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

Posted at 2:10PM, Oct. 24, 2014

kawaiidaigakusei wrote:
bravo1102 wrote:
German tanks were pretty and beautiful pieces of engineering but were shit to maintain and actually operate. The US produced tanks like cars for the masses, the German made theirs like trains; highly engineered and in small numbers and requiring lots of maintenance.

The German practice of manufacturing is not exclusive to tanks as it extends to German cars as well. Each piece is made specifically to the vehicle that when an Audi gets totaled in the USA, it is cheaper to sell it for parts than try and repair it with the cost of importing and finding each individual part.

Audi is partner or Porsche. (Remember two syllables Porsch-ah) The founder fo Porsche Ferdinanad Porsche was a major designer of wartime German tanks, the Volkswagen Beetle and best buddy of Adolf Hitler.

Most nations of NATO use modern German tanks which are made more utilitarian (like Volkswagens) You see a NATO tank chances are it's a member of the Leopard family. However one reason Australia recently chose the M1A1 over the Leopard II was because it's easier to maintain. (According to papers of Australian DoD and interviews wtih Tankies (tank crew) and "spanners" the maintenance teams in the Aussie military. There was a recent thread about this on Missing Lynx and even a former member of the Australian DoD purchasing board chimed in! Amazing who builds models.)

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And my employer put in last week's payroll for this week's direct deposit. It affects every employee because it's all computerized and only one file is submitted to the payroll company. But they'll be adjusting it on Monday. Wondering how many people will see money vanish out of their account because they worked less hours this past week over the week before.

Stuff like this used to happen all the time when payroll was done by hand and not computer files but at least then it affected one or two employees and corrected by the issue of a new check. Now it effects everybody and menas changing a whole system of stuff. Then there's working for the dwindling group of small businesses who'll pay you with a check they personally signed and make up any difference out of their pocket when you're in the office with them.

Posted at 11:10PM, Oct. 24, 2014

@Bravo- Re tanks:
I meant aesthetics in terms of tanks, not cars. But even then the Sherman is close to the rounded 1930s car look with that little mushroom turret (car body design stunted after the '30s because of the war and stayed the much same into the '40s).
But what I meant was that the Sherman's were very much like the type of interwar 1930s medium tank designes from all over the world, from Russia, to France, to Japan… Little tanks with small turrets and high hulls.

And what I meant by talking to crews was from memoirs of a Russian tank Commander who commanded 2 columns of Sherman tanks against the Germans in the latter half of the war. He said they sent a company rep out and were surprised that he not only wanted to know about improvements and complaints, but that they also got equipment shipped over from the factory to instigate those changes.
All in all he reckoned the Sherman's were great tanks, better than the T-35s (much safer and more comfortable), and he could take out Tigers and Panzer IVs quite easily with the right tactics. The main issue with the Shermans according to him were the stupid rubber blocks on the tracks would freeze hard and make the tanks handle like "a drunk cow" on the icey roads, also the engine fan was under the driver (or one of the crew), which would be OK in the heat but in the cold you had a an dicey windstorm blowing up your arse at all times so had to have heavy blankets down there.
Also the Tommy guns they came with were rubbish and crews used to duel with them because the heavy winter gear stopped the bullets… Must have been at long range?
He also mentioned that they would use captured German tanks but regulations were that they had to abandon them when they broke down… But they'd fix them as best they could anyway. From memory I think they usually repainted them in Russian colours but would sometimes leave them in German markings for clever ambushes… Though sometimes that'd lead to being attacked by your own side.

Posted at 2:10AM, Oct. 25, 2014

I think I remember reading about a German tank called "The Mouse". Extremely armored tank which proved impractical to field. The thing was too heavy to go onto mud and probably cracked the pavement whenerever it rolled.

Posted at 4:10AM, Oct. 25, 2014

ozoneocean wrote:
@Bravo- Re tanks:
I meant aesthetics in terms of tanks, not cars. But even then the Sherman is close to the rounded 1930s car look with that little mushroom turret (car body design stunted after the '30s because of the war and stayed the much same into the '40s).
But what I meant was that the Sherman's were very much like the type of interwar 1930s medium tank designes from all over the world, from Russia, to France, to Japan… Little tanks with small turrets and high hulls.

Since the Sherman was designed to be bult by auto manufactuers it was designed like a car. The USA was already an automotive nation with Americans very familar with cars and engines so American tanks have been disgned to capitalize on that. Fisher body works built it. The same maker as GM cars. It was desgined to be made like a car and to run like a car. It was all about the US Automobile industry as part of the US war mobilzation plans going back into the 1930s. You're basing everything on the memoir of one tank commander whose experience in many ways was exceptional. Even the offical Russian evaluation of the Sherman says differently. (they were pretty honest in WWII, it was only after they got silly) I'm deriving my BS from an entire body of research.
Though it is a 1930's aesthetic. There really was no 1940's car aesthetic because of World War II. (From Auto Files a series of essays on car design.)

Other than French tanks what other tanks are you talking about? That mushroom turret goes back to the first tank with a turret the FT-17 of 1917. Every other tank after copied the layout of that tank. Even the Sherman showed it's lineage from the M1917 light tank (the US copy of the FT-17) to the T1 medium and through the M2, and M3 mediums. Read Sherman design history of the US medium tank and Stuart Design history of the US light tank by Hunnicut. It's all well documented and researched and a couple of Masters and PH.d dissertatins have been written on it.

The experience of the Russian tank commander is similar to US experience. Lafyewtte Poole and Creighton Abrams would agree with him. It was all about tactics. The Russians had had since 1941 to learn them. The US hit the ground in 1943 with a whole different mindset and had to learn the hard way. Even though the British had been fighting German armor since 1940 they still hadn't learned! And the learning curve was often pretty steep and the casualties so high that it was difficult to pass on. For maintenance and use the Sherman was more agreed to be more homey than nearly every other tank in the world. British, French crews agreed with their Russian counter-parts about that.

Posted at 8:10PM, Oct. 26, 2014

Bravo-
You're not disagreeing with me in that post.
I will clarify some points for you though:
-I was likening the rounded turret to the rounded aesthetics of US car design in the 1930s. That might seem a bit fatuous, but the aesthetics of the time do seem to be a mjor infleince on seemingly totally functional designs: look at aircraft design and art from the 1930s and the early versions of the B-17 before it changed to its more tankish appearence.
-I was likening the short, high hulled, and small turreted apearence of the Sherman to 1930s tanks from France, Itally, and Japan.

I don't know how the expereince of the Russian comander is at variance from the rest of the world… In that he said they had decent support from the company rep? If no one else did then his guys just happened to get lucky then I suppose. Maybe the company was trying harder with them because they wanted to sell more tanks to the Russians in future? They already had a rock solid thing in place with the US army so not as much motivation to try and accomodate US army requests I suppose?

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Monday… ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I watched lots more D. Gray man. It gets a lot better, more comical, more fun as it goes. So Bravo, thanks for that, it was worth sticking with it.

Posted at 12:10AM, Oct. 27, 2014

I wonder why a lot of Japanese anime takes place in a school. Doesn't matter what the setting/genre might be. If it's a fighting anime, it takes place in a high school that teaches fighting techniques. If it's a war anime, it takes place in a military academy. If it's a fantasy anime, it takes place at some school that teaches magic/sword/rogue techniques. If it's an anime about trading cards, it takes place in a school that teaches you how to PLAY with those cards…

Must be a youth thing or something or maybe the average person who watches such anime come from high school.

Still kinda weirded out by their version of Transformers Animated as well. In the U.S. we understand that they're alien beings and that transforming is a natural thing for them. In Japan they always have to shout the word "TRANSFORM!" or a version of that word in order to change modes. Nevermind that there's not a lot of time to say the word as they do…

Posted at 1:10AM, Oct. 27, 2014

Japanese school anime… I hate that convention.
ANime seems to be layered out of mulitple, standard conventions or tropes… I suppose western TV shows are as well but we just don't realise it as much all the time?

The school thing sux hard though, my theory is that in Japan most anime must be specificaly targeted towards school age kids, hence the setting: so it can more easily apeal to that demographic.
Other anime will do the school thing simply because it's such a popular, established convention because of that targeting.
And still others use it because they're spoofing that popular convention.

I try extra hard to find anime that doesn't star school kids in a school seting, but it's very hard. GTO is set in a school but at least the main character is the teahcer and not the usual 15 year old.

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Speaking of school kids, apparently they're far less technically adept than their teachers when it comes to digital tech these days. The typical idea is that kids now grow up with computers and tablets and things so they must be pretty savy with that stuff, but it turns out that's not true. They're less able to use devices for media creation and less able to fix, repair or troubleshoot tech stuff than older people.
That's a massive generalisation based on a study in the US, but it's interesting!

I Would speculate the the trouble would lie in stuff like Apple IOS devices, Android, and games consoles. ALl those devices are mainly centred around media consumption and they're made in such a userfriendly, simple way, as well as being disposable (when it breaks you buy a replacemnt), that it discourages tinkering. The games consoles just funnel content right to you easier than ever before because it's all downloads now.
With games consoles previously you had to go out and buy media, which people still do now, but a lot of serious gaming was only done on computers and that could be a fricken NIGHTMARE to set up at times.
Trying to get games to function correctly taught me a HELL of a lot about how computers worked, reluctantly. But without that type of goad I wouldn't have a fraction of knowledge about them that I do today.

Lonnehart, I imagine tou had a similar expereince?

Posted at 3:10AM, Oct. 27, 2014

ozoneocean wrote:I try extra hard to find anime that doesn't star school kids in a school seting, but it's very hard.
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I was having this conversation with my bf a few days ago, how it seems that practically every Anime or Japanese film always seems to take place in school. This is more than likely attributed to how much time is spent in school in Japan and pretty much most parts of East Asia. I actually kind of enjoy Japanese movies that take place in schools though, especially the horror flicks! xD

Posted at 3:10AM, Oct. 27, 2014

Pretty much, though my gaming experience is mostly from computers. If you want to play a game on the PC you have to make sure your machine matches the minimum specs at least (to run the game at its very lowest settings). And if machine doesn't meet the requirements you will have to modify it or build a new machine if you want to play your game. I learned how computers worked from having to build them myself (and destroying a few along the way).

And I guess the school is a popular setting for anime. It's as if the people producing the stuff are always looking for an excuse to make the setting a school. So is it a giant robot anime where evil aliens are invading the Earth? You go to a high school where you learn to pilot giant robots. So you want to produce webcomics? Then you can expect to see an anime where you go to a high school setting to learn how to make them. And that includes classes where you can learn special martial arts techniques with the tools of the trade (pen, ruler, brush, the super ultra special finger keyboard martial arts techinque to mesmerize your audience with words, etc)…

And now the forum got wierd… modifying my font size without my permission…

Posted at 2:10PM, Oct. 27, 2014

I got called racist today, apparently telling a scottish person you cannot understand what they are saying because they have a thick accent and speak quickly is racist. Followed by accustions of calling him racist. Some people are fucking idiots.

Posted at 7:10PM, Oct. 27, 2014

@Peipei- I think that for most people too that school is a comon expereince that pretty much everyone of every age can relate to, so maybe that has something to do with the popularity? Most of us were school kids once, most of us had to go to school, had friends there, went through puberty and all that stuff; so the school setting has a universal appeal.

@Genejoke- shut up you antiscottish racist bastard!
I would like to go back in time and cockpunch the guy that first equated regional accents with racisism. Racisism is a serious subject that doesn't deserve to be trivialised by butthurt people who're sad that others can't understand their accents.
In the US there were people who couldn't understand what I said in my Aussie accent, it would've been insane of me to suggest that was "because of racisim".
It's an example of the ignorance of lanaguge and what words mean actually begining to actively harm communication and cause strife between people.

Posted at 9:10AM, Oct. 28, 2014

You're messing with the wrong isms Genejoke. Ageism - that's what you need. You can be as insulting as you like with the age based jibes, or erroneously draw attention to someone's age, regardless of whether it has any bearing on the topic at hand. You can't do that with race, gender sexuality or any of the other classics. In fact, social justice warriors are some of the worst offenders when it comes to ageism.

Ageism is the way to go my old friend.

Posted at 1:10PM, Oct. 28, 2014

Ironscarf wrote:
You're messing with the wrong isms Genejoke. Ageism - that's what you need. You can be as insulting as you like with the age based jibes, or erroneously draw attention to someone's age, regardless of whether it has any bearing on the topic at hand. You can't do that with race, gender sexuality or any of the other classics. In fact, social justice warriors are some of the worst offenders when it comes to ageism.

Ageism is the way to go my old friend.

Just don't do it in a senior community in the USA. Some of those seniors can use their walkers and canes as deadly weapons. Those seniors are vicious when they bitched about ageism to their poor tired security guard who had nothing better to do than to listen to their woes. Did that for four years.

However, many seniors have the long perspective not to get all uptight about a few words. So ageism often doesn't work. Many of them laugh and pat you on the arm and tell you how bad a young person you are and how you'll learn with time or ask what would your mother say?

Thank heavens I do industrial security rather than senior residence security. Now I just have to listen to co-workers bitch about each other and the resident conservatives badmouth the president. Always makes me wonder if there are so many of them around who'll berate liberals endlessly how come conservatives don't win more elections? They're very vocal but very few.

Posted at 3:10PM, Oct. 28, 2014

Our local election for governor is getting interesting. The incumbent governor has done a lot of work improving things here on the island. And I want him to stay in that chair. His opponent…

…is using misinformation and slander to make his opponent look bad. He's been suspected of attempting to manipulate the ballots so the election is in his favor. Even worse, he's already served two terms as governor. He then got his wife to run for governor afterwards, then his nephew.
Right now our government spending is in the black and they're only in debt. I'm worried if the old man returns to that seat we can look forward to an even bigger deficit, a longer wait to get our tax refunds (thanks to him we had to wait from 2 to 4 years to get them), and not getting FEMA assistance when a disaster happens (thanks to people in his government quietly moving the funds that FEMA gave them after supertyphoon Paka hit us and depositing them somewhere else)…

So unless there's some cheating going on there's a great chance that the incumbent governor will win. And if he does I'll ask my former boss (the current Lt. Governor) to institute some law to ensure that no one pulls more than two terms as governor in their lifetime (unless it's during wartime).

Posted at 7:10PM, Oct. 28, 2014

Gnerally I find that conservative governments are more apt to bankrupt a government because they insist on lowing taxes for big business, so they cut their own revenue streams… then they give OUT money to big business in the form of subsidies and incentives! And then they spend lots of money on cock hardening ego-projects like expensive figher jets, warships, wars, expensive building projects and so on.
That's been the expereince here in Australia.
They cut funding for social, medical, science, education, arts, and culture budgets and give the money instead to big business. -_-
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If I have anything to say about older people it's that as certain people age they tend to beleive more and more that they're the centre of the world. I've noticed this more with older women that anything else. There's the trope of the controlling "mother-in-law" from 1950s and '60s sitcoms in particular, there's also the controlling aunts from PG Wodehouse stories, Mis Havershom in Dickens, the powerful mothers in Jane Austin stories… It has quite a spot in fiction but I think that's because it's based on some truth.
They see themselves as rulers of their own domains. On trains and busses it's the olderwomen who're more likely to hog extra seats by leaving their bags all over them and spreading out their stuff, not young sruffy teenage boys. The older ladies are far less polite about giving up space too. And mothers and grandmothers will always put themselves at the centre of things in various ways.

I joked with a firend that it goes back to our primitive days:
The older males would sit around scratching themselves, imagining they were in charge while in reality a cadre of older females would be constantly vying with each other for dominance while they ruled over the rest of the clan with an iron hand.

I do agree that agisim IS a bad thing though and a lot of assumptions people make about youth and age are wrong and harmful.

Posted at 9:10PM, Oct. 28, 2014

ozoneocean wrote:
If I have anything to say about older people it's that as certain people age they tend to beleive more and more that they're the centre of the world. I've noticed this more with older women that anything else. There's the trope of the controlling "mother-in-law" from 1950s and '60s sitcoms in particular, there's also the controlling aunts from PG Wodehouse stories, Mis Havershom in Dickens, the powerful mothers in Jane Austin stories… It has quite a spot in fiction but I think that's because it's based on some truth.
They see themselves as rulers of their own domains. On trains and busses it's the olderwomen who're more likely to hog extra seats by leaving their bags all over them and spreading out their stuff, not young sruffy teenage boys. The older ladies are far less polite about giving up space too. And mothers and grandmothers will always put themselves at the centre of things in various ways.

When I used to work in retail, I found that most of the "problem" customers were 60ish. Not to say that the majority of customers that age were trouble, just that the majority of trouble customers were that age. I've seen someone theorize that it has to do with "narrowing" - that as you get older you tend to interact with less of the world, so small things become more important. So calling my manager to complain about me because your dog's favourite treats were out of stock seems more reasonable. Women that age were more likely to cause issues over little things than men, but I always assumed it was because the store was staffed entirely by young women. (Now that brings to mind a whole OTHER category of problem customers who were the reason many of my coworkers wore fake wedding rings at work!)
But then, some of my very favourite regulars were the very elderly…they would come in and have a nice chat, and were the only customers who ever tried to tip me. So I don't know what the deal is. Maybe we just happen to have a lot of grumpy people that age in my neighbourhood. :P
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I started Christmas shopping yesterday, because Christmas shopping is one of my favourite things. I've also discovered indie cosmetics/perfumes recently which are awesome…unique and way cheaper than big brand name stuff, although you have to deal with delayed shipments and stuff sometimes that comes with smaller companies. Anyways, a ton of these companies released Halloween lines which are perfect for my (slightly goth) little sister, so I think she's going to love her presents this year. :)

Posted at 5:10AM, Oct. 29, 2014

Actually both ozoneocean and Hippie van are showing ageiam. They are attributing negative behavior to an entire group because of a handful of anecdotes and a cutlural misperception.
Thank you this has been a paid PSA from the Council on Aging. ;-)

Having worked in retail for several decades I found that difficult customers could be anybody and they shared one thing in common: they felt victimized. Why me? Seniors often feel victimized by socieity in general so they react more often. Bite your tongue and be empathic. Empathy can disarm the most crusty of crumudgeons. I've done it. Those bags everywhere on the bus? "Excuse me ma'am, my wife is very tired and needs to sit down."

So what can I do to make you happy right here and now? (if something is out of stock you gotta be creative) There are all kinds of training videos about offering choices and showing empathy. What can I do to have a positive shopping expereince? (within reason)

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 29, 2014

OMG, be polite and empathetic to customers? Why didn't I think of that? Whenever customers were grumpy with me I just smacked them around a bit

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 29, 2014

HippieVan wrote:

OMG, be polite and empathetic to customers? Why didn't I think of that? Whenever customers were grumpy with me I just smacked them around a bit

So did I. I was asked to "step outside" more than once. But hardware departments just aren't the right place to say that. Too many heavy blunt objects around. Then I learned to bend over fucking backwards if necessary so the customer just will SHUT THE FUCK UP!

Are you rolling your eyes at me?
No I'm thinking about what we can do to please you.
I'm never shopping here again!
Can't blame you, it is pretty nasty, but I'm stuck in the same place you are and it ain't easy.
Yeah, sorry.
Just do what I can in a difficult situation and if I can't we're both unhappy.

Disarm them and work together towards a solution. Not confrontation but cooperation. Just so they will SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE! That's my goal. I want them to go away.
That's what I'm thinking the whole time. JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DIE! But I work it through and do my best to solve the problem and get them out of my face.

And sometimes I end up with a friend. Holy shit you mean it works? Yeah but I'm really fucking good at it.

Posted at 8:10AM, Oct. 29, 2014

Bravo, whenever there's an older woman on public transport she's more likley to hog space and if she does then she won't be eager to cede it, that's just what they do. The same way that big, burly men will sit with their legs far enough appart to give berth to a baby hippo.
Both are being dickish in different ways but the big burly guys take up less space.
Both sides of my family that my grandmothers were always dominant forces. I have aunts who're the same. Their families are their empires, over which they rule, while their husbands sort of fade into the background where family is concerned.

Those cultural tropes are well established, pretty old and are alive in many different nations; all over Europe, Japan, Russia, Even down to Australian aboriginal tribal stories, so I assume it's based on something?

People change along predictable patterns as they mature with puberty, who's to say that doesn't continue? ^_^
This comedy vid about "Second Puberty" is a fantastic illustration of that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Veq4Oc8S7-I

I think people DO change in fairly predictable ways. Are people objectively better at some stages (younger VS older) of their life than others? No, I don't think so. There can be contexts in which some types of typical behavior by people can be obnoxious though; older women in control situations, young teens handing around together in large groups, 20 year old guys cat calling women on the street, young women together in catty competative groups, large groups of men being agressive over sport…

Posted at 10:10AM, Oct. 29, 2014

Well, it's been a while but I found a new bulb for my MAGlite flashlight. It's hard for bulbs to last long on that thing. Or maybe I'm just buying really cheap bulbs at a high price (things tend to be overpriced around here). Oh, well…

A while back our boss lifted that ban on metal flashlights after one of our guys got grievously injured during a robbery. Kinda hard to defend yourself with a 3 inch flashlight made of plastic which uses traditional bulbs (as opposed to LEDs which all the other security places were using). So I'm allowed to carry my MAGlite around again.

Oddly enough, I get two reactions from people who I confront while carrying it despite holding it in a way that's non threatening. Either they'll comply with my requests and leave my sight immediately, or they'll try to… um… puff up their chests so to speak and act really tough.. then leave my sight. I guess when people see a MAGlite that takes 6 D cells they immediately think I'm carrying a firearm or something…

And now for this video again…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwLg4tYvg0k
Because inserting a key and sliding a card are never TOO dramatic. ;)

Posted at 12:10PM, Oct. 29, 2014

I like flirting, but I kind of hate being asked out/going on dates. I know it's the kind of thing I should be doing right now, but it's so stressful. -_- "I'd rather just stay at home with my cats and play Civilization" is not a great excuse, though.

Lonnehart wrote:
Oddly enough, I get two reactions from people who I confront while carrying it despite holding it in a way that's non threatening. Either they'll comply with my requests and leave my sight immediately, or they'll try to… um… puff up their chests so to speak and act really tough.. then leave my sight. I guess when people see a MAGlite that takes 6 D cells they immediately think I'm carrying a firearm or something…

Haha! They're intimidated by the size of your flashlight!

ozoneoceanwrote:
I think people DO change in fairly predictable ways. Are people objectively better at some stages (younger VS older) of their life than others? No, I don't think so. There can be contexts in which some types of typical behavior by people can be obnoxious though; older women in control situations, young teens handing around together in large groups, 20 year old guys cat calling women on the street, young women together in catty competative groups, large groups of men being agressive over sport…

That's basically what I was trying to get across as well. I actually find guys in their late 20s to early 30s be the worst for cat calling, though. That might be unique to my city…cat calling in general doesn't seem to be as common here as in some other cities, so generally it's done by sort of stunted man-child types.

I hate to say this, but when girls my age (like 18-25ish) get into groups, it's the absolute worst sometimes. Just the sheer amount of talking is mind-boggling to me. I'm planning to buy some headphones soon to drown out girls on the bus to and from school. But you're right about it being the context - I get along perfectly well with these same girls on a one-to-one basis. But for whatever reason the group dynamic of young women often seems to turn into a shouting competition.

Posted at 5:10PM, Oct. 29, 2014

ozoneocean wrote:
Those cultural tropes are well established, pretty old and are alive in many different nations; all over Europe, Japan, Russia, Even down to Australian aboriginal tribal stories, so I assume it's based on something?

You forget I'm half Russian. The Russian Baba (grandma) as family head is not only established but expected. I was raised by mine and of my three siblings I am the only one to have a mostly positive memory of my grandmother.
I may hate myself and know myself to a mean and selfish person but if I treat others as Id like to be treated I am often surprised at how they reciprocate and treat me well, indeed better than I deserve. That people are what they are I know but that they can behave in a considerate manner if properly treated I expect and work my utmost to obtain. I can get that lordly woman on the bus to move her packages so I can sit down and even get her to smile at me. Somehow I can fool people into thinking I'm this kind, empathic and gentle person and can even get them to reciprocate. I know the world isn't that bad but is in fact worse, but people as individuals will often react positively to a genuine smile from an active listener.

I have done it. So I must be doing something right in order to have gotten the results I have.

People as groups are entirely different. Then use that six D-battery MAG light and bash'em over the head. Repeatedly. Berate them like a proper Drill Sergeant until they get their head out of their ass and do what they're supposed to. Now unass my area of operations and move out promptly. Like you have a fucking purpose people!

Posted at 9:10PM, Oct. 29, 2014

Marshmallow fluff mixed with this creamy strawberry and vanilla flavoured spread I found on the back shelves of the supermarket tastes heavenly!!!!!!!
The strawberry spread is great… It's made with a bunch of vegtable oils I think, all mixed up to become a fatty, flavourful dream. :D
It's hard to describe… Maybe it's similar to icing (frosting for you Americans), but with a lot of creamy fat added, like butter but without the butter flavour. The strawberry flavour is similar to Nestle Quick.
This stuff blows Nutella out of the atmosphere!

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Lonne, that has to be a spoof right?

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The funny thing about groups of similar people is that their worst traists seem to magnify.

Posted at 12:10AM, Oct. 30, 2014

ozoneocean wrote:
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Lonne, that has to be a spoof right?

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I think so. It's from some giant robot anime called Gao Gai Gar. I like to think it's a spoof on both giant robots, their activation sequences, and that the sword is often something is identified with Japanese culture (in a lot of this type of anime giant robots often wield swords in battle).

As for giant robot spoofs, I love this most of all because the famed "Rocket Punch" is cool looking, but very impractical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuhegyYeZEU