The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

[Celt Z]

I was at Ikea yesterday and caught this subtle Rocky Horror Picture Show reference:


Kudos to you, Ikea employee who snuck that in.

 

[checkeredhat]

My husband is out of town for the week and my daughter is in the full bloom of her hormonal teenage mood swings. Today she is in literal tears because I'm not putting away the groceries the way she thinks I should.

Don't tell me shit like this. My daughter is one year old and giggly and cuddly and I need to believe she'll never grow up.

 

[Dei]

But teenagers are great. You never know if they are going to love you and want to spend time with you, or if they are going to go full doom and gloom for no apparent reason. It's like an adventure! :|

 

[drifter]

Plus they're mature enough to be self-cleaning! Hypothetically.

 

[Tress]

Plus they're mature enough to be self-cleaning! Hypothetically.

... and defiant enough to never want to clean!

Or, as my daughter put it yesterday, "Who cares if it's clean or not? Maybe I like it that way."

 

[Emrys]

I'm so glad I have ferrets.

 

[Tress]

I'm so glad I have ferrets.

I'll trade you.

 

[blotsfan]

I'll trade you.

She'll be sending you some soon enough.

 

[Emrys]

I'll trade you.

Ha!

 

[Dei]

Look, I like my daughter 75% of the time. That's way more than I like most people.

 

[Dave]

Anyone here good at video editing? I need to put my daughter’s wedding pictures into a slideshow but I just suck at this.

 

[GasBandit]

Anyone here good at video editing? I need to put my daughter’s wedding pictures into a slideshow but I just suck at this.

Grab a copy of Windows Movie Maker. (it came with Vista/7 but they stopped shipping it with 8/10, though it still works).

It's easier than you think to make a slideshow using it.

 

[Dave]

I actually have a copy. It's what I tried to use. Don't get me wrong - I HAVE made a slideshow - but the transitions are crap, the music just seems to be haphazard and it looks like an amateur made it.

 

[GasBandit]

I actually have a copy. It's what I tried to use. Don't get me wrong - I HAVE made a slideshow - but the transitions are crap, the music just seems to be haphazard and it looks like an amateur made it.

Ah. Well, if I weren't 9 kinds of busy at the moment with the move and work and fixing up the new place, I'd offer... but I don't think I could get to it for weeks :/

 

[GasBandit]

My new washer makes noises like a battlestations alert.

 

[General Specific]

Here’s a pretty cool live(ish) mashup

 

[GasBandit]

Man, they have grown and changed since they covered Lady Gaga's Telephone.

 

[HCGLNS]

I can eat fifty eggs.

 

[PatrThom]

Man, they have grown and changed since they covered Lady Gaga's Telephone.

My first ever introduction was this electro-harmonix Voice Box demo.
...
I had no idea Jack Conte is also the CEO and co-founder of Patreon.
It makes sense, though, given his stance on creative types being able to earn a living by being creative.

--Patrick

 

[Tinwhistler]

My first ever introduction was this electro-harmonix Voice Box demo.
...
I had no idea Jack Conte is also the CEO and co-founder of Patreon.
It makes sense, though, given his stance on creative types being able to earn a living by being creative.

--Patrick

Mine was a video that could easily have been written about a girlfriend I had 25 years ago.

 

[PatrThom]

As promised, I have forwarded that video to many deserving individuals.

--Patrick

 

[General Specific]

I can eat fifty eggs.

That's as many as five tens.
And that's terrible.

 

[sixpackshaker]

I can eat fifty eggs.

Cool your hand...

 

[Celt Z]

That's nothing! I can lick 50 tigers today!




...tangentially related, I've been banned from the zoo.

 

[HCGLNS]

Watching Baywatch, eating ramen, drinking koolaid.

What year is it?

 

[Null]

Driving home from work, part of the exhaust came off the Subaru. Dragged for a couple blocks and came off. It was 2am and I just wanted to get home. Shaking so bad when I got in the door, thought I was going to have a heart attack.

 

[Dei]

My daughter is yelling at her geometry homework as if trying to cow it in to making sense. It sounds way more fun than proofs imo.

 

[Frank]

Every day I feel like I'm wasting my life not going to places and taking part in protests against white nationalism and such. I feel like my side needs more heavies willing to do what's necessary against violent Proud Boys and worse. I'm big, strong and know exceedingly well how to disarm and disable someone.

 

[Ravenpoe]

Every day I feel like I'm wasting my life not going to places and taking part in protests against white nationalism and such. I feel like my side needs more heavies willing to do what's necessary against violent Proud Boys and worse. I'm big, strong and know exceedingly well how to disarm and disable someone.

You could probably do more good just by bringing snacks and drinks. Sure, being able to defend someone if needed is a great asset, but in the face of this kind of monstrosity I like to think (or maybe just hope) that positive acts bring more to the table.

And who doesn't love snacks?

 

[AshburnerX]

Every day I feel like I'm wasting my life not going to places and taking part in protests against white nationalism and such. I feel like my side needs more heavies willing to do what's necessary against violent Proud Boys and worse. I'm big, strong and know exceedingly well how to disarm and disable someone.

Honestly, the greatest anti-faction action that needs done is documentation of facists and exposure of their identities through doxxing. It's basically the only long term strategy that affects them because it usually inflicts economic consequences on them for expressing their hateful ideology. You can also troll places where they put up their posters and such and remove them (though use your keys or a spackle knife because they like to hide razor blades under them.) It makes it harder for them to recruit and organize, which is the real goal here.

But even if you can't? Don't sweat it. Not everyone has the time or means to fight facism.

 

[Frank]

I was kidding about the going there to fight people. I mostly just want to do stuff.

 

[sixpackshaker]

Every day I feel like I'm wasting my life not going to places and taking part in protests against white nationalism and such. I feel like my side needs more heavies willing to do what's necessary against violent Proud Boys and worse. I'm big, strong and know exceedingly well how to disarm and disable someone.

...if I were 10 years younger and did not work for the Government.

 

[HCGLNS]

Yay, my luggage has arrived.

Finally, my pants have come back to St. John's!

 

[Dave]

If only I didn't have a job I had to be to to live. I'd be more involved, but I just can't afford to. I have no idea how these people do it on either side.

 

[blotsfan]

If only I didn't have a job I had to be to to live. I'd be more involved, but I just can't afford to. I have no idea how these people do it on either side.

PM me for info to put you in touch with Mr. Soros.