Shuttlecock XXX: Now With More Labor Inducing Sex Talk

[PhilsFan]

It's now been snowing here for a couple of hours. There could be over two feet of snow on the ground after tomorrow, which isn't good for a campus based around walking that has a policy to never shut down class for any reason.

 

[Irvine511]

not snowing here yet. the anticipation mounts.

 

[PhilsFan]

My exam tomorrow is going to be an absolute mess: 400 people, soaking wet, squeezed into an auditorium that seats about 360.

Because, literally, they haven't canceled a class here in 24 years.

 

[Irvine511]

My exam tomorrow is going to be an absolute mess: 400 people, soaking wet, squeezed into an auditorium that seats about 360.

Because, literally, they haven't canceled a class here in 24 years.

what do professors do if they have to drive? or is everyone pretty much walking distance?

i went to school in a very cold place with lots of snow, and there wasn't ever a canceled class.

and the snow has started here.

 

[corianderstem]

My college in Wisconsin never cancelled classes due to snow while I was there, because most of the professors lived within blocks of the school.

It was, however, once cancelled due to those insane wind chills that come around and everyone issues dire warnings about how you might freeze to death if you're outside for more than 8 seconds with uncovered skin.

Naturally, parties sprung up all over campus and everyone walked around to them. I went to one at a frat house, and to their credit, they had people at the doors making sure that everyone had their coats on and buttoned as they left the party. "No, don't sit down in the snow. I know you're tired, just get back to your dorm first."

Heh.

 

[martha]

Well, it's raining like a son-of-a-bitch here again, so you east coasters better stock up on beer and potato chips.

 

[Irvine511]

Well, it's raining like a son-of-a-bitch here again, so you east coasters better stock up on beer and potato chips.

we're gaining weight, because we can think of nothing else to do but make Indian food, chocolate silk pies, and stock up on the Pinot.

 

[PhilsFan]

what do professors do if they have to drive? or is everyone pretty much walking distance?

i went to school in a very cold place with lots of snow, and there wasn't ever a canceled class.

and the snow has started here.

She lives 90 minutes away, oddly enough (they live where her husband works - I know this because she mentions him ad nauseam). She just told everyone that she would leave as early as was necessary and that if she can do it, everyone should be able to.

 

[PhilsFan]

Well, it's raining like a son-of-a-bitch here again, so you east coasters better stock up on beer and potato chips.

My mother frantically texted me this morning begging me to stock up on food for my dorm because "they could close the food places down." Of course, they'd have to shut classes down if they were shutting down the dining commons.

 

[Irvine511]

it stopped snowing about an hour ago. i assume it's just a lull?

i am going to big gay trivia tomorrow night, whether or not metro wants to take me there, such is my need to get out of this effing apartment.

 

[martha]

I'm sure my two mile, blizzard-fighting, drunken walk home at 2 in the morning on Friday night would have been funny to watch.

I'm glad I'm not your real auntie.

 

[LemonMelon]

what do professors do if they have to drive? or is everyone pretty much walking distance?

i went to school in a very cold place with lots of snow, and there wasn't ever a canceled class.

and the snow has started here.

This week of school:

Monday: canceled
Tuesday: classes until 12:30, then canceled
Wednesday: already canceled
Thursday: 2 hour delay, minimum
Friday: I have all of one class

Hardly a shock, as I doubt anyone in western Maryland knows how to operate machinery more advanced than a can opener, let alone a plow.

 

[martha]

If I could be bothered to find, download, and then post it, there would be a picture of Mr. Plow from the Simpsons here instead of me talking about it.

 

[Irvine511]

Mr. Plow
That's my name!
That name again
Is Mr. Plow!

 

[mikal]

so i just noticed that there's a thread where people actually post what body part has an itch. weird....

 

[PhilsFan]

Blizzard, guys.

 

[LemonMelon]

If I could be bothered to find, download, and then post it, there would be a picture of Mr. Plow from the Simpsons here instead of me talking about it.

Mr. Plow
That's my name!
That name again
Is Mr. Plow!

Blizzard, guys.

Indeed. This is no laughing matter.

Then again, now that cabin fever is setting in, I've done my share of maniacal cackling.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

so i just noticed that there's a thread where people actually post what body part has an itch. weird....

Zoots actually started that thread to mock all those other similar threads in OOC. But they just took it and ran with it and I guess are still posting in it.

Zoots

 

[PhilsFan]

I cry no tears for Zoots. Mostly because I'm a soulless bastard.

 

[LemonMelon]

I can't say I ever had much of an opportunity to befriend Zoots; he don't get on with no skanky hipsters. B&C was pretty much the bane of his existence.

 

[u2popmofo]

He wasn't always that way, he contributed a great deal and was usually quite sarcastic and funny as well in Bang and Clatter back in the day. I'm sure having to move clear across the world would be somewhat upsetting for all of us, though. I'm fairly guilty of taking real life frustrations out online sometimes as well, so I've tried to cut the guy some slack.

 

[LemonMelon]

Oh, I've known him for years. I was speaking specifically of his final year at Interference. Prior to that, he seemed alright. I don't care what a man's taste in music is like, as long as he treats others civilly and has something of a sense of humor about himself, we're going to get along just fine. Sadly, he gave up on that towards the end. His move had several things to do with that, not least of all because his time off the forum put him out of step with the inside jokes and such. If we wouldn't put in the effort to reach out to him, he wouldn't do the same.

Though he didn't seem to enjoy his time here throughout 2009, the fact that he can't return does bother me. God knows that plenty of individuals have been banned that not only deserved it, but are probably better off avoiding social interaction altogether, but he isn't one of them.

Anyways, a mod started this thread, so probably best to back off the banned user talk. Didn't mean to get on with this topic, particularly not to speak ill of the banned.

 

[u2popmofo]

True, true. Hell, i don't even know why he was banned, so I have no opinions on any of that, just throwing in my 2 cents.

On an unrelated, yet slightly related to what LeMeL just wrote. I find that I tend to get along with people who are big music fans, even if what they're fans of is entirely different than what I'm a fan of. One of my favorite roommates from college was a huge metal fan (not '80's hair "metal"). One of our other roommates at the time was a huge Dave Matthews fan (I hate Dave Matthews). Despite all of us liking fairly different types of music, we could talk about it all for hours and hours. It was a fun 3 or 4 years.

 

[LemonMelon]

That's interesting. It's certainly an open door to discussion between diehards, and when I say diehards, I don't mean fans of a specific genre, but followers of music as a whole. The kind of people who dedicate hours to researching genres they may have never heard before, as well as deepening their knowledge with familiar genres; discovering more than just the usual representatives. It makes two individuals from potentially very different backgrounds colleagues, in a way. And that's why it bothers me that students of the medium are so easily labeled as hipsters, because they seek to discover music that outlasts trends; an inherently unhip way to listen to music.

That sounded pretentious as fuck, I realize, but I do feel a kinship with those who really put effort into discovering new sounds, even if their tastes couldn't be further from mine. Hey, even if they are, odds are strong that we will have at least a handful of albums in common, and that's enough to sustain one of those hours-long discussions Scumbo is talking about.

 

[PhilsFan]

The guy next door to me is a big music fan, he listens to a lot of what we do here. My jaw dropped the other day when I heard "There Is a Flag. There Is No Wind" coming out of his room. Dude's got 33,000 songs on his iTunes.

Also, I'm 95% sure my finger is broken, making typing slightly more difficult since my fingers are taped together.

 

[LemonMelon]

Spreading the good THE (insert Interference darling here)! word can be a hard game, Peef. Get well soon. At least ice is easy to come by these days.

 

[PhilsFan]

Or spreading the rock in an intramural basketball game, as it turns out. Fuckin' refs, dude.

 

[LemonMelon]

More respectable than breaking an appendage reading through Hottest Chicas. Thankfully for Jive Turkey, he doesn't need health insurance. Being Canadian comes in handy once in a while.

 

[Irvine511]

some people make it impossible to take the high road without making any detours.

 

[joyfulgirl]

I didn't know the "bad" side of zoots at all so I was surprised by his sort of apparent nervous breakdown on the forum and subsequent banning. I always got along famously with the guy.

And I also like music fans even if we have different tastes. It tends to bring out the best in me where I actually can say something nice about whoever it is that they're into and not feel the need to get all snarky about how uncool their taste is. There's this guy at the local coffee shop who is so into the music he plays when he's working - and it's always like bluegrass or something I don't really care about - but the guy can sing and he's always singing in that bluegrass twang while he's making my latte and it kind of makes me happy.