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- drgs-3
Opened QBN -- nothing interesting
Got bored, opened QBN on my phone to see whats interesting on the smaller QBN -- nothing interesting
Had to fix something on a remote server, opened QBN while I was there -- nothing interesting on remote QBN
- fax qbn is where it's all happening. if you aren't on fax, you're nowherehans_glib
- Litho is the best of all!! Fax is overratedOBBTKN
- nothing interesting?! do you want me to start something in the mIRC QBN channel?grafician
- hah never tried small QBN!
fax QBN is just an elitist club.
remote QBN can be boring sometimes but it's safe at leaststed - Gonna chill this friday with some QBN on my smart TVdrgs
- imbecile0
like color change skin emojis, we should be able to alter others, such as cars and buildings
- section_0140
Anyone else get a big influx of spam messages in their email today? I usually average 10-15 over a 24 hour period. I had 10x that today. I thought I forgot to clear them out, but they all came today.
- nb3
Ran into an old (78yo) lady I know, she had a coffee and told me this story about a new hip coffee chain on our block.
“you know that goddamn computer they have that you put your card in? It asks you to tip and the guy working was almost rude and it’s just a coffee so I tapped No Tip and you know what it did? It said ARE YOU SURE and asked for a tip again! I told that apathetic asshole behind the counter No tip until you smile buddy and he just looked at me.”
Hahaha. I love it. She has me convinced. I may stop tipping altogether.
- robotinc3
After living in a tipless country, it's been very hard going back. Just pay people a living wage!
- "Keep the change" no longer works in the world of digital payments.shapesalad
- you tip with actual cash after you pay with your cardgrafician
- You can tip on your card and digital payments too.monospaced
- Love the lady that recently suggested I tip ahead while making a reservation with cardfuturefood
- please share the name of the tipless country, I'd like to visit itzaq
- ^ Italy (among others)SimonFFM
- France?nb
- Spain, Portugal, France, Italy...OBBTKN
- I was thinking of New Zealand, but as others have mentioned, there are othersrobotinc
- “Keep tha change ya filthy animal”nb
- japan toojagara
- majority of the world is tiplesspango
- NBQ00-1
You watching Depp vs Heard?
- Celebrity scandal! Let me just grab my comfy yoga tights and a bowl of Smartfood White Cheddar Popcorn and a white wine and my weekend is SETnb
- ^ Chardonnay, or Pinot Grigio ?Gnash
- Only Chardonnay, if yoga tights are on the table.Continuity
- Pinot Grigio ain't Karen enough.Continuity
- Haha, yup:)Gnash
- ideaist47
Sitting in the hospital.
Admitting myself into supported detox program for alcoholism.
Will be between 3-10 days; speaking to therapists, sleeping, eating, fidgeting...
...unfortunately, no bar.
: )
#PrayForIdeaist
- damn, hang in there man, you got this.YakuZoku
- God’s speed! First step, done :) you can do thisGnash
- Drinking sucks. You can do this!SimonFFM
- Stay strong man, you got this!Chimp
- good luck. Booze for booze. I was a raging alcoholic. Never though i could drink casual. Down to 4-5 light beers from over 40 a day.rootlock
- Wish you well ideaist. You're not alone.mort_
- @ideaist you can do it! QBN has your back.Krassy
- COURAGEstoplying
- Go for it. It's just sugar at the end of the day. If you miss the world of discoving flavour profiles of wines etc, get into rare teas, pu erh and oolongs.shapesalad
- damn that sucks, getting better dude, we're here for you_niko
- What mort_ said - Good luck, brother xNairn
- Prayers indeed, good luck with this.garbage
- 40 beers a day HOLY SHITnb
- Good luck. You can do it!nb
- @rootlock 40? as in FORTY?Krassy
- Stay strong! The majority is a head game. I watched my dad go through the same program. My battle with addiction taught me to remember myself before the drug.brandonp
- It is a very nasty poison. All the best!stewart
- Good luck and a big hug!! You can do it!OBBTKN
- Best wishes on your journey!utopian
- #PrayForIdeaistpango
- Good work getting there, stay strong!spot13
- Good luck man!
Booze is amazing, but I can't drink it either any more. Over 6 years and no booze now.PhanLo - you got this. recognizing you need help is a big step.ArmandoEstrada
- That’s good going @PhanLo Respect!mort_
- Xo from the psych ward; feels like I’m in a bizarre sitcom. Meds they have me on helping well!!! Supplies arriving soon from my wife / mother. 40 beers!!!???ideaist
- ^ good to hear. Stay strong :)Gnash
- Good luck man!thumb_screws
- damn good moves. all power to youautoflavour
- stay strong._me_
- strong work ideaist. that is no small feat. stay positive as you can and I'm cheering for you from a distance even if you don't know me.capn_ron
- Good Luck! I've been thinking of doing something similar. I just can't seem to stop drinking beers. Working from home has me drinking 4-8 beers a day.fooler
- The only thing stopping me from drinking is people. I can't drink by myself. And everyone around me is quitting. _@$€€¢π¶_$&@#!&× (ノ｀Д´)ノ彡┻━┻pango
- The pain will pass and soon become peace.cannonball1978
- ❤️PonyBoy
- All the best, ideasist.Fax_Benson
- Good luck dude, one day at a time. You've got this!mrAtor
- Drastically reduced consumption since my wife is recovering from the fracture at home. Lost weight too. Win win!OBBTKN
- Reduced consumption may work for some. For others (like me) who have tried that and failed countless times, complete abstinence is the only way.mort_
- +1 shapesalad's advice. Also works for people quitting weed :Dscruffics
- So proud of you for this! I wish my husband had your courage to get soberFawnDog
- i got a bit over 7 months, and it's a pain but worth it - good for you.colin_s
- kudos on taking this step, give em' hell!whatthefunk
- Nice one. You go this!Continuity
- Good luck!Salarrue
- Err ... *gotContinuity
- I wish I could do this too. I'm more afraid of being away from a paycheck to pay for it, so the cycle continues.mapleT
- @colin good to hear, congrats !Gnash
- Good luck man, I quit drinking (and weed). It was worth it.slappy
- NBQ00-1
My uncle lost his wife few years ago due to cancer. They had a kid together that is now about 6. It was of course hard for everybody in our family and especially for him to lose the love of his life.
But he should’ve appreciated that he still had their daughter and to be there fore her.
Instead he became an alcoholic. I can’t believe it. He just totally let himself go.
My mom already had enough difficulties in her life and looked after everybody and now she also is doing her best to take care of the girl as much as she can.
I find it absolutely shameful and disrespectful that somebody would turn to alcohol when you have a kid to take care of.
And now he’s being threatened that they may take the kid away from him. It’s so sad that the little girl will also lose her dad after losing her mom.
- Maybe go see him and get him help?shapesalad
- That’s what we’re doing all the time in the past months and year.NBQ00
- Do you yourself have a kid?Nairn
- Yeah... What Nairn said, adopt her?OBBTKN
- Sorry, because, is that what you meant, right?OBBTKN
- Poor kid. :( And I feel for him too. I mean that’s rock fucking bottom. Nobody asks for that.mort_
- Everyone handles mourning and Depression differently. It’s sad there’s a daughter involved. Hopefully your uncle can pull through.BH26
- I don't think anyone really chooses to become an addict. It's depression/mental illness. Hope he gets it together.Hayzilla
- Do an intervention
https://www.youtube.…ok_not_ok - Al-Anon is a resource for family members / friends of alcoholics. Might be worth a look.
https://al-anon.org/…mort_
- Hayzilla1
Email from the kids school....
On Wednesday, Year 4 will be taking part in “U.S.A. Day”. The day will consist of some cooking, line dancing and other American inspired activities! Children will be allowed to wear suitable American themed clothes instead of uniform.
For example: go “cowboy” or maybe wear that ‘I heart NY’ T shirt! There is no requirement to purchase a specific costume for this event.
I wonder if you yanks have a similar kind of shit for Britain. Sheppards Pie and Black Tracksuits?
- yeah - they're called ukip rallieshans_glib
- Yet more USA culture shoved down our throats. Tell them to be more diverse and have a Benin day, a Uzbekistan day or a Suriname day.shapesalad
- canadian day. everyone required to ware canadian tuxedos.pango
- Line dancing?
What kind of sick fucks would subject you to that?!Continuity - 9-10 year old boys wear nothing but Under Armour/Adidas gear with slogans like "OWN THE PAINT", "DOMINATE THE GAME" etc. while they pick their nosestoplying
- Only foreigners wear I heart NY shirts.monospaced
- Now I want to get an "OWN THE PAINT" t-shirt.palimpsest
- get out that cute red MAGA cap my son...neverscared
- Lol, we only celebrate kicking you out on July 4. Similar attire.doriangrey
- Not saying we shouldn’t have a UK day, just reporting.doriangrey
- nike shirt + nike basketball shorts + nike slides over nike socks = winimbecile
- Ireland has St Patrick’s day where they get shit faced. Scotland and Wales also have their National days.Chimp
- They should do an active shooter drill.PhanLo
- USA has St Patrick'sday where we all get shit faced. Funny coincidence.monospaced
- scarabin1
Remember when i was complaining about the lack of high-speed internet in my neighborhood earlier? At&t is running fiber literally through my backyard right now. Had to put my chickens away.
Gonna see if i can sign up in a few days!
- LAN party?grafician
- Hot spotdoggydoggdog
- idk what they are setting up, but try to get an FFTH connection.
https://tadbirtech.c…sted - so you don't share the actual fiber bandwidth with the rest of the streetsted
- doggydoggdog0
I don't understand why everyone has tattoos now.
My coworker has a giant eagle on her arm. My other coworker has a paper airplane on his wrist.
I wouldn't even want to wear a tee shirt with these on them for a day.
I don't think they have much meaning for them.
- I keep thinking to myself that I must be the only one at work who doesn't have any tattoos at all. Even my boss is covered with them.Continuity
- Everyone trying so hard to be different...that they all end-up looking the same. Americans are bunch of narcissistic, attention whore, look at me sheep.utopian
- It's the same all over Utopian. When I was a kid, there was one guy in my area that had face tats and he was mental. Now it's every other happy barman with emPhanLo
- not a single mark on my wife or myself... never understood the draw to them although I respect the talent / steady hand to reproduce the artPonyBoy
- cheapest canvas it issted
- No one in my family has a tatt. I'm not against them, just never felt the need to get one. If I ever had the urge I know what I'd get though.microkorg
- Some kind of composition of the 'Pointman' by Futura.microkorg
- scarabin0
I may have messed up my DNS settings. Anyone encounter errors, particularly “Load cannot follow more than 20 redirections” when visiting the links below?
- Oops, 2. Http://www.ashesanda…scarabin
- 3. Http://grubblelabs.c…scarabin
- seems ok, last one is ig account?hans_glib
- Yeah. Thanks, hans!scarabin
- 1.1.1.1grafician
- What’s that, hans?scarabin
- Sorry, graf. What’s 1.1.1.1?scarabin
- Both links worked for mestoplying
- Looks ok to me.section_014
- All ok here tooOBBTKN
- Cool, looks like it’s fixed. Thx guisescarabin
- I'm going to manage my server settings so all miy sites redirect to whew.domaniname.comNairn
- @scarabin 1.1.1.1 is a super-fast DNS resolver, I was using it 'til I built my Raspberry Pi DNS setup, it's pretty good.BuddhaHat
- stoplying6
Tonight I'm going to see my first live show in years - I snatched up a ticket last night and I've been feeling like a teen ager with how excited I am!
Fontaines DC at Brooklyn Steel baby!
- PonyBoy2
What's the longest any of you have been drug along (and you believed it / hung in there) w/the whole 'the check is in the mail' thing? 'We swear it went out on the 8th the last month... now we're sure a new check went out on the 13th this month...' BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH... shit's still not in my mailbox and we are now PAST 60 days past due (invoice sent early January w/standard 30 day agreement). It's for a substantial amount of money that was supposed to pay my taxes and some hardy bills that have built up these last few months since moving 2500 miles across the country. I ended up having to file a tax payment extension w/penaltie$ (yes yes... I should have put ALL that fucking money aside this quarter... shame on me for believing a relatively large and well-known agency would pay on time).
Pay your damn bills, people. <3
- Years man. Years. https://www.qbn.com/…nb
- ^ "Still, it's mine, pay me muthafucka."
:) yep. Diff between your story and mine is my client is a massive creative agency-their client a major credit card :/PonyBoy - They can't exactly run and hide... but they can in theory fuck over someone small and on the outside (although I've worked for them on and off for years)PonyBoy
- Good luck man, 4 clients owe me some thousands, but never waited more than a month for payment...OBBTKN
- Beware with big agencies ;)OBBTKN
- Do you know anyone built like a brick shithouse? Send 'em round to collect in person. ;)microkorg
- waiting for many months for many, many, many dollars myself.wordssssss
- scarabin22
Just launched my new shop today and got two orders already! Neither of them was my mom!
Thanks for recommending shopify for me, so glad to get out of etsy hell
- Ashesandartifacts.co...scarabin
- Http://ashesandartif…scarabin
- Arsesandamplestacks...scarabin
- +1 moreduckseason
- :D !!!scarabin
- It was me.pango
- No it wasn't.
Congrat.pango - Cheers pango!scarabin
- Those dolls look proper creepypango
- They’re gonna get more gross and creepy in the next seriesscarabin
- Cool. Got any plans for ‘em yet?scarabin
- I shall order shortly!!hydro74
- Hydro74's fonts would really complement your brand.
http://legacyofdefea…utopian - I would do terrible things for a hydro74 grubble sticker design. Awful things. Just a grubble with the logo somewhere. Or y’know, pay ya.scarabin
- Cool!mort_
- Cool, but hard to see what the Grubble things are behind their mane's. Perhaps a few more photos at different angles?shapesalad
- I’ll do that moving forward. Also wanna come up with a light box or something and get better photosscarabin
- DImensions might be a good idea - I couldn't work out what size they were the other day when you had your DNS problems.Nairn
- No penis molds for sale?Krassy
- Good point nairn
And not yet!scarabin - Curious how having your own Shopify site compares with Etsy which has a ready made audience - in terms of sales.mort_
- me too. the main diff so far is i’m not competing with 100k other artists better than me. Having control over branding and design is a plus.scarabin
- Also with etsy i couldn’t do dropshipping, which is how i do my canvases. This also has an integrated point of sale system so i can vend at festivals on ipadscarabin
- And even though etsy has some incredible artists, i think it still carries some “amateur/hobbyist” vibes which i want to minimizescarabin
- It’s also made me excited to make things for folks again. I’m hoping all of these will indirectly translate to more salesscarabin
- Nice. Hope it does well for you. A newsletter is a good way to build an audience of potential customers and to keep in touch with existing customers. #toptipmort_
- Good ideascarabin
- Orders just shipped (cheers imbecile!). Thanks for being patient while i learn about the new shipping systemscarabin
- pango1
ಠ_ಠ
My interest peaked?
Or
My interest piqued?- The word piqued gets me aroused.utopian
- piquedBuddhaHat
- If you spell it peaqued you’re never more than half wrongscarabin
- Or is that always wrong. I’ve never been good at mathscarabin
- Dis or dat thread. Dat, btw.jagara
- "My interest peaked" is the correct one.palimpsest
- Nope. 'My interest piqued' is the correct one.Continuity
- https://www.vocabula…Continuity
- You wouldn't use interest as subject but as an object with pique. So "my interest piqued" is wrong.palimpsest
- The dog's anus piqued my interest is correct.
My interest piqued the dog's anus is incorrect.palimpsest - My interest peeked is also incorrect. However, someone can take a peek at your interest.
Get hooked on phonics.palimpsest - Oh, I see where you're going with this. I stand corrected.
But, 'this piqued my interest' is still correct.Continuity - You might want to talk about that fixation with dogs' anuses with a professional, though. Just lookin' out for you.Continuity
- Your concern has piqued my interest and warmed my heart.palimpsest
- My gender neutral attention was consensually aroused without coercion or race privilege.shapesalad
- "My interest in that matter peaked in the 80s" vs "My interest in this matter is piqued"!Nairn
- What I find amusing with these types of errors is that it makes no sense if you use the wrong form. Why would you use peak when you mean pique?palimpsest
- "Per say" is one of my favorites!palimpsest
- ^ *twitch*Continuity
- i_monk7
I cut off 27 months of corona hair growth last night. Going to donate it to a kids cancer wig charity in BC.
- Are you sure these kids want grey hair?shapesalad
- Yes.i_monk
- Nairn2
My year and a bit old boots have worn down soles which have begun wearing into the internal cavitations, so I've had wee stones sneaking it and jostling around, annoying my walks to work.
I looked into getting them re-soled, but the cheapest I saw was £70, with most prices towards £90-100, so then thought "I can do this" (I likely could not) so looked on eBay for replacement soles, and added in the type of boot I had to ensure correct response and.. oh. Someone's selling a pair of boots they've "only worn for an hour" (yeah, right) and so be-cidered Nairn made an offer ten pounds under, for £70 and BOOMPH, accepted. Paid and today delivered.
And now I have a pair of essentially brand new boots that don't look like they're even been worn for an hour even and which cost me £120 less than I'd normally pay for a new pair.
I've contacted the seller to offer them the ten pounds back, as I feel a bit guilty, but fucking hell, I never expected to be happy at buying second hand shoes, never mind from bloody eBay.
.
Still a bit irritated that the boots I'm wearing have a failed me after two winters - I usually replace them on the third winter, bunch of bastard.
- need a pic of you in them with your cargo shortsfadein11
- You're already half-way there. You can finish off in private...Nairn
- cider. man bun.beard. boots. cargo shorts (well, when summer comes..)
oh jeez. kill me now.Nairn - SECOND-HAND BOOT YOGHURT WARBLING DOPE-SMOKING HIPPYNairn
- no wonder my in-laws are so disappointed.Nairn
- hahafadein11
- Get yourself down to Brodie’s and get them fixed
https://goo.gl/maps/…shapesalad - You big cheapskate.shapesalad
- Got mine resoled there. Great chap and service. Money well spent.shapesalad
