toanoradian posted:

Aesop Poprock posted:

limited bathroom breaks

Len posted:

The day they limit bathroom breaks is the day the revolution starts.

Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime
That's why I poop
On company time

Also, "topsail"?

Data Graham posted:

I make it a point to poop on those scurvy scalawags manning the jib boom from my perch upon the topsail

Len posted:

I did have an experience a couple months back where I didn't check if there was tp before going and it turned out some monster killed the roll and didn't get a new one.

Monster. Literally Hitler for that one.

Besesoth posted:

One acre, one vote:





(“The tyranny of the majority” )

Bonus sour grapes:

Mak0rz posted:

Those swaths of empty land's votes are being ignored!

Shai-Hulud posted:

I once worked for Amazon. Picking stuff out of shelfs in one of their warehouses. You have a little hand scanner that tells you what to pick out of what shelf. Once my supervisor (he had some ridiculous title, Obersturmbannführer or something like that) came up to me and asked me why it took me five minutes to get from one shelf to the next one. They couldn't see me slacking of or anything, but the scanners measures how long you take between shelves and alerts the authorities when you take to long. I told him that its hot as gently caress in their warehouse so i need to drink litres of water so i need to take a piss every 30 minutes. The toilets were three floors down so it takes a couple of minutes. He was not satisfied with my answer but sadly i still reached my daily performance goals so they couldn't really do anything about it.
That was my Amazon toilet story. Thanks for listening. Namaste.

Joey Freshwater posted:

Holy stream of consciousness. So is "APP" and acronym or did she just forget to do Find/Replace with the name of the app?

Bobby Digital posted:

APPologize

Bobby Digital posted:

APPologize

belt posted:

Her name is Porche?

Por-cha?

Besesoth posted:

One acre, one vote:





(“The tyranny of the majority” )

Bonus sour grapes:

toanoradian posted:

toanoradian posted:

goose willis posted:

So you're saying I can have paid, trained Facebook employees view and verify my best Goatse impression?

quote:

This is the product of an "Angry Black Man" who came of age in the 60s/70s and happened to like Sword and Sorcery and Sci-Fi, but it was of course dominated by White men who tended to if they weren't openly droolingly racist to be at least rabidly non-PC by today's standards. So he wrote this, originally published in low print run 'zines in the "Underground" era, one story at a time. He liked Conan and Robert E Howard, just hated stories where blacks were slaves with filed teeth who some Hassan Sabbah clone has menacing a naked lady or roaming the streets at night looking for vagrants to eat alive. Later, he got printed by DAW for a few issues, the first collecting the scattered stories, with a cover that to try to sell his work compared his character to the character he made in opposition of, Tarzan... Actually the Burroughs estate literally SUED Daw to stop them saying "A Black Tarzan" on the cover, so they had to destroy a print run and re-print it. It was dropped after two or three issues. Oh, yeah, the first had a cover with essentially a Tarzan painted with Coppertone fighting some kind of Hippo monster, something NOT in the book!

Years later, he dusted off his character, re-wrote large parts and re-printed these through nightshade books. There's one aspect I almost subtracted a star over, but if you read the book it was because events in his book got too close to RL and he really felt he had to change over. But he continued the series and added new tales to it, a mature work that was good to begin with. IMO the original take was better, but let's not bash over that, the edit doesn't ruin it.

So, is it one of them "Durn PC junk let any non-white get a few books or a movie or two and rave he hates whitey..." PC drek?

Nope.

Here's a hint; I'm an "Angry White Man" who while I'd be the last person to wear a white suit with a pointy hat and commit hate crimes, truly hate "Political Correctness". Don't want to do a foaming rabid essay here, but long and short. I grew up reading pulps from a used bookstore in a small town, "Yellow Heat" from Creepy magazine, had piles of "Men's Adventure" in Grandpa's basement, then when I grew up the "PC Wave" slapped me in the face for how bland, pointless, dry it all was. "Global Village!? Try Global Sweatshop!" I'm working on my own neo-pulp project with tons of Sinister Orientals, Weird Fantasy, Men's adventure, sexism and tons of non-PC stereotypes. Not last, not least, "Filed teeth black cannibal savages" just as an "Up yours!" to PC. If Mr Saunders ever reads my stuff I'm sure he'll give an angry review with tons of "Ire and Brimstone" to use one of his own terms. I'm not promoting myself here, when it comes out, on it's own website, different name, pen name, etc. I only pointed this out to illustrate the different yet mirrored by social rage background, I was a kid in tie-dyed diapers when he was angrily publishing the first Imaro stories, but then screamed in rage as I grew up and could buy "New" stuff not just "used" stuff, but PC had hit.

Having said all that I loved this book. He is a wonderful storyteller. The story itself is a fantasy world where more or less;

1. Africa was left the F---- ALONE...
2. It's not just "Cush, land of savage cannibal tribes" like most fantasy writers portray it as, lots of different cultures, etc.
3. It is a "Sword and Sorcery" or rather "Sword and Soul" where there's magic, though "Several Sword Thrusts" still kill most of the wizards Conan style, it's low fantasy so no huge magical wonderland to hurt suspension of disbelief. But if you like Howard and Lovecraft and stuff, with a pref for "Heroic Fantasy" he's a good one.

I still prefer blacks in fantasy to be savage filed teeth cannibals the explorer has to fight through, or the occasional harem slave girl in the background, or the eunuch guarding them his muscular body holding the dressed down captive white woman in front of the lecherous Arab... But a good story of this level is rare and his writing is not that of a picked PC puppet. I am going to gradually get the next three books, Quest for Cush, Trail of Bohu and Naama war. He's also written some newer stuff, like Dossouye, which I also like, at least one short story in an anthology. In short I'm someone who really isn't a target of his books, but ended up reading from his stories and liked them a lot. I'm not racist, just rabidly anti-PC, but I can make exception for good storytelling and this isn't "PC" so to speak really, more above and beyond.

I hope some people don't take this review as trollish. I truly recommend his works to lovers of fantasy, sword and sorcery, etc.

Besesoth posted:

(“The tyranny of the majority” )

belt posted:

Her name is Porche?

Por-cha?