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- mg332
Office holiday party today. There's about 20 of us, got a big smattering of pasta, tons of beer, watching Elf right now, then Christmas vacation, and pretty much closing down for the day at 1pm. Somehow I managed to get 1 of my critical things done before the deadline, and two other important things got delayed until first week of January. After today I'm off until the 2nd since we close between Christmas and New Years, which is a really nice thing as pretty much an extra week of vacation.
Anyone else's offices closed for the week between Christmas and New Years?
- ours does firmwidemonospaced
- it's the best isn't it? we started doing that in 2016. I hit my 5 year anniversary this year, so I get 5 weeks PTO now + the week at Christmas, plus 2 summermg33
- Fridays off.mg33
- Ours didpango
- We're closed until the 2nd.i_monk
- @mg33 it really is, and with the flexibility on top of benefits, it's almost priceless.monospaced
- Can't wait to start showing my 2 year old the classic Christmas movies too :)monospaced
- Yep, closed down till the 2nd, took off to the 6th, then HELL YEAR begins.ben_
- Yes indeed always do! And for half of January for the Summer holidays too! Woot!sab
- mekk4
Watched the new Star Wars movie today and noticed I'm way too sensible to all the effects they fire up nowadays. It felt way too loud too for me. Couldn't even follow the script completely because it was so loaded visually.
- me too...OBBTKN
- https://www.qbn.com/…OBBTKN
- How many lens flare effects were used?utopian
- hence I don't watch movies older than 1990's.shapesalad
- No good script? Add more CG/ VFX.NBQ00
- Particles! Lots of embers fx I’m surefuturefood
- but chewie finally got his medalprophetone
- I noticed that every single time somebody fired a lasergun or two laser swords met the entire screen flashed, after a while it became very annoyingsted
- I watched it again today from a seat more far behind in the room and it was wayyy better. Overall I like the movie.mekk
- Signs you're getting old threadnb
- renderedred1
just stumbled upon and watched a bit of darts world championship. darts fans are the best! ally pally is rocking :)
- spl33nidoru1
F*cking Xmas
As last night's improvised diner once again proved, there's no way to keep my mother and sister from eventually pushing each other's buttons and ruining an evening.
Add my dad to the mix, never one to calm things down, and tomorrow's diner should either be painfully awkward (my brother in law and I on alert for first signs of trouble) or a big mess, leaving everyone miserable as per the tradition.
Yet, every year my mother makes a big deal on celebrating it.
Too late for me to bail, but if this one sucks I'm sparing myself from future shitty Xmases with this bunch!
- Get a cab, get in with your brother in law, go celebrate it out there and come back late next day with a silly excuse...OBBTKN
- srly. there is nothing you can solve nowOBBTKN
- Bring weed cookies, get everyone high.eryx
- Wouldn't trust these with weed! But yeah, it is what it is, no big deal all things considered.spl33nidoru
- I moved 4000 miles away, works great. You should try it!zarkonite
- ^good call ! I used to be that far but they're getting old, so I moved closer :-/spl33nidoru
- You keep saying "diner".Khurram
- You're right, at some point I'm going to have to move closer again when they're too old to care for themselves.zarkonite
- robotron3k2
Ugh.
- OBBTKN0
clients + browser / router cache, the perfect storm, ugh!
- proxies can cache data, and routers can have proxies but most of these respect the details sent by the server hosting the data.sted
- browsers also align to these details called cache headers. so if something is wrong start at the hosting and how the data is delivered.sted
- thanks sted, but the problem was with a wp caching plugin and some basket configs... Was driving me crazyOBBTKN
- pango23
Merry Christmas! Ya Cunts!
- Merry christmas to you too pango and to all this bunch of locos here!OBBTKN
- Joyeux Noël !D4W33D
- Yuletide greetings!PhanLo
- Merry Christmas you filthy animalsdee-dubs
- Cunt be I, merry xmas boys & girls!helloeatbreathedrive
- Feliz Natal!Fabricio
- Happy Holidays, Pang.shellie
- happy holidays to everybody!renderedred
- Thanks Clint! Same Atchadbloc
- YOu too!Beeswax
- Frohes NeuesSTORM305
- fuck you candiesjaylarson
- Merry Christmas, cock shiners.DRIFTMONKEY
- Happy days my friends :)sea_sea
- Happy Festivus, internetfriends!Krassy
- ThanksSomeCunt
- o/pango
- Just saw it. It was meh. Still better than episodes I, ii, iii, and viii.pango
- You just called everyone a cunt!Khurram
- yes i will call you cunt in your face! but never someone you love. cuz im a gentleman.pango
- https://img.sharetv.…pango
- :Ppango
- kingsteven5
In the bar chatting to my good mate Ciara that's staying with us for Christmas, talking about street art fellow qoob PhanLo randomly comes up, my missus chimes in... "ah, hes really nice, didn't we visit his studio?..."
It's a small world! Merry Christmas folks.
- Ciara the illustrator/painter?
No way, that's bonus. She's making some amazing ceramics at the moment.PhanLo - Merry Chrimbles.PhanLo
- Hey yep loving the ceramics, we got a couple of pieces for crimbo presents. Chuffed!kingsteven
- Nice one!PhanLo
- Ciara the illustrator/painter?
- OBBTKN1
https://www.qbn.com/reply/394583…
I can not remember all the shit the docs put on my body, lots of work to do to end the year, can't be all the day on fever and coughing.
Why not to nuke the next guy getting the flu and end with this? Send me a xmas card full of plutonium if you wish, np.
- Beeswax0
My wife got me a bunch of edibles and some pre-rolled joints as Christmas presents.
I don't do weed anymore cause I get paranoid and worry abut strange stuff and get tired of my mind running amok with thoughts of all kind.
I smoked one tenth of a small joint and got really stoned.
Had to endure two family Christmas parties. I tried to take the edge off by drinking wine, which is something that I haven't done for a while either but helped me to relax, ease the paranoia and weirdness of the rituals.
After a bunch of social awkwardness I managed to end the night without a major embarassment.
phew.I don't know what to do with the rest of the stuff. I thought about bringing them back to Turkey and make my stoner friends happy but my wife says that that will definitely get me arrested at the airport. I guess she's right.
- https://www.youtube.…Gardener
- send them to mepango
- lol Gardener exactlymoldero
- I’ll take it off your hands.monospaced
- lol @gardenerBeeswax
- I only notice paranoia using high thc strains. Now I use more balanced thc/cbd strains and no more paranoiafuturefood
- Prerolled joints are the worst since I never now what’s actually in itfuturefood
- No offence, but your wife sounds like a cunt.Khurram
- Haha if anyone should know about Midnight Express it’s you Beeswax!HijoDMaite
- Wait, your wife had no idea you didn’t do weed any more?Gnash
- @Khurram, wtf is your issue? She sounds awesome.monospaced
- And how can you expect “no offense” intended when you call a mans wife a cunt? Dude.monospaced
- He was trying to do a set impression and it fell a little flat.eryx
- more like a Larry David impression.
https://www.youtube.…Beeswax - No offence but *single most offensive thing you can say to someone, for no particulary good reason other than self-amusement*.Nairn
- I said "sounds" like a cunt. Which she does. Pushing drugs on you considering how bad you do on them, precipitating a horrible Christmas experience...Khurram
- What a cunt...Khurram
- What was she honestly hoping to achieve with this behaviour? Seriously? I swear, if my girl ever pulled something like this... *fingers across throat gesture"Khurram
- But then I don't date girls into drugs. YMMVKhurram
- Plus I'm English yeah, we call everyone a cunt, it's not a gendered swear word... Can't believe i'm justifying myself against your wife's OBVIOUS cuntishness.Khurram
- Did she really want to get you fucked up and ruin your xmas? Have you confronted her about this? You probably should, because she sounds like a cunt.Khurram
- Dude. She didn’t drug him without his consent. She gave him a gift of some fun legal drugs. And you called her a cunt straight up like a total asshole.monospaced
- Saying someone sounds like a cunt it the same thing. You can’t trump your way out of that.monospaced
- I see you’ve tripled down and called her a cunt twice more. Good to know you’re right down there with robo and the other assholes who hate on women.monospaced
- You’re a cunt Khurram. The worst kind and not the English endearing kind you somehow think exists. Wear it proudly.monospaced
- White knight over here lolKhurram
- I think his wife’s awesome too, she just wanted to help him take the edge off a bit to deal with her family. Beeswax was quite responsible with the dosage_niko
- She's already feeling bad about it. it's no big deal. I didnt freak out It was just the wrong setting for me to get high.Beeswax
- We used to smoke together before she got pregnant 3 years ago. So she didnt know that in the meantime I decided I'm better off without it.Beeswax
- Your wife, didn't know, that in the last 3 years, you stopped smoking weed. And that even 1/10th of a joint would ruin your entire evening.... RightKhurram
- How the fuck is "weed" meant to take the edge off meeting your wife's family? Are you fucking retarded or you have know idea how marijuana operates on the brainKhurram
- I won't say owt else because the whtie knight snowflakes among you are gonne get all incredulous. But you're putting it out there for all of us to comment. so..Khurram
- marijuana, like any drug, is widely implicated in triggering psychotic episodes in people. I witness more than one person go fully schizo on that shit in collegKhurram
- and your wife thinks "hey, your nervous about meeting my family, here's loads of edibles and pre-rolls! merry xmas!"Khurram
- Absolutely oblivious that you struggle with any quantitiy of the drug, gave it up because you get paranoid on small amounts, for three yearsKhurram
- And she thought, this was a great time to give you a shit ton, just in time to meet her family at xmas. because it might take the "edge off"...Khurram
- The "edge" that needed to be taken off because you were spending timer with her family and so she gave your a shit ton of drugs.. . because that would help.Khurram
- Which you hadn't done for 3 years.... oh boy.Khurram
- He was fucked up by 1/10th of a joint for 2 family dinners - thats at LEAST 6 hours of barely being able to keep his shit together. Over 1/10th of a joint.Khurram
- If she knew, she's a cunt. If she didn't know - what the fuck kind of relationship do you have??Khurram
- marijuana to take the edge off things - take the edge off what? Dinner with the in-laws??? Are you stupid?? You're stupid.Khurram
- Someone needs to lay off the meth.zarkonite
- Just had a few to drink tonight lolKhurram
- its all very strange someone insist its ok to call other's wife a cunt... i mean... if you're their friend then maybe its ok. maybe.pango
- @pango The guy is a fuckup. A pathetic troll who has nothing better to do. Can't even read or write properly.Beeswax
- Sorry was drunk last night. Won't call her a cunt again, hehe... But what was your wife thinking when she pushed drugs on you and ruined your xmas? Bennsplain..Khurram
- plus my comments were @_niko who suggest it's a good idea to get high to take "the edge off" when meeting in-laws. WTF?? on what planet?? bennsplainKhurram
- Khurram, take a break dudefuturefood
- I never smoke, it’s never agreed with me, but I do eat edibles once in a while at very small dosages to take the edge off. Like a quarter of a small cookie._niko
- No different than having a couple of drinks of wine to take the edge off as opposed to drinking a ton, getting smashed, acting like an idiot on qbn_niko
- ...and calling someone’s wife a cunt :)_niko
- Khurram im sure his wife didnt force him to chow down right before the family dinners. it was a gift to use as he decided...mantrakid
- sea_sea2
Transferred about 13k photos from my phone's internal storage to a new micro sd card thinking... I'm making room and saving my stuff... NOPE. Now I can't find them :( FML FML FML
The card says there are 38gbs used but I see nothing other than
5gbs of it. I'll be in a corner over here crying D;- I feel like there’s still hope. Please consult a data recovery guy locally.monospaced
- thanks mono i'll look into it.sea_sea
- stick SD Card in computer. Adobe bridge. Show Sub Folder. Filter display: jpeg, png, gif only.pango
- it might show literally everything. but it shows everything.pango
- https://img.sharetv.…pango
- pango all the way, also try a pc os alsopockets
- Yea, connect phone to computer and check folders from there. MicroSDs are a pain sometimes, I’ve had one failfuturefood
- But for future, do not store things on microSD that you will miss.futurefood
- search card with "Find Any File" app and click "show" invisiblestimeless
- maquito1
Every new Holiday I get closer and closer to an entire Holidays with friends. There’s nothing wrong with my family, nor with my family in law, but man... I’m getting tired of the whole spectacle, the ceremony... ”Give in, think about your loved ones. Eat, be interested in conversations with stupid people. Do not respond badly. focus on the family commitment you have with people you see once a year and respect the commitment even if there is no other reason than that damn dinner once a year.”
It’s getting harder and harder each and every year. I can totally see my family and I celebrating with friends. People we chose. People we choose to share our lives with instead of the pain in the ass that came from the factory.
- You should appreciate your family, and it's 1x a year out of 365. I think you can handle that.Hayoth
- I know, I know... it’s just.. getting harder.maquito
- I appreciate your support Hayoth.maquito
- I get it really, my mom bawled her eyes out over, over cooked potatoes but appreciate your family. I keep my own trips short..not to stressHayoth
- I'm in my in-laws guest bedroom (I'm usually 3k miles that way << )... the wife and I just snuck beer upstairs (we're 42 & 43)... 8 days gone... 4 to go. <3PonyBoy
- Yes—we SNUCK booze up stairs while being over-the-hill ourselves. It is what it is—I love these people like you couldn't understand and truly am grateful 4them.PonyBoy
- inteliboy1
Have had to do a treatment/pitch over this xmas break while back at home with family in melbourne. Awful. For us Aussies this is our yearly break. For a US agency, they couldn't give a shit.
- drgs1
It's not 2020 yet, but I already like typing 2020 on the numpad
- maquito4
Next week is my 10th anniversary here. I think it was somewhere around april 2009 (don’t know why), that I decided to register. Been lurking around for months before. 10 is a cool number. Thank you QBN.
- maquito17
I remember thinking “these guys are all british, american, german... Should I ‘exist’ around such prominent design-related-countries people? Back then I was doing awful stuff in the advertising industry (political campaigns, travel agencies, shopping malls’ mailings).
I just did. I started posting, commenting, and hanging around. Despite the distance and the language gap, I quickly found myself in a place where I could inform myself, have fun, entertain myself and even learn.
It may seem silly, but speaking from my lifestyle, and from my way of seeing it, QBN has been a great companion for these 10 years.
Maybe that's why I haven't stopped logging practically one day since then, and I'm not going to stop doing it for now.
Greetings to all QBN’rs, and thanks for sharing something with me. I may have an histrionic face, and it may be difficult to take it seriously, but what I have said here is indeed serious.
- we all in this together bro'grafician
- im too used to be the odd one out. it didn't really bother me. but then somehow i became the asian guy. even tho there are quite a few asian here... o_Opango
- I admit i still feel like a nerdy little brother who doesnt belong but just likes looking between the legs at his cool older sibling talking to friends hahamantrakid
- freakin 15 years later and counting hahamantrakid
- Sos parte de la familia.Chimp
- Canadians are the best people in the world, not fucking Germans.Khurram
- not gonna disagree. but how did this topic turned into who's the best people in the world?pango
- He's the one going on about Germans and Americans, like they're something special. No they're not, they're the lowest of the low.Khurram
- umm... okay.... im sure he said the site seems full of them is all. not gonna argue canadians are the best as well.pango
- maquito6
The histrionic dad:
- omahadesigns-3
I bought a cell phone case on Amazon.
I tried it out for a few days and decided to get a different one.
I sent it back with it's original packaging and protective stickers stuck back on.
It's in new condition but clearly not as pristine as the factory sealed condition it came in.
Do you think they're going to sell it to someone else or just put it in a dump?
- Resell it as open boxHayoth
- read somewhere they just dump everything that gets sent back, so you better think about itgrafician
- so yeah, resell it and get another more fitting one, but do it from a physical shop, as normal people, stop using amazongrafician
- Most Amazon returns get liquidated to auction houses. It's how I came up on two Technivorm coffee brewers for less than the price of one.ben_
- Dumpmaquito
- where does one find these auction house prizes?mantrakid
- @mantra - a lot of local auctioneers buy from amazon (and others) - the one I got the coffee makers from was https://mckenziesauc…ben_
- This one is closed - but you can browse the type of stuff they had. https://mckenzieauct…ben_
- Thx!mantrakid
- omahadesigns-7
Does shaving the side of your head like this have any particular meaning? Or is it just a style for women?
- Specifically like that does not have any meaning. Just sexy.maquito
- You should only worry if she wears sideburns, aka “feathercut”, and has her scruff shaved.maquito
- Meaning? lol dudemonospaced
- It means they are way too much woman for you. That’s for sure.monospaced
- Lol, @mono. I’m sure he meant “message”, “gesture”, “belonging”maquito
- @maquito, Clearly. Funny enough so did I.monospaced
- Makes me wonder if he even talks to women.monospaced
- Lolmaquito
- It's time to go out sidepango
- Brain surgery recovery, don't judge.robotron3k
- hey robo, you should invite Omaha here to your next MGTOW meeting ... he’d fit right in.monospaced
- Who needs MGTOW when there are so many dissatisfied married women everywhere. You won't believe what they say to us single guys...robotron3k
- @robo i can only imagine :)renderedred
- Spoken like a true MGTOW monk. Robo you keep up the good fight against hetero relationships and the love of a woman.monospaced
- It's just a hairstyle. However, some people associate it with lesbians, or feminists, or whatever. But people are not a product of their hairstylenb
- I actually know a couple women who got this haircut just to stop douchebags from hitting on them. Hahahahahanb
- someone els also asked the exact same question not too long ago.pango
- Skrillex groupiemonNom
- You've got a real thing for this, huh?ben_
- Gnash0
Anyone have experience with a temporary/removable/washable spray paint? I’m doing some event branding for a local university and I’m proposing some stencils be used guerrilla-style
I’ve ordered some chalk-based spay-paint to test but hoping someone here has maybe used it before
- This is what I ordered
https://www.montana-…Gnash - You selected the right paint, be sure to purchase a couple extras of each color. The chalk paint seems to run out faster than the standard spray paint.utopian
- There is this stuff called flexidip from rustoleum.you could test that too.eryx
- Just testing longevity on various surfaces. Also, if used internally, how easy it is to wash offGnash
- Events not until mayGnash
- This is what I ordered