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- i_monk7
Netflix's The Sandman is just tedious.
- It’s all over the place. From dark n’ edgy in one scene, to a Disney after-school special in the nextGnash
- I guess this is why it was considered unfilmable. The sandman took me away I did get a nice nap out of it though_niko
- I’m scared to watch. Lots of folks making sandman respirators and stuff though, which is coolscarabin
- I don't evengrafician
- i quite like the episode where they meet in a bar every 100 years.pango
- I read the whole series when I was in college.pinkfloyd
- yes pango, yes.utopian
- shapesalad-2
Bog standard sofa:
Tonnes of volume to it's shape, big bulky thing, curvy and overly cushioned, can't see the legs, has material and padding all the way to the floor. Using more materials that Designer sofa.
= Cheap.
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Designer sofa:
Minimal design, small elegant feet lift it off the floor and create air around it, simple non curvy design. No excess material use.
= Costs a fortune.
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Less is More.
- dasohr4
Lars Ulrich is not a good drummer.
- Damn is this blogspot.com********
- Dave Mustaine approves this message********
- Not to be a jerk here but... Metallica is not a good band. They know how to play in time and chugga chugga but the songwriting and singing is awful********
- I don't think anybody here would be offended by that take. Metallica sucks.garbage
- watch out. you're gonna get sued by Lars Ulrich for defamation.pango
- Metallica lost the plot the moment they hire Bob Rock. Most material after Justice is ... not good.Continuity
- continuity is right. back in the day, the 1st 4 albums had merit. they were different and exciting. since then it's been complete garbage.exador1
- Damn is this blogspot.com
- ********2
I just finished the first season of Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal and it was fantastic. What a ride. Highly recommended.
- Watched ep1, it was unique in a great wayspl33nidoru
- Best thing on TV in many years********
- ^ Totally********
- after you bashed Prey, not taking recommendations from you ever againgrafician
- Taabe: You have to find that cat now.
Naru: I will.
Taabe: I know. Because you have to.
Read that three times and punch yourself in the face.********
- Nairn21
Currently: Sat in a fucking beautiful c.16th Century folly-cum-pile in the middle of Italy, half drunk on red wine and aromatic bitters, listening to a friend's band play 60s and 70a era Muzak, surrounded by people for whom this is all common place..
As per that shit grafician'a post recently, life is good sometimes, when you embrace it.
I did perhaps eat too much though.
- This is the way.grafician
- as long as u don´t eat a lousy egg sandwich again u will be fine...neverscared
- All i got was you’re sitting in a cum pilescarabin
- whatcha doin’ in italy? Just visiting friends?scarabin
- soz, Scarabin - was out at my in-law's place for a week or so. So, more life-long friends of my partner, some of whom have become my own.Nairn
- I've been back but 4 days and my 'tan' is already fading.
#GingerProblemsNairn
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Think crypto will ever bounce back?
- Yesmonospaced
- Or notOBBTKN
- To the moonYakuZoku
- via a gravity wellmonNom
- Born out of financial crisis and it will die in a financial crisisdrgs
- Ofc notgrafician
- It's tamagotchi for 30 year oldsi_monk
- Except it has actual results.monospaced
- Beanie babies had actual results too.i_monk
- drgs0
What if QBN had business hours? Open from 08.00 till 22.00
Discuss
- what timezone?dee-dubs
- Which business? Graphic Design?shapesalad
- The website itself. Timezone? We post in shiftsdrgs
- permanently "back in 15min"autoflavour
- i'm AOLsted
- 1) Who microwaved fish in the break room?
2) Who cleans the employee bathroom?
3) What's that smell?Akagiyama - 1) the one who doesn't knows how to close the refrigerator door.
2) there is this guy who comes in at night, he sleeps there
3) it's bathroom they say.sted
- drgs-1
Are you guys like me? Autumn makes me want to quit the internet and start reading books
Discuss
- This is what I've done during august, I'm on the third book now. But in autumn, it's impossible for me. Lots of clients and projects waiting... I'm scared :(OBBTKN
- You need to wear oxford shoes, a white oxford shirt tucked into tobacco or moss coloured chinos, tortoise-shell glasses, and smoke some sort of cigarillo.shapesalad
- At least that's my look today... but will wait for autumn proper and a crisp evening to smoke the cigarillo.shapesalad
- For got to say to wear all that while reading your books and listening to Kings of Convenience while dating a brunette philosophy student chick.shapesalad
- For the full Autumnal aesthetic and lifestyle.shapesalad
- Yes autumn but also the other three seasons********
- No, I am not like you.PonyBoy
- PonyBoy5
It's such a kick in the crotch to know you built a beautiful well-working website only to hand over the keys to the client and wake up the next morning to see the NONSENSE that can occur when they let their spouse have their way w/the home page.
"Ohhhh.... Xxxxx knows Wordpress!! We just need you to get us online!!"
This was my first Mom&Pop site in about 6+ years... I thought I had the endurance for it. It's 'done', however I've been asked to go in and 'fix' the homepage this morning... they're not expecting to pay either.
I wish to stop whining about this crap... I know it's my own fault... please kill me.
- Nuke it from orbit and replace with static HTML. It's the only way to be sure.monNom
- Build this into your fees.i_monk
- Evil option: DDoS it until Wordpress man gives up, and then they come back home.garbage
- I feel your pain. Usually the lower paying clients have some kind of death wish where they actively try to ruin their own sites.Chimp
- Hide the home page from the list on the admin area, using css, and you're done!! ;)OBBTKN
- drgs3
The age of user generated content which started around 2005 is coming to an end.
10 years from now internet will face the same fate as telephony. 90% of all content/videos is fake generated clickbait
https://grandy.substack.com/p/th…
Not 100% sure if its good or bad, or what the alternative will be
Discuss
- the alternative will be Meta-like regulated systemsspl33nidoru
- So next QBN website upgrade will be in Metaversedrgs
- that's bullshit.
whoever wrote this shit has no idea how big the internet is.sted - A big meh!OBBTKN
- why did user-generated content start in 2005? For me that's when FB et al started to rise and regurgitation became a mainstay of internet discourseNairn
- YouTubedrgs
- Not just user generated content... half the articles and blog posts on the web are AI generated nonsense to attract search engines.mort_
- I guess the user generated part is not going anywhere, but internet is about to get a whole lot bigger/harder to plough through all the fakerydrgs
- OBBTKN8
Late lunch with wife, bye to vacations, and all this...
Some grilled bream and prawns and fresh cider at home ;)
Hope you all are well too. Enjoy, life is shoooort locos!
- Noice!
My holiday is just start on Monday. 2.5 weeks on Skiathos Island in Greece, with 1.5 days in Athens at the start.Continuity - Good for you!! Greece is beautifull, more now with most of the tourist are heading home ;) Have a blast!!OBBTKN
- "...when the most..."OBBTKN
- Lovely, Felix. ❤️PonyBoy
- ❤️Miesfan
- What’s a holiday? No holiday for me this year. Not even having bank holidays off.shapesalad
- I hope the Ebi had a good life before you charred their bodies and ate them.shapesalad
- Be sure shape, be sure :)OBBTKN
- Que rico!Chimp
- @cont if you into your coffee, check out dope coffee shop while you’re in Athens, nice place!dee-dubs
- Noice!
- PonyBoy2
Im surprised at how much I actually enjoyed the first couple of episodes of She Hulk
- Same, it's quite entertaining.Continuity
- I just could never watch such made up fantasy from someone else's mind.shapesalad
- You do you, ss, but given the bulk of our species' culture has come from the transmission of memes and stories, you're a bit of an outlier.Nairn
- Ooh, now that I could watch.Nairn
- no shit... wehre can I get me some of that action, BD?PonyBoy
- Lol didn’t they already make that starring chyna from wwe? Im afraid to search it lol_niko
- My wife is knows the woman that plays she hulk, I think. their parents are friends or something********
- jagara4
Just returned from 2 weeks in Romania. I had a fun/interesting time. 5 days in Bucharest, some days by the black sea cost (Constanta).
Bucharest is an odd city. Ceausescu did a real number on the capital, destroying large neighborhoods in favor of bombastic parade-friendly kilometre-long boulevards and monstrous buildings (that idiotic palace o parlament - my god). And commieblocks. So many commieblocks. Apparently, he was more than a little inspired by Kim Il-Sungs Pyongyang. The city used to be called "little Paris" - I'm sure that's a pre-communist nickname. The only neighborhood truly deserving of that title is old town, a small chunk of the original city, still charming, but a total tourist trap. However, there's still a vibe here that i ended up missing. People (including romanians) told me to avoid Bucharest, but i disagree. If you look for beauty, you'll find it. And interesting? Oh yes (at least for an ex-communist countries buff like me).
Speaking of vibes, same day I came back, I was made aware of Watcher (it's on Amazon Prime, I think). It takes place in Bucharest. So weird watching a psychological thriller taking place in a city i just visited. I can recommend it, if you like glacially paced, Hitchcock-esque thrillers.
- If you didn't meet up with grafician I don't want to hear about it.palimpsest
- Ha. Actually I completely forgot about him being romanian. I should have!jagara
- I too would like to visit the balkans some daymonospaced
- I'm off to 2 weeks in Albania next month.jagara
- When I was living in Serbia 15 years ago, I used to nip off for weekends to Timisoara (RO), to refresh my visa. It was ... OK. Nothing special.Continuity
- How dare you Bad mouth communism. You will upset the be qbn eliteHayoth
- And you wonder why you're always the last to be picked for a team sport.Continuity
- Bucharest is ok for a city break. Nothing more.pablo28
- I always allow around a week. It takes time to get to know a city (and a week can at least give you an idea). To truly know a city, you have to live in it, IMO.jagara
- the international film industry shoots there a lot i think.. or is that budapest...blade runner 2049 for example...neverscared
- any pics to share from your trip ?neverscared
- Loved this movie.elahon
- @neverscared https://castelfilm.r…pablo28
- My mother was born in Bucharest.BusterBoy
- @Hayoth Really trying to help you not paint in broad strokes here: How is Ceausescu's forced natalism anything different from what the GOP is doing right now?garbage
- Because if you don't have a nuanced answer, I'm just gonna assume that the GOP is now the party of oppressive authoritarians..garbage
- ..dragged around on a bondage leash and under the heel of corporate and religious interests.garbage
- thanksneverscared
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DISCUSS
- @jagara just got back from romania, he has a few good stories i guess.sted
- I bought some I bondsPonyBoy
- DISCUSStingshapesalad
- I invite Utopian to write a short reflective piece on a random topic, before we divide into groupsdrgs
- section_0141
C'mon Fall. Officially over the Summer heat. And, the daily thunderstorms where I'm hoping the power doesn't go out while I'm trying to work.
- garbage6
So, this is a long one.
Things went wrong at the garbage household this weekend.
We’re gonna fast forward through a bunch of unnecessary details, and just say my gf severely sprained her ankle on a solo road trip in Oregon last week, so she’s home and hobbled.
I came down with something on Saturday, joined her in vegetable status; both bed-ridden.
So we’re thinking “yay,modern convenience!” and put in a Fresh order.
The delivery directions were completely ignored, and they were delivered to the wrong door, so she’s filing a moderate complaint as I’m unpacking all the bags.
At this point I’m just tired of the excess packaging, which is one reason we never use Fresh. It’s fucking stupid - they’ll put a single bunch of bananas in their own, full sized bag for “sanity reasons”. We think it’s a wasteful service, but we were in a pinch.
So let’s talk about those “sanity issues”. I blindly reach into the last bag for what I thought was produce. It squishes. I’m thinking “what the fuck did she order?”
Turns out I’m clutching a fucking sopping wet, used Mickey Mouse diaper.
I look in the rest of the bag, and it’s watermelon rinds and a shit ton of dirty diapers.
“HOLY FUCKING SHIT, THIS BAG IS FILLED WITH WATERMELON RINDS AND DIRTY DIAPERS!!”
I’m known for doing my bits, so Ms. Garbage is just eye rolls - very Boy Cries Wolf situation. Had to show the evidence before throwing it to the stoop.
It took a half hour to get them to go from “You’re free to throw it away” to “Ok we’ll give you $10” to “OK fine, no charge.”
Good fucking god, I might finally cancel Prime.
- Ew dear lord, some filthy cunts pulled a horrid one betwixt you and they, 'ant.they?Nairn
- ʘ.ʘPhanLo
- Username checks out.
(I had to to be the one)palimpsest - How the fuck did that get into your order tho? Was it the neighbors? I'm blaming the neighbors.palimpsest
- “Why oh why would they ever send us this garbage”
– garbage******** - Wow. That's hard to believe. Knew we needed a fuck Amazon thread too.MrT
- We use 4billion tonnes of cement a year.shapesalad
- Who dis we you talking bout?palimpsest
- These words have never been said together before in this particular arrangement: HOLY FUCKING SHIT, THIS BAG IS FILLED WITH WATERMELON RINDS AND DIRTY DIAPERS!elahon
- "sopping wet, used Mickey Mouse diaper" at that!palimpsest
- Username Checks Out!utopian
- It's a mystery that will never be solved. The address on the diaper bag was not ours, but it was in the delivery photo. I still don't have an appetite.garbage
- lololol :Dimbecile
- Yikes!instrmntl
- Ewww!Akagiyama
- What utopian said!SimonFFM
- Free nutella in the mickey mouse wrapper?microkorg
- What SimonFFM said!palimpsest
- Lol @nbmilfhunter
- lol, out of pure spite to the universe I'm getting Nutella when I go to the store later. It won't phase me because the baby shit was orange.garbage
- Also I meant "sanitation issues", but you can forgive somebody for going with "sanity issues" in this situation.garbage
- So, it was not what you ordered?drgs
- ^Cheeky bastard. Of course it was, I just wanted it for free.garbage
- This is amazing. They have a misplaced sense of dooty. Those asses should have wiped the expenses for your poo poo platter.CyBrainX
- I've always had problems ordering groceries online but this is quite next level.CyBrainX
- I can't get over how fucking minging that is.PhanLo
- palimpsest-1
@garbage
- jagara5
Any Albanians in here? Going there next month.
- I'm, uh, going to Albanians.jagara
- Alabamians?palimpsest
- Double check your ticket. I know someboy that ended up in the wrong country for New Years cus they bought they ticket while fucked up.palimpsest
- Don't push your luck bro'grafician
- You're already lucky grafician didn't run a train on you with his balkan friends up in Bucharest.palimpsest
- ohhh shiet.... balkan fight again.pango
- Go to girokastrashapesalad
- They're called 'albinos'yovkov
- @shapesalad Ooh! Noted! Thanks!jagara
- Not albanian. But I've been to Tirana few weeks ago for work. It's quite a mix. Normal south-eastern city trying to be western.Longcopylover
- But still keeping the 80ies odds: In my hotel you could smoke in the club on the top floor. And everybody did. The carpet could tell.Longcopylover
- But the view from there is nice: https://en.wikipedia…Longcopylover
- And Tirana has nice restaurants. My favourite: https://www.salt.al/…Longcopylover
- @Longcopylover thanks for the restaurant tip!jagara
- shapesalad4
Had a very vivid QBN dream this am.
Nairn was about to reveal my identity, as I had applied for a job 15 years ago that he was recruiting for, and I'd submitted a cool design, which he had stubbled up in 2022 on an old HD. It matched a design I had posted recently on QBN, and so the link to my identity was made.
Thing is.. the design looked amazing, in my dream. Very early 2000's. I must have used Freehand...
- jagara7
An acquaintance of mine completely unironically described the lifestyle of being a mother as "it's hell, and it's a prison". Apart from the fact, that she absolutely loves her kids.
- The toughest job in the world!palimpsest
- It's a bitch of a gig alright.
So glad my kids are all over 6 now!Hayzilla - I'm sure it's very hard. You usually never hear parents be that honest, though.jagara
- I'm a stay at home dad (child carer for you folks?). It's not hard at all. It's happy hour all day every day.palimpsest
- " You usually never hear parents be that honest"
Yeah, because "parents" are so honest.palimpsest - Huh. In my experience, moms are complaining all the fucking time********
- Bitches be trippin'palimpsest
- https://www.youtube.…********
- Of course!palimpsest
- https://www.youtube.…palimpsest
- She should try actual prison for 3 to 5 years. See if she ever uses the word prison to describe family life again********
- Who'd have thought that having a shag would lead to a foetus being dependent on your 24/7... IDK, maybe I skipped a biology lesson, can anyone explain?shapesalad
- The best kind of discourse is that which immediately pushes what could've been nuance to ridiculous, comical extremes.Nairn
- nb - i immediately thought of that Burr clip as wellBonSeff
- having kids is tough, but it’s no more hell or prison than most things people do, but it is far far more rewardingmonospaced
- Kids for those who want them; peace and freedom for those who don't.garbage
- Happiness for those who don't.palimpsest