Random thread: Where's your postcount now, (tpd) bitch

[sin]

I see my brief stint in the Top 10 posters is coming to an end.  Seriously; even I think I talk too much, and I'm not even TOUCHING some of you guys! :p

I'm slightly safer in the "Most Time Spent Online" category.

[sin]

I apologize in advance if anyone is offended by new signature, but my cousin told me that joke and I thought it was the funniest god damned thing I'd ever heard.

Whenever anyone says "There are some things you can't/shouldn't joke about," I say that those are the things you MOST need to joke about.

[TPD]

Heh, my whole act is based on that.

[Naylzie]

Heh, my whole act is based on that.

Holy shit, speaking of postcounts, I might need to actually start worrying if I want to hang on to the top spot

@Drone - Whoa.  I am so sorry for your friends' loss.  I've been sort of counting my good fortune that, although I had to be on the road that night, that my destination for most of the evening was probably SAFER than my home and that nothing actually HAPPENED in RI.  No one I know was even directly affected, and I know a LOT of people who were under a watch or a warning.  I hope that the cats can make it back to them as well, even if only as a small measure of comfort.

@Lib - heh, either you didn't mature late or it's you and me both.  I was pretty sure who I was and what I was about through most of college, but some old doubts and questions have crept back of late.  Makes me a little uneasy   I do think that some of it comes from how bitter I am at my surroundings though.  That's all another thing for another time.  Thank you for the input.  I appreciate it

[tim]

I apologize in advance if anyone is offended by new signature, but my cousin told me that joke and I thought it was the funniest god damned thing I'd ever heard.

Whenever anyone says "There are some things you can't/shouldn't joke about," I say that those are the things you MOST need to joke about.

I'll bite.

It's a cleverly constructed joke, but ultimately I agree with people who say rape jokes aren't funny.

I do think one of the reason rape jokes are becoming a staple of mainstream comedy is that, like a lot of mainstream humour these days (Frankie Boyle being the typical example), they appear transgressive and edgy without actually being so. In reality they agree with the political consensus - they trivialise something that is generally trivialised/denied/disbelieved etc.

Of course, humour can be used as a coping mechanism, etc. But I don't think that's what's going on with most of these types of jokes.

[libertine]

OK, so I'm making dinner, gayly dancing to Erasure's cover of ABBA's "Voulez Vous", and what comes up next?  A forgotten song on iTunes - "Echoing the Sound of Hell".  Oh, how I laughed!  So of course, I had to find "Welcome to AOHELL (Canada)".  I'm so glad these gems survived through three computers and the current Mac.

[kristin]

So maybe some of you have heard about the six tornadoes that came through Massachusetts recently. One of my closest friends had her house completely destroyed and her father ended up in the hospital overnight. Everyone's fine now, but the entire situation seems pretty surreal. I also feel completely fucking helpless, especially because she's still searching for her two cats. I plan on giving them money but it feels like a total cop out. I don't know. My head's still kind of a mess over the whole situation.

drone
It also didn't help that some Cunterella at work made a big fucking joke about the whole thing today. I had to step outside before I choked the life out of that bitch.

Wow, that is terrible. The videos of the destruction are horrible. Plus, I heard that there was some out of control looting going on. Crazy.

[TPD]

ha! which one was "echoing the sound of hell" again?

[Goose]

Oi, I need a weekend to recover from that weekend.

My wife had a couple friends that usually live far off, but decided to do some camping for a couple weeks in a park about an hour out of town.  She decided it would be fun to try and take the baby, the dog, and us camping for the weekend to spend some time with them.  The primary problem with this is that we have no camping gear whatsoever.  I have most of the necessary skills from my decade as a Cub/Scout/Venture, but the missus has usually been fairly anti-nature.  Our ideas of "camping" are vastly different, but for this occasion she actually largely came down to my level.

She borrowed some equipment from a friend of hers at work, who was very generous with their camping equipment.  Family-size tent, two-person air mattress, two sleeping bags, it'd probably get us through the weekend.  The baby could sleep in his playpen/porta-crib, and the dog would sleep on the ground in his own bed, and the tent was big enough for all of it.  As well, it was supposed to get a little cold the first night, so we got an electrified campsite and we already had one of those fancy induction space heaters that would keep the tent warm without melting or burning anything.  We weren't worried about the cold for our own sake, but the baby needs it a little more.  He tends to thrash wildly in his sleep and throw blankets off of him quite easily without knowing how to get them back.  If its only 6ºC, that's going to give him pneumonia.

So, we get out there, car filled to the brim with ungodly loads of crap.  I set up the tent, and then we discover that the folks we borrowed it from forgot to include the fly.  Its a hex-shaped tent, and every side is a screen window.  No privacy, no keeping heat in, no keeping rain out.  Oi.  We managed to borrow a tarp that was big enough to clip around it and mostly keep it shaded and covered, but there was no way in hell it was waterproof, and I hoped it would be enough to keep heat in.  Then we pull out the air mattresses, and realize that they only fill up with a pump, which we don't have.  I don't mind, my wife does.

We sit around the fire, enjoy some amazing barbecue supper, and as the sun sets it gets bloody cold.  Heat is escaping from the tent far worse than I had hoped, and the kid was having issues sleeping (weird new place and all, and a bit chilly).  Then it actually starts to spit rain, despite all the weather reports saying it wouldn't.  At that point, we know we're screwed.  There's no way I can keep a sad baby, a skittish, chicken-shit dog like mine, and a wife cranky from sleeping on the ground in a leaky tent overnight.  Thankfully, we're only an hour out of the city, so we just throw everything we can into the tent to shelter them as best we can from the rain, and head home for the night.  The folks we were visiting have a big camper, and they could easily keep an eye on our site for us.  Just as we leave, an extremely heavy downpour starts, and we know our tent is undoubtedly flooded.  We got home at just before midnight, and everyone just collapsed into bed.

We peel ourselves out of bed as quickly as we can in the morning and get back out there at about 11AM on Sunday.  Yep, nice layer of water on the bottom of the tent, everything actually touching the ground was soaked.  Thankfully, the weather forecast was right this time and it was gloriously sunny and 25ºC.  Spent some time hauling everything out and hanging it up or laying it out to dry, then turned the tent upside down to empty the water out of it and got it in the sunlight.  Then things finally started getting enjoyable.  Had some lunch, a small acoustic jam session with the folks we were there to visit, got the kid to enjoy a sandbox and playing on a playground (he loved the concept of being up and looking down at people from the playground, oh how the 10-month-old brain is easily amused).  We even managed to get the kid to nap in the afternoon like he normally does, which kept his mood fresh.  The dog, on the other hand, couldn't figure out how to relax outdoors, and stayed awake all day, unlike his normal six-naps-a-day.  The only major problem was ticks.  They were all over the place.  Waaaay worse than I've ever seen.

Had another gorgeous supper, roasted marshmallows and smores, polished off a couple cases of beer, and started to pack up as the sun was setting.  Good times after a shitty Saturday, got home around 11:30PM, but holy crap am I tired today.  Even the dog needed convincing that he should go out and pee this morning, and the kid slept in until 10:30.  Most of our stuff is still out in the garage, because my wife didn't want it in the house until it could be thoroughly de-ticked.  And being that she works the next three days, guess who gets to do that while single-handedly managing the pets and the goober.  Yay.

[Aaron]

Ya camping can be hella good. Or hella shitty.


And is the goober the kid or the dog?

[Goose]

Kid

[sin]

If I'm remembering correctly, I'm back to my original signature/avatar/member title combination.  I'm hazy on the sig, but I'm pretty sure the av and title are right.

Kicking it old school.

[tim]

This made me cry with laughter. Really, tears were pouring down my face as I watched. It's worth watching right through to the end, even though it's 15 minutes long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZlih4DDNg

[sin]

The older I get, the more I find myself using Visine for its intended purpose.

[boom]

We throw shit out every time we move and I still have too much. I'm now seeing if anything I have will sell on ebay.