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Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Switchback posted:

Are scratch-and-sniffs dangerous?

First rule of toxicology - dose makes the poison.

Thankfully, the dose you get from occasionally sniffing a set of scissors isn't enough to do harm.

Sniffing scissors, on the other hand - putting metal blades up to your face? What could go wrong?

# ¿ Jul 24, 2018 18:19

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 01:54

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

I know I'd rather work dishpig than deal with the public. I did both when I was at uni and as lovely as cleaning dishes for 8-10 hours at a stretch is, retail is just the loving worst thing imaginable.

# ¿ Jul 27, 2018 14:32

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Len posted:

Huh that's illegal? Every place I've worked has stressed that it's against policy to ever tell your coworkers how much you make.

Hell my friend just got promoted to salaried management at the place we work and was flat out told "you make more than some of the other people in your position don't tell anyone how much you make"

Pssst, they were lying to him. He actually gets paid less.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2018 09:01

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Tiny catapult.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2018 18:59

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Away all Goats posted:

Basement Wife!

# ¿ Aug 1, 2018 09:19

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

comedyblissoption posted:

jesus storms the temple and blesses the money lenders and merchants for providing so much economic value and enabling the possibility of those in their profession to do more good than the teachers and doctors and common laborers

Didn't he also have something to say about the rich who donated a large amount of money, but a small percentage of their wealth versus a poor woman who donated her last shekel?

# ¿ Aug 1, 2018 09:20

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Prosperity gospel is a thing.

A loving disgusting thing.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2018 17:50

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Sentient Data posted:

It's even better than that. I did some backend dev work for the hiring department of a (huge) company a few years ago, and they believe that the tests are real. I was supposed to take the output of the test's API and have it do whatever based on results, and when it came time to test the system, the department's manager was horrified during the live demo when I asked if I should pass or fail the test. "That can't be cheated!"

Also, if you're bored and don't like the companies, take as many of those tests as you can. They're licensed from a third party and there's a per-applicant cost to taking it

I nearly lost a lab job once because of stupid loving tests like that. Apart from all the standard "would you turn over a turtle" ones, a few of the questions were maths based multiple choice (for a senior lab position :ughh:

) and for the very final question, all the options given were wrong.

A couple seemed likely, but there was a basic error in each where they'd confused some of the times codes for decimal values. E.g. 10:50 isn't ten and a half. So, I wrote out a big explanation on the test about why it was wrong and what the correct answer should be.

Because (a) I am that guy in real life and, (b) I thought it was some 4th dimensional chess poo poo and they wanted their staff to be able to spot errors and call them out.

Turns out, nope, the HR guy and the company who made the test just hosed up some basic level maths you'd expect a high school kid to be able to do. And boy, were they pissed about it.

HR binned my test and wrote that I had insulted the company (I said they were wrong!) and if I hadn't already known half the people who worked in the department I was shooting for, I never would have known about it.

And it wouldn't surprise me in the least if that test is still being used somewhere today :sigh:

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# ¿ Aug 14, 2018 14:35

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Moridin920 posted:

There was deffo an article about Australian Coast Guard ptsd as a result of finding tons of corpses in the water

What happens is a naval vessel gets a distress call from a refugee boat while patrolling in international waters. They radio back to HQ and get ordered to turn around and return to Australian waters.

Then, after the distress calls finally stop, they are allowed to return to the area. Any bodies they find died at sea in international waters and are therefore not Australia's responsibility.

There have been reports from the seamen of lines of bodies stretching for miles.

A bunch of us in the AusPol thread spent the longest loving time trying to find what is happening to the bodies being pulled out of the sea, but it's a black hole.

There is no official way to find out as the government refuses to comment on "on water" matters, both major parties are guilty as hell over this, and naval personnel are ordered not to say anything.

This is of course separate to the new law the government put in place making it punishable for up to two years in jail if you report on the abuses going on in the detention camps.

So, yeah, in contravention of centuries of naval tradition, RAN vessels ignore distress calls and wait for the people on board to drown because the current party in power's promise of "no refugee boats will make it to Australia" is more important that the lives of an unknown (and potentially forever unknowable) number of people looking to escape persecution and find a better life.

# ¿ Aug 17, 2018 16:36

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Bonzo posted:

Can we just pretended we had a 10 page derail on garlic peeling?

Never!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d3oc24fD-c&t=31s

# ¿ Aug 22, 2018 17:19

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

DrPossum posted:

this is my fave chart

That's a surprising number of people who don't drink.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2018 19:32

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Whenever I tell people I don't drink they look at me like I'm from the moon. Some get incredibly aggressive over it.

It's good to be able to put it into perspective that less than half of people drink more than once a week. And only 30% have more than 2 or so.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2018 19:51

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Elderbean posted:

A YouTuber who made way more money than people who actually contribute to society

I'm sorry, you're going to have to be more specific.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2018 09:49

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

ate all the Oreos posted:

I hope it's full of actual corn

Still better than the loving floor sweepings they've been using instead of real nuts for the last 20 years.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2018 16:06

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

A couple of election cycles ago, when Ex-Prime Minister Tony Abbott was still just a federal minister with a future he took out a $750,000 "cost of living" loan because the mere $330,000 he was making wasn't enough to get by.

# ¿ Aug 31, 2018 18:03

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Screaming Idiot posted:

FREE MARKET!

Tragedy and farce.

quote:

Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann pictured smoking cigars ahead of tough budget

Megillah Gorilla has issued a correction as of 03:53 on Sep 2, 2018

# ¿ Sep 2, 2018 03:51

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

World War Mammories posted:

wait wasn't this thread in gbs

Capitalism is politics :shrug:

C-SPAM is cooler than GBS anyway.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2018 19:29

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Allatum posted:

Stolen from YOSPOS, but fit here.

In case you can't see it - count the stars.

You're supposed to be marking out of 10 for the value you place on human life.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2018 13:15

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

SniperWoreConverse posted:

yeah click the pic to see the additional imagery

I wish there was a way to link the entire image from tweets because I hate visiting that stupid site.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2018 08:21

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

SpacePig posted:

And what's your job?

I'm aware of the original, but I can't remember the exact comeback to this one.

It's:

Oh, so you're self employed?

# ¿ Sep 13, 2018 07:39

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Imagine forcing your employees to use someone else's paid time off for any reason.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2018 13:07

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Moridin920 posted:

What if we make prostitution legal but then also brutally enforce trafficking laws and have them carry a life sentence?

Pick is right that in many countries where it is just out and out legal the trafficking problem gets worse but that's nearly always because the police just don't give a gently caress and think "lol sex workers who cares" and Eastern Europe is right next door.

In Australia, brothels are legal, but street walking is illegal. We even have brothel chains listed on the stock exchange.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2018 13:16

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

StashAugustine posted:

Tbh I'd probably make any hypothetical kids do service work to instill a healthy respect for the proletariat

You mean "instill a healthy hate for all humanity", surely?

# ¿ Oct 15, 2018 05:50

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

SniperWoreConverse posted:

The Iliad Project.

AKA Rediscover Botulinum toxin. "Wow, this stuff work great on all the test bacteria! It must be good for healthy!"

# ¿ Oct 20, 2018 13:50

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

DragQueenofAngmar posted:

I genuinely miss the days when Scooby Doo had the big reveal at the end of the episode and it was just some cruel, greedy white man out to hurt innocent people for his own gain.

And not a literal monster.

Just seems pointless now.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2018 12:34

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

The Let's Read of the book was hilarious, but I cannot imagine reading RP1 myself without tearing out my own eyeballs.

# ¿ Nov 1, 2018 15:24

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:

Doesn't that leggings MLM scam work as physical lootboxes? (They send you a random assortment of crap and you maybe sell the good stuff and end up keeping the trash.)

Start 'em young

# ¿ Nov 21, 2018 14:34

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Shame Boy posted:

Are those loving unboxing video playsets

Jesus christ I need to sit down to process some things

You can buy ones which are just boxes, no dolls.

Each box contains a single item. So, one pair of shoes, a hat, etc.

Didn't this poo poo just get shot down in video games, like, everywhere, just recently?

EDIT: This post can't be complete without the obligatory unboxing video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S3fjplHvi8

There are ones with guys doing it, but you can watch those yourself. I figure I'm on enough watchlists.

Megillah Gorilla has issued a correction as of 16:15 on Nov 21, 2018

# ¿ Nov 21, 2018 16:12

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Koishi Komeiji posted:

There's a lot of theories about why crime has dropped but I doubt it's this since youth being distracted by little colorful dopamine releasing things has been going on since toys and porn were invented.

I don't know if it's because of games, but the hordes of bored teenagers hanging around everywhere have all seemed to have evaporated in the last 20 years.

When I was a teenager in the 90s, all we'd do at night, every night, was roam listlessly about town and settle in lower areas like old rail tunnels and the shorefront like a cloud of slightly toxic heavier than air gas,

# ¿ Nov 22, 2018 05:42

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Bodyholes posted:

this is just the start

they're slowly conditioning the labor class to tolerate increasing levels of squalor. gradually they'll whittle it down to bangladeshi ghettos

Hong Kong cage apartments.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2018 05:14

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

DragQueenofAngmar posted:

oh my god I want that

seriously, at 8 hours of work I�m already drained enough to not do anything actually fun or meaningful in the rest of that day, let me just work til the limit and pass out and have 4 free days a week that rules

I'm doing a 4 day week at the moment with 9 hour shifts.

Having a 3 day weekend is incredible. I can't even express how that extra day relaxes you, I can get everything I need done in two days and have one where I just do nothing.

I initially wanted to get the few extra hours of 5/8, but at this point having an entire goddamn day for me is worth losing that little bit of pay.

Maximum 4 day work week should be mandatory.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2018 13:28

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

ACES CURE PLANES posted:

I'm pretty sure he's saying the exact opposite. And to be fair, attaching societal value to certain outfits is absolutely capitalist as hell, especially when the distinguished outfit tends to require more money to buy and upkeep.

So, he's asking why people aren't wearing their stained, smelly, torn work wear out to go shopping?

Which is just as stupid.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2018 05:06

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Coolness Averted posted:

The median us household makes <60k, and less than 39% of us have the savings to cover a 1k emergency, so nah, we are much closer to the homeless dude and really do fail to realize it. gently caress, in the only real research into eviction we've had in this country the median unpaid rent was sub $700. So yeah 10k is a distressingly transformative sum for way too many of us.

The median net worth of black Bostonians really is $8

# ¿ Jan 6, 2019 12:16

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

spacetoaster posted:

It sucks that stuff is built so shittily (designed to fail in many instances), but you can usually buy a metal replacement for the little plastic stuff that inevitably breaks.

I remember an apocryphal Henry Ford story I was told at uni where he travelled to junk yards all across America and would inspect any Ford cars which had been junked at each one and determine why they had broken down (read: crashed).

He found many causes: bad tyres, thrown rods in the engine, failed brakes. In fact, across all the cars across all of American just about everything in the cars broke at one time or another. Except the pins for the hood. In not a single case had they broken before the car was scrapped.

So Henry Ford went back to his factory and ordered his workers, "Use less metal in the hood pins."

The point of this story was to show what a wise business man Ford was and how he cut back on wastage. All I saw was he had ordered another way for his cars to kill people.

My lecturer really didn't like me pointing that out - it was a course on loving engineering ethics ffs.

EDIT: Okay, Henry Ford probably didn't call them "bonnets".

Megillah Gorilla has issued a correction as of 13:01 on Jan 7, 2019

# ¿ Jan 7, 2019 12:58

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Slugnoid posted:

Or take one for the team pay to go in, then just go hog wild.. piss on everything, clog the toilet, write out the internationale in poo poo on the mirror

You realise it's minimum wage people who will have to clean it up, right?

Your 'protest' will never make it past store management and they don't care either. It's not like they're going to clean the poo poo off the walls.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2019 04:58

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Moridin920 posted:

guaranteed that's not because ethics but rather a corporate branding decision. CVS can't market itself as a healthy friendly drugstore when they sell cigarettes.

quote:
In September 2014, CVS Health became the first national retail pharmacy chain to stop selling tobacco products in all of our stores because it conflicted with our purpose of helping people on their path to better health.

You could buy smokes at a loving pharmacy? In 2014?

And, from the quote, I'm guessing that other pharmacies still sell them?

loving hell, America. You never cease to amaze and horrify.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2019 10:40

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Shame Boy posted:

They're legally required to, but if they all went on strike at once what the hell are you gonna do, arrest them?

So, what exactly happens if one of them said, "I'm not coming in to work because I'm not getting paid"?

Arrest? Under what charge?

Are you allowed to quit? Do you get your back pay if you do?

Where are the Rand "universal healthcare is slavery for doctors" Paul types in all this?

As a not-American, this just all seems like loving lunacy.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2019 13:03

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Enfys posted:

I have one of these hiding under my desk at work:

Though mine has a padlock for the door and bolts to secure it to my desk so it's up off the ground.

It fits right at the back where you can't see it :ssh:

Megillah Gorilla has issued a correction as of 13:03 on Jan 22, 2019

# ¿ Jan 22, 2019 13:01

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

It keeps the thieving suits out of my lunch.

I have personally caught two upper level managements types stealing worker food and nothing happened to either.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2019 13:04

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 01:54

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Enfys posted:

That child has been taken hostage.

"$100 off you next bill."

loving hell, America.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2019 05:07

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