Adam wrote:It is now pretty much confirmed. My wife, our unborn baby and I will be refused the right to live in the United Kingdom. We must leave within 2 weeks. It is even too late to get my wife booked in for planned childbirth in China, now they'll only accept emergency childbirth.
Cool time to be flying over Iraq. Nice.
You could always come to America. We never have problems with immigration.
I suppose I ought to blue text that...
Seriously though, that does suck. Sorry chief. I wish you, the wife, and your baby the best.
I constantly hear from my coworkers "I want this." "Why can't we have that?" "This all sucks." "I wish I could be doing something else."
And yet, they never strive for anything better. They never do anything to change it even when the opportunities are right in front of them. They show up to work and complain about the exact same things every day then go home and do nothing then show up the next day to repeat the process.
It's an attitude that seems to plague my generation in America now. They believe "the American dream" to be dead. They think they're stuck where they are. They think they can't improve anything. They will not vote. They will not care. They'll post on FaceBook about their feelings but they wont be anything but a bench-sat activist.
That's bullshit.
It may be harder than it used to be but, I'm a firm believer that you can achieve what you want to with enough elbow grease and persistence. Even without that, luck can take you places. Many of us at work were offered jobs by a manager of a restaurant down in town that is somewhat similar to our little Casino hole. It pays far better and is far more busy. Despite all the complaining my coworkers do about a lack of business and lack of pay and lack of hours, I am the only one who has applied there. They even talk about applying there. Yet they don't. It makes absolutely no sense to me. I can't stand that lack of drive. It makes me insane.
I'm not like them though. I'm going to school to become a writer. Studying to get my CompTIA A+ certification to get my foot in the IT field. And I'm always looking for better things. If I can improve my life, why shouldn't I?
I need to reup my certs and get on with IT in my company.
Smile - Just got 3 lbs of Dry ice for free - going to do some fog work tonight
Ticked - Found ants in my car, guess that fog work has till after a full cleaning.
Luke wrote:On a brighter note, I just got home from a local pharmacy, where I heard a conversation that seemed straight out of San Adreas.
Two senior citizens, talking all kinds of senior citizeny. None of it made snese, yet I remember every word.
Gal: You need to meet my granddaughter. She's an angel.
Guy: Well I done wrecked my motor scooter.
Gal: You got gout?
Guy: No. I want orthopedic shoes though.
Gal: Vitamins fix you right up.
Guy: K&W's chicken got me thinking bout that.
Gal: I'mma sit down for now.
Guy: Be nice.
And that was it. On top of how bizarre that was, they didn't even look at each other when they spoke. Both just stared at their feet the entire time. Creeped me out.
Maybe they were actually robots that used Oblivion's atmospheric conversation engine.
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My moods been so flip floppy today for no apparent reason. I was really good this morning, then got pissed, got feeling good again, got pissed, etc. Now I'm just pissed for no reason. I don't know what the hell is going on.
Forlorn Drifter wrote: My moods been so flip floppy today for no apparent reason. I was really good this morning, then got pissed, got feeling good again, got pissed, etc. Now I'm just pissed for no reason. I don't know what the hell is going on.
Change your tampon?
marurun wrote: We’re not going to rubber stamp your horrible decisions.
fastbilly1 wrote:Last pastry chef I worked with could bench 400. They are not all featherweights.
Case in point:
Oren Pierre Alfonzo (凰蓮・ピエール・アルフォンゾ Ōren Piēru Arufonzo?), formerly known as Gennosuke Oren (凰蓮 厳之介 Ōren Gennosuke?), is an effeminate and muscular man. Oren is an ex-military soldier, head chef, and the owner of Charmant (シャルモン Sharumon?), a pastry shop in Zawame. He transforms into Kamen Rider Bravo (仮面ライダーブラーボ Kamen Raidā Burābo?). He uses the Durian Lockseed.
He is mostly refered to by those in Zawame as the "Charmant guy" (シャルモンおっさん Sharumon ossan?) and later Master Oren (凰蓮様 Ōren-sama?) by a fan girl Mai Takatsukasa, his apprentice Hideyasu Jonouchi, and later by Peko.
According to Mai Takatsukasa of Team Gaim, Oren has been trained as a patisserie and gained a citizenship in France for 10 years and even won the Coup de Monde. He has also achieved the Relais Desserts grade. However, in secret he is also a former soldier of the Parachute Regiment and had fought in the Middle East and Africa, having done so to gain his French citizenship 15 years prior.
taken from Kamen Rider Wikia.
So to prove a point I already made, you bring up a surprisingly badass fictional character?
Forlorn Drifter wrote: My moods been so flip floppy today for no apparent reason. I was really good this morning, then got pissed, got feeling good again, got pissed, etc. Now I'm just pissed for no reason. I don't know what the hell is going on.
Forlorn Drifter wrote: My moods been so flip floppy today for no apparent reason. I was really good this morning, then got pissed, got feeling good again, got pissed, etc. Now I'm just pissed for no reason. I don't know what the hell is going on.
Change your tampon?
Hahaha... really?
We went over using that joke, like, yesterday.
What a coincidence.
marurun wrote: We’re not going to rubber stamp your horrible decisions.
My moods been so flip floppy today for no apparent reason. I was really good this morning, then got pissed, got feeling good again, got pissed, etc. Now I'm just pissed for no reason. I don't know what the hell is going on.
Come on, we have the blue text thing for a reason.