RandomGeek's Chat Thread Featuring Sleet and Pea: Episode 29

kurowolfe · Post by **kurowolfe** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:34 pm

Erm, no, but it was still generous of them, considering that they'll only give out coupons if they are late with their delivery...

Vespier Leo · Post by **Vespier Leo** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:18 pm

That is a bit odd. generally if a pizza here is that late, it is free.

kurowolfe · Post by **kurowolfe** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:23 pm

That's the way that particular pizza place works. Considering that there's like only 2 chains that provides delivery and only one of them is available around my neighbourhood, we had to settle for that. (-_-')

And anyway, Malaysian roads aren't exactly the safest place for a bike rider (or any other users for that matter), so it's better to be safe than sorry. It didn't work for the delivery guy though...

Vespier Leo · Post by **Vespier Leo** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:40 pm

I do hope That he wasn't hurt to bad. I have seen very bad accidents involving Bicycleists and Motorcycleists around here.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:12 pm

Alex M. wrote:
kurowolfe wrote:I remember a story from a while ago, me and my brothers ordered some pizza for delivery over the phone, but they still had not arrived even after like 1 1/2 hours.

Then, we got a call from the pizza place, and the clerk told us that the delivery guy was caught in an accident, and was sent to the hospital for injuries. The pizza place gave us like 50% discount on our order that finally arrived after another 1/2 hour.

I felt bad for the first guy, but getting the discount was sweet! Urm, I feel bad now...
Wait..... The pizzas weren't free!? Even if was hour and half of waiting?

I would assume that whoever called was possibly frantic about having a coworker/possibly good friend end up in a car accident (with injuries serious enough that he/she needed immediate medical attention) and that they were just not thinking in a clear, business-like manner. Stress and worry and panic do crazy things to human beings.

While we're on the subject of pizza: A few years ago, my friend and I called Domino's to get a pizza delivered. Keep in mind, we live in the boondocks (AKA the middle of nowhere). Everything went fine until he asked for our address. We have him the name of the town, he simply laughed and hung up on us. -_-'

sonic id furreh!!! · Post by **sonic id furreh!!!** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:15 pm

Beagle wrote:While we're on the subject of pizza: A few years ago, my friend and I called Domino's to get a pizza delivered. Keep in mind, we live in the boondocks (AKA the middle of nowhere). Everything went fine until he asked for our address. We have him the name of the town, he simply laughed and hung up on us. -_-'

really? you should've sued >.>

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:20 pm

sonic id furreh!!! wrote:
Beagle wrote:While we're on the subject of pizza: A few years ago, my friend and I called Domino's to get a pizza delivered. Keep in mind, we live in the boondocks (AKA the middle of nowhere). Everything went fine until he asked for our address. We have him the name of the town, he simply laughed and hung up on us. -_-'
really? you should've sued >.>

Bahaha, nah. We kinda had it coming. We knew that they probably didn't deliver that far out at the time. Domino's is.... 20 miles from her house? Yeah.

sonic id furreh!!! · Post by **sonic id furreh!!!** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:22 pm

Beagle wrote:
sonic id furreh!!! wrote:
Beagle wrote:While we're on the subject of pizza: A few years ago, my friend and I called Domino's to get a pizza delivered. Keep in mind, we live in the boondocks (AKA the middle of nowhere). Everything went fine until he asked for our address. We have him the name of the town, he simply laughed and hung up on us. -_-'
really? you should've sued >.>
Bahaha, nah. We kinda had it coming. We knew that they probably didn't deliver that far out at the time. Domino's is.... 20 miles from her house? Yeah.

so... what ARE the boondocks? are they some type of gansta town type thing >.>?

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:36 pm

Hahaha, only on Cartoon Network!

No, the tradition meaning of "boondocks" is a country term. It's used to define these small little towns as being way out in the middle of nowhere. For instance, I have to drive 35 miles to get to the nearest movie theater and 12 miles to my school.

sonic id furreh!!! · Post by **sonic id furreh!!!** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:40 pm

D: ........... that's horrible!

Vespier Leo · Post by **Vespier Leo** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:37 pm

I have been to a lot of towns like that. It must be terrible to be so far away from everything.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:54 pm

You get used to it eventually. It's really not that bad; no crime and very quiet and really awesome people. Have y'all ever seen The Andy Griffith Show? That's basically the town I live in.

Vespier Leo · Post by **Vespier Leo** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:57 pm

That is what I could say about Bogart. the town my father lives in. it is very tiny but it is full of good people.

Post by **Sleet** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:34 am

I've never really been to a small country town. I feel left out.

Post by **Dissension** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:46 am

You should come here! We only have ~25,000 inhabitants.

Post by **Sleet** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:51 am

I gladly would! The logistics are just tough.

ManaWolf · Post by **ManaWolf** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:22 am

I lived In a cute little town called Greenfield, or at least it used to be cute and little. We had no crime, there was always something interesting to go to on main street. There was a friendly person on around every corner, and they would always smile to each other as they walked pass one another. And with a popular pizza shop near by It was a great place to live. For this reason, more people wanted to live here. And over time, the Population started rising dramatically. With the new people of today around now, people don't feel like walking to main street and doing anything inside the stores. So most of them closed down and went of of business. Even my most favorite candy shop that I loved to go to moved away. With even more time, Greenfield went from a town to a city. The city council and the mayor made small changes to the city. Electric Parking meter are now on almost EVERY parking lot and space. Entire buildings were crumbled to the ground to make room for more lots. And now when I go on main street, no one even gives a passing glance. But that was happening just as I'm living in my New house in a town called Montague/Turners Falls. A town that's one half mile over to Greenfield. But still, it sad. I wish I could be in that candy shop one last time.

Kitela · Post by **Kitela** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:04 am

Dissension wrote:You should come here! We only have ~25,000 inhabitants.

Our town has about 1,000, give or take. We have one place to get pizza in our town and they have REALLY good and weird types of pizza there.

I'm not even sure if they deliver or not, lol.

Also, every time we get a heat wave, people start stealing air conditioners.

Blue Braixen · Post by **Blue Braixen** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:22 am

Kitela wrote:Also, every time we get a heat wave, people start stealing air conditioners.

*laughs*

My town used to be small when I moved here. Now, it's a city, and it's not.

Cwitt · Post by **Cwitt** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:51 am

I think my towns population is like 300, give or take a hundred. I may be completely wrong though.

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:46 pm

I live in the fourth most populous place in the state, but that's mostly because they define the borders of the city I technically live in generously. Speaking of, did anyone get the story about the Discovery channel building on the news a few months back?

Kitela wrote:Also, every time we get a heat wave, people start stealing air conditioners.

That sounds like it'd be a hard thing to run off with.

I burned my finger today. It was my left hand, at least. Hey, KWIK POLL- who here is left handed?

Post by **Sleet** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:28 pm

*raises his/her left paw*

I am! Well, I'm ambidextrous, but my left paw is slightly more dominant.

CaptainPea wrote:I live in the fourth most populous place in the state, but that's mostly because they define the borders of the city I technically live in generously. Speaking of, did anyone get the story about the Discovery channel building on the news a few months back?

No! What happened?

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:38 pm

Sleet wrote:
CaptainPea wrote:I live in the fourth most populous place in the state, but that's mostly because they define the borders of the city I technically live in generously. Speaking of, did anyone get the story about the Discovery channel building on the news a few months back?
No! What happened?

This. No lasting effects really, but still.

Sleet wrote:*raises his/her left paw*

I am! Well, I'm ambidextrous, but my left paw is slightly more dominant.

*maracas and confetti*

Cwitt · Post by **Cwitt** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:32 pm

I remember that. I was on the CNN website looking for a current event, and that's when i saw it.

Kitela · Post by **Kitela** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:41 pm

CaptainPea wrote: That sounds like it'd be a hard thing to run off with.

I'm not quite sure how they do it, I just here from residents that it happens. I would imagine it would be as easy/hard as stealing a big TV which happens more than you'd think.

CaptainPea wrote: This. No lasting effects really, but still.

I remember hearing about that. Turns out those environmentalist protesters aren't so peaceful after all, huh?

Post by **Sleet** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:52 pm

Of course not. Even when people have a good cause, they still aren't immune to doing bad things. 99% of wars start with someone doing a bad thing for a good cause.

Kitela · Post by **Kitela** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:01 pm

Yeah, I would say that every movement, no matter how peaceful has it's extremist. This was a good example.

I know environmentalist are mostly peaceful.

sonic id furreh!!! · Post by **sonic id furreh!!!** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:56 pm

i know it was stil a very dangerous situation, but, started pistols? seriously?

Post by **Dissension** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:01 pm

So... YouTube invited me to join a pilot program in which I can choose to have ads placed "next to" videos I post in exchange for a share of the advertising revenue. Hooray?

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:09 pm

sonic id furreh!!! wrote:i know it was stil a very dangerous situation, but, started pistols? seriously?

I think they only figured out that they were starter pistols after the fact, but I don't remember.
Also, of tangential relation,

HEY KIDS

Dissension wrote:So... YouTube invited me to join a pilot program in which I can choose to have ads placed "next to" videos I post in exchange for a share of the advertising revenue. Hooray?

...isn't that how it already works?

sonic id furreh!!! · Post by **sonic id furreh!!!** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:10 pm

Dissension wrote:So... YouTube invited me to join a pilot program in which I can choose to have ads placed "next to" videos I post in exchange for a share of the advertising revenue. Hooray?

sooo..... they're going to spam up your youtube with more ads?

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:13 pm

sonic id furreh!!! wrote:
Dissension wrote:So... YouTube invited me to join a pilot program in which I can choose to have ads placed "next to" videos I post in exchange for a share of the advertising revenue. Hooray?
sooo..... they're going to spam up your youtube with more ads?

So long as it stays a free service to upload and watch videos, I'll accept a certain amount of advertising, especially if that money is going to the user.
What I think is silly is watching the same Cox Communication ad a million times in two days, or a 30 second ad in front of a 15 second video.

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:16 pm

CaptainPea wrote:
HEY KIDS

It's Kitty Pryde Shark!

Alex M. · Post by **Alex M.** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:34 pm

CaptainPea wrote: So long as it stays a free service to upload and watch videos, I'll accept a certain amount of advertising, especially if that money is going to the user.
What I think is silly is watching the same Cox Communication ad a million times in two days, or a 30 second ad in front of a 15 second video.

I don't really care about ads because I use Adblock. But why YT needs even more ads? I mean , Google is the owner of YouTube.

Post by **Sleet** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:41 pm

So it can make more money for themselves and the users. While still being free.

KalloonWhite · Post by **KalloonWhite** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:19 pm

Okay.

I'm currently trying to write five differant stories with at least 10 differant main characters each.

I may be in over head, right now.

Vespier Leo · Post by **Vespier Leo** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:26 pm

Having a total of ten main characters in each story is a bit in depth. It is going to take a lot of effort to keep all of their actions, past and present, sorted out and not get which character did or is doing what mixed up.

Liam · Post by **Liam** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:44 pm

Sleet wrote:How is that evil? Their terms of service disallow pseudonyms.

Because they use that to cross-correlate all the myriads of data their data kraken already found about you and sell it to the highest bidder, which can be credit sharks, the mafia, certain intelligence services serving the one or other dictatorship and a bunch of other lowlifes. And since they apparently aim for the branch Google Bank just two words: Lehman Brothers.

Granted, closing accounts due to TOS infringements is equitable, but doing so without any words of explanation is not. Especially not if that leads to being locked out from all of Google's services like mail and they didn't lift a finger by Mr. Fifty Curtis and Lady Germanotta.

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:50 pm

Vespier Leo wrote:Having a total of ten main characters in each story is a bit in depth. It is going to take a lot of effort to keep all of their actions, past and present, sorted out and not get which character did or is doing what mixed up.

Yeah, I think at a certain point having so many main characters, a handful of them will come to the forefront and be "main" main characters, essentially giving yourself a good supporting cast.

And I've got another SUPER SECRET AVATAR now. If you see it, you win absolutely nothing as there's a 1/41 chance you are looking at it right now. CAN YOU GUESS WHAT IT IS? (Here's a hint: it's a rhinoceros.)

KalloonWhite · Post by **KalloonWhite** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:24 pm

Well, for me, making a character requires an emotional investment. I make a character, and then I sorta just pour life into it, if don't give my characters proper stories and everything, I feel like an awful person.