Useless Conversation

[tazelbain]

Folklore passed down by your ancestors?

[Der Helm]

Genetic memory ?

[Signe]

Fortune cookie!

[Merusk]

Reminds me of the guy who used to stick paperclips in to outlets my H.S. Freshman year.  Boy those were amusing when they glowed bright orange. 

[Ironwood]

We once showed a wee lassie the CD Rom paperclip trick.  She managed to electrocute herself.

We're still not sure how she managed that.  For my part, I remember once I went to take a plug out and someone had removed the back of it.  No problem, I thought, I'll just pull it out.  It wasn't switched off, so I got a quick lesson in what a heart attack feels like.  My teeth were tinny for days.

[Pennilenko]

The only thing my wife and I baby proofed was our coffee table, we put the foam around the edges of the glass. It is one of those just a glass pane tables, its smoked and has razor sharp edges...I'm not too embarrassed to say that we foamed it up two years before we decided to have a baby, mostly because we were tired of flaying our legs open at the knee.

[WayAbvPar]

Scariest thing for me is cords from blinds and such. Had some friends of friends lose their 18 month old kid that way a few years ago. Horrifying.

[Ironwood]

Yeah.  So horrifying they got wrapped up and sellotaped.  That one I'll give you.

[HaemishM]

donkey molestors

I'm not googling that.

[Merusk]

The only thing my wife and I baby proofed was our coffee table, we put the foam around the edges of the glass. It is one of those just a glass pane tables, its smoked and has razor sharp edges...I'm not too embarrassed to say that we foamed it up two years before we decided to have a baby, mostly because we were tired of flaying our legs open at the knee.

Seems a better choice would have been selling the table and getting something without an exposed glass edge. 

Love the look of glass tables, hate the upkeep.

[Rasix]

The only thing my wife and I baby proofed was our coffee table, we put the foam around the edges of the glass. It is one of those just a glass pane tables, its smoked and has razor sharp edges...I'm not too embarrassed to say that we foamed it up two years before we decided to have a baby, mostly because we were tired of flaying our legs open at the knee.

We gave ours away.  Easy enough done. A circular wood coffee table is great, they'll just stand and shuffle around that damn thing.

Kid did have a think for cords and outlets for a little while.  Parenting (and really hard to remove outlet covers) seemed to fix that.  We did have to put a cabinet door thingamabob on our chemicals due to my son also getting really into spraying bottles. 

The stairs though, we never did put up a gate.  He slid down a few steps on his face once.  He didn't do that again.

[Nonentity]

This doesn't deserve its own thread but I was super bummed that the @horse_ebooks twitter account has just been a fucking art project all along (along with the Pronunciation Book youtube account)

it has made me rethink my life with the fact that I found all that humor retroactively terrible when I found out it was done by a human and not a robot

[Bunk]

I don't think I have known a child that I did not witness do at least one springing backflip off of a couch and on to their head.They are very durable at that age.

If I ever had to baby proof my place, I think the toughest thing to remember would be not leaving things on tables and counters that can be yanked down.

[Yegolev]

For the spray bottle issue, we filled one with water and gave it to him.  Once the shiny wore off, it wasn't an issue.

No blinds, the way God intended.  If you want to blot out the sun, just use foil like a regular person.

[Merusk]

If I ever had to baby proof my place, I think the toughest thing to remember would be not leaving things on tables and counters that can be yanked down.

Get a cat, they teach you this first.

Ref: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/jerk-cats-love-knocking-sht-over_n_3942685.html

[Bunk]

She doesn't yank shit down, she just jumps and sits on it.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Seconding the "babies are more durable than you think" comments.  Baby-proofing wasn't in when I was a kid, which is why my brothers and I took plenty of tumbles down the basement steps, the ones that only had a handrail on one side and ended facing a cinder block wall.  Or how I somehow managed, at 4 years old, to climb the railing around the back porch and fall to the gravel driveway below and come out with a scratch on my knee.  I think I was in my teens when my mom told me about that incident because I sure don't remember it.

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Is there any place better than your own home after a vacation?  Because after spending a week at the in-laws, I was so glad to be back in my own bed with my own shower again.  Nothing like visiting a place with soft (well) water to make you appreciate hard (city) water again.  Leaves your skin feeling like it's slimy. *shudder*

[Draegan]

Lol you called a week at your inlaws a vacation.

lol

Just to add, I just had a water softening system installed in my house. Full carbon/salt beds. My skin feels so different after showering. I use lik 10% of the amount of soap that I used to.

[Cyrrex]

Scariest thing for me is cords from blinds and such. Had some friends of friends lose their 18 month old kid that way a few years ago. Horrifying.

You just freaked me the shit out.  I am now sitting here at work wondering just how many stray cords I have hanging around.  What a terrible thing.

[Nevermore]

I'll throw this in here, since it was in a denned thread but deserved an answer:

2. Fanwank for good, but overrated TV (I assume this will be overrated, when has a spinoff ever been good? If you say Angel, I'll cut your nose off) is a waste of time.

The Jeffersons
The Colbert Report
Happy Days (a spinoff of Love, American Style)
The Muppet Show (from Sesame Street)
DS9
The Simpsons (Tracey Ulman Show)
Absolutely Fabulous (French and Saunders)
Frasier

Personally, I would also include Torchwood, Caprica, and Xena - but I won't push it.

A little late to this party but NCIS is a spinoff of J.A.G.  NCIS is the only 'cop' show I actually watch, mostly because I really like the cast and the cloak and dagger stuff. 

[apocrypha]

Thank you for the wishes folks, we had a wonderful time, wedding went really well and my gorgeous wife didn't have a single panic attack! 

My family were the utter disaster we expected them to be of course, but hey you can't pick your relatives. You can, however, do what I've done, and join another family instead ;)

I may post some pics somewhere when we get official ones back 

[Sky]

I'm tempted to have an open bar at my wedding just to watch my relatives get fall-down drunk and fight each other.

[Furiously]

?

I'm picturing a new parent going around making a big spray foam bumper around all of their furniture.

Odd, I'm picturing bear traps for some reason.

[Yegolev]

Coffee and Jean-Luc Ponty!  Let's go!

[Hawkbit]

When you forget your login information and our automated recovery is too tough to figure out, the best option is always to email me 47 times within a three minute period.  Once would be great, but the extra 46 make the whole process "faster", right?

[Hammond]

But but I am so important! You should anticipate my need and have it reset before I email you :)

And yea password reset calls are usually fairly entertaining to me.

[HaemishM]

I always love it when clients call or email me asking for the password they created, like I have it available at my fingertips. I always try to explain why that would be an INCREDIBLY bad idea but I don't think they understand security. Equally fun is when they want me to use the SAME password for over 800 different user accounts and this is AFTER their site had been hacked.

[Yegolev]

Security Rules: For Other People, Since 1968

[Sky]

For your reading pleasure:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCilt7E9cmHQt40NH-k1dxhw

[Signe]

For your reading pleasure:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCilt7E9cmHQt40NH-k1dxhw

For some reason all I get is a black screen.  That's okay.  I needed a black screen today.  Maybe I had my eyes closed.  Dunno.  It's been a day.  My cat, Lister, all of a sudden wants to go outside.  He's always liked windows with birds and wildlife to watch, but he's NEVER tried to escape.  Last night when I let the dog out, he ran right under her legs and got out on the deck and was heading for the steps.  Luckily Loki saw him and chased him back into the house.  She's an excellent herder.  I would have never been able to catch him.  And he wouldn't know what to do outside.  He's afraid of everything.  He's my pussy pussy.  And then this morning when I went to empty the parrot and Komodo Lobster waste, he tried again... but I was watching for it.  I've been on the verge of a panic attack since yesterday over this.  Goddamn motherfucking cocksucking goatroping stupid twat cat.  I'll hug him extra hard tonight.  He hates that.

I think I need more black screen time.  Thanks, Sky.

[Trippy]

That's because my JavaScript YouTube popup code doesn't recognize the channel path in that URL.

[Engels]

And then this morning when I went to empty the parrot and Komodo Lobster waste,

I was with you till parrot.

[Sky]

I always open tubes in a new window.

[Hawkbit]

Nothing worse than when the series of tubes gets tangled.

[ghost]

Anyone got any tips for making good burgers?  Mine tend to fall apart on the grill.  I can't tell if I'm cooking them at to low of a temperature or not doing something right in the patty stage.