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This is why the number one pickup line in Polish bars is, "Hey baby, can I buy you a vowel?"Okay, you just slammed your face into the keyboard a couple of times, didn't you?Wszystkiego Najlepszego!ITS MY BIRTHDAY TODAYHappy Birthday, Woran!
2–3 consonants to 1 vovel is a nice, neat ratio.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WORAN!
From a story on humans asking dumb questions:
"Why are we barred from the Iirbi system?"
"Because they are telepathic, and the last one who met one of your species without psychic shielding started clawing his own eyes out while quietly muttering “Tentacles don’t go there" over and over again. And they shouldn’t have to carry psychic shielding on their own planet just because you’re all perverts."
In my defense, I had JUST finished a hentai retrospective.
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I'm in the second half of a five-hour meeting (2 hours on Monday, 3 hours on Wednesday) and GothBard is utterly appalled: "Who has a 5-hour meeting?!?!?"
Welcome to Global Megacorporation, Baby!
Happy Level-Up, Woran!!
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I'm in the second half of a five-hour meeting (2 hours on Monday, 3 hours on Wednesday) and GothBard is utterly appalled: "Who has a 5-hour meeting?!?!?"
Welcome to Global Megacorporation, Baby!
I remember those.
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I'm in the second half of a five-hour meeting (2 hours on Monday, 3 hours on Wednesday) and GothBard is utterly appalled: "Who has a 5-hour meeting?!?!?"
Welcome to Global Megacorporation, Baby!
Reminds me of how in Sims 3, if you were in the Business track, you had to have a minimum amount of meetings to get your job performance up - even if in every other way you were doing amazing, if you ignored meetings, your performance would drop steadily. Because reasons.
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Happy birthday, Woran.
Hope that you get a tan.
Unless you'd rather stay pale,
In which case, eat kale.
We're trying out Pathfinder 2e, and are getting proper done over by rats. We have yet to hit anything.
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The global megacorp I work for decided that for folks like me who, prior to the pandemic were assigned to a hub office not one of the primaries, we would return to the office only on a voluntary basis or if management required in person presence for a meeting.
I understand hiring and firing, sort of; these are important moments in a career so for personal feelings you might want to meet in person. However my manager is saying that since they're leaving the hub office in place for my group we will likely have meetings 1 to 2 times/month which will have to be in person.
My question on the daily standup call online: Why? Is there some pheromone that we emit when we're in physical proximity that makes us better at our jobs? Does the collective body heat of us in a conference room somehow enable greater productivity? I can't for the life of me figure why we'd NEED an in-person staff meeting 1 or 2 times/month when we've done without them for a year and our productivity and case resolution metrics have actually gone UP!
If the managers don't have meetings then people start to notice how much time they really have available.
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The nice thing about my job is my time is literally too valuable for me to go to meetings.
And if you think I'm just being cocky that's literally what the boss told me last year when I mistakenly joined a meeting.
The global megacorp I work for decided that for folks like me who, prior to the pandemic were assigned to a hub office not one of the primaries, we would return to the office only on a voluntary basis or if management required in person presence for a meeting.
I understand hiring and firing, sort of; these are important moments in a career so for personal feelings you might want to meet in person. However my manager is saying that since they're leaving the hub office in place for my group we will likely have meetings 1 to 2 times/month which will have to be in person.
My question on the daily standup call online: Why? Is there some pheromone that we emit when we're in physical proximity that makes us better at our jobs? Does the collective body heat of us in a conference room somehow enable greater productivity? I can't for the life of me figure why we'd NEED an in-person staff meeting 1 or 2 times/month when we've done without them for a year and our productivity and case resolution metrics have actually gone UP!
It's to make up for their lack of creativity.
If they were creative they wouldn't have to group think ideas.
ITS MY BIRTHDAY TODAY
Happy Birthday, Woran!
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ITS MY BIRTHDAY TODAY
{pops on snowman's stovepipe hat} Happy Birthday!
Mosquitoes and bugs mostly leave me alone and I found a scentless bug spray that works really good in case they don't.
Haven't bought any in a decade, but Avon Skin So Soft was a fantastic mosquito and gnat repellent. Smelled pretty good too.
Does that look like Dutch to you?!Okay, you just slammed your face into the keyboard a couple of times, didn't you?Wszystkiego Najlepszego!ITS MY BIRTHDAY TODAYHappy Birthday, Woran!
{ponders wisdom of attempting to make a Welsh joke}
My question on the daily standup call online: Why? Is there some pheromone that we emit when we're in physical proximity that makes us better at our jobs? Does the collective body heat of us in a conference room somehow enable greater productivity? I can't for the life of me figure why we'd NEED an in-person staff meeting 1 or 2 times/month when we've done without them for a year and our productivity and case resolution metrics have actually gone UP!
They use the radiating body heat of assembled workers to reduce heating bill?
Mosquitoes and bugs mostly leave me alone and I found a scentless bug spray that works really good in case they don't.Haven't bought any in a decade, but Avon Skin So Soft was a fantastic mosquito and gnat repellent. Smelled pretty good too.
{ponders wisdom of attempting to make a Welsh joke}Does that look like Dutch to you?!Okay, you just slammed your face into the keyboard a couple of times, didn't you?Wszystkiego Najlepszego!ITS MY BIRTHDAY TODAYHappy Birthday, Woran!
Welsh does look like a joke indeed.
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My last name is Welsh, and I can say with certainty that there wasn't enough Wyfthh'flaghn-toewhs' for it to be properly Welsh.
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The entirely of my knowledge of Wales is such:
1) It is somewhere in Britain, near Scotland and England.
2) On Futurama, a fat guy named Welshy replaced Scotty for a Star Trek reunion.
That's it.
I know my great grandparents were romani that used a famous Welsh name when they came to the states to avoid rampant prejudice against romani.
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My last name is Welsh, and I can say with certainty that there wasn't enough Wyfthh'flaghn-toewhs' for it to be properly Welsh.
Is that why your family moved to America?
I know my great grandparents were romani that used a famous Welsh name when they came to the states to avoid rampant prejudice against romani.
Yes.
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Happy Earth Day! I'm spending the day potting plants...'cuz that's my job this time of year. :)
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Happy Earth Day! I'm spending the day potting plants...'cuz that's my job this time of year. :)
I don't have to do that anymore, I think it's been almost a year since the last time I planted anything, and that was because Pako and the Joses weren't fast enough and I really wanted to get the job done as it was a Friday.
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The entirely of my knowledge of Wales is such:
1) It is somewhere in Britain, near Scotland and England.
2) On Futurama, a fat guy named Welshy replaced Scotty for a Star Trek reunion.That's it.
It's easy to tell if someone is Welsh. Basically, if there's a British person on TV that requires subtitles because their accent is so thick they're most likely Welsh.
Or at least that's how it is on the Great British Baking Show.
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We have our vaccination appointments set up.
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The entirely of my knowledge of Wales is such:
1) It is somewhere in Britain, near Scotland and England.
2) On Futurama, a fat guy named Welshy replaced Scotty for a Star Trek reunion.That's it.
It's easy to tell if someone is Welsh. Basically, if there's a British person on TV that requires subtitles because their accent is so thick they're most likely Welsh.
Or at least that's how it is on the Great British Baking Show.
Or a person from Northumberland, or Merseyside. Or a Glaswegian. They're notorious for the impenetrability (??) of their accents; however, I have a fairly straight-ahead accent, and when I had a job interviewing people in power stations in the southern US, I was regularly told, "AH CAIN'T UNNERSTAND WHUT YER SAYIN', BUDDYYYY", or words to that effect.
GothBard and I watched the first episode of Invincible last night on NetFlix, and, while they managed to make it interesting enough that we want to watch episode 2, it's a fantastic example of why the people behind the scenes matter.
The writing has enough really clever scenes to make up for the really terrible ones.
It's also a vanilla cookie-cutter "son of a superhero grows up hoping to eventually get powers so he can be just like his dad". GothBard's exasperated question: "Why can't it EVER be the daughter of a superhero?"
Yes, they have plenty of racial diversity. But women? They have no place being superheroes.
The animation was perfectly mediocre: It told the story, but neither wowed us nor made us wince.
Unfortunately, then came the voice acting. J.K. Simmons has a storied career as a voice actor, from Anastasia to Zootopia, he's no stranger to doing voices for animation. He's about as exciting as a wooden block. ALL of the voice actors are. There's no lack of talent in the list, so you have to blame the voice coach/director for eliciting such terrible performances. The mixing is as bad as some of the worst 1970s Japanese dubs, where you have to crank the volume up near full to hear what the heck the characters are saying, and then an action scene starts and blows out your speakers.
The entire show comes across as if it were originally done in Japanese, and then the producers hired some of their college buddies with pizza and beer to record some voices in English, then the guy doing the mixing was the guy who owned the most expensive car stereo.
Honestly, we're likely to stop watching not because of the plot, but because of the voice acting. It's that bad. And it's all the more amazing because of the amount of talent they're throwing at it.
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GothBard and I watched the first episode of Invincible last night on NetFlix, and, while they managed to make it interesting enough that we want to watch episode 2, it's a fantastic example of why the people behind the scenes matter.
The writing has enough really clever scenes to make up for the really terrible ones.
** spoiler omitted **The animation was perfectly mediocre: It told the story, but neither wowed us nor made us wince.
Unfortunately, then came the voice acting. J.K. Simmons has a storied career as a voice actor, from Anastasia to Zootopia, he's no stranger to doing voices for animation. He's about as exciting as a wooden block. ALL of the voice actors are. There's no lack of talent in the list, so you have to blame the voice coach/director for eliciting such terrible performances. The mixing is as bad as some of the worst 1970s Japanese dubs, where you have to crank the volume up near full to hear what the heck the characters are saying, and then an action scene starts and blows out your speakers.
The entire show comes across as if...
Punching someone in the face will not get you expelled in Wisconsin, it might land you detention but that's about it.
GothBard and I watched the first episode of Invincible last night on NetFlix, and, while they managed to make it interesting enough that we want to watch episode 2, it's a fantastic example of why the people behind the scenes matter.
The writing has enough really clever scenes to make up for the really terrible ones.
** spoiler omitted **The animation was perfectly mediocre: It told the story, but neither wowed us nor made us wince.
Unfortunately, then came the voice acting. J.K. Simmons has a storied career as a voice actor, from Anastasia to Zootopia, he's no stranger to doing voices for animation. He's about as exciting as a wooden block. ALL of the voice actors are. There's no lack of talent in the list, so you have to blame the voice coach/director for eliciting such terrible performances. The mixing is as bad as some of the worst 1970s Japanese dubs, where you have to crank the volume up near full to hear what the heck the characters are saying, and then an action scene starts and blows out your speakers.
The entire show comes across as if...
very interesting criticism. And this is me talking.
Punching someone in the face will not get you expelled in Wisconsin, it might land you detention but that's about it.GothBard and I watched the first episode of Invincible last night on NetFlix, and, while they managed to make it interesting enough that we want to watch episode 2, it's a fantastic example of why the people behind the scenes matter.
The writing has enough really clever scenes to make up for the really terrible ones.
** spoiler omitted **The animation was perfectly mediocre: It told the story, but neither wowed us nor made us wince.
Unfortunately, then came the voice acting. J.K. Simmons has a storied career as a voice actor, from Anastasia to Zootopia, he's no stranger to doing voices for animation. He's about as exciting as a wooden block. ALL of the voice actors are. There's no lack of talent in the list, so you have to blame the voice coach/director for eliciting such terrible performances. The mixing is as bad as some of the worst 1970s Japanese dubs, where you have to crank the volume up near full to hear what the heck the characters are saying, and then an action scene starts and blows out your speakers.
The entire show comes across as if...
In the hallway during class break? Every school I know of you have to "take it outside" because fights inside the school are verboten.
I've known kids who got beat up in the bathroom, on their walk home, in the schoolyard, under the bleachers, or anywhere else adults wouldn't see them. I've seen fights inside the school in the hallway. I've never seen a fight inside the school in the hallway that didn't end up in at least suspensions.
Work is getting to me a bit today.
Usually fights were suspension when I was growing up in Florida. "In school suspension (ISS)", actually, which is where they basically put you in long term detention during class for multiple days. It's a bit of a slap on the wrist, really. The only time I saw someone get suspended is if they were already on ISS and they fought someone else on ISS.
The only time I heard of anyone getting expelled was for assaulting a teacher.
Or that time my brother was selling weed from his truck in the school parking lot to other students... But he got his GED like a month later and went on to college early as a result, so it wasn't really a punishment.
Punching someone in the face will not get you expelled in Wisconsin, it might land you detention but that's about it.GothBard and I watched the first episode of Invincible last night on NetFlix, and, while they managed to make it interesting enough that we want to watch episode 2, it's a fantastic example of why the people behind the scenes matter.
The writing has enough really clever scenes to make up for the really terrible ones.
** spoiler omitted **The animation was perfectly mediocre: It told the story, but neither wowed us nor made us wince.
Unfortunately, then came the voice acting. J.K. Simmons has a storied career as a voice actor, from Anastasia to Zootopia, he's no stranger to doing voices for animation. He's about as exciting as a wooden block. ALL of the voice actors are. There's no lack of talent in the list, so you have to blame the voice coach/director for eliciting such terrible performances. The mixing is as bad as some of the worst 1970s Japanese dubs, where you have to crank the volume up near full to hear what the heck the characters are saying, and then an action scene starts and blows out your speakers.
The entire show comes across as if...
In the hallway during class break? Every school I know of you have to "take it outside" because fights inside the school are verboten.
I've known kids who got beat up in the bathroom, on their walk home, in the schoolyard, under the bleachers, or anywhere else adults wouldn't see them. I've seen fights inside the school in the hallway. I've never seen a fight inside the school in the hallway that didn't end up in at least suspensions.
There was at least a fight or two in the halls in my school every week. Rarely was there even a detention given.
Midwest be different.
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I got my first Moderna shot this morning, and I gotta say, it just sucks. There's been no weird mark of the beast appearing on my skin; no evil whispers of Bill Gates in my ear trying to justify vaccine patents or closed source software, not even a mild hallucination of Steve Ballmer "dancing"; and I still can't even sense any cell signals, 5G or otherwise.
How am I supposed to know it even works? /s
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I got my first Moderna shot this morning, and I gotta say, it just sucks. There's been no weird mark of the beast appearing on my skin; no evil whispers of Bill Gates in my ear trying to justify vaccine patents or closed source software, not even a mild hallucination of Steve Ballmer "dancing"; and I still can't even sense any cell signals, 5G or otherwise.
How am I supposed to know it even works? /s
Obviously you're in the control group and received a placebo.
Midwest be different.
Nah. Cali be different. Cap, Vany and I all had the "fights are punished with a slap on the wrist". You're the outlier, NH.
No, you're both right. California IS an outlier compared to the rest of the country, but the Midwest is pretty different.
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No, you're both right. California IS an outlier compared to the rest of the country, but the Midwest is pretty different.
"It's a floor wax AND a dessert topping!"
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I got my first Moderna shot this morning, and I gotta say, it just sucks. There's been no weird mark of the beast appearing on my skin; no evil whispers of Bill Gates in my ear trying to justify vaccine patents or closed source software, not even a mild hallucination of Steve Ballmer "dancing"; and I still can't even sense any cell signals, 5G or otherwise.
How am I supposed to know it even works? /s
Maybe the update second dose will patch the bugs?
