That provided me with a much needed laugh :D Thanks.

As someone guilty of the sin of weeabooism, I can tell you with some deegree of knowledge (somewhere slightly above knows-fuck-at-all), that ,THAT is one of the many idiosyncrasies which make japanese an extremely fucked up language.

Yep, that's why I feel guilty so often. AND the reason I have a volunteer job to ease it a bit. ;)

Good morning/afternoon, evening, everyone.
Did a quick catch-up, hoping that people with loved ones in the hospital will be okay and that those loved ones will recover quickly and be back home soon.
Alongside that, will continue to hope that anyone under the weather will continue to get feeling better, and sooner rather than later.
As for worthlessness? Neither Agent nor Endredon have any reason whatsoever to feel that way. Since I haven't yet managed to get cameras into the home of every person I converse with, I can't go with much more than gut feeling, but on this one I'm willing to take that bet.
Aside from all that? This is a free-for-all.
It's a full-spectrum package combo of a bitch about life thread, a what makes you happy thread, and everything else that might come to mind.
My only running request is that if there's a disagreement, that it can be discussed politely and decently (which shouldn't be hard since I've been quite frankly more than a little blessed with an inordinately large amount of decent people who can actually behave like adults), rather than this becoming some bullshit combat thread.
(And yes, I realize that the last statement might run counter to the idea of a free-for-all to some. But fighting doesn't actually solve anything or do anything. The best you can do in such a situation is try to "win" by hurting the other person and making them stand down. Not exactly productive in my book.)

Good morning to you and wiser words were never spoken. Well, at least if they were I didn't hear them. :-)

On a different note, my bank now charges me an xtra $.04 for GOG purchases. Throws the accounting for a loop. :/

Savor it while you can. Every once in a while it bubbles up through the silly crap.
Not often, mind you....-laughs-

Four whole cents, eh? Someone's college fund is getting larger by the second with such an increase....-giggles-
Talk about silly shit. Any idea why they've decided to add on such a charge?

Well said CC, well said.

Adding anything more to that would be redundant.

'tis the group hugs and general good will of those who frequent this thread that is keeping the trolls at bay... ;)

Well, that and the hope that anyone who comes in here wishing to cause problems will realize that they'll just end up with me up their ass like a razor blade suppository wrapped in barbed wire until they remember to fuck off back to whatever cesspool they typically frequent.

It's called a "Cross border transaction assessment" so a foreign purchase charge of some sort I suppose.

I thought that it was the howitzer shells of weaponized Spider-Jersualem level cynicism that CC can deploy at them that was doing so.

I like the first one better, doesn't make me squirm in my chair. ;)

That is a whole lot of verbiage on their part. They could at least be concise and call it a "we're nickel and diming you just because" charge. -laughs-

That's beautiful man. *tear*

There used to be a heavy metal band named 'Pissing Razors'. I was always jealous of those guys for coming up with that first.