WE WON YAH BOO SUCKS TO YOU FASCISTS!

I went to the polls today and successfully kept myself from punching right-wing nutjobs in the face. Everybody cheer! Everybody drink!

Your vote actually counted?

Just like the Australians, to get this whole democracy thing wrong.

In Response to zamphir (#39492):

Someone on a blog I read claimed the liberalislamofascists (or something like that) "must have hacked the Australian voting machines".

Oh noez! They haff taken over ma pencilz!

In Response to tynic (#39493):

Say!

Shouldn't you have left Australia for a real job by now?

In Response to zamphir (#39503):

shaddup.

In Response to tynic (#39504):

Yeah, Nic!! Spoken like the most awesome Pencilmentariapodipian i ever met!

In Response to tynic (#39504):

No, really!

Wha' haaappan?

In Response to zamphir (#39509):

I'M VERY LAZY!

In Response to tynic (#39511):

You've obviously been misunderstanding the point of a job-search, then.

A proper job search will result in a job in which you can be independently lazy for the rest of your life.

Granted, it took me ten years to find such a job, and I only got it by applying "Step 1: post more often than ten normal people. Step 2:??? Step 3: Profit".

That may not be a path you can take.

That said, a proper R&D job can have you fiddling with the same twenty resistors and wire motors for the next 30 years... or staring at a blackboard, adjusting the terms on that last integral (only to always please call it Research!).

In Response to zamphir (#39512):

...staring at a blackboard, adjusting the terms on that last integral (only to always please call it Research!).

Works for me.

In Response to mkinyon (#39568):

Integrate? What the hell is this computer for, then?

In Response to deerboy (#39569):

People use computers for a lot of things. Going online, doing work, playing games, etc...

In Response to deerboy (#39569):

Integrate?

Well, I didn't want to bother fixing every detail in Z's post. Usually I'm staring at a whiteboard, sniffing the markers, pretending to prove theorems. I only integrate when I'm teaching calculus.

NONE OF YOU ARE DRUNKEN ENOUGH OR RANTY ENOUGH TO BE POSTING IN THIS THREAD.

Come on, it's not like it's hard. Even Tor can do it.

In Response to tynic (#39598):

I didn't know that was a requirement... I sorry... will come back when I am drunk or ranty.

In Response to GotGoatMilk (#39617):

The only real way you're going to have anything resembling a pleasant experience posting to this nearly dead place, GotGoatMilk, is if you convince all of your friends (perhaps I'm being optomistic here) to start posting here, too. And then only talk to them, and ignore the rest of us.

In Response to zamphir (#39619):

Nobody ever follows that advice...

In Response to zamphir (#39619):

Oh, pshaw... i have something resembling a pleasant experience posting to this place. But i'm heavily medicated! Ha! Drugs for everyone! Weeeee! Even for drunken pencil-pushing Australopothecarians! And more pipes for the melodious Zamphir to puff!

Wait, how do you spell 'malodorous'?
( - : =

In Response to zamphir (#39619):

I'm being optomistic

Blind, but upbeat about it.

I'm not drunk, but I am ill. Similar feelings. Perhaps more generalized visceral hatred towards the world in the latter case.

In Response to tynic (#39630):

I'm not ill, I'm drunk.

Shit, I'm both.

Still, is 'optomistic' upbeat about your condition or hoping that the condition is better than it seems? As in "my mother was optomistic, yet she ended up failing her eye exam for her driving licence."

Otherwise, that is one deadly interpretation of the word 'optimistic'.

In Response to deerboy (#39695):

Or perhaps octomistic - low visibility due to thick cephalopod precipitation.

In Response to tynic (#39699):

Deja vu [goats.com].

In Response to mkinyon (#39701):

Zamphir cannot learn --> zamphir cannot change --> zamphir cannot die --> Vamphir?

In Response to tynic (#39702):

--> Zammy tries to act like he did it on purpose?

In Response to deerboy (#39704):

-> Zammy tries to act like he did it on purpose?

Option Q: I turn it into a Natalie Merchant reference.

In Response to zamphir (#39706):

I don't need an election to go out and get drunk. I do that everyday.