Author Topic: The General Chit Chat Thread 3 (Read 326088 times)

Burkingam · « **Reply #6940 on:** September 20, 2013, 10:47:32 PM »

xkcd and I have something in common.

lololitas · « **Reply #6941 on:** September 20, 2013, 10:50:29 PM »

There is a trick t o that: clean up before inviting anyone in and still claim it's disastrous. Most of my fellow students do it that way^^

Burkingam · « **Reply #6942 on:** September 21, 2013, 12:29:20 AM »

I usually don't know beforehand that I'm bringing someone back to my place. The only exception is one of my friends whom I sometime hire to clean my place for me and if I cleaned it before, it would defeat the purpose.

megido-rev.M · « **Reply #6943 on:** September 21, 2013, 12:35:09 AM »

Try not making a mess?

Burkingam · « **Reply #6944 on:** September 21, 2013, 12:44:12 AM »

INPOSHIBURU!!!

megido-rev.M · « **Reply #6945 on:** September 21, 2013, 12:47:54 AM »

Nothing is impossible with imagination!

lololitas · « **Reply #6946 on:** September 21, 2013, 12:48:37 AM »

Quote from: Burkingam on September 21, 2013, 12:29:20 AM

I usually don't know beforehand that I'm bringing someone back to my place. The only exception is one of my friend whom I sometime hire to clean my place for me and if I cleaned it before, it would defeat the purpose.

I always keep a place somewhat clean where I can place them and push the worst out of the way while they wait for a few minutes^^

also: the hungarian workforce is cheap, so I have a regular cleaning arrangement with one of the universities cleaningladies. She comes by every two weeks and get's 3000Ft in cash (around 10€ or 12.5$, which is mroe than twice the minimum wage in hungary for 2hours of work). I actually cleaned myself for half a year due to my pride, but then I though to hell with it she does it better than me and I'm to lazy. I still clean on the off weekend, but only a little.

megido-rev.M · « **Reply #6947 on:** September 21, 2013, 12:50:44 AM »

Do some more cleaning.

metro. · « **Reply #6948 on:** September 21, 2013, 12:52:57 AM »

How do you people make that much of a mess? My room looks almost the same since I moved in and I haven't really "cleaned".

The only thing is I currently have no where to put my new skis atm so they're leaning up against my closet and I have to move them every time I move the closet door

megido-rev.M · « **Reply #6949 on:** September 21, 2013, 12:54:38 AM »

Put it at a corner or behind the door?

Burkingam · « **Reply #6950 on:** September 21, 2013, 01:23:14 AM »

*shrugs* I wasn't really looking for types. Just sharing the xkcd's comic.

Soryon · « **Reply #6951 on:** September 21, 2013, 01:37:34 AM »

Its kinda sad. Like, I can forgive and ignore soooo much in life.... but one thing I dont tolerate is messy rooms/houses/cars unless you have a toddler and even then im like, confine that shit to one room.

megido-rev.M · « **Reply #6952 on:** September 21, 2013, 02:08:04 AM »

AceHigh · « **Reply #6953 on:** September 21, 2013, 06:55:25 AM »

Quote from: metro. on September 21, 2013, 12:52:57 AM

How do you people make that much of a mess? My room looks almost the same since I moved in and I haven't really "cleaned".

The only thing is I currently have no where to put my new skis atm so they're leaning up against my closet and I have to move them every time I move the closet door

Just from looking around in my room I can say that it will be a laundry weekend. I have so much clothes everywhere. Also I have a lot of clothes and some field equipment from the exercise I had a few days ago. Somewhere in that pile is my assault rifle, ironically being the only thing properly cleaned and lubricated.

gits · « **Reply #6954 on:** September 21, 2013, 01:28:55 PM »

Oh, apparently we have some new mods already, Anarchy, Raito, WaraiKuma, 12laus.

AceHigh · « **Reply #6955 on:** September 21, 2013, 03:09:36 PM »

Good for them. At least I remember one of those from previous interactions.

1000mAh · « **Reply #6956 on:** September 21, 2013, 03:31:08 PM »

Fuck the busses...
I need to be at work at 7am tomorrow, the 1st buss leaves here at 7:46am...
Guess who is going to start cycling at 6am... fuck...

Bob2004 · « **Reply #6957 on:** September 21, 2013, 07:51:23 PM »

So, today I got to go on a tour of Maclaren's head office. It is ridiculously clean - scarily so. The bays where they build their F1 cars are completely white, and absolutely spotless - not a speck of dust, and no tools, or bits of paper, or anything to be seen lying around anywhere. The building itself is absolutely stunning, too. I was very impressed. They were fussy about appearances to the point that there was a dress code all visitors had to follow to be allowed into the compound, lest it all be ruined by someone scruffy (like me).

Sadly photography was strictly forbidden, except for one F1 car they'd set out on its own for that purpose. But the lighting there was terrible for photos, so this is the best picture I managed to get:

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I also took a couple of shots of two other cars nearby when nobody was looking. This is the car Bruce Maclaren made his racing debut in (and got his first win in), in 1954:

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And this is a car from... 1968, I think it was. I can't remember who drove it, or what its significance is though.

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They had a load of other cars from various years, and some road cars, and other racing cars. It was really interesting. They also had and two trophy cabinets literally half the length of the building stuffed full of all kinds of trophies from all sorts of places. Some of them looked amazing, some were just silly. I really wish I'd been able to take photos of it all

Ozzaharwood · « **Reply #6958 on:** September 21, 2013, 08:14:22 PM »

I'm not really into racing, but that looks pretty awesome. Even though you weren't able to take pictures, at least you yourself will remember everything; and that's what really matters.

Bob2004 · « **Reply #6959 on:** September 21, 2013, 08:29:42 PM »

This is the best picture I can find on Google of the workshops we saw. It was actually this clean throughout the entire building. I have no idea how they manage to pull it off.

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