The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

What I thought communicator watches would look like as a kid:

What they really look like:

Well...at least this wrist-bricks can actually tell time.
 
FnordBear

FnordBear

fade said:
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I have some creepy memories of thunderstorms. I'm sure FnordBear and General Specific can confirm that they are oddly strong in central SC.
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Growing up in the 80s/90s in SC basically meant you were cut off from the world unless you had the (then) super expensive dish service and a place to put a big 10ft dish.

The thunderstorms in the summer, or "Hot Wet" as I call it, could be pretty terrifying. Sometimes you have tons of rolling thunder without a drop of rain, others it seems like Zeus ate some ghost peppers and has the pepper poots.

South Carolina has a unique weather pattern, the four season you are likely familiar with don't exist. Our four seasons are Hot Wet, Hot Dry, Cold Wet, and Cold Dry. No real variation. Sometimes there is snow and hail. Earlier this year during late Hot Dry/early Hot Wet we had tater tot sized hail.
 
Gared

Gared

FnordBear said:
Growing up in the 80s/90s in SC basically meant you were cut off from the world unless you had the (then) super expensive dish service and a place to put a big 10ft dish.

The thunderstorms in the summer, or "Hot Wet" as I call it, could be pretty terrifying. Sometimes you have tons of rolling thunder without a drop of rain, others it seems like Zeus ate some ghost peppers and has the pepper poots.

South Carolina has a unique weather pattern, the four season you are likely familiar with don't exist. Our four seasons are Hot Wet, Hot Dry, Cold Wet, and Cold Dry. No real variation. Sometimes there is snow and hail. Earlier this year during late Hot Dry/early Hot Wet we had tater tot sized hail.
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Four seasons? What, you mean like the upscale hotel chain? Round here we only have Cold Wet and Mild Wet, and occasionally Mild Dry, for a month or so, usually beginning sometime after the 4th of Julember.
 
FnordBear

FnordBear

Gared said:
Four seasons? What, you mean like the upscale hotel chain? Round here we only have Cold Wet and Mild Wet, and occasionally Mild Dry, for a month or so, usually beginning sometime after the 4th of Julember.
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You live north of the Mason Dixon line. I do not acknowledge your reality and I substitute my own. Mine has cake.
 
Gared

Gared

stienman said:
We northerners like to keep things simple. There are only two seasons: Winter and Construction.
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I wish our winters stopped construction from happening. Instead we get rain-slicked, shitty road conditions, with lane closures for construction.
 
B

BErt

Gared said:
I wish our winters stopped construction from happening. Instead we get rain-slicked, shitty road conditions, with lane closures for construction.
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To be fair, in Michigan winter doesn't stop construction from happening, because it never really starts. They just put down orange barrels and disappear for 8 months.
 
Gared

Gared

BErt said:
To be fair, in Michigan winter doesn't stop construction from happening, because it never really starts. They just put down orange barrels and disappear for 8 months.
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Same.

Actually, the last few years have been especially telling about Washington's oversight when it comes to construction contracts and federal money. When a bunch of federal money was given to the state for road repairs, with the goal being that it would get more people back to work, because we'd be able to fund more highway projects, which would mean that more construction crews would need to be hired. Instead, what wound up happening was the same construction company ended up bidding for several of the contracts, and winning them. This still wouldn't have been a bad thing, if it had meant that said construction company would hire more workers and run all of the projects (which were spread over an area of several large counties). Unfortunately, they didn't do that. They accepted all of the contracts they were offered (because who wouldn't) and just started all of them at the same time and then rotated crews between the projects, so what should have taken a month or two tops took six months to a year. They would literally have a project paved and completed aside from striping, then spend two months on another project, come back after two months and do half of the striping, leave again, come back two months later, take the construction barrels away, and leave. It was a nightmare year for Seattle area construction.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Look, I'm usually the first on the "dumb celebrities" bandwagon, but it seems to me that she was using deliberate hyperbole.[DOUBLEPOST=1355869069][/DOUBLEPOST]
sixpackshaker said:
Its Christmas and I still have to mow the yard.
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I didn't say winter, I said Christmas. December around here is like, october everywhere else at worst.
 
Gared

Gared

GasBandit said:
Look, I'm usually the first on the "dumb celebrities" bandwagon, but it seems to me that she was using deliberate hyperbole.[DOUBLEPOST=1355869069][/DOUBLEPOST]
I didn't say winter, I said Christmas. December around here is like, october everywhere else at worst.
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And if she was, then I owe her an apology. But I've learned never to underestimate the stupidity of others.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Gared said:
And if she was, then I owe her an apology. But I've learned never to underestimate the stupidity of others.
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That is the safest policy, I've found. Except when making fun of people to their face.[DOUBLEPOST=1355869552][/DOUBLEPOST]Behold the Swedish Instagram Riot:



A riot erupted at a school in Gothenburg, Sweden after an Instagram account began uploading pictures of teenage girls along with their names and purported sexual exploits. Police estimated around 600 angry students assembled at Plusgymnasiet high school to confront who they suspected was behind the Instagram account, and a number of lampposts and automobiles in the vicinity were vandalized as a result.
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Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Yeah she sounds more like a normal woman new to the whole pregnancy thing in general.

Also I do not envy those here with snow, rain-storms are pretty heavy but its at least something I can drive in.
 
David

David

A random girl sent me a friend request on facebook. She lives in washington, we have no friends in common, and she doesn't appear to have any connection to Halforums. I have no idea how she would have found my profile. I usually ignore random requests like this, but she's kind of cute.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

David said:
A random girl sent me a friend request on facebook. She lives in washington, we have no friends in common, and she doesn't appear to have any connection to Halforums. I have no idea how she would have found my profile. I usually ignore random requests like this, but she's kind of cute.
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Everybody now! "And he was never seen nor heard from again."
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

David said:
She claims to be my old neighbor, from a long while back... NOW I'm a little scared.
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Scared because she may be a stalker, or scared because your old neighbor died in an accident that you wished you would never have to speak of again but now her restless spirit has come back to haunt you through face-book? Coming soon to a theater near you.
 
David

David

The only girl my age to ever live next door was when I was like 4 years old. I'm 90% sure her name was something like Krystal, whereas this girl's name is Judi. Even if it was her I'd be mightily impressed if she actually remembered my last name.

My current running theory is that this girl just happens to have me confused with somebody else. I'm trying to get to the bottom of it, but good god is she slow to reply to messages.
 
David

David

Her: I'm your old neighbor...from a long while back

Me: Hmm are you sure you have the right David Terry? I honestly don't remember >.>
How long ago?
There've been so many people move in and out of the house next door lol. But I only remember one girl my age, when I was like 4 years old.

Her: I'm the same were as Danny



...It took her fourty minutes to respond and I get "I'm the same were as Danny"? Dafuq does that even mean?
I quit.
 
Gared

Gared

David said:
Her: I'm your old neighbor...from a long while back

Me: Hmm are you sure you have the right David Terry? I honestly don't remember >.>
How long ago?
There've been so many people move in and out of the house next door lol. But I only remember one girl my age, when I was like 4 years old.

Her: I'm the same were as Danny



...It took her fourty minutes to respond and I get "I'm the same were as Danny"? Dafuq does that even mean?
I quit.
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It means that she's plowed. And more than likely, not your old neighbor.
 
LittleSin

LittleSin

Paging North_Ranger! I can now say I love the spoken Finnish language. There's a rather minor Scandinavian community here in my province..but apparently this year they got together to celebrate something called St. Lucias (?) Day. I helped a friend deliever some cookies a few days ago and a very nice group of froeign students met us.

Oh my god. This one guy...oh my god. He was some what grim ,never smiled, but this Finnish guy was...well...he was charming.
 
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