Random Talk

[benji]

She wanted to ask if you really were the inventor of the term Dudebro.

[BIONIC]

She must be really into brown men.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

why is nintex younger than me

[Potato]

why is nintex younger than me

Why is nintex THAT MUCH younger than me

[Polident]

With his views on commies, I assumed Nintex was an 80s kid. 

As a fellow 90s kid, the group he should hate most are environmentalists.

[who is ted danson?]

Tell her your apartment is big enough to host a Hell in a Cell wrestling match

That line always works 

[Nintex]

Don't shit where you eat dude. 

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That means you need to fire her before you fuck

Usually I would agree, but in this case it will be set-up as a seperate entity so they have more autonomy.

what is your assessment of her knees

Overall she looks fine, she is build like say Amy Adams or Florence Pugh.
So not like an unbalanced 'you can see I was skinny and I let myself go' kind of way but more like 'I've been somewhat curvy all my life' and that body type has grown on me in recent years. In that sense, I'm build like Cillian Murphy. I used to be skinny and tall but managed to upgrade that to slim and tall by putting on a little weight and working out. Plus I dress well, nothing too fancy but blazers and dinner jackets and the right color combinations go a long way.  

I didn't actually realize how much she was interested until she choked up. Apart from asking personal questions the other woman had asked if she could work from our office because they don't have an office space of their own and I assumed she just wanted to ask the same thing. 

With his views on commies, I assumed Nintex was an 80s kid. 

As a fellow 90s kid, the group he should hate most are environmentalists.

True but they are all terrible people. Except for the ones that are genuinely 'in tune' with nature and animals like RFK Jr., I have respect for that.
As opposed to people taking their cross breeded corgi with them to fly half way around the world to a climate summit that could've been a ZOOM call only to destroy our energy supply.

[killamajig]

Last night Trumptard Colby Covington got shit-whipped 

Covington was also kissing his Trump BobbleHead necklace during his Hulk Hogan flag waving walkout.

I'm sure Hulk was sad the dude that almost removed Colby's eyelid was a Black guy so that was the icing on the cake. Other fighters are clowning on his piss poor preformance. 

Fuck Colby, fuck Chael

Fuck that racist Terry too. Can't wait for his knees to turn to dust and his cuck Bubba can push his wheelchair.

Trump breathes life into the stupidist mother fuckers. He does good and all the other idiots think they won too. But not tonight Colby, retire bitch! 

[Potato]

What happened to keeping politics out of sport? 

Why don't these cunts stay consistent in their demands?

[chronovore]

"Rules for thee and not for me," I think is the phrasing I've seen.

[Nintex]

Got her on the phone to talk about a few work things and asked her what she wanted to ask me.
She kind of brushed it off as "oh... that.... right... so... I uuuhh.... I was just.... uuhh.... joking teehee... yes joking... I wanted to ask... uuhhhh personal stuff... you know *cough*".

I'll let it rest for a few days  

If she doesn't drop anything before the end of the week, I'll just text her I dig redheads and would like to take her on a date sometime next week if she's interested.

[Uncle]

jesus don't torture the poor girl

[Nintex]

jesus don't torture the poor girl

what do you mean torture?

[HardcoreRetro]

Just found another spider species we didn't have before. Steatoda grossa. Looks like a red widow with brown markings. My favourite thing about climate change. Warmer temperatures driving these fuckers up here.

Few years back I saw my first wasp spider.

[Uncle]

I stumbled across a Python script that performs a function I need, except I wanted the filenames reordered a different way for my purposes

I started to message the guy who posted it, seeing if he could modify it for me because I am lazy and I don't know anything about Python

but then I thought, hell why bother him, can ChatGPT do it?

and it did instantly, amazingly well

it even wrote a little lookup table to convert three letter month codes into numbers (Jan = 01), etc

it's like magic   

jesus don't torture the poor girl

what do you mean torture?

oh just shitposting

you already know what she wants

[Potato]

God it would be funny if her question was, "Hi Nintex, I really like your coworker Bort. Is he married?"

[chronovore]

Just found another spider species we didn't have before. Steatoda grossa. Looks like a red widow with brown markings. My favourite thing about climate change. Warmer temperatures driving these fuckers up here.

Few years back I saw my first wasp spider.

“More spiders” is a weird ass silver lining for climate change.

[Nintex]

oh just shitposting

you already know what she wants

The conversation today was again a bit odd. She called me back an hour or so after I called and I told her I had two questions and started out with a work thing that just came up, so she wouldn't immediately choke up like she did at the party.

And when I was ready to hang up, she mentioned that "hold on.... so uuhhh... right... there was something else.... wasn't there" and then I said: "remember when so-and-so said you wanted to ask me something, well you never got to ask your question." and then she sort of nervously stammered out that she was just joking around. So I replied: "Ah so that's what that was". "Yes.... right..." . And before I ended the call she mentioned she would call me back later about some other thing, which she can more easily do by email.

And honestly, the line of questioning at the party was not really my idea of a joke. 
The other woman asked: "Do you cook Nintex?" "Yes, I cook something fresh daily" "Really? I never expected that of you Nintex... and you X, do you cook?"
Her: ".... not really no... not for myself... I usually cook some Macaroni and Broccoli once and eat it for 3 days..."

Still I can't recall the last time anyone called me daily for a week. I also learned today from the guy running their outfit that at first she wasn't interested in going to the Christmas party when I forwarded the invitation to him. He mentioned in passing that she found out through the other woman that it was held at my office and then he got a panic call and he told her to call me to confirm that she would be there. And that explains one very nervous phone call I got last week.   

But I also get that this is not really how modern dating is supposed to work these days. You're supposed to craft a perfect bio, swipe through at least 50 profiles, ghost/reject 99% of matches, vet all the social media profiles, write the perfect opening message and then maybe just maybe get to texting and finally dating with a list of icks, questions, red flags and demands. I had actually been prepping myself for this for the coming year. And that's what she literally hated about the whole 'job interview' modern dating process.

You're not supposed to run into a guy once at a business meeting and once at a party, gawk at his office and pull the lever based on that. The fact that she considered it might've been a shock to her system. I've noticed that for a lot of these independent single women, it is difficult to admit that they are not really happy WFH on their own after all, microwaving meals and managing hubspot accounts. And it is even more difficult to admit that the solution is a nice guy that wants to cook healthy meals for them and not some gym bro with shit for brains. 

God it would be funny if her question was, "Hi Nintex, I really like your coworker Bort. Is he married?"

Apart from the 50-something guy that runs their outfit (and is married with kids), the 50-something woman (married with kids), the other 50-something woman (married with kids), me, her and one of my younger co-workers(20-something), it was only couples at the party. 

And most of our employees and former employees are nerds and they all talked about how perfect their lives were: "Well, I always tell him, he doesn't have to sit with me all the time, he can just go and play his games or build his LEGO set while I watch my show but sure enough, he makes me a cocktail 5 minutes later."

[Polident]

Sort of a care post. Earlier I saw an exhibition for an old manga/anime I was into about 20 years ago. Read and watched it with a buddy. Back then, he took a trip to Japan and bought back a couple CDs of music from the show. Still have them somewhere. Anyway, I’m at this thing and it’s genuinely nostalgic in an uncomfortable way. Like I’m looking at the original manuscript of a page I remember reading as a kid, with a friend who isn’t around anymore, and the author’s note is “after all this time I didn’t think anybody would care about this comic to make an exhibit”. Felt confused and a little sad. So I went and ate a cream puff donut churro at beard papas to cheer up and ended up feeling guilty so I walked around for an hour.

[Uncle]

there's a weird indescribable feeling when you can ascribe meaning to some minor thing, something maybe few people remember these days, something you know was hand-crafted by people with care and they never expected that you specifically would be enjoying it again right now, lighting your own metaphorical candle saying "hell yeah, brother"

[Potato]

oh just shitposting

you already know what she wants

The conversation today was again a bit odd. She called me back an hour or so after I called and I told her I had two questions and started out with a work thing that just came up, so she wouldn't immediately choke up like she did at the party.

And when I was ready to hang up, she mentioned that "hold on.... so uuhhh... right... there was something else.... wasn't there" and then I said: "remember when so-and-so said you wanted to ask me something, well you never got to ask your question." and then she sort of nervously stammered out that she was just joking around. So I replied: "Ah so that's what that was". "Yes.... right..." . And before I ended the call she mentioned she would call me back later about some other thing, which she can more easily do by email.

And honestly, the line of questioning at the party was not really my idea of a joke. 
The other woman asked: "Do you cook Nintex?" "Yes, I cook something fresh daily" "Really? I never expected that of you Nintex... and you X, do you cook?"
Her: ".... not really no... not for myself... I usually cook some Macaroni and Broccoli once and eat it for 3 days..."

Still I can't recall the last time anyone called me daily for a week. I also learned today from the guy running their outfit that at first she wasn't interested in going to the Christmas party when I forwarded the invitation to him. He mentioned in passing that she found out through the other woman that it was held at my office and then he got a panic call and he told her to call me to confirm that she would be there. And that explains one very nervous phone call I got last week.   

But I also get that this is not really how modern dating is supposed to work these days. You're supposed to craft a perfect bio, swipe through at least 50 profiles, ghost/reject 99% of matches, vet all the social media profiles, write the perfect opening message and then maybe just maybe get to texting and finally dating with a list of icks, questions, red flags and demands. I had actually been prepping myself for this for the coming year. And that's what she literally hated about the whole 'job interview' modern dating process.

You're not supposed to run into a guy once at a business meeting and once at a party, gawk at his office and pull the lever based on that. The fact that she considered it might've been a shock to her system. I've noticed that for a lot of these independent single women, it is difficult to admit that they are not really happy WFH on their own after all, microwaving meals and managing hubspot accounts. And it is even more difficult to admit that the solution is a nice guy that wants to cook healthy meals for them and not some gym bro with shit for brains. 

God it would be funny if her question was, "Hi Nintex, I really like your coworker Bort. Is he married?"

Apart from the 50-something guy that runs their outfit (and is married with kids), the 50-something woman (married with kids), the other 50-something woman (married with kids), me, her and one of my younger co-workers(20-something), it was only couples at the party. 

And most of our employees and former employees are nerds and they all talked about how perfect their lives were: "Well, I always tell him, he doesn't have to sit with me all the time, he can just go and play his games or build his LEGO set while I watch my show but sure enough, he makes me a cocktail 5 minutes later."

Just ask her out man. Even if you've misread the situation, the worst she can say is no or you go out and she's not that into you and all you get is a good meal and some conversation. 

I believe in you Nintex.

[Potato]

Sort of a care post. Earlier I saw an exhibition for an old manga/anime I was into about 20 years ago. Read and watched it with a buddy. Back then, he took a trip to Japan and bought back a couple CDs of music from the show. Still have them somewhere. Anyway, I’m at this thing and it’s genuinely nostalgic in an uncomfortable way. Like I’m looking at the original manuscript of a page I remember reading as a kid, with a friend who isn’t around anymore, and the author’s note is “after all this time I didn’t think anybody would care about this comic to make an exhibit”. Felt confused and a little sad. So I went and ate a cream puff donut churro at beard papas to cheer up and ended up feeling guilty so I walked around for an hour.

Give him a call or drop an email. 

I ended up catching up with an old friend recently that I lost contact with about 20 years ago. We were good friends at high school and after that we used to listen to music, play in a band and go to gigs together. Now we catch up for gigs regularly and it's great.