Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221

[Anonymouswizard]

Well I'm now having semi regular depression bouts (one to three times a week) about my social problems and insecurities, if this continues for another couple of weeks I'm going to talk to my GP about it.

[Insane Jeenyus]

I had to shave due to the puking. It was extremely sad because as a fan of the local hockey team, Nashville Predators, I am breaking with the playoff tradition of not shaving until the team is out of the playoffs. My brother said I will because of our team losing.

I couldn't help it! beards and puke don't mix!

[Insane Jeenyus]

You could be like Steve Barkin and shave 15 times a day. I spent far too long trying to find a gif of Barkin saying that.

not a gif, but, .. .. .. ..

https://kimpossible.fandom.com/wiki/Steven_Barkin

[Comrade]

Well I'm now having semi regular depression bouts (one to three times a week) about my social problems and insecurities, if this continues for another couple of weeks I'm going to talk to my GP about it.

That's rough man. Hope you're able to shake it off without having to see your GP.

I had to shave due to the puking. It was extremely sad because as a fan of the local hockey team, Nashville Predators, I am breaking with the playoff tradition of not shaving until the team is out of the playoffs. My brother said I will because of our team losing.

I couldn't help it! beards and puke don't mix!

Beards and a lot of things don't mix. Heck, even food. I can eat with the caution and discipline of a heart surgeon in the operating room and still wind up with half of what I was eating hanging out in my beard like it pays rent.

Unfortunately I'm so used to having a beard that last time I shaved it off I felt like I looked like some kind of alien. So the beard is staying, inconvenience and all.

[Bartmanhomer]

I feel like that Youtube has gone total bonkers lately. Does anyone notice that?

[Anonymouswizard]

I feel like that Youtube has gone total bonkers lately. Does anyone notice that?

I've noticed it now heavily pushes me towards channels I've found recently. Which is kind of something it always did, but that's changed from being a couple of suggestions after every video to half the suggestions loaded when I'm on my mobile. Also a massive decrease in how much it drags up channels I've not seen in a while, which is a shame as those are the channels I'm more likely to watch more of. Like, do I really need more LGR when I watch their me videos within a day of them coming out


WRT depression: I understand that compared to a lot of people I have it good, but it's still not fun to experience, and it's even less fun to have to explain why I'm crying in the middle of a shift.

Anyway, I'm going to finally be buying a proper gamepad for my PC, if only so I can emulate the PS2 games I still have the disc for more easily (I miss Persona 4, and Jak and Daxter).

[Domino Quartz]

WRT depression: I understand that compared to a lot of people I have it good, but it's still not fun to experience, and it's even less fun to have to explain why I'm crying in the middle of a shift.

As a fellow sufferer of depression, I must say: if you have depression (in the clinical sense) and you've managed to make it this far - you are strong! Keep going! I know you can do it!! If you feel like you can't keep going, I understand that also. I've felt that myself in the past. I guess in my own case, I've managed to get some really good therapy, which cannot be overrated.

[WarKitty]

Someone has settled in:


Yes that is my bed.

[Caerulea]

Someone has settled in:

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Yes that is my bed.

Awww....
I hope he moves over when you want to sleep. (My cat doesn't).

​—Caerulea

[Rockphed]

Awww....
I hope he moves over when you want to sleep. (My cat doesn't).

​—Caerulea

You weigh between 4 and 15 times as much as your cat. How do you not just throw the monster across the room?

[Caerulea]

You weigh between 4 and 15 times as much as your cat. How do you not just throw the monster across the room?

He looks so cute. Also, when I move him over, he stretches out, walks over the bed, finds a different space on it, and then goes right back to sleep. I give up after time 2.

—Caerulea

[Tvtyrant]

You weigh between 4 and 15 times as much as your cat. How do you not just throw the monster across the room?

Cat owners tend to not like disturbing their pets in my experience. Having your cat be annoying is half the joy.

[Peelee]

Cat owners tend to not like disturbing their pets in my experience. Having your cat be annoying is half the joy.

It doesn't help that it's hard to be annoyed by a cute little fluff all that is just the best thing ever.

Every time I go to my hammock, for instance, my larger cat immediately goes to join me, and hangs out for most to all of the time I'm there. He's lately taken to jumping in the hammock with me. If he's been outside for a bit and I come out for whatever reason, little dude bolts to me, jumping fences like it's nothing. That's one loyal buddy, he can sleep wherever he's comfy far as I'm concerned.

[Caerulea]

It doesn't help that it's hard to be annoyed by a cute little fluff all that is just the best thing ever.

Maybe it is just the Toxoplasma gondii speaking, but cats are the best.

—Caerulea

[Knaight]

You weigh between 4 and 15 times as much as your cat. How do you not just throw the monster across the room?

I'm really questioning these numbers. Getting a 4 at all involves a pretty huge cat and a pretty tiny human, and if you extend that the other way (large human, tiny cat) you get a lot more than 15. Before I basically adopted the neighbors outdoor cat from them fully* I was more than 15 times its weight, and I'm not that heavy. A friend of a friend is over 2m tall and built like a football lineman, and while I don't know how big his cat is I'm willing to bet he's over 15 times as heavy.

*There's an arrangement, I'm not just stealing a cat.

[Mith]

It doesn't help that it's hard to be annoyed by a cute little fluff all that is just the best thing ever.

Every time I go to my hammock, for instance, my larger cat immediately goes to join me, and hangs out for most to all of the time I'm there. He's lately taken to jumping in the hammock with me. If he's been outside for a bit and I come out for whatever reason, little dude bolts to me, jumping fences like it's nothing. That's one loyal buddy, he can sleep wherever he's comfy far as I'm concerned.

Part of it for me is that every cat I've had enjoys your company so it doesn't hurt to give it. Especially if you are in grad studies snd don't have much time during the day to spdnd with them.

The only problem I have is that it's hard to both cuddle my cat, who wsnts to be held, and get under covers where it us warm.

[WarKitty]

I'm really questioning these numbers. Getting a 4 at all involves a pretty huge cat and a pretty tiny human, and if you extend that the other way (large human, tiny cat) you get a lot more than 15. Before I basically adopted the neighbors outdoor cat from them fully* I was more than 15 times its weight, and I'm not that heavy. A friend of a friend is over 2m tall and built like a football lineman, and while I don't know how big his cat is I'm willing to bet he's over 15 times as heavy.

*There's an arrangement, I'm not just stealing a cat.

I'm probably about 15 times the weight of my cat. She's an average sized cat, but I'm definitely a very tiny human catperson.

[Qwertystop]

You weigh between 4 and 15 times as much as your cat. How do you not just throw the monster across the room?

Cats have a lot more pointy bits than people.

[halfeye]

I'm really questioning these numbers. Getting a 4 at all involves a pretty huge cat and a pretty tiny human, and if you extend that the other way (large human, tiny cat) you get a lot more than 15.

I was born in the same year as my parent's first cat. By the age of four I was trying to pick him up, and being rebuked for it. I think four is probably a two year old child and a two year old cat, which is a young adult, that's not far out, depending on the size of the cat. Fifteen is probably low.

[Peelee]

I'm really questioning these numbers. Getting a 4 at all involves a pretty huge cat and a pretty tiny human

Hey, I have both of those! I think the tiny human has finally outweighed the huge cat.

[Anonymouswizard]

Why don't people realise that desert spoons are a thing? Why do they think the thing you ready your Spotted Richard with is a tablespoon? That's the thing used to serve from dishes!

Context: my work accidentally ordered the wrong spoons. At least the soup spoons could be used to eat.

[Bartmanhomer]

I've noticed it now heavily pushes me towards channels I've found recently. Which is kind of something it always did, but that's changed from being a couple of suggestions after every video to half the suggestions loaded when I'm on my mobile. Also a massive decrease in how much it drags up channels I've not seen in a while, which is a shame as those are the channels I'm more likely to watch more of. Like, do I really need more LGR when I watch their me videos within a day of them coming out


WRT depression: I understand that compared to a lot of people I have it good, but it's still not fun to experience, and it's even less fun to have to explain why I'm crying in the middle of a shift.

Anyway, I'm going to finally be buying a proper gamepad for my PC, if only so I can emulate the PS2 games I still have the disc for more easily (I miss Persona 4, and Jak and Daxter).

Also not to mention the Youtube drama.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

Yes that is my bed.

Correction: that was your bed.

Grey Wolf

[Knaight]

I was born in the same year as my parent's first cat. By the age of four I was trying to pick him up, and being rebuked for it. I think four is probably a two year old child and a two year old cat, which is a young adult, that's not far out, depending on the size of the cat. Fifteen is probably low.

I figure a really big cat can hit 20 pounds, and 80 pounds is within a normal if small adult human range. I didn't actually specify adult though, so that's on me. Double checking verified that 20 pound figure, but also indicated that a small adult cat could easily be 9 pounds, which would make a 150 pound person comfortably over 15 times the weight of a cat. Lots of people are over 150 pounds.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

Double checking verified that 20 pound figure

My first cat (actually, my SO's cat when I met them) was 25 pounds. I've met people who couldn't donate blood because they weighted less than 100 pounds.

Grey Wolf

[Peelee]

I figure a really big cat can hit 20 pounds,

Nah, that's just a normal big cat. My little dude is around 22lbs with very little fat, and isn't as big as full-blooded Norwegian Forest or Maine *****.

[Mith]

Nah, that's just a normal big cat. My little dude is around 22lbs with very little fat, and isn't as big as full-blooded Norwegian Forest or Maine *****.

While know that one should adopt cats that don't have a home, I'll be honest I really want a Norwegian Forest Cat. It's the closest I'll get to a pet lynx.

[MoonCat]

I happen to have an atypically precise number for my cat's weight because she was at the vet's two months ago-- she was 5.38 pounds.

She was born only two years after me, and had recently been losing weight, so the two of us really ran the whole gamut of fluctuating size differences together. There could definitely have been some points in the past two decades when she was 1/5th my weight instead of 1/25th.


ION: I'm surprised not to have seen anything about Notre Dame on the forum, Random Banter or otherwise. Have I just missed it?

[DataNinja]

And I will, also nearly four months ahead of time, say that judging by all the prior times that has been referenced in RB, combined with the general reactions to non-sequiturs, that it will likely get no response.

[Peelee]

While know that one should adopt cats that don't have a home, I'll be honest I really want a Norwegian Forest Cat.

I feel the exact same way on both counts, I feel ya.