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  1. honey hatter

    honey hatter Banned

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    That's an all you can eat buffet there.
     
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    Well, my class's Pearson site is down for maintenance. Thankfully, my teacher is merciful and will give me full credit. Of course, I will use this free time to finally write my fanfic - well, at least the outline! :D
     
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    I'm translating my last -sort of- finished-piece from Swedish to English.

    Took me too many tries to write "thought" to realize my word-thing had changed over to Swedish again.
     
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  4. Homer Potvin

    Homer Potvin A tombstone hand and a graveyard mind Staff Supporter Contributor

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    Burgers and beer at on one of my company's restaurants where I get to eat for free! It's in my contract... I suspect they might soon add a Homer clause in the future to limit consumption. Until then, keep em coming, boys!
     
  5. Shenanigator

    Shenanigator Has the Vocabulary of a Well-Educated Sailor. Contributor

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    Jonathan Gold would approve, man. :superagree:
     
  6. D.Clarke

    D.Clarke Active Member

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    Watching iZombie. Going to get back to writing in a minute though
     
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  7. Zerotonin

    Zerotonin Serotonin machine broke

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    Love that show!

    As per what I'm doing, I just finished making over 70 phone calls, so now my brain is an ooze of useless mush.
     
  8. Adenosine Triphosphate

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    Just finished meditating. About to do a homework assignment, some push-ups, and some writing. After that, it's time to watch another episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, read a chapter or two from The Hexslinger Omnibus, and play Bloodborne for a while.
     
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  9. Homer Potvin

    Homer Potvin A tombstone hand and a graveyard mind Staff Supporter Contributor

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    Haha. I've been doing the thing at work where you pick the phone off the cradle and then hang it right back up. Often it leads to this exchange:

    Guy: I've been trying to call you for an hour!

    Me: And I've been trying to answer it.

    Guy: How soon can you seat a party of 15?

    Me: Wednesday. (hangs up)

    Or:

    Guy: Do you deliver?

    Me: No.

    Guy: Why not?

    Me: Because $50 steaks don't like sitting in cars.

    Click.

    Or:

    Me: Thank you for calling Cafe Awesome, this is Homer, how can I help you?

    Lady: Can I speak to the manager, please.

    Me: Sure, let me find him. (waits) Hi, this is Homer, how can I help you?

    Lady: Hi, this is Cathy from Sprint, are you happy with your phone service?

    Me: I was until you called.

    Click.

    Fuck phones. I hate phones. I have 17 million more important things to do than answer a phone.
     
  10. Shenanigator

    Shenanigator Has the Vocabulary of a Well-Educated Sailor. Contributor

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    I'm thinking @Homer Potvin needs a podcast...;)
     
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  11. Cave Troll

    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    Seconded. :superidea:
     
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  12. D.Clarke

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    Its a very good show. Clive's reaction to Liv's personality changes always kills me. Writing is superb too.
     
  13. Homer Potvin

    Homer Potvin A tombstone hand and a graveyard mind Staff Supporter Contributor

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    I thought about doing a phony advice video cast once. I might have mentioned it on here before, but I used to build igloos and wanted to do the podcast from inside it. I'd call it "Ask Igloo Joey" or something and just make up questions from fake people. Like: "Michael from Raleigh asks: Dear Igloo Joey, what doesn't anyone at work take me seriously," to which, I would dole out some inappropriate advice.

    The other idea was to write a self-help book called You're not Special and Nobody Cares (so shut the fuck up and deal with it).
     
  14. flawed personality

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    That is a book I would read. :)
     
  15. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    Love that show, although it took me a while to warm to the tachikoma.
     
  16. Shenanigator

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    First things first:
    For a living? For "fun"? Mind blown! Somehow I missed the igloo stuff. It must have been before my time here. I would have remembered that. Shit like this is why I loved writing articles about interesting people and interesting jobs. Igloo building would qualify, my friend. That is fucking cool (no pun intended). So many questions...*Makes note to buy Homer lots of drinks so he'll tell igloo-building stories*
    That would be hilarious. Also, that would make a fabulously irreverent cartoon.
    Nah, that would be Dr. Phil.
     
  17. Adenosine Triphosphate

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    Their body language can be disconcertingly playful at times. Particularly when you pair it with blowing people away with automatic weapons.
     
  18. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    For me it was the voices. It's different when you're outside of Japan and the whole kawaii culture seems kind of, well, cute. Once you're here, however, that high-pitched childish shit really, really starts to fucking grate on your soul...

    So the tachikoma and I just didn't get along for quite some time.
     
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    What’s worse is when you’re in Japan and all your friends have yellow fever. There’s no escape.
     
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  20. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    I'm going to smile guardedly at that remark.
     
  21. Alsaindar

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    Is there anything else you can do when talking to someone on the internet? No telling who’s behind the screen. Probably a human. And if Cave Johnson taught me anything, it’s that humans can’t be trusted.
     
  22. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    How many hands do you need to type with? :)
     
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  23. Alsaindar

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    None if you’re doing it right.
     
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  24. Link the Writer

    Link the Writer Flipping Out For A Good Story. Contributor

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    TTyping with gloved on. Th typods are left to show hoqw haqrd it cn be do do so.]']
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    orcass apparently can['t type on keyboareds at all. Work, i will need to improve with typing with globves on. ''Yay
    !!!
     
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  25. D.Clarke

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    Had to rewrite a rewritten chapter because I saved it under my default word doc for novels, and when I opened it, thought I already saved a separate file. I deleted everything in that 'default' novel template, not realizing I didn't save a separate version and when I went to look for it....boom.. yeah. Pissed, just a little.

    Had to write everything over. Can't even remember what I wrote in the last one. Only good news about it is I was only 600 words into the rewrite so, not much lost.
     
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