Useless Conversation

[Furiously]

Veruca Salt was 90's right? But kinda Bangles like...

Cause Nina Gordon might be the most awesome singer ever...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2EGOB9-lc AND TOTALLY NSFW lyrics. plus... she likes metalica...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs3HjY307X4&NR=1

[Furiously]

And I just lost all faith in humanity....

http://www.youtube.com/charts/videos_views?t=a

[Chimpy]

Yes Veruca Salt was the 90s.

[NowhereMan]

Didn't want to necro the P90/general exercise thread but I wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who was posting stuff in there that finally gave me the impetus to stop being a lazy bitch and actually do some exercise. I've lost about 10kg since late July, started a weight lifting programme and yesterday went for an 11k run (48 minutes) and enjoyed it. Considering when I started a 4k run required walking 1/4 of it and took 35-40 minutes I'm really happy with that. I'm hoping by the time next summer rolls round if I end up at a beach sometime I'll be able to go for a swim totally unembarrassed for the first time in my life. Also running is awesome fun, everyone should do it. Thanks f13 for inspiring me to get off my ass.

[Nebu]

That's wonderful news!  I'm so glad that you're feeling better and enjoying your life more. 

[Sky]

Damn but I hate 80s clothes. That stuff is horrible.

80s clothes...I think I used to have the exact outfit Hetfield is wearing here, but my Misfits shirt was cooler. Same print but better quality, we had a local shop doing some really amazing work, I also had some other great pushead stuff and my favorite was some militant nazi nun movie poster thing. Go go underground!

[MuffinMan]

Except for the jean jacket Cliff is wearing it doesn't really look much different than I see people wearing today.

[Nebu]

Except for the jean jacket Cliff is wearing it doesn't really look much different than I see people wearing today.

Style trends are cyclical?  Unpossible! 

[rattran]

You've gone and made Nebu pop his monocle!

Yeah, seeing the 70s fashions make a big comeback in the late-nineties/early-nothings made me feel old.

[Nebu]

If I posted my band picks from the early 80's, I'd get laughed off of this web site. 

[K9]

Except for the jean jacket Cliff is wearing it doesn't really look much different than I see people wearing today.

The hair has changed, thank fuck.

[ghost]

If I posted my band picks from the early 80's, I'd get laughed off of this web site. 

I still listen to most of the bands I liked in the 80s.  Yikes. 

[Chimpy]

Having had to take 2 semesters of Costume History to graduate college, I can say with authority that the standards of fashion for just about any period in history look pretty ludicrious in some way, and there are always parts of previous trends that get recycled.

[MuffinMan]

The hair has changed, thank fuck.

Heh, except for the bangs my hair pretty much looks like Lars's right now.

[Sky]

The hair has changed, thank fuck.

I'll give you that one! I had a very silly summer in '87...and that's the one that ended up in my senior yearbook, heh.

[K9]

Having had to take 2 semesters of Costume History to graduate college, I can say with authority that the standards of fashion for just about any period in history look pretty ludicrious in some way, and there are always parts of previous trends that get recycled.

Here's hoping ruffs never make their comeback

[ghost]

Having had to take 2 semesters of Costume History to graduate college

This sounds mighty strange, for some reason. 

[Yegolev]

Which one is Lars?

[Chimpy]

My degree is in Theatre Design and Technology. Even though I was far to the technology end of it, the two Costume History courses were part of it. Mostly because the director of the Design, technology, and managment half of the department was the Costume Design professor.

Those were actually the 2 hardest classes as far as taking copious notes, studying, and tests I ever had in college or my year of grad school.

[Yegolev]

Those were actually the 2 hardest classes as far as taking copious notes, studying, and tests I ever had in college or my year of grad school.

Well, you do have a Theater degree.

I spent one year as a Theater (Theatre?) major and my primary regret was missing the voice classes.

[Chimpy]

Well, you do have a Theater degree.

I spent my first 3 semesters in Aerospace Engineering. At the University of Illinois which was one of the most competitive engineering colleges around.

But the reason the class was hard was because of the amount of information we had to digest and be able to put into words on an exam. His exams were all essays with 4-5 questions along with a design, and you had 90 minutes to take them. They each covered about 300 years. Even with access to your notes, if you didn't take copious notes and study them you were screwed. There was no textbook with the exception of some photocopys of drawings, so you had to pay attention to him and take notes. As someone who never had to take notes for anything in high school or even college to that point outside of a few diagrams or equations, it was rough.

[Viin]

Except for the jean jacket Cliff is wearing it doesn't really look much different than I see people wearing today.

Men's clothes weren't too bad - but the women's clothes were pretty horrible. Short shorts pulled up to their ribs? Long knee-high socks? Gross.

Which one is Lars?

First one on the left. Black shirt, tight jeans.

[Yegolev]

I spent my first 3 semesters in Aerospace Engineering. At the University of Illinois which was one of the most competitive engineering colleges around.

Hmm, that was my major prior to moving to Theater, but at Auburn U.

Hmmm.

Your description is of a terrible, terrible class.  My worst one was Costuming but that was because my teacher was an asshole, not because I couldn't work a sewing machine.

[Sky]

I was a male model for a bunch of students at a fashion college in CA. 

[Rasix]

Hiring a contractor to do some minor landscaping (that I have no time or equipment to do properly) seems to mostly be an exercise in getting someone to pick up the phone or return my call.  I think the first person to give me a price that doesn't make me cringe gets the job.

[Samwise]

Hiring a contractor to do some minor landscaping (that I have no time or equipment to do properly) seems to mostly be an exercise in getting someone to pick up the phone or return my call.

This is pretty much the story of every time I've ever tried to hire somebody to do anything involving the house ever.  I'm pretty sure it's all part of their evil plan to make you not care how much they end up charging you because you're just glad to be done trying to get ahold of them.

[Ironwood]

The irony is that you WANT the guys who are busy.  These are usually the good chaps that won't break your whole fucking house.

[Nebu]

The irony is that you WANT the guys who are busy.  These are usually the good chaps that won't break your whole fucking house.

Exactly.  If you call a contractor and they can come right over, those are precisely NOT the people you want working on your house. 

Have patience.  The busy guys are the ones worth hiring. 

[Khaldun]

Oh, damn. Home desktop didn't start this morning and is making little beeps inside when I turn on the power. That is not a good sign. There is nothing that fills me with more dread than having to wrestle some kind of PC issue to the ground.

[Rasix]

The irony is that you WANT the guys who are busy.  These are usually the good chaps that won't break your whole fucking house.

Exactly.  If you call a contractor and they can come right over, those are precisely NOT the people you want working on your house. 

Have patience.  The busy guys are the ones worth hiring. 

This is pretty easy and risk free work, but it also needs to be done fairly soon. 

For major stuff, I treat it as a job interview.

[Samwise]

These guys need secretaries.  My doctor is busy too, but I don't have to play phone tag with him for a week before I can schedule a checkup.

Having email addresses would be just as good and not cost anything, but they'd need to not be giant technophobes for that to work.

[Morat20]

Oh, damn. Home desktop didn't start this morning and is making little beeps inside when I turn on the power. That is not a good sign. There is nothing that fills me with more dread than having to wrestle some kind of PC issue to the ground.

Yeah, my wife's desktop hasn't been turned on in six months because of something like that. I'm almost certain the video card fried, overheated the thing, and the computer shut down out of self-defense.

Since she uses her laptop, there hasn't been an urgency to fix it, and I have the irrational belief that as long as I don't open the case, the problem isn't expensive or time consuming to fix.

[Ingmar]

The screening sheet for an MRI should include a "WARNING: MOST BORING 40 MINUTES YOU WILL EVER SPEND" disclaimer.

[Chimpy]

The screening sheet for an MRI should include a "WARNING: MOST BORING 40 MINUTES YOU WILL EVER SPEND" disclaimer.

My buddy got one this morning. He said they asked him the following questions:

Do you have any metal pins in your body?

Do you weld?

Do you have a penile implant?

He found the third one to be the best.

[Ironwood]

Aye, it's all fun and games until you walk in there with a pacemaker you don't declare.