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Post by Leorgathar on Aug 28, 2015 6:41:43 GMT
Augh, so you dislocated your knee? I hope you recover from that soon! D:
I played DDR probably... once in my entire life, and I sucked at it xD I do miss laser tag, though.
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Post by Zorayda on Aug 28, 2015 16:20:55 GMT
Augh, so you dislocated your knee? I hope you recover from that soon! D: I played DDR probably... once in my entire life, and I sucked at it xD I do miss laser tag, though. Nah, not dislocated, just a sprain. But it hurts pretty bad, haha. I have to keep off of it and keep it in a brace. Laser tag was fun! Though there were these kids that liked to just follow me around and wait for me to light up again. Pew-light up. Pew, light up. I was like >:I Go away, annoying child. |
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Post by This Land on Aug 29, 2015 16:50:49 GMT
aww hope you feel better soon Zorayda.
Funnily enough ive been playing lasertag every sunday (members night) for the last 2-3 years. Soo much fun x3 A friend of mine done the exact same thing of jumping and hurting his knee, but in this case he ripped a tendon, ouch xP.
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Post by Zorayda on Aug 29, 2015 17:24:32 GMT
aww hope you feel better soon Zorayda. Funnily enough ive been playing lasertag every sunday (members night) for the last 2-3 years. Soo much fun x3 A friend of mine done the exact same thing of jumping and hurting his knee, but in this case he ripped a tendon, ouch xP. Yeah, it ends up that I ripped my ACL slightly, a ligament :c It's not too serious though and I'll recover if I'm careful. |
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Post by abalancedbreakfast on Aug 30, 2015 11:32:07 GMT
The staffers have their bar, so we regular members can have a café =P Do we still get alcohol? |
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Post by Pulsar on Aug 31, 2015 17:03:02 GMT
The staffers have their bar, so we regular members can have a café =P Do we still get alcohol? No, of course not, what café do you know of that servers alcohol?  Besides, the café doesn't even have a staff member to server anything to anyone, it's more a room that looks like a café but doesn't operate as one. Like a fake café! |
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Post by Jetstar on Sept 1, 2015 7:44:08 GMT
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Post by Kirsui on Sept 2, 2015 10:46:35 GMT
No, of course not, what café do you know of that servers alcohol? I know several over here where I live. So I say bring out the booze, your argument is invalid. xP |
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Post by abalancedbreakfast on Sept 7, 2015 4:29:10 GMT
No, of course not, what café do you know of that servers alcohol? Besides, the café doesn't even have a staff member to server anything to anyone, it's more a room that looks like a café but doesn't operate as one. Like a fake café! So its a cafe that does nothing? Are we on a movie set? |
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Post by Kirsui on Sept 7, 2015 13:58:50 GMT
Speaking of café's that serve alcohol...... As of today, you can buy beer, cider and wine from the cafeteria in the Faculty of Art and Design wing in our university. Is a proper bar now, even has bar stools wtf? XD
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Post by Lyonize on Sept 7, 2015 18:14:26 GMT
Speaking of café's that serve alcohol...... As of today, you can buy beer, cider and wine from the cafeteria in the Faculty of Art and Design wing in our university. Is a proper bar now, even has bar stools wtf? XD That is amazing. Here in America (or at least Oklahoma) there are laws banning alcohol from being served anywhere near a school. haha |
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Post by Kirsui on Sept 7, 2015 18:34:16 GMT
I think it has something to do with the occasional opening ceremonies for exhibitions, visiting guests and the like. Makes it a whole lot easier to get your hands on wine and such when they're actually serving them there. Which is just.. weird. Still, we do not complain lol.
Also on the plus side, the "bar" also serves normal and special coffee and other nice non-alcoholic drinks, according to the brief glance I took at the menu written on the wall behind the counter as I passed by today.
Plus, the cafeteria also has gotten back to their habit of serving special dishes out of their "grill". They had fish and chips today. Too bad I couldn't stay for a lunch, it looked delicious. o.o
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Post by cheezeegriff on Sept 7, 2015 22:50:55 GMT
Special coffee?
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Post by Kirsui on Sept 9, 2015 22:28:13 GMT
I spied cappuchino on the list, at least. I think espresso was there too, and at least a few others that you normally don't get from our uni cafeterias. |
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Post by Lyonize on Mar 11, 2016 16:15:35 GMT
*staggers in and leans on the bar stool* The other place kicked me o*burp*oout! Can you believe it? Bunch of stuck up vvv*belch*vultures. Gimme your best whisky.  |
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Post by cheezeegriff on Mar 11, 2016 22:19:02 GMT
You got kicked out of the skype group?  |
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Post by This Land on Mar 12, 2016 15:08:29 GMT
*pours you an apple juice* there we go, it's apple flavoured whisky  |
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Post by Tamber on Mar 30, 2016 22:49:20 GMT
Random update from me: I just started as a full-time crematory assistant, so I'm spending 40 hours a week cremating people and processing their ashes (still in school, too, so I'm pretty much always tired). It's pretty fun, and I like my coworkers because they're weird and stuff. Though I may have to start a vent journal about the ignorant, primeval things the crematory operator says. But hey, if y'all have questions about the death/cremation industry, then shoot! There are all kinds of stories and tidbits to share.  |
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Post by cheezeegriff on Mar 30, 2016 23:04:00 GMT
Very interesting. So do the bones or teeth actually end up in the powder at the end? Or are they disposed of separately? And do they leave them in any clothes? Do the clothes have to be a specific type? How hot does the furnace get? What does "processing the ashes" involve? Don't they just upend the coffin into a fancy pot or something?
I am actually more interested in the dude who operates it though. What's he been saying to rile you up?
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Post by Tamber on Mar 31, 2016 0:18:53 GMT
Questions!  Do the bones and teeth actually end up in the powder at the end? Or are they disposed of separately?
Cremated remains (cremains for short ) are actually mostly composed of bone. All the organic material burns off in the cremation machine, leaving behind the inorganic stuff, largely calcium phosphate from the skeleton. Some of the ashes we sweep out are from the clothes they were wearing, or the cardboard container we have to put them in. But most of it is really brittle bone that still looks like bone but is really easy to break apart. Do they leave them in any clothes? Do the clothes have to be a specific type?
Most people we cremated have some kind of clothing on. Some of them have been in caskets and were viewed by the family. Some of them are in hospital gowns or whatever clothes they died in. Some of them are cadavers dissected by schools, and those are not clothed. The clothing material doesn't really make a difference - you can burn anything up in the cremation machine, and I've not been told of any pollution control we have to do regarding people's attire. How hot does the furnace get?
We put corpses into the chamber at 1600 degrees Fahrenheit, and it floats between that and 1900 throughout the process (though anywhere past 1800 warrants cooling the machine down). Over the course of the day, the chamber stays so hot that the bricks inside it glow orange. What does "processing the ashes" involve?
Processing refers to grinding the cremains up so they have a uniform, ashy texture. Since most of what comes out of the machine is brittle bone fragments, it has to be ground up in order to become the ashes you find in an urn. We do this in a machine called the cremulator (no really, that's what's it's called), which is basically a bone blender. Don't they just upend the coffin into a fancy pot or something?
The cremation machine is composed of a rectangular chamber, lined with bricks and heated by a furnace. Bodies are loaded into the chamber using a conveyer belt, which can be moved in front of and into the chamber to place the body inside. Sometimes people are cremated with their casket (if the family purchased one), but usually we just place them in cardboard trays before cremating them. As for my coworker, well...his sense of humor is restricted to jokes at other people's expense, and usually the butt of the joke is a woman, or a gay person, or an asian/black person. I'll spare the details, but the bigotry gets really overt and uncomfortable at times. (He refers to himself as an "equal opportunity bigot," as if being stereotyped and generalized about is an opportunity ) |
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Post by cheezeegriff on Mar 31, 2016 0:30:40 GMT
What. A. Douche. He probably thinks he's being funny. I'm sorry you have to put up with that. Thankfully I don't think I've ever had to put up with such an unsavory colleague (except students) but my wife has. She recently got fired after we had our baby. Totally illegal, and we're thinking about taking legal action.
What's the crematory run on? Natural gas?
Have you heard about that new 'environmentally friendly' method of cremation that involves freezing a body and then grinding them up? I don't know what they do after that. I imagine they'd have to do something so you don't end up with anywhere between 100-600 pounds of wet sludge at the end of it.
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Post by Tamber on Mar 31, 2016 2:26:01 GMT
I hope you and your wife can figure something out. What was illegal about her firing?
I actually don't know the specs of the energy source, though it's definitely not renewable. I can see the appeal in looking for something more sustainable, as much of an improvement cremation is over modern preservation and burial practices (formaldehyde is NASTY). The method you're talking about involves freeze-drying using liquid nitrogen. All the body's moisture is removed so it doesn't decay, and it becomes brittle enough that you can shake it up into tiny dried particles. Kinda like having an urn full of dried fruits. Which is interesting, since you'd be getting the organic material from that process that you don't get from cremation.
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Post by cheezeegriff on Mar 31, 2016 3:42:32 GMT
... and with the organic material, we can turn people into diamonds! Or pencils.
Illegal because:
We have equality laws in Australia that mean that, if a person falls pregnant (usually a female, heh) they're entitled to something like 4 months maternity leave from their employer or the government (not sure what determines what) and they can have up to 12 months unpaid leave. Upon their return their old position must be made available to them or, if that's not possible, another, similar position within the same company. They're allowed to take the full hours they used to be on or if they wish they can take a reduced number of hours. But about a month or so ago Deb's bosses told her they'd be advertising for a 30 hour a week position in her old position. Obviously, Deb couldn't commit to the 30 hours. When she didn't apply they terminated her employment. Via email. Lots of well-wishes all around, but still illegal and still a cheap shot. Deb's bosses are also american (they're a couple) and so they once told Deb (before she was pregnant) that they think maternity leave is ridiculous, and companies shouldn't have all these conditions put upon them.
This isn't the first time they've done something fishy either. A friend of ours from church works there and was re-negotiating hours with them. He arranged to work with them for 30 hours, but he was also working for another lady, whom he'd have to cease work for if if he worked the 30 hours there. So she called the bosses and complained and they reduced his hours at THEIR job so he could work for the lady. But she pays $5 an hour less! So in other words they chimped him out of about $45 a week. A father with 3 disabled children and a disabled wife.
Anyway, off to speak to this lady with Deb to get her a part time job. The devil you know is the only devil available right now, lol.
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Post by Lyonize on Apr 1, 2016 0:06:02 GMT
I have to say, this is the best April Fools joke TLKGO has done so farZUKA ZAMA !! Just throwing that out thereZUKA ZAMA !!  (I have no idea what this emote will look like tomorrow) |
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Post by Leorgathar on Apr 1, 2016 3:28:40 GMT
I agree  of all April Fools jokes this one takes the top spot. It's brilliant! xD You can't even spell our fandom's name without referencing Bunga now: The Lion King The Lion Guard and somehow that's the best thing that's ever happened in the forum  |
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Post by Blackdrake on Apr 19, 2016 2:22:48 GMT
Tip toes into the cafe. And slowly slips into a chair while pulling out a nice cider.
Anyone home?
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Post by Leorgathar on Apr 19, 2016 3:30:02 GMT
*Joins in, serving myself a root beer* Sup? |
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Post by Blackdrake on Apr 19, 2016 4:30:54 GMT
*takes a big swig of the cider* Not too much other then finally being able to legally drink. Though I did just get into a Lab on my campus. |
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Post by Leorgathar on Apr 19, 2016 6:23:52 GMT
Oh congrats on being able to drink legally now, was it your birthday recently? And how did the Lab stuff go? |
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Post by Blackdrake on Apr 20, 2016 4:36:15 GMT
haha Thank you, It was the 17th. It went well and their going to keep me though the summer and next semester. We are working with prions and the like. |
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(I have no idea what this emote will look like tomorrow)
of all April Fools jokes this one takes the top spot. It's brilliant! xD
Also added Christmassy snow and banner :3
I'm currently getting some uni work done before heading to the post office. What's up with you?