GM's thread about nothing (52 Viewers)

[krista4]

Last photo for tonight (can you tell I'm cleaning out my phone?), but took this one last trip to Granada and am still wondering what that last lunch item might be? Guess we should have tried it.

I knew a girl back in college with the nickname Meat Belt. Not really but that would be funny.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

I am picturing a sausage links bandolier.

 

[Drifter]

Just found out I'm going to make a five-hour trip, each way, to one of our most rural courthouses for a trial. ON FRIDAY. Any tips for how to pass that kind of time in the car? Ulysses audio book?

Good grief.

Living in Denver for 20 years where you're 6-8 hours from other "major" (used loosely) cities like Santa Fe and Salt Lake City, I consider 4-5 hours to be a cake walk. Until you get above 9 hours, it's easy peazy.

Did I mention I'm going and coming back the same day?

Ah - that definitely qualifies as major suckitude then.

 

[krista4]

I am picturing a sausage links bandolier.

Sounds delicious.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

I am picturing a sausage links bandolier.

Sounds delicious.

Just saw your picture. My post was independent of that. WEIRD.

 

[Thorn]

Just found out I'm going to make a five-hour trip, each way, to one of our most rural courthouses for a trial. ON FRIDAY. Any tips for how to pass that kind of time in the car? Ulysses audio book?

Good grief.

I love a 4-5 hour road trip. Big fan of catching up on episodes of This American Life; download the app if you don't have it already.

Hm. Latest reviews of said app say it's a PITA to queue up a new episode and it uses tons of data.

 

[krista4]

I am picturing a sausage links bandolier.

Sounds delicious.

Just saw your picture. My post was independent of that. WEIRD.

Just found out I'm going to make a five-hour trip, each way, to one of our most rural courthouses for a trial. ON FRIDAY. Any tips for how to pass that kind of time in the car? Ulysses audio book?

Good grief.

I love a 4-5 hour road trip. Big fan of catching up on episodes of This American Life; download the app if you don't have it already.

Hm. Latest reviews of said app say it's a PITA to queue up a new episode and it uses tons of data.

No idea about the data; guess I don't pay attention to stuff like that. I don't think it's a pain at all to get to a new episode. Some people are dumb, though.

 

[Sheriff Bart]

I would just like to say that I really love my wife. My posts on this board about my drinking & gambling are way overblown. I certainly don't have any money hidden away too.

 

[jplvr]

No wonder GBGuster had to send it twice because it was returned the first time for insufficient postage!

If you lived in Oregon, you would've gotten the package a lot sooner.

 

[mr. furley]

I am picturing a sausage links bandolier.

this positively screams "shuke"

 

[Tiger Fan]

Of course this happens when I decide to not go to a meeting:

today our entire US/Canada team (about 100 or so people) had a video conference where most of the major locations gather with a large amount of people in one room. Of course some of the remote locations just log in from their desk...well some guy who was working at home accidently it the video conference button, and a stream went to him just laying on his bed with a headset on listening to the meeting (he was clothed)

 

[kevzilla]

I would just like to say that I really love my wife. My posts on this board about my drinking & gambling are way overblown. I certainly don't have any money hidden away too.

 

[shuke]

Assume this has been shared before...but I don't recall the story

I'm pretty sure I've explained it 2 or 3 times here before. But it's really not interesting. At all.

 

[shuke]

Please rate this picture.

∞

Squared.

The girl depicted seems to be interested in me.

OH BULL####

I've seen it with my own eyes. This chick digs him.

Asspenny pic or GTFO.

 

[bentley]

I'm watching Erin Burnett's show on CNN and have decided that it would be a lot better if she did it topless.

 

[shuke]

Think I might go see this band tonight called Fartbarf. I almost have to.

oh my god

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

IMPORTANT PSA!!!!! SERIOUSLY

Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT rent/watch "The Tree of Life". It is an absolute dog turd of a movie. I would go into details but it would get my blood a-boiling even more.

 

[shuke]

It's been a ####tacular day...Started with the ex wife yelling at me for throwing away the 6-page photocopied and stapled "book" that school sent home with my daughter. It looked to be on par with her "artwork" where she cuts out squares and pastes them onto a big sheet of paper. I guess I was supposed to return it. Then there was an announcement at work that everyone in the function I work closest with is having their jobs relocated to Newcastle, but they don't get to go...except for my best friend, who either has to go there or to Brussels (she's just starting year 2 of a 3 year assignment right now, but with this change the job is gone). And then this evening my exwife called to tell me that when she heard about my ex gf reading all my posts in here, she had to come in and see what I had been posting. Now she's convinced that I'm an alcoholic and a danger to myself and my daughter. FMLOh, and exes

OOF

 

[shuke]

Well crap.

I don't know if this will help or hurt with the Guster crazyexes, but I wanted to say and for stepping up in the Great Secret Santa Debacle of 2011. Received this package in the mail today. No wonder GBGuster had to send it twice because it was returned the first time for insufficient postage!

The contents are going to ensure that the krista4 house and cars will be clean and fresh for a good long time. Have to say this is much more awesome for me than special brownies!

Our friend Guster is the bee's knees, as people of Tanner's age like to say.

You realize that's just all free crap he gets from work, right?

 

[shuke]

Oh, also in the photo vein, realized I owed stryker (I think) this.

Actually I think at one point you promised to mail me some of this.Also, full size pic of avatar.

TIA

 

[shuke]

Last photo for tonight (can you tell I'm cleaning out my phone?), but took this one last trip to Granada and am still wondering what that last lunch item might be? Guess we should have tried it.

 

[bentley]

Following a trip to the gym with chocolate covered almonds and cold 24 oz. cans of Busch. Slap it high?

 

[Crazy Canuck]

IMPORTANT PSA!!!!! SERIOUSLY

Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT rent/watch "The Tree of Life". It is an absolute dog turd of a movie. I would go into details but it would get my blood a-boiling even more.

OH COME ON!@I have my reservations about it, but that middle section with the family was 100X better than 90% of the crap Hollywood is putting out.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

It's been a ####tacular day...Started with the ex wife yelling at me for throwing away the 6-page photocopied and stapled "book" that school sent home with my daughter. It looked to be on par with her "artwork" where she cuts out squares and pastes them onto a big sheet of paper. I guess I was supposed to return it. Then there was an announcement at work that everyone in the function I work closest with is having their jobs relocated to Newcastle, but they don't get to go...except for my best friend, who either has to go there or to Brussels (she's just starting year 2 of a 3 year assignment right now, but with this change the job is gone). And then this evening my exwife called to tell me that when she heard about my ex gf reading all my posts in here, she had to come in and see what I had been posting. Now she's convinced that I'm an alcoholic and a danger to myself and my daughter. FMLOh, and exes

OOF

Posting a message to Guster's exes as a DJ signoff each night would be good shtick.

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

Following a trip to the gym with chocolate covered almonds and cold 24 oz. cans of Busch. Slap it high?

 

[YSR]

It's been a ####tacular day...

Started with the ex wife yelling at me for throwing away the 6-page photocopied and stapled "book" that school sent home with my daughter. It looked to be on par with her "artwork" where she cuts out squares and pastes them onto a big sheet of paper. I guess I was supposed to return it.

Then there was an announcement at work that everyone in the function I work closest with is having their jobs relocated to Newcastle, but they don't get to go...except for my best friend, who either has to go there or to Brussels (she's just starting year 2 of a 3 year assignment right now, but with this change the job is gone).

And then this evening my exwife called to tell me that when she heard about my ex gf reading all my posts in here, she had to come in and see what I had been posting. Now she's convinced that I'm an alcoholic and a danger to myself and my daughter.

FML

Oh, and exes

Last Friday, when I took my husband chaperone to BW3 with me for beerfest (following my not getting the job), I saw him looking at our Kindle and asked what he was reading. He said "that GM thread about nothing". He reads FBGs a good bit, and it's always under my name since every device in the house is logged in as me, but he's never gone into the GM thread before. Knowing his attention span though, I didn't panic, as I knew there would be no way he could get through page 2.Tonight, however, when I hit the little orange "take me to the newest post" square in this thread, it took me to posts a couple hours after I last checked in.

SHUT IT DOWN

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

IMPORTANT PSA!!!!! SERIOUSLY

Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT rent/watch "The Tree of Life". It is an absolute dog turd of a movie. I would go into details but it would get my blood a-boiling even more.

OH COME ON!@I have my reservations about it, but that middle section with the family was 100X better than 90% of the crap Hollywood is putting out.

No, no it wasn't. If there had been even a slight hint of a narrative or a plot or a conflict (other than 'daddy's kind of a jerk') or a theme or a story arc I might agree with you. But there wasn't any of those things. And that actually doesn't matter because the first 50 freaking minutes of the film (yes I checked the counter) was one big directorial "LOOK AT ME!" had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the movie.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

If Guster's exes thinks he's a drunk menace, I wonder what they think of SLB or Gadzooks, or Homer J. Simpson for that matter?

I've always thought Guster was pretty low on the totem pole of GMTAN drunks.

Also, countdown until Guster's Exes alias shtick...10...9...8...

 

[kevzilla]

I'm watching Erin Burnett's show on CNN and have decided that it would be a lot better watchable if she did it topless.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

IMPORTANT PSA!!!!! SERIOUSLY

Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT rent/watch "The Tree of Life". It is an absolute dog turd of a movie. I would go into details but it would get my blood a-boiling even more.

OH COME ON!@I have my reservations about it, but that middle section with the family was 100X better than 90% of the crap Hollywood is putting out.

No, no it wasn't. If there had been even a slight hint of a narrative or a plot or a conflict (other than 'daddy's kind of a jerk') or a theme or a story arc I might agree with you. But there wasn't any of those things. And that actually doesn't matter because the first 50 freaking minutes of the film (yes I checked the counter) was one big directorial "LOOK AT ME!" had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the movie.

Totally disagree. The narrative was pretty clear to me: the cosmic insignificance of life contra the emotional power of life. What the director was trying to do with that whole (ENDLESS!) galaxy/evolution scene was to posit this family in the grand scheme of things so that you can see, from a cosmic standpoint, their little drama meant ****. However, this is balanced by an incredibly powerful family drama (think of it as zooming in on this household) that shows how emotionally magical life really is. The narrative wasn't just Daddy issues - it was extremely Biblical in inspiration. Daddy is the builder, Mommy is the stay-at-home nurturer. You have the Cain & Abel conflict of the brothers. The distancing of the eldest brother from the father. The near dissolution of the family which, in the end, seems to bring them closer together. In fact, if there's a unified donnee to the thing, it's how death binds life closer. Um, or something like that. Also the end afterlife scene on the beach was awful. Such a great experiment of a movie that just didn't do what it hoped to do. But that family segment in the middle was fantastic, IMO.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

I was supposed to read Krista's take on it awhile back, but never looked it up.

K4> care to jump in on this discussion with some quickfire thoughts? You liked it, right?

 

[Thorn]

It's been a ####tacular day...

Started with the ex wife yelling at me for throwing away the 6-page photocopied and stapled "book" that school sent home with my daughter. It looked to be on par with her "artwork" where she cuts out squares and pastes them onto a big sheet of paper. I guess I was supposed to return it.

Then there was an announcement at work that everyone in the function I work closest with is having their jobs relocated to Newcastle, but they don't get to go...except for my best friend, who either has to go there or to Brussels (she's just starting year 2 of a 3 year assignment right now, but with this change the job is gone).

And then this evening my exwife called to tell me that when she heard about my ex gf reading all my posts in here, she had to come in and see what I had been posting. Now she's convinced that I'm an alcoholic and a danger to myself and my daughter.

FML

Oh, and exes

Last Friday, when I took my husband chaperone to BW3 with me for beerfest (following my not getting the job), I saw him looking at our Kindle and asked what he was reading. He said "that GM thread about nothing". He reads FBGs a good bit, and it's always under my name since every device in the house is logged in as me, but he's never gone into the GM thread before. Knowing his attention span though, I didn't panic, as I knew there would be no way he could get through page 2.Tonight, however, when I hit the little orange "take me to the newest post" square in this thread, it took me to posts a couple hours after I last checked in.

SHUT IT DOWN

It took me years to figure out what that little orange square was for.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Need GMTAN tipping advice here. There's a bar near where I often catch the train home. Knew the bartender there enough to say hey, never knew his name. A couple of weeks ago I am at our company holiday party and I run into him. Apparently his girlfriend does cater waiter work for us. So tonight I have 30 minutes to kill before my train. I go on and he's working. Order a beer and a shot of Jamo. He doesn't charge me. Then I order one more shot before leaving and he charges me $7 for the whole thing. What is the appropriate tip?

 

[YSR]

It's been a ####tacular day...

Started with the ex wife yelling at me for throwing away the 6-page photocopied and stapled "book" that school sent home with my daughter. It looked to be on par with her "artwork" where she cuts out squares and pastes them onto a big sheet of paper. I guess I was supposed to return it.

Then there was an announcement at work that everyone in the function I work closest with is having their jobs relocated to Newcastle, but they don't get to go...except for my best friend, who either has to go there or to Brussels (she's just starting year 2 of a 3 year assignment right now, but with this change the job is gone).

And then this evening my exwife called to tell me that when she heard about my ex gf reading all my posts in here, she had to come in and see what I had been posting. Now she's convinced that I'm an alcoholic and a danger to myself and my daughter.

FML

Oh, and exes

Last Friday, when I took my husband chaperone to BW3 with me for beerfest (following my not getting the job), I saw him looking at our Kindle and asked what he was reading. He said "that GM thread about nothing". He reads FBGs a good bit, and it's always under my name since every device in the house is logged in as me, but he's never gone into the GM thread before. Knowing his attention span though, I didn't panic, as I knew there would be no way he could get through page 2.Tonight, however, when I hit the little orange "take me to the newest post" square in this thread, it took me to posts a couple hours after I last checked in.

SHUT IT DOWN

It took me years to figure out what that little orange square was for.

Only about 8.5 months here.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Need GMTAN tipping advice here. There's a bar near where I often catch the train home. Knew the bartender there enough to say hey, never knew his name. A couple of weeks ago I am at our company holiday party and I run into him. Apparently his girlfriend does cater waiter work for us. So tonight I have 30 minutes to kill before my train. I go on and he's working. Order a beer and a shot of Jamo. He doesn't charge me. Then I order one more shot before leaving and he charges me $7 for the whole thing. What is the appropriate tip?

Be cool. Leave him the money you would have paid for the freebies. I wouldn't do this all the time, but I would then.ETA: on second thought, that might be overdoing it. I'd say a $5 would be very cool of you. $3 would be good.

 

[Thorn]

Need GMTAN tipping advice here. There's a bar near where I often catch the train home. Knew the bartender there enough to say hey, never knew his name. A couple of weeks ago I am at our company holiday party and I run into him. Apparently his girlfriend does cater waiter work for us. So tonight I have 30 minutes to kill before my train. I go on and he's working. Order a beer and a shot of Jamo. He doesn't charge me. Then I order one more shot before leaving and he charges me $7 for the whole thing. What is the appropriate tip?

5 or 6. You both make out.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

BTW Llama> FWIW, I got into a huge discussion/argument with an English prof about Tree of Life when it was out at theaters.

He absolutely loved it. I was ambivalent and argued against the movie (even though I respect what it tried to do).

 

[Tremendous Upside]

He left me two fives and three singles. I took one five back and left the rest as a tip. The way his smile lit up I think I will be getting hooked up here on the reg.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Lllama>maybe Real Steel is more your speed.

 

[Thorn]

He left me two fives and three singles. I took one five back and left the rest as a tip. The way his smile lit up I think I will be getting hooked up here on the reg.

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

IMPORTANT PSA!!!!! SERIOUSLY

Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT rent/watch "The Tree of Life". It is an absolute dog turd of a movie. I would go into details but it would get my blood a-boiling even more.

OH COME ON!@I have my reservations about it, but that middle section with the family was 100X better than 90% of the crap Hollywood is putting out.

No, no it wasn't. If there had been even a slight hint of a narrative or a plot or a conflict (other than 'daddy's kind of a jerk') or a theme or a story arc I might agree with you. But there wasn't any of those things. And that actually doesn't matter because the first 50 freaking minutes of the film (yes I checked the counter) was one big directorial "LOOK AT ME!" had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the movie.

Totally disagree. The narrative was pretty clear to me: the cosmic insignificance of life contra the emotional power of life. What the director was trying to do with that whole (ENDLESS!) galaxy/evolution scene was to posit this family in the grand scheme of things so that you can see, from a cosmic standpoint, their little drama meant ****. However, this is balanced by an incredibly powerful family drama (think of it as zooming in on this household) that shows how emotionally magical life really is. The narrative wasn't just Daddy issues - it was extremely Biblical in inspiration. Daddy is the builder, Mommy is the stay-at-home nurturer. You have the Cain & Abel conflict of the brothers. The distancing of the eldest brother from the father. The near dissolution of the family which, in the end, seems to bring them closer together. In fact, if there's a unified donnee to the thing, it's how death binds life closer. Um, or something like that. Also the end afterlife scene on the beach was awful. Such a great experiment of a movie that just didn't do what it hoped to do. But that family segment in the middle was fantastic, IMO.

My link

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

Lllama>maybe Real Steel is more your speed.

You're doing it wrong."I'm sure there's a new Rob Schneider movie coming out soon for you."

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Lllama>maybe Real Steel is more your speed.

You're doing it wrong."I'm sure there's a new Rob Schneider movie coming out soon for you."

maybe stick to sitcoms? I hear Rob Schneider has a new one that might be perfect for you.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

IMPORTANT PSA!!!!! SERIOUSLY

Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT rent/watch "The Tree of Life". It is an absolute dog turd of a movie. I would go into details but it would get my blood a-boiling even more.

OH COME ON!@I have my reservations about it, but that middle section with the family was 100X better than 90% of the crap Hollywood is putting out.

No, no it wasn't. If there had been even a slight hint of a narrative or a plot or a conflict (other than 'daddy's kind of a jerk') or a theme or a story arc I might agree with you. But there wasn't any of those things. And that actually doesn't matter because the first 50 freaking minutes of the film (yes I checked the counter) was one big directorial "LOOK AT ME!" had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the movie.

Totally disagree. The narrative was pretty clear to me: the cosmic insignificance of life contra the emotional power of life. What the director was trying to do with that whole (ENDLESS!) galaxy/evolution scene was to posit this family in the grand scheme of things so that you can see, from a cosmic standpoint, their little drama meant ****. However, this is balanced by an incredibly powerful family drama (think of it as zooming in on this household) that shows how emotionally magical life really is. The narrative wasn't just Daddy issues - it was extremely Biblical in inspiration. Daddy is the builder, Mommy is the stay-at-home nurturer. You have the Cain & Abel conflict of the brothers. The distancing of the eldest brother from the father. The near dissolution of the family which, in the end, seems to bring them closer together. In fact, if there's a unified donnee to the thing, it's how death binds life closer. Um, or something like that. Also the end afterlife scene on the beach was awful. Such a great experiment of a movie that just didn't do what it hoped to do. But that family segment in the middle was fantastic, IMO.

My link

This is good shtick. You should use it on your students come exam time.

 

[kevzilla]

I think Larry McTannersconch of Brixton would like The Artist. He hasn't really adapted to talkies either.

 

[BRONG]

Think I might go see this band tonight called Fartbarf. I almost have to.

Was still on the fence but yeah, I have to see these guys. Fartbarf.com. - Post-Neanderthal Analogue Synthesists

 

[Guster]

Well crap.

I don't know if this will help or hurt with the Guster crazyexes, but I wanted to say and for stepping up in the Great Secret Santa Debacle of 2011. Received this package in the mail today. No wonder GBGuster had to send it twice because it was returned the first time for insufficient postage!

The contents are going to ensure that the krista4 house and cars will be clean and fresh for a good long time. Have to say this is much more awesome for me than special brownies!

Our friend Guster is the bee's knees, as people of Tanner's age like to say.

You realize that's just all free crap he gets from work, right?

Haters gonna hate And some of that stuff was actually purchased, but ultimately it was more of a "it's the thought that counts" move

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Lllama>maybe Real Steel is more your speed.

You're doing it wrong."I'm sure there's a new Rob Schneider movie coming out soon for you."

maybe stick to sitcoms? I hear Rob Schneider has a new one that might be perfect for you.

Costarring Dane Cook.

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

IMPORTANT PSA!!!!! SERIOUSLY

Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT rent/watch "The Tree of Life". It is an absolute dog turd of a movie. I would go into details but it would get my blood a-boiling even more.

OH COME ON!@I have my reservations about it, but that middle section with the family was 100X better than 90% of the crap Hollywood is putting out.

No, no it wasn't. If there had been even a slight hint of a narrative or a plot or a conflict (other than 'daddy's kind of a jerk') or a theme or a story arc I might agree with you. But there wasn't any of those things. And that actually doesn't matter because the first 50 freaking minutes of the film (yes I checked the counter) was one big directorial "LOOK AT ME!" had absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the movie.

Totally disagree. The narrative was pretty clear to me: the cosmic insignificance of life contra the emotional power of life. What the director was trying to do with that whole (ENDLESS!) galaxy/evolution scene was to posit this family in the grand scheme of things so that you can see, from a cosmic standpoint, their little drama meant ****. However, this is balanced by an incredibly powerful family drama (think of it as zooming in on this household) that shows how emotionally magical life really is. The narrative wasn't just Daddy issues - it was extremely Biblical in inspiration. Daddy is the builder, Mommy is the stay-at-home nurturer. You have the Cain & Abel conflict of the brothers. The distancing of the eldest brother from the father. The near dissolution of the family which, in the end, seems to bring them closer together. In fact, if there's a unified donnee to the thing, it's how death binds life closer. Um, or something like that. Also the end afterlife scene on the beach was awful. Such a great experiment of a movie that just didn't do what it hoped to do. But that family segment in the middle was fantastic, IMO.

My link

This is good shtick. You should use it on your students come exam time.

Actually I read it. You make some good points but I'm not swayed. And the "biblical" part was so heavy-handed it was silly. From the opening monologue by the wife, to the sermon, to whatever it was comical. Hell, the dude's initials were J.O'B.

 

[Guster]

If Guster's exes thinks he's a drunk menace, I wonder what they think of SLB or Gadzooks, or Homer J. Simpson for that matter?

I've always thought Guster was pretty low on the totem pole of GMTAN drunks.

Also, countdown until Guster's Exes alias shtick...10...9...8...

I'd think there would be more interesting people to stalk than me. I'm generally harmless