Annoying Questions I'd Like Answered...

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue May 10, 2016 4:05 am

Prak wrote:maybe you can sex the chicks

Being a total city boy and 12 (apparently), I lost it when I read this part. I have no idea if you mean determining their gender or something about breeding more Chickens but that seems less likely.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue May 10, 2016 4:11 am

Determining their sex, yes.

Nebuchadnezzar · Post by **Nebuchadnezzar** » Tue May 10, 2016 10:41 am

Assuming this isn't just some neighbor's chicken that got loose when it went broody, and you intend on doing something with the chicks, then buy a small bag of chick starter feed (~1USD/lb), which is a serviceable choice for the sitting hen as well. Have a source of clean water nearby. Broody hens can be territorial, so generally leave her alone for the 2-3 weeks she'll be sitting there. If there's a simple way to corral her away from foot traffic consider doing so, since brooding hen excrement is intermittent and distinctively unpleasant.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Tue May 10, 2016 2:33 pm

Nebuchadnezzar wrote:Assuming this isn't just some neighbor's chicken that got loose when it went broody,

There is a colony and feral chickens around here, and a colony of feral cats. And occasionally a stray dog. This is a popular place for people to dump unwanted pets. The cat colony and the chicken colony get along surprisingly well.

Nebuchadnezzar wrote:If there's a simple way to corral her away from foot traffic consider doing so, since brooding hen excrement is intermittent and distinctively unpleasant.

No, not really. There's very little space. But she stays in the nook beside my television.
How to you clean chicken poop out of carpet?

Post by **fbmf** » Tue May 10, 2016 3:04 pm

Have to ask: How is the hen is gaining access to your living room?

Game On,
fbmf

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Tue May 10, 2016 3:12 pm

fbmf wrote:Have to ask: How is the hen is gaining access to your living room?

Game On,
fbmf

The same way the cats do, through the sliding door. I leave it open for them.

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Tue May 17, 2016 8:22 am

How do I get translations online to display a compatible writing system? For instance, when I try to find out what Russian words mean google insists on giving answers in cyrillic, which doesn't exactly help. I'd prefer results like "Kaliningradskaya oblast" rather than say, "Калинингра́дская о́бласть"

Am I missing something obvious here?

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Tue May 17, 2016 8:34 am

You are missing that Chrome integrates Google Translate and this outputs things in English whether the original is in Cyrillic or Kanji, yes. If you want an auto-romanizer rather than a translator you'll have to go further afield and there will probably be obtuse encoding issues.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Thu May 19, 2016 5:25 am

How do you prevent the hen from crapping all over your living room

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Thu May 19, 2016 5:34 am

OgreBattle wrote:How do you prevent the hen from crapping all over your living room

It doesn't move, except for about once a day when it goes outside for a few minutes to do I don't know what.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Mon May 23, 2016 10:02 pm

Can someone please tell me what the fvck Cranium Intel is? The two trailers I've seen are painfully vague, and I can't seem to find anything on the internet besides "The president wants a scientist dead because he found out that the St. Louis Arch is a portal to the 'real' Plant X."

That plot is too fvcking ridiculous for me not to want to know more.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Mon May 23, 2016 10:40 pm

i . . i honestly can't tell
http://aeneasmiddleton.com/craniumintel_movie.html
it says movie. but it looks like some cheapish indi game? O.o

sendaz · Post by **sendaz** » Mon May 23, 2016 11:23 pm

Hope it is better than his short Defusion 4: Bio Cell System

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Tue May 24, 2016 11:10 pm

I believe that this movie may have the worst trailers in cinematic history. I mean, they literally are a confused jumble of images that don't tell you anything at all about the film.

Craziness.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Wed May 25, 2016 12:14 am

Well, if it can actually garner interest for the movie, then in my opinion, these kinds of trailers are the better trailers . . because they don't tell you either
a: half or more of the movie
b: the best bits of the movie
usually with the rest of the movie not really worth it anymore . .
but with this? i remain sceptical . .

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed May 25, 2016 8:14 am

Ok, here's a weird one-

I recently decided that I could not bare to live with my parents any longer, and that living with roommates now was better than continuing to live with my parents until I felt I could afford my own place. An old acquaintance saw my facebook post about the thing, and so now I'm looking at moving in with them and their girlfriend. However, while I was thinking apartments, they're thinking of buying a house. Which works. That's way better for all of us, so I'm on board.

But this will be the first time I'll have the freedom to decorate a room of my own with little check on myself, from the walls in (rather than just moving my stuff in).

Does anyone have any tips on painting a room, not the mechanics of it, necessarily, but the design aspect of it? I prefer saturated tones, and I know enough to not just paint it all black (no matter how much I might want to) but beyond that... well, interior decorating was not the major I pursued at Art Institute.

My furniture is dark, dark brown, and it's impractical, and unnecessary, to replace it since it's a very serviceable bedroom set with nightstand and dresser. So that's the one real non-negotiable part of the pallet, I guess.

Grek · Post by **Grek** » Wed May 25, 2016 8:21 am

For a bedroom, you want something reasonably soothing so you'll actually go to sleep. So pastel colours.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed May 25, 2016 8:41 am

Dark furniture goes best with lighter backgrounds, and yes, light/pastel colours tend to be soothing. You might even just want to go with a basic cream colour.

Nebuchadnezzar · Post by **Nebuchadnezzar** » Wed May 25, 2016 9:33 am

If the room isn't too big do it in dry erase paint and juxtapose swaths of temporary color around hung accents. Avail yourself of available natural light, whether through low-maintenance greenery or sparkly shit. Don't paint everything black.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed May 25, 2016 10:17 am

I really dislike pastel colors. I loathe pastels as an art medium and that probably transfers somewhat to the color category, but I really prefer deeper saturation colors.

Huh, I thought I pasted images of the colors I was looking at, but I guess not? I'm looking at these-

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Wed May 25, 2016 3:29 pm

White with accents of your favorite colors then. Unless you have really weird preferences (in which case there's no point in asking for suggestions), you'll go nuts in a dark room.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Wed May 25, 2016 3:47 pm

Suggestion:
Don't actually PAINT the Walls in these Colours.
Get some nice pieces of cloth or something in these colours and hang them on the walls.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed May 25, 2016 8:09 pm

Starmaker wrote:White with accents of your favorite colors then. Unless you have really weird preferences (in which case there's no point in asking for suggestions), you'll go nuts in a dark room.

I think my posting history here should be ample evidence that going nuts would be a short trip for me.

Occluded Sun · Post by **Occluded Sun** » Wed May 25, 2016 8:40 pm

Stahlseele wrote:Suggestion:
Don't actually PAINT the Walls in these Colours.
Get some nice pieces of cloth or something in these colours and hang them on the walls.

Seconded.

College students have experience in temporarily-decorating rooms; see if you can find a guide to dorm room decor.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Wed May 25, 2016 11:09 pm

Well, the chicken sitting in my living room started making really strange noises. And now there was tiny chickens under her.