In Which We Brag About Our Petty Accomplishments

[SR71]

Originally Posted by lisarea

Oh, Matlock's even older than that. We both have really barebones setups where we pay $20 every 3 months just to keep the phone number active, and then our minutes and texts are really expensive. I don't like talking on the phone much, so I maybe send 5 texts and talk for 5 minutes a week or something, but he doesn't even leave his phone turned on, and maybe makes a 30 second call once a month or so, so he ended up with about $400 in there.

Computer!

[Ensign Steve]

Matlock's phone:





Anyway, this happened. And for petty-ass stuck up people like myself who are all, "damn, grrl, didn't you know you were getting your photo taken that day?" I preemptively answer, no, I fucking didn't. Quit being so petty and stuck up all the time. Also, FYI, I did not say anything remotely close to the shit they quote me as saying.

[Ymir's blood]

You could have at least taken that sign off of your head.

[Ensign Steve]

So stuck up.

[Kael]

You look like a graduate student who was just awarded a Google scholarship. Stuck up people can fuck off.

[Pan Narrans]

Nothing wrong with that look

[Janet]

I forgot all about this thread. On Sunday I took the latch cover off my front door, carved out a larger hole and put it back because the door wasn't latching. It had probably been like that since my brother fit the new locks years ago but I never noticed because the deadbolt latched fine and I always used them both. But I fixed it myself without calling in my handyman brother. If that's not a braggable petty accomplishment, I don't know what is.

[ImGod]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

Anyway, this happened. And for petty-ass stuck up people like myself who are all, "damn, grrl, didn't you know you were getting your photo taken that day?" I preemptively answer, no, I fucking didn't. Quit being so petty and stuck up all the time. Also, FYI, I did not say anything remotely close to the shit they quote me as saying.

That article was all full of brainy sounding stuff. But Borg AND Google. You have been assimilated.

CUDAs are a kickass cars and I wished I worked on them too. My cousin had one of these.

[ImGod]

I have one of these phones in the garage. Like this, but mine is an even older version from a thrift store.



My wife was like, why do you need a phone like that and I was like because when you're doing manly things in the garage, you get dirty and you can't use a smartphone unless you want oil and dirt all over the screen. I can dial this with the back of my hand and it can be filthy but not look dirty. Also, I like having one corded phone in the house that's powered by the magic in the phone line. When the power goes out, it still works.

I almost had to teach the kids how it operated.

[Dingfod]

I have one of these in my shop building. It would still work if I still had a landline service.

[ImGod]

That looks exactly like the phone my grandparents had on the wall in their house. Their "contacts list" was a small book hanging from a string under it. They had a long cord so you could walk around the kitchen. We were stuck sitting on the couch next to ours.

Then a cordless phone appears and took those off the walls.

[Dingfod]

The cord on mine is long enough you can reach about halfway across the 30'x30' shop building.

[SharonDee]

Originally Posted by Dingfod

The cord on mine is long enough you can reach about halfway across the 30'x30' shop building.

Dad?


Seriously, except for the part about not having a land line anymore, he has the exact setup.

[Watser?]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

Anyway, this happened. And for petty-ass stuck up people like myself who are all, "damn, grrl, didn't you know you were getting your photo taken that day?" I preemptively answer, no, I fucking didn't. Quit being so petty and stuck up all the time. Also, FYI, I did not say anything remotely close to the shit they quote me as saying.

Borg scholarship, eh? Seems fitting.

[lisarea]

I have I think four of that model. Black, pink, white, and I think yellow. None of them are currently up, though. That's probably Matlock's fault somehow.

[BrotherMan]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

Anyway, this happened.

[Janet]

I have that same black wall phone in my basement. I'm sure it's been there as long as the house has. It rings loudly but the connection's not good so I still usually run upstairs if the phone rings while I'm doing laundry.

[Demimonde]

We had one of these in the garage growing up:



Also a black one with alligator clips instead of plugs that was apparently used to hack phone lines somehow. I can't remember, I was too young.

I do remember that old green phone was so loud, that you could hear it over the lawnmower. That is why it was in the garage. It blasted sound from the echoy shop into the street. When we were in highschool and got calls at all hours I am sure the neighbors loved it.

[lisarea]

The alligator clips were probably just for connecting to a phone line without a modular jack, so you could tap into a line. Linemen carry things called butt sets that work the same way so they can "butt in" to test lines from the pole.

[livius drusus]

lol butt secks

[erimir]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

Anyway, this happened. And for petty-ass stuck up people like myself who are all, "damn, grrl, didn't you know you were getting your photo taken that day?" I preemptively answer, no, I fucking didn't. Quit being so petty and stuck up all the time. Also, FYI, I did not say anything remotely close to the shit they quote me as saying.

I assume the petty accomplishment is just getting a write up in a student newspaper.

Cuz otherwise I'ma have to say something about you pretending like that's a petty accomplishment for you.

You think you're better than all of us? HUH?

[Stormlight]

Yeah, I was gonna say. There's nothing petty about that. You just make me the rest of us look bad. Lazy and bad. FUCK YOU ENSING STOVE!

[S.Vashti]

Who are we kidding? I love bragging about the accomplishments of people I know! "The company you keep reflects on you", or so my dad often pointed out.

ES, that's wonderful for you, and I'm happy to know you.

[Dingfod]

I live vicariously through the lives of others.

[Ymir's blood]

Apparently the 'sign' on ES's head only appears on the mobile view. oops. I blame, um, Bort. Yeah cuz he's my arch-enemy and tried to make me eat cilantro. Damn you Bort!