Useless Conversation

[Oban]

So why do I still feel like I'm being punished?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqLv8rDwsp8

[JWIV]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jplpjCaec

[Sky]

You got one?

Yup!

Haemish: take notes and tell the instructor they were very informative, giving you lots of new ideas.

[rattran]

Gratz. I've had mine 14 months now, and still love driving it. I need to wash it, but the sand color hides the mud pretty well.

[Oban]

Gratz. I've had mine 14 months now, and still love driving it. I need to wash it, but the sand color hides the mud pretty well.

You sick racist fuck, you are not supposed to ride the HR manager.

[Sky]

Brakes went again on my 95 Ranger on Thursday. 3rd time in 2 years, along with the host of problems it already has that I don't want to dump money into - broken gas gauge, no heater fan, the worst being an electrical short that will leave the 'door ajar' cabin light AND DINGER on for an entire trip (usually to click off just as you pull into your destination, of course).

Was going to buy the FJ in January, couldn't fit it in my apartment's garage, so I bought a house. Agent thought I was joking when the first thing I did was measure the garage clearance.

My first new car, I'm pumped. All my cars and trucks have been beaters, it's nice to have a 7yr zero-deductible warranty for once. And a totally kick-ass vehicle, BRING ON THE SNOW KTHX 

[Yegolev]

10 minutes until I am forced to sit through a 90-minute company wide sexual harrassment seminar.

No, I didn't do anything to cause it. No, it's not because of me.

So why do I still feel like I'm being punished?

Penis.

Did you do the discrimination one yet?  That one's because you are white.

[HaemishM]

Actually it was on ALL types of discrimination, from sexual to religious, from racial to age, from gender to disability. At least they didn't try to show us videos.

[rattran]

Brakes went again on my 95 Ranger on Thursday. 3rd time in 2 years, along with the host of problems it already has that I don't want to dump money into - broken gas gauge, no heater fan, the worst being an electrical short that will leave the 'door ajar' cabin light AND DINGER on for an entire trip (usually to click off just as you pull into your destination, of course).

Was going to buy the FJ in January, couldn't fit it in my apartment's garage, so I bought a house. Agent thought I was joking when the first thing I did was measure the garage clearance.

My first new car, I'm pumped. All my cars and trucks have been beaters, it's nice to have a 7yr zero-deductible warranty for once. And a totally kick-ass vehicle, BRING ON THE SNOW KTHX 

The brakes on my 94 Ranger went out entirely, 2 months after I gave it away in 2000    And I think i replaced the alternator/voltage regulator more than once a year since it was new.

Snow Driving in the FJ is fun, but unlike the Ranger I can't do 360 spins on purpose anymore. The traction control just will not let you fishtail.

[Sky]

Ah, that sucks. I actively use fishtailing in the winter, it makes cornering at speed a lot easier, kinda like those kids and their drifting craze.

Even driving my fiancee's Matrix front-wheel drive...handbrake slides! Don't tell her that :)

[Lantyssa]

Gratz. I've had mine 14 months now, and still love driving it. I need to wash it, but the sand color hides the mud pretty well.

You sick racist fuck, you are not supposed to ride the HR manager.

5. Obey your instincts™

He's just following the corperate line.

[Trippy]

Last night I nearly chopped off the top of my left ring finger with a knife while I was washing up the kitchen.  Nothing fell off.  There is a huge bit of tight gauze around it (HUGE) and it's hard to do anything, especially type.  It's taking me forever to write this.  I don't know if it has stopped bleeding because if I don't look, everything is ok, right?  Like that kitty in the box.  I have a phobia about hospitals.

I just cut myself chopping an onion -- Signe's curse is spreading!

[Signe]

DON'T PANIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Trippy]

DON'T PANIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't. I put on a bandage and a glove to keep it from getting wet and slipping off and continued chopping 

[Oban]

Put moisturizer in the glove to keep your hand all purdy.

[schild]

Put a glove in your moisturizer to keep your life all surreal.

[Cyrrex]

Put a glove in your moisturizer to keep your life all surreal.

Snot bubble formed in my nose.  Snorty type laughter is not great when you're just getting over a head cold.

Also, stay away from the knives, people.  Until this epidemic has passed, you should all be tearing your tomatos with your bare hands for that salad you're having tonight.  You'll impress your spouse, and it makes for good dinner conversation.

[Pennilenko]

Signe, perhaps you should take some time away from sharp objects. I don't want to have to wait until I adopt a kitty missing a digit to name one after you.

Maybe you should get a polydactyl kitty so it has some extra.  You don't want to name a kitty Signe though.  It's a terrible name for anything.  Everyone will say it wrong and it'll be shunned by all the other kitties.

Also, happy birthday to the marines here because I don't think I know any other ones. 

What is the proper way to say your name?

[NowhereMan]

I think it's pronounced Steve.

[Signe]

Steve.  What are you, like, Welsh or something?

It's Sig-nee in Norwegian.  My mother hated that so she made it sound French and said Seen-ya.  Eventually even my family gave up and called me by my middle name or just said "you" and pointed.  It's much better if you just don't think about how it sounds and focus on how you type it all the time without even being aware of it.  Every time you do, I get power.

[Cyrrex]

I think we've had this conversation before, but in Danish it is pronounced "Seena", which really rolls off the tongue better TBH.  In my head, that is your name, and it's actually fairly lovely.

[Pennilenko]

I have a sickness. Lately I have been reading these forums more than I have been playing games. Is this a common disease?

[Cyrrex]

Yes.  Especially because they sorta frown upon gaming at the workplace.  They frown on this too, but it's damn easy to hide.

[Signe]

What the heck is dripping off your avatar's crotch?

[Cyrrex]

Uh, ornamentation.  Possibly some urine, too.

[rattran]

Steve.  What are you, like, Welsh or something?

It's Sig-nee in Norwegian.  My mother hated that so she made it sound French and said Seen-ya.  Eventually even my family gave up and called me by my middle name or just said "you" and pointed.  It's much better if you just don't think about how it sounds and focus on how you type it all the time without even being aware of it.  Every time you do, I get power.

I have a Swedish friend who says it's pronounced SEE-nya where she lives (north part) So that's it's pronounced in my head.

[Sky]

I always thought it was ZOM-bee.

[Signe]

Steve.  What are you, like, Welsh or something?

It's Sig-nee in Norwegian.  My mother hated that so she made it sound French and said Seen-ya.  Eventually even my family gave up and called me by my middle name or just said "you" and pointed.  It's much better if you just don't think about how it sounds and focus on how you type it all the time without even being aware of it.  Every time you do, I get power.

I have a Swedish friend who says it's pronounced SEE-nya where she lives (north part) So that's it's pronounced in my head.

What's the difference between SEE-nya and Seen-ya?  Picky. 

I 'm gonna kick Sky's ass, I swear.

[Sky]

Swearing is so unladylike. I guess ass-kicking is, too. Very zombielike, though.

[NowhereMan]

This board has left me feeling emoticon constrained in every other internet communication. No number of :) will ever make up for a lack of

[voodoolily]

What's the difference between SEE-nya and Seen-ya?  Picky. 

I 'm gonna kick Sky's ass, I swear.

As in, "I haven't Signe in a long time, how you doin'?" 

And that's as much teasing poor Signe as I can muster. I'm sorry, Signe! Signe Signe Signe!

[Signe]

Why don't I have any cloves???   

[Oban]

Nuni.

[Lantyssa]

Yay for whacky, unpronouncable names!

[Nevermore]

If I had a dollar for every time someone managed to badly mangle my last name, I wouldn't need to work anymore.