The dates of JCCC3 are annoying. If I go, I might have to walk off the ship, and jump onto a plane to Santiago Chile, just so I can get on my next cruise in time.
I would like to blame all of my problems on a mysterious, invisible conspiracy of secretive cultist that pipe awkward gas into my apartment and lace my food with lazy juice.
@casidi We had this exact same conversation with several Sea Monkeys tonight (via Twitter), and decided more Sea Monkeys need to move to central PA. Because moving must benefit MY convenience! Because I'm whin(e)y, and you all must appease me!
Wouldn't it be easier to just pick up central PA and move it closer to more Sea Monkeys? Well, okay, it probably wouldn't be easier, but at least I wouldn't have to live in Pennsylvania.
I fully agree with you there. PA is more backward than a car stuck in reverse. There's no room service breakfast, and no stewards to bring my fruity drinks whenever I demand! Once I figure out how to turn my region into a Katamari-like mass, I'll roll everyone up into it, and move it somewhere in the Caribbean. "JoCo Island Crazy"!
There is too much good stuff in the world and there isn't time and space to do it all! Also there is bad stuff and there isn't time to fix it or even whine about it! I need to pee but that would mean getting off my butt and walking a few metres!
And now for some solutions to all your problems:
Whiney is approximately 2.718281828459 times as whiny as whiny.
Also, I thought the accepted solution to the Pennsylvania problem was flooding it and putting in a lake. There's a song about it and everything. I think it's 'Lake Pennsylvania' by Cab City Combo. You could save all the sea monkeys from everywhere around, and put them on a cruise ship on the lake.
Wow, Pennsylvania has it's problems, sure, but compare it to our neighbors like Ohio, Maryland, and West Virginia and we're not doing so bad. What's that, you ask? Delaware? Those counties were ours once, and they will be again.
[edit] I'm not saying PA's the greatest state in the union or anything; I'm not insane.
I am disappointed that booking won't start on the first of May. If it did, we could change the lyrics of First of May from "outdoor fucking" to "cruise-ship booking".
I'm sad that we can't post videos of Paul F. Tompkins on the internet, so other people won't understand the quotes, and we'll eventually forget where they came from or exactly how they went, and it will be like he was never there.
His Comedy Central special just aired and the DVD is out, so the quotes are available now. Others may have to use their hard earned value papers if they didn't see the special.
Pft (nice initials, there.) Only for people in Region 1 or Australia. Dead to us, I say!
(Except to me, because I still have my cruise videos, which I haven't watched yet, and several sheets of fake moustaches I picked up from the game room since they are so scarce in this country. But this is the whining thread and I don't want to complicate it with facts that could be interpreted positively.)
I'm pissed off that no one has invented a head-mounted, auto-targeting, pollen-destroying self defense laser. CERN, NASA and DOD people, I'm glaring at you right now in between coughing and sneezing.
I'd heard his King Hat routine before...in fact I specifically (unfortunately) explained the bit to a friend before going into PFT's show, not realizing he would then DO the bit. whoops. Isn't it on one of his albums?
SIDE NOTE: I was just on Paul F. Tompkins' wikipedia page, and today is his 2-year wedding anniversary!
In relation to the actual topic: Why is JCCC3 NOT leaving/returning to SOUTH Florida?!? Don't you know what you've done? You're subjecting an entire state of people to ME being on the highways and byways of Florida!
Why isn't there a mini-JCCC on the Rhine? We could have an entire boat, and there would be cellphone reception the whole time, and there would be no danger of the ship completely sinking since it would be taller than the depth of the water (according to Randal.)
Jaffa cakes are *SO* difficult to get over here (where there's supposedly more soap and less cheese). I tried to eat as many as I could while we were in Ireland, hoping that I could create a positive Jaffa cake balance on which to draw. Yes... I know... It doesn't work that way.
Back to bitching and whining (whinging?): I work with junior programmers who don't know how to solve problems. The mystery is how they manage to keep their jobs. (I have theories, but not of them involve them doing their own work).
Problem solving is a skill that can be improved if present to some degree. But if someone lacks the skill entirely?
I have seen "programmers" in an interview fail to write FizzBuzz in the language of their choice. It is such a trivial thing to write, yet they could not wrap their heads around it. Problem solving is such a core concept in programming, I don't see how someone could get a job (let alone keep one) without it.
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I DEMAND ALL GOOD THINGS BE GIVEN TO ME AND ALL BAD THINGS TAKEN AWAY! NOW, DAMNIT ALL!
Also, I want it to be February...
WHY DOES EVERYTHING ITCH.
WHY IS NO ONE WALKING AROUND ASKING FOR MY DRINK ORDER?!?!?!?!?!1!!??!?1
Also there is bad stuff and there isn't time to fix it or even whine about it!
I need to pee but that would mean getting off my butt and walking a few metres!
And now for some solutions to all your problems:
Whiney is approximately 2.718281828459 times as whiny as whiny.
Also, I thought the accepted solution to the Pennsylvania problem was flooding it and putting in a lake. There's a song about it and everything. I think it's 'Lake Pennsylvania' by Cab City Combo. You could save all the sea monkeys from everywhere around, and put them on a cruise ship on the lake.
Wow, Pennsylvania has it's problems, sure, but compare it to our neighbors like Ohio, Maryland, and West Virginia and we're not doing so bad. What's that, you ask? Delaware? Those counties were ours once, and they will be again.
[edit] I'm not saying PA's the greatest state in the union or anything; I'm not insane.
wait, it's the complainy thread.
I wish I were watching Paul F. Tompkins comedy RIGHT NOW. *GRUMP*
(Except to me, because I still have my cruise videos, which I haven't watched yet, and several sheets of fake moustaches I picked up from the game room since they are so scarce in this country. But this is the whining thread and I don't want to complicate it with facts that could be interpreted positively.)
SIDE NOTE: I was just on Paul F. Tompkins' wikipedia page, and today is his 2-year wedding anniversary!
@melagee I only have lunch 1/2 hours... I need FOUR of those!
Let's get Rhiney and beach about [a] bluff?
Problem solving is a skill that can be improved if present to some degree. But if someone lacks the skill entirely?
Like trying to teach a pig to tap-dance.
I have seen "programmers" in an interview fail to write FizzBuzz in the language of their choice. It is such a trivial thing to write, yet they could not wrap their heads around it. Problem solving is such a core concept in programming, I don't see how someone could get a job (let alone keep one) without it.