Useless Conversation

[schild]

Doritos Quest

In 2008, Doritos debuted a new mystery flavor known as "Quest," with prizes being given as online puzzles are solved. The flavor has been identified as Mountain Dew.[10]

I still say it tasted like ballpark hot dogs.

[Draegan]

So it's 2009, the economy is in the shitter, I have higher ups grumbling about sales.  I have no leads, there is no marketing, I'm getting no calls, inquiries and requests for quote.  No one returns emails or voice mails. 

Whats a guy to do, except post on forums?

Anyone wanna help me cold call everyone in New Jersey?

This is going to be a great fucking year.

[Ironwood]

I think what we should do is find you a new job before you get your ass downsized.

 

[Merusk]

They just downsized 75 more folks including 6 of my previous coworkers from the 2nd largest builder in the area. (They're larger nationaly)   I'm beginning to wonder if I can pay my mortgage on minimum wage.... if I can even find one of THOSE jobs still hiring.

[voodoolily]

We're in desperate need of a biometrician, natural resources seller/doer, and a restoration engineer (also a seller/doer). Know anyone who wants to move to Portland?

[Cheddar]

We're in desperate need of a biometrician, natural resources seller/doer, and a restoration engineer (also a seller/doer). Know anyone who wants to move to Portland?

Me!  But thats not my field. :(

[rattran]

Salmonella is no fun at all.

[FatuousTwat]

We're in desperate need of a biometrician, natural resources seller/doer, and a restoration engineer (also a seller/doer). Know anyone who wants to move to Portland?

I live near Portland!

Is there on the job training?

[voodoolily]

Salmonella is no fun at all.

Wet blanket.

[Righ]

Wet blanket.

That's really more useful for culturing mold spores than salmonella.

[rattran]

I wasn't commenting on your job offers, just staring a fact. I feel much better today, and hope to feel normal in a few more days. Hooray for Cipro!

[Sky]

Anyone want to share what website(s) they use for lists of release dates? The one I've been using has turned to shit.

http://tothegame.com/

[voodoolily]

I wasn't commenting on your job offers, just staring a fact. I feel much better today, and hope to feel normal in a few more days. Hooray for Cipro!

I was calling you a wet blanket for not liking salmonella. 

[NowhereMan]

I get all jeaous reading about cheap offers on newegg around here. I was wondering if anyone could recommend any similar cheap computer parts websites for the UK?

[Oban]

I get all jeaous reading about cheap offers on newegg around here. I was wondering if anyone could recommend any similar cheap computer parts websites for the UK?

My friends in Europe ask me to ship them things from TigerDirect, eCost and the discount Chinese electronics stores at least once a month.  Even with the duties and shipping charges it still works out to be cheaper for them.

[Yegolev]

Btw, did you know Pepsi is coming out with 4 new flavors?

What flavors?  Kiwi?

Balls, Failure, Britney, and Alaska.

[Yegolev]

When stopped while going uphill, when a person is coming up behind me, I like to ease off my brakes for just a split-second, so that I roll back about an inch...just to let the potential idiot behind me know that I'm driving stick, and it's probably a bad idea to come right up on my bumper.

What's the plan if, say, I'm behind you and we bump?

I think what we should do is find you a new job before you get your ass downsized.

People still say that over there?  I thought there was a new one.  Last round in November, they didn't even euphemize it.  It was just a simple restructure to chop $400 million out of IT.  There were fewer positions in the new structure than the old one and affected people went into a "pool" to be "assessed".  I avoided the pool, but this is a three-year project so I get to simmer on "mild worry" for many months yet.

I don't know what effect the recession is going to have on sales, but the stock price could be better.  Could be worse, though.  Much worse.  Also, we didn't redesign our logo again.

[schild]

Btw, did you know Pepsi is coming out with 4 new flavors?

What flavors?  Kiwi?

Balls, Failure, Britney, and Alaska.

I'd side with you if Coke hadn't tried to charge a premium for Coke Blak and then proceeded to take it off the market when their tiny fucking bottles didn't sell for $2.50-$3.00.

[Strazos]

When stopped while going uphill, when a person is coming up behind me, I like to ease off my brakes for just a split-second, so that I roll back about an inch...just to let the potential idiot behind me know that I'm driving stick, and it's probably a bad idea to come right up on my bumper.

What's the plan if, say, I'm behind you and we bump?

Of course, I don't do it with the person Directly behind me...when they're still coming up and back a safe bit.

NJ is not very hilly anyway.

[Yegolev]

Hell, I didn't want to pay for it and I could get it for $1.35.  It was great, sure, but what the fuck was up with that price point?  I suspect we will be slowly getting into the actual coffee business and try to be Starbucks Junior.  I wish we would so I could get decent coffee in the break room.

Related, I found out today that "Yam" is short for William... in Manilla.

Of course, I don't do it with the person Directly behind me...when they're still coming up and back a safe bit.

Ah, so you would not really bump me.  I had a guy actually put his car into reverse and back into me because I came up on him too fast or something.

[Bunk]

Btw, did you know Pepsi is coming out with 4 new flavors?

What flavors?  Kiwi?

Balls, Failure, Britney, and Alaska.

I'd side with you if Coke hadn't tried to charge a premium for Coke Blak and then proceeded to take it off the market when their tiny fucking bottles didn't sell for $2.50-$3.00.

Which sucked, because I liked that shit. Diet Coke though dude? It's all about the Coke Zero.

[MrHat]

I had a fountain Dr. Pepper yesterday.  It was so good.

[Ironwood]

I think what we should do is find you a new job before you get your ass downsized.

People still say that over there?  I thought there was a new one. 

No.  People have NEVER said that over here.  I was merely putting it into America speak.

Turns out, quite elderly America speak, but that's what I get for getting all my information from old Dilbert cartoons.

[Sky]

Now you're an unfortunate casualty of the economy. 

When stopped while going uphill, when a person is coming up behind me, I like to ease off my brakes for just a split-second, so that I roll back about an inch...just to let the potential idiot behind me know that I'm driving stick, and it's probably a bad idea to come right up on my bumper.

Also, ever have anyone try to tailgate you in the snow? Fucking retards, I'm not going to speed in this dumping, I'm in a Mustang. 'tards

A. Learn how to drive stick.
2. Mustang in snow?  Get a winter rat with fwd.

A + 2 = Possibly it's not the other people in these scenarios that are potential idiots or fucking retards.

[Signe]

We have a Mustang.  I hate it.  The whole intentionally slipping down a bit on a hill to alarm the person behind you makes no sense to me at all, by the way.  That just sounds foolish.  Having said that, what's he SUPPOSED to drive in the snow if that's what he owns?   I've driven worse things in the snow and ice than a Mustang and have done just fine.  I'd rather have a Mustang in the snow than some giant pick-up truck or SUV in any weather.  I suppose it's a matter of personal taste.  Well, when it comes to ginormous SUV killing machines, I suppose it's just simply down to good or bad taste, really.

[Sky]

I find your hatred of an entire class of vehicles....amusing. Not all SUVs are giant monstrosities driven by cell-phone-wielding hockey moms without signaling devices, y'know. I know you guys don't get snow like we do, but driving a stang in the winter is silly. It's a poor vehicle for the conditions, just like my shitty little pickup used to be.

As for what to do if that's what you own, I already said get a winter rat. It's what everyone I know who drives a muscly-type car does in the winter.

[Merusk]

You protest too much, Mr. SUV owner. 

[Nebu]

I hate hate hate SUV's (meaning full size SUV's and not the hybrids). 

1) They are difficult to impossible to see through.  Driving ahead of the car in front of you (a defensive driving technique) becomes almost impossible.  Anyone that black tints their glass also needs to die in a fire for this reason. 

2) They turn shitty drivers into the pilot of a heavy projectile. 

3) They instill false confidence in shitty drivers (also see #2)

I lived in the mountains for 8 years where having an SUV makes sense and I still did just fine with my VW GTI.  If people want to drive these gas guzzling behemoths, that's fine.  I just wish that they would require a different grade of license so that the owners would learn to handle a larger vehicle before stepping behind the wheel. 

You can add fucking minivans to my list too.  Who was the idiot that started installing televisions in the front of these vehicles anyway?  Most people can't drive in complete silence let alone with a tv around.

[Merusk]

Minivan TVs kill me because if you're kids are SO fucking ADD they can't sit still on a 10-30 min car ride without Sponge Bob or Dora then perhaps you need to examine your life and their diet. 

[Cheddar]

SUV's who tailgate make me extremely angry.  You are flying along the street in your death mobile, then you ride my ass while I have a 1 year old sitting in the back. 

[MrHat]

Minivan TVs kill me because if you're kids are SO fucking ADD they can't sit still on a 10-30 min car ride without Sponge Bob or Dora then perhaps you need to examine your life and their diet. 

What about other drivers? I have a hard time not trying to figure out what is on someone else's TV!

[Yegolev]

I also would like to see several ranks of driver's license in addition to the commercial types.  At least a GVW rating system, but I'm also in favor of a skill test that would give out a different plate that allowed a good driver to do things a shitty driver could not.

Minivan TVs kill me because if you're kids are SO fucking ADD they can't sit still on a 10-30 min car ride without Sponge Bob or Dora then perhaps you need to examine your life and their diet. 

It's not that the kids are ADD (nevermind that it is an actual problem, etc) but rather that the parents don't want to spend time talking to their kids.  Sure, they can be annoying as fuck but if you don't put up with questions or enforce some decent behavior then you are just a shit-ass parent.  That said, on long trips we break out the DVD player for the boy because it's impossible for a four-year-old to sit still for more than 15 minutes and one should not expect them to.  Besides the DVD, we have various games and puzzles too, and we often threaten him with actual conversation.

On the 45-minute ride to school every morning, my son and I listen to jazz (91.1 WCLK) or talk.  He's usually too sleepy to be restless.  I keep this routine for when I pick him up also, and we have some super conversations.

[Merusk]

I didn't mean actual ADD. I use it in regards to behaviors the way other folks use "gay" to express a condition found  unacceptable or out of step.  Hyper, sugar-fed and generally ignored or undisciplined.

You're probably right about the conversation.  I always talk to the kids, or try to get them engaged when driving around.  They're not robots, and if you don't talk to them young you shouldn't be surprised when they won't talk to you as a teen or tween.  There hasn't been a problem with trips shorter than an hour, but know that all kids are different and have different boredom breaking points.   I have NO issue with breaking out the players on Car Trips (besides it gives me something else to listen to since music overload is possible.)  It's the parents who I see pulling out of the grocery store or Target with a DVD already going that make me bloodrage.

[Yegolev]

I didn't mean actual ADD. I use it in regards to behaviors the way other folks use "gay" to express a condition found  unacceptable or out of step.  Hyper, sugar-fed and generally ignored or undisciplined.

I assumed so.  Being a bad parent is gay.

Incidentally, I have not found a correlation between sugar and hyperactivity.  I have found a correlation between not letting a kid have candy and said kid whining "can I have a cookie" all the time and eating too much of it when the opportunity strikes.  Everyone is different, though, and parenting is hard.

[IainC]

Incidentally, I have not found a correlation between sugar and hyperactivity.

Then you have never experienced anyone with a metabolism like mine. Sugary stuff buys me a express ticket to run-around-buzzing-like-a-loonville. I am slowing down a bit now (as evidenced by the fact that I am no longer the skinniest person you will ever meet) but until I was about 32 or so, giving me sugary stuff and then watching me go was something of a spectator sport amongst my friends. Tartrazine and I were not on speaking terms either.