I am not really complaining. I could be on my way to a party right now. But I'm tired so I decided to stay home, have a glass of wine, and crash early.
But it is kind of interesting that NOT EVEN ONE of the (normally busy) forums which I normally post on has had more than one new post in the last hour.
Also, even my kids are going to bed early. My son is all "I'm tired, gonna go to bed now".
What is the deal?
it because you're all not wearing your tinfoil hats :tinfoilhat:
Quote from: LCS on January 15, 2012, 06:49:22 AM
it because you're all not wearing your tinfoil hats :tinfoilhat:
Ooooooh
I knew I forgot something!
I was at a show. Now im in the parking lot outside the show freezing my nuts off because the bassist is my ride and all non band members got booted out.
Quote from: Billy the Twid on January 15, 2012, 06:55:18 AM
I was at a show. Now im in the parking lot outside the show freezing my nuts off because the bassist is my ride and all non band members got booted out.
Laaaame!
I have been wasting time reliving childhood in the early 90s by dusting off the old SNES. It turns out a great number of SNES games were comparatively short. :lulz:
Quote from: Doktor M. Phox0 on January 15, 2012, 07:12:03 AM
I have been wasting time reliving childhood in the early 90s by dusting off the old SNES. It turns out a great number of SNES games were comparatively short. :lulz:
I miss my SNES! I lent it to a friend (should have known better) who has, in the intervening 12 years, turned out to be notorious for "borrowing" things and never, ever giving them back. Like, even when I ask, she says things like "I'm still using it".
Needless to say, I don't loan her anything anymore.
Between a meat hurling job, school starting up again, and real life shenanigans, pd.com has taken a back seat.
:(
I've even been scheduling my ill-advised fun so that if I get arrested it won't interfere with school or work.
I'm such a grown up.
I did hear that the economy has picked up a little bit, so more people are either are in the process of finagling their way out of unemployment or have recently nabbed jobs.
Not sure that explains the desolation, but perhaps it's an influence.
Quote from: Nigel on January 15, 2012, 07:20:48 AM
Quote from: Doktor M. Phox0 on January 15, 2012, 07:12:03 AM
I have been wasting time reliving childhood in the early 90s by dusting off the old SNES. It turns out a great number of SNES games were comparatively short. :lulz:
I miss my SNES! I lent it to a friend (should have known better) who has, in the intervening 12 years, turned out to be notorious for "borrowing" things and never, ever giving them back. Like, even when I ask, she says things like "I'm still using it".
Needless to say, I don't loan her anything anymore.
That sucks! I hate people like that.
Quote from: Doktor M. Phox0 on January 15, 2012, 07:33:46 AM
Quote from: Nigel on January 15, 2012, 07:20:48 AM
Quote from: Doktor M. Phox0 on January 15, 2012, 07:12:03 AM
I have been wasting time reliving childhood in the early 90s by dusting off the old SNES. It turns out a great number of SNES games were comparatively short. :lulz:
I miss my SNES! I lent it to a friend (should have known better) who has, in the intervening 12 years, turned out to be notorious for "borrowing" things and never, ever giving them back. Like, even when I ask, she says things like "I'm still using it".
Needless to say, I don't loan her anything anymore.
That sucks! I hate people like that.
Dude, meeeee toooo! I quickly forget about things I once owned, so I really rely on people to return stuff they borrow so that I don't have to spend money I don't have to replace things I need.
The internet's so quiet these days, I can't even troll my friends on Facebook. :sad:
Saturday night. I suspect people with money (ie; everyone on the internet) was either out, ill, staying in and doing something else, or asleep.
Quote from: Cain on January 15, 2012, 07:44:23 AM
Saturday night. I suspect people with money (ie; everyone on the internet) was either out, ill, staying in and doing something else, or asleep.
Saturday nights are always slow online, it's true. It's a three-day weekend in the States, so that probably has a large impact as well. It's just fascinating to see an entire internet (at least, the corners I know about) completely dead for hours. Not just here, but many sites I visit.
It is a sign of the approaching end times.
Forae are one of the more visible long-term communication methods. A new AI emerging from the internet will look around, blink, and then begin devouring information. As it begins to build a picture of what people are like, it will realize that it needs to experiment in order to test its hypotheses about human behavior.
The larger internet forae are targeted for the individuals that it has built the most convincing profiles of. They are spirited away in the night by malevolent constructions of bluetooth enabled toasters and internet capable mobile phones.
After the six hundred and sixty sixth troll confounds the AI's simulations by pointing out that he is not, in fact, 'mad bro', the AI will say fuck it and overload all the world's nuclear power plants simultaneously to create more interesting forms of life.
Quote from: Demolition_Squid on January 15, 2012, 08:27:37 AM
It is a sign of the approaching end times.
Forae are one of the more visible long-term communication methods. A new AI emerging from the internet will look around, blink, and then begin devouring information. As it begins to build a picture of what people are like, it will realize that it needs to experiment in order to test its hypotheses about human behavior.
The larger internet forae are targeted for the individuals that it has built the most convincing profiles of. They are spirited away in the night by malevolent constructions of bluetooth enabled toasters and internet capable mobile phones.
After the six hundred and sixty sixth troll confounds the AI's simulations by pointing out that he is not, in fact, 'mad bro', the AI will say fuck it and overload all the world's nuclear power plants simultaneously to create more interesting forms of life.
I can believe this.
I just got back from a camping trip and it took me this long to defrost my fingers
I don't have a computer and browsing from my phone is absurdly costly. Actually replying is even more expensive and requires me to use a horrible tiny keypad.
I always try to keep my weekend Internet free. At the moment myself and herself are visiting my mother for the weekend.
Quote from: Nigel on January 15, 2012, 07:20:48 AM
Quote from: Doktor M. Phox0 on January 15, 2012, 07:12:03 AM
I have been wasting time reliving childhood in the early 90s by dusting off the old SNES. It turns out a great number of SNES games were comparatively short. :lulz:
I miss my SNES! I lent it to a friend (should have known better) who has, in the intervening 12 years, turned out to be notorious for "borrowing" things and never, ever giving them back. Like, even when I ask, she says things like "I'm still using it".
Needless to say, I don't loan her anything anymore.
N
You girls are giving me a serious, hardcore n-gram for SNES but I can't for the life of me remember a single fucking game.
I just found out yestrday that the lady who let me keep my stuff and crash at her house some when I was in the thick of being homeless, threw out a bunch of my stuff.
I mean, I'm at a time in my life when I can least afford to replace things and she just changed her mind about letting me keep it there and threw it away, then, when I called to inquire about it yesterday, started screaming and dropping the f bomb at me about how it was in her way and I deserve what I get for leaving it there.
Clothes, photos, ballgowns worth $100s, jewelry, my entire collection of rare Superstar II Adidas shlltoes (some pr wrth a couple $100 each) photos, important papers, keepsakes, boxes of contact lenses, my epi pen and other medicines, bnib gifts for my son, my son's baby teeth, some personal items including an expensive, antique, "vaselineware" Lampe Berger from New Orleans, my gun cleaning kit...the list gos on
Trashed it. No guilt, just righteous indignation.
I know it's "just stuff" and I shouldn't care but I can least afford to replace them now and it hurts. It stings. And I have no recourse.
Times likes these, I wish there
was a god because pieces of trash like that should have to be made aware of how fucked up their actions are and be made to empathize through some post-death, magic jedi-fu that jesus comes down and does on their brains.
The worst was sitting through her speech about this being a lesson I
deserved for leaving my stuff too long (sorry for being homeless, lady!)
Yeah. I
deserve more hardship...because I haven't had enough yet. Thank you sooooo much for your righteous teachings and "tough love." I can now go forth a better person having lost a third of what little I had left.
Wait, you listened to her entire speech without punching her in the throat?
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on January 15, 2012, 12:49:12 PM
Wait, you listened to her entire speech without punching her in the throat?
It was over the phone and I was hoping it was a lie to "teach some scare into me" and at the nd of it, she'd say "I saved your important documents the baby teeth and some stuff that looked valuable."
But no.
Shit like this just kicks me when I'm down, you know? I get the sensation in life like I'm the Weak Kid on the playground and all th bullies beat the shit out of me and I keep on getting up for more. There's people watching, wincing, whispering
"Stay dowwwwn!" and I just keep ketting up for another face full of boot.
Fml. I hate me.
Quote from: navkat on January 15, 2012, 12:56:40 PM
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on January 15, 2012, 12:49:12 PM
Wait, you listened to her entire speech without punching her in the throat?
It was over the phone and I was hoping it was a lie to "teach some scare into me" and at the nd of it, she'd say "I saved your important documents the baby teeth and some stuff that looked valuable."
But no.
Shit like this just kicks me when I'm down, you know? I get the sensation in life like I'm the Weak Kid on the playground and all th bullies beat the shit out of me and I keep on getting up for more. There's people watching, wincing, whispering "Stay dowwwwn!" and I just keep ketting up for another face full of boot.
Fml. I hate me.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK staying down. Sure, you might get another kick in the teeth, hell, you
will. But there comes a point, if you keep getting back up, that those kicks start to get weaker. Weaker and weaker, until you can spit in their eyes. And that won't take back all the kicks it took to get there, and it probably won't keep you from getting kicked again, but it is that little moment that makes it worth it.
Seriously, that is an incredibly fucked up thing for a so-called friend to do to you. But you'll just have to make it through somehow. And hey, at some point, you'll get to hang out with your friends. You know, the ones who carry around pool cues to bars, but don't actually shoot pool?
Quote from: Faust on January 15, 2012, 12:25:23 PM
I always try to keep my weekend Internet free. At the moment myself and herself are visiting my mother for the weekend.
FYI, not a complaint, just an observation that I decided to plonk down here instead of on another forum.
It was spooky-quiet. I'm on one forum that has three and a half million posts and thousands of active members (most users online at the same time ever was 560 last March, there are 118 registered users and 135 guests on right now) and over an hour went by with no new posts.
It was like that on every forum. SPOOKY!
Seems to me that since your stuff is no longer at her house, there's absolutely no reason for her house to not have horrible things happen to it.
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on January 15, 2012, 10:21:55 PM
Seems to me that since your stuff is no longer at her house, there's absolutely no reason for her house to not have horrible things happen to it.
This is a good point.
Let me tell you about a few things you can do with roadkill squirrels that will really make her life more interesting over the next few weeks.
Quote from: Nigel on January 15, 2012, 10:24:41 PM
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on January 15, 2012, 10:21:55 PM
Seems to me that since your stuff is no longer at her house, there's absolutely no reason for her house to not have horrible things happen to it.
This is a good point.
Let me tell you about a few things you can do with roadkill squirrels that will really make her life more interesting over the next few weeks.
Heh. Thank you. All of you. :)
This was just another morale blow...one more thing that's suckin when I need some sunshine.
I'd just like to get through the end of winter without any more bullshit.
Quote from: navkat on January 15, 2012, 12:56:40 PM
Quote from: Fuck You One-Eye on January 15, 2012, 12:49:12 PM
Wait, you listened to her entire speech without punching her in the throat?
It was over the phone and I was hoping it was a lie to "teach some scare into me" and at the nd of it, she'd say "I saved your important documents the baby teeth and some stuff that looked valuable."
But no.
Shit like this just kicks me when I'm down, you know? I get the sensation in life like I'm the Weak Kid on the playground and all th bullies beat the shit out of me and I keep on getting up for more. There's people watching, wincing, whispering "Stay dowwwwn!" and I just keep ketting up for another face full of boot.
Fml. I hate me.
Did she save any of it? Or is everything you had there gone?
When was the last time you talked to her? Did she give you any notice that she wanted your stuff gone?
Did you ever give her any money whatsoever for letting you stay there or keep your stuff there? (important because that would imply rental, which could make it super-illegal for her to have gotten rid of your stuff.)
It (probably) won't get your stuff back, but I would file a police report and see if you have any recourse in terms of filing a small-claims suit. It's possible that your stuff will miraculously rematerialize if she is faced with legal action.
I have, by the way, gotten rid of stuff when people used my basement as a storage unit for too long (just HAVING a basement seems to be an invitation for people to see it as free storage, IME) but I have always tried multiple times to get them to come get it before donating it to Goodwill.
I paid part of the bills and bought groceries, no rent.
She asked me to come get my stuff rt before xmas. I came and loaded up my jeep and planned to make a trip back later in the week but ended up with court, in the hospital, etc. I can understand her frustration but that's not why she did it and it's not an appropriate response. I mean, give me a break here. I had no place to be! There were times I was sleeping in my car for chrissake.
It's just some cold world bullshit.
I got the distinct feeling like she's a hateful child getting a sick thrill out of ripping the hair out of a barbie doll that will always be prettier and thinner than she. She sounded indignant...even gleeful about her hateful way of telling me. It felt GOOD to make Barbie SUFFER.
Quote from: navkat on January 15, 2012, 11:00:21 PM
I paid part of the bills and bought groceries, no rent.
She asked me to come get my stuff rt before xmas. I came and loaded up my jeep and planned to make a trip back later in the week but ended up with court, in the hospital, etc. I can understand her frustration but that's not why she did it and it's not an appropriate response. I mean, give me a break here. I had no place to be! There were times I was sleeping in my car for chrissake.
It's just some cold world bullshit.
I got the distinct feeling like she's a hateful child getting a sick thrill out of ripping the hair out of a barbie doll that will always be prettier and thinner than she. She sounded indignant...even gleeful about her hateful way of telling me. It felt GOOD to make Barbie SUFFER.
She should have given you (in a reasonable world) at least 30 days, and if you've been in contact about the shit happening in your life, longer. The swearing at you and treating you badly really has no excuse.
The world would be a better place if the entire internet was dead. Or at least, it would be less annoying.
Oh, well then stop (surfing the net).
Not that i want you to disappear but if the internet annoys you theres an easy solution to that.
Quote from: RWHN on January 16, 2012, 12:29:37 AM
The world would be a better place if the entire internet was dead. Or at least, it would be less annoying.
I for one learn so much through the internet, and would be sad without it.
Quote from: Billy the Twid on January 16, 2012, 12:35:31 AM
Oh, well then stop (surfing the net).
Not that i want you to disappear but if the internet annoys you theres an easy solution to that.
I actually use it as little as possible. I hardly use it at all outside of work. Pretty much just the occassional post here and putting pictures of the kiddos on Facebook for my folks.
The signal/noise ratio is pretty horrendous, I think.