CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

poo poo OP, goode catte

Powershift posted:

Merry christmas, everybody!

STR posted:

(speaking of, she doesn't like me using condoms, and I know drat well my pull out game isn't that great, so it's been Russian Roulette).

keykey posted:

Pretty much. Imagine if you will, getting really worked up emotionally over the cola wars because that's where we're at with politics. People just need to take a few years off of politics and realize it doesn't impact their life nearly as much as they're told it does.

keykey posted:

Forgive my sarcasm, but both my trans friends committed suicide in their early 40’s and as loving weird as it may seem were both staunch highly religious republicans, because California and anti-establishment as weird as it is to wrap your mind around that... Turns out hormones have a good chance of doing some wonderful poo poo to your brain which is why a psychologist is recommended at all times and tone of the reasons trans death is young. So to our trans posters out there, be safe and do everything to a T. Also, both had really hosed up, highly abusive childhoods which both of them point blank said that’s why they didn’t feel comfortable in their own bodies and felt like less of a man so they reassigned. Their plight had nothing to do with a party in power, but hormones and abusive childhoods are a cocktail for disaster, at least in both my friends. Thanks, now I really miss them.

Adiabatic posted:

How's everyone's day? Anything you're looking forward to?

The Door Frame posted:

She talked about how some day, she might accept the ring back, but without her, there's nothing keeping me in Illinois. I think I can finally get out of this place. If she decides that she wants to come with, cool, but I'm not going to stick around here longer than I need to

keykey posted:

If you're not getting paid to go, gently caress that noise.

mariooncrack posted:

My dad told me the other day that he was going to a meeting about in home care if he ever needs it.

You Am I posted:

Yeah my dad never had a plan (outside of the dark humour he had - "I'll keep a bottle of pills near my bed. The day you ask me what they are for and I can't remember, feed me them"), and when Alzheimers hit him hard I had to run around like a headless chook finding a place that would take him and actually care for his needs. It took four places to find the right one.

Elmnt80 posted:

I got bill collectors to stop for a solid month after I started hitting on the guy calling me with the most stereotypical flaming gay voice I could muster. The discomfort in the guys voice as he tried to go through his script as I tried to get him to tell me what he was wearing was absolutely palpable. They stopped again for a couple weeks again after I answered and acted like a pissed off redneck about to beat his wife for her talking to another man. Its been the same indian dude calling for that debt for the last 7 years. I sincerely hope my number comes up and he just sighs before dialing the number.

spog posted:

Don't get too flattered: he might just have been so desperate for a nicotine fix that he was trying to suck the smoke out of your lungs.

freelop posted:

That just put an image in my head of a hospital filled with doctors wearing gimp suits and other assorted leather garments

Queen Combat posted:

Hippie trans teetotaling medic mechanic? These are professionals! I'd be thrown in the loony bin. Or invited to parties. Nurses are weird.

E: I don't have class until 1400 tomorrow, watching The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition for the first time ever.

keykey posted:

I could imagine. We deal with rando's, but you were dealing with sickies 24/7. That's gotta be some bullshit.

Side note: Anybody else playing Fallout 76?

Fermented Tinal posted:

21yo kid was going too fast for the icy conditions and my only options were to get hit from behind or enter the intersection and get t-boned.

ExplodingSims posted:

WOODEN TREES CANT MELT STEEL BEAMS





I wish that wasn't somebodies actual opinion.

Humphreys posted:

New Project Binky!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tzWC2G3mr0

MomJeans420 posted:

This is probably like asking what's the one true religion, but I need a corn bread recipe and my friends from the south insist you can't use sugar, and all the recipes I see online have sugar in them. Thoughts and/or recipes? My friend who makes very good corn bread but is from California uses sugar, but it tastes good so I may just use his recipe.

Powershift posted:

I ask just to piss people off, because the same people who give a poo poo about beans in chili also put mustard in barbecue sauce.

Rhyno posted:

The rear door is only a few years old. The front door has a large window in it and is a bit older. It's on the list of things we want to fully replace.

INCHI DICKARI posted:

Queen Combat posted:

I feel nasty above 30%



Though my skin is drying out like crazy from, like, not having any testosterone, so I'm probably going to have to change my habits. Woke up one morning to the tips of both middle fingers dry and threatening to bleed. I've tried to keep my living areas at or below 30% for years and this is the first year where it's mattered.

Drinking water and coconut oil lotion helps.

InitialDave posted:

We have more Binky machining nonsense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPYNCt5yV-U

meatpimp posted:

I teach this in class. I ask "how many of you were told that you have to do well in high school to get into a good college to get a good job?" EVERY SINGLE STUDENT raises their hands. They are shocked when I tell them that is a new construct and that wasn't told to students even 20 years ago.

The system has generated this doctrine that everyone needs to see college as a path and that's just bullshit. College has its place. So do the trades and other service careers.

At the same time this doctrine has arisen, the cost of going to college has, in many cases, tripled. It's some serious bullshit fuckery we're doing to an entire generation of students when they go from having to ask permission to go to the bathroom to making life-effecting decisions within moments.

Goober Peas posted:

Oh hey, a bazillion posts in the chat thread. Someone's gonna get probed.

edit: there you go

Have you driven a Ford....lately?

Suburban Dad posted:

I'm a couple days behind on posts, so excuse me for bringing up "old" poo poo.


Not too surprised to be honest. Not many took the buyout (maybe ~1/8 that were offered) so figured this was going to happen to some degree. I'm surprised that so many plants and car lines are potentially getting axed, but it makes sense with the direction the company is going and where the market is. GM has a habit of keeping low volume products around for too long (either through having too many options/engines/transmissions and combinations that have a very small take rate, etc), so I'm hopeful that some of that is curbed with this sort of thing to streamline manufacturing.

This isn't affecting just Ford and GM. People can poo poo on GM cars but even Honda and Toyota are having trouble selling sedans, that's the just market currently. The steel tariff definitely hasn't helped things, either, to the tune of about a $1B each for Ford and GM.

My opinion on the college degree chat: Degrees are good as long as you get something that has a job potential with it. I think being told to go to college and "follow you dreams" by parents/teachers/etc. and then getting an Art degree is where it may have gone wrong for some folks maybe? I don't personally have any friends with degrees that didn't get jobs out of college, so my perspective may be skewed.

Engineering has served me well thus far.... uh let me get back to confirm that in a few weeks/months.


For sure. drat good neighbor right there.

keykey posted:

I completely agree that the price of a degree needs to be reflected in the actual wage prices as the end result since there are a ton of bullshit degrees out there that students are going for that are a fast pass to homelessness. Part of what guidance counselors should be doing is talking about the input vs the output factor. Some of us are in the trap that we have to get degrees to advance ourselves in our careers, this could be either driven by field, location, or in my case longevity. In CA, a bachelors is now the equivalent to a high school diploma, so you have to get a grad degree to stand out, especially in my age group hell, I even thought about continuing to finish a doctorate just to be done with it all, which I may still have to do a decade from now. I could easily see grad degrees being the new high school diploma for my kids generation with how CA views education.

NitroSpazzz posted:

I've been trying to pick away at my garage and organize it a little bit every weekend but it's overwhelming. I think I'm going to set a rule to make it easier for me to throw things out...something like if I haven't used it in 6 months and it's less than $25 toss/donate it. Things <$50 that I havne't used in 6+ months are getting listed for sale. At least that's what I'm thinking.

I also need to organize and wire the unfinished basement side of the garage which requires me to move out four cars, two motorcycles and a ton of stuff.

For shelving I picked up four big shelves at Sams club for ~$50 a piece. Think they're rated for a couple hundred pounds per level and seem to be holding up fine with engines and transmissions on them.

Bajaha posted:

Anybody else getting annoyed at the volume of knock off and cheap products on Amazon? Got a new phone and looking for USB C cables and it's just a flood of cheap products, same for Qi chargers.

It's really gone downhill, and with how evil Amazon has been to its workers I'm starting to think it's time to jump ship.