What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

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pierrot wrote: Also, why is the team from the only province that didn't want to be part of Canada named the Canadians?
They're not. They're the Montreal Canadiens.

Bruins look good this year. Not as good as the undefeated Blackhawks, but good nonetheless.



edit* Frown: Might as well bring this up. One of my closest buddies is married to a woman who works as the store manager of a local Cracker Barrel. Not the restaurant part, but the general store section. She's kind of a bitch. I'll call her Complainypants.

We went to a Mexican restaurant that's actually quite nice. We had a party of six, as another couple met with us. The place was packed, and we ordered a smorgasbord of Mexican delights and drinks. So about ten minutes after we order, comlainypants complains how our food isn't ready.

I tell my story about how my wife and I once waited over an hour for bacon and eggs at a Cracker Barrel and how they are known for shitty service to "blacks and Yankees" (it's true, at least the ones in the South). Complainypants than said, every so eloquently "Don't fuckin bash my job, you fuckin sell yarn".

I didn't comment back as the look on everyone's face read = she's a bitch. The funny things are, 1) She doesn't work in the kitchen, 2) She didn't even work with Cracker Barrel at the time, 3) My sales are probably ten times what she sells a day (unless she sells a few over priced rocking chairs).

And once we got our food, complainypants would not stop complaining. "Fish tacos? More like onion tacos", "What is THIS shit?", "This isn't a full serving of queso", "These margaritas are weak", and so on. All dinner. I told her "If you don't like the tacos send them back now". She didn't. Instead she complained the entire meal making it difficult for anyone to carry on a conversation that wasn't about her meal.

This is the same chick that suggested I "get a hook". It's very difficult to not pop off on this girl, because if and when I do, we'll no longer be friends.
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Smile - The old Director who tried to get me fired several times, was fired today. So yes, Colonel Sandurz is gone.
Ticked - Despite searching for data on it for several years, I still cannot find anyone who has successfully played emulated games across four monitors. For decades now I have wanted to setup a computer with five monitors - one as an overview, and four for individual players. That way we could play console split screen games, like Fzero GX and Goldeneye, on multiple screens, and no one can bitch about screen watching*. The easy and most expensive way to do this is to get a video wall controller. But I am not dropping a grand on that.

*I know that taking an N64 game and cutting it into fourths and blowing that up to a full screen will not look very good. But using Project64 and some highlevel antialiasing it should look decent enough. Fzero GX in Dolphin should look fine. Ive played both on projectors numerous times so I know what I am getting into, to a degree.
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Luke wrote:They're not. They're the Montreal Canadiens.
I think that's just splitting hairs, personally.
Luke wrote:Bruins look good this year.
When they're good, they're good. The one loss to the Sabres was pretty unsettling. PP is pretty atrocious, but what's new.

Luke wrote: [...]Cracker Barrel and how they are known for shitty service to "blacks and Yankees" (it's true, at least the ones in the South).
Reminds me of my favorite joke: "What's the difference between a Yankee and a damn Yankee...."
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elmagicochrisg wrote: Why did I look!? I knew what was coming... :x
After watching a part of the video, I looked at a couple YouTube recommended videos. There was one where a doctor removed an impacted insect (cockroach!!) and ear wax from a patient's ear. Wow. It wasn't a tiny one like a flea. It kept me on the edge of my seat watching the dr try to pull it out after a few attempts.

Camera technology is quite amazing.
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pierrot wrote:Reminds me of my favorite joke: "What's the difference between a Yankee and a damn Yankee...."
I'll bite, what's the difference?
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Retrodude wrote:
pierrot wrote:Reminds me of my favorite joke: "What's the difference between a Yankee and a damn Yankee...."
I'll bite, what's the difference?
'A Yankee visits; A damn Yankee stays here.'
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So true. In NC we even have a town to corral them: Cary, the Centralized Area for Relocated Yankees. Most of 'em aren't so bad though. I only have problems with the yuppies.
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Retrodude wrote: I only have problems with the yuppies.
That's not nice.

I'd say Apex is more yuppie-ish than Cary at this point.
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Went to the Dr to get this thing looked at. I got it relieved but there wasn't much in there and now I'm in pain from the lidocaine wearing off.

Smile: wife has Vicodin.
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Today was not a good day for me, I got a call at work from my mother that my Golden Retriever died today. I'm 26 years old and I sobbed like a little baby in the break room, I couldn't hold it back. It was so unexpected I just saw her last week (She lived with my parents since my apartment doesn't allow dogs) sure she was 11 years old but she was so full of energy. Mom let her out to go to the bathroom this morning and she didnt come back when she called so she went out to look for her and she was just lying in the snow dead. It must of been a heart attack or brain aneurysm, at least she died a quick painless death.

I got Parapa The Rappa for the psp in the mail today been playing it to take my mind off of this, this game has actually cheered me up a bit.
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