Today...

[stevepole]

White tee + permanent marker = chainmail

[TTanT]

I actually own legitimate stainless steel chainmail*. Because I enjoy reinforcing nerd stereotypes.

[Estonian dude]

Tomorrow, I won't be able to sit properly.

As I said earlier, I went snowboarding. Alone. And was there for 6 hours. And just before the end, as you might imagine, I was quite exhausted. And an exhausted person makes mistakes. And it just so happened, that I got proper speed for a jump. And just before the ramp, side of the snowboard dug in. Throwing me down. Exactly on my left asscheek. With quite a force. And now it is painful to even walk.

Nevertheless, had awesome fun, rode in my own slalom track through the course until ice and had lots of adrenaline flowing. Also saw a guy trying a frontflip. First time I had seen that thing live.

[Ember]

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[Furah]

Why did I agree to work on a Tuesday morning? I'm completely [bleep]ed up because I couldn't fall asleep easily last night. Oh yeah, because I didn't get to work sat and I need the money.

 

Well I've got a mate's 22nd this friday so there's that, followed by another friends 27th last weekend of the month which is game of thrones themed. the only cheap and wacky outfit I could come up with was a monk's robe.

 

otherwise a LOT of tin foil.

 

From what I understand, go to the local uni, spend time near the law students, and you'll get to know dealers pretty easily. Since everything is illegal, a lot of them tend to be jack of all trades.

 

I don't have a truck licence either. I drive vans and utes.

I know. I tried finding work with just that, but too much experience was required. Surprisingly lots of for medical supplies. But there's never a short of truck work here (lots of crappy-truck work but I've already explained that) since that's my area's "industry". Trucking, distribution, retail.

 

I guess it is really about who you know.

[RpgGamer]

I suppose you've a point, I was (well....still sorta am) sheltered and trying to break out, only problem is I dont have many friends who ARE open. 80% of them are parents now, and the other 20% dont do anything. I guess if anything I have a slight jealousy I'm still behind in life experiences and sure as [bleep] not getting younger.

 

I go balls to the wall because I know it'll be even worse if I wait. Now is your time. Now is your youth. Go out and be stupid if that's what you want. Making friends with wild people is as simple as participating with them in their habits.

 

 

Today...

School, can't focus, brain still doesn't work too good. I'm struggling to focus on anything, and I started smoking again. I haven't bought a pack yet, and I don't intend to though. So hopefully I'm not too bad. Been listening to a lot of UnderOath and Bring Me The Horizon to shut out all the self hating thoughts of embarrassment. Called my friend up to tell him how much an ass I felt, and he laughed. But it helped me remember not to take life so seriously. I think I'll be okay, I've chilled out a bit.

[Giordano]

 

I guess it is really about who you know.

It is. I got my current job because of my friend.

[RpgGamer]

I got my job because my late uncle's best friend worked there. You have to know someone to work with me, but we deal some shady stuff, so...kinda understandable. Dunno why you need to connections to get a McJob these days.

[Tim]

I got my job because my late uncle's best friend worked there. You have to know someone to work with me, but we deal some shady stuff, so...kinda understandable. Dunno why you need to connections to get a McJob these days.

 

lawsuits, OHS and compensation claims. Which is sad as the nearest McDonalds here, is no joke, run by total freaking morons.

[Sbrideau]

You need connections for any kind of job these days, you can't get a job without that.

[Furah]

Today...

School, can't focus, brain still doesn't work too good. I'm struggling to focus on anything, and I started smoking again. I haven't bought a pack yet, and I don't intend to though. So hopefully I'm not too bad. Been listening to a lot of UnderOath and Bring Me The Horizon to shut out all the self hating thoughts of embarrassment. Called my friend up to tell him how much an ass I felt, and he laughed. But it helped me remember not to take life so seriously. I think I'll be okay, I've chilled out a bit.

 

Apologise to the poor girl. Ask her to forgive you, and then make it up to her.

[champion]

And the TIF moderation team decides to lock an active, generally civil topic because we need to apparently calm down even though they admit not a single warning was issued throughout the whole thread. And yet we wonder why OT is dying. :wall:

[jasignhagj]

I completely agree, there was no reason to kill that thread. OT got away with far more controversial topics in the past, and the userbase was probably younger back then.

[nine naked men]

Omar's posts about argumentation ethics were the only interesting things happening in that thread

[Omar]

One of my nice pairs of jeans is fraying at the heel. Guess they aren't a nice pair anymore, which is fantastic because that leaves me with just the one really good pair (here good pair means pair I don't use while working, supposedly to protect them from getting really dirty or getting ripped). Not bent out of shape for casual use, but it still makes things...difficult. Oh well.

Get them hemmed. If they're fraying at the heel that means they're too long.

[RpgGamer]

The man is keeping us down mannn

[Alg]

I completely agree, there was no reason to kill that thread. OT got away with far more controversial topics in the past, and the userbase was probably younger back then.

To be fair, the last post looked like it was starting to get 'off the rails', but it was still quite a bit more civil than many other topics OT has gone over in the past, and a hell of a lot better than a lot of other websites could hope for.

[Furah]

I spent 20 minutes writing up a response to some points with absolutely no insulting due to people complaining about bigotry complaints. Waste of a good 20 minutes and several Google searches.

[Ginger_Warrior]

I'm surprised to see it locked. I expected that a few warnings might have been handed out already, so I'm even more surprised to discover it's been locked when that's not the case.

[Riku3220]

I had not posted in the thread yet bu I also agree that it shouldn't have been locked if the thread hasn't already had moderation.

[Tim]

Pm an Admin to discuss/deliberate it.

 

Apparently I get an extra $100 from gov assist for some reason this fortnight. helps too, as much as I need a new mouse and a camera, my car needs a new damn starter motor for rego in 10 days. So at the income rate I go at, It'll be 2-4 weeks before I can drive it again. Which SUCKS.

[Ginger_Warrior]

I know. In these tough times, an extra $100 support from the government to spend on a camera sucks, man. Sucks real hard.

 

Today I discovered that only 5% of young adults (below the age of 30) follow political figures and events, on a national level, closely. Only a third watched any television news at all yesterday. By contrast, 76% of them used Facebook. Newspaper readership across all age groups, let alone young adults, now sits at 29%.[1]

 

I use Facebook as much as any other young adult, I also read newspapers. I mean proper printed newspapers, with articles that someone's spent more than fifteen minutes researching, with editorials, opinion columns. Is it really any surprise that politics is being reduced to 140-character soundbites ("Yes We Can") when Facebook and Twitter are the mediums-of-choice to receive news on current affairs from?

 

How many people who placed the red equals sign as their profile picture actually understand what it means except for some vague and tenuous support of gay marriage? How many people who shared the KONY 2012 video could even point to where Uganda was on a map, much less a chronological account of how the LRA came to power in the first place? Is it any wonder that just about every discussion on YouTube degrades into a (usually factually inaccurate and hopelessly simplified) recollection of WW2 history?

[Tim]

^ I didn't word that right; I wanted to buy a new camera/mouse, but I have to spend it on more important matters like a working car to find work.

[Furah]

Wish I had an extra $100. Need the money for rego. Things I want to buy can wait.

 

I know. In these tough times, an extra $100 support from the government to spend on a camera sucks, man. Sucks real hard.

 

Today I discovered that only 5% of young adults (below the age of 30) follow political figures and events, on a national level, closely. Only a third watched any television news at all yesterday. By contrast, 76% of them used Facebook. Newspaper readership across all age groups, let alone young adults, now sits at 29%.[1]

 

I use Facebook as much as any other young adult, I also read newspapers. I mean proper printed newspapers, with articles that someone's spent more than fifteen minutes researching, with editorials, opinion columns. Is it really any surprise that politics is being reduced to 140-character soundbites ("Yes We Can") when Facebook and Twitter are the mediums-of-choice to receive news on current affairs from?

 

How many people who placed the red equals sign as their profile picture actually understand what it means except for some vague and tenuous support of gay marriage? How many people who shared the KONY 2012 video could even point to where Uganda was on a map, much less a chronological account of how the LRA came to power in the first place? Is it any wonder that just about every discussion on YouTube degrades into a (usually factually inaccurate and hopelessly simplified) recollection of WW2 history?

 

My favourite part about KONY 2012 was it was the day after the 20th of April, so everyone got high and forgot about it the next day. Not to mention the fact that he wasn't even in the country in the years leading up to it. My issue with news these days is it's too much knee-jerk reactions to barely anything, or biased opinion pieces by people who have a motive for slanting it one way. Read in the paper where a cop gave his opinion on the decimalisation of drugs, namely cannabis. All that he talked about how all it would mean is that the dealers would take up different crimes, and just kept asking hundreds of rhetorical questions basically saying this is everything I can think of that would be a bad way to distribute the substances and how the, allegedly, massive space required to manufacture it. Nobody bothered explaining to him what decriminalisation means, he never once spoke of anywhere else that did decriminalised drug use, or of anywhere that has any of these drugs legal. Instead he said that drugs are so bad that some countries (namely Singapore and Bali) often award the death penalties for traffickable quantities. Hell, several of our local papers have never written anything factual about our Carbon Emission Scheme, or the National Broadband Network. Hell, some of them can't get anything to do with wind turbines right.

[Ember]

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