:sad:
:sad:
Dok,
IS POSTING IN THIS HERE FREAD. YES HE IS.
Plus, you're going to die....
Quote from: Iptuous on February 16, 2010, 12:57:30 AM
Plus, you're going to die....
No, you fuckers had your chance. I am immortal, now.
Plus, I got depression.
Why's your life sad, Paesior?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 16, 2010, 12:58:18 AM
Quote from: Iptuous on February 16, 2010, 12:57:30 AM
Plus, you're going to die....
No, you fuckers had your chance. I am immortal, now.
No, man. I was letting the OP know it's gonna die.
you're already dead.
you're going to be fine...
Quote from: Paesior on February 16, 2010, 12:50:53 AM
:sad:
Why? I will shit myself if it's because your car exploded again.
Come on guys :(
DIS FREAD IS SO SAD.
:(
It's alright Paes...you just gotta wait till it hits that breaking point and things shoot back up, somehow.
ITT, everyone who responds seriously needs to check their anti-retard medication and adjust their dosage.
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 16, 2010, 05:46:23 PM
ITT, everyone who responds seriously needs to check their anti-retard medication and adjust their dosage.
Well shit...that's about the last amount of sympathy i had left...fuck U
:sad: No one's ever going to love you. :sad:
:sad:Not even your mother. :sad:
Hey there little buddy. I heard you were sad so here's a picture that should cheer you up:
(http://www.personal.psu.edu/suj133/blogs/ist590-fall2008/starving-child.jpg)
Before you kill yourself or commit some other emo act, look at this picture. Think about it.
Your problems seem pretty fucking weak now, don't they? Go help somebody and you'll feel better.
GOD DAMN PARODY THREADS MAKING MY LIFE SUCK
Quote from: Annabel the Destroyer on February 17, 2010, 04:34:06 AM
Hey there little buddy. I heard you were sad so here's a picture that should cheer you up:
(http://www.personal.psu.edu/suj133/blogs/ist590-fall2008/starving-child.jpg)
Before you kill yourself or commit some other emo act, look at this picture. Think about it.
Your problems seem pretty fucking weak now, don't they? Go help somebody and you'll feel better.
This picture has been made worthless to me since reading the pile of crap that was house of leaves. Not even a slight emotional flicker upon looking at it.
Quote from: Faust on February 17, 2010, 11:02:17 AM
This picture has been made worthless to me since reading the pile of crap that was house of leaves. Not even a slight emotional flicker upon looking at it.
That's horrible faust!
can't you feel for him? that poor buzzard is reduced to eating the loaf that little kid is pinching out, and you don't care a lick?! disgusting....
Iptuous,
now hellbound.
The Other Anon thinks that we'd all be less angsty if we just went outside and lived life for a change.
http://23ae.com/2010/02/boredom
Jesus, I am SO glad that twit doesn't post here anymore.
Quote from: Cramulus on February 17, 2010, 02:03:38 PM
The Other Anon thinks that we'd all be less angsty if we just went outside and lived life for a change.
http://23ae.com/2010/02/boredom
At the end of the post, he has a link to the Intermittens 9 he made. :kingmeh:
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 17, 2010, 04:28:43 PM
Jesus, I am SO glad that twit doesn't post here anymore.
He'll be back...when he needs his fix of stalking me. :lol:
Quote from: Faust on February 17, 2010, 11:02:17 AM
This picture has been made worthless to me since reading the pile of crap that was house of leaves. Not even a slight emotional flicker upon looking at it.
how was house of leaves? not good? somebody emphatically recommended it to me, but I'm not sure I have the attention span. Is it worth the delve?
Quote from: Cramulus on February 18, 2010, 05:42:29 PM
Quote from: Faust on February 17, 2010, 11:02:17 AM
This picture has been made worthless to me since reading the pile of crap that was house of leaves. Not even a slight emotional flicker upon looking at it.
how was house of leaves? not good? somebody emphatically recommended it to me, but I'm not sure I have the attention span. Is it worth the delve?
My 2 cents: a really neat concept, some pretty creative stuff, but very weak in other respects. John, the guy whose story is told in the Courier-font footnotes, seems to end up fucking everything with tits for no purpose other than to have some sex scenes in the book. The climax (if you can call it that) turns out to be rather weak and kills the psychological horror angle.
Still, worth reading IMO if you can immerse yourself in it. I read it by a dim lamp in the basement, by myself, which was very different from reading it in a sunlit living room on the couch. The "fractured mind" aspect of it is kind of neat.
Quote from: Horrendous Foreign Love Stoat on February 18, 2010, 05:38:52 PM
the worst part of that buzzard / dying kid picture is the photographer did flip all about it. wandered off and carried on snapping other shit.
won a Pulitzer and then promptly suicide out of horror.
One of the suck parts about journalism is that the reason journalists are granted a sort of immunity is because they are not supposed to interfere... only to observe and report. Which also creates a horrible ethical dilemma.
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 22, 2010, 01:26:30 AM
Quote from: Horrendous Foreign Love Stoat on February 18, 2010, 05:38:52 PM
the worst part of that buzzard / dying kid picture is the photographer did flip all about it. wandered off and carried on snapping other shit.
won a Pulitzer and then promptly suicide out of horror.
One of the suck parts about journalism is that the reason journalists are granted a sort of immunity is because they are not supposed to interfere... only to observe and report. Which also creates a horrible ethical dilemma.
Yeah. Journalists are like time travellers. If they have any hand in how events unfold, HORRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN.
They have to be basically invisible. If a journalist witnesses a crime in progress, they have to write a story about it rather than calling the police. It'd be hard to be a journalist because you have to stop being a person.
Quote from: Annabel the Destroyer on February 17, 2010, 04:34:06 AM
Hey there little buddy. I heard you were sad so here's a picture that should cheer you up:
(http://www.personal.psu.edu/suj133/blogs/ist590-fall2008/starving-child.jpg)
Before you kill yourself or commit some other emo act, look at this picture. Think about it.
Your problems seem pretty fucking weak now, don't they? Go help somebody and you'll feel better.
so.. we should like... find comfort in other peoples pain?
nice.Protip: one persons shit being worse SHOULD NOT EVER make another persons shit better.
x
edd
p.s. yes I
do get the pointandorjoke, but the way it is expressed in this post is
horrible.
Quote from: Roaring Biscuit! on February 22, 2010, 01:37:46 AM
Protip: one persons shit being worse SHOULD NOT EVER make another persons shit better.
Why the hell shouldn't it?
because getting kicks out of other peoples actual real misery* is shit.
*none of that comedy shit.
Quote from: Roaring Biscuit! on February 22, 2010, 01:50:24 AM
because getting kicks out of other peoples actual real misery* is shit.
*none of that comedy shit.
In terms of our first world problems i think it's fair game. Today i banged my eye (and glasses) pretty hard on the corner of a table. I hope you feel fucking amazing that THAT didn't happen to you.
Quote from: Paesior on February 22, 2010, 01:36:18 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 22, 2010, 01:26:30 AM
Quote from: Horrendous Foreign Love Stoat on February 18, 2010, 05:38:52 PM
the worst part of that buzzard / dying kid picture is the photographer did flip all about it. wandered off and carried on snapping other shit.
won a Pulitzer and then promptly suicide out of horror.
One of the suck parts about journalism is that the reason journalists are granted a sort of immunity is because they are not supposed to interfere... only to observe and report. Which also creates a horrible ethical dilemma.
Yeah. Journalists are like time travellers. If they have any hand in how events unfold, HORRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN.
They have to be basically invisible. If a journalist witnesses a crime in progress, they have to write a story about it rather than calling the police. It'd be hard to be a journalist because you have to stop being a person.
No, I don't mean like that. I mean that one of the reasons journalists are allowed into countries where all kinds of bad shit is happening, and why they are not generally shot at (though obviously that happens from time to time), is because of the concept of impartiality and non-interference. Which they don't always adhere to, but I can imagine the sense of helplessness, watching how many dozens of little kids starve to death, taking pictures of them, knowing that even if you did try to help that it wouldn't really change anything because of the politics by which these people are imprisoned in a famined region. So you send the tragic, terrible pictures to the paper and hope that somehow by shedding light on what's happening that help will come, by whatever method it's delivered. And, sometimes, what you've seen is too much, and you put a gun in your mouth.
Also, I think there definitely is something to the "well, it could be a lot worse" aspect of feeling better about your own life. One time I was driving and feeling bad about my life for whatever reason and I rounded a bend and the sun was slanting down on my car in that late-afternoon, early-fall way, leaves all orange and shit, and the thought occurred to me that my house could catch on fire and my kids could die. And then whatever was bothering me really didn't seem that important, and I felt, momentarily, lucky.
I try to remember that when I'm steeping in self-pity over whoever broke my heart last.
Quote from: Roaring Biscuit! on February 22, 2010, 01:50:24 AM
because getting kicks out of other peoples actual real misery* is shit.
*none of that comedy shit.
Do you see no difference between getting kicks out of other people's misery and seeing this misery, feeling for them, and realising that the things you consider to be important dramas aren't really all that bad in comparison?
Y'know, unless by your saying you get the point/joke you are saying that you understand this.
Okay, i thought of a good way to get across what I mean, I'm gonna edit Nigel's post to demonstrate:
Quote from: Calamity Nigel (edited for illustrative purposes) on February 22, 2010, 04:23:05 AM
Also, I think there definitely is something to the "well, it could be a lot worse" aspect of feeling better about your own life. One time I was driving and feeling bad about my life for whatever reason and I rounded a bend and the sun was slanting down on my car in that late-afternoon, early-fall way, leaves all orange and shit, and then I saw a defensless man getting the shit kicked out of him. And then whatever was bothering me really didn't seem that important, and I felt, momentarily, lucky.
I try to remember that when I'm steeping in self-pity over whoever broke my heart last.
Ok, I know this is in reality a very different scenario from the first one (mostly due to the real/imaginary bad thing), but they both follow the same pattern: Feeling bad, worse thing, bad thing seems better. In my opinion, the edited version is downright sick, and I hope you agree. Which is why I took issue with the post earlier, because that style of attaining perspective is like
my example, not Nigel's.
Also:
QuoteDo you see no difference between getting kicks out of other people's misery and seeing this misery, feeling for them, and realising that the things you consider to be important dramas aren't really all that bad in comparison?
Y'know, unless by your saying you get the point/joke you are saying that you understand this.
Ok, yes, having perspective is different, I'll try it with pictures:
oooo <this is your shit, you think it is the worst shit ever. THEN:
xxxx <this is someone else's shit, it is worse than yours. (that's why its further down)
your shit is still as bad as it was, its just that now you are aware of the scale of shittiness, and that yours is not at the bottom. Now, you could say that yours is better now, in relation to what it was previously, but then you're being evil illustrative Nigel. Plus, that line of thought partially negates the value of personal experience.
x
edd
I think I get what roaring biscuit is getting at, shit happens in life - you shouldn't have a reason to make it lighter by saying "Oh but this other person has it worse maybe I can live with it" ... depends on the severity of course.
I have more to add but I am way too lazy
Quote from: NotPublished on February 22, 2010, 09:08:12 PM
I think I get what roaring biscuit is getting at, shit happens in life - you shouldn't have a reason to make it lighter by saying "Oh but this other person has it worse maybe I can live with it" ... depends on the severity of course.
I have more to add but I am way too lazy
I see that point of view as well, and there's no sense in trivializing anyone's difficulties by making comparisons, but sometimes you might see a defenseless man getting the shit kicked out of him and have how shitty that is make you realize that whatever problem you just thought was a big deal actually isn't one at all.
Sort of like, I might complain about not being able to afford a pair of boots I want, but then talk to a friend whose house is getting foreclosed on, and I'd get a whole new perspective on my trivial self-pity.
Yeah, as always depends on the severity, I would think that by making my own problems the same level as someone elses who is obviously quite worse off is just selfish.
The intense shock is an important part of it. Especially when addressing what, in comparison, really is pathetic self-indulgent moping.
Not only are there people out there who have it WAY WAY worse than I ever could, but I should feel like an ungrateful, whiny dick for not realizing it on my own. And I do.
*shrug*