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Old 03-29-2009, 09:07 PM   #11
LBoz
Oh KNOW!!! How precious is he?? Thank god for the Eddies in the world. I'm such a sucker for a happy ending.

Caryl, you up for a 'rita, darlin??
 
Old 03-29-2009, 10:33 PM   #12
tricksterpup
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Originally Posted by LBoz View Post
Oh KNOW!!! How precious is he?? Thank god for the Eddies in the world. I'm such a sucker for a happy ending.

Caryl, you up for a 'rita, darlin??
Rita, give me a Jack and coke..
its the spring fever, everyone is on edge. We are wanting it to push on over and be green right now.
 
Old 03-29-2009, 11:06 PM   #13
vetusvates
Jen, I've been off most of this weekend, until this evening. Sometimes I get up in the mornings in Jan/Feb/Mar so depressed....that I can hardly think of a reason to get up. And I think that is selfish, self-absorbed, embarrassing, and humiliating to talk about. So I hold it inside (yeah, really healthy thing to do).
In the last month I have taken all kinds of things personally, and alternately isolated and struck out at those I care about. In a very, very tunnel vision, surreal sort of way. On the forum and IRL. So I am agreeing with Lori. Yeah, I think MY mood has had collateral effect. Too much. And I have stepped back and tried to look at things objectively, and really been embarrassed by my words and deeds.
I know I am one of the random conversation DYK people. But you should know, I do browse New Posts, have seen your pairings, welcomed newbies, and learned things from patient people like you, Brent, Kyle, Chris, Jim, Mike, Dale, Wade and others...who really aren't on DYK, much or at all. (I really read too slow and think way too slow to be able to handle all that is going on in chat.)
I do not pretend to be anything other than a relative newbie to captive bred corn snake husbandry, so I read a lot more than I post/talk. (Which is hard for you to measure or see.)
I have been building a little collection of snakelets that I love, and thereby getting to know Kathy Love, Don Soderberg, Carol H., and Marsha M., who have all been very patient and kind. (And this is also hard to measure and goes on unseen behind the scenes).
And just please know, I would not be watching your posts, or commenting on them, like here, if I didn't roam around and know (and make mental notes) on who the VIP's and serious people in this business are.
And wouldn't be here typing now, if I didn't care, because I do.
 
Old 03-30-2009, 12:19 AM   #14
ghosthousecorns
It would be so easy to go along and just make these silly kind of posts, if I really wanted to flood this forum with meaningless stuff about me me me. Like I could just go over to the one thread and and be all, DYK I ate a whole take out portion of chinese appetizers all by myself and the egg roll was so tasty but the BBQ pork was not that good, or DYK I took a pesticide applicators exam last week and the insect and fungicide questions were so hard, or DYK I got chosen to participate in the Nielsen ratings and I'm keeping a TV viewing diary and I watched "Late Night with Jay Leno" and stayed up late. But then if I made posts about that kind of stuff I would look at them and think who would really care, because well frankly I probably wouldn't.
So instead I just try to post and look for posts about the stuff I personally feel to be more relevant and then can't help but get frustrated when an interesting snake related post gets fewer replies than one about what someone had for dinner.
So my outlook may be a grumpy one, I don't know. Just sometimes seems like there is such an abundance of TMI about all the wrong kind of stuff. I took a nap after making the first OP here and I am a bit surprised that there were this many responses when I woke up - I seem to have stuck a chord with some of you?!
And it's not that every post I make is meaningful earth shattering stuff I do post meaningless drivel just like anyone else. But hey as a contributing member I appreciate that I am able to come to the insider forum and gripe about it and appreciate that some of you have responded without hammering me the way I probably deserved because after all I do have the choice not to read that stuff and it's a silly thing to be bitching about anyway
 
Old 03-30-2009, 02:19 AM   #15
Rich Z
I don't know, but perhaps all the doom and gloom about the economy is having and effect on a lot of people. News of companies going bankrupt, the government potentially killing our savings with inflation by printing up money till our bank accounts become worthless, people losing jobs, people AFRAID of losing their job, and people accordingly holding onto their money tighter and not much liking that they can't buy the toys they used to.

It's pretty much proven that financial strain will get most people on edge. And that's basically all we are hearing nowadays. So I don't think it at all unusual that this kind of state of mind will be reflected in the way people post in forums. Some people will just take anything as being a slight towards them, and others will come on with an obvious chip on their shoulder because they pretty much feel that they NEED to argue with someone just to get a load off of their chest in an oblique manner.

One thing that I would prefer the mods here to keep in mind is that in the above type of atmosphere, it is extremely easy for members to take ANYTHING at all as being a good reason to start an argument. And in a lot of cases, placing yourself in the middle of two dogs (figuratively speaking) going at each other can often just get them to turn on YOU.

There really is no solution to situations like this. Pretty much doing anything to try to change direction will get someone mad, no matter what it is....
 
Old 03-30-2009, 07:42 AM   #16
Susan
Building and stocking my secret underground shelter in order to keep my family safe during the apocalypse is taking up all of my savings and most of my spare time, so I have a reason for being slightly on edge. That and my snakes are taking their ever-loving sweet time in deciding to mate or not. And to top things off, my boss, who, because he caught her cheating on him, is divorcing his 3rd wife, whom he had as office manager while they were married and who is the major problem in the entire office, is keeping her on as the office manager until further notice! Somebody find my gun!
 
Old 03-30-2009, 07:44 AM   #17
Nanci
Any way you can convince him you'd be a better office manager? If you wanted to? I bet she doesn't stay long, now.
 
Old 03-30-2009, 08:07 AM   #18
jazzgeek
Me, I'm on edge because I hate everybody, and I'm beginning to think that they're starting to sense it.




Dale
 
Old 03-30-2009, 09:14 AM   #19
LBoz
To bring a little levity to the subject, I'll post this article that my friend Toni posted on my board....guaranteed to bring a chuckle, especially if you've been there!

Dave Barry's Colonoscopy Journal:

... I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an

appointment for a colonoscopy. A few days later, in his office, Andy showed

me a color diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that appears to go all over

the place, at one point passing briefly through Minneapolis .

Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a thorough,

reassuring and patient manner. I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn't really

hear anything he said, because my brain was shrieking, quote, 'HE'S GOING TO

STICK A TUBE 17,000 FEET UP YOUR BEHIND!'

I left Andy's office with some written instructions, and a prescription for

a product called 'MoviPrep,' which comes in a box large enough to hold a

microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now suffice it

to say that we must never allow it to fall into the hands of America 's

enemies.

I spent the next several days productively sitting around being nervous.

Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my preparation. In

accordance with my instructions, I didn't eat any solid food that day; all I

had was chicken broth, which is basically water, only with less flavor.

Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets of powder

together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it with lukewarm water.

(For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is about 32 gallons.)

Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because

MoviPrep tastes - and here I am being kind - like a mixture of goat spit and

urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon.

The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a great

sense of humor, state that after you drink it, 'a loose watery bowel

movement may result.' This is kind of like saying that after you jump off

your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here, but:

Have you ever seen a space-shuttle launch? This is pretty much the MoviPrep

experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the

commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the

bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And then, when you

figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink another liter of

MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your bowels travel into the

future and start eliminating food that you have not even eaten yet.

After an action-packed evening, I finally got to sleep. The next morning my

wife drove me to the clinic. I was very nervous Not only was I worried

about the procedure, but I had been experiencing occasional return bouts of

MoviPrep spurtage. I was thinking, 'What if I spurt on Andy?' How do you

apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers would not be enough.

At the clinic I had to sign many forms acknowledging that I understood and

totally agreed with whatever the heck the forms said. Then they led me to a

room full of other colonoscopy people, where I went inside a little

curtained space and took off my clothes and put on one of those hospital

garments designed by sadist perverts, the kind that, when you put it on,

makes you feel even more naked than when you are actually naked.

Then a nurse named Eddie put a little needle in a vein in my left hand.

Ordinarily I would have fainted, but Eddie was very good, and I was already

lying down. Eddie also told me that some people put vodka in their MoviPrep.

At first I was ticked off that I hadn't thought of this, but then I pondered

what would happen if you got yourself too tipsy to make it to the bathroom,

so you were staggering around in full Fire Hose Mode. You would have no

choice but to burn your house.

When everything was ready, Eddie wheeled me into the procedure room, where

Andy was waiting with a nurse and an anesthesiologist. I did not see the

17,000-foot tube, but I knew Andy had it hidden around there somewhere. I

was seriously nervous at this point. Andy had me roll over on my left side,

and the anesthesiologist began hooking something up to the needle in my

hand. There was music playing in the room, and I realized that the song was

'Dancing Queen' by Abba. I remarked to Andy that, of all the songs that

could be playing during this particular procedure, 'Dancing Queen' has to be

the least appropriate. 'You want me to turn it up?' said Andy, from

somewhere behind me.

'Ha ha,' I said. And then it was time,the moment I had been dreading for

more than a decade. If you are squeamish, prepare yourself, because I am

going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly what it was like.

I have no idea. Really. I slept through it. One moment, Abba was shrieking

'Dancing Queen! Feel the beat from the tambourine ...' and the next moment,

I was back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood. Andy was

looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt excellent. I felt even

more excellent when Andy told me that it was all over, and that my colon had

passed with flying colors. I have never been prouder of an internal organ.

ABOUT THE WRITER

Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the Miami Herald.

COLONOSCOPIES

Colonoscopies are no joke, but these comments during exams were quite

humorous...... A physician claimed that the following are actual comments

made by his patients (predominately male) before or after their

colonoscopies:

1. 'Take it easy, Doc. You're boldly going where no man has gone before!

2. 'Find Amelia Earhart yet?'

3. 'Can you hear me NOW?'

4. 'Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?'

5. 'You know, in Arkansas , we're now legally married.'

6. 'Any sign of the trapped miners, Chief?'

7. 'You put your left hand in, you take your left hand out...'

8. 'Hey! Now I know how a Muppet feels!'

9. 'If your hand doesn't fit, you must quit!'

10. 'Hey Doc, let me know if you find my dignity.'

11. 'You used to be an executive at Enron, didn't you?'

12. 'God, now I know why I am not gay.'

13. 'How far up did you go? I now have a sore throat.'

And the best one of all..

14. 'Could you write a note for my wife saying that my head is

not up there
 
Old 03-30-2009, 10:31 AM   #20
CrousesCorns
Thumbs up ROFLMAO

WOW that was way worth the read. The space shuttle, toilet seat belts, and being drunk on the vodka mixture with the loose bowels killed me. Thank you very much for the very funny story.
 

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