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Post by jklinders on Jan 2, 2015 10:56:38 GMT 1
I doubt there is anything to hide from here. Gun nuts (that term applies here) who do that are on the hate list of actual enthusiasts like Iron who don't like their hobby made to look worse by idiots.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Jan 2, 2015 14:02:05 GMT 1
Going back to Belgium today, means I wont see the Misses till February...if we are lucky. After the Librarian course, wich should wrap up soon, I am looking to come over here on a more permanent term. As in finding a job and such. Also why does a Lilt bottle cost 2 pounds in London?! Does the Queen need a new comb for her Corki's that much?!
Angry Dinosaur, rawr.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Jan 2, 2015 16:35:52 GMT 1
People who act that irresponsibly with weapons shouldn't have guns, knifes, motor vehicles, flammable chemicals, children, or oxygen. Plain and simple: a weapon is not a toy and should never be used as such. Now there is a colloquialism "range toy" used to describe a gun that is meant for target shooting and such rather than hunting or self-defense, but number of people who think of guns as actual toys isn't as high as one would think. Sadly, they're the more visible segment of the gun-owning population.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Jan 2, 2015 23:47:09 GMT 1
This one didn't take long to crop up. My sister's boyfriend (who is a loser) is pressuring her into driving him to Columubus, OH for a Magic: The Gathering tournament... through a winter storm that's not only shutting down bus routes in various parts of the country, but also compelled me to take an extension on my current leave so I won't have to drive through it on the way back to base (something I rarely do unless I'm genuinely concerned as I only have so much leave saved up and will need to take leave one more time to transport some of my stuff back home before going overseas). Worse, we've fucking told him that it's incredibly dangerous and neither we nor they can afford it if something happens and they get stranded. They could lose their jobs, their apartment, etc if things go wrong, but he doesn't give a shit. This is definitely trying my patience.
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Post by Cali on Jan 3, 2015 0:07:27 GMT 1
That d00d sounds like an idiot.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Jan 3, 2015 0:12:51 GMT 1
This one didn't take long to crop up. My sister's boyfriend (who is a loser) is pressuring her into driving him to Columubus, OH for a Magic: The Gathering tournament... through a winter storm that's not only shutting down bus routes in various parts of the country, but also compelled me to take an extension on my current leave so I won't have to drive through it on the way back to base (something I rarely do unless I'm genuinely concerned as I only have so much leave saved up and will need to take leave one more time to transport some of my stuff back home before going overseas). Worse, we've fucking told him that it's incredibly dangerous and neither we nor they can afford it if something happens and they get stranded. They could lose their jobs, their apartment, etc if things go wrong, but he doesn't give a shit. This is definitely trying my patience. Oh, Iron - your poor sister - clearly she deserves better than that asshole who'd put her life in danger on dangerous stormy roads just for some game tournament. Dammit, I hope she says no. What a jerk.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Jan 3, 2015 0:29:55 GMT 1
Update: just spoke to him. I managed to impress upon him just how dangerous this storm is and he's decided he won't go as it's too risky.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Jan 3, 2015 0:36:49 GMT 1
What was too risky, the storm? Or your reaction if he insisted upon endangering your sister? In all seriousness - glad he's decided not to go. Big storms like that were meant to be seen from the safety of the indoors.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Jan 3, 2015 0:39:59 GMT 1
Yeah. This storm is BAD, even by my standards coming from the frozen north. Hell, even you guys wouldn't want anything to do with it.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Jan 3, 2015 2:00:27 GMT 1
We've had nasty ones before... I hate them. We hates them, Hobbitses!
There have been a few snowstorms in the last couple years that were bad enough that the company I work for shut down the office for the day. There was one night when the weather didn't get bad until after everyone was at work, but by the time the day ended, it was so bad people couldn't get home because the roads were nearly impassable.
On that night, my wonderful father actually shoveled out his driveway and drove across the city to pick me up from work and drive me home - and I didn't even live with him at the time! In fact, he had to go out of his way to get me home before getting himself home! And after he dropped me off at my apartment downtown, he picked up a poor snow-covered victim who he saw struggling to walk up the street and drove that person as close to their home as he could on his way to the suburbs where he and my mother live. My best friend, who got off work an hour after I did that night, had no way home. Our company actually paid for anyone who could not get home to have a room at a nearby hotel complete with breakfast in the morning, and even though the walk to the hotel from the office is only a 5 to 10 minute walk on a good weather night, it took my friend 35 to 45 minutes to get there in the storm.
So yeah, I can imagine how bad the storm must be if it's making people afraid to drive in it. We've seen some nasty ones.
Glad your sister is staying safely home.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Jan 7, 2015 5:02:09 GMT 1
Perennial pet hate: the metal community. Now I proudly identify myself as a metalhead, but like the gun community there are entirely too many people who would be outwitted by phytoplankton making themselves heard within my community. Now I'm aware I broke rule 1 of the internet (outside of 4chan's rules), but here's a youtube conversation I'm part of. Patreek Varma: 0:31 ... both doing the same thing... that too with one hand muting the string - where there is no need to do it. What a bunch of loser "wannabees" iamnotesus789 (video uploader and one of the guitarists in the vid): Wow, we added something of our own to a cover of a song. How can we possibly live with ourselves? RaderizDorret (me): Good cover guys. I play it a bit differently from Brendan Small myself (I tremolo pick some the sustained notes in the outro lick because I prefer that sound over just holding the note). It annoys me when people think a cover should be note-for-note identical to the original. It's like they have no sense of originality and have no idea how to work their own style of playing into a song no matter if it's a cover or their own work. Edited to add: I've taken shit from people not only for me playing it differently, but for not using EMGs in my guitar (Epi Les Paul studio with DiMarzio Super 3 in bridge and Air Norton (flipped with screw poles facing the bridge for a slightly tighter and brighter tone) in the neck). People are fucking retarded... MetalAnarchist (dude hammered my pet hate): lol this douche makes a comment about guitar and he looks like a indian version of brad pit , bet he cant even play .. loser RaderizDorret: Damn, I might disagree with the comment, but since when did the metal community give a shit how someone looks versus how they actually play? You might as well say Halford isn't metal because he's gay or some other stupid shit. I've seen some metal-as-fuck-looking posers who were barely aware that guitars have strings. I've also seen (and actually been) that guy who shows up at Guitar Center in a 3-piece suit, browses guitars, hears people talking shit, grabs an axe off the wall (in my case, a Gibson ES-335 because I wanted to make a point by using a blues/jazz guitar for metal) and melt everyone's faces for 4 city blocks.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Jan 7, 2015 6:02:22 GMT 1
People who melt faces. I just got mine back and some poser 3 blocks away had to melt it off again!
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Post by jklinders on Jan 7, 2015 10:54:26 GMT 1
Stay away from Long Island then Clint. John Petrucci lives there and practices like 6 hours a day in between tours. Pretty sure that's a fallout zone for melted faces.
@iron.
Oy, Youtube, where people troll (in the fishing sense) videos of people they don't like in order to troll (in the 4chan sense) everyone who enjoys them.I fear for humanity should the Youtube comment board ever be beamed into space. The next advanced civilization that swung by would mercy kill us to save us the trouble of drooling ourselves to death.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Jan 11, 2015 15:04:23 GMT 1
Alright, I held this back for many years but I can no longer hold myself back. I might make enemies here but here goes. You know what I hate?
Perfume commercials.
Those goddamn hipster commercials where their smell is the new shit that you gotta have. Most of the time they dont even make sense! Buzz words, hot models, sterile locations, buy our shit! Of course it's buy our shit, that is the point of commercials, but cant they be more honest about it? Like, oh phew that guy smells! Here, use our perfume! Not only will you smell less bad but you can join the hipster legions of buzz word wielding know it alls. Or maybe you should go shower more you handsome fack! GODDAMNIT! I hate them, they suck and I dont like them.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Jan 11, 2015 15:51:51 GMT 1
Alright, I held this back for many years but I can no longer hold myself back. I might make enemies here but here goes. You know what I hate? Perfume commercials. Those goddamn hipster commercials where their smell is the new shit that you gotta have. Most of the time they dont even make sense! Buzz words, hot models, sterile locations, buy our shit! Of course it's buy our shit, that is the point of commercials, but cant they be more honest about it? Like, oh phew that guy smells! Here, use our perfume! Not only will you smell less bad but you can join the hipster legions of buzz word wielding know it alls. Or maybe you should go shower more you handsome fack! GODDAMNIT! I hate them, they suck and I dont like them. I see your Hate, and raise you AXE Men's cologne commercials. I hate those with a passion. Especially the ones where the pretty girls dressed like angels are falling from the sky and following the man with the AXE smell like mindless lemmings... Stupid stupid. I like to say that the angels are falling from heaven because the stench of the AXE is killing them. Horrible horrible. And perfume commercials are only about half as obnoxious as the smell of perfume itself. Linders will remember the bratty girl on the bus that day, there was a girl sitting in the back of the bus with her boyfriend, and apparently he farted (I say apparently because neither Linders nor I noticed that), because she then pulled out a bottle of perfume and sprayed it liberally over her boyfriend. We were sitting right across from them, and I am allergic to the smell of perfume, so I ended up with a migraine headache for the rest of the day thanks to her. And public transit buses are supposed to be a scent-free or at least scent-sensitive environment. Brat. EDIT: The only cute perfume commercial I ever saw:
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