I Had A Random Thought...

[Gormongous]

I have a shitty tipping story too.  A few years ago I was coming back from a visit to China and I had a layover in Chicago.  I got a hotel room for the night away from the airport and I got a cab to take me to the hotel.  When I got there, the driver told me, in a very thick foreign accent, "In the US we tip".  He was rude the entire ride and didn't get out of the cab to help with the luggage.  He didn't even pop the trunk until I asked and he was annoyed to do so.  I may be of Chinese decent, but I was born in the US.  I've lived here my entire life.  I have what is probably best described as an American Midwest accent.  The fact that the driver was clearly from another country didn't bother me.  The fact that he was a jackass did bother me.  I was going to tip him, but that last comment really pissed me off and after I got my bags, I paid the fare and I told him "In the US we DO tip, but not to assholes" and went into the hotel.  He yelled something at me and drove off.  As I was checking in, one of the bellhops who overheard the whole thing told me it wasn't the first time he'd seen that guy be rude and he was glad I told him off.  That bellhop got a huge tip.

 

I've heard your voice when we played Monaco together, so I think I'm justified in saying that only someone not from this country could mistake you as not from this country. What a weird unpleasant dude, not deserving of any tip.

[SecretAsianMan]

I can understand someone casually making the mistake that a Chinese person with 2 large bags walking out of an international airport isn't native to the US.  I don't especially like the idea of that being an automatic assumption, but I can forgive it.  If that was all he said to me, I would been annoyed but I would have let it slide.  But combine that with the fact that he was clearly just being a dick means that he didn't give a shit about courtesy so I didn't either.

 

I don't know if that counts as casual racism but it sure pissed me off, especially considering I had just come from a 14+ hour flight.  I'm kind of getting annoyed just remembering it.

[SecretAsianMan]

On the way home this morning I drove by a sign that said "Got Far Wood".  I think he means "I have fire wood".

[Frenetic Pony]

On the way home this morning I drove by a sign that said "Got Far Wood".  I think he means "I have fire wood".

 

Maybe it's a unique kind of boner, one that's far away.

[Gormongous]

At the far end of the internet, on a forum dead for nine years, I found a thread where people were roleplaying different characters from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels fighting in a multi-day battle royale. There were several hundred posts before they got bored and quit. The internet is a strange, strange place.

 

Actually, of all the detritus that the worldwide web throws up, dead forums may be my favorite. If they haven't been overtaken and buried in spam, they're a living record for the decline and fall of a society in miniature. Invariably, there's a final stand among a dozen members for some months, until life takes out one of them and then they all break. It's remarkable. Sometimes I go check out the old ClanBOB forums, since they were one of the first forums of which I was even aware. They've been at that final "brown dwarf" stage for a couple years now, just heartbreaking.

[Patrick R]

At the far end of the internet, on a forum dead for nine years, I found a thread where people were roleplaying different characters from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels fighting in a multi-day battle royale. There were several hundred posts before they got bored and quit. The internet is a strange, strange place.

 

Actually, of all the detritus that the worldwide web throws up, dead forums may be my favorite. If they haven't been overtaken and buried in spam, they're a living record for the decline and fall of a society in miniature. Invariably, there's a final stand among a dozen members for some months, until life takes out one of them and then they all break. It's remarkable. Sometimes I go check out the old ClanBOB forums, since they were one of the first forums of which I was even aware. They've been at that final "brown dwarf" stage for a couple years now, just heartbreaking.

 

This really tickles my brain. I'd love a link.

[SecretAsianMan]

At the far end of the internet, on a forum dead for nine years, I found a thread where people were roleplaying different characters from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast novels fighting in a multi-day battle royale. There were several hundred posts before they got bored and quit. The internet is a strange, strange place.

 

Actually, of all the detritus that the worldwide web throws up, dead forums may be my favorite. If they haven't been overtaken and buried in spam, they're a living record for the decline and fall of a society in miniature. Invariably, there's a final stand among a dozen members for some months, until life takes out one of them and then they all break. It's remarkable. Sometimes I go check out the old ClanBOB forums, since they were one of the first forums of which I was even aware. They've been at that final "brown dwarf" stage for a couple years now, just heartbreaking.

 

The one thing that drives me nuts with stuff like that is when I have a question about something and come across an old forum post of someone else asking the same question, only to have the question be completely unanswered because the forum is dead.  Or even worse, someone says they have an answer but never posted it and my 8 year old question remains unanswered.

[Ucantalas]

The one thing that drives me nuts with stuff like that is when I have a question about something and come across an old forum post of someone else asking the same question, only to have the question be completely unanswered because the forum is dead.  Or even worse, someone says they have an answer but never posted it.

The worst is when they reply to themselves, or make an edit at the end, with "Never mind, I figured it out!"

WHY WONT YOU TELL ME HOW???

[melmer]

i'll just dump this shit here

 

Best resume ever

http://www.rleonardi.com/interactive-resume/

 

Periodic Table of Swearing

http://ptos.moderntoss.com/

[Gormongous]

This really tickles my brain. I'd love a link.

 

The battle royale or my favorite dead forum? I was on a school computer for the former, I hope I can find it again.

[brkl]

Gormongous' post sent me on a nostalgia spree for about two minutes and I found out Erkki also used to post on the forum of vapourware adventure game engine SCRAMM. When I was far younger.

[Zeusthecat]

I had a random thought within a random thought. 

 

I was thinking about how smart dolphins were and how it is pretty amazing that they are capable of using tools. Then I started thinking that maybe that isn't necessarily a good thing because if they can use tools then they could be capable of first degree murder. Then I thought about posting that thought here but stopped myself when I started wondering if someone else had posted that same thought on the internet before. If someone had thought the same thing as me and posted it on the internet then someone here would surely see my post, think I was poaching someone else's idea, and provide me a link to the original poster making me feel like an idiot. But by posting my original thought along with the thought that I thought that made me worry about posting what I thought I hope to mitigate that risk.

 

Also, I am now fantasizing about a dolphin plotting to murder its partner's lover. Dolphins are jealous creatures in my mind.

[Ucantalas]

That was a hard thought to follow.

[tegan]

You know, dolphins have prehensile penises.

 

So they can use them to like, pick stuff up.

 

Dolphins will also rape other species, including humans.

 

 

Dolphins are sexual deviants is what I'm saying.

[Ucantalas]

Yeah, screw dolphins!

Wait, no, bad idea.

[SecretAsianMan]

Maybe this is a Life thread type of thing, but it's really random so it goes here.

 

I got a package yesterday from Amazon.  It had my name on it.  It had my address on it.  Inside was a new copy of The Croods on Blu-Ray.  I didn't order it and I definitely didn't pay for it.  Does Amazon have some weird program where they send out random movies to customers?

[Frenetic Pony]

Maybe this is a Life thread type of thing, but it's really random so it goes here.

 

I got a package yesterday from Amazon.  It had my name on it.  It had my address on it.  Inside was a new copy of The Croods on Blu-Ray.  I didn't order it and I definitely didn't pay for it.  Does Amazon have some weird program where they send out random movies to customers?

 

Nyet, I would change your amazon password immediately.

[SecretAsianMan]

The thing is, I checked and it's not in my order or payment history, so Amazon doesn't have a record of it either.  I'll probably change it anyway just to be on the safe side, but I'm still kind of puzzled.

[Roswell47]

I just bought a Xbox 360 controller for my PC. It's the first controller I've touched since playing Halo 2 on the original Xbox, at my friends house. Much like the Wii U... It's different! First game I played with it was Spelunky and I got to 1-4 and about $35000 in the daily challenge so I consider that a win.

[Patrick R]

Yeah, I got a wired 360 controller specifically to play the original Spelunky. But it turns out it also makes Super Meat Boy waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better.

[Apelsin]

Maybe this is a Life thread type of thing, but it's really random so it goes here.

 

I got a package yesterday from Amazon.  It had my name on it.  It had my address on it.  Inside was a new copy of The Croods on Blu-Ray.  I didn't order it and I definitely didn't pay for it.  Does Amazon have some weird program where they send out random movies to customers?

 

Well, you can set the delivery adress to anything you want so it's possible someone else bought it and had it delivered to your adress?

Was it on your wishlist maybe?

[SecretAsianMan]

Well, you can set the delivery adress to anything you want so it's possible someone else bought it and had it delivered to your adress?

Was it on your wishlist maybe?

 

I've never even searched for the movie.  If someone did sent it to me, that would be a really odd gift.

[Ucantalas]

Today, for the first time in years, I bought some orange juice. I was in a store, looking to get maybe a case of pop, and there was a sale on cases of cans of juice, so I got some orange juice. I had forgotten how incredibly delicious orange juice is.

But now I've drank all 12 cans, and decided to look at the nutrition info. Each can contains 130% of the recommended daily value of Vitamin C. So today I have consumed somewhere in the neighborhood of 1560% of my recommended amount of Vitamin C. ...can you overdose on Vitamin C? Am I gonna die or be in horrible pain? I am not looking forward to the next few days if either of those is the case.

[TychoCelchuuu]

I take 833% of the recommended daily dose of Vitamin C each day. My dentist told me to do it and said it's good for my gums. I think he was right because whenever it runs out or I go out of town and don't take it along, my gums get more sore.

[elmuerte]

I heard that when you regularly consume way too much vitamin C you will start to glow in the dark.