Thread "Rant, moan, rave and share - for all your chatter, natter, ETCETERA! 2013/2014" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 3:10PM, Oct. 1, 2014

ozoneocean wrote:
Politics, baby pics, pics with quotes on, pics with jokes on them, "inpsirational quote" (fucking kill me now), posts about rape culture, posts about evil police, posts about gun rights, posts about religion/athiesism, people promoting things (I am guilty of this), and sport.
So booring.

I love politics, but generally I try to keep that stuff off of facebook. I don't have any good logical reason for doing so, but I find it annoying when other people post about their ideological views it so I don't.
Inspirational quotes drive me especially crazy, though. The people I've known in my own life who love those are always either troubled or just not very bright. Now I (totally unfairly) assume that this is true of all my facebook friends who post quotes.

skullbie wrote:
Ugh,amen. Facebook has some of the best toy communities ever so I can deal with the slew of controversial shit people post, but when I had a tumblr it was literally russian roulette with who I clicked the 'follow' button for.

tumblr is definitely the worst for that. tbh I tend to treat it mainly as a source for pictures of handsome men, so the ones I follow don't generally have ranting/controversies. But I recently had to unfollow one because the girl who ran it kept posting about having broken up with her boyfriend. I mean that sucks for her, but why would someone assume that the people following a fan page they run care about their personal lives?

Posted at 3:10PM, Oct. 1, 2014

I feel as though I need to separate my actual-bad-things-happening post from my one about social media…

Apparently my uncle was at a concert recently and began having a seizure out of the blue, possibly due to withdrawal. He's now blind in one eye. Otherwise he's fine (or the same as usual) I guess, but he's having a hard time getting around. He's been an alcoholic for 20+ years and my whole life, a phone call about him has meant some kind of terrible news. It really sucks having someone like that in your life who you can't do anything for.

Posted at 7:10PM, Oct. 1, 2014

Sorry to hear that Hippie. The people around an alcoholic tend to suffer as much or more than the alcoholic themselves and from victims I've known it's worse than heroin addiction in most cases. To watch someone go through that is hard and there's nothing you can do - to live with them is the hardest.
Having said that, I do like a drink. It's a fine line.

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Tumblr seems to suffer more from the whole reblog pointless crap mania than anywhere else and it's users do seem the most prone to endlessly droning on about their terrible lives. This doesn't seem to stop them from constantly sharing their angry opinions on how everyone else should be living their lives though. Irony is not a thing on tumblr it seems.

Posted at 7:10PM, Oct. 1, 2014

"Tumblr" is something my dryer does. Anything said there would be of the same substance as the stuff stuck in the lint trap of my dryer. Worthless fluff that is annoying and blows everywhere.

Posted at 1:10AM, Oct. 2, 2014

Skulbie wrote

maybe they should both eat a dick.

Hahaha, here here!
Yeah, HeMan is a bit of a false equivilence there. Barbie is an icon, HeMan is just one of a number of licenced toys in a range, desiged to make money from a cartoon. Not even action-man or gi joe stand up to barbie and her toy dominance.

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It's a truisim that people who post inspirational quotes about positive life affirming stuff are extremely depressed and deeply sad.

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That's sad Hippie. There's usually one of those in every family I think. Interestingly Bjork's Army Of Me was written about her brother who was one of those problem relations.
I hope your uncle gets better somewhat if he can, or at least finds a new equilibrium.
…I like that concept: equilibrium.

Posted at 12:10PM, Oct. 2, 2014

Sounds like a great name for a tumblr. You could post random images with completely unrelated motivational text. I'll reblog them daily.

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Great news! I passed the insanely long online webpage analyst's entrance exam! Soon I'll be a nameless cog in the all conquering search engine mothership machine. Pan Galactic gargle Blasters are on me!

Posted at 1:10PM, Oct. 2, 2014

Oh, great. I was given a warning by my supervisor. Apparently there's a guy roaming my area. He talks like a sailor is mentally unstable… and is armed with a knife. He's been known to be prone to random violence and doesn't care if he's not allowed to enter my compound… he'll just enter anyway.

Luckily I was able to find batteries and an LED bulb for my six cell Maglight. If push comes to shove, disarming him shouldn't be too much of a problem. I'd rather avoid bashing him in the head. Better to have him run away intact than having to answer for his injuries.

Yeah… can't believe I live in a country where you can go to hard prison just for defending yourself…

Posted at 5:10PM, Oct. 2, 2014

AGH, I did something super embarassing. I was looking up the other groups members for an upcoming project in one of my classes on facebook, and I guess somehow sent one of them a friend request without meaning to. Just so happens it's the really cute guy in the group, and I didn't notice until he accepted it just now. So now I have to friend everyone in that group so he thinks I'm just super sociable/loose with my facebook friends and not just some weirdo. D:

Posted at 7:10PM, Oct. 2, 2014

Scarf… You're working for Gooooogle? A Hitchhikcer's Guide To The Googlecy?

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Hippie, that is hillarious :)

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Yay, I am finally back to my usual amount of exerisise again! I stopped when I was on my holiday and dreaded what that'd do to me when I came back, especially with all that good food… like 4 good meals a day at least. But I was in better shape when I came back then when I left!
When I got back though I just selpt and slept for most of the week, when not at work. But that's over now.
I'm glad. After my last long four week holiday in the US in 2011 I didn't get back into regular exercise again for forever!

Posted at 8:10PM, Oct. 2, 2014

I always think of a tumblr as a short fat glass you drink whisky from.

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Some other films I saw while away: American Husstle and Grudge Match.
Niether were as good as I expected.

The best thing about American Hustle was the 1970s setting, which was cool, also Badly Cooper's acting and his character were quite good, same with Amy Adams, she was great! The story was a bit flat though…
The whole thing was brought down by Christian Bale. He was terrible. He wore an obvious fat suit for the whole movie, it was like a couple of cushions strapped to his stomach. And his character was more like a caracature, like a funny voice and nothing else. Bad performance!
Michael Palin did a better fat, cigar smoking American character of that type in the Meaing of Life.

Grudge Match was LAME. The best bits were Kim Bassinger playing a granny (a real mindfuck after growing up with her sexy '80s and '90s stuff), and Deniro gave a good performance, plus he had a pretty decent character to work with.
Stalone had a shitty Mary Sue character though and the whole film was based around it- him being the good guy with his own little good guy issues to sort out. UGH!
I was expecting a light comedy that cleverly leveraged the legacy of Rocky and Raging Bull in some smart way. Maybe it did? I haven't watched any of those films all the way through because boxing bores the crap out of me.
Either way, Grudgematch was a dull Mary Sue pile of turds.

–I remember now why it seemed so bad! It wasn't just that Stalon was a Mary Sue, it was that the film seemed like it was written by a 14 year old. It was extremely stupid stuff… It may have worked as a bunch of lame skits on Youtube enacted by some callow teens but to have mature actors speaking those lines was embarrasing.

Posted at 3:10AM, Oct. 3, 2014

ozoneocean wrote:
Scarf… You're working for Gooooogle? A Hitchhikcer's Guide To The Googlecy?

I've already signed extensive non-disclosure agreements and there's more to come, so I can't confirm or deny that fact. If anyone asks, you haven't seen me, I wasn't here and I definitely had nothing to do with it.

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Though not as essential as a good whisky glass, tumblr does have it's uses. I've got a character to draw of black/japanese heritage and obviously I want to get the right look. Not the easiest combination to find, but I succesfully located her on tumblr.

She's no social justice warrior though. Broke my firefox with her porn gifs!

Posted at 1:10PM, Oct. 3, 2014

Ironscarf wrote:
Great news! I passed the insanely long online webpage analyst's entrance exam! Soon I'll be a nameless cog in the all conquering search engine mothership machine. Pan Galactic gargle Blasters are on me!

Congratulations! Is it bing….? I searched for dog videos once months ago on their video service. It was not pretty. It was not what i wanted.
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I have these new chickens who i did an experiment on. When they were babies i did not touch them even once since i'd already played with the previous batch of chickens. They are waaaay too friendly, they constantly examine my feet for things to peck and are always around me. It's funny because as soon as one pecks me the big head honcho chicken storms over and scares them off. It's great.
Pretty great.
….I need a life.

Posted at 3:10PM, Oct. 3, 2014

Skullbie wrote:
I have these new chickens who i did an experiment on.
Pretty great.
….I need a life.

Animal husbandry was once considered a proud profession and fulfilling life. Your experience would be the height of intelligent conversation at county market day.

Think about it this way, you're doing valuable research about pre-modern agricultural lifestyles.

Posted at 5:10PM, Oct. 3, 2014

Skullbie wrote:
Congratulations! Is it bing….? I searched for dog videos once months ago on their video service. It was not pretty. It was not what i wanted.

Thanks! Haha! no it's the other one. Dog video - risky! It's so easy to let your guard down and be caught out. I was looking for a circuit diagram for a sixties guitar effect box called a Foxy Lady Fuzz. There were versions with two controls on the front and versions with three. I typed Foxy Lady Two Knob.

D:

Posted at 8:10PM, Oct. 4, 2014

Ironscarf - You're working for duckduckgo? Sweet!

Posted at 10:10PM, Oct. 4, 2014

Bing video is the KING of porn finders.

Posted at 12:10AM, Oct. 5, 2014

ozoneocean wrote:
Bing video is the KING of porn finders.

Yeah, they'll index anything. It's almost as if microsoft has no soul.

Posted at 10:10PM, Oct. 5, 2014

There was a streaker at a rugby game somewhere in Britain over the weekend: a totally naked man with a pipe in his mouth who tackled one of the players to the ground…
Ironscarf???!!!!

Posted at 2:10AM, Oct. 6, 2014

His sporting prowess was much greater than mine! A fine tackle and judging by the pipe, definitely an Awfully Decent Fellow. I can't understand why the whole thing descended into a punch upthough. Pipe envy on the part of some players?

Banes exclaimed:
Ironscarf - You're working for duckduckgo? Sweet!

We have our own search engine now?

Posted at 5:10PM, Oct. 6, 2014

TECH SUPPORT RANT

There is a problem with technical support offered by Internet service providers. After an excruciating 40 hours without a stable Internet connection in my house, I decided to take the matter into my own hands. I have just spent the last hour and a half on hold by various tech support networks from the cable company. After having to answer a series of security questions, they finally said they were unable to assist me and transferred me to the next representative. I was eventually connected to a tech support operator of my router company and he told me that my router was out of date, the warranty was expired and that he would have to charge me. FORGET THAT!!

I kindly declined the offer, hung up, made some last minute attempts to call my computer savvy friends and then it hit me. YouTube. I did a simple YouTube search for router tech solutions and a four minute video came up explaining how to secure the network. It showed a visual step-by-step procedure on how to secure my router and after the video was over, all my technical difficulties were an afterthought.

I still do not understand how companies need to charge the end users of their own faulty products when there are nice individuals on YouTube willing to do a walkthrough for free.

Posted at 7:10PM, Oct. 6, 2014

Your net troubles were contagious Kawaii… It took me till almost 3am to upload the Quackcast last night. The damn thing would go from 250kbs to 2 then 0 :(
And then when it was almost done uploading there would be an error and I'd have to start again. It took so many tries to upload that bastard. It was only about 58meg too! Teeny for a Quackcast.
I didn't find a soloution apart from keeping at it till it worked finally. -_-

Good on you for managing to fix that by yourself!

Posted at 6:10AM, Oct. 7, 2014

Some good anime:

B Gatta H Kei
This one seems really pervy from the set-up:
A girl going into highschool is obsessed with sex, her dream is to have casual sex with 100 men, but she's really self concious about the way her vagina looks…
She's very atractive and lots of guys approach her, but she's afraid to go out with them because she thinks they'll have more expereince and take advantage of her, or laugh at her or something, so she pics a boring, ordinary, still handsome, but non-confident guy to practise dating with and get her virginity out of the way.

It turns out to be pretty sweet for all that, a bit of a romantic comedy, with no one ever having any sex. And what I liked about it was that the girl wasn't just the usual 2D sterotype with no sexdrive of her own, but she's not a sex-crazed freak either. It's an Ecchi comedy about the girl tryng to get her rocks off for once.

Princess Jellyfish
I've just started this one, it seems really cool with a great art style. It seems to be about a few otaku girls living together in an apartment complex. They're very nerdy, with lots of different body types. One writes boy-love Manga, one's an illustrator and so on. I like it because the characters aren't all drawn as the usual sterotype anime females, these are stylised versions of real people, and they're nevrous and nerdy, with real people hangups. It's funny and fun. :)

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 7, 2014

Hi Ducks!
It's been awhile since I've dropped by. Life's been busy: my autistic son has finally earned his HS degree and has a part-time job (YAY!); my mother-in-law passed away in March (her husband died a year ago June), so lots of estate shtuff; and my last day of employment with an organization I was with for more than 20 years was on 9-11 (deliberately, symbolic of the exacerbating stress endured for the past two years).
So I'm beginning to resurface, breathe again, and find a little of this long lost thing called energy, or enthusiasm. Whatever. Enough that I marched in the NYC Peoples Climate March two weeks ago (if you like, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur5KIQEGf5c ). I was SO tired before we ever left the house, but it was a fantastic event and I'm foolishly proud that I was part of it.
I'm not ready to retire, but can't imagine job-hunting until I can get myself together before 10 AM. (Most employers seem to require that.) Who knows: maybe in amonth, or more, I might try drawing again.

Posted at 12:10PM, Oct. 7, 2014

Car is dead. 3100$ not to mention the new radiator for 800$ and the tires 350+…all down the drain. Didn't even 'own' it for more than one year. I'm so angry right now. I have enough saved to get another piece of shit but seriously how does a normal trip to work turn into losing my car?? Fucking universe suck asshole donkey dicks.

Posted at 2:10PM, Oct. 7, 2014

Skullbie wrote:
Car is dead. 3100$ not to mention the new radiator for 800$ and the tires 350+…all down the drain. Didn't even 'own' it for more than one year. I'm so angry right now. I have enough saved to get another piece of shit but seriously how does a normal trip to work turn into losing my car?? Fucking universe suck asshole donkey dicks.

Owch… I can relate. My car breaks down and I'm stuck using the second oldest form of self transportation known to humans.
Thanks to that I listen to my car as I run it, noting every unusual sound it's not supposed to make and any weird behavior in every system (steering, engines, electronics). Some were an easy fix (I know how to replace radiators, front and rear brakes, getting wipers to work, etc…) while others require an experienced mechanic and a ton of dough…

Well, nearly got hit by a typhoon for the second time within a month. And it looks like there will be more on the way. To make matters worse, I have to work despite the weather conditions. It's a real headache sometimes but I deal with it as best I can.

And maybe some soothing music to temporarily take away the pains of life? Actually I found this song in my tablet…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gb6IN1HS4U