Random Rants LIV: I Took An Arrow In The Knee

[Borachio]

Did he ever manage to see the carrot at the end of the tunnel?

 

[Commodore]

In a vaguely-related situation, I often find myself confused when young undergrad women wear rings on their ring fingers. Yes, some of them are married, but it seems that single people sometimes wear rings on their ring fingers too, so I don't know whether I should give them a shot or not.

It depends on if you think you can overcome that barrier or not. Some women in the military would wear a ring during deployment to make people think they were married when they weren't to avoid having horny men constantly hitting on them. We called it the "don't talk to me" ring. A buddy of mine was very good at spotting a "don't talk to me" ring and was also very good at overcoming that barrier. Let's just say he violated General Order 1 over there many times.

 

[choxorn]

Eh, let's just skip to "Kif, I've made it with a woman. Inform the men!"

 

[Farm Boy]

In a vaguely-related situation, I often find myself confused when young undergrad women wear rings on their ring fingers. Yes, some of them are married, but it seems that single people sometimes wear rings on their ring fingers too, so I don't know whether I should give them a shot or not.

In a weird and mostly wrong sort of way my putting on a ring, the real one, subsequently increased random interest in my chubby and starting to grey behind. Maybe it was the raw idgaf anymore factor.

 

[Zack]

In a weird and mostly wrong sort of way my putting on a ring, the real one, subsequently increased random interest in my chubby and starting to grey behind. Maybe it was the raw idgaf anymore factor.

Grey behind? Are you a donkey?

 

[Commodore]

In a weird and mostly wrong sort of way my putting on a ring, the real one, subsequently increased random interest in my chubby and starting to grey behind. Maybe it was the raw idgaf anymore factor.

I remember reading something a while back explaining this phenomenon. It was something like being married subconsciously tells a woman you are a good provider and a worthy mate, which makes you more desirable.

 

[bhsup]

Just got home, was in the mood to play some Master of Orion, fired up my dox box...


Link to video.

Boot took forever, ran pctools diskfox and getting all sorts of cross linked file errors and lost clusters. The partition is essentially fubar

 

[hobbsyoyo]

A German what?

Apparently there's something up with them German kids...

The factory i work in is a secure facility and we hired a company to retrofit a machine tool. They sent a german national to do the work and he can't be left alone. My time is less valuable than everyone else's so I got stuck baby sitting. Had to do it again today.

 

[Antilogic]

Just got home, was in the mood to play some Master of Orion, fired up my dox box...


Link to video.

Boot took forever, ran pctools diskfox and getting all sorts of cross linked file errors and lost clusters. The partition is essentially fubar

My old computer broke down a couple days back, haven't been able to diagnose the problem yet but it has to be either power supply or motherboard.

 

[SouthernKing]

I have to go back to school tomorrow. At least it's the final year of the virtual living hell called "high school" and then I'm hopefully out of here.

 

[Farm Boy]

Grey behind? Are you a donkey?

Just a jackass.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Heh. Once back in the mid 90s I was chatting with this lovely lady at a bar that was on the 1st floor of the building we worked in after we'd both gotten off work. I'd seen her in the office but didn't really know much of anything about her. Having a wonderful time talking with her. We were getting along great, had had a few drinks, etc. Eventually her female partner arrived to pick her up and take her home. I was kinda gutted, sure, but after a few moments to regain my ability to speak, I nonetheless thanked her for a lovely conversation and wished her a nice evening.

Related story: while in Northern Ohio in 1991, freshly made single, My folks and I were at the bar at our hotel which had a small crowd, and ONE attractive woman. One VERY attractive woman.

After my Dad and his wife left for the night, said woman came over to my table, we drank, talked, even got up and danced for an hour. No wedding ring! We briefly kissed in the corner of the bar, and I invited her back to my room...

Spoiler :

She demurred, saying "oh, no, my husband will be here in a half hour to pick me up"

Moral of the story: look for tan lines on the wedding ring finger ... Not just a ring.

I drank a lot that night and made sure she did NOT know which room I was in. Had my hand on my 9 the rest of the night...

Just a jackass.

I knew what you meant... My "ass" is greying, too...

 

[Zack]

When did 'hotel' become a euphemism for a strip club?

 

[Takhisis]

Vegas, man, Vegas.

 

[bhsup]

Related story: while in Northern Ohio in 1991, freshly made single, My folks and I were at the bar at our hotel which had a small crowd, and ONE attractive woman. One VERY attractive woman.

After my Dad and his wife left for the night, said woman came over to my table, we drank, talked, even got up and danced for an hour. No wedding ring! We briefly kissed in the corner of the bar, and I invited her back to my room...

Spoiler :

She demurred, saying "oh, no, my husband will be here in a half hour to pick me up"

Moral of the story: look for tan lines on the wedding ring finger ... Not just a ring.

I drank a lot that night and made sure she did NOT know which room I was in. Had my hand on my 9 the rest of the night...

In your honor!

 

[ReindeerThistle]

When did 'hotel' become a euphemism for a strip club?

No... It was a Holiday Inn in Ashtabula County. This bar was dead, man. She was probably as bored as I was.

In your honor!

Thanks, bh.

BTW, that has NOT happened to me since!

 

[AdamCrock]

Just got home, was in the mood to play some Master of Orion, fired up my dox box...



Boot took forever, ran pctools diskfox and getting all sorts of cross linked file errors and lost clusters. The partition is essentially fubar

Man, I feel for You .... That is terrible !! Imagine - PRICELESS data lost ...

Maybe try some sites that stil host DOS games to recover some of the games You had.... abandonia.com is a good one or maybe underdogs ?

 

[Takhisis]

Did HotU ever recover from the squatters?

 

[Arakhor]

GOG still sells MoO I & II in DOS-Box format and you can download Arena and Daggerfall from Bethesda's site for free.

 

[bhsup]

Thanks guys, but I still have the original installation CDs and/or diskettes for almost all of my old DOS games (F-19 Stealth Fighter and Command HQ being two exceptions... but Command HQ was on a SSI bundle CD I bought so SCORE!) Amusingly, though, I actually doubled down on MOO because I did buy the combo from GOG awhile back to get MOO II.