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John Smith 13/03/27(Wed)21:28 No. 39961 [Reply]
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When using washrooms in public spaces, I tend to use the handicapped stalls, as there's usually more space to hang my coat and bag while I do my business. Some of them have little shelves, with sinks and mirrors right in them. It's just more convenient, and I'm usually never long.


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John Smith 13/05/11(Sat)03:08 No. 40368

>>40359

What if you had a plaster cast?

I can kind of imagine several applicable crouching positions but all of them are prevented by the fact that room itself is so small; no room to orient the plastered leg to any direction without hitting a wall.


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John Smith 13/05/11(Sat)16:14 No. 40373

>>40368
That is of course a (different) problem. I guess you should then do as OP does, and avail yourself of the handicap toilet and enjoy your less than optimal poop.


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John Smith 13/05/11(Sat)22:32 No. 40379

Handicapped stalls are the only stalls truly beffiting of a true gentleman; What kind of animal crams his belongings into the one corner of the shack not occupied by either him or the toilet and then has to press his behindagainst an unclean, plastic seat and do his business with nothing but a few wooden panels between him and another man doing the exact same thing?

Truly this is inhumane.




John Smith 13/03/30(Sat)13:11 No. 39988 [Reply]
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In this thread, we try to determine the best game of cards, or at least outrule the ones that most definitely are not.

Do you still play, or do you just fling that white piece of plastic in front of the TV, thinking it by some invisible magic would change the outcome of the programming? Humbug!

To open up the discussion nicely, I shall share an observation I have made when traveling the provinces. It seems that most people will learn only one game and a one game only early in their adolescence and refuse everything else later on. For women, this usually is some boring shedding game of mao family. For men, there is little more variation, but regretfully only a little, either it is the said basic shedding game, or poker or some four player old men partnership trick taking game with needlessly complex bidding for exchanging information amongst the partners, which mind you, is the most useless in the real games of three game tournament with changing partnership to determine the winner. This last group is also highly probably to be homosexual and having been raised by their grandparents instead of attending to a proper daycare where they would learn social interaction and proper gender roles.

My other big observation of cards is, that while the preferred social game of the given area is very singular and constant, the gambling game varies a bit more, which explains why the men are slightly more open to new games that the wivery. This at least used to be the case before that dreadful hold-em poker took the whole table.

Lastly, to further aide the course of the speak, I shall mention that my preference for the social game currently is pedro with a rule that only the trumps are played. The rules are simple enough to teach for a complete and slightly drunken newbie (try explaining them setback) and the game is fast enough not to take the whole eveing to lose, like some rummies do. When only 14 cards are in play, you always play against the opponent, not the cards.


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John Smith 13/05/11(Sat)02:21 No. 40367

>>40338
You are right and I apologize. It was over compensation due my insecurity with the second paragraph, which I still ended messing up.

It's easy to write engineering text, it's easy to abstractly babble about recent politics but god help when one has to actually write a first person narrative like "we went to this little patch of trees on no-one's land between lots to steal some wood to build a fire". Not easy without making it awkward or preschooler-sounding. This is double irritating because I clearly remember simple narratives was the first thing we did in 3rd grade English classes.

But anyway, it was a big disappointment because I had learned casino specially for the event. (regular, regular with build and royal) It's a good two hander and I found several people who admitted they knew the game but all of them had better things to do at the moment, and later on everybody was too drunk.

This includes me, as I fully disregarded the designated driver, I could have given him some easy feels-good by letting him kick my drunken ass.

>>40169

Ah yes, yet another point trick game, never hurts to know one more I guess. Since this is not really a schafkopf-country, I have to resort to machine learning. All in all looks nice and I was not able to instantly master it with my previous tricks experience. Looks a solid game with no needless complexities.

I have used Thanos Card Games freeware games for solitary learning: this, casino and some other games. Yeah, bit pathetic. If you too want to be pathetic too and cand find the games, I can throw the whole bundle (300MB) to rapidshare, as it seems the download links at Thanos website have died.

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John Smith 13/05/11(Sat)17:09 No. 40376

While I'm rambling, I must also share my observation concerning the casino card games: "casino with builds" is inferior to royal casino.

You see, in normal casino it's central in tactics to avoid combinations that add up to 14, 15 and 16, as in ace, two of spades and ten of diamonds. In "casino with builds", especially the last two come free more often than not, when the holder of two of spades or ten of diamonds declares a build of 15 and 16 which they cannot lose. In royal casino on the other hand, first of all ace is one, so it must go thru the table unless someone else has already tabled an ace without building with it. Similarly, one is cautious with two's and tens on the table and builds that make ten.

Of course, all this does not apply to zwickern which also has subtracting.


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John Smith 13/05/11(Sat)17:41 No. 40377

Several gentlemen & I at the Reform Club, after a few rubbers of whist, have begun to take up caravan. Some of you may be familiar with this game from the New Vegas simulatory experience. We have found caravan quite a competitive game, punctuated with many vigorous duels. Indeed, we have begun refining a three-player implementation, with great faith in the endeavour.




John Smith 13/05/11(Sat)00:07 No. 40365 [Reply]
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I can never make up my mind whether I prefer the Metric or Imperial value of weights and measures.

I mean, if someone asks me my height I reply in feet and inches. Same with weight, it's with stones and pounds. In the UK it is anyway.

Hell, we still prefer miles over kilometers too.

The metres thing is good for the Olympics though. They'd be lost without it.




John Smith 13/05/09(Thu)10:20 No. 40355 [Reply]
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I could have done something today. I didn't.


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John Smith 13/05/09(Thu)20:50 No. 40360
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I did some things today but nothing special or out of the ordinary.


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John Smith 13/05/10(Fri)02:46 No. 40361

Don't worry, you're not completely useless for being so eh, you're just particularly useless.


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John Smith 13/05/10(Fri)03:30 No. 40362

>>40361
he might also be useful. We can't really tell with the little amount of knowledge we have of him.




John Smith 13/04/29(Mon)22:30 No. 40260 [Reply]
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/eh/, what do you think about those people that can't drive a car?


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John Smith 13/05/07(Tue)15:59 No. 40333
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I don't think about them much. On one hand I can understand >>40262's point of view, but I also like the 'freedom' it gives me in terms of being able to drive to where ever I want to drive, provided I have the money to pay for the fuel and maintenance.
The job I have pays pretty good, so that's usually not a problem. It's also nice that my car can fit a lot of stuff so that makes moving lots of stuff easier.


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John Smith 13/05/08(Wed)16:15 No. 40350

I really need to learn how to drive.

I am soon going to be 19 and still no experience behind the wheel of a motor vehicle.


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John Smith 13/05/08(Wed)19:54 No. 40353

Come to think of it, I have friends across the border and international train connections suck and are expensive. A car would be useful.




John Smith 13/05/07(Tue)06:32 No. 40331 [Reply]
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Today, I woke to find my stomache disagreed with my last meal, and spent today within a few feet of my toilet due to liquids spewing from both ends of my body.

What have you done today, John?


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John Smith 13/05/07(Tue)21:11 No. 40337

Stuck to my semi-strict meal plan.


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John Smith 13/05/08(Wed)01:59 No. 40341

I studied some. Worked out for about half an hour. Did laundry.


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John Smith 13/05/08(Wed)02:29 No. 40343

Went to the doctor. Beat another boss in SMT:DS Overclocked. More to go




John Smith 13/05/07(Tue)16:26 No. 40334 [Reply]
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Hey Gentlemen,
My name is John, and I feel every single one of you are alright. All of you are moderately fine, and have very few notable flaws. You all just sit around all day reading particularly uninteresting posts. You are everything just fine in the world. Honestly, have any of you ever gotten rewards for trying to accomplish a goal? I mean, I guess it’s fun enjoying the slow life, but you all take to a whole new level, and I feel it is alright with me.
Don’t be a stranger. Just hit me with your best shot. We all are equal, and have our own flaws. I was captain of the chess team, and questioned the checker team. What events are you involved in? I also get straight A’s, and have a beautiful wife(She just baked me a cake, it was good). You are all gentlemen who should be okay. Thanks for listening.
Pic unrelated, I feel the dog is moderately better than others.


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John Smith 13/05/07(Tue)19:40 No. 40335

Well thank you for that, I guess.


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John Smith 13/05/09(Thu)10:36 No. 40358

I feel the need to tell you how meh your 'copypasta' edit made me feel. Meh.




John Smith 13/04/28(Sun)22:02 No. 40247 [Reply]
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I had to mow and fertilize the grass today. I'm also allergic to grass. I'd like to live in a desert with lovely cacti and a few armadillos, but that's rather impractical unless I found a job near such a desert. What's your favorite biome?


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John Smith 13/04/28(Sun)23:28 No. 40250

>>40249
Where do you call home, John?


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John Smith 13/04/29(Mon)11:37 No. 40254

I like my boreal forest.

It makes a lot of the air the rest of you like to breathe so much.

Odd that so many people who've never even been here feel so strongly that it should be chopped down as quickly as possible. I have yet to find a landscape that businessmen value beyond what they can get for the parts once they've dismantled and destroyed it. Apparently businessmen getting what they want is what's really important in the United States.

Perhaps one day when I am old and have nothing better to do with my time, I'll become a crazy econazi. That'd be a fun way of killing some time.


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John Smith 13/05/06(Mon)05:48 No. 40324

>>40250
The Pacific NW, west of the cascades, east of the coast range.




John Smith 13/05/02(Thu)20:19 No. 40291 [Reply]
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I need this.


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John Smith 13/05/03(Fri)14:06 No. 40307

Looks good, is it better than a pi?


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John Smith 13/05/05(Sun)11:57 No. 40320

>>40307
It is, also more expensive




John Smith 13/05/02(Thu)21:54 No. 40295 [Reply]
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I don't know if I'm the only one here that does this, but I have a penchant for taking my laptop with me to the restroom and read /eh/. The music is soothing and helps my bowel movements.


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John Smith 13/05/04(Sat)13:46 No. 40315

>>40314
I'm a different John, but for me it's the stopping and starting of the music whenever I click on a thread or whatever. That's just not the way lobby music is supposed to work. Better to download the track and put it on repeat in your media player of choice.


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John Smith 13/05/05(Sun)02:09 No. 40316
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>>40315
I, too, downloaded the track, but I'm yet to block the browser music. How would you go about doing that on Chrome? Would I need a script manager extension or something of the like?


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John Smith 13/05/05(Sun)05:38 No. 40317

I usually just take my phone or kindle in there.




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