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- imbecile0
shapesalad,
I have found my dog's favorite "shared dinner" to be baked chicken seasoned with cinnamon and basil. She gets basil on salmon as well, but always seems to look for seconds when it comes to chicken. Currently, she is sitting in the backyard on her bed in 20°F weather. Once she comes in, she'll lay on my bed until I go to sleep, then she'll find one of her own. Also, I require her to run a minimum of four miles a day. Would you be comfortable exercising on this?
She doesn't even have to wear a collar in the house. Still want to be a dog?
- rzu-rzu14
hail satan.
- an upvote 5 seconds later, I love QBNrzu-rzu
- Ave SatanaYakuZoku
- aaaahhh veeee :)rzu-rzu
- https://www.youtube.…rzu-rzu
- https://www.amazon.c…********
- Finally.moogchild
- Always upvote LUCIFERmaquito
- satan is overatedSalarrue
- Hail thyself!scarabin
- Heil Stan!Nairn
- its sa-tinetrooperbill
- “You need Satan more than he needs you”thumb_screws
- Heil Sardinepango
- jagara0
Discord. Are you using it?
For what?
Reasons to join?- Yes.
Gossip.
Yes.palimpsest - mostly gaming communication.
and movie club. and sharing memes.
its hard to join if there isn't a group that already interest you.pango - no adspango
- Sporadically.
Needling Nairn a bit.
Nairn and palimp.Continuity - use something like https://disboard.org… to
find new interests, communities, trends...aso.
it's a big chunk of cyberspace.uan - I had it briefly because there was a QBN group but only two people were really active so I quitoey_oey
- We exchange nudes.palimpsest
- All the crypto stuff is there. It has horrible spam problem, anyone can send you a msgBeeswax
- No, you can choose who can send you a message.palimpsest
- Yes... everything from this useless site (qbn) to client interaction... daily pain in my ass.PonyBoy
- It’s a visual mess. Can’t even handle it.monospaced
- Forced to use it for a freelance client, haven't the time to learn it, seems super annoying. hate the whole 'server' terminology and mic on stuff.shapesalad
- Reminds me so much of IRC, it's not even funny.Continuity
- https://discord.com/…sted
- @Continuity it has interfaces to irc, I found out about discord hanging in irc and getting responses from discord servers/channels.uan
- Whoa.Continuity
- i get no spam and ads. also don't have worry about people stalking you like facebook.pango
- i use it in the browser and on my phone with notifications off. mostly gaming and AI related. not a fan of the UI but prefer it to fb, twitter, redditkingsteven
- Pornscarabin
- game development collaboration and video callsislandbridge
- Yes.
- jagara0
Alcohol-free beer has come a long way, flavor wise. If all you want is the taste of beer with food, and don't wanna deal with the mind fog, they're becoming a good option.
- I always feel like I'm cheating my brain so just go with soft drinks. Defo some good tasting non alcoholic beers out there now.PhanLo
- https://qbn.com/topi…imbecile
- @imbecile very much so. Hangovers take 3 days now.jagara
- palimpsest0
After more than a decade I have decided to come out with the truth:
I've been misgendered about once a month for the last 15 years.
Should I post my Venmo?- The typical situation is I go to the bakery.
They say: Good morning, ma'am.
I say: Good morning, one baguette, please.
They say: Good morning sir.palimpsest - They turn around, hand me the baguette and ask me pay.
I pay and we we wish each other a good day.palimpsest - So which one is correct?drgs
- I identify as non-binary.palimpsest
- you do look like an old lesbianpango
- I used to look like a young lesbian. I've been called a dyke in my 20s. True story.palimpsest
- I was chilling with my boo on a stroll allong the river when some hoodlums on the other side of the river yelled out "You fucking dykes!".palimpsest
- In my 30's I got honked by a older guy behind me. When I got down he said "Sorry, ma'am". When he heard me speak he said "Sorry, sir". Then got back in his car.palimpsest
- I'm surprised that someone as woke as woke as pango's take would be: "you do look like an old lesbian".palimpsest
- what's wrong with lesbian?pango
- There's nothing wrong with lesbian, there's something wrong with being misgendered. Or isn't there?palimpsest
- There seems to be something really wrong with testifying to being misgendered and your first comment misgendering me.palimpsest
- 'Old lesbian'?
Pango, you casual-ageist arsehole.Continuity - I do love pango for all the effort he puts into it.palimpsest
- It’s like watching a puppy figure out how stairs workGnash
- That's it! You nailed it.palimpsest
- Get a hair cut you puff! Do you have long hair?shapesalad
- I probably shouldn't complain since I'm already enjoying white privilege.palimpsest
- Oh, and lol re: Venmo :DGnash
- Lol I didn't misgender you. I said you look like one.pango
- Shit I guess my woke certification will be revoked now.pango
- Close enough...
https://c.tenor.com/…pango
- The typical situation is I go to the bakery.
- scarabin14
I was an iphone snob (in my head) for the longest time, then i switched to android and became an android snob. Got a new iphone recently and find myself an iphone snob again.
i think i’m just a snob
- just went back to android after 6 months on Apple because i hate it slightly lesskingsteven
- I like messaging on iphone better, and it just plays well with the rest of my ecosystemscarabin
- I liked android for its NFC writing ability and iphone for LiDAR but i think both may be standard in new phones now?scarabin
- yeah, ones always just 6 months behind the other. tbh i think i prefer my old pixel 4 to the pixel 7, i'm not getting any advantage out of a new phone for all ikingsteven
- use it. it also irks me that they don't provide iCloud storage to cover the device storage with the hardware, esp. when it's so integrated by default. feelskingsteven
- like a forced subscription servicekingsteven
- I like my old iPhone X. I never really liked android, it's just too colourful for me. But I miss my Sony Ercisson T650i. That was snobby.Longcopylover
- samsung camera crushesimbecile
- don't do both, those things kill each other. it begins with your iphone fucking the samsung's headphone jack and ends with salting the SSD of the loser.sted
- I was always a Canon snob, instead of Nikon, but now I own a Sony camera and never really use it. Not sure what my point is thoughIanbolton
- i use android cuz i dont like apple. thats it.pango
- imbecile2
According to my iPhone, average sleep amount for the week is 5:31, month 5:29, and 6 month 5:26.
Sign I'm getting old?
- Sign you need to sleep more.Continuity
- I don't know, do you go to bed at 2am every night?canoe
- been like this my entire life... midnightish to 6ish usually unless it's old man nap time, then i sleep from 9p-2/3aimbecile
- I would only worry if you're getting more sleep than you think you are.palimpsest
- The main worry is that your iPhone is the source of this info, really.MrT
- Try a zero carbs diet + fasting.shapesalad
- Considering it's my alarm, makes sense it would know. What I don't like is when I switch cars, it knows where i left the other one. would love to give up sugar.imbecile
- OK but how does it know when you go to sleep?MrT
- bedtime is set using the health app, but i usually go to bed after. i always wake up before the alarm, so bedtime to disable alarm?imbecile
- right, I'm interested as I don't use my phone to that extent. I always assumed it was bad to be on it late at night as it affected sleep, that's all.MrT
- i sleep in my bedroom, the phone is on a wireless charger in the living room. i have the alarm set to birds, but rarely hear it.imbecile
- Eat your carbs, have at least three regularly spaced-out full meals, calorie intake based on your fitness goals, exercise regularly, sleep your 8 hrsContinuity
- jagara1
Does the American national football (soccer) team have a decent following in the US?
- I'm sure they do, most of my US friends' young kids - girls and boys - want to play soccer.spl33nidoru
- They dos.palimpsest
- Compared to the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL...soccer doesn't even register with most American sport fans.utopian
- We have The World Series, it's not our fault the world doesn't wanna be part of it.palimpsest
- To answer the question, yes the USA soccer team has a decent following. Specially during the World Cup.palimpsest
- "doesn't even register" - what are you living your best 80s life?canoe
- MLS is pretty small, but it has rabid fanbases. Sounders are pretty hardcore.garbage
- https://www.youtube.…garbage
- SimonFFM2
My past 3 flights were a total annoyance because the airline decided not to keep the booking I had made and paid for.
Sorry we had to change your nonstop flight to a one stop. Sorry you’re flying one day later. Stuff like that.
I have zero rights and hate what the world has become. Sorry to complain here. I am just pissed.
- Was that due to overbooking the flight? Crazy they can get away with doing that.PhanLo
- we live in a world where women are paid to be naked while men get paid to document that nudity with cameras. it's all annoying.imbecile
- lolkingsteven
- Zoom call to their fannies?shapesalad
- imbecile .. LOLautoflavour
- We are utterly powerless against the airlines.stoplying
- sausages in a tube that is what we are on an airplane and they know that :Dsted
- mg33-3
There needs to be a universally understood rule that people don’t talk animal / pet talk to their own pets in the presence of other people. Do it at home in your own, fine. But the mental and physical angst it gives me is unrivaled by almost anything else. It’s just crazy.
- lolpango
- truthFax_Benson
- Mkay..? So I can't go "who's a god boy, who's a good booooy" to my dog if you're in the room?jagara
- stupid fucking post is stupidimbecile
- @jagara, you can but you sound like an idiot because the dog isn’t a baby and doesn’t give a damn what stupid voice you use? I dunnomonospaced
- Dogs understand their owner's various tones and react to them almost like humans do—sad, happy... angry etc. Dropping your normal tone might upset / alert them.PonyBoy
- https://bit.ly/3AF6b…PonyBoy
- https://youtube.com/…pango
- when the Wellbutrin runs out the world starts to look like an annoying place
with a lot of idiots :Dsted - @PonyBoy certain cats do that to. you can call a cat almost the same way like a dog with just a simple change in your tone.sted
- i talk to my dog more than all the humanskingsteven
- jagara0
Get ready for the alphas. Keep up.
- (Gen Z was the last i was aware of, but I'm slow like that)jagara
- Gen Alpha? FFS.Continuity
- the years are pretty arbitrarypango
- lol defug is xennialspango
- ^ made up generation by millennials that get butthurt when you call them millennials (typical fucking millennials)kingsteven
- Pew Research Center defines millennials as the people born from 1981 to 1996imbecile
- https://www.pewresea…imbecile
- everyone has their own time period for those made up names.pango
- and then some ass gonna tell me "all names are made up!"pango
- I didn't realise I was a Gen X + Xennial + Millennial all at the same time .. now I feel extra speciallukus_W2
- whenever someone is an ass, I just call them pangoimbecile
- Lol thxpango
- :Dimbecile
- kaiyohtee0
Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger
- Nairn4
Because of a series of mundane personal failings, I had to go across London to drop off a package to my fancy BioTech startup client. I punch their postcode into the TFL (transport for London) site and beep bop boop it spits out the instructions, which I dutifully scrawl on to a bit of paper, because I exist mostly in the last century, and then run out the door with my 15kg awkwardly-sized package in hand, huffing and puffing all the way.
I get off at the last tube station to realise I don't have the all-important guiding scrap of paper, so I ask someone how to get to my destination and it turns out I can just walk it, rather than the extra bus journey I'd expected.
To do this however, I have to renege on a personal promise - I have to go through the [spit] Westfield shopping centre. Fuckit, I'm not intentionally visiting there to shop or idle, so I'm still sorta upholding one of my many utterly pointless points of principle.
At this point I'm back in the 21st century and using GMaps with GPS to guide me, but it's not quite making any sense. I swear under my breath and go to ask someone working in a stall where.. what? Hold On. "What the fuck are YOU doing here, X?" The person I go to ask is a friend - well, the partner of a friend and he's looking quite uncomfortable. "er.. this is one of my many jobs". Turns out he's working on a concession right in the middle of this awful fucking hell-hole. He's usually a highfalutin' Act-Orh who although I get on quite well with him, he can be a bit of a .. well he can be a bit. I have to bite my tongue quite a lot when I'm around him. We sustain an awkward conversation in which he's clearly not super happy about my being there, and so I tootle off to swear at technology for a dozen more minutes, before realising that the client's lab isn't anywhere near the fucking post code I'd input.
I'm very curious to see how he'll react next time we meet up. I have often wondered how he keeps himself going, as he doesn't seem to do THAT much acting, as best as I can tell. Personally I couldn't give a fuck what he does, but he clearly does.
Also, the TFL app sucks sometimes - I could've got off directly at White City and turned right, and avoided Westfield entirely, but then I'd not have had a random meet in a city of 9 million people.
With not entirely sincere apologies to face_melter.
- The moral of this story is: Google Maps is actually quite often more accurate with route planning than even the local transport's websites are.Continuity
- As dire a statement as that is to make, but it's certainly been my experience.Continuity
- Sadly the Postcode I was aiming for was completely wrong. I mean, it was right - it just didn't include my client's lab. A bit of an odd one.Nairn
- Well, there's also a second-moral to this story: courier the package to the client. That way, you can avoid huffing, puffing, shopping centres, and people whoContinuity
- ... identify as the next Ben Kingsley.Continuity
- Yeah, I usually do - see first eight words of pointless schpiel. I just really fucked up a few things this week. I mean, they're saved, but.. AT WHAT COST?Nairn
- I just had a look at this shopping centre's website.
It sounds like Hell on Earth.Continuity - It is. It's one of the many 'developments' that is turning London into some weird synthetic schlockhole.Nairn
- White shity. Sounds like another shit day in London. At least you didn't get knifed.shapesalad
- that westfield is a hellhole. i was there last night to go and see a film - now they've expanded it it's a never-ending surreal nightmare of corporate retail.hans_glib
- i can feel my life force being drained from me as i walk thru it. tho i hadn't been since the expansion and was too aghast at what i saw...hans_glib
- ...to notice my will to live ebbing away. and the film was very westfield - bland uninspired second rate drearinesshans_glib
- idk to long TLDR.milfhunter
- These rants are great. Highly requested them filmed Sir Digby Chicken Caesar style.garbage
- Nairn2
^
Also, on the way down on the bus, first part of the journey, an older Ukranian woman flirted with me, quite weirdly, and touched my knee with a lingering suggestion. So, there was that too.Fucking London.
- Fuck in London.... is what you missed out on.shapesalad
- She saw you browsing QBN and knew you were game.palimpsest
- I don't browse in public, I ENGAGE.
Hence accidentally sending wrong signals sometimes, I guess?Nairn - Get in there my sondrgs
- She thought you was trying to engage doze nuts.palimpsest
- BusterBoy1
My brother, who is also my business partner in the venture I am working on...thinks he's a fucking designer/web developer. He has no fucking clue.
He thinks the home page to our site (which is advertising/classified based) should be a 10 second "loading video" using stock footage of a car. Would be fine if it was 1997.
I seriously want to punch some sense into his head.
- I hear ya on the brother front. It’s a challenge sometimesGnash
- You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!
- never get into business with familymonNom - weeeeeeested
- i think you should put a racing game on the homepage instead. you can waste time playing with it and he can have his moving car.sted
- better yet, throw up a login screen, covered by a newsletter pop-up, and then ask for location permisson while you get a 'login with google' request.monNom
- The "brother" thing ain't a problem. It's the "dickwad" idea thing...BusterBoy
- loading screens sucked, even in 97robotinc
- Classic Blunders!!!pango
- Ianbolton2
Woke up this morning nice and refreshed, ready for my Friday. Got in my car to drive into the office to realise i have a flat tyre with a screw nicely buried in there. How do you undo bolts that seem welded on to change a tyre? I always used to laugh at people calling the AA to change a tyre, but now I empathise. Think I've pulled my back trying to undo the fuckers.
Happy Friday everyone!
- lukus_W211
Today I logged into QBN for the first time about ten years ..
- wb!
also
https://qbn.com/topi…grafician - Cool> https://www.qbn.com/…pablo28
- Your profile says you posted something 2 years ago
LIARdrgs - Well, now. How *you* doin'?Continuity
- great to have you back lupus, hit us up if you need any tipsfadein11
- Just the tip tho.Nairn
- ‘Supscarabin
- Who are you?********
- Did you end up getting the HTC One X or Samsung Galaxy S3?prophetone
- wb!
- shapesalad-9
Today I logged into my account at QBN for the first time in 11 years. Welcome back people.
- Let me see those up votes! For the dopamine.shapesalad
- Who is thisdrgs
- ^ Some creepy keto and crossfit cultie, I guess.Continuity
- Haha, you gotta give credit for the sense of humourIanbolton
- You’d get more upvotes if you logged out for the first time in 11 yearsscarabin
- I've now logged out... 'click'...there just clicked the logout button, seems to not be working, will give it time.shapesalad
- OBBTKN7
This comic strip has reminded me of the times that my father gives me traffic directions to get anywhere, he has traveled by car a thousand times more than me, and the truth is that I don't mind getting lost ;)
I miss him, he's older (although he still goes biking every other day, tough guy) and any day he gives us a scare.
Reminder to myself: call your father, idiot!!
- cannonball19789
I went with my girlfriend to help clean out her fathers trailer to help him get ready to move and I have never seen anyone live in such squalor. The man has been sleeping on his couch and pissing in the corner because both bedrooms are piled high with boxes of hoarded baseball cards and the bathroom is destroyed. Nowhere to walk. Cobwebs and dead mice and mice poop everywhere. Four dead cars in the yard. Electric drills lying randomly under old magazines strewn all over the place. Knives stuck in walls. A wire tied between two doors holding both shut over piles and piles of seven up bottles and boxed wine. We got a dumpster and started removing mattresses and her sister was like wait we need to separate e waste and goodwill clothing and I wanted to scream bitch this is all garbage. Amidst it all the dad watched from the couch in long underwear and diapers, surrounded by piles of baseball cards, a shotgun, and a revolver tucked somewhere. It was a house where mental illness has been let to fester fir ten years, supported by the GI bill.
- Sounds horrible. I'm still hoping you documented it.palimpsest
- That sounds dreadful. I hope he's being moved to somewhere he will get care?Continuity
- Wear a mask and PPE.shapesalad
- Thought these were Stan Ridgway lyrics.
Sorry, man. That does not sound like fun.futurefood - Good on you both for handling it.bezoar
- parklifezardoz
- Moving him into an ADU in the back of a property a pastor ownscannonball1978
- Good grief. You must love this woman.garbage