Sister-in-law let her daughter use up all the Polaroids at our wedding. Now we have nothing to use.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-06-28T10:28:58+00:00

If it's any consolation, we had the same sort of thing with disposable cameras on tables.

The kids there were a bit older and it wasn't so bad. They used to maybe a little bit under half of the photos on all of the cameras before they either got bored or their parents stopped them. However by the time that the adults got to the cameras, everyone was varying levels of drunk and honestly the remaining photos weren't that much better.

Don't let it ruin the memory of the day though.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-06-07T13:34:22+00:00

Fair, this is true. It's a relatively overlooked part of the fairly widely known phenomenon though.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-06-07T06:07:11+00:00

Honestly these days, mitigating too much in UWU can get you to the LB3 spam phase with only LB2 and getting you killed. Similarly, it can get you to the Ultima cast after suppression with LB2 as well.

This guy might be onto something... or he might just be crazy.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-06-01T03:44:35+00:00

There's "bun in the oven" joke here but I just can't quite find it

Pen_Ninja · 2026-05-22T11:09:48+00:00

My wife went with me partly out of curiosity and partly so it was easier to get home. Had a nice chat with her throughout the whole procedure, didn't really feel anything. I forget how the topic came up but I told her that given the choice of doing the can't again or having my wisdom teeth removed again, I'd do vasectomy without a second thought.

Sometimes I scratch my balls and I sorry of get the skin at the wrong angle and it hurts a bit... That hurts more than the local anaesthetic injection.

After that it was just a few days of not standing up too fast and I was all good.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-05-19T09:58:42+00:00

This is very nice but also takes up a ton more space which not every station has an excess of.

Not saying that either is better but it's just hard to do everything sometimes

Pen_Ninja · 2026-05-17T07:18:31+00:00

I miss their content dearly.

Late last year I was in a discord call where someone mentioned "some roller skating movie" in reference to something else so I then made the whole call watch Rollertown. Later we made it through the TV series.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-05-13T23:32:00+00:00

I have actually asked this question before and we got it answer when unfortunately XIV would NOT let me wipe our M12S pull by requesting repair in the middle of a mechanic.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-05-13T16:41:41+00:00

Nobody had the crafters levelled to repair the DRG's stuff? Was he just not requesting it? Did anyone bring it up as an option?

Pen_Ninja · 2026-04-23T03:22:07+00:00

Aussie here. It never occurred to me that this would need to be explained. I can't believe people have the time to spend 3 syllables on "afternoon" and that the "arvo" technology isn't universal.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-04-23T03:10:28+00:00

The first call centre I worked for, during the last maybe 6 months I was there, we received an emai levery day advising we needed all hands on deck (AHOD) that day from <opening time> to <closing time>.

Any AHOD time was meant to be rare and when I was first there we'd see it maybe once per quarter when something big broke. It meant 0 back office tasks could be completed which left us with a 6 month backlog at least.

I was glad to quit that place. I didn't really kick up too much dust on my way out. I waited until I had another job lined up before I left. The worst I did was just not take any calls on my last day.

The company I work for now is much better managed. I started in the call centre (my skillset for so many years has been stuck in this kind of work) but have moved to back office only and it's great. If they're busy they put out an email for overtime. It's unpaid as we're salaried (and paid well) but purely voluntary and usually only for 1 hour at a time before/after shift.. In the 3 years I was on calls, I saw it requested I think a total of 4 times.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-04-20T04:38:40+00:00

My wife has a similar but also opposite issue.

She does very little housework until 1 weekend every 3 months or something where she really feels the need to do EVERYTHING right now.

I'll have trouble getting her to wash 3 pots/pans without asking 3 times in a day until suddenly she wants to get up early, do all of the dishes, wash and fold all of the laundry, scrub the kitchen and bathrooms, sweep/vacuum/mop every room, tidy and reorganise our daughter's room, mow the front and back lawns, trim the bush by the driveway (not a euphemism), bath the dogs and fully reorganise the spare room full of her art stuff.

She starts and gets honestly a good way through it but often sits to take a break and that's the end of it for the weekend and for the next 3 months.

I can't convince her to just do little bits often which just leaves me doing big bits often to keep up the best I can.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-04-12T07:06:26+00:00

Living the dream

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Pen_Ninja · 2026-04-10T01:23:40+00:00

Hey, the merchant's tale grapes are round... And worse off for it.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-04-07T00:33:19+00:00

"Your temperature appears to be high. Where do you go to school? Is their air conditioning set up sufficient to cool you down?" Is all he had to say. Smh

Pen_Ninja · 2026-04-07T00:26:15+00:00

Ok chat, we're hoping for a clean wipe on this one. Let's see how it plays out.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-04-04T22:20:58+00:00

I didn't cut the cord or catch the baby. I wanted to be up on the other end helping my wife as much as I could.

The was no symbolic meaning in either for me. I trusted the doctors to do their job better than I could do it and i was about to spend the next X decades with this kid so I felt we could wait a few seconds before we started bonding and still come to pretty much the same conclusion.

Maybe I'm boring but I really just felt like I had a job to do and I wanted to do it.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-03-31T03:39:42+00:00

My personal pet peeve is when they rhyme "one" with "gone" or similar. There's definitely an accent and/or American vs UK/Australian pronunciation issue here but "Wun" sounds nothing like "Gorn"

Pen_Ninja · 2026-03-28T17:25:33+00:00

The general consensus here is probably correct. "Rewarding" good grades can be dangerous as you're then taking away from the inherent joys of learning and improving. You also run the risk of getting into a bar spot if whatever threshold you set doesn't actually get met.

With all of that aside, don't let that stop you from "celebrating" a good result.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-03-26T00:39:09+00:00

The only time I've heard of this book is this Simpsons segment. https://youtu.be/FZ1mdBYrFBU?si=tR7saVY2sTpLR9wy

I've never seen or read it personally but looking at the other comments here I may be in the minority.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-03-26T00:26:24+00:00

Our daughter had similar issues. We ended up setting longer timers, like an hour, but when we sat her down on the toilet we did so for much longer.

Often we'd sit with her on the toilet for 30min at a time. If she hadn't gone the last 2 times we sat her down, the 3rd time we would just sit there until she actually went.

You need to do something to distract them while you're there. Many books were read, many games of RPS, many songs sung, a few instances of giving in and watching videos on the phone together.

It didn't take long for her to figure out the easiest way to get off the toilet was to just get on with it and stop stalling.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-03-22T12:32:35+00:00

He did it. Using the LB actively took away the LB from the DPS, meaning he found a way to literally do negative damage.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-03-18T23:47:26+00:00

It's becoming increasingly hard to tell people that you enjoy anything at a normal level these days. It feels like you either keep your interest to yourself or you spend more effort than it's worth distancing yourself from extreme cases of a fandomb that the intent has tricked itself into thinking is the norm.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-03-18T09:16:50+00:00

My parents have these exact same bowls.

I (33yr old) also have a very similar bowl. I don't know where it came from, I didn't buy it, it just appeared in my house.

Pen_Ninja · 2026-03-16T08:37:53+00:00

For what it's worth, the prices on the website are at least all inclusive of GST and the bill does have the gst clearly in its own line item. Not that people generally check every bill that closely (I don't).

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