The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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I mean a small cadre of villains are making me watch bad anime, and monitor my mind. to keep my sanity I built robot cat girl maids, but now now i cant control when they begin and end, because I used those special parts to build my robo-maid friends.
@HCGLNS "And so I says you're so lame you hero worship Willy Loman."
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Trying this with my wife right now!
Well, you are in New Jersey. Probably lucky you didn’t find a body.
I dunno, in the USA? Seems like that's the most solid part of most walls you guys put up.
This was posted about an hour and a half ago.
Either his wife was incredibly turned on by the maneuver and they're still going...or someone had to be rushed to the ER.
There is no other possible result.
Even more curious, why is most of it early 1970's "match-grade" ammo?
The boxes say .22LR and .38SPL, but that almost looks like one single round of .45ACP near the lower left.
--Patrick
The answer is the previous owners, more specifically my great-aunt's ex husband, had a gun range built in our basement in 1965. There was a booth they'd step into, and fire across the length of our basement into a reinforced target at the other end. He'd invite friends over and shoot. They divorced before I was born and my great-aunt never used it, so it was covered up as a dart board and storage. I played down there all the time, having no idea what it originally was. No one told me about it until after we bought the house.
We decided this weekend that we were finally going to demolish the gun booth because it wasted space, and lo and behold, there were hundreds of casings, older than me.
My wife poked me in the butthole with her finger as I was scooching back toward her and that made me shoot forward like a cat. She was very amused.
Dave
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So I'm trying to work on my new novel this morning, and I hit a snag. I wasn't sure what happened next.
I decided to take a break and make some rough notes. I hadn't fleshed out some of the antagonists, so I'm taking the time to figure out their motivations now.
The problem I run into with writing Dill is I'll often write it on the fly, letting Dill figure things out along the way.
But by narrowly focusing on Dill, other characters, ESPECIALLY the antagonists, get short-changed.
So now I'm figuring out the how's and why's of the other players in the field.
I decided to take a break and make some rough notes. I hadn't fleshed out some of the antagonists, so I'm taking the time to figure out their motivations now.
The problem I run into with writing Dill is I'll often write it on the fly, letting Dill figure things out along the way.
But by narrowly focusing on Dill, other characters, ESPECIALLY the antagonists, get short-changed.
So now I'm figuring out the how's and why's of the other players in the field.
figmentPez
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Ah, the same strategy as the writers of Impulse (Bart Allen).
Funny enough, that's exactly what I think of every time I leave Dill in a precarious situation.
What's the R value? Asking for a friend.
Dave
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Worked Friday & Saturday overnight. Find out the furnace guy is coming Monday morning and since both the wife and son work I need to be awake and aware so no sleeping during the day Monday. So I get home from work Sunday morning after a 12.5 shift and stay up as late as I can, trying to make it to at least like 8 or 9 when I could sleep through the night and be on a day schedule. I made it to about 3. Woke up at 10. So I'll be up all night and my schedule is thrown all awry. Oh, and I work Wednesday/Thursday nights and then start to transition back to days for my next shift, which is Monday. My internal clock is going to be so confused!
Oh did I mention when I woke up I felt like crap? Gonna be a great day.
And the furnace is broke, it's in the 20's overnight, and my computer is in the basement.
I'm just being a whiny little bitch.
Oh did I mention when I woke up I felt like crap? Gonna be a great day.
And the furnace is broke, it's in the 20's overnight, and my computer is in the basement.
I'm just being a whiny little bitch.
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I was promised discretion.
Dave
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UPDATE: Went to bed at about noon today. Figured I'd sleep until 6 or so then be up all night & ready to go Wednesday night when I worked. Nope. Phone rang. I have a dental appointment at 1 pm tomorrow that will last about 4 hours. So I have to stay up, sleep all night, then someone turn around my clock for Wednesday.
I voted this morning. A local middle school hosted the voting station.
As I pulled in with my bike, trying to find somewhere to lock it, one student said, "Do a wheeelie!" I chuckled and said not on this bike.
As I was going in, a teacher asked if I was a sub. I was so flattered at the assumption.
It reminded me of when I was going to be a teacher at one point. I have all the course work, made the Dean's list, but then dropped out during the practicum because I couldn't handle a Grade Primary/Grade 1 combination class. I wound up having a complete nervous breakdown.
I don't think I could try being a teacher again - not at my age - but just this morning's experience gave me a slight pang of what I'm missing.
As I pulled in with my bike, trying to find somewhere to lock it, one student said, "Do a wheeelie!" I chuckled and said not on this bike.
As I was going in, a teacher asked if I was a sub. I was so flattered at the assumption.
It reminded me of when I was going to be a teacher at one point. I have all the course work, made the Dean's list, but then dropped out during the practicum because I couldn't handle a Grade Primary/Grade 1 combination class. I wound up having a complete nervous breakdown.
I don't think I could try being a teacher again - not at my age - but just this morning's experience gave me a slight pang of what I'm missing.
It's perfectly fine to look at something and realize it isn't for you, but I just wanted to comment on the common feeling of "I'm too old now."
You're never too old, for anything. Well, maybe too old to be the next Gerber Baby but everything else is still on the table. Rodney Dangerfield is remembered as a comic legend, but he didn't have any success until he was in his 50s, and that was after having quit and left comedy for six years.
figmentPez
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8.4 pounds of Reese's. They were on sale. I checked and it was about 30% cheaper than buying them individually at the grocery store.
So, I've been thinking, which is something I generally try to avoid, and it seems to me that a lot of mythology gets the concept of a god of death conflated with a god of war. A god of death would never advocate for war or encourage it. War just increased the temporary amount of dead that travel to the gods domain. However, the god is immortal, it was going to get those souls anyway and on the scale of it's existence, it would be like us blinking our eyes. I ate all the pie. The god of death doesn't want more death, they would want more life. A great war or famine doesn't please the god of death, it scales back the long term supply of it's product.
On the other hand, if the god of death is immortal and looking at things from a long-term perspective, they probably know that populations will recover sooner or later, so it doesn't matter much of the population falls now, leading to fewer people and thus fewer deaths in the immediate future.
Put another way, there could be a population of 1 million people now, or they could have a massive war that reduces that to half a million people, but a few years later it'll be 1 million again. What's a few years to an immortal god?
The way I see it, the long-term timeline of a wholly peaceful population, from the perspective of a god of deaths, is basically a constant and steady flow of deaths. Whereas the long-term timeline of a warmongering population would still be a constant and steady flow of deaths, except punctuated by occasional periods of conflict where the god of death gets to eat particularly well.
Put another way, there could be a population of 1 million people now, or they could have a massive war that reduces that to half a million people, but a few years later it'll be 1 million again. What's a few years to an immortal god?
The way I see it, the long-term timeline of a wholly peaceful population, from the perspective of a god of deaths, is basically a constant and steady flow of deaths. Whereas the long-term timeline of a warmongering population would still be a constant and steady flow of deaths, except punctuated by occasional periods of conflict where the god of death gets to eat particularly well.
Not quite about the god of death, but I remember studying The Iliad. At one point, Ares threw down with Athena...and she mopped the floor with him.
See, he's the god of war. Of starting wars and fighting wars. He's not the god of WINNING wars, because that would be the end of a war. By his nature, he wouldn't want that. So naturally, Athena decisively beats Ares.
But it makes sense along the same lines with HCGLNS's point.
See, he's the god of war. Of starting wars and fighting wars. He's not the god of WINNING wars, because that would be the end of a war. By his nature, he wouldn't want that. So naturally, Athena decisively beats Ares.
But it makes sense along the same lines with HCGLNS's point.