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  2. Shanks

    Much Ado About Clopping

    By Shanks,

    So the other day someone started a thread on cloppers and apparently I didn't know this but someone who I will not name has said in the thread that cloppers are not bronies. I wasn't aware that we had an election to vote for someone who would decide once and for all who is and isn't a brony, I mean come on guys why didn't any of you tell me this? I went to the store and bought with money out of my own pocket cyanide to go into the punch for our big party and nobody will even tell me who our fearless leader is. Just what kind of cult errr I mean fandom is this?
     
    Okay cheap sarcasm aside it is okay to not be into clopping or grimdark or even to despite it but saying someone isn't a brony because they do like these things is pointless, stupid, divisive and makes us look like a cult. I keep hearing how cloppers should keep it to themselves which would make a bit more sense if most cloppers weren't already doing just that. If anything anti cloppers are making a much bigger deal out of clopping than even most cloppers are. Which is especially annoying considering that rule 34 applies to pretty much every fandom yet the fans that enjoy that aspect of it aren't scapegoated like cloppers are.
     
    There are some fannon things I don't particularly like either, a week or so ago I read this fanfic that I really wish I could unread called Rainbow Dash Get's an Abortion which I found when doing a google search for something (I don't remember what) Rainbow Dash related. At first I thought it was going to be some political propaganda piece but it was a lot worse than that.
     
     
     
     
    Despite my completely disgust at that fic though a reaction I knew I would have though I will admit the fic was a lot worse than I originally thought I got over it and moved on.
  3. Shanks
    Time for another character analysis this time on Pinkie Pie you can see the others here
     
    http://mlpforums.com/blog/456/entry-3070-character-analysis-1-applejack/
     
    http://mlpforums.com/blog/456/entry-3310-character-analysis-2-rainbow-dash/
     
    http://mlpforums.com/blog/456/entry-3340-character-analysis-3-rarity/
     
    Silly, random and always ready for a party Pinkie Pie's upbeat, extremely hyperactive friendly attitude has made her one of the most popular ponies in the show. Pinkies random antics and physics defying often fourth wall breaking humor has tickled the funny bones of quite a few fans though has occasionally annoyed some viewers. She is always looking on the bright side Pinkie Pie often goes to great lengths to befriend ponies and cheer them up even total strangers and often brags that "I know every pony in town." Pinkie Pie became her party girl self when she was a filly working on the family rock farm, she saw a rainbow which she would later find out was created by Rainbow Dash performing a sonic rainboom and decided to dedicate her life to making everypony happy.
     
    Her mysterious Pinkie sense which can detect things as diverse as opening doors and rain has no virtually no explanation and you would think would make more sense if Pinkie Pie was a unicorn but seems to fit the ever random Pinkie Pie like a glove. Pinkie Pie takes promises very seriously often calling them "Pinkie promises" and often flies into a rage whenever anypony even breaks a minor Pinkie promise.
     
    http://youtu.be/7nVjxIKgaGc
     
    Of course there is more to this cotton candy colored mare than a desire to get down and boogie all day and night with everypony in town. She has shown on many occasions to be very insecure in Baby Cakes when she tried to prove she could handle babysitting Pumpkincake and Poundcake she stubbornly refused help no matter how out of hand things got. in the episode Party of One when nopony would go to her "afterbirthday party" for her pet alligator Gummy she jumped to conclusions and thought it was because her friends abandoned her when they were actually
    planning a surprise birthday part for her which caused her to snap perhaps worse than we have seen any other character snap with the exception of Twilight in the episode Lesson Zero when the ultimate OCD fueled freak out.
     

     
    This wasn't the only time she jumped to conclusions in Bridle Gossip when she claimed that Zecora used "evil trances" and "gobbles ponies up in stews" and in Mmmmmmystery on The Friendship Express when she came out with increasingly over the top and outlandish explanations for how the bakers "did done dood it" which involving accusing Gustav of tying her to the train tracks, accusing Donut Joe of being a secret spy named "Con Mane" and accusing Muelia Miles of being a ninja.
     
    Pinkie Pie may be the life of the party but when it comes time to be serious and get stuff done you can always count on Pinkie Pie to lend a hoof.
  4. Shanks
    So I watched the season 3 finale the infamous Twilight alicorn episode and I wanted to like it I really truly did as I have said before Twilight Sparkle is now tied with Applejack and Luna for best pony but it was the worst episode of not only this season but the entire series as a whole. While there has been the occasional episode that has disappointed me and the Chrystal Empire two parter is a good example of that largely because of the sad lack of character development for King Sombra who had the potential to be a truly great villain even my biggest disappointments with the exception of Griffon the Brush Off had at least enough redeeming factors to where I still enjoyed the episode but this seriously sucked. To say this was a god awful piece of crap is an insult to self respecting dung heaps everywhere.
     
    The songs while they weren't by any means bad they were way too heavy handed and detracted from the main story instead of complimenting it. It made the episode feel like a random series of songs half hazardly thrown in with a little dialogue in between. The cutie mark switching idea was a good one but was poorly executed and should have been its own episode that lead up to Twilight becoming an alicorn which in and of itself should have been a two parter. It didn't surprise me that Twilight would have a final test before becoming an alicorn but the way the episode was set up made it feel more like some random friendship assignment as opposed to some all important test that would usher in the next phase of her training.
     
    I also found that she was able to solve the cutie mark switching incident a little too easily though I think it may seem that way due to the general rushed nature of the episode as a whole. Twilight becoming an alicorn which was the most hyped up event in MLP history didn't even happen until the end of the episode giving the viewed virtually no time to adjust to it or address any of the numerous implications of such a major change making it feel like a mere afterthought instead of a cliffhanger/plot twist feel it should have had. The "explanation" Celestia gave if you can call it that didn't really help either as it rose far more questions than it answered. While I did not expect everything including the kitchen sink to thrown out there all at once I did expect a bit more than "hey guess what Twilight we are making you an alicorn princess just because you have been a good teachers pet."
     
    Despite all this though this bastard child born of Hasbro's greed and short sightedness can still somehow work but only if Hasbro gets off the writers backs and lets them do their jobs. It is then and only then that Hasbro can avoid turning a truly great character into a Mare E Sue. Stayed tuned for my next blog where I give my thoughts on how this can still actually work.
  5. Shanks
    Okay folks it is time for another character analysis this time on Rainbow Dash for those of you who haven't already seen the first one on Applejack you can see it here.
     
    http://mlpforums.com/blog/456/entry-3070-character-analysis-1-applejack/
     
    Rainbow Dash is without a doubt the most polarizing of the mane 6 characters she is one those characters that people either love or hate, I have seen just as many comments about Rainbow Dash being best pony as I have seen of her being worst pony. Rainbow Dash is brash, loud and can be very cocky at times and these traits have to some fans been a bit grating yet she has also shown a level of perseverance and determination a sort of never say die attitude to follow her dreams to become a Wonderbolt that many fans have come to admire in her.
     
    Rainbow Dash is without a doubt a flawed character which something even her fans will readily admit, but that is not necessarily a bad thing as what makes a character interesting is that they have flaws but they improve over time. Rainbow is still slightly cocky and is still reluctant to show her sensitive side in front of other ponies in most situations but has without a doubt grown and matured the most out of the mane 6. In Sleepless in Ponyville we got to see her compassionate and sensitive side as she became a sister figure to Scootaloo and in Wonderbolt Academy she risked her dream of becoming a Wonderbolt to do the right things by calling out Lightning Dust for her reckless and irresponsible behavior.
     
    It is by an large this excellent season 3 character development that has prompted many including myself to give Rainbow Dash a second look and brought her up to 3rd and then 2nd favorite pony. Rainbow Dash may have quite a ways to go as a character but that is a very good thing as it presents so many opportunities for great character development and story telling. Though Rainbow Dash is far from perfect as none of us are she has been seen not only as a great character but also a great role model.
  6. Shanks
    Okay everyone rumor has it that there is going to be an MLP spinoff with humanized ponies called Equestria Girls and it has a lot of you here freaking out alot of the reactions can pretty much be summed up by this.
     

     
    So assuming for the sake of this blog that this rumor is in fact true, we are panicking over what exactly? I will admit that the premise of the show seems a bit cliched to me as the high school thing has been done to death but how many of us here honestly thought we would be here watching a show about cartoon ponies in the first place? I sure didn't and sure many of you here didn't either but you gave it a chance and ended up liking it so who knows.I suggest we all take a deep breathe wait for more info and when the time comes give it a fair chance before bashing it. I doubt this will be as good as the main series but even if it completely bombs, it will most likely not affect the main series at all so I don't think we have anything to worry about.
     
    Still not convinced? Alright a lot of great franchises have had some spinoff that have sucked. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been around since the original comic debuted in 1984 which spawned the classic cartoon which later gave rise to the 2003 and 2012 series which are pretty awesome but even they had a bad spinoff and that bad spinoff was the short lived live action series Ninja Turtles the Next Mutation. And everyone here at least know a little bit about Star Wars, the original trilogy was awesome and though the prequel trilogy had its flaws I think it was respectable but Star Wars too had a flop and its flop was an ill fated Christmas special which you can see here if you have a spare vomit bag or are near a trashcan or at least have a bucket.
     
    http://youtu.be/Mz550T3QeAo
     
    Were those things setbacks? Hell yeah they were, did they destroy their respective franchises once and for all? As Big Macintosh would say "nnnnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooope".
  9. Shanks
    So I was watching the Animaniacs marathon on the Hub and I saw this
     

     
    When I first saw this as a kid I didn't know how disturbing this was I just found the words for the different ingredients funny, but seriously we really eat this stuff.
  10. Shanks

    I Am Not Doing That Again

    By Shanks,

    Yesterday I posted a blog update roughly 10 minutes before I had to leave for work and because of the rush job it didn't exactly get the point I wanted to get across as clearly as I would have liked. While I confess I don't put all that much effort into my blog posts in general when my only comments are
     
    "I had a hard time following that, due to the way you made your sentence structure."
     
    and
     
    "I had a hard time following that due to not knowing what a 'Milk Load' is."
     
    that tells me that I probably should have fleshed that out a bit more before posting it. I am not aiming for perfection here but I want my readers to at least understand just what I am trying to say. To clarify on those comments I don't really see how my "sentence structure" is the problem since it is not that much different than my other blogs but I will admit that grammar and punctuation sort of got thrown out the window at certain points.
     
    As for what a "milk load" is, as a dairy clerk I deal with two different types of loads and that is the milk load which is for the most part milk along with some mostly store brand juices and the "grocery deli" load or "wall load" as I prefer to call it which contains every other item in the dairy department which is eggs, 90% of the juices, cheese, yogurt and a few other things. My wall load comes in the same truck as the produce, service deli, bakery and meat department loads as part of the "combo load" so I often have to break down and separate their stuff from mine.
     
    The reason why they are delivered in two separate loads is because there is not enough room in the cooler to fit both loads at the same time and due to the highly perishable nature of those products they must be put into the cooler as soon as possible which in situations where both loads arrive at the same time which has happened before is often easier said than done.
     
    And most of the loads are in two day increments
     
    wall load schedule
     
    Monday 2 day load
    Wednesday 1 day load
    Thursday 2 day load
    Saturday 2 day load
     
    milk load schedule
     
    Tuesday 2 day load
    Thursday 1 day load
    Friday 2 day load
    Sunday 2 day load
     
    And as I have mentioned in other blog posts I am also much to my dismay a backup checker though they sometimes forget that. Of course I am starting to ramble, my point is I am not going to rush out anymore blog posts 10 minutes before I have to leave for work.
  11. Shanks

    I Really Bucked That Up

    By Shanks,

    On Tuesday I told you about how the milk load came 4 hours late, well that day has had a nasty habit of following me all week. Apparently my panic mode I described then was a bit worse than I thought and I ended up ordering way too much so after being off that next day I walk in yesterday morning to find that there was still some load left that hasn't been worked and with the milk load (thankfully it was only a 1 day milk load) coming at virtually anytime I had to haul some serious ass to work and break down all that. Thankfully my #1 was there, he had to leave early because he was sick but having him there for a few hours I guess is better than having no help at all.
     
    My milk load came late only by about an hour which was good that bad because trying to fit a milk load in that situation would be like trying to fit Big Macintosh into a clown car. But my wall load (yogurt, cheese, butter, juice ect) was obscenely late, by time I started breaking down it was 1 which gave me 3 hours to break down and work all that which considering how much meat department and service deli stuff I often have to seperate and that even in the best circumstances it literally takes all day to break down and work that kind of load even though it was a tad small for a 2 day load. And I was plussed out 146 more minute maid punches now giving me 3 pallets of that crap in the cooler if you include the one that was broken down and stacked off against this back wall a few days ago.
     
    So basically I am going to walk into an even bigger mess this morning and because my #1 is off today I am on my own and wondering how in the buck I am going to fit a 2 day 1200 piece milk load in there. Anyway folks I am off to the god forsaken hell hole I call work so I will see you all later tonight.
  12. Shanks
    I just watched the brony documentary last night and I thought I would post a little review on it. The animated segments with John De Lancie explaining things was a very nice touch and in those and his live action appearances were entertaining and informative. The joke about clopping was funny but I am not sure if it is a good idea to mention rule 34 in a movie that is supposed to set the record straight about us, I am not saying I have a problem with cloppers but the misperception that all bronies are cloppers is fairly significant and someone who might not know what it is might look it up out of curiousity and get quite the eye full.
     
    Hearing from some of the writers, voice actors and of course Lauren Faust herself was also pretty awesome if I worked on something that well loved I would be pretty flattered.
     
     
    I feel like the community was represented fairly well, it had a lot of different bronies from the teenage boy who wanted to go to Bronycon but didn't want to tell his parents the whole story to the guy who made pony themed youtube video parodies of the famous Dos Equiss commercials about him being the "worlds manliest brony". And it emphasized the creative spark that it has inspired in quite a few people what especially spoke to me was this one guy who says it inspired him to start drawing again for the first time since his father died. And of course there is the charity work, none of that could be accomplished by the pasty faced basement dwellers that exist in the minds of haters everywhere.
     
    Overall it was a great movie and a decent way to introduce the fandom to those who know little to nothing about it or just give those of us who are already in the fandom a little inspiration.
  13. Shanks

    Tomorrow Is Going To Suck

    By Shanks,

    Today my boss who for the purposes of this post I will call Mr Slash and Burn aka Assface aka Senor Cheapskate came up with the brilliant idea to send my only help home at 1 today when half the load was still left and of course I still had to worry about the damn checkstands (being a backup checker Is a real barrel of laughs). Luckily I wasn't up there for too much of the day but on one of those days where every second counts it gets old fast. And it gets better folks tomorrow I am alone which is not too unusual when the first dairy clerk is off but that is not what has me pissed usually in that case I would work 7-4 which assuming they don t make me their bitch by having me in the checkstands practically every time a customer walks into the store and the milk load gets here on time is enough time. But I am only working 8-2 tomorrow which dosent sound too bad but with Mr Slash and Burn expecting me to still do just as much in almost half the time it is a living hell. A since it is an order day I have to send the order for the next days load and to top off this turd sandwich with extra mustard Tuesday is add change day meaning I have to change out the cold ends. Even though this day hasn't technically happened yet I still say fuck this day.
  14. Shanks
    So I had a knock at the door and it was these two guys selling something (I think you know where this is going). They said they were selling these magazines as part of some charity thing, I don't remember all the details because I tuned out much of what they were saying but I remember them saying something about practicing their public speaking skills (yeah I know bullshit right but it gets better). So I looked at this catelog of magazines and was interesting a grand total of NONE of them, but they gave me the option to donate some to the troops.
     
    So I took a look and found out that a subscription to even one of these magazines cost $60, that's rights $60 and they tried to push for 3 subscriptions but it was then that I had to say as nicely as I could
     

     
    I mean seriously WTF? Who in Luna's name is going to pay $60 for a magazine subscription? If that dosen't tell you it is a scam I really don't know what will. I know in most cases I won't buy whatever they are selling but for some reason I sometimes have trouble saying no right off the bat. I really hope more of them don't show up because scam or not I am not going to spend that much when even if this is legit there are far more worthy causes like feeding the hungry for example.
  15. Shanks
    For the past few days I have seen a particular member on here talk about committing suicide and it has really got me thinking. I have been complaining on here an awful lot about my job and my life in general, sure I haven't talked about scheduling an early meeting with the grim reaper but as I have said before to him and on other occasions here I have considered it in the past so I do know what it is like to have that kind of hopelessness and despair. To clarify I don't plan on doing that myself, so you don't have to send me messages telling me not to do it.
     
    I just thought I would take a few minutes to come up with a few things that are actually going right with my life because I have noticed that are a lot of people on here dealing with depression and hopefully what I say can give at least one of them some hope and I could use a bit of reminding myself.
     
    1. I am financially secure: I am no millionaire but I am doing okay for myself, I have perfect credit am in virtually no debt and am able to provide myself the basics and the occasional extras such as video games.
     
    2. I have people that care about me and are looking out for me: I have had a lot of deaths in my family these last 16 years and with that comes changes but I at least have some people left in my life. As I have pointed out there are people at work I want to punch in the face but I have also met a lot of great people there too one of them being the friend that introduced me to ponies. And I have also met some pretty cool people on here too.
     
    3. I have a good chance of turning my life around: I have a plan which I know if it succeeds will end my rut and allow me to live up to my true potential, it is pretty detailed though I went over some of it my blogpost Operation Exodus.
     
    4. I have survived far worse: I have been through family tragedies, two times in my life where I considered suicide, extreme anger issues and have been through many of the challenges that come with being an individual with Autism and have conquered it all.
  16. Shanks
    So I took a quick look at my wireless internet settings and saw two signals entitle "FBI_Surveilance" and "FBI_Surveillance-guest". It sure is comforting to know that so many are blatantly violating their oaths to protect and defend the constitution by spying on people without warrants to protect us all from boogeymen in caves. Whatever shall we do without being lead like lambs to slaughter by treasonous, anti freedom criminal scum playing on everyones fears as part of their power grab?
  17. Shanks

    That Was Incredibly Rude

    By Shanks,

    I met a lovely gentleman today named assface who share with me a grave concern about salmonella poisoning. Okay so that is not his real name but for the purposes of this blog that is what I am going to call him. Because my wall load (yogurt, cheese, eggs, juice ect...) came so early that it got there before the milk load it was a lot more difficult and time consuming than usual to break down and work the milk load which put me really far behind. Assface freaked out and yelled at me because *gasp* get ready wait for it you are going to love this...
     
    HE FOUND A FEW EGG CARTONS WITH BROKEN EGGS!
     
    Can you believe it the nerve of me for not being able to alter physics and make eggs which are one of the most fragile things ever unbreakable? I tried to explain to assface that I was behind but his majesty decreed that unless I bent over and put my lips on his decrepit behind that he will complain to the corporate office and the health department. If I didn't need my job or didn't care I would have said this "yes sir do you want me to do that before or after I chew your food and wipe your butt for you?"
     
    But since the customer is always supposedly always right and I had the order from management I had to check every egg carton on the shelf, so I had to take the product I had out back to the cooler and take this shopping cart full of cardboard to the bailer and go to the front to get another shopping cart to put the broken egg cartons in and come back literally no more than a minute or two later and assface scolds me again and orders me to "do it now".
     
    But maybe I am being a tad cruel to this guy, it was unprofessional and inappropriate for me to divert some attention away from his holiness the second coming of Jesus Christ himself to put away highly perishable product I had out at room temperature and clean up my own cardboard and get a new shopping cart to put the broken egg cartons in when I could have just said "screw physics" and had a black hole come suck up all the broken egg cartons and leave the good ones intact.
     
    So this puts me behind by at least an hour possibly even more than that and I barely find anything, but hey it is not like I was doing anything anyway. Yep, I may complain about how hard I get screwed at work but it is all a lie all I do all day is hang out in the cooler brink beer and play pool and occasionally come up front to the checkstands to play video games and eat Doritos.
  19. Shanks
    If you have read my last entry you know I got written up at work for screwing up a few too many times in the checkstand, I am trying to of course get out of there and have many many good reasons for doing so and you will here a slightly more smart assed version of them than I will present to management here on in this blog entry.
     
    1. Being a dairy clerk is enough pressure already: Yes like I explained in my last entry most dairy clerks in the company I work for also function as backup checkers, but in my own humble opinion it is completely stupid. Produce Clerks also function as backup checkers but they are called up so rarely that it dosen't even matter and plus as a former backup produce clerk I can tell you unequivocally that produce is a lot easier than dairy.Basic common sense dictates that it should be the other way around but they operate on logic that wouldn't even makes sense to Discord.
     
    2. I hate being up there: I loathe and despise it so much that no matter how much I may try to hide it if it is not some smartass remark or frustrated grumblings under my breath or body language than something else inevitably gives it away. I don't even bother trying to smile because when I attempt that it usually looks something like this.
     
    http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu182/mariomonteiro92/th_pedosmile.png
     
    Or this
     
    http://thebritishreview.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/james-franco.png
     
    I could imagine a commercial now "we at *insert company name here* in addition to selling groceries now offer baby sitting services and we promise we won't molest your kids and those bones in the backroom are just chickenbones there is no need to call the police." It sure puts a whole new meaning to the term "service with a smile" dosen't it ladies and gents? It is oddly appropriate considering how myself and my fellow employees are getting "serviced" by our company every day, and how many of said employees pass their days by lying back and thinking of England.
     
    3. I am a horrible multi tasker: There is such a ridiculous amount of stuff to keep track of up there that it makes me more cross eyed than Derpy at a muffin factory. Because of this I have to concentrate so hard that it feels like the blood vessels in my head are going to burst open and since there is so much pressure to go as fast as Rainbow Dash on a 12 pack of red bull it makes an already tenuous situation that much worse.
     
    4. I panic too much: Remember the MLP episode Lesson Zero where Twilight kept freaking out because she was "tardy" with a friendship letter to Celestia? That is pretty much in a nutshell exactly how I am up there except not as bad, at least not yet. I can think of at least 8 different occasions where I freaked out so much that I was not able to function on even the simplest task up there. In large because there are so many mistakes that can get you written up or even fired the prospect of making said mistake brings out my inner perfectionist at its most extreme. The irony of course being that this fear makes me screw up even more.
     
    5. My temper is way too volatile: I haven't lost my temper with a customer yet thank God but some of my checkstand freakouts have resulted in me losing my temper not at any person in particular but yelling and struggling not to spew profanity that would embarrass even a drunken sailor has a certain knack for scaring customers and even your fellow employees.
  20. Shanks
    If you will remember my last entry about me an my potty mouth in case you are wondering that is not what I got in trouble for. To make a long story short I made a few too many screw ups in the checkstands, so I had to sign this neat little paper and agree to under threat of "further disciplinary action up to and including termination" not do it again. I only wish they gave me a copy of that as you can never have too much extra toilet paper. I got suspended and almost fired back in June for some bullshit technicality so this isn't the most amount of trouble I have been in by a long shot but it sure turned a day that otherwise wasn't that bad into a major bummer.
     
    I am already a dairy clerk so I already have enough to worry about as it is, but most dairy clerks also function as backup checkers so in case you are wondering why they are having me do both, well there is your answer.
     
    Until only a few months ago this was not the case though, when I was first promoted from General Merchandise Clerk to Clerk my typical shift was 4AM-1PM so I was at least on paper night crew. I was taken off that shift and eventually made a dairy clerk after a few too many knee injuries but was still not put in the checkstands due to concerns from management about my ability to stand for prolonged periods of time. Fast forward a few years and some company higher ups say "hey guess what you are going to be in the checkstands." Of course I want nothing to do with it but I am left with no choice so I go to a special retraining and then a week later my hell truly began.
     
    For those of you that don't know I have a mild form of Autism, and well to put it bluntly I am going to try to milk that a little so I can hopefully go back to being just a dairy clerk and not having to worry about the stupid ass checkstands. Of course if that dosen't work I guess I am just going to have to step down and be a General Merchandise Clerk again, but that ladies and gents hopefully won't be necessary. But if it is I suppose it is not the end of the world, I don't plan on being stuck in that hellhole for the rest of my life anyway.
     
    Seeing as I am starting to ramble a bit I will make my next blog post a list of reasons why I shouldn't be in the checkstands, until then stay classy.
  21. Shanks
    So I am currently writing this one fanfic and I am having trouble coming up with a good catchy title. Without giving away too many spoilers the fanfic is similar to this one episode of Ducktails called Dough Ray Me where Huey, Duey and Louie get their hands on this duplication ray and use it to duplicate money so they can buy whatever they want which eventually spirals out of control causing massive hyperinflation throughout all of Duckberg. Of course in this case it is a duplication spell instead of a duplication ray and almost everypony is going to be complicit in some way with a few voices of reason like Spike, Applejack, Zecora and maybe even Derpy being the exceptions.
     
    I already came up with one title called Over a Wheelbarrow which is reference to the inflation in post World War I Weimar Republic Germany which was so bad that people literally had to push entire wheelbarrows full of cash down to the store to get a load of bread. But I scrapped it after I realized the title was a bit too close to actual episode title Over a Barrel which covers a different subject entirely.
  24. Shanks
    This is dedicated to a coworker of mine who just returned to work from knee replacement surgery. It didn't look like he was ever going to come back from it and he does still have a limp but his movement seems to have improved. I myself have struggled with knee problems albeit not as bad as his but this kind of recovery is quite inspiring to me. Welcome back Glenn.
     

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