Snark/rant

[ivor]

Gives a new meaning to the phrase, "Bottoms up!"  I hope it wasn't too dry....



I kill me. 

[Swatopluk]

Obviously the school I went to was abnormal because it lacked all of this (but it is named after a monastery*, so that may explain a bit about it).

*pirate free but we had Otto von Bismarck for some time though (and a few of his descendants at my time)

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Suppository form??
You win. Period. At least on the alcohol end of things...er, no pun intended.
I heard we had people snorting and free basing meth in the bathrooms, but that's the worst I heard of on campus.

[Alpaca]

Are we making puns about it now? "Bottoms up?" "End of things?"

Erm... best I can chip in off the top of my head is that it's an asinine thing to do.

[Sibling Qwertyuiopasd]

Curse Steve Jobs and all his descendants!

my iPod will occasionally, but very rarely, decide to break and stop working.

this morning is one of those times. now I have to clear it. hard Reset it, reformat, whatever.

it's also the first morning I've had to get up before 6 o' clock, and it's the first day of school.


H8!

[anthrobabe]

my daughter is 17 today
she tells me I'm getting old
I tell her


snark-snark-snark
rant-rant-rant

thank you for listening

[Opsa]

Mine will be seventeen in eight years. Should I start getting ready now?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

He, my son will be 12 on a bit more than 2 weeks and I am getting ready... 

[Griffin NoName]

My eldest was 30 this summer. One is never ready.

On the snark front, and it is also on topic of birthdays, I've just bought him a (very rare) carry on trolley wheeled suitcase small enough for the CHEAP airlines as cabin baggage which has a special section for laptop AND a discreet clothes storage area hidden behind a discrete clipped flap (he says it's embarrassing when his underpants fly out when he sets up his laptop at meetings in Europe).

Anyway...... they couldn't get the courier to deliver it as his works address consists of only PO Box number and postcode which couriers won't do. So I got the Security Gate address which is a real place, but doesn't have a postcode (it's a huge area - miles and miles across - and all buildings have the same post code). Guess what, the courier's wouldn't deliver without a distinct postcode.

In the end, the supplier and I had to use Google Earth to inspect the whole sitge to work out an address that would satisfy the courier. I have spent upwards of several days on this !!!

In future presume Google Earth addis will remove need for postcodes

[anthrobabe]

On the one hand I'm glad my children are growing up

but on the other

  I miss those baby girls

that is too funny about the trolley for carry on- frustrating- but funny

[Alpaca]

Google Earth will also need to assign addresses to the sky, then. (Yeah, Toadfish astronomy nerds - Google Earth does the stuff around the earth, too, as of version 4.2.)

I'll be turning 17 in October. Most significant fact: legally allowed to drive until 1AM instead of 11PM. Ridiculously more flexibility.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

You youngin'.
My mother says the same things, Griffin and Anthro.

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

Suppository form??
You win. Period. At least on the alcohol end of things...er, no pun intended.
I heard we had people snorting and free basing meth in the bathrooms, but that's the worst I heard of on campus.

At my school, the big thing was LSD - I knew a few people who would drop acid and then go to class.

One friend of mine would bring her "stash" with her on family trips to the States.  Border security was a bit different then*, but it was still a staggeringly stupid thing to do.

No bum-ingestion, though.

* a few years after this when I was in college, a bunch friends and I did a trip to the US.  We had two vehicles, and the one I was in was the second of our group.  All the US Border Patrol agent said was, "you're all Canadian, right?  And you're going to the same place they are?  Okay - you can go."  How times change.

[Sibling Qwertyuiopasd]

I'm almost 15... my mom is... um, old.

but apparently I like hanging out with adults.

*looks around*

. . . I'm the only one born AFTER the fall of the U.S.S.R.

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

. . . I'm the only one born AFTER the fall of the U.S.S.R.

...And after my first car was made.

...And after "Hammertime".

...And (and this one's the kicker) after "Smells Like Teen Spirit" came out.

But, young Qwerty, you're wise beyond your years, methinks.