The Unofficial Badmovies.org Random Thought Thread!

[BTM]

Okay, this is disturbing.... I'm reading the book Profiles In Murder by Russell Vorpagel (a good book, BTW, someone in the Reading Anything thread recommended it) and here's a stat from the book: The average police office gets four hundred to six hundred hours of training.  In California, it takes 1600 to 1800 hundreds of training to become a beautician. 

WTF?!?

So, wielding a pair of scissors is more complicated than being a police officer? 

Wow...

Either officers need a bit more training, or California takes their beautician jobs waaaay to damn seriously.

[ghouck]

Okay, this is disturbing.... I'm reading the book Profiles In Murder by Russell Vorpagel (a good book, BTW, someone in the Reading Anything thread recommended it) and here's a stat from the book: The average police office gets four hundred to six hundred hours of training.  In California, it takes 1600 to 1800 hundreds of training to become a beautician. 

WTF?!?

So, wielding a pair of scissors is more complicated than being a police officer? 

Wow...

Either officers need a bit more training, or California takes their beautician jobs waaaay to damn seriously.

I would hope it is because police candidates tend to be faster learners.

[Saucerman]

I find myself spiraling down into another wave of depression.  They've come and gone for years.  This one was triggered by the sudden and inexplicable dumping of me by my girlfriend, who seemed happy with me and wept when she broke up with me, saying, "I've cried over guys before...but you're the only one who was ever worth it", but later said she'd been unhappy with the relationship for weeks (and I know she's not a good enough actress to fool me if she was honestly unhappy). 

On top of that, I'm in a miserable job where the bosses actively encourage us to back-stab each other for cash prizes, but can't get anything better right now and have too many bills to pay to just quit. 

And the cherry on the s**t sundae is that my D&D group, one of my only escapes from everything else, are constantly complaining that I'm not doing a good enough job running the game, each week's complaints contradicting the complaints of the week before, and now they're rolling their eyes and making snide comments about the adventures I run. 

[venomx]

I would go see a doctor. Best wishes BTM.

[LilCerberus]

Now that I've got this new cell phone figured out (within reason), It's got me wondering; If all the passengers on the SS Minnow had one of these (or maybe the real expensive kind), just how dumb would Gilligan have to be to insure an extended run series?

The plot of Lost has gotten so convoluted over the years, that I wouldn't be too surprised if the series finale includes a CGI cutout of Bob Denver.

[LilCerberus]

Where's the line between "pervert" and "normal male behavior"? 


(Well, other than the obvious like stealing panties from clotheslines, and such.)

Most people I encounter assert that it's never normal (even if they do it themselves). In this town, if you're not a pervert, then you're either a creep, a sicko, or a dirty old man. As such, I've never encountered any normal behavior, & I wouldn't know what it is.

[Psycho Circus]

Well, my toenail is coming out in exactly 2 hours. Not looking forward to it, as the anesthetic didn't work on me last time. Luckily, the clinic is only a 10min walk away from my flat and a 15min hop on the way back. 

[BTM]

Well, my toenail is coming out in exactly 2 hours. Not looking forward to it, as the anesthetic didn't work on me last time. Luckily, the clinic is only a 10min walk away from my flat and a 15min hop on the way back. 

Which toenail is being removed and why?

Crazily enough, I removed one of the toenails on my big toes once (think it's the left, but I'm not sure.)  You see, I was getting to cook some dinner, and I dropped a pan on it and I don't mean one of those small, lightweight, no stick pans they use nowadays, I'm talking one of the "old school" THICK metal pans that my mom has head since about the seventies or so.  It landed RIGHT ON my toe, leaving a nice bruise with blood trapped underneath.  After awhile, the pain went away, but the nail I found was just hanging on by a bit of membrane, so I finally pulled it off.  (Hurt a little, but not nearly as much as dropping the pan on it did.)

Since them, it's grown back, but the center of my "new" toe nail is a lot higher than the other one, and there all this.. for lack of a better word, "junk" collected in the arch underneath my toenail I keep cleaning out. 

Weird, huh?

[BTM]

I would go see a doctor. Best wishes BTM.

Thanks.  I'll give him a call today, although I am feeling a lot better... hopefully it was nothing serious.

[Psycho Circus]

Well, my toenail is coming out in exactly 2 hours. Not looking forward to it, as the anesthetic didn't work on me last time. Luckily, the clinic is only a 10min walk away from my flat and a 15min hop on the way back. 

Which toenail is being removed and why?

The big one on my right foot. The nail is ingrown on both sides and has been wrecking like a b***h for about 6 months. Plus, it's infected, so I needed to get it seen to quick as I've had alot of pain start travelling up my whole leg.

[BTM]

Hey Saucer,

I'm really sorry to hear about the stuff you're going through.  Can't tell you much about relationships and stuff, but I DO know what it's like to be depressed.  I've been dealing with that on and off myself throughout my whole life and have wished I were dead on more than one occasion.

Wish I could offer some fancy magical advice on it, but I can't, other than to try and find someone in real life you can talk to about it face to face, that can really help.

I wish you the best, and I'm here if need to talk.

I find myself spiraling down into another wave of depression.  They've come and gone for years.  This one was triggered by the sudden and inexplicable dumping of me by my girlfriend, who seemed happy with me and wept when she broke up with me, saying, "I've cried over guys before...but you're the only one who was ever worth it", but later said she'd been unhappy with the relationship for weeks (and I know she's not a good enough actress to fool me if she was honestly unhappy). 

On top of that, I'm in a miserable job where the bosses actively encourage us to back-stab each other for cash prizes, but can't get anything better right now and have too many bills to pay to just quit. 

And the cherry on the s**t sundae is that my D&D group, one of my only escapes from everything else, are constantly complaining that I'm not doing a good enough job running the game, each week's complaints contradicting the complaints of the week before, and now they're rolling their eyes and making snide comments about the adventures I run. 

[BTM]

Which toenail is being removed and why?

The big one on my right foot. The nail is ingrown on both sides and has been wrecking like a b***h for about 6 months. Plus, it's infected, so I needed to get it seen to quick as I've had alot of pain start travelling up my whole leg.

Ow!  That's not good.. have had ingrowns before, they always suck.  Hopefully the surgery will go okay.

[Psycho Circus]

Which toenail is being removed and why?

The big one on my right foot. The nail is ingrown on both sides and has been wrecking like a b***h for about 6 months. Plus, it's infected, so I needed to get it seen to quick as I've had alot of pain start travelling up my whole leg.

Ow!  That's not good.. have had ingrowns before, they always suck.  Hopefully the surgery will go okay.

Cheers BTM, fingers crossed anyway....Or is that toes 

[Jack]

One of the best ways I've found to avoid depression after a breakup is to always date lying cheating whores. 

[Saucerman]

One of the best ways I've found to avoid depression after a breakup is to always date lying cheating whores. 

My problem with women is that I seem to make Dulcineas out of Aldonzas.  Not surprising, really, as I've been somewhat informally diagnosed by the therapist I saw last time I got down this low as extremely Quixotic.