Oh...Originally Posted by Animeniax
That's not a physical attribute, though. I'd say it's more similar to seeing a short Asian or a Jew with a big nose.It's like when you see a bunch of black men playing basketball, i can't help but chuckle a bit
Oh...
That's not a physical attribute, though. I'd say it's more similar to seeing a short Asian or a Jew with a big nose.It's like when you see a bunch of black men playing basketball, i can't help but chuckle a bit
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
ROFL
But that's not stereotypical...
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
I'm not dissing you or anything, i'm just saying it's funny for a geek such as yourself ( or me, 95% of this forum is comprised of geeks ) to have those kinds of allergies
It's like when you see a bunch of black men playing basketball, i can't help but chuckle a bit
It actually is, relatively speaking.But that's not stereotypical...
I see. Misread it as a short Asian .... with a big nose.
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Had to limp my car to the repair garage when I was going to take it in for routine oil change.
Mice had got into it again, this time they chewed through the spark plug wires.
Now my car is stuffed with dryer sheets in every spot I can easily get to and know there is no risk of fire (sadly not that many with my tiny engine compartment). With any luck it'll keep the bastards out. Otherwise I'm going to have to find someone with a good jack so I can get at a few more spots.
Few things stress me out more than problems with my car.
I've never seen a single mouse in Australia that wasn't in a zoo or some sort of captive environment. Like Kraco said, increase your traps? Perhaps add a predator or two?
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You all have mice in the zoo?
You should try to reduce the mouse population. The next time you level up, assign some points to the trap making.
This is a fucking test.
I take it that these weren't registered and simply delivered to anyone who was at the "address"?
I've been getting wrist pains lately. At first I thought it might have been the new keyboard, and it probably was.
(The story to that was that I bought a new keyboard but thought it was "too low" with the legs extended, so attached custom bits to make it tilt higher. Having overcompensated it tilted my wrists too far, and since putting the keyboard back to default my wrist pain has improved. The default tilt with legs actually feels right now.)
But now it's mostly my right wrist that's hurting, and it seems to have been relieved by giving it some support when I'm using my mouse. The current implementation is to put a soft spectacle case underneath. Strange that it's only happened in the last week or so, and that I haven't experienced anything like it for the last 3 or 4 years that I've had my mouse in the same position.
Does anyone use mousepads these days? Flat, or wrist support ones? Any experience with wrist pain or Oppai mousepads? :P
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First thing i did was called Amazon. The only thing i got from them was "we're contacting Fedex and they're investigating to see what happened". They did promised to refund or send me new copies if these were lost.
Fedex contacted me a few hours after that and gave the me the address and promised that they'll send someone else out tormorrow. I didn't feel like waiting for them so i went to the address myself hoping i can get my stuff since i needed them soon.
You have to talk like a man when dealing with these companies, and they'll do what you need. If order tracking shows "delivered" but the item is not on your doorstep, then Amazon will immediately reship your order while they track down the previous shipment, that's not your concern anymore. But you have to make them believe that is the only option you're willing to accept.
What will Fedex accomplish by sending someone else out tomorrow? He'll do the same thing you did and not locate the package. They were just dicking around with you, probably because you let them. Don't let them do that.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I was playing a fun hypothetical questions game with a (very Catholic) friend of mine that unfortunately wound up leading to a heated discussion about religion. Really it was about Skepticism and the scientific method, but I don't think she quite grasped what I was trying to explain to her, and instead took everything as a personal slight against her beliefs.
It was frustrating because she kept falling back on the Bill O'Reilly argument "God exists because I don't know how things work."
"It's like love," she says, "You can't test love. You just know it."
"Of course you test it," I told her, "Every time you evaluate your relationship with a person and question the reasoning behind your attraction to them you are performing an informal test."
So I give her a Wikipedia link to "Emotions": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotions
Of course she refused to read it. "I don't believe what it says. Not everything can be tested."
I told her she was being a stereotype and tried to explain to her that not knowing the processes behind phenomena in life was not the same as proof of God. I tried to explain to her how the scientific method worked, what it meant to be skeptical, and what it meant to prove something empirically.
"Who says these people are right? They are just afraid of opening themselves to God."
My head hurts.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
A woman making no logical sense and letting her emotions cloud her judgment? Now THAT i can't believe.
Was it worth it to test your friendship with her by questioning her beliefs and trying to undo a lifetime of indoctrination by her parents, friends, and community? I've found it's usually not; you won't change their minds, you'll stop talking, and you end up getting no where.
Now if she's not hot, then by all means continue.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
You assume I pressed the issue. It came up through the course of our conversation, and the more and more ridiculous shit she said, the more I couldn't sit back and let her say incorrect things. I didn't even challenge her belief in God. She became upset when I started talking about things being provable and unprovable.
She was almost literally asking me "Why should I trust facts? I know God exists."
No.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
Actually regardless if you pressed it or not, do you think she'll be calling you for coffee and scones any time soon?
They say some things should not be discussed among friends. Between me and some of my buddies, those things include body weight, how much you make, and any mistakes they might have made recently. Wonderful friendships I've managed to make.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
What about my posting gives off the impression that I'm desperate for female attention?Why do you think that I would even be remotely interested in a person like this?
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic. Maybe amongst casual friends this might be the norm. How many close relationships do you have in which you do this?
That was what upset me the most. She was being just the worst kind of Christian stereotype.Xan - don't bother discussing about such topics with fanatics - they'll just shut they eyes and ears and mutter something similar to 'It was done by God/Allah/insert any other deity here' - even if you don't discuss something related closely to their beliefs.
<@Terra> he told me this, "man actually meeting terra is so fucking big", and he started crying. Then he bought me hot dogs
Shouldn't be discussed? Real friends should be able to say anything to eachother imo.
“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”
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