The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

[ThatNickGuy]

Lies. ALL LIES!!

...fine. FINE! Okay? You're awesome.

Also, I literally just got to the scene where the above Rhino pic is from.

 

[WasabiPoptart]

Just read about this 50 Shades of Grey thing.

Huh. I can't say it surprises me. I have read really good fan fiction in the past and said "It's to bad this is a fan fic. With a little rework this could be something marketable."

The reviews on this are so mixed, though. Is it worth picking up at all?

My best friend has read the series and really liked it. She also liked Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty series. They just aren't my idea of enjoyable reading.

 

[makare]

I love the Sleeping Beauty series.

But not the audio books...

 

[SeraRelm]

Tritely written bondage porn isn't your thing, WasabiPoptart?

 

[Officer_Charon]

Think Kushiel's Dart and it's sequels might be a better choice than poorly-written Twilight off-cuts...

 

[makare]

Think Kushiel's Dart and it's sequels might be a better choice than poorly-written Twilight off-cuts...

is that what 50 Shades of Grey is about, twilight?

 

[Officer_Charon]

Going by all that I've read on it after over 9000 hours of research, it began it's life as a Twilight fan-fic that the author judged to have more potential.

 

[makare]

That's kind of funny right?

 

[Officer_Charon]

The funny thing is that it's making money...

 

[makare]

That's called laughing all the way to the bank.

 

[SeraRelm]

And this is how Stephanie Meyer was born.

 

[Shegokigo]

And this is how Stephanie Meyer was born.

It's like she took the Anne Rice novels as a challenge. "I bet I could fag these vampires up a bit more....."

 

[WasabiPoptart]

Tritely written bondage porn isn't your thing, WasabiPoptart?

Actually Shades of Grey has made me snicker at all the women who are giddy now about being so adventurous and naughty because they want their significant others to be more like Christian Grey. These are the same women who go to "passion parties" and think they're being dirty because they're looking at vibes and dildos. Meh. I sound like an S&M snob. Does that make me a bondie or some other silly name?

 

[makare]

Yeah it is pretty funny. I ended up at one that was" sooo risque" but all it was was really tame lingerie. But whatever churns their butter I guess.

 

[SeraRelm]

Fuckings SMies..

 

[Adam]

Local newspaper just moved behind a paywall. Kinda irritating as that's the only way I would read the tripe they print. Then I noticed something peculiar...

 

[Officer_Charon]

Thank you for that appropriately-timed diversion, Adam. It was about to get steamy up in here. *grins*

 

[GasBandit]

Local newspaper just moved behind a paywall. Kinda irritating as that's the only way I would read the tripe they print. Then I noticed something peculiar...

"Please! We'll pay you to pad our physical circulation numbers! PLEASE! SOMEBODY READ OUR DYING OBSOLETE MEDIUM!"

(says the radio guy)

 

[checkeredhat]

I continue to be outsmarted by my 4 year old nephew.

Me: "Dexter, where does milk come from?"
Dexter: "The Kitchen."

I was going to explain to him that milk comes from cows, but dammit, he's technically correct. The best kind of correct.

 

[Silver Jelly]

rereading a book on advertising, I found a little note I left for myself and that I had forgotten.

http://instagr.am/p/LBBy2CqqB4/

 

[ThatNickGuy]

Operation: Move Nick's Crap commences June 1!

 

[Gared]

As ridiculous as I know people can be, especially when it comes to technology (computer related), I always kind of thought/hoped that the old tech support jokes about people giving retarded answers about what kind of computer they were using were made up... until today. We ask people what kind of computer they're using (PC or Mac) when they're asking for a data DVD to be shipped because it determines which program we use to zip their file before burning the disc (Macs don't seem to have a free version of software that will unzip a file packed by 7-zip). Today someone told me their computer is a 192.168.0.1.

 

[fade]

The Unarchiver. Free, well-known, well-reviewed, and unpacks 7z files.

 

[Gared]

Awesome, now I can quit asking the question.

 

[Gared]

Huh. Apparently there's a Bengal tiger on the loose on the outskirts of a town near-ish where I live. Don't hear that in the US often.

 

[Shegokigo]

Huh. Apparently there's a Bengal tiger on the loose on the outskirts of a town near-ish where I live. Don't hear that in the US often.

I lived, for a time, a stone's throw away from a farm that housed circus animals during the off season. You could hear the lions and other animals roaring at all times of the day. One day, across the field, I saw the lion.... just taking a stroll.... alone.

 

[Bubble181]

I saw the lion.... just taking a stroll.... alone.

...Must...not....make...joke...about...pussy in the wild...argh....

 

[ElJuski]

Seriously, man. We get it.

 

[SeraRelm]

fuck i'm already drunk

 

[David]

Am I the only one who reads a friend's Facebook post about her new boyfriend and how happy and in love she is, and thinks "I'll give it 2 or 3 weeks, max"?

 

[Bubble181]

Depends on the friend, but with some, that's definitely the case.

 

[Terrik]

I forgot to bring my laptop charging cable to work. Time is ticking. Soon I'll be disconnected from you all for the rest of the day.

What a cruel world we live in.

 

[SeraRelm]

Hun is mean.

 

[Terrik]

"And the people rejoiced"

 

[Bubble181]

Terrik

Sorry, I didn't mean it that way.

Why not go to the Suning and pick one up? That way you can always have one at work and home and you don't have to carry the damn chord around.

It's what I did. Have a charger for my laptop at home and one at work. And one I can stuff in my backpack when going elsewhere.