The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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figmentPez
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Nobody has the million dollars to afford such a luxury.
Ketchup chips are a default flavour up here, most brands offer them. They're pretty good, too - kind of sweet and sharp?
figmentPez
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I get how ketchup and potato work, I'm more skeptical about ketchup and corn chips.
I'm in a weird limbo with job applications.
Every church meeting I have to sit through (especially the ones higher up the chain), I find myself frantically checking Indeed for anything that might get me out of this bullsh!t.
Every real-world job interview I have makes me wistful for the halcyon days of church work.
Either way - somebody hire me dammit!
Every church meeting I have to sit through (especially the ones higher up the chain), I find myself frantically checking Indeed for anything that might get me out of this bullsh!t.
Every real-world job interview I have makes me wistful for the halcyon days of church work.
Either way - somebody hire me dammit!
Something something stepmoms getting stuck in washing machines
Moms are great to date, they have snacks
Society is going down the drain but despite appearances we haven't quite reached acceptable cannibalism yet.
Google and Apple News are a little too accurate these days. My stuff is for « older women avoid wrinkles by using…. » or stories about Elden Ring and Monster Hunter.
Speaking of cannibalism, apparently being a cannibal fetishist is the one thing that will get you blacklisted from both Hollywood and your incredible generational wealth as Armie Hammer now sells time shares in the Cayman Islands since he was apparently cut off from the family fortune. Not even Kevin Spacey got blacklisted that hard.
So, to show the power of Whataburger in the South: Tyler and surrounding areas has 8 McDonald's restaurants.
There are 13 Whataburgers.
There are 13 Whataburgers.
I was out biking earlier today and passed a police officer riding a horse. I stopped, turned, and said "Your ride probably has more horsepower."
He laughed and said "Yeah, but yours is more of a workout."
It was a funny little moment.
He laughed and said "Yeah, but yours is more of a workout."
It was a funny little moment.
So, I want to pay the movers as little as possible. I'm moving less than 2 miles away, and I really only need them for the big stuff. I'm moving everything I can in the car until then. These are some surprising things that fit in the back seat of my car:
* my coffee table
* bookshelves
* a brand new lawnmower from Lowes
* night stands
* end tables
* you and me after a couple of drinks if I get lucky.
* my coffee table
* bookshelves
* a brand new lawnmower from Lowes
* night stands
* end tables
* you and me after a couple of drinks if I get lucky.
Someone posted a job advert in a Facebook group I'm a member of. The job is a good match for my skillset, so I'd probably be a good fit. The starting salary posted is approximately 90% of my salary at my job right now, so there's a chance I may be able to negotiate it up to at least match my current pay. So I figured I might as well give it a shot, and I submitted my resume for their consideration.
I'm honestly not too bothered if I get the job, or even if I get an interview at all. I'm fine where I am right now. But for some reason my wife and my dad are both really invested in me applying for this new job. They kept haranguing me to send in my resume and then kept asking me for updates on how my application is going. (So far there have been no updates.) They couldn't really give me a straight answer for why they want me to change jobs so much either. As far as I can tell, they think my current job is too stressful and I work too many hours, but there's no indication this new job will be any lighter. Hell, it says "must be willing to work overtime" right there in the advert.
Also me leaving would put my current company in a huge bind, and to be honest I'm not really eager to do that.
I'm honestly not too bothered if I get the job, or even if I get an interview at all. I'm fine where I am right now. But for some reason my wife and my dad are both really invested in me applying for this new job. They kept haranguing me to send in my resume and then kept asking me for updates on how my application is going. (So far there have been no updates.) They couldn't really give me a straight answer for why they want me to change jobs so much either. As far as I can tell, they think my current job is too stressful and I work too many hours, but there's no indication this new job will be any lighter. Hell, it says "must be willing to work overtime" right there in the advert.
Also me leaving would put my current company in a huge bind, and to be honest I'm not really eager to do that.
Sounds like a good reason for them to offer you incentive to stay if they can't afford to lose you.
I'm not sure there's much room in the budget for that, I'm fairly certain I'm already the highest-paid person in the company. That includes the CEO.
Maybe that's why your family feels you should move. If you're actually happy there then yeah, stay, but I assume the reason those close to you think you've had it with your job is because you've shown signs you've had it, and it never hurts to weigh your options.
figmentPez
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Quidditch rebrands as quadball and further distances itself from Harry Potter author
"U.S. Quidditch and Major League Quidditch announced the name change on Tuesday as well as their own rebranding as U.S. Quadball and Major League Quadball. The groups announced their intention to find a new name for the sport in December, citing what they called anti-trans positions of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.
"In addition to distancing themselves from the author, organizers hope the name change will give the sport more opportunities to grow and not be inhibited by the trademark for 'quidditch' being owned by Warner Bros."
"U.S. Quidditch and Major League Quidditch announced the name change on Tuesday as well as their own rebranding as U.S. Quadball and Major League Quadball. The groups announced their intention to find a new name for the sport in December, citing what they called anti-trans positions of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.
"In addition to distancing themselves from the author, organizers hope the name change will give the sport more opportunities to grow and not be inhibited by the trademark for 'quidditch' being owned by Warner Bros."
Maybe I'm just old, but this is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
Not the rebranding, the sport itself.
I always felt like the hit country song "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma," was an uncalled for insult.
I almost put this in the Weird Weather thread, but it doesn't really apply as "weird weather."
Anyway, whenever I heard about water shortages and droughts in the US, I was under the impression it was resulting from climate change. But from the sounds of it in this video, a lot of it (though perhaps not all) is due to infrastructure and improper water usage issues.
Anyway, whenever I heard about water shortages and droughts in the US, I was under the impression it was resulting from climate change. But from the sounds of it in this video, a lot of it (though perhaps not all) is due to infrastructure and improper water usage issues.
I had a dream the other day that I typed "demon in a cave" into DALL-E and it came up with some images. And one of them turned its head and looked at me.
I'd forgotten about it until just now, so I was compelled to go type "demon in a cave" into DALL-E
You don't know how sad I am that I don't have the know-how to turn that into a gif where after like 60 seconds, of them turns their head.
I'd forgotten about it until just now, so I was compelled to go type "demon in a cave" into DALL-E
You don't know how sad I am that I don't have the know-how to turn that into a gif where after like 60 seconds, of them turns their head.
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I know how to make a gif (though in Photoshop not GIMP. But it's a similar procedure). It's the turning head part that's the crucial step.