Useless Conversation

[Merusk]

WHY WON'T YOU LET ME UPDATE DATA, EXCEL?

We're sorry, Rasix, but the data you're looking for is in another pivot table...

[Signe]

Is it more impolite to eat with an open mouth or to tell someone to shut it when they eat?  I don't want to see chewed up food so I'd probably say something like, "I don't want to see your chewed up food".  My brother in law has some sort of monthly D&D sort of game although I don't know if it's really D&D but it looks sort of like it.  It started last month and there's this bloke who just farted the whole time and it was really stinky like sewer gas.  The only reason I didn't say something was because of the frantic warning looks my sister was giving me.  She knows me well.  There's another game next Sunday and if it goes on again, I won't be able to stop myself.  I mean, it's okay if someone farts and you just laugh it off and it's all over but this was THREE FUCKING HOURS and it made it's way into every downstairs room.  I couldn't run away, either, because I had to feed all the animals (and there's a lot) before I could rudely run off to my room.  AND I COULD STILL SMELL IT!!!  Never again.  I will either say something to embarrass him (he shouldn't go out if he's THAT windy!), kill him totally dead with some sort of long range weapon, or the fucking animals can fucking starve. 

I had to vent that.  :)

[Reg]

Why are you in charge of feeding these guys? If your sister is so concerned with his feelings why not let her do it while you wander off to the pub for the afternoon?

[Signe]

She feeds them in the morning and I feed them at dinner time.  And the cats are all mine.  I love feeding my animals, anyway.  I don't think she cared a bit about his feelings but it was her hubby's first game with these people and didn't want HIM to be embarrassed.  Next time I don't think she'd care so much.  Not after what HE did in her bathroom!

I wish there was a pub to wander off to around here.  I'm not in London anymore.  :(

[craan]

Signe, your posts almost always crack me up.  And I needed that today.  Thank you.

[Miasma]

Glad I'm not the only one driven crazy by other people eating loudly.  I work directly across from this guy.  He's a good guy but almost everything he does drives me insane.  He eats so loudly I have to leave, it's also always something smelly.  He shouts into his phone, it's a land line.  I know he can talk at a normal damn volume when he wants to because if he doesn't want people to hear he lowers his voice, we can still hear because his whisper is actually the volume a reasonable person talks at.  He slams into his desk a couple dozen times a day, since I'm on the other side of that partition it shakes my whole desk.  I had to stay late and make unauthorized changes to my cubicle walls so that it didn't affect me anymore.  I bought a manual hand drill so that I could make the changes quietly...  He makes these huge grimace noises when he sits and goes "ahhhhh" after taking a drink of anything.  Instead of simply taking a shower and putting on deodorant every morning sometimes he sprays that cheap noxious Axe body spray, gassing the whole section of the office.

He's a nice guy if you were to just talk to him but I really hope he gets hit by a bus so I don't have to deal with him anymore.

[lamaros]

People that chew with their mouths open are disgusting. I was in a situation where I was trapped next to one for his entire lunch and it just about drove me insane.

Try at the desk next to me, all day, every day. Often while also talking to people.

[lamaros]

Orpheus's is correct. Dropping the s from the 's would be appropriate only, IMO, if you're writing spoken dialogue for a character who would drop the extra sound when speaking, transcribing someone who dropped it while speaking, etc. Sometimes it does sound weird to add it when you're speaking out loud.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/apostrophe#apostrophes_showing_possession

Oxford agrees.

[Yoru]

I'm in Lithuania for the week. This country likes Easter Eggs so much, there's statues of 'em all over town.

[Yegolev]

Is it more impolite to eat with an open mouth or to tell someone to shut it when they eat?

We need to know what you are planning on saying, as well as the context.

I had to vent that.  :)

[Signe]

How do you think the most polite way to say it would be?  So, say I didn't want to upset my brother in law too too much, what would be a good way to go about making a farty person stop farting or if he can't, make him go away?  I know exactly what to say if I don't care about what my brother in law thinks, but I do.  I'm sure some of you on f13 are fart inclined... what do you do not to make the people around you not want to throw up?  Srsly.  Answer this question you guys.

[Paelos]

I typically make it a point not to fart for 3 hours in a room full of people I know. At the very least you can usually hit the restroom to relieve the pressure.

Or you squeeze your legs together and go for the slow release mode while sitting down.

[Miasma]

Ask to be dungeon master and base the campaign around a flatulent beholder who makes life miserable for all around him.  Name the beholder after him.

Or make the rest of the party do a save roll against poison trap whenever he farts.

[Yegolev]

If I knew how to make a farty person stop farting, I'd be a billionaire.

[Nebu]

If I knew how to make a farty person stop farting, I'd be a billionaire.

Someone already has.

[Yegolev]

Voo doo flim flam, I say.

[Yegolev]

Acquired:

[Father mike]

Holy Balls!  I owned one of those back in 1970-something!

I wonder if it's still in my Dad's house somewhere?

[Engels]

fuck I had that too. Officially jealous.

[Ingmar]

That movie confused the hell out of me when I was a kid.

[Ironwood]

Yeah, I had that.  It was awesome.  I loved that movie.

[WayAbvPar]

I must have seen a different Black Hole. Maybe from Vivid or someone? Anyway, I have only seen 4 or 5 minute clips at a time.

[schild]

I want the Spanish poster for it: http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Black-Hole-27x41-Int-Movie-Poster-1979-Walt-Disney-/271123808726?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f203d01d6

[Engels]

I know that looks like its called 'The Abysmal Negro', but it does actually mean teh Black Abyss.

[Hawkbit]

Employee compliance training time.  Time well spent. /greentext

[schild]

I know that looks like its called 'The Abysmal Negro', but it does actually mean teh Black Abyss.

I know that, I'm white. Spanish is my first fake language.

[Sky]

So I just won two painting awards, a gold and a silver. That's pretty cool.

[Paelos]

So I just won two painting awards, a gold and a silver. That's pretty cool.

For minis?

[Sky]

Yerp. I won't bore the uninterested up here further. Details on my blog or in the minis thread.

I'm pretty happy, spent the weekend hanging out and learning with some heavy hitters. Also drinking beer with them. Reapercon is the best con.

[Cyrrex]

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that you can win contests for painting those things, but I kind of am.  I am also curious as to what constitutes a "heavy hitter" in the mini-painting industry. 

Congrats in any case.

[Sky]

Er, Crystal Brush is ten grand right now.

[Soln]

fuck I had that too. Officially jealous.

How did I also have that and lost it?

[Tale]

Red placebos more effective than blue placebos.

[Cyrrex]

Er, Crystal Brush is ten grand right now.

I...I don't even know what that means.

[IainC]

Crystal Brush is a US based miniatures painting contest with qualifiers and heats across a lot of major US gaming cons. It has significant cash prizes at most levels and the top prize is currently $10k.