What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[SirGawain]

This isn't about work ethic. My issue stems with the fact that he's assigning tasks based on no real logic or understanding of the correlation between one's skill set and the best tasks for said skill set.

I mean, I'm awesome with computers, kick ass at laundry, I know my way around a kitchen (and then some) and thanks to previous employment experiences I'm awesome at dishwashing and the custodial arts. My skills would be better suited towards doing the laundry, washing the dishes, sweeping the floors, vacuuming the carpets, scrubbing toilets, cleaning the sink and tub, cooking meals, fixing computer hiccups, optimizing home theater setups, and so on.

I'm not saying one's skill set determines such things but it's a good place to start when you want QUALITY end results. If my brother chopped wood, it'd take a fraction of the time. If he mowed the lawn it wouldn't take him four or five times to get every spot since he's more used to being able to maneuver the lawnmower.

Sorry dude, but that's a load of crap. What is gonna happen if you get married and you are the man of the house? Are you gonna make your significant other carry in groceries because your skill set is more set towards washing dishes. And how much of a quality result was he expecting? It was going from point a to point b, not disarming a bomb. And as far as mowing the lawn goes, its idiot proof. Cut everything, if something is sticking up, cut that spot again.

[mjmjr25]

@repo - I might let you do my laundry. You'll never be optimizing my home theater setup. I'm interested in the laundry skills in fact - how does one, "...kick ass" in the laundry department?

@King - yeah, I imagine just requiring inspections would be easier about the concerns the EPA / State Govt. have about septics, but it's not a fight i'm going to take on - it's the law of the land.

[REPO Man]

I'm interested in the laundry skills in fact - how does one, "...kick ass" in the laundry department?

I've never had something come out a different color. I've never had an article of clothing get bitchslapped by a few splashes of bleach. I also know how to make one of those folding boards for shirts.

No one else I know has that kind of record. If I would have done my laundry those times, my Cramps T-shirt would still be off-white and not pink and my limited-edition Hellraiser shirt from Fright Rags (one of only 500) wouldn't have the minor bleach damage it has.

Anyone playing the new Gemcraft game? It came out a little over a month ago and I've gotten my wizard level to 53, and I've explored 57 fields.

Also is it weird that recently two people I've never even heard of, not friends with anyone on my friends list, both live in foreign countries, have sent me friend requests? I honestly can't figure out why recently a girl from Cape Town and an Italian woman (apparently living in Ghana) would send me friend requests? It's not the first time a complete stranger has sent me a friend request.

Speaking of Facebook, this one guy on my friends list (he's friends with my brother, though he's actually younger than me yet also older than my brother) seems to like a lot of the creepypastas I've been sharing on Facebook, among other things (mostly nostalgia stuff like the opening from the first season of Power Rangers). I gotta say it's kinda weird since I'm actually used to this kind of stuff only being liked by people on my friends list once in a while. Normally when something I post gets liked, it's not a creepypasta narration (like from one of my fave narrators MrCreepyPasta) or an article about a little-known video game. Usually it's just something I just reposted from someone else.

[Ack]

This thread wins for the Repo Man reference.

Also, I've had a theory for years that REPO is in fact the most advanced AI spambot ever invented by the Internet in an attempt to sell Disneyland, Mountain Dew, and crappy rock operas.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Oh, my. You've spent longer arguing why you shouldn't have done the task than it would have taken to actually do it. Excellent work.

George Costanza logic.

[REPO Man]

Not a spambot, worked at Disney WORLD (DisneyLAND is in California), MtDew Baja Blast is awesome, and when have I ever proclaimed love for a CRAPPY rock opera?

And with that I'm just gonna stop feeding the trolls and just tell the haters to kiss my ass and accept the fact that your testes do NOT belong on your shoulders.

Also:

The weather's so nice out lately!

Decided to give softmodding my Wii another shot.

Why has no one tried to make a tower defense game for the NES? I know there's a POC Sega CD tower defense game that was unveiled at the Sonic Hacking Contest 2012, along with a craptastic hack that replaced Sonic with an MS Paint-created version of Gumball from the Cartoon Network show The Amazing World of Gumball.

Thinking about trying to revisit my concept for a dark reimagining of L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", in which:

A sleep-deprived Dorothy inadvertently slits her wrists and when she nods out in the ambulance, she somehow ends up in a desolate wasteland and is joined by a scarecrow made out of a disgraced preacher's skin, a homicidal maniac whose soul is stuck in a tin statue and a mutant freak as they seek a mysterious individual in a dystopian city and ultimately comes face to face with, among other things, a body-harvesting witch and a past that Dorothy's been trying to forget for quite some time.

[Opa Opa]

[...] accept the fact that your testes do NOT belong on your shoulders.

Anyone looking for a new sig. Here ya go^

You're awesome, repo. And I really mean that.

[Luke]

Frown: Spent an hour of my day with a consultant who mentioned his new book more than he did helping me.

"Ryan, my main hurdle is that i have to find new businesses in an economy where new businesses aren't popping up. How do I identify the big fish? How do I eliminate prospects that aren't worth my time? How can I expect to make 100 calls a week for an entire year on new businesses if there aren't 5000 businesses to call?"

His answer:

wait for it...

"Use Google".


I shit you not.

[Flake]

Smile: Tried to quote Repoman's argument of assigning household duties to members paced on particular aptitudes to my wife. Pointed out to her that while she is excellent at cooking, cleaning, and doing the laundry, I excel at maintaining a constant presence on the couch (in front of the TV) thus warding off any criminal intrusions.

Frown: Now I'm cooking, cleaning, and I've got a load of laundry in. She's currently occupying the couch. She says I can have the couch when she goes to bed.

[Ack]

Smile: Tried to quote Repoman's argument of assigning household duties to members paced on particular aptitudes to my wife. Pointed out to her that while she is excellent at cooking, cleaning, and doing the laundry, I excel at maintaining a constant presence on the couch (in front of the TV) thus warding off any criminal intrusions.

Frown: Now I'm cooking, cleaning, and I've got a load of laundry in. She's currently occupying the couch. She says I can have the couch when she goes to bed.

Obviously you were doing it wrong by not drinking Baja Blast beforehand and because you were wearing your testes on your shoulders.