The 2nd Annual Christmas & New Years Drunk Thread 2010! NSFW

Please let me know when and where you're flying. Deal? Please?

 

I was going to stick with beer today, but now I'm thinking tequila shots. I might cry. Could we fuck this game up any worse?

 

Random question.

Is it now normal to use only one space after the period in a sentence? I always put 2 spaces in but have been told by a 20 year old colleague that that is the old school way of writing and isn't really used anymore.

I've honestly never heard that before.

 

Yeah, if our D wasn't playing I'd have shut the game off by now. Berry and Hali alone are worth watching. Offensively Charles had some great plays, Bowe didn't even touch the ball, and Cassel threw how many interceptions? Awful game. Baltimore definitely deserves this win, no doubt about it.

I use two. It's what I learned in keyboarding class my freshman year of high school and it stuck with me. I don't care if it's the proper way anymore or not, I will continue to do it.

 

Yep, that is part of the new APA guidelines for scholarly work. I just graduated from grad school last year and discovered this by having to delete all of the double spaces from a 20 page (probably not, but it sure as hell felt like it) paper. Crazy. I am sure it made the content much more readable. I would really like to know who the person is who decides "hey, maybe just one space would be better". Then you know there were probably all sorts of committees and studies to prove that was the case. Ugghh, the world of acedemia could drive me crazy.

 

At least I'm not the only one.

I'll be damned if I start using only one space after the period. That shit is just lazy.

 

The sumg assholes who come up with this shit all need to be punched in the face. They should worry about the declining grammatical skills of the populace in general and not change conventions that don't need changing and have been in place for forever.

In even more dire news, I'm all out of beer and the liquor stores are all closed on Sunday.

 

I have been taught to use two spaces my entire life. I don't think I could change.

 

This about sums up academia..

 

Or you could have just hit Control/Commend+F, went to Replace, and replaced all double-spaces with single-spaces.

 

Good news, you can call off the search party for my phone. I left it in my car last night when we did the responsible thing and took a cab back home.

 

At least they kept the car off of your lawn.

 

Yep. I'm 20 and I've never used two spaces after a period. I had like one teacher back in third grade who insisted on it. I hated her.

edit: and most forums will delete the extra space anyway.

 

I found a new group of people to hate today. I go to the store, grab five or six things, and head to the self-checkout line. Out of eight stations, seven are occupied by fat women with full shopping carts. Idiots aren't bagging their items, just setting things down on the little platform and god help us all if they have a piece of produce they have to look up. If they would have just gone to the regular register, they would have saved 20 minutes and I wouldn't be forced to drink so much. I really want to live in a world where you can just kill people that waste your time.

 

Get behind a senior citizen using one of self checkouts and you are in for a wait. The worst was when an old couple tried to scan a pineapple. Just kept putting past the scanner like it would magically see it was one pineapple. Once you hit 60 you should be banned from the self checkout lines.

 

You gotta be able to "airport security" these people. What I mean is that you have to profile them to work for you. Same as Airport Security, pick the people who know what they are doing, have flown a lot, and can get through the lines efficiently. Can't get behind the families, fat people, old people, etc. and pick the cashier who is younger and in a decent enough mood (granted, the work at walmart). And base it off of amount in cart also. Most of the time, all of the lines will move at relatively the same speed, but you'll have those 400lb old women who move slower than a sloth. Also, since you're at walmart, you have to drop average peoples intelligence about 80 iq points and expect fuckups to be everywhere.

 

Why in the hell would you go to Walmart for 2 items? If you are buying a bunch of shit and want to save money I can see putting up with the cluster that is Super Walmart, but it is so not worth it for 2 items. If you saved $1 on each, that is $2. My time and sanity is worth more than $2.

Here is who I hate at the grocery store. Families of 6 that all shop together, as occurs regularly on the weekends at my local grocery store. How is this a family activity? Mom will be looking at the labels of two cans of green beans comparing the nutritional value, trying to engage dad in a conversation about them. Dad's eyes glaze over in the banality of the conversation. Kids are either in one of those car/carts that take up twice as much room as a regular cart and are whining and fighting or are pushing their own little kid size cart putting loads of junk in the cart while mom and dad aren't looking, or running through the aisles like they are at Chuck E. Cheese. What happened to Dad at home with the kids watching football while mom runs to the store?