OT: 60th Obsequious Banter Thread: Some Guy Named Nate Raduns

[Hollywood Cannon]

Try pixlr.com its a free online editor that does most of what photoshop can do.

I barely got by last go around using Photoshop.

I can’t learn something new again, haha.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Our American guy had no problem picking the right focus, spent a lot of evenings focusing on Czech beer instead of picking between business class and English class

When I was in Sweden, we had this Russian guy come in for a week of intensive classes - he came in every day for 8 hours for a week. By the third day, he was like a corpse, he was so tired. The bad thing about him was that he was a true beginner and couldn't really say much of anything at all. The great thing, though, was that he had been a nuclear sub commander in the Soviet navy. I was DYING to talk to him about all that, but he just couldn't say anything. So what we did instead was go out at night and get completely trashed on vodka. It was great. Neither of us learned anything at all, at least at night.

 

[Magua]

I have one class on Tuesdays/Thursdays, an 8 AM music 101 class.

Forget missing class today......brutal scheduling, amigo. One class two days a week at 8am? Yeesh.

I was a total slob. The earliest I would take a course would be 10am, and that was only on the condition that it was a f***ing great course I couldn’t do without. Like reading Dante’s Inferno. I’d prefer it be during Fall or Spring Quarters too (I did quarters) because the weather would be lovely and easier to get up for. 11am-12pm was my more unofficial start time. And I’d try to push it to 1pm a couple days a week. One winter I ended up cancelling a Wednesday course and my only course was at 4pm. I lived walkable distance though. My slobness has scarred me for life, I think.

 

[Young Sandwich]

Forget missing class today......brutal scheduling, amigo. One class two days a week at 8am? Yeesh.

I was a total slob. The earliest I would take a course would be 10am, and that was only on the condition that it was a ****ing great course I couldn’t do without. Like reading Dante’s Inferno. I’d prefer it be during Fall or Spring Quarters too (I did quarters) because the weather would be lovely and easier to get up for. 11am-12pm was my more unofficial start time. And I’d try to push it to 1pm a couple days a week. One winter I ended up cancelling a Wednesday course and my only course was at 4pm. I lived walkable distance though. My slobness has scarred me for life, I think.

Damn, what was your major that didn't have any required classes that started before 10AM?

I have an identical twin brother and we took basically all the same civil engineering courses throughout our 5 years at school. Anytime we got f***ed with an 8AM class, we would just trade off days and sign each other in then share notes if there was anything worthwhile that day. I wouldn't be surprised if some of our professors didn't realize there were actually two of us.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Damn, what was your major that didn't have any required classes that started before 10AM?

I have an identical twin brother and we took basically all the same civil engineering courses throughout our 5 years at school. Anytime we got ****ed with an 8AM class, we would just trade off days and sign each other in then share notes if there was anything worthwhile that day. I wouldn't be surprised if some of our professor's didn't realize there were actually two of us.

Twins are one (two?) of my favorite things in the world - I find them (you) so strange and wonderful. Prefer it when they are girls, no offense, and not for pervy reasons. I had these twin girls in my classes and they were absolutely adorable human beings, and there were two of them! It freaks me out and thrills me at the same time. You guys are basically cheat-coding life lol.

 

[Amorgus]

I watched "Thor: Ragnarok" today. (Spoiler alert: it was worse than "Ishtar") I think that's about as much millennial terribleness as I can take for a while, but I will keep your resume on file.

I still have to see if Ishtar is as terrible as everyone claims, but damn you have no joy left in your heart if you couldn't have some fun with Thor: Ragnarok. That or the whole cast are Penguins fans.

 

[Strawberry Fields]

Forget missing class today......brutal scheduling, amigo. One class two days a week at 8am? Yeesh.

I was a total slob. The earliest I would take a course would be 10am, and that was only on the condition that it was a ****ing great course I couldn’t do without. Like reading Dante’s Inferno. I’d prefer it be during Fall or Spring Quarters too (I did quarters) because the weather would be lovely and easier to get up for. 11am-12pm was my more unofficial start time. And I’d try to push it to 1pm a couple days a week. One winter I ended up cancelling a Wednesday course and my only course was at 4pm. I lived walkable distance though. My slobness has scarred me for life, I think.

I like to get my day over with as soon as possible so I can have more free time, I hate working after 3 o clock, lol. 8 wasn't ideal, but I needed a music/art gen ed and I wanted to get it I over with this semester and this was all that really fit my schedule while still getting my 300 level history classes and an additional gen ed in. Plus, I need to squeeze in seven chapels per semester and they're on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:45, so that way I'm already on campus and don't have to make that extra trek out seven times a semester. In retrospect I should've just held out for the popular music class and taken it next year.

Last spring I only had one class on Tuesdays and Thursdays too, but it was a 12:25 class and probably a better arrangement in retrospect because it still gave me all morning to work.

 

[Young Sandwich]

Twins are one (two?) of my favorite things in the world - I find them (you) so strange and wonderful. Prefer it when they are girls, no offense, and not for pervy reasons. I had these twin girls in my classes and they were absolutely adorable human beings, and there were two of them! It freaks me out and thrills me at the same time. You guys are basically cheat-coding life lol.

Haha, damn right! I'd consider us on the less-strange side of the spectrum, but that's me saying that... I don't have any crazy telepathy stories to tell, short of us both singing the same song at the same time or something along those lines. Our hockey chemistry was pretty badass though.

We are both fairly gigantic so no one would ever f*** with us growing up. But we would have absolute marathon fist fights with each other up until freshman year in high school or so. I'm talking 2+ hours of the most even fight you've ever seen to the point where our Dad seriously thought one of us would end up dead. It would be over the dumbest things too, like who's team our buddy was on for a pickup basketball game or who ate the last half of that bologna sandwich that was in the fridge.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I still have to see if Ishtar is as terrible as everyone claims, but damn you have no joy left in your heart if you couldn't have some fun with Thor: Ragnarok. That or the whole cast are Penguins fans.

No, nothing Keatonesque about it. I didn't have any expectations going in, but it was very comfortably the worst movie in the MCU so far (I have just watched them all, almost all of them for the 2nd time, so I can go see "Black Panther" this week). I just think it was poorly executed on every level, and when I say "I think" I mean "I know."

I am sincerely happy if you had fun with it, but it was too terrible for me to have fun with. It was distractingly bad. It looked bad and it sounded 1000 times worse than it looked - one of the worst scripts I can remember. As much as I seem to like complaining about stuff, I really don't like to do it with these MCU movies, because I know what they are meant to be and can keep my expectations under control - this was just a bad, bad movie on every level and in every particular.

 

[Jiikeri]

Twins are one (two?) of my favorite things in the world - I find them (you) so strange and wonderful. Prefer it when they are girls, no offense, and not for pervy reasons. I had these twin girls in my classes and they were absolutely adorable human beings, and there were two of them! It freaks me out and thrills me at the same time. You guys are basically cheat-coding life lol.

There are exceptions though.

Also Taika Waititi is a damn treasure. I've seen three of his movies and I loved each of them. What We Do in the Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople were great.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

There are exceptions though.

Also Taika Waititi is a damn treasure. I've seen three of his movies and I loved each of them. What We Do in the Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople were great.

And they have a pet pelican

 

[Amorgus]

There are exceptions though.

Also Taika Waititi is a damn treasure. I've seen three of his movies and I loved each of them. What We Do in the Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople were great.

I haven't seen Wilderpeople yet. They're making Shadows into a TV series now!

 

[JojoTheWhale]

No, nothing Keatonesque about it. I didn't have any expectations going in, but it was very comfortably the worst movie in the MCU so far (I have just watched them all, almost all of them for the 2nd time, so I can go see "Black Panther" this week). I just think it was poorly executed on every level, and when I say "I think" I mean "I know."

I am sincerely happy if you had fun with it, but it was too terrible for me to have fun with. It was distractingly bad. It looked bad and it sounded 1000 times worse than it looked - one of the worst scripts I can remember. As much as I seem to like complaining about stuff, I really don't like to do it with these MCU movies, because I know what they are meant to be and can keep my expectations under control - this was just a bad, bad movie on every level and in every particular.

You thought that was worse than the first Thor?! I could barely get through that slop. Maybe there’s something about recent Branagh as a director that just doesn’t work for me. His version of Orient Express looked fantastic, but was otherwise painful too.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

You thought that was worse than the first Thor?! I could barely get through that slop. Maybe there’s something about recent Branagh as a director that just doesn’t work for me. His version of Orient Express looked fantastic, but was otherwise painful too.

It was definitely worse than the first one, by miles and miles. I think it might have just been extremely bad, but the misguided inclusion and execution of Jeff Goldblum tipped it over into atrocious. I don't have any ulterior motives in trashing it - it was just super terrible.

 

[kudymen]

The most important thing I have learned today, aside from learning the FIRE HAKSTOL thread is a trainwreck, is this: I have got $17.000? Well in sportsbook money and I have no clue what it is... But still...

 

[Magua]

Damn, what was your major that didn't have any required classes that started before 10AM?

Literature and History. I'm sure if I was an engineer or something my schedule would've been tighter, but it wasn't just my majors. I didn't go to a big public school, so I never had issues with scheduling, yet there were always a lot of classes. I entered with a year's worth of credits, so I didn't do a full load a few quarters (like 3 instead of normal 4 classes), and I had almost all mandatory pre-requisite courses out of the way (though they weren't ultra specific; there was optionality), so I didn't have to worry about difficult to fit lecture hall-style classes or the like, unless I wanted to worry about one. I had a lot of course freedom. And what does man do with hard-earned freedom? Stay up late; sleep late.

 

[Amorgus]

It was definitely worse than the first one, by miles and miles. I think it might have just been extremely bad, but the misguided inclusion and execution of Jeff Goldblum tipped it over into atrocious. I don't have any ulterior motives in trashing it - it was just super terrible.

Not to beat on a dead Asgardian, but did you like the old Flash Gordon movie? Because that's what I felt they were aiming for, inspired by that garish randomness that came from working with an Italian film crew in the 80's.

 

[Lord Defect]

They definitely have volunteer fire departments since I kinda grew up in one but I don't know who does what anymore. I usually see an area church doing what looks like one of those "scared straight" haunted houses every year. There's gotta be an abortion room and it's probably hilarious.

I'm sorry but what the f*** is funny about abortion?

 

[Jray42]

From what I have been told by others there r kids as young as 13 that post here.

I came here at 14

Based on some of the dumb posts I read, I don't doubt that at all.

Aaaand I also posted a couple dumb things back in the day

I teach Listening and Speaking, and Mass Communications, and something like "Communication in Business English" ... I can never remember what it's called, but it's basically just more English, with a focus on business stuff, which I know next to nothing about. Luckily, it doesn't really matter - I always tell people "there's no such thing as 'Business English,' it's just a marketing tool - 'Business English' is just regular English with some business terms and situations thrown around." I don't know what I'm doing anymore lol.

The Mass Com class I built from scratch when I first got here (I've done that with all of my courses, but that one in particular) and it's cool because I have stuff to talk about that I actually care about. Like I found a way to get some history in there, and I have a part where I talk about comic strips, and film noir. Of course, I'm so sick of being here that it's hard to enjoy at the moment lol.

That's really interesting, I guess it's obviously much different considering you're teaching business english overseas. I'm here in the U.S and I'm 100% a business guy (2 business majors and a business minor, shoot me) and we all have to take Business Communications, which is basically business writing and presenting. It's pretty different than the usual way to write things the way we all grew up doing it. (I'm actually a very, very good writer in general, but it likely doesn't seem so the way I write so choppy here on HF )

Forget missing class today......brutal scheduling, amigo. One class two days a week at 8am? Yeesh.

I was a total slob. The earliest I would take a course would be 10am, and that was only on the condition that it was a ****ing great course I couldn’t do without. Like reading Dante’s Inferno. I’d prefer it be during Fall or Spring Quarters too (I did quarters) because the weather would be lovely and easier to get up for. 11am-12pm was my more unofficial start time. And I’d try to push it to 1pm a couple days a week. One winter I ended up cancelling a Wednesday course and my only course was at 4pm. I lived walkable distance though. My slobness has scarred me for life, I think.

I commuted for 3+ years, and took an 8am every semester, which means I'd have to leave my house by 6:45. Now I live just off campus and my earliest class is at 11am, and I barely make that every day. This is even with the fact I can get from my bedroom to my class in 9 minutes. I seriously don't know how I did it before, living here makes my life sooo much easier. I have one more semester left and I'll likely have to commute again, and I'm very upset about it.


This post might look really ugly since HF is being super slow today and I can't really see what I'm writing as I do this

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Not to beat on a dead Asgardian, but did you like the old Flash Gordon movie? Because that's what I felt they were aiming for, inspired by that garish randomness that came from working with an Italian film crew in the 80's.

I think they were going for that, too - Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh did the music and there was definitely an 80s feel to it - but I think they just failed miserably. But really, the bigger problem was the script - they pushed the comedy too far to the front - and it was garbage, lazy comedy at that - instead of weaving comedy into a superhero movie, as is the MCU's wont, they made a breezy comedy with action set pieces. It was just flawed from every angle. I don't like talking about it, because I don't want to ruin anyone else's enjoyment of it (and God knows, I hate arguing on the internet lol), but it just really put me off so bad. I have been noticing the same breed of lazy new comedy infecting a lot of things lately, so to see it infuse this as well was gross.

 

[Lord Defect]

I watched "Thor: Ragnarok" today. (Spoiler alert: it was worse than "Ishtar") I think that's about as much millennial terribleness as I can take for a while, but I will keep your resume on file.

Do you know who else didn't like ragnarok? Michael Keaton.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Do you know who else didn't like ragnarok? Michael Keaton.

 

[Striiker]

Aaaand I also posted a couple dumb things back in the day

Don't feel bad, I just saw a past post of mine from years ago that is the type of post that'd make me call someone a f***ing idiot today.

What's important is that we learn and grow. I learned my lesson and now realize how insanely stupid what I said was.

 

[Lord Defect]

I couldn't find a hug it out type gif

 

[Amorgus]

I'm sorry but what the **** is funny about abortion?

I don't know but these things end up being so over-the-top that they probably have the Devil in there like Edward Coathangerhands chasing a girl around.

EDIT: I just did a search and they're referred to as Hell Houses and hoooo boy some of these pics are pure insanity.