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- palimpsest0
Continuing on maquito's post about Christmas:
https://www.qbn.com/reply/399486…I understand the history behind Christmas and it's relation to the solstice. But when did Christmas' current secular & globalist shape take place? Is it a direct American export with regional tweaks? A snapshot of the promised America at it's highest? Or is it more like evolutionary convergence?
- Are talking about the celebratory trappings of Christmas, like the decorated tree, and all that? Cos that's a German export.Continuity
- But I always saw Christmas as an American package. That's what I meant when I said I understood the history behind it.palimpsest
- Was that a Christmas package pushed as a whole to the rest of the world or did we separately come to it (evolutionary convergence)?palimpsest
- NYC after the turn of the century (1900s), the commercial christmas was born and grew. Soon after came the jingles and cartoons to lock it in.monospaced
- It took all the parts it wanted from its European heritage, of course, and the two never fully separated since either. I find it evolving very fast now, too!monospaced
- When I was a kid, people didn't put up trees the day after Thanksgiving. They waited a couple weeks. The consumerism is still the same, though.monospaced
- When I was a kid, people would put up lights the last week of October in the DR. Commercial Halloween and Thanksgiving wasn't big back in the late 80sMaaku
- Seems like it's a weird mix of a lot of different traditions. But the modern version of Santa Claus as a fat guy in a red suit was made up by an Americanyuekit
- cartoonist. Rudolph the red nosed reindeer was invented as part of a department store marketing campaign. So yeah I think you could say it is an Americanyuekit
- invention in terms of the imagery people associate with modern day Christmas, along with the commercialized aspect.yuekit
- Didn’t coca-cola invent santa as we know him? Why romanticize any of those trappings. Celebrate the solstice and the seasons, not the products we associate w itscarabin
- Yule on the 21st FTW. Fuck CHRISTmas. Lying to kids for fun, propagating the idea that only rich kids are goodscarabin
- Teach your kids personal responsibility instead and be kind to your family all year round instead of one day a yearscarabin
- /rantscarabin
- @scarabin. I think the whole "be good, Santa's watching" thing actually does help teach personal responsibility, patience, self reflection. Etc.monNom
- Sort of like the marshmallow game. From a time before marshmallows.monNom
- If you think about the whole thing, it's actually really fucking weird. It's like a holiday celebrating American capitalism bootstrapped on top of anyuekit
- older religious holiday. Also possibly the first holiday the entire world celebrates? You could wrrite some interesting stuff about this from an anthropologicalyuekit
- perspective for sureyuekit
- You got it, yuekit.
There has to be a paper on this out there. I was hoping one of you had a link.palimpsest - https://en.wikipedia…
Anglicans in Oxford are to thank/blame.i_monk - From pagan to Christian to secular/globalist it seems like it has come full circle. Even non Christians cultures celebrate it now.palimpsest
- Municipalities are allowed to erect a Christmas tree in the France laïque while nativities are a no no because of their direct Christian symbols.palimpsest
- It seems the Xmas culture package has been pushed onto non-western cultures which in turn have been happy to embrace it.palimpsest
- Religion as a tool of western power passed the baton to commerce. Are we not amused?palimpsest
- shapesalad3
Do you work with or know any designers aged 45 to 65?
Where do they all go?- https://www.designwe…shapesalad
- I am this age. I still work.DRIFTMONKEY
- Every time a 35 to 45 year old designer friend quits or gets fired, we have a talk about just walking away from it all and doing something else.nb
- I was under the impression 90% of QBN is within that bracketscarabin
- all good, working, teaching, recovering from ronasted
- I'm very close to this age. next year. still working, still have a fulltime gig, still doing freelance. Still here. Hi!capn_ron
- I consult these days - 20-ish years being a wage slave is plentysausages
- me too @ "I am this age. I still work."GuyFawkes
- me too etc etc... i'm curious who here ISN'T w/in that age range (younger)PonyBoy
- I’m 39scarabin
- But yeah, i’m over design outside my own personal projectsscarabin
- I had that talk multiple times about how graphic design is a 20s-30s job.Bennn
- Hence all the bad design and horrific font choices that the "Me, Me, Me generation" are creating. Me...start looking up and yelling at the clouds.utopian
- Still designing at 43. Im busier now than I’ve ever been between freelance and the full time gig.brandonp
- I'm still doing it at 47MondoMorphic
- Gen X -> 40-55. Many of us remember when computer labs starting popping up for the first time. It completely changed the curriculum of graphic design.DRIFTMONKEY
- My plan is to own a pub soon... before 45. So I can still drink at work. Tired of pixel-pushing for clients.Sellies
- There's something almost romantic about that. Being at the genesis of it all.DRIFTMONKEY
- I think it may be the case that we are the first generation that grew up with digital as core part of our work. So in some sense you wouldn't expect to see ayuekit
- lot of older people designing for web etc but in the future there will probably be moreyuekit
- 42, still enjoying it, and feeling I’m better now than when I was 30.dyspl
- Hahaha @shape, 90% designers in Qbn are up 45!! I'm too... Still designing and near the 50's, if we all do this days can ve called "design"OBBTKN
- I am one of these creaturesfadein11
- Me too. 50 next year.Morning_star
- I'm a 48 year old graphic designerBluejam
- i am that age. i work when i want to.renderedred
- ageist as well? haha.fadein11
- 45. Working, teaching, and side-hustling like many here. My buddies in business are all VPs or owner's of their own things. Still in the trenches heremisterhow
- I am 62. Still making a living doing Motion Designdkoblesky
- always wondered if im still able to do my job at an old age.. (29y old). seems possible while scrolling through this thread!milfhunter
- lol when you get to your 40s, you'll realize it's not an old age. You're basically the same as you were at 29 + some aches and pains.MondoMorphic
- 46... 47 this year and still getting it donenecromation
- I got hired by an agency at 45. I was already the oldest person there. I stayed on for 14 years! Now I'm freelancing and noticing plenty of ageism out therenuggler
- scarabin4
Ugh. The pharmacist my girl works with had covid for two days before ducking out of work and replacing themselves with a pregnant woman (!), Telling her it wasn’t covid-related when asked why they need a sub. Just cvered it all up, putting everyone at risk.
The lies all came out today and my girl walked out. She’s getting tested now. Called the district manager about it and they said they were too busy to deal with it.
I can’t even with these covidiots. Crossing my fingers.
- fuck them (the pharmasist and the district manager)! sorry man.capn_ron
- There has to be legal recompense for willfully placing your employees in danger like this. I’m going to burn that company to the ground if she’s positivescarabin
- What the fucknb
- America is fucked.utopian
- There's probably a legal comp, but there should be legal recourse. Sorry to hear bro.garbage
- just read that a couple was arrested for going to Hawaii while having covid, so...grafician
- no joke https://edition.cnn.…grafician
- here you get arrested too for "reckless endangerment" or something, get fined a large sum, not to mention being put under house arrest basically for 2-3 weeksgrafician
- maquito0
I clicked on some secret santa button on imgur and ended up subscribing for an overseas gift exchange shit with some random guy from Idaho. Just sent him a couple gifts for him and his dog, since his description was all about dogs and long walks.
I wonder what the lucky guy/gal will do when Uruguay pops up, and specially what the hell they’ll try to send me based on the absolute schizo “things I like” description they’ll be going through soon.
- dkoblesky53
Since the topic of age is a fairly active one let me add to it with more comments here.
(QBN has stood the test of time,,,,it is a small miracle....but long energetic threads are diminished by the design...)
I am 62 and I still push pixels, as they say. I do Motion Design for a Fortune 500 company and I still enjoy doing it. And I am valued for what I do, in fact I am a bottleneck because I am so busy. My work winds up being on social media and websites and other places.
What I hear in this discussion is this idea that somehow design is a young person's game. That is bullshit. Designers are not different than artists - you create things. If you are passionate about your work you don't stop when you are 35. And experience makes you better. Think about how many famous artists and illustrators and designers did their work until their dying breath. Matisse did a drawing a few hours before he died....Paul Rand worked until the end...and so on.
I have no plans on stopping. I have more work in me. And the work I see coming out is inspiring in that a lot of it sucks and some of it is amazing and new. It is a fascinating time to be a visual designer because everything is changing under our feet.
There is a sense in the work world that you have to move to management at a certain age. Why? What is wrong with honing your skills and continuing to provide value with the work of your two hands, instead of directing others?
At my work they can throw some bullshit copy at me and I can turn it into a competent piece of motion design in a day. This is what experience and skill can do. And despite the bullshit copy, I still enjoy putting it together.
And that, really is the key. Since we all mostly have to work, what kind of work gives you some satisfaction? I still love making key frames. I learned late in the game that I did not enjoy trying to tell some arrogant 20 something why their design idea was not working (you see why I should not be a manager).
Union tradesmen like electricians don't feel like failures if they do not move into management, Lawyers still work on individual cases as they get older. Look at Guiliani! (that's a joke son)
You do have to be a little bit brave though. Because our culture, and those arrogant 20 somethings, do not view an aging designer as someone to learn from, unlike a lawyer or electrician. Many think you should just move into management, old man. Fuck them I say.
- Couldn't agree more. The thought of swapping creative for management is horrid. Yeh, fuck all those arrogant upstarts ;)Morning_star
- Great post. Actual cool story, bro! :)nb
- +1 great post!fadein11
- Question: do you have an ideal age you’d retire? Or “not retire until...”? Any thoughts on that?nb
- Slow clapgarbage
- It needed to be said. Bravo!palimpsest
- Fully agree. Great post. From my experience clients sometimes go like "Hey, let's try someone new and fresh.".SimonFFM
- a deserved clap and head nodmisterhow
- agreed 100%
also just lost a job 'cuz they wanted "more of a team manager" I said I wanted to still design, not go into managementgrafician - Great post. I do wonder why in a lot of agencies everyone is under 35 though.Chimp
- Totally agree, well said. The tools change but the core tenets of design don't. With experience come a valuable higher-level perspective.BaskerviIle
- to nb: I don't know the answer to that. Everyone is different. Money is part of it. Passion is part of it.dkoblesky
- This is good. I fall into that other category that went management at one point or another. I "design on the side" because management has been soul sucking.ben_
- Matisse's last drawing: https://sothebys-com…noRGB
- preach homeboy, at 46 i see no need to start thinking about exit plans or do i want to... i love what do, and my ceos love thatnecromation
- Like said... A big clap!! Great post, manOBBTKN
- cool, I was curious. I also have no plans to retire.nb
- I can only wholeheartedly agree with this post. Well, said, sir!Continuity
- ^ Comma abuse.Continuity
- True for designers, web developers are less luckydrgs
- Thank you. I often say this to myself and others.desmo
- As a developer I've found a niche working with GAS. I need to have a close relationship with the client and product to make it work. It feels more artisanal. :)palimpsest
- Thanks for this.maquito
- Fuck the haters; all hail @dkoblesky!!!ideaist
- well said dkoblesky. i too will have to be dragged kicking and screaming from my pencil, pad and computer.hans_glib
- +1monospaced
- @dkoblesky Thank you and fuck them.
Respect is something that feels lost in newer generations.sea_sea - That's great. But the issue is also that people don't hire holder designers because they believe the bullshit. Glad to hear you're still working.cannonball1978
- Great post. I share a lot of similarities with you and this was a nice little Friday affirmation.stoplying
- qbn lovefest :)renderedred
- braintrustmisterhow
- http://www.concep3.c…drgs
- Ageism really exists everywhere and in most industries cannonball, but there is a little bit of inverse ageism in mgmt, which is maybe why some choose thatben_
- route when the opportunity arises/when they hit a certain age. I know I can deal with a client in a way most 20/30y/o can't. And I know I can leave my ego asideben_
- which serves me well as a manager and a bit of a coach. But some of the best in the craft that I work with are 50+ And I hire them every chance I get.ben_
- if you really want to be a masochist, be a one or two man shop. designer, manager, clients, hr, accounting, ceo, gopher, coder, It support, sales, punching bag_niko
- How fortunate you are to remain passionate and fulfilled. It’s not that way for all.jtb26
- Ageism exists noticeably more in design than say, the medical field or accounting. Yes, it is everywhere, but especially so in design.cannonball1978
- Excellent post. I've friends who chose management and a little bit of them has died next to those who didn't. Long may we stay on the tools.MrT
- AYE!tank02
- The desperate call of an old mani_was
- For the ones who have no talent : experience won't make you better.i_was
- god you're a prick i_wasfadein11
- +1whatthefunk
- I assume, younger people are more aggressively trying to get jobs/projects as they never worked before. This excitement leads to younger people in agencies.SimonFFM
- Great post. I've angst about this subject for years.Melanie
- Agencies like young people because they can treat them like shit, pay them like shit and replace them at a whim. Young people like agencies because they hire.monospaced
- shapesalad0
Great post dkoblesky.
Regarding age, where I see the problem is the job location and salary. At least in the UK.
Majority of creative jobs are in London.
Yet salaries are average £35k ~ £45k for mid to senior roles...- 10 years ago I saw some senior roles advertised at £50k, 10 years later, stilling seeing a few of the top senior roles at £50k.shapesalad
- 10 years and no adjustment for inflation, cost of living. LDN average house price 2010 = £280k, 2020 = £480k. Senior Designer 2010 £50k, 2020 £50K...shapesalad
- Try being 45+ in that economic climate.shapesalad
- Especially when your partner earns near to 0, and you have no family wealth behind you. £50k in London gets you a nice flatshare lifestyle, not a family life.shapesalad
- Prices in LDN have been shit forever, but your 2010 valuation is at least £100k under what it should be. Things are bad, but not THAT bad.Nairn
- Well.. maybe it's more a micro economic problem then... as in my economic problem.shapesalad
- Always been an issue. But in house corporate jobs are out there. Not first choice for new designers looking to build portfolio...but can be solid choicedkoblesky
- yeah in-house is preferable to agency grind any day.shapesalad
- fucking hell mate, just movefadein11
- do ever not whine?fadein11
- Nairn0
I bought a lottery ticket.
Now I remember why I don't buy lottery tickets - I've spent the last 20 minutes day-dreaming about all the Good Things I'd do with the money if I won it all, worthy fuck that I am.
Such a stupid waste of time.
I also think the prizes on these are beyond ridiculous - like, sure, life-changing, but for most people I believe - life destroying. Dumping £175m into most people's lives is simply going to fuck all their relationships up, even if they do try to sort out everyone in their social circles and community.
- (There was a beautiful red dusk out tonight and for some reason I took this as a message, presumably to me and me only. I'm weirdly superstitious sometimes)Nairn
- ..and I should know not to trust those feelings, because every time I've acted on them in the opast, nothing's come of it.
People are stupid.Nairn - i wouldn't mind a couple milliondasohr
- Aye, that's what I think.
This lottery should have, say, 35 prizes of £5m apiece instead.Nairn - "you never know"monospaced
- If they make it less than 175M, people who make 170M salary won't buy tickets! It's called Capitalism, look it up.nb
- What you're really buying with that ticket is the dream of getting the £175m. Enjoy it!palimpsest
- So I paid for 8 hours of despair?
31p per hour. That's not bad, even by my standards.Nairn - You have a bigger chance of getting fucked by docpoz' mom than winning the lotteryNBQ00
- You get what you pay for.palimpsest
- I bought some pokemon boxes yesterday, and pulled 2 hits. It was fun!pinkfloyd
- https://iili.io/Kfw1…pinkfloyd
- As an investment the lottery ticket makes more sense. For fun, the Pokémons for sure.palimpsest
- you should listen to the NBQ00 research:D
good luck :)sted - every morning i go to the local pub to play my fruit explosion scratch-offs, haven't had luck since the first season of rona.
these games are rigged. hehhsted - Do you play, pinkfloyd? Or just collect?scarabin
- More of a collector I think. I never played pokemon before.pinkfloyd
- The only people I know who’ve won anything substantial were an old friend’s parents who were an architect and doctor. 70k. Fuck a lottery.ben_
- Do you have a killer collection scarabin?pinkfloyd
- I have some investments in and occasionally play Magic: The Gathering. Never played pokemonscarabin
- Which pokemon or magic cards do you have?pinkfloyd
- When I win I'll do something nice for you.Hayoth
- misterhow1
I still hold down shift when I scale things in Photoshop. Hard habit to break. Should I change it to Legacy Free Transform or adapt?
- I use legacy.Continuity
- Adapt. It makes more sense. Bonus: you create some new pathways in your brainGnash
- This fucked me up so hard when they made the changescarabin
- struggled with this for a few weeks but happily adjusted nowfadein11
- Only maniacs use the new option.face_melter
- Continuity0
Did you win the lottery, Nairn?
- he's out looking for hookers and coke ;)renderedred
- lol renderedfadein11
- doesn't answer the questionFax_Benson
- Nah, he’s getting banged by docpoz’ momNBQ00
- I won £2.30!!! Don't worry I won't let it go to my headdee-dubs
- NBQ00-2
Re: Nairn (Lottery)
Looking back at the past 10 years in the stock market I can’t believe how stupid I was not to invest like $50K-100K into a stock like Apple or Netflix or Amazon or Tesla or whatever... any of these would’ve made me a millionaire by now.
Of course it’s easy to see things in hindsight. Maybe the stock market wouldn’t have run the way it did but yes it’s a bit depressing that I didn’t take more advantage of the past 10 years bull cycle.
- It’s not too late. Pharma and tech are still moving. Big time.monospaced
- I have this feeling that if I do it now the party will be over and we enter a bear market after all this run up.NBQ00
- in 10 years, what will this post say?inteliboy
- Nothing?NBQ00
- Pharma, tech, energy, space... trillion dollar infrastructures yet to be built for space.IRNlun6
- In 10 years I will have reaped 500-1000% gains, minimum, in each of the sectors IRN just listed. Guaranteed. If you don’t that’s on you.monospaced
- Solar, wind and electric vehicles. Go all in. Pharma and health tech. Go for it. Buy apple and google. Guaranteed you’ll pass on to kids for their retirement.monospaced
- I bought a house because I dropped a few grand on Apple back when utopian was jacking off to his new clear iMac. They are even better now.monospaced
- Guaranteed? You think the stock market will not ever have a bear market cycle? This has been a massive run in the past 10 years...NBQ00
- ...who says the DOW couldn’t go from 30K’s down to 20K’s next 5-10 years.NBQ00
- oh lorde, just buy apple and forget it for 2-3 years. be careful with energy stocks. it's not the best idea to buy solar stocks what make profit in california.sted
- stay away from things like OPTT :). wanna know more read the stories, solve the puzzles see the future, don't buy things when they are running to new highs, .sted
- A bear market cycle that takes down the two companies poised to make the most? Please explain this nonsense.monospaced
- Pharma and tech aren’t bubbles. They are the future. Get in or don’t. Don’t whine in 10 years tho.monospaced
- @sted, my solar ETF turned over 100% returns this year. Your analysis makes no sense.monospaced
- NBQ are you really afraid of the Dow dropping 10-15%? Please.monospaced
- I think apple is getting into the health industry? I would listen to monospaced imopinkfloyd
- Problem is markets need a correction. Massive correction. That hasn’t happened due to fed printing money and buying stocks.shapesalad
- So ride the wave now. Be ready to sell quick when signs of a correction coming. Fed can’t print money forever....shapesalad
- There’s always the possibility. And corrections happen. And that’s what investors often call a SALE. You just get more at a lower price. Win!monospaced
- I got more of my best health fund when it tanked 30% in March. I’ve made it all back double since.monospaced
- I got more of everything. It was perfect.monospaced
- lol lecturing me on this ahaahah
u even know what an etf is? :D why are u such an asshole sometimes i don't get it :)
i was talking about individual stocks.sted - and for some magical reason(we have partners there) i know that there are some problems in California, what will affect these stocks.sted
- +OPTT is a financially unstable company with very dubious deals, regardless how over-hyped the alt-energy industry is they are black lambs.sted
- I wouldn’t be talking about ETFs if I didn’t know what they were. And I’m not being an asshole.monospaced
- And I am talking about an industry of stocks. They are killing it and will continue to.monospaced
- pinkfloyd0
^I guess I did the right thing?
- Yesmonospaced
- Still holding tho?NBQ00
- lol @ downvotepinkfloyd
- I sold :Dpinkfloyd
- Sold for probably $2K-5K profits? :)NBQ00
- surepinkfloyd
- Well if you show us your buy-ticket why not be brave enough and show us screenshot of your sale-ticket as well? :)NBQ00
- I had negative dollars in 2011 lolnb
- NBQ00 I have enoughpinkfloyd
- enough to buy pokemon cards :(pinkfloyd
- You picked up $60k of AAPL in 2011?monospaced
- I didpinkfloyd
- Nice.monospaced
- I don’t know if I’ll ever have the kind of expendable cash to make a single trade that large. Haha.monospaced
- It’s not easy to take your savings and make that leap. I COULD but I always keeps some safe as cash.monospaced
- I been flipping sports cards lately and it's been a lot of fun. It was more risky but more than doubled what I put into it this year.pinkfloyd
- Boss move.shapesalad
- Boss move only if he held for many years or still holding. We don't know when he sold as he won't tell us.NBQ00
- FYI, apple wasn't the only stocks I bought.pinkfloyd
- As I said earlier, I sold a while back if that makes you feel better (smiley face)pinkfloyd
- Melanie4
We decorated our tree this week with all the beautiful glass ornaments I’d bought for my husband over the past 15 years. Each commemorated some special moment from the year they were given. I spent ages sourcing each one so it would be special. The fucking tree fell down during the night. Almost every ornament smashed. We cleaned up the glass shards and pine needles, then dragged the tree and the base out to the balcony. We didn’t move the plastic sheet that the tree was sitting on until later in the day because we had to get the kid to school and us to work.
When we got home, we moved it and saw that the hardwood floor had buckled from all the water that had somehow seeped underneath the plastic.
That night we brought the tree back in to get it back in water. As we were setting it up my husband spun it around a little to get the best side facing out and a ton of fucking bird shit when flying all over the living room. It was splattered on the ceiling, on the walls...
We spent the rest of the night drinking and cleaning bird shit out of our living room.
FUCK 2020.
- Wow that sucks....really a lot. All those ornaments. That has to be heartbreakingdkoblesky
- oh ouch, i hope at the end of the day u guys opened a bottle of something and had a good laugh at how 2020 fucks with all our efforts to have a normal lifested
- damn. this is some national lampoon type disaster. any permanent floor damage?bezoar
- Are you going to replace the ornaments? cuz if so... I can't imagine the ornament you will come up w/to commemorate this year. :PPonyBoy
- Amazingscarabin
- I kept reading thinking "well this can't get worse". Sorry that it did. Any chance of piecing together the ornament fragments a la Island of Misfit Toys?garbage
- Oh god, this story is kind of an allegory for 2020 in itself.
Sorry to hear about the ornaments. Our toddler smashed a couple that had meaning this year.ben_ - It's small consolation, I'm sure, but this is one of my favourite QBN posts of 2020.Nairn
- Continuity6
Do I ever fucking hate dating, now that I'm in my 40s. Fucking hell.
- Have you considered going your own way lololnb
- I'm w/nb on this...
https://www.youtube.…PonyBoy - I've been avoiding woman with tattoos. They all scream "I need attention". Best decision that I've made in years.utopian
- Remember how much better it were to date in your 20s? That’s the key, now you’re 40, date women in their 20’s.shapesalad
- Hangout in the high school parking lot with your Camaro Z28.utopian
- As bad as it is, it's probably better than being 50 and dating.monNom
- This thread is going to be a pile of great advicenb
- Those lovely late-twenties and thirties that you're meeting are relieved you're not in your 50s. You're a catchmisterhow
- Ug. 45. Maybe I have to slug it out till I’m 60- then it’s all smooth sailing with the golden girls.BH26
- I think its math, as people get older more will pair up. People in 20s are not as paired up in 40s.eryx
- This causes more fucked up people to have partners leave in 30s before kids and crippling debt. Those that are still fucked and can stick it out...eryx
- At this point only the really fucked up separate. So singles left are either out of a relationship because really fucked up or left someone really fucked up.eryx
- The normal fucked up can stick it out till one dies. I think 70s or 80s. Sex is likely amazing. But yeah date chicks in your 20s if you can .eryx
- Depends on many factors. Are you using Tinder? Well, good luck. You may have to lower your standards.NBQ00
- And otherwise if you do meet nice women, they expect you to have your shit together in your 40’s. And have something to offer. Remember, women want babies.NBQ00
- wait @NBQ why am i supposed to be the one with "offerings", aren't we equal now?renderedred
- lol. And to quote the MGTOW gurus: "Chase excellence, not women"NBQ00
- Become religious. Some religions have arranged marriages. Some even allow for multiple wives. Problem solved.shapesalad
- The woman I had a date with last night was saying how it won't work because 'an exact copy' of her ex, and there were 'a lot of red flags', etc.Continuity
- And that she'd apparently worked on herself a lot since that relationship. Thanks, that's a great and classy way of dealing with it. Pfft.Continuity
- Simply saying it wouldn't work would suffice, thanks. I'm not the ex.
I really hate life sometimes.Continuity - That’s just her using an excuse because she didn’t like you enough for whatever reason. How can you tell in one date already anyway.NBQ00
- Haha holy shit red flag.nb
- I like women how I like bizarre food...IRNlun6
- Wont work = immediately stand up and walk out, bill unpaidautoflavour
- hang in there dude, you are one of the gooduns xfadein11
- Continuity bud. you didn't had luck with that lady and as it looks like you weren't in a good mood to hear that and convince her that you're the fixed version.sted
- That situation is very unpleasant for everyone, best you can get out of it is a weird fucking :Dsted
- Someone telling me that they've worked on themselves a lot on date is a red flag for me. I'm happy for you that you escaped that.palimpsest
- Thanks fellas.
@palimp: I was also thinking I dodged a bullet after a bit. Apparently she's still sore from her relationship with her ex to drag that up.Continuity
- autoflavour0
did some consume during Black Friday sales (although still don't understand exactly why an American shopping event timed with the American holiday of Thanksgiving happens in Australia)
anyway, went from 55inch to 75inch Samsung QLED..
its almost too big.
its like a mini cinema in our lounge room nowcan't wait for the PS5 to arrive
- saved $1000 thoautoflavour
- “Did some consume”nb
- I recently discovered that Samsung TVs suck nownb
- No such thing as a TV thats too big.utopian
- "did some consume" was intentional .. me Tarzan , you janeautoflavour
- bainbridge0
What are downtown areas gonna be like in a year?
Is anyone ever going to an office in an office park again?
- I rebuilt my life around my new home office. I don't see myself back at any kind of office anytime soon.utopian
- You should visit Skid Row in Downtown LA area and see if you find a nice office there.NBQ00
- I went to downtown in my city, some hobo asked me if I had drugs to sell...
Not the usual "wanna buy weed?", but if I had something to sell.drgs - ^ drgsbainbridge
- sarahfailin0
what QBN thread are you least likely to click on? baking meats is up there for me, or / / / / / / / / / / /
- Both quality threads toomonospaced
- Any NSFW thread.DRIFTMONKEY
- picture association, for some reason it drives me nutswhatthefunk
- I try not to click on 'political correctness of the day' but always do just to see the same outraged tools ranting about the latest inconsequence in their livesfadein11
- Lol
https://www.dictiona…Gnash
- PonyBoy6
There's this guy I've been working with for at least 15+ years (closing in on 20) that fairly creative / entrepreneurial when it comes to food and entertainment (he owns bars and restaurants around the US and also publishes online / printed mags etc... busy guy). The thing about him though is he has always just been very humble / kind... usually more interested in making sure I'm doing okay than he is in talking about his current projects etc (simply put: he's a really good guy... a good friend).
So I'm sitting here working over the weekend cranking out some HTML5 banners... I've got Food Network reruns playing in the background from the late 90's / early 2000's (just letting Hulu play). An episode of Iron Chef America comes on... first Judge they introduce is THIS GUY... the dude I've been working with for years (he didn't have hair back then either!!). Needless to say my loud 'WHAT THE FUCK?!" startled my wife and the pets...
- Gucci0
Every time I see Bill Gates do an interview I think to myself:
- I wonder where moustache guy is nowautoflavour
- George Lane Cooper .. and he is dead. thanks internet and work procrastinationautoflavour
- Bennn2
I was on Youtube and I dont know how I stumbled on this, but I just discovered what is 'Vocal Fry' and it's very anoying.
- Bennn2
i bought one of these. It's so much fun! I cant stop playing with it and its a good training.
- What is this magicnb
- A ball on an elastic string, strapped to ones forehead. Magic indeed ;)monospaced
- lol yeah the elastic doesnt appear on the videos. Its super fun, try it.Bennn
- So, a cat toy. you bought a cat toy. ;)futurefood
- https://www.youtube.…Wolfboy
- its actually really good for your brain and it make you moveBennn
- Retardedi_was
- Magnets!Gnash
- If you miss it, does it smash you in the face? That’d be fun.Green_Pork
- sometimes yes, but rarely. Its very fun, iam using it everyday and iam getting really good.Bennn
- I was punching it like 5-10x at the biginning, now I can go for 50-100 punchesBennn