Are you talking about Judas Priest's "The Hellion" used in the Odyssey ads?

No Vampire Weekends, "Holiday" being used to push the Honda-days year end sale. Although Judas Priest is just as depressing...

"MayDay hoards specialty products from Great Lakes, and it's impossible for them to anticipate how much he will stash away."

 

Actually if people would stay on topic and not b!tch about being called/suspended on their bullsh!t, my consumption would plummet! ;-)

New People who bust up on the UrbanOhio scene and use your damn Avatar!  WTF??!!

LOL, be easy on the poor girl. Remember imitation is the highest form of flattery

LOL, be easy on the poor girl. Remember imitation is the highest form of flattery

 

Is she a drag king?

 

If not, then flatter me with ca$h!

 

 

"MayDay hoards specialty products from Great Lakes, and it's impossible for them to anticipate how much he will stash away."

 

Actually if people would stay on topic and not b!tch about being called/suspended on their bullsh!t, my consumption would plummet! ;-)

 

...but the hoarding would probably continue...

LOL, be easy on the poor girl. Remember imitation is the highest form of flattery

 

Is she a drag king?

 

If not, then flatter me with ca$h!

 

 

 

it confused the hell out of me for a few seconds when she posted using that avatar. Somebody is using AJs too. Way too confusing.

What?? Someone is using Brick?? Bastards. There's no originality anymore.

 

Hey, check out the new avatar I just found!!

Nobody better steal my chimie tux!

Nobody better steal my chimie tux!

 

I just changed mine!

Nobody better steal my chimie tux!

 

I just changed mine!

 

No you didn't foo!  I can see you avatar!

Nobody better steal my chimie tux!

 

I just changed mine!

 

No you didn't foo!  I can see you avatar!

 

I meant.  I changed my avatar so I would again be original.

 

Having someone impersonate me, makes me feel like Sadie (the Bette Midler character) when she meets her country twin.

 

Cue to the 2 minute mark!

 

BTW - This is one of my favorite movies.  When Lily Tomlin says, "I am gonna to kick yur ass" I fall out every time.

MTS, stop biting the newbies!

MTS, stop biting the newbies!

 

That's how I stay young!

 

 

Now back to your gardening!

Pet Peeve: When platanos get their seasons all mixed up. Gardening's over, man! It's drywall-hanging season!

I saw someone mowing the lawn 2 days ago!

Pet Peeve: When platanos get their seasons all mixed up. Gardening's over, man! It's drywall-hanging season!

Well excuuuuuse me, for not knowing what you beaners do each season!

 

I saw someone mowing the lawn 2 days ago!

Avogardo got a part-time job??!!

We need a "Quality Racism" UO graphic!

We need a "Quality Racism" UO graphic!

 

I saw someone mowing the lawn 2 days ago!

Avogardo got a part-time job??!!

 

Zing! One for MTS!

We need a "Quality Racism" UO graphic!

 

I admit I had to look up "chav scum," and I still don't think I fully get it ("It's a Brit thing, you wouldn't understand" :?). (Obviously the graphic is not American. We're way too PC here to even allow something like that to exist!)--lol

^Wait, the British Isles have a W 6th st???

It annoys me when I have to add someone to my ignore list. I'm fine with people that disagree with me, but when people that can't spell properly or make a decent argument try to make a point, I just can't see a reason to continue reading their posts. It annoys me because I feel that if they were able to make a coherent point I might learn something from them, or at least be able to respect the opposition to my point of view. Now, I just have to see that you are continuing to prove your own incompetence.

You aren't talking about somebody in Northern Kentucky are you? :D

^Nope, actually wasn't talking about anyone specific. There's a couple of people I have on ignore.

...but when people that can't spell properly ...prove your own incompetance.

 

:lol:

...but when people that can't spell properly ...prove your own incompetance.

 

:lol:

Doh!

And you wonder why I didn't change your screenname for a week ;) j/k

I'm really not fond of people coming over to my desk during Monday Morning administrative tasks at work.

 

Really, I got to get the forms filled. I need to focus.  Stop Standing Over Me!!!!

 

What ever happened to the unwritten "wait till 9:00 am" rule.

Delete some of your inbox, Ian. Stop hoarding useless messages lol. I can't reply.

 

Only on Urbanohio will you see graphics of racial stereotypes, True Blood, Bette Midler, and an AXE all on the same page!

Oh damn, it was 140% full.

Oh wow, went to check it again and it had filled right back up to a 128% full, WTF? i must have had a backlog.  I was under the impression the inbox full couldn't go above 100%

You know what p!sses me off? I get the same discount for my company's service as someone at DAIRY QUEEN. Are you kidding me? 8 percent? Yet I can get 20% off of rent if I moved or a huge discount on Dell and Apple Computers? What a slap in the face.

I admit I had to look up "chav scum," and I still don't think I fully get it ("It's a Brit thing, you wouldn't understand" :?). (Obviously the graphic is not American. We're way too PC here to even allow something like that to exist!)--lol

 

Man, after watching that video, the British sure seem a hell of a lot like Americans.

You know what p!sses me off? I get the same discount for my company's service as someone at DAIRY QUEEN. Are you kidding me? 8 percent? Yet I can get 20% off of rent if I moved or a huge discount on Dell and Apple Computers? What a slap in the face.

 

Hey, at least you get a discount. The best I've ever gotten at a job was the damaged goods (though I did sometimes get free drinks at bar jobs).

I admit I had to look up "chav scum," and I still don't think I fully get it ("It's a Brit thing, you wouldn't understand" :?). (Obviously the graphic is not American. We're way too PC here to even allow something like that to exist!)--lol

 

Man, after watching that video, the British sure seem a hell of a lot like Americans.

 

They just sound classier saying it!

 

 

I had that damn song stuck in my head yesterday all day.  Thanks MTS.....My work computer kept crashing, it was 90 degrees in the office for some reason, and the same damn repetitive song in my head.

You know what p!sses me off? I get the same discount for my company's service as someone at DAIRY QUEEN. Are you kidding me? 8 percent? Yet I can get 20% off of rent if I moved or a huge discount on Dell and Apple Computers? What a slap in the face.

 

Hey, at least you get a discount. The best I've ever gotten at a job was the damaged goods (though I did sometimes get free drinks at bar jobs).

 

Well if the job paid more I wouldn't complain. The thing is, I've been a loyal customer to them long before I got hired, even after they screwed me over with my contract/bill. Incentives offered by other companies for your employees shouldn't be far better than the ones you offer internally, imo. If nothing else, it just makes you look cheap. They really don't care if we go with our competitors. Very few companies have high standards of loyalty and responsibility to their employees anymore. I deserve a break. It's a bittersweet relationship lol

 

Occasionally got free drinks at a bar job?! Did you work at a Christian bar? I got free bottles of wine, bubbly, mixed drinks, beer, whatever me and my friends wanted, on half-priced wine night. Even on other days, if we ate there, the majority of drinks would be off the bill. The markup on alcohol, especially wine, at restaurants/bars is insane. They pay 4 bucks for a bottle of wine that they sell for $40 so the owners didn't stress it at all.

 

I'm pretty sure a lot of the bartenders at the two restaurants I've worked at were drinking all throughout their shift. Working in that industry, you're always multi-tasking and moving around. I don't know how people could do that. I would end up dropping glass all over the place. On my 21st birthday, I had to work and the bartender handed me a double shot espresso cup. I swallowed it and realized it was a big shot of rum! I wanted to tell him off for not warning me, I would have turned it down, but I know he was just trying to hook me up on my birthday. That's the first and last time I've ever worked while intoxicated.

New pet peeve! I know the vast majority of Ohioans use roads to drive, but for those of us that are car-free, could ODOT please figure out an effing solution for pedestrians. Cleveland has notorioiusly bad sidewalks during the winter, but I've found building owners in Asiatown and downtown (especially with the Clean Team) to be doing a much better job than in past years. Who's not doing a better job? Either the city or ODOT on sections of road over the highway. My pleasant walk this morning consisted of the choice between walking in traffic on a slushy but relatively cleared off road or trudging over about 3 feet of unpacked snow and ice on the sidewalk, where whoever is responsible for these stretches plowed what was on the road all onto the sidewalks. Again, I know the roads need to be the priority, but it really, really p*sses me off that my tax dollars are being used to obstruct my commute. That is all :)

wow someone got cool, calm and collected 8Shades pressure up!

 

They guilty must be hanged!

Occasionally got free drinks at a bar job?! Did you work at a Christian bar? I got free bottles of wine, bubbly, mixed drinks, beer, whatever me and my friends wanted, on half-priced wine night. Even on other days, if we ate there, the majority of drinks would be off the bill. The markup on alcohol, especially wine, at restaurants/bars is insane. They pay 4 bucks for a bottle of wine that they sell for $40 so the owners didn't stress it at all.

 

I'm pretty sure a lot of the bartenders at the two restaurants I've worked at were drinking all throughout their shift. Working in that industry, you're always multi-tasking and moving around. I don't know how people could do that. I would end up dropping glass all over the place. On my 21st birthday, I had to work and the bartender handed me a double shot espresso cup. I swallowed it and realized it was a big shot of rum! I wanted to tell him off for not warning me, I would have turned it down, but I know he was just trying to hook me up on my birthday. That's the first and last time I've ever worked while intoxicated.

 

I meant occasionally because I didn't drink every night I worked! Not everyone in the nightlife industry is a drunk! I would have fun at work sometimes, but I never saw the appeal of being drunk on the job. It's true a lot of bartenders drink on the job, but that doesn't mean it's always a good idea. It depends on the night. The multi-tasking is exhausting, but you get used to juggling glasses and bottles without breaking anything. The job is dirty more than anything else. By close, you're tired, your back hurts, and you probably have a lot of beer and liquor on you, maybe worse. Cleaning up vomit sucks. That's easily the worst part of the job, but compared to traditional southern-style frat pledging, it's nothing. Some of that stuff goes to the grave.

 

And I can promise you this, compared to broadcast news, the multi-tasking at most bars and nightclubs is more manageable. If you're ten seconds late on making a drink, all that happens is someone gets their drink ten seconds later. If you're ten seconds late to air in live news, the consequences are huge. Bartending is a physically demanding job though, and working past 3am is tough, especially when you have second jobs. You might find yourself in situations where you have to cockblock yourself in order to go to your "real job". The problem is when your "real job" is one of the most unforgiving, most competitive, and fastest-paced in America. Bars are only good second jobs for people with relatively easy day jobs. If your other job is completely exhausting, you can't be a good bartender. You need a lot of energy for a night at the bar. And you never know when you'll get out of work. You're there until that place is clean and restocked for the next day. It's a dick move not to par the bar. On a tough night, you can be there as late as 4am. But that's much easier than going to work at 3am for morning news and getting paid sh!t.

^^^^what, pray tell, is a "Christian bar" :wtf: :wtf: 

^God has no place in bars!

^seriously, I just don't get the term. I guess we'll just await clarification from David, if he gets a chance... :drunk:

^seriously, I just don't get the term. I guess we'll just await clarification from David, if he gets a chance... :drunk:

 

The bar I go to sometimes, has mixed drinks, wine, and a side of water that has been blessed by the pope and contains the literal blood of Christ. It's delicious.

 

No but seriously, I just said Christian Bar because it doesn't seem like the bar he worked at was very big on drinking. People I worked with at Via vite and Indigo were completely corrupted lol. The wine and shots were always flowing for the employees so I thought it weird that Calvin worked at a place where people would 'occasionally' get something for free.

Occasionally got free drinks at a bar job?! Did you work at a Christian bar? I got free bottles of wine, bubbly, mixed drinks, beer, whatever me and my friends wanted, on half-priced wine night. Even on other days, if we ate there, the majority of drinks would be off the bill. The markup on alcohol, especially wine, at restaurants/bars is insane. They pay 4 bucks for a bottle of wine that they sell for $40 so the owners didn't stress it at all.

 

I'm pretty sure a lot of the bartenders at the two restaurants I've worked at were drinking all throughout their shift. Working in that industry, you're always multi-tasking and moving around. I don't know how people could do that. I would end up dropping glass all over the place. On my 21st birthday, I had to work and the bartender handed me a double shot espresso cup. I swallowed it and realized it was a big shot of rum! I wanted to tell him off for not warning me, I would have turned it down, but I know he was just trying to hook me up on my birthday. That's the first and last time I've ever worked while intoxicated.

 

I meant occasionally because I didn't drink every night I worked! Not everyone in the nightlife industry is a drunk! I would have fun at work sometimes, but I never saw the appeal of being drunk on the job. It's true a lot of bartenders drink on the job, but that doesn't mean it's always a good idea. It depends on the night. The multi-tasking is exhausting, but you get used to juggling glasses and bottles without breaking anything. The job is dirty more than anything else. By close, you're tired, your back hurts, and you probably have a lot of beer and liquor on you, maybe worse. Cleaning up vomit sucks. That's easily the worst part of the job, but compared to traditional southern-style frat pledging, it's nothing. Some of that stuff goes to the grave.

 

And I can promise you this, compared to broadcast news, the multi-tasking at most bars and nightclubs is more manageable. If you're ten seconds late on making a drink, all that happens is someone gets their drink ten seconds later. If you're ten seconds late to air in live news, the consequences are huge. Bartending is a physically demanding job though, and working past 3am is tough, especially when you have second jobs. You might find yourself in situations where you have to cockblock yourself in order to go to your "real job". The problem is when your "real job" is one of the most unforgiving, most competitive, and fastest-paced in America. Bars are only good second jobs for people with relatively easy day jobs. If your other job is completely exhausting, you can't be a good bartender. You need a lot of energy for a night at the bar. And you never know when you'll get out of work. You're there until that place is clean and restocked for the next day. It's a dick move not to par the bar. On a tough night, you can be there as late as 4am. But that's much easier than going to work at 3am for morning news and getting paid sh!t.

 

You're doing what you love at the news station! Forget money. You spend a lot of time at your job; you have to make it something you enjoy doing regardless of pay because you spend so much time at it. I give you props for working two jobs, especially when the bar industry is so fast paced and stressful. I know what that's like. I had a hard enough time keeping up with working at a bistro/bar 30 hrs a week while in school full time. The news station sounds pretty stressful, and on top of a bar gig!

You're doing what you love at the news station!

 

I don't love it. Very few people do anymore. I would have probably loved it in the glory days of the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's. Adjusted for inflation, my pay back then would be two to three times what I make today, and I would be doing half as much work. The old-timers always lament the glory days.

 

The news station sounds pretty stressful!

 

^This is why. Most people can't understand the stress of jobs like this, so I won't even try to explain it (it could fill an entire novel). Let's just say you keep throwing more sh!t down the hole with no regard for the quality of that sh!t or any concern if it's physically possible to create that much sh!t in a day. There are tons of good-looking women and unpaid interns, I guess that's a perk (and a good unpaid intern helps take the edge off). But overall, the bad days outnumber the good days.

 

You spend a lot of time at your job; you have to make it something you enjoy doing regardless of pay because you spend so much time at it.

 

I very much disagree with the argument that pay doesn't matter (that's what your professors want you to believe so they can keep their high-paying teaching gigs!). If kids are blowing a fortune on college, they need to make sure there is ROI. People that play the market correctly end up happier than anyone. There is no greater satisfaction in life than making a good decision and being rewarded for it. Pay matters, how employees are treated matters, schedules matter, management matters, and good pay = happier employees. There is a push-pull relationship in these jobs. Right now, it's all about pushing people to the max with unrealistic conditions (on call 24/7, constant schedule changes, one-man bands, doing more work while cutting hours, etc.). They push everyone to the point of quitting, and it's usually the best people who end up having the spine to leave and make it on their own. When you are getting ripped off and there is little chance of changing it, it is not a good idea to stay the course, especially when all the ethics have been thrown out the window. These things don't change until the whole business collapses. They feed us a lot of bullsh!t in college. Passion is not a plan on how to become financially independent or understand the mentality of a black mamba. If you're stepping into a snake pit, you need to know how snakes operate in order to survive. They aren't teaching this stuff in school- they teach "do what you love" and "keep working hard and you will be rewarded." Passion and love can be some of the most exploitable things on earth. The savvy man has passion, but plays it close to his chest. He's good at what he does, works hard at it, but sets limits. The business structure has become markedly worse than a pyramid scheme. If I could give kids advice, this is what I would tell them:

 

"You spend a lot of time at your job, make sure the sacrifice is worth the reward."

"Working harder than everyone else is better than not working at all, but working smarter is what ultimately leads to financial reward and sets you apart from your competition."

New pet peeve: John Kasich.