Random Rants ΠΑ: That's a paddlin'

[Synobun]

I took on a book that I know I'm going to regret working on. Money rules all, I guess.

But I'm definitely making sure my name is not associated with this in any way.

 

[Kyriakos]

I took on a book that I know I'm going to regret working on. Money rules all, I guess.

But I'm definitely making sure my name is not associated with this in any way.

Well, I recently got rejected while wanting to take on a similar project for similar reasons

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I took on a book that I know I'm going to regret working on. Money rules all, I guess.

But I'm definitely making sure my name is not associated with this in any way.

Are they making a sequel to 50 Shades of Grey?

 

[MaryKB]

Are they making a sequel to 50 Shades of Grey?

50 Shades Darker and 50 Shades Freed.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

...wait, there's already sequels?

Well, that suddenly makes me a lot more confident about my own writing.

 

[Synobun]

Are they making a sequel to 50 Shades of Grey?

It's an, erm, "self-help" title for women, as written by a man, on how to attract men.

It is... not the best in its messaging. To put it lightly. More specifically, I feel dirty reading it. Woe to the woman who reads this and follows its advice. And woe to the men who believe in this.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The elevator to my new unit is broken and I spent an hour looking for an alternate. The layout of these buildings are so byzantine that the grounds people couldn't help me navigate between the units or even find the next best alternative elevator to use. I'm also really, really sad about how small it is and all of the stuff we're going to have to get rid of to fit. I do want to get rid of a lot of stuff but this is pretty depressing. Oh well, I should focus on the fact that I've got a roof over my head in the neighborhood I want to be in and I have an interview lined up, though that one would require breaking lease and moving again.

 

[MaryKB]

The elevator to my new unit is broken and I spent an hour looking for an alternate. The layout of these buildings are so byzantine that the grounds people couldn't help me navigate between the units or even find the next best alternative elevator to use. I'm also really, really sad about how small it is and all of the stuff we're going to have to get rid of to fit. I do want to get rid of a lot of stuff but this is pretty depressing. Oh well, I should focus on the fact that I've got a roof over my head in the neighborhood I want to be in and I have an interview lined up, though that one would require breaking lease and moving again.

I'm really sorry hobbsyoyo. I'm glad to hear about your interview though, I hope that goes well! Do you so far think you like this company, and it'd be a good fit for you?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Too early to tell with the new company though I got a sign that things won't be great. And it's in an insane cost of living area far away, which means I'd be down to just my income as my wife would have to quit her job and couldn't work again until next school year. So I kind of doubt I'll be able to afford working there without taking on roommates or else splitting up our family for a year and having us each live in different cities. This is more or less the same issue that made me turn down the last job offer I got a couple weeks back, and it's a really sucky problem to have. If we didn't have student loans, things would be much, much easier but this is millennial life I guess. We're paying a grand a month and barely keeping up with interest.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It's an, erm, "self-help" title for women, as written by a man, on how to attract men.

It is... not the best in its messaging. To put it lightly. More specifically, I feel dirty reading it. Woe to the woman who reads this and follows its advice. And woe to the men who believe in this.

Oh dear.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: I just threw up for literally no reason. I didn't even feel nauseous beforehand. I'm not sure what happened.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Teenage Girl: "Please stop destroying the planet"

Conservatives: "No and we're offended you even ask that question you're obviously being hysterical STOP YELLING AT ME"

Yep, that's basically it. You'd think she was planning to swoop in and take all their trucks away and tell them to take down the minimal safeguards put in so too many migratory birds don't die in the tailings ponds.

The vitriol directed at this girl is insane.

Are they making a sequel to 50 Shades of Grey?

There were two other books for awhile, which have either been made into movies or are in the process of being made into movies... and if memory serves, a fourth book has been written.

And no, I haven't read any of them, nor have I seen the movie. But I do read news about books, since I've been interested in what Margaret Atwood has been doing... she just won the Booker Prize for The Testaments (sequel to The Handmaid's Tale).

It's an, erm, "self-help" title for women, as written by a man, on how to attract men.

It is... not the best in its messaging. To put it lightly. More specifically, I feel dirty reading it. Woe to the woman who reads this and follows its advice. And woe to the men who believe in this.

Charge him extra so you can fumigate your computer. Scrubbing the garbage out of your mind will take extra again.

Some of my student clients' stuff was... stuff I'd rather not have had to type. I just had to remind myself that I needed the money, the student was out to lunch with the crap he had written, and I had to be a professional about it.

But at least it wasn't even close to one of the hits I got one time when I was active on Amazon Mechanical Turk.

 

[MaryKB]

There were two other books for awhile, which have either been made into movies or are in the process of being made into movies... and if memory serves, a fourth book has been written.

I'm not aware of a fourth book, and I can't find any information on it. All three have already been made into movies, the final one came out last year.

I saw the first movie, but I was incredibly disappointed. I found it boring, and the acting was very stilted ... I was expecting something steamier, but there was just too much slow burning and not enough payoff.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

All three have already been made into movies, the final one came out last year.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Takhisis]

@hobbsyoyo: are you all right? You seem to have used the word ’byzantine’ with a negative connotation.

 

[Kyriakos]

@hobbsyoyo: are you all right? You seem to have used the word ’byzantine’ with a negative connotation.

Francolevantinism is strong with him :/

 

[choxorn]

Yep, that's basically it. You'd think she was planning to swoop in and take all their trucks away and tell them to take down the minimal safeguards put in so too many migratory birds don't die in the tailings ponds.

The vitriol directed at this girl is insane.

Well obviously you're not a real man unless you roll coal with your giant, totally-not-compensating-for-something truck and dining on only the rarest of endangered critters, which you hunted and killed yourself.

 

[Kyriakos]

It's an, erm, "self-help" title for women, as written by a man, on how to attract men.

It is... not the best in its messaging. To put it lightly. More specifically, I feel dirty reading it. Woe to the woman who reads this and follows its advice. And woe to the men who believe in this.

At least you didn't need to translate something by this guy:

and in the end not get the job ^_^

Though thankfully I can now do without the money, given an online seminar I made last summer is starting to pay some serious cash.

 

[JohannaK]

There's a battle raging down the street.

 

[tjs282]

Just came back from my holidays, with:

An incipient ear infection (salt crusting that I didn't wash out quick enough after a dive)
A certainly bruised, and possibly cracked rib (slippery steps on the snorkelling jetty), resulting in
A chronic lack of sleep for the past 10 days (overnight flight home also means that I have now not slept properly for nearly 30 hours -- and counting -- at the time of posting)
A persistent dry cough
A dead digital camera (likely due to excessive condensation buildup inside the underwater housing: also likely my fault for changing the battery in my A/C'd hotel room, instead of out on the balcony where %humidity was lower)
And an abiding disgust for humanity all-inclusive hotel guests who treated the dining-rooms as a trough, and often walked away from tables loaded with multiple plates of uneaten food, which was then thrown away (in a country where most of the population still lives in relative poverty)

On the other hand...

(EDITED later because my camera has apparently decided to start working again!)

There's a battle raging down the street.

Literally? Stay safe...