Random thing you love right now that doesn't deserve its own thread

Tanglebones wrote:

I've been without heat in the office for more than a month now. I really miss it, especially now that the temperature is consistently in the 30s. Still, I just got a pair of these USB handwarmers, and they've made the work day almost tolerable again:
IMAGE(http://a.tgcdn.net/images/products/frontsquare/ebcc_usb_toast_handwarmers.jpg)

And this is in the love thread?

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you a space heater.

Jonman wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:

I've been without heat in the office for more than a month now. I really miss it, especially now that the temperature is consistently in the 30s. Still, I just got a pair of these USB handwarmers, and they've made the work day almost tolerable again:
IMAGE(http://a.tgcdn.net/images/products/frontsquare/ebcc_usb_toast_handwarmers.jpg)

And this is in the love thread?

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you a space heater.

We've got two; the weak one is on, the strong one consistently blows out its circuit.

Tanglebones wrote:
Jonman wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:

I've been without heat in the office for more than a month now. I really miss it, especially now that the temperature is consistently in the 30s. Still, I just got a pair of these USB handwarmers, and they've made the work day almost tolerable again:
IMAGE(http://a.tgcdn.net/images/products/frontsquare/ebcc_usb_toast_handwarmers.jpg)

And this is in the love thread?

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you a space heater.

We've got two; the weak one is on, the strong one consistently blows out its circuit.

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you an electrician.

Jonman wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:
Jonman wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:

I've been without heat in the office for more than a month now. I really miss it, especially now that the temperature is consistently in the 30s. Still, I just got a pair of these USB handwarmers, and they've made the work day almost tolerable again:
IMAGE(http://a.tgcdn.net/images/products/frontsquare/ebcc_usb_toast_handwarmers.jpg)

And this is in the love thread?

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you a space heater.

We've got two; the weak one is on, the strong one consistently blows out its circuit.

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you an electrician.

We've got one. Need Con Ed to turn the damn gas on

Tanglebones wrote:
Jonman wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:
Jonman wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:

I've been without heat in the office for more than a month now. I really miss it, especially now that the temperature is consistently in the 30s. Still, I just got a pair of these USB handwarmers, and they've made the work day almost tolerable again:
IMAGE(http://a.tgcdn.net/images/products/frontsquare/ebcc_usb_toast_handwarmers.jpg)

And this is in the love thread?

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you a space heater.

We've got two; the weak one is on, the strong one consistently blows out its circuit.

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you an electrician.

We've got one. Need Con Ed to turn the damn gas on

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you some propane and propane accessories.

Jonman wrote:

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you some propane and propane accessories.

IMAGE(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc169tEubM1rj3di2o1_400.jpg)

Tanglebones wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you some propane and propane accessories.

IMAGE(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc169tEubM1rj3di2o1_400.jpg)

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you some amusing art-mashups.

[size=1]I can do this all day, pal[/size]

Jonman wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you some propane and propane accessories.

IMAGE(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc169tEubM1rj3di2o1_400.jpg)

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you some amusing art-mashups.

[size=1]I can do this all day, pal[/size]

The humor keeps me warm

Tanglebones wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you some propane and propane accessories.

IMAGE(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc169tEubM1rj3di2o1_400.jpg)

I'm disappointed that this is referred to as 'obamicon.' Shepard Fairey deserves the credit.

Jonman wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you some propane and propane accessories.

IMAGE(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc169tEubM1rj3di2o1_400.jpg)

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you some amusing art-mashups.

[size=1]I can do this all day, pal[/size]

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you a new joke.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Jonman wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you some propane and propane accessories.

IMAGE(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc169tEubM1rj3di2o1_400.jpg)

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you some amusing art-mashups.

[size=1]I can do this all day, pal[/size]

Damn, I wish I was your secret stan, I'd send you a new joke. ;)

But he's getting so much mileage out of the old one

Jonman wrote:
Gravey wrote:

My five-month-old now has a passport. The photo was taken when she was 3.5 months old. She can use this passport until she's 5. This completely cracks me up. Every time I look at it I start laughing.

Does the cosmic rule of passport photos hold true for babies too? i.e. worst photo ever that makes them look either {ableist slur} or like it's a mugshot?

It's superseded by the cosmic rule that halfie babies cannot ever be not especially cute. Unfortunately she didn't take advantage of her one legal opportunity to smile in a passport photo.

Gravey wrote:

It's superseded by the cosmic rule that halfie babies cannot ever be not especially cute.

Female voter with baby: Look, sir, my baby looks just like you.
Winston Churchill: Madam, all babies look like me.

Ranger Rick wrote:
Gravey wrote:

It's superseded by the cosmic rule that halfie babies cannot ever be not especially cute.

Female voter with baby: Look, sir, my baby looks just like you.
Winston Churchill: Madam, all babies look like me.

Now I want to see baby bowker hats and a dummy that looks like cigar.

Tanglebones wrote:

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I installed my new dishwasher. My father-in-law did the electrical (mainly because I thought it would be more complicated than it was) and I did the rest. Water in, drain out, securing it to the countertop...all me.

Hypatian and PXAbstraction, because they are generous and wonderful people!
Seriously... you're the best. THE BEST

YOU'RE THE BEST!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you dow-ow-ow-ow-own

Fight ‘til the end
Cause your life will depend
On the strength that you have inside you

Ah you gotta be proud
starin’ out in the cloud
When the odds in the game defy you

Try your best to win them all
and one day time will tell
when you’re the one that’s standing there
you’ll reach the final bell!

You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you dow-ow-ow-ho-how-ho-own

INSPIRING GUITAR SOLO

You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you dow-ow-ow-ow-own

Fight ‘til you drop
never stop
can’t give up
Til you reach the top (FIGHT!)
you’re the best in town (FIGHT!)
Listen to that sound
A little bit of all you got
Can never bring you down

You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!

Spoiler:

repeat to fade, occasional background shouts of “Oh Ye-eah!”

Amoebic wrote:

Hypatian and PXAbstraction, because they are generous and wonderful people!
Seriously... you're the best. THE BEST

YOU'RE THE BEST!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you dow-ow-ow-ow-own

Fight ‘til the end
Cause your life will depend
On the strength that you have inside you

Ah you gotta be proud
starin’ out in the cloud
When the odds in the game defy you

Try your best to win them all
and one day time will tell
when you’re the one that’s standing there
you’ll reach the final bell!

You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you dow-ow-ow-ho-how-ho-own

INSPIRING GUITAR SOLO

You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you dow-ow-ow-ow-own

Fight ‘til you drop
never stop
can’t give up
Til you reach the top (FIGHT!)
you’re the best in town (FIGHT!)
Listen to that sound
A little bit of all you got
Can never bring you down

You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!

Spoiler:

repeat to fade, occasional background shouts of “Oh Ye-eah!”

God, I want to hit someone with a dildobat.

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

God, I want to hit someone with a dildobat.

That's a part of the Batman canon I'm not familiar with.

I love my new sig...

To the Dildobat!

In other news. I love not being gored to death:

We had an interesting encounter with a Bull on the ramble last Sunday. We'd heard a loud bellowing sound in the distance for some time but presumed it was a cow or a male deer way in the distance.

After walking on for some time we arrived at a field with a few chestnut coloured cows in it. I noticed that one calf was a bullock. Bullocks can be excitable and dangerous but that one looked calm. We entered the field in the top right corner and the cows and calves retreated to the bottom of the feild. As we walked down the woman next to me said, "There's the noisy bull." I looked into the top left corner and there was an enormous, muscular, chestnut coloured bull facing out of the field and making muted bellowing sounds. "He hasn't spotted us," she noted. We walked a few more paces and I looked over to him. He was still facing out of the field. I checked the fence to our left. It was low, with a combination of hedge, wooden fence and barbed wire. I was sure that, suitably motivated, I could easily get over it. I looked back to the bull again. He had turned around, "He's turned around," I said. "Keep walking," someone nearby said. I looked back again. He was walking out of the corner of the field. "He's walking towards us," I said. The lady next to me happened to be wearing bright red gloves and a red hat. "Keep walking calmly," she said.

I started to seriously consider my options. One was to give the general command 'raise walking sticks!' in the hopes of fending him off. The other was to turn and bodily heave as many fellow walkers over the fence as I could before clambering over myself.

I looked back again. His huge form was trotting down the field. He looked agitated. I noticed that the fence/hedge ahead changed from being low to being a high and probably impenetrable. I could jump out of the field there and then, and possibly be stranded, or carry on and risk not having an escape route if he attacked. We kept walking. In that moment it felt like one of those stupid decisions that you admit to while people are signing the cast on your broken leg.

The bull drew level. His eyes were wide as he looked at us. Something told me he was more scared than angry. We arrived at the bottom of the field and the shelter of some old farm machinery. The bull passed us and stopped close to the cows. He stared at them as if to say, " Gee thanks guys. There's me having a good old bellow and the next thing I know you've all buggered off and I'm surrounded by multicoloured ramblers with sticks!!" We exited the field with a sigh of relief.

The red gloves or hat wouldn't have made a difference. Bovines cannot distinguish that color, and in bullfighting it's the motion of the cloth that drives them batty, not the color. Now if she would have worn a long coat and waved it around at him you might have had a problem!

Edit: That's not to say that being in the same field as a big bull isn't dangerous, regardless of what you are (or aren't) wearing. I'm glad you escaped a goring!

Higgledy wrote:

The lady next to me happened to be wearing bright red gloves and a red hat. "Keep walking calmly," she said.

Bulls don't attack red over other colors, it movement that they go for.

Edit - Fishwolf-hausered!

Cows are actually colorblind. The red-flag is signalling danger to the humans in the audience at a bull-fight.

EDIT: double-hausered. I guess that's what I get for not checking to see if there's another page.

I am an idiot and should not buy "name your own price" music early in the morning. I misplaced a decimal point and ended up paying waaaaaaay to much for a game soundtrack.

The reason it's hear and not in the loath comment is that the guy selling the music responded to my hurried emails and refunded me the money.

Whew.

MY GIRLFRIEND PASSED THE UFE EXAM!!!

Six years of work and study, a major exam in January, a month in Toronto at the School of Accountancy followed by a two day exam and it all coming down to this epic, three day exam that she had to write, then two months of waiting for the results. This year in particular was hellish for her and given that more than 1/3 of everyone who writes the UFE fails it their first time, she was very nervous but she bloody did it! In 9 months from now when she has all her hours, she'll officially be a Chartered Accountant, the highest account designation you can get in Canada and one that will set her up for an amazing career. Hot damn I am so incredibly proud of her right now.

mudbunny wrote:

I installed my new dishwasher. My father-in-law did the electrical (mainly because I thought it would be more complicated than it was) and I did the rest. Water in, drain out, securing it to the countertop...all me.

I put in a ceiling fan last weekend and felt the same way.

We are totally manly men who can do things, and not just nerds.

m0nk3yboy wrote:

I love my new sig...

I do, too.