Kind of a flipside to my previous rant.

If Tara happens to be with someone besides Willow in your fic, don't bash the hell out of Willow. They had that badness between them in season six, obviously, but that didn't extend to physical violence and Willow is not a whore, etc.

Why is there this compulsion amongst writers to turn characters into abusive jerk-offs out of nowhere? The temptation to lock them in a room and force them to watch/read the canon material over and over again is overwhelming.

Earlier tonight I heard in gchat:

"There's a queue to get into Moon Guard."

As I was in Gruul's I really didn't want to log out and check, and neither did anyone I knew. Can anyone who tried to log in to the server at peak times yesterday confirm/deny this? I know many of you ladies play there. O.O Terrified minds want to know. (I just poked my nose onto the server forums and I think it's true. Meep!)

I really don't know where to start with you.

First, you decide, hell, you could really care less about the game. You, being the mod, are going to just concentrate on your smut threads and never mind posting with your plot-essential character in the plot-advancing threads. Then, when the whispers of discontent with your shitty modding start, you decided all the fun has gone out of the community. You repeatedly hold off on posting and drop not so subtle hints about deleting.

( The sadface continues. )

Yes! The sign in the window says "Up to 90% off!"

It also says "While supplies last."

Today is the last day of the sale.






STOP BITCHING THAT THERE ARE NO 90% OFF ITEMS.

*praises God that today was the last day*

Title: Mind the Gap [Part One]
Rating: PG (for the moment...)
Series: The Sandman x Doctor Who
Spoilers: None, almost strictly S1 and S2
Pairings: Ten/Rose, Nine/Rose
Legal Yatta yatta:  Not owning, just borrowing for a second...
Note/Summary: Ok, enter a universe (possibly the DC universe ^_^;;;) where seasons 3 and 4 have never happened.  Ten has spent his time drifting about the universe, trying to deal with his anxieties over losing Rose forever, trying to deal with his strange new dreams.  Meanwhile, Rose is working for Torchwood, tracking down alien threats and dealing with them.  Little do they know, the powers that be have been watching and wonderful, terrible events are being set in motion...

(Wooo, fake cut!)

X-posted ^_^;;;

Don't launch into a twenty minute spiel about your life, giving me every horrid little detail despite the fact that it is busy, and then when I say, "Could you hold on just one minute, I'm sorry" say, "OH, am I BORING you?" as if I am such a bitch for needing and wanting to do my job and help other people and not chit chat with you about non-work related things.

No. Before you were amusing me. Now you're annoying me. But please, continue to go on and on about how your sister just doesn't understand the concept of credit card debt. If we take this journey together, I'm almost positive I could arrive at Bored out of my Fucking Mind very soon. I sense you're an experienced leader and it would not be your first time guiding someone on that particular adventure.

Mmmkay, so, I'm in this forum RP. It's a canon and OC mix game, which I don't have a problem with, most of the time, since I like interacting with new folks, too.

Important facts: I am not a mod in this game; my character is not involved in this situation himself; the canon for this game is a sci-fi TV show (currently running, but I'll let you guess what it could be).

( When OCs go bad... [or, The Mary Sue Who Stole the Skirtchaser's Soul] )

 Disclaimer: This is not meant to be a smoking wank.

If you have a reservation at a hotel and your company is paying for it, make sure before coming that the hotel allows smoking. Otherwise upon arriving and learning the hotel is non smoking, don't go off on a rant about how you're a four pack a day smoker and you need to smoke.


As for the woman who I talked about last night? Yeah, she's scamming the hotel alright. 
Turns out the credit card that I made an imprint of last night when she checked in, declined when the AM shift ran it to get payment for a phone charge
Claims she is a Priority Club member and has enough points to stay for a few nights but the 'Public Relations' people don't know it. I'm beginning to suspect the 'PR' she used was just a friend calling in an English accent.
Refusing to offer any forms of payment.

I don't know why we're allowing her to have another night here, but tomorrow when the General Manager gets in, he's going to have a long talk with her.

If you're going to play a pre-existing character, PLEASE actually read/watch/play the source material. I know, this seems basic, but nowadays many RPers seem to have the logic that Wikipedia will tell them everything they need to know. It's creating a character only from a few vague ideas, and then playing them without ever fleshing them out - you'll just make things up as you go along, and generally have no clue what you're supposed to be doing.

Let's face it - you saw a pretty character design, and thought you'd snag it without caring who the character is. It's not against the law, but you shouldn't be too surprised when you don't actually do a remotely good job.

Yes, yes, I get that "RP is just for fun, you don't need to know much", "I've been doing this for years and no one notices", "Kingdom Hearts is too haaard for me", and "I play them better than people who know the canon anyway"- Wait, how would you know that? YOU DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW THE CANON.

I just think it wouldn't kill you to put forth a little effort, because even if you think no one notices, trust me, THEY DO.

Sincerely,

A Fellow RPer Who's Tired of Seeing Characters Who Have No Freaking Idea What Their Own Motives, Ideals, Fears, And Abilities Are, And Fumble Cluelessly When Interracting With Characters Who They Canonly Should Know How To Deal With

Okay. I work at a southern food restaurant, but it's ALL OVER THE US. :D

Script FO-mat.

Me = promptly seating you with friendly service :D
L = Lay-dee (Lady, lolzzz)
LF = Lady's friend.

Me: Hello, welcome to southern food restaurant, how many will it be today?
L: Two.
Me (gathering menus and utensils): Right this way.

So I show them to Table 1.

L: It's dirty! D:
Me: Oh, ma'am. I apologize. Let me get something to clean it off for you.

I come back with a cleaning cloth.

Let me just go ahead and say it now; today was Sunday rush, and we only had one busboy. It's possible that the table was a bit dirty. Some were, and I wiped them down. It's no big deal; I don't mind cleaning up.

BUT this table wasn't dirty. It was spotless. However, our tables are artificially distressed, in some cases, more than others. The surface has no dips or things, it just looks beaten up. It's supposed to be somehow homey.

I wipe the table down anyway.

L: D: It's still dirty!
Me: Ma'am, I think it's just irregualrities in the woo-
L (interrupting): It's dirty. *scowl*
Me: I'll get someone here to take care of the table, but let me seat you somewhere else.

So I show her to Table 2. It's one of the less distressed ones.

Me: Will this be fine?
L: Yes. It's not dirty

I do the menu spiel and try to mention our special and get back to the host desk.

L (as I walk away): *glare* Just clean the tables better next time, okay?

D:

So, later, I'm standing at the host desk; it's a little slow. L and LF are exiting the restaurant and LF comes up to me while L is in restroom and says that the first table was spotless and she apologizes if L inconvenienced us. I told her it was my pleasure to help them out, and to be sure to come back soon.

TL;DR Ma'am, the tables are distressed, not dirty.

This one is a little old, but after thinking on it for a few days, I decided it needed a post. I wasn't involved in the suck, but I was told about it after it happened by a co-worker who'd handled the suck.

We were out of our homestyle potato salad we sell in the cold case bar and we wouldn't be getting any in until the truck with it on it came. Cue this man who wants the potato salad we do not have, but does not want the substitute in the pre-packaged containers, priced at $2.50, we sell out on the floor when offered.

So my co-worker says to him she will open one of our big tubs of the potato salad we also sell and weigh it under the price as our homestyle salad that we do not have. He agrees. She scoops out the roughly two pounds that he wants in a large container and weighs it up. It's a little over two pounds and the price comes to $4.98 before taxes.

The man then proceeds to explode; "That's too much!" My co-worker kindly points out if he'd gotten two of those pre-packaged containers it would cost the same. The man pitches a royal fit; "I don't want those! I want that!" (the potato salad he claimed was too much).

Then came this little gem "Well, I guess I just won't have any potato salad for the 4th of July!" and stomps off without the potato salad.

Me: o_O *brain melts*

The pre-packaged containers are $2.50 for two pounds. *headdesk*

Selfless Guild Flog Here :P

I just had one of the best runs ever, and it didn't occur at Karazhan, Quel'Danas, or the like. It was at simple old Slave Pens, with a bunch of fellow 62-64's. Everybody communicated so well, and had a lot of fun even though we kept wiping out every couple of bosses, haha! The best part was that nobody got mad, and we just kept on going until we reached the end of the instance. Yea, my armor was crap when I got out, but it was so wicked. Makes me remember why I continue playing WoW -for the awesome people playing beside me. :'D

Just thought I'd share my experience. :)

Two stories.
1.
My sister works at Borders and recently there was a huge commotion on the headsets. A customer complained about poop on the floor in the men's room. The employees started arguing about who would have to clean it up. When they finally found a poor victim to send in, he approached the messy stall only to find a customer inside it already. He hurried out of the bathroom and hid in the back room where he could peer out the window and wait for the man to leave. It took what seemed like forever and the whole time the employees continued speculating on their headsets. When the man finally left he walked right out, not seeming to notice that he had stepped in the poop until he looked down, realized his shoe was sticky, and wiped it all over the carpet in the kids section of the store. o.O SOO disgusting!!

2.
( 'Hilljack' customers who think it's rude to be told their ancient camera may not be worth the cost of fixing. )

I am studying in Spain for a month, and I have a long weekend for travel coming up. I now have my options pretty much narrowed down to either Lisbon or Barcelona but don´t really know that much about either. Which would you suggest, and why?

Title: Simple Pleasures
Author: totally4ryo
Word Count: 3033
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Jack/Ianto, Gwen/Rhys
Spoilers: Up to "Exit Wounds", DW: "Stolen Earth" & "Journey's End"
Disclaimer: I don’t own Jack and Ianto (heavy sigh), I’m pretty sure they own each other. I do know the BBC and RTD owns all things Torchwood.
Warnings: None. Except that I do like Gwen, so no Gwen-bashing here.
Summary: Jack leads Ianto and Gwen on a version of hide and seek.
Notes: This is my first all Torchwood fanfic, so be gentle. I am currently part of a Torchwood/FAKE crossover ficswap, and it made me brave enough to endeavor in some Torchwood challenges. After reading the wonderful fics at horizonssing challenge, I thought it would be a good place to start writing Torchwood.

Day One

Xposted to torchwoodcoffee and future other places.

Today I found a D.Gray-Man fic that caused my face to make faces that I was not aware my face could make.

In this fic, Allen is a female who secretly lives as a male under the advisement of General Cross. Why he wants her to keep her true gender a secret is never explained. In any case, Allen also is not an orphan in this story. It turns out that she secretly has a family with a ton of brothers who own and live in a fancy inn. In this story, Allen traveled around with Mana simply because she wanted to escape her loud siblings. This makes perfect sense, right? In any case, Allen's true gender is discovered by Kanda. They proceed to have sex and start talking about making babies that very day. Naturally. Allen becomes pregnant.

Meanwhile, Tyki is threatening and pressuring Lavi into sex. He tells him that if Lavi does what he wants him to, he'll make sure the other exorcists will never be harmed. (Because of course the Earl would stop his search for the Heart because Tyki wants sweet exorcist ass.) Tyki injects Lavi with something that makes it hard for Lavi to move. He throws him in his car (Yes, his car. A black Toyota, no less) and begins to molest him and call him things like "Bunny Boo" and "Bunny Poo" and other things that make bile rise in my throat. Lavi reacts to said drugging and molestation by admonishing Tyki's smoking habit, noticing how hot he is, and calling him "Tyki-pon". Because if you're going to be badtouched by the enemy, you might as well give them a cute nickname. They then bond over their shared love of anime music. Cue Tyki driving them to a hotel for a sex scene in which Lavi's anus is referred to as his "inner hole" the entire time. Hot.

Lavi passes out afterwards and wakes up to find a note explaining that he's been injected with something again. This time it's an injection to turn him into a girl for 9 months, because he is now pregnant with Tyki's baby. And thus begins the Allen and Lavi double pregnancy hijinks at The Order which, by the way, is also a school in this fic. Where Tyki comes to be a history teacher. For some reason nobody has a problem with this.

And so we get many beautiful scenes out of this situation, such as the one where Allen and Kanda go on a double-date to the mall with Tyki and Lavi. The "girls" try on pretty dresses and squee over baby clothes. Tyki buys Lavi pocky to cure her pregnancy cravings. All is right with the world and everyone is blissfully happy.

Except Lenalee, who is a psychotic and murderous bitch in this fic. In fact, she loves Kanda and is jealous of his and Allen's true love. She slaps Allen, calls her a bitch, and proceeds to make plans to kill Allen's baby when it is born. Or, better yet, to push Allen down a flight of stairs to kill the fetus! Because surely that is how Lenalee would react to her two best friends starting a family together. Murdering their infant. Apparently fans agree with this characterization of Lenalee. If you look at the reviews, there are multiple ones applauding it. Says one, even, "I was going to make lenalee like that in my new story!" Oh goodie! It's contagious.

( Cut for sexual talk and brain melting madness. )

Kanda making tiger sounds? Awesome.

Oy, let me tell you all, I hate when we have two coupons going at the same time. Last week, the Red Apron Arts and Crafts store was handing out two coupons. The first one was 40% off of one regular priced item and the other was to be found on your receipt, it was a 20% off of your entire regular priced purchase. We told people that they could use them on the "same transaction" not on the same item. The coupons went into effect today.
Anyways, this morning, I, your friendly FES had two ladies, a mother and daughter team come through my line. The daughter had a few items, including a Disney themed scrapbook. The daughter asked me if she could use both her 40% coupon and her 20% coupon on the transaction. I told her yes, that she could. I gave her the 40% off of the scrapbook and then when I finished ringing up her other items, I took the 20% off the total.
Next was the mother, all she had to purchase was a Disney scrapbook. I rang her up and she handed me the 40% coupon. I then told her the total. Her daughter then speaks up.....

Daughter: What about her 20% discount?
Me: Well Maam, since she used her 40% off and she had only one item, I cannot use the 20% coupon.
Daughter: Well, why not? It's the same item.
Me: yes maam, but it is 20% off of the entire regular priced purchase. Once I honored the 40% coupon, the book is no longer regular priced.
Daughter: Well they told us we could use them both on the same item, you should let my mom do that!!!
Me: Maam, I'm sorry you were misinformed, but I cannot use that 20% since your mom got her scrapbook for 40% off. The system won't honor it.
Daughter: Well, that's stupid, your employees should be more clear in their words.

Seriously, it is very clear....20% off your entire "REGULAR PRICED purchase" Stupid bitch is the reason I am leaving my position as FES and going into the support staff position, so I don't have to deal with idiots.

I told myself I wouldn't post today. Today would be a nice day, apart from the after church rush and everything. I closed. I got to flirt shamelessly with the coworker I'm crushing on. It should've been fun, right?

WRONG.

Btw, can someone toss me the code for an LJ cut? This is gonna' get long...

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( In ur Strbux, makin ur coffeez )

WHAT, by all the Asa and the Van, compells people to act the way they do?

D: