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- Bennn2
So, whats up today?
Here's an actual picture of me at the moment:
- Hayoth0
- It's called Communism...Google it.utopian
- no. it's MURICA!!! Get on with the program!!!pango
- hayoth is a high ranking MGTOW monk, so the moral outrage is all hismonospaced
- NBQ00-1
He must‘ve been on QBN yesterday
- Sorry I only watched the first few secondsNBQ00
- The hills we choose to die on...mg33
- looks like he doesn't get the sarcasm from people.pango
- so.... he's mad at the audience who doesn't laugh at his joke.....pango
- @pango This is kind of my favorite thing lately. Dullards with zero comedic value that instantly blame the lack of laughs on SJW.garbage
- #soft. It's not my fault that your jokes don't land.garbage
- utopian0
Does anyone know of any good online resources for incorporating interactive mockups into your presentation? Particularly website mobile and interactive screens. I'm looking for "higher end" mockups other than Envato Market, thanks.
- BusterBoy21
All students finishing school this year in the state I live received their final school results today. Statewide exams and external marking etc etc.
My daughter was very nervous - she didn't really know what to expect. She's pretty bright but didn't have super high expectations. Results were released online at 7am. I was up early - didn't hear any commotion from her room. By 7:15 I was getting a little concerned.
7:20am comes around and she opens her door...pops her head out. Zero expression on her face so I was expecting average results.
Then she breaks out in the biggest grin you've ever seen. Her results were super impressive...to the point where she's guaranteed her first choice at University. And also guaranteed virtually every course she could wish to do, including Law...save for science related courses which she has no interest in.
Happy days!
- Cheers!garbage
- Congrats! Good girl... Must be proudOBBTKN
- Super proud!BusterBoy
- Awesome! Just no Sun Devils lolHijoDMaite
- My daughter had the same options and she chose a private school near Disneyland. Don’t overlook the expensive private schools..HijoDMaite
- Most of them offered her a huge academic scholarship that made the cost the same as public ones.HijoDMaite
- show off! :Ppango
- ^ Lol, beat me to itdee-dubs
- excellent!SimonFFM
- Doesnt school end in springdrgs
- awesome!ben_
- duuuuuude :)
super happy for both of you :)
crazy isn't it?... not so long ago,we were sharing photos of our kids being born...exador1 - Now we're posting about what Uni they want to go to etc...
pretty awesome :)exador1 - Sweet :) well doneGnash
- Congrats! I look forward to moments like this with my kids as they grow up.mg33
- WORD!BonSeff
- Yep...bit of a brag. But because I don't know any of you bastards in real life, I thought why not!BusterBoy
- So many surprises lately have all been of the not so good kind. When brilliant ones like this crop up, it's immensely satisfying.BusterBoy
- Especially when it involves your kids!
Thanks for the nice words peoples.BusterBoy
- Ianbolton7
Science: If we can't work out what light really is, then we most certainly have zero understanding of dark. Especially in the realms of matter. And if we have no true understanding of space and time, then technically our reality isn't really what we think it is. So I'm having a bit of a 'what is real' existential meltdown this morning!
- And yet. Here we are. Light and dark and everything in between, living the full reality our lives day to day as time passes.monospaced
- And only through the scientific process will we find the answers we seek as there is no alternative to reaching any meaningful conclusionsmonospaced
- haha. thanks man. Everything is alright again nowIanbolton
- Job 26:7-14deadsperm
- LOL those moments. thoughts like this made me research and study quantum mechanics a lot for the last 20 yrs. ;) recommended.renderedred
- This is what acid was made forGnash
- ^yup, acid is a good startrenderedred
- The Science is Settled! Stop studying and start screaming!BustySaintClaire
- Get back to work you hippies!eryx
- Thing thing is, BusySaintIgnorant, the science is never settled, it just refines our understanding.monospaced
- Science is all great and what not, but these kind of things strengthen my belief in a creator. I was thinking about rainbows the other day, apart from theBeeswax
- scientific explanation, the universal beauty created by these phenoms is unexplainable.And they are not there through a gradual learning process as in evolutionBeeswax
- they just happen to exist with all their simple yet complex beauty.Beeswax
- Science tells us that the beauty we see in plants and animals are a byproduct of the survival instincts of species.Beeswax
- Yet a fucking rainbow doesn't need to invent a 7 color spectrum to save its existence.Beeswax
- The whole “we can’t explain it so it must be god” argument is not rational or acceptable. This can’t possibly support a creator.monospaced
- And rainbows aren’t complex. Just light wave frequencies scattered by the prisms of water in the atmosphere. We only perceive the rainbow although there’s more.monospaced
- Beauty itself is nothing more than a human concept. It isn’t inherent or meaningful beyond what you attribute to it. It’s just the light spectrum.monospaced
- there's no virtue in the beauty of nature. It just exists, whether we see it or not.Ianbolton
- And although game theory makes some form of argument into the idea we can rationalise nature, I still think we're a long way of understanding consciousnessIanbolton
- Rainbows are pretty therefore there is a god is the sweetest argument I've heard for the existence of god.deadsperm
- That, and banging virgins for all eternityGnash
- looking at the world from a fluorescent lit white walled lab surely diminished some perception. dude explains me how rainbows are formed and rests his case lol.Beeswax
- excuse me?monospaced
- you implied there was some unexplainable beauty that is so complex that it is probably from a supernatural being (none specified of course).monospaced
- only problem is that it's not complex, it's not unexplainable, and there's no evidence of any supernatural being, nor is there objective beauty in itmonospaced
- aka, there is no "universal beauty" because you just made that up, they happen to exist by the most basics of fundamental physics ... I rest my case. Your turn.monospaced
- evolution isn't a gradual learning process either, but whatevs...monospaced
- evolution isn't a gradual learning process... what is an example you are thinking of?deathboy
- example of what?monospaced
- Raybandana5
So get this. I spent 5 years in Dubai working for a well-known ad agency. 8 years before that in Toronto. Our team produced so much award-winning work, we won agency of the year and network of the year in 2018. I saved a good amount of coin too. Then I decided to move back to Toronto and I got a transfer back into the same company. 2 months into the job the CCO fired me because of chemistry, which everyone was super surprised and confused. Now I have daycare + rent cost which is soul-crushing expensive. If I don't have work for a few months... all my savings are gone. Insane. Try so hard, do so much, to be left with nothing. Advertisting fucking blows.
- fuckernexbcn
- I sense you are gifted, likable and of course you threatened the CCO. This is just mental shift to get over, use your talent, it will be okrobotron3k
- Would love to see your work ray so I feel inadequateHayoth
- Left with nothing? If you have all the work and even awards under your belt isn't it easy to find a job for you immediately?NBQ00
- With this cool acomplishments and awards, you will find work soon sir. Im sure! Easier said than done, but it will all work outFabricio
- I dont have that many contacts in Toronto anymore, but if you want, you can share with me your portfolio and share it with my friends in CanadaFabricio
- *and I will share with my friendsFabricio
- I wont be left with nothing, but I'm worried I'll have to spend all my saving waiting around for a job. took 5 years to get those savings!Raybandana
- Here is my book - http://claytoneedham…Raybandana
- Thanks the support guys.Raybandana
- I've worked all over and I still find Toronto one of the weirdest markets for advertising/creative jobs. So political.ben_
- What the issue is I was being paid alot and I crafted my lifestyle to that pay. Its hard to find a high paying job like that again, within a timely manner!Raybandana
- Yeah - I mean reach out to some of the better recruiters in the city who handle senior talent. I've had good experiences with Trina Boos in the past.ben_
- Goes without saying, but where you can scale back do so till you find something good. I sold my house in Toronto and got the hell out of the city because of...ben_
- a nervous employment market here. For us it was the best move possible. Good luck man, it will turn around!ben_
- Yea that sounds about right. Super political and uncertain. So wierd. If you move out of Toronto, where do you find work?!Raybandana
- Love that camel concept, so uniqueHayoth
- Thanks HayothRaybandana
- solid work man! it's a setback i'm sure but with work like that i doubt you won't find a good position.renderedred
- Thanks. Yea I feel the same it's just so political and the timing is bad. Anyways dont want to bitch too much, just really unfair treatment I've gone through.Raybandana
- Ah. So you ARE Claymantis. You spent a lot of time denying that years ago. Congrats on the family. You’ll be fine.monospaced
- /\ Lol, I thought that was confirmed years ago.
Clay, I work for a Toronto firm (not advertising) as CD co-managing our studio - 3 days a week I'm in Toronto orben_ - with clients (NYC right now) and two days a week I'm at home. Sometimes it's flipped. It's manageable.ben_
- but seriously reach out to Trina who owns boost, she'll likely work with you directly. Tell her Ben from Jackman sent you if you decide to do it.ben_
- haha there is Mono. Yes this is claymantis. And thanks.Raybandana
- Yea I always wondering how to move into a role like ben_. I feel like I just depend on these shitty agencies too muc, wish I knew how I could shift gears a bit.Raybandana
- Okay thanks ben_! I will, do you have her email?Raybandana
- I sent her a linkedin msg. thanks again!Raybandana
- Sorry was wrangling my daughter in the hotel room before dinner. let me know how it goes!ben_
- haha I understand the wrangle factor. Will do! I reached out to a ton of recuriters there all saying wait for the new year.Raybandana
- That's probably a safe assumption right this moment. I will see what our freelance workstream is looking like for AD needs.ben_
- Hopefully after being a rockstar for many years they gave you a good severance. spend time with your little one and hunt for work. Collect Unemployment?monospaced
- Yea I'm banking on that. But it still not an easy win. I have to compete. I don't have enough insurable hours to collect EI.Raybandana
- moldero24
I was surfing with whales just now, that was cool.
- Awesome! Where?mandomafioso
- in the seaFax_Benson
- plot twist. it wasn't in the sea.pango
- in my back yard in Mazatlan Mexico, it's so fucking nice right nowmoldero
- Yes in the Sea!
https://www.qbn.com/…utopian - @moldero drop me an address; i'll be their (from Canada) in under 24 hours with wife and 2 sons.
: )ideaist - Would love to see one while I'm out but they don't visit LA much.mandomafioso
- lol pangogarbage
- Nice, how is it? Big low pressure in the pacific right now. The Jaws Big Wave Championship is running right now and it's massive.IRNlun6
- https://www.youtube.…PonyBoy
- https://www.youtube.…utopian
- fat chicks need love too.Nairn
- Awesome moldy. Jealous indeed.stoplying
- Awesome, I‘m jealous.grotesk_neue
- Qbn road trip! ;)sea_sea
- Hayzilla0
Post Counts = LOLz
Book of the Day = 99
Ad of the Day = 175
Nature of the Day = 554
Site of the Day = 483BUTT of the Day = 1,196
- not enough butts in booksFax_Benson
- Idiocracy: "The #1 movie in America was called Ass" https://m.youtube.co…nb
- COTD = 27,890OBBTKN
- Fish of the Day = 321i_monk
- https://www.salon.co…BustySaintClaire
- Art of the Day = 1000i_monk
- Fair, but it should also be noted that COTD and Butt of the Day tend to be tons of a single user spamming one image per post.garbage
- Hayzilla-3
What I'd really like is for Greta to slide in to obscurity. Never mentioned again and not regarded in history.
Purely so I can dream of a moment when she is 55 working for a banking company somewhere. Some 30yr old comes into her office and that Time cover is framed, hanging on the wall. Some dude would be like WTF!!!!! And she'd be like, "Yea I was the face of the fight against climate change 35 years ago. World leaders hated me. Anyway what can I do for you?"
- https://media.giphy.…Bluejam
- ummmm ok. if that's your fantasy.pango
- It could be a Forest Gump style story. The next chapter in her life should be Olympic Ski jumper. Retire at 25. Swim the Atlantic. Become Prime Minister.Hayzilla
- i wish our Prime Minister would try and swim the Atlantic.Nairn
- Why would someone as well spoken, passionate, smart and informed as Greta fade away into obscurity? No doubt she'll go on to do many great things.monospaced
- I just don't want her to become a politician. She'll lose her soul if she does.Continuity
- Just having a bit of fun mono. Chill baby I think she's great.Hayzilla
- I’m confused. Do you not mean what you said? You don’t want to dream of this anymore? Weird joke.monospaced
- ^ You are a weird joke.Hayzilla
- Continuity9
Packing up to fly from Munich to Sackville, Canada tomorrow to spend 2 weeks' Christmas holidays with my mum and sister, for the first time in seven years.
Can't wait! \m/
- Sack. Huh huh huh ha.Hayzilla
- All I'm packing is my cigarettes :) Sounds like good times man, have fun.helloeatbreathedrive
- NB or NS?ben_
- WELCOME HOME!pango
- @ben: NBContinuity
- stoplying33
We got a call on Thanksgiving morning that my father in law, who had been in the hospital with some serious stuff, had blood clots on his brain. The doctor says it could be any day. So my wife and kids fly from JFK the next day to see him in Japan, and I fly from LA on Monday night after finishing a business trip.
We get there and he's in the ICU and as my wife is visiting him one day, he says that he really wants us to take the newly opened train ride from their home station, down into the Shinjuku section of Tokyo. It just opened Nov 30th and he was excited for us to ride it. So the next morning, we take the 40 minute train ride and when we get there, my wife gets a call from her sister to come to the hospital immediately. The next hour was the longest hour of my life. We jump into a cab and are crawling out of Tokyo with my wife and kids in the back seat, and me crammed up in the front seat. My wife is sobbing, as am I thinking that her father had passed away. All this man wanted us to do was ride the new train line. We finally made it to the hospital, relieved that he was still alive.Two days later, he says that the sweet potatoes in his garden need to be pulled out of the ground. So the next day my kids grab his gardening tools out of his shed and proceed to dig up some small sweets and I film it with the plan of showing him a video back at the hospital. Now I've made a lot of videos in my life, it's what I do for a living. But never have I been so affected as when I showed my father in law a video of his grandkids digging up his potatoes. His eyes lit up as I opened my laptop and leaned over his hospital bed and hit play. The video was nothing special, but to him it was everything. Shit..I'm tearing up writing this now. He's still hanging in there and we're back home hoping for some kind of recovery.
I like my father in law a lot. I truly adore the man.
- I'm not crying ...monospaced
- (heart emoji)capn_ron
- dude. I know EXACTLY how you feel.
been in the same situation the past few weeks with my father in law as well.exador1 - I think we're both pretty blessed. I understand some folks don't get along with their in-laws, but like you, i adore mine too.exador1
- my father-in-law is recuperating from heart surgery. he's still pretty weak, but he's getting stronger every day.exador1
- +Bennn
- I love my in-laws too. And I'm blessed to have 4 of them since they were separated. 4 brilliant human beings in my life.Beeswax
- You have given him something to look forward to and you kept him alive.robotron3k
- Thanks for sharing BTW...robotron3k
- tnks for sharing man, we deserve more beautiful human beings like you guys! Hope he will recover and get to spend more time with you guys! You gave him hope!grafician
- it's those little things that mean so much. all the best man.ben_
- I'm hate death.CyBrainX
- wow very touching story.inteliboy
- +++Salarrue
- +SimonFFM
- these are the moments when you realise what is truly important...necromation
- That's amazing. I can't even imagine that taxi ride.garbage
- beautiful story. all the best to you all.fadein11
- Thank you all for letting me post this. It helps me in some weird way, and thanks for the support.stoplying
- Thinking of you Hombre! Pulling for your Father In Law!boobs
- OBBTKN2
Ok, bye to roller training this weekend, I'm dying with a flu, wife on bed too...
Very funny, being asthmatic and have your lungs full of ######.
- stoplying4
Does anyone here produce podcasts? I'd totally listen to episodes with interviews of our members/guests. SimonFFM's recent post got me thinking...
- Autoflavour does a good one.PhanLo
- Gardenerdee-dubs
- Vantagepointradio.co...autoflavour
- pango3
Was just watching 6 underground on Netflix....
It's like someone took 6 different kind of turd and stir them together half way....
Good gawd the editing is so bad. Terrible flow.
Who the fuck made thi......Oh Michael Bay.....
- yes I saw this last night too, it starts well but after 15 minutes, oh dear... I made it to the end which was a waste of 2 hoursGardener
- I turned it off... bad... everything. Nothing redeemable about it. Reynolds wasn't funny. The overall flow made zero sense... story / writing / editing = horridPonyBoy
- all the stupid cut away to explain the back story and exposition.... ugggghhh. and a simple shot of casually picking people up they have to do it with 5 shotspango
- yeah but the car chase was OK eh?Gardener
- So many of the movies Netflix features on their homepage are just awful. There doesn't seem to be any quality filter, once they pick up a film they go all outyuekit
- aggressively promoting it to the world even if it's some embarrassing B movie garbage.yuekit
- Ha, I watched this yesterday too and felt the same lol. The stunts and effects were pretty spectacular but what a terrible film.microkorg
- https://www.youtube.…garbage
- I can't even ironically watch anything Michael Bay because of all of the stories I've heard from people that have worked with him.garbage
- By all accounts, he's a gold-plated asshole and an idiot to boot.garbage
- i get this weird sense that when a movie 'debuts' on netflix its basically the modern day == of straight to vhs. ie the studio knew it would bomb in the theatremantrakid
- and is just trying to get some cash out of it while they can.mantrakid
- so they sell it to netflix.mantrakid
- So many continuity errors, especially in Florence, and why were all the Tajikistan bad guys wearing Hong Kong Police body armour? ...Nairn
- ... feels like there was a major re-write some-way through, but 'good enough'.
I'm assuming this is the first in a series?Nairn - The CGI department had fun though - there were loads of amusingly-ridiculous quickly off-screen deaths in it...Nairn
- NBQ00-5
How did all the earths water (oceans) get to earth? I don‘t believe it could‘ve been icey comets. Even over billions of years. And when comets or meteors smash into earth the ice and water would evaporate anyway because of all the heat and energy.
There‘s gotta be another explanation? Aliens?
- it's the best explanation we have.fadein11
- def alienspango
- xenuinteliboy
- There is tons of ice in the universe. No reason it couldn’t have arrived by some crashing in.monospaced
- There are ice moons at the edge of the solar system too. Also can’t be natural?monospaced
- But the answer is yet to be fully revealed, making it exciting science indeed. Keep an eye out because there are a lot of smart people figuring it out right nowmonospaced
- It's almost 11 on a Sunday night, so I am 100% not engaging in this whimsy.garbage
- It was a man with a beard, he magic'd it there. Simples.PhanLo
- It's all mind boggling magic mate. Not sure how you can be so baffled by how water got here when, how the fuck did WE get here more to the point.Hayzilla
- Because without water we wouldn't be here.NBQ00
- Hydrogen and oxygen are some of the most common elements in the universe. Do the math.i_monk
- what i_monk saidmonospaced
- I read that in the Earths' mantle, right now, there's enough for 10 more oceans. Water is abundant here.monospaced
- Why did it have to be salty tho. We wouldn't have water problems.NBQ00
- Salty water isn't a problem for life in the oceans. ;)monospaced
- Salt is dissolved out of the rock by rain and ground water and runs to the oceans, making them salty.i_monk
- Thanks, Bennn.NBQ00
- You're the one asking questines.i_monk
- lol, I know more or less how salt got into oceans. I was more asking why it had to be that way and not sweet water.NBQ00
- It doesn't HAVE to be that way, it just IS that way. Silly humans always desperate to find meaning where there is not :)monospaced
- Just sayin', cause we will have water wars in future.NBQ00
- BUT HOW DID ALL OF THE WATER STAY ON THE FLAT EARTH (fucks sake)garbage
- Because sodium and chloride ions are far more common, and been around billions of years longer, than polysaccharides.i_monk
- I need some Magnesium later. My muscles cramping.NBQ00
- I have a semi for i_monk's notes to this postNairn
- NBQ00-3
We’re doing something wrong.
Check out how much these Youtubers made in 2018: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/top…
- The new celebrity. Funny how mainstream media still doesn't get it.inteliboy
- Fair play, they deserve it. Even if they are Logan Paul. Not easy. It's a bit like saying "Look how much these guys make kicking a ball around on some grass."Hayzilla
- didn't someone have a business plan for QBN?renderedred
- It's just baffling that these people do absolutely nothing and turn that nothing into something. I'm not knocking them. Lord knows if I could profit off somemg33
- niche topic, I'd do it in a heartbeat.mg33
- Record yourself playing the latest and most popular video games. If you're good at them you will most likely have a large fan-base.Maaku
- it's sooo much more than just playing games ... you've got to have a personality that entertains, and that's not something many people havemonospaced
- I don't follow gamers but follow several people that demo guitar effects, which is right up my alley. I envy the people who get all that gear for free.mg33
- these you tubers can't sustain it, they can't do it while they are aged 50 right?shapesalad
- and can they manage their earning at a young age to invest wisely and draw an income later in life? probably not all.. you'll see them soon at a Tesco checkout.shapesalad
- ^ That toy review boy made $20m last year. He's more likely to own a Tesco then work in one.Hayzilla
- The boy's gonna have $100M in his bank before he's 10. FML.NBQ00
- I’d imagine luck plays a big part like there were hundreds of kids reviewing toys before that one but he went viral and they didn’t it’s a snowball effect_niko
- There are very few who make decent money. This is a very small tip of a very large iceberg.Chimp
- It's very unbalanced. Very very few make money but the ones who do make tons of it.NBQ00
- @niko, like i pointed out, just making the video isn't enough ... you have to have a personality that people want to experiencemonospaced
- my favorite youtube videogame personality sucked at games, just cursed and make crude jokes all the time and it was gloriousmonospaced
- Maaku4
It's been almost 3 months since I started my not-so-new position as a UX Designer for this real estate company. I haven't been so stressed in the last 5 years. The company is old but everyone on this team is new and they behave like a startup (it seems like nobody knows what they're doing). From what I've heard I've picked so many red-flags that I will take the holiday break to update my portfolio and try my luck, once again.
On the bright side, I already have enough pieces to update the portfolio, lol.
- The stakeholders think Agile means working fast ಠ_ರೃMaaku
- doh! everybody knows that Agile means dodging bullets ;)microkorg
- Fragile is the new Agile... FrrruckAgile.shapesalad
- microkorg6
First day at a new job today with a f*cking epic view of Edinburgh Castle out the windows :)
- Can you see Brexit from the window?utopian
- Sweet.zarkonite
- At a bank??shapesalad
- Grassmarket side or Princes St?PhanLo
- pics or it didn't happensection_014
- @utopian haha nice onemilfhunter
- I can see Scotland leaving the Union from the window ;)
Kinda Grassmarket (back/side) side. Not banking, tech.microkorg
- autoflavour0
Oooops.. 9 year old wanted to watch Star Wars.. watched 4,5 6 fine.. watched 1, 2 fine.. then got to the bit where all the Jedi get slaughtered in 3 and he is uncontrollably sobbing for the past 5 minutes in his bed..
Guessing he won’t take Anakin getting melted by lava too well either..
Heaven forbid he sees Han Solo get shafted by Kylo
- :(
get him on Mandalorian, Baby Yoda will ease the pain.fadein11 - ep 3 is shit, that's why he's crying - hell, i cried it was so bad. show him "rogue one" and bring balance back to his force.hans_glib
- like fade said. this is the waysted
- Star Wars is shit, I'd cry too if made to watch six of them back to back.i_monk
- My daughter is almost 5, and we watched A New Hope about a month ago. I had to fast forward through Luke's charred aunt and uncle, but she really wanted to seemg33
- why I fast forwarded.mg33
- can you show him one of the star trek films instead of the last one and see what happens?uan
- I started with 1 (bite me I’m going chronologically) with my 6yr old. I wouldn’t mind stepping to 2 but I know 3 is soooo much worse I’m pissed off about it.Hayzilla
- So he's a "rip off the band-aid slow" kinda dude... He's probably just upset that you watched the movies in the wrong order ;DArchitectofFate
- tried force awakens, but the opening scene of the village getting slaughtered was too much again.autoflavour
- :(