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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me

echinopsis posted:

I provided lots of emergency contraceptives today lol

friday night motherfuckers

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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me
out of curiosity, for the people who express opinions like the above ^^^, should that be read as:

"i never want to be required to go into the office five days a week again," or

"i never want to physically enter the office / see my coworkers in person again?"

the former i totally agree with. the latter seems pretty dang weird.

i also hate having to arbitrarily work 9-6 in a cubicle because a boss says so, and vastly prefer setting my own schedule to get things done. but i do like interacting with human beings more than two hours a week on the weekend when my friends are free.

maybe i'm just more extroverted than much of yospos. i don't think of myself as such, but i can't imagine thinking "yes, working on the computer from a room in the corner of my house is something i want to do for the rest of my life." blech

Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Mar 4, 2022

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me

ultravoices posted:

the people i know who like coming in to the office fall into a couple of categories:

* complete psychos who want to put on a suit and tie for no reason
* have overstuffed home life situations where coming into a basically empty office is much more chill
* have no place to work peacefully from home

i'm the first

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

also if you look at the CDC list of comorbidities they include poo poo like "over 180 lbs" or "smoked ever" or "had covid" which means we all have three or more comorbidites

I don't think everyone has those three comorbidities. For instance I don't

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me

PIZZA.BAT posted:

happy year three, pandemic :toot:

for me it's year 3 on march 9th cause that's when we locked down.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me
even if you put in enough bathrooms, i feel like it wouldn't have enough windows or emergency exits.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me
I really do not like heights when I'm on the edge of a cliff or balcony or bridge or anything like that. Even leaning out a window several stories up. Very unpleasant.

I don't know why I don't get the same fear when I'm sitting in a tiny airplane, the window open at 3500 feet and my left shoulder against the door. Hell, I've had the door pop open while flying and it's no big deal. Somehow it's different.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me

carry on then posted:

covid will never end. it will never not be extremely dangerous to be outside. or in any public place.

go to hell. i know you really want to believe that, but it's not dangerous to be outside.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me
i've got zero issues with this dumb city except the cost of housing, so rotor you can move somewhere else and sell me your house for what you paid for it in 1958 and it will be great for both of us :hfive:

Jabor posted:

Starting at a new school during covid sounds like it would really suck, how are you gonna build those social dynamics when you're not locked in a room with a bunch of your peers five days a week

mhm i have some students who are in their third year of college and have basically never been on campus. all the normal student hangouts are empty cause everyone just scoots home after class like hbag. it's rear end

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me

cheese eats mouse posted:

I've started doing my nails during the all hands

Seems appropriate

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me

Jimmy Carter posted:

in an all-hands, a senior manager asked what people's concerns were about coming back to the office.
My response was "yeah I've honestly way more productive and happier and more fulfilled working from home these last two years, and I'm afraid that's going to go away"

And then proceeds to say "we totally understand it's completely expected you'll be less productive when coming into the office," and then just moved to the next person.

I think I'm gonna have to use that as a top bullet point for my eventual exit interview because that's it I'm out.

well, at least they showed their entire rear end, i guess.

"a measurable increase in productivity is less important than having you under a boot. mine, specifically"

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

just do nothing. it's fine

i like this tumblr post about it

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me
the united states was literally founded by religious wackos who didn't believe in fun and thought that the only way to reach god was by forswearing pleasure and working as hard as possible until they died. they left for the american colonies because everyone in europe hated them.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me
alley-oop

e: nope, goddamnit, this is post 19, not 39. i will take the shameful probe

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me

Stereotype posted:

one of the reasons that episode, which is more than 20 years old now, is still eerily true is that it's all the same people in charge of everything, they're all just 80 now

literally. when that episode aired in 1994, nancy pelosi was already on her second (or third depending on how you count) term in the house. lmao

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me
Yeah it's all the wifi and cell phone radiation imo

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me

after three of those bagels he could have bought instead a toaster, a knife, a dozen bagels, and a quart of cream cheese.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me
i know that everyone is doing it these days but i can't bring myself to order a single small delivery meal from a restaurant like that. like on occasion i'll get a big pile of indian food that lasts 3 days, but watching people doordash a single big mac from the mcdonalds a mile away is like :psyduck:

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I guess you can be a consumerism addict and get off on spending way too much money for dumb poo poo

i have definitely met people like this. a lot of them are also hoarders

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

odd that people who have bad reactions to protein, fats, and carboydrates only experience those problems at declasse restaurants. probably nothing

i have a relative who works at the extreme high end of the fine dining business and you would not believe the allergy lists and "i can't/won't eat that" requests they get from the people who eat there.

idk if this is contradicting your statement or not. just adding data

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me
i remember making isoamyl acetate in chemistry class. i suspect it doesn't smell like any fruit in particular, but is just an element of many other fruit aromas. it's juicy fruit.

also made methyl salicylate, which is the majority essential oil of wintergreen and smells exactly like it.

a fun fact i like is that apparently the reason gasoline smells good is because it activates many of the same receptors as volatile chemicals from ripe fruit. it's different enough that we know it's not fruit, exactly, but our brain wants it to be

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me
it's not that gasoline smells *good* exactly but it is definitely appealing in a sort of indescribable sense. lots of people feel this way. you never thought the gas station smelled kinda nice as a kid?

a big whiff of gas is overpowering, but the right concentration, yeah, for sure. mmm

(it's the benzene and related compounds. benzene compounds are called "aromatic" compounds specifically because they are commonly considered to have a pleasant smell.)

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

we get natural vanilla extract flavouring from beaver anal juices

that's...not exactly true. they use castoreum as a vanilla-like scent in perfumes, but i'm pretty sure nobody puts it in food anymore.

nearly all natural vanilla flavoring comes from vanilla beans (which are actually the seed pod from a certain orchid). they are expensive, but a whole lot cheaper and easier to produce than beavers. artificial vanilla flavor is a byproduct of the paper manufacturing process.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me
i took a number of them as electives. i fuckin love science!

one time i gassed myself with boiling hydrochloric acid. i was generating hydrogen for a fuel cell i had built and we ran out of the zinc pellets i was dumping into HCl, so i found a bottle of zinc powder. forgot that reaction rate is a function of reactant surface area. dumped in the same amount i was using with the pellets and it immediately boiled and blew apart every joint in the tubing and shot a cloud of hydrogen chloride vapor straight in my face. i was wearing goggles of course but got half a lungful before i realized what was happening. i coughed for about half an hour straight and everything smelled like salt and vinegar for a day

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me
the iodine clock reaction was a fun one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWJpKNQfXWo

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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012


professor lumpy balls, they call me
My first girlfriend also wore vanilla scented stuff and she told me once that it was because she read in a Cosmo magazine or something that men like food-scented perfumes the best.

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