LAST PERSON TO POST WINS

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:59 pm

Go TXT! Go Nite!

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 4:11 pm

In 1288 AD (a leap year), the Scots Parliament creates a law allowing women to propose marriage to men during leap years; men who refuse such proposals are required to pay a fine to the spurned bride-to-be.

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 4:19 pm

That's a very specific law.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 4:25 pm

I like that you could potentially gamble as a woman on proposing to men who you think would refuse in order to get that sweet fine money. But what if they call your bluff!!

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 4:27 pm

I knew about that one when I was a kid.

Vibing_V · Post by **Vibing_V** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 4:49 pm

*turns heater on*

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 4:57 pm

Gonna spend a lot more heating the home this winter!

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 5:22 pm

Damien wrote:I knew about that one when I was a kid.

Did you know it dated back to page 1288 though?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 5:35 pm

Just found that out today, interestingly!

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 5:48 pm

What a wild coincidence!

Vibing_V · Post by **Vibing_V** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 6:01 pm

Damien wrote:Gonna spend a lot more heating the home this winter!

Office would be freezing anyway. This way I have pj's, blankets and cozy heater.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 6:13 pm

My office wouldn't be. As soon as the outside temperature drops below 15, people in there decide to crank the horrible 70's heating system up to 30. In a short sleeved shirt, I'm sweating and my head is thumping too much to work. After a few hours of it, one of the people who turned it up and carried on complaining that they were cold will say they're too hot and turn it back down. Much prefer to be able to have control of my own heating and dynamically add/remove appropriate layers of clothing.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 7:20 pm

I like that but fortunately I'm by myself so it shouldn't bother anyone too much unless it affects nearby apartments which should be minimal.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 7:20 pm

Sadly our hot water heat is landlord controlled and is FUCKING TURNED OFF today while it’s <10 C outside. (Being charitable they are probably doing some kind of work on it going into winter.) So I have cracked out the space heater we thankfully have.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 7:25 pm

Not winning much today for fear of being cancelled.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:03 pm

Cancel culture is working!

Vibing_V · Post by **Vibing_V** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:28 pm

Sometimes I get anxiety about sending certain emails (like to important-ish people), which feels silly, but it's a thing. In the office it's easy to be like "hey, can you take a look at this? I want a second set of eyes" but being remote maeks it feel less casual and more formal and then i get anxiety about needing to have it looked over.

We even discussed what would be in the email so there's no surprises. I'm always super paranoid about saying the wrong thing though (or saying it the wrong way).

Anxiety is fun.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:40 pm

Yeah. Emails take too long.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:19 pm

Here’s my late entry to the poetry contest that Damien already won:

It’s twenty-twenty ten twenty.
This year has been plenty.
Two more months and twelve more days,
Or is twenty-twenty here to stay?

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:33 pm

I’m submitting this one separately under a pseudonym, smeared ink:

October twenty, twenty-twenty,
When’s it over, when’s it going?
Trump alone is plenty (plenty!),
Covid too just feels like trolling.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 10:20 pm

Vibing_V wrote:Sometimes I get anxiety about sending certain emails (like to important-ish people), which feels silly, but it's a thing. In the office it's easy to be like "hey, can you take a look at this? I want a second set of eyes" but being remote maeks it feel less casual and more formal and then i get anxiety about needing to have it looked over.

Yeah I'm worried about asking questions too much when it's all phonecalls.

Vibing_V · Post by **Vibing_V** » Tue Oct 20, 2020 11:05 pm

There's also a bit of "this should've been done a week ago but I was too busy and now I feel bad b/c asking draws attention to the fact that it's not done yet"

While I'm glad to be insulated from taking calls at the moment (no work phone), lack of social contact REALLY drives me into my own head and makes the anxiety worse. When I have social contact I feel a bit more normal.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:51 am

Post thread dig winninf

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:56 am

losing more like

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 2:22 am

Post cancel win?

Vibing_V · Post by **Vibing_V** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:04 am

Post win win

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:14 am

Just a win.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:04 am

Post-coital win. (I am not the active party I’m afraid, but odds are very good that a number of people in this very city are finishing in the moments leading up to this post.)

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:05 am

Misleading win

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:17 am

Post-midnight win.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:30 am

Pre-morning win.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 6:59 am

Vibing_V wrote:There's also a bit of "this should've been done a week ago but I was too busy and now I feel bad b/c asking draws attention to the fact that it's not done yet"

While I'm glad to be insulated from taking calls at the moment (no work phone), lack of social contact REALLY drives me into my own head and makes the anxiety worse. When I have social contact I feel a bit more normal.

I always get anxiety at making/taking calls (for about 10 years). I often just let my phone right rather than answer and it’s one of the main reasons I left my last job so soon.

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:16 am

The RDM watched video game streaming last night. He doesn't usually do that.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:46 am

What did you watch?
I'm planning a charity stream for the homeless sometime before Christmas.

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:54 am

AOC and company streaming Among Us.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:06 am

I've still not played it.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:11 am

RDM wrote:AOC and company streaming Among Us.

Did they successfully convert you, comrade?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:13 am

I had to google what AOC was.

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:46 am

The RDM is just waiting for the Fox News headlines about the socialists throwing cartoons into space.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:58 am

Fucks News

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 12:15 pm

WaWard wrote:
RDM wrote:AOC and company streaming Among Us.
Did they successfully convert you, comrade?

You avoided my question, comrade

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 12:26 pm

RDM wrote:AOC and company streaming Among Us.

I watched some of that too. Seems like Ilhan's a better player than AOC.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 12:48 pm

RDM is converted.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:09 pm

I’m cavorted

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:51 pm

Diverted

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 2:41 pm

Subverted

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 2:46 pm

Subfarted

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:49 pm

Overfarted or is it Superfarted?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:51 pm

I see a potential rank being born.

RDM · Post by **RDM** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:53 pm

Converted to what?