stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 2/18/2016 at 1:03 AM, chenGOD said:

 

  On 2/17/2016 at 9:51 PM, Audioblysk said:

 

  On 2/17/2016 at 9:33 PM, chenGOD said:

fucking PhD students with no numerical literacy. Fuck the fuck off.

 

My small brain doesn't understand this...

 

I'm sure he has some numerical literacy, it's just that he can't figure out how to do some very basic excel calculations to update our data based off textual analysis from the previous year. I'm like, if I can do it, any fucking monkey can do it.

 

To be fair, though, every time I use Excel I want to throw the computer across the room. Spreadsheets suck. Macros only make it slightly less shitty and sometimes they actually make it worse. Someone needs to invent a replacement to the spreadsheet and get rich.

My FWP: I made the coolest 4-bar loop I've made in years and I have no idea what to do with it now.

  On 2/18/2016 at 7:17 AM, sweepstakes said:

 

  On 2/18/2016 at 1:03 AM, chenGOD said:

 

  On 2/17/2016 at 9:51 PM, Audioblysk said:

 

  On 2/17/2016 at 9:33 PM, chenGOD said:

fucking PhD students with no numerical literacy. Fuck the fuck off.

 

My small brain doesn't understand this...

 

I'm sure he has some numerical literacy, it's just that he can't figure out how to do some very basic excel calculations to update our data based off textual analysis from the previous year. I'm like, if I can do it, any fucking monkey can do it.

 

My FWP: I made the coolest 4-bar loop I've made in years and I have no idea what to do with it now.

 

Make a copy of it so that you have an 8 bar loop.

  On 2/18/2016 at 7:02 AM, usagi said:

traffic wardens/rangers/whatever they're called are the most useless cunts in the world. piling one fine on top of another for a single incident, which wasn't causing anyone any harm or inconvenience. it ticked 45 mins past the hour at which the parking zone I'd parked in turned into a taxi zone. not one taxi in sight, nobody fucking needs a taxi at 3pm on a quiet sidestreet let alone an entire cab rank in this bitch. I end up with a fine for parking in a taxi zone, plus another fine for "parking longer than permitted". fuck off. what a blatant money grab.

from what i've heard, australia is pretty much becoming a fascist police state (which puts it in the 'serious first world problems' thread). Am i completely off on this though?

^ not quite on the mark. we don't have a police problem like the States. if anything there are lots of complaints of being a "nanny state", which is different. that implies hand-holding, rules, excessive bureaucracy, etc. there may be some truth to that, as much as I hate to admit it, because this is the first thing that will come out of the mouths of a lot of 'freethinking' individualist quasi-libertarians and right-wing boganoids.

in the state of NSW (Sydney) for instance, there's increasing backlash against things like the lockout laws, which were initially introduced in a misguided attempt to quell alcohol-related violence but have been destroying our once-vibrant nightlife for some time now. lots of venues have gone out of business. there's a big anti-lockout rally this weekend, actually. I'm going.

Good onya, they're pulling that shit here too. In the absence of any real policy progress for the benefit of the people these types of 'enlightened' policies get thrust forward as meaningful and part of a legacy of 'achievements' for said state premier. I was reading about the high profile knock-out that has been used to justify your regressive nightlife prohibition laws, and the kid that got punched was punched before midnight, which invalidates their already ludicrous and paper thin logic for these laws.

To others here, the laws are justfified because of purported 'alcohol fuelled' violence that occurs if the kids are allowed to drink for too long. They turn into scary pumpkin monsters after midnight don't you know. So they want to shut down drinking some time after midnight and have been progressively turning back the clock in order to achieve this aim. Here in Queensland it started with a 3am nightclub lockout, you could remain drinking in the club till five am but if you were between clubs you were trapped outside, no more fun for you. It made no sense other than to bully young people, what's the difference whether you are drinking here or there, you are still drinking and the walk between clubs in the fresh air might actually do you good. It's purpose of course was to soften the public up to the government abitrarily deciding when you should go to bed, it had no other goal, the 'good idea' actually increased violence due to everyone having to queue to catch a cab home at the same time, this led to desputes, squabbles, and chaos on the street after 3am. So now they have used this increase in unruliness (even though overall violence is down in society, a lot, has been in a decreasing trend for decades longer than these laws have been in effect ), to justify the current round of civil liberty removal.

I see no problem with the term nanny state, even though I don't use it myself. If I was pushed to define it, I would say it's totalitarian, authoritarian, one of these more formal terms.

looking at the World Press Photo 2016 winning pics and this one broke my heart.

Couldn't find a weird site from the early 2000s that featured what looked like a weird Japanese politician dude wearing heavy makeup and had a big talking wart on his face that was actually a smaller copy of his own head, and had a fly buzzing around, which would buzz more angrily if you dragged your mouse cursor over it. Also the music was actually the beginning of Autechre - Vose In time-stretched and looped. It was all done in Flash I believe.

Pretty sure it was called corpusgroup.net at the time, but the site by that name is something totally different now. Wish I could find it.

I'm late to the party, but...

  On 2/15/2016 at 7:06 AM, sweepstakes said:

 

  On 2/14/2016 at 7:09 PM, triachus said:

what we see:





what ambermonk sees:

floooool

 

HAHAHAHAH!

  On 2/15/2016 at 10:50 PM, ambermonk said:

SURE ENOUGH. "Kenya girl" contacted me again and asked for money help. I unfriended her sorry ass in response.

FWP resolved.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Here's a quick tip... if a girl, you don't know, contacts you on Facebook then wait a couple of days before accepting her request and I guarantee you that 90% of the time the profile will have been deleted the next time you take a look at the friend request.

It's like how on Twitter or Soundcloud I often get women followers with large unnatural breasts on their profile pic. Ha, of course they're not real... Duh.

Drank far too much yesterday.

Physically I feel fine as I ate enough and exercised (was walking) and drank plenty of water before I slept but I have one of those nameless dread hangovers.

  On 2/19/2016 at 11:43 AM, hello spiral said:

Dank far too much yesterday.

I don't see the problem.

I did take some pretty dank pics actually, will shove'em in the photo thread inna bit.

i'm so bored at work right now that i just watched a video (someone posted on fb) of a monkey playing with another monkey's lad. why?

My ex is keeping my kid from me because we play Team Fortress 2 together. I had removed all the blood and gibs from the game. He's 8yo and pretty good!

  On 2/19/2016 at 5:01 PM, MDM Chaos said:

i'm so bored at work right now that i just watched a video (someone posted on fb) of a monkey playing with another monkey's lad. why?

Why not?

  On 2/19/2016 at 5:05 PM, paranerd said:

My ex is keeping my kid from me because we play Team Fortress 2 together. I had removed all the blood and gibs from the game. He's 8yo and pretty good!

Jesus, I was playing Metal Gear Solid at 9

  On 2/19/2016 at 5:05 PM, paranerd said:

My ex is keeping my kid from me because we play Team Fortress 2 together. I had removed all the blood and gibs from the game. He's 8yo and pretty good!

is she afraid he's gonna spend his allowance on virtual hats?

  On 2/19/2016 at 11:43 AM, hello spiral said:

Drank far too much yesterday.

 

Physically I feel fine as I ate enough and exercised (was walking) and drank plenty of water before I slept but I have one of those nameless dread hangovers.

I know that feel, I went to a gig last night and drank four pints, hardly excessive, and woke up feeling awful this morning. I think the days of being able to drink with impunity are behind me.

  On 2/19/2016 at 5:28 PM, Perezvon said:

 

  On 2/19/2016 at 5:05 PM, paranerd said:

My ex is keeping my kid from me because we play Team Fortress 2 together. I had removed all the blood and gibs from the game. He's 8yo and pretty good!

Jesus, I was playing Metal Gear Solid at 9

yeah that's pretty weak. she should hear the fucking 8 yr olds running around on cod.

  On 2/19/2016 at 5:53 PM, Leon Sumbitches said:

 

  On 2/19/2016 at 11:43 AM, hello spiral said:

Drank far too much yesterday.

 

Physically I feel fine as I ate enough and exercised (was walking) and drank plenty of water before I slept but I have one of those nameless dread hangovers.

 

I know that feel, I went to a gig last night and drank four pints, hardly excessive, and woke up feeling awful this morning. I think the days of being able to drink with impunity are behind me.

 

Damn dude, 4pints?!

I drank two of these

ooh 40 centilitres you must've been ploughing some serious hectares after that m8

Lol, I'm not proud of the 4 pints thing but there we are. I guess it was the opposite of one of those drink-loads-but-somehow-wake-up-feeling-ok nights.

  On 2/19/2016 at 7:40 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

ooh 40 centilitres you must've been ploughing some serious hectares after that m8

lol shush, it was enough on an empty stomach and 5hrs walking.

Yeah Leon I know that feel indeed. Sometimes you feel fucking amazing the morning after drinking far too much.

  On 2/19/2016 at 7:55 PM, hello spiral said:

 

  On 2/19/2016 at 7:40 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

ooh 40 centilitres you must've been ploughing some serious hectares after that m8

 

Yeah Leon I know that feel indeed. Sometimes you feel fucking amazing the morning after drinking far too much.

 

That's because you're still drunk.

yup