Dark Shadow's Surprisingly Well-Lit Random Banter #217

[2D8HP]

Nah, I just decided that this and all future birthdays will be my 21st birthdays.

I feel like it accurately reflects how much I feel like I know what I'm doing in life anyway.

I presume after enough alcohol they can.

Except for liver damage, treating every single day as your 21st birthday sounds like a good plan to me!
(Full disclosure, I think I consumed more alcohol in the five years before I turned 21 than in the 25 years after).

Are you doing okay, Enderlord? That post, and your response to 2d8hp come across as kind of antagonistic.

I think I'm fine.They weren't meant to; sorry if they seemed that way.

For what it's worth, I noticed no antagonism, now if he instead defended Luke Skywalker's actions in Return of the Jedi on the other hand....

[Peelee]

That's not how numbers work.

Sure it is. It's not how addition works, but if she makes her age a peicewise function like

f(x) = {x+1, 0<x<21
f(x) = {21, x>21
f(x) = {0, x=0
then there's no problem. Of course, it won't stop time or biology, but the math will be sound.

[Algeh]

I presume after enough alcohol they can.

Speaking from experience, getting too drunk for numbers is not as good of an idea as it seems at the time. (I was...not happy with the election results related to a specific ballot measure in my state at some point in the past, and decided that an immediately appropriate intervention was to attempt to get too drunk to count high enough to tell the (numbered) ballot measures apart anymore. I ended up spending the rest of that party alternately throwing up and yelling about changes in the Star Wars Special Editions, from my limited recollection of things.)

[WarKitty]

Speaking from experience, getting too drunk for numbers is not as good of an idea as it seems at the time. (I was...not happy with the election results related to a specific ballot measure in my state at some point in the past, and decided that an immediately appropriate intervention was to attempt to get too drunk to count high enough to tell the (numbered) ballot measures apart anymore. I ended up spending the rest of that party alternately throwing up and yelling about changes in the Star Wars Special Editions, from my limited recollection of things.)

I'm kidding, I promise. I'm not much of a drinker, really.

Just feeling kind of blah about the whole turning 30 thing. I feel like I'm looking back at my life and thinking "what went wrong and how do I start over," except I also feel like I'm supposed to be getting myself established and moving ahead in my career (hah!) and all that. I don't want to start over, but I also know I'm not on a particularly productive path.

[2D8HP]

....Just feeling kind of blah about the whole turning 30 thing....

.....I'm not on a particularly productive path.

There's still time.

At 30 I hadn't even started as an apprentice plumber and I was still earning not much more than minimum wage at the motorcycle shop.

[Peelee]

Just feeling kind of blah about the whole turning 30 thing.... I don't want to start over, but I also know I'm not on a particularly productive path.

I know exactly how you mean. A few years have passed, still feel that way, but I'm making progress.

[Florian]

Nah, I just decided that this and all future birthdays will be my 21st birthdays.

I feel like it accurately reflects how much I feel like I know what I'm doing in life anyway.

*Shrugs*

You know, this lunch break, I headed over to the public transit station that has rather good bistro. Met up with some folks doing facility service, an investment banker, chemical scientist, two bureaucrats and a homeless person, practically had the same lunch (with bread or french fries) and a beer. We shared some laughs, had a good talk, shared some real experience and it didn't matter on which side of the economical or political fronts you were on.

"Just" being a human amongst humans can be a very comforting thing.

[WarKitty]

There's still time.

At 30 I hadn't even started as an apprentice plumber and I was still earning not much more than minimum wage at the motorcycle shop.

That's actually making me feel a lot better.

[2D8HP]

That's actually making me feel a lot better.

Glad to learn that!



So I think that this is my 7,000th post!

It's been a privilege to banter with you all, and I'm deeply grateful.

They're way too many who's kindness and wit have impressed me to appropriately thank you all, but I'll cite a few:

Judging by the only other Forum that I've posted much in the Mods deserve a lot of credit for the relative civility of the Playground they get a shout-out.

also the first ten people who posted in a thread of mine:

John Longarrow

johnbragg

LnGrrrR

nedz

Tanarii

Knaight

GnomishPride

Douche

goto124

,
and

Rusvul

have my thanks, as does

Ninja_Prawn

who created a part of what's now my extended "Sig", speaking of which, thanks to:

FinnLassie

KorvinStarmast

kyoryu

Peelee

S@tanicoaldo

Tvtyrant

and

Velaryon

for "siging" some of my silliness.

Anonymouswizard

Arbane

Dizlag

BayardSPSR

Knaight

nrg89

Thrudd

Mark Hall

TroubleBrewing

Mutazoia

Waddacku

Psikerlord

Jay R

and

Yora

for suggesting some games to me,

Gluteus_Maximus

mgshamster

Sicarius Victis

and

Zergrinch

for playing a long PbP game with me and wow they're just so many more I'm grateful to, for media and game play suggestions, thank you all.

[Sermil]

Protip of the day: Never let Alexander the Great help you untie your shoelaces.

(Totally stolen from a Strong Female Protagonist comment thread -- but I thought it was funny.)

[Spanish_Paladin]

Protip of the day: Never let Alexander the Great help you untie your shoelaces.

(Totally stolen from a Strong Female Protagonist comment thread -- but I thought it was funny.)

Seems a wise advice xD

[FinnLassie]

snip all them names

This was quite the speech :P

Seems a wise advice xD

Paladin!!! I miss you! It's been a bit over a year since we met! :( Such good memories.


ION: Life has been extremely busy. Dealing with school, private life, mental health, relationships... it's been a mess, but everything's starting to align. I'm starting my internship on the 19th, and my job will be creating and illustrating reports in the form of comics for the organisation. I'll be doing it part time til Midsummer which helps with my other stuff. Thesis is on hold, but will be continuing it during the summer. My graduation will be postponed by a year, but you know what... who cares? There'll be jobs available next year as well. Right now I'll just enjoy my internship. Which will also include a work trip abroad as it's an international project.

I've also become a fundraising coordinator for a youth work organisation that is extremely close and dear to me. It's volunteering, but I'll be getting credits for uni from doing it as it lines up with our degree.

IOON: My sister's family is spending 2 months in Bali (well, 2 weeks in Aussie land inbetween) and I thought I'd have a two week break from her... nope. Nope. I posted something on Facebook about finding out how Beauty and the Beast is originally about making girls accept forced arranged marriages with men twice their age, she answered in a rather blunt way about it being about toxic relationships one can't escape from. I responded that yes, but the original story is about arranged marriages, but it doesn't belittle the modern inerpretation as it lines up with the theme of forced marriage. Then she decided to probably misunderstand my response on purpose as she NEVER admits being wrong, and went on about how the meaning changes and not just one veiw is right blah blah, and was straight up talking about the Disney film. Like. What. No. I'm talking about the original story. And I didn't discredit that modern point of view at all. So she responded with "Well, Disney, story, book, whatever." I really wanted to respond "I am in a toxic relationship with you but can't escape", but decided to be above her and not cause public Facebook drama that she likes, especially when she gets to act as a misunderstood victim.

[LaZodiac]

ION: Life has been extremely busy. Dealing with school, private life, mental health, relationships... it's been a mess, but everything's starting to align. I'm starting my internship on the 19th, and my job will be creating and illustrating reports in the form of comics for the organisation. I'll be doing it part time til Midsummer which helps with my other stuff. Thesis is on hold, but will be continuing it during the summer. My graduation will be postponed by a year, but you know what... who cares? There'll be jobs available next year as well. Right now I'll just enjoy my internship. Which will also include a work trip abroad as it's an international project.

I've also become a fundraising coordinator for a youth work organisation that is extremely close and dear to me. It's volunteering, but I'll be getting credits for uni from doing it as it lines up with our degree.

IOON: My sister's family is spending 2 months in Bali (well, 2 weeks in Aussie land inbetween) and I thought I'd have a two week break from her... nope. Nope. I posted something on Facebook about finding out how Beauty and the Beast is originally about making girls accept forced arranged marriages with men twice their age, she answered in a rather blunt way about it being about toxic relationships one can't escape from. I responded that yes, but the original story is about arranged marriages, but it doesn't belittle the modern inerpretation as it lines up with the theme of forced marriage. Then she decided to probably misunderstand my response on purpose as she NEVER admits being wrong, and went on about how the meaning changes and not just one veiw is right blah blah, and was straight up talking about the Disney film. Like. What. No. I'm talking about the original story. And I didn't discredit that modern point of view at all. So she responded with "Well, Disney, story, book, whatever." I really wanted to respond "I am in a toxic relationship with you but can't escape", but decided to be above her and not cause public Facebook drama that she likes, especially when she gets to act as a misunderstood victim.

I'm glad things are doing well for you Finn! Things are...interesting, lets say, over here.

Yeah, that sounds rough as hell. Especially because...um, a forced marriage that you have to learn to live with IS "a toxic relationship you can't escape from" so like, yeah. You're right, but also so is she. She's just being petulant about it.

[Spanish_Paladin]

This was quite the speech :P



Paladin!!! I miss you! It's been a bit over a year since we met! :( Such good memories.


ION: Life has been extremely busy. Dealing with school, private life, mental health, relationships... it's been a mess, but everything's starting to align. I'm starting my internship on the 19th, and my job will be creating and illustrating reports in the form of comics for the organisation. I'll be doing it part time til Midsummer which helps with my other stuff. Thesis is on hold, but will be continuing it during the summer. My graduation will be postponed by a year, but you know what... who cares? There'll be jobs available next year as well. Right now I'll just enjoy my internship. Which will also include a work trip abroad as it's an international project.

I've also become a fundraising coordinator for a youth work organisation that is extremely close and dear to me. It's volunteering, but I'll be getting credits for uni from doing it as it lines up with our degree.

IOON: My sister's family is spending 2 months in Bali (well, 2 weeks in Aussie land inbetween) and I thought I'd have a two week break from her... nope. Nope. I posted something on Facebook about finding out how Beauty and the Beast is originally about making girls accept forced arranged marriages with men twice their age, she answered in a rather blunt way about it being about toxic relationships one can't escape from. I responded that yes, but the original story is about arranged marriages, but it doesn't belittle the modern inerpretation as it lines up with the theme of forced marriage. Then she decided to probably misunderstand my response on purpose as she NEVER admits being wrong, and went on about how the meaning changes and not just one veiw is right blah blah, and was straight up talking about the Disney film. Like. What. No. I'm talking about the original story. And I didn't discredit that modern point of view at all. So she responded with "Well, Disney, story, book, whatever." I really wanted to respond "I am in a toxic relationship with you but can't escape", but decided to be above her and not cause public Facebook drama that she likes, especially when she gets to act as a misunderstood victim.

Finnie!!, i miss you!. I see that life is going well, aside from facebook discussions. I were in the feminist protest march in Madrid yesterday, i think it was the biggest of Europe, quite an experience :)

[Insane Jeenyus]

**snip**

Now the beans are not really cheap, so its common to see them broken down into their essential parts and some of them can be "elongated" by mixing them up with similar substances - that is why you often see "coca butter" as a separate listing, possibly stretched-out by using some cheap substitute like some nut-based oil or using some sort of soy.

**snip**

I have seen soy lethathin [sp?] used. is that one of the soy elogators you mentioned?

[Insane Jeenyus]

That's not how numbers work.

So I guess I cannot claim to be on my 4th first 18 years, or finished my 5th 11 year old fun??

blech. I hate maturity.

[2D8HP]

...blech. I hate maturity.

I so very much second that!

It's so LAME!

[Insane Jeenyus]

I turn 55 in less then a week. OOPS, my profile says I am 115, so make that 116.

So that makes it my 6th year of my 10th anniversary of my 11th birthday

.. .. .. .. .. or something like that.

[Teddy]

ION: Life has been extremely busy. Dealing with school, private life, mental health, relationships... it's been a mess, but everything's starting to align. I'm starting my internship on the 19th, and my job will be creating and illustrating reports in the form of comics for the organisation. I'll be doing it part time til Midsummer which helps with my other stuff. Thesis is on hold, but will be continuing it during the summer. My graduation will be postponed by a year, but you know what... who cares? There'll be jobs available next year as well. Right now I'll just enjoy my internship. Which will also include a work trip abroad as it's an international project.

I've also become a fundraising coordinator for a youth work organisation that is extremely close and dear to me. It's volunteering, but I'll be getting credits for uni from doing it as it lines up with our degree.

"Who cares?" is a very good sentiment. I wish I'd taken my time to think that way as well a bit more back during my studies. There are still a lot of things I never got to do properly because I never gave myself the time to dare to try them.

Seems you aren't exactly holding back on filling the slots, though. That's a lot of balls you've got in the air there, Finn!

IOON: My sister's family is spending 2 months in Bali (well, 2 weeks in Aussie land inbetween) and I thought I'd have a two week break from her... nope. Nope. I posted something on Facebook about finding out how Beauty and the Beast is originally about making girls accept forced arranged marriages with men twice their age, she answered in a rather blunt way about it being about toxic relationships one can't escape from. I responded that yes, but the original story is about arranged marriages, but it doesn't belittle the modern inerpretation as it lines up with the theme of forced marriage. Then she decided to probably misunderstand my response on purpose as she NEVER admits being wrong, and went on about how the meaning changes and not just one veiw is right blah blah, and was straight up talking about the Disney film. Like. What. No. I'm talking about the original story. And I didn't discredit that modern point of view at all. So she responded with "Well, Disney, story, book, whatever." I really wanted to respond "I am in a toxic relationship with you but can't escape", but decided to be above her and not cause public Facebook drama that she likes, especially when she gets to act as a misunderstood victim.

Ooof, no fun to go steaming on a Friday afternoon. The international interconectivity of the Internet is great, but when it's connecting people you'd rather keep your distance to, it's a lot less fun...

I'm glad things are doing well for you Finn! Things are...interesting, lets say, over here.

Always something new in Zodiland?

Yeah, that sounds rough as hell. Especially because...um, a forced marriage that you have to learn to live with IS "a toxic relationship you can't escape from" so like, yeah. You're right, but also so is she. She's just being petulant about it.

Not all forced marriages do become toxic relationships. In many societies with arranged marriages, it's entirely decided between the parents, so neither person being wed starts out significantly advantaged by the arrangement.

More importantly, however: Finn said the original story was meant to groom young girls into accepting forced marriages, not warn them of the same.

Finnie!!, i miss you!. I see that life is going well, aside from facebook discussions. I were in the feminist protest march in Madrid yesterday, i think it was the biggest of Europe, quite an experience :)

Ooo, cool!

So I guess I cannot claim to be on my 4th first 18 years, or finished my 5th 11 year old fun??

blech. I hate maturity.

You can always claim you're congruent with Sweet Sixteen modulo 39...

(Also, a little tip, the collects quotes so you can respond to them all in one go instead of having to doublepost.)

ION:
I saw a person get hit by a car yesterday. They strolled out right on the street against a red light seemingly without any reflection, and the next second a car enters stage right. We Swedes have an expression, "flyga som en vante" ("fly like a mitten", possibly a shortening of "fly like a mitten in a blizzard"), for when something swept away or thrown skyward uncontrollably, and let's say I gained some respect for it when the person was pretty much swept away sideways, first scooped up on the bonnet and then summarily thrown off as the driver hit the brakes.

Thankfully, they got up on their feet, and apart from maybe spraining their wrist (as they were massaging it), they seemed uninjured as well. They we young, maybe 13-14-15, so those elastic kid bones may be to thank for it. The driver wasn't pushing the speed limit either.

It did leave me a little shakened up, though. Gotta respect all that inertia that a car on the road maintains...

[WarKitty]

Not all forced marriages do become toxic relationships. In many societies with arranged marriages, it's entirely decided between the parents, so neither person being wed starts out significantly advantaged by the arrangement.

More importantly, however: Finn said the original story was meant to groom young girls into accepting forced marriages, not warn them of the same.

I've also been told that the original, Beast was ugly but didn't have all the rage-y stuff that was going on. So it was more of a story about accepting nice over pretty.

[2D8HP]

I turn 55 in less then a week. OOPS, my profile says I am 115, so make that 116.

So that makes it my 6th year of my 10th anniversary of my 11th birthday

.. .. .. .. .. or something like that.

Well judging by that, and this post:

Greetings all. This actually post number 2, as number one wasin the Joke forum.

I have been a long time reader of OOTS and have enjoyed the web comic and finally have broken down and joined the site.

the things I like are coffee, Pathfinder, coffee, 3.5, coffee, Pathfinder and coffee.

Coffee is not an addiction - its a love affair.

You are AWESOME!

So congratulations!

[PopeLinus1]

You know looking in on this forum...

I’m fairly new in this incredible playground but everyone here, especially on this thread, feels like good freinds, and as though this community here is an actual community, rather than just a bunch of people who barely recognize other peoples usernames. It just all seems so wonderful that everyone here can get on, and talk to people about the things they like, and even though they squabble and argue, they all come back.

And hey, maybe the rest of the internet is like that, but the rest of the internet seems to be a cold, scary place that puts its users through a wood chipper.

So I’d just like to thank people. Most everyone on this forum, really. For usually being fairly nice to one on other. This forum is a lot better than many others.

[LaZodiac]

Always something new in Zodiland?

Not all forced marriages do become toxic relationships. In many societies with arranged marriages, it's entirely decided between the parents, so neither person being wed starts out significantly advantaged by the arrangement.

More importantly, however: Finn said the original story was meant to groom young girls into accepting forced marriages, not warn them of the same.

Being informed of the times when Mom expects her male mistress to show up so I have to run silent so as to not scare him off is a fun way to get reintroduced to the ****ing **** that is my Mom's house.

Right, good point. I hadn't read Finn's post perfectly, my mistake.

[Florian]

I have seen soy lethathin [sp?] used. is that one of the soy elogators you mentioned?

I guess you mean Lecithin, aka. E322, which is basically the most widely used group of emulgators around. An emulator is used to bind fat/oil to any water-based substance, quite often Molke (Whey).

Without knowing the specifics, you're at least dealing with a highly processed and engineered kind of food.

[enderlord99]

An emulator is used to bind fat/oil to any water-based substance

Really? I use mine to play old videogames.

[Florian]

Really? I use mine to play old videogames.

My auto-correction seems to have a problem with the word Emulgator.

[enderlord99]

My auto-correction seems to have a problem with the word Emulgator.

I figured.

[Insane Jeenyus]

Well judging by that, and this post:

greetings all. This actually post number 2, as number one wasin the Joke forum.

I have been a long time reader of OOTS and have enjoyed the web comic and finally have broken down and joined the sight.

the things I like are coffee, Pathfinder, coffee, 3.5, coffee, Pathfinder and coffee.

Coffee is not an addiction - its a love affair.

You are AWESOME!

So congratulations!

why,thank you very much! I am not sure if I should toast you with Whisky, porter ale, coffee or toast!!

I guess you mean Lecithin, aka. E322, which is basically the most widely used group of emulgators around. An emulator is used to bind fat/oil to any water-based substance, quite often Molke (Whey).

Without knowing the specifics, you're at least dealing with a highly processed and engineered kind of food.

I figured as such. Most food in the US is so freaking processed I wish I didn't need to eat.

you should see what they feed you with through the nose in the hospital!

[Mystic Muse]

Thought I'd share the work I've done on this mini. It's the best I've ever done. https://imgur.com/gallery/EREJ5

[AtlanteanTroll]

* pokes his head in *

* deep sniffs *

Who even are these new people?