I confess that I’ve spent the entire afternoon watching Youtube and Netflix after finishing the Lit review for the project this morning.
Netflix watching will continue
How do Vietnamese compare to Chinese in terms of sheer voice volume? My wife is Vietnamese and we’ll get together with her family. Maybe 40 or so at a time, and it is deafening. I grew up in a VERY small family. 1 sister, 2 cousins that I saw once a year. I was never in family groups that big, and sometimes I have to go hide in my bedroom to regroup.
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You think you’ve heard LOUD?
When my wife speaks to one of her relatives ON THE PHONE, I leave the room.
Ahh but you see, 5 Chinese can make the noise of 40 vietnamese AND they LOVE international travel.
I haven’t seen many Vietnamese tourists
One of my best friends in high school was Vietnamese. First time I was at his home his mother walked by as my back was to her and yelled something and I literally ducked like those people when a plane flies overhead behind them.
His dad wasn’t loud but I don’t think he was Vietnamese either.
Mrs. GarageRocker almost killed several on our honeymoon in Iceland (our timing aligned with a Chinese bank holiday, so they outnumbered native Icelanders 3:1). Probably the worst was when we had reservations at a nice restaurant overlooking a fjord. Group comes in and demands to the waiter that he move us to a shitty table away from the window so that they could have our seat. Made a scene. Waiter kicked them out 
Loved it, it was our third trip there. Mostly stayed on the south coast and did a bunch of hiking - 70 miles in 9 days. Glymur, Thakgil Canyon, Landmannalaugar, the first quarter of Fimmvorduhals, Reykjadalur. Small collection of photos in my log, I’m working on a big folder of them to share.
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The wife bought a UV-C disinfection lamp. Asked me to turn it on and leave a room. There’s a countdown timer function so you have ample time to exit the premise. Naturally I stayed and looked at it just to see what the fuck this UV-C shit is about because I’m an idiot. What could go wrong? There’s a UV-C bulb on the vacuum cleaner.
Then I found out it’s a fucking 100W lamp. The one on the vacuum is 5W. Not even that 38W shit most retailers sell. She had to buy a 100W one. 12hrs later I have a mild sunburn and I can’t fucking see clearly lol. And I found out I’m also very fucking allergic to ozone.
When the EPA refused to approve such products, it was probably because of idiots like me.
This is why I conjugate with lions.
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Oh my man, you got nothing on the degenerate bastards that used to burn their damn eyes out in the welding and fab shops I’ve worked in.
At one place doing aluminum, one guy honestly enough, was mesmerized by the glow of the argon shield gas. Granted, it’s pretty neat, but this numbnut couldn’t take his eyes off of it.
At another place doing heavy fabrication, once all of the pill heads found out that the clinic was prescribing oxycontin for flash burn, started intentionally burning their own eyes out for pills. A couple of real clowns went hard and like blistered their freakin eyeballs.
I don’t know how much uv is produced from welding, other than more than you ever want contact with, but we were usually operating at 7000 to 11000 watts
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Crap, that’s fucking crazy.
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You may occasionally conjugate with lions, but a lot of these guys were their own uncles.
I warned one dude that was trying to earn a couple of battle scars by welding without a jacket that he was going to be sorry, but he said “I’m good” so I left him go on his way.
He turned a massive strip on the inside of his arm into a piece of bacon over the course of 10 hrs.
He was a Tough guy! 
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I used to get complacent when TIG welding and I’ve had sunburn so bad it blistered. Shits wild.
Haha the worst I’ve seen were guys removing tattoos with acid.
At least I went to see my doc first thing in the morning. Eyes were fucking burning. The fucker laughed at me for like 5mins.
This UV-C shit isn’t funny. I think it was about 30sec of exposure and this shit happened.
Don’t fuck around with it, guys.
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That’s easy to do with tig, cuz no spatter, but depending on what, you’re still running some pretty decent current. Plenty enough to burn oneself pretty good!
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Haha, yep!
Welding with a hood and t shirt to be tough is fun and all when you’re a kid.
But the adults are always wrapped up in leathers, even for tacking.
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I confess that I discovered yesterday there is an inverse relationship between my proximity to the inside of my house and the filth in my language when I am working out in my garage. Most likely because my kid is in there watching cartoons.
I was in the middle of a hellacious conditioning workout in my garage and was letting loose with the "oh f**k me"s and “f–k it one more set”, and when it was all done and I was on the steps leading up to the house I caught myself saying “gosh darn it’s hot in this garage”…
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Rocking my new favorite workout shirt on the way to the gym. Probably not many people will get the reference
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I never thought of you as a heavyweight
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I did something weird with my back, but I confess I’m actually somewhat relieved because now I have an excuse not to deadlift tomorrow
Also, social interaction is a lot more draining than I anticipated. I feel like I need a weekend to recover from the weekend
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For me new or unfamiliar social interactions are the most strenuous thing I can do, but for people I’m friends with its much, much easier.
It’s like, in a strange location with unfamiliar people I’m taking in thousands of details and interactions and the sensory/perceptual floodgates are blasted open, and I need a couple of days for all of it to coalesce.
With familiar people and surroundings it’s not like that.
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I love that so much. That movie is a favorite with me and my little brothers.