LC Thread 2020: What the PUNK? ROCK.

Pretty much Chappelle talking about the man showing you a big pile of money then plopping his dick on it. Or Hollywood Shuffle: “There’s always work at the Post Office.”

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes of all time. Bill Russel (NBA all time great, won 11 championships) relaying the quote from his dad:

“Son, if the man asks you to give him 8 hours, give him 9. That way you can look any man on the job site straight in the eye and tell him to go to hell.”

Applies to sooooooo much in life.

Why I never wanted to go into management. I’m a programmer. You need me to actually build this thing because you have no idea how. Ergo, I can more or less tell you to go to hell if you push me too hard, and there’s not much you can do about it.

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It’s passing through big cats like crazy, but none of them seem to be getting super ill yet.

https://twitter.com/AnimalPlanet/status/1249009721803247616?s=20

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Yeah, I saw that. You probably got what I meant, but I just meant someone pets that cat and then 20 minutes later someone else pets that cat. That’s the normal existence for him. I’ve had friendly cats, but he’s off the charts. He’ll go in stranger’s cars and he loves to climb up on people’s shoulders - anyone. He starts purring when you’re like 10 feet away walking towards him.

I’m going to host a trivia game with friends Friday night. Any ideas on logistics or app for video? Was thinking of just doing zoom and setting up a private google doc or just have them IM answers in private.

So we’re drawing live to big cat mutation like pangolin did? Sweet.

I feel like you could do something neat with Zoom breakout rooms.

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Half of our place names are taken from Europe, and the other half from the indigenous people we slaughtered.

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What zz said. Ohio is Seneca for “good river”. Kentucky is Iroquois for “on the meadow”.

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I don’t want to be alarmist, but are you 100% sure the dog is vaccinated for rabies? If the dog had rabies and your wife doesn’t get treatment she will die.

I would hate to see what you posted if you were being alarmist…

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25 people in the US have been diagnosed with Rabies in the last decade. There are 4.7 million dog bites per year. Probably not rabies.

Yeah, not taking a shot, but the SN combined with that opening sentence is chef-kissing-fingers.

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A friend of mine would play a game where there would be clues that would lead you to places where you would find more clues to find more places until you got to the final place. People would usually play in teams. He’s a software developer and I worked a bit with him on this very simple version of the game online - using google maps. I did a little of the programming, not the game writing.

It’s a simplified version and is aimed at like tweens (he has a 9 year old). Anyone who wants to give it a shot, please and thank you, and/or show it to your kids.

Edit: Ok, I took out the link. I didn’t realize it exposes my (and my friend’s) real full names. Not that that’s a big deal to me, but…whatever…if you want a link to the game PM me and I’ll send it to you.

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Yeah, okay. It’s a very very small risk but the outcome is very bad, so better safe than sorry imo.

Disclaimer: I worked on a rabies monograph some years back and it kind of freaked me out so maybe that has something to do with my post.

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I mostly communicate via interpretive dance. At least with Mrs. Lovemuffin.

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Anyone else discover fountain pens while working from home?

Yeah, rabies is a horrifying way to go. Better than chronic wasting disease, to be sure, but still you should get that rabies shot and it’s better to be safe than sorry.

There’s certain elegance to it: rabies infects your salivary glands and gets transmitted through biting. It also keeps you from drinking water or even swallowing your own spit and thereby diluting the viral load if you should happen to bite some poor sap. And of course it makes you terrified and aggressive so you’re fighting everything in sight. Makes sense in terms of evolutionary theory, but still that is some fucked up shit right there.

I may have missed something, but spidercrabs’ wife got bit, I assume by a dog that belonged to someone and is known to not have rabies.

Is there some condition that makes you wake up feeling like you had a massive full body workout the day before, even though you’ve had almost no exercise for over a month?

Maybe I’m just doing deadlifts in my dreams - because that’s exactly what I feel like right now.