The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

LittleKagsin

LittleKagsin

This is truly random, but I love going to University sporting events with my brother. He and I are SO different from each other, we have little in common, but I still love him so much. And we get along insanely well. I love going to sporting events because he works for the University, so when we go up to the door, he takes out his badge and says 'She's with me.' and then we get to enter, no questions asked. I don't even need a ticket. Which I think is just one of the coolest things ever. My brother is aweseome and I love him.
 
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That Batman commercial makes me sad and sums up why Batman is awesome in 10 seconds. It's really good directing, too. You totally feel the ruination of a childhood without a single word spoken.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

fade said:
That Batman commercial makes me sad and sums up why Batman is awesome in 10 seconds. It's really good directing, too. You totally feel the ruination of a childhood without a single word spoken.
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Can someone fill me in to what Batman commercial? I see no batman in this thread.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I was trying to send a donation for the Philippine typhoon relief effort, but it would only show me in Philippine dollars before I could enter it. So I thought "Okay, same?" Put in 5 dollars.

Total: 12 cents.

... oh.
 
Cog

Cog

My daughter has two imaginary kittens: Cutie and Fluffy. She is very proud of them and she shows them to everyone.
 
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North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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Dad's been on another genealogy delve, this time tracking down the line of his dad's mother (that is, the mother of my paternal grandfather). The farthest he got? A certain Martin Voigt, a Protestant Silesian who served as a stablehand for the Swedish army during the Great Northern War (1700-1721). Apparently he took a fancy to a Finnish woman and after the war came over here with their two kids, presumably to escape persecution. They went on to have four more kids, and Martin lived on to die a tenant farmer in his 80s.

Pretty interesting, at least to me.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

Sheesh. I only have one part of the family that goes back to the 17th century, and even that is a bit tenuous.

This is the problem you have when two-thirds of your family emigrated from Germany and Prussia pre-WWI: most of the records in the old country are gone forever due to Allied bombing.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

FUCK YOU SHED, you are made! Me and my dad were having the WORST time putting in the walls into the mat. Oh it LOOKS like its a simple peg in hole deal, BUT NO it took us like plus fifty bangs each wall from a mallet to get them in. And some we had to bang the pegs to make them fit better! Still, its worth it to have a damned shed again.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

jwhouk said:
Sheesh. I only have one part of the family that goes back to the 17th century, and even that is a bit tenuous.

This is the problem you have when two-thirds of your family emigrated from Germany and Prussia pre-WWI: most of the records in the old country are gone forever due to Allied bombing.
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I feel ya man. German branch only goes back to the Great-grandparents, no records from there, other side (Mother's) my grand-mother was a certified liar, my mother doesn't even know exactly who her father is, she has two birth certificates with two different fathers listed.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Man, when I was a little kid, I was my own imaginary friend.

That's not a joke. To my little kid mind, I didn't think anyone would believe that my friend was invisible, so instead I said he just looked exactly like me, and I would leave and come back to play both parts.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Ravenpoe said:
Man, when I was a little kid, I was my own imaginary friend.

That's not a joke. To my little kid mind, I didn't think anyone would believe that my friend was invisible, so instead I said he just looked exactly like me, and I would leave and come back to play both parts.
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The fact that you two were never seen in the same room together was circumstantial evidence at best!
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

I spent half an hour today watching Youtube videos of New Zealanders doing the haka.

I am now:

1. Pumped up with an incredible amount of adrenaline, and
2. Terrified of New Zealand
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

I haven't paid any money to find ancestry info. All I know is that my great-great grandfather had the surname Carmichael (Stewart clan, I think) and lived in Greenock Scotland, and that my great-grandmother was the first generation American on my mom's side. I know very little about my dad's side. Probably a bunch of Arkansas hillbillies.
 
Morphine

Morphine

I have a job that has to do with politics and social communication, it requires me to read at least 4 newspapers a day, I know so much about current mexican politics, it's hard not to feel demoralized. In a nutshell, we have an ass for president, rats as legislators and a constant show of smoke and mirrors in the form of TV soap operas and cheap shows that keep the poorest under control. Media manipulation is so blunt and obvious, one has to wonder how stupid they think we are. Institutions that were made to protect the people but actually serve those in power, reforms meant to bring even more money into a few super rich people's pockets while people starve and die in virtually every town in the country, more than 52 million mexicans to be precise. Our resources are being sold to the highest bidder with absolutely no regards for the environment or the economic impact. And the worst part is, there's really very little people truly aware of this :(

The one thing I really like about my job is thinking that I have a chance to make a little change in this. Not in the way things are done, but in informing people and educating them. I truly think education will be our only way out. A long and painful way out.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Morphine said:
I have a job that has to do with politics and social communication, it requires me to read at least 4 newspapers a day, I know so much about current mexican politics, it's hard not to feel demoralized. In a nutshell, we have an ass for president, rats as legislators and a constant show of smoke and mirrors in the form of TV soap operas and cheap shows that keep the poorest under control. Media manipulation is so blunt and obvious, one has to wonder how stupid they think we are. Institutions that were made to protect the people but actually serve those in power, reforms meant to bring even more money into a few super rich people's pockets while people starve and die in virtually every town in the country, more than 52 million mexicans to be precise. Our resources are being sold to the highest bidder with absolutely no regards for the environment or the economic impact. And the worst part is, there's really very little people truly aware of this :(

The one thing I really like about my job is thinking that I have a chance to make a little change in this. Not in the way things are done, but in informing people and educating them. I truly think education will be our only way out. A long and painful way out.
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sed 's/mex/amer/'
:(

--Patrick
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

It's the finality of the "slap" at the end that signals completion, the same way a strand of spaghetti will playfully slap your nose as you slurp it up.

--Patrick
 
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