GM's thread about nothing (44 Viewers)

[T Bell]

Holy ####. I just learned that Texas A&M and Texas are currently the #1 and #3 ranked teams in the nation in college Quiddich. And then someone sent me a link to

 

[Frostillicus]

My daughter just made the cut to move up to her gymnastic schools competitive team. She won't be competing yet, but she'll be going to events with the girls who compete. She'll now be taking classes two nights a week instead of one. She's not even five yet. I'm very proud, but everything is happening so fast.

Congrats? This is one of those intense sports where girls practice like 4 hours a day every day at a young age.

Yeah. Congrats? are definitely in order.

 

[shuke]

Holy ####. I just learned that Texas A&M and Texas are currently the #1 and #3 ranked teams in the nation in college Quiddich. And then someone sent me a link to

What the hell is all this now?

 

[-fish-]

Holy ####. I just learned that Texas A&M and Texas are currently the #1 and #3 ranked teams in the nation in college Quiddich. And then someone sent me a link to

Texas has gone gay.

 

[shuke]

4 hours of interviews over 5 sessions with ten people. They put me up in a Portland hotel with all charges paid. How many drinks should I charge to the room?

Do you want the job?

Probably not, but not positive. Need to hear the offer.

I suppose it goes without saying that if you know you don't want the job, to just do something legendary

I would need more people. The hotel bar is empty. I suppose I could cab it and bring some strippers back.

You could stick your #### in the mashed potatoes.

I use that line a lot. And one of these days I'm going to stick my #### in the mashed potatoes right from the start instead of waiting to find out what kind of party it's going to be.

See profile

Wait, we can post status updates here?

 

[charvik]

Is there anything to do in the business district of Portland? How far to the closest gentlemen's club? I'm bored and just slightly buzzed.

downtown Portland on the corner of SW 4th and Stark

 

[strykerpks]

Congrats Guster

Ungood job update, they had already filled the position and never took the job posting down But they're keeping my resume on file. So I've got that going for me. My link

 

[Britney Spears]

I'm a little embarrassed at how much I'm enjoying these stupid goat videos

I should probably be embarrassed that I still like Livin on a Prayer.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

I don't know why, but

You're up in timdraft.

Keep that #### out of here.

Draft reminders are helpful sometimes.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

I don't know why, but

You're up in timdraft.

Keep that #### out of here.

Draft reminders are helpful sometimes.

Sleeping on it

 

[General Malaise]

4 hours of interviews over 5 sessions with ten people. They put me up in a Portland hotel with all charges paid. How many drinks should I charge to the room?

All of them.

This guy gets it. Which hotel?

 

[General Malaise]

4 hours of interviews over 5 sessions with ten people. They put me up in a Portland hotel with all charges paid. How many drinks should I charge to the room?

All of them.

GM>drinks on me

Man, I wish. Wife's boss is in town, so I had to race home and grab my boys from school at 3, then over to the lady's house who takes care of Hazel, then home to dish out snacks, feed baby and crack the whip on homework. Then I had to take Coop to basketball practice by 5, with the baby, but minus Kellen, who at 10 is ***OFFICIALLY*** old enough to say home by himself for short periods of time, which he loves because he can watch Storage Wars without interruption. Then it was back home, had to talk to the vet about the dog that bit my nephew (saga not over), say hi to wife, give her two tickets to Portland/Denver game, head back out to pick Coop up from practice, take him over to his mom's, race home, relieve wife of Hazel, bid them farewell to the Blazer game, crack open a PBR, chug, then take Hazel with me to a 7pm coaches meeting for soccer that goes on and on and on in a nondescript building next door to a Bingo parlor that looks like a home to ex-cons. Hazel on queue (cue?) bleated like a goat after an hour +, so it was out the door, back to my ex-wife's to pick up Coop because she can't keep him for the night, back home, make some cracker sandwiches, arm twist Coop to work on his science fair project, bathe Hazel, feed Hazel, finish the PBR I opened 4 hours prior and then check the Cake draft to find out Shuke blew us off. I feel like Henry Hill in Goodfellas, only without all the cocaine, drugs and cool car.tl; dr, cat and also this.Hey Unialias, go get that vasectomy I recommended at Coshole when you thought I was just grunting.

 

[General Malaise]

GM, I haven't forgotten about the payment for the YSR baby bet and your secret prize.

I thought we were starting a fund for Little Romorita to go to Poker School when she's older?

 

[General Malaise]

Is there anything to do in the business district of Portland? How far to the closest gentlemen's club? I'm bored and just slightly buzzed.

the what? never heard of that in my life.

 

[General Malaise]

LMAO at 0:47 - 0:51

 

[General Malaise]

Is there anything to do in the business district of Portland? How far to the closest gentlemen's club? I'm bored and just slightly buzzed.

downtown Portland on the corner of SW 4th and Stark

 

[Aerial Assault]

I don't know why, but

You're up in timdraft.

Keep that #### out of here.

Drafts: a sore subject.

 

[UniAlias]

4 hours of interviews over 5 sessions with ten people. They put me up in a Portland hotel with all charges paid. How many drinks should I charge to the room?

All of them.

GM>drinks on me

Man, I wish. Wife's boss is in town, so I had to race home and grab my boys from school at 3, then over to the lady's house who takes care of Hazel, then home to dish out snacks, feed baby and crack the whip on homework. Then I had to take Coop to basketball practice by 5, with the baby, but minus Kellen, who at 10 is ***OFFICIALLY*** old enough to say home by himself for short periods of time, which he loves because he can watch Storage Wars without interruption. Then it was back home, had to talk to the vet about the dog that bit my nephew (saga not over), say hi to wife, give her two tickets to Portland/Denver game, head back out to pick Coop up from practice, take him over to his mom's, race home, relieve wife of Hazel, bid them farewell to the Blazer game, crack open a PBR, chug, then take Hazel with me to a 7pm coaches meeting for soccer that goes on and on and on in a nondescript building next door to a Bingo parlor that looks like a home to ex-cons. Hazel on queue (cue?) bleated like a goat after an hour +, so it was out the door, back to my ex-wife's to pick up Coop because she can't keep him for the night, back home, make some cracker sandwiches, arm twist Coop to work on his science fair project, bathe Hazel, feed Hazel, finish the PBR I opened 4 hours prior and then check the Cake draft to find out Shuke blew us off. I feel like Henry Hill in Goodfellas, only without all the cocaine, drugs and cool car.tl; dr, cat and also this.Hey Unialias, go get that vasectomy I recommended at Coshole when you thought I was just grunting.

Will have to decide how to use my HSA funds in a year or two on either a vasectomy or LASIK. Leaning towards the vasectomy. And because reading that giant paragraph I was actually picturing the Goodfellas scene. So awesome.

 

[-fish-]

Surprisingly effective line that probably only works in Portland: "mind if I join you? The only other person here is some guy with a man purse."

 

[Crazy Canuck]

LMAO at 0:47 - 0:51

Well he's got a point: it's a hell of lot more interesting than a stamp collection.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Surprisingly effective line that probably only works in Portland: "mind if I join you? The only other person here is some guy with a man purse."

Why aren't you ransacking gentlemen's clubs with GM right now? You two would be like a raging Four Loco party, a perfect storm of amphetamine mania and dedicated alcoholica.ETA: Nevermind. I was hippling and missed GM's post.

 

[T Bell]

LMAO at 0:47 - 0:51

 

[Abraham]

Austin has passed a ban on "single use" bags (plastic grocery bags). Then they turned around and granted exemptions to pretty much every supermarket and grocery store in town. Good use of funds and time, fellas.

 

[T Bell]

Austin has passed a ban on "single use" bags (plastic grocery bags). Then they turned around and granted exemptions to pretty much every supermarket and grocery store in town. Good use of funds and time, fellas.

Pasadena's done the same thing, both paper and plastic, though you can pay $.10 to get one at the point of sale. I've been using the nylon ones for years as they hold more and are sturdier, and I hate making multiple trips from the parking garage to the apartment via the elevator.

 

[guru_007]

I have been using nylon bags for years too, and it always bugs me when I need to run out to the store for something and forget to bring one with me. To be honest, I wouldn't mind paying a small 'tax' for a plastic bag (even though I recycle these also). I almost always refuse bags if I don't have one with me.

 

[Guster]

LMAO at 0:47 - 0:51

Right after that part I was when the DVD player flashes "LOAD" a couple times in a row :2oz:

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Congrats Guster

Ungood job update, they had already filled the position and never took the job posting down But they're keeping my resume on file. So I've got that going for me. My link

Well that sucks. :(

GM, I haven't forgotten about the payment for the YSR baby bet and your secret prize.

I thought we were starting a fund for Little Romorita to go to Poker School when she's older?

ANOTHER WIN FOR MILOSH!!!

Surprisingly effective line that probably only works in Portland: "mind if I join you? The only other person here is some guy with a man purse."

Austin has passed a ban on "single use" bags (plastic grocery bags). Then they turned around and granted exemptions to pretty much every supermarket and grocery store in town. Good use of funds and time, fellas.

I hate those ####### things with a passion.

 

[T Bell]

I have been using nylon bags for years too, and it always bugs me when I need to run out to the store for something and forget to bring one with me. To be honest, I wouldn't mind paying a small 'tax' for a plastic bag (even though I recycle these also). I almost always refuse bags if I don't have one with me.

Yeah, I reuse too. I even bought one of those "socks" that holds old plastic bags because they're so useful, e.g. lunch bags for work, putting kid's clothes in to return to T Bell-ex, etc. My stash is running out!

 

[Crazy Canuck]

I have been using nylon bags for years too, and it always bugs me when I need to run out to the store for something and forget to bring one with me. To be honest, I wouldn't mind paying a small 'tax' for a plastic bag (even though I recycle these also). I almost always refuse bags if I don't have one with me.

We use them sometimes, but I have a wood burning stove and paper bags are the perfect fire starter. I always want explain this to the disgusted faces of our hippy grocery clerks when I ask for paper, but never do. Call it masochism or schadenfreude or just plain being a ####, but it cracks me up when they're convinced I'm out to piss on the world with my paper grocery bags.

 

[T Bell]

I have been using nylon bags for years too, and it always bugs me when I need to run out to the store for something and forget to bring one with me. To be honest, I wouldn't mind paying a small 'tax' for a plastic bag (even though I recycle these also). I almost always refuse bags if I don't have one with me.

We use them sometimes, but I have a wood burning stove and paper bags are the perfect fire starter. I always want explain this to the disgusted faces of our hippy grocery clerks when I ask for paper, but never do. Call it masochism or schadenfreude or just plain being a ####, but it cracks me up when they're convinced I'm out to piss on the world with my paper grocery bags.

Tell them you need them to light your cigars.

 

[Brony]

LMAO at 0:47 - 0:51

 

[Crazy Canuck]

I have been using nylon bags for years too, and it always bugs me when I need to run out to the store for something and forget to bring one with me. To be honest, I wouldn't mind paying a small 'tax' for a plastic bag (even though I recycle these also). I almost always refuse bags if I don't have one with me.

We use them sometimes, but I have a wood burning stove and paper bags are the perfect fire starter. I always want explain this to the disgusted faces of our hippy grocery clerks when I ask for paper, but never do. Call it masochism or schadenfreude or just plain being a ####, but it cracks me up when they're convinced I'm out to piss on the world with my paper grocery bags.

Tell them you need them to light your used motoroil

 

[Angry Beavers]

It seems like everybody in here is a lawyer. Any sales people at all? I know y'all sell in one way or another but actually going out and drumming up new business?

Ok - I actually am a lawyer, but I also do B2B sales - prospecting can be a #itch.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Holy ####. I just learned that Texas A&M and Texas are currently the #1 and #3 ranked teams in the nation in college Quiddich. And then someone sent me a link to

My cousin played that at CMU and always talked about it. I knew it was based on Harry Potter (which I haven't seen a full movie of or read) but I didn't realize how incredibly lame it actually was. They run around with brooms up their ###? That's for hazing, not for sport.

 

[Thorn]

COlin> for my birthday my dad gave me the SI swimsuit edition and an argyle sweater vest.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

4 hours of interviews over 5 sessions with ten people. They put me up in a Portland hotel with all charges paid. How many drinks should I charge to the room?

All of them.

GM>drinks on me

Man, I wish. Wife's boss is in town, so I had to race home and grab my boys from school at 3, then over to the lady's house who takes care of Hazel, then home to dish out snacks, feed baby and crack the whip on homework. Then I had to take Coop to basketball practice by 5, with the baby, but minus Kellen, who at 10 is ***OFFICIALLY*** old enough to say home by himself for short periods of time, which he loves because he can watch Storage Wars without interruption. Then it was back home, had to talk to the vet about the dog that bit my nephew (saga not over), say hi to wife, give her two tickets to Portland/Denver game, head back out to pick Coop up from practice, take him over to his mom's, race home, relieve wife of Hazel, bid them farewell to the Blazer game, crack open a PBR, chug, then take Hazel with me to a 7pm coaches meeting for soccer that goes on and on and on in a nondescript building next door to a Bingo parlor that looks like a home to ex-cons. Hazel on queue (cue?) bleated like a goat after an hour +, so it was out the door, back to my ex-wife's to pick up Coop because she can't keep him for the night, back home, make some cracker sandwiches, arm twist Coop to work on his science fair project, bathe Hazel, feed Hazel, finish the PBR I opened 4 hours prior and then check the Cake draft to find out Shuke blew us off. I feel like Henry Hill in Goodfellas, only without all the cocaine, drugs and cool car.tl; dr, cat and also this.Hey Unialias, go get that vasectomy I recommended at Coshole when you thought I was just grunting.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

It seems like everybody in here is a lawyer. Any sales people at all? I know y'all sell in one way or another but actually going out and drumming up new business?

Ok - I actually am a lawyer, but I also do B2B sales - prospecting can be a #itch.

I thought you were a lawyer. Had me all excited there for a minute. <_<

4 hours of interviews over 5 sessions with ten people. They put me up in a Portland hotel with all charges paid. How many drinks should I charge to the room?

All of them.

GM>drinks on me

Man, I wish. Wife's boss is in town, so I had to race home and grab my boys from school at 3, then over to the lady's house who takes care of Hazel, then home to dish out snacks, feed baby and crack the whip on homework. Then I had to take Coop to basketball practice by 5, with the baby, but minus Kellen, who at 10 is ***OFFICIALLY*** old enough to say home by himself for short periods of time, which he loves because he can watch Storage Wars without interruption. Then it was back home, had to talk to the vet about the dog that bit my nephew (saga not over), say hi to wife, give her two tickets to Portland/Denver game, head back out to pick Coop up from practice, take him over to his mom's, race home, relieve wife of Hazel, bid them farewell to the Blazer game, crack open a PBR, chug, then take Hazel with me to a 7pm coaches meeting for soccer that goes on and on and on in a nondescript building next door to a Bingo parlor that looks like a home to ex-cons. Hazel on queue (cue?) bleated like a goat after an hour +, so it was out the door, back to my ex-wife's to pick up Coop because she can't keep him for the night, back home, make some cracker sandwiches, arm twist Coop to work on his science fair project, bathe Hazel, feed Hazel, finish the PBR I opened 4 hours prior and then check the Cake draft to find out Shuke blew us off. I feel like Henry Hill in Goodfellas, only without all the cocaine, drugs and cool car.tl; dr, cat and also this.Hey Unialias, go get that vasectomy I recommended at Coshole when you thought I was just grunting.

 

[Thorn]

Got my first LinkedIn request from a FBG.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Damn it anyway. I was supposed to be taking a marketing guy out to lunch ant one of my favorite restaurants at 11:00 and he just canceled saying he had "car trouble". Sure. I'm as tight as a drum here and was really looking forward to this. Going for a massage at 2 instead.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Got my first LinkedIn request from a FBG.

I joined in 2008 because a client friend requested me or whatever. It has picked up steam the last few months. I finally added a pic a couple of nights ago. Curse this big fat head.

 

[cosjobs]

I have been using nylon bags for years too, and it always bugs me when I need to run out to the store for something and forget to bring one with me. To be honest, I wouldn't mind paying a small 'tax' for a plastic bag (even though I recycle these also). I almost always refuse bags if I don't have one with me.

We use them sometimes, but I have a wood burning stove and paper bags are the perfect fire starter. I always want explain this to the disgusted faces of our hippy grocery clerks when I ask for paper, but never do. Call it masochism or schadenfreude or just plain being a ####, but it cracks me up when they're convinced I'm out to piss on the world with my paper grocery bags.

If only they knew you were going to convert them to airborne pollution.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Got my first LinkedIn request from a FBG.

I joined in 2008 because a client friend requested me or whatever. It has picked up steam the last few months. I finally added a pic a couple of nights ago. Curse this big fat head.

I had an imposter on there. They only had like 14 connections, but they were all people I knew. It took LinkedIn a month to get back to me on it, but it's deleted now.Actually, it's not deleted. They emailed me and said it was being resolved but the fake is still there.

 

[proninja]

It seems like everybody in here is a lawyer. Any sales people at all? I know y'all sell in one way or another but actually going out and drumming up new business?

Used to be.

 

[St. Louis Bob]

Got my first LinkedIn request from a FBG.

I joined in 2008 because a client friend requested me or whatever. It has picked up steam the last few months. I finally added a pic a couple of nights ago. Curse this big fat head.

I had an imposter on there. They only had like 14 connections, but they were all people I knew. It took LinkedIn a month to get back to me on it, but it's deleted now.Actually, it's not deleted. They emailed me and said it was being resolved but the fake is still there.

That's sucks.Just a request from here and one from a client right after making that post. Maybe I should be utilizing it more.How do I utilize it more?

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

My daughter just made the cut to move up to her gymnastic schools competitive team. She won't be competing yet, but she'll be going to events with the girls who compete. She'll now be taking classes two nights a week instead of one. She's not even five yet. I'm very proud, but everything is happening so fast.

Think of it this way: you get into football (seriously) at 14 or 15 and you're done at 35. Girls get into gymnastics at 4, sure, but they're done at 18.

Yes. Like sex.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

It seems like everybody in here is a lawyer. Any sales people at all? I know y'all sell in one way or another but actually going out and drumming up new business?

You don't sell the steak...you sell the sizzle!Does that help?

 

[Aerial Assault]

Got my first LinkedIn request from a FBG.

I joined in 2008 because a client friend requested me or whatever. It has picked up steam the last few months. I finally added a pic a couple of nights ago. Curse this big fat head.

I had an imposter on there. They only had like 14 connections, but they were all people I knew. It took LinkedIn a month to get back to me on it, but it's deleted now.Actually, it's not deleted. They emailed me and said it was being resolved but the fake is still there.

That's sucks.Just a request from here and one from a client right after making that post. Maybe I should be utilizing it more.How do I utilize it more?

Sorry, Leeroy. Their security is not the best and I know of someone else who was in your shoes, but they got it straightened out. As for how to utilize it more, posting updates, joining groups, adding connections and linking to industry-relevant content seem to be the best ways that I've been able to detect. Just having a profile has only gotten me a couple of referrals but posting, say, an article about somethihng on point with a few sentences/paragraph/whatever of commentary drives people to your profile and increases the chances of something happening.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

I have been using nylon bags for years too, and it always bugs me when I need to run out to the store for something and forget to bring one with me. To be honest, I wouldn't mind paying a small 'tax' for a plastic bag (even though I recycle these also). I almost always refuse bags if I don't have one with me.

We use them sometimes, but I have a wood burning stove and paper bags are the perfect fire starter. I always want explain this to the disgusted faces of our hippy grocery clerks when I ask for paper, but never do. Call it masochism or schadenfreude or just plain being a ####, but it cracks me up when they're convinced I'm out to piss on the world with my paper grocery bags.

If only they knew you were going to convert them to airborne pollution.

Burning wood is airborne pollution now?

 

[Tiger Fan]

It seems like everybody in here is a lawyer. Any sales people at all? I know y'all sell in one way or another but actually going out and drumming up new business?

I'm a buyer in a procurement organization (B2B). I can't stand most sales people, but really learn to appreciate the good ones.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Hey Bob...do you sell rolls of laminating sheets? I came into the workroom this morning and found this.

Looks like someone turned the machine on to warm it up but also hit "go" or "laminate" or whatever before walking away. I guess when they came back to see what looks like 40 feet of laminated sheets with nothing in between them they just took off.