gary brolsma tank n spank

[YoYoClock]

farts

[YoYoClock]

after 18 years, i finally finished picos school

[zl]

heyoyo how's it hangin?

[YoYoClock]

hey man yeh i'm ok my life is in a constant state of turmoil that somehow reached a critical mass today and i inexplicably came here for shelter just like i did when i was 15 isnt that strange

[YoYoClock]

how are you/everyone else?

[PhantomCatClock]

I am feeling better than ZL. I am feeling the best.

[Slurpee]

i'm bad....... and it feels goooood

[Slurpee]

working on my mash-up novel

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since- "A single man in possession of a good fortune," he told me, "must be in want of a wife."

gonna be hot

[RobClock]

I worked this morning and discovered I have no scheduled shifts for the next two weeks so I'm a little uneasy since I'm totally reliant on being called in at this stage. The worst of it being just that I'm so used to working every single day and just sort of sleeping on my days off that I don't even know what to do with myself.


Maybe I'll work on a cartoon


Don't hold me to that

[RobClock]

I used the word "just" too many times in that post please forgive me

[PhantomCatClock]

Today was pretty hectic. It was the first of the month AND a Saturday, at a grocery store. I mean, there weren't a lot of customers, all things considered. We were all busy, but we kept making small talk with each other along the lines of "THE FUCK ALL THE CUSTOMERS AT, SHIIIIIIIIIIIT" and other niceties. However, I was scheduled eight hours in the walk-around-and-look-busy department but someone called in in the tell-the-customers-sorry-we're-out department and nobody else works in the tell-the-customers-sorry-we're-out department right now so I had to do BOTH the walk-around-and-look-busy department and tell-the-customers-sorry-we're-out department and shit was 4011s.

[GreyClock]

Dear Diary,

It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone reading this thread that I can be quite the nitpicker, or know-it-all. I'm like this in real life as well, and sometimes people not only seem to pick up on it, but also get a bit annoyed by it. I like to think that I know when it's appropriate to be critical. E.g. when someone fires off a long-winded speech claiming something or other about frogs and mentions that toads are in fact the exact same animal. In other words, when someone tries to assert their knowledge on a particular subject, I'll see it fit to correct them. If you really claim to know that much about frogs, you should know the fucking difference between frogs and toads. So I'll say something along the lines of: "The toad is actually part of a specific family within the anura, or frog order. So... this and that, or whatever."* The typical response then, is something along the lines of "You're so critical" or "You're always so quick to shoot down anything I say." No fucker, just get your facts straight when you attempt to strut your supposed wealth of knowledge. Sometimes it goes one annoying step further, when the person in question in turn tries to nitpick the shit I say, but always in the feeblest way possible. "Yeah, but frogs are actually amphibians." I never disputed that, nor is it particularly relevant to the discussion at hand, you moron. This is all extremely inconsequential, but for some reason very upsetting to me, to keep within the realm of Always Sunny-isms.

*I actually don't know that much about frogs, but my mind was "locked in" on this analogy and I couldn't "move past it."

[GreyClock]

Another go-to seems to be "I already knew that, and you're stupid for implying that I didn't" while nothing in their statements hinted at that knowledge, or even when it actively contradicts previous claims.

[RobClock]

Can we rename this thread "CC's Biggest LiveJournal"?

[PhantomCatClock]

I write in a LiveJournal
and wear thick-rimmed glasses,
I tell my friends I bleed black
and cry during classes.

[PhantomCatClock]

OOOOOOH 3777th POST THAT'S THREE SEVENS HOMESLICE BETTER BUY A LOTTERY TICKET







wait











shit

[GreyClock]

Today was pretty hectic. It was the first of the month AND a Saturday, at a grocery store. I mean, there weren't a lot of customers, all things considered. We were all busy, but we kept making small talk with each other along the lines of "THE FUCK ALL THE CUSTOMERS AT, SHIIIIIIIIIIIT" and other niceties. However, I was scheduled eight hours in the walk-around-and-look-busy department but someone called in in the tell-the-customers-sorry-we're-out department and nobody else works in the tell-the-customers-sorry-we're-out department right now so I had to do BOTH the walk-around-and-look-busy department and tell-the-customers-sorry-we're-out department and shit was 4011s.

You're American right? What's it like working in an grocery story over there? Is it anything at all like Clerks? Over here grocery stores are all loud, overlit and kind of cheap (not in terms of products sold, but in store fixtures etc. lots of plastic and those gross shelves made out of thin, shiny metal bars) and all are staffed entirely by fifteen-year-olds. Although "loud and overlit" is probably an accurate description of the American way, there's just something slightly off about ours, like an uncanny valley bad copy. I'm only familiar with Manhattan grocery stores, like Duane Reade, which I doubt are an accurate representation of a grocery store in an average American town. Looking at photographs of store interiors I'm starting to wonder if I haven't romanticized my whole mental image, based on depictions in movies or whatever. Although, looking at stills from like The Big Lebowski and Punch Drunk Love they are all just as bright and tacky, so I have no idea where I got it from. I'm also starting to wonder why I'm overthinking grocery stores.

[RobClock]

I spent 4 hours total last night and this morning emptying my inbox. Ive had this email since 2013 and only ever marked things as read instead of deleting them.

It's very satisfying to have finished, but I can't help but feel that I've lost something.

[RobClock]

My last email I set up around 08 or 09 (I think) and when I made this one in HS I had the old one redirect to the new one, to save myself the trouble of changing account details on a billion different websites.

Should I log into that one and empty the inbox too? It's not like I've got anything better to do today

[GreyClock]

I'm currently looking through the wanted ads and I want to say a thing or two about the current job market. It's absolutely dismal, the jobs are all so uninteresting and inapplicable and the qualities they're looking for in an applicant are so formulaic and grating, like: "you're the perfect calling card for our company" or "you're interested in working in a young and dynamic organization" or "you're willing to go that extra mile, you don't have a nine to five mentality" (actually I don't, but not in the way that you mean). Chill the fuck out, you're not offering a job as Head of Water Gun Innovation & Pony Rides at Google, you're offering an ill-paying boring job cold-calling boring people to sell boring insurance from your boring office with boring co-workers in your two-bit boring fucking company, you cunt.

Also some of the requirements are insanely specific. This is an actual ad I saw: "Wanted: degree as a secretary from a vocational school and fluency in Dutch, English, German and Italian." Who are these polyglot geniuses with a degree in writing down appointments and pressing the copy button? Also who are the people who dreamt up this ad (and the accompanying position for that matter) and felt good about sending it out into the world? What are their job titles, qualifications, salaries, etc. Christ.