I am way out of shape and a little over weight. So those of you still in your 20's I would highly recommend that you get into the habit of exercising now because its alot harder later on.
Experiencing Life to the Fullest-Da Wolf 2015-02-04T14:12:28-05:00
House Arrest - what happens in the kichen is kittencorps business.
Rod "BaKhan" Mitchell 2015-02-04T14:12:35-05:00
@House Arrest, good to see you!
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-04T14:12:56-05:00
Great Mountain, that's what I figured. I've had jobs like that (I have one now), so I know how many people go to work "just a little sick," and share the love. The difference is I work in a lab, where people are pretty fastidious about personal hygiene anyway because we're working with bodily fluids all day. We also have limited access to other people. Kitchens with sick people, though... They make it easy to "share the love," if you will.
I've worked in some clean kitchens but even they didn't believe in sick days
Experiencing Life to the Fullest-Da Wolf 2015-02-04T14:13:16-05:00
Bunch of youngins here. AARPer here.
Bob "Powers of Tesla" Lindley 2015-02-04T14:13:39-05:00
@General, not to my knowledge, but in order to be "official" I believe we need the blessing of the creative team.
Adam 2015-02-04T14:14:00-05:00
Where do we post the pictures requested in the stretch goals section?
Peter 'General Calculus' W. 2015-02-04T14:14:06-05:00
@Josh, be wary of assessements from people who want to sell you gym hours...
Exercise is a good thing, anyways, but trust your own judgement on what feels right for you.
Maike "The Maike" Maike 2015-02-04T14:14:09-05:00
Sick days are hard to have when youre literally the only person able to work your shift
Mimi Miéville 2015-02-04T14:14:24-05:00
it'd be probably more a more realistic goal to get grrm to blog it, since he doesn't actively use twitter for anything other than pushing his livejournal updates.
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-04T14:16:36-05:00
Yeah, I always get irritated with companies that don't offer sick time. Any time I challenge it, they say "well, we don't want people to abuse it." Fine! Require a doctor's note, then, if it makes you feel better. I don't want to get sick just because you're stingy, that's all I'm saying.
Peter 'General Calculus' W. 2015-02-04T14:16:46-05:00
@BaKhan, sorry to have to correct you but it is more like 15,300.
@House Arrest: I have similar things said to me when I was a supervisor at one restaurant. The best one was when one of the guys texted me saying he was sick and asked if I could cover his shift. I texted back with turn around. I was behind him at the theater.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-04T14:21:29-05:00
It might be hard, but I can see this beating out RR tomorrow sometime ...
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-04T14:21:56-05:00
Exclusive SaS cards: hairy dragon boob sweat and exploding kitten crotch rot
Maike "The Maike" Maike 2015-02-04T14:22:12-05:00
@Jeff We're only half way done, the sky is the limit
the company I work for now offers sick days but my last job didn't and I just don't understand why they can't at least look at it case by case. if someone is abusing it then take it away from them
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-04T14:23:14-05:00
@House Arrest, agreed
Experiencing Life to the Fullest-Da Wolf 2015-02-04T14:23:54-05:00
LZ - interesting combo card concept. Hair on top and rot on bottom.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-04T14:23:54-05:00
Last night when Elan announced the SG update, right around 10:30 pm CDT, we needed about $166K to beat RR. It's now about $90K. That's over $75K in roughly 15 hours. Wow.
Nicole 2015-02-04T14:24:57-05:00
@House Arrest trying to prove someone is abusing it can be a nightmare with H.R. - been dealing with many cases of "are they abusing it?" at work, and there's just no much we can do other than ask for a doctors note.
Experiencing Life to the Fullest-Da Wolf 2015-02-04T14:25:07-05:00
Eyyyy its Maike - nice.
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-04T14:25:11-05:00
And at this rate, plus the end of period frenzy, we'll easily bypass 150K backers.
@owen that's pretty good. I was a manager at Canadian tire and just to be a B I would make my staff get doctors notes if they called in because I knew they would have to go waste three hours at the walk in clinic and they'd have to pay for it
Tamara "Miss Puss" 2015-02-04T14:26:39-05:00
facebook now has over 50k follovers, and twitter a little over 20k. We need to push twitter! :D
Peter 'General Calculus' W. 2015-02-04T14:26:50-05:00
Right now we are doing around $2k in 25 minutes.
Experiencing Life to the Fullest-Da Wolf 2015-02-04T14:27:04-05:00
House Arrest - I thought medical care was up there.
I know he might be exaggerating some but the point still stands that its been at least 18 years since the last time I exercised to the point where I was sweating and sore. Combined with the fact that I hate to exercise and you have the two reasons why I went ahead and paid for 3 months of personal training.
The way i see it I won't quit the exercise routine now, knowing how much I have paid for it and having a cute personal trainer pushing me on will keep me motivated, I mean who would want to fail or slack off with their exercises in front of a girl right
BruceP - The Chameleon 2015-02-04T14:27:24-05:00
@GCoD,
I'm with you. I was thinking it wouldn't be until this weekend that we'd pass RR, but with the bit of a surge, now it's look like it'll be tomorrow. :)
Peter 'General Calculus' W. 2015-02-04T14:28:14-05:00
@Josh if you put it that way *g*
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-04T14:29:16-05:00
The absolute worst one I ever had was working at a call center. Their policy was that if you weren't there for every single day of training, you're fired. Well, when training was nearly done, I noticed one day that the training room was really cold. I mean, it felt like a damned freezer. Everyone else said it was comfortable. I just kept getting colder and colder. During brake, a bunch of people got me blankets from their cars, and I just wrapped myself up in them and lay on the floor for the whole break. When break ended, everyone else got in their chairs and continued training, I couldn't bring myself to get up. Fortunately, the trainer didn't have a problem with it. For the next few days, I just bundled up and told everyone to keep their distance. It turns out I had mono, and had to go to work so I wouldn't lose my job.
Experiencing Life to the Fullest-Da Wolf 2015-02-04T14:29:46-05:00
The SAS crotch rot card will be randomly inserted instead of the mystery smell hairy dragon boob hair and sweat card
it is but the medical plan doesn't cover the something like a doctors note, most doctors don't charge for it though. Walk in clinics do because most people only go there for that
Peter 'General Calculus' W. 2015-02-04T14:31:34-05:00
Over here sick days are paid by obligatory social security. Some years ago the agencies sent out people to check if those who claimed to be ill really were. The ceased with this practice because it turned out to cost more than any slackers caught.
BruceP - The Chameleon 2015-02-04T14:31:36-05:00
For new folks, if you need help/suggestions for how to complete stretch goals, take a look at our community site: http://www.kittencorps.com/ And you can also maybe get an idea of what all the craziness here in the comments is about. :)
Experiencing Life to the Fullest-Da Wolf 2015-02-04T14:31:49-05:00
LZ - cruel. I had a good boss. I was able to work remotely when I had mono. Problem was their bosses daughter had mono and they kept coming into work.
because you learned so much being there, huddled on the floor
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-04T14:34:11-05:00
They had shared headsets there, too. Worst. Idea. Ever! The awesome thing is that as soon as I finished training, I was able to take a week off to recover. I had a doctor's note mandating that. During that week, I found a much better job.
Andre "Silver Ninjatten" Bernier 2015-02-04T14:34:36-05:00
@Da Wolf.... Just stop making out with the bosses daughter and you wont get mono.
yup and the first three months will be the hardest, so if I can get past that then I have no doubt I will be able to keep up the exercise routine long after my personal training sessions end.
So if George has no Tweet or Facebook, @Ellen isn't Ellen, and we're not climbing fast enough to hit 10m that's 3 achievements we won't get and not special surprise in a box.
ok my worst sick at work story. I had to have a test were they gave me a spinal tap and injected radioactive goo at the same time. I ended up getting a leak. every time I stood up I got an excruciating headache because there wasn't enough fluid in my skull to support my brain. I had to go back to work. I was working at a pet store, by myself. I laid on the floor and when I customer came in I would get up, help them and lay back down as soon as they left. did that for three days until the hole healed. hell on earth
BruceP - The Chameleon 2015-02-04T14:39:42-05:00
@mtpultz
Use @TheEllenShow for Ellen
Kevin "Lord Zombitten" Buckner 2015-02-04T14:40:08-05:00
Ugh! House Arrest, your story makes me shudder
Andre "Silver Ninjatten" Bernier 2015-02-04T14:40:10-05:00
someone should tell Elan about the lack of twitter and facebook accounts for George
Experiencing Life to the Fullest-Da Wolf 2015-02-04T14:40:42-05:00
House Arrest - ouch. A living hell. So sorry
"Diamond Dan" Drake 2015-02-04T14:41:35-05:00
there is a @GRRMspeaking... though it looks like he posts only links to the blog wherein he says he doesn't tweet. But also that entry was from 2011. Maybe he's had a change of heart.
Yeah let's get George Takei! I am sure he would love the game.... and he seems like a fun guy!
Peter 'General Calculus' W. 2015-02-04T14:47:01-05:00
TOS was sooo missing from this whole thing. Excellent idea! Maybe he would like the Shatnitten?
Jeff "Great Cane of Doom"™ Saxton 2015-02-04T14:47:08-05:00
IF we can nab Wheaton, maybe he can nab the rest of TNG crew ...which then leads to the remaining TOS members ... and via Patrick Stewart we get the X-Men, and via McKellan we get the LotR/Hobbit folks, and then via Weaving we get the Matrix folks ...
BruceP - The Chameleon 2015-02-04T14:47:21-05:00
If anyone wants to tweet George Takei and see about getting him involved, he's at @GeorgeTakei
Maike "The Maike" Maike 2015-02-04T14:47:25-05:00
I dont know about anyone else, but I say we go recruit Takei.
Experiencing Life to the Fullest-Da Wolf 2015-02-04T14:47:50-05:00
Someone could get the twitter account Martin does not have. Then they could post the message
Dave Monteforte 2015-02-04T14:48:09-05:00
Takei might love something like this. He's hilarious
BruceP - The Chameleon 2015-02-04T14:48:17-05:00
For new folks, if you need help/suggestions for how to complete stretch goals, take a look at our community site: http://www.kittencorps.com/ And you can also maybe get an idea of what all the craziness here in the comments is about. :)
@PoT, so there is an official one? ;-)
I am way out of shape and a little over weight. So those of you still in your 20's I would highly recommend that you get into the habit of exercising now because its alot harder later on.
House Arrest - what happens in the kichen is kittencorps business.
@House Arrest, good to see you!
Great Mountain, that's what I figured. I've had jobs like that (I have one now), so I know how many people go to work "just a little sick," and share the love. The difference is I work in a lab, where people are pretty fastidious about personal hygiene anyway because we're working with bodily fluids all day. We also have limited access to other people. Kitchens with sick people, though... They make it easy to "share the love," if you will.
I've worked in some clean kitchens but even they didn't believe in sick days
Bunch of youngins here. AARPer here.
@General, not to my knowledge, but in order to be "official" I believe we need the blessing of the creative team.
Where do we post the pictures requested in the stretch goals section?
@Josh, be wary of assessements from people who want to sell you gym hours...
Exercise is a good thing, anyways, but trust your own judgement on what feels right for you.
Sick days are hard to have when youre literally the only person able to work your shift
it'd be probably more a more realistic goal to get grrm to blog it, since he doesn't actively use twitter for anything other than pushing his livejournal updates.
hey! I've been out of commission and away from the interwebs for a couple days but i'm back now!
LZ - at my job people come in with the flu over the last 3 weeks. The love keeps on sharing.
Who let House Arrest out. Howl, howl .....
@Adam. We've been posting them to both the Twitter account and the Facebook account.
@explodingkittens.
Less than 300 to 150k!
@ Adam - Post the pics to the Exploding Kittens Twitter &/or Facebook page.
facebook.com/explodingkittens
twitter.com/gameofkittens
Yeah, I always get irritated with companies that don't offer sick time. Any time I challenge it, they say "well, we don't want people to abuse it." Fine! Require a doctor's note, then, if it makes you feel better. I don't want to get sick just because you're stingy, that's all I'm saying.
@BaKhan, sorry to have to correct you but it is more like 15,300.
I once had a cook say she had crotch rot when she came on shift, I told her i'd cover for her and she could go ewwwww
@General, fine be right then. Sheesh!
10 million dollars is gonna be tough....
@Bob And @Mr. PACG thanks I'll do the same!
i'm not really out, i'm just back at home yay!
House Arrest this better not made public. But gave me an idea for a card. Exploding kitten crotch rot.
Not going to be a scratch n sniff card. Nope.
@Wolf I can dig it
well, we got 32 achievements lined up. That means we can skip 2 :)
Hahahaha!
@House Arrest: I have similar things said to me when I was a supervisor at one restaurant. The best one was when one of the guys texted me saying he was sick and asked if I could cover his shift. I texted back with turn around. I was behind him at the theater.
It might be hard, but I can see this beating out RR tomorrow sometime ...
Exclusive SaS cards: hairy dragon boob sweat and exploding kitten crotch rot
@Jeff We're only half way done, the sky is the limit
the company I work for now offers sick days but my last job didn't and I just don't understand why they can't at least look at it case by case. if someone is abusing it then take it away from them
@House Arrest, agreed
LZ - interesting combo card concept. Hair on top and rot on bottom.
Last night when Elan announced the SG update, right around 10:30 pm CDT, we needed about $166K to beat RR. It's now about $90K. That's over $75K in roughly 15 hours. Wow.
@House Arrest trying to prove someone is abusing it can be a nightmare with H.R. - been dealing with many cases of "are they abusing it?" at work, and there's just no much we can do other than ask for a doctors note.
Eyyyy its Maike - nice.
And at this rate, plus the end of period frenzy, we'll easily bypass 150K backers.
@owen that's pretty good. I was a manager at Canadian tire and just to be a B I would make my staff get doctors notes if they called in because I knew they would have to go waste three hours at the walk in clinic and they'd have to pay for it
facebook now has over 50k follovers, and twitter a little over 20k. We need to push twitter! :D
Right now we are doing around $2k in 25 minutes.
House Arrest - I thought medical care was up there.
@Peter,
I know he might be exaggerating some but the point still stands that its been at least 18 years since the last time I exercised to the point where I was sweating and sore. Combined with the fact that I hate to exercise and you have the two reasons why I went ahead and paid for 3 months of personal training.
The way i see it I won't quit the exercise routine now, knowing how much I have paid for it and having a cute personal trainer pushing me on will keep me motivated, I mean who would want to fail or slack off with their exercises in front of a girl right
@GCoD,
I'm with you. I was thinking it wouldn't be until this weekend that we'd pass RR, but with the bit of a surge, now it's look like it'll be tomorrow. :)
SAS crotch rot card doesn't appeal to anyone?
@Josh if you put it that way *g*
The absolute worst one I ever had was working at a call center. Their policy was that if you weren't there for every single day of training, you're fired. Well, when training was nearly done, I noticed one day that the training room was really cold. I mean, it felt like a damned freezer. Everyone else said it was comfortable. I just kept getting colder and colder. During brake, a bunch of people got me blankets from their cars, and I just wrapped myself up in them and lay on the floor for the whole break. When break ended, everyone else got in their chairs and continued training, I couldn't bring myself to get up. Fortunately, the trainer didn't have a problem with it. For the next few days, I just bundled up and told everyone to keep their distance. It turns out I had mono, and had to go to work so I wouldn't lose my job.
The SAS crotch rot card will be randomly inserted instead of the mystery smell hairy dragon boob hair and sweat card
it is but the medical plan doesn't cover the something like a doctors note, most doctors don't charge for it though. Walk in clinics do because most people only go there for that
Over here sick days are paid by obligatory social security. Some years ago the agencies sent out people to check if those who claimed to be ill really were. The ceased with this practice because it turned out to cost more than any slackers caught.
For new folks, if you need help/suggestions for how to complete stretch goals, take a look at our community site: http://www.kittencorps.com/
And you can also maybe get an idea of what all the craziness here in the comments is about. :)
LZ - cruel. I had a good boss. I was able to work remotely when I had mono. Problem was their bosses daughter had mono and they kept coming into work.
because you learned so much being there, huddled on the floor
They had shared headsets there, too. Worst. Idea. Ever! The awesome thing is that as soon as I finished training, I was able to take a week off to recover. I had a doctor's note mandating that. During that week, I found a much better job.
@Da Wolf.... Just stop making out with the bosses daughter and you wont get mono.
yup and the first three months will be the hardest, so if I can get past that then I have no doubt I will be able to keep up the exercise routine long after my personal training sessions end.
Here's from George's official blog, he does not Tweet or Facebook: http://grrm.livejournal.com/197075.html
LZ - good move!
Kute Potato Kitten http://www.buzzhunt.co.uk/2011/06/15/potato-cat/
So if George has no Tweet or Facebook, @Ellen isn't Ellen, and we're not climbing fast enough to hit 10m that's 3 achievements we won't get and not special surprise in a box.
ok my worst sick at work story. I had to have a test were they gave me a spinal tap and injected radioactive goo at the same time. I ended up getting a leak. every time I stood up I got an excruciating headache because there wasn't enough fluid in my skull to support my brain. I had to go back to work. I was working at a pet store, by myself. I laid on the floor and when I customer came in I would get up, help them and lay back down as soon as they left. did that for three days until the hole healed. hell on earth
@mtpultz
Use @TheEllenShow for Ellen
Ugh! House Arrest, your story makes me shudder
someone should tell Elan about the lack of twitter and facebook accounts for George
House Arrest - ouch. A living hell. So sorry
there is a @GRRMspeaking... though it looks like he posts only links to the blog wherein he says he doesn't tweet. But also that entry was from 2011. Maybe he's had a change of heart.
that's not even the worst of them!
http://twitter.com/westerosorg
http://www.facebook.com/Westeros
are the only official accounts that he has given control of to a friend. The rest are not his.
I wonder if we ask Takei to say something silly if the creators will give us a bonus [hidden] achievement....
@DDD,
It's possible we could use these for reach George:
http://twitter.com/westerosorg
http://www.facebook.com/Westeros
Those are from the site Jake B posted.
Here is a more recent entry about him not tweeting: http://grrm.livejournal.com/395189.html
The achievement might as well be for developing Spider-Man-esque powers.
*to reach
@potatten: Takei would be the leader of the kittencorps if we ask him!
@Tamara that's where i pulled the information from.
It would be hilarious if we got Takei on board. :)
@Bruce: That's what I'm saying!
Yeah let's get George Takei! I am sure he would love the game.... and he seems like a fun guy!
TOS was sooo missing from this whole thing. Excellent idea! Maybe he would like the Shatnitten?
IF we can nab Wheaton, maybe he can nab the rest of TNG crew ...which then leads to the remaining TOS members ... and via Patrick Stewart we get the X-Men, and via McKellan we get the LotR/Hobbit folks, and then via Weaving we get the Matrix folks ...
If anyone wants to tweet George Takei and see about getting him involved, he's at @GeorgeTakei
I dont know about anyone else, but I say we go recruit Takei.
Someone could get the twitter account Martin does not have. Then they could post the message
Takei might love something like this. He's hilarious
For new folks, if you need help/suggestions for how to complete stretch goals, take a look at our community site: http://www.kittencorps.com/
And you can also maybe get an idea of what all the craziness here in the comments is about. :)
@Bruce: But we should try and see if we can get him to "say something" too, something with both Takei AND EK written all over it... hmm....
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It seems your friend request was found by a different Adolf. ;)
maybe we need to make a Takeitten? :P
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@Tamara: Yes... Yes, that is a thing that needs to happen...
A special EK card with Sulu from "The Naked Time", bare chested, wielding a rapier.
Who'd want him anyways, he'd always be looking for Kyle. Seen Kyle? Seen Kyle?
@GCoD, thats how I always picture him! lol!
@Jeff: Yes, that would be perfect...
Merchant of war exploding kitten taco card. You accidentially pull the cheese pin that was hanging out. Kabooom