Random thought thread!

ckessel · 2011-11-17T20:47:35.000Z

roguefrog:

My father is a Birther
My mother tries to get me to buy into pyramid schemes
My brother thinks Harry Potter leads to witchcraft
My best friend voted for John McCain (and Sarah Palin)

Too late to get adopted by a different family?

RichVR · 2011-11-17T20:58:49.000Z

There is a mouse in my house. I could put this in a different thread. But I figure here is okay. I don’t mind the mouse. But my wife and my mother (who lives on the apartment upstairs) hate it. We have traps all over. Yet the fucker never trips them. What do I have to do to kill this fucker and get some peace?

Omniscia · 2011-11-17T21:03:22.000Z

Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Ed_Solomon · 2011-11-17T21:18:13.000Z

RichVR:

There is a mouse in my house. I could put this in a different thread. But I figure here is okay. I don’t mind the mouse. But my wife and my mother (who lives on the apartment upstairs) hate it. We have traps all over. Yet the fucker never trips them. What do I have to do to kill this fucker and get some peace?

I don’t know about mice, but tortilla chips on a glue trap have never failed with rats.

Nixxter · 2011-11-18T07:33:58.000Z

roguefrog:

My father is a Birther
My mother tries to get me to buy into pyramid schemes
My brother thinks Harry Potter leads to witchcraft
My best friend voted for John McCain (and Sarah Palin)

How are you doing? Bat shit crazy? If not, well done. I do not recommend you try to fix these people. I do recommend, however, that you do not continue to surround yourself with insanity. It’s catching.

(no disrespect to those with true mental illness, which is pretty much all of us to one degree or another)

Matt_Bowyer · 2011-11-18T07:35:49.000Z

I’ve learned not to discuss politics with my family. Living a thousand miles away from them makes this fairly easy.

Eilonwy · 2011-11-18T07:36:29.000Z

Some days it really does feel like closing my eyes and pointing at a map is the way to go.

Mr_PeaCH · 2011-11-18T07:42:38.000Z

mdowdle:

To be honest, I wish that Mr. Koontz had advised me 10 months ago against giving my son a Wii because it is more addictive than crack-cocaine. If I’d have listened, I’d have been a much happier man.

And my son is not getting his Wii back until he straightens up, so that’s not an issue. Interestingly, his behavior problems did not really start until a couple of months after we got the Wii. Don’t know if there’s a causal connection, but I don’t know if there’s not, either

2 weeks is a lifetime to a 10 year old. Did you just up and slap him with a 2-week ban or was there a verbal beforehand “… and if this behavior continues we will take away your Wii for two weeks.”?

The dilemma now is that you can’t alter the terms without good cause and not appear to be caving in but in retrospect you might have started with a 3 day ban or something and worked your way up to 2 weeks. Where do you go from here?

Not trying to be dickish but I am actually curious.

roguefrog · 2011-11-18T12:10:16.000Z

Nixxter:

How are you doing? Bat shit crazy? If not, well done. I do not recommend you try to fix these people. I do recommend, however, that you do not continue to surround yourself with insanity. It’s catching.

I do not share their crazy. I’m the only one that uses logic, reason, science and common sense to form my conclusions.

Houngan · 2011-11-18T12:21:46.000Z

RichVR:

There is a mouse in my house. I could put this in a different thread. But I figure here is okay. I don’t mind the mouse. But my wife and my mother (who lives on the apartment upstairs) hate it. We have traps all over. Yet the fucker never trips them. What do I have to do to kill this fucker and get some peace?

Peanut butter is the best bait. Get a dense cheese like mozz, shove it onto the trigger paddle for grip, the smear with peanut butter for smell.

H.

AaronSofaer · 2011-11-18T12:43:20.000Z

Ed Solomon:

I don’t know about mice, but tortilla chips on a glue trap have never failed with rats.

Glue traps are both disgusting and horrifying. Use a snap trap; it kills them in a matter of seconds, instead of them dying over the course of minutes inside the walls of your damn house while leaving severed limbs on your traps.

:)

ckessel · 2011-11-19T13:18:31.000Z

So, a certain CIO wants to create one giant IT organization, with engineers able to move to any project. Because, you know, highly educated software engineers all do exactly the same thing regardless of product area.

Cormac · 2011-11-19T17:44:10.000Z

Had my first Thanksgiving dinner tonight!

An American friend decided to introduce all the expats living in Cologne to this US tradition and I reckon it lived up pretty well to my expectations. I’ve seen a gazillion thanksgiving scenes on TV & the movies and I suspect the only thing really missing from ours to match up to that cliche was the lack of American Football on TV… ;)

Needless to say we all ate WAY too much, it was just too tasty!

Dean · 2011-11-19T18:11:10.000Z

Cormac:

Had my first Thanksgiving dinner tonight!

An American friend decided to introduce all the expats living in Cologne to this US tradition and I reckon it lived up pretty well to my expectations. I’ve seen a gazillion thanksgiving scenes on TV & the movies and I suspect the only thing really missing from ours to match up to that cliche was the lack of American Football on TV… ;)

Needless to say we all ate WAY too much, it was just too tasty!

It’s not Thanksgiving unless your wacky uncle (or aunt) drinks too much, says something inappropriate, and the whole day ends in a screaming fight.

Now that’s American.

Ed_Solomon · 2011-11-19T20:38:50.000Z

AaronSofaer:

Glue traps are both disgusting and horrifying. Use a snap trap; it kills them in a matter of seconds, instead of them dying over the course of minutes inside the walls of your damn house while leaving severed limbs on your traps.

:)

What kind of leprous damn rats do you have?

Anders_Hallin · 2011-11-20T03:36:18.000Z

Dean:

It’s not Thanksgiving unless your wacky uncle (or aunt) drinks too much, says something inappropriate, and the whole day ends in a screaming fight.

Now that’s American.

It’s like Swedish Christmas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhChk64qmkQ

Dean · 2011-11-20T08:30:39.000Z

Anders Hallin:

It’s like Swedish Christmas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhChk64qmkQ

Doesn’t that traditionally end in a suicide?

Omniscia · 2011-11-20T08:49:14.000Z

Wow, Sweden looks awesome.

Mightynute · 2011-11-20T09:19:11.000Z

Omniscia:

Wow, Sweden looks awesome.

Seriously. Who’s up for a Christmas road trip?

Nixxter · 2011-11-20T10:39:41.000Z

That was spectacular! I haven’t seen Santa get his bum kicked in that bad, ever. He certainly has it coming.