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Red shirt, then. Just because the bleach has decided the shirt is expendable doesn't mean you have to

... if nothing else, you can always cut it up to use as rags or whatev'. Cloth est.

Dunno about coffee, but I can attest to the fact that tea mixed with hot chocolate is goddamn awful. Don't do that. It is terrible.

Yeah, when whatever it is locks up, sound for the entire system shuts off. Not just for the program that (seems to) be causing it. It's just that it starts back up when that particular program (usually one of my browsers, after I've been playing flash games or whathaveyou) is closed.

Watch As People Flee In Terror From The Giant Mutant Spider Dog

Think twice about clicking if arachnophobic or don't like pranks.

Looks staged as hell, but amusing none the less. Spiderdog was kinda' cute. Actual terrifying part was some of those camera angles, eesh. Random recording devices set up in perfect positions to look down people shirts and whatnot? Kiiinda' creepy.

Quote from: Sirus on September 06, 2014, 11:52:42 am

Frumple is, unfortunately, correct. When I was assaulted by a coworker in a previous job and tried to report it, my boss gave me two options: I could pursue my complaint, which would likely cause us both to lose our jobs, or I could shut up and we'd both get to keep them.

And that precludes going straight to the police with it as well?

If you want (or, more likely, need) to keep a job, yes. Seriously, if you bring cops into the workplace the management, who decide if you stay on the job are not, are not going to be happy. They are going to be looking for a way to get rid of the problem, which (especially by going over their heads and calling in the police) you are part of -- and to a large extent, insofar as they're concerned, the majority of it. And in the states, they can usually fire you for no reason. Giving them one is generally not how you keep a job.

S'like. Yeah, you could go to the cops. Technically. It'd probably end up costing you notable legal fees and your job. But you could do it. And then lose, y'know, home, health, food, probably a substantial chunk of your hireability, etc., so forth, so on. There's a reason whistleblowers don't do what they do lightly -- anything even remotely resembling it is probably going to shit all over your life. If management doesn't take care of a problem themselves, you're functionally SoL. Lot of times even bringing problems to their attention is risky. Lot of people in management positions haven't internalized the concept of not shooting the messenger.

*shrugs vaguely* People have their kinks. Plus some write it just for the hell of it -- mess with people, see if they can craft a scenario in which the situation is actually (at least somewhat) believable (let's be honest, if you can sell a bilbo/gandalf relationship to an even remotely discerning reader, you can sell goddamn anything. It's good writing practice.), etc., so forth, so on. At least nomenclature like that fooXfoo stuff lets them warn readers what they're getting into. Most print novels aren't nearly so considerate, and then you run into an incestuous hermaphroditic orgy in your formerly kind and loving sci-fi and what the hell.

... I sincerely hope you're either unaware of or simply intentionally ignoring the normal implications of the fooXfoo pattern.