I have discovered something I could use for good or ill. I will use it for good, but I just... Dammit, you know? The evil would bring me such personal enjoyment.
The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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BananaHands
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Going up to a cottage in northwoods Wisconsin with some friends for the weekend.
So excited I could do cartwheels.
Also my face is itchy from growing a beard.
So excited I could do cartwheels.
Also my face is itchy from growing a beard.
This is one of the reasons I generally never fully shave, I just keep stubble if I want to rid myself of my beard; the itchiness when I inevitably want to grow it back is hugely reduced.
BananaHands
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Gandalf, here I come!
I am so lucky I don't have a patchy phase. Stubble goes direct to thin beard; but there is a definite dishevelled/I need to shave phase before a nice full beard sets in.
I've never been allowed to grow a beard - I don't even know if I'd be able to...
I tried to grow a full beard for Movember last year, even after a month I did not get too far past stubble.
I just keep my goatee going.
I just keep my goatee going.
GasBandit
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On the extremely rare occasions I do shave, I'm back up to thin beard within a month. But the real aggravating part is waiting for the connection between the moustache and the beard to grow in, that seems to take something akin to 6 months before they stop looking like two separate hair-masses.
GasBandit
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So much shaving.I am not even kidding. And why do I use all 3 Gillete razors up in like 6 weeks but the 4th one will last half a year
I suffer from that poor asshole's problem, shitty thin mustache.
Completely unrelated and entirely an overshare. I had a nasty big ass pimple under my arm and my girlfriend made it clear that she be the one to allakablammo it (because women seem to have some sort of fucked up need to pop things like this, in my experience). It was a biggun and grody as hell.
Grodier is we spent an hour watching cyst and pimple popping videos afterwards on Youtube.
Grodier is we spent an hour watching cyst and pimple popping videos afterwards on Youtube.
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Mine come sin great around my chin and mustache area but patchy everywhere else. Still...
Today we learn how important the "space" in "space time" is...
History Corner: Herbert King, Inventor of Time Travel
History Corner: Herbert King, Inventor of Time Travel
GasBandit
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So I'm assigning commercial production today, and I hand off a script to this woman who works here - she's a bit loopy - and I tell her, "Just do this one dry and fast." (Dry meaning with no music bed behind it - only talking). She responds with a little "♡♡OooOOooh!♡♡" squeal. Which makes me pause and raise an eyebrow.
"Generally, most normal women I've met would not take that phrase as a favorable development, even as a double entendre." I note.
"Well I'm not normal!" she sheepishly self-deprecates.
"Indeed." Back to my office I go.
"Generally, most normal women I've met would not take that phrase as a favorable development, even as a double entendre." I note.
"Well I'm not normal!" she sheepishly self-deprecates.
"Indeed." Back to my office I go.
GasBandit
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And this afternoon, moving stuff around for the remodeling project, my boss jokingly asked me if he could store a new, uninstalled toilet in my office over the weekend while the remodelers worked on the bathroom.
I looked him dead in the eye and said "I double dog dare you to put a toilet in my office."
Turns out there was room elsewhere.
I looked him dead in the eye and said "I double dog dare you to put a toilet in my office."
Turns out there was room elsewhere.
I shave 2-3 a week and usually sport a french beard/goatee from February to October and a full beard for winter. My job doesn't require me to shave. Sadly not a lot of folks around here have epic Darwin beards.
With time travel stories, I've taken into account that scientists have noted gravity having odd effects on time around super-massive black holes and decided that gravity likewise would keep the time machine pinned on the same backwards or forwards track as the planet itself.
Indeed. It just struck me as funny thinking about someone purely focused on time travel without consideration for the movement of the Earth below them. It's one of those things most people don't really think about, and in most time travel stories no one ever mentions it.
Random realization: I was thinking about setting one of my stories in the '90s, but when I thought about it, I realized I'm having a hard time remembering what it was like in the U.S. pre-9/11, which was also pre-DHS, pre-24 hour paranoia news, pre-iPods and major internet. The world has vastly changed from my childhood/early adolescence and I've shut so much of it out of memory thanks to shitty school/home life that I can barely remember how living back then felt.
Or maybe the '90s were just really bland.
Or maybe the '90s were just really bland.
GasBandit
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Watch Saved by the Bell and listen to Vanilla Ice. I'm sure it will come back to you.
It was a time of unbridled, and perhaps unwarranted, optimism - we were astounded at our own forward-thinkingness and ever-expanding acceptance and understanding. Being gay started to not be a life-ruining secret, we may not have had the internet but technology was racing forward with the first truly portable phones and 2 way pagers, and the only war anybody cared about was the console war between the SNES and Sega Genesis. Supremacy of the american point of view, democracy and freedom was taken for granted. Germany reunified, the USSR collapsed, and terrorism was something rare, far away, or incompetent (Remember when the "world trade center attack" was about a pathetically failed bomb in a truck in the tower's basement?).
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Wow, I totally forgot about so much of that. OJ Simpson was a huge topic throughout my elementary school. And I don't know how I blipped out the Oklahoma City bombing.[DOUBLEPOST=1381765386,1381765351][/DOUBLEPOST]
The video is by a user "Everything is Terrible" which makes me hesitant to click.
We didn't start the fire...
GasBandit
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Don't worry, it's work safe - just a montage of old TV shows and Movies saying "It's the 90s!" or some variant of it.
Eh, I just finished college five years ago and I was feeling nostalgic for 70s music since that was what my dad would play around the house.
(Also, it was better music.)
Oh God! the 90's started with a Micheal Bolton hit... but what can you expect, pop music has traditionally been terrible.
