouds.
Going to treat an old victimg to a dinner, he says I was always the nicest. I wonder what the others did
https://i.imgur.com/1Px94Jp.png
And once the atheist dies and isn't useful for lessons anymore, god sends the atheist, whom he created himself, to eternal damnation...
A very happy, reassuring lesson of hope indeed. :dizzy2:
Seamus Fermanagh
03-06-2018, 21:59
And once the atheist dies and isn't useful for lessons anymore, god sends the atheist, whom he created himself, to eternal damnation...
A very happy, reassuring lesson of hope indeed. :dizzy2:
I'm no Biblical scholar, but my remembrances of the new testament suggests that nobody goes to heaven without embracing God. It does not suggest eternal torture for those who do not.
Hooahguy
03-07-2018, 03:57
Well the cool thing about Judaism is that there really isnt a concept of hell, and non-believers can go to heaven if they are just an all around decent human being. No Jewish faith required. :yes:
Well the cool thing about Judaism is that there really isnt a concept of hell, and non-believers can go to heaven if they are just an all around decent human being. No Jewish faith required. :yes:
My mom's cleaner is a hardcore catholic, she insists that I will go to heaven. But then again that could be because I keep giving her presents, she has a pretty miserable life and I want to help her a little. The inquisition thought a bit differently of course
Well, Hel comes from the Nordic religion. One of those co-opting of Pagan things.
I'm no Biblical scholar, but my remembrances of the new testament suggests that nobody goes to heaven without embracing God. It does not suggest eternal torture for those who do not.
Not being in heaven is eternal torture though because the human soul needs to be close to god to be happy. And the chance to embrace god ends with life, so once you're in hell or wherever not heaven is, your soul suffers because it craves being in heaven.
It doesn't take a literal fire for eternal suffering. Or that's what a pastor once said in more detail.
Not being in heaven is eternal torture though because the human soul needs to be close to god to be happy. And the chance to embrace god ends with life, so once you're in hell or wherever not heaven is, your soul suffers because it craves being in heaven.
It doesn't take a literal fire for eternal suffering. Or that's what a pastor once said in more detail.
It kinda evolved I guess, but is that any less cruel if you think of it. I won't say that religion is evil as many people are really good persons because of it, but they probably would have have been good persons without it. What you say is much toned down but I still find it really creepy and cruel to think it. Not trying to bash your believes, wouldn't call myself an atheist either because I don't feel like denouncing anything, that would mean I would have to denounce something I don't take serious anyway, but I find religion creepy. Not trying to troll you it's just how I look at things, no offence intended
Seamus Fermanagh
03-09-2018, 16:02
Not being in heaven is eternal torture though because the human soul needs to be close to god to be happy. And the chance to embrace god ends with life, so once you're in hell or wherever not heaven is, your soul suffers because it craves being in heaven.
It doesn't take a literal fire for eternal suffering. Or that's what a pastor once said in more detail.
I have heard priests assert much the same line.
Frags, don't worry about it. Be a reasonable person and a halfway decent neighbor and you will get along fine with all but the most rabidly churched.
Ultimately, we will know the answers...or not...when we join the majority. Until that time, I will continue in my faith and continue to wish you and most others well.
Oh don't worry about me being worried about that, it's just kinda alien to me. I get along with almost everybody
Seven Seconds, another great Netflix series, about a really unfortunate accident with a cover-up that gets out of control. The police has an (immmoral) but good reason to cover it up and the family naturally a good reason to find out what happened. Great social drama
Real heroism, it exists, RIP https://twitter.com/gerardcollomb/status/977405502740205568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geenstijl.nl%2F5141285%2Fgendarme-beltrame-held-van-frankrijk-overleden%2F%23comments&tfw_site=geenstijl Gave his live but saved plenty
Montmorency
04-05-2018, 23:50
For almost about 2 years now I've been receiving sporadic work or personal-related emails related to a gas/oil extraction company. Since some of these are forwards on personal (and personnel) matters, I assume I have an email address similar to someone on their payrolls or mailing lists. I've emailed them a couple of times over the years to inform them of the mistake, but it doesn't appear to have registered. I don't even bother deleting their emails anymore.
Isn't this just poor IT standards, though? I have a gmail domain! Everyone else CCed in these emails has a company domain! Does no one notice this?
My ancient laptop finally died, kinda killed it. Got me a Chromebook for only 160 euro it works great. Buttons feel a bit loose but otherwise great stuff
I need a lava machine (http://lavaproject.syr.edu).
Montmorency
04-12-2018, 00:27
I'm going to eat Poptarts for the first time since 2009!
Hooahguy
04-16-2018, 00:23
Everyone says that job searching while you have a job is easier compared to job searching with no job, but I'm not so sure that is true anymore. Maybe overall less stress but still stressful. I hate interviews and I'm now wondering how on earth I managed to get my current job.
Seamus Fermanagh
04-16-2018, 13:21
Everyone says that job searching while you have a job is easier compared to job searching with no job, but I'm not so sure that is true anymore. Maybe overall less stress but still stressful. I hate interviews and I'm now wondering how on earth I managed to get my current job.
Of course it is LESS stressful but certainly not un-stressful. As I teach all of my speech students, you are supposed to experience some measure of stress/nervousness (it is your body's way of kicking you into a higher gear of performance). If you aren't feeling a little stressed or nervous it means you have stopped caring about the "audience" at all -- not a healthy sign.
Everyone says that job searching while you have a job is easier compared to job searching with no job, but I'm not so sure that is true anymore. Maybe overall less stress but still stressful. I hate interviews and I'm now wondering how on earth I managed to get my current job.
I always understood it this way:
The actual act of doing the search and applying is not easier, it is more that currently working makes you more employable, thus it is easier to get the job whilst working opposed to being out of work. If you are in a job and searching, it is a signal that you are a productive member who wants to improve and give more than what you are currently constrained to do by your job. So this is a sign to your potential new employer that you are a hard-worker. If you are out of work for lets say a year, they are looking at this and going "So.. why aren't they in a job? Are they not that good? Why won't people employ them, do I want that risk?".
I found this to be the case with myself and my friends in different phases/situations of employment. I had one friend who was begging for work, they were even working free for a charity for 'experience' (more that they were running the outlet as unpaid manager) and they were kept being turned down repeatedly. They were begging for 2 years with all sorts of excuses or lack of responses from companies. Finally, some one else who volunteered at the charity had an family member who was looking for new employees in a basic job. He effectively got a shoe in because the niece said how hard he works, etc. Within 2 years, he was in a senior management position within that company, and people have sent him job offers trying to poach him!
I guess the moral of his story is also "Networking is good" and "Take an opportunity when you see it".
You simply do not really need them, good luck
"When He heard what Shi had found, he was excited."
https://www.nature.com/news/an-epigenetics-gold-rush-new-controls-for-gene-expression-1.21513
It escalates.
This is so sexy, I am a pretty good dancer but nowhere like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ1P3LjkE28 Cohen always +1 RIP
That's more like 70% hugging and feeling and 30% dancing...:sweatdrop:
That's more like 70% hugging and feeling and 30% dancing...:sweatdrop:
Rgat is 1% understanding dancing, and hugginh. It is not going to end very well
My spelling sucks as well I see
Rgat is 1% understanding dancing, and hugginh. It is not going to end very well
My spelling sucks as well I see
Don't confuse taste with understanding. ~;p
Montmorency
04-29-2018, 12:27
BENIGHTED MUSSOLINI (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/8691206)
Apparently I'm like the second person in history to come up with that.
Montmorency
05-02-2018, 04:20
Maybe we should trend performatively-tautological greetings.
"Greetings"
That means the greeting is perfectly neutral and we can move on immediately. Pretty awesome, right?
Vernacularize it?
Grits.
Yo, grittles.
?
hi should do, among my friends things are a bit more creative though
Seamus Fermanagh
05-03-2018, 04:18
Maybe we should trend performatively-tautological greetings.
"Greetings"
That means the greeting is perfectly neutral and we can move on immediately. Pretty awesome, right?
Vernacularize it?
Grits.
Yo, grittles.
?
Been grading too many mediocre papers today. Thanks for the lol.
My nephew (sister's boy) is turning into a drag I think. I don't have a problem with these things (anymore) but should it be encouraged just of because, maybe you got it wrong and destroy someone if you support it
Montmorency
05-09-2018, 21:47
My nephew (sister's boy) is turning into a drag I think. I don't have a problem with these things (anymore) but should it be encouraged just of because, maybe you got it wrong and destroy someone if you support it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kjA-I2V0bE
Don't be scared. It's similar to any costume-based group.
I think differently nowadays, people can change their minds they are not cemented, hopefully
Montmorency
05-12-2018, 01:16
My mother just keeps on living, the son of a bitch. My mother is a son of a bitch.
-overheard from an old lady on a bus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-GCeM6wwGM&sns=em
It's is increasingly comming clear that my mother made a bad decision getting ocelots, these are not housecats. Why do people do that, getting a wild animal and expecting it to be a domesticated one, they aren't. These ocelots of her are friendly but constantly on their toes, anything unexpected scares them
Afghanistan or Greenland? Question 1 (https://www.google.com/maps/@67.0053762,-50.6868288,3a,60y,151.88h,98.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMd88dvdI-j2dT_XaPCcVCQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Montmorency
05-23-2018, 22:11
Afghanistan or Greenland? Question 1 (https://www.google.com/maps/@67.0053762,-50.6868288,3a,60y,151.88h,98.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMd88dvdI-j2dT_XaPCcVCQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Kangerlussuaq doesn't sound much like a Central Asian word, but the Latin-alphabet graffiti marked from the 1990s is pretty suggestive.
The "Marius Olsen-ip Aqq." sign and Royal Arctic container a few steps ahead more so.
Is it supposed to be hard to distinguish the topology or geology? Is the grass the wrong species?
(I wonder if anyone has tried building point-and-click games off Google Street View content.)
Kangerlussuaq doesn't sound much like a Central Asian word, but the Latin-alphabet graffiti marked from the 1990s is pretty suggestive.
Indeed, -(su)aq is a quite common ending in many or all inuit languages.
The "Marius Olsen-ip Aqq." sign and Royal Arctic container a few steps ahead more so.
Is it supposed to be hard to distinguish the topology or geology? Is the grass the wrong species?
I just thought that precise scene that you get when you click the link looked quite similar to certain scenes from Afghanistan (dry land, mountainous, basic road standard, basic bridge).
For a real game, I'd only have a static image and censored out a couple of things, like the road signs.
(I wonder if anyone has tried building point-and-click games off Google Street View content.)
Like GeoGuessr (https://geoguessr.com/world/play)?
Montmorency
05-24-2018, 13:56
I just thought that precise scene that you get when you click the link looked quite similar to certain scenes from Afghanistan (dry land, mountainous, basic road standard, basic bridge).
I wouldn't be able to tell it from parts of the American West, being ignorant and insensate of botanical or geological details.
Like GeoGuessr?
I mean adventure games.
the tokai
05-25-2018, 19:52
I am an actual human idiot.
Or possibly just a coward.
Now I'm gonna have to put myself out there even more just because I was too scared to put myself out there in the first place.
I'm still gonna do it though.
Maybe.
the tokai
05-25-2018, 19:53
FUCK
Seamus Fermanagh
05-25-2018, 21:45
I am an actual human idiot.
Or possibly just a coward.
Now I'm gonna have to put myself out there even more just because I was too scared to put myself out there in the first place.
I'm still gonna do it though.
Maybe.
The world will move forward with or without you and it won't much care what you do.
Taking an active role for yourself might get you something for yourself, or it might not. Not taking and active role guarantees the 'not' result.
I'd advocate stepping out there despite the fear.
If you ask her and she says 'no,' how are you worse off than never asking?
If you try to make something of yourself and fail are you more greatly harmed than if you'd done nothing but watch things go by?
Montmorency
05-26-2018, 02:10
I was thinking about some time, whether it took an hour or an hour-and-a-half to walk somewhere.
Then I figured it was confabulation, "I didn't have a phone back then so it's not like I could have known the time."
But I used to wear a watch. I could have checked the time on my watch.
The world will move forward with or without you and it won't much care what you do.
Taking an active role for yourself might get you something for yourself, or it might not. Not taking and active role guarantees the 'not' result.
I'd advocate stepping out there despite the fear.
Interesting how you assumed he was talking about a woman, or romance.
If you ask her and she says 'no,' how are you worse off than never asking?
If you try to make something of yourself and fail are you more greatly harmed than if you'd done nothing but watch things go by?
Also, if it's a woman she could disembowel him on the spot and all existence down to the horizon would implode to feast on his dust.
Seamus Fermanagh
05-26-2018, 03:48
...Interesting how you assumed he was talking about a woman, or romance.
Also, if it's a woman she could disembowel him on the spot and all existence down to the horizon would implode to feast on his dust.
My hypothetical examples spoke to romance and to personal success respectively.
As to the possibility of evisceration, we are all cherry blossoms anyway.
the tokai
05-26-2018, 11:53
Interesting how you assumed he was talking about a woman, or romance.
Well, I was.
It's totally fixable though. I've just managed to manoeuvre myself into a position where I'll probably have to get a third person involved. Which makes things that much more awkward.
Also, if she wanted to disembowel me on the spot I would definitely accept that. No implosions necessary.
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Seamus Fermanagh
05-27-2018, 21:44
Well, I was.
It's totally fixable though. I've just managed to manoeuvre myself into a position where I'll probably have to get a third person involved....
Careful now, this is the Frontroom (Kingdom of Sweetness and Light), not the tawdry Backroom with its shysters, bloviates, and rapscallions.
Shut it. singing me and my friends do a lot my first name is bas so I have one. My voice is apparantly so loudhat it hurts. I like that
Seamus Fermanagh
05-30-2018, 22:02
Shut it. singing me and my friends do a lot my first name is bas so I have one. My voice is apparantly so loudhat it hurts. I like that
This could be copied into the Backroom drunkards thread as well -- not that it does not richly qualify as random thought.
I got an odd mom and that is why I love her , she always listens Ramstein in her superfast BMW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOnSh3QlpbQ
Spain vs Portugal, what a match
Hooahguy
06-17-2018, 05:37
Can we talk about the Morocco vs Iran match though? Both sad and hilarious.
Also I got myself a new and much better job! :2thumbsup:
Can we talk about the Morocco vs Iran match though? Both sad and hilarious.
Also I got myself a new and much better job! :2thumbsup:
It is sad yes, especially hilarious is how Iran is in the top of the group while they were weaker then Marocco, and obviously not as good as Ronaldo and some Portugese Portugal and Spain
It was sad for the guy, but the way it looks, neither team will progress beyond the group stage anyway. :shrug:
What was adorable was that Iceland scored its first world cup goal ever and also managed to get a draw against Argentina.
As my default behaviour throughout the day is to continuously switch between different tasks as well as between work and spare time activities, I very much like the contents of this article (http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180605-why-being-easily-distracted-can-be-a-very-good-thing)...
Montmorency
06-17-2018, 19:51
For those of us not spectating (the World Cup), what happened?
Brother of the captain (Bustafa) is a mate of mine he says that tensions are pretty high in the Maroccan team. At least my mate has a nice free trip. Iceland must feel great no matter what happens next, no small feat to not lose from Argentina, that is a great achievement
I am more of a cat-person but I really like dogs, they are awesome animals. I don't like some dog-owners though, carry a bag, and buy me new shoes
Montmorency
07-17-2018, 02:19
I'm not approached for directions or random conversation that often, but it feels like when I am it's disproportionately by black people.
It's happened 3 times just in the past month or so, and a few earlier in the year as well.
I must be a very approachable white boy.
Don't judge a book by it's tatoes, I know what black tears stand for (one tear per murder) but he is one of the few at the resort I am currently in who helps out the disabled whenever he can, nice guy actually, bit of a lost soul with a troubled history
Pffffft good morning it is already hot and damp
I hope the recent air escapade is covered by a later season of Air Crash Investigation.
What is it with Houellebque, can't see how people do not recognise a rather twisted sense of humour. I love his books, 'Submission' is probably my new favorite after 'Atomised'. What is it with some that they do not get that it is all satire. Yes it is absolutily racist, sexist, pornographic, cynical, get over it the joke's on you
Great read, recommended. The jest between the lines is kinda obvious to me not everybody got the joke it seems
I'm totally depressed... I've just returned from my parents' house. Wanted to take some of my old stuff from there... Imagine my disappointment when I saw that termites just ruined my old guitar! It was my first guitar and I still have a hope to repait it but it's badly ruined... I hate those bugs! Already found an article (https://pestcontrolhacks.com/get-rid-of-termites/) about how to get rid of them. The war is declared...
Fantastic, a bus with activists who wanted to ruin the Sinterklaas-party was halted by locals, an action I totally agree with it is just a children's party it isn't racist at all. Those who stopped the bus got rediculous punishment. A few hours later almost 200k was collected to help them out and it is steadily counting, some give thousands
Could the Dutch team be back? It are only qualifications but unbeaten so far. I would love to see a match with the absolutily awesome southern neighbours, Belgium has become so great, screw France and Germany, Belgium is king now
Cats are really fun animals but when they claw my coat I have to stare at them. I know the brand these things are 1700 at least, got it from a friend without reason, we do that, but I like it. Fuck you cats you have a perfectly fine scratching pole. Screw you cats. Damage is minimal but you do not want any damage at all
Seamus Fermanagh
12-02-2018, 04:54
Frags,
You and this thread are so simpatico it is scary.
Had to look that word up, never seen it before, it doesn't look like english to me more like Spanish
Going to use it as it's fun to say
Montmorency
12-04-2018, 23:20
Living through the death of the old peak Internet is probably somehow something like experiencing the decline of the bespoke Greco-Roman colonies in the Egyptian oases during the 3rd century CE.
Got to love Dutch weather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIt6SsVqMiE Never noticed any storm where I live but it can be really local and come very sudden
Laws of physics don't work here (https://www.google.com/maps/@70.9503287,-8.6407042,3a,75y,0.24h,164.6t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNBoIwq6pYopyh3LiOcDZIR9z9aXjKb5KyeNzTN!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleu sercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNBoIwq6pYopyh3LiOcDZIR9z9aXjKb5KyeNzTN%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-12.086873-ya269.7251-ro-82.06205-fo100!7i2508!8i1254)
Montmorency
12-17-2018, 22:35
Laws of physics don't work here (https://www.google.com/maps/@70.9503287,-8.6407042,3a,75y,0.24h,164.6t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipNBoIwq6pYopyh3LiOcDZIR9z9aXjKb5KyeNzTN!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleu sercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipNBoIwq6pYopyh3LiOcDZIR9z9aXjKb5KyeNzTN%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-12.086873-ya269.7251-ro-82.06205-fo100!7i2508!8i1254)
What does that mean?
Anyway, something I had lying around:
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Shaka_Khan
12-19-2018, 14:52
I'm getting nervous because of the international news - so much tensions and uncertainty.
Had a few days with a french gipsie, avoid is bad
Seamus Fermanagh
12-20-2018, 15:05
Had a few days with a french gipsie, avoid is bad
We spell that 'Gypsy' Frags, but I am given to understand that they themselves prefer "Romani" at least when being addressed by non-Romani. Though they are pretty comfortable labeling us as 'Gorgers.'
We spell that 'Gypsy' Frags, but I am given to understand that they themselves prefer "Romani" at least when being addressed by non-Romani. Though they are pretty comfortable labeling us as 'Gorgers.'
Roma and Sinti, two different tribes. Who cares was fun, in true gypsy style suddenly gone, probably back to France
a completely inoffensive name
12-24-2018, 06:42
After battling a chronic illness for the past 8 months, I am starting to feel close to normal. Then suddenly I sprained a muscle in my left arm this past Friday, lol.
On New Year's I am hoping for a healthy 2019.
Seamus Fermanagh
12-24-2018, 18:08
After battling a chronic illness for the past 8 months, I am starting to feel close to normal. Then suddenly I sprained a muscle in my left arm this past Friday, lol.
On New Year's I am hoping for a healthy 2019.
Indeed. I wish you a healthy and, if possibly, happy New Year.
What does that mean?
The panning function got messed up in an interesting manner.
Happy new year. I usually go go Amsterdam but stayer here because I didn't veel very well, fever is on a roll here a lot of people are a bit sick. Fireworks are great to watch the sky is exploding
Stormsurge comming our way it seems, that can be bad. Usualy alarmism but the Netherlands is kinda vulnerable for these things. Nothing bad Will happen but could cause soms damage
a completely inoffensive name
04-09-2019, 06:08
Taking three weeks off to explore Japan and I'm wondering how fast things can change while I am away.
a completely inoffensive name
05-05-2019, 01:51
I'm back. It is very crowded over there.
I'm back. It is very crowded over there.
How was your experience? I'd like to go hopefully at some point in the future, so I'm curious.
Montmorency
05-05-2019, 05:41
I'm back. It is very crowded over there.
Did you visit the countryside?
a completely inoffensive name
05-05-2019, 10:17
How was your experience? I'd like to go hopefully at some point in the future, so I'm curious.
I have a lot to say, it was quite a lot to take in. Absolutely worth it.
If you are new to traveling, I would say Seoul is a good place to start in East Asia because it felt very Westernized compared to Taipei and Tokyo. I saw just as many French style cafes and restaurants putting cheese on everything as I did for the more traditional Korean food. I had the best breakfast sandwich of my life at a chain called Isaac. If you visit SK, please eat there. I spent five days there and that was enough for the city, but you could go further out to other cities like Busan and extend the trip. unfortunately, tours at the DMZ are not allowed at the moment, don't know why but I guess that's fine. Venturing in the countryside/DMZ puts you at higher risk for malaria vectors.
Tokyo is much more forgiving than even recent years because they are building the city for the Olympics and have encouraged more english signage and credit card transactions (although many places still operate under cash only).
But it still helps tremendously to understand common Japanese words or have google translate handy. Osaka was boring. Kyoto was fun for a day, and is great for day trips to neighboring areas (hiroshima, nara, etc).
Japanese baseball is a blast and you should experience it at least once. I could do a whole write up if you are interested. I spent about 16 days in Japan and I feel like I will need another two weeks in a future trip to see the rest.
In Tokyo I got severe food poisoning and ended up having simultaneous vomiting and diarrhea for 12 hours, followed by 24 hours of extreme fatigue. All I can say is don't eat the food at the Tokyo Skytree.
Did you visit the countryside?
Not in Korea. But I did a little bit north of Mount Fuji. Tried to focus on hitting up more cities for my first time. Also, being in the countryside meant (per CDC recommendations) I had to bring malaria pills and get an expensive vaccine for Japanese Encephalitis. I didn't do either, so I limited my exposure.
I will say however, that while the cities are crowded, there are tons of side allys and streets where it can be very sparse and quiet. Felt almost like suburbs except all the buildings are 3+ stories tall.
Montmorency
05-05-2019, 17:01
Not in Korea. But I did a little bit north of Mount Fuji. Tried to focus on hitting up more cities for my first time. Also, being in the countryside meant (per CDC recommendations) I had to bring malaria pills and get an expensive vaccine for Japanese Encephalitis. I didn't do either, so I limited my exposure.
I will say however, that while the cities are crowded, there are tons of side allys and streets where it can be very sparse and quiet. Felt almost like suburbs except all the buildings are 3+ stories tall.
Hmm, I've never thought about health recommendations when in rural areas of the United States. :sweatdrop:
You might like the Youtube channel Asian Boss, which is mostly street interviews with young people in Korea, Japan, China, Philippines, India, and others. I see it as an alternative to actually traveling!
I have a lot to say, it was quite a lot to take in. Absolutely worth it.
If you are new to traveling, I would say Seoul is a good place to start in East Asia because it felt very Westernized compared to Taipei and Tokyo. I saw just as many French style cafes and restaurants putting cheese on everything as I did for the more traditional Korean food. I had the best breakfast sandwich of my life at a chain called Isaac. If you visit SK, please eat there. I spent five days there and that was enough for the city, but you could go further out to other cities like Busan and extend the trip. unfortunately, tours at the DMZ are not allowed at the moment, don't know why but I guess that's fine. Venturing in the countryside/DMZ puts you at higher risk for malaria vectors.
Tokyo is much more forgiving than even recent years because they are building the city for the Olympics and have encouraged more english signage and credit card transactions (although many places still operate under cash only).
But it still helps tremendously to understand common Japanese words or have google translate handy. Osaka was boring. Kyoto was fun for a day, and is great for day trips to neighboring areas (hiroshima, nara, etc).
Japanese baseball is a blast and you should experience it at least once. I could do a whole write up if you are interested. I spent about 16 days in Japan and I feel like I will need another two weeks in a future trip to see the rest.
In Tokyo I got severe food poisoning and ended up having simultaneous vomiting and diarrhea for 12 hours, followed by 24 hours of extreme fatigue. All I can say is don't eat the food at the Tokyo Skytree.
Yeah, I would be interested in a full write-up if you wanted to write one, I'd definitely read it. Thanks for the info.
Montmorency
07-25-2019, 21:08
I read this restaurateur's blog series (http://content.jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-restaurant-part-1-overview/) on why tipping should be abolished or even banned: the psychology and economics of tipping in the hospitality industry, especially restaurants.
This was one of those reads. You know what I mean, an affecting Good Read.
Reading be like:
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Unfortunately, the No-Tip model has not taken off in the past decade - not necessarily because its promise failed but because a huge proportion of customers turn out to be viscerally repulsed by the perception of loss of control over waiters. Also, high-earning waiters lose money (and quit) if their chance at tip earnings is cut off for more equalized wages with the whole staff. :/
The People have lost my confidence, throw them out and elect a new People!
To be fair, I guess replacing (often cash) tipping with service charge directly raised by house as revenue also increases surface area for embezzlement by unscrupulous owners, but there will always be swindlers and exploiters; I wonder what is superior on net.
EDIT: Of course! Of course! Server psychology. It's like a game! A tip at the conclusion of a service task is instant gratification, like grinding loot. How do you design your servers' workflow to account for that??? Manager disperses immediate wage payment per table? Too inefficient? Tips are worker payments farmed out to customers after all, which reduces logistical as well as final financial burden on management (although counterbalanced by relative difficulty of business bookkeeping and taxation compliance with tip income). Shiiiii
Feckin's Weberian steel casing
ACIN Please take your time. :yes:
Montmorency
09-16-2019, 15:24
I may have never thought of inserting or removing hangers from buttoned shirts from the bottom before today.
In the immediate term, Medzhitov’s takeaway is to follow our cravings when we’re sick, because they may reflect evolutionary mechanisms that evolved to be protective: “So, for example, when you have the flu, you kind of feel like having some tea and honey. That may be the body’s way of telling us that we need some glucose. I suspect we have these mechanisms that tell us what we prefer to eat (or not to eat) when we’re sick. Those are the mechanisms we should probably listen to.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/glucose-inflammation/498965/
Interesting..
I'll eat that chocolate.
Montmorency
10-23-2019, 03:52
"Sleepers get stupefied"? That's the original English? Definitely makes no sense.
Can't wait for the December cinnamon tea while outside it's 0 degrees.
Answered a question from an Asian tourist today. Wish me luck.
Montmorency
03-09-2020, 13:48
It's 2020. A hundred years ago was 1920. Everyone who grew up prior to WW2, who had a full experience of the 1930s, is pretty much a centenarian by now.
Seamus Fermanagh
03-09-2020, 18:30
It's 2020. A hundred years ago was 1920. Everyone who grew up prior to WW2, who had a full experience of the 1930s, is pretty much a centenarian by now.
I think we still have one person left receiving a Civil War pension check.
I think we still have one person left receiving a Civil War pension check.
Her Dad was 83 when she was born. Age difference of at least 50 years between her Dad and Mother.
Crazy.
Seamus Fermanagh
03-17-2020, 20:05
Her Dad was 83 when she was born. Age difference of at least 50 years between her Dad and Mother.
Crazy.
I have actually read of some 20th century ACW marriages arranged in order to keep the pension coming to the family. As Franklin said...
"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
Montmorency
03-17-2020, 23:04
I have actually read of some 20th century ACW marriages arranged in order to keep the pension coming to the family. As Franklin said...
"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
Which is why there were thousands of such late marriages, currently receiving short of a $1000 a year.
*checks notes*
I'm reading here that may have not happened...
Right about now is where one of those cryo sleep chambers as seen in Interstellar/The Martian/Passengers would be handy.
ReluctantSamurai
04-20-2020, 22:17
Saw this a little while ago:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52350082
Negative oil prices? Negative oil prices??
The price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the benchmark for US oil, fell as low as minus $37.63 a barrel.
I suppose it might be a bit much to ask that the gas station pays me to fill up my tank...~D
Montmorency
04-21-2020, 21:12
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epgejn/why-is-the-oil-price-negative-and-can-you-buy-some-an-explainer
Maybe we can chip in to rent a hundred acres of land in Wyoming, a lot of tarpaulin, and call it the Org Strategic Oil Reserve?
Edit: I figure, what, 250000 barrels should be a good start. Figure out a way to time these things so that the millions credited from accepting those barrels will offset the land, shipping, brokerage, and other costs.
ReluctantSamurai
04-21-2020, 21:50
Or....we could've bought an oil tanker for $17 million US, renamed it The ORG, and been PAID $41 million to take delivery of just over a million barrels of Texas light, sweet crude.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dm7mn/buy-tanker-during-coronavirus-oil-prices?utm_source=stylizedembed_vice.com&utm_campaign=epgejn&site=vice
If you were very smart and perceptive, and bought in at the market’s lowest point yesterday ($-37.63), you would have been paid $40,969,323.83 to take the oil. That means you would have made enough to have bought the tanker and would have had roughly $24 million left over to figure out the logistics of getting all of the oil from Oklahoma onto the boat. Unfortunately we did not do this, and neither did you, and the moment has passed.
Damn! There probably would've been enough money to hire a crew and rent a dock in New York harbor somewhere, yes?
:bounce:
Montmorency
05-26-2020, 08:41
https://i.imgur.com/jb0IIcG.jpg
:thinking:
I accidentally bought an $80 e-book series on Amazon kindle because I tapped "order now with 1-click" when I was trying to scroll down on my smartphone. I was able to get a refund, but I found out that Amazon won't let you disable 1-click ordering, which is bull crap. I wouldn't be surprised if they did that on purpose to take advantage of people.
edyzmedieval
06-28-2020, 22:30
11.000 posts. :sweatdrop:
Quite a long list.
Hooahguy
06-29-2020, 02:09
:medievalcheers:
Its a long yet rewarding road! Or so I tell myself.
:creep:
Montmorency
07-08-2020, 11:40
foul fowl foul fowl foul foul foul fowl in Buffalo
Good morning.
Hooahguy
07-09-2020, 00:00
...are you ok
edyzmedieval
07-09-2020, 00:00
Water buffaloes? :bounce:
ReluctantSamurai
07-10-2020, 03:34
Maybe he's referring to this?
https://books.google.com/books?id=oMZEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA2347&lpg=PA2347&dq=foul+in+buffalo&source=bl&ots=vxnHB_ICU1&sig=ACfU3U1JIrDSxB41R0tCjMxraCW
:shrug:
~D
edyzmedieval
07-12-2020, 01:16
How in the world did you manage to find that? 1904 review of the Buffalo City council, wow. ~:eek:
Somewhat shockingly, I woke up at around 4 due to a wolf spider walking on my face. :inquisitive:
I'm getting real tired of websites blocking my access to their site, by saying I need to disable my adblocker when I don't have an ad blocker active. I'm getting super annoyed and not sure why this is a thing...
calculage
10-24-2020, 13:57
well since its random i sometimes think about the concept of age and how ridiculously meaningless it is ! i mean why would someone celebrate the day they started spinning around the sun and why does it matter and more importantly why keep track of your age ? and some people even use things like age calculator (https://www.quizexpo.com/how-old-am-i-age-calculator/) . its like you are gettin closer and closer to your death every hour !
Montmorency
11-13-2020, 01:12
All this time I was using the participle "enjoined" when "to injunct" is a legitimate back-formation.
Montmorency
12-13-2020, 22:33
If you're going for chain fast food, please don't forget that there are usually coupons floating around that will let you double your money (or save half).
ReluctantSamurai
01-08-2021, 15:05
New Yorkers are just....well....squirrelly:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/08/squirrel-attacks-nyc-neighborhood-fear
At least three people in Rego Park, in the borough of Queens, have been jumped upon and bitten by the possibly deranged squirrel in recent weeks. The tree-based rodent’s reign of terror has made some people in the area afraid to go outside without being armed with pepper spray or other anti-squirrel weaponry.
Anti-squirrel weaponry?:creep:
“I came out of the house with a shovel after the first few days but now I think ‘I have the vaccine, I’m wearing heavy gloves, bring it on,’” she said.
Pretty sure you are at risk for rabies there, sweetheart, not COVID-19:laugh4:
Montmorency
01-24-2021, 19:58
I just realized --- all those old-timey allusions from the Bible, poetry, literature, or the Classics, that people tended to pepper into their speech and writing up to the early 20th century are pretty much the equivalent of contemporary Internet memes.
You know the sort I mean, 'And here am I as Laocoön before the very Hesperides on the night the poet saw Jericho' or some such :daisy:
Those allusions, often recurring as stock phrases, had a specific evocative content that is categorically similar to memes.
https://i.imgur.com/8NDvTlK.jpg
Dink1955
01-29-2021, 12:44
Today's random thought... I hope $GME goes to the moon!
Anyone else on this ride? :rolleyes4:
I never thought the madness of GME would hit this place but there we go!
GME to the moon!
Montmorency
02-11-2021, 04:33
I am aware of at least 5 shows about rural South Asian people trying things launching within the past year.
Merchant20
02-11-2021, 18:27
Hello, is this argument sound and valid?
Sharks have fins.
Sharks are fish.
Therefore, all fish must have fins.
Hooahguy
02-12-2021, 15:37
No that would be a logical fallacy.
Montmorency
03-08-2021, 05:42
Thought 1: The problem with jars of capers is that, unless one intends to eat a spoonful with every meal...
Thought 2: What is Hollywood going to do when mass-market internal-combustion vehicles are no longer available to order?
I think it's rather telling that one advances in age when Justin Bieber is actually good pop music. Oh dear.
Shaka_Khan
03-27-2021, 01:37
I find it disturbing how so many regular posters (and not just this forum) suddenly stopped posting. It happened during this pandemic and when so many people lost their jobs. I worry about them.
Papewaio
03-29-2021, 06:57
I’m alive.
Married, but alive.
Hooahguy
04-03-2021, 05:31
With the announcement of the remaster of RTW, I've been looking through the old posts in the forum, and man does the nostalgia hit hard. The days of hundreds of users visiting every day may be gone, but the fond memories live on.
:bow:
Edit: I did the math, Ive been on here for nearly 14 years. Thats wild.
edyzmedieval
04-03-2021, 17:10
With the announcement of the remaster of RTW, I've been looking through the old posts in the forum, and man does the nostalgia hit hard. The days of hundreds of users visiting every day may be gone, but the fond memories live on.
:bow:
Edit: I did the math, Ive been on here for nearly 14 years. Thats wild.
Nostalgia is hitting all of us rather hard...
And I've been here for 16 years now. 2005.
Hooahguy
04-03-2021, 20:18
Nostalgia is hitting all of us rather hard...
And I've been here for 16 years now. 2005.
Last night I spent an hour or so just looking through old threads from like 2010 and you just see all the users who I used to chat with every day and now have moved on with their lives one way or another. Which makes me wonder why the hell we are still here. :laugh4:
I kid, I kid. This place has a weird hold on me that keeps me coming back, even after all this time.
Montmorency
04-04-2021, 16:08
I'm old enough to remember when Hooah was an Israeli patriot.
edyzmedieval
04-05-2021, 16:52
Last night I spent an hour or so just looking through old threads from like 2010 and you just see all the users who I used to chat with every day and now have moved on with their lives one way or another. Which makes me wonder why the hell we are still here. :laugh4:
I kid, I kid. This place has a weird hold on me that keeps me coming back, even after all this time.
Some of us grew up here - like me - joining when we were young and now we're kinda... well, not old, but we're not getting younger either.
TW Org for me is pure nostalgia and I'm perfectly fine with that. Glad to keep this old little place running.
Hooahguy
04-05-2021, 18:48
Some of us grew up here - like me - joining when we were young and now we're kinda... well, not old, but we're not getting younger either.
TW Org for me is pure nostalgia and I'm perfectly fine with that. Glad to keep this old little place running.
Excellent way of putting it! I joined when I was just 15 years old, and did a lot of growing up on here. I vividly remember when I first joined I was arguing about something and another Orgah told me "you would be taken a lot more seriously if you used proper punctuation." Never made that mistake again.
:book2:
Seamus Fermanagh
04-06-2021, 05:09
I have been here for some time as well. But started in my 40s so not the same experience as ya'll.
Hooahguy
04-09-2021, 05:46
So this evening I found out that the dog who I initially applied to adopt got euthanized for severely attacking his owner just a month after being adopted. But because that dog was adopted before I could, I went with another dog, who I have had for almost two years now and adore. I'm completely floored- had that other person not adopted that dog, things would have been very different. Crazy how things work out like this, isn't it?
Dog tax:
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edyzmedieval
04-10-2021, 19:12
Doggo! Love dogs, glad you adopted a little canine to keep company. Pets make everything much nicer.
Hooahguy
04-10-2021, 22:31
They really do! Except when they are shedding over everything, which my dog Annie doing is right now as she sheds her winter coat for the summer months. :no:
Regardless, I was living alone for the first 7 months of the pandemic, so having a companion during the isolation was a life saver. She has a fascinating backstory too, she was rescued from wandering the woods of North Carolina after being shot by a farmer for going after his chickens. Now she lives a much happier life where the only terrorizing she does is the local rodent population (she is an avid ratter).
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edyzmedieval
04-19-2021, 20:26
Climate change is having a significant impact already. It's almost May and the temperature over here is barely over 10 degrees. Way too cold for this period.
My first egg-dying attempt for the Easter:
https://i.imgur.com/LRxf70m.jpeg
Hooahguy
05-02-2021, 19:38
I attended a Revolutionary War reenactment this weekend. I got pretty badly sunburned, but the photos I got were pretty great!
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Loved the Hessian soldiers! Is that colonel Tarleton on the last pic? What was your role in the reenactment? There are a few battle reenactments in Greece as well, but the majority of the participants is right-wing nutjobs, so I avoid them unfortunately.
Hooahguy
05-02-2021, 20:20
I think so! I was just there taking pictures. I don't have the money for those uniforms, which costs about $2,000 to assemble. I had a chat with the unit of Hessians and they are a group of local history teachers/former students, with the unit being founded by the original teacher of all those teachers. It was a really interesting story.
https://i.imgur.com/VWCxlXQ.png
Huh, that function worked much better than anticipated. Great stuff. Need to tweak my intuition to better match mathematical reality, it seems.
Edit:
https://i.imgur.com/012vzAt.png
beautiful..
Shaka_Khan
05-06-2021, 10:32
https://i.imgur.com/VWCxlXQ.png
Huh, that function worked much better than anticipated. Great stuff. Need to tweak my intuition to better match mathematical reality, it seems.
Edit:
https://i.imgur.com/012vzAt.png
beautiful..
Is that the equation for the value of Bitcoin?
I suppose that to the fans of Bitcoin, the first function is a good approximation of its future value, while to the detractors of the valuta, the second function is (negative conversion rates might be a little optimistic).
Montmorency
05-08-2021, 02:47
'Why are you giving me this?'
'I don't need it.'
'Why did you buy it?'
'I thought I needed it!'
Hooahguy
05-08-2021, 20:28
So I did something pretty cool this weekend:
https://youtu.be/M6YsGg11ttU
Hooahguy
06-17-2021, 20:08
For a long time I was in a job that at best I was neutral about, and at worst I hated. But today that changes as I got an offer for a job I genuinely care about and can make a real difference in this world (cancer advocacy)! Its going to feel good looking forward to going into work.
:bounce:
Montmorency
09-24-2021, 01:42
"Bonified" is a cromulent misspelling of "bona fide." Bonified ~ incarnate ~ in the flesh ~ substantial ~ veritable ~ bona fide.
I remember being able to hold my breath for a minute or two in elementary school, but I can't seem to get past 20 seconds now. What's up with that?
edyzmedieval
09-26-2021, 22:53
Physical exercises and particularly swimming, Monty?
Swimming improves breathing capacity.
Montmorency
11-03-2021, 03:55
Seen at a CVS.
Flyer on the exterior wall: Covid-19 vaccine available. Appointment only.
Sign posted to the automatic doors: Walk-in Covid vaccine available.
:thinking2:
edyzmedieval
11-07-2021, 08:44
It's getting unpleasant that it's November and we had over here 25 degrees. Climate change is impacting already.
I want to see fog, rain, dim lights... you know, November. Not late August.
Shmidt03
12-01-2021, 21:34
hello everyone
Montmorency
12-08-2021, 02:25
Say "Did we do the due diligence though?" three times fast.
edyzmedieval
01-06-2022, 10:40
Happy New Year everyone. :bow:
A late Happy New Year to you all too! May 2022 be better than the last two!
Montmorency
02-10-2022, 14:30
Last fall I bought my first-ever bulk sack of rice. As I went to prepare some of it yesterday, the level finally running low, I figured out the cause of a few problems of mine.
Transfer grains and legumes to an airtight container immediately upon opening, dry rations may come pre-infested.
I had been having an escalating problem with moths, almost as bad as I'd ever seen in my life. Well, now I know. Rice may carry moth eggs, which hatch when exposed to air. Why have I never seen this information on any packaging?!?>
The trigger to the realization was noticing a couple of maggots crawling around in my measure of dry rice, with who knows how many more among the grains. There were even a couple of those small ants in there.
In a recipe I call "The Old-fashioned", I soldiered on with my rations as-is, because if it was more often than not good enough for our ancestors, it would be transitorily acceptable for me.
But it's kind of a miserable experience eating this, *knowing* that your food is contaminated with vermin. The knowledge haunts you with every bite as you ponder the nature of every firmness under the teeth and every sheerness the tongue laps. Also, slightly burned and mushy - because I cooked 6 cups of rice at once so I wouldn't feel bad about trashing the remainder. I forgot that you can't fill up a pot near-limit, the food in contact with the metal is overpressured and loses all its mositure faster than usual.
At least I learned my lesson before I opened my second sack of rice, which I just bought...
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