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Koumei
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Post by Koumei » Thu Nov 20, 2014 2:22 am

Actually, I will save most of it. See, I do volunteer work, which means I can take time off whenever the fuck I like, they're not paying me for this. And the government stops paying you if you're on the social the moment you leave the country ever. So really, financially, there is no particular reason to go over the Christmas holidays. If we're one month back into the working year and she gets the all-clear, then yeah, I'm packing my bags and pissing off for the entire first term.
Her work is fairly flexible (and she doesn't work too many hours), so it should be fine from that angle too. The problems are "putting up with Australian fire season*", the let-down of what I thought would be happening in like one month from now, and generally putting up with all the visitors we get during fire season because we have a massive swimming pool and my stepdad knows basically everyone because he taught every person in Australia at some point in time. My ideal number of guests, for the record, is zero. Edit: oh christ, and the fact that my stepsister will be watching millions of hours of American sit-coms.
So I will save up, but I might blow a few hundred dollars on toys and stuff to keep myself distracted. Perhaps a TV that has working sound so I can properly enjoy the PS3 (N1 games really are enriched by the sound).
*Other countries call it Summer. We name it as we see it.
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Post by Shrapnel » Thu Nov 20, 2014 2:34 pm

> Koumei wrote:*Other countries call it Summer. We name it as we see it.

I just call it "hot". Sometimes "too fucking hot".
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Post by Koumei » Fri Nov 21, 2014 2:03 am

Ah, turns out when she used the term "narcotics", she just meant it in the same way police mean it: great drugs
It's actually XanaxXanor, which in medical terms is a benzo, not a narcotic.

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Post by Grek » Sat Nov 22, 2014 11:37 am

I got to see my pet tarantula fluff up her pedipalps today. It was adorable.

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Post by Ancient History » Sat Nov 22, 2014 1:02 pm

Publisher's Weekly reviewed my book: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-61498-088-9
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Post by fectin » Sat Nov 22, 2014 4:32 pm

> Ancient History wrote:Publisher's Weekly reviewed my book: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-61498-088-9

Is Stanley Sargent actually important, or was he just the reviewer's favorite author?

> Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.

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Post by Ancient History » Sat Nov 22, 2014 5:01 pm

Depends on how you reckon these things; he was a bigger deal ten or twenty years ago - his stories like "The Black Brat of Dunwich" are excellent, and he made probably the best argument that Lovecraft was a closeted homosexual that anyone has ever made (or will ever make). These days, there are more prominent and prolific homosexual writers in the Mythos, like W. H. Pugmire. In the end, I just didn't have the space to talk about everybody in depth.
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Post by erik » Fri Nov 28, 2014 4:35 am

We're at the in-laws for Thanksgiving. I was with my wife discussing her shopping plans for tomorrow, so away from prying eyes of the kiddos. The 4 and 5 year old were out in the living room with their Grandparents, apparently watching 42.
There's a scene where Jackie Robinson is getting taunted by some asshole saying n- n- n- over and over as a jingle-taunt. Just the kind of shit that kids pick up and repeat. I rushed out of our shopping planning session to declare "Okay, time for kids to go to bed!"
Grandma was like "Oh, already?" Yes. Already.
Fuck, I can only hope that the power of Flappy Bird that they were playing was enough to block out even subconscious learning there.
We're like 15 miles from Ferguson and I was at a Thanksgiving party where people were laughing about 'hands-up don't shoot', and telling disparaging stories about looters on welfare that were "No, this is a true story!"
Aaaand I just had to go out again to have em turn down the volume.
It may be a fine movie, I dunno. I'd just rather my kids watched something that will make me laugh rather than be mortified when they repeat it.
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Post by Shrapnel » Fri Nov 28, 2014 6:49 pm

Whenever family gatherings happen with my kin, I typically end up teaching the kiddies in the clan some new things, and typically the parents are none to pleased.
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Post by erik » Fri Nov 28, 2014 10:02 pm

Don't get me wrong. I'm usually quite lax. When one of my friends might accidentally say "crap" in front of the boys I will tell said friend "watch yer fuckin tongue, we don't stand for that shit here."
But even I have my limits.
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Post by hyzmarca » Sat Nov 29, 2014 3:24 am

> erik wrote: Aaaand I just had to go out again to have em turn down the volume.
> It may be a fine movie, I dunno. I'd just rather my kids watched something that will make me laugh rather than be mortified when they repeat it.

You missed a learning opportunity, considering the nature of the film its a decent way to explain what racism is and why its wrong, and specifically why you shouldn't go around chanting racial slurs.
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Post by erik » Sat Nov 29, 2014 4:54 am

Yeah. No thanks. The 4 year old needs several layers of foundation before I can begin that conversation. He wouldn't grok who is even being taunted or why, he'd just learn the rote cat call. I don't know if my 5 year old would pick up on it yet though he is aware people have different shades of skin from beige to brown. Each boy was late to the language development game, talking mid-year of age 3 which isn't hindering the elder anymore but younger is still catching up with peers.
But even when ready I can do it fine without that visual aid. Movies made for adults aren't very good teaching tools for preschoolers.
Anyway if I hadn't heard and interceded there would have only been soaking as a sponge with no filter at all or teaching at all. The stuff they soak up isn't the serious discussions between non-cartoon adults. It's the immature stuff.
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Post by name_here » Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:54 am

I am apparently cursed this last week. First, my phone and laptop developed power related problems, and now I seem to have an intestinal blockage. Now I am in an emergency room waiting room at four a.m.

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Post by Maj » Tue Dec 02, 2014 3:17 pm

I'm sorry, name here. I hope things start looking better for you.
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Post by name_here » Tue Dec 02, 2014 3:23 pm

Fortunately, according to the Xray it's just an extensive case of constipation. I have been given laxatives and diet instructions.
Still, if one is not a doctor, any day which includes the phrase "according to the Xray" is generally a bad day. I managed to have constipation and diarrhea simultaneously. Also vomiting. Quite a lot of vomiting.
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Post by Shrapnel » Tue Dec 02, 2014 8:39 pm

I hate the US and it's retarded laws.
So, recently there was a Japanese Transformer released called Exhaust, which has markings on it that are very similar to those of the Marlboro cigarette logo. For awhile, it was available from online retailers, and then this happened:

> tfwiki.net wrote:... US retailers would soon come under fire from the parent company of Marlboro, Philip Morris USA, due to Exhaust's car mode featuring a marking strikingly similar to the Marlboro logo itself. Now, if that wasn't enough, the issue also falls under the rules of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement as well as the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which partly explains that specifically smoking-related markings such as Marlboro's could not be used on products that could be intended for children. And so, unless Takara-Tomy elects to change the vehicle mode deco to ensure a worldwide release, it is now technically illegal to sell Exhaust in the US.

So, instead of just paying the market amount of $75, I now have to go to eBay and get it from Japan for ~$100 or more. Jesus hell.
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Post by fectin » Wed Dec 03, 2014 12:49 am

What's with the urn?

> Vebyast wrote:Here's a fun target for Major Creation: hydrazine. One casting every six seconds at CL9 gives you a bit more than 40 liters per second, which is comparable to the flow rates of some small, but serious, rocket engines. Six items running at full blast through a well-engineered engine will put you, and something like 50 tons of cargo, into space. Alternatively, if you thrust sideways, you will briefly be a fireball screaming across the sky at mach 14 before you melt from atmospheric friction.

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Post by Shrapnel » Wed Dec 03, 2014 4:08 am

That'd be this thing.
Why this guy's got it, I don't know. Removes the need to make new accessories for a simple retool/redeco, I guess?
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Wed Dec 03, 2014 8:36 am

Bah, every time I meet a woman I actually feel any attraction towards she's involved with someone. Granted, at least this one told me before anything sinister occured (met a few that neglected to tell me that until after I had donated some genetic material, was not particularly pleased at that).
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Post by Maxus » Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:55 am

I'm 28 today!
Kinda weird to think that I've been a legal adult for ten years.
Eeesh...
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Post by Maj » Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:57 am

Happy birthday!!!!
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Post by Maxus » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:01 am

Why, thank you!
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Post by TiaC » Tue Dec 09, 2014 7:48 am

I'm in Berkeley, lot of helicopters and sirens tonight.

> virgil wrote:Lovecraft didn't later add a love triangle between Dagon, Chtulhu, & the Colour-Out-of-Space; only to have it broken up through cyber-bullying by the King in Yellow.

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Post by Count Arioch the 28th » Wed Dec 10, 2014 8:30 am

EDIT: Turns out if you are honest with people and admit your feelings are irrational, normal people will cut you some slack if you're not a dick about it. I'm still not used to being around people that aren't hooting dickholes yet, it seems.
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Post by fectin » Thu Dec 11, 2014 2:03 am

> Count Arioch the 28th wrote:EDIT: Turns out if you are honest with people and admit your feelings are irrational, normal people will cut you some slack if you're not a dick about it. I'm still not used to being around people that aren't hooting dickholes yet, it seems.

True story. Sincere congratulations on escaping the hooters.

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