Useless Conversation

[Sky]

“I’m gonna punch you in the ovary, that’s what I’m gonna do. Straight shot. Right in the babymaker.”

I call it the egghole these days. There's the waxholes, the boogerholes, the piehole (sometimes known as the cakehole), the stinkhole and the egghole.

[Yegolev]

I think your system is off.  All of those are named after what comes out of the hole except the piehole.  I submit noisehole.  If you want to keep piehole, I can come up with analogs for the other holes.

[Merusk]

I think your system is off.  All of those are named after what comes out of the hole except the piehole.  I submit noisehole.  If you want to keep piehole, I can come up with analogs for the other holes.

"Fingerhole" covers too many of them, though.

[Sky]

Hmm. Good point, I never thought about the logic of that one. Vomithole, tonguehole, wordhole....dunno. I'll have to spend a few days bouncing them off my fiancee. She LOVES that. Well, just don't ask her about it, take my word for it.

[Yegolev]

Noisehole.

[Miasma]

The Canadian dollar just reached parity with the U.S. dollar so now $1 CND = $1 US, that hasn't happened in over thirty years.  Chances of games no longer costing ten bucks more, books three bucks more and cars thousands more?  Zero, the retailers have been laughing at us for a while now and aren't bound to stop.

And you can stop bitching about finding our money in your change now, it's worth the same!

[Sky]

It's the economy, stupid. Normally it takes a bit longer to visibly weaken and the republitards who screwed it up can blame it on the sitting democratic president. After Clinton and Curous George W...interesting times. In the chinese curse sense.

I'm leaning toward tonguehole. Sounds dirty without actually being dirty, like pussywillow or poppycock. However, bringing this logical dilemma up to my fiancee again proved why she wears the only ring I've ever bought a woman. She came up with two of the three on her own, vomithole and wordhole. I had already mentioned tonguehole. She's a keeper.

[Yegolev]

And you can stop bitching about finding our money in your change now, it's worth the same!

Tell that to the vending machines.  Your dime looks like my dime at a glance but I can't buy a candy bar with it.  This just bugs me more because now it has the same value, too.

Vomithole and wordhole are money.

[bhodi]

My co-worker says The Economist has long predicted the dollar will fall to 1.7-1.8 USD per EUR. I wouldn't know, I don't read it. I'm too busy watching world's next supermodel.

[Strazos]

[Weak Racism]

Heh.

YOU FAIL!

[voodoolily]

The Canadian dollar just reached parity with the U.S. dollar so now $1 CND = $1 US, that hasn't happened in over thirty years.  Chances of games no longer costing ten bucks more, books three bucks more and cars thousands more?  Zero, the retailers have been laughing at us for a while now and aren't bound to stop.

And you can stop bitching about finding our money in your change now, it's worth the same!

Games are more expensive in Japan, even when you do the currency conversion math. $50 for a DS game is teh suck. Also, a copy of GTA San Andreas will cost you 7400 yen (>$70).

We saw actual, real, make your skin crawl child pr0n in a game store. It was in a row of DVDs with pictures of girls of different ages, with the ages advertised on the boxes. The 14 yr old in a bikini was bad enough (but you could maybe assume they were lying about the age?), but then there were boxes with actual little girls in pigtails with the ages 9 and 4 on the boxes. In a game store. Not even behind a curtain or anything. Aren't there international Geneva Convention-type laws against this shit?

It's a good thing Ched wasn't here cuz those little girls were like his daughters' ages - I'm sure some enraged ass-kicking would've ensued.

[Bunk]

The Canadian dollar just reached parity with the U.S. dollar so now $1 CND = $1 US, that hasn't happened in over thirty years.  Chances of games no longer costing ten bucks more, books three bucks more and cars thousands more?  Zero, the retailers have been laughing at us for a while now and aren't bound to stop.

And you can stop bitching about finding our money in your change now, it's worth the same!

Of course Bellis Fair mall in WA was still offering between 80 and 90 cents on the dollar yesterday.

As proud as I am at being able to soon start cracking "How much is that in American? 25 cents?" jokes, it actually screws me becuase 90% of of my commission is American dollars typically.

[Reg]

I refuse to get excited about it until the goddam Canadian bookstores start charging us American prices. In the meantime I plan to order my books from Amazon.com in protest. They'll deliver to Canada won't they?

[Signe]

Today is Lister's first vet visit.  He'll get a check up and shots.  We'll set up an appointment to have his manhood destroyed.  I keep telling him that it hurts us more than it hurts him but, once it's done, I don't think he'll believe me.  Oh well.  By the way, this is the other kitty we're adopting.  It'll be months before we can bring her home, however.  She's severely undersized and they won't release her.  I'm scared she won't thrive there.   

[Engels]

That female kitten is just precious! Our two kittens were also 'risk' kittens, since they had to be taken from their feral mother too soon, and were kept in segregation from the other cats. They turned out just fine. If the shelter/pet store or whatever is a decent environment, I think its probably good to have her stay for a bit longer. Cats hate environmental change more than anything else.

How old is the male kitten?  I ask because I've heard from multiple vets that spaying or neutering a kitten too soon can have an effect on personality development. Not that they turn into psycho kitties, but that it somehow dumbs them down and makes them bland. Of course, if the cat's about ready to go out a prowling and he's an outdoor kitty, its time.

[Signe]

Lister is about 3 1/2 months old and will have his dreams of being a tomcatting tomcat forever dashed next month sometime.  He's an indoor kitty.  I don't want to live through hilarious tragedy of him being run over by a 85 year old women in a golf cart.

[Engels]

That's cool then. My kittens were spayed/neutered after a month or so, which IMO was nigh criminal. Not by us, mind you, but by the shelter where we got them from. The female now has a 'baggy' tummy because the operation was too soon in her development.

[Cheddar]

I wish I was nuetered.

[Righ]

Easy enough. Just tie a loop around your genitals, and tie the rope to the door handle. Might need more whisky than the tooth procedure though.

[Signe]

I wish I was neutered.

You make wonderful children.  Why neuter when you can rent yourself out?  You have two in the portfolio and another on the way.  You need to think outside the... umm... you know... thingy.

[Ironwood]

Life blows.

[Yegolev]

Welcome back.  Dare I ask?

[stray]

OK, I'm tripping the fuck out. On relationships/dating/women/etc. I'm at the point where I'm just tired of games. Don't want to play anymore -- Because I'm getting the feeling that the one person who's really worth my time is the one who won't play games. So what's the point, right? With that in mind, I'm finding myself sick of people right off the bat if they start pulling some bullshit. Even the least bit. Am I being too harsh or what?

[Engels]

Being fed up with the games and drama is the first of the steps one has to take before one finds someone for realz. My 'girlfriend' of now 8 years hooked up with me while we were both utterly sick of relationships and dating and drama. We'd get together and bitch about it for months. After a while we stopped bitching and started makin' out. Worked out ok so far.

[Merusk]

Life's too short to deal with drama, games and other assorted bullshit.  Know what you want and demand it from your potential mates.  They'll meet it and you'll be happy or fail utterly and you can move on to the next potential candidate.

What you've done is grow up while others think they're still in high school. We get to laugh at you for that, right?  :-D

[Cheddar]

Life's too short to deal with drama, games and other assorted bullshit.  Know what you want and demand it from your potential mates.  They'll meet it and you'll be happy or fail utterly and you can move on to the next potential candidate.

[Ironwood]

Welcome back.  Dare I ask?

Ach, you wouldn't be interested.

Recaptured my fun youth recently and it just brought the hammer home on how miserable and fucked up your life can get.  I'm doing well for myself, about to be promoted to Director, got a fine house with a loving wife and the most wondrous daughter and yet a drunken weekend with the lads fucks my head beyond belief.  I just can't believe that people refuse to change.  They never ever, ever, ever change.  And what's worse is that it turns out I don't either.  Sheesh.


Silly really.

[MrHat]

Life's too short to deal with drama, games and other assorted bullshit.  Know what you want and demand it from your potential mates.  They'll meet it and you'll be happy or fail utterly and you can move on to the next potential candidate.

Damn true as applied to my life this last year.  Worked it out this weekend with the lady.  Life est beuno.

Ironwood: Surely not your life, I'm assuming you're talking about your mates?

[Ironwood]

It doesn't matter.   Even if things are trundling along fine, you STILL find something to moan about.

Reminds me of the old Adam and Eve Joke.

[HaemishM]

It doesn't matter.   Even if things are trundling along fine, you STILL find something to moan about.

Reminds me of the old Adam and Eve Joke.

Humanity enjoys having something to moan about, because if it's all working out well, we get bored. I think boredom is humanity's greatest enemy.

[Murgos]

It doesn't matter.   Even if things are trundling along fine, you STILL find something to moan about.

Reminds me of the old Adam and Eve Joke.

Hottie grab your junk at your friends bachelor party?  Don't worry about it.

[Ironwood]

It doesn't matter.   Even if things are trundling along fine, you STILL find something to moan about.

Reminds me of the old Adam and Eve Joke.

Humanity enjoys having something to moan about, because if it's all working out well, we get bored. I think boredom is humanity's greatest enemy.

See, that's it.  I am bored.  Excruciatingly so.  Everything bores me at the moment.  Except the wee girl because she keeps learning interesting new stuff (like operating Daddies laptop and unlocking the Blackberry.  Christ knows how.)

And no, no-one grabbed my junk.  But that's the thing, if it t'were offered, there's nowt I can do (Or want to do) save redirect the poor sod to the nearest available guy.  Who's likely a complete asshole.

H put his finger on it.  I'm bored.  Even the prospect of the promotion bores me.

Rigid.

[Sky]

Boredom is good. Find a new hobby, build some cabinets or restore a car or something.

I've lived through not-boring. I prefer boring. Exciting has bad consequences.

On a serious note, if you really can't get excited about /anything/ (wee one excluded, of course), you might want to consider talking to a professional as it may be an early stage of depression. Success can breed it's own odd form of depression.

[Merusk]

I've had similar boredom/ dissatisfaction with life before.  I snapped out of it by looking at plenty of folks worse off/ working harder than me for less all around me.  I realized my problem was just me being too damn full of myself as I kept thikning "is this all there is?" I got over it when I realized "oh fuck, this shit isn't hard at all."

If it's not that and just broken dreams and lots of 'man, if only...'  Well, can't help ya there.

[Yegolev]

I know what you're thinking Ironwood.  I don't have much advice other than keep your head on because I could have fucked up lots of great things because I was fighting The Rut.  Drinking with old friends just caused me trouble.  I didn't want The Rut, it's dull and repetitive, but now I find myself enjoying it.  This isn't because I grew up so much as I'm just fucking tired and I want the noise to stop.  Hell, I don't even drink anymore, what's that about?  I'm just a domesticated wet blanket, but somehow I've become OK with that.  It's either magic or fatigue.  I refuse to think it's maturity.

I understood everything behind each sentence you wrote because I've been in that, however I manage to have no tangible advice for you, which is rather pathetic.  I just accepted that I moved on, I guess, and found new ways to entertain myself since games don't cut it like they used to, such as installing more elfa shelving assisted by bolt-cutters or applying my bored mind to reducing my horrible power bill, or learning C# for no good reason.  Also see Sky's comments.  Happiness for me is in the small things.

I'm still buying you a pint next time I'm in Glasgow.  Maybe two.