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- bklyndroobeki0
How/why do people describe their work as a "gig"
- cause you need dance for your money. move those feet primate.yurimon
- because they fancy themselves artists********
- Not sure. (*Freelance)
maybe cuz i'm surrounded by musicians and artist...pango - ah ... an "artist" thing...bklyndroobeki
- seen it often here, thought it was just colloquial for work..mekk
- I say it, but I work in music (business) and your managing mainly. All my projects/clients are separated into release cycles.shellie
- *tour managingshellie
- ^ makes total sensebklyndroobeki
- A gig is a gig is a gig is a gig...pango
- Gnash1
another weed dispensary opened down the street from me -- that makes 4 now in a 5 block stretch. Not only that, but there's also vape store every 3 blocks. wtf.
- they replaced my favorite breakfast restaurant into a dispensary as well... :|pango
- How do they still make money if they have competition at every next corner?Maaku
- not sure...
how does Starbucks make any money?pango - there is more legal places to buy weed than there is to buy liquor in Oregon. Its a fact.fooler
- astronomically high profit margins, as long as the dea doesn't step on you and seize everything you own it's a no brainer cash cow********
- I hear growers end up with tons of unsold product. Demand only goes so far.monospaced
- Buy that fucker out********
- With all of your unlimited wealth, why don't you buy them out.********
- There are now more weed dispensaries than yoga studios and Starbucks here.see_thru
- they're popping up like nail salons. and they're about as well designed. ridiculous logos, cobbled together fixtures and signage. total amateur hour.Gnash
- Bennn1
You remember ello, that social network made by hipsters thinking they would take the World and put down Facebook?
They started spamming my inbox recently with 1 or 2 emails everyday.
I just said bye to ello. I deleted my account. No more spam.
MULTI_FAIL, ello!
- I'm holding out to see how desperate they get.i_monk
- they've turned into a tumblr copycat. tumblr is already there and doing petty well.Bennn
- what were they spamming you about? their service or something else?bklyndroobeki
- "Here are x elloers doing y" and "check out these hot gifs from elloers" and other content-push.i_monk
- awfulbklyndroobeki
- content push, exactly. Trying to make me reconnect to their service. It made me delete my account. They failed.Bennn
- PonyBoy4
We are the 50.
- ********1
Correction, we are the 35.
I have it from reliable sources that they took down the multi user troll a month ago. QBN couldn't be better since.
- ********-5
A couple months back I got a free Fitbit from work for filling out some health survey. All I had to do was log in 30 consecutive days and lie about how healthy I am and – voila – a Fitbit shows up at my door.
When it arrived my wife – as many wives do – immediately asked if she could have it. It took me all of half a second to reply: “I just lied about how healthy I am to get free shit. Do you think I’m actually going to use something that encourages exercise? No thank you.”
Little did I know that silly little wrist band was going to turn my wife into an insane person.
For starters, she’s always in these challenges with her friend to see who can get the most steps in during the day. As a result, it’s not uncommon for me to go to bed and find my wife standing next to our bed in her underwear marching in place. Foreplay, you ask? No, she’s just trying to pound out 500 more steps before she hits the hay.
Ah yes, “Steps,” a currency in my household which is now more valuable than money. I’ll come home from work and ask her how her day was and she’ll just convert her answer into steps.
“I had 8,000 steps in before lunch!”
I of course have no idea what this means.
If it was a particularly easy day for her I’ll have to go into the backyard to talk to her because she’ll just be walking circles around the fence like an overanxious dog.
Eventually her Fitbit addiction grew so much that she upgraded to a model that also records your heart rate and monitors your sleep. Now each morning I’m greeted with a synopsis of her previous night’s sleep.
“I slept six hours and 42 minutes and was restless 14 times for 22 minutes. How did you sleep?”
“I slept like a fucking bear.”
Unexpectedly, though, I started to get an urge to try out a Fitbit for myself. I started to wonder how many steps certain activities would be like playing basketball in the morning or going to the fridge every commercial while watching football. Well, for that one I wouldn’t need a Fitbit. I’d need a Fatbit.
So last Friday I broke down and went out and bought one, completely disregarding the original free one I earned in favor of the same model my wife has. And like any guy, I didn’t immediately want to go for a jog or hike up a mountain to get my steps in. No, I had a much more entertaining physical activity in mind:
“I want to see how many steps I take having sex!”
At that point, my wife got 25 extra steps just walking away from me.
But like a true workout partner, she eventually let me satisfy my curiosity in what can only be described as the greatest Kinesiology experiment man has ever undertaken. And when it was over, I quickly pulled out my phone to check my stats.
“What the hell?!? It says I only took 23 steps!”
“That’s actually pretty good,” my wife replied, “Most guys can’t walk that far in 12 seconds.”
I shot her an angry glance. “What about you? How many steps did it say you took?”
“Well, it doesn’t look like I took any steps,” she said, “But it did say that I slept for two minutes and was restless seven times.”
- Too funny! I can tell you that folding laundry pays off big time with it. 2 hours this week equalled 7500 steps!********
- standup comedian material to build on you have thereBennn
- Standup comedian material that was blatantly cut-and-pasted from the internet:
http://www.bigfunnyb…garbage - God, you are boring.garbage
- https://media4.giphy…********
- c'mon drake, you can do better than thismonospaced
- Don't let us down bro, we're counting on you.********
- This is why ppl don't believe in aliens.Maaku
- LOL Maaku. So pertinent!********
- BWAHAHA********
- Yurimon/Drake/Drumpf... your copy'n'paste BS is pathetic. Get a job. And stop trolling QBN with your nonsense. Thank you!chukkaphob
- Yurimon/Drake/Drumpf... and don't respond. This ain't a convo anymore. You're on permanent ignore mode. Boring the hell out of us with your shite. Ciao!chukkaphob
- coming from chukkaphob, who's been up for SPAM deletion thrice.********
- @drake, what are you talking about, no he hasn't! Don't act like you know how anything here works.monospaced
- Tldr... What did I miss?pango
- @monospaz check THE SPAM thread dude********
- you dumbass, did you really call me monospaz? you've been up for spam more than him, if you're going by that stupid ass thread logicmonospaced
- Oh pipe down monospaz********
- look at this newbie, coming in talking to people like he has some sort of understanding, so cutemonospaced
- spazmono frequency... turn it off********
- Pathetic troll, are you still making up stories for attention?********
- Drumpfcunt STFU********
- @mono
So in your opinion he is not an alternate account? Because he's been accused of that as well.******** - the irony in you calling me a spaz is overwhelmingmonospaced
- i actually don't think he's an alt account... just a very sad cry for attention... o_opango
- a gig is a gig is a gig is a gig....pango
- Too funny! I can tell you that folding laundry pays off big time with it. 2 hours this week equalled 7500 steps!
- nb1
So, the real question I have is: Why the hell would Drake make up that story about the fire? What's the point? Why lie?
It makes no sense to me.
- it's not a fucking lie, I was fucking around with the actual date, to spice up the blog and it worked!********
- Answer: ALIENS********
- Oh, you lied about the date, but expect us to believe you about the story?nb
- You get caught lying on a relatively anonymous forum, which means there's no way for us to believe anything you say from now on.nb
- Drake is the gift that keeps on giving.********
- you also completely fabricated/lifted the whole fitbit post... complete liemonospaced
- attention, the poor little chap wants it.********
- I think it's safe to assume he probably didn't paint any of those paintings in the Recent Work thread, either.nb
- I believe he painted those for some reasonmonospaced
- anonymous forum is right, hence the who gives two shits. It's pure entertainment and if you can't see that you've got problems or no life********
- I got 99 problems but QBN aint one!capn_ron
- drake-von-drake is just an attention whore.
burning house on a design forum is still
unwanted content unless it's scarabin's flat (he has some serious shit)sted - scarabin? O)))((((O********
- it's not a fucking lie, I was fucking around with the actual date, to spice up the blog and it worked!
- Moderator27
Drake:
You need to get a hold of yourself. You're veering into legitimate spam/troll territory with these copy/pasted posts with no context, presented as truth or something original you. It took all of 10 seconds to find the origin of the FitBit post below. This isn't amusing or interesting to anyone here. You might be pumping your fist at getting a rise out of people, but you are all alone in doing so.
Consider yourself warned that if you continue to do this, your account will be closed. You are not nearly as entertaining or important to this site as you think you are.
- Wait, I didn't know there were rules? Plus, I see some awfully nasty things coming out of the mouths of "regulars." Is there a handbook? No offense.********
- Can you please define importance? Who is "important" to this website exactly?********
- Pathetic troll, are you still making up stories for attention?********
- Drumpf, drumpf, drumpf... I see you pop up again, each time I post, meaning you are either monospaz, utopian, etc. etc. it's very clear to see.********
- I'm not anyone else.monospaced
- Get a hold of yourself.monospaced
- at least you answered to monospaz, there's hope for your condition********
- When are you going to post your "I'm leaving QBN" tantrum thread? We all know it's coming.monospaced
- If drake's posts don't interest anybody here why has he been in the front page these last 48 hours?********
- because bad notoriety is the same as good heremonospaced
- Yes. And I take full responsibility for contributing to the discussion on his posts and upvoting them. I was part of it, I'm not complaining.********
- Most of us are nearing or over 40 with 10+ years of experience on this site. If there's any fooling around going on it's only us fooling ourselves.********
- right... well I wouldn't ever create a fake account just to troll this community, that's just shittymonospaced
- I don't think you're being accused of that mono. Like you said, almost everybody here knows you well. You are part the original community.********
- As a community it is our responsibility to give weight to things that matter to us.
Insert joke: And give yurimon back the place of prominence he deserves.******** - I thought drake-von-drake was a nice respite from the Trump hating. He has given equal prominence to Hillary in our beloved Elections Thread.********
- I have tried hard to work with drake here, and even thought he was on-track to calming his tits. But then he pulled this shit in the last 48 hours.monospaced
- His days are numbered - relax everyone. Ignore and he will fade away. Continue to respond and it will continue.fadein11
- Having said that I am glad the mod spoke up - this place is becoming as depressing as Facebook lately. I'd rather be arguing about EpVII than who's house burntfadein11
- down.fadein11
- Hey, I just want to see his exit thread before he's banned, okay? We're so long overdue for a QBN meltdown it's not even funnymonospaced
- I know your indignation is real but I thought most of us knew everything he's been posting has been copied from somewhere else. He hasn't even tried to hide it.********
- I think we need these meltdowns from time to time. It brings the community back together.********
- Although in this case the meltdown is coming from us, not him.********
- we'll seemonospaced
- can we just... you know... hit the delete button?pango
- he still around? or banned?yurimon
- the endsureshot
- Drake on the top again.
Started from the bottom...******** - the ironiesureshot
- somehow think drake is related to orazal, isleptwithguy, and the crazy dude from think normal site.yurimon
- https://media.giphy.…monospaced
- lol @ equating front page with anything uniquely positivemonospaced
- ^ trump has changed the rules of the game.yurimon
- http://static.fjcdn.…monospaced
- Hey Moderator. Would it be better if I just left instead?monospaced
- @set
I thought so too at first but I've seen him in action several times. Moderator is the real deal.******** - @yurimon
I've already admited to being drake-von-drake & iswst. I don't who the think normal guy is. Sleep tight.******** - another day and still shit on the frontpage :(sted
- Started from the bottom now you're here.Maaku
- On QBN the party never stops.********
- there is always a lower level.sted
- "Not sure that's a real moderator there guise" - set
Proof is presented by the comment now being here, and not above.Moderator - gitum!moldero
- hitting the ignore button...pango
- wheres the igor button?yurimon
- hunchback igor button?
THERE'S NO SUCH A THING!pango - here is igor:
https://pbs.twimg.co…sted - here is an igor button:
https://horrorbutton…PonyBoy - Where's ben! BENN!! make that into a button! i'll buy it!pango
- Fucking drake-von-fraudRamanisky2
- Ramdick expressing his hate. I knew liberals were capable of it. You've proven yourself capable.********
- drake-von-jazxRamanisky2
- ha! I too have suspicions that von-drake is jazXPonyBoy
- I've heard the name, but not exactly familiar with the term.********
- Hehe********
- Ramdick. Wow. So fucking stupid all of this.monospaced
- I'll cool my jets now. I had fun while it lasted. I couldn't help myself********
- Fucking hell, is the whole of QBN going into meltdown? You can actually smell the crazy around here ...Continuity
- KABOOOOOOOOOOM!********
- Wait, I didn't know there were rules? Plus, I see some awfully nasty things coming out of the mouths of "regulars." Is there a handbook? No offense.
- sted3
Dear Blog, yesterday I meeting some friends from the times when newstoday, k10k, surfstation and for us hangeriens inertia meant something. We all agreed that it was better when the internet was an elite playground for nerds and after some really disappointing whimper we all got in to the conclusion that nothing is wrong with our digital culture and how today we use the internet. Just the noise grew significantly in all aspects. Most people today just starting what we fortunately survived. And we all should became psychiatrist because this Y generation has more f.up people than the roman empire had.
- ********-6
drake-von-drake is such a galvanizing character. I knew he was the right bet.
- Make QBN Great Again.********
- ORAZAK certified! Sizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...********
- ughhh just ignore him already....pango
- +1 ORAZAL********
- He's even more ordinary now with a blue name********
- To the moon Alice!********
- drake-von-jazxRamanisky2
- Wooooot!********
- Make QBN Great Again.
- HijoDMaite3
It's really hard to top this rap album. What a masterpiece.
- it's great_niko
- something i can comment on! nice post hijo! how is san diego since i left?cbass99
- when did you leave? its been raining finally but we never got the so called Godzilla El Nino. :(HijoDMaite
- ********12
I think I might just have to get this tattooed
- in all seriousness, would the tattoo include the rectangle frame?monospaced
- http://i.imgur.com/Z…imbecile
- At first I thought no, mono... but then I thought... maybe********
- it could give it a cool feelmonospaced
- Sluggo********
- White background actually tattooed white ink would be cool if you did the frame. Not sure how white ink holds up over time, though.elahon
- I wouldn't get white ink in a million years, but thanks for coming in today********
- would be cool if you kept the frame... you thinking just straight black lines / fill?PonyBoy
- Yea, probably dotwork instead of the fill********
- So down syndrome kids float? I so totally have newfound respect for those little fuckers.********
- omfg, these new guys are cheeky as fuckmonospaced
- /ignore********
- Oh I got slaps for your titties, newpork********
- lolmonospaced
- there's no need for white ink, just use your skin for the white partpinkfloyd
- dats rac..... nvm... lolpango
- so racistpinkfloyd
- That's not racist********
- Oh so now you want to be the reasonable one. Lolpango
- do include the framedrgs
- Imbecile, did someone delete your first note? It's gone.... bizarre...********
- Someone did. I noticed that too.imbecile
- What the fuck?********
- i dunno.
maybe Moderator thought it was a double post then deleted one of themimbecile - http://i.imgur.com/z…imbecile
- This is completely awesome. Please do it and show photos when done. Everyone here should have a Ralph Wiggum tattoo.CyBrainX
- http://i.imgur.com/N…********
- ********-6
I'm considering sexually identifying as a clock radio and going by the name Charles-Siobhán Microworth.
- Knock your self out.pango
- smells like british humorrobotron3k
- They can beg and they can plead
But they can't see the light, that's right
'Cause the boy with the cold hard cash
Is always Charles-Siobhán Microworth.******** - ✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓...********
- ********-2
- TheGreatGlorpo-1
I heard someone on a train today say they wanted to be an "ointment baron." I wanted to ask what on earth they meant but my phone rang and it was the cops calling back about a crime I saw happen on my block three weeks ago, when three youths were smoking drugs under our neighbor's front door porch cover to stay out of the rain. The crime, of course, was trespassing. I told the officers that I had not seen them return, and that was that.
But the ointment baron thing. I hope our paths cross again because there's got to be a good explanation.
- Please tell me it wasn't you that called the police. Over that.********
- Please tell me it wasn't you that called the police. Over that.
- sofakingback5
Moderator:
Why not just delete all these accounts that are clearly not contributing to this design community?
Im assuming you can see the accounts IP address. Why can't you just block those?
My original account was deleted years ago for one simple bad comment towards NT. Whatever, I guess that was fine, it didn't go any further than that.
But these accounts are spam, they are trolling and this place is anything but a design community anymore. Why not just block them and get on with it?
- +moldero
- Keep in mind that moderators back then aren't exactly the same person today.pango
- Be sure to remove all of the
drake-von-jazx-hedge posts!******** - yeah please fix this place up a bit. i liked it better when we had ruthless qbn overlords. felt like some kind of strange experiment.inteliboy
- Yeah. Nothing wrong with a 3 month timeout here and there. I've been through it myself.monospaced
- we need our super nanny back... lolpango
- The "ignore" feature was nice.sofakingback
- The braintrust is meeting soon to discuss. And to think it would all be unnecessary if only grown men could act as such. So much embarrassment here.Moderator
- I could not agree more. But theres plenty of talented core members that do not do this sort of thing. Disagreements, sure. This is something else.sofakingback
- Thank you in advance.sofakingback
- And plenty of talented core members who got sucked in a bit further beyond disagreements. Do what you've gotta do.monospaced
- Oh no, my post are superbly applied. ;-)********
- I think if you can unban linking to certain sites in regard to design. It makes it harder to post design related.yurimon
- Opening for new members failed.
Only spam and trolls.d_gitale - yeah I lost my original account for defending the kids who died at Love Paradefadein11
- and the massive argument I had with someone about posting disrespectful comments about it.fadein11
- I seem to only post into What are you listening to thread and read Yuri and Mono arguments - which are entertaining at the very leastIanbolton
- Yet I'm hardly the only person arguing with that asshat.monospaced
- I dont understand how you are not banned for calling people names on a consistent basis.yurimon
- Also close the political threads, we don't need that kind of crap here.Maaku
- that's okay, I don't expect you to understand much beyond potatomonospaced
- The ignore feature was actually really useful. I'd like to ignore entire threads too (political ones mostly) I get enough of that on FB.shellie
- ********7
- JazX + Hedge = Vøn Munt********
- drake-von-jazxRamanisky2
- All this time into: finding shit to steal, copying, uploading, posting, and trolling QBN. What a pathetic POS MUNT.********
- The Von Troll a;ready shut the tumblr page down.********
- Alexander Lau
https://www.etsy.com…******** - http://websta.xyz/al…********
- https://www.linkedin…********
- http://strongautomot…********
- shiet.... and someone thinks i'm vindictive... o_opango
- Haha... you finally figured it out. I gave you enough clues. Weeeeee!********
- Why did you take down your Tumblr?********
- I go waaaaaay back pango. ;-)********
- Dude you're fuckin weird. PTSD?sofakingback
- Boredom********
- if that work's actually yours you should leave it up, a lot of people dig it._niko
- It is mine. I'm fucking with you guys. Just missed the place. I knew you'd find me eventually with the 25 or so art pieces********
- leave me out of this fuckery utopian********
- And who were you exactly?monospaced
- Well..welcome back. Please login as Jazx.********
- nahhhh terry's in this too deep.pango
- I don't think that account is alive HAHA********
- Leave mt terry cum cloth out of this********
- Tumblr needed killed, it was shit and I wanted to keep the secret ID for another day, but then realized I have those paintings everywhere.********
- I don't see how terry has anything to do with this bullshit.monospaced
- You guys honestly confuse the shit out me.********
- :O ..... you guys are fucking weird...pango
- Awkward.monospaced
- oh i just like to bug terry.pango
- haha...this feels like one of those cheap movie plot twists. It was QBN all alongyuekit
- 'Tis correct. I was waiting to see how long it would take you guys. Figured the more paintings and shots that could be matched to 3rd party sites********
- the easier it would be.********
- A truly spectacular achievement Drake. And to think that if you'd instead done something like adopt a whale, or a bought a goat for an Ethiopian familymg33
- you would have done something actually worth legitimate pride, and worthy of the giant grin you no doubt display from ear to ear right now.mg33
- Dude, that's too complicated********
- Adopt a whale? Who can care for an adult whale?sarahfailin
- Drake has nothing to do with these paintings, the artist, JazX, or the tumblr & instagram accounts. Drake = Yurimon = Drumpfchukkaphob
- JazX + Hedge = Vøn Munt
- yurimon-23
Something for mods to consider. there are plenty of people on here who for the most part, hardly post in design threads. However with the absence of lets say myself. these non design threads still flourish. especially the hate trump thread which has remained near the top in posts for some time, a non design related topic... However once there is an apposing view, facts or posts to challenge ideas that do not fit a desired world view, then its a problem of people not posting design oriented material become intolerable.
If people want a more design oriented site then the best thing to do, instead of posting lets say in the hate trump post, instead post a design related link or pic. cant blame some else for something you are not doing yourself.
However if I can also say that some of the frequented design sites are not linkable to this site. ive had this problem many times.
overall part of the appeal of this type of format is that its not so stuffy and layed back in how people can conduct a conversation.
Also that design or art related threads still are percentage of the site, but not as much.
other sites related to design discovery, sharing or inspiration have a very narrow UX focus, are better focused on serving specific content.
the casual approach to hosting a design community in the way qbn does it is extremely unique and rare. more regulated changes would take away from the laid back atmosphere you dont get elsewhere
- lolpango
- I see the downvotes but where are the facts?
To debunk.******** - So what's you're point? Is this site too laid back in your opinion? I actually like the various nonsense threads, there's a good mix. Thanks thoughIanbolton
- He likes it that the site is laid back. He's saying he doesn't post design because all his content comes from Beehance.********
- Is everyone really having a hard time understand him?pango
- Not this time. He's making progress.********
- My interpretation.
https://i.imgur.com/…******** - no pango, they just trollingyurimon
- ^^ excellent translation.Gnash
- Thx ORAZAL!pango
- Everytime I bump, add, create or encourage a "design related" thread to flourish...it is gone to page three by the end of the day.utopian
- Link?canuck
- Tried NTC?canuck
- sure if they let me in at all. those elitist cunts!pango
