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Funny/depressing conversation from work today:
Customer: "How long have you been working at this job?"
Me: "About 8 months."
Customer: "No, I mean, at any comic book store."
Me: "About 8 months."
Customer: "Really? What did you do before?"
Me: "I was a construction worker."
Customer: "Why did you leave? They make really great money."
Me: "Health problems. Started getting arthritis in my knees, and my back started going bad, along with some other stuff."
Customer: "Wow, that's bad. That's stuff that usually happens to old people, and you're what, 40? 45?"
Me: "Try 10 or 15 years younger."
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"You're only mid-forties, why are you moving slower than your coworker who is half again your age?"
ok. Was always curious. I wonder what stereotypes you guys have of us over there.is it the fat boy in Lederhosen? he is funny, no problem at all with the stereotypeI cannot hear or read the words guten tag without thinking of ooter(sp) from the Simpsons. Can't help but wonder what German folk think of the character, or what Australians think of the episode roasting them thoroughly.Guten Morgen, aeglos! Wie geht's?
Although it's probably more Guten Tag for you at this point in time.
for tourist
as rhe longboat said, the Simpsons rich Texan, no matter where in the US. ou are from or which color you are. :-)in my area there where a lot of US military and the GIs all seemed like a crossover between Tom Cruse top gun character and the charly sheen parody of him
most Germans think there is only bubblegum English in the US, no dialects or accents and differences between black, white, hispanic are hard to grasp
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ok. Was always curious. I wonder what stereotypes you guys have of us over there.is it the fat boy in Lederhosen? he is funny, no problem at all with the stereotypeI cannot hear or read the words guten tag without thinking of ooter(sp) from the Simpsons. Can't help but wonder what German folk think of the character, or what Australians think of the episode roasting them thoroughly.Guten Morgen, aeglos! Wie geht's?
Although it's probably more Guten Tag for you at this point in time.
for tourist
as rhe longboat said, the Simpsons rich Texan, no matter where in the US. ou are from or which color you are. :-)
in my area there where a lot of US military and the GIs all seemed like a crossover between Tom Cruse top gun character and the charly sheen parody of himmost Germans think there is only bubblegum English in the US, no dialects or accents and differences between black, white, hispanic are hard to grasp
urgh, sorry for the many misspellings, I was typing on the phone while rocking the baby stroller
A friendly, if sassy, aberration-flesh guzzling buzzard.
ok. Was always curious. I wonder what stereotypes you guys have of us over there.is it the fat boy in Lederhosen? he is funny, no problem at all with the stereotypeI cannot hear or read the words guten tag without thinking of ooter(sp) from the Simpsons. Can't help but wonder what German folk think of the character, or what Australians think of the episode roasting them thoroughly.Guten Morgen, aeglos! Wie geht's?
Although it's probably more Guten Tag for you at this point in time.
for tourist
as rhe longboat said, the Simpsons rich Texan, no matter where in the US. ou are from or which color you are. :-)
in my area there where a lot of US military and the GIs all seemed like a crossover between Tom Cruse top gun character and the charly sheen parody of himmost Germans think there is only bubblegum English in the US, no dialects or accents and differences between black, white, hispanic are hard to grasp
what is bubblegum English?
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Funny/depressing conversation from work today:
Customer: "How long have you been working at this job?"
Me: "About 8 months."
Customer: "No, I mean, at any comic book store."
Me: "About 8 months."
Customer: "Really? What did you do before?"
Me: "I was a construction worker."
Customer: "Why did you leave? They make really great money."
Me: "Health problems. Started getting arthritis in my knees, and my back started going bad, along with some other stuff."
Customer: "Wow, that's bad. That's stuff that usually happens to old people, and you're what, 40? 45?"
Me: "Try 10 or 15 years younger."
Its not the years its the mileage
GOOD MORNING TREEFORTNAM!!!
A busy week ahead. But first, the gym!
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Morning all. What did I miss?
Well, a monkey and a goblin joined in a gladiator event to praise God-Emperor Ronaldus Maximus, and managed to get to the end of it more or less intact. They then proceeded to the Mortimer mansion where they joined the Mystery Gang and attempted to discover who killed Mr Mortimer with what in which eldrich haunted room. Then they...
Wait that's my soap opera!
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or what Australians think of the episode roasting them thoroughly.American shows tend to get Aussie accents pretty wrong. They either sound British or more ocker than you ever hear people speak ... until you go to some small remote town and realise, wow, some of us really do sound like that.
The funny thing is that sometimes you'll have a genuine Australian actor on an American TV show speaking in their Aussie accent - and it still sounds wrong to our (Australian) ears, even though that is presumably their actual accent. I don't know if its just that the contrast is jarring, or if the Australian actors tend to ham up their accent to what they think Americans expect them to sound like.
That's funny.
I've noticed the same thing happen on TV shows/Movies that are supposed to be in New Orleans. The actors have a terrible accent that does exist, but not usually in the city. And/or they drop the term "Chere'" every other breath. Again, it is used a lot, but not THAT often! :/'NCIS New Orleans', as much as I like the show, is guilty of this as well. Although not nearly as badly as some previous attempts at a series set in New Orleans. :)
You are more likely to hear the term "Makin' Groceries" used often in the city. Although the Older generations do use "Chere'" more often than the younger.
Its not the years its the mileageFunny/depressing conversation from work today:
Customer: "How long have you been working at this job?"
Me: "About 8 months."
Customer: "No, I mean, at any comic book store."
Me: "About 8 months."
Customer: "Really? What did you do before?"
Me: "I was a construction worker."
Customer: "Why did you leave? They make really great money."
Me: "Health problems. Started getting arthritis in my knees, and my back started going bad, along with some other stuff."
Customer: "Wow, that's bad. That's stuff that usually happens to old people, and you're what, 40? 45?"
Me: "Try 10 or 15 years younger."
Amen brother, Amen.
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A basic apologies to any/all of my PbP friends who may be hanging out here.
I am trying to catch & keep up with all of my threads, but I've been at a strange time-warping dimensional crossroads as far as my time goes recently. Like, all Summer.
Between work, (and stress) and my wife's work (and stress), spending 'Family time' each night, and my daughter being in a summer musical, and my son being at that age where he needs some quality dad time, and my PbP's and Online games I play with all of my friends, (and being supportive of my old college buddies in their hours of need),...
I feel it can best be summed up by Dr Who.
"People think that Time is a linear progression of Cause and Effect. When really it's more like a big, ball of, Timey-Wimey, Wibbly-Wobbly,.... Yeah. That got away from me there."
So, if I vanish for a day or 2, I'm not dead (I'm actually losing weight, slowly, and my blood pressure is down! Add THAT to the 'Busy/Stress' list!) :) Just trying hard to juggle everything, and be honest with myself about priorities while doing it.
Thank you for your understanding, you may now return to your regularly scheduled Treefort channel!
That is all. :)
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We had company leave yesterday. And more company is arriving today.
Can I redo the guest room in that time?
No. Because it looks like I'm going to be working 12 hours today. Good luck, John!
YOU CAN DO IT JOHN! PUNCH YOUR BOSS IN THE FACE!
what is bubblegum English?ok. Was always curious. I wonder what stereotypes you guys have of us over there.is it the fat boy in Lederhosen? he is funny, no problem at all with the stereotypeI cannot hear or read the words guten tag without thinking of ooter(sp) from the Simpsons. Can't help but wonder what German folk think of the character, or what Australians think of the episode roasting them thoroughly.Guten Morgen, aeglos! Wie geht's?
Although it's probably more Guten Tag for you at this point in time.
for tourist
as rhe longboat said, the Simpsons rich Texan, no matter where in the US. ou are from or which color you are. :-)
in my area there where a lot of US military and the GIs all seemed like a crossover between Tom Cruse top gun character and the charly sheen parody of himmost Germans think there is only bubblegum English in the US, no dialects or accents and differences between black, white, hispanic are hard to grasp
well, it is the way Americans speak in contrast to BBC English
also we Europeans expect the stereotypical American to always and anytime loudly chew bubblegum/cheweing gum while speaking
I haven't had bubblegum in years.
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Morning all. What did I miss?Well, a monkey and a goblin joined in a gladiator event to praise God-Emperor Ronaldus Maximus, and managed to get to the end of it more or less intact. They then proceeded to the Mortimer mansion where they joined the Mystery Gang and attempted to discover who killed Mr Mortimer with what in which eldrich haunted room. Then they...
Wait that's my soap opera!
"May the invisible hand of capitalism guide my shot!"
My fave bit was after the Cthulu Doobie Doo game when the other players told me they were scared of being in the same room with my Ms. Scarlett because I kept disappearing and going off by myself even though all I was doing was making cucumber sandwiches and delivering them to all the other characters.
Hee hee!
Glad you made the trip, Monkey Man!
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Morning all. What did I miss?Well, a monkey and a goblin joined in a gladiator event to praise God-Emperor Ronaldus Maximus, and managed to get to the end of it more or less intact. They then proceeded to the Mortimer mansion where they joined the Mystery Gang and attempted to discover who killed Mr Mortimer with what in which eldrich haunted room. Then they...
Wait that's my soap opera!
"May the invisible hand of capitalism guide my shot!"
My fave bit was after the Cthulu Doobie Doo game when the other players told me they were scared of being in the same room with my Ms. Scarlett because I kept disappearing and going off by myself even though all I was doing was making cucumber sandwiches and delivering them to all the other characters.
Hee hee!
Glad you made the trip, Monkey Man!
I think the funniest thing was you rolled a natural 20 just after invoking the invisible hand.
Hayek Invictus smiled upon your venture!
It was a blast! Say hi to Lola and Humphrey!
Speculations about his motives vary but it's rather certain that a week of massive protests against those pieces of legislation were influential, as did threats of economic sanctions by the rest of EU. There might be also some sort of power play within the party involved too.
The influential figures of the majority party assembled an emergency meeting immediately after president publicly declared his wish to veto the legislation. They refused commenting yet, but the party leader (and a twin brother of a late Polish president was supposedly fuming with anger).
The protest will be probably continued to maintain pressure on the government and parliament to uphold constitution and prevent them from trying passing similar legislation soon.
There is a darker side, though: one of the ministers publicly claimed that opposition is in service to foreign powers and preparing terrorist attacks on the ruling party... And that the government should be ready for using any possible means to prevent it...
~winces~ Ouch! Good luck over there, Drejk.
~one roll of SweeTarts later~ I am awake!
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A local Syracuse personality reads some local Craigslist ads (spoken word; NSFW):
I live in New York's twilight zone.
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A local Syracuse personality reads some local Craigslist ads (spoken word; NSFW):
I live in New York's twilight zone.
A local Syracuse personality reads some local Craigslist ads (spoken word; NSFW), part II:
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well, it is the way Americans speak in contrast to BBC English
also we Europeans expect the stereotypical American to always and anytime loudly chew bubblegum/cheweing gum while speaking
Like, we talk all like, English and junk. Not like those guys from Canadia
Grey dawn today
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Delving into Tolkien's Unfinished Tales. I feel like I am studying for a term paper. It is just too fragmented to be other than an apocrypha of his work.
A local Syracuse personality reads some local Craigslist ads (spoken word; NSFW):
I live in New York's twilight zone.
Maybe we should show this to Rone?
Does he play bass, though?
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Grey dawn today
Here as well. :/
And the weatherman said the rest of the week we would have LESS rain?!?
<Sigh> I want a job where I can be wrong over half the time, and get paid a b#^^-load to do it! :P
Well, technically he's not the wrong one. It's the source of his weather forecasts. Weather is in constant flux, and despite the massive advances in the ability to predict weather, there are still so many random variables it's impossible to be right all the time. That being said, a butt load of money for *reporting* bad information would still be a good thing.
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LOL,
I miss this retired weather-gentleman from New Orleans. He was ancient when I first moved there, (21 years ago) and he had long ago retired. BUT they 'pulled him out of the freezer' as we used to say, every time there was a Hurricane that even looked like it MIGHT even come near the Big Easy.
This elder, retired weatherman, (Sorry, I forgot his name. My wife will know) used nothing more than a whiteboard and erasable markers. He refused to use the electronics the other weathermen had at the station. He would look at the same reports that all of the others were looking at, and draw his predictions for the storm on his whiteboard. They were usually completely different than all of the other weathermen's predictions.
To my knowledge, He. Was. Never. Wrong. :/
Man knew his business. That is all.
RIP weatherman who actually knew what he was doing.
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How the national weather service predicts weather (or did fifteen years ago): They get a bunch of meteorologists in a room (lets say ten) have them look over the various models and then give their opinion.
So, if you have seven meteorologists that think it's going to rain you have a 70% chance of rain. :-)
David Weber's On Basilisk Station is currently free. The Audible version is also $2.
David Weber's On Basilisk Station is currently free. The Audible version is also $2.
As of 10:30 PM last night here in the USA. I can't say what it is now.
Whee! Overnight craziness
I think his point is that Baen has a "free library" of ebooks, and that On Basilisk Station has been available there for quite some time.
Look up Baen free kindle books at Amazon.com.
And now, the day part of my shift
Grar. Steam has connection issues again...
At least 13 MB/s allows for nice and quick updating...
Perks of my work: no one really cares when I am 20 minutes late...
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Perks of my work:
I work alone.
I have access to computer
My work load is (usually) not stressful
It's storming, and there are flash flood warnings. I have to drive in the mountains for about 3 hours. Not looking forward to it. Taking the 4WD.
In other news, the person whose car alarm is going off in the apartment complex parking lot is still asleep. Nobody else is.
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I don't understand why they don't have a 10 minute 'fnck it' switch off on those things. I mean, if it's been going on for that long, everyone has pretty much been alerted, yes?
It's storming, and there are flash flood warnings. I have to drive in the mountains for about 3 hours. Not looking forward to it. Taking the 4WD.
In other news, the person whose car alarm is going off in the apartment complex parking lot is still asleep. Nobody else is.
be careful treppa. We can't afford to lose you.
All is well, except lesbians keep punching me, and I don't know why.
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All is well, except lesbians keep punching me, and I don't know why.
this is an unusual Thursday, it seems.