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Friendly reminder that depending on where in the world you live, it's Valentines Day today or tomorrow. If that's the sort of thing you're in to, don't forget! Don't be a dummy like me and leave your gift in the shopping cart then wonder why you haven't received a shipping notification! Also even if you're not into silly made up holidays (and I so am not), it's a great excuse to get your SO some sexy undies.
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ExplodingSims posted:So today I got a job I don't actually want, and I'm not sure what to do. Yo they would gently caress you over if the situation was reversed so it is your CAPITALISTIC DUTY to return the favor. Work as long as you want then stop.
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ExplodingSims posted:I want to get back to work, and soon, but it seems like it'd be kinda awkward to be there for a few days and then be like peace out if a proper commercial company hires me. I've learned the hard way that companies are not going to be loyal to you, their employee, so you have to do what is best for you, because the employers will not. As has been said, go in, do the best job you can so that if you quit in two weeks you can look at the check they cut and honestly say that you gave them a good value and fair work for that check, and you then should have no problem looking yourself in the mirror and not feeling guilty about doing what you need to do for your own good.
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Man... Going from sea level to 8,000’ plus elevation is brutal. Hitting me hard this year
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ilkhan posted:You do realize I think trade jobs are respectable and more people should consider them or we're gonna be hosed in 10 years when we have a surplus of people who can write executive summaries but can't fix a faucet, right? Also I don't have a degree and wear jeans to work every day. Also I've never read Ayn Rand. I'm not gonna commit a personal attack, because that's how we lose the privilege of being able to actually mention politics...but that's 100% how you come off, intended or not. I disagree with you whole heartedly on a multitude if things, but giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're a cool dude either way. It's a perception thing. Switching topics. After talking to all these old dudes, and given the time that I'm willing to go out, my social circle consists of old dudes...goddamn I want to start a podcast that is just bullshitting with those guys.
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 Hnng I'm 30 and so scared. Fast-track 20-month zero-to-hero RN degree program. 5 days a week, not including clinicals later on. 5x 16-week semesters with a week in-between. Total cost to me will be around 30k. Normally, would take 3.5-4 years to complete, so I'm happy to pay the $15k "penalty" for doing this program, but gently caress I'm so scared. Thankfully, I just secured an apartment across the street from the campus 
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Feb 14, 2018 04:26
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:
Hey man, it's a big, scary jump, but nothing ventured, nothing gained, and you seem to be capable of handling it. You got this mang.
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Good luck MGS! This HAS to be a better choice than getting paid those scrub wages that Rural Metro was paying for the next several decades.
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Feb 14, 2018 04:54
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:
Hey man, my cousin just banged out his RN a year or so ago and he's drat near 40. Just had a kid too so he's a busy guy. You got this.
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Feb 14, 2018 05:09
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Hell yeah, thanks much all. Just battening down the hatches to prepare to live a pauper's life for the next two years. Time to discover what being a student is like, 10 years later.
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Feb 14, 2018 05:14
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^^^^^^ 30 isn't old for this dude. MrChips posted:Dude its ilkhan you're talking about here. I disagree with him on basically all political issues, but I've met him IRL a couple times, and he was decent to any service employee (and everyone else) we encountered. Not everyone is like they are on the internet.
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Feb 14, 2018 06:30
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:
Lucky man! I'm trying to get picked up for the fall Depending on where you live, you'll make the $15k back in less than a year as an RN. They say like ~$50k starting, but after the night differential, weekend differential, holiday pay, and "voluntary" overtime that gets thrown at new nurses, it's closer to $80k
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GF is looking to replace her Honda FIt with a new Outback. Any major issues with either engine?Metal Geir Skogul posted:Hell yeah, thanks much all. Just battening down the hatches to prepare to live a pauper's life for the next two years. Time to discover what being a student is like, 10 years later. 
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Feb 14, 2018 06:36
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I wanna say one of the motors has possible oil consumption issues depending on year. Soobuttroo thread might have more info.
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The Door Frame posted:Pubg is too slow for my opinion siege literally has the best sound design of any fps right now and despite all the quirky character abilities it is very much a run and and shoot stuff game. if you liked CS back in the day but got burnt out on it and how horribly its aged into what its become today then i would highly recommend it because its like they decided to make an entire game around cs_militia and there are different kinds of shield users you can do some serious remodeling by shooting through walls and floors and ceilings and use cameras/drones to play tacticool recon
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slothrop posted:Friendly reminder that depending on where in the world you live, it's Valentines Day today or tomorrow. If that's the sort of thing you're in to, don't forget! Don't be a dummy like me and leave your gift in the shopping cart then wonder why you haven't received a shipping notification! My GF isn't coming to visit until Thursday, and she flat out told me "if you're going to get me any candy or flowers, wait until Thursday when it's on sale". Definitely gonna heed her advice. I'm a cheapass, and the Kroger I go to will probably be marking all the Valentine's Day stuff down tomorrow night.
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BraveUlysses posted:besides pubg what's a good multiplayer shooter game these days? i need something new Man you're missing out. PUBG is extremely good if you play it in first person/fpp with a few guys you know - I've been playing it with some old core friends and it's fantastic. Only game to ever give me actual sweaty-palm adrenaline rushes. Winning a round actually feels like an achievement. This damned game pulled back my old gaming buddies who have four kids and haven't been online in years. It really rewards teamwork and communication, so if you can get some friends together it's a great time. BF:1 suffers from typical battlefield server-setting balance issues, but if you can find a good hardcore server that chokes vehicle spawns it's really fun. Fantastic graphics if you've got a ~modernish system. Play the medic/marksman single-shot rifles and go 30-2 with pubbies screeching about hacks. Rainbow Six: Siege is probably what you want. The dev team updates it constantly and it's twitchy enough to give you a real edge if you play it enough. I'm a diehard old Redstorm/Tom Clancy fan and the game is a really good mix of R6 corner/pie-cutting gunwork and modern player-specialty stuff. I get schooled a lot by teenagers but meh. It's also remarkably fun in co-op mode with a friend.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:My GF isn't coming to visit until Thursday, and she flat out told me "if you're going to get me any candy or flowers, wait until Thursday when it's on sale". Lol you already failed
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the spyder posted:I pulled something in my neck/shoulder. Finally had enough after two sleepless nights and made a chiro appointment. While I was at it, I setup a physical. Might as well get told I'm outta shape twice! Dont go see a quack like a chiro in the first place - they'll just damage you more, all they are is outright bullshit. Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:My GF isn't coming to visit until Thursday, and she flat out told me "if you're going to get me any candy or flowers, wait until Thursday when it's on sale". Or just say gently caress Hallmark Day entirely and just gently caress.
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So yesterday kinda sucked, in terms of traffic. We had a cop get killed in the line of duty in a suburb last week. His funeral was yesterday. They shut down a major highway (US-75) from I-635 to SH-190 for the procession. It was one hell of a sight, fire trucks at several overpasses with ladders raised, even tow trucks at one overpass with an American flag, and what had to be close to 100 police cars leaving the church where the services were with their lights on with a little bit of fog. Our local drive time talk radio show (The Russ Martin Show) is a big supporter of first responders. They had someone call in; I haven't been able to verify this myself, but it sounded pretty AI (Russ Martin is a bit of a car guy anyway). A caller claimed to be a cop that was at the church service, and said the officer's body would not be in a typical hearse. He was supposedly transported via motorcycle side car from the church to the burial site.  But... it seriously hosed traffic, and I was on a quad (as in 4 orders on me) at the time.  I can't get too upset. I have a hell of a lot of respect for all first responders, and DFW still remembers the attack against cops a year and a half ago - lots of "back the blue" and black/white flag stickers with a blue line on cars. A friend/coworker had a rant about it while we were BSing on Voxer, and part of me wanted to slap the poo poo out of him.I'm very much a liberal, but I respect the hell out of first responders and military (which apparently doesn't go that well with "liberal" according to my family?). They're doing the jobs that I don't have the balls to do. COOL DICK LUKE posted:Lol you already failed Well I mean she won't be here until Thursday evening (she works until 2pm, 3 hour drive.... hitting the beginning of Dallas rush hour)... so she won't know if I bought them ahead of time or not. They'll probably be marked down tonight. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:just gently caress. Pretty much the plan.  If you guys don't see me posting again by Monday night, send help. And possibly viagra. Maybe some Plan B just in case.randomidiot fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Feb 14, 2018 |
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Hell yeah, thanks much all. Just battening down the hatches to prepare to live a pauper's life for the next two years. Time to discover what being a student is like, 10 years later. Don't let that intimidate you, it's some of the best life times... just being able to focus on something with no distractions. Older students generally do better, because they've got some life experience and know what's at stake. Good luck!
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Look it's big, but it's not interstate big. Flowers will have to do until tomorrow. On that note, I have to get up at 4:15am to make sure I make my 9am flight. I am not going to miss this part.
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£60 for a dozen high quality roses and a balloon delivered the the gfs office is money well spent imo
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fridge corn posted:£60 for a dozen high quality roses and a balloon delivered the the gfs office is money well spent imo She works big box retail, in the "secure" cash office, so she won't really be able to get anything delivered. She's also 3 hours away, otherwise I'd just show up in person with said flowers/balloon. Also I have $20 to last me until I get paid tomorrow, I'm gonna need that money for food and fuel. She's a lot better at the whole "adulting with money" thing than I am - enough that she'd likely get angry with me for dropping that kind of money on her. This sounds terrible, but she's also my escape plan - I've been wanting to move to the Austin area for years. We've known each other since 1993 or so, and went to high school together, we both migrated away from "home". I'm sick of DFW, and I can transfer all 3 jobs down there slothrop posted:Look it's big, but it's not interstate big. 
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ilkhan posted:GF is looking to replace her Honda FIt with a new Outback. Any major issues with either engine? https://www.torquenews.com/1084/update-subaru-oil-consumption-class-action-lawsuit My Subaru was one of the many cars affected. Subaru just topped me off on oil every time my low oil light turned on until that lawsuit came up. Newer models still use the same engine and there's rumbling on the internet of it still being an issue. I admit I'm biased against Subaru and I've been driving around a Honda but get a CRV instead. Seminal Flu posted:Don't let that intimidate you, it's some of the best life times... just being able to focus on something with no distractions. Older students generally do better, because they've got some life experience and know what's at stake. This so much. If I would've focused on my studies instead of surfing the internet or focusing on other things, I'd be in a much better spot than I am in now. Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:My GF isn't coming to visit until Thursday, and she flat out told me "if you're going to get me any candy or flowers, wait until Thursday when it's on sale". I don't know how Kroger does it but Wal Mart marks that poo poo down at midnight.
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Midnight of the 14th? or 15th? If it's the 14th... welp, I know where I'm going before I go to work today. I'll still hit Kroger for a balloon and flowers though. It's been several years since I worked for Walmart, and I wasn't with them long enough to do any holidays (and even then, I worked at a Neighborhood Market, which is strictly grocery).
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mariooncrack posted:https://www.torquenews.com/1084/update-subaru-oil-consumption-class-action-lawsuit Well man, the subaru dealer has been calling. Now I know why. Thanks for the heads up and CRV it is.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Midnight of the 14th? or 15th? Midnight of the 15th
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:Man you're missing out. I've got like 400 hours into pubg but between the hackers and being annoyed at getting owned (and the slow pace that comes from being owned and starting new rounds constantly) I just want something new. I'll check out r6 siege though
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BraveUlysses posted:
Man up and main Buck/Chanka like me.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:I'm very much a liberal, but I respect the hell out of first responders and military (which apparently doesn't go that well with "liberal" according to my family?). They're doing the jobs that I don't have the balls to do. I've got absolutely endless respect for life-saving first responders, firefighters, EMTs, all of those people. They do jobs I would never be able to do, and change so many lives for the better. When it comes to police and the military, I prefer to say I support the individual policemen and servicemen, the Good Guys who do hard jobs and help people. I am staunchly left-wing though, so I absolutely do not support the military as an institution, nor the actions some policemen/servicemen are made to do by their superiors. However, I do recognize that we do need a police force, and regrettably also the military, due to the currents conditions in society and the world. The military-industrial complex is poisonous and is killing the world. If we could break that apart, I would have somewhat less of a problem with the military, mostly limited to the blind obedience they drill into everyone who signs up.
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Grats MGS!The Door Frame posted:Lucky man! I'm trying to get picked up for the fall Alternatively get on with one of the traveling nurses things and make that 15k back the first month. Do it for a year and put back a pretty decent nest egg.
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Tide posted:Grats MGS! That's always possible. When the 1SG from my unit retired from the army he became a "traveling construction foreman" for a company that would bounce from big job to big job, all the way up to Alaska, and down to Florida. He bought a retrofitted vandweller short schoolbus from a traveling nurse that decided to settle down. Bus had solar water heaters, composting toilet, bed, etc. Essentially lived on the construction sites for a few years and saved money, same as the nurse prior to him did with the bus at various hospitals.
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I had a dream that I woke up to access to the mod forum with no explanation as to which forum I was supposed to moderate It was an extremely odd dream
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KozmoNaut posted:I've got absolutely endless respect for life-saving first responders, firefighters, EMTs, all of those people. They do jobs I would never be able to do, and change so many lives for the better. We're 100% agreement on this, I just couldn't articulate it the way you did. I used to have a "gently caress the cops" mentality until I became friends with a few cops. I don't agree with a lot of the poo poo they have to do, but I respect the hell out of them (and thanks to many interactions with them, along with stuff various people like nm have posted over the years, I know the place to argue a ticket is not the side of the road, unless you like to find out what a taser feels like). Out of all the cops I've been friends with, none of them agree 100% with the laws they're enforcing, but they can't look the other way on a lot of stuff, particularly since body cams have started rolling out. I absolutely support the good guys (also did you know that not only was "The Good Guys" was based and filmed right here in Dallas, they also used a friend's apartment for about 2 seconds in one episode? it was so weird seeing so many places I frequent shown in that series in general, too bad it just wasn't a good show overall). The bad fucks will either get fired or promoted.
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Edit: ^^poo poo, I was in the military and I agree 100% with his statement. But at the same time, ACAB until there are some big loving changes. Days like today I really wish I could code, because goddamn I could fix some simple rear end issues. One department uses a timesheet that populates an access database. The issue is the guy that created it 18 months ago is no longer here, and he created it as a .xsn file. Which means as soon as the systems updated to office 16, we lost functionality for that format. So now time sheets are having to be emailed, and the data entered manually into the database, until I can find a better solution. gently caress.
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What is the deal with people starting their post with “i mean”? Once you see it you cant unsee it everywhere Or am I being grumpy old man?
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:I had a dream that I woke up to access to the mod forum with no explanation as to which forum I was supposed to moderate Been there done that
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iwentdoodie posted:Days like today I really wish I could code, because goddamn I could fix some simple rear end issues. You can do it! Or get a consultant...
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