Coid's Crowing Conundrum of a Canticle of Crookedly Random Banter #185

[Coidzor]

So here we are. The Princes of the Banterverse.

I figure, why not do it just after my birthday finally ended?

Well, hop to it, my good Randomite Banterites.

If you're good I might not even subject you to the horrors of my croonering.

Again.

The Previous Random Banter can be found here:
Kneenibble's Knack for Knightly Knickers: a Knell for Random Banter #184



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A hot temper leaps over a cold decree

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[Mynxae]

Ahh, new thread smell. *teases Rawhide and awaits divine wrath*

Off to my bf's grandparents place, should be fun. Hopefully..

[Coidzor]

Originally Posted by Mynxae

Ahh, new thread smell. *teases Rawhide and awaits divine wrath*

Off to my bf's grandparents place, should be fun. Hopefully..

Well, worst scenario is you get racist grandparents. Best scenario is you get super grandma apple pie and candy.

Probable scenario is somewhere between those two.

Good luck.

[Elemental]

Excellent work Mr. Coidzor. Let us party until the Sun shines no more.
Which, if I remember correctly, will be untold billions of years after it becomes a white dwarf. Ten to the power fifteen if I recall correctly. To the power twenty-five depending on theoretical physics.
And eventually it will be torn apart by the Universe's expansion or slowly destroyed by proton decay, if protons actually decay.

Originally Posted by TheCountAlucard

Comic books.

You know... I have never been to a convention of any kind...
That either makes me feel old, young or boring...

Originally Posted by Asta Kask

Well, you could show us a photo.

Anyway, I'll stay away. I don't date people who can kill me with ease. I can be pretty aggravating at times.

Over my dead body. Which it will be if I post pictures of her without her permission.
Anyway she's not violent... She wouldn't kill you or anything serious like that.

Originally Posted by Kneenibble

Okay. Well if the whole affair goes belly-up, you let me know. I will send along some garnets and a few fancy sapphires in a pouch of hunter green velvet tied with an ivory ribbon. Even your opal-mongers will admit their value.

Is paracetamol a fun drug? At least manage your pain in as fun a way as possible. Now could be your chance to develop an aristocratic laudanum habit!

No. It is not a fun drug. It has no effects other than to dull pain for a few hours. It has no other properties than to be damaging to one's liver if one takes more than eight standard tablets spread out over a twenty-four hour period, a process heightened by long term alcohol abuse.
And no, I will not be developing an aristocratic Laudanum habit. Mainly because Laudanum is dangerous. Besides, there are other ways to appear aristocratic that are cheaper.

Paracetamol is also known as Acetaminophen, in case that name is more relevant to you.

Originally Posted by Mercenary Pen

Time to start asking the question of who wants the next thread, considering we're already on page 50 and all that jazz...

Also, for the sake of Elemental, Major Amery Howland, staff logistics officer is in action, and he has already developed into a speaking role.

@ Teddy and LaLa- your characters will see action soon enough, but if I put them into the story before now it would have seemed forced- be patient guys.

IRN: Why is procrastination so easy this year?

Awesome. A speaking role.

Hmm... Procrastination... Perhaps it is the overwhelming feeling of dread that this year has provoked? A general idea that if the world is set to end that nothing need be accomplished?
While most of us are unlikely to believe that the end is nigh, the general emotion extends from those few who do to the rest of us. After all, we are social creatures and are often subconsciously aware of subtle hints from others of our kind.


And now I have writing to do. And art. And I've roped myself into drawing star charts and assigning constellations, fortunately I can make other people help me with that.
And the colours! They inspire me...

[Coidzor]

Originally Posted by Elemental

You know... I have never been to a convention of any kind...
That either makes me feel old, young or boring...

Young. It's the only reason I haven't given up on life as being too old for any of its pleasures, haha. Though I have been meaning to rectify this lack of conventional appearances...

Also, Mr. Coidzor is my fictionalized persona's quasi-father.

Originally Posted by Elemental

My sister is twenty-one years of age and a security guard.
Also... Stay away from my sister. Normally I'd defend her myself, but she can look after herself.
And it is not my place to comment on her level of attractiveness.

I'm not so sure of that. I do believe you're allowed to do so once the female sibling is no longer a minor if I recall my sibling etiquette correctly.

More to the point though, is she single and possessed of interests that could be construed as geeky?

Originally Posted by Elemental

Paracetamol is also known as Acetaminophen, in case that name is more relevant to you.

Ahh, generic tylenol, eh? Never had that stuff work for me that I could tell, I must admit. Never wanted to take too much what with liking my liver and wanting to preserve it so that I could use it as an alcohol filtration system as was my heritage and birthright though, I must admit.

Originally Posted by Elemental

And now I have writing to do. And art. And I've roped myself into drawing star charts and assigning constellations, fortunately I can make other people help me with that.
And the colours! They inspire me...

Good luck!

[Lord Raziere]

oy….I started one right around the same time as Coid. darn it, I was hoping to hijack it like a cowboy….

[LaZodiac]

Hey new thread! Sorry about almost missing you, but currently fixing a virus that infected my computer. Still am in the process of doing so, actually.

[AllIHaveIsCrunk]

There's another thread, you guys.

So... Uh... What are you guys on about in here, then?

[Elemental]

Originally Posted by Coidzor

Young. It's the only reason I haven't given up on life as being too old for any of its pleasures, haha. Though I have been meaning to rectify this lack of conventional appearances...

Also, Mr. Coidzor is my fictionalized persona's quasi-father.

Oh. Then you must be Sir Coidzor. My mistake.

Originally Posted by Coidzor

I'm not so sure of that. I do believe you're allowed to do so once the female sibling is no longer a minor if I recall my sibling etiquette correctly.

More to the point though, is she single and possessed of interests that could be construed as geeky?

It's still not my place to do so. After all, she would consider it very rude.

I apologise, but I am not in the business of setting my sister up with people on the Internet. Even if those people happen to be very stylish.

Originally Posted by Coidzor

Ahh, generic tylenol, eh? Never had that stuff work for me that I could tell, I must admit. Never wanted to take too much what with liking my liver and wanting to preserve it so that I could use it as an alcohol filtration system as was my heritage and birthright though, I must admit.

It takes a bit to kick in. But otherwise, it works fine for me.

Originally Posted by Coidzor

Good luck!

Indeed. And the projects just continue adding up.
Why is the world so inspiring?!? Why?!?!
More important point... I procrastinate too much.

Originally Posted by AllIHaveIsCrunk

There's another thread, you guys.

So... Uh... What are you guys on about in here, then?

Welcome newcomer to our glorious Forum. As you can now doubt tell, this is a thread for the discussion of generally random topics.
As for the other threads... We start a new one every fifty pages for reasons of server stability. Rawhide could explain in further detail.

[AllIHaveIsCrunk]

Originally Posted by Elemental

As for the other threads... We start a new one every fifty pages for reasons of server stability. Rawhide could explain in further detail.

Yeah but there's another #185. That's what I was referring to. I would have assumed naming them all #185 was an inside joke but there's no replies in the other one so I just figured it was a duplicate.

Random topics, eh? When do you have to change toothbrush? The one I have now is looking sort of gnarly.

[Mutant Sheep]

Originally Posted by AllIHaveIsCrunk

Yeah but there's another #185. That's what I was referring to. I would have assumed naming them all #185 was an inside joke but there's no replies in the other one so I just figured it was a duplicate.

Random topics, eh? When do you have to change toothbrush? The one I have now is looking sort of gnarly.

Yeah, but you can't just come in and make thread. There are RULES, you know. (You COULD come in and make a thread, actually. But RB's have these ROOLS and you can only be the grande host of one every 50 threads, Pokefreak had one... like, eleven threads ago.)

OH MY DEAR SWEET CANDY. SOMEONE SAID GNARLY SERIOUSLY.

In a more serious tone(I don't do this often, take notes ) Hi hello welcome to the show. Take a seat, the regulars will be here to talk about their daily lives shortly. And then we kind of let Knee and Teddy (those two silly fluffy beasts) carry on the longest and most complicated worddsmithery ever only ever rivaled by Curly. YOU KNOW NONE OF THESE NAMES BWHAHAHA!

[Elemental]

Originally Posted by AllIHaveIsCrunk

Yeah but there's another #185. That's what I was referring to. I would have assumed naming them all #185 was an inside joke but there's no replies in the other one so I just figured it was a duplicate.

That was started by Lord Raziere in order to replace the old thread, but he was unaware that there was already a new thread.

Originally Posted by AllIHaveIsCrunk

Random topics, eh? When do you have to change toothbrush? The one I have now is looking sort of gnarly.

That's the spirit!
Hmm... Changing toothbrushes... Whenever I feel like it. Mine usually serve me a really long time such that my Mum has bought new ones long before I need a new one.

But really, you should probably look into getting a new one.

[AllIHaveIsCrunk]

Originally Posted by Mutant Sheep

Yeah, but you can't just come in and make thread. There are RULES, you know. (You COULD come in and make a thread, actually. But RB's have these ROOLS and you can only be the grande host of one every 50 threads, Pokefreak had one... like, eleven threads ago.)

I don't understand what you just said and I won't respond to it.

Originally Posted by Mutant Sheep

OH MY DEAR SWEET CANDY. SOMEONE SAID GNARLY SERIOUSLY.

Gnarly. Tubular. Radical. Bodacious. Broheim.

Originally Posted by Elemental

But really, you should probably look into getting a new one.

The problem is this one has the Superman theme and I don't know where else I can get that. Whatever happened to plain colors in toothbrushes, anyway? They're always clear with rubber highlights these days. What happened in the 90s that made all the oral hygiene companies turn on flat colors?

[LaZodiac]

And fixed! Sweetness~

[Socratov]

Originally Posted by AllIHaveIsCrunk

I don't understand what you just said and I won't respond to it.



Gnarly. Tubular. Radical. Bodacious. Broheim.

that's just pushing it

The problem is this one has the Superman theme and I don't know where else I can get that. Whatever happened to plain colors in toothbrushes, anyway? They're always clear with rubber highlights these days. What happened in the 90s that made all the oral hygiene companies turn on flat colors?

design schools happened. the rubber is for the grip and the clear and fancy sparkling colors is becuase it would indicate more freshness or cleanliness...

[factotum]

Originally Posted by Coidzor

Never wanted to take too much what with liking my liver and wanting to preserve it so that I could use it as an alcohol filtration system as was my heritage and birthright though, I must admit.

Taken in the correct dosage Paracetamol causes no liver damage whatsoever--it's only when you take so much that you overwhelm the liver's natural pathways for metabolising the stuff that you have problems.

[Feytalist]

So many new threads. Someone was over-zealous.

Need coffee.

Several-hours-later edit: Just read an article about engineered foods (lab-grown meat and stuff) and it suddenly hit me: we're going two totally different directions in food production. On one hand, some farms are going organic: no pesticides, free-range animals, all-natural everything. On the other hand, science is doing some seriously weird things to food in labs; tweaking corn DNA, genetic-manipulated fish, Frankenstein food (heehee) and stuff. It's actually kind of cool if you think about it.

[Teddy]

Originally Posted by LaZodiac

And fixed! Sweetness~

Nice! Although I wonder, how do you manage to get so many (2?) viruses? I haven't been infected a single time (that's detectable to an up-to-date virus scanner) in one and a half years, and it's not like I've been overly careful in my web browsing...

[The Succubus]

Originally Posted by Feytalist

So many new threads. Someone was over-zealous.

Need coffee.

She's over in Arts and Crafts working on her webcomic.

[Devmaar]

Originally Posted by AllIHaveIsCrunk

I don't understand what you just said and I won't respond to it.

I see you've met the sheep. You get used to him theoretically at least

Originally Posted by Feytalist

Just read an article about engineered foods (lab-grown meat and stuff) and it suddenly hit me: we're going two totally different directions in food production. On one hand, some farms are going organic: no pesticides, free-range animals, all-natural everything. On the other hand, science is doing some seriously weird things to food in labs; tweaking corn DNA, genetic-manipulated fish, Frankenstein food (heehee) and stuff. It's actually kind of cool if you think about it.

Organic isn't really a direction, we've gone about as far as possible already, now it's just a set of aims and ideals (ones which are better achieved by all the sciency stuff)

[LaZodiac]

Originally Posted by Teddy

Nice! Although I wonder, how do you manage to get so many (2?) viruses? I haven't been infected a single time (that's detectable to an up-to-date virus scanner) in one and a half years, and it's not like I've been overly careful in my web browsing...

I'm usually quite safe and clean, I just got suddenly attacked today. Well, yesterday (blame Assassin's Creed 3 for keeping me up this late!)

[Elemental]

Originally Posted by Devmaar

I see you've met the sheep. You get used to him theoretically at least

I just tune out most of the gibberish. It's much easier than trying to understand it.
Unfortunately, much of the important parts are lost as well...


In other news: Dark Blue and red do not go together!!!
*sobs uncontrollably*
Why do people insist on this combination of colours?

Also, this song is creepy in an interesting way with a non-creepy façade...

[Heliomance]

Blarg. I'm bad at Fridays.

[Feytalist]

Originally Posted by The Succubus

She's over in Arts and Crafts working on her webcomic.

I was going to say something about needing it for drinking, but then I realised it could be taken the wrong way.

But then just about anything could be taken the wrong way. Including that previous sentence.

Originally Posted by Devmaar

Organic isn't really a direction, we've gone about as far as possible already, now it's just a set of aims and ideals (ones which are better achieved by all the sciency stuff)

Staying there, then. Also I know some microfarmers who would never allow genetically engineered produce on their farms.

Not that microfarmers really matter in the big scheme of things.

[KuReshtin]

Aaargh.. ALL the new random banter threads.. Getting flashbacks to the RB 151 wars.

I'm bored.

Long rant about unemployment and stuff spoilered:

Spoiler

I've got two weeks left at work after having been made redundant, and it seems I'm just sitting off my notice period without getting anything to do.
The work is assigned throughout the team by a weekly admin, and for the past two weeks, even if the team has had a whole bunch to do, I've only got a handful of emails assigned out of the hundreds that have come in. It's not even been one a day, so I find myself with a lot of dead time when I don't have anything to do.

Wednesday 21st will be the end of my current employment, at a company where I've been employed for the past 13½ years, which is more than a third of my life. I have no idea what to do after I leave, cause all the jobs i've applied for so far has either come back, telling me that the position is no longer available, not come back to me at all, or told me that the position was offered to someone else.

Facing unemployment for only the second time in my life, I can't deny that I'm a bit anxious about what's in store, but at the same time, I'm kind of glad to be out of this place, because the work conditions and how people are treated by the company is just so poor it's unbelievable.

I'e even started toying with the idea of maybe going to school for a bit to pick up some qualifications, but it's a bit daunting as well, because I'm a terrible student.

We'll see what happens, I guess.

For those who didn't read the spoilered text:

TL/DR -
Made redundant. Bored at work. Unsure of future plans. Life isn't great right now.

[Dimonite]

Originally Posted by Devmaar

I see you've met the sheep. You get used to him theoretically at least

Originally Posted by Elemental

I just tune out most of the gibberish. It's much easier than trying to understand it.
Unfortunately, much of the important parts are lost as well...

Is it weird that I pretty much understand everything freak-fleece says? Yeah, that's weird, isn't it...

[Feytalist]

Originally Posted by KuReshtin

TL/DR -
Made redundant. Bored at work. Unsure of future plans. Life isn't great right now.

Represent, m'man. I've also got two weeks left on my contract and also no idea what to do with myself afterwards. Feels sucky, man.

I swear I'm considering becoming a professional vagrant.

[KuReshtin]

Originally Posted by Feytalist

Represent, m'man. I've also got two weeks left on my contract and also no idea what to do with myself afterwards. Feels sucky, man.

I swear I'm considering becoming a professional vagrant.

If only I could afford to become a vagrant..

There's another job that I'm going to apply for, but I start to lose my will to live just by filling out the application.
They've stated that they won't accept any CVs, and you have to fill out this application form that they provide, which is an 11-page form with all sorts of stuff, and I just can't seem to get through it.
Luckily, I can save the progress that I've made and come back to it when my sanity sort of returns.

[factotum]

Originally Posted by KuReshtin

Made redundant. Bored at work. Unsure of future plans. Life isn't great right now.

Bummer, man. I feel for ya--was there myself back in 2007. Hope you find something good soon.

[Asta Kask]

Originally Posted by Elemental

Over my dead body. Which it will be if I post pictures of her without her permission.
Anyway she's not violent... She wouldn't kill you or anything serious like that.

Elemental, read those two lines again and see if you can catch the contradiction. Also, 21 is too young for me. Break it to her gently.