Okay, but feel free to take over any time, we are all here for you.

On to another topic, one of knives, vomit, blood, and dissections. :-)

Well I helped a fellow farmer do another demonstration for some student today (I'm sure you remember the kind of thing from the Mafia thread :-)), this time for some college students who are planning to be veterinarians, mostly rural/farm type vets. Not only did two puke, but one of them has made me doubt the quality of our future generation of vets.

We were cutting open a pig to show them the insides and get them used to seeing that kind of stuff. When a Welsh guy, probably 18/19, came out with one of the dumbest things I have ever heard someone say at one of these things, and keep in mind I have done a few and some of them were for secondary school kids, this one was for an animal course at some college.

He was shocked that I was using a metal knife. He just came out and told me that I was doing it wrong, that we need to be showing him the proper tools. So I asked him what he meant, and he told me that vets clearly have better equipment than "fucking stupid farmers" (his exact words, the pompous little git). He then look at his teacher and asked why we were not using "laser scalpels and stuff". I just stood there and looked at my friend, then at the teacher. He said he has seen that kind of "shit" in movies and TV, so why were we not using them, his parents were not paying for him to get taught old methods. I just looked at him and couldn't believe how dumb he was. He was being completely serious about it all, which made it worse, I had to stop myself form just laughing. He then continued to argue he was right and that we were wrong, leaving me with the thought that the poor pig we were cutting up probably has more brains than this guy. Sometimes I can really see why people call television the idiot box. I mean this Welsh guy is the future of veterinary care, it's a worrying thought.

Well, let's see...

Right now it's a combination of a military game too sparkly for me to see, a game with a narrator that I kinda want to kick in the balls just to see what it's like to hear their tone of voice change for once, one of the most run of the mill titles involving a female in short shorts who carries an arsenal in her backpack, and the continued misadventures of a high velocity meatball that I hope has learned to feel pain from me calling him a motherfucking son of a whore roughly 57,000 times.

On deck, there's a reminder of why FMV was smothered to death, a reason why David Cage should be smothered to death, and a game in which someone being smothered to death might actually be an improvement since they managed to generate mind-numbing boredom out of a game wherein the main character wields a chainsaw, an event that in the hands of any competent developer could not and would not ever happen.

Awesome story. Some people really need a reality check.

So, pretty much business as usual then? :-)

Bonus points to you for not responding to the laser scalpel question with, "Because this isn't Star Trek, you fucking retard." =)

Laser scalpels... LASER scalpels.
Wow.
So, presumably he thinks he's going to be some kind of fucking jedi knight? Carving into his patients with a light saber?
He does realise that a laser would instantly cauterize any wound, making it useless as a cutting implement... probably not.
I particularly like the "Mummy and Daddy aren't paying for me to be thought out of date methods", I can practically hear the upper class tosser now...

Thanks, that's cheered me up a bit :)

Hello, Endre! *hug*

How are you today?

Well we poor farm folk tend to stick to the old fashioned methods. We save the laser scalpel for a special occasion, along with all the other stuff from what ever sci-fi show that kid watches. :-)

It was the fact he was so serious about it that made it worse. If it was just a dumb comment and he then realised that then fine. But he stood there all smug and argued about it. It's really shocking how dumb kids are these days.

Anyway, Hello Moon! *big hello hug*

How has your day been? Is the bad weather holding off okay?

Yeah, pretty much. ;)

It's a bit of a logjam at present, and if I switch to another chunk of stuff I'll eventually feel the need to start everything current over again.

I do not want that.

I'm playing FTL, which is probably the limit of my masochisticly difficult games...
Might actually win this run (or at least make the boss, which I count as near enough in this game..) due to some uncommonly good luck.

I didn't know that... Excellent !! :-)))
Thanks for sharing l0rdtr3k ! *hug*

Should have just brought out your cell phone, pointed it at him and said: "I think I left this set on stun". :-)

I really wanted to respond with something like that (minus the cursing, because I'm too polite for that :-)), and if it had been on our farm I might have done. But I just stared in disbelief and then tried to correct him. Eventually I just ignored him and carried on.

A Jedi vet, that's probably a new thing in the upcoming movies. As for cauterising the wounds, I really don't think this kid would even know what that meant, even from overhearing other stuff he mentioned to his friends, he sounded so uneducated. I get the feeling his parents will probably just bribe someone eventually to get him his job as a vet.

Dear gods, I haven't even started that one yet.

Once I clear the five platformers I've got, I'll try that one.
Not getting a vibe of happy fun times if you're saying just seeing the boss is close enough to winning...

You clearly have not seen my cell phone. To give you an idea of how old it is, I have to text in Morse code. :-)