Quick note to let everyone know that I'm joining the masses at the unemployment lines. Hope everyone had a better day than I had.
Oh no!! I'm sorry Moff, what happened man?
The official answer is that the credit union isn't busy enough. Mortgage rates at 4.5% with a 30 year fixed rate isn't all that great if you don't have a job.
From my point of view -- they really needed to save money and I was one of the higher paid employees there.
Of course, if they think that they are really saving all that much money by getting rid of one of the people who makes everything right...
I cleaned up my post a little; stuff like that just steams me.
No sweat. You might pick up that I'm a little steamed by it. Just a little.
End all, we can only control how it affects us, not if. *sigh*
Hence, my FB post about not being able to slap the stupid out of people.
I think I'd be out to actively promote bad blood/introducing a schism betwixt "them" and "us" given this description. I don't know how you deal or cope with situations, but I kinda have a mean streak along with a definite lack of need of anybody, good or bad, one way or another, and so I don't sit for too much bullcrap without telling people "if the world was neck deep in pee, I wouldn't let you up in my tree."
You can pick your friends, you can't pick your kin, but you can sure as hell pick your ass up and get out of their jacked up scene. They sound like nothing but a pain in the ass anyway. Would your wife be all that melancholy if she never had that much to do with them ever again? That's the only thing I'd be worried about, but hopefully she'd come around to seeing reason(?)
There's just certain people best kept at arm's length.
Serious, possibly gut-wrenching, question for the FaWTLy clan -
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'Good' idea or 'Bad'?
Spoiler:
well, we didn't bring my grandmother to my grandfather's funeral because she had fairly advanced alzheimer's, didn't know what was even going on, and she would've just probably been really upset.
She didn't know who I was anyway. She knew she had a grandson, but didn't know he was in his thirties. She thought I should've been about three.
So these in-laws seem really flaky to me. I believe I'd ultimately end up having to shout at them a lot, but I understand not wanting to make trouble for your wife and all. But that's just nuts. The old woman has no clue what's going on, and if she is indeed sensate in any capacity, a trip to a funeral amounts to nothing but torture. I really am vexed people like this. I can't stand when stupid has control, because nothing but absolute horror follows in stupid's wake.
Moff and others, sad to hear that the situation on Paizo, esp the trolling is getting you down.
I would urge you not to go ... that way the trolls win.
Although there have definitely been times in the past where I have gotten involved in politically charged or obviously controversial threads, and probably fed the trolls, I’m finding now it is actually pretty easy just to avoid and ignore that sort of discussion. Decide what you want out of Paizo ... if you want to discuss political or controversial topics here, then you will almost inevitably be drawn into a s$@~fight. Different opinions + internet anonymity + potentially unlimited number of participants WILL make such topics descend (or at least dip) into troubled waters.
What I have found, though, is it's nice to take a few days off. I personally have a tendency to start picking up the grenades and hurling them back, so I sometimes have to do this.
Those are 3D-images, so there is no relevance to from which direction they have been taken. Each image is a millimeter-thin "slice" through the body. It is just that those slices are at different "heights".
3-D has nothing to do with it. You cannot directly compare the brains, for instance, because in one case you are looking at the frontal lobe and in the other case you are looking at the occipital lobe and cerebellum. Different organs reside at different "heights". And many organs have a different appearance depending on what direction they are viewed from.
...which is, incidentally, exactly my point. My comment on 3D was to differentiate the images from something akin to TSA body scans, where the direction they are taken from is relevant. Your comment on the directionality of the appearance of various organs also presumes a 2D-image.
The 250 lb. woman's picture, at the level of the head anyway, is a "more anterior coronal slice" in comparison to the 150 lb. woman's picture. It's a 3d image that's been chopped into slices, and the two patients have a different body habitus, and probably positioned a little differently.
I'm glad we had that MLK//Mark Twain misquote thing a week ago, because I've seen that "not everyone lives" thing quoted as the Dalai Lama in a few friends' facebook status.
I don't think THE world will end May 21, 2011. Or 2012 whenever that Mayan calendar says.
However, there could be a tornado rip through my neighborhood. Or an automobile accident. OR I might have an aortic aneurysm that I don't know about decide to pop like a zit and gush my blood into my abdominal cavity and send me off to my dirtnap.
MY world might end at any time.
May 22. I don't think the world will be over. (I think The Book of Revelation was a metaphor heaped with Babylonian astrology that nobody can really grok because we don't understand, firsthand, the times it was written in). However,......in a weird other universe that is identical to this one except for the fact that indeed, the world IS going to end on May 21, do you think your identical twinner there is maximizing his life's output? And on May 22, if the metaphysical superheroes there won and somehow made the powers-that-be turn over the universe's hourglass....armageddon preempted for another age of man,......what should this identical twinner do that he/she/it isn't doing right right now?
I saw this bumper sticker yesterday; I think it said something like "Don't make me go get my South African Math Teacher" however it was small writing so it might've been "American" instead of "African."
I was like, "w......what th hell does that even mean?"
Actually it is an incredibly small test group that stopped evaluation right as puberty got rolling.
FAIL!
Wow. I wish they'd come up with some kind of statistical analyses and rigorous peer review mechanisms that I could have confidence in, so I wouldn't have to feel it necessary to refute this completely baseless statement somehow.
All I did was refute a unilateral statement i.e. "teaching abstinance does not work." Somebody else came along later, added special conditions, and now is apparently decrying semantic gamesmanship.
And, on that note, I think I'll carry the lessons of abstinence to new facets of life, and abstain from further participation in this thread. Good luck y'all...
It'd be pretty tough to change the culture to embrace chastity (sex sells and we live in a capitalist society). I wouldn't object to such a cultural sea change, but I don't see a practical non-fascist way to get there.
I kinda think there's something else going on there.
I mean,.....Europe has all that sex cells going on but I don't believe that they have our teen pregnancy rates.
Did Dejah wear the hubcaps she's portrayed in half the time?
Speaking of Barsoom and comics...there is a truly warped and grotesque comic adaptation floating around the internet somewhere. Absolutely NSFW, and I have no clue what was going on with the artist doing it, but it looks really, really off. It's just...gah...
So naturally I'm gonna link it as soon as I find it again.
EDIT-Found it.
NSFW
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I think it's the jarring use of pink more than anything that freaks me out. And junk where you aren't really expecting it. And the faces. And everything.
Do note however, that troubling imagery aside, the man can still draw a foot.
I've seen it before. And I knew that that was the adaptation you were talking about.....
Yeah; I looked at all the battles in Encyclopedia Brittanica back in the day; none of them really went down like a football kickoff with swords like in the movie....