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- NBQ006
Look if you're happily married and happy to have kids then great for you.
But I'm perfectly happy never being married and no intentions to. And never want kids either.
I love my freedom and if I'm happy to die alone then so be it. It's usually other people who want to see you married and have kids. Be it family or society expectations.
Nowadays it's not as strange anymore to not be married and have no kids like it used to in the past though.
But when I see how high the divorce rate is and so many single moms on Tinder I get the creeps. lol
- My kids are just so awesome and having them changed my life. If someone is saying you should have kids it might be because it makes them so happy...eryx
- and they want you to be as happy as they are.eryx
- Kids are pure happiness.monospaced
- Agree. Kids are fantastic. And I suspect having a family when you're in your 60+ years beats the hell out of being a bachelor at that age.monNom
- Looking forward to kids in my future (40 and still hoping) I'll be back with photos in proud dad thread in 3 years.notype
- kids are devil spawns!!! came straight from hell!!!pango
- I bet you were a fun, happy kid, pango, straight from hell :)monospaced
- You're scared of love? Or just too self involved?canoe
- ...to provide love?canoe
- It's true. I was lolpango
- @NBQ00 it's totally strange not to have kids today! but it's totally ok ;)api
- shellie0
During a long, 5 hour layover in Boston, I was surprised to discover that the airport was infested with mice. They made a cute mouse hotel in the Duncan Donuts kiosk. That morning, i wanted to slap everyone's coffee out if their hands. I saw at least 5 different mice while I was there so there must be hundreds bc those little fuckers are fast and slippery.
- *Dunkin Doughnutsshellie
- *Dunkin' Donutsutopian
- Dunkin'Gnash
- duhshellie
- Are you still on iPhone 3?freedom
- DNKN' *sarahfailin
- I did a quick google search and there are articles about mice in Boston airport going back to at least 2012sarahfailin
- Ugh are you serious @Sarah? I've driven to Boston a handful of times but never been in the airport until now.shellie
- thumb_screws1
Moldero, are you back from Alaska? How was it?
- Yes, no news in months... don't want to be nosy, but, how was?OBBTKN
- pretty sure he came back months ago and then moved to europe?sarahfailin
- He's still online. Just not qbn.pango
- i_monk1
Phone interview in the morning.
- imbecile0
For the past week; no alcohol, no girlfriend, less food, more hobbies, more awake time, more stimulation / motivation. Relationship may be over.
- i_monk7
That was a great interview! *holds breath for a week*
- *crossing appendages for youDRIFTMONKEY
- sword fight?imbecile
- drgs0
Bennn was right, neon green is everywhere. Even I myself bought a pair of joggers with neon green lampasses
- I'm presenting a client with a new color palette for their brand...Yes electric yellow-green is one of the colors.utopian
- I love neon flouro colours. Reminds me of 80s wind surfing.inteliboy
- +1 and it makes printers lose their mindMrT
- Keith Haring did a great one for Montreux Jazz Festival in 1983
https://www.lotsroad…uan - i <3 spacehopper pinktrooperbill
- Nairn0
Thoughts on hamburger menu icons... on desktop?
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I'm thinking working on a small 'sub-site' for my [shitty] business, focusing on a strand of work I do. I want to make a simple, punchy - almost brutalist - site, text-led with supporting images (hold on, aren't they all?) and am wondering about having a hamburger three-line menu in the top that opens out to display a load of pages.
Main index will have a tranche of text with underlined elements all leading to the sections under the hamburger, so users can discover the hamburger'd sections without having to make that cognitive leap.
But because of the overall forced simplicity, I don't want an overwhelming nav bar.
Ordinarily I'm fairly against absolutely hamburger menus on desktop, but here I'm wanting to develop a useful narrative-led exploration. Hamburger would essentially become a quick list of hot links.
Product is fairly singular in nature, but there's ground to cover in the hows and wherefores.
My thanks to you for any input you may have.
x
- 'thinking working'? ffs that's a good start.
I need to edit better!Nairn - nnngh.. 'fairly absolutely against'
Je suis un spastic.Nairn - try to think about what people need are are looking for, put it where they want it, don't hide stuff in a hamburger.shapesalad
- it's easier to scroll down a page, and click a menu option above a footer if you've got options that are not oft used.shapesalad
- I hate them and I get agitated when people suggest them for consumer sites we're building.mg33
- That's my intent - the hamburger is a 'backup' absolute link menu. The 'narrative' of the front and subsequent pages should encourage link exploration.Nairn
- +1 footer. That's an additional navigation layer duplication I hadn't yet considered. I'm still at the sketching phase.Nairn
- @mg33. I hate them too. I guess an alternate question would be "what do you think about sites that don't have a specific navigation strata?". ie. narrative-ledNairn
- I guess I'm thinking a 'one page site, but with additional pages'. Or something.Nairn
- No bloody clue but I like your use of ‘tranche’MrT
- If it's for a small site where the users are likely to be familiar with the interface then yeah all good. E.g designer portfolio / eshop etcmicrokorg
- But not for something like a bank or business website where people need to get to info fast and not search for navigation.microkorg
- check neilson - they say it affects conversion and engagementtrooperbill
- Not 100% relevant to burger icon but still worth a read -https://mattwilcox...set
- https://mattwilcox.n…set
- Great article, set. I shared it with my team. And I hate hamburger menus. They're only good for hiding areas of the site most people would never visit.monospaced
- Not against hamb-menu myself and think it cleans thing up visually, for the right sitch. Yet so many blast it as that "Extra" unnecessary click...DarkCover
- 'thinking working'? ffs that's a good start.
- shellie0
putting together a "love me, come back, fuck you" playlist. what would you want to hear?
- Dunno, but perhaps it should end with https://www.youtube.… , if for nothing more than the title.Nairn
- https://www.youtube.…renderedred
- https://www.youtube.…i_monk
- https://www.youtube.…monNom
- What is a "love me, come back, fuck you" playlist? That sounds like 3 playlists.DRIFTMONKEY
- Shouldn't it be "love me, fuck off, come back"robotron3k
- Your Facebook version wasn’t censored. ;)monospaced
- https://www.youtube.…cannonball1978
- No it wasnt mono :)shellie
- Robot. Nah that's not how I'm feeling. Its love, come back, fuck off in that order. At least, for this holiday.shellie
- https://www.youtube.…maquito
- enya, just enya.imbecile
- mary bligespobotto
- freedom0
Does anyone here have a "smart speaker"?
Is it helpful?
- nope. love gadgets. though seems like something the tech industry is trying to convince us we need?inteliboy
- Made risotto and played Gregory Porter at the same time. Pretty-fuckin-smart if you ask me.canoe
- My speakers only need to be smart enough to listen when I tell them to make sound or stop making soundset
- I had an echo dot. did not use.imbecile
- canoe2
I saw Usability... in a shallow grave... next to Flash... next to a shallower grave... Lingo.
I feel bad for anyone who graduated with a UX degree and goes to any number of media sites.
Who ever thought we'd be nearly back to AOL on experience?
- imbecile1
in yet another bout of insomnia, i put on the matrix (via amazon prime) as background noise as i muddle about the house.
I saw this movie in theatres, it was directed by the wachowski brothers, laurence and andrew, yet referred to collectively as the "wachowski brothers".
having ended, the title card came up displaying the directors as lana & lilly wachowski.
now, i'm all for progressive treatment of those with different beliefs and wants. expecting / demanding others to leave me alone to do what i prefer is kind of a driving force within myself, so i'm all for it...
now here's the but
lana & lilly didn't direct it, did they? wasn't it the "brothers"? why rewrite history along a clearly visible timeline? one transitioned in 2012, the other a few years later, more than a decade after work on that project.
attribution man, what does it mean?
anyway, there's my sign I'm getting old for the day.
- I dunno. They changed their names, and updated their film to reflect the change. Fair game, in my opinion. I wouldn't call this changing history. Same people.monospaced
- I hear you, but they might very well have to adjust credits to their legal identity for copyright reasonsspl33nidoru
- do they go by the "wachowski sisters" now?monospaced
- Remember when Caitlyn Jenner won the Men's Decathalon?i_monk
- But I'd guess this has more to do with DGA rules than copyright.i_monk
- thank you i_monk!imbecile
- @mono "wachowski siblings" is the term i believerenderedred
- The sisters brothers...like that movie, hur hur hurMaaku
- I got myself to sleep a while back by replaying old 3D shooter computer game levels. Try it. It's amazing how much you'll remember, and how tedious it izzzzz*Nairn
- *re-playing in my head, I mean. Not actually staying awake and playing the actual gameNairn
- worth a shotimbecile
- You’re dead on imbicioe, very weird, and Right on monk I was thinking the same thing._niko
- It's the same people... What's the problem?pango
- I heard that the Funk Soul Brother has recently transitioned and FatBoySlim is having to update his back catalogue.microkorg
- Ianbolton8
Went to see Neneh Cherry play last night here in Leeds. Such a treat. She even did Manchild and Buffalo stance for those who were too lazy to listen to her great new album.
- ace, have many fond memories of herfadein11
- Rad! Just watched the Buffalo Stance vid, it's got that early DeLa Soul vibe and graphics.davey_g
- I saw her about 8 million years ago with Rip Rig & Panic. One of the most chaotic shows I've ever been too. But fun!boobs
- wow totally forgot about buffalo stance but when I read it I started singing the whole thing, and I haven't heard it in decades_niko
- No way Boobs - was that in the basement of the old granary in Bristol?see_thru
- i work in harrogate we should have beers some timetrooperbill
- I'll be in Harrogate in November, for a comic convention (lol) — where's good to eat??Nairn
- (I'm looking forward to visiting Betty's Tea Rooms - haven't been in over 30 years! :) )Nairn
- ^ Major Tom’s Social is worth a pop, good beer bar and decent pizzas.MrT
- Buffalo Stance is one of my all time favorites.SimonFFM
- Raw Like Sushi is an awesome album. I have it on vinyl from when it was released. Been played so so so many times. Great production lineup behind it!microkorg
- pinkfloyd2
I found this to be funny, how people's response aren't helpful and angry.
- imbecile1
Speaking with a friend whose building i used to work out of, he went to a shareholders meeting a week or so ago, learning that someone from the business, who i had plenty of positive interaction with, had committed suicide.
I deal with thoughts of that myself on probably an unhealthy regular basis, but he left a daughter and wife behind.
it's disheartening :(
- :(pango
- There’s never a good reason to end it like that. Here’s to finding another solution and happiness even during hard times.monospaced
- imbecile1
bennnnnnnn,
re: https://www.qbn.com/reply/392156…
@imbecile Would you like me to kill you with a bow and arrows or with a rifle? Yeah dont answer
again..... fuck. off.
LOL AF :D :D :D :D
Are you kidding me? Are you kidding us all?
You just threatened to shoot a human, totally different asshole.
You somehow think that killing an animal with a bow and arrow is somehow a more painful, maybe less dignified way to die?
How fucking stupid are you? seriously? Do you have no idea the way that the industrial food industry is run?
Have you read the Jungle? Have you seen Samsara?
Do you ever know what the fuck you're on about? Just go hit another woman in the subway and keep whining about a pay service wanting money.
btw keep typing shit from behind your keyboard you fuckwit, i do not appreciate the threat
- Ooooh! I'm never here when shit hits the fan!i_monk
- Don't think it's necessary to make a new post for this tho.pango
- Don't you dare quitting QBN because of BennnsplanationsMaaku
- lolset
- drama + drama please!i_monk
- why quit? but fuck bennnnnnn and his ignoranceimbecile
- bennn was just being his good old explicit self, that's how i got it ;) c'mon man.renderedred
- bennn only sees a narrow view of certain things, but insists that view is the same for everyone, and that's infuriatingmonospaced
- You have to look at Bennthreat™ like a Bennsplanation™, an anomaly, you must question and ponder its absurdity.futurefood
- This seriously could all be replied with "I'm right. You're wrong. Fuck you"pango
- LOL @futurefoodrenderedred
- I get emotive when its question of animals. You know I didnt really theatened you imbecile. Its was a style figure to mark a point.Bennn
- https://gifimage.net…pango
- Maybe the guy with the bow and arrow was aiming at the CEO of Adobe.LMFAO
- Maaku0
Update on that mentor role offer: After ONE MONTH after getting the contract, I'm finally getting the onboarding call tomorrow for the next steps.
If any of you are hiring managers, please follow up with the people you interview. It takes 5 minutes or less.
- imbecile0
oh yeah, that relationship is definitely trashed...
- You did react to Bennn a little strongly..Nairn
- he can eat a dick, he asked if i would like murdered in a topic about food.imbecile
- Nah, it seemed to be a correlation of experiencing death from the animals point of view. Did not seem malicious to me.DRIFTMONKEY
- Anyone else see the facetiousness in what Bennnnnnn said almost immediately and didn’t give it a second thought at all?mg33
- Of course bennn was being facetious. Grow up, imbecile... nobody wants you dead or was threatening you... bennn was making a comparison (albeit silly).PonyBoy
- You seem to have issues w/a few folks... asking for chukk to be banned... calling out bennn now (and you've told me to fuck off more than once)...PonyBoy
- ... perhaps it's time to take a break (maybe log out for five minutes?)
<3PonyBoy - @mg33. same.Gnash
- i have issues. that's the end of that statement.imbecile
- I sincerely hope you find resolution for whatever you're in.pango
- Can't we all just get along you cunts?set
- Ben asked you a hypothetical question and you took it literally and think he's threatening to kill you... lolset
- too much twitter time, i sayhans_glib
- renderedred4
qbn is the best soap opera of all times