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Or Kill Me / Re: Total Madness

« on: July 01, 2010, 03:31:32 am »

LOL, are you  referring to the post about the 23 cats gathered in a circle, and the cat, at the end of it's ninth life, joining the Justified Ancients of Bast? Please tell me you caught that all, and are just being silly (likely, but I never can tell these things)... That had to have been someone from here... Plus, I've seen that name before, on the Spag question...

Thanks for the answer.

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Or Kill Me / Re: Total Madness

« on: July 01, 2010, 02:22:22 am »

Cross your fingers, this could get ugly.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100630182221AAMhYH2

I doubt they'd know what it means... Or could be bothered to look it up... They might be afraid to answer it.

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Or Kill Me / Re: Total Madness

« on: July 01, 2010, 02:08:55 am »

I've been trying to avoid profanity, though, thank you for your input, Beast. I would indeed appreciate a link to the information you mentioned. It's not a magic missile, but it'll do in a pinch.

Think you'd get in trouble for suggesting odd names for kids like "Afro Samurai" or "Mister poopypants"? I don't know, just saying the word "afro" may be a hate crime these days.

Yes, Twiddleton, I have been lurking the cat forum over the past ten minutes, and while I have noticed that cat people seem to be much like the supervillains they're frequently portrayed as in movies, I'm strongly resisting the urge to ask a stupid question like "At what point does a cat undergo apotheosis?"... Think I can get away with just one without getting banned?

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Or Kill Me / Re: Total Madness

« on: July 01, 2010, 01:04:28 am »

I keep hearing that. I'm not completely stupid, my replies aren't near as bad as I make them out to be... More of a self-deprecating sense of humor, here...

I'm not advising any supplements of any kind, I refuse to. If it works for me, great, for someone else, it could cause a mother-fucking catastrophe. Of this, I am aware. I simply try to point out things that they may not have considered, which may help them, somewhat indirectly, with their issues, and advise them to seek help, whether from family, or from a cognitive therapist, or psychiatrist, if it sounds serious. I'm not mentioning sunshine and rainbows or anything, simply things that have helped me with my darker thoughts and notions, considerations it took me many years to learn to take into account... In all my blind bumbling, the only advice I ever got from anyone is "Get over it. Stop whining.", which, of course, just pissed me off and made things worse.

But if you're warning me about something specific, please, let me know, you're all starting to worry me with your concern.

EDIT: Well, there WAS one good source of advice... A cognitive therapist I saw when I was younger helped me out a great deal... Introduced me to Zen Buddhism, though it would be almost a decade later until I started to actually read about it, and only small amounts at that... But it helped a little, got my mind off of things... I will say that reading a few books on Buddhism helped me a great deal, and, it turned out "Get over it.", while poorly worded, and practically uninformative without throwing in a lot more stuff, was kind of the advice I needed, not necessarily advice that would be helpful to others.

The point at which my life really began to change was when I got my hands on a copy of the Illuminatus Trilogy (not that I'm advising anyone on Y/A read it)... Read it once, tossed it down, and moved right on to the blue cliff record, but it had me think about a few things and stop beating myself up over so much crap.

EDIT EDIT: And keep in mind, I'm not in this forum to advise anyone on anything, you guys seem pretty capable of handling problems yourselves. Simply here for the entertaining conversation, as well as input and criticism... Were anyone to ask, I'd be happy to try to help, but I highly doubt that will be an issue, much less that anyone here would want my help... I don't want this turned around against me, I've tried to word it the best I can.

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Or Kill Me / Re: Total Madness

« on: July 01, 2010, 12:49:19 am »

I'm working my way up there, I've been sidetracked by the mental health section... It will likely take a while. Not a lot of trolls I've seen so far in the health sections, with good reason, I'd imagine... But, I see some of these questions and I'm like "This is a job for SUPER DUMBASS!" and proceed to charge in there with my hackneyed idealism, attempting to summon elves and fairies along the way.

EDIT: "He's going to hurt himself, and when he does, I won't help him."

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Or Kill Me / Re: Meaningless non-rant for little or no purpose at all.

« on: June 30, 2010, 11:38:57 pm »

Fucking patchwork quilts.

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Or Kill Me / Re: Total Madness

« on: June 30, 2010, 11:16:24 pm »

*casts "magic missile"*

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Or Kill Me / Re: Total Madness

« on: June 30, 2010, 11:10:23 pm »

I've tested it in many places, and it seems to work, for the most part, barring my occasional emotional outbursts.

Need something bigger. I'm not necessarily going to succeed entirely, or even to any measurable extent, but I need more info. The very fact that the place itself encourages trolling will provide valuable feedback over time.

Eventually, though, I'll get bored with it and move on to something else.

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Or Kill Me / Re: Meaningless non-rant for little or no purpose at all.

« on: June 30, 2010, 11:09:42 pm »

I never claimed to be a master, or even student... Much less to know what the hell I'm talking about. I'm simply trying to shed some light on some observations I've made, which are probably utter horseshit.

Still, I don't see a problem with my reasoning (or lack thereof).

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Or Kill Me / Re: Meaningless non-rant for little or no purpose at all.

« on: June 30, 2010, 10:59:34 pm »

The words on wikipedia, or anywhere else, however, can never truly express the deliciousness (or possible revolting horror) possessed by a bowl of vindaloo, nor can one's memory properly bring back the experience in it's entirety. Memories fade, and words do no justice. You may come very close, but the moment is the only element that truly captures the essence.

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Or Kill Me / Re: Meaningless non-rant for little or no purpose at all.

« on: June 30, 2010, 10:37:37 pm »

I looked it up on wikipedia... I'd heard it mentioned many times on "Red Dwarf", but until I read what it actually was I had no idea how much I wanted to try some.

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Or Kill Me / Re: Doh... Possible first post, gaurenteed to be completely usesless.

« on: June 30, 2010, 10:31:45 pm »

There's some sort of pool going? I find myself wondering where you think you might possibly recognize me from... I usually stick to this handle or some variation of it, have for almost a decade.

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Or Kill Me / Re: Meaningless non-rant for little or no purpose at all.

« on: June 30, 2010, 10:26:14 pm »

Thanks, Regret, and I now see that you were trying to help me out when you posted that link in that other topic, sorry to be such a paranoid spaz.

Another way in which words fail... Have you ever played the telephone game? Being on the ass end of the receiving spectrum for any verbal message (or written message, having been translated or otherwise butchered over time) pretty much guarantees ruination of the original message.

Vindaloo sounds delicious.

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Or Kill Me / Re: Total Madness

« on: June 30, 2010, 09:28:41 pm »

I figured it was a microcosm in which to test my odd theories (or, more likely, some shit other people have thought of before) of social engineering. Oh well, my mistake.

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Or Kill Me / Re: Meaningless non-rant for little or no purpose at all.

« on: June 30, 2010, 09:25:44 pm »

I've seen a similar shit once, working at McDonalds, many years ago... I was sent to unclog the toilet in the men's restroom...

I opened the door and the wave of stench hit me, I immediately felt ill. From the doorway, I spied it, PILED UP HIGHER THAN THE SEAT, and it was almost a glowing, radioactive orange. Fearing the tentacles that might at any moment reach out from the depths of that foul basin, and gagging the whole way, I returned the sacred plunging instrument to my supervisor, who, better skilled with the wards and sigils needed to protect oneself from such a sinister evil, and less sensitive to its toxic aura, proceeded to send the beast back into it's infernal abode.