What's messing with your Groove?

[oldmunchkin]

I was just watching tv in bed and out of nowhere I giant roach falls onto my face...

I will NEVER forget the first time I ever saw a roach! I was 22 years old and had gone to see my great-uncle in St. George, Utah. I was in the shower and the fucking thing came crawling out of the drain! I freaked completely out, screamed, and completely lost the typical Munchkin cool! My uncle and my cousin (male) came racing into the bathroom to see what was wrong, since there had been a string of break-in rapes in the area. There I stood, wet, naked, and screaming my lungs out...over a cockroach! Teddie just stepped into the tub and smashed it, while they both laughed their asses off at me! I still get the shivers thinking about it!

I have only seen one other one and that was at my other great-uncles apartment. The restaurant on the ground floor had gotten in a shipment of potatoes that had them in it! The management company had to move everyone out for a week, with just the clothes they had on, fumigate the whole building, and clean it all back up before they could let the residents back in.

Toy Story is 15 years old. Jurassic Park is 17 years old. Back to the Future is 25.
I still have to tell myself sometimes I'm not 18. Time stopped moving after high school, then I get reminded in the oddest ways, as with Buster here.

Some days I still feel like I am 16, then I move a piece of furniture or something else stupid I shouldn't be doing! Suddenly I remember I am 46!

[Catgrrl]

Ugh, one of the buildings I used to work in was across from a huge field, so we'd get mice and roaches regularly in the place. (It was a large warehouse type of place) Mice I could deal with; but something about the way roaches move and how they just come out of the smallest cracks make me shudder. Blech.

Our apartment when we first moved in had some roaches too; there were gaps in the doors so they got in that way. Needless to say I sprayed down every inch of that place till it was practically glowing.

Haven't seen one in this house yet (knock on wood) but Hubby sprays the perimeter pretty regularly. We are close to the water though so I would not be surprised if they are lurking nearby.

[littlelolligagged]

My little brother was a huge fan of it, I thought it was kind of dumb.

If my kids have seen it, they did it at a friend's house or at school.

[Hazir]

I was just watching tv in bed and out of nowhere I giant roach falls onto my face...

God, yesterday I walked into my bedroom and there was one on top of my bed. I sprayed the entire groundfloor and slept the night on the sofa 2 floors up. My mistake really, I should have sprayed earlier, with this climate (Istanbul in summer) you aren't really talking about having them or not, but about controling the pest and killing them.

What's very important too in that respect is never, but absolutely never, leaving out anything foody outside a closed plastic box.

[Knux897]

Yah that was my mistake... it also attracts ghost ants in the winter

[Flixy]

I know in some stores around here, they have a policy that they have to card people for cigarettes if they look under 40. Depending on the establishment, alcohol works that way too.
When I briefly worked at a beer cart for a concert venue, I had to ask for ID regardless of age. If the ID was expired, no alcohol for that person.

Even if it is expired? I mean, it still lists the same birthday...

[Nessus]

But it's not a valid ID

[GGT]

Roach eggs can hitchhike in paper grocery or food take-out bags. People save them, usually in their kitchen. oops

[Catgrrl]

Where I live, there is a state board that controls the sale of alcohol, so they are pretty strict as far as serving alcohol in venues. Especially concert venues where people drink too much, then drive and possibly kill someone. I don't remember the exact reasoning for the expiration on an ID being a problem.
I don't think that I'd ever serve at a place like that again; even as someone who was volunteering their time for a charity event, I could be implicated if I served a minor or someone with an invalid ID, and they caused some kind of mayhem after getting drunk at the venue.


EDIT: That's how my grandma got roaches once,from the paper bags she got from the commissary (military grocery)

[Flixy]

But it's not a valid ID

Yeah, but tons of not officially valid IDs are accepted at bars here. It's meant to check your age, not to see if your ID is valid. For example, my currently only valid ID is my brand new passport. If I go out later this summer, I'm not too much a fan of bringing a 50€ passport, with €300+ worth of visa in it when I go out getting drunk.

I don't think that I'd ever serve at a place like that again; even as someone who was volunteering their time for a charity event, I could be implicated if I served a minor or someone with an invalid ID, and they caused some kind of mayhem after getting drunk at the venue.

When I was working at a bartender, we had a (very limited) responsibility. If we actually knew someone was with a car, we were supposed to tell them to take a taxi or call one for them, but if they declined there was nothing much we could do. And if they said they were on a bicycle or on foot.. Serving to a minor (which in our case is under 16 for beer and wine and under 18 for spirits) was a problem, but I think any penalties went to the bar, not the employee.

[ar81]

I lost my HD with arts, music and programs made by me. No backup.
I am quite upset with this bloody goddamn situation!!!

[Ominous Gamer]

Poor 4chan, can't even mess with an online poll at a classy place like CNN without getting trolled in response

[Dreadnaught]

Bomb from WW2 just went off in my town and killed the bomb disposal squad. 3 dead, 2 seriously injured.

From what I've heard, they wanted to use a new robot to disarm the 500Kg acid fuse bomb - but since the bomb was 7 meters below ground, they had to get the robot down there first during which the bomb detonated.

Old acid fuses are very unstable.

Yeah, not exactly uncommon. In 2008 they defused, controlledly detonated (or tried to defuse) 88 bombs from WW2. The buggers are still all over the country.

This one they found because they were specifically looking for them - they wanted to construct a new building on the site and knew that this area had been carpet bombed very thoroughly. The ground looked like an army of moles had passed through - molehills every 50 centimeters. And they had defused another bomb at our train station two days before.

This makes my "It's 12:30AM and the electrical(?) utility is inexplicably jackhammering up the block out my open window to shame.

[termite]

Even if it is expired? I mean, it still lists the same birthday...

It is meant to stop people from handing their old expired ID to their younger siblings/friends etc for the purpose of purchasing alcohol.

[RandBlade]

It is meant to stop people from handing their old expired ID to their younger siblings/friends etc for the purpose of purchasing alcohol.

Plus generally ID expires because after a while a newer photo is required to confirm the person holding the card is the one whose pic is on the card (people change). If the ID's expired then it must be old and the person holding it might not be the right person even if they look similar.

EDIT: Which reminds me, its my 28th birthday on Thursday next week. I got my Driver's Licence on or just after my 18th and the photo for that (and thus my drivers licence) is therefore just about to expire! Better chase that up.

[Hazir]

Yeah, but tons of not officially valid IDs are accepted at bars here. It's meant to check your age, not to see if your ID is valid. For example, my currently only valid ID is my brand new passport. If I go out later this summer, I'm not too much a fan of bringing a 50€ passport, with €300+ worth of visa in it when I go out getting drunk.

Get yourself an ID-card.

What messes with my groove is that it's june and we had 4 days of pouring rain here in Istanbul. It's ridiculous.

[Timbuk2]

James Fuckbag Fatbelly Corden.

Pathetic, chavtastic fatboy from Essix best known for acting in a crap little sitcom as a pathetic, chavtastic fatboy from Essix.





Insults the king himself, the beknighted Sir Patrick Stewart, Captain of the USS Enterprise, who boldly goes where noone has gone before, Rada-educated classical English thespian, renowned Shakespearean, respected and admired by peers and public alike.

James Corden and Sir Patrick Stewart clash on stage

Comedian James Corden and Sir Patrick Stewart became involved in a bizarre on-stage spat at the Glamour Awards on Tuesday.

Sir Patrick criticised Corden - host of the event - for standing with his hands in his pockets, adding: "From where I was sitting, I could see your belly."

Corden responded: "You could see my belly. I can see you dying right now."

The pair continued to trade insults, and several prize-winners remarked on the quarrel as they accepted awards.

After the show, Corden said: "I found it quite disappointing. You should ask him about it but I'm certain he's left."

Sir Patrick presented the film actress of the year prize to Avatar star Zoe Saldana.

Accepting her award, she said to Corden: "I like your belly but I'd like to see Sir Patrick Stewart dying on stage any day."

Corden then said: "I feel bad for people who haven't seen my belly."

To huge applause, the Gavin and Stacey star lifted his T-shirt, revealing his tummy.

Referring to Sir Patrick, he said: "OK can we get a taxi really quickly please. There's an old man going home."

Several stars commented on the verbal tussle.

Nowhere Boy actor Aaron Johnson said: "I love your belly. That was intense. I didn't know where to look."

Singer Duffy told the crowd she thought Corden was doing a "wonderful job" and called him "highly entertaining".

Blasphemy!

So a gentleman with manners comments on a fatboy with no manners for pathetically keeping his hands in his pockets while hosting an awards ceremony, and he responds with 'I can see you dying right now'.

What a nasty, horrible, lowdown thing to say.

Phaser settings to maximum Commander Data.

[Catgrrl]

Nobody insults Jean-Luc Picard and gets away with it unscathed.

[littlelolligagged]

There are a lack of opportunities for drunken shitposting here tonight.

And I don't even have a Rettib to entertain me.

[oldmunchkin]

We have been under either severe thunderstorm or tornado watch every day for 8 fucking days! Where the hell did Spring go?

EDIT: Which reminds me, its my 28th birthday on Thursday next week.

Being an OLDmunchkin, this messes with my groove!

Pfizer keeps sending back my application for reduced price Lyrica due to stupid shit. Last time it was because the Dr. didn't write the prescription on the paper they approve...yesterday it was because I didn't send them a copy of my state-issued ID card! FFS, why didn't they tell me LAST time they needed a copy of that too...I would have put it in there last mailing and would have had pills by now!

Then, Qwest sent me a notice my internet bill hadn't been paid and if payment wasn't received by the 14th, they would shut me off. Well shit, payment was sent to them 2 weeks ago. I can't control the fucking post office and their losing shit! If Qwest would just allow us to hand the service men, who are here 3 days a week, our payment to take to their home office, then the post office couldn't lose my payment!

[Ominous Gamer]

Its the last day of public school, here comes another summer of ADD fun

on the plus side, he is no longer considered to be suffering from ADHD, so we are making progress

[Illusions]

BP stock picked up some $3 a share over-night into this afternoon and is alternating between another $.50 and $.75 at this moment...

...if only I had the money to invest in the stock market. BP's all time high was in the $60 range, and even with the current horrendous damage it is doing to the Gulf of Mexico, will probably return to around $40 - $45 a share within a few years, barring some well deserved "ass-kicking"...

...damn you stock market making the rich richer with barely any effort necessary

[Nessus]

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking, everybody knows the captain lied

Everybody knows that the war is over, everybody knows that the good guys lost

Everybody knows the fight was fixed; the poor stay poor, the rich get rich

That's how it goes

And everybody knows

[Illusions]

This highlights an additional problem with the Lewkowskian philosophy on why the poor are poor and the rich are rich; if someone had $50k available to invest in the stock market, they could have invested yesterday, and then just wait and dump the stock whenever it goes above $40 - $45 and make more sitting on their ass doing nothing but watching their money grow than someone working 40 hours a week, 52 days a year, earning minimum wage (so long as it goes above $40 - $45 per share in under a year from the time they invested).

Or tl;dr - Those with more disposable or non-essential income have a greater opportunity to grow that money into more money, and earnings can be completely unrelated to the amount of effort put in to attain them.

[Loki]

If everyone was as certain as you that BP's stock would return to $40-45, it would cost $40-45 right now.

[Illusions]

If everyone was as certain as you that BP's stock would return to $40-45, it would cost $40-45 right now.

I'm not certain what your point is other than a majority of investors in the stock market are not rational actors (philosophical/average definition not socio-economic definition)...

...my example could be transfered to other stocks/funds/real-estate/etc. that have a good enough chance of growth over a certain period of time, and is not limited to BP.

[Flixy]

If everyone was as certain as you that BP's stock would return to $40-45, it would cost $40-45 right now.

No it wouldn't. Money now isn't worth the same as money in a few years, so it would still be worth less now. Plus what Illusions said.

[Spawnie]

James Corden. What a prick.

More importantly, reading the article, it seems the crowd were with him. Dicks.

[Loki]

No it wouldn't. Money now isn't worth the same as money in a few years, so it would still be worth less now. Plus what Illusions said.

If they had to keep the money in the stock for a few years, presumably their return wouldn't be very good.

[GGT]

I have a whole list of shit

Yeah, I'm one of those with Bp stock. Sold half, kept half for the dividend, waiting to see if someone buys them up or.....
Feel some moral angst about the whole thing. But then, it's in millions of others' retirement portfolios too....ack

Love my computer but the keyboard is messing with old learned finger habits, so I'll have to adjust.... ack

My son informed me today that his dad (my ex) is going to marry his girlfriend and they've chosen a wedding date. Some unfamiliar emotions and thoughts took me by surprise, old baggage and buried wounds. After his dad picked him up for a visit I just cried, but not sure yet why.... ack