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[Ayreonaut]

Originally Posted by mobyhead

WTF is up with M II A II R II K? Is it because this kid is Canadian?

Remember the Lindsay Lohan thread? Mark loves his celebs.

[rockyi]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

I nominate these people for a week suspension for keeping the Bieber thread active.

M II A II R II K 32
rockyi 13
SpongeG 12
vid 11
MolsonExport 10
LSyd 10
photolitherland 10

Hey, I haven't posted in that thread for a long time.
At least I had nothing nice to say about Master Bieber.

[HomeInMyShoes]

Originally Posted by rockyi

Hey, I haven't posted in that thread for a long time.
At least I had nothing nice to say about Master Bieber.

(thinks about actually reading the thread to pull something out of context and then thinks better of it)

[Lipani]

Don't forget the Rocky thread either.

[mobyhead]

Man. It seems like every time I go to the SSP forum homepage Pueblo is the most recent post in the United States section. I must be really missing out on some important developments there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblo,_Colorado

[Buckeye Native 001]

Originally Posted by mobyhead

Man. It seems like every time I go to the SSP forum homepage Pueblo is the most recent post in the United States section. I must be really missing out on some important developments there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblo,_Colorado

Its like watching a train wreck in action...over and over again.

[mobyhead]

One of my brother's childhood friends John. He posted this pic of him with "Santa" on his Facebook page. He's the one on the right. See Santa's creepy gaze???? (John is now an engineer with Underwriters Laboratory in Chicago. He would kill me if I was posting this).

[Buckeye Native 001]

On the plus side, MARK's no longer an admin or has any mod powers, so at least we have that going for us, but resurrecting threads that saw little to no activity for months gets kind of ridiculous.

[Strange Meat]

that dude has way too much free time.

[mobyhead]

Originally Posted by Strange Meat

that dude has way too much free time.

This coming from a person with almost 9,000 posts in under 3 years.

[mobyhead]

It's a really windy day today. Our office is on the 12th floor of a 36-story building. You can hear the beams in the walls creaking. The lights hanging in front of my desk are slightly swaying back and forth. Sounds like I am inside one of those old pirate ships you see in the movies. I've worked in this bldg 16 years now and you never get used to it.

See what happened to it in 2006 when a big storm hit....

Then....


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...uare,_Indy.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3060/...611ccfa88b.jpg

Now after re-cladding....


http://lh5.ggpht.com/_weBy68KZy-I/S7.../photo%204.jpg

[rockyi]

^I'm glad I'm not the only Python nerd around here.

Originally Posted by mobyhead

It's a really windy day today. Our office is on the 12th floor of a 36-story building. You can hear the beams in the walls creaking. The lights hanging in front of my desk are slightly swaying back and forth. Sounds like I am inside one of those old pirate ships you see in the movies. I've worked in this bldg 16 years now and you never get used to it.

See what happened to it in 2006 when a big storm hit....

Then....


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...uare,_Indy.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3060/...611ccfa88b.jpg

Were you in the building when this happened?

[mobyhead]

I was not. I worked for the bank on the first floor. It was during the NCAA Final Four. John Melloncamp had just finished a concert on the Circle an hour before. One of my friends who works security there was on shift when it happened. All he told me was that the Honeywell life-safety alarms sounded like crazy during the storm.

On the news the next morning I saw footage of a sprinkler pipe shooting water from 25 stories up onto the street below. I knew we would be closed that day. They relocated the Union Planters Bank employees throughout the city for a month (there was about 300 of us). A few days later the City allowed 20 minute escorts into the building tenants to pick up essential things. There was still the risk of broken glass falling off. I was in charge of the 2 ATMs at the time. I had to remove 70K from those machines and lock them in the main vault.

I went to one of my storm spotter classes just a few weeks after this. It was a major point of discussion.

After the new curtain wall was installed a few years back they needed workers to come in and remove the old windows from the inside and build the walls out to meet that. One by one tenants are re-located to the 4th floor to do this. I now work for an accounting firm on the 12th floor. We are officially the last floor that needs to be done. This will be in June. Yep, been affected by that piece of shit storm for 5 years now.

I have worked in the same building for 16 years now. Our firm just signed another lease to stay yet some more years.

This site kept some of the news stories...
http://www.theindychannel.com/weathe...38/detail.html

[Strange Meat]

Originally Posted by mobyhead

This coming from a person with almost 9,000 posts in under 3 years.

Haha, and I've slowed down, too!

[Strange Meat]

Justin Bieber may be the first lesbian in history to oppose abortion for rape victims

[touraccuracy]

looks like quite an improvement, moby.

the continuing story of my dumbass coworkers:

i was talking with this girl, the same one that didn't know where seattle was, about tipping in restaurants and a recent experience i had with a $200 bill, when she says....
her: 20% is $8, i checked the last time i was at a restaurant.
me: yeah, on a $40 bill... i'm talking about a $200 bill.
her: well it's still $8 right?
me: .................................................................it's based on the bill.
her: are you sure?
me: yes. it's a percentage.
her: *confused and not believing me*

-_-

she also always has to ask me what to price override $15 items to if they're supposed to be half price.

how can people be so dumb?

[Strange Meat]

read that thread. it's amazingly hilarious.

[LMich]

Am I a bad person for enjoying (in the most morbid way possible) watching the Texas forumers freakout because a few of their cities "only" had a shit-load of growth instead of a bat-shit insane level of growth? lol On the other end of the spectrum, you have a few Chicagoans at the first stage of the "five stages of grief".

BTW, buckeye, you can stop begging for Canadians to bash the United States in skybar. They get it, and we get it; I'm proud of them for not taking the sad bait.

[Buckeye Native 001]

Originally Posted by LMich

Am I a bad person for enjoying (in the most morbid way possible) watching the Texas forumers freakout because a few of their cities "only" had a shit-load of growth instead of a bat-shit insane level of growth? lol On the other end of the spectrum, you have a few Chicagoans at the first stage of the "five stages of grief".

BTW, buckeye, you can stop begging for Canadians to bash the United States in skybar. They get it, and we get it; I'm proud of them for not taking the sad bait.

I don't think its bait, I think they're being too polite in refraining from criticism.

I would like Americans to realize how awful and stupid we look to the rest of the world, and that thread is the perfect opportunity for our northern neighbors to come clean with their disdain. We learn a lot more from criticism than praise.

[HomeInMyShoes]

^You should read the Canadian census threads. Or better yet, the Canadian crime statistics thread.