RANT: i am obese and on a phone

[Miketoc]

I don't know what level you're at with whatever company you work for. If you are an individual contributor with no direct reports then yes delegation is going to be problematic (i.e. impossible). Hence my "where possible" statement. Up here at work I delegate and am delegated to. Some weeks I have to do the boss's job even though it's technically above my level.

We're just sorta short staffed for the amount of work we're required to do. Most the team is pushing a lot of hours.

[kvk1]

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh...if you could go ahead and do that...that would be greatttttttttt.

[VoxExMachina]

'The state of Illinois would have to allow ordinary citizens to carry weapons under a federal appeals court ruling issued today, but the judges also gave lawmakers 180 days to put their own version of the law in place."

Not sure why Illinois / Chicago thought they were a nation unto themselves in the first place.

[Farley1324]

Not sure why Illinois / Chicago thought they were a nation unto themselves in the first place.

Chicago politics...oh lord, the volumes that could be written about Chicago politices

[DwightEvanlivt]

We're just sorta short staffed for the amount of work we're required to do. Most the team is pushing a lot of hours.

... gonna need you and FREP to come in on Saturday.






Sunday, too.

[therorschach]

i made what appears to be a decent marinara sauce

[VoxExMachina]

Let's just get this out of the way:


Happy 12-12-12!

[VoxExMachina]

^ Should have waited one minute more to post that for the complete win.

[Farley1324]

Oh yeah.

Neat.

Several years now we've had a repeat day like that. Better savor this one.

But it was 12:11 you posted that. WTF

[VoxExMachina]

But it was 12:11 you posted that. WTF

Pfail.

[Farley1324]

There will be one more kinda-opportunity in about 12 hours.

[PeterGibbons316]

There is a new game show on NBC called Take It All that I predict cannot last longer than one season. It's based on the classic Christmas gift exchange game where you can either pick a random prize, or take a price from someone else - the goal in the first rounds is to not be the one left holding the least valuable prize. That's all great, but then the last two people get to the final round and it's a prisoner's dilemma game. They can either choose "keep mine" or "take it all" where if both players choose "keep mine" they both keep the prizes they have won up until then, if one person chooses "take it all" and the other doesn't then they take everything, and if they both choose "take it all" then they both get nothing.

The concept works because people in general are stupid - as illustrated by the first episode last night. The woman took it all and gramps went home with nothing. But really this is a game that should never be won. The only way you can ever win anything is if the other person chooses "keep mine" and if they are going to do that, it will always be in your best interest to pick "take it all". And this is what virtually everyone will do. So once audiences realize that no one ever wins anything, they will stop watching and the show will be cancelled.

[Farley1324]

There is a new game show on NBC called Take It All that I predict cannot last longer than one season. It's based on the classic Christmas gift exchange game where you can either pick a random prize, or take a price from someone else - the goal in the first rounds is to not be the one left holding the least valuable prize. That's all great, but then the last two people get to the final round and it's a prisoner's dilemma game. They can either choose "keep mine" or "take it all" where if both players choose "keep mine" they both keep the prizes they have won up until then, if one person chooses "take it all" and the other doesn't then they take everything, and if they both choose "take it all" then they both get nothing.

The concept works because people in general are stupid - as illustrated by the first episode last night. The woman took it all and gramps went home with nothing. But really this is a game that should never be won. The only way you can ever win anything is if the other person chooses "keep mine" and if they are going to do that, it will always be in your best interest to pick "take it all". And this is what virtually everyone will do. So once audiences realize that no one ever wins anything, they will stop watching and the show will be cancelled.

lol

So if the other person chooses "take it all" you don't get anything no matter what. Awesome.

But yeah...most TV is fukking stupid anyway...which is why I don't really watch it.

[Orlando1234977]

I'm not interested in dictating what can be discussed here but the problem with FF discussion is it's absolutely meaningless to anyone who's not playing so it would make more sense to start a thread in the fantasy sports forum and discuss it there.

See bolded:

Current RANT topics:

- Sports
- Fantasy Sports
- Apple vs Samsung
- Guns
- Politics
- Lowering/Uppering the legal age of drinking/driving/owning a phone (Apple or Samsung) at certain obesity levels/owning a gun
- NASCAR vs F1
- kvk1 and F1
- 1st world problems/Kansas/More Kansas from ossizen
- (srs)
- More friggin F1 from kvk1
- More friggin fantasy sports
- More goddman politics
- The Return of Malcolm Jamal Warner 8204
- All things Epicurean from Lord Thickington Bricksworth
- Chuzzle's various adventures and tales, containing too many words
- Telephones and Obesity
- You being negged
- THANKS

So once audiences realize that no one ever wins anything, they will stop watching and the show will be cancelled.

Are you under the impression that happy prize winning contestants is a key element needed to drive ratings and ultimately maintain or attract sponsorship revenue?

Be honest, watching some poor hobo lose everything and walk off the show crying will put a smile to your pudding eating face.

lol

So if the other person chooses "take it all" you don't get anything no matter what. Awesome.

But yeah...most TV is fukking stupid anyway...which is why I don't really watch it.

So if the other person chooses "keep mine" you win no matter what. The only question will be how much.

Sounds like the key is to bullsht the absolute hell out of your opponent to get them to select "keep mine"

lots of winks, compliments and shoulder pats.

[adamdavidson47]

I can't believe nobody is talking about the 3 mile radius meteor that is headed towards the earth.

[Hishiad]

I can't believe nobody is talking about the 3 mile radius meteor that is headed towards the earth.

What position in fantasy football can I draft it for?

[adamdavidson47]

What position in fantasy football can I draft it for?

I have a feeling it's going to fall a few rounds.

[Dominik]

See bolded:

Current RANT topics:

- Sports
- Fantasy Sports
- Apple vs Samsung
- Guns
- Politics
- Lowering/Uppering the legal age of drinking/driving/owning a phone (Apple or Samsung) at certain obesity levels/owning a gun
- NASCAR vs F1
- kvk1 and F1
- 1st world problems/Kansas/More Kansas from ossizen
- (srs)
- More friggin F1 from kvk1
- More friggin fantasy sports
- More goddman politics
- The Return of Malcolm Jamal Warner 8204
- All things Epicurean from Lord Thickington Bricksworth
- Chuzzle's various adventures and tales, containing too many words
- Telephones and Obesity
- You being negged
- THANKS

Yeah, but even if you're not really interested in Kavak talking about F1, Farley and his guns, Apple vs Samsung, politics, etc., you can still follow it if you wanted to, maybe do a bit of research into what's being discussed and you might even learn something. If someone is not in your TAAB-Trollando-Manly fantasy league then they can't follow the discussion.

IMO it would make more sense to create a thread in fantasy sports and discuss it there.

If a few Aussies showed up in here and we started discussing fantasy Australian Rules Football, you'd probably be leading the chorus saying "STFU and take this AFL sh*t to another thread."

[kvk1]

There hasn't been F1 in months.

Next season doesn't start until March 15th.

Sometimes I don't know what to do Friday-Sunday.

I sit in a dark corner shaking back and forth wondering why there isn't a P, Q or R session on.

[adamdavidson47]

There hasn't been F1 in months.

Next season doesn't start until March 15th.

Sometimes I don't know what to do Friday-Sunday.

I sit in a dark corner shaking back and forth wondering why there isn't a P, Q or R session on.

Now you know how all of Canada feels.

[DwightEvanlivt]

Australian Rules Football

Started watching that in 1982 when cable and ESPN first came to town.





Still can't figure out the rules. I know "Rules" is in the name.




That's about it.

[kvk1]

[ZoranM]

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Lol.

But in AUS they wear no helmets, weigh 160 lbs and are much ghey.

[ossizen]

Yippee....

The "Grandview Triangle" is about to get more interesting come noon today. Not only will we have a larger clusterf--- with only two interstate highways but three (US 71 becoming I-49).

Locally, not much different, but out-of-towners will be fun seeing getting lost and the traffic reporters stumbling over themselves more.

[ThickAsABrick]

I can't wait until TAAB can neg you again.

lol

+ mmm...speck

[ThickAsABrick]

It's what they use to make Brawndo.

Marlon Brawndo

[ThickAsABrick]

TAAB's hate makes Frep strong.

Sadly it doesn't improve nor decrease his postings.

[kvk1]

Frep is to Toby Flenderson as Michael Scott is to TAAB.

[Miketoc]

Yeah, but even if you're not really interested in Kavak talking about F1, Farley and his guns, Apple vs Samsung, politics, etc., you can still follow it if you wanted to, maybe do a bit of research into what's being discussed and you might even learn something. If someone is not in your TAAB-Trollando-Manly fantasy league then they can't follow the discussion.

IMO it would make more sense to create a thread in fantasy sports and discuss it there.

If a few Aussies showed up in here and we started discussing fantasy Australian Rules Football, you'd probably be leading the chorus saying "STFU and take this AFL sh*t to another thread."

If it matters, which it doesn't, I'm very indifferent to the choice on whether to allow the FF talk or not.

[ThickAsABrick]

Yeah, but even if you're not really interested in Kavak talking about F1, Farley and his guns, Apple vs Samsung, politics, etc., you can still follow it if you wanted to, maybe do a bit of research into what's being discussed and you might even learn something. If someone is not in your TAAB-Trollando-Manly fantasy league then they can't follow the discussion.

IMO it would make more sense to create a thread in fantasy sports and discuss it there.

If a few Aussies showed up in here and we started discussing fantasy Australian Rules Football, you'd probably be leading the chorus saying "STFU and take this AFL sh*t to another thread."

Hish, Chuzzle, and Farles are in there too. That's 6 total ranters. Maybe next year we'll have more