What Makes Rock the Suggestion Box the Coolest Place to Vent?

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The discussion in the "Rock the Suggestion Box" thread revolves around a casual and humorous space for users to express their rants and suggestions, contrasting with more formal feedback forums. Participants share personal grievances about work, economic struggles, and societal issues, often using humor and sarcasm. There are mentions of frustrations with customer dishonesty and workplace dynamics, including complaints about a new vice president negatively impacting morale. The conversation also touches on personal anecdotes, such as losing pets and dealing with stress, while maintaining a lighthearted atmosphere with references to drinks and music. The thread encourages a sense of community support, with users offering encouragement and camaraderie amidst their complaints. Overall, it serves as a cathartic outlet for venting frustrations in a relaxed environment.
  • #51
Gokul43201 said:
I've got stuff to take care of...will someone cover for me please !

All the booze is on this side and the cryogens, fuels and hazardous waste are all over there, near Tribdog.

Where'd polyb go? I thought he was helping. I'd help out, but I'm still thawing tribdog's lips over here. :biggrin:
 
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  • #52
Since tribdog had his unfortunate accident, me figured that whiskey was in order! Got ten whole cases! The good stuff too!:biggrin:

http://www.classicwhiskey.com/whiskeyauctiondata/images/comber.gif

anuther song lads and lassies!:biggrin:
"As I was a-goin' over Gilgarra Mountain
I spied Colonel Farrell, and his money he was countin'.
First I drew my pistols and then I drew my rapier,
Sayin' "Stand and deliver, for I am your bold receiver."
Musha ringum duram da,
Whack fol the daddy-o,
There's whiskey in the jar.

He counted out his money and it made a pretty penny;
I put it in my pocket to take home to darlin' Jenny.
She sighed and swore she loved me and never would deceive me,
Bu the devil take the women, for they always lie so easy!
Musha rungum duram da

I went into me chamber all for to take a slumber,
To dream of gold and girls, and of course it was no wonder:
Me Jenny took me charges and she filled them up with water,
Called on Colonel Farrell to get ready for the slaughter.
Musha rungum duram da

Next mornin' early, before I rose for travel,
A-came a band of footmen and likewise Colonel Farrell.
I goes to draw my pistol, for she'd stole away my rapier,
But a prisoner I was taken, I couldn't shoot the water.
Musha rungum duram da

They put me into jail with a judge all a-writin':
For robbin' Colonel Farrell on Gilgarra Mountain.
But they didn't take me fists and I knocked the jailer down
And bid a farewell to this tight-fisted town.
Musha ringum duram da

I'd like to find me brother, the one who's in the army;
I don't know where he's stationed, be it Cork or in Killarney.
Together we'd go roamin' o'er the mountains of Kilkenny,
And I swear he'd treat me fairer than my darlin' sportin' Jenny!
Musha ringum duram da

There's some takes delight in the carriages and rollin',
Some takes delight in the hurley or the bollin',
But I takes delight in the juice of the barley,
Courtin' pretty maids in the mornin', o so early!
Musha ringum duram da"

:biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
 
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  • #53
My lips feel much better now. give me a kiss.
Since polyb's gone can I sing a song?
Does the band know "House of the Rising Sun"?

there is a place in PF2:
Gokul's Suggestion Box
Come one, come all and have a drink
No Coors for JasonRox

Ivan hates the public.
Evo hates her boss.
Moonbear, she hates replacing
the things that tribdog's lost.

We'll make a pie for Astronuc
While I sing this song.
Boulder, Franz and matt will dance
I hope they don't for long.
 
  • #54
Has anyone seen my guitar pick? I can't go on without my pick.
wow, these chips are terrible.
 
  • #55
tribdog said:
Has anyone seen my guitar pick? I can't go on without my pick.
wow, these chips are terrible.

Oh dear, I shouldn't have tried making nachos after a cosmo and two hurricanes. *wipes cheese off one of the picks* Here's your pick. :biggrin:

I guess I better go warn the band they're using tortilla chips to play...it might explain why they're sounding out of tune and swearing a lot. *cringes*

Don't worry, I'm pretty sure I put pecans in the pecan pie.
 
  • #56
I think this may be one of the fastest growing threads to date.

Also, I don't deal with the public. :wink:
 
  • #57
Ivan Seeking said:
I think this may be one of the fastest growing threads to date.

Also, I don't deal with the public. :wink:

Maybe we should do a costume party so you can blend in and enjoy hanging out among the humans.
 
  • #58
Humans? God no. I work with engineers!

edit: better add these quickly! :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
 
  • #59
Ivan Seeking said:
Humans? God no. I work with engineers!

They're human? :confused:

:smile:
 
  • #60
where's the fire extinguisher? nevermind, no time. what comes after stop, drop and...?
 
  • #61
Actually, for the record, just so that I don't insult the engineers any more here, my problem is really with business owners, the number 2 man in a small company, and corporate support engineers. The owner is after you pocket; obviously. Number two man always seems to have ego problems. Corporate support engineers can be great or dreadful. It varies greatly. Suffice it to say that a good percentage of the companies selling stuff for automation don't know how their own product works, or even how it is supposed to work. Nor do they have the critical information needed in order to figure it out. So, many will lie when pressed for information that they don't have. This is especially true of the smaller companies.

Edit: then there's engineering managers but never mind.
 
  • #62
tribdog said:
where's the fire extinguisher? nevermind, no time. what comes after stop, drop and...?

*sprays tribdog with the sink sprayer* Didn't we tell you no butane? Stick with the nitrogen. That way you only hurt yourself and don't risk burning the alcohol in here. We'll be really mad if you waste good alcohol!
 
  • #63
Ivan Seeking said:
Actually, for the record, just so that I don't insult the engineers any more here, my problem is really with business owners, the number 2 man in a small company, and corporate support engineers. The owner is after you pocket; obviously. Number two man always seems to have ego problems. Corporate support engineers can be great or dreadful. It varies greatly. Suffice it to say that a good percentage of the companies selling stuff for automation don't know how their own product works, or even how it is supposed to work. Nor do they have the critical information needed in order to figure it out. So, many will lie when pressed for information that they don't have. This is especially true of the smaller companies.

Edit: then there's engineering managers but never mind.

It's okay, I'm sure even the engineers here understand. There's the guy who designs stuff and knows what he's doing, and the one who has seniority and spends most of the day with his head up his butt and claims the credit for everything.
 
  • #64
How do I get my head out of my butt?
woo, thanks. It's hot in there.
 
  • #65
*with almost empty old comber bottle in hand, takes drink*

theese wunes fur seester Evo

"Oh the summertime is coming
And the trees are sweetly blooming
And the wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?
Chorus
And we'll all go together
To pluck wild mountain thyme
All around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?

I will build my love a tower
Near yon' pure crystal fountain
And on it I will build
All the flowers of the mountain
Will ye go, Lassie go?

If my true love she were gone
I would surely find another
Where wild mountain thyme
Grows around the blooming heather
Will ye go, Lassie go?"

EEEAAAYE! :-p

*drops to floor, curls up in fetal position mumbling incoherently about lucky charms and lost lassies*
 
  • #66
what's that lassie?
*bark*
polyb fell down?
*bark**bark*
lead me to him.
 
  • #67
I'm wondering how much alcohol is there in the beer in the USA?

Common stuff like Budweiser or what not.

I hear it's low like 2%.
 
  • #68
no, well, the beer in Utah is 3.2% but that doesn't count. What's the beer everywhere else? 6% for the most part?
 
  • #69
Some things that really piss me off are people who just can't seem to understand when driving you need to pull your head out of your butt and PAY ATTENTION!. I mean if you are on a one way or any other multilane road please don't ride next to the other guy in the other lane when you bolth are moving 20 under the speed limit. Get over and let the 83 Chevy Surban that moonlights as a tank by, I mean I could crush that fiberglass pop can of a Hundi Civic that you drive and only mess up my front plate. Also thoes turn signals are there for a reason don't just think to use them as you are going into the turn or half way throught it. I mean really where did you people get your drivers license, as a prise in the bottom of a Cracker Jacks box.

Another thing is I toatly agree about customers and them seeming to be off in there own little fancy world. I mean really do these people always have to be such jerks and a-holes. While I'm on the subject of jobs, My current job is literaly babysitting a bunch of automated manufracting machines, I take the plans from the customer, make a CAD program so the machines can make the part, then I sit and watch the machines work, then cheek the finshed part and make shrue it is what it needs to be. God this was not what I went to four years of collage for to get my Mechinal Engineering degree. I went so I could get a job in a R&D deparemnet of in the automotive indrusty, darn economy.

Well now that I'm done ranting, could I get some good Irsh whiskey, or as the rest of the world would call it chemotherapy :smile:
 
  • #70
JasonRox said:
I'm wondering how much alcohol is there in the beer in the USA?

Common stuff like Budweiser or what not.

I hear it's low like 2%.

That's not beer, it's colored water! My philosophy on Bud is save it the trip and pour it straight into the toilet. Besides, that cheap beer always gives me a headache.
 
  • #71
what do light beer and making love in a canoe have in common?
They're both f-ing close to water.
 
  • #72
Argentum Vulpes said:
Some things that really piss me off are people who just can't seem to understand when driving you need to pull your head out of your butt and PAY ATTENTION!. I mean if you are on a one way or any other multilane road please don't ride next to the other guy in the other lane when you bolth are moving 20 under the speed limit. Get over and let the 83 Chevy Surban that moonlights as a tank by, I mean I could crush that fiberglass pop can of a Hundi Civic that you drive and only mess up my front plate. Also thoes turn signals are there for a reason don't just think to use them as you are going into the turn or half way throught it. I mean really where did you people get your drivers license, as a prise in the bottom of a Cracker Jacks box.

Oh, I see you've been driving the same roads I've been on. I beeped my horn at one schmoe driving 10 under the limit in the left lane (there was someone else going 10 under the limit in the right lane, so changing lanes wasn't an option). She beeped back! So I finally managed to cut around both slowpokes and gave her the finger. o:)
 
  • #73
Moonbear said:
Oh, I see you've been driving the same roads I've been on. I beeped my horn at one schmoe driving 10 under the limit in the left lane (there was someone else going 10 under the limit in the right lane, so changing lanes wasn't an option). She beeped back! So I finally managed to cut around both slowpokes and gave her the finger. o:)

Woulden't it be nice to be able to just plow them out of the way and not have to get a ticket or having a hit on your insurance. :devil:
 
  • #74
Gokul43201 said:
http://www.globalhermit.com/travelogue/boston/guinness.jpg
Polyb, your Guinness is waiting for you.

Tribdog, Corona work for you ? And that's a vent valve :eek:, leave it alone !

Evo, 2 dirty martinis coming up. Should I go easy on the Vermouth ?


GIMMEE GIMMEE GIMMEE GIMMEE!
 
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  • #75
Argentum Vulpes said:
Some things that realy piss me off are people who just can't seem to understand when driving you need to pull your head out of your butt and PAY ATTENTION!. I mean if you are on a one way or any other multilane road please don't ride next to the other guy in the other lane when you bolth are moving 20 under the speed limit. Get over and let the 83 Chevy Surban that moonlights as a tank by, I mean I could crush that fiberglass pop can of a Hundi Civic that you drive and only mess up my front plate. Also thoes turn signals are there for a reason don't just think to use them as you are going into the turn or half way throught it. I mean really where did you people get your drivers license, as a prise in the bottom of a Cracker Jacks box.

Another thing is I toatly agree about customers and them seeming to be off in there own little fancy world. I mean realy do these people always have to be such jerks and a-holes. While I'm on the subject of jobs, My current job is literaly babysitting a bunch of automated manufracting machines, I take the plans from the customer, make a CAD program so the machines can make the part, then I sit and watch the machines work, then cheek the finshed part and make shrue it is what it needs to be. God this was not what I went to four years of collage for to get my Mechinal Engineering degree. I went so I could get a job in a R&D deparemnet of in the automotive indrusty, darn economy.

Well now that I'm done ranting, could I get some good Irsh whiskey, or as the rest of the world would call it chemotherapy :smile:
yeah, the economy. That's why you didn't get that job.
everyone makes mistakes, but c'mon. there is even a spellcheck button on the reply screen.
 
  • #76
tribdog said:
yeah, the economy. That's why you didn't get that job.
everyone makes mistakes, but c'mon. there is even a spellcheck button on the reply screen.

Hey, give the guy a break. He's just had to drive home behind some nitwit who can't find the gas pedal and needs to rant about it. There wasn't any time for spell-check!
 
  • #77
This thread has my email ringing like a telephone. :biggrin:

I think this is a record thread already.
 
  • #78
Argentum Vulpes said:
Woulden't it be nice to be able to just plow them out of the way and not have to get a ticket or having a hit on your insurance. :devil:

I just keep thinking that if I was a billionaire and could afford the tickets, bail and high insurance, I'd put one of those cattle guards on the front like trains have. :biggrin: :devil:
 
  • #79
I'm sorry, I'm just grouchy. I can't find my kidney.
 
  • #80
so let's add some more just to make it interesting...and so that I can be annoying.
 
  • #81
Ivan Seeking said:
This thread has my email ringing like a telephone. :biggrin:

I think this is a record thread already.
the most amazing part is that the posts have been of such high quality. Each and every one of them and I..what the heck?
MOONBEAR! I SUPERGLUED MY FINGERS TO THE KEYBOARD AGAIN.
 
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  • #82
Ivan Seeking said:
This thread has my email ringing like a telephone. :biggrin:

I think this is a record thread already.

Do you email yourself all the threads? My inbox would be full in no time if I did that around here.

Ooh, that's something else I can rant about. :biggrin: The insanely SMALL attachment limit on my university email account, and that every nitwit secretary has to send out every seminar announcement as a huge, attached PDF file including pictures rather than just sending a few lines of text with the title, location and time. I signed up for a Yahoo account just so I can send and receive large attachments (you know, like figures for manuscripts that my co-authors need to see).

Okay, better pour me another hurricane now that I'm back to ranting.
 
  • #83
tribdog said:
...That's why you didn't get that job.
everyone makes mistakes, but c'mon. there is even a spellcheck button on the reply screen.

But then I'd have to spend about ten seconds waiting for the program to load that extension, and it would cut down on my slacking time. I mean really how could you ask a person to waste those precious seconds, the total and utter inhumanity. :-p And just for the record I know I'm a bad speller so I do use spell check regulary.
 
  • #84
Argentum Vulpes said:
But then I'd have to spend about ten seconds waiting for the program to load that extension, and it would cut down on my slacking time. I mean really how could you ask a person to waste those precious seconds, the total and utter inhumanity. :-p And just for the record I know I'm a bad speller so I do use spell check regulary.
Irony at its best! Thank you. I make spelling mistakes all the time so don't take me seriously.
 
  • #85
tribdog said:
I'm sorry, I'm just grouchy. I can't find my kidney.

How did you manage to drop that into the nitrogen?! :eek:

Oh, hey, wait! Polyb, don't touch the kidney pie! I might have gotten the wrong kidney. *hic*
 
  • #86
tribdog said:
MOONBEAR! I SUPERGLUED MY FINGERS TO THE KEYBOARD AGAIN.

I guess you'll be limited to typing just 8 characters for a while then. Just until you shed that layer of skin from your fingertips. I thought the vaseline on the keyboard might help prevent it from sticking again. Oh well. I'll get a straw for your whiskey.
 
  • #87
Hey everyone. I almost screwed up. Good thing I read the back of these bottles. I almost used this stuff is this bottle, then I read that it is flammable. good thing I used this other stuff instead, it is inflammable. This should be cool, 5 more seconds.
 
  • #88
tribdog said:
Hey everyone. I almost screwed up. Good thing I read the back of these bottles. I almost used this stuff is this bottle, then I read that it is flammable. good thing I used this other stuff instead, it is inflammable. This should be cool, 5 more seconds.

Good thing my habit is made of asbestos! *puts on sunglasses* :cool:
 
  • #89
KaaaaaaaaFoooooooooMMMMMmmm
WOW! Nothing smells quite like burnt eyebrows!
Can you still see me? Did it work or not?
 
  • #90
tribdog said:
KaaaaaaaaFoooooooooMMMMMmmm
WOW! Nothing smells quite like burnt eyebrows!
Can you still see me? Did it work or not?

*cough* *cough* *sputter* *cough* I can't see anything through all the dust and smoke. Oh, wait... *hhhhh squeak squeak* It was just dirty glasses. :redface:

:smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: *hands tribdog the black electrical tape* :smile: You might want :smile: to :smile: cut some of this :smile: :smile: in the shape of eyebrows. :smile:
 
  • #91
You can still see me? DAMN. that invisibility recipe I got on EBAY must have been a phony.
 
  • #92
tribdog said:
You can still see me? DAMN. that invisibility recipe I got on EBAY must have been a phony.

Probably sold "As Is" huh? Next time, just spend the extra money and get the invisibility cloak.
 
  • #93
tribdog said:
Irony at its best! Thank you. I make spelling mistakes all the time so don't take me seriously.

I'd hope that you would like it. And really np I've seen enough of your posts to realize when you are being serious and not.

Moonbear said:
Oh, hey, wait! Polyb, don't touch the kidney pie! I might have gotten the wrong kidney. *hic*

So now where are thus fava beans and a nice Chianti, oh wait never mind that goes with liver, oh well
 
  • #94
That's the best dern pickle I evah heaoid!
wow, it is the eyebrows.
 
  • #95
Argentum Vulpes said:
So now where are thus fava beans and a nice Chianti, oh wait never mind that goes with liver, oh well

Oh, that's okay, we can improvise. I think I saw some fava beans next to the pickled onions. We'll have to wait for Gokul or polyb to come back and tell us if there's any chianti, otherwise we'll have to settle for the Guinness on tap.
 
  • #96
damn, I tried to cut and paste that last comment onto here, but it didn't work.
Moonbear, do we have any more bandaids?
 
  • #97
tribdog said:
damn, I tried to cut and paste that last comment onto here, but it didn't work.
Moonbear, do we have any more bandaids?

I think we ran out of bandaids a while ago. There's still a lot of duct tape. You'll have to settle for that. Or, we can just use freeze-cautery to stop the bleeding. Did you blow up the nitrogen tank in that last explosion, or do we still have some of that?
 
  • #98
Oh, the canister of nitrogen is still full. Wherever it landed, it landed full.
hmm. what's this?
...may cause intestinal bleeding...blindness...night sweats...horrible, horrible death...
may? cause.
may not? cause?
Doesn't look so tough.
 
  • #99
Well if Trib didn't waste all of the superglue there is always the Nam fix, also if we needed LN2 several years ago we could of stolen it from the physics building at my collage, the door combo was the first 5 digits of the atomic weight of N2. Sadly they changed it my junior year :cry: all of that fun with LN2 gone.
 
  • #100
Argentum Vulpes said:
Well if Trib didn't waste all of the superglue there is always the Nam fix, also if we needed LN2 several years ago we could of stolen it from the physics building at my collage, the door combo was the first 5 digits of the atomic weight of N2. Sadly they changed it my junior year :cry: all of that fun with LN2 gone.

Now they basically sell superglue as an alternative to stitches, but give it a different name, which allows them to sell it at 10 times the price.

Okay, I'm going for either the 100th post or 100th reply (depending if someone beats me to it here), and then I think it's time to call it a night.
 

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