FdL's Fuzzbox-Fueled Random Banter #88

[phoenixineohp]

You're hooked on the white stuff too?

[FdL]

Man, I need an excuse to go back to my dentist...

[Logic]

You're hooked on the white stuff too?

Why? Do you got some white? Does your momma have some white? Think she'll notice if its gone for a few days? What quality you got?

[phoenixineohp]

Fructose, Sucrose, Glucose, I gots it all man. I can hook you up with some if you know what I mean. Maybe you are the right type, one of those crazy freaks... then I've even got some good Lactose for ya. But stay away from that Maltose man... that stuff will mess you up good.

[FoE]

"In America, first you get the sugar. Then you get the power. Then you get the women."
-Homer Simpson

[Skippy]

Fructose, Sucrose, Glucose, I gots it all man. I can hook you up with some if you know what I mean. Maybe you are the right type, one of those crazy freaks... then I've even got some good Lactose for ya. But stay away from that Maltose man... that stuff will mess you up good.

Man, I'm trying to stop it... I don't want to get stuck like last time...

[Rykaj]

Try using some sorbitol next time. The laxative effects should make you think twice about touching the white stuff again

[Serpentine]

I generally think astronomy is kinda overrated. But then again that aurora borealis looks terrific. Never seen one. Damn southern hemisphere!

We do have the aurora australis... I saw the edge of it once. Damn creepy. Like half the sky was bleeding, and/or aliens were landing over the hill.

My current all-time winner for rotten opening hours is the Migrationsverket (Swedish immigration services) office I had to deal with--open for two hours daily.

There's an op-shop here that's open for a couple of hours on Fridays... but I guess that is a charity run by old ladies.

[phoenixineohp]

Random: If looking for a clear, water proof bandaid, go for the 3M company. Those are quite nice. The Bandaid brand is clear, thick plastic that sucks and hardly moves.

Related: Guess what got Pxp at work this week. Or we can play the related game of "identify the puncture wounds".

[Eldpollard]

Puncture wounds? Do tell us, this sounds intriguing.

[FdL]

We do have the aurora australis... I saw the edge of it once. Damn creepy. Like half the sky was bleeding, and/or aliens were landing over the hill.

Neat! But I think we don't get to see it from Argentina. I don't know what factors it's related to. Maybe more to the south we can see it, like from Patagonia or something.

[phoenixineohp]

Puncture wounds? Do tell us, this sounds intriguing.

This is a spectacled caimen. I had a little fight with one at work.

Then, the next day, something in retail was mislabeled and didn't have a warning on it. So when I stepped in to help out, I know that anything 'can' bite me. But that's different from 'as soon as I open the cage and reach for the water bowl, it's going to nail me'.

This is what we consider a bad day at work. I haven't been bitten by anything for 3 years, and in 24 hours 2 things get me. So I've volunteered to tame down some of the baby retics, something that will end up with lots of teethy kisses. But it's necessary to do, the keepers don't have the time, and I am well supplied with bandaids by this point in time. Might as well when I still have expose skin.

[Eldpollard]

Wow, the most I get at work is a papercut or a spider lodged in an Agatha Christie book... alive.
Where do you work?

[phoenixineohp]

I've said elsewhere, but right now I don't want to draw the parallel between my work place hazards and where I work. It's like if someone gets bitten at an SPCA, and then people just think, 'yeah, all the dogs there are insane. I'm never getting one from them.' When really, it's just a accident that can happen and doesn't mean anything to the public. Though I may have a stern talking to with retail... and the caimen.

[Logic]

Ok, Minor rant, but why on earth do my bosses think the old way is better?

Their method is check out the tools you will need for the entire shift, and don't turn the tools in until the end of shift. The method I have always used, and still stand by today, is that you check out the tools as you need them, for 2 reasons. One, positive tool control, and 2, there are not enough tools to go around if everyone checks out what is needed at the beginning of shift, and keeps them until the end!

Ok, I think I got it out of my system.

[ZombieRockStar]

Just because. Sometimes it's too much effort for people to change their ways of doing minor, unimportant things like that.

Ouch...I mean, cute little crocs but I wouldn't want to be bitten by one.

Related: I'm getting a new kitty on Sunday when I move back into Toronto. Going down to the Humane Society to have a look (though I've already browsed their website).

[phoenixineohp]

It is nothing compared to what they can do. Which makes me happy and lucky.

Awwww. You must load pictures when you get it!

[ZombieRockStar]

I would if I had my own digital camera. I might get pictures of it anyway if I can steal one of my family's cameras for a week.

[Ashtar]

Well if it's totally random banter, I can share this which popped up while I was copying files this morning.


btw: "Restdauer" = "Time remaining"
I asked the boss if I could take a break while the copy was ongoing... so 2309097 minutes means 4.4 years of breaktime, yeah!

[Ceska]

I asked the boss if I could take a break while the copy was ongoing... so 2309097 minutes means 4.4 years of breaktime, yeah!

As in paid breaktime? Would be nice.

Speaking of kitties, I had one sitting on my lap for some hours, right now they're playing again.

[Bitzeralisis]

Heh heh, 4.4 years of breaktime.

I'm allergic to cats.

[Skippy]

That's not cool. A friend of mine stopped visiting me once, because the furniture in my house had car fur all over. The furniture was my aunt's, and she had a cat, so when she gave them to me, my friend got bad reactions, and then stopped coming.

[Lucky]

That's not cool. A friend of mine stopped visiting me once, because the furniture in my house had car fur all over. The furniture was my aunt's, and she had a cat, so when she gave them to me, my friend got bad reactions, and then stopped coming.

I had to pull that on a friend of mine too. He has three cats at his house, and I am quite allergic to cats, so I don't go to his house anymore.

[Lord Herman]

I was just playing a computer RPG (Titan Quest), and I noticed that in many such games, when a chest is opened, the items inside literally fly out, and scatter all over the place. That got me wondering: why the heck do they go through all the trouble of installing a spring-loaded launch mechanism in each and every one of those chests?

On a similar vein, in many CRPGs, there are these sarcophagi and tombs that can be looted. Sometimes, these things are trapped, and explode when opened. What kind of maniac fills the tombs of their loved ones with explosives?

[Ink]

But in the first place, why are there conveniently located chests all around the place filled with loot that would enable the adventurer to defeat the evil boss whose place it is?

By the way, I liked your latest writing on the Team RAF, Herman. Although I understood not one reference in it.

[North]

I wish I had a kitty. Damn apartment rules.

*shakes fist*

[Trog]

W00T! I got my new laptop today! GLEE!!!!

[Logic]

I wish I had a dog. Damn apartment rules!

*Shakes fist*

And Trog, unless you got your computer for graphic design and somesuch, there is nothing to be excited about. It is still a MAC.

[ZombieRockStar]

Wrong. new laptop always = yay, no matter what kind it is. It's new and...shiny! And people say I'm easily amused...

Well, actually, they don't. But if they did say things about me, they'd say i'm easily amused.


I'm supposed to be packing for my move tomorrow, yet have little done. I've done the clothes, but there's still the matter of all the books and stuff. Hmm...instead I'm posting here.

Don't blame me! I'm just getting back into that procrastinating groove that'll be so useful once term paper season hits in November.

[Trog]

And Trog, unless you got your computer for graphic design and somesuch, there is nothing to be excited about. It is still a MAC.

Naturally. Graphic design is what I do. And macs rock.