Bonehead

joined 2 years ago
[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

No, that was the Matterhorn. Who designs a tight circular track and then not only spin people forwards, but stop mid way through and spin them backwards? I think that was the 3rd hardest I've ever puked in my life.

For the uninitiated.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Either way, someone still has a hoe ass grandma.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Does it still really whip the llamas ass?

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

Some people's parents are just cruel. It's not her fault.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Chaotic evil. Really stretches out the neck muscles and relieves that pinched nerve that makes my hands go numb.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Four time Olympic gold medalist...

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Wow...I almost didn't recognize Kurt Angle. I'm getting old...

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm in Canada, in an area heavy with tech companies. But I was also stuck in Support. I took a Support job since a friend was working there and they offered me almost double what I was making as a QA developer, which that point was completely lost on the people I had been working for. But that was the worst decision of my life. They promised me a chance to move to C# development if I started in Support, which is a big part of why I took the job. After 5 years of broken promises, they laid me off unceremoniously. After that, it was just a string of shitty support jobs at about the same wage each time. My salary had stagnated for a decade. New developers were starting at more than I was making after 10 years. So after spending more than a year looking for a job after the last layoff, I was desperate and starting applying to everything. This job came up, and after a few more months of apply to IT and coming very close to not one but two different developer roles that both evaporated after I was told I had the second interview with the director, I decided being a mailman wasn't so bad. I just stopped apply to IT and embraced it.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Did it at 40. Left a dead end career in IT after yet another layoff, and became a mailman. It's really not so bad. I make just as much as I did in IT, which is a real indictment of IT, and most days I'm done by 2pm. There are some times around Christmas where I might cover extra routes for the money, in which case I'm working until 8pm. But that is completely my choice, and I get paid very well for doing it. One pay period during Christmas, I got the extra route pay plus a boot allowance which doubled my pay for those 2 weeks. That would never happen in IT. The best I could hope for after getting the 2am emergency call was that I got to work from home the next day (pre-pandemic). That's it. No extra pay, no extra time off, because my "on-call" pay apparently covered that. And I didn't make any more than my base pay as a mailman. This was really the best decision I've ever made.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Other things helped--like drinking half a liter of water before going to bed so biology forces the issue

Unfortunately this stops working as you get older and your bladder decides 3:30am is a good time to wake up.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well you can't just mention it without linking to the video.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It takes one gallon of milk to make one pound of cheese. So about 4000 gallons of milk.

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