A random suggestion. Could these forums be rejigged … boiled down into just a couple of threads. I think there's not enough activity and usability to justify the current expansive (and confusing) forum structure, but that's just my two cents worth.
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That would require significantly more effort than it's worth to do. For the time being you're just better off remembering where the few active threads you want are. I would imagine that someday DD will regain it's full vitality, but until then there's really no use in spending time on it.
In any case, I wish you all a good thanksgiving or Thursday/Wednesday (Friday maybe? I don't keep up on this dateline thing like I ought. ) as the case may be. I personally am spending it myself doing an epic job of supervising CQ and battalion staff duties at my local barracks from my hotel room. Never has a thanksgiving feast consisted of so many oreos, potato chips or pop tarts. I've got oreo casserole, oreo dressing, pop tart soufle, pop tart flambe and of course the perennial favorite, potato chips rockefeller. Enjoy all, and I shall see you in another couple weeks or as soon as I see something on the boards that piques my curiousity.
I just worked seven of eight hours in complete darkness with no power. The generator pooped out at 8PM, I came on at midnight. The maintenance supervisor just said it'd get taken care of in the morning. Which it was at 7 AM when I had only an hour left on my shift. But overnight was chilly and dark.
Considering the downstairs is totally pulled apart because of Sandy and then an electrical fire when they tried to restore power it felt like I was working on the set of a post apocolyptic thriller. I joked we should rent it out to some indy film crew so they could shoot some cheapo zombie thriller down there. Certainly looks the part.
lba wrote:I can remember, most of the time … but the forums must be daunting for anyone not familiar with them.
That would require significantly more effort than it's worth to do. For the time being you're just better off remembering where the few active threads you want are.
Gunwallace wrote:
I can remember, most of the time … but the forums must be daunting for anyone not familiar with them.
Rather like an enormous crippled spaceship drifting through the void, in which the few remaining occupants cling desperately to the soup dispenser, praying for life giving minestrone…
Having said that, my favourite soup is currently tom yam.
Havin said that, in series 10 Red Dwarf is actually good again. :)
One of the things Skool and I really do have a lot of power over these days is broard forum structure. We COULD change it all and simplify it right now but lba is riht that it would be a hayyyellll of a lotta work.
(I like trying to emulate a US Southern accent for the word "Hell")
New forum structure:
- General discussion
- Comics
- Help.
And nothing else…?
Everything else can fit in those since tose are the only active places now ^_^
Maybe?
ozoneocean wrote:I don't want to prompt a "hayyyellll of a lotta work". It was just a thought. But all things being equal, there are much better, and more creative, things you could all be doing with you time.
Havin said that, in series 10 Red Dwarf is actually good again. :)
One of the things Skool and I really do have a lot of power over these days is broard forum structure. We COULD change it all and simplify it right now but lba is riht that it would be a hayyyellll of a lotta work.
(I like trying to emulate a US Southern accent for the word "Hell")
New forum structure:
- General discussion
- Comics
- Help.
And nothing else…?
Everything else can fit in those since tose are the only active places now ^_^
Maybe?
Not sure if that's spam, a link to random crap or what. I have no intent on clicking it without knowing, and I suspect you're in for a bit of a smack on the wrist if it's anything but something amusing to be shared.
Ever have one of those days where you just want to kill yourself of boredom? I got a 4 day pass from duty, and I was planning on using it to get a hotel room away from base, take a break, maybe watch some Netflix or do some drawing. Then I realized that I have watched quite literally everything remotely of interest to me on Netflix and that I went and forgot every drawing utensil I posses back at my desk on base in a locked building. So I've been sitting here, trying to force my way through the non-stop borefest of melodrama that is the Walking Dead ( oh yeah, I went there. ). I didn't think it was possible to run out of things on Netflix, but I've come to the realization that they put all the good stuff and all the more obscure stuff on the DVD portion of their service. The streaming side is mainly blockbusters, portions of trilogies and the TV shows.
I'm slowly being reintroduced to what the world thinks in amusing that I missed for the last couple months though, and all I can say is that you people are well and truly out of your minds. Gangnam Style? I mean really. Out of your minds.
It's simple. Look at the forums and just ignore any topic where the last reply was in a previous month.
So right now I just scan the date of last reply and anything that says a month before September I ignore.
Well the lower level of where I work looks like that abandoned space ship Ironscarf mentioned, but the minestrone ran out quite some time ago and all there is some sort of green cream soup.
hiya ducks, drunk and otherwise.
Finally getting some stuff off my plate, which is great for Moi. I'd write about it, but it's kinda in the category of who-cares, big-deal, boooooring. But if you want news, try this
(note – nsfw, at least not with the audio on – headphones then?)
maybe this stupid link will work
take a tizzy
— (wildebeests. remember wildebeests?)
OK. the link doesn't work. if so inclined, copy and paste:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82865922/#zkoi6gHiLbJizeyQ.01
(it's worth it)
ayesinback wrote:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82865922/#zkoi6gHiLbJizeyQ.01
Hahahaha! Some bullshit happened! :)
Love your new avi, so bright!
Another day delay with the Quackcast. Ah well.
Will be good when it comes on though, Call Me Tom has a great accent!
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A big tall beefy man walked up to me the other day and asked me directions… It was so funny! This great big guy had a squeeky scouser accent, sounded like Harry Enfield doing his Scouse character. Also, he was wearing denim shorts with pockets in the knees… wow.
So I had to quit the job I had because it was commission only and cold calling. Worst job I've ever had. I took 3 weeks working 40 hours and didn't make a single sale. It was torture. I got stranded one day. We went to a city about 70 miles from my town. Not as big a deal to most of you outside the uk I assume but it's the lenght of Northern Ireland more or less. I got left there while the assistant manager who drove me there fucked off. My phone was dead and the car went. I had no way of contacting him so I decided fuck it. He'll be back eventually so I just kept working. No sign of him for hours so I decided I'd need to go around and ask for help. I had to ask if I could charge my phone in random businesses. The only people who let me where a citizens advice place. The cunt had no intention of coming back until before we where leaving. More or less just left me on the outskirts of a shithole after I'd collected all of the nos from the businesses in that area I was just left there so he could go to all of the places himself and make any sales that I may have taken from him. The bastard even ruined one of my sales on me by making the guy take 3 months to think about it. Jesus Christ. Not only did I not get the sale even though the guy wanted to switch he didn't even take the sale. He'll be back in 3 months just so the guy can PROBABLY switch and he can PROBABLY make a sale. Anyway. I've started making webcomics again and posting them on my own site that I've used some host to make. Chance to make revenue or something. Just gonna upload them here too. Might as well since I have the account.
the moral of the story is NEVER do a job on commision only. I can't believe they get away with that shit, isn't that what minimum wage is for? I know they claim that you should be able to earn more than minimum wage but it so often isn't the case. I applied for loads of jobs only to be told at the last possible moment it's comission only, at which point I laugh in their faces.
Any 80s gamers here? anyone remember elite?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous
there's a new one in the works, well should the kickstarter get funded.
Genejoke wrote:I wasted many a week playing Elite, and would love to see a new one made … but these days I don't even own a PC, just a clunker of an old Mac with an OS that is no longer supported. Sigh.
the moral of the story is NEVER do a job on commision only. I can't believe they get away with that shit, isn't that what minimum wage is for? I know they claim that you should be able to earn more than minimum wage but it so often isn't the case. I applied for loads of jobs only to be told at the last possible moment it's comission only, at which point I laugh in their faces.
Any 80s gamers here? anyone remember elite?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous
there's a new one in the works, well should the kickstarter get funded.
I agree with both of you. I also applied for another marketing job and they called the other day to invite me to an interview. I had to ask if it was commission only and even though they said in the job advert that it was 250 - 500 a week they said it was entirely commission. No wonder they phoned the day after I applied to interview me. They need another slave for their sales mining outfit.
Also as for the game. The guy in that video… his jaw line… It almost rates 9000 megacampbells!
same -
sounds like an awful day, sorry to hear that. I've had a couple very similar experiences, even down to being driven many miles out of town to sell door to door (nobody abandoned me, though…man, that SUCKS!).
And it IS a shifty scam, to get around minimum wage protections. Bastards! And what is one to do, when desperate for work?
True story:
When I was on the dole here many years ago (unemployment money), after a few months one of the conditions of getting the dole was you had to join up with these "job finding" agencies.
These "Agencies" were this shitty thing the conservative government here set up to get people out of the unemployment statistics. They were strictly forbidden from sending people out to cleaning jobs, work for commission jobs, or call centre jobs… but when I signed up with one of them that is ALL these bastards did. They were supposed to actively find you jobs that best suited your experience, education, work history etc, but they never ever did that, they just sent you off for shit and if you didn't go or if you refused employment that was offered to you your payments would cease.
Meanwhile these C***TS were collecting money from the government that would have been better off going to the actual jobless people and they'd get a big fat bonus if they "found" you a job, i.e. forced you into a minimum wage hell-job.
Anyway, when I was sent off to interview for a cleaning job I just played dumb and they never offered me the position. Dodged that bullet.
When I was sent off for a call centre job the lady interviewing me looked really carefully over my CV and stopped offering me the call centre stuff and instead started talking to me about graphic deign instead…
I talked myself up big and she hired me on the spot as their graphic designer!
That has absolutely fricken ZERO to do with that f****n agency. All the agency had heard about was the call centre crap and those sorts of jobs were the only ones anyone would approach places like that to try and fill. But that damn place STILL got the government hiring bonus…
I was just lucky to have escaped their clutches.
REALLY lucky, and cocky too, since I told the woman who hired me that they'd have to wait two weeks for me to start since I was going on holiday to see my sister in Sydney in a few days. She not only agreed she gave me an advance of $450 to spend on my holiday.
Great way to start my first full time graphic art position!
same wrote:Are you sure that's legal in your area? Where I live you MUST make at least minimum wage. So you can work a commission-only job, but if you're not making the equivalent of minimum wage your employer has to pay the difference.
So I had to quit the job I had because it was commission only and cold calling. Worst job I've ever had. I took 3 weeks working 40 hours and didn't make a single sale.
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