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You are here: Home / John Cole Presents "This Fucking Old House" / Open Thread

Open Thread

by John Cole|  May 4, 201710:10 pm| 128 Comments

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I’m in a shit mood. I had a virgin margarita, though, and that was pretty tasty.

Picked up some vases from ikea:

And my friend Danielle sent me an awesome herb wreath that smells so good:

Also STEVE HAS ZOMGLAZERSPEWPEWPEW:

Tomorrow I re-arrange the living room and put together this IKEA cabinet I got for the downstairs bathroom to store mops and brooms and swiffers.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    May 4, 2017 at 10:11 pm

    Yay! A civilized thread.

    #NoTrollsAllowed

  2. 2.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 4, 2017 at 10:14 pm

    Oh thank god.

    Your house looks awesome, JC! I would totally hang out there if my gay ass wasn’t presently boycotting places that are more than 35% republican.

  3. 3.

    eclare

    May 4, 2017 at 10:14 pm

    @Baud: Agree, do not take the bait! Ignore it.

  4. 4.

    Baud

    May 4, 2017 at 10:15 pm

    @eclare: Nah, Major Major Major Major is cool. He’s no troll.

  5. 5.

    amk

    May 4, 2017 at 10:15 pm

    @Baud: If wishes were horses …

  6. 6.

    Eljai

    May 4, 2017 at 10:16 pm

    The Bart Simpson doll is a nice touch.

  7. 7.

    ellie

    May 4, 2017 at 10:17 pm

    Me too. I kind of want to punch somebody.

  8. 8.

    Goku

    May 4, 2017 at 10:17 pm

    @Baud: #OnPainofDeath

  9. 9.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 4, 2017 at 10:18 pm

    @Baud: ehhhh.

  10. 10.

    Gin & Tonic

    May 4, 2017 at 10:19 pm

    I got the pins taken out of my arm today. Somehow I expected that to mean I’d be able to move it. Fuck, no. Practically zero motion and definitely non-zero on the pain as ligaments that have not moved in seven weeks complain about being woken up.

    Not happy.

  11. 11.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 4, 2017 at 10:19 pm

    I am still worried for the vases on the corner cabinet. Boss kitteh would have dispatched them to the floor, a long time ago. And then would have gotten his tail pouffy and bottle-brush like pretending that the vases were trying to kill him.

  12. 12.

    Brachiator

    May 4, 2017 at 10:19 pm

    And my friend Danielle sent me an awesome herb wreath that smells so good:

    No one sent a herb wreath with smokable items?

    Seriously, looks like a nice, comfortable place.

  13. 13.

    lamh36

    May 4, 2017 at 10:19 pm

    @JustinTrudeau
    These are the socks you’re looking for. #MayTheFourthBeWithYou
    #GuerreDesÉtoiles
    https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/860180458319073280

    That’s it, I’m moving to Canada…wait…does much of Canada have harsh winters???

  14. 14.

    Mnemosyne

    May 4, 2017 at 10:20 pm

    Virgin mojitos are also a delicious summer drink — basically, it’s limeade with a little mint.

    We’re getting ready for a big margarita party at work tomorrow, where we invite people from other offices. My boss’s husband makes the most amazing three-ingredient margaritas: decent tequila, Cointreau, and fresh-squeezed lime juice. But they’re so strong, you can only drink one, so we also have plenty of soda, sparkling water, and agua fresca.

    Oh, and my Mexican co-organizer of the party gets very annoyed by Cinco de Mayo parties, so we’re doing a “Star Wars” party with Latin flair. I have my Darth Vader sugar skull t-shirt washed and ready to wear.

  15. 15.

    Mnemosyne

    May 4, 2017 at 10:22 pm

    @lamh36:

    Move to Vancouver — their winters are like Seattle’s, not too bad.

    Avoid Montreal or anywhere in Quebec if you hate snow.

  16. 16.

    greennotGreen

    May 4, 2017 at 10:22 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I would have thought physical therapy would be in your future. Did your doctor not mention that?

  17. 17.

    Villago Delenda Est

    May 4, 2017 at 10:22 pm

    Tomorrow I re-arrange the living room and put together this IKEA cabinet I got for the downstairs bathroom to store mops and brooms and swiffers.

    Hilarity ensues

  18. 18.

    Gin & Tonic

    May 4, 2017 at 10:23 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Move to Vancouver

    Have to win the Powerball to do that.

  19. 19.

    Villago Delenda Est

    May 4, 2017 at 10:23 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: How we know the Earth is round: if it were flat, the cats would have pushed everything off the edge.

  20. 20.

    lamh36

    May 4, 2017 at 10:24 pm

    Trending hasghtag:
    #IAmAPreexistingCondition

    @halehawk
    I’m 5 mos old. Diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot.I’ll have heart surgery in a few weeks AND again when I’m older. #IAmAPreexistingCondition
    https://twitter.com/halehawk/status/860314005788913670

  21. 21.

    Gin & Tonic

    May 4, 2017 at 10:25 pm

    @greennotGreen: Physical therapy is in my past, present and future. I just thought the pin removal would be better than it was.

  22. 22.

    amk

    May 4, 2017 at 10:25 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: steve is too lazy to be an asshole.

  23. 23.

    JPL

    May 4, 2017 at 10:26 pm

    @greennotGreen: Good advice. hugs

  24. 24.

    lamh36

    May 4, 2017 at 10:27 pm

    Whiteness Matters More Than Jesus To White Evangelicals
    http://verysmartbrothas.com/whiteness-matters-more-than-jesus-to-white-evangelicals/

  25. 25.

    Steve in the ATL

    May 4, 2017 at 10:28 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    I would totally hang out there if my gay ass wasn’t presently boycotting places that are more than 35% republican

    sorry you had to cancel your vacation to Bakersfield

  26. 26.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 4, 2017 at 10:28 pm

    [email protected]
    The best summer drinks are to be had on India’s west coast.

    Panhe’ (from green mangoes)
    Nimboo Pani (Limeade with rock salt)
    Amrit Kokam

  27. 27.

    JPL

    May 4, 2017 at 10:28 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: I think that means the girl friend is coming again, but I’m just guessing.

  28. 28.

    Goku

    May 4, 2017 at 10:29 pm

    Nice digs Cole. Have fun with IKEA furniture. Real pain to put together. Or at least that’s the stereotype

  29. 29.

    lamh36

    May 4, 2017 at 10:30 pm

    @Mnemosyne: ooh…wait..will I have to learn the metric system…cause…hmmm…lol

  30. 30.

    Goku

    May 4, 2017 at 10:31 pm

    @lamh36: That Jesus feller was white and spoke english. The bible’s written in english and my pastor would never lie to me, libtard!

    /s

  31. 31.

    amk

    May 4, 2017 at 10:31 pm

    Feeding water to pigs is not a crime.

  32. 32.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 4, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    @lamh36: Metric, MKS system, SI is much easier than the archaic system used more commonly. Much easier to divide and multiply by 10 than other numbers.

  33. 33.

    Kropadope

    May 4, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    One of my videogame characters complained that all the winning was making him sleepy, i.e. tired of all the winning. It kind of put me off Xbox for the night.

  34. 34.

    debbie

    May 4, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    @Baud:

    Was it at least cathartic?

  35. 35.

    greennotGreen

    May 4, 2017 at 10:34 pm

    Update from me: Definitely weaker. Family accomplished a lot of administrative stuff today, turning over my mother’s affairs to my sister and my affairs to my nephew. Really cool thing that happened is my friend from Connecticut was in town to give a talk, and he was able to come by! It was so good to see him, and I even got to Facetime with his wife although we were limited by the fact that I live in the country and the signal here is not the best.

    I’ve got to sign off now. No more energy.

  36. 36.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 4, 2017 at 10:34 pm

    @JPL: Naked moping date, to inaugurate the new broom closet?

  37. 37.

    greennotGreen

    May 4, 2017 at 10:35 pm

    P.S. John, Steve is just scoping out which vases he wants to knock down first.

  38. 38.

    JPL

    May 4, 2017 at 10:35 pm

    @greennotGreen: Love you..

  39. 39.

    JPL

    May 4, 2017 at 10:36 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: I thought that, but I’m not sure the closet is close to the bathroom.

  40. 40.

    ArchTeryx

    May 4, 2017 at 10:36 pm

    One of these days, I’m going to have to convince our bloghost to try World of Tanks, if only so he can drive around making those sound effects as he effortlessly kills Reds. (Red being the color of the “enemy” team, rather then Russians; this is a game where it’s not at all unusual to find U.S., Russian and German tanks battling side by side. There’s something rewarding about giving the finger to history and having some tiny little Panzerkampfwagen recon tank scouting for Russian and U.S. heavies).

  41. 41.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 4, 2017 at 10:36 pm

    @lamh36: New Brunswick has warmer waters than Maine, plus nice beaches.

  42. 42.

    Omnes Omnibus

    May 4, 2017 at 10:37 pm

    @greennotGreen: All the best to you…

  43. 43.

    Alain the site fixer

    May 4, 2017 at 10:37 pm

    @greennotGreen: please do submit any pictures you might like to share of favorite places. I’m sure many would love to share that. I know I would!

  44. 44.

    Goku

    May 4, 2017 at 10:39 pm

    @Kropadope: What video game?

  45. 45.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 4, 2017 at 10:39 pm

    @greennotGreen: Good Night {{{ }}}

  46. 46.

    debbie

    May 4, 2017 at 10:39 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Yay, no more pins! Ligaments do tend to lock up. PT will get them going again.

  47. 47.

    Alain the site fixer

    May 4, 2017 at 10:42 pm

    @ArchTeryx: John loves World of Tanks; after all he’s a former tanker!

  48. 48.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 4, 2017 at 10:42 pm

    @JPL: Somethings are best not known.

  49. 49.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 4, 2017 at 10:46 pm

    @greennotGreen:

    Love and light.

  50. 50.

    Mnemosyne

    May 4, 2017 at 10:46 pm

    @greennotGreen:

    Thanks for stopping by. We are all thinking of you and your family right now.

  51. 51.

    ArchTeryx

    May 4, 2017 at 10:47 pm

    @Alain the site fixer: I know and that’s why I recommended it. World of Tanks is all the *fun* of driving tanks without getting locked in a tiny metal footlocker full of explosives on one side and diesel fuel on the other.

    (That’s how I’ve heard another Abrams tanker describe it, and based on what I’ve seen, the WW II era tanks must have been an order of magnitude *worse*).

    John’s welcome to ‘toon up with me any time. I’d LOVE tooling around with a RL tanker. ^.^

    (‘Sabot round! Fire!’)

  52. 52.

    lurker dean

    May 4, 2017 at 10:49 pm

    @greennotGreen: I’m glad you’re friend was able to visit! Hugs to you!

  53. 53.

    Kropadope

    May 4, 2017 at 10:49 pm

    @Goku: Halo Wars. It was one of the little Grunts in my army. They actually have some pretty funny banter in that game, but that line put me off.

  54. 54.

    efgoldman

    May 4, 2017 at 10:49 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Avoid Montreal or anywhere in Quebec if you hate snow.

    I suspect that within my daughter’s lifetime N’Awlinnns will be mostly underwater and uninhabitable, and Montreal’s weather will be more like, say, Charlotte, but with more rain.
    She’s 36.

  55. 55.

    Steve in the ATL

    May 4, 2017 at 10:49 pm

    @ArchTeryx: is it as good as Battle Zone? That’s the gold standard for tank warfare games.*

    *statement may be unreliable post 1981

  56. 56.

    Anya

    May 4, 2017 at 10:50 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: I am basically boycotting every single state that voted for Trump.

  57. 57.

    efgoldman

    May 4, 2017 at 10:50 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Hilarity ensues

    Yeah, my kid has assembled several Ikea things, and says they contravene the laws of physics.

  58. 58.

    Aleta

    May 4, 2017 at 10:51 pm

    @greennotGreen: Goodnight.

  59. 59.

    Anya

    May 4, 2017 at 10:52 pm

    I am more angry than despondent. I am ready to fight tho.

  60. 60.

    jl

    May 4, 2017 at 10:54 pm

    Thanks to Cole for the nice house and flower arrangement pics.
    But, one of the desks seems to have been installed upside down. Thought I ought to mention it to Cole, in case he hasn’t noticed.

  61. 61.

    Kropadope

    May 4, 2017 at 10:55 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:

    is it as good as Battle Zone? That’s the gold standard for tank warfare games.*
    *statement may be unreliable post 1981

    I can vouchsafe your statement up until at least 1987.

  62. 62.

    Goku

    May 4, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    @Kropadope: I can understand that.
    I’ve been a PlayStation guy. Never played a Halo game. Mostly either a racing game player or GTA. GTA 4 was the first GTA game I ever played. Easily the best video game in history in my opinion. Especially story and character-wise.

  63. 63.

    Ohio Mom

    May 4, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    @greennotGreen: Sounds like a day well-lived.

    Holding you in the light.

  64. 64.

    Aleta

    May 4, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    Tide and the River Rising

  65. 65.

    tobie

    May 4, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    @greennotGreen: just seeing your post made me cry for joy. Thank you for checking in.

  66. 66.

    Mnemosyne

    May 4, 2017 at 10:57 pm

    So I got a chance to see a preview of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 last night. If you liked the first one, you’ll really like it. It’s a hell of a lot of fun and has some good emotion in it, too.

    And Baby Groot is murderously adorable, like a baby otter.

  67. 67.

    ArchTeryx

    May 4, 2017 at 10:57 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: It’s a classic Multiplayer Online game. Free-to-play, so of course there’s lots of incentive to sink real money into it, but it’s generally worth it.

    The trolls and griefers, of course, are there as well, but the game’s pretty good about dealing with outright teamkillers, and “fail platoons” are now banned as well, so the griefers have a harder time ruining the fun.

  68. 68.

    Mnemosyne

    May 4, 2017 at 10:58 pm

    @Anya:

    Today is one of those days that makes me wish I’d kept up with kickboxing, though I never got very far anyway.

  69. 69.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 4, 2017 at 10:59 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: We will be setting up a Pay Per View streaming service to cover the event. We’ve branded it as Cole Vs Ikea Cabinet 1! 2 Enter, 1 Goes to the Emergency Room. We’ll be charging $29.95 and you can stream and restream the event all month long for no additional charge.

  70. 70.

    Steve in the ATL

    May 4, 2017 at 10:59 pm

    @ArchTeryx:

    The trolls and griefers, of course, are there as well, but the game’s pretty good about dealing with outright teamkillers, and “fail platoons” are now banned as well, so the griefers have a harder time ruining the fun.

    BRB–gonna run this through Google translate

  71. 71.

    Goku

    May 4, 2017 at 10:59 pm

    @Goku: Also played PC games more often for about a year before not having any time to do. Kerbal Space Program was my favorite one to play

  72. 72.

    Steve in the ATL

    May 4, 2017 at 11:01 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: put me down for $100 on the cabinet; don’t care what the spread is (but it’s got to be mustard, right?)

  73. 73.

    Kropadope

    May 4, 2017 at 11:01 pm

    @Goku:

    I can understand that.
    I’ve been a PlayStation guy.

    Ew. How do you deal with that shitty controller?

    GTA 4 was the first GTA game I ever played. Easily the best video game in history in my opinion. Especially story and character-wise.

    Oh, games with inherently floaty controls. Makes sense, I guess. I want to like GTA, I really do. Can’t get there. There’s no open world game of that type better than the Batman: Arkham Asylum series (Asylum, City, Origins, Knight)

  74. 74.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 4, 2017 at 11:01 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Since Cole’s a Democrat now, does this mean the dogs and Steve are all Republicans?

  75. 75.

    Omnes Omnibus

    May 4, 2017 at 11:01 pm

    @Mnemosyne: We.Are.Groot.

  76. 76.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 4, 2017 at 11:05 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Berserker Baby Groot!!!!

  77. 77.

    ArchTeryx

    May 4, 2017 at 11:06 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Well, trolls and griefers are pretty self-exclamatory. “Fail platoons” were someone of a very low tier pairing up with higher tiers, specifically to wreck the team’s chances. Now only same tiers can pair up, assuring at least a modicum of fairness. (Artillery platoons were banned as well, but that’s REALLY getting into inside baseball).

  78. 78.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 4, 2017 at 11:07 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Will do.

  79. 79.

    rikyrah

    May 4, 2017 at 11:08 pm

    Picked up some vases from ikea:

    never really thought I’d ever read these words in relation to you, Cole. :)

  80. 80.

    Yarrow

    May 4, 2017 at 11:09 pm

    @greennotGreen: Thinking of you. Glad you are able to have some nice times.

  81. 81.

    Goku

    May 4, 2017 at 11:09 pm

    @Kropadope: Hey, you can’t argue with GTA 4’s commericial success. It’s sold more than 25 million copies. I was complimenting it’s story and characters more than it’s controls or even graphics.

  82. 82.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 4, 2017 at 11:10 pm

    @greennotGreen: We’re keeping good thoughts.

  83. 83.

    Steve in the ATL

    May 4, 2017 at 11:10 pm

    @ArchTeryx:

    Well, trolls and griefers are pretty self-exclamatory. “Fail platoons” were someone of a very low tier pairing up with higher tiers, specifically to wreck the team’s chances. Now only same tiers can pair up, assuring at least a modicum of fairness. (Artillery platoons were banned as well, but that’s REALLY getting into inside baseball).

    BRB–gonna run this through Google translate

  84. 84.

    Mnemosyne

    May 4, 2017 at 11:12 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    @Adam L Silverman:

    I’m not giving much away when I tell you that one of the scenes in the final credits has the one thing that’s even funnier than Baby Groot: Sullen Teenager Groot.

  85. 85.

    Corner Stone

    May 4, 2017 at 11:13 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Please tell me there will be in-streaming options to purchase “mops and brooms and swiffers” to restock the cabinet during the match.

  86. 86.

    Alain the site fixer

    May 4, 2017 at 11:13 pm

    @ArchTeryx: I’d crew. Good at games but such team-based coordination means I’d try to be a good cog. Let someone else lead, drive, and shoot lol

  87. 87.

    Goku

    May 4, 2017 at 11:14 pm

    @ArchTeryx: Reminds of team killing. Funny on YouTube videos. Not so funny when it happens to you

  88. 88.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 4, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    @Corner Stone: Of course.

  89. 89.

    efgoldman

    May 4, 2017 at 11:16 pm

    @Kropadope:

    There’s no open world game of that type better than the Batman: Arkham Asylum series (Asylum, City, Origins, Knight)

    Kid, who used to review video games for a living, loves Mass Effect and is now in Andromeda. Me? I could barely handle Tetris in the old days. Reaction time is too slow

  90. 90.

    Elizabelle

    May 4, 2017 at 11:17 pm

    @greennotGreen: Great to see you here. Rest up.

    I’m sure your friend (and his wife) were thrilled to see you, too.

    Hoping tomorrow will be a good day for you.

  91. 91.

    Corner Stone

    May 4, 2017 at 11:17 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Will there also be a pre-match auction where the highest bidder gets to hand draw build instructions? TBH, even the most Lex Luthor mofo could not provide more diabolical design drawings than what comes with the furniture.

  92. 92.

    efgoldman

    May 4, 2017 at 11:18 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    does this mean the dogs and Steve are all Republicans?

    All cats are RWNJ Republiklown assholes by definition.
    Dogs are Machine voters, swaying with the wind of whoever feeds them.

  93. 93.

    Alain the site fixer

    May 4, 2017 at 11:19 pm

    @Alain the site fixer: we really should setup a BJ guild and gaming group. For all games, not just one. So many of us play. I know I get functional every morning by logging in and playing a few multiplayer games of Call Of Duty on my Xbox.

    It helps get certain parts of my brain to body interface going much better than more passive efforts. It would be a hoot to play with some other BJ folks and the same goes for pc based games in the pm/evening, depending on life schedules, of course.

  94. 94.

    Corner Stone

    May 4, 2017 at 11:19 pm

    I have to be honest. I am a little uncomfortable with an intelligent and determined young black male being my “dividend”.

  95. 95.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 4, 2017 at 11:20 pm

    @Corner Stone: I think BettyC is in charge of hand drawing stuff around here. I try to stay out of her lane.

  96. 96.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 4, 2017 at 11:20 pm

    @efgoldman: I’ve never had a cat.

  97. 97.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 4, 2017 at 11:21 pm

    @Alain the site fixer: We could just wire your slippers to give you electric shocks… That’ll get you running in the AM.

  98. 98.

    ms_canadada

    May 4, 2017 at 11:21 pm

    @lamh36: Not in the Banana Belt of Southern Ontario. Same latitude as Northern California

  99. 99.

    Alain the site fixer

    May 4, 2017 at 11:22 pm

    @efgoldman: my cats are way too poetic and suave to be RWNJ. Clearly lefties, perhaps, maybe, possibly libertarian. But I do keep them supplied with as much weapons-trade catnip as they want. Like a small bowl on the floor they can dig into whenever they want. So perhaps I’m just seeing their better side, being their grower and pusher! Lol

  100. 100.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 4, 2017 at 11:23 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I was referring of course to West Virginia.

  101. 101.

    Alain the site fixer

    May 4, 2017 at 11:24 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: that wouldn’t help with the coordination. I find I’m very clumsy when I first am awake and playing shortens the period and the degree of clumsiness.

  102. 102.

    hedgehog mobile

    May 4, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    @greennotGreen: Hugs.

  103. 103.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 4, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Okay, it wasn’t clear.

  104. 104.

    Anya

    May 4, 2017 at 11:26 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I am glad I didn’t encounter any “there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Democrats and Republicans,” or anyone who didn’t vote for Hillary. I was that angry but I channelled it into signing up for volunteering and donating. But I think today was the day for kickboxing.

  105. 105.

    ms_canadada

    May 4, 2017 at 11:27 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: New Brunswick has hellish winters with tonnes of snow. Summer is beautiful, though.

  106. 106.

    mdblanche

    May 4, 2017 at 11:27 pm

    Reading about the local election results in the UK ahead of next month’s snap general election as they come in. And I thought American progressives were having a bad day.

  107. 107.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    May 4, 2017 at 11:27 pm

    From San Diego up to Maine,
    In every mine and mill,
    Where workers fight and organize,
    It’s there you find Joe Hill

    Like so many of trump’s “victories” since he started, today’s will be pyrrhic coated in a cheeto-like dust only to blow up in his face later.

  108. 108.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 4, 2017 at 11:33 pm

    @Alain the site fixer: Progressively stronger electrical shocks?

  109. 109.

    Timurid

    May 4, 2017 at 11:34 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Move to Vancouver — their winters are like Seattle’s, not too bad.

    But the rents will have you longing for Mother Russia…

  110. 110.

    Millard Filmore

    May 4, 2017 at 11:36 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Metric, MKS system, SI is much easier than the archaic system used more commonly. Much easier to divide and multiply by 10 than other numbers.

    Not so! Where I went to college they had no problem measuring the speed of light in a vacuum (C) as leagues per week, plus or minus the furlongs per fortnight.

  111. 111.

    Mike J

    May 4, 2017 at 11:40 pm

    @Timurid:

    But the rents will have you longing for Mother Russia…

    So like Seattle then?

  112. 112.

    Steeplejack

    May 4, 2017 at 11:44 pm

    @greennotGreen:

    White light and peace to you.

    Pharoah Sanders, “Astral Traveling.”

  113. 113.

    Quinerly

    May 4, 2017 at 11:51 pm

    @greennotGreen:
    Late to the thread. Thanks so much for piping in. Was thinking about you today. Sending sweet thoughts.

  114. 114.

    Mnemosyne

    May 4, 2017 at 11:54 pm

    @Timurid:

    I live in Los Angeles. No rent scares me.

  115. 115.

    Elizabelle

    May 4, 2017 at 11:55 pm

    @Thor Heyerdahl:

    Like so many of trump’s “victories” since he started, today’s will be pyrrhic coated in a cheeto-like dust only to blow up in his face later.

    I think so too. We have to help make that happen. And remove as many Republicans from Congress and the statehouses as is possible.

  116. 116.

    Kropadope

    May 5, 2017 at 12:01 am

    @Goku: Yeah, I may have been slightly lashing out cuz my own favorite game is rubbing Trump in my face.

    @efgoldman: The original Mass Effect trilogy was my favorite RPG ever. Compelling decisions and consequences. Tight shooting controls from the second game on. I’ve been dragging my feet on Andromeda tho.

  117. 117.

    laura

    May 5, 2017 at 12:03 am

    @greennotGreen:
    Sleep tight. (((Hug))).

  118. 118.

    John Cole

    May 5, 2017 at 12:04 am

    @ArchTeryx: Shoot me an email.

  119. 119.

    laura

    May 5, 2017 at 12:13 am

    @Adam L Silverman: As soon as read: ” and put together this IKEA cabinet I got for the downstairs bathroom to store mops and brooms and swiffers,” I reckoned there was going to be a tale well worth anticipating. There could be mustard, naked mopping, catbutt scrubbing, cursing the joys of the allen wrench, and not enough dibbits or snerz to hold the thing together, a vast array of potential injuries and Thurston will insist on helping or running off with the last dibbit or snerz.

    I can’t wait for the report, even if I can’t get the pay per view.

  120. 120.

    Adam L Silverman

    May 5, 2017 at 12:30 am

    @laura:

    Oh, wonder!
    How many goodly creatures are there here!
    How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
    That has such people in ’t!

  121. 121.

    J R in WV

    May 5, 2017 at 12:33 am

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Jesus, dude, didn’t you know that getting the pins out means you get to start 8 weeks of agonizing physical therapy>??? My brother had a bone infection in his finger after an accident while cleaning a deer with a V sharp kniife. Many antibiotics, followed by surgery (plastic surgeons mostly do hand surgery, so many tiny fiddly bits)to scrape the scar tissue off the tendons.

    Once the scars from the surgery healed, I drove him to PT for his first appointment.

    I could see him down the hall, pretty therapist took his finger and bent it as far as she could, and bro turned white. First bend of the finger in a couple of months.

    So you will bend and move your hand and arm, and it will hurt. Ignore the pain, take the meds, do the exercises. PT will work if you do it hard.

    Keep up the exercises forever, too. Best of luck.

  122. 122.

    Mnemosyne

    May 5, 2017 at 12:40 am

    @laura:

    G endeared himself to the neighbors in our new apartment by voluminously cursing when he discovered he had assembled an IKEA bookcase backwards.

    I found this out when I introduced myself to said neighbor and got the side-eye and a comment about how my husband should close the windows while he’s working because there are kids living in the building.

  123. 123.

    workworkwork

    May 5, 2017 at 12:42 am

    @Alain the site fixer: I figured cats were anarcho-libertarians myself.

    I was feeling pretty crappy this afternoon but while watching some Justice League Unlimited to calm myself down, I caught this exchange (paraphrased) when the group found themselves in a seemingly un-winnable situation:

    Character 1: “What do you do when you have the weight of the whole world on your shoulders?”
    Character 2: “Plant your feet.”

    For some reason, I felt better. Of course, this was the show I watched while I was recovering from surgery last year.

  124. 124.

    burnspbesq

    May 5, 2017 at 1:38 am

    @Gin & Tonic:

    The “fun” starts when the pins come out. Hope your dominatrix–err, therapist– is cute.

  125. 125.

    J R in WV

    May 5, 2017 at 2:18 am

    My dom was a – is a really funny irishman just chatting we laugh more than as Steve Colbert. but then he hauled my arm back as far as he could, until I squeeked pretty hard, he let up a smidge, and then held it there for 35 seconds, and eased it back out of the pain field.

    And I was on pain meds anti spasmodics, and NSAIDS all to handle the PT, following the post op pain meds. I still use some pain meds, the arthritis doesn’t stop because two joints got fixed, the other 202 joints are still getting more sore as I go along.

    But Dave and I still laughed hard, and lost count of reps, so I did as many as I could, and he stretched my shoulders out as far as he could with harming me.

    Oooouch. but that’s what helps cure the problems. Shame he wasn’t my kind of cute. The cute ones don’t tend to be hard core: know all the tendons by name, and which ones are important for a given injury. That’s the kind of PT you really need coming back from a big injury.

    My worst was when I had bought a hay field, paid for it in the field. The cutting and baling was all scheduled, when my back went out, seriously. My Dr sent me to a good PT shop, where I told them I had aggravated a chronic injury and needed to be over it by Saturday (This was on Tuesday IIRC). They put a TENS unit on my pulled muscles in my lower back, put wet heat on top of that, and then hooked belts around under my shoulders and around my hips, for pulsing tension on what hurt.
    \
    When the 45 minute session of traction, heat and stimulation was over, the young girl unhooked me from the equipment and two of them helped me stand up and to walk out into the lobby. I tool two hydrocodones in order to be able to walk to my truck. The next day the same thing, not quite as debilitating. The third day I thought for the first time that I was going to be able to pick up 300 bales of hay onto the truck, and unload them into my barn loft. I also eased off to one pain pill.

    I haven’t had that bad a back injury in 25 years. One less severe, with better, calmer treatment. Now I can feel it tighten up, and I know to stretch and relax and take it easy.

  126. 126.

    TenguPhule

    May 5, 2017 at 5:24 am

    @Mnemosyne: Hawaii’s will.

  127. 127.

    Delanli

    May 5, 2017 at 9:22 am

    @greennotgreen,

    Great to hear from you. Strength to you!

  128. 128.

    gbbalto

    May 5, 2017 at 11:29 am

    @greennotGreen: Keeping you in my thoughts

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