2D8HP's extended mea culpa and Random Banter #218

I can't do better than Dark Shadow, but here's a new Random Banter:

Please play nice, enjoy each others company, and... follow the rules.

Let's all have a good chat, then. :smallcool:

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Me first. I'm so looking forward to see Deadpool 2 this Saturday with my friend.

Shuffles on in and considers the fact that saying hello to everyone on the final page of a thread may have not been good timing...

Also, fyi the final previous thread link is broken, as an fyi 2D8HP

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Originally Posted by TheWombatOfDoom

Finn, I'm glad to hear that the infection is out and that you have someone you're comfortable with changing your bandages. I wish you a fast recovery.

Hello everyone! It's your overworked and underpaid wombat, back from the lurking realm. How is everyone?

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Thanks! Was back at the nurse today, since the regular services are open Mon-Fri. I've actually ended up getting a rash from my bandages, so they've had to change to a tad fancier one with a more gel-like adhesive.

You're alive! ALIIIIIIVE! AAHAHAHAHAH!

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Originally Posted by FinnLassie

Thanks! Was back at the nurse today, since the regular services are open Mon-Fri. I've actually ended up getting a rash from my bandages, so they've had to change to a tad fancier one with a more gel-like adhesive.

You're alive! ALIIIIIIVE! AAHAHAHAHAH!

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Ugh, adhesives always give me some sort of reaction. So what does 80kph translate to in miles...50! OMG, that's crazy fast! I'm so thankful you're in relatively okay shape... I can't believe insurance isn't covering the infection. That's just bs....

*waves hands in a frankenwombat type of way* I'm alive!

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Originally Posted by TheWombatOfDoom

Shuffles on in and considers the fact that saying hello to everyone on the final page of a thread may have not been good timing...

Also, fyi the final previous thread link is broken, as an fyi 2D8HP

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Thanks.

Mea culpa on the broken link, which is now fixed.

2D8HP, have I mentioned yet that I very much like your new avatar? :smallsmile:

*sets boxes all over new thread, then proceeds to curl up in one*

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Originally Posted by AuthorGirl

2D8HP, have I mentioned yet that I very much like your new avatar? :smallsmile:

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Maybe?

Anyway thanks! :smile:

All praise is due to the completely awesome Honest Tiefling who kindly did me a solid and gifted me with a

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http://i.imgur.com/fsjcfap.png

that's less pasty and more cheerful than my

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(which you'll still see in "mobile").

It's a struggle, but I'm trying to be a little less crabby so I don't besmirch my grand new Avatar....

....much more than I may have already

:redface:

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Originally Posted by WarKitty

*sets boxes all over new thread, then proceeds to curl up in one*

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Now it's getting started!

For some reason I feel quite at home in this thread. I hope everyone is doing well today.

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Originally Posted by LaZodiac

For some reason I feel quite at home in this thread. I hope everyone is doing well today.

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*puts zodi in a nice zodi-sized box with a blanket and pillow*

I was going to originally posted the next random banter thread but 2D8HP beat me to it. :smile:

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Originally Posted by WarKitty

*puts zodi in a nice zodi-sized box with a blanket and pillow*

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Ah, relaxation. I appreciate it, Warkitty.

(I was making a joke about how Canadians are always apologetic but honestly given how thiings have been going for me it's super appreciated)

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Originally Posted by 2D8HP

I can't do better than Dark Shadow...

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You're giving me far too much credit. The bar for doing better is roughly... yay high. *waves hand horizontally, just barely not touching the ground* :smallamused:

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Originally Posted by TheWombatOfDoom

Shuffles on in and considers the fact that saying hello to everyone on the final page of a thread may have not been good timing...

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Eh, it just means that you get to do it again. Also, hello!

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Originally Posted by FinnLassie

Thanks! Was back at the nurse today, since the regular services are open Mon-Fri. I've actually ended up getting a rash from my bandages, so they've had to change to a tad fancier one with a more gel-like adhesive.

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Oh dear. Hopefully it's not too bad, at least. (Though, it's probably better than if there were no bandages at all, admittedly.)

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Originally Posted by WarKitty

*sets boxes all over new thread, then proceeds to curl up in one*

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Do you mind taking the boxes from my work? They did 'spring cleaning' of about the past 4 years of administrivia down in the basement storage, so there was a stupid amount of boxes everywhere...

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Originally Posted by LaZodiac

For some reason I feel quite at home in this thread. I hope everyone is doing well today.

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Originally Posted by LaZodiac

(I was making a joke about how Canadians are always apologetic but honestly given how thiings have been going for me it's super appreciated)

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Well, I'm sorry that my thread wasn't up to, ahem, code. Must've been an agonizing 50 pages. Gonna need to step up my apologies. :smallwink:
Sucks that things aren't going entirely tickety-boo, though. Hopefully they improve.

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Originally Posted by LaZodiac

Ah, relaxation. I appreciate it, Warkitty.

(I was making a joke about how Canadians are always apologetic but honestly given how thiings have been going for me it's super appreciated)

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*sticks various treats into box*

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Originally Posted by Dark Shadow

You're giving me far too much credit. The bar for doing better is roughly... yay high. *waves hand horizontally, just barely not touching the ground* :smallamused:

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He's classified as an Old Geezer according to his statblock. Are you sure he can jump that high? :P.

Sorry 2D8HP, couldn't resist





Plus, jumping a bar, no matter how low, is a form of high jump. And THAT is a sport...

After ten or so years, it seems my Ipod is finally giving out. It's cracked, the power button no longer works, the home button barely works, and now the music screen is frozen. It may at last be time to figure out how the hell to get music from Itunes onto my Iphone.

You know, if my technologically illiterate ass can make sense of it.

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Originally Posted by Mith

Plus, jumping a bar, no matter how low, is a form of high jump. And THAT is a sport...

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That reminds me:
I hope The Eye starts another thread, those are awesome.

No its my a cup a coffee.

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Originally Posted by Comrade

After ten or so years, it seems my Ipod is finally giving out. It's cracked, the power button no longer works, the home button barely works, and now the music screen is frozen. It may at last be time to figure out how the hell to get music from Itunes onto my Iphone.

You know, if my technologically illiterate ass can make sense of it.

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Ugh. Good luck.
I haven't used iTunes in quite a while, but I definitely recall that there were some songs it just refused to load onto my devices. No idea why; they were the same as any other song, and sometimes songs from the same album would differ in whether or not they worked.
Download new songs, make sure they're checked, sync your device, watch as 80% of them make it onto said device, but the best 20% are in no way acknowledged by iTunes, spend half an hour restarting computer, unplugging and plugging back in your iPhone, cursing everything Apple is and stands for, and then nine times out of ten it'll just suddenly work, despite you doing nothing different from any of the other dozens of times.

But hey, maybe it's better now!
Or maybe it was my computer; that's also not unlikely.

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Originally Posted by Insane Jeenyus

@ FinnLass, it is actually good that your cavity woundis on your back, or you would be expected to learn to stuff it with wound pack your self!

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I mean, I'd get used to it and wouldn't have to pay the hospital fee for going in every day to get my stuff changed...

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Originally Posted by Dark Shadow

You're giving me far too much credit. The bar for doing better is roughly... yay high. *waves hand horizontally, just barely not touching the ground* :smallamused:

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When the bar is that low, it's all too easy to trip over it.

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Originally Posted by Strigon

But hey, maybe it's better now!

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It isn't, haha. I tried syncing my phone to Itunes, but couldn't get it to sync because of an 'invalid connection'. Now I'm trying to restore the Ipod to the factory settings because I remember doing something like that last time similar problems came up, so we'll see if that works, even though it means resyncing all my music all over again.

Doesn't help that I don't get my music through Itunes (does anybody?), I just use it to store and play music, so I think that complicates the process.

We've been struck by a really unseasonable heat wave, pushing the temperature up to ~27°C in the afternoons. As a rather heat resilient person, I'm fine with this, albeit a bit taken by surprise. However, my apartment faces the south east with quite a lot of windows, so the temperature can push up to 29°C indoors while I'm at work, and even in the morning after a relatively cold night (~8°C), it can sport an indoor temperature of 27°C. Suffice to say, the dress code has changed from 'clothing optional' to 'clothing prohibited'.

What worse is, my landscape(-ish) at work is poorly ventilated, and now the sun rises high enough in the sky to shine through our windows, making this room really hot as well. I might be resilient to heat, but hot temperatures are still terrible for my work efficiency, as I can't focus very well when I'm hot. http://i.imgur.com/b6MRqPf.png

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Originally Posted by 2D8HP

It's a struggle, but I'm trying to be a little less crabby so I don't besmirch my grand new Avatar....

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He could be made grumpier if you want, but I was trying to match the art I thought was of the 1e ranger. He seemed pretty chill overall.

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Originally Posted by Honest Tiefling

He could be made grumpier if you want, but I was trying to match the art I thought was of the 1e ranger. He seemed pretty chill overall.

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I love the avatar, but now I really want to see it be grumpier.

Here is the ranger, 2D8HD style:

https://i.imgur.com/l2YgKWJ.png

Through your dragon one is pretty good, Peelee. I feel like it has really captured the essence of dragon while remaining true to the OoTS style.

Well hello all, I hope I'm not breaking banter protocol by jumping in on this threadwagon, I've never been too good at all that social malarkey.

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Originally Posted by LaZodiac

(I was making a joke about how Canadians are always apologetic but honestly given how thiings have been going for me it's super appreciated)

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Not to make light of being in a bad place, but this reminds me a lot of when I was in university.

Specifically I had a Chinese friend who got annoyed at the British saying sorry all the time. Of course she was too polite to say this in private, but with the number of times I apologised for it she was almost ready to hit me.

About three years later I achieved ultimate Britishness when I apologised to my bag for tripping over it, a couple of weeks after apologising for turning up exactly on time for a meeting (to the minute, the lecturer was shocked).

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Also, minor note, that Chinese friend was probably the first person I seriously crushed on, and since then I've not had a single crush on somebody of my own nationality to the point it's a running joke with one of my friends.

Now what I originally planned to post before seeing the earlier ones.

I've recently started a new job (as in a month and a bit ago) and my accent has become a recurring joke among my colleagues because I just sound so much more posh than everybody (comes from growing up in the home counties and having speech therapy as a kid but working in central London). It's not bullying or anything, it's just one of those amusing things like them all assuming I'm in a relationship.

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Originally Posted by Anonymouswizard

Well hello all, I hope I'm not breaking banter protocol by jumping in on this threadwagon, I've never been too good at all that social malarkey.

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You are supposed to offer us tea and biscuits first.

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Originally Posted by WarKitty

You are supposed to offer us tea and biscuits first.

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Oh, I'm sor-Britishness quota exceeded, please input teabag to continue-but I'm out of custard creams.