August chat thread: Did STR ever take a shit or what

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Goober Peas: Jun 30, 2007; Check out my 'Vette, bro

Rhyno posted:

So here's a neat thing!

My employer (specifically my department)) supplies 90% of the knurled titanium material used in vasectomies to the entire goddamned medical industry.

Guess who just passed his training script to make it?

Any of you guys who gets a V-cut in the future will have a little piece of my by your balls.

That wasn't what I had in mind :kiss:

Speaking of which - is there any reason why most doctors still do the snip and tie method instead of the much less invasive laser pew pew? I'm guessing it's cost and lack of laser, but the surgery time and recovery time is like significantly reduced and it's just as effective.

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# ? May 17, 2024 01:08

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Goober Peas posted:

That wasn't what I had in mind

Speaking of which - is there any reason why most doctors still do the snip and tie method instead of the much less invasive laser pew pew? I'm guessing it's cost and lack of laser, but the surgery time and recovery time is like significantly reduced and it's just as effective.

Hell if I know. I just know the very lengthy procedure to prepare this poo poo for the ball clampening.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 15:28

Suburban Dad: Jan 10, 2007; Well what's attached to a leash that it made itself?
The punchline is the way that you've been fuckin' yourself

Rhyno gets teabagged by AI once again.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 15:34

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Larrymer posted:

Rhyno gets teabagged by AI once again.

You guys are the ones who will have my dna on your balls without me having to touch any of you.

Edit: it would be amusing if one of you decides to forgo a vasectomy just because of my association with the production of the material.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 15:36

Olympic Mathlete: Feb 25, 2011

Rhyno posted:

You guys are the ones who will have my dna on your balls without me having to touch any of you.

I would hope your company has an autoclave at the very least...

# ? Aug 10, 2018 15:41

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Rhyno posted:

You guys are the ones who will have my dna on your balls without me having to touch any of you.

Edit: it would be amusing if one of you decides to forgo a vasectomy just because of my association with the production of the material.

I'm down. Just for kicks. If I fail as a self imposed mod challenge I will middle-name my child Rhyno

# ? Aug 10, 2018 15:45

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Olympic Mathlete posted:

I would hope your company has an autoclave at the very least...

YOU CAN'T ESCAPE MY DNA

# ? Aug 10, 2018 15:45

Goober Peas: Jun 30, 2007; Check out my 'Vette, bro

Rhyno posted:

YOU CAN'T ESCAPE MY DNA

# ? Aug 10, 2018 15:46

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

You guys have seen THE THING.

It's like that.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 15:47

Fo3: Feb 14, 2004; RAAAAARGH!!!! GIFT CARDS ARE FUCKING RETARDED!!!!

(I need a hug)

Rhyno posted:

Edit: it would be amusing if one of you decides to forgo a vasectomy just because of my association with the production of the material.

Depends, going by your stories: how many people would you forgo ever being in contact with in the first place? and would you recommend forgoing human contact in general instead?

# ? Aug 10, 2018 15:48

NitroSpazzz: Dec 9, 2006; You don't need style when you've got strength!

Grakkus posted:

Dead Cells is also amazing and is out on the Switch.

I held off buying this forever on PC but when saw it was available for pre-order on switch I did. For the first time in many years I'm glad I pre-ordered a game. Great for quick runs or extended gaming sessions and the switch feels like the perfect platform for it. Haven't tried it on the big screen yet, not sure how the art style will look that large.

Recommending Breath of the Wild just like everyone else. I've got a ton of hours into that game and most of them are just exploring and messing around.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 15:50

Suburban Dad: Jan 10, 2007; Well what's attached to a leash that it made itself?
The punchline is the way that you've been fuckin' yourself

Rhyno posted:

You guys are the ones who will have my dna on your balls without me having to touch any of you.

Edit: it would be amusing if one of you decides to forgo a vasectomy just because of my association with the production of the material.

I don't think anyone views you important enough (besides you :v:

) to care about such things. And it's a medical environment, your nasty should be sterilized off of it beforehand.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 15:50

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Fo3 posted:

Depends, going by your stories: how many people would you forgo ever being in contact with in the first place? and would you recommend forgoing human contact in general instead?

Humans are by all reports terrible. I have a laundry list of people I wish I'd never met. I mean for gently caress's sake, a girl I went on one date with 12 years ago continues to refer to me as her ex boyfriend for some reason.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 15:50

spog: Aug 7, 2004; It's your own bloody fault.

Rhyno posted:

Edit: it would be amusing if one of you decides to forgo a vasectomy just because of my association with the production of the material.

Virtually everyone you meet has or is a disaster of some kind.

No way am I letting my twin carbs near you, even by proxy.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 16:09

Goober Peas: Jun 30, 2007; Check out my 'Vette, bro

I like the taste of hot sauce

# ? Aug 10, 2018 16:13

Fo3: Feb 14, 2004; RAAAAARGH!!!! GIFT CARDS ARE FUCKING RETARDED!!!!

(I need a hug)

In the current climate that type of talk will put you on a watchlist

# ? Aug 10, 2018 16:16

Goober Peas: Jun 30, 2007; Check out my 'Vette, bro

Fo3 posted:

In the current climate that type of talk will put you on a watchlist

I'm ok with being on the Rolex list

# ? Aug 10, 2018 16:20

Dagen H: Mar 19, 2009; Hogertrafikomlaggningen

Idea: titanium-infused hot sauce, kinda like Goldschlager

# ? Aug 10, 2018 16:26

Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

Goober Peas posted:

I like the taste of hot sauce

I forgot about that. Lots of you have probably eaten a flake of my skin.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 16:40

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Hello darkness my old friend.

Power is out again. My door is facing the inner courtyard, with a 5-foot porch overhang, and rain is hitting it

Edit: Oh god the canal is near overflowing. That's probably not good, right? It's only like an inch of rain but lol nothing matters anymore.

I lost power for a couple hours last night too. Managed to wake me up from getting hot due to the fan shutting off, then again from the stupid loving home security system (that we've never used and I should just rip the gently caress out) beeping when it came back online.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 17:03

Liquid Communism: Mar 9, 2004

Rhyno posted:

I forgot about that. Lots of you have probably eaten a flake of my skin.

Wouldn't be the worst thing I've put in my mouth.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 17:04

cakesmith handyman: Jul 22, 2007; Pip-Pip old chap! Last one in is a rotten egg what what.

Rhyno posted:

I forgot about that. Lots of you have probably eaten a flake of my skin.

I was going to ask for your recipe so I could make some over here but err, maybe not.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 17:15

everdave: Nov 14, 2005

Rhyno posted:

So here's a neat thing!

Any of you guys who gets a V-cut in the future will have a little piece of my by your balls.

Uh I was actually going to actively look into setting one up in the next few weeks and then you have to tell us this poo poo

# ? Aug 10, 2018 17:34

Fender Anarchist: May 20, 2009; Fender Anarchist

Dagen H posted:

Idea: titanium-infused hot sauce, kinda like Goldschlager

If we're going with metal flakes, then the ultimate hot sauce is just grain alcohol with metallic sodium in it.

Oh you like those billion Scoville weapons-grade sauces? Try our new cesium variety.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 17:46

Goober Peas: Jun 30, 2007; Check out my 'Vette, bro

No skin off my teeth

# ? Aug 10, 2018 17:47

Dagen H: Mar 19, 2009; Hogertrafikomlaggningen

Enourmo posted:

grain alcohol with metallic sodium in it

Sometimes I sprinkle a little sodium in the still, just in case the revenuers try to sample the evidence.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 17:51

Liquid Communism: Mar 9, 2004

loving FedEx is forever on my poo poo list. 'We'll deliver this package by end of day today!' Great, 12 hour loving window... then I step out at noon to grab something from the car and find a 'you weren't here' tag on the goddamn door when I've been sitting six feet from it all morning.

Of course their phone customer service is a bot now, and does nothing remotely useful.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 19:07

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Grakkus posted:

I have a problem.

Is all the hydropnuematic bollocks all... hydropnuematically bollocking?

# ? Aug 10, 2018 19:10

randomidiot: May 12, 2006; by Fluffdaddy
(and can't post for 11 years!)

IOwnCalculus posted:

I lost power for a couple hours last night too. Managed to wake me up from getting hot due to the fan shutting off, then again from the stupid loving home security system (that we've never used and I should just rip the gently caress out) beeping when it came back online.

Find the main box for it (probably in the master closet or hall closet). Disconnect 1 terminal of the battery. Unplug AC adapter if it's there (if it's not, it's probably by the furnace). Done.

If you can't find the AC adapter, snip one of the AC wires going to the board (it's 24 VAC, so at most it might tingle).

# ? Aug 10, 2018 19:48

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

Yeah the only thing I'm not 100% sure on is where the power supply for it is, but I *think* it's the wall wart sharing a receptacle with my garage door opener. Of course I also think that might be the doorbell. Maybe both?

I probably should have ripped it out ages ago anyway because said wall wart is so loving cheap and wasteful that over the years it has discolored the plastic above its own coils.

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trouser chili: Mar 27, 2002; Unnngggggghhhhh

The end result of chronic overheating and oil starvation.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 20:39

Tomarse: Mar 7, 2001; Grr

InitialDave posted:

What's the most offensive joke I can make about something unexpected under the hood?

Is there a straight 6 under there or is it an econobox?

Do you prefer it naturally aspirated or forced induction?...

# ? Aug 10, 2018 20:41

Woolwich Bagnet: Apr 27, 2003

Goober Peas posted:

No skin off my teeth

Just teeth off your skin

# ? Aug 10, 2018 20:43

IOwnCalculus: Apr 2, 2003

trouser chili posted:

The end result of chronic overheating and oil starvation.

Which engine is this carnage from?

# ? Aug 10, 2018 21:13

trouser chili: Mar 27, 2002; Unnngggggghhhhh

Schwaggy. He decided to start knocking early on in the moving phase and had to be parked.

This one was spinning with the crankshaft.

But don't worry, I have new bearings!

Anyway I've sold the other house and promised I'd try and fix him if he'd drive to the new house, so now we're here.

trouser chili fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Aug 10, 2018

# ? Aug 10, 2018 21:44

Maker Of Shoes: Sep 4, 2006; AWWWW YISSSSSSSSSS
DIS IS MAH JAM!!!!!!

late to Switch chat but yeah BotW is probably one of the best games I've ever played in my life on any platform. Incredible attention to detail (gameplay). I've also sunk a ton of time into Octopath, Square's newest JRPG style game. The story is nonsensical but man does it just go to town on that 90's rpg itch i've had for way too long.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 22:11

nm: Jan 28, 2008; "I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

Humphreys posted:

Anyone here love having a battle that becomes personal to fight? Might just be my lovely personality. (Preface to story - I deal with a lot of gas. Not just in my butt, also in big rear end [hehe] commercial production and reserves).

Story (I'm bad at storytime and trying to be vague with people and companies so bare with me):
So Friday a replacement wigdet we use for SCADA needs a replacement HW licencing dongle. Supplier sends overnight which equals Monday AM. We can settle with that with physical testing/monitoring and overides (it's a planned situation pending eyeballs and hands).

Monday rolls around and nothing on the nice blue trucks and no envelopes of USB dongle goodness. As we are remote we deal and change shifts up to stay manual with poo poo. Tuesday is the day and we hold out as long as we can because we get the air freight in later in the day if it isnt day before (just hail marying it and overtime shift setup again incase worst).

NOPE

Wednesday morning I decide to query the tracking to see if there isn't anything hosed up and sent to another site. Mind you til now the tracking from monday to now (wednesday) is 'pending'.

Oh it now shows delivered and signed by 'Barry' at 14:46 06/08. So two days ago. So Barry gets a LOT of poo poo and blame for not bringing it to us, he denies a bunch. I believe him cos anything he gets he brings to me immediately to the point he will guide the courier to my desk and make me sign it as witness.

So I spend the better half of Wednesday on the phone to *Null_Freight* (not saying who) and everyone I talk to says package was delivered and it's our problem. Also manufactuer helpfully emailed POD and signatures to prove their case.

I've already by this stage got another overnight delivery of the dongles with new codes and reset the SCADA equipment for the new dongles.

Wednesday afternoon, nothing yet. We are burning overtime staff we (well corporate) can't afford. At end of day I check the mailbox and lo and behold the original dongle shipment is there. That box is checked daily as many of us get personal stuff sent we want on site. Someone at *Null_Freight* bitched out and found it and stuffed it in the mailbox. I know both the drivers of *Null_Freight* well and I drat well know which one hosed us over. I was interested so checked the POD and it had my name and signature at 12:24 08/08 (I was on lunch and off site at time of that POD).

One motherfucker hosed up his job so far as to commit Mail Fruad TWICE on a single delivery. In the 3 days I casually questioned both drivers 'hey man, maybe you missed a bag when we were chatting, might checking your truck again?' Gave anyone involved many 'outs'.

Nope, one of them doubled down and expected it to end with stuffing the bag in the box and signing it himself with my name. Also the first POD from monday is deleted off their system weirdly. Lucky I have a screencap and timestamps.

I am a very vengeful oval office and signing my name and my coworker on something potentially critical to civilian lives has me all in a war mood.

It's a loving war now. I have had identity theft before in my life on a lower level but this is different. What if poo poo blew up and last chain of custody was my (false) signature?

Looking up my options on legal prescedent on cases of federal mail fraud and identity theft. Someone is going down and it isn''t me or my offsider.

(Sorry thread for rambling)

If it wasn't sent via the actual mail, it probably isn't mail fraud. It might be other things.

# ? Aug 10, 2018 23:09

CAT INTERCEPTOR: Nov 9, 2004; Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Goober Peas posted:

Demuro is off the charts into irrational hate.

There's no such thing as irrational levels of hate for Demuro. It's al perfectly rational

# ? Aug 11, 2018 00:08

Mr-Spain: Aug 27, 2003; Bullshit... you can be mine.

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

There's no such thing as irrational levels of hate for Demuro. It's al perfectly rational

To clickbate etc...

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Devyl: Mar 27, 2005; It slices!

It dices!

It makes Julienne fries!

There's a near-mint '88 RX-7 na (non-turbo) convertible fairly close to me. Ran when parked 6 months ago. $1,000. This is gonna be horrible for me if it works out.

# ? Aug 11, 2018 07:20

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