10/26 - Stros' Thursday!

[Sybaris]

You are standing at a train station.
You notice that the train is coming in too fast and will kill 5 people that are crossing the tracks.
There is a fat man next to you.

If you push the fat man onto the tracks it will save the 5 people but he will die.
If you do not, the five people crossing the tracks will die.
If you play this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ no one dies.

 

[C to the J]

Here's a thought: If you're a researcher and you can't pay the people taking your survey something at least approaching the federal minimum wage, maybe you haven't secured enough funding for your project yet. Perhaps you should ask one of the Nobel Prize recipients produced by your Top 50 global research university if they can fork over a few extra bucks so maybe I can keep a roof over my head.

</rant>

Researcher 1: We have an important new study to put out. This will change the face of science as we know it!
Researcher 2: How much funding do we have?
Researcher 1: 'bout tree fiddy.

 

[<Gucci>]

You know :kryssyy: is lurking just below the surface. I can't quite pick out the pair of dead eyes staring in the dark, though.

 

[Kerek]

 

[Serial Mom]

Your Mentor tag pulling you to help members is getting in the way of the Moderator tag pushing you to harm them.

Ahem, my Moderator tag does no such thing. I mean, I didn't take a Hippocratic Oath, because I'm over promising things, but you have to protect people who wear appropriate attire for the weather. It's like, a rule.

 

[vickiJ]

What's a record store?

It was called Tower Audio. It was the cool place to be. It was in the mall. A mall is a place where all the stores are connected by a wide hallway inside out of the weather. You had to actually put on clothes and drive there. Then you paid with cash. Cash is that green currency that no one uses anymore.

 

[Serial Mom]

it's like having a hammer, but the edges have been curved instead of a hammer you now have a pillow.

If so, then I have a really odd looking baseball bat collection.

 

[C to the J]

It was called Tower Audio. It was the cool place to be. It was in the mall. A mall is a place where all the stores are connected by a wide hallway inside out of the weather. You had to actually put on clothes and drive there. Then you paid with cash. Cash is that green currency that no one uses anymore.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services?

 

[Kerek]

Money can be exchanged for goods and services?

Only if these requesters get their shit together and start posting work again.

Day 13 of no money.

 

[mboone73]

You are standing at a train station.
You notice that the train is coming in too fast and will kill 5 people that are crossing the tracks.
There is a fat man next to you.

If you push the fat man onto the tracks it will save the 5 people but he will die.
If you do not, the five people crossing the tracks will die.
If you play this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ no one dies.

Why does the fat man have to die? What if the fat man pushes you in front of the train, and says "That's for trying to Rick roll me bitch!"

 

[alk69]

Spec's is something different here.

Too right! And when Spec was a lot younger--and still alive--he would scoot about that warehouse store on roller skates...If they didn't have it, there wasn't any.

 

[vickiJ]

Money can be exchanged for goods and services?

I don't know! I haven't tried it in a long time.

 

[Sybaris]

Why does the fat man have to die? What if the fat man pushes you in front of the train, and says "That's for trying to Rick roll me bitch!"

I'd call that prescience

 

[mboone73]

Money can be exchanged for goods and services?

Not if you're a turker.

 

[DCI]

Why does the fat man have to die?

Because only fat people are big enough to stop trains, duh.

 

[Sybaris]

I suspect we mtrukers as smarter than average folk... just a bit damaged for whatever reasons.

 

[TotalBabe]

Working in a job dealing with the general public is the absolute worst. Right out of college, I had a part-time job at a bookstore. This odd man kind of pestered me a bit one day, and I didn't think much of it. I just thought he was strange. Next day, he came in (I wasn't working that day) and asked all these questions about me. When the woman working that day wouldn't tell him anything about me, he said, "That's okay. I'm gonna get her, though." This alarmed her and she told the manager about it. For the next month or so, they walked me out to my car at the end of the day. Finally, they thought he was such a creep, they banned him from the store. It was all a bit unsettling to say the least.

In situations like that, I think the big problem is you're a sitting duck for every weirdo that wanders in.

 

[A6_Foul_Out]

Only if these requesters get their shit together and start posting work again.

Day 13 of no money.

won't the requesters think of the red pandas!?

 

[SleepComa]

I suspect we mtrukers as smarter than average folk... just a bit damaged for whatever reasons.

 

[Serial Mom]

@micky did you say you liked doing the Evari hits? I think I remember you saying something about a street hit. If so, they're up.