What the hell, all the cool kids are doing it these days... ask me anything.
GasBandit
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Like you need to wash your hands!
GasBandit
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"It's very nice to meet you, Mrs. Kucinich."
Yeah but not everybody has your "privileges."
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The hitchhiker's trilogy, obviously, the works of Raymond Feist set in Midkemia (Kelewan is dumb and lame), the Kingkiller chronicle, to name a few... but really, I've barely touched a book since Pauline died.
More red heads.
Which of your co-workers if they were removed from work would actually improve your work?
How many donuts have you eaten today?
Are you aware that redheads in yogi pants outnumber all other yogi pants wearers in my neighbourhood by 2:1?
If you took a vacation to Ireland would you come back?
Was Dave really drinking lemonade?
Fuck/Marry/Kill: Jessica Simpson/Kathy Bates/Wicket
What board games do you play?
What's your golf handicap?
Do you smoke?
How much bacon have you eaten in the last month?
Where are you tennis shoes?
When was the 2nd amendment written?
What is the biggest secret in radio?
Are DJ's really really ugly in general?
How many donuts have you eaten today?
Are you aware that redheads in yogi pants outnumber all other yogi pants wearers in my neighbourhood by 2:1?
If you took a vacation to Ireland would you come back?
Was Dave really drinking lemonade?
Fuck/Marry/Kill: Jessica Simpson/Kathy Bates/Wicket
What board games do you play?
What's your golf handicap?
Do you smoke?
How much bacon have you eaten in the last month?
Where are you tennis shoes?
When was the 2nd amendment written?
What is the biggest secret in radio?
Are DJ's really really ugly in general?
GasBandit
Staff member
Most of the sales force... our GM has a tendency to hire pretty but incompetent people to be in sales. Apart from that, we're actually shortstaffed - we need MORE people, not less.
Zero! But I did eat an XL Kitkat bar, so I'm not being virtuous.
Is there a house for sale in your neighborhood?
Only if they made me.
What Dave says is the truth.
I don't think that's how that game is supposed to work.
Not so many any more. I like Cards Against Humanity. My family has a long relationship with Monopoly (my uncle Steve was New Mexico State Champion). When I was younger I liked Heroquest, Shogun, Risk, Diplomacy, Titan, Clue and Stratego. Also Othello, Pente, chinese checkers, and I dabbled in chess a little bit but was too ADD to do the contingency planning required to get good at it. I really like Omaha hold'em, but generally I don't win much at that, either.
I haven't played golf since college, and even then I was abysmal.
Tobacco? No. I did a little when I was young and foolish, but only when I was out drinking with the fellas. Marijuana? No. I tried it once. ONCE. Had a really bad experience. Felt my brain dying, like when you hold your breath underwater for too long and can't quite make it to the surface in time... but for 20 minutes straight. Then my friend threw me down a flight of stairs to land in front of a cop.
At least 48 strips.
On my living room floor.
Uuhhhhhh... 1789, I think? Took a couple years to get it ratified, though.
Everything is fake and it's all bullshit. It's all a massive, whirling bullshit engine powered by lies and falsehoods. Ratings, revenue, advertising, personality, it's all theatrics, fabrication, and creativity.
The guys are, usually. Sometimes the female DJs are cute, but I've noticed that physical attractiveness and radio acumen seem to be inversely proportional. Most of the pretty people end up playing some ugly dude's second banana. It's just a fact of life that attractive folks don't have to work as hard to succeed at most things, but you can't see somebody on the radio, and thus their inabilities are laid bare unless they've got someone to carry them.
What is the Sexingtonest part of your life?
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Originally called Plimsolls, rubber-soled athletic shoes started a dramatic rise in popularity in the late 19th century at the same time as Tennis, which was invented around 1865. The sport required shoes with excellent gripping power, so plimsolls were naturally suited, and thus they started to be called tennis shoes.
... I'd have to say, "Posting on halforums." Unless I'm misunderstanding the question.
GasBandit
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Well, given that you're from the northeast...
73. What is your *general* term for the rubber-soled shoes worn in gym class, for athletic activities, etc.?
a. sneakers (45.50%)
b. shoes (1.93%)
c. gymshoes (5.55%)
d. sand shoes (0.03%)
e. jumpers (0.01%)
f. tennis shoes (41.34%)
g. running shoes (1.42%)
h. runners (0.17%)
i. trainers (0.23%)
j. I have no general word for this (0.89%)
k. other (2.95%)
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Choice a: sneakers
Choice b: shoes
Choice c: gymshoes
Choice d: sand shoes
Choice e: jumpers
Choice f: tennis shoes
Choice g: running shoes
Choice h: runners
Choice i: trainers
Choice j: I have no general word for this
Choice k: other
GasBandit
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You should start a thread in tech talk because this could be a long conversation. Be sure to note exactly at what point it locks. Does it finish the disk check? Does it beep? Is there a pattern to the beeps? Does it display any error message at all?
Italian, or perhaps chinese. I could go for some chicken alfredo myself.
Just had to back you up. When I was out in Missouri, I had numerous confused conversations about it. Like with the whole "pop vs soda" thing, I will know what you're talking about if you say either. When someone had to put on tennis shoes to play basketball I had no idea what was happening.
GasBandit
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I kinda "fell in" to this one, I didn't intend to get into radio, I "chose" I.T. and it just worked out this way. My dream job is to sit at my workstation in a dark, cold room full of racks upon racks of blinking lights and never have to talk to anyone so long as the network was functioning properly.
But, assuming both I.T. and radio are off the table, I'd probably go with programming. Maybe be a game designer?
If I have to choose something outside the tech industry, though, which I think is probably most in the spirit of your question, I might have liked to be a pilot. My dad, my step-dad and 2 of my grandfathers were pilots. I've been soaring above this nation of ours since I could barely walk. I've flown and even landed planes, but never quite got around to getting my pilot's license.
It's actually a short conversation, the mother-board is fried. Now just hoping that I'll be able to salvage the memory and HDD.
I had Italian, or at least Italian inspired, never-ending pasta at Olive Garden.
My friends and I are watching horror movies over the course of the month and I think Texas Chainsaw Massacre is coming up soon. Have you seen it? I hear it's pretty scary.
Oh and have you seen The Thing? We saw that last night and I just realized something about it and wanted to ask someone what they thought about it.
Oh and have you seen The Thing? We saw that last night and I just realized something about it and wanted to ask someone what they thought about it.