Random Chatter

[Kamber Parrk]

Gonna buy me a set o' nunchuks.

Been thinkin' about it for awhile. Want to get incredibly skilled in a rather useless weapon for no apparent reason. . .

[Psychotime]

Make sure you wear a cup when you're practicing, then.

I've seen enough home video clip shows.

[JFierce]

Haven't had a random rant in ages.

The one thing I've learned over the years is simple. Things change. Dramatically. In no time at all and I'm only in my 20's ironically and my life and those around me have already shifted so many times it's unbelievable. Both for better and worse. I had a friend who was barely getting by, his mother was literally evil incarnate, she stole from him, tried to stab him, ditched him in the middle of nowhere etc etc..... he was house hopping with friends for years. Hell lived with my family for a year+. Then one day he went to pursue a random career went to a government agency to take a mandatory test for a possible government job related. Scored really high on his test and is in the CIA. It blew everyone of our minds. Suddenly he's in an amazing location to live, making money and doing better than everyone. Then on the opposite spectrum my sister had everything going for her. Got married, husband had a good job, they were getting a house. Then she had so many health problems hit her at once. It broke her. In rehab trying to barely walk, her blood pressure drops when standing, has been nauseous 24/7 and in bed for over a year. Her world completely shifted and we're still trying to simply recover to a normal functional life. Things are always changing, one day your living in a house the size of a shed with half the floor collapsing the next your living on the water in an amazing house, then the next to something completely different. I kind of wonder what stability feels like.


Now I can see another fork in the road ahead. One that could be so fucking life changing for the better that I can't even imagine it. As vague as that is I'm trying to be fairly vague already. It's the internet. You don't put detailed personal info online. But it's the weirdest feeling when you KNOW your entire world could be changed for the better in ways you can't imagine in just a few months. Usually it hits you out of nowhere. But when you see something coming it's sort of a feeling of disbelief. There is a chance that nothing will happen though but just the possibility of 99% of your problems going away in an instance is a thought that you can't help but think about constantly. (Still vague I know lol. Honestly wish I could go into details as it's exciting for me. But can't)

[Shahan]

I got a 95% on my first Calculus 2 exam... for me this is especially lovely since i have struggled with math. I was in remedial math my entire school-life until the end of high school. I failed those remedial math courses too!! I mean ...I just didn't get it before, but now. ah feels good...

Also I finished Stephen King's Dark Tower The Wizard and Glass, and am now half way through The wind through the keyhole.

Also NEW John Frusciante records coming out!!!

@JFierce Wow... that's awesome, I know a guy who had something similar happen but with the Airforce at the end. What you say is so true, about the changing.
Best wishes to you and your ...vague happenings hope it goes well sir.

[Black Spot]

It's been over 75F in London for the past week. My office block still has it's heating on - a man has to come out to switch it off. I am seriously ready to kill at the end of the day except my ankles have swollen like balloons.

[Aaron_]

Yeah just decided to make some stew today, so I went outside, and hey wassup, there's a fat cat on the pavement, really solid mass, really developed musculature. Sorta skinned the cat, and made the stew. Man, I got really hungry back then. But for some reason the stew tasted really bland and I can't feel the meat at all. So weird. But yeah, whatever, I'm sorta really inspired now, great lesson on cat anatomy.

[Black Spot]

I dissected a sofa today. I thought it was dead, but it bit one of my fingers. It is dead now.

[JFierce]

sofa as in couch?

[Black Spot]

That's right. I skinned it's blue leather off, gutted it and tossed the carcass into the garden to be burnt tomorrow.

[Psychotime]

It's been over 75F in London for the past week.

Lucky British people and their good weather. Over here it's abnormal for anything to go under the 80's during the summer, with average in the low 90's.

[JFierce]

Gotta be careful. Sofa's are like sharks. You might think they're dead but that's when they strike one last time

[Kamber Parrk]

That's right. I skinned it's blue leather off, gutted it and tossed the carcass into the garden to be burnt tomorrow.

Heh! Did a couch dissection recently. JFierce is correct-- they conspire to bite yeh! Had numerous cuts and scratches after assaulting the couch with Oriental weapons, saws, box cutters, hammers, and etc.

Damn thing had staples, nails or screws in nearly every 1/2 square centimeter. . .

[Only wish I couda set the remains on fire!]

[Frostblade]

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

Over the years, I've been linked this comic quite a few times, it just sums up shit that happens so well it makes me laugh and depressed almost instantly again.

[vineris]

Gonna buy me a set o' nunchuks.

Been thinkin' about it for awhile. Want to get incredibly skilled in a rather useless weapon for no apparent reason. . .

Apparently it's fairly easy to make some from a dowel and heavy-duty wire, if you have some basic knowledge about how to work a drill and a saw.

My husband made some. They appear to hold together. As in, I've never found half a nunchuck buried in the TV set or angry neighbours peering at me through a hole in their window.

[CLANLESS]

I just put rocks in a sturdy sock and swing it around. That's how I used to fight as a kid hahaha

Not used to being treated this way, I should be happy but it comes as a shock and scares me a little because I am not used to it. I am sure no one would think much about it but I think about it for hours because I am not familiar with such treatment. Things really have been changing, hasn't it. I never imagined that I would ever be treated this way, never knew I was even viable. I wasn't happy with my former situation, but there was the familiarity and the comfort. I don't want to say anything because I don't want pity, I don't want any sort of charity. It's out of my comfort zone but it feels so nice. I am afraid it may be too good to be true.

I am glad to still be young. If shit hits the fan, I can just pick up my bag and run.

[JDSart]

I don´t have any uni fee to pay this month or the next so i can use that money and finally buy books and things i need.

But i always feel guilty and nervous spending any kind of money on myself no matter what, it makes no sense but what my brain tells me being used to being broke and watching out every cent i spend all the time.

[Psychotime]

Since last week my left eye occasionally feels like it's twitching. But when I look in the mirror it's not actually doing anything. It's only a feeling.

Weird. It's been doing that for a week now.

EDIT: From a quick internet search, it sounds like it's Myokymia, which goes away after a little while.

[CLANLESS]

"The Cove" is retarded, imperialistic, and downright hypocritical. Let's go pick on some country that's minding its own business while we treat our own livestock like shit here. There, I said it.

[Shahan]

The original 'Human Torch', was a robot with all the powers of the Johnny Storm (Later altered), is the current 'Vision' in Marvel comics, he was the first Marvel character ever.

EDIT: Also Marvel had Captain America punching Hitler in the face before Hitler EVER acquired international attention.

[JFierce]

Trying to draw friends who are just "slightly overweight" for a comic is hard. Finding that balance between making it look like them and insulting them is very hard.

[Psychotime]

EDIT: Also Marvel had Captain America punching Hitler in the face before Hitler EVER acquired international attention.

Well his creators were Jewish, so they had to be aware of the antisemitism that was building up then.

[Zephyrion]

Random thread? ok.
I just want to say you all are excellent people, and I pray every day that you will all be prosperous and lead long, happy lives.

[Shahan]

@Psychotime really? I didn't know that, i guess that explains that. I just think that situation is interesting, where some soon to be horrible dictator is in the peripheral public eye, and some people know and some people don't. Like it is happening right now... but thats a whole other..... thing... uh
but Marvel and comics are awesome(DUHHHHHHHHHHH)... Reading the Neil Gaiman Sandman GN and DarkTower series... sweet stuff.

@Zephyrion back at ya man.

also anyone else play Indigo Prophecy then find themselves reading Locke & Key and then think "Man i should read the Tempest" .. ?

[Sumgai83]

Random chat? Ok. I want to complain.

I wanted to draw stories for a living. So I started drawing. And my drawings weren't good. So I quit my day job and started taking part time jobs to increase my drawing time.

And I improved. I have a degree in Materials Engineering that I WILL NOT USE.

Guess what? I don't EVEN know if I can get a drawing job later on. I've been working in warehousing and joe jobs for two years. Fine. The problem is that most people are so DAMN TALENTED AND HARDWORKING that it's so hard to catch up to them.

And I have a feeling that I have to WORK ANOTHER WAREHOUSING JOB LATER ON. With people who say "Hey, you draw well, how about drawing me?"

Well office dudes, you don't tell a prostitute to give you a freebie if she's able to get an orgasm from that, SO WHY WOULD YOU ASK ME TO DRAW YOU to improve my drawing skills?

[TinyBird]

SO WHY WOULD YOU ASK ME TO DRAW YOU to improve my drawing skills?

Yes, actually it should be you asking them if you can draw them as practice!

Anyway, I'm moving to a new home next month. The rent is pretty damn expensive and the apartment small, but the house is very pretty, in a really good spot and going to the inner yard is like stepping into a Ghibli movie.

[Star Eater]

Nice looking pad TB. Hope the move goes well.

In todays news:

A Port Elizabeth man's neck was broken when the dog's leash he was wearing got stuck in the wheel of his car, Beeld newspaper reported on Monday.

Rob Emslie, 47, had worn the leash around his neck from time to time after his dog Sheevah died about five weeks ago.

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-cour...eash-1.1316159

[Sumgai83]

Yes, actually it should be you asking them if you can draw them as practice!

Anyway, I'm moving to a new home next month. The rent is pretty damn expensive and the apartment small, but the house is very pretty, in a really good spot and going to the inner yard is like stepping into a Ghibli movie.

Person: Hey, you draw well, how about doing me? I got a nice photo here.

Me: Ok. *Spends like a week on the photo*.

Me: Here.

Person: Thanks. For your efforts...I give you nothing. But you've improved, right? I'm sure that's payment enough.



NO THANKS. I'll practice on my own photos.

[Shorinji_Knight]

Person: Hey, you draw well, how about doing me? I got a nice photo here.

Me: Ok. *Spends like a week on the photo*.

Me: Here.

Person: Thanks. For your efforts...I give you nothing. But you've improved, right? I'm sure that's payment enough.



NO THANKS. I'll practice on my own photos.

Man you should be making money from your art right now. Go out and market yourself. Find your niche.

[TinyBird]

Person: Hey, you draw well, how about doing me? I got a nice photo here.

Me: Ok. *Spends like a week on the photo*.

Me: Here.

Person: Thanks. For your efforts...I give you nothing. But you've improved, right? I'm sure that's payment enough.

Well, if you wanted money for the image, I'd think you'd make an agreement of it from the start and not ask money after everything's done, right? (which was what I got out of your explanation)
Nor would I ever spend a week on drawing a photo, I myself would snipe draw the guy while in a meeting and never tell them.

[Sumgai83]

Well, if you wanted money for the image, I'd think you'd make an agreement of it from the start and not ask money after everything's done, right? (which was what I got out of your explanation)
Nor would I ever spend a week on drawing a photo, I myself would snipe draw the guy while in a meeting and never tell them.

Well, that's the thing. I've seen your drawings, they're pretty good (and probably better than mine). So I think your advice probably will be valid.

I do a bit of sculpture drawing, and it's helped me a bit on identifying planes and differentiating shades. So I think there's some good in drawing a face slowly.

But what do you get out of from quick studies of faces? I mean...what are you training when you do a rapid sketch of a face?