GM's thread about nothing (34 Viewers)

[krista4]

I don't want to say I'm a big deal or anything, but I'll have you know that I have 3 million Indonesian rumpiah in my purse and gave the driver from the airport a 100,000 rumpiah tip. :blowsfingers:

 

[heckmanm]

I don't want to say I'm a big deal or anything, but I'll have you know that I have 3 million Indonesian rumpiah in my purse and gave the driver from the airport a 100,000 rumpiah tip. :blowsfingers:

This doesn't surprise me at any exchange rate above 10 rumpiahs to the dollar.

 

[krista4]

I don't want to say I'm a big deal or anything, but I'll have you know that I have 3 million Indonesian rumpiah in my purse and gave the driver from the airport a 100,000 rumpiah tip. :blowsfingers:

This doesn't surprise me at any exchange rate above 10 rumpiahs to the dollar.

But 10,000 rumpiah to the dollar.

 

[Joe T]

So a $12 tip? /GM

 

[Abraham]

Anybody here active on Yelp? Like, have reviewed more than a few places?

I worked for them in 2007

Spoiler

under a covert "we are paying people to write reviews but don't tell anyone, especially techcrunch..." program. Paid $15/hour and since I can write really fast, I was able to bill 20 hours a week for about 4 hours of work. Was a GREAT second job. But I signed a contract that said I couldn't ever put it on my resume or linkedin or they would sue me. So last week when a company here in town passed on interviewing me because I didn't have any experience at a tech startup (I've actually worked for two) I was a little peeved.

Name is "John D." I have a little over 200 reviews, mostly in the Austin area.

Why, do you want me to review you as a bartender or review the place you work? Come to think of it, I need to put a review in for ALbert Oaks.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Sry about your foot shuke :(

Have you been doing the stretches? That helped me a lot and I haven't had any issues since.

The brilliant people in Milwaukee county softball decided to start the season 2 weeks ago. Well, 35 degrees and rain isn't conducive to softball so the first two weeks were cancelled. Nevermind that with the April 8th start, the league would end on July 8th where 80 degrees and dry is the norm. So we had a double header tonight. It was a nice and 40 degree windy night. We won one and lost one.

But the night was only beginning. I'm honestly not trying to be degrading here, but there was a handicapped man sitting behind us. I don't know his condition but he had a curled right hand and didn't speak very well. At one point his friend went to the vehicle to start it up. He was apparently waiting for the handicapped man to come out so they could leave. Well, said friend didn't come back after about 10 minutes. The guy tried to stand up but couldn't manage it so my GB and I asked if he needed help. He's got snot coming out of his nose and he's drooling a lot and I'm pretty sure he peed himself. We could barely manage to hear what he was saying. He said (I think) "No I'll wait, thank you". About 3 minutes later he topples over on top of me and is shaking on the ground.I'm thinking "Oh #### this guy just had a seizure." He didn't , he just couldn't figure out what happened from being on his chair to being on the ground. My GB and I lift him up and hold him upright while the waitress goes to find his friend, Dave. Dave comes back in and the 3 of us have to carry this man out to the car. Oh wait, it wasn't a car, it was a work van.

So my GB and Dave are trying to lift him into the van while I go to the drivers seat to help from that side. I"m sorry but I had to laugh a little bit when he looked at me, turned to his friend Dave and said "That ain't Dave. I ain't getting in unless Dave's here"

Long story even longer, my GB and I were covered in snot, pee and saliva. Dave tried to give us some money but we refused. When we got back inside I asked the bartender if he was a regular and they said they had seen him only 3 or 4 other times and he had never been like that. THey had as much to drink as they would normally have....essentially 3 beers. Dave called the bar later because he felt so bad and said that he had been on a new medication and this was probably a reaction to that. He was not aware of the new medication.

My wife is a social worker so she has connections but I wasn't sure if I should pursue something here. The guy obviously wasn't well and whoever he was with, should have been aware of any medications. RIght now I'm chalking it up to lesson learned for him but...I don't know. I was pretty scared for him.

Not that it needs to be said but you're a good man Stryker. Hopefully we'll get up there for a Cards-Brewers game sooner than later.

So I've been doing a low-carb thing for the last month or so, but not adhering to it very strictly. Basically, just eating a lot less and cutting out the starchy crap except for pizza once a week...no exercise to speak of, because that just sucks. There are days--hell, theere are entire weekends where I don't take in more than a few hundred non-alcoholic calories. I can tell I've dropped some pounds, but the scale is upstairs and frankly I'm too lazy to walk all the way up there to weigh myself. Harkens back to the no-exercise thing, really.

Anyway, Saturday night/Sunday morning I was absolutely hammered and I noticed the next day that I had taken off my jeans without even unbuttoning them. So I weighed myself today before work and I'm down 20 pounds. I've still got another 6 weeks before bikini season really takes off, so I should be looking a lot less horrible at the beach this year.

Considering this good little start and the fact that by Memorial Day, my bar will be 5-deep and I'll be sweating my ### off for 8 hours a night, I might start getting back to the 200 lb in-good-shape PJ that used to bang chicks that didn't necessarily need to have low self-esteem.

LMFAO @ the bolded and to the rest.

You really should try walking though, it makes me feel so much better. Of course it's ####### raining AGAIN here. Oh well, getting our will updated at 11 so I guess I don't need the exercise as far as Mrs. SLB is concerned.

 

[Ignoramus]

Houstonguys: TF and I are meeting at 5:30ish at Home Plate Bar & Grill for tomorrow's 7:05 Astros/Mariners game. First drink is on me.

Cos? Charvik? Anyone else?He's in meetings today and will likely be unable to confirm this, but I just got a text from TF and he graciously offered a handy to any FBG in attendance.

 

[krista4]

So a $12 tip? /GM

On a $25 ride.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

So a $12 tip? /GM

On a $25 ride.

I always try to over tip. Particularly to people that are pleasant/work hard that I know don't make much.

 

[krista4]

So a $12 tip? /GM

On a $25 ride.

I always try to over tip. Particularly to people that are pleasant/work hard that I know don't make much.

I overtip like crazy in SE Asia. People work hard and make very little. Same in Nicaragua.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

In that "show me your knowledge" thread I posted "If you mix mayonnaise, cayenne pepper and bleach, you have the deadliest toxin known to man." and somebody deleted it.

 

[krista4]

Is there a way I can politely get my friend's dog to stop posting on my Facebook?

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Of course it's ####### raining AGAIN here. Oh well, getting our will updated at 11 so I guess I don't need the exercise as far as Mrs. SLB is concerned.

I was in the 'burbs of Chicago for 36 hours last week. I haven't seen that much rain in the last 8 years combined. What did you people do to piss off baby jeebus?

 

[Limp Ditka]

So a $12 tip? /GM

On a $25 ride.

I was in India once on business and rented a car/driver for the day through the hotel. My normal to and from job transport was set up by work, but by the time Saturday came around, the guy driving me had basically been going close to 20 hours a day for a week, so I gave him the day off.

Since the car/driver through the hotel was billed to my room, I had no idea what I was being charged. At the end of the day, which was about 3 hours, I tipped the guy about 1500 rupees. When I checked out of the hotel, I was charged 1200 rupees for the car service.

 

[Abraham]

In that "show me your knowledge" thread I posted "If you mix mayonnaise, cayenne pepper and bleach, you have the deadliest toxin known to man." and somebody deleted it.

Well, we know who didn't delete it.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Of course it's ####### raining AGAIN here. Oh well, getting our will updated at 11 so I guess I don't need the exercise as far as Mrs. SLB is concerned.

I was in the 'burbs of Chicago for 36 hours last week. I haven't seen that much rain in the last 8 years combined. What did you people do to piss off baby jeebus?

I was trying a new way to masturbate and I think I may have inadvertantly been doing a rain dance.

 

[krista4]

So a $12 tip? /GM

On a $25 ride.

I was in India once on business and rented a car/driver for the day through the hotel. My normal to and from job transport was set up by work, but by the time Saturday came around, the guy driving me had basically been going close to 20 hours a day for a week, so I gave him the day off.

Since the car/driver through the hotel was billed to my room, I had no idea what I was being charged. At the end of the day, which was about 3 hours, I tipped the guy about 1500 rupees. When I checked out of the hotel, I was charged 1200 rupees for the car service.

Awesome.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

In that "show me your knowledge" thread I posted "If you mix mayonnaise, cayenne pepper and bleach, you have the deadliest toxin known to man." and somebody deleted it.

Well, we know who didn't delete it.

lol

Your Linkedn popped up the day you announced you were let go and advised me to congratulate you on your anniversary being employed at FBG's.

 

[Abraham]

Drinking GM'Tanners: underrated country song for your enjoymnet - Whiskeytown – Dancing With The Women At The Bar

 

[Abraham]

In that "show me your knowledge" thread I posted "If you mix mayonnaise, cayenne pepper and bleach, you have the deadliest toxin known to man." and somebody deleted it.

Well, we know who didn't delete it.

lol

Your Linkedn popped up the day you announced you were let go and advised me to congratulate you on your anniversary being employed at FBG's.

Awesome.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

In that "show me your knowledge" thread I posted "If you mix mayonnaise, cayenne pepper and bleach, you have the deadliest toxin known to man." and somebody deleted it.

Someone should post that mixing orange juice with rubber cement makes napalm.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Is there a way I can politely get my friend's dog to stop posting on my Facebook?

Make up a whole menu from Bali restaurant made of dog. Go on and on about how surprisingly delicious several dishes were.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

You're good people, Stryker. The universe owes you a case of beer.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

the scale is upstairs and frankly I'm too lazy to walk all the way up there to weigh myself.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Stryckler: Way to contribute to the wussification of America. It's thanks to people like you that we have Welfare, participation ribbons, and uppity minorities. Next time let natural selection run its course.

 

[Captain Quinoa]

Is there a way I can politely get my friend's dog to stop posting on my Facebook?

Blow on his face. They hate that.

Works on chicks as well..

 

[phishphan]

Drinking GM'Tanners: underrated country song for your enjoymnet - Whiskeytown – Dancing With The Women At The Bar

awesome song. then again just about all their songs are awesome. g

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

SLB related: Stand-up comic Greg Warren (St. Louis guy) was just on the radio talking about his dad. His pops is retired and bored. Warren says that the biggest thing going for his dad these days is that if the Cardinals score 6 or more runs in a game coffee at Mobil is just 25 cents.

One day they're watching a Cardinals game and it was like 5-0 in the 9th inning and the Cards were at bat. They had two men on base and one of their best hitters (don't recall the name) was up. His dad is glued to the set. Batter hits a dribbler back to the pitcher and the game ends 5-0. The dad looks to his son and says "That looked fishy to me."

 

[cosjobs]

Houstonguys: TF and I are meeting at 5:30ish at Home Plate Bar & Grill for tomorrow's 7:05 Astros/Mariners game. First drink is on me.

Cos? Charvik? Anyone else?He's in meetings today and will likely be unable to confirm this, but I just got a text from TF and he graciously offered a handy to any FBG in attendance.

I'm trying to justify/make this happen. Seven hours on the road $50 in gas and $150 for a hotel. Seems like I should get to cornhole some A-listers for that much time and scratch

 

[cosjobs]

Or I could go down for the game and not drink, so I could drive home instead of getting a hotel.

not drink

 

[Ignoramus]

Houstonguys: TF and I are meeting at 5:30ish at Home Plate Bar & Grill for tomorrow's 7:05 Astros/Mariners game. First drink is on me.

Cos? Charvik? Anyone else?He's in meetings today and will likely be unable to confirm this, but I just got a text from TF and he graciously offered a handy to any FBG in attendance.

I'm trying to justify/make this happen. Seven hours on the road $50 in gas and $150 for a hotel. Seems like I should get to cornhole some A-listers for that much time and scratch

7 hours? I'm a nice enough guy, but I'll be the first to admit I'm not that fun to be around.

 

[shuke]

Sry about your foot shuke :(

Have you been doing the stretches? That helped me a lot and I haven't had any issues since.

My plantar fasciitis is fine, it's the arthritis that is killing me.

 

[eurotrashman]

Of course it's ####### raining AGAIN here. Oh well, getting our will updated at 11 so I guess I don't need the exercise as far as Mrs. SLB is concerned.

I was in the 'burbs of Chicago for 36 hours last week.

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Sry about your foot shuke :(

Have you been doing the stretches? That helped me a lot and I haven't had any issues since.

My plantar fasciitis is fine, it's the arthritis that is killing me.

I thought it was gout.

 

[UOFI_316]

Of course it's ####### raining AGAIN here. Oh well, getting our will updated at 11 so I guess I don't need the exercise as far as Mrs. SLB is concerned.

I was in the 'burbs of Chicago for 36 hours last week. I haven't seen that much rain in the last 8 years combined. What did you people do to piss off baby jeebus?

I was trying a new way to masturbate and I think I may have inadvertantly been doing a rain dance.

There is your answer to how you lost 3lbs iwthout walking. it went into your sock 2 oz at a time.

 

[heckmanm]

Mrs Heckman is not a fan of spiders. Snakes, other insects, miscellaneous vermin? No biggie. But spiders freak her out. Oh, and she's also dropped maybe 5 F-bombs in the 5 years I've known her. That said, I just received the following text:

It's ####ing bigger than a quarter and it went under the dryer!!!!!

 

[McGarnicle]

Two words: dogboat

 

[General Malaise]

The brilliant people in Milwaukee county softball decided to start the season 2 weeks ago. Well, 35 degrees and rain isn't conducive to softball so the first two weeks were cancelled. Nevermind that with the April 8th start, the league would end on July 8th where 80 degrees and dry is the norm. So we had a double header tonight. It was a nice and 40 degree windy night. We won one and lost one.

But the night was only beginning. I'm honestly not trying to be degrading here, but there was a handicapped man sitting behind us. I don't know his condition but he had a curled right hand and didn't speak very well. At one point his friend went to the vehicle to start it up. He was apparently waiting for the handicapped man to come out so they could leave. Well, said friend didn't come back after about 10 minutes. The guy tried to stand up but couldn't manage it so my GB and I asked if he needed help. He's got snot coming out of his nose and he's drooling a lot and I'm pretty sure he peed himself. We could barely manage to hear what he was saying. He said (I think) "No I'll wait, thank you". About 3 minutes later he topples over on top of me and is shaking on the ground.

I'm thinking "Oh #### this guy just had a seizure." He didn't , he just couldn't figure out what happened from being on his chair to being on the ground. My GB and I lift him up and hold him upright while the waitress goes to find his friend, Dave. Dave comes back in and the 3 of us have to carry this man out to the car. Oh wait, it wasn't a car, it was a work van.

So my GB and Dave are trying to lift him into the van while I go to the drivers seat to help from that side. I"m sorry but I had to laugh a little bit when he looked at me, turned to his friend Dave and said "That ain't Dave. I ain't getting in unless Dave's here"

Long story even longer, my GB and I were covered in snot, pee and saliva. Dave tried to give us some money but we refused. When we got back inside I asked the bartender if he was a regular and they said they had seen him only 3 or 4 other times and he had never been like that. THey had as much to drink as they would normally have....essentially 3 beers. Dave called the bar later because he felt so bad and said that he had been on a new medication and this was probably a reaction to that. He was not aware of the new medication.

My wife is a social worker so she has connections but I wasn't sure if I should pursue something here. The guy obviously wasn't well and whoever he was with, should have been aware of any medications. RIght now I'm chalking it up to lesson learned for him but...I don't know. I was pretty scared for him.

Your story above reminds me of this book. Just finished it a few weeks ago and loved it. Think you'll enjoy it too.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Of course it's ####### raining AGAIN here. Oh well, getting our will updated at 11 so I guess I don't need the exercise as far as Mrs. SLB is concerned.

I was in the 'burbs of Chicago for 36 hours last week.

I'm guessing you wouldn't have had much fun at the visitation or the funeral.

 

[General Malaise]

Of course it's ####### raining AGAIN here. Oh well, getting our will updated at 11 so I guess I don't need the exercise as far as Mrs. SLB is concerned.

I was in the 'burbs of Chicago for 36 hours last week.

I'm guessing you wouldn't have had much fun at the visitation or the funeral.

:(

Sorry, GB.

 

[cosjobs]

I just informed my house manager she would be acting as a designated driver the rest of the day.

Houston-bound

 

[General Malaise]

So a $12 tip? /GM

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Mrs Heckman is not a fan of spiders. Snakes, other insects, miscellaneous vermin? No biggie. But spiders freak her out. Oh, and she's also dropped maybe 5 F-bombs in the 5 years I've known her. That said, I just received the following text:

It's ####ing bigger than a quarter and it went under the dryer!!!!!

How many rumpiah is that?

 

[eurotrashman]

Of course it's ####### raining AGAIN here. Oh well, getting our will updated at 11 so I guess I don't need the exercise as far as Mrs. SLB is concerned.

I was in the 'burbs of Chicago for 36 hours last week.

I'm guessing you wouldn't have had much fun at the visitation or the funeral.

My condolences. :(

 

[Ignoramus]

I just informed my house manager she would be acting as a designated driver the rest of the day. Houston-bound

 

[Joe T]

Sry about your foot shuke :(

Have you been doing the stretches? That helped me a lot and I haven't had any issues since.

My plantar fasciitis is fine, it's the arthritis that is killing me.

I thought it was gout.

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[Ignoramus]

I just informed my house manager she would be acting as a designated driver the rest of the day. Houston-bound

Feel better about explaining this to the wife now. Before it was "I'm going to a bar and the game with a dude I met on the Internet" which sounds kind of weird. Now it's "two dudes I met on the Internet," which she should be much more comfortable with.

 

[General Malaise]

So I've been doing a low-carb thing for the last month or so, but not adhering to it very strictly. Basically, just eating a lot less and cutting out the starchy crap except for pizza once a week...no exercise to speak of, because that just sucks. There are days--hell, theere are entire weekends where I don't take in more than a few hundred non-alcoholic calories. I can tell I've dropped some pounds, but the scale is upstairs and frankly I'm too lazy to walk all the way up there to weigh myself. Harkens back to the no-exercise thing, really.

Anyway, Saturday night/Sunday morning I was absolutely hammered and I noticed the next day that I had taken off my jeans without even unbuttoning them. So I weighed myself today before work and I'm down 20 pounds. I've still got another 6 weeks before bikini season really takes off, so I should be looking a lot less horrible at the beach this year.

Considering this good little start and the fact that by Memorial Day, my bar will be 5-deep and I'll be sweating my ### off for 8 hours a night, I might start getting back to the 200 lb in-good-shape PJ that used to bang chicks that didn't necessarily need to have low self-esteem.

Damn, 20 pounds? That's awesome. I'm trying to do the same. Have been doing this since I got back from Mississippi, which caused some irrational #####iness and boorish behavior on my part at first, but has regressed to the point where I'm doing a second day in a row and am just dandy. I won't weight myself until 5 weeks are up, but I can tell I've dropped a few lbs so far, angling for at least 1 stone, as the Brits say. When I get down to 185, I'm coming up there so we can resume our cornhole domination in Speedos for money with your bar groupies.

 

[General Malaise]

Mrs Heckman is not a fan of spiders. Snakes, other insects, miscellaneous vermin? No biggie. But spiders freak her out. Oh, and she's also dropped maybe 5 F-bombs in the 5 years I've known her. That said, I just received the following text:

It's ####ing bigger than a quarter and it went under the dryer!!!!!

How many rumpiah is that?

225?

 

[Idiot Boxer]

Mrs Heckman is not a fan of spiders. Snakes, other insects, miscellaneous vermin? No biggie. But spiders freak her out. Oh, and she's also dropped maybe 5 F-bombs in the 5 years I've known her. That said, I just received the following text:

It's ####ing bigger than a quarter and it went under the dryer!!!!!

How many rumpiah is that?

225?

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