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- imbecile0
yesterday afternoon, i thought spring was officially here when i saw a toy ball bounce over a roof, rolling into the driveway then street, being chased by a girl through the front door and her brother around through the side gate.
this morning, if the temperature doubles, it will still be freezing. I am happy to slow cook ribs today instead of shooting on location which according to weather.com will have dropped from 73°F yesterday, to 23°F by this afternoon.
- Weather's all over the place here in Blighty too at the moment. Ostensibly- unseasonal bouts of good weather sprinked with days of near sub-zero chill.Nairn
- omahadesigns7
I'm "quiet quitting" my job.
I feel I'm underpaid, and my three best friends at the office left. Two got different jobs, and one just flat out quit. They work different roles and went to small companies, so no room for me to join.
I asked for more money and was denied.
My direct report is lazy and I'm tired of following up just to get things moving.
So I'm working less and just enough to keep people satisfied. And whatever takes too long, I can blame on my higher up.
No one has ever accused me of not doing my job.
- Walmart Greeters have a such a tough job, they're underappreciated and underpaid, I don't blame you one bit for quitting! Best of luck on your job search.utopian
- Run as soon as you have secured a good B Plan. Good luck!OBBTKN
- Chinese call this "lying flat"yuekit
- Just us those hours todo freelance work. Get some extra income.milfhunter
- you're more likely to get paid more when you get a new job.pango
- Feeling the same at the moment, but that's because i'm so busy and there's more focus on process than creativity. But ya know, ups and downs. I'm lying flat ;-)Ianbolton
- Summery = You suck at your job, you're not a good manager, you have no prospects elsewhere, so you're just going to be a loser until you get fired.everyangle
- The best way to get a job is to have a job my man! I'm freelance / contract again (the last 2 years or so) AND man the job market is not great...ideaist
- ... As mentioned above, get that plan b and make (sh)it happen! YOLO!!!
XOideaist - Don't get yourself fired.canoe
- Wintery: you'll be fine.palimpsest
- good for you, fuck 'emNutter
- Capitalism suggests that you should hav even doing this from day one, at every jobnb
- @ideaist I thought the job market was supposed to be great? Lowest unemployment ever.yuekit
- @yuekit; I’m in Canada and a lot of recent layoffs in and around our specific sector has created job seekers without (many new) jobs...ideaist
- ...especially as I live fairly remote and remote jobs became “hybrid” jobs which became (once again) on-site.ideaist
- jagara-1
- (the car brand is Hongqi)jagara
- What a t u r d is this?
There're still people who say my car is ugly...OBBTKN - It is a turd made for the Chinese market. They like pseudo luxury. It's for people without taste, and the nouveau riche wannabe sheik/oligarch/gangs...jagara
- ...gangstajagara
- fugly as fuckutopian
- jive hongqiBuddhaHat
- garbage1
re: hydro's police shooting range post
Triggered a very hilarious memory.
(not my photos)That's the Cahaba Lily. It's an endangered riverflower that only grows in a few hard to reach places.
So way back when, a friend and I borrowed this bonk-ass 1980s rickety canoe from his aunt, loaded up with cameras, and set sail on we dubbed the SS Friday the 13th.
So we're fucking wobbling this total jalopy of a canoe, with a shit ton of film cameras and zero GPS. The streams we're on start getting narrower, shallower and faster. The dumbest question asked in the SS Friday the 13th was "Um.. do you think we're lost?"
We are in the middle of fucking nowhere at this point, and Gods be praised, in a small break in the treeline I spy a barbed wire fence to our port. Banked, and I jumped it to see if we had a reasonable egress.
Looked to my left, looked to my right. I'm in the middle of a row of shooting targets. I have accidentally broken into the back end of a police shooting range. I'm talking the ones with human targets that look like the male bathroom icon.
I jumped back so fucking fast, just screaming "GO GO GO", hyperventilating and not making any sense for another mile or so.
We come to another fucking barbwire fence on the port bank. With much, much more caution I crawl up and straddle the top. It's a fucking junkyard.
My friend: Why are you whistling?
Me in angry whisper tones: BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT FUCKING JUNKYARD AND THEY MIGHT HAVE A DOG YOU FUCKING MORON.They did not have a dog, and so we threw this massive metal canoe over the fence, and walked out through the front gate. The owners saw us and were too confused to confront two sweaty ass dudes in with camera gear hauling a canoe.
Found an empty lot and after some argument, it was agreed that I've been hopping fences all day, so it's on him to hitch a ride to pick up the truck that we launched from.
I flip over the canoe and hide underneath it, and I start hearing rings of thunder and thinking of how fucking stupid the headlines of my death are going to be.
"CANOE BOY THUNDERSTRUCK IN PARKING LOT", or just "LOOK AT THIS IDIOT" with a photo of my sizzled arm hanging out of the canoe.
He managed to get the truck. We did not manage to take a single fucking photo or even see a lily. Fun day.
- pockets0
tracking received signal from Nova-C class lunar lander on the moon, could take 15-30min to confirm
"we aren't dead yet" - nasa
- pockets0
I got invited to a oscar nominations party but the nicest suit i have was for a funeral. i'm going to pass.
Discuss.
- rentalspl33nidoru
- only thing i want is ryan gosling to sign my notebookpockets
- https://www.qbn.com/…spl33nidoru
- HAYZ1LLLA0
Is there a good resource for video inspiration like dribble and Beeharnce is for design? I have to come up with a unique execution for a video on sustainability (yawn) and I'm struggling for ideas/inspiration.
- OBBTKN4
20km bike ride after work, not bad, lungs are in better condition than I thought.
But I need to work more on bodybuilding and resistance on the roller, rainy weekend coming, perfect.
- PonyBoy10
- You? Thanks trump.monospaced
- haha... yep—me. Logged in yesterday just to check the balance as I knew I had a payment due — er... guess not.PonyBoy
- ugh, I still have a balancemonospaced
- maybe I should of went to college...hydro74
- congrats! no monthly payment anymore. go buy a Camaro.capn_ron
- Yeah boiii!!! Time to accumulate fresh/new debt!!!ideaist
- Nationalizing the burden of bad decisions for people who might vote? congrats!everyangle
- face_melter1
working on a v. important document for a v. important client which will lay out certain planning and traffic concerns for the next 30 years or so.
one of the sections is numbered 6.6.6 so I'm changing the weights of each s, l, a, y, e, and r in all the paragraphs. toying with altering the kerning but I don't want to make it too obvious, especially in long-ass Swedish words.
- hahaha i nearly got sacked once for pulling a stunt like thathans_glib
- Go for faux-bold — it should darken each letter _just_ enough — a hair, really — without being too obvious.Continuity
- jagara18
JS hasn't lost it in the 9 years. Still funny as fuck.
- He would be a great president of the United Statesmonospaced
- with Trevor Noah as VP.palimpsest
- He's in his element in this medium, eh?ideaist
- Oh god please, no more Noah. The dude has an actual unfunny bone.garbage
- JERRY SPRINGER?AQUTE
- @garbage he got funny a few months in IMO. His South Africa material is great.jagara
- my gf loves trevor noah but we watched a standup special thing and she didn't laugh either. JS always amazing.kingsteven
- I don't know what it is about Noah, but I find him tremendously off-putting.Nairn
- OK then, let's keep Kamala Harris as VP.palimpsest
- @kingsteven his last one was bad. But he has good ones. But taste, I guess :)jagara
- Matt Rife for VP?palimpsest
- Eh, I never found him funny.garbage
- Also dump Kamala Harris, no more "Top Cop". The reincarnated spirit of Fred Rogers for VP.garbage
- AI for VP.palimpsest
- Compromise: Mr. Rogers AI VP, but he has a crew and control room that rivals Space Center Houston.garbage
- The day he says "It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, you will be mine, you will be mine" and starts chewing the heads off his puppets?garbage
- Killswitch engaged.garbage
- I think we have a winning team!palimpsest
- HAL90010
Sometimes I would like my kitchen to be like an industrial kitchen, all in stainless with a ceramic floor with a drain so I can clean everything with a high pressure hose.
- yee. i thought of this too. but it's going to make your kitchen look very coldpango
- yeahHAL9001
- Also handy for disposing your victims.Nairn
- ^ yespango
- my apartment's minimal furniture look already been described as serial killer-esque. industrial kitchen is really going to complete the look.pango
- lolHAL9001
- Wordsworth1
Remember, when you are lifting heavy things, you wanna just lift from your BACK with a good, sudden JERKING motion.
- Especially important when shoveling and tossing heavy snow.monospaced
- lolWordsworth
- https://m.youtube.co…robotinc
- doggydoggdog1
What do you do for fun??
Most of the time I work or make art or just lounge around.
I need to have real fun.- Lately? Cut wood for the fireplace and eat tangerines... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯OBBTKN
- lol OBNairn
- What I wouldn’t do for the time to just lounge around.monospaced
- sleepPhanLo
- ^ thisrobotinc
- What mono saidduckseason
- I ride motorcycles or cars in the canyons east of San Diego. I go at least once a weekend, sometimes twice. And personal work, movies, gym, walks with wife.dyspl
- I just beach now.YakuZoku
- Paint, walk around with a camera. Occasionally a miserable loss session of RL with a bastard that roams these woods.garbage
- when it rains i walk the hard-shoulder of the dual carriageway naked singing eternal flame by the bangles in falseto crying happy tears.kingsteven
- wank, sleep, doomscrollcrazyprick
- lol crazyprickNairn
- @kingsteven - lol, to this day I know all the lyrics to that song. Oh, Amanda, where are you now?Nairn
- it can pop in to my head fully formed with every inflection of susanna hoffs' vocal and string arrangements. it's a shame the production on the actual track iskingsteven
- so clunky and dates it so much as it truly is one of the songskingsteven
- i don't think i've ever intentionally listened to it either. but it's just living there...kingsteven
- I battle the constant flow of ill-health brought home from childcare, ride when I can, gardening, kettlebell workouts, and I play PC games badly sometimes.BuddhaHat
- @kingsteven - christ, i asumed you were being all pretentous music wonk but having listened, the production's fucking awful, isn't it? lol. Oh well. xxNairn