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Have any of you fine folks ever had a hernia? I've been dealing with some lower abdomen pain that feels like a muscle strain. It gets aggravated when I go for a run and do my morning exercises. Been having some achy feels and fever the past few days and wondering if it's all related. I see my doc tomorrow but if anyone has any experience to share it would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
- Had two, one on each side... was like having a third ball a lot of the time , don’t remember any fevers, all stitched up in end (over sharing again)dee-dubs
- Had one in my early 20s, never hurt so I put off surgery for years.i_monk
- Could be appendicitis? Get to the doc quick if you’ve got a fever.monNom
- scarabin0
I need to build a website for my mom's pet sitting business. its main priority is allowing users to book dates, maybe add on a grooming option, add any notes they may have, and then process payments for it.
I've been looking at booking systems and every single one requires a paid signup to even look at its options. AI site-building services are the same. can't explore options or try them out to see if they even do what I want without throwing down cash first.
is my best bet Wordpress and some kind of plugin?
- Yes to WP or do a simple Squarespace site - there's already a cart / all the accoutrement built-in... I think you just connect it up to a bank acct and goPonyBoy
- If you're not gonna have the time for maintenance then don't go Wordpress.oey_oey
- Personally I'm looking into an option where the client pays up to 25€ a month instead of paying me 75€ because either people don't want to pay that amount...oey_oey
- ...of money or I don't want to be doing back-end stuff when I'm simply a designer. tired of that.oey_oey
- So Squarespace seems the best option in the US because of the payment methods. Many swear on Wix despite me hating it.oey_oey
- yeah, it needs to be boomer friendly and I don't want to do a lot of maintenance. checking out squarespace, thanks!scarabin
- My cousins' kid is using this app :
https://www.rover.co…
So far it's been a no-brainer for herGnash - She uses that now. Wish i could paste some rover code onto her site and be done with itscarabin
- Maybe i should just put a “book now” button that links to her rover profile? That feels like a hack but i don’t know if i can compete with their form systemscarabin
- ^ I’d do that - Link to rover. She’d probably benefit more from a Facebook / insta pageGnash
- https://wordpress.or…imbecile
- 100% agree with Gnash.pusherbot
- webflow - super easy, has a 'logic' section for creating a booking flow.shapesalad
- What problem are you trying to solve exactly? Does Rover take too high of a % and/or do they not offer extra services like grooming?whatthefunk
- It bothers me that rover is a collection of thousands of competitors and we’re taking potential clients right to them. Same reason i don’t sell art on etsyscarabin
- Ppl find her through rover often though, so i think she should keep using it. A branded, standalone solution would be nice also though. Seems more professionalscarabin
- Acuity scheduling seems robust. I added it to a squarespace site and it’s cool so far. together they’re like $30/mo https://www.squaresp…scarabin
- For booking, my wife uses Amelia for Wordpress. It was like $180 lifetime or $80 year. Works great! https://wpamelia.com…ArmandoEstrada
- PonyBoy4
How do you get a song out of your head?
I love Primus... LOVE them but I have fucking Claypool in my head going 'Hiyaa!! HiyEEYawww!!!' from their 'damned blue collar tweekers' tune... over and over... I've tried playing other music / putting on a show or the news... anything to distract myself for a moment. Then I'll sit back down to work or to settle into a chore and the next thing you know I'm singing 'HIYYYYAAA!!' behind my eyes...
I'm ruining one of my favorites bands / songs all on my own!! :(
- You can't. Sorry ;)OBBTKN
- This is a real problem. I deal with it too!stoplying
- what you do is, you overwrite it with Europe's "The Final Countdown" or The Proclaimers' " I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) "Krassy
- just gotta get a new tune in your head. that's the only waysarahfailin
- Yup, I deal with this tooYakuZoku
- Heeeeyyyaaaa Heeeeyyyaaaa. Shake it, shake it like a Polaroid picture.NBQ00
- the trick is to listen to the song a few times. it will get out of your head after.ben98
- agree, gotta lean into it, own that shit, let it play itself out naturally, can't fight it!whatthefunk
- canoe0
If a bag of mixed nuts was an illicit drug, the Brazilian nut would be the filler.
- Brazil nuts are rich in selenium, one nut has 96 mcg, other nuts provide less than 1 mcg. Brazil nuts have higher concentrations of magnesium, copper, and zinc.imbecile
- maybe so but they're still horriblehans_glib
- I like their weird dry/oily texture. I just can't fucking stand the shells - so tricky to get into, especially if you've got a shit nutcracker.Nairn
- They’re more bitter than I like. I have to agree.monospaced
- Just don’t ask a redcneck what they call themscarabin
- Lol! I thought I’d heard them by another name.imbecile
- scara, my asshole aunt used to call them that back in the early 80's. She was and still is a piece of shit.elahon
- What in the racist fuck?canoe
- Dawned on me one day that nanna was a bit low-key racist when I figured out why she called these nuts by another name.Akagiyama
- BuddhaHat2
Workplace realisation of the day:
No matter how far up the ladder you go, you can always find 2 people who will clash interpersonally in some way that can fuck things up for everyone else. Seniority doesn't always guarantee maturity. Bitches be crazy.
- Any details?NBQ00
- Testosterone replace therapy helps.shapesalad
- @NBQ at the end of the day it came down to whose name certain costs appeared under, and nobody wanted to own it. They're both gonna pay.BuddhaHat
- Accurate.grafician
- BuddhaHat17
In total contrast to work realisation of the day, Cool Story of the Day.
A dude who I follow on YouTube reviews cycling equipment and apps on his channel. Maybe 4 months ago we ran across eachother on Reddit and I plugged/endorsed this app I had been using on my Garmin for the last year or so. Two months later I see this guy has not only responded to me on Reddit, he has spent the last two months reviewing the product, and has posted a video on YouTube, racking up almost 30k hits.
Out of nowhere last night I decided to contact the developer of the app I endorsed, just to find out what happened to him after his app appeared on YouTube.
He responded to me: "yes, june and july were a bit nuts with all the extra traffic. thank you very much! i'll give you a free lifetime ultimate subscription later this afternoon"
Based off the hit count, even if only 10% of viewers subscribed to his lowest subscription level for the app ($5USD/yr), the dude made $15k off the video.
For one Reddit comment and one YouTube post I'd say that's a pretty fucking good outcome!
Moral of the story: even if it's not your own idea, support the good work and efforts of others, it doesn't cost you a thing and who knows the benefits it will reap.
Happy weekend my QBN peeps.
- HijoDMaite12
I don’t usually play the Lotto but I got a good feeling that I just bought the winning $1.1B ticket this morning. Go ahead and start listing in the comments what you want if I win it. Be reasonable though. It’s only a Billion.
- when you win hire me as your video guyYakuZoku
- i got 4 of them as bday gifts. if i win ill buy qbn********
- Qbn hookers and blow party!!!!_niko
- nose nachos********
- dream onNBQ00
- $1.09B worth of gold, please.i_monk
- So everyone just wants to cocaine? Copy.HijoDMaite
- 2017 Dodge Viper ACR (grey w/black stripes), Thanks Hijo!BabySnakes
- If another Californian wins a big jackpot I'm going to be so pissed!fooler
- Multiple Rivian vehicles.ideaist
- (full of various strains/strengths of cocaine)ideaist
- 76,544,870 lottery tickets for the next drawingKrassy
- I would love a 2000€ gig and travel expenses to meet you because you showed more than a couple of times that you are really a cool dude.oey_oey
- https://youtu.be/0yr…********
- a new camera for me plz :]ben98
- Build a library.imbecile
- Sponsor public parks with the interest off a hundred million.imbecile
- A plane ticket to come hang and learn photography skills with you.BuddhaHat
- I just played the Commie Lottery myself.utopian
- One lolcube pleaserobotinc
- You'll get just something like $400M over 30 years or so
Anyway, just checked the loto today, the jackpot here is just around $1M
Let's get it then :))grafician - +1!! Les Goh! It’s fun to dream. I’ve often thought I would have an anxiety attack though lolHijoDMaite
- Best of luck!grafician
- i'll be humble and only ask for 1 cheese burgerpango
- QBN JetSki’sthumb_screws
- https://www.youtube.…drgs
- A billion rupee?sab
- A new car. Something like a polestarmilfhunter
- A 58 Les Paul standard RI Murphy agedfisheye
- https://youtu.be/eYv…pango
- Oh fuck I forgot to place the bet this Sundaygrafician
- Nutter5
Bought some running shoes yesterday and went for my first 'run' this morning. Used a app called "5 k runner" thats geared towards new people to tell me when to walk and when to jog.
Wasn't too bad, might even do it again some day :P
- Run-jog is the best way to start running. Keep at it.palimpsest
- Last week I dropped my son off at shelter building class, lady in parking lot said, I do the blue trail, takes an hour.canoe
- I had to jog last mile to make it under 2 miles. I think she meant to say, I only walk an hour. anywy, jogging/running, ugh, ugh, gotta have trained ligamentscanoe
- drgs6
Lost my glasses into the toilet bowl
How are you guys doing, Ill check with you later
- found a pair of glasses in my toilet bowl...pango
- A pair of stained brown glasses just surface in my toilet bowl, coincidence?
Discuss.utopian - Are you guys retardeddrgs
- Um no? Plumbing is the official parcel service of QBN. You do have to have a pro account for returns. Leave your CC# here somebody will send the details.garbage
- Its your poopdrgs
- Nutter2
Wanted to change the direction my fridge door opens. So looked it up on youtube and found out I just needed to remove a couple of bolts and attach it again on the other side.
Unfortunately one bolt just kept spinning. As it was within warranty I contacted support who first wanted to just send a new bolt attachment plate. It took some time to convince them that a new plate would not help me remove the current bolt.
So they sent a technician after 2 weeks who within 10 minutes said the whole fridge would need to be replaced. But support wanted a special technician to look at the bolt. So 3 weeks later he came and 10 minutes later came to the same conclusion and said I would be contacted by support about what would happen next.
That was three weeks ago, so now I've sent a politely angry mail to support to hear when I can expect to hear from them.
All because of one bolt....
- All because you started taking it apart?monospaced
- all because you want nice things!pango
- Likely there is a nut spot welded inside the door sheet metal that has broken free. What a waste to replace a whole fridge for that.monNom
- You might try to pull up while turning the bolt to give the nut some friction against the sheet metal.monNom
- Or you might just cut the bolt off and use a different one to put it back together.monNom
- the repair men did try using a screwdriver to create tension to turn it. Didn't work.Nutter
- Should have tried on day one to reside the door. I would use a metal saw to cut it off and continue with the fix.shapesalad
- As it is still within warranty and that would most likely break said warranty it would be a bad idea in my opinion.Nutter
- that’s fair.monNom
- canoe1
I'm trying to have an unscheduled Sunday night design party for a deadline and Font Book is at the door... just standing there... like I'm not waiting. Come on in already! Join the hasty work driven by the client shipping retouching out to a contact in New Zealand only to come back with
a
new,
crappy
campaign?IT IS A RETOUCHING JOB and WE ARE 7 DAYS BEHIND SCHEDULE FOR PROGRAMMATIC. FFS!
as u were loves
- grafician0
Curious, anybody in here collaborated together on any commercial projects over the years?
Like a help a brother thing?
- i_monk12
A friend was promoted to publisher and is going to send me cover design work, something I've wanted to get into for ages.
- congratscanoe
- Gooood!!OBBTKN
- Awesome. Pics or it didn't happen!skinny_puppy
- NBQ00-3
Got banned on both Hinge & Tinder (both belong to Matchgroup), no idea why. Never harassed or been disrespectful to women on there, lol.
Probably because I never paid for any of the features or some other reason.
- These platforms don't ban anyone for not paying for features. You got banned because you probably said something offensive to a potential date.Continuity
- Fucking hell, how old are you again? 15?Continuity
- How is your relationship with skating goth milf coming alongdrgs
- @Cont, no I didn't. It's possible somebody falsely reported me on Hinge where I got banned. Hinge then told me I could be banned on Tinder too, since they belonNBQ00
- ...to same company Matchgroup. Look up on Youtube, ppl get banned for no reason. I researched a bit. Even girls get banned for doing nothing.NBQ00
- @drgs, she was not goth and not a milf, and that was long time ago. I was in a relationship since then.NBQ00
- Too sexy for them, for sureOBBTKN
- Maybe it’s a good thing. A sign you should go and meet women without using an app. The old fashioned way.monospaced
- Also that sucks. You don’t seem like the type to get banned so I can understand the frustration. Go get a pint and see what happens :)monospaced
- I had a colleague once who was obsessed with glory-hole. there wasn't a week when the didn't mentioned it in some form, sometimes we even barely noticed.sted
- and it was perfectly acceptable to him, as if you or i would say fuck :)sted
- Skating goth milf??
Pic!!!pango - and yet catpower still has both accounts.Ramanisky2
- guaranteed you're the same (or worse) misogynist piece of shit on dating apps as you are here.imbecile
- Where did you get that rumor? Ah yes because I posted in the COTD thread. That makes me a misogynist. Right.NBQ00
- Give me a proof or a post where I acted in any way or form misogynist or stfu spreading rumors you cunt.NBQ00
- wait would you say you were...
Un-Hinged?_niko - I thought you devoted yourself to NoFap like utopiandrgs
- NoFap doesn't mean you can't date or have sex. Just no PornNBQ00
- matchgroup also owns qbnArchitectofFate
- Gardener5
I picked up this huge, framed limited edition signed print at the weekend. It's already hanging in my studio and is the artwork for Robert Wyatt's album Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard painted by his wife Alfie.
Thing is that this is the first time I have ever inherited things from a friend who recently passed away. He left me all his records, mostly Pink Floyd, Gong etc and hundreds of CD's including all the Krautrock a man can handle. It still feels weird as I have never inherited anything before, even my dad never left me anything 20 years ago, but it still feels weird having all this guys stuff in my house and he really loved the maddest of music. I'll not part with the picture though as it will always remind me of him but I may redistribute his CD's amongst my friends as I already have too many of them to be honest.
I dread the thought of my mum passing as she has so much stuff I probably have to rent a storage unit to put it all in and then worry about what to do with it all, ironic really as the book I'm reading at the moment is called The Joy of Less.- That's a really cool painting. As much as Krautrock inspires me, I'm not sure I could listen to it all the time. Dude must have really loved you.PhanLo
- He was very poorly for many years, I took him to football matches and gigs though when I lived down south.Gardener
- he told his carer the best night of his life was when I took him see the band Faust and we met them afterwards and got drunk, looking back it was pretty amazingGardener
- You're a decent man Gardener, genuinely.PhanLo
- Gardener2
I thought I'd expand the story of how I met my friend who passed recently which goes back to the mid 90's, I was painting a writer friend of my mum's house. Oddly enough he offered to pay me in records as he was mad keen on CD's at the time so was given his collection of folk, Fairports, Pentangle etc - no complaints from me! Anyway his cleaner happened to mention her son who was disabled and near blind was big into music and would I like to come and chat to him, so one afternoon I did. We hit it off really well as he was a bit older than me and he had been to lots of interesting gigs and festivals so we chatted a lot about music and football. He was a massive Northampton Town fan so I ended up taking him to matches, play off finals etc and we then went to a lot of gigs together. He collected art, books and was fairly obsessed with Robert Wyatt/Soft Machine so he spent a small fortune on the print - 1/100 and then a further fortune getting the bugger framed.
When I got the call he had passed from COVID his carer told me I need to come down to her house near where he lived to collect boxes of stuff he had bequeathed me. He was really into Can, Popol Vuh and most of all Faust. His carer told me how he had considered the night we went to see Faust play in Milton Keynes was one of the best nights of his life. It was a pretty incredible night all round really as hardly anyone was there, perhaps 20 people tops and when the band played a blinding set - including an angle grinder on railway tracks solo! and then they all came out to the bar afterwards and sat and chatted to the group of us that had remained and drank with us for over an hour and signed stuff and that, they were really lovely chaps and it certainly left a big impression on my friend. I had not seen him for a while as I have moved to Scotland in the past few years but we spoke on the phone often, I'll miss him as he was very knowledgeable about stuff and really was a very kind and lovely man. He is now buried next to his mum in the local graveyard.
- Ianbolton2
FILM REVIEWS: Over the past 2 days I've watched Barbie and Oppenheimer at the cinema. Barbie talks about the patriarchy, albeit in a comedic way, being controlling and destructive, maybe like a religion or deity. Oppenheimer was literally showing the patriarchy on the edge of destroying the planet, just in a less comedic way. Both films I really enjoyed for completely different reasons.
Both 8.5/10
- Nairn1
^
Did you see an advert for BBC before Barbie, IanBolton? If so, I had a [very] small hand in that, but my client that did that also wworked on Barbie itself (disappearing for a year or so in the process) so is terribly chuffed that two of his works are being shown 'back to back' in UK cinemas :)
- HijoDMaite7
Tim, you and the fam OK brother? Seeing what’s happening in Maui right now! :(
- ++YakuZoku
- :-(Squiddy
- :(Krassy
- shit started 4 days after i left********
- https://twitter.com/…********
- ********-9
"Kill the Boer, the farmer"
- Whoever downvotes it is a faggot as cunt********
- ass*********
- you're a delightjagara
- thank you********
- Whoever downvotes it is a faggot as cunt