Capt. Dirigible
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« Reply #425 on: April 12, 2012, 02:14:52 pm » |
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I could give you a few construction hints on a 98dB audio alarm triggered by the cover being removed. That's very helpful..but this is a silent study reference library. Not sure a 98db alarm is what we need! |
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I say, Joe it's jolly frightening out here.
Nonsense dear boy, you should be more like me.
But look at you! You're shaking all over!
Shaking? You silly goose! I'm just doing the Watusi
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« Reply #426 on: April 12, 2012, 02:42:02 pm » |
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but cant librarians get away with it??
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« Reply #427 on: April 12, 2012, 03:13:00 pm » |
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Librarians can get away with a lot of things, but setting off alarms isn't usually one of them, no matter how much we'd like to!!  How about rigging up a silent alarm that lights up at the librarian's desk?? Librarian (Ret.) |
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Capt. Dirigible
Rogue Ætherlord
United Kingdom
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« Reply #428 on: April 12, 2012, 03:14:26 pm » |
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but cant librarians get away with it??
Get away with what? Using skirting board plug sockets or setting off a 98db alarm? A light on the enquiries/admissions desk that shows when a cover has been removed would be a good idea.. |
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« Reply #430 on: April 12, 2012, 06:05:44 pm » |
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There was a time that I had a REAL job, making REAL money. Now I'm a telemarketer making less money than I made 20 years ago, and it sucks. I hope this recession ends soon. I'm not sure how much more of this I can take.  |
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« Reply #431 on: April 17, 2012, 06:18:50 pm » |
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Not being around here as much as I would like anymore.
Life has kinda... Well, to put it bluntly, thrown me a few curveballs that I'm none to happy to deal with. Worker's Comp is f***ing me right up the arse, my little niece is in the hospital (she MAY get to come home today, Light Willing), and my freetime... Well, let's just say it's getting my house ready to maybe sell.
I'm fed up with living in this neighborhood, the druggies are getting on my nerves, and I'm tired of living on 0.15 acres of land! I also want to have a Mercedes, sauna and room for a pony!
The sliver lining? IF I play my cards right, I may get on here once or twice a week-not to do much more than post in the offtopic, as that's basically all my life has become now... But still, getting on once or twice a week is better than none at all!
I have missed you all, and HOPE to be back around more regular... We see how well that's worked out THUS far...
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« Reply #432 on: April 17, 2012, 06:29:55 pm » |
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There was a time that I had a REAL job, making REAL money. Now I'm a telemarketer making less money than I made 20 years ago, and it sucks. I hope this recession ends soon. I'm not sure how much more of this I can take. I feel your pain. I'm starting to get agitated to say the least about having a pair of decent degrees and yet only able to find work in a warehouse |
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Persons intending to travel by open carriage should select a seat with their backs to the engine, by which means they will avoid the ashes emitted therefrom, that in travelling generally, but particularly through the tunnels, prove a great annoyance; the carriage farthest from the engine will in consequence be found the most desirable.
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« Reply #433 on: April 17, 2012, 07:30:28 pm » |
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There was a time that I had a REAL job, making REAL money. Now I'm a telemarketer making less money than I made 20 years ago, and it sucks. I hope this recession ends soon. I'm not sure how much more of this I can take. And thankful you should be to have a job too! Yes sir! You don't have a clue how bad it can get. I've already vented my laundry in this forum before: http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,34368.0.htmlFor me it's surviving a "bad" bankruptcy, the loss of my business, not getting hired -ever- (except for the US 2010 Census)and after *literally* 1000 applications for engineering jobs, and finally the inevitable -eviction this last October: read the dirty details here: http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,34368.0.html2 Masters degrees (MS Aero Engr / Mech Engr.) and I got tired of begging for a job and instead gave myself a job. It's the best advice I can give. |
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« Reply #434 on: April 17, 2012, 10:20:58 pm » |
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Not being around here as much as I would like anymore.
Life has kinda... Well, to put it bluntly, thrown me a few curveballs that I'm none to happy to deal with. Worker's Comp is f***ing me right up the arse, my little niece is in the hospital (she MAY get to come home today, Light Willing), and my freetime... Well, let's just say it's getting my house ready to maybe sell.
I'm fed up with living in this neighborhood, the druggies are getting on my nerves, and I'm tired of living on 0.15 acres of land! I also want to have a Mercedes, sauna and room for a pony!
The sliver lining? IF I play my cards right, I may get on here once or twice a week-not to do much more than post in the offtopic, as that's basically all my life has become now... But still, getting on once or twice a week is better than none at all!
I have missed you all, and HOPE to be back around more regular... We see how well that's worked out THUS far...
Good to see you back on here Xenos. Maybe I should start pestering you on Facebook until you post on here more often.  |
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"Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you."
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« Reply #435 on: April 18, 2012, 10:03:07 am » |
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Welcome back Xenos, we were starting to miss you here.
My gaaahhhrr is about my mother-in-law. She couldn't get rid of her cough (she's a smoker) , so she went to the doctor yesterday. She has had breast cancer, so it could be possible a little bit of the cancer has moved on to the lungs. This test was yesterday. My wife was waiting all afternoon for a phone call from her mother. M-I-L arranged to let something know, as soon as she left the hospital. Right before dinner, my wife received a text message. A $^#^% unpersonal text message! "not shure what it is, more tests later"
So my wife's upset, called her brother, who also had that same message. Finally, after the confusion was over, my wife decided to make a phone call. After asking what the doctor said, my wife asked why she sended a $%@ text message. M-I-L wasn't aware of her fault. "It was the best way to do. and she didn't want to bother us with her problem."
So last night we had to deal with M-I-L 's possible illness AND her action.
Oh, and while telling my wife what the doctor said, she never ever mentioned lung cancer. She said:"it could also be "something else"" What's the name of that African river again?
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« Reply #436 on: April 18, 2012, 12:41:44 pm » |
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Bicyclebuilder, while I understand your frustration... someone who is being tested for cancer may be not in the right mindset to wonder about proper phone etiquette or what her actions may mean to other people in that moment. Of course you are worried and you have every right to be. But it is not you, who may be ill and has to deal with that.
No offense meant, I just want you to look at the situation from a different angle.
My own GAAAH: *edited, because if the wrong people read it, I'm toast...*
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. (Cecil Beaton)
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« Reply #437 on: April 18, 2012, 01:38:57 pm » |
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Evelyn, I hope everything works out for you. *I've read it, your secret is save with me  * M-I-L decided to call personally next time, no matter how difficult it is going to be. We've been tought to share thoughts, good or bad. Keeping your feelings hidden doesn't make things go away. On a side note, my wife's mother is the only parent she's got left. She's lost her father in her teens. He died suddenly, without warning. After an arguement with my wife, about something stupid (as usual with teens and parents). She never had the chance to make up with her dad. Last year we lost my wife's last grandmother, an uncle, an aunt and our own son. That all comes back and opens up wounds. What's the most frustrating is M-I-L has had several warnings. A brother and a sister lost by lung cancer. Both heavy smokers like her. We ones did an intervention when she had "a bad cough" before. She stopped for about a week, until her cough was gone. She doesn't smoke near our daughter (thank god), because M-I-L sais:"it's bad for her." She knows smoking is bad for her, she knows she could die from smoking, but she stil continues. It seems we are more worried than she should be. To me, that's the same as approaching a traffic jam, knowing you have to stop, but just like to drive. Right before hitting another car, wondering why you should stop. After the crash being surprised over what happened. Smoking is bad, period. Smoking to much causes lung cancer, period. She might be the one who's (probably) got the illness, but she drags others with her. It might not be me, who may be ill and have to deal with it, but she's got plenty of warnings. All warnings clearly seen and understood. Smoking is addictive, but not unstopable. My dad used to smoke a couple of packs a day, heavy tobacco. After a wakeup call, he stopped emediatly. Cold turkey. He had a rough month and after that he never touched a sigarette. It's more actually doing it, than physical addiction. |
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« Reply #438 on: April 18, 2012, 02:05:37 pm » |
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A downright mild GAAH compared to everyone one elses', but still... In Tim Burton's newest film Dark Shadows, Johnny Depp is Barnabas, a vampire who awakes in 1972 after centuries of imprisonment to find his family in ruins...   "What... what have they done to meeeeeee?!" |
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'How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spread his claws,
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« Reply #439 on: April 19, 2012, 11:31:46 am » |
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Gah, what have they done to JD, let alone vampires generally!
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''I'm a loose bolt in a complete machine. What a match! I'm half-doomed and you're semi-sweet.'' "You want steampunk to be a novelty, a LOLcat, a meme. I want it to be my life. Which of us is going to fight harder for it?" - Dimitri Markotin *DISCLAIMER* This dungeon is fictional, and any similarities to other dungeons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.  http://www.facebook.com/avasapparelMention you're from BG when ordering for free shipping! http://www.etsy.com/shop/AshleighEllanUse 'AVA10' for 10% off! |
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Augustus Longeye
Daedric Lord of Biscuits
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Rogue Ætherlord
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« Reply #440 on: April 19, 2012, 02:29:22 pm » |
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That's my GAH  It seems monsters can't be monsters any more. We either have mutilating abominations who just like to collect as much blood from an individual as possible, or THAT. Where are the monsters with class?! ~Longeye~ |
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I say you, chaps down there! Piss off, see? Haa ha! Love, Space Longeye <3 |
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Capt. Dirigible
Rogue Ætherlord
United Kingdom
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« Reply #441 on: April 19, 2012, 02:41:08 pm » |
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Where are the monsters with class?!
~Longeye~
well here's a monster with class.. |
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Augustus Longeye
Daedric Lord of Biscuits
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« Reply #442 on: April 19, 2012, 02:57:06 pm » |
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« Reply #443 on: April 19, 2012, 03:14:17 pm » |
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There was a time that I had a REAL job, making REAL money. Now I'm a telemarketer making less money than I made 20 years ago, and it sucks. I hope this recession ends soon. I'm not sure how much more of this I can take. And thankful you should be to have a job too! Yes sir! You don't have a clue how bad it can get. Yes, I do, and if you want a shitty telemarketing job, there are always plenty of them hiring. These are jobs that SUCK, and that's why there are always openings available. |
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« Reply #444 on: April 19, 2012, 03:54:47 pm » |
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Well a lot of modern* vampire fiction is inspired by a short story, The Vampyre, where the vampire was heavily based on this man.  *Post The Vampyre, so not exactly very modern |
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Capt. Dirigible
Rogue Ætherlord
United Kingdom
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« Reply #445 on: April 19, 2012, 04:16:48 pm » |
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Yes, Polidori's Lord Ruthven was the original 'aristocratic vampire'. Prior to him vampires were usually revenants..little more than walking corpses stinking of death. After Ruthven it became de rigueur for bloodsuckers to be suave, sophisticated and have some sort of title (Sir Francis Varney...Lady Ducayne..Countess Karnstein..etc right up to the daddy of them all..Count Dracula).
It's only in the last forty years or so that vampires have ceased to be gentry living in remote castles and have become relatively ordinary people (teenagers mainly..or even adolescents..biker types..old soldiers)
Personally..never having seen the original Barnabas Collins (as portrayed by Jonathan Frid) in anything other than pictures (we never got House of Dark Shadows in the UK) I think Johnny Depp looks quite cool and suitably vampiric in Tim Burton's new Dark Shadows. Depp himself seems to be virtually 'immortal' himself. He's a year off his 50th birthday and looks about 20!
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« Reply #446 on: April 22, 2012, 06:23:25 am » |
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My mom would be 47 today. (April 22) A few days later a year ago she had a seizure which sent her to the hospital where we found out that she had cancer which spread from her colon to her brain and snapped her C7 vertebrae along the way....needless to say I am very depressed. Especially since her sister, her landlord, and now mine, has turned into a heartless *****. Luckily I have rum....rum makes things a little easier.
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« Reply #447 on: April 22, 2012, 09:51:03 am » |
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To those who have sadness today...enjoy an insta-hug *HUG*.
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« Reply #448 on: April 22, 2012, 10:09:27 am » |
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To those who have sadness today...enjoy an insta-hug *HUG*.
*hugs back* My recent gah (yay, a new one amongst the still-present previous ones): love issues. I rarely ever have them, but when I do...guh. (There`s this boy I like, and just around the time I started realising I like him, he got a new girlfriend who is also one of my colleagues. Happens to me every time I like someone.) |
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« Reply #449 on: April 22, 2012, 01:06:48 pm » |
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To those who have sadness today...enjoy an insta-hug *HUG*.
Thank you! It's very much appreciated. *hugs* right back! I have the sneaking suspicion, that all these recruiters out there advertise interesting jobs, that do not really exist. I apply to them, the recruiter calls me - and then, all they want me to sign up for are short-term temporary trained-monkey jobs for minimum wages... I mean like "work an entire day and after deducing tax and commuting costs, you have £30!" Don't want to brag, but I used to earn that much money per hour.  |
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