The Random Thoughts Thread

Spaceman Spiff · Post by **Spaceman Spiff** » Thu Dec 21, 2017 10:52 am

scumdevils86 wrote:
Spaceman Spiff wrote:I'm really done with Christmas music.
pfft I could listen to Mariah Carey's xmas albums on repeat for months

I got to listen to country Christmas songs in the bathroom of Rudy's BBQ in Chandler this week. I could have skipped that.

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 1:07 am

Wife goes out drinking with friend and comes home, I get crazy laid

I go out drinking friends and come home, I end up eating a tortilla, some precut salami, and end up message boarding.

Talk about double standards

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 5:57 am

CalStateTempe wrote:Talk about double standards

To their men: “Don’t look at me! I put on three pounds this month. I’m hideous...”

To their friends: “Why doesn’t he ever look at me anymore? Am I that hideous? He probably thinks I’m fat because I put on three pounds this month. What a pig...”

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:28 am

Spaceman Spiff wrote:
scumdevils86 wrote:
Spaceman Spiff wrote:I'm really done with Christmas music.
pfft I could listen to Mariah Carey's xmas albums on repeat for months
I got to listen to country Christmas songs in the bathroom of Rudy's BBQ in Chandler this week. I could have skipped that.

I was station surfing the other day in my truck, and a C&W Christmas song came on about this kid rushing into a shoe store, and the kid was saying his mother is dying and won't last the day, and wants to have some nice shoes when she meets Jesus.

So the shoe store owner gave the kid the shoes in the spirit of Christmas.

It's no wonder I dislike C&W music. But probably has to do more with all the acts looking and sounding the same.

catgrad97 · Post by **catgrad97** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:33 am

Chicat wrote:
CalStateTempe wrote:Talk about double standards
To their men: “Don’t look at me! I put on three pounds this month. I’m hideous...”

To their friends: “Why doesn’t he ever look at me anymore? Am I that hideous? He probably thinks I’m fat because I put on three pounds this month. What a pig...”

This explains so much about Twitter.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:35 am

Merkin wrote:
Spaceman Spiff wrote:
scumdevils86 wrote:
Spaceman Spiff wrote:I'm really done with Christmas music.
pfft I could listen to Mariah Carey's xmas albums on repeat for months
I got to listen to country Christmas songs in the bathroom of Rudy's BBQ in Chandler this week. I could have skipped that.
I was station surfing the other day in my truck, and a C&W Christmas song came on about this kid rushing into a shoe store, and the kid was saying his mother is dying and won't last the day, and wants to have some nice shoes when she meets Jesus.

So the shoe store owner gave the kid the shoes in the spirit of Christmas.

It's no wonder I dislike C&W music. But probably has to do more with all the acts looking and sounding the same.

That's actually a Christian song - you just heard some C&W cover.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/christmas ... ve-to-hate

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:39 am

UAEebs86 wrote:
That's actually a Christian song - you just heard some C&W cover.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/christmas ... ve-to-hate

That's it! Looks like a Hallmark movie.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:41 am

I hate that song.

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:53 am

Me too.

I has hate the "Christmas" version of hallelujah. Complexly devoid of the pathos that makes the original so great.

But that's what fundys do, the strip the Bible to its most literal form, losing the messages that are held in the metaphors.

Spaceman Spiff · Post by **Spaceman Spiff** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 5:52 pm

Merkin wrote:
Spaceman Spiff wrote:
scumdevils86 wrote:
Spaceman Spiff wrote:I'm really done with Christmas music.
pfft I could listen to Mariah Carey's xmas albums on repeat for months
I got to listen to country Christmas songs in the bathroom of Rudy's BBQ in Chandler this week. I could have skipped that.
I was station surfing the other day in my truck, and a C&W Christmas song came on about this kid rushing into a shoe store, and the kid was saying his mother is dying and won't last the day, and wants to have some nice shoes when she meets Jesus.

So the shoe store owner gave the kid the shoes in the spirit of Christmas.

It's no wonder I dislike C&W music. But probably has to do more with all the acts looking and sounding the same.

The irony is she's dying because she couldn't get out of the way of a DUI driver due to the old shoes she was wearing. If her son had done this a day ago, his mother wouldn't be dead.

The moral is basically "too little, too late."

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 6:54 pm

Jesus....

Is that what people are listening to in the Real America? Ain’t nothin’ happy about that holiday.

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Fri Dec 22, 2017 9:17 pm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j5iyV7N5jvI" target="_blank

Can't embed on my smart phone but this is a brilliant take down by Patton oswalt for the Christmas shoes

Spaceman Spiff · Post by **Spaceman Spiff** » Mon Dec 25, 2017 11:12 am

It's odd hearing ODB's Shimmy Shimmy Ya as backing music for commercials.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Dec 29, 2017 7:21 am

gumby · Post by **gumby** » Wed Jan 03, 2018 9:37 pm

Thinking of changing screen name to Triangle of Secrecy.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Tue Jan 09, 2018 2:47 pm

Not a political post (wrong board, I know), but I think Elizabeth Warren is kind of sexy. In our evolved parlance, "sexy" can only refer to a 1980's woman-empowering view of another, usually much older and powerful woman from a heterosexual, and in fact non-sexual, perspective, thereby undermining every man's understanding of "hot" (or not). Therefore, I'm right.

BearDown89 · Post by **BearDown89** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 3:28 pm

It really comes down to three types of television commercials these days:

1. Use these drugs to enjoy an awesome life of bicycle rides and farmers' markets (subject to a lawyer's laundry list of possible side effects);
2. If you've ever used this drug, had this medical procedure or otherwise seen a doctor, please call our law firm immediately because you may be entitled to compensation; and
3. Things Shaq is pimping.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:06 pm

BearDown89 wrote:It really comes down to three types of television commercials these days:

1. Use these drugs to enjoy an awesome life of bicycle rides and farmers' markets (subject to a lawyer's laundry list of possible side effects);
2. If you've ever used this drug, had this medical procedure or otherwise seen a doctor, please call our law firm immediately because you may be entitled to compensation; and
3. Things Shaq is pimping.

This is because marketers have woken up to the fact that television is a deep dark pit of misery that you throw bushels of money down for no apparent reason.

And that people who are sick do watch it, and Shaq can still move product.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 6:02 pm

Chicat wrote:
BearDown89 wrote:It really comes down to three types of television commercials these days:

1. Use these drugs to enjoy an awesome life of bicycle rides and farmers' markets (subject to a lawyer's laundry list of possible side effects);
2. If you've ever used this drug, had this medical procedure or otherwise seen a doctor, please call our law firm immediately because you may be entitled to compensation; and
3. Things Shaq is pimping.
This is because marketers have woken up to the fact that television is a deep dark pit of misery that you throw bushels of money down for no apparent reason.

And that people who are sick do watch it, and Shaq can still move product.

And because marketers may cause frequent bowel movements and an inability to control them.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:05 pm

Anyone around the Campbell and Prince/Fort Lowell area hear a large, echoing explosion like sound about 2 or 3 minutes ago? Shook my whole house. ASUHATER who lives a half mile away heard it too.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:10 am

Is Burt Reynolds still a famous person?

BearDown89 · Post by **BearDown89** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:13 am

Longhorned wrote:Is Burt Reynolds still a famous person?

You cannot un-famous The Bandit.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:21 am

And cannot forget the awful Cannonball Run II movie filmed in Tucson. Never saw Burt around town, but saw plenty of the film crew around.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 9:26 am

Longhorned wrote:Is Burt Reynolds still a famous person?

AKA Turd Ferguson.

UAtrue · Post by **UAtrue** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:23 pm

Merkin wrote:And cannot forget the awful Cannonball Run II movie filmed in Tucson. Never saw Burt around town, but saw plenty of the film crew around.

In '83 or maybe early '84 I was walking to campus from my apartment at Speedway and Country Club, limping from a sprained ankle and Dom Deluise stopped to give me a ride to school. Only time I've knowingly met a movie star.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 7:00 am

UAtrue wrote:
Merkin wrote:And cannot forget the awful Cannonball Run II movie filmed in Tucson. Never saw Burt around town, but saw plenty of the film crew around.

In '83 or maybe early '84 I was walking to campus from my apartment at Speedway and Country Club, limping from a sprained ankle and Dom Deluise stopped to give me a ride to school. Only time I've knowingly met a movie star.

All the details, please. Thank you in advance.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 7:46 am

On a related note, Dom has or had family in Tucson. His sister worked at a bank my mother in law worked at. Have a picture some where of him with my wife's family around 1965

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 8:32 am

I get confused between which is Dom Deluise and Chef Prudhomme.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Feb 22, 2018 2:29 pm

Just got off the phone with the dean of students at my son's high school. Apparently he was gluing pennies to the floor and watching other students trying to pick them up.

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Thu Feb 22, 2018 2:39 pm

azgreg wrote:Just got off the phone with the dean of students at my son's high school. Apparently he was gluing pennies to the floor and watching other students trying to pick them up.

Lmao! Like father like son?!?

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Thu Feb 22, 2018 2:57 pm

CalStateTempe wrote:
azgreg wrote:Just got off the phone with the dean of students at my son's high school. Apparently he was gluing pennies to the floor and watching other students trying to pick them up.
Lmao! Like father like son?!?

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Feb 22, 2018 3:05 pm

azgreg wrote:Just got off the phone with the dean of students at my son's high school. Apparently he was gluing pennies to the floor and watching other students trying to pick them up.

People actually pick up pennies?

I used to have to glue quarters to the sidewalk in order to try to get people to pick them up.

BearDown89 · Post by **BearDown89** » Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:14 am

I like to think Giada is a wildcat in the sack . . .

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:32 pm

My wife just signed me up to be assistant coach on my kids summer tot soccer team...

“But you like soccer”

“I like to watching soccer and play pick up, big difference between that and coaching.”

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:49 pm

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Wed Apr 04, 2018 10:03 pm

CalStateTempe wrote:My wife just signed me up to be assistant coach on my kids summer tot soccer team...

“But you like soccer”

“I like to watching soccer and play pick up, big difference between that and coaching.”

The fact that your kid is that old now makes me feel old...

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:22 am

CalStateTempe wrote:My wife just signed me up to be assistant coach on my kids summer tot soccer team...

“But you like soccer”

“I like to watching soccer and play pick up, big difference between that and coaching.”

I used to coach my kids in different sports as they were growing up.

Absolute worst part is the parents. This is rec ball, non-competitive, non-club. Parents take it so much more seriously than the kids do.

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:27 am

That’s what I’m dreading: that some Dad thinks his 4yo daughter is the next USWNT Star and is gonna be all over my let’s just run around and have fun style.

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Thu Apr 12, 2018 11:42 am

When discussing with wife how I jacked up my car, it didn’t help things when I mentioned that the radiator isn’t technically part of the engine and to look at the silver lining...

“Well in my world anything under the hood is the engine”

I kinda had to bite my inner cheeks to keep from laughing at that one.

Spaceman Spiff · Post by **Spaceman Spiff** » Thu Apr 12, 2018 12:08 pm

The fact that some white sorority girls got kicked out for singing along with the N word in Lil Dicky and Chris Brown's "Freaky Friday" just proves the truth of the joke in the song that leads to the use of the word.

That word gets used with the joke being the body switching allows the white guy to indulge the secret desire to use that word. Then these girls go and prove it up by singing along. It's like the joke crossed the Fourth Wall.

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 8:39 am

Anyone have any idea on how Youtube tracks it's video views? Does merely clicking to the page count? Does a certain amount of the video have to play (20%)? Or does the whole video have to complete?

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 7:40 am

I've shared an office with a guy for over three years. He quit and didn't tell anybody. Today was his last day and he didn't say bye to anybody. Who does that?

BearDown89 · Post by **BearDown89** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 7:49 am

azgreg wrote:I've shared an office with a guy for over three years. He quit and didn't tell anybody. Today was his last day and he didn't say bye to anybody. Who does that?

A disgruntled lunatic. Head on swivel Greg!

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 9:10 am

CatsbyAZ wrote:Anyone have any idea on how Youtube tracks it's video views? Does merely clicking to the page count? Does a certain amount of the video have to play (20%)? Or does the whole video have to complete?

A view is anything that lasts more than 15 seconds. For videos that are shorter than that, just clicking play is considered a view.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 9:42 am

BearDown89 wrote:
azgreg wrote:I've shared an office with a guy for over three years. He quit and didn't tell anybody. Today was his last day and he didn't say bye to anybody. Who does that?
A disgruntled lunatic. Head on swivel Greg!

Found out why he was angry today and just left. His anniversary date is this Sunday and on Monday he would have got his PTO. Since he said today was his last day the company won't pay those 2 weeks PTO he would have got.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 9:44 am

azgreg wrote:
BearDown89 wrote:
azgreg wrote:I've shared an office with a guy for over three years. He quit and didn't tell anybody. Today was his last day and he didn't say bye to anybody. Who does that?
A disgruntled lunatic. Head on swivel Greg!
Found out why he was angry today and just left. His anniversary date is this Sunday and on Monday he would have got his PTO. Since he said today was his last day the company won't pay those 2 weeks PTO he would have got.

I agree with BD89. I'd take the next two weeks off.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Apr 27, 2018 10:21 am

We had an employee who came over from another firm in town. His wife was pregnant when he came over, and after a couple of months of him working here she had their baby. He took the 6 weeks paid paternity leave that is given to employees here that does not count against sick or vacation time.

While he was on his 6 week paternity leave, he decided to go back to his old company.

But took the entire 6 weeks at full pay, just never came back.

Good for him!

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri May 18, 2018 6:11 pm

Just went $3200 in debt ordering tile.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Fri May 18, 2018 6:54 pm

azgreg wrote:Just went $3200 in debt ordering tile.

Yeah, but think of the $500 in value you added to your home!

I’m not helping, am I.......

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri May 18, 2018 7:08 pm

Chicat wrote:
azgreg wrote:Just went $3200 in debt ordering tile.
Yeah, but think of the $500 in value you added to your home!

I’m not helping, am I.......

Not really, no.

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