A thread for general complaints about life, to keep the rest of Apple Talk from getting spagged up with threads about complainy life stuff.
I just realized, to my horror, that my housemate and her boyfriend do
not have to work today and will be loitering around my kitchen
baby-talking at their horrible animals, distracting me from my
work by loudly saying to me things they think are clever, and
being generally annoying. Maybe I will skip putting things on Etsy
and spend the whole day in my studio instead. They can't get me in
my studio.
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=08042003
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 15, 2010, 07:13:32 PM
They can't get me in my studio.
Especially if you booby trap the door.
I am complaining about Mike the engineer, who is constantly distracting filthy assistant with requests for budgetary information that he has no need to see, and that FA has no time to provide for him (and that I am unwilling to give him, simply because he is a nosy bastard).
I am hungry. :argh!:
Quote from: Suu on February 15, 2010, 07:19:42 PM
I am hungry. :argh!:
If I have to look at another batch of steamed veggies, I'm gonna puke.
This is not food. This is what you feed to food.
You need to booby trap that filthy assistant, Rog, just saying.
I'm complaining about my old PC that I don't have t he $ to replace and just got its RAM updated but is still shite for my job with ETS
MOTHERFUCKING F5!!! :crankey:
Quote from: Jenne on February 15, 2010, 07:21:09 PM
You need to booby trap that filthy assistant, Rog, just saying.
Roger: Hey, Mike, you know that information you wanted from Larry?
Mike: Yeah?
Roger: DENIED.
Mike: What? Why?
Roger: Because you have confused "need to know" with "want to know". Our department does not exist to satisfy your bloated ego.
Mike: *string of hollered obscenities*
Roger: *hangs up phone*
There. I feel better.
Now I have to complain that I've run out of things to complain about.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 15, 2010, 07:21:00 PM
Quote from: Suu on February 15, 2010, 07:19:42 PM
I am hungry. :argh!:
If I have to look at another batch of steamed veggies, I'm gonna puke.
This is not food. This is what you feed to food.
I love steamed veggies. Unfortunately my digestive track is a nightmare right now and I need to go on probiotics for at least 2 weeks so that I will stop shitting what can only be described as gelatinous matter every 4 hours.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 15, 2010, 07:23:25 PM
Quote from: Jenne on February 15, 2010, 07:21:09 PM
You need to booby trap that filthy assistant, Rog, just saying.
Roger: Hey, Mike, you know that information you wanted from Larry?
Mike: Yeah?
Roger: DENIED.
Mike: What? Why?
Roger: Because you have confused "need to know" with "want to know". Our department does not exist to satisfy your bloated ego.
Mike: *string of hollered obscenities*
Roger: *hangs up phone*
There. I feel better.
Now I have to complain that I've run out of things to complain about.
:lulz: Well done!
And you can still complain about your bland food. That's a great one, and it's sure to last. Until you fall off the "good kid diet" wagon.
Poor Suu.
I am complaining that it smells like dogshit in here, due to the fact that I changed my Monkey's diaper in here twice, and thanks to the ex who probably gave Monkey the shits from substandard food. :argh!:
I'm complaining about this thread, since we already have "Apple Talk Bodega" which has turned into mostly a big whine-fest, and since I don't really care about what's wrong with any of your lives anyway and have been getting quite sick of reading about everyone's drama and problems for the last few months.
Life sucks. Get a helmet.
Also, the hippie has asked me several times what my work schedule is, and despite having told him it's basically 9-5 weekdays plus the occasional Sunday, and sometimes 9-7 if I'm particularly trying to get caught up, he keeps texting me asking if I want to get coffee/go out to lunch/go for a hike, and next time he texts me "what are you doing today?" I think I'm going to reply "WORKING, BECAUSE IT IS A WORK FUCKING DAY AND I WORK ALL DAY, YOU UNEMPLOYED MOTHERFUCKING TWIT" even though I really like him, because for fuck's sake, I am so tired of people assuming that being self-employed means I work half days or whenever I feel like it.
No.
There is a reason I am still up at midnight posting pictures and giving advice about glassworking and color on glass forums. It is called "I slack off too much in the mornings". The only reason I DON'T work a 60-hour week is because EOT does everything that doesn't directly require my expertise. And even when I'm fucking off, I'm still working, because part of working is looking at pictures and having idea and getting into a kind of beadhead zen space where I can pick up the glass and empty my mind of everything but the glass. When I'm there, I can rock out six hundred dollars worth of work in a few hours... and sometimes I spend all morning getting there. Which is why I want my housemate and her boyfriend to shut up and leave me alone. It's also why some people can be my assistant and some people can't; if I can get into my zen space with someone present, they will work. Most people don't.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 07:28:16 PM
I'm complaining about this thread, since we already have "Apple Talk Bodega" which has turned into mostly a big whine-fest, and since I don't really care about what's wrong with any of your lives anyway and have been getting quite sick of reading about everyone's drama and problems for the last few months.
Life sucks. Get a helmet.
I thought it might be nice to create a ghetto for the complaining, and also it might inspire entertaining complaining, which I kind of find fun to read. Suu's complaining, for instance, is often very entertaining.
I didn't realize the Bodega was for complaining, I thought it was more of a "what I did today" kind of general socializing thread.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 07:28:16 PM
I'm complaining about this thread, since we already have "Apple Talk Bodega" which has turned into mostly a big whine-fest, and since I don't really care about what's wrong with any of your lives anyway and have been getting quite sick of reading about everyone's drama and problems for the last few months.
Life sucks. Get a helmet.
I'm complaining about ECH complaining so I can just continue to complain.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 07:28:16 PM
I'm complaining about this thread, since we already have "Apple Talk Bodega" which has turned into mostly a big whine-fest, and since I don't really care about what's wrong with any of your lives anyway and have been getting quite sick of reading about everyone's drama and problems for the last few months.
Life sucks. Get a helmet.
you're whinging about whinging threads! orsome! :D
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 07:28:16 PM
I'm complaining about this thread, since we already have "Apple Talk Bodega" which has turned into mostly a big whine-fest, and since I don't really care about what's wrong with any of your lives anyway and have been getting quite sick of reading about everyone's drama and problems for the last few months.
Life sucks. Get a helmet.
I AM COMPLAINING ABOUT PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT FLUFF IN "APPLE TALK", WHICH EXISTS SOLELY FOR FLUFF.
Also, Filthy Assistant is napping over lunch, and snores like a goddamn asthmatic hippo.
Quote from: Suu on February 15, 2010, 07:30:24 PM
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 07:28:16 PM
I'm complaining about this thread, since we already have "Apple Talk Bodega" which has turned into mostly a big whine-fest, and since I don't really care about what's wrong with any of your lives anyway and have been getting quite sick of reading about everyone's drama and problems for the last few months.
Life sucks. Get a helmet.
I'm complaining about ECH complaining so I can just continue to complain.
Me too. Or three. Lost count and am working and texting at the same time, dammit! /moar whining
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 15, 2010, 07:31:47 PM
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 07:28:16 PM
I'm complaining about this thread, since we already have "Apple Talk Bodega" which has turned into mostly a big whine-fest, and since I don't really care about what's wrong with any of your lives anyway and have been getting quite sick of reading about everyone's drama and problems for the last few months.
Life sucks. Get a helmet.
I AM COMPLAINING ABOUT PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT FLUFF IN "APPLE TALK", WHICH EXISTS SOLELY FOR FLUFF.
Also, Filthy Assistant is napping over lunch, and snores like a goddamn asthmatic hippo.
You know, purely for entertainment value, this guy's actually growing on me.
(like a wart, but you know what I mean)
I think we all need a filthy assistant.
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on February 15, 2010, 07:55:24 PM
I think we all need a filthy assistant.
You fuckers can have mine.
He's annoying as hell and slightly abused. Freight costs only.
OH THANK GOD they are leaving.
The boyfriend, while a nice enough fellow, rubs me the wrong way after prolonged exposure. He tends to make these little comments about how much time I spend at my computer, and how I should go outside sometimes, and I want to tell him that I am trying to fucking work and he needs to shut the fuck up and leave me alone. Instead I told him that I went on a three-hour hike yesterday and it was lovely, which seemed to stop him in his tracks for once. I go for walks or hikes almost every day, I garden, and the fact that I'm always at the computer in the mornings on workdays SHOULD tell him something, but I think it's a case of "Oh, Nigel doesn't really have a job, it's not like she's working on workdays, she's just fucking off on the internet". It's like if I made comments about how they don't get up until 9:30 or 10 most mornings. I think he might be trying to be funny, but really, he just needs to leave me alone.
They try to micromanage the dogs, including my dogs, and it's a weird combination of annoying and demeaning. Like, I'm sitting RIGHT HERE, I've been up for hours, of course my dogs have been out. Just now as they were leaving I heard him say to the housemate "I think the other dog is still out". To her credit, she did point out that I'm here and that she's sure I'm aware that my dog is outside.
I was going to suggest that you drive Filthy Assistant slowly mad, but it kind of sounds like he might be too clueless to be driven insane.
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on February 15, 2010, 07:55:24 PM
I think we all need a filthy assistant.
I have one, but he didn't come in today because it's a holiday and his kids aren't in school, or somesuch ridiculous excuse. :argh!:
I predict this thread will hit 100 pages in one month or less.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 15, 2010, 07:59:18 PM
I was going to suggest that you drive Filthy Assistant slowly mad, but it kind of sounds like he might be too clueless to be driven insane.
He is.
Which means he's basically a renewable resource.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 08:05:55 PM
I predict this thread will hit 100 pages in one month or less.
In fact, I am doing my part by posting in this thread.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 07:28:16 PM
I'm complaining about this thread, since we already have "Apple Talk Bodega" which has turned into mostly a big whine-fest, and since I don't really care about what's wrong with any of your lives anyway and have been getting quite sick of reading about everyone's drama and problems for the last few months.
Life sucks. Get a helmet.
yeah I find myself only clicking on about 20% of the threads in apple talk these days because so many of them are about the weather or personal drama or whatever. I'm sure I've done my part to contribute to it, but this subforum is really giving my mouse wheel a work out. :p I'm sure some of you have noticed I've been posting a lot less recently - it's basically just that I don't want to add to the noise.
(http://www.techspikes.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mouse-scroll-wheel.jpg)
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 08:07:57 PM
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 08:05:55 PM
I predict this thread will hit 100 pages in one month or less.
In fact, I am doing my part by posting in this thread.
LINK OR IT NEVER HAPPENED.
Quote from: Cramulus on February 15, 2010, 08:08:19 PM
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 07:28:16 PM
I'm complaining about this thread, since we already have "Apple Talk Bodega" which has turned into mostly a big whine-fest, and since I don't really care about what's wrong with any of your lives anyway and have been getting quite sick of reading about everyone's drama and problems for the last few months.
Life sucks. Get a helmet.
yeah I find myself only clicking on about 20% of the threads in apple talk these days because so many of them are about the weather or personal drama or whatever. I'm sure I've done my part to contribute to it, but this subforum is really giving my mouse wheel a work out. :p I'm sure some of you have noticed I've been posting a lot less recently - it's basically just that I don't want to add to the noise.
(http://www.techspikes.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mouse-scroll-wheel.jpg)
Not everything has to be substance. Sometimes noise is enough.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 08:05:55 PM
I predict this thread will hit 100 pages in one month or less.
Just imagine all of the individual complaint threads that won't get started because this one exists to keep it all in! Sort of like how it would be if people actually used the "random links" and "youtube" threads.
Also, for me, substance needs a certain percentage of fluff to ever get born, or I burn out. Sometimes there will be a flurry of substance that's AWESOME, but after a while all the substance starts to sound the same, and I realize that the originality left because everyone got too focused. A good round of fluff gives the brain downtime, regenerative time, and then new, fresh, original substance condenses from the fluff.
Further, if the general ratio of substance to fluff is 10%, more fluff means more substance.
Plus, a designated complaining zone might even
A: help keep whining out of Or Kill Me, and
B: become a source of inspiration, through the emergence of repeating themes, for good rants that aren't just a fancy form of complaining about housemates of friends or significant others.
That's my justification, anyway.
Or Kill Me.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 15, 2010, 08:13:28 PM
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 08:05:55 PM
I predict this thread will hit 100 pages in one month or less.
Just imagine all of the individual complaint threads that won't get started because this one exists to keep it all in! Sort of like how it would be if people actually used the "random links" and "youtube" threads.
I can't. I don't feel special enough when I have to post with everyone else.
Dok,
Whore in search of a thread title.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 15, 2010, 08:19:27 PM
Also, for me, substance needs a certain percentage of fluff to ever get born, or I burn out.
This. I pretty much shot my wad over the last 2-3 months, and I need to accumulate more hate before I can spew again.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 15, 2010, 08:19:39 PM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 15, 2010, 08:13:28 PM
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 08:05:55 PM
I predict this thread will hit 100 pages in one month or less.
Just imagine all of the individual complaint threads that won't get started because this one exists to keep it all in! Sort of like how it would be if people actually used the "random links" and "youtube" threads.
I can't. I don't feel special enough when I have to post with everyone else.
Dok,
Whore in search of a thread title.
:lulz:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 15, 2010, 08:09:16 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on February 15, 2010, 08:08:19 PM
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 07:28:16 PM
I'm complaining about this thread, since we already have "Apple Talk Bodega" which has turned into mostly a big whine-fest, and since I don't really care about what's wrong with any of your lives anyway and have been getting quite sick of reading about everyone's drama and problems for the last few months.
Life sucks. Get a helmet.
yeah I find myself only clicking on about 20% of the threads in apple talk these days because so many of them are about the weather or personal drama or whatever. I'm sure I've done my part to contribute to it, but this subforum is really giving my mouse wheel a work out. :p I'm sure some of you have noticed I've been posting a lot less recently - it's basically just that I don't want to add to the noise.
(http://www.techspikes.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mouse-scroll-wheel.jpg)
Not everything has to be substance. Sometimes noise is enough.
"noise" doesn't have to be pointless whining about your personal life, though. That shit is annoying IRL and it's just as annoying here. If someone in my living room was doing it constantly, I'd throw something at their head and tell them to GTFO. Basically, no one cares what's fucked-up in your life unless you can relate it in a way that makes it funny. For example, coming up with the MSY series as a way to relate the struggles of a mid-life career hiccup? (my take on it, not sure at all if that's what was in your head when you wrote it) Fucking brilliant. But all this "boo-hoo I like someone and they don't like me back" or "boo-hoo, someone likes me but I don't like them but don't want to hurt their poor little feelings" or "boo-hoo my work sucks and I don't enjoy the results of the choices I made in life" or "boo-hoo my family is mean to me" BULLSHIT is getting really fucking tired. That shit sunk EB&G. They used to have our monthly post count nearly doubled and now I check it every month or 2 and there's 20 new posts in that whole time and 15 of them are in the "CURRENT MOOD" thread. Let's not let PD go down that path just because we have an overdeveloped sense of familiarity with each other.
Well, putting it in one thread makes easy enough to ignore. A ghetto, like I said. Unless you think having a designating whining zone will sink the forum.
Anyway, I think I am coming down with a cold. It's very uncomfortable and is making various parts of my head feel burny.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 08:21:52 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 15, 2010, 08:09:16 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on February 15, 2010, 08:08:19 PM
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 07:28:16 PM
I'm complaining about this thread, since we already have "Apple Talk Bodega" which has turned into mostly a big whine-fest, and since I don't really care about what's wrong with any of your lives anyway and have been getting quite sick of reading about everyone's drama and problems for the last few months.
Life sucks. Get a helmet.
yeah I find myself only clicking on about 20% of the threads in apple talk these days because so many of them are about the weather or personal drama or whatever. I'm sure I've done my part to contribute to it, but this subforum is really giving my mouse wheel a work out. :p I'm sure some of you have noticed I've been posting a lot less recently - it's basically just that I don't want to add to the noise.
(http://www.techspikes.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mouse-scroll-wheel.jpg)
Not everything has to be substance. Sometimes noise is enough.
"noise" doesn't have to be pointless whining about your personal life, though. That shit is annoying IRL and it's just as annoying here. If someone in my living room was doing it constantly, I'd throw something at their head and tell them to GTFO. Basically, no one cares what's fucked-up in your life unless you can relate it in a way that makes it funny. For example, coming up with the MSY series as a way to relate the struggles of a mid-life career hiccup? (my take on it, not sure at all if that's what was in your head when you wrote it) Fucking brilliant. But all this "boo-hoo I like someone and they don't like me back" or "boo-hoo, someone likes me but I don't like them but don't want to hurt their poor little feelings" or "boo-hoo my work sucks and I don't enjoy the results of the choices I made in life" or "boo-hoo my family is mean to me" BULLSHIT is getting really fucking tired. That shit sunk EB&G. They used to have our monthly post count nearly doubled and now I check it every month or 2 and there's 20 new posts in that whole time and 15 of them are in the "CURRENT MOOD" thread. Let's not let PD go down that path just because we have an overdeveloped sense of familiarity with each other.
You bring up a couple of points that make me distinctly uncomfortable. This will now provoke a predictable outburst from me:
You're one of those troublemakers, right? One of those people that don't like having nice things, and want to wreck it all for the Good Americans. One of the No People, like those people from tiny countries that make chocolate for us, or send people to burn their crotches off on our airplanes. One of the people that demand things from us, instead of giving us the good things we
deserve by virtue of being of the elect. One of the people who think smudgy people should be allowed to run around all unregulated.
Stop hating America™, ECH, and our American right to complain loudly and publicly about things that nobody cares about, but should. Because it's about
me, ECH. And I'm special, like a snowflake. And we all know what color they are, right?
I'm with you ECH. It's not the substance : fluff ratio that I care about, it's the signal : noise ratio.
Sometimes people bitching about their love lives is signal. Most of us are friends, and I do care what's going on in your lives. To a point. :lol:
Noise is anything that isn't very interesting to read. When people are venting and nobody's responding, it's noise. Nearly 100% of the threads about the weather are noise. If people are bitching about something inane in a way which is entertaining to read or respond to, I consider it signal.
I admit I might just be getting increasingly narrow minded about what I consider Signal.
Quote from: Cramulus on February 15, 2010, 08:28:56 PM
I'm with you ECH. It's not the substance : fluff ratio that I care about, it's the signal : noise ratio.
Sometimes people bitching about their love lives is signal. Most of us are friends, and I do care what's going on in your lives. To a point. :lol:
Noise is anything that isn't very interesting to read. When people are venting and nobody's responding, it's noise. Nearly 100% of the threads about the weather are noise. If people are bitching about something inane in a way which is entertaining to read or respond to, I consider it signal.
I admit I might just be getting increasingly narrow minded about what I consider Signal.
I distinctly remember this same argument, only you and I were in reversed roles.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 15, 2010, 08:01:11 PM
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on February 15, 2010, 07:55:24 PM
I think we all need a filthy assistant.
I have one, but he didn't come in today because it's a holiday and his kids aren't in school, or somesuch ridiculous excuse. :argh!:
Isn't that what filthy assistants are for? (IE not doing their job and giving you something to complain about)
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 08:21:52 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 15, 2010, 08:09:16 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on February 15, 2010, 08:08:19 PM
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 07:28:16 PM
I'm complaining about this thread, since we already have "Apple Talk Bodega" which has turned into mostly a big whine-fest, and since I don't really care about what's wrong with any of your lives anyway and have been getting quite sick of reading about everyone's drama and problems for the last few months.
Life sucks. Get a helmet.
yeah I find myself only clicking on about 20% of the threads in apple talk these days because so many of them are about the weather or personal drama or whatever. I'm sure I've done my part to contribute to it, but this subforum is really giving my mouse wheel a work out. :p I'm sure some of you have noticed I've been posting a lot less recently - it's basically just that I don't want to add to the noise.
(http://www.techspikes.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/mouse-scroll-wheel.jpg)
Not everything has to be substance. Sometimes noise is enough.
"noise" doesn't have to be pointless whining about your personal life, though. That shit is annoying IRL and it's just as annoying here. If someone in my living room was doing it constantly, I'd throw something at their head and tell them to GTFO. Basically, no one cares what's fucked-up in your life unless you can relate it in a way that makes it funny. For example, coming up with the MSY series as a way to relate the struggles of a mid-life career hiccup? (my take on it, not sure at all if that's what was in your head when you wrote it) Fucking brilliant. But all this "boo-hoo I like someone and they don't like me back" or "boo-hoo, someone likes me but I don't like them but don't want to hurt their poor little feelings" or "boo-hoo my work sucks and I don't enjoy the results of the choices I made in life" or "boo-hoo my family is mean to me" BULLSHIT is getting really fucking tired. That shit sunk EB&G. They used to have our monthly post count nearly doubled and now I check it every month or 2 and there's 20 new posts in that whole time and 15 of them are in the "CURRENT MOOD" thread. Let's not let PD go down that path just because we have an overdeveloped sense of familiarity with each other.
I think people are going to whine anyways, and if they put it in here, like Nigel said, rather than making a new thread for it every time, or posting it in Or Kill Me, that both keeps it from spamming things up and gives you a thread to conveniently ignore.
Personally I like reading posts people put up whining about their own lives (except Kel's for some reason, hers annoy me for no reason I can put my finger on) because it makes me feel better about my own fucked up life.
i get most of my whining out in irc
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 15, 2010, 08:33:27 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on February 15, 2010, 08:28:56 PM
I'm with you ECH. It's not the substance : fluff ratio that I care about, it's the signal : noise ratio.
Sometimes people bitching about their love lives is signal. Most of us are friends, and I do care what's going on in your lives. To a point. :lol:
Noise is anything that isn't very interesting to read. When people are venting and nobody's responding, it's noise. Nearly 100% of the threads about the weather are noise. If people are bitching about something inane in a way which is entertaining to read or respond to, I consider it signal.
I admit I might just be getting increasingly narrow minded about what I consider Signal.
I distinctly remember this same argument, only you and I were in reversed roles.
:lulz: that doesn't surprise me.
This place is a swirling vortex - we may be moving forward, but we're constantly passing familiar points.
I mean, I was just reading posts from 2007 and found a diatribe I wrote about why everybody who dislikes RAW can eat ten dicks. And now I want to bump that thread just to flame myself. All of us are doomed to go round and round the goatse vortex.
Quote from: Cramulus on February 15, 2010, 08:43:49 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 15, 2010, 08:33:27 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on February 15, 2010, 08:28:56 PM
I'm with you ECH. It's not the substance : fluff ratio that I care about, it's the signal : noise ratio.
Sometimes people bitching about their love lives is signal. Most of us are friends, and I do care what's going on in your lives. To a point. :lol:
Noise is anything that isn't very interesting to read. When people are venting and nobody's responding, it's noise. Nearly 100% of the threads about the weather are noise. If people are bitching about something inane in a way which is entertaining to read or respond to, I consider it signal.
I admit I might just be getting increasingly narrow minded about what I consider Signal.
I distinctly remember this same argument, only you and I were in reversed roles.
:lulz: that doesn't surprise me.
This place is a swirling vortex - we may be moving forward, but we're constantly passing familiar points.
I mean, I was just reading posts from 2007 and found a diatribe I wrote about why everybody who dislikes RAW can eat ten dicks. And now I want to bump that thread just to flame myself. All of us are doomed to go round and round the goatse vortex.
You could always just eat ten dicks as a form of poetic self punishment.
Well, as someone that contributes more or less to various signals and some of the noise (I spent a lot of time in Aneristic Delusions AND Or Kill Me as well as TFY,S this shift), I think the only thing that killed EB&G recently was that even if people posted so-called content (one man's content is another man's fluff, just saying), no one responded.
Fluff doesn't get responded to, either.
So it's LACK OF POSTING that kills, not the other way around.
Beside, ECH, you ALWAYS but ALWAYS turn it around on EB&G. It's tiring, as tiring as whining about whining is.
Quote from: Cramulus on February 15, 2010, 08:43:49 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 15, 2010, 08:33:27 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on February 15, 2010, 08:28:56 PM
I'm with you ECH. It's not the substance : fluff ratio that I care about, it's the signal : noise ratio.
Sometimes people bitching about their love lives is signal. Most of us are friends, and I do care what's going on in your lives. To a point. :lol:
Noise is anything that isn't very interesting to read. When people are venting and nobody's responding, it's noise. Nearly 100% of the threads about the weather are noise. If people are bitching about something inane in a way which is entertaining to read or respond to, I consider it signal.
I admit I might just be getting increasingly narrow minded about what I consider Signal.
I distinctly remember this same argument, only you and I were in reversed roles.
:lulz: that doesn't surprise me.
This place is a swirling vortex - we may be moving forward, but we're constantly passing familiar points.
I mean, I was just reading posts from 2007 and found a diatribe I wrote about why everybody who dislikes RAW can eat ten dicks. And now I want to bump that thread just to flame myself. All of us are doomed to go round and round the goatse vortex.
I know. That's one reason I killed TGRR.
I need guilt to be creative.
I tend to feel guilty about posting anything but quality content.
I feel like what I contribute is often worth it.
Also, this shit is new to me, so I take my ignored posts as a measurement that I need to not post that kind of stuff.
I just got back from the Doctor, his diagnosis was "You're a mess"... Ear, sinus and lung infections... 3 perscriptions and two shots. :(
I can't even hear out of one side of my head at this point. :x
Quote from: Ratatosk on February 15, 2010, 08:56:06 PM
I just got back from the Doctor, his diagnosis was "You're a mess"... Ear, sinus and lung infections... 3 perscriptions and two shots. :(
I can't even hear out of one side of my head at this point. :x
Wow, that sucks. You don't even get fun drugs for that.
Quote from: Alty on February 15, 2010, 08:54:33 PM
Also, this shit is new to me, so I take my ignored posts as a measurement that I need to not post that kind of stuff.
Dude, don't limit yourself like that. I know it's intimidating, and I held back (still do, actually, since I hate boardwar drama shit, for all I sometimes get sucked into that OTHER vortex) for a long, long time here as well. It really does no good, in the end.
That's not to say don't spag up threads that really shouldn't be spagged up, be considerate, blah blah, but really, from what I've read of your posts, you rarely go off where you'd garner a STUFN00B, etc.
Quote from: Ratatosk on February 15, 2010, 08:56:06 PM
I just got back from the Doctor, his diagnosis was "You're a mess"... Ear, sinus and lung infections... 3 perscriptions and two shots. :(
I can't even hear out of one side of my head at this point. :x
:( That is quite sick. Hope the meds work!
Sorry if I'm interrupting a good debate, but I'd just like to complain that I got threw up on and will have no time at all to take a shower until tonight. Ew.
Quote from: Alty on February 15, 2010, 08:54:33 PM
I need guilt to be creative.
I tend to feel guilty about posting anything but quality content.
I feel like what I contribute is often worth it.
Also, this shit is new to me, so I take my ignored posts as a measurement that I need to not post that kind of stuff.
My first rants - this BOARD'S first rants - went unanswered for weeks, back in 2002/2003.
I damn near gave up.
Don't give up.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 15, 2010, 07:28:16 PM
Life sucks. Get a helmet.
I have an helmet!!!
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I don't know if this is a complaint or an amusing observation, but I just got two texts from the hippie asking me what I'm up to and whether I've watched my Netflix movie yet.
The one I had not watched as of last night, when we talked about it, because I was hanging out with him.
So, he thinks that either I stayed up until 2 am to watch a movie by myself, or that I spent two hours sitting on my fat ass watching it today, instead of working, even though he asked about my work hours again yesterday.
I think he's just too stoned to remember anything, ever, and he thinks it's totally reasonable to think that I might be sitting around on Monday morning toking some green and watching a movie. We're basically in different worlds.
:lulz:
I am now complaining about the side effects of my damn sleeping pills.
Fucking face tics, shooting pains, and irritability. :argh!:
I'm complaining because for the first time in weeks I was able to get on from a real computer and I wasn't sure where I was. I couldn't decide if it was MW or Facebook.
WTF has happened? Did everybody give up?
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus on February 16, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
I'm complaining because for the first time in weeks I was able to get on from a real computer and I wasn't sure where I was. I couldn't decide if it was MW or Facebook.
WTF has happened? Did everybody give up?
I have.
And I haven't seen LMNO post in a while, either.
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus on February 16, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
I'm complaining because for the first time in weeks I was able to get on from a real computer and I wasn't sure where I was. I couldn't decide if it was MW or Facebook.
WTF has happened? Did everybody give up?
When the fluff is good news it tends to bring people in, even if its not all that compelling, when there's nothing but bitching all over the forum and gloom in here then people don't feel the need to post.
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:30:38 AM
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus on February 16, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
I'm complaining because for the first time in weeks I was able to get on from a real computer and I wasn't sure where I was. I couldn't decide if it was MW or Facebook.
WTF has happened? Did everybody give up?
When the fluff is good news it tends to bring people in, even if its not all that compelling, when there's nothing but bitching all over the forum and gloom in here then people don't feel the need to post.
Meh.
There's no point posting content. It just gets buried under the blogging.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 16, 2010, 12:32:00 AM
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:30:38 AM
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus on February 16, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
I'm complaining because for the first time in weeks I was able to get on from a real computer and I wasn't sure where I was. I couldn't decide if it was MW or Facebook.
WTF has happened? Did everybody give up?
When the fluff is good news it tends to bring people in, even if its not all that compelling, when there's nothing but bitching all over the forum and gloom in here then people don't feel the need to post.
Meh.
There's no point posting content. It just gets buried under the blogging.
Perhaps. This thread is making me specifically think of Kurys thread in or kill me for some reason.
Or, more likely, it's a three-day weekend with Valentine's Day right in the middle, and people are off somewhere fucking in a hot tub.
I mean, I could post less fluff and "bloggy" type stuff, but the end result would be that I'd shift more of my posting elsewhere, and I would stop feeling as connected and attached to the people here, and more connected to wherever else I was posting my "bloggy" stuff, and then I wouldn't really have any context or motivation to post content here so I wouldn't.
That's kind of the way it works for most people, I've noticed. Almost no one pops on here once a week with a really well-written piece. Instead, it's the people who post all the damn time about the shithead they share an office with or who they're dating or what they did with their friends over the weekend who ALSO write the posts with content. Partly because they write all the time, compulsively, so some of it turns out to be good, and partly because they're emotionally invested in the board.
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:37:54 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 16, 2010, 12:32:00 AM
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:30:38 AM
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus on February 16, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
I'm complaining because for the first time in weeks I was able to get on from a real computer and I wasn't sure where I was. I couldn't decide if it was MW or Facebook.
WTF has happened? Did everybody give up?
When the fluff is good news it tends to bring people in, even if its not all that compelling, when there's nothing but bitching all over the forum and gloom in here then people don't feel the need to post.
Meh.
There's no point posting content. It just gets buried under the blogging.
Perhaps. This thread is making me specifically think of Kurys thread in or kill me for some reason.
It's not just one or two people, or one or two threads. It's endemic. 2 months ago, we were in the most creative period we've ever had, and then it ended overnight.
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:37:54 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 16, 2010, 12:32:00 AM
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:30:38 AM
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus on February 16, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
I'm complaining because for the first time in weeks I was able to get on from a real computer and I wasn't sure where I was. I couldn't decide if it was MW or Facebook.
WTF has happened? Did everybody give up?
When the fluff is good news it tends to bring people in, even if its not all that compelling, when there's nothing but bitching all over the forum and gloom in here then people don't feel the need to post.
Meh.
There's no point posting content. It just gets buried under the blogging.
Perhaps. This thread is making me specifically think of Kurys thread in or kill me for some reason.
That's probably because that's the post that made me think "hell, why not have a thread for whining in?"
Get it out of the Bodega and out of Or Kill Me and in one place.
People seem to like complaining in it, so far. And some of them are even doing it *entertainingly*.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 16, 2010, 12:41:04 AM
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:37:54 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 16, 2010, 12:32:00 AM
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:30:38 AM
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus on February 16, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
I'm complaining because for the first time in weeks I was able to get on from a real computer and I wasn't sure where I was. I couldn't decide if it was MW or Facebook.
WTF has happened? Did everybody give up?
When the fluff is good news it tends to bring people in, even if its not all that compelling, when there's nothing but bitching all over the forum and gloom in here then people don't feel the need to post.
Meh.
There's no point posting content. It just gets buried under the blogging.
Perhaps. This thread is making me specifically think of Kurys thread in or kill me for some reason.
It's not just one or two people, or one or two threads. It's endemic. 2 months ago, we were in the most creative period we've ever had, and then it ended overnight.
It didn't end overnight. It petered out in a last gasping struggle of repetition. You can't keep that kind of thing going indefinitely... it needs airing-out space so that people can write from a fresh perspective, about fresh topics.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:40:41 AM
Or, more likely, it's a three-day weekend with Valentine's Day right in the middle, and people are off somewhere fucking in a hot tub.
I mean, I could post less fluff and "bloggy" type stuff, but the end result would be that I'd shift more of my posting elsewhere, and I would stop feeling as connected and attached to the people here, and more connected to wherever else I was posting my "bloggy" stuff, and then I wouldn't really have any context or motivation to post content here so I wouldn't.
That's kind of the way it works for most people, I've noticed. Almost no one pops on here once a week with a really well-written piece. Instead, it's the people who post all the damn time about the shithead they share an office with or who they're dating or what they did with their friends over the weekend who ALSO write the posts with content. Partly because they write all the time, compulsively, so some of it turns out to be good, and partly because they're emotionally invested in the board.
Wasn't bitching about you, Nigel, and I apologize if it looked that way.
It's not the fluff, we've always had that, and it's fun sometimes. It's the fact that that's all we have. In every forum. We have a thread for everything you can jam into or out of an orifice, why we're happy, why we're sad, what's pissing us off, what the weather is (in OKM, no less, thanks a pile, EOC), how many pounds of stool we have in our guts, and, of course, 6 tarot threads and 32 "ask me anything" threads.
After the last half year, that's a fucking heartbreaker. I feel like I'm at TCC.
Not the fluff. The lack of anything else.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:42:07 AM
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:37:54 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 16, 2010, 12:32:00 AM
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:30:38 AM
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus on February 16, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
I'm complaining because for the first time in weeks I was able to get on from a real computer and I wasn't sure where I was. I couldn't decide if it was MW or Facebook.
WTF has happened? Did everybody give up?
When the fluff is good news it tends to bring people in, even if its not all that compelling, when there's nothing but bitching all over the forum and gloom in here then people don't feel the need to post.
Meh.
There's no point posting content. It just gets buried under the blogging.
Perhaps. This thread is making me specifically think of Kurys thread in or kill me for some reason.
That's probably because that's the post that made me think "hell, why not have a thread for whining in?"
Get it out of the Bodega and out of Or Kill Me and in one place.
People seem to like complaining in it, so far. And some of them are even doing it *entertainingly*.
If you say so, I see a lot of posts back there that no one responded to.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 16, 2010, 12:45:05 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:40:41 AM
Or, more likely, it's a three-day weekend with Valentine's Day right in the middle, and people are off somewhere fucking in a hot tub.
I mean, I could post less fluff and "bloggy" type stuff, but the end result would be that I'd shift more of my posting elsewhere, and I would stop feeling as connected and attached to the people here, and more connected to wherever else I was posting my "bloggy" stuff, and then I wouldn't really have any context or motivation to post content here so I wouldn't.
That's kind of the way it works for most people, I've noticed. Almost no one pops on here once a week with a really well-written piece. Instead, it's the people who post all the damn time about the shithead they share an office with or who they're dating or what they did with their friends over the weekend who ALSO write the posts with content. Partly because they write all the time, compulsively, so some of it turns out to be good, and partly because they're emotionally invested in the board.
Wasn't bitching about you, Nigel, and I apologize if it looked that way.
It's not the fluff, we've always had that, and it's fun sometimes. It's the fact that that's all we have. In every forum. We have a thread for everything you can jam into or out of an orifice, why we're happy, why we're sad, what's pissing us off, what the weather is (in OKM, no less, thanks a pile, EOC), how many pounds of stool we have in our guts, and, of course, 6 tarot threads and 32 "ask me anything" threads.
After the last half year, that's a fucking heartbreaker. I feel like I'm at TCC.
Not the fluff. The lack of anything else.
Sometimes people need to just LIVE. Besides, there have been quite a few projects. You might not care about the PD tarot, but apparently quite a few other people do. Cram's working on The Dreaming. Intermittens 8 just came out, and is great!
It's a holiday weekend.
I just spent much of my morning rewriting parenting plans for me and the Freekmeister.
Life is just happening, all over the place, and sometimes that means people aren't writing great essays for the board.
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:47:02 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:42:07 AM
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:37:54 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 16, 2010, 12:32:00 AM
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:30:38 AM
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus on February 16, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
I'm complaining because for the first time in weeks I was able to get on from a real computer and I wasn't sure where I was. I couldn't decide if it was MW or Facebook.
WTF has happened? Did everybody give up?
When the fluff is good news it tends to bring people in, even if its not all that compelling, when there's nothing but bitching all over the forum and gloom in here then people don't feel the need to post.
Meh.
There's no point posting content. It just gets buried under the blogging.
Perhaps. This thread is making me specifically think of Kurys thread in or kill me for some reason.
That's probably because that's the post that made me think "hell, why not have a thread for whining in?"
Get it out of the Bodega and out of Or Kill Me and in one place.
People seem to like complaining in it, so far. And some of them are even doing it *entertainingly*.
If you say so, I see a lot of posts back there that no one responded to.
Why would a complaint require a response?
Also, this is Apple Talk.
BTW, that weather thread could probably stand to be moved to Apple Talk because it makes NO sense in OKM.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:53:00 AM
BTW, that weather thread could probably stand to be moved to Apple Talk because it makes NO sense in OKM.
There's no sense fighting it. It will only end in tears, with thread authors explaining why it was a rant, and everyone running around all
unregulated. Cats and dogs fucking in the streets, nuns pushing meth, and Democrats growing spines. Chaos. The horror.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:52:09 AM
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:47:02 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:42:07 AM
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:37:54 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 16, 2010, 12:32:00 AM
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 12:30:38 AM
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus on February 16, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
I'm complaining because for the first time in weeks I was able to get on from a real computer and I wasn't sure where I was. I couldn't decide if it was MW or Facebook.
WTF has happened? Did everybody give up?
When the fluff is good news it tends to bring people in, even if its not all that compelling, when there's nothing but bitching all over the forum and gloom in here then people don't feel the need to post.
Meh.
There's no point posting content. It just gets buried under the blogging.
Perhaps. This thread is making me specifically think of Kurys thread in or kill me for some reason.
That's probably because that's the post that made me think "hell, why not have a thread for whining in?"
Get it out of the Bodega and out of Or Kill Me and in one place.
People seem to like complaining in it, so far. And some of them are even doing it *entertainingly*.
If you say so, I see a lot of posts back there that no one responded to.
Why would a complaint require a response?
Also, this is Apple Talk.
Because it is a discussion forum not a blog.
Forum implies discussion and sharing of opinions.
This IS Apple Talk, a sandbox forum for anything, but that anything is currently
one thing and it looks like a garbage dump.
At least you're complaining in the appropriate place. :lulz:
Sigh.
It's a holy-day weekend, folks. Alphapance will be on tmro a.m., I bet, like clockwork.
Jeez.
And sometimes all-content-all-the-time just gets a bit stale as well.
Feh.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:59:33 AM
At least you're complaining in the appropriate place. :lulz:
Its not really a complaint, its more a statement of fact. It doesn't really sway me either way, its ECH who was horrified.
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 01:01:34 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:59:33 AM
At least you're complaining in the appropriate place. :lulz:
Its not really a complaint, its more a statement of fact. It doesn't really sway me either way, its ECH who was horrified.
Yes, I recall that he complained about it.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:40:41 AM
Or, more likely, it's a three-day weekend with Valentine's Day right in the middle, and people are off somewhere fucking in a hot tub.
I mean, I could post less fluff and "bloggy" type stuff, but the end result would be that I'd shift more of my posting elsewhere, and I would stop feeling as connected and attached to the people here, and more connected to wherever else I was posting my "bloggy" stuff, and then I wouldn't really have any context or motivation to post content here so I wouldn't.
That's kind of the way it works for most people, I've noticed. Almost no one pops on here once a week with a really well-written piece. Instead, it's the people who post all the damn time about the shithead they share an office with or who they're dating or what they did with their friends over the weekend who ALSO write the posts with content. Partly because they write all the time, compulsively, so some of it turns out to be good, and partly because they're emotionally invested in the board.
So for those of us who don't think everyone here has a need or desire to know our daily details, we're what? The ignored stepchildren?
I am emotionally invested in this board. I do have friends here. I just don't post my shit because if it bores me who else would give a fuck?
MY POINT was that after a week I come on and instead of any thought provoking threads the whole first page was all fluff and tarot. Do we need that many threads on the same thing?
Eh fuck it at least everyone isn't tearing each other to shreds. Carry on....
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 01:04:18 AM
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 01:01:34 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:59:33 AM
At least you're complaining in the appropriate place. :lulz:
Its not really a complaint, its more a statement of fact. It doesn't really sway me either way, its ECH who was horrified.
Yes, I recall that he complained about it.
And complained about the fact that his complaining about it was causing it to grow, which in turn caused it to grow.
I suppose I had better complain about it too, lest I go off topic.
A thread dedicated to posting worthless information from peoples personal lives, alone isn't the worst thing in the world. But the fact that it is going to constantly be bumped into view every time its posted in as "The complaining thread" might well give people negative associations with the forum, in fact I might even suspect it might become irritating to look look at (the name of the thread not the thread itself).
I might go further and complain about Fausts need to vocalize this complaint as all it does is add a layer to the problem, as well as another post, as well as keeping it in view, and as we all know no publicity is bad publicity, etc etc etc.
But then I would complain about his interfering with its natural course, adding layers of complexity by discussing its merits even under the smarmy guise of complaining about the thread.
In fact I would protest even this critique for it creates no benefit and proposes no solutions.
And I would grumble that he used it as an excuse for meta, shed a single tear for stale dadism and sigh that romance is dead.
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus on February 16, 2010, 01:09:46 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:40:41 AM
Or, more likely, it's a three-day weekend with Valentine's Day right in the middle, and people are off somewhere fucking in a hot tub.
I mean, I could post less fluff and "bloggy" type stuff, but the end result would be that I'd shift more of my posting elsewhere, and I would stop feeling as connected and attached to the people here, and more connected to wherever else I was posting my "bloggy" stuff, and then I wouldn't really have any context or motivation to post content here so I wouldn't.
That's kind of the way it works for most people, I've noticed. Almost no one pops on here once a week with a really well-written piece. Instead, it's the people who post all the damn time about the shithead they share an office with or who they're dating or what they did with their friends over the weekend who ALSO write the posts with content. Partly because they write all the time, compulsively, so some of it turns out to be good, and partly because they're emotionally invested in the board.
So for those of us who don't think everyone here has a need or desire to know our daily details, we're what? The ignored stepchildren?
I am emotionally invested in this board. I do have friends here. I just don't post my shit because if it bores me who else would give a fuck?
MY POINT was that after a week I come on and instead of any thought provoking threads the whole first page was all fluff and tarot. Do we need that many threads on the same thing?
Eh fuck it at least everyone isn't tearing each other to shreds. Carry on....
I think its a clever ploy to bypass deletion the way other huge threads go. The Nigels love life and apple talk bodega are getting quite long. By distributing the sordid details of everyones shallow and vacuous lives into many threads they can sneak by the chop when that time comes around again.
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 01:21:36 AM
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus on February 16, 2010, 01:09:46 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:40:41 AM
Or, more likely, it's a three-day weekend with Valentine's Day right in the middle, and people are off somewhere fucking in a hot tub.
I mean, I could post less fluff and "bloggy" type stuff, but the end result would be that I'd shift more of my posting elsewhere, and I would stop feeling as connected and attached to the people here, and more connected to wherever else I was posting my "bloggy" stuff, and then I wouldn't really have any context or motivation to post content here so I wouldn't.
That's kind of the way it works for most people, I've noticed. Almost no one pops on here once a week with a really well-written piece. Instead, it's the people who post all the damn time about the shithead they share an office with or who they're dating or what they did with their friends over the weekend who ALSO write the posts with content. Partly because they write all the time, compulsively, so some of it turns out to be good, and partly because they're emotionally invested in the board.
So for those of us who don't think everyone here has a need or desire to know our daily details, we're what? The ignored stepchildren?
I am emotionally invested in this board. I do have friends here. I just don't post my shit because if it bores me who else would give a fuck?
MY POINT was that after a week I come on and instead of any thought provoking threads the whole first page was all fluff and tarot. Do we need that many threads on the same thing?
Eh fuck it at least everyone isn't tearing each other to shreds. Carry on....
I think its a clever ploy to bypass deletion the way other huge threads go. The Nigels love life and apple talk bodega are getting quite long. By distributing the sordid details of everyones shallow and vacuous lives into many threads they can sneak by the chop when that time comes around again.
By the way I do include myself in that "everyone", just in case anyone thinks I am taking a dig.
I confess I rather enjoy the posts people make about their personal lives; their spouses, kids, co-workers, and problems. It makes me feel more like I know them. I find it interesting. I also didn't think each new complaint necessarily needs to have a whole new thread dedicated to it, so, like Bodega, I thought a complaining thread would be a way to put them all in one place... and, as a big wad of fluff, like Bodega, easily pruned when it gets too long and starts to bog things down.
'Cause we don't really need five hundred "OMG IT'S RAINING/SNOWING/WINDY" or "MY HOUSEMATE IS AN ASS" threads, do we? Can it not all go in one place and get chopped when it gets too long? Or was Bodega supposed to be the complaining thread and I committed a faux pas by creating a duplicate? I thought it was the general socializing thread. It gets so many posts that half the time I can't keep up with it, and I actually would like to.
As for my love life, if it's too long feel free to split out the bickering. Seems like more work than it's probably worth, though.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 01:58:02 AM
I confess I rather enjoy the posts people make about their personal lives; their spouses, kids, co-workers, and problems. It makes me feel more like I know them.
I agree with this.
For example, I just now learned that ECHGF is actually ECHF (as of 3 years ago, duh), and it made me feel happy for him.
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Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:59:33 AM
At least you're complaining in the appropriate place. :lulz:
Its not really a complaint, its more a statement of fact. It doesn't really sway me either way, its ECH who was horrified.
Yes, I recall that he complained about it.
And complained about the fact that his complaining about it was causing it to grow, which in turn caused it to grow.
I suppose I had better complain about it too, lest I go off topic.
A thread dedicated to posting worthless information from peoples personal lives, alone isn't the worst thing in the world. But the fact that it is going to constantly be bumped into view every time its posted in as "The complaining thread" might well give people negative associations with the forum, in fact I might even suspect it might become irritating to look look at (the name of the thread not the thread itself).
I might go further and complain about Fausts need to vocalize this complaint as all it does is add a layer to the problem, as well as another post, as well as keeping it in view, and as we all know no publicity is bad publicity, etc etc etc.
But then I would complain about his interfering with its natural course, adding layers of complexity by discussing its merits even under the smarmy guise of complaining about the thread.
In fact I would protest even this critique for it creates no benefit and proposes no solutions.
And I would grumble that he used it as an excuse for meta, shed a single tear for stale dadism and sigh that romance is dead.
First, this post was kind of delightful and made me :lulz:.
Second, I could rename it something less annoying if the title annoys you. How about, "Plus, I got depression"?
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 01:58:02 AM
I confess I rather enjoy the posts people make about their personal lives; their spouses, kids, co-workers, and problems. It makes me feel more like I know them. I find it interesting. I also didn't think each new complaint necessarily needs to have a whole new thread dedicated to it, so, like Bodega, I thought a complaining thread would be a way to put them all in one place... and, as a big wad of fluff, like Bodega, easily pruned when it gets too long and starts to bog things down.
'Cause we don't really need five hundred "OMG IT'S RAINING/SNOWING/WINDY" or "MY HOUSEMATE IS AN ASS" threads, do we? Can it not all go in one place and get chopped when it gets too long? Or was Bodega supposed to be the complaining thread and I committed a faux pas by creating a duplicate? I thought it was the general socializing thread. It gets so many posts that half the time I can't keep up with it, and I actually would like to.
As for my love life, if it's too long feel free to split out the bickering. Seems like more work than it's probably worth, though.
That was a joke, that thread isn't that long yet, and I wont be wading through it either when the time comes.
But yeah, a sponge thread like this could work. I'd prefer If I didn't see "The complaining thread" when I click unread posts but if that is the worst thing about it all it needs is a nice sounding name.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 02:00:52 AM
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 01:18:43 AM
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Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 01:01:34 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:59:33 AM
At least you're complaining in the appropriate place. :lulz:
Its not really a complaint, its more a statement of fact. It doesn't really sway me either way, its ECH who was horrified.
Yes, I recall that he complained about it.
And complained about the fact that his complaining about it was causing it to grow, which in turn caused it to grow.
I suppose I had better complain about it too, lest I go off topic.
A thread dedicated to posting worthless information from peoples personal lives, alone isn't the worst thing in the world. But the fact that it is going to constantly be bumped into view every time its posted in as "The complaining thread" might well give people negative associations with the forum, in fact I might even suspect it might become irritating to look look at (the name of the thread not the thread itself).
I might go further and complain about Fausts need to vocalize this complaint as all it does is add a layer to the problem, as well as another post, as well as keeping it in view, and as we all know no publicity is bad publicity, etc etc etc.
But then I would complain about his interfering with its natural course, adding layers of complexity by discussing its merits even under the smarmy guise of complaining about the thread.
In fact I would protest even this critique for it creates no benefit and proposes no solutions.
And I would grumble that he used it as an excuse for meta, shed a single tear for stale dadism and sigh that romance is dead.
First, this post was kind of delightful and made me :lulz:.
Second, I could rename it something less annoying if the title annoys you. How about, "Plus, I got depression"?
Sure, maybe vary it every so often so I forget which thread it is.
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 02:02:30 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 02:00:52 AM
Quote from: Faust on February 16, 2010, 01:18:43 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 01:04:18 AM
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Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:59:33 AM
At least you're complaining in the appropriate place. :lulz:
Its not really a complaint, its more a statement of fact. It doesn't really sway me either way, its ECH who was horrified.
Yes, I recall that he complained about it.
And complained about the fact that his complaining about it was causing it to grow, which in turn caused it to grow.
I suppose I had better complain about it too, lest I go off topic.
A thread dedicated to posting worthless information from peoples personal lives, alone isn't the worst thing in the world. But the fact that it is going to constantly be bumped into view every time its posted in as "The complaining thread" might well give people negative associations with the forum, in fact I might even suspect it might become irritating to look look at (the name of the thread not the thread itself).
I might go further and complain about Fausts need to vocalize this complaint as all it does is add a layer to the problem, as well as another post, as well as keeping it in view, and as we all know no publicity is bad publicity, etc etc etc.
But then I would complain about his interfering with its natural course, adding layers of complexity by discussing its merits even under the smarmy guise of complaining about the thread.
In fact I would protest even this critique for it creates no benefit and proposes no solutions.
And I would grumble that he used it as an excuse for meta, shed a single tear for stale dadism and sigh that romance is dead.
First, this post was kind of delightful and made me :lulz:.
Second, I could rename it something less annoying if the title annoys you. How about, "Plus, I got depression"?
Sure, maybe vary it every so often so I forget which thread it is.
...so you'll be tricked into clicking on it?
hrm good point
It'll be like Cram's trout in thread form.
Except not really, because I doubt I'll ever remember to change the title again.
Wait.
You mean you guys don't love it when I wangst all over the place?
:cry:
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:40:41 AM
Or, more likely, it's a three-day weekend with Valentine's Day right in the middle, and people are off somewhere fucking in a hot tub.
I mean, I could post less fluff and "bloggy" type stuff, but the end result would be that I'd shift more of my posting elsewhere, and I would stop feeling as connected and attached to the people here, and more connected to wherever else I was posting my "bloggy" stuff, and then I wouldn't really have any context or motivation to post content here so I wouldn't.
That's kind of the way it works for most people, I've noticed. Almost no one pops on here once a week with a really well-written piece. Instead, it's the people who post all the damn time about the shithead they share an office with or who they're dating or what they did with their friends over the weekend who ALSO write the posts with content. Partly because they write all the time, compulsively, so some of it turns out to be good, and partly because they're emotionally invested in the board.
I agree with the last paragraph here. Of course I don't post a lot of (or any, really) stuff with actual content. I really just like chatting with you guys and reading the stuff that you guys write. I often don't reply to them because I don't feel like I have anything worth adding.
Most of you guys' stuff is good as is and needs no input from me. But you guys sure get me thinking.
Hmm. Guess I do have something to add to this thread though.
This last weekend I saw something that actually made me tear up.
I was driving down the Blvd and about to turn onto the road I live off of when I saw an old guy in one of those plaid jackets that looks like it was made out of a 70's couch, and nice pants standing on the side walk with a sign that said "cancer, homeless, hungry. donations/prayers to help?". He didn't look like any of the regular meth bums we have around here.
He looked like someone's grandpa. Missing most of his fingers on his left hand which made me wonder if he worked in a steel mill, or fought in a war.
I had no cash to give him. I even looked, just to be sure. Found a nickel, I felt like that would be an insult. So I just stared straight ahead.
I wondered what had put him in that position, if there were programs that could help him, if so did he know about them?
I wanted to take him to dinner and listen to his story while he gummed his food.
I felt awful. Then realized just how fucking good I have it.
I held Mr Squid's hand and said "I'll never let that happen to you." and he had a tear in his eye too.
:sad:
I saw a hobo eat an entire gallon of chocolate icecream. I guess that's what I'd spend my money on too if I were in his situation.
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus on February 16, 2010, 01:09:46 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 12:40:41 AM
Or, more likely, it's a three-day weekend with Valentine's Day right in the middle, and people are off somewhere fucking in a hot tub.
I mean, I could post less fluff and "bloggy" type stuff, but the end result would be that I'd shift more of my posting elsewhere, and I would stop feeling as connected and attached to the people here, and more connected to wherever else I was posting my "bloggy" stuff, and then I wouldn't really have any context or motivation to post content here so I wouldn't.
That's kind of the way it works for most people, I've noticed. Almost no one pops on here once a week with a really well-written piece. Instead, it's the people who post all the damn time about the shithead they share an office with or who they're dating or what they did with their friends over the weekend who ALSO write the posts with content. Partly because they write all the time, compulsively, so some of it turns out to be good, and partly because they're emotionally invested in the board.
So for those of us who don't think everyone here has a need or desire to know our daily details, we're what? The ignored stepchildren?
I am emotionally invested in this board. I do have friends here. I just don't post my shit because if it bores me who else would give a fuck?
MY POINT was that after a week I come on and instead of any thought provoking threads the whole first page was all fluff and tarot. Do we need that many threads on the same thing?
Eh fuck it at least everyone isn't tearing each other to shreds. Carry on....
THE FLUFF
Of the universe is a little more epic, when you take it to Cybertron, you must admit.
AND
You gotta know, only Starscream stands around complaining all the time.
Quote from: Nast on February 16, 2010, 06:11:42 AM
:sad:
I saw a hobo eat an entire gallon of chocolate icecream. I guess that's what I'd spend my money on too if I were in his situation.
One time I saw a hobo eat... eh, nevermind.
My complaint is about "Type A" people, especially the kind who not only
know they are Hot Shit, but go around all smug and moody about it like the entire planet owes them an apology just for showing up to waste their day with its drudgery and incompetence.
The Type A person in my life is also running the company I work for into the ground by way of his extremely large head and the way he "just knows" that certain industry trends are just "fads." And they are a fad, but in the same way that pants are a fad. This asshole knows his shit, albeit his shit was old news a decade ago.
He's secretly afraid that while he grows fatter and slower and stupider, the world is speeding up at a pace his poor overworked heart will never be able to keep up with, and one of these days somebody's going to say the wrong newfangled buzzword and it'll send him straight into cardiac arrest and he'll die. Secretly. Outwardly, he spends
all goddamn day reminding people how wrong they are and how right he is about
everything.
Anyway I am currently in the process of making him look like a complete dipshit in front of all the right people. So maybe this situation is temporary.
My boss does the Rick Astley dance to the song blasted over the PA.
Quote from: Ne+@uNGr0+ on February 16, 2010, 07:12:08 AM
My boss does the Rick Astley dance to the song blasted over the PA.
How is that something to complain about?
I am complaining that it takes far too long to read and Surf anything on a phone and Payne is going home today. :sad:
Quote from: Jenne on February 16, 2010, 01:00:40 AM
Alphapance will be on tmro a.m., I bet, like clockwork.
I'm pretty sure you didn't mean it that way, but reading this really, really sucked.
LMNO
- :kingmeh:
I'm complaining that I have to go to work in this slush. :argh!:
7 pages already. I'm not sure whether to be thrilled or horrified.
I'm just helping you win your bet.
Quote from: vexati0n on February 16, 2010, 06:36:52 AM
Quote from: Nast on February 16, 2010, 06:11:42 AM
:sad:
I saw a hobo eat an entire gallon of chocolate icecream. I guess that's what I'd spend my money on too if I were in his situation.
One time I saw a hobo eat... eh, nevermind.
My complaint is about "Type A" people, especially the kind who not only know they are Hot Shit, but go around all smug and moody about it like the entire planet owes them an apology just for showing up to waste their day with its drudgery and incompetence.
The Type A person in my life is also running the company I work for into the ground by way of his extremely large head and the way he "just knows" that certain industry trends are just "fads." And they are a fad, but in the same way that pants are a fad.
:lulz:
I'm sorry for laughing at your misery, but that's funny.
Quote from: Suu on February 16, 2010, 07:35:19 PM
I'm just helping you win your bet.
and don't think I don't appreciate it!
ECH,
just a posting fool
Yeah but so far in this thread someone has said the line, "And they are a fad, but in the same way pants are a fad"
which I am totally going to steal the next time I have the chance.
No argument. It was worth it all just for that, even if nothing else comes of it in the NEXT 92 PAGES.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 16, 2010, 09:43:26 PM
No argument. It was worth it all just for that, even if nothing else comes of it in the NEXT 92 PAGES.
Just think of those pages as 92 individual threads that didn't get started.
You know it's true.
Sorry LMNO, I really only meant that like me, you're mostly here when you are working... :( You're NOT kingmeh!
Payne has gone home.
I miss the wee spag and bed is too big. I shall find sleeping tricksy tonight. Insomnia mek the psychosis worse. :sadbanana:
Normally FBF and I would work out and then watch Deadwood tonight, but I haven't heard from her. :(
Help! Help! I'm being opressed!
Um I'm not entirely sure :cry:
I am as sick as a dog. :cry:
I'm going to complain about people.
Particular people who join Facebook groups like, "Edward Cullen is a fictional character and will never love you" although right below that they have "True Blood Forever" and "I Love Bill Compton from True Blood!!!111"
:|
Not that Edward and Bill should even compare but...yeah, you get the drift.
I know, right?
ERIC IS SOOOO MUCH HOTTER!
Quote from: Suu on February 17, 2010, 03:31:56 PM
I'm going to complain about people.
Particular people who join Facebook groups like, "Edward Cullen is a fictional character and will never love you" although right below that they have "True Blood Forever" and "I Love Bill Compton from True Blood!!!111"
:|
Not that Edward and Bill should even compare but...yeah, you get the drift.
TEAM CGI WEREWOLVES!!!!!
TAYLOR LAUTNER WAS JUST DOWN THE STREET FROM MY HOUSE NO TROLL.
SOMEONE GET ME SILVER BULLETS!
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 10:04:08 PM
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 16, 2010, 09:43:26 PM
No argument. It was worth it all just for that, even if nothing else comes of it in the NEXT 92 PAGES.
Just think of those pages as 92 individual threads that didn't get started.
You know it's true.
yeah, but someone forgot to pass out the memo in Apple Talk Bodega. It's still full of wangst.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 17, 2010, 04:33:47 PM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 16, 2010, 10:04:08 PM
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 16, 2010, 09:43:26 PM
No argument. It was worth it all just for that, even if nothing else comes of it in the NEXT 92 PAGES.
Just think of those pages as 92 individual threads that didn't get started.
You know it's true.
yeah, but someone forgot to pass out the memo in Apple Talk Bodega. It's still full of wangst.
Meh, as long as it's here or there and not 92 new wangst threads.
Although ATB already moves too fast for me to keep up. It gets what, 3-4 pages of new posts a day?
I think it should be permanently limited to 3 pages.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 17, 2010, 11:37:17 PM
I think it should be permanently limited to 3 pages.
So the older pages would just automatically fall off? Or would someone have to manually archive/delete them?
If the latter, it's probably not worth the effort.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 17, 2010, 11:37:17 PM
I think it should be permanently limited to 3 pages.
We could make a thread that just redirects to IRC.
We could make a thread for complaining about the kinds of threads people make, and the people who complain about that complaining.
Also, we could make a thread for threadjacking via complaining about the existence of the thread, and complaining about threadjacking via complaining, and also complaining about the complaining about threadjacking via complaining.
And one about scabs.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 01:03:04 AM
We could make a thread for complaining about the kinds of threads people make, and the people who complain about that complaining.
Also, we could make a thread for threadjacking via complaining about the existence of the thread, and complaining about threadjacking via complaining, and also complaining about the complaining about threadjacking via complaining.
And one about scabs.
No need we have this thread. and doing it here gives others something to complain about. They can complain how talking about their day to day personal complaints are getting drowned out by this stuff.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 01:03:04 AM
We could make a thread for complaining about the kinds of threads people make, and the people who complain about that complaining.
Also, we could make a thread for threadjacking via complaining about the existence of the thread, and complaining about threadjacking via complaining, and also complaining about the complaining about threadjacking via complaining.
And one about scabs.
:lulz:
Also, you forgot the weather.
Dear irish weather,
I know you like winter and you have gotten really good at it, but we would like to see some other seasons for more then two weeks of the year.
Yours,
Faust.
Quote from: Faust on February 18, 2010, 01:05:52 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 01:03:04 AM
We could make a thread for complaining about the kinds of threads people make, and the people who complain about that complaining.
Also, we could make a thread for threadjacking via complaining about the existence of the thread, and complaining about threadjacking via complaining, and also complaining about the complaining about threadjacking via complaining.
And one about scabs.
No need we have this thread. and doing it here gives others something to complain about. They can complain how talking about their day to day personal complaints are getting drowned out by this stuff.
:lulz:
Quote from: Faust on February 18, 2010, 01:17:39 AM
Dear irish weather,
I know you like winter and you have gotten really good at it, but we would like to see some other seasons for more then two weeks of the year.
Yours,
Faust.
I lol'd.
AND IT WAS UNCOMFORTABLE, THANKS A LOT FAUST. :lulz:
Yesterday, I found out that I have severe hypoglycemia. For those of you not in the know, this means that my body produces far too much insulin, causing my blood sugar levels to drop far below the average level. It's sort of like the opposite of diabetes, I suppose, though it causes a lot of the same symptoms and can actually lead to it. This explains a lot, especially regarding my constant lack of energy and motivation. Knowing this doesn't prevent me from feeling like shit, though. Right now, I'm in a sort of state where I'm cold and tired and sore and miserable. I can't enjoy anything; it all just annoys me. I tried watching TV. The voices just drone on and on and I feel like I'm about to pass out but I don't want to. I tried listening to music but I have the same problem.
You should have seen those test results. I almost flipped out when I got them yesterday. When they get you to take a blood sugar test, they take a few vials of blood, then they make you drink this beverage that's so sugary, it burns the back of your throat. I didn't know sugar could burn like that. After a couple hours, they poke you again, take a few vials and then you're free to go. Normally, the drink causes the blood sugar level to rise dramatically on the second sample, but in my case it actually dropped. What's more, my insulin increased from about 30 units to over 200. If you do the math, that's an increase of over six times the starting amount. That, my amigos, is a lot.
-SHS,
wants his fucking prescription
What do they give you for hypoglycemia? They just told me I have to eat all the time, mostly protein, and stay away from sugar and simple starch.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 02:11:05 AM
What do they give you for hypoglycemia? They just told me I have to eat all the time, mostly protein, and stay away from sugar and simple starch.
I don't know yet. This is silly, because I already had my suspicions and really should have done the research months ago.
So far, I'm just going to start carrying emergency rations around with me.
Quote from: CAPTAIN CHAOS on February 18, 2010, 02:13:26 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 02:11:05 AM
What do they give you for hypoglycemia? They just told me I have to eat all the time, mostly protein, and stay away from sugar and simple starch.
I don't know yet. This is silly, because I already had my suspicions and really should have done the research months ago.
So far, I'm just going to start carrying emergency rations around with me.
You can put jerky snacks RIGHT IN YOUR POCKETS.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 02:11:05 AM
What do they give you for hypoglycemia? They just told me I have to eat all the time, mostly protein, and stay away from sugar and simple starch.
OOPS! That's what I'm doing wrong.
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on February 18, 2010, 04:21:27 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 02:11:05 AM
What do they give you for hypoglycemia? They just told me I have to eat all the time, mostly protein, and stay away from sugar and simple starch.
OOPS! That's what I'm doing wrong.
Yeah, that shit will get you.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 04:08:54 AM
Quote from: CAPTAIN CHAOS on February 18, 2010, 02:13:26 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 02:11:05 AM
What do they give you for hypoglycemia? They just told me I have to eat all the time, mostly protein, and stay away from sugar and simple starch.
I don't know yet. This is silly, because I already had my suspicions and really should have done the research months ago.
So far, I'm just going to start carrying emergency rations around with me.
You can put jerky snacks RIGHT IN YOUR POCKETS.
Fantastic! I like jerky.
Quote from: CAPTAIN CHAOS on February 18, 2010, 04:29:59 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 04:08:54 AM
Quote from: CAPTAIN CHAOS on February 18, 2010, 02:13:26 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 02:11:05 AM
What do they give you for hypoglycemia? They just told me I have to eat all the time, mostly protein, and stay away from sugar and simple starch.
I don't know yet. This is silly, because I already had my suspicions and really should have done the research months ago.
So far, I'm just going to start carrying emergency rations around with me.
You can put jerky snacks RIGHT IN YOUR POCKETS.
Fantastic! I like jerky.
I found something in my pockets. Might be jerky.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 18, 2010, 04:51:43 AM
Quote from: CAPTAIN CHAOS on February 18, 2010, 04:29:59 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 04:08:54 AM
Quote from: CAPTAIN CHAOS on February 18, 2010, 02:13:26 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 02:11:05 AM
What do they give you for hypoglycemia? They just told me I have to eat all the time, mostly protein, and stay away from sugar and simple starch.
I don't know yet. This is silly, because I already had my suspicions and really should have done the research months ago.
So far, I'm just going to start carrying emergency rations around with me.
You can put jerky snacks RIGHT IN YOUR POCKETS.
Fantastic! I like jerky.
I found something in my pockets. Might be jerky.
:x For some reason that is incredibly disturbing coming from you.
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on February 18, 2010, 04:21:27 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 02:11:05 AM
What do they give you for hypoglycemia? They just told me I have to eat all the time, mostly protein, and stay away from sugar and simple starch.
OOPS! That's what I'm doing wrong.
Carbs will throw your blood sugar off really bad. Be careful. Also, you will be in serious need of fiber once you start losing the simple carbs, so better get yo' greens.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 05:31:17 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 18, 2010, 04:51:43 AM
Quote from: CAPTAIN CHAOS on February 18, 2010, 04:29:59 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 04:08:54 AM
Quote from: CAPTAIN CHAOS on February 18, 2010, 02:13:26 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 18, 2010, 02:11:05 AM
What do they give you for hypoglycemia? They just told me I have to eat all the time, mostly protein, and stay away from sugar and simple starch.
I don't know yet. This is silly, because I already had my suspicions and really should have done the research months ago.
So far, I'm just going to start carrying emergency rations around with me.
You can put jerky snacks RIGHT IN YOUR POCKETS.
Fantastic! I like jerky.
I found something in my pockets. Might be jerky.
:x For some reason that is incredibly disturbing coming from you.
I can think of several. :x
My computer monitor finally kicked the bucket last night so I had to go out and buy a new one. I'm not liking the width of my new monitor. I'm not used to you spags in widescreen.
Also, I was supposed to receive three packages this week and none of them have shown up. :argh!:
My linguistics class is boring me out of my gourd!
I swear, normally I'm great about paying attention in class, but in this one I feel like some fidgety kid without his ritalin. The professor's cadence is so sloooow and labored, I'm in constant want of something interesting to happen before I jump out of the classroom's (nonexistant) window and embrace sweet freedom. Although, he does bear a striking resemblance to Santa Claus.
Just imagine yourself really fat ... like morbidly obese fat - and your rubbing your belly against his ... Then you won't be able to take him serious!
The head squatters have kicked off again after an argument with my sister. She got frontal lobe damage after Meningitis then got morbidly obese and basically the stress of dealing with her inability to take well meaning advice about taking suppliments for her b0rked immune system and her hassling me about Mother's day a whole month in advance when my money situation is fucked until my sick benefits are sorted stresses me the fuck out as she always just flies off the handle when I raise any concern about her in any way makes my illness worse. Also her being unable to function independently and my mums failing health mean that her care will fall down to me when mum and dad are to old and physically fucked to do it.
Also I really want a joint but am still on the mental health enforced detox and this is the first bout of period pain in over 12 years that I can't take a smoke or co-codamol to fix.
FML
Yes I think FMCL works.
And its back to the Irvine Welsh for me seeing as I currently can't hear myself think in my own voice unless I am making massive posts so Franco Begbie will have to do.
Quote from: Jason Wabash on February 18, 2010, 05:54:53 AM
My computer monitor finally kicked the bucket last night so I had to go out and buy a new one. I'm not liking the width of my new monitor. I'm not used to you spags in widescreen.
Also, I was supposed to receive three packages this week and none of them have shown up. :argh!:
Ok, so I'm getting used to the monitor. HD is really really nice. Plus two of the packages arrived today. Now I have to complain that I work too damn much and don't have the time to post here except for really late at night.
There is an Army captain in my apartment building. He is very protective of his "I'm making up for my tiny penis" truck and takes up two spaces whenever possible. Parking is very limited but we (my roommates and I) try to avoid parking next to him because he has a tendency to scream at me,act like he's going to attack me, and has keyed my roommate's truck 6 times already. We have no proof that he's the one who keyed the truck (no security cameras) but somehow it only ever gets keyed when my roommate parks next to the captain. I already spoke with my chain of command and filed a complaint with the leasing office over the parking situation. My flight commander told me it was a civil matter and to tell him she ordered me to call the police the NEXT time he yelled at me, so he stopped doing that. I wanted to just go ahead and call the police on him so I could file for a restraining order. But since he knows I'll do it the next time he won't yell at me. Now he thinks it's cute to park his truck behind my jeep in the morning while he runs back into his apartment to "grab something he forgot". Then, he peels out. He's doing it just to fuck with me which makes me want to kick his crooked, yellow teeth in.
Anyways, I want to buy a camera to install in my roommate's truck to catch him keying it. Suggestions on brands would be appreciated. Even if he doesn't get punished on the Army side a misdemeanor will ensure he's at least sitting admin.
I love trucks, but I hate those "making up for a tiny penis" trucks. It's so obvious.
My PIGD complaint today is that I had a great day and walked 8 miles of beach with a friend and our dogs, but when I got home I contracted the inexplicable sad and just spent an hour texting back and forth my friend who also has the sad, and now I am waiting for my other friend to come over and cuddle. Which is happy, but in the meantime I still has the sad.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 22, 2010, 05:51:59 AM
I love trucks, but I hate those "making up for a tiny penis" trucks. It's so obvious.
My PIGD complaint today is that I had a great day and walked 8 miles of beach with a friend and our dogs, but when I got home I contracted the inexplicable sad and just spent an hour texting back and forth my friend who also has the sad, and now I am waiting for my other friend to come over and cuddle. Which is happy, but in the meantime I still has the sad.
I find exercise loosens up the sad in me too and it just all spills out. I'll be walking downtown and by the 1/2 mile on the way back home it often happens that I'll just start feeling very glum. Weird, huh?
My boss is being a complete cunt and tried to get me to sign a document saying that I won't sue em if they terminate my contract. I'm undergoing psychiactric assessment and signing that may be as good as signing away any benefits and also being detatched from reality and under duress that price of paper would be invalid anyway. Also they are obstructing the process by which I get my benefits and rent paid so today I wrote another of my politely shitty letters explaing to the dept of work and pensions which I am keeping in triplicate (my mum is an ex civil servant :lulz:) to hand in with the form they were
supposed to give me today tommorow which explains everything to them as to why it has taken this long. To get it thee if at all and tommorow I am going to call the inland revenue and see if my taxes have been properly paid and to fuck the guy over with what I know so far.
So I have massive tension headache and my plan for tomorrow to get my old net connection fixed is fucked.
Quote from: Rainy Day Pixie on February 22, 2010, 07:42:08 PM
My boss is being a complete cunt and tried to get me to sign a document saying that I won't sue em if they terminate my contract. I'm undergoing psychiactric assessment and signing that may be as good as signing away any benefits and also being detatched from reality and under duress that price of paper would be invalid anyway. Also they are obstructing the process by which I get my benefits and rent paid so today I wrote another of my politely shitty letters explaing to the dept of work and pensions which I am keeping in triplicate (my mum is an ex civil servant :lulz:) to hand in with the form they were
supposed to give me today tommorow which explains everything to them as to why it has taken this long. To get it thee if at all and tommorow I am going to call the inland revenue and see if my taxes have been properly paid and to fuck the guy over with what I know so far.
So I have massive tension headache and my plan for tomorrow to get my old net connection fixed is fucked.
Wow, it seems like even ASKING you to sign such a document must be illegal.
So I ain't got no depression, but what I do has is OCD, which usually manifests itself in mild ways but, rarely, escalates to a problematic point. Last time it was bedbugs, fear of. I just realized that my constant worrying about people, which is a fairly normal state of existence for me, has recently escalated into the "obsessive" category. I realized this when I realized that Hippie Boy hasn't texted me in EIGHT DAYS, which should be a godsend because I was going to break up with him and also it makes perfect sense after I rebuffed his advances on Valentine's Day, but the first thing I thought was "OH NO I BETTER TEXT HIM AND MAKE SURE HE'S NOT DEAD!"
People I have been obsessively worried about the deaths of in the last few days include but are not limited to:
My EFO (there was an incident involving her being out of the house and unaccounted for for about an hour)
Roger
My dad
Hippie boy
Sir Talksalot (I don't even like that guy, why???)
Mario
Last night, in particular, involved me sleepless and in tears because I was convinced that Mario is dying. Which, although I am not the only one of his friends to have had that thought, is still totally ridiculous no matter how I try to justify it.
I can't stand the smell of booze and cigarettes on people. I don't know, it just reminds me of the alcoholic great aunt I never had.
Yes I'm not signing anything. Hopefully my document should be there today.
I have nothing to complain about, life is great :D
Arthritis sucks. Not sure if it's rheumatoid or regular - going to the doctor's tomorrow. All of my fingers are sore and stiff but the index finger on my right hand is the worst. It's swollen, red, and very tender, and there are raised "bumps" on the first joint. Can't hold anything with my right hand without extreme amounts of pain.
Kodak just announced that they are discontinuing their 120 and 220 films.
I hopped quick onto Amazon to stock up and, of course, the shit costs twice what it did last week.
FUCK YOU, KODAK
Also, what are they THINKING? With the resurgence of medium-format cameras 120 and 220 are probably their only hope to survive the digital era. Fuckers.
Quote from: Muir on February 23, 2010, 01:24:20 PM
Arthritis sucks. Not sure if it's rheumatoid or regular - going to the doctor's tomorrow. All of my fingers are sore and stiff but the index finger on my right hand is the worst. It's swollen, red, and very tender, and there are raised "bumps" on the first joint. Can't hold anything with my right hand without extreme amounts of pain.
Oh shit sorry to hear,
Do slow stretchs with the hand, lay down nice and straight on your back (Just use the bed) arms straight out next to your sides, then just slowly raise your arms then stretch your fingers nice and slowly out when your holding your arms atleast 90 ~ 110 degrees in the air, then as your lower your hands just slowly get out of the stretch as your hands lay down by your side again. Just gotta remain calm and relaxed.
Make sure you have some Fish Oil (Good for joint pain and arthritis) and ask if you can get Glucosamine tablets or something like that. And ask about whether if Icing is a good idea at this stage.
It could also be possible you have a nerve compression in your ellbow (Hence the pain - it could be tendonitis), do you do any special sort of activities that take prolonged hours? Or sit in any particular position?
They'll probably put you on ibuprofen to begin with
.. lol aww crap now I remember why I wanted to get into Physio.
eta : after you've found some improvement, look into getting some light-exercises done. You'd definatly be better off visiting the Physio instead of the Doc.
Quote from: Muir on February 23, 2010, 01:24:20 PM
Arthritis sucks. Not sure if it's rheumatoid or regular - going to the doctor's tomorrow. All of my fingers are sore and stiff but the index finger on my right hand is the worst. It's swollen, red, and very tender, and there are raised "bumps" on the first joint. Can't hold anything with my right hand without extreme amounts of pain.
Oh, crap! that's suckerrific.
Thanks guys. NP, right now I'm going through 1200 mg of Ibuprofen a day just to bring the pain down to coping levels. Pain killers have never done much for me and I cant take codine due to allergies. I have a small bowl of water on a table next to my pc desk that I keep full of warm water at all times. It helps more than the pills, I think. :3
My mom has given me her permission to blame her for this (crap like this runs rampant on her side of the family). Other than that, I'll live. I've been through so much in my life up to now, and I'm just crazy enough that I'm not going to let a little swelling and pain get to me. :D
another good day today, sometimes life has such a wonderful warm feeling that all I can do is be thankful to be alive.
Quote from: Muir on February 23, 2010, 11:02:27 PM
Thanks guys. NP, right now I'm going through 1200 mg of Ibuprofen a day just to bring the pain down to coping levels. Pain killers have never done much for me and I cant take codine due to allergies. I have a small bowl of water on a table next to my pc desk that I keep full of warm water at all times. It helps more than the pills, I think. :3
My mom has given me her permission to blame her for this (crap like this runs rampant on her side of the family). Other than that, I'll live. I've been through so much in my life up to now, and I'm just crazy enough that I'm not going to let a little swelling and pain get to me. :D
Becareful with the ibuprofen, those things can be bad at high doseage and also on long periods. I forget exactly, but they're worth having a look into. Bad for stomach if memory serves. But you don't have to live with pain. You can reduce the effects of it alot. a 5 minute stretch can do wonders in the long run
Anyhow, I'm not sure exactly what your doing or how much you know - and I'm not a professional or anything ... (maybe one day however :lol:)
Swelling pain can be very annoying, though I'm not sure if warm-water is good with inflamation, if your have muscle pain then I think warmth is the best, but joint pain and inflamation - icing is good.
Sunlight helps to, try forcefully sunbath around 10~15 minutes every few or so days, it does help with bones.
I forget the theory, but with exercises - a liquid is released and reabsorbed by your joint bones which helps keep them lubricated.
Getting onto Glucosamine helps rebuild cartalige (If you have a shellfish allergy becareful), Fish Oil (Omega3 - you can just buy fish oil capsules if you hate eating fish) helps with keeping the joints lubricated. Arthritis is usually damage to the joints + cartalige and due to a lack of lubrication so the bones are rubbing against each other (Unless its like rheumatoid or something like that)
Of course double check with the physio/doctor. If you see a physio make sure you push to ask on what stretchs to do and exercises to focus on - then do them whenever possible.
Weight loss is also magnificent in cases like this, it eases the burden.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 23, 2010, 03:03:56 AM
So I ain't got no depression, but what I do has is OCD, which usually manifests itself in mild ways but, rarely, escalates to a problematic point. Last time it was bedbugs, fear of. I just realized that my constant worrying about people, which is a fairly normal state of existence for me, has recently escalated into the "obsessive" category. I realized this when I realized that Hippie Boy hasn't texted me in EIGHT DAYS, which should be a godsend because I was going to break up with him and also it makes perfect sense after I rebuffed his advances on Valentine's Day, but the first thing I thought was "OH NO I BETTER TEXT HIM AND MAKE SURE HE'S NOT DEAD!"
People I have been obsessively worried about the deaths of in the last few days include but are not limited to:
My EFO (there was an incident involving her being out of the house and unaccounted for for about an hour)
Roger
My dad
Hippie boy
Sir Talksalot (I don't even like that guy, why???)
Mario
Last night, in particular, involved me sleepless and in tears because I was convinced that Mario is dying. Which, although I am not the only one of his friends to have had that thought, is still totally ridiculous no matter how I try to justify it.
Roger isn't going to die.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 23, 2010, 03:03:56 AM
My EFO (there was an incident involving her being out of the house and unaccounted for for about an hour)
This happened to me once. My son was inside his friend's house and was supposed to be outside where I could see him. He was 10 minutes late coming home.
I flipped out and called the police.
I felt like an asshole when they were standing there telling me they couldn't find him and he came walking up.
I remember when I was little I would amuse myself by hiding places. One day I was hiding underneath the computer desk for a while and my mom didn't know where I was, and starting calling for me. I thought it was funny (yeah, I was a little shit) to stay quiet and see what would happen. But then I heard her dial the police and was like "Oshit I'm right here I'm right here! I guess it's not funny anymore!"
Quote from: Maria on February 24, 2010, 12:34:34 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 23, 2010, 03:03:56 AM
So I ain't got no depression, but what I do has is OCD, which usually manifests itself in mild ways but, rarely, escalates to a problematic point. Last time it was bedbugs, fear of. I just realized that my constant worrying about people, which is a fairly normal state of existence for me, has recently escalated into the "obsessive" category. I realized this when I realized that Hippie Boy hasn't texted me in EIGHT DAYS, which should be a godsend because I was going to break up with him and also it makes perfect sense after I rebuffed his advances on Valentine's Day, but the first thing I thought was "OH NO I BETTER TEXT HIM AND MAKE SURE HE'S NOT DEAD!"
People I have been obsessively worried about the deaths of in the last few days include but are not limited to:
My EFO (there was an incident involving her being out of the house and unaccounted for for about an hour)
Roger
My dad
Hippie boy
Sir Talksalot (I don't even like that guy, why???)
Mario
Last night, in particular, involved me sleepless and in tears because I was convinced that Mario is dying. Which, although I am not the only one of his friends to have had that thought, is still totally ridiculous no matter how I try to justify it.
Roger isn't going to die.
GOOD. Sometimes I just need to be told this shit.
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on February 24, 2010, 05:45:11 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 23, 2010, 03:03:56 AM
My EFO (there was an incident involving her being out of the house and unaccounted for for about an hour)
This happened to me once. My son was inside his friend's house and was supposed to be outside where I could see him. He was 10 minutes late coming home.
I flipped out and called the police.
I felt like an asshole when they were standing there telling me they couldn't find him and he came walking up.
Dude, where your kids are concerned freaking out over not knowing where they are for 10 minutes is totally justified. I was once in hysterics because LO thought it would be funny to hide from me. She was four, and within a few minutes I became convinced she had gotten outside and been kidnapped or was lost. EFO got outside TWICE when she was a toddler, so it wasn't such an unreasonable idea.
Needless to say, after seeing Mommy have a hysterical breakdown, she never did that again.
Another lovely day, the sun is shining and there's not a drop of rain about. What a wonderful world.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 24, 2010, 06:04:37 AM
Quote from: Maria on February 24, 2010, 12:34:34 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 23, 2010, 03:03:56 AM
So I ain't got no depression, but what I do has is OCD, which usually manifests itself in mild ways but, rarely, escalates to a problematic point. Last time it was bedbugs, fear of. I just realized that my constant worrying about people, which is a fairly normal state of existence for me, has recently escalated into the "obsessive" category. I realized this when I realized that Hippie Boy hasn't texted me in EIGHT DAYS, which should be a godsend because I was going to break up with him and also it makes perfect sense after I rebuffed his advances on Valentine's Day, but the first thing I thought was "OH NO I BETTER TEXT HIM AND MAKE SURE HE'S NOT DEAD!"
People I have been obsessively worried about the deaths of in the last few days include but are not limited to:
My EFO (there was an incident involving her being out of the house and unaccounted for for about an hour)
Roger
My dad
Hippie boy
Sir Talksalot (I don't even like that guy, why???)
Mario
Last night, in particular, involved me sleepless and in tears because I was convinced that Mario is dying. Which, although I am not the only one of his friends to have had that thought, is still totally ridiculous no matter how I try to justify it.
Roger isn't going to die.
GOOD. Sometimes I just need to be told this shit.
I cannot be killed, much like palo verde beetles and New York wharf rats. Thanks for your concern, though.
Quote from: Faust on February 24, 2010, 02:56:36 PM
Another lovely day, the sun is shining and there's not a drop of rain about. What a wonderful world.
I'm lying in bed with a laptop and a big mug of soup.
Yeah, life is pretty good.
It's completely irrational and not reality-based. I just start going in my head and somehow at the time it makes sense. I've been able to tone it down a lot since I realized what I was doing, though, which is good.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 24, 2010, 03:38:34 PM
It's completely irrational and not reality-based. I just start going in my head and somehow at the time it makes sense. I've been able to tone it down a lot since I realized what I was doing, though, which is good.
I know precisely how you feel. :lol:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 24, 2010, 03:41:09 PM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 24, 2010, 03:38:34 PM
It's completely irrational and not reality-based. I just start going in my head and somehow at the time it makes sense. I've been able to tone it down a lot since I realized what I was doing, though, which is good.
I know precisely how you feel. :lol:
Heh!
So I haven't masturbated for several weeks because I have this thing where I start crying after I orgasm. I gave it a shot today to see if it's gone away, and it hasn't.
I'm sure that for someone out there, that's a feature. For me, it's definitely a bug. :argh!:
That sucks. :sad:
It's fairly goddamn lame.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 26, 2010, 07:15:50 PM
So I haven't masturbated for several weeks because I have this thing where I start crying after I orgasm. I gave it a shot today to see if it's gone away, and it hasn't.
I'm sure that for someone out there, that's a feature. For me, it's definitely a bug. :argh!:
easy solution: never stop orgasming.
That probably sounds better in theory than it would work out in practice...
Nigel I empathise, hon, I am having trouble with the voices and the fap.
It gets so I can get the horn but the psychosis makes it difficult to impossible to climax.
That's my biggest issue with the crazy. Stress makes it worse but I have had to quit the pot and the main other coping mechanism also makes me feel fucked up and I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to deal with it.
Also my dad is getting on my and my stepmother's nerves and making her feel stupid. Apparently I'm weird cos I like literature like Chaucer and Shakespeare and like to eat a high fibre diet with plenty of vegetables.
I have given up trying to cook here cos they are so set in their ways and everything I make us weird.
I'm looking forward to seeing a real shrink instead of the community psychiactric nurse so I can get anti psychotics if I need them.
Hopefully they will prescribe me ones that will not fuck with my sexual function too much and not make me gain a fuckton of weight.
Not being able to climax is the worst... so frustrating! Especially fapping; it's not so bad if you just can't finish with a partner and have to get yourself off manually afterward.
This post requires to be in a separate post from the last one because I didn't want to mingle what I'm about to say with discussion of fappage.
So, my housemate has a dead chinchilla in the freezer
which I have asked her to please get rid of.
She says that she is planning to, but
she likes to get it out sometimes
to pet it.
:x
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 26, 2010, 07:15:50 PM
So I haven't masturbated for several weeks because I have this thing where I start crying after I orgasm. I gave it a shot today to see if it's gone away, and it hasn't.
I'm sure that for someone out there, that's a feature. For me, it's definitely a bug. :argh!:
Yeah, that must make casual sex kinda awkward. Mind you, there's some nice dacrophiliacs out there.
I wouldn't let it stop you from fapping though, nobody to see the tears but you.
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on February 27, 2010, 02:55:24 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 26, 2010, 07:15:50 PM
So I haven't masturbated for several weeks because I have this thing where I start crying after I orgasm. I gave it a shot today to see if it's gone away, and it hasn't.
I'm sure that for someone out there, that's a feature. For me, it's definitely a bug. :argh!:
Yeah, that must make casual sex kinda awkward. Mind you, there's some nice dacrophiliacs out there.
I wouldn't let it stop you from fapping though, nobody to see the tears but you.
Yeah, but then instead of being happy and sated I'm sad and useless.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 27, 2010, 03:01:41 AM
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on February 27, 2010, 02:55:24 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 26, 2010, 07:15:50 PM
So I haven't masturbated for several weeks because I have this thing where I start crying after I orgasm. I gave it a shot today to see if it's gone away, and it hasn't.
I'm sure that for someone out there, that's a feature. For me, it's definitely a bug. :argh!:
Yeah, that must make casual sex kinda awkward. Mind you, there's some nice dacrophiliacs out there.
I wouldn't let it stop you from fapping though, nobody to see the tears but you.
Yeah, but then instead of being happy and sated I'm sad and useless.
Yeah, that certainly sounds as if it defeats the purpose of fapping in the first place.
My dad woke me up by threatening to kick me out of his place cos I was on the phone to Payne last night trying to explain how I feel about how he deals with my illness and how he seems to have come to his own conclusions on what has made me ill and even my mum has accused me of smoking pot again.
I am feeling so stuck here right now with no way to vent how I feel about the situation I'm in. I've only just got my old phone back and I have had no privacy to talk to anyone privately and when I do the deaf old fuck miraculously grows a pair of ears when I calmly voice my frustrations about how he deals with it.
I just want the voices to stop so I can have my life back.
Quote from: Rainy Day Pixie on February 27, 2010, 10:51:40 AM
My dad woke me up by threatening to kick me out of his place cos I was on the phone to Payne last night trying to explain how I feel about how he deals with my illness and how he seems to have come to his own conclusions on what has made me ill and even my mum has accused me of smoking pot again.
I am feeling so stuck here right now with no way to vent how I feel about the situation I'm in. I've only just got my old phone back and I have had no privacy to talk to anyone privately and when I do the deaf old fuck miraculously grows a pair of ears when I calmly voice my frustrations about how he deals with it.
I just want the voices to stop so I can have my life back.
Ah, hon. :cry:
Aww Pixie. :( :( :(
Quote from: Rainy Day Pixie on February 27, 2010, 10:51:40 AM
My dad woke me up by threatening to kick me out of his place cos I was on the phone to Payne last night trying to explain how I feel about how he deals with my illness and how he seems to have come to his own conclusions on what has made me ill and even my mum has accused me of smoking pot again.
I am feeling so stuck here right now with no way to vent how I feel about the situation I'm in. I've only just got my old phone back and I have had no privacy to talk to anyone privately and when I do the deaf old fuck miraculously grows a pair of ears when I calmly voice my frustrations about how he deals with it.
I just want the voices to stop so I can have my life back.
That is total crap. :( I'm sorry Pix.
:cry: I'm sorry, Pix.
He just has a very short temper. I can't deal with conflict or stress atm and yesterday I had more silences than all the rest of the week, and generally more control over how the voices behave. I am not going to be booted out on my arse but the old man needs to be able to deal with me calmly and stop upsetting my step-mum who doesn't deserve his shit either. The old man's BIP is so small the bars must pinch his beer gut.
Anyway I need to eat my sauce from a jar chicken curry and do some rice for it.
Thing is about making me go to my mums house is that my younger sister with the frontal lobe damage has always been a bit of an attention hooer brain damage or not and stresses me out a hell of a lot.
Quote from: Rainy Day Pixie on February 22, 2010, 07:42:08 PM
My boss is being a complete cunt and tried to get me to sign a document saying that I won't sue em if they terminate my contract. I'm undergoing psychiactric assessment and signing that may be as good as signing away any benefits and also being detatched from reality and under duress that price of paper would be invalid anyway. Also they are obstructing the process by which I get my benefits and rent paid so today I wrote another of my politely shitty letters explaing to the dept of work and pensions which I am keeping in triplicate (my mum is an ex civil servant :lulz:) to hand in with the form they were
supposed to give me today tommorow which explains everything to them as to why it has taken this long. To get it thee if at all and tommorow I am going to call the inland revenue and see if my taxes have been properly paid and to fuck the guy over with what I know so far.
So I have massive tension headache and my plan for tomorrow to get my old net connection fixed is fucked.
Pro-tip:
Whenever ANYONE asks you to sign ANYTHING tell them you'd like to take the document home, read it and will return it signed, later.
This is just standard policy for me, whether I completely trust the document and everything or not, it is always coming home with me to read and ponder in a quiet setting without distraction or pressure.
If they can't do that, I don't sign it.
Except yesterday when I signed up for the gym. Because their special offer that would save me quite some bucks was only valid until that last day. And I regretted signing it without giving it some good thinking time immediately when I went home.
Out of principle mostly.
Nigel is all the sudden horny for no apparent reason.
After the minus-sex-drive I've had for the last month, this is surprising and kind of annoying.
FUCK YOU, SPRING! :argh!:
Well all's well that ends well, I managed to do the minimum thing I set out to do today for my work and my brother (with whom I'm working on together this project) was satisfied. It's so easy when they don't know you're splitting up a list of tiny improvements so that it sounds like more than it really is, cannot have been more than 10-15 lines of code for the entire day. Ok they were mostly pretty good lines of code, but still. And my brother knows about the trouble I'm wrestling with, so he was kind and supportive. I wanted to go to the gym today, but now it's dark and I don't feel like it anymore. I went to the supermarket to get some beer, new coffee, cola and crisps. I wasted my entire day trying to get to work and now I am done, but I am also beat. I cried on the way back from the supermarket. At least I managed to clean up my kitchen somewhat and the stock I'm boiling must be pretty much done by now. At least I got done the bit I set out to do today, this is not always the case, I can easily waste days on trying to get to work without even getting a littlebit done.
(Ok now I'm glad this thread is here so I can post this depressing whine of mine without making a new thread or spagging up somebody else's, I kinda had to get this off my chest and my gf is gone for the weekend)
Trip, I didn't realize you were feeling so crappy. I hope you feel better.
Trip, do something that is both ignorant and fun. That always works for me.
I have some suggestions, if you need them.
I'm sorry you're having a hard time, Trip. :(
LMNO and Nigel well it's just the same usual stuff I've been battling for the past couple of years.
(Kind of same reason that PD.com front page is not going anywhere fast, fortunately there's no money involved)
It's actually really good I did get something done today, I was this close to just saying fuck it (again) and giving up (again), those 15 lines of code were written in the last hour before I called my bro to tell him I finished the stuff I promised him for today. Cause at least when you finish something, you don't have to do it again and the finish-line of this elephant-sized mosquite-project gets another baby step closer. Maybe I'll actually be done in a week or two, if I can keep this up.
What made me sad was the fact that I realized I was telling myself to be proud of this really eeny teeny bitsy accomplishment that nonetheless made me agonize all day. I mean, the previous week, I actually managed to finsih the tiny bit of work I set out for the day in the morning, without too much agonizing, and after a few hours of rest I could actually do something fun with my spare time, which is when I made that squiggly orange randomized loopy thing I posted in B&B.
The crap bit is I realized if I finish this project, people may think that I actually am able to do this. And want me to do it again. Well not making a website, I dunno if I ever want to program software for money ever again, Bachelor's degree in Computing Science or not, but just finishing a project in general, finishing a project. And then I got sad because it was such a fucked up thought.
Dok Howl, ignorant and fun you say? Well my plan was to spag on the board for a while, drink a few beers, maybe smoke one and watch a movie, then go to bed. Oh and strain, cool and freeze the stock, of course. Gotta finish that otherwise all the simmering and stuff will be wasted. I suppose your suggestions are a bit more exciting? :) Some friends of mine are playing poker tonight, but I don't really like poker, seeing that they're usually better at it than me.
In the ignorant-and-fun department of stuff-to-do-outside, there's still the roundabout around the corner, that, unlike every other roundabout in the Netherlands does not have a butt-ugly piece of art in the middle of it, but I still don't have a good idea for something big and heavy enough to place there, that looks enough like it could be concept art to last at least a week or so.
I would love to hear your suggestions, anyway :)
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 04, 2010, 07:30:48 PM
Dok Howl, ignorant and fun you say? Well my plan was to spag on the board for a while, drink a few beers, maybe smoke one and watch a movie, then go to bed. Oh and strain, cool and freeze the stock, of course. Gotta finish that otherwise all the simmering and stuff will be wasted. I suppose your suggestions are a bit more exciting? :) Some friends of mine are playing poker tonight, but I don't really like poker, seeing that they're usually better at it than me.
In the ignorant-and-fun department of stuff-to-do-outside, there's still the roundabout around the corner, that, unlike every other roundabout in the Netherlands does not have a butt-ugly piece of art in the middle of it, but I still don't have a good idea for something big and heavy enough to place there, that looks enough like it could be concept art to last at least a week or so.
I would love to hear your suggestions, anyway :)
1. If you have a car, improve it's appearance and go for a drive. Spiky bits are recommended. Also, mustache. Big, obnoxious mustache. Play Wagner or Orff on the radio LOUDLY, and scream battlecries at pedestrians and other drivers. Best done with friends.
2. You're in Europe, so I assume irresponsible firearm use is out of the question.
3. Kidnap poker buddies and go make life more confusing/amusing for a store clerk. Have everyone walk in one at a time, and ask for something stupid/obviously not sold at that shop. Have the last guy pose as a survey taker for customer satisfaction for that item.
4. Go for a hike with your GF. One of
those kind of hikes (wilderness nookie is a very potent way of generating feel-good brain chemicals). If it's cold as fuck, so much the better...bring a sleeping bag. Best done in daylight.
5. Seriously, leave the substances alone if you're feeling down. Exercise/hilarity won't
cure depression, but they'll sure as hell take the edge off of it, and substances will make you feel better in the short run, but will fucking your shit over time.
Ok that only leaves option three, since my GF is away for the weekend until monday, and I don't have a driver's license (I will get lessons, soon-ish, though)
I will check what the poker-buddies are up to. This is a good plan.
I definitely agree with the wilderness-nookie btw, but, lacking the GF is going to make it sort of troublesome and a wilderness-wank ... I dunno :)
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 04, 2010, 07:52:51 PM
Ok that only leaves option three, since my GF is away for the weekend until monday, and I don't have a driver's license (I will get lessons, soon-ish, though)
I will check what the poker-buddies are up to. This is a good plan.
I definitely agree with the wilderness-nookie btw, but, lacking the GF is going to make it sort of troublesome and a wilderness-wank ... I dunno :)
LIES THOSE DEER ARE ASKING FOR IT JUST LOOK HOW THEY STICK THAT TAIL UP
You have deer, over there?
We have pigeons and cats. And if you go to the outskirts of the city somewhat maybe a rabbit or a squirrel. And if you go further, there will be cows and sheep, and .. ostriches and some llamas and, really, those fucking farmers couldn't simply stick to proper Dutch cattle could they? noooo had to have fucking ostriches. wtf.
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 04, 2010, 08:00:52 PM
You have deer, over there?
We have pigeons and cats. And if you go to the outskirts of the city somewhat maybe a rabbit or a squirrel. And if you go further, there will be cows and sheep, and .. ostriches and some llamas and, really, those fucking farmers couldn't simply stick to proper Dutch cattle could they? noooo had to have fucking ostriches. wtf.
We have:
Feral ostriches (from farms). Let me say that again: FERAL OSTRICHES!!!1 Fucking win.
Coyotes
Deer
Javelinas (shoot on sight)
Bears that have acquired a taste for people, from eating illegals trying to cross the Santa Ritas.
Bobcats
Freakishly large cougars
A dozen different poisonous snakes
Scorpions. Millions and millions of scorpions.
Tarantulas
Tarantula hawks (God is a psycho)
Wild dogs
Cattle (in the mountains)
Killer bees. Huge fucking swarms of killer bees. No regular bees.
Tweakers
Blood-sucking beetles. 3" long. Not kidding.
Hornets the size of your finger.
I'm forgetting some stuff, but you get the idea.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 08:06:08 PM
Feral ostriches (from farms). Let me say that again: FERAL OSTRICHES!!!1 Fucking win.
:lulz: AWESOME
QuoteJavelinas (shoot on sight)
They look like wild pigs? So I assume you shoot them on sight because they make good bacon?
QuoteCoyotes
Bobcats
awesome?
biggest wild animal I saw lately was when my gf was driving us back home from her parents in Germany and suddenly there was this little herd of boars crossing the road. We didn't hit them fortunately. They have wild animals there, like um boars and deer, mostly. And squirrels.
QuoteTarantulas
I once saw on TV you can take a tarantula by the body with chopsticks, and then fry it in hot oil. Ever tried that? Is it any good? How about with chocolate dip?
QuoteTarantula hawks (God is a psycho)
I looked that up and oh fuck. We have similar wasps but they do it with caterpillars. But they are quite rare and not nearly as big.
QuoteBlood-sucking beetles. 3" long. Not kidding.
Hornets the size of your finger.
I'm forgetting some stuff, but you get the idea.
Well fuck me, if we had all that creepy stuff ... two things .. you bet your ass I'd want the right to bear arms :) and second .. I might think twice about getting wilderness nookie :-P
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 04, 2010, 08:20:50 PM
They look like wild pigs? So I assume you shoot them on sight because they make good bacon?
No, because they're vicious little bastards that will gut you with one swipe.
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 04, 2010, 08:20:50 PM
Well fuck me, if we had all that creepy stuff ... two things .. you bet your ass I'd want the right to bear arms :) and second .. I might think twice about getting wilderness nookie :-P
It kind of adds to the effect, actually.
Hey, aren't you allowed to shoot tweakers on sight, too?
Kidnap poker playing amigos. Get them to play poker with socks on cocks in middle of roundabout.
Lulz potential is huge.
And rog is on correct cycle about feeling bad and altering state of mind with beer or weed.
Non wilderness fap might help you tho. Endorphins ftw!
Quote from: LMNO on March 04, 2010, 08:27:12 PM
Hey, aren't you allowed to shoot tweakers on sight, too?
You'd think so, wouldn't you?
Dok,
Has door-ed a few, though.
Quote from: Rainy Day Pixie on March 04, 2010, 08:29:51 PM
Kidnap poker playing amigos. Get them to play poker with socks on cocks in middle of roundabout.
Lulz potential is huge.
And rog is on correct cycle about feeling bad and altering state of mind with beer or weed.
Non wilderness fap might help you tho. Endorphins ftw!
OR
GET GF HOME, GO HAVE WILD MONKEY SEX IN PARKED CAR ON PUBLIC STREET.
Maria and I do this occasionally, and it's fun. Really fun.
Triple, are you suffering from Programmers Depression?
Really, really fun.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 08:34:38 PM
GET GF HOME, GO HAVE WILD MONKEY SEX IN PARKED CAR ON PUBLIC STREET.
Maria and I do this occasionally, and it's fun. Really fun.
When taking into account your usual descriptions of "what happens when old people have sex", this seems like one of the most unfair IRL trollings ever.
I mean, everyone would
want to look at Maria, but would have to bear witness to you, as well.
Quote from: LMNO on March 04, 2010, 08:36:52 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 08:34:38 PM
GET GF HOME, GO HAVE WILD MONKEY SEX IN PARKED CAR ON PUBLIC STREET.
Maria and I do this occasionally, and it's fun. Really fun.
When taking into account your usual descriptions of "what happens when old people have sex", this seems like one of the most unfair IRL trollings ever.
I mean, everyone would want to look at Maria, but would have to bear witness to you, as well.
Yeah, Maria is in crazy good shape.
I'm not as gross as I was, but the hair. Oh, God, the HAIR.
Are you sick 000? Or just depressed?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 08:37:45 PM
Quote from: LMNO on March 04, 2010, 08:36:52 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 08:34:38 PM
GET GF HOME, GO HAVE WILD MONKEY SEX IN PARKED CAR ON PUBLIC STREET.
Maria and I do this occasionally, and it's fun. Really fun.
When taking into account your usual descriptions of "what happens when old people have sex", this seems like one of the most unfair IRL trollings ever.
I mean, everyone would want to look at Maria, but would have to bear witness to you, as well.
Yeah, Maria is in crazy good shape.
I'm not as gross as I was, but the hair. Oh, God, the HAIR.
"Why is that hot chick banging a yeti with mange?"
Quote from: LMNO on March 04, 2010, 08:40:55 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 08:37:45 PM
Quote from: LMNO on March 04, 2010, 08:36:52 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 08:34:38 PM
GET GF HOME, GO HAVE WILD MONKEY SEX IN PARKED CAR ON PUBLIC STREET.
Maria and I do this occasionally, and it's fun. Really fun.
When taking into account your usual descriptions of "what happens when old people have sex", this seems like one of the most unfair IRL trollings ever.
I mean, everyone would want to look at Maria, but would have to bear witness to you, as well.
Yeah, Maria is in crazy good shape.
I'm not as gross as I was, but the hair. Oh, God, the HAIR.
"Why is that hot chick banging a yeti with mange?"
"HELLO, 911? SOME LADY IS BEING ATTACKED BY A BEAR
IN HER CAR...OR VICE-VERSA. NOT SURE."
:lulz:
The feral ostriches can't be a good thing, but OH FUCK :lulz:
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 08:49:01 PM
The feral ostriches can't be a good thing, but OH FUCK :lulz:
The tendency is to shoot the prehistoric freaks on sight.
Dok,
Has no love for the megafauna axebeak holdovers.
Quote from: Turdley Burgleson on March 04, 2010, 08:38:49 PM
Are you sick 000? Or just depressed?
Depressed, I'm feeling better now a bit. Soon I will finish the stock, and call my friends. Thanks everyone :)
Also that car in the street sex ... Maybe if it is going to snow again :) Dutch houses are known for having really big windows facing the street which are not only good for looking into, but also looking out of. But the idea is excellent :D
The girl is visiting her parents, 350km (220mi) away, though :)
also :lulz:
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 04, 2010, 08:53:46 PM
Also that car in the street sex ... Maybe if it is going to snow again :) Dutch houses are known for having really big windows facing the street which are not only good for looking into, but also looking out of. But the idea is excellent :D
This would matter why?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 08:06:08 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 04, 2010, 08:00:52 PM
You have deer, over there?
We have pigeons and cats. And if you go to the outskirts of the city somewhat maybe a rabbit or a squirrel. And if you go further, there will be cows and sheep, and .. ostriches and some llamas and, really, those fucking farmers couldn't simply stick to proper Dutch cattle could they? noooo had to have fucking ostriches. wtf.
We have:
Feral ostriches (from farms). Let me say that again: FERAL OSTRICHES!!!1 Fucking win.
Coyotes
Deer
Javelinas (shoot on sight)
Bears that have acquired a taste for people, from eating illegals trying to cross the Santa Ritas.
Bobcats
Freakishly large cougars
A dozen different poisonous snakes
Scorpions. Millions and millions of scorpions.
Tarantulas
Tarantula hawks (God is a psycho)
Wild dogs
Cattle (in the mountains)
Killer bees. Huge fucking swarms of killer bees. No regular bees.
Tweakers
Blood-sucking beetles. 3" long. Not kidding.
Hornets the size of your finger.
I'm forgetting some stuff, but you get the idea.
You know, the funnest fact of this list is that we have most of these inside the city, too.
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on March 04, 2010, 09:01:13 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 08:06:08 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 04, 2010, 08:00:52 PM
You have deer, over there?
We have pigeons and cats. And if you go to the outskirts of the city somewhat maybe a rabbit or a squirrel. And if you go further, there will be cows and sheep, and .. ostriches and some llamas and, really, those fucking farmers couldn't simply stick to proper Dutch cattle could they? noooo had to have fucking ostriches. wtf.
We have:
Feral ostriches (from farms). Let me say that again: FERAL OSTRICHES!!!1 Fucking win.
Coyotes
Deer
Javelinas (shoot on sight)
Bears that have acquired a taste for people, from eating illegals trying to cross the Santa Ritas.
Bobcats
Freakishly large cougars
A dozen different poisonous snakes
Scorpions. Millions and millions of scorpions.
Tarantulas
Tarantula hawks (God is a psycho)
Wild dogs
Cattle (in the mountains)
Killer bees. Huge fucking swarms of killer bees. No regular bees.
Tweakers
Blood-sucking beetles. 3" long. Not kidding.
Hornets the size of your finger.
I'm forgetting some stuff, but you get the idea.
You know, the funnest fact of this list is that we have most of these inside the city, too.
All of them, except the cattle and ostriches.
Had about 20 fucking javelinas in the wash across the street last night.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 08:50:08 PM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 08:49:01 PM
The feral ostriches can't be a good thing, but OH FUCK :lulz:
The tendency is to shoot the prehistoric freaks on sight.
Dok,
Has no love for the megafauna axebeak holdovers.
We have a lot of emu and llama farms up here.
God I hope some of those fuckers get away and start feral colonies!
We don't have so many dangerous animals here. We have:
Bears
Coyotes
Raccoons
Rattlesnakes
Black Widows
Hobo spiders
um
hummingbirds
nutria
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:03:14 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 08:50:08 PM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 08:49:01 PM
The feral ostriches can't be a good thing, but OH FUCK :lulz:
The tendency is to shoot the prehistoric freaks on sight.
Dok,
Has no love for the megafauna axebeak holdovers.
We have a lot of emu and llama farms up here.
God I hope some of those fuckers get away and start feral colonies!
Llamas would do really well here, but nobody has taken a stab at it. The US cavalry had camels here a hundred years ago, but they killed them all when they were done, the bastards.
Unfortunately, the ostriches don't do well (climate's right, food supply isn't), and tend to go apeshit for a while and then die.
Apeshit ostriches. If you haven't seen one up close, you have no idea how cool that shit is.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:03:14 PM
We have a lot of emu and llama farms up here.
God I hope some of those fuckers get away and start feral colonies!
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:03:14 PM
We have a lot of emu and llama farms up here.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:03:14 PM
We have a lot of emu and llama farms up here.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:03:14 PM
...llama....
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:03:14 PM
...llama....
ughh ughh ughh ughgh THOSE THINGS CREEP THE FUCK OUT OF ME
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:04:44 PM
We don't have so many dangerous animals here. We have:
Bears
Coyotes
Raccoons
Rattlesnakes
Black Widows
Hobo spiders
um
hummingbirds
nutria
The desert is a harsh environment, with lots of competition for scarce resources, so
everything is dangerous.
Quote from: NotPublished on March 04, 2010, 09:06:18 PM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:03:14 PM
We have a lot of emu and llama farms up here.
God I hope some of those fuckers get away and start feral colonies!
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:03:14 PM
We have a lot of emu and llama farms up here.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:03:14 PM
We have a lot of emu and llama farms up here.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:03:14 PM
...llama....
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:03:14 PM
...llama....
ughh ughh ughh ughgh THOSE THINGS CREEP THE FUCK OUT OF ME
Why? They're the Jay Leno of the burden beast world.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:02:40 PM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on March 04, 2010, 09:01:13 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 08:06:08 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 04, 2010, 08:00:52 PM
You have deer, over there?
We have pigeons and cats. And if you go to the outskirts of the city somewhat maybe a rabbit or a squirrel. And if you go further, there will be cows and sheep, and .. ostriches and some llamas and, really, those fucking farmers couldn't simply stick to proper Dutch cattle could they? noooo had to have fucking ostriches. wtf.
We have:
Feral ostriches (from farms). Let me say that again: FERAL OSTRICHES!!!1 Fucking win.
Coyotes
Deer
Javelinas (shoot on sight)
Bears that have acquired a taste for people, from eating illegals trying to cross the Santa Ritas.
Bobcats
Freakishly large cougars
A dozen different poisonous snakes
Scorpions. Millions and millions of scorpions.
Tarantulas
Tarantula hawks (God is a psycho)
Wild dogs
Cattle (in the mountains)
Killer bees. Huge fucking swarms of killer bees. No regular bees.
Tweakers
Blood-sucking beetles. 3" long. Not kidding.
Hornets the size of your finger.
I'm forgetting some stuff, but you get the idea.
You know, the funnest fact of this list is that we have most of these inside the city, too.
All of them, except the cattle and ostriches.
Had about 20 fucking javelinas in the wash across the street last night.
Goddamn. Javelinas: Scariest rodent-pig thing EVAR.
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on March 04, 2010, 09:10:08 PM
Goddamn. Javelinas: Scariest rodent-pig thing EVAR.
This is why I kept those ridiculous saddle cannons.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:07:19 PM
Quote from: NotPublished
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:03:14 PM
...UGNNNNNNNNNNNN....
ughh ughh ughh ughgh THOSE THINGS CREEP THE FUCK OUT OF ME
Why? They're the Jay Leno of the burden beast world.
UGNNNNNNNNNNNN
WHY/HOW DO HIS ATOMS BOTHER STAYING TOGETHER?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:10:50 PM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on March 04, 2010, 09:10:08 PM
Goddamn. Javelinas: Scariest rodent-pig thing EVAR.
This is why I kept those ridiculous saddle cannons.
Ooo, those ones you got down in Tombstone?
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on March 04, 2010, 09:13:35 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:10:50 PM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on March 04, 2010, 09:10:08 PM
Goddamn. Javelinas: Scariest rodent-pig thing EVAR.
This is why I kept those ridiculous saddle cannons.
Ooo, those ones you got down in Tombstone?
Yeah, they'll cure what ails you.
If, of course, what ails you is a giant rat-pig thing with 4" tusks that can sprint 40MPH.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:17:21 PM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on March 04, 2010, 09:13:35 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:10:50 PM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on March 04, 2010, 09:10:08 PM
Goddamn. Javelinas: Scariest rodent-pig thing EVAR.
This is why I kept those ridiculous saddle cannons.
Ooo, those ones you got down in Tombstone?
Yeah, they'll cure what ails you.
If, of course, what ails you is a giant rat-pig thing with 4" tusks that can sprint 40MPH.
You have no idea how much i like being on this side of town, where we don't get as many of those bastards.
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on March 04, 2010, 09:22:53 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:17:21 PM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on March 04, 2010, 09:13:35 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:10:50 PM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on March 04, 2010, 09:10:08 PM
Goddamn. Javelinas: Scariest rodent-pig thing EVAR.
This is why I kept those ridiculous saddle cannons.
Ooo, those ones you got down in Tombstone?
Yeah, they'll cure what ails you.
If, of course, what ails you is a giant rat-pig thing with 4" tusks that can sprint 40MPH.
You have no idea how much i like being on this side of town, where we don't get as many of those bastards.
What? Go 1 mile East or South, and see what happens.
It's like a 40K Ork army, only on 4 legs.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:25:10 PM
What? Go 1 mile East or South, and see what happens.
It's like a 40K Ork army, only on 4 legs.
It's not like it matters much where they are, I guess, unless my parents lose patience completely and kick me out before I can gather up enough cash to put a deposit down on a place. :|
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on March 04, 2010, 09:27:35 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:25:10 PM
What? Go 1 mile East or South, and see what happens.
It's like a 40K Ork army, only on 4 legs.
It's not like it matters much where they are, I guess, unless my parents lose patience completely and kick me out before I can gather up enough cash to put a deposit down on a place. :|
We'll deal with that if and when it happens.
You won't be on the street.
Oh, I almost forgot we have cougars and bobcats as well. And on the coast, sea lions, which are mostly not dangerous. Deer, elk and moose. Also weasels and wolverines and shit like that.
We only have Yowie's where I come from
Quote from: NotPublished on March 04, 2010, 09:35:26 PM
We only have Yowie's where I come from
Hey now, don't you live on the world's most dangerous continent?
We have Indigenous! They're all kinds of awesome at hunting all the dangerous shit.
Just cause everything tries to kill you doesn't mean its dangerous.
Mate! I bet you could walk up to the land snakes and give them a kiss
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:41:49 PM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:40:59 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:38:01 PM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:37:04 PM
Quote from: NotPublished on March 04, 2010, 09:35:26 PM
We only have Yowie's where I come from
Hey now, don't you live on the world's most dangerous continent?
Europe?
I thought he was an Aussie.
Europe is more dangeous than Australia.
They have farvennugen. Horrible beasts.
A what?
FARVENNÜGEN? VERDAMMT NUR ARSCHENÜGEN!! :lulz:
I WANT TO BE GERMAN :(
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on March 04, 2010, 09:44:41 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:41:49 PM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:40:59 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:38:01 PM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 04, 2010, 09:37:04 PM
Quote from: NotPublished on March 04, 2010, 09:35:26 PM
We only have Yowie's where I come from
Hey now, don't you live on the world's most dangerous continent?
Europe?
I thought he was an Aussie.
Europe is more dangeous than Australia.
They have farvennugen. Horrible beasts.
A what?
FARVENNÜGEN!
Horrible German animals that trample little kids and eat pets, when they're not sexually assaulting wild boars.
I know ... poor boars :(
Quote from: Triple Zero on March 04, 2010, 09:48:42 PM
I know ... poor boars :(
It's a good thing they can't cross-breed.
:horrormirth:
Don't worry Fereky I agree, I think its hot.
So I just finished the stock :) It's a bit late now so I don't think I'm gonna call those poker buddies. I do have a wonderful cup of chicken-beef soup with noodles and carrot and celery and .. um anchovy (ITS TASTY) and 3 litres of moar stock on the balcony/freezer :D
So, right about 3 pm, my lab mate came up, we were talking for a bit. I was telling him about how crappy I've been feeling, how tired, how unmotivated, and he says, "You know, have you been taking that medication regularly?"
And I say "....nnnno?" And I sigh and realized I've been forgetting to take it.
Quote from: Kai on March 04, 2010, 10:58:21 PM
So, right about 3 pm, my lab mate came up, we were talking for a bit. I was telling him about how crappy I've been feeling, how tired, how unmotivated, and he says, "You know, have you been taking that medication regularly?"
And I say "....nnnno?" And I sigh and realized I've been forgetting to take it.
:crankey:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 11:41:08 PM
Quote from: Kai on March 04, 2010, 10:58:21 PM
So, right about 3 pm, my lab mate came up, we were talking for a bit. I was telling him about how crappy I've been feeling, how tired, how unmotivated, and he says, "You know, have you been taking that medication regularly?"
And I say "....nnnno?" And I sigh and realized I've been forgetting to take it.
:crankey:
I knew you were going to be upset about that, but I thought it would be better to be up front rather than lie.
Kai, do you have a cell phone that has an alarm function? That's how I used to remember taking my pills.
I should be taking it first thing in the morning, when I get up.
You should still set an alarm, if you can. It'll help you remember.
When I was on a lot of pills I missed a bunch of them until I bought a crap load of cheapo alarms and set them up around where I would be when I was due for a pill. Morning pill: I placed it by the sink in the bathroom and set it for a minute or two after I expected to get out of the shower. Mid-morning pills: alarm in my locker set for the break between 1st and 2nd block. Lunch pill: I kept my pill in a baggy in my wallet. It would fall out when I went to pay for lunch.... You get the idea.
I remember to take my pills because they fuck me up.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 05, 2010, 02:41:30 AM
I remember to take my pills because they fuck me up.
lucky bastard
I seem to have lost the ability to cry. Which is weird, because before I used to be able to get weepy at the drop of the hat.
Now all I can do is wail.
Quote from: Nast on March 05, 2010, 05:53:53 AM
I seem to have lost the ability to cry. Which is weird, because before I used to be able to get weepy at the drop of the hat.
Now all I can do is wail.
My oldest daughter was born without the capacity to cry tears. She can, and does, CRY, but her eyes won't weep tears, which got her accused of faking in pre-school until I set them straight.
Once, when she was five, a tear escaped her eye. I took a picture of it.
I am hoping that as she gets older something changes for her, because weeping tears is such a fundamentally human thing I imagine it could be very difficult and unsatisfying to be unable to.
do her eyes get very dry?
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on March 05, 2010, 07:32:52 AM
Quote from: Nast on March 05, 2010, 05:53:53 AM
I seem to have lost the ability to cry. Which is weird, because before I used to be able to get weepy at the drop of the hat.
Now all I can do is wail.
My oldest daughter was born without the capacity to cry tears. She can, and does, CRY, but her eyes won't weep tears, which got her accused of faking in pre-school until I set them straight.
Once, when she was five, a tear escaped her eye. I took a picture of it.
I am hoping that as she gets older something changes for her, because weeping tears is such a fundamentally human thing I imagine it could be very difficult and unsatisfying to be unable to.
Aww. :(
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on March 05, 2010, 12:17:48 AM
You should still set an alarm, if you can. It'll help you remember.
I need to start doing that. I keep forgetting my second dose of ADD stuff until it's too late to take it, and then I get all annoyingly bouncy and distracted and am useless for the rest of the day.
Quote from: Fredamir Putin on March 05, 2010, 07:41:19 AM
do her eyes get very dry?
No, her tear production seems normal, but her drainage ducts are apparently so fantastically efficient that they sweep the tears away before any of them leak out. I'm totally used to it now but people who haven't seen her cry before are usually a bit taken aback. It was also funny when she was small, having a little baby who would be bawling, but with no tears dripping out.
I took my meds earlier last night then watched a Clint Eastwood film and a documentary on chemistry.
I slept until gone midday. I will feel drowsy as fuck all day now.
Dammit I need a lower dose I think.
Plus I'm not on any anti psychotics yet.
I've noticed, that along with the typical foggy head and headache, the last day my temperature sensors have been all wonky. My temperature is fine, I just feel cold unless I really bundle up.