Random conversations

[tody]

what i found during my endeavours is that is much easier to search for tops and outerwear. it's not a lot of work to dig up old measurements through archive.org from the old IHUK website.
bottoms on the other hand may be hemmed or even tapered, and you might run into difficulties with a language barrier. i'm always amazed by the 40in waist trousers in JP, only to find them having an inseam of 27in

[WhiskeySandwich]

I absolutely can't stand corporate jargon and it is rampant where I work. So today I made a "Corporate JARgon" jar and started things off by putting a couple dollars in. I added some fine print that says "Proceeds go to High School Wrestling Team" and a homie came by and put a $10 in it! It started as a callout for people saying stupid office things and turned into a fundraiser

[Giles]

Brilliant.....Congrats.

I used to work for a tech company working out of Princeton, NJ. Once a year, we had to do forecasts for the following fiscal year. On one occasion, there was an F-Bomb jar, proceeds of which went to one of the sales admins who was expecting a baby.

When it was my turn to present, I made sure she got a fuck ton of cash from me..........

[WhiskeySandwich]

@Giles Love it. You gotta have fun with it.
Extra clever that the word in question was the direct cause of the pregnancy.

[Giles]

I started the presentation by playing this....

[Chap]

@Giles said in Random conversations:

I started the presentation by playing this....

Melde dich an, um dein Alter zu bestätigen
Dieses Video ist eventuell für einige Nutzer unangemessen.

[WhiskeySandwich]

“It will identify the quality of your character immediately” …fucking gold

[chrisjohnnick]

Anyone on here a part of their local IATSE? I work occasionally with 915 as a Stitcher/Dresser/Wardrobe Assistant in Nashville, and just curious if anyone else here did similar work.

[SKT]

WTF is going on with my google search prompts…outing my cream cheese fetish
(And my desire for some cold, delicious distilled water)

[tenuin]

@SKT I feel like since they crammed AI into everything, the internet's really gone to shit...

[SKT]

@tenuin you won’t hear me arguing.

[nurunuru]

If you want less AI nonsense in your searches but you still want to search through Google, then udm14.com is fantastic. I have it set as my default search engine on my laptop so I don't have to get utter drivel at the top of my results anymore.

[SKT]

Saw this on the internet. Made me think of this place…and then I realized what I was getting @Giles for Christmas

[sophisto000]

@SKT just saw the text version as a bumper sticker and was like wtf

[RobeOfTheMagi]

I can't really allow myself to buy IH regularly - cash flow, financial responsibilities, consumerism etc. However, when I make a purchase, I get all there more excited waiting for the parcel to arrive. I came to enjoy waiting for DHL quite a bit - if it does not take too long though :).

[chrisjohnnick]

Was having a convo with a friend the other and was curious what you all had to say. We were talking about how everyone seems to have a handful of websites that they check daily or weekly. Like their own little grounding bubble of sanity on the internet. What are yours?

Not including stuff that you have to check daily for work, like email or whatnot.

Mine would probably be:
IH Forum
FB Marketplace for deals/free stuff
a couple vinyl record trading forums
Depop/Grailed/eBay (just search every couple of days for the same handful of keywords)
Sometimes ValetMag, but lately I haven't been as interested in their daily writeups

[Chap]

@chrisjohnnick said in Random conversations:

Was having a convo with a friend the other and was curious what you all had to say. We were talking about how everyone seems to have a handful of websites that they check daily or weekly. Like their own little grounding bubble of sanity on the internet. What are yours?

Not including stuff that you have to check daily for work, like email or whatnot.

Mine would probably be:
IH Forum
FB Marketplace for deals/free stuff
a couple vinyl record trading forums
Depop/Grailed/eBay (just search every couple of days for the same handful of keywords)
Sometimes ValetMag, but lately I haven't been as interested in their daily writeups

I do a bit of Instagram but that’s manly food, wine and travel stuff and the IH Forum, of course, that’s all. I have a couple of podcasts investment and stock market related I listen to daily.

[sabergirl]

I wake up in the morning and read Heather Cox Richardson’s blog on Substack. Then I usually glance at Facebook and instagram, realize they both suck, and head to the IH forum. I will usually search for IH on eBay, Grailed, depop, marrkt, poshmark and the real real, but don’t spend any other time on those sites. I used to check them daily, but my closet is now ludicrously stuffed with more things than I wear, which is problematic.

[northsouthdenimguy]

Anybody ever go down a rabbit hole on the forum and come across a banned member’s profile and start clicking through their posts trying to figure out what the hell happened?

Sometimes you’ll find a post from like 2012 and then the next reply is somebody else in 2024 and you’re just sitting there wondering what happened in those 12 years. I guess I’ll never know…

Happy Mother’s Day to everybody’s mothers, and to the memory of the ones no longer here with us today

Edit: My apologies to the mothers on here too. Hope you’re all having a fantastic day.

[Jord]

@northsouthdenimguy I find it funnier when it's a banned member that started a thread

but yes I have lol.